Should medical marijuana be kept from minors at all costs?
We should also ask:
Should Sheriff Pat Hedges, the local deputies and the federal thugs who accompanied them on the raid of Charley Lynch’s medical marijuana dispensary be arrested and tried for crimes against humanity?
If the entrenched legislative bodies and criminal justice system will not properly deal with these perps then it is time to create a replacement system.
Via Winston Smith.
The French are taking a step, albeit a small one, that the rest of the world, especially the United States, should follow:
France’s military will slash its ranks by 54,000 personnel and close dozens of air, army and other bases in an overhaul meant to slim forces at home while making it easier and faster to deploy troops abroad, the prime minister announced Thursday.
Prime Minister Francois Fillon said the 15 percent cut in manpower and base closings will save billions of dollars but still permit an agile military suited to the country’s security needs.
This small beginning in demilitarization will open the doors to our future just a bit wider. A future of free human beings creating and evolving rather than nation states destroying and killing.
It is unfortunate that opposition to these clearly desirable actions comes from those who live off the milk of the state:
Officials in towns slated to lose their bases argue the plan will be disastrous for local economies and say they will fight the closures.
Fillon said he understood people’s fears and promised $503 million in aid to the most affected regions, many in France’s depressed northeast. He also said measures would be taken to encourage investment in the those regions.
Fight the closures they might but their futures will be much stronger if built locally rather than on the backs of taxpayers and at the whim of national or state governments.
These bases should not have existed in the first place and that they have is no rationale for either maintaining them or subsidizing local economies once they are gone.
In an on line exclusive, I and the Bird #80 introduces the participants in the first ever I and the Bird Summer Olympics.
Go check out the competitors!