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Sergeant Fired After Criticizing "War on Drugs," Now Reinstated
Drug-Legalizing Cop Wins Back His Free Speech Rights
Sergeant Fired After Criticizing "War on Drugs," Now Reinstated
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 13, 2009
SEATTLE, WA -- A Mountlake Terrace police sergeant who was fired after publicly criticizing the "war on drugs" has reached an $812,500 settlement in a lawsuit he filed against the city and police department, among others. Under the settlement, Sergeant Jonathan Wender has been reinstated on the force and is eligible to receive back pay and full retirement benefits.
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I was hoping Obama would champion soft drug legalization, control, and taxation.
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The war on drugs is tantamount to your war on terror. It can never be won, just fought....With a whole bunch of money being made and spent in the process.
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I didn't read the thing or watch the video, so im only going to comment to what I think is the issue here, i dont want to get my blood presure up so thats why im not reading furhter
I think pot and steroids should be legalized...Pot, because it would make tax money and be less of a headache to everyone.....Steroids, because they are not fucking even close to being dangerous as alcohol and cigarets...You've never lived untill you've almost died, life has an excitement that the protected will never know.
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The only sensible thing to do would be to legalize soft drugs and tax the shit out of them.
The problem is this only takes care of a very small percentage of the problem. All the hard drugs would still be out there and the cycle would continue as is.
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Just about everybody that has researched the "War on Drugs" has concluded that it's been a failure.
Originally Posted by Little Wing
And also, you cannot have a war against an abstract concept.
The fact that this guy was fired shows how political the so-called War on Drugs is, and how many special interests are involved.Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
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i wish my department fires me for my own rebelious "out of line" outspoken thinking....I already had a talk with the captian because i made it clear to him and others that I don't trust the big guns up there to protect our officers and civilians...all theyc are about is political power and mpublic presecption.....i bet he got a nice setlement!
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I can almost guarantee that Barry smoked a lot of pakalolo while in here in Hawaii.... I'm betting he feels it's illegalization is a crock of shit....but in a first term he's gonna tread lightly on subjects like that. Now second term,if he makes it I'll be willing to bet he'd make some sort of step even if it's just legalizing medicinal use in all states.... Originally Posted by The Monkey Man
I was hoping Obama would champion soft drug legalization, control, and taxation.
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Originally Posted by QuestionGuy
has reached an $812,500 settlement
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thats nice...id quit the business, be a vigilante, get into random fights with assholes who deserve it and open up my own GNC and OR Golds Gym.... Originally Posted by Little Wing
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There's actually a club for us now, you sound ready to join. Originally Posted by QuestionGuy
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Wow, the Cognitive Liberty Suppressionists used Suppression of Cognitive Liberty against a freethinker....such a futile movement the Thought Police will never hold us down as long as we resist being Prisoners of Consciousness and remain Slumbernauts of the Illusio Nocturne
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come again? Originally Posted by maniclion
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im freakin joinin, probably against some kind of policy but im freakin joinin!! Originally Posted by IronAddict
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On your face again or your lower back? Originally Posted by QuestionGuy
Last edited by maniclion; 01-16-2009 at 03:43 AM.
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From Wiki:
Criminalization (1900s)
The first significant instance of cannabis regulation appeared in the District of Columbia in 1906, though this law was not an outright prohibition.[4] Regulation of cannabis followed in Massachusetts (1911), New York (1914), and Maine (1914). Simultaneously tensions were building in the western and southwestern states regarding the influx of Mexicans to America. Many Mexicans also smoked marijuana to relax after working in the fields.[5] Later in that decade negative tensions grew between the small farms and the large farms that used cheaper Mexican labor. Shortly afterwards the Great Depression came which increased tensions as jobs and resources became more scarce. In 1913 California passed the first state marijuana prohibition law, criminalizing the preparation of hemp and its products, the phrase "Indian Hemp" (Cannabis indica) is sometimes used or "loco weed". Other states followed with marijuana prohibition laws including: Wyoming (1915); Texas (1919); Iowa (1923); Nevada (1923); Oregon (1923); Washington (1923); Arkansas (1923); and Nebraska (1927).[6]
More @ Legal history of cannabis in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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I thought there was Freedom of Speech in this country? Originally Posted by Little Wing
Obviously, it's restricted in many ways.
A guy tells what most of us know, and he's fired.
And as usual who foots the bill for this stupidity. Taxpayers.
SEATTLE, WA -- A Mountlake Terrace police sergeant who was fired after publicly criticizing the "war on drugs" has reached an $812,500 settlement in a lawsuit he filed against the city and police department, among others. Under the settlement, Sergeant Jonathan Wender has been reinstated on the force and is eligible to receive back pay and full retirement benefits.Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
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we can't even tackle literacy in this country! Originally Posted by IronAddict
the "wars" on things help to justify big budgets for certain gov agency's, etc...it's just a dog and pony show.
on drug ops in the caribbean we used to search mainly small boats about 90%, never the tankers or super-tankers. there's 300metric tons of cocaine coming into the US annually, it's not coming in by the kilo.I train differently than most, my beef is with gravity the weights on the bar are just the medium...Thanks to Wall Street your slice of the American Pie has been reduced to a crumb.
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when did we lose "freedom of speech" in this country?
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Come on though my statement wasn't that cryptic, basically as long as we can think for ourselves and meld the illusions of our dreams with the real world and not allow those who want to do all the thinking and dreaming for us by manipulating our conscious minds and seeding our dreams with propaganda, subliminal implants and scare tactics we still have the higher ground.....and the higher ground is the only way to keep the hooded veil from being pulled down over our heads..... Originally Posted by QuestionGuy
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Its not lost, just sometimes I guess it comes with a price. Originally Posted by Prince
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As long as colon raiders like you can continue to raid any colon you wish, there will always be freedom.... Originally Posted by :Raider
Coarse edged youth, the irish pendants string from their smiles
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and drag down the features of age,
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eyes of tranquilty, crystalline-beads
no sign of despair in their hair, nor their hearts
but oh they have yet to be experienced and that makes aging so very worth it...ML circa2012
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