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_____I’ve found that in my posting of Monday, about the FRESH meeting and it’s guest speaker, I didn’t make myself very clear. My point was supposed to be the war on terror.
_____The war on terror is real and we must somehow win it. We are now losing it. We’ve used every weapon in our arsenal and we are not successful. We must find something else.
_____I see something that we have not used, and possibly the only one thing that will allow us time to figure out how to win the war on terror. The terrorists are supported by drug money, and drug money only exists if drugs are prohibited.
_____People will use drugs. There can be no question about that. If they can’t get them legally, they will get them illegally, but they WILL get them.
_____The Netherlands have shown us that if you legalize marijuana, the use of other drugs will fall off precipitously. If other drug use falls off, terrorisms money falls off at the same rate. If we legalize marijuana, that act alone has the potential of drawing off three quarters of the money terrorism needs to continue attacking the world.
_____We do have to hurry. The forecast is for a bumper crop of opium poppies this year, which will give the drug cartels more than enough to pass around freely to capture new users. If we can release marijuana to the general public before they start shipping that crop around the world, the vast majority of people will reject the heroin.
_____Marijuana is an innocuous drug. It is not as harmful as wine, but even if you don’t think so, would you rather risk your daughter’s life next to a suicide bomber then her getting stoned? That is really the choice here!

A representative from LEAP, (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition,) spoke at the Frederick Secular Humanist meeting Sunday in Frederick Maryland. It was an interesting talk. He pointed out that control, as in how we control liquors, will eliminate the severe problems we’re having with drugs while not increasing drug usage.
He also pointed out that our prohibition is fueling the terrorism that we’re experiencing, and that if we only placed marijuana on the same list as wine, we’d eliminate at least two thirds of the drug problem (because if the people can obtain marijuana like they can obtain wine they won’t want to bother with an illegal drug. Some would, of course, but only a slight few.)
The spokesman also pointed out that our prohibition on drugs has given North Korea, an impoverished country, enough money to produce an atomic bomb. By prohibiting drugs we are helping the terrorists.
We are fighting a war on terror. We are losing it. If we lift the prohibition on marijuana and replace it with controls similar to wine controls, we will eliminate almost all of the money the terrorists use, and that will almost eliminate them.
The government has admitted for at least ten years that the only thing “wrong” with marijuana is that it is illegal. If we make it legal we will cripple terrorism and give our farmers a cash crop they can sell like the wineries do. It will make them more proud of their work and keep them on the farm, while we will take the wind out of the sails of terrorism.

_____I just had a flash about race relations in america. I’d really like some feedback on this.
_____We owe the brown people of america reparations for the struggles they have gone through in the last four hundred years and are still going through today. When we pay them for all their suffering we will have a fully integrated society.
_____We need to give the browner of us education as though they were very wealthy, give them a reduction in cost everywhere, and do it for three generations. It will take us two generations to get over the anger at treating them as though they were better than us, but during the third generation we will see that they are as good as us, and they will gratefully accept brotherhood.

_____Many many years ago Isaac Newton observed an apple falling to the ground. Being an independent and free thinker, he thought about it. He concluded that he did not know what caused the apple to fall, but that in the circumstance of anything being unsupported, that thing would fall until it struck something that would support it. He called that phenomenon gravity.
_____We still do not know what causes it, but the circumstantial evidence that it exists and interacts with the universe is so great that science accepts it as a universal force and continues to call it gravity. We will probably never know exactly what it is that causes that effect, but we cannot deny the effect.

_____Perhaps I am the first person to notice that in the 400 years that our scientists have been investigating indigenous peoples, in every circumstance they have discovered that these peoples, each having survived forever with no contact with other peoples, consistantly have described knowledge of some sort of invisible, superior, ethereal being. Their descriptions have been consistantly in line with our understanding of god.

_____We do not know what that force is any more than we know what the force of gravity is, but we cannot deny the existence of it, and, since virtually everyone throughout our world has believed this force interacts with the universe, we cannot deny that either. We can call that force nature, or manitou, or any other name we want, but god is really the most fitting one.

_____ This does not mean that we have to believe in the god of the bible, but we can if we want, just as we can believe in the god of the native americans or a god of india. Those are all philosophies, guesses, any of which could be right. They are all something we can choose, because god, like gravity, is unknowable in essence. The only religious philosophy we, as scientists, cannot accept is atheism.

_____As members of the scientific community, we have no need to concern ourselves with religious philosophy. It is simply necessary that we accept the existence of god as we accept the existence of gravity.

_____Jesus was immaculately conceived and treated as god throughout his life. He died at thirty-four. Mohammed became immaculate in his early thirties and was treated as god thereafter. Obviously Mohammed is a continuation of the work of Jesus.

_____One other similarity between Jesus and Mohammed.  Neither one of them could read or write, so no-one knows what they said.

_____Let’s put this into perspective. The mohammedans moved into southern europe around the 700’s. They were smarter than the christians, and they excelled.

_____The christians became afraid, and they declared war on the mohammedans around the year 800. This war is still going on.

_____That is the perspective.

As an American, I see that I have an obligation to register as a voter, and I have an obligation to go to the polls on election day. But as an American, I see that I have a right to vote! I do not have an obligation.

After the first election in my newly joined town I was dismayed when an ancient local politician pronounced those who had met their obligations but had found no-one worth their vote as somewhat unfit and stated we should no longer recognize them in our vote counts. I was even more dismayed when his advice was followed, and our county no longer admits of how many residents found no-one fit for office.

In this world we have two parties. One is on the left, the other on the right. The left stands for socialism, which, unfettered, leads to communism. We don’t want that. The right stands for capitalism, which, unfettered, leads to faschism. We don’t want that. To make democracy work, we meed a third party, the independents, who will stand for reason and logic.

The independent party will understand that some of what the right wants is good for a free and democratic society, that some of what the left wants is good for a free and democratic society, and they will support one or the other when the circumstances point that way.

If the the independent party only amounts to fifteen percent of the various congresses, they will have some reasonable amount of control, and their presence will insure that neither the left nor the right will have more than reasonable control.

That should fix democracy, and allow it to find itself accepted in many more parts of the world.