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OUTFIT he
#   had worn that day and retrace his steps at the airport.
#   
#   Police gave the friend not even a glance.
#   
#   His lawyer filed a class-action suit in a Texas state court.
#   
#   "The Supreme Court has hobbled the Fourth Amendment so much that I
#   never even thought about filing in Federal court."


A major foobar in Zero Tolerance mania occurred
when the government seized a ship over a couple joints.

The government had seized the ship from itself.


The Drug War. The Drug War. The Drug War. The Drug War. The Drug War.

Hear it enough times and you believe it is a national security problem.

Rather than an entirely domestic consumer problem.

Yes, the drugs - a HUGE amount of drugs - cross our national borders. But it
is being PULLED in, a completely different situation than Military defense
of our borders against a FOREIGN enemy.

I wonder how it all gets into the country. It's as if it has its own special
unmonitored border crossing, where it can drive truck after truck through.


And what happens when you bang the drum of hysteria long enough?

Bizarre distortions in our social fabric:
widespread fear, loathing and suspicion.

And: censorship.

Tom Petty wins MTV's highest video award, but they always censored the
word 'joint' in the video! MTV, the spirit of Rock'N'Roll...not.

Maybe they're just doing what they can: they played the word BACKWORDS
in the video...a British band was on trial in the U.S. a few years ago
charged with putting backward-playing lyrics on their album (acquitted).

But it's okay if Jay Leno shows a Clinton look-alike smoking a bong.


Drug addicts can't get clean needles, furthering the AIDS epidemic.

#   "AIDS VIRUS FEEDS ON FEDERAL NEEDLE POLICY"
#   By Steven Wishnia, High Times Magazine, July 1997
#   
#   No federal action is planned to end the ban on federal funding for needle
#   exchange programs by the Clinton Administration, despite mounting scienti-
#   fic evidence that shooti