The comments section reveals why Lincoln, NE, and the Midwest, is considered a hotbed for the Performing Arts, and Art . Wow. Why did they bother having this Thespian Festival in the first place?
JournalStar.com - Lincoln, Nebraska - Living - 402
Hmm...lets see...
"Future fast food workers"-NU Football
"Pretentious, loud, destructive"-NU Football
"Assuming we are so proud and/or interested in hearing them" NU Football
"Money their parents wasted to go to this"NU Football
It's nice to know that Lincoln is an Equal Opportunity Hater. 3000 + kids with 'endless' money, and their chaperone(s) for a week in the downtown area, and people here have to whine about it.
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Sunday, June 24, 2007
Ignorance isn't an excuse for allowing illegal detainment
So, if you get pulled over, and the trooper can't find anything better than "following too close", and keeps you around for over 30 minutes fishing and waiting for a drug dog-based on 'what', I guess its okay for some Nebraskans. Rather than ask, "am I under arrest, or being detained for a lawful reason?" these shining examples of human rights would happily allow their person and property to be searched because "they have nothing to hide....". According to the LJS, "After 20 minutes or so, Frye asks to search the SUV. Asiala says he’d rather get on his way, but Frye says there’s no doubt in his mind there’s contraband inside. A drug-sniffing dog is on the way.
“I’ve done this a long time, I know,” Frye said during the stop." Last time I checked, a LEO cannot detain and search based on a hunch.
Do I think pot should be legal? As a matter of fact, yes. I would rather have it sold on the streets, and taxed like anything else. I make so secret of the fact that I have smoked pot, both here and abroad when I was younger, before I enlisted in the miltary. Its quite simple to tax it like anything else and regulate it-and its a shame that a cash crop native to the North American continent (hemp) is illegal because of one man's racism. Marijuana wasn't illegal until 1937, and was made illegal on the words of the racist head of the Bureau of Narcotics and a yellow journalist.According to Henry Anslinger, the first Head of the Bureau, most marijuana smokers were "Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos, and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz, and swing, result from marijuana use. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers, and any others." When a medical doctor was brought in to testify and didn't say what the panel wanted, he was discredited. Marijuana is less addictive than nicotine or alcohol. Although few users of marijuana develop dependence, some do. But they appear to be less likely to do so than users of other drugs (including alcohol and nicotine), and marijuana dependence appears to be less severe than dependence on other drugs." (National Institute of Medicine (IOM). Marijuana and Medicine: Assessing the Science Base. National Academy Press. Washington DC, 1999.)
America's first marijuana law was enacted at Jamestown Colony, Virginia in 1619. It was a law "ordering" all farmers to grow Indian hemp seed. There were several other "must grow" laws over the next 200 years (you could be jailed for not growing hemp during times of shortage in Virginia between 1763 and 1767). We spend so much money prosecuting people based on a lie, when so many other manufactured drugs-including some prescription ones, cause much more damage to the body and through their effects on others. Read "Reefer Madness" or "The History of Non-Medical Drug Use in the United States" by Charles Whitebread, a professor of law at USC.
“I’ve done this a long time, I know,” Frye said during the stop." Last time I checked, a LEO cannot detain and search based on a hunch.
Do I think pot should be legal? As a matter of fact, yes. I would rather have it sold on the streets, and taxed like anything else. I make so secret of the fact that I have smoked pot, both here and abroad when I was younger, before I enlisted in the miltary. Its quite simple to tax it like anything else and regulate it-and its a shame that a cash crop native to the North American continent (hemp) is illegal because of one man's racism. Marijuana wasn't illegal until 1937, and was made illegal on the words of the racist head of the Bureau of Narcotics and a yellow journalist.According to Henry Anslinger, the first Head of the Bureau, most marijuana smokers were "Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos, and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz, and swing, result from marijuana use. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers, and any others." When a medical doctor was brought in to testify and didn't say what the panel wanted, he was discredited. Marijuana is less addictive than nicotine or alcohol. Although few users of marijuana develop dependence, some do. But they appear to be less likely to do so than users of other drugs (including alcohol and nicotine), and marijuana dependence appears to be less severe than dependence on other drugs." (National Institute of Medicine (IOM). Marijuana and Medicine: Assessing the Science Base. National Academy Press. Washington DC, 1999.)
America's first marijuana law was enacted at Jamestown Colony, Virginia in 1619. It was a law "ordering" all farmers to grow Indian hemp seed. There were several other "must grow" laws over the next 200 years (you could be jailed for not growing hemp during times of shortage in Virginia between 1763 and 1767). We spend so much money prosecuting people based on a lie, when so many other manufactured drugs-including some prescription ones, cause much more damage to the body and through their effects on others. Read "Reefer Madness" or "The History of Non-Medical Drug Use in the United States" by Charles Whitebread, a professor of law at USC.
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