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Prisoner majority due to drug war! 4.8% of Texas adults in jail prison probation parole!

by eco man
Latest government stats. 1.3% of Texas adults are imprisoned today! Bush government waste: It costs around $25,000 per prisoner per year. Texas leads all other U.S. states with 4.8 percent of the Texas adult population under correctional supervision: jail, prison, probation, parole. Statistics, references, links, and charts.
35 years of Republicrat EVIL.
1968 to 2003. Creating the U.S.
Drug War Incarceration Nation
of arch-drug-warriors
Nixon, Reagan, Bush I, Bush II.
*Evil Drug War Prison Labor Camps! The Majority of the 2.1 million U.S. prisoners are incarcerated due to the Drug War! Drug crimes (24%), drug-related crimes (such as robbing to get money for drugs that are expensive because of the drug war), drug trade crimes, drug-related parole violations, etc.. The USA has 5% of the world's population and 24% (2.1 million) of the world's 8.75 million prisoners. As of the year 2000 the USA again had the world's highest incarceration rate! It is now 5 to 19 times higher than all other Western (long democratic traditions) nations. The U.S. rate is over 3 times higher than it was in 1980 during the first presidential election of far-right arch-drug-warriors Ronald (6) Wilson (6) Reagan (6) and Nancy ("Just Say No") Reagan. The U.S. rate is almost 5 times higher than in 1971 when arch-criminal "law-and-order" President Richard Nixon declared a "war on drugs." 6.5 million U.S. adults, or 3.1% of all U.S. adults, or 1 in 32 adults in the USA, were under correctional supervision (in jail, in prison, on probation, or on parole) at yearend 2000. That is when the true Millennium ended, and when the governor (1994 to 2000) of Texas, and President-select, George W. Bush, the moron Antichrist, left a legacy of a full 1% of all Texans incarcerated! 1.3% of Texas adults are imprisoned today! Bush government waste: It costs around $25,000 per prisoner per year. Texas leads all other U.S. states with 4.8 percent of the Texas adult population under correctional supervision: jail, prison, probation, parole. Statistics, references, links, and charts: 
*The majority of the 2.1 million prisoners in the USA are in due to the 666 drug war! This Reagan-Revolution, Reaganomics-era, Republican-led, "kinder gentler" Beast came slithering in wearing corporatist politicians' suits, and the robes of judges and fundamentalist ministers. Click the mirror links:  http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/majority.htm  and 
http://members.fortunecity.com/multi19/majority.htm
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Million Marijuana March (MMM), May 3 2003. Global Cannabis March. First Saturday in May. Since 1999.

"MMMAlphabetical MMM 2003 city list. Please distribute widely. 
Million Marijuana March. Weekend of May 3 2003. 
Global March for Cannabis Liberation.
 
Weekend of first Saturday in May. Worldwide since 1999.  
http://www.geocities.com/tents444/mmm2003.htm --MMM 2003 city list. 
http://www.cures-not-wars.org/cities.htm --MMM 2003 city list CHART. 
http://www.geocities.com/tents444/mmmlinks.htm  --Many MMM links. 
http://members.fortunecity.com/multi19/mmmlinks.htm  --Many MMM links. 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cannabisaction  --MMM Yahoo Group. 

"2003"Many"Many216 MMM cities worldwide and counting!!! This is by counting the paragraphs (one per city) in the wide-format (no line breaks) MMM city list by using the "word count" command in the tools menu of Microsoft Word or the freeware AbiWord. Also added into the total are the 5 French cities mentioned in the Paris notes (Montpellier, Rennes, Marseille, Lille, Annecy) that aren't listed individually in the MMM city list. There are more MMM links, and much more info, after the alphabetical city list. 

Creative networking. MMM. 1st weekend in May. Worldwide since 1999. 1000's read public archives here

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+216 MMM cities against Republicrat Rule!

Operation Texas Freedom! MMM invades Texas for Cannabis Liberation! 4.8% of Texas adults are in jail, prison, probation, parole!

2.1 million drug-war (mostly) USA prisoners! It costs around $25,000 a year per U.S. prisoner!

1.3% of Texas adults imprisoned today! 47466.gif

Texas is Evil! ;)

US terrorism, death squads. USA installed oppressors in Iran (1953), Iraq (1963), Israeli-occupied Palestine, ...

Texas Big-Oil, fundamentalist, racist corporate rule expanding worldwide? 46962.gif

SpinWaves.com free energy! Hemp biomass fuel!

Latest alphabetical MMM city list in Dana Beal's latest email

MMM LINKS. Contacts, 1999-2002 rally reports, city lists, flyers

MMM rally reports archive

Many email lists, forums

US drug-war ads say drugs fund terrorism. Terrorism begins/ends in Israel: civilians_killed_6KB.gif new_refusenik_watch_eng.gif 49709.gif

by eco man
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Feel free to use the images in the article and comments.

It's the Occupation, Stupid!

Bush still occupies Texas -- through federal drug laws such as the draconian mandatory minimum drug laws at the federal level. They are the model used by many state mandatory minimum drug laws.

The inner cities of the USA are occupied open-air prison camps similar to the occupied open-air prison camps of Gaza and the West Bank.

Drug war ads, and Rachel Corrie, American killed by Israeli army bulldozer March 16 2003 in Rafah, occupied Gaza. 

"Rachel

Rachel Corrie photo (2002) above. "Click

*AdAge. April 2003. White House Ends Drugs & Terror Ads. MMM 1, Drug Czar 0.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cannabisaction/message/759 

U.S. drug war ads in the U.S. media say that drugs fund terrorism. 
Terrorism begins and ends in Israel: 

new_refusenik_watch_eng.gif"Palestinian deaths by region. The Killing Fields of Gaza. 
Rachel Corrie Memorial Website. 
American crushed and killed by Israeli Army bulldozer
 
March 16, 2003 in the city of Rafah, Occupied Gaza. 
http://www.distanceeddesign.com/rachel  Rachel Corrie Memorial Website. 
http://www.indybay.org/news/2003/03/1584046  Many Rachel Corrie photos compiled. 
http://www.btselem.org/English/Statistics/Al_Aqsa_Fatalities.asp  Stats on Palestinian and Israeli deaths. 
http://www.pmwatch.org/pmw/mediocrity/displayCall.asp?essayID=73  Use of U.S. flechette tank shells against Palestinian civilians. 
http://www.partnersforpeace.org/actionalerts/db200209060/  Many flechette links. Each shell contains 5,000 small flechette darts. 

by Joe Shadwick
There has been a mis-information campaign by the US government that began in 1937 and now like Baghdad Bob did during his information speaches in Iraq the DEA's office claims marijuana is more harmful than heroin. Reality is no longer an option or reality would have ended prohibition years ago. The real culprit in this ignored but yet costly war on drugs is prohibition itself. Abraham Lincoln once said "Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation, and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes." The US started prohibition and has pushed it off onto the world globally. Through the UN the US has pushed prohibition on the people of every country in the world. Sactioned are threatened if other countries choose to even try other options. The big picture with prohibition is that it does exactly what alcohol prohibition did in the 1920's as it fuels crime like an oil well on fire. If one would try to really see through prohibition and go beyond it then they might just realize that those who are in high places rely on prohibition for a pay check. If drug prohibition was repealed then the drug czar and a huge amount of undercover narcotics agents would be jobless. I could rant forever on this subject but it is useless with today's society being brainwashed with mis-information for 66 years by the creators of prohibition the US government. But I will say this! The drug war is useless to the common american taxpayer. As they get less education, less rehabilitation, less help for the real needy, but they do get a police state with lots of policemen but alot less liberties that american's should have. In all reality it appears that drug usage should be looked at as a society health problem and treated as one. Incarcerating whole state populations will never accomplish anything! Pull your head out americans! Repeal prohibition and it will no longer be cool to do drugs! After all kids won't take likely to being called a health problem vs. a criminal!
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