I originally wrote this in the comments section of another myspace blog which was discussing whether or not Michael Phelps' punishment for smoking pot was appropriate. It was written in a rush, and I'm sure I've expressed these ideas in a much more elegant way in earlier articles, but something started troubling me about it as soon as I hit the "submit" button. Specifically, it appeared as though a link I'd put at the end of the comment to the blog of Michael C. Ruppert has been censored.
Here's the first comment:
All drugs should be legal. 100% of them. Pot, crack, heroin, coke, LSD, shrooms. The bad ones and the good ones together. Keeping drugs illegal keeps mafias and drug cartels in power, it keeps politicians corrupt, it keeps bombs and chemical weapons dropping on innocent foreigners, it keeps millions of innocent americans in prison, and it does NOTHING to keep drugs off the streets. There is not one city in this country where drugs of every kind are not easily obtainable. Ending the war on drugs needs to be the number one political priority of every person who wants to make the world a better place. It's the glue that holds the global corruption together.
Somebody responded to this, saying:
some of the most elusive answers to the problems of the future are found by examining the past...
why are drugs illegal? They never used to be? In fact, so called hard drugs of today were popular and prevelant in consumer products even...
Drugs became illegal in this country as a result of the controlled substance act, this created different level and classifications of all drugs from cocaine to codeine, becase all drugs, aka controlled substance can be harmful if not used for specific purposes in documented controlled amounts...
basically, if cocaine, acid, weed, etc. had not caused a problem they would never have became illegal
To which I responded:
Have you ever seen the advertisements they used when they were first trying to make cocaine illegal? They're some of the most racist things you will ever see, all about why cocaine should be banned because of how crazy and horny it made black people. Pot was made illegal through propaganda films like "Reefer Madness" so that the hemp paper (environmentally friendly, and it's what our constitution is printed on) would no longer be able to compete with the paper-from-wood-pulp industry (which has resulted in mass deforestation all over the world). The guy who owned the paper mills is the guy who owned the newspapers that started all the anti-marijuana hysteria in the first place. LSD and other psychedelics were made illegal because they were fueling the antiwar movement during in the 1960s.
And speaking of looking at history, look at the Italian mafia. The Italian mafia was nothing before alcohol prohibition (alcohol had been outlawed for all the same reasons as all the other drugs that have been banned over the years - "it's evil and it makes people do evil things"), but once alcohol was made illegal, it created a marketplace that ONLY the mafia had access too, and which they profited from incredibly. It made them powerful enough to shove senators and presidents around. Alcohol prohibition gave them their power and their wealth, just like making narcotics illegal has made the drug cartels (not to mention Al Qaeda, who get huge amounts of their money from running heroin) some of the most dangerous forces on the planet.
In the 1960's the CIA started moving crack and heroin into California to destroy the Black Panthers (intentionally creating the gang situation as it is today), fund an illegal war in South America, and of course to line their own pockets. It was all part of the Iran-Contra scandal.
And it's all still happening today. Just a few weeks ago the United Nations admitted that the only thing keeping all the banks in the world from collapsing right now is drug money. And now here we are stepping up the war in Afghanistan, the heroin capitol of the world.
The way the world works makes a lot more sense when you understand money laundering. Obviously drugs like coke, meth, and heroin are insanely bad for you, but making them illegal and trying to put people in jail for it cures NOBODY, and is drowning the entire planet in crime and war. Legalization/decriminalization would end all that. Nobody's going to rob anybody for the expensive drugs they get from violent gangbangers when they can just get a 99cent McNeedle down at the store.
Everybody should check out Drug WarRant, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, Narco News, and the excellent and incredibly thorough book Crossing the Rubicon by Michael C. Ruppert. Cheers to Search for keeping the topics interesting!
And here's where we come to the censored link. It's the last one in the paragraph quoted above:
Michael C. Ruppert. Why doesn't it work? This is the page that comes up when you click on the link:
You have reached a link that is no longer in service. That means the
link was very naughty, and, much like head lice, had to be eliminated
before it spread.
You may be asking yourself, 'Hey, what was it about that link that got it in trouble?' An excellent question! Usually, it's one of the following reasons:
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The link was spam! No one likes spammers, and we don't like their links.
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You almost got phished!
There are people out there who want to steal your MySpace password.
They want to log in as you and send spam, harass your friends, change
your profile, and generally run amok. Phishing pages are usually
designed to look like MySpace to trick you. Other sites may also ask
for your MySpace login information to customize your profile, insert
videos or slide shows, track visitors, or any number of other
things.Don't make it easy for them. ONLY USE YOUR MYSPACE LOGIN INFO ON
WWW.MYSPACE.COM!!
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Viruses are not fun! Neither is adware, spyware, or malware. We cut the links to places that are known sources of infection.
If you really did want to check out some spam, viruses, or phishing
pages, we're really sorry to have interrupted. We're sure you can find
it elsewhere. There's plenty on the Internet.
Michael Rupperts blog does not spread viruses, it is not a phishing site, and it is not spam. His blog is published in Blogger, which is run by Google and is completely safe.
Here is a direct link to his site, without html so you can copy and paste it -
http://mikeruppert.blogspot.com/Michael Ruppert used to be a cop in LA and helped to expose CIA-run narcotics trafficking in that city. He went on to become one of the most important investigative journalists on the planet. Congressmen read his site. His work is completely invaluable.
Go read all of Ruppert's writings, and go give MySpace an earful (screen full?) for refusing to allow us to link to his site.
I've written to MySpace to ask why the link has been blocked, and will post whatever replies they send.
Fight censorship wherever you can!
UPDATE: I think they were blocking all of Blogger.