The War on Drugs was never, ever about drugs, it's about bigotry. You can change the law, but changing the prejudice and fear of bigots who hide behind drug war rhetoric is a far more challenging task. It's time to expose the Drug War and the bigots who promote the ideology of "Zero Tolerance.
This is no more about Marijuana than the Boston Tea Party was about Tea.
On the Environment
Who is the biggest polluter in our country today? Unfortunately, it is the U.S. government...Instead of guaranteeing your right to a hazard-free environment, government sets acceptable standards for pollution.
When we make polluters, not taxpayers, responsible for the damage they do, the profit will be gone from pollution.
On the War in Iraq
I oppose it. I opposed it when it was proposed, I opposed it when it began, and I oppose it now. If the American people put me in the White House, I'll end it immediately with a unilateral and unconditional withdrawal of US forces from that country, as quickly as can be done consistent with the safety of the troops.
The war on Iraq was a massive screwup. Continuing to screw up will not unscrew it.
On Poverty
Fully 74% of government dollars allocated to the poor go to the welfare bureaucracy instead.
We have to liberate the poor from government dependency. Only then will everybody have the opportunity to achieve the American Dream.
On Healthcare
The Food and Drug Administration is an unnecessary burden on the American health care system. There is no evidence that agency offers you or me any real protection.
We have to move to privatize Medicare and Medicaid...to start innovative programs to replace these two programs that cost too much and give patients second-rate health care.
On Immigration
At bottom, a border is nothing more than an imaginary line on the ground, drawn by politicians. What's important are not the lines themselves, but the people on either side of those lines. As your president, my job will be to secure the rights of the people within the set of lines that have been drawn, and to defend them from attack across those lines -- not to impede peaceful people from crossing them.
By welcoming the poorest of the poor, we've always become richer, not poorer.
On Justice
Kubby will order judges to instruct juries that they each have the right to judge the soundness of the law, as well as the guilt of the accused under that law. Once judges start reading juries their rights, ordinary citizens will finally have a voice in government. Citizens like you will once again have the political power that our founding fathers intended for you under our American jury system.
Steve Kubby will stand up to corrupt judges, prosecutors, and politicians to make sure your rights are restored and that you have a real voice in controlling government.
On Crime
More than half the people locked away are there for nonviolent offenses. They didn't hurt anybody. They didn't rob anybody. They just made, to some, a bad decision. Yet with mandatory minimum sentencing and "three-strike" laws, they spend more time in prison on average than criminals who killed, assaulted, or raped somebody.
Our government's "zero tolerance" of drugs is directly responsible for:
Increased use of hard drugs;
The invention of cheap and potent drugs like crack and cat
The use of children as drug couriers to avoid adult criminal penalties;
Aggressive, personal sales of drugs on playgrounds;
Hesitation of drug abusers to seek help to end drug abuse;
Increased violent crime;
Success and growth of organized crime; and
Unsafe neighborhoods.
We have to end this war and find peaceful solutions to the problem of drug abuse. Today's war is more harmful than the drugs themselves.
On Taxes
According to the Tax Foundation, here's what you pay:
Federal taxes 22.4% of your income
State & local taxes 11.8% of your income
Compliance costs 22.2% of your income
Regulatory costs 12.7% of your income
If we cut the government down to size, the people can at last keep their hard-earned money.
On Equality
Any society that asks government to divide people into separate groups, with separate laws, is headed for disaster.
"The Negro's great stumbling block is not the White Citizen's Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom." -Martin Luther King, Jr. Letter from Birmingham jail, April 16, 1963
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The prison population in the US is more than the combined populations of Alaska and Wyoming
The Prison Population Rate in the US (2.03 million people) is larger than ANY other country-- only RUSSIA (.86 million people) and CHINA (1.51 million people) come close. (2003)
in 2003: 55% of Federal Prison inmates were drug offenders this is 86,972 individuals
in 2002: 21.4% of all adults in State Prisons were drug offenders this is 265,000 individuals
of 440,670 Jail inmates in 2002-- 112,447 were for drugs... about 25% 48,823 were possession charges, 56,574 for trafficking/sale
it costs between $20,000-$30,000 per prisoner per year lets do the math $25,000 times 351,972=$8,799,300,000
just to pay the prison costs...this does not include catching the "criminal"
According to the Office of National Drug Control Policy Feds spend $3,000,000,000 (around that) to incarcerate drug offenders
in 2005 there were 265,100 state prison inmates for DRUGS: 47.5% were African American 23.27% were Latino/Hispanic and 24.33% were Caucasian
it gets worse:
"Among the more than 2.1 million offenders incarcerated on June 30, 2004 and estimated 576,000 were black males between 20 and 39 years old"
Information above has a variety of sources, I am personally quoting from "Drug War Facts" 5th Edition, Edited by Douglas McVay-- Thank you Doug for all your work!
Imagine what our country could do with this kind of money...imagine the innocent lives that would be spared...
No Victim No Crime
the ACA started in 1870 to find ways to get cheap labor following the
13th Amendment:
Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this arti
Happy Birthday Steve! I have a question tho... Next year, do we say: "Happy Birthday Steve" or "Happy Birthday Mr. Kubby" or "Happy Birthday Mr. President Elect"?
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We filed the initiative to legalize - now we need your help!
It's official folks! The California Cannabis Hemp & Health Initiative 2008 has been filed.
Go to this link to see for yourself!:
http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/elections_j.htm
Please help spread the word!
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