English transcription of "Guns and Weed: The Road To Freedom" movie.
Transcription v 1.1
Transcribed and checked by the film's director, Michael W. Dean
www.gunsandweed.com
www.freedomfeens.com
Done from GUNS AND WEED, Director's Cut 33.
(CHAPTER 1)
(ANGRY PEASANT FILMS)
I wonder how prohibitionists would feel if they saw medical marijuana vastly improve
the life of someone dear to them.
We're supposed to live under a form of government based on representation. If I don't
have the right to kick in your door and kidnap you or take your property because you're
smoking pot, then how is it that I can logically give that power, give that right to my
representative?
As long as you're not hurting anybody else….
This is America, right? Land of the free?
The government has no more right to tell us what to put in our bodies than they have to
take our guns or tell us what books we can read.
WARNING: THIS FILM CONTAINS CUSSIN'. BUT ANGRY TIMES CALL FOR
ANGRY WORDS.
This movie also contains very brief and infrequent scenes of violence encouraged by the
actions of various tyrannical organizations.
The four basic rules of gun safety:
Number 1: Always assume every gun is always loaded.
Number 2: Never point a gun at anything you are not willing to destroy. For example, I’m
not going to point this at you.
Number 3: Keep your finger OFF the trigger until you’re ready to shoot
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Number 4: Be sure of your target, what's behind it and what’s beyond it.
The makers of this film are not attorneys. Nothing said, done, or shown in this film is
legal advice.
We do not recommend that you ever do ANYTHING that is shown, discussed, implied,
sung, or rapped about in this film.
EXCEPT
If you do decide to shoot guns, be sure to receive proper training from a qualified
instructor before you shoot, and always observe the rules of gun safety.
If you are offended by informative educational media about guns and weed, or if
consuming informative educational media about guns and weed is not legal for you in
your community, do not watch this film.
….And you should also immediately move to a hipper community.
And don’t ever shoot a gun while intoxicated…..on anything.
Neema V., Michael Dean, we ain't got no gang, we ain't got no crew, we ain't got no
posse, we got a militia! Right Arm of Wyoming, we ain't in the house, we in the bunker!
WE WILL NOT DISARM!
WE WILL NOT CONFORM!
WE WILL NOT LIE DOWN!
WE’LL RIDE OUT YOUR STORM!
YOU’RE STEALING
(but y’all call it "taxes")
YOU’RE CHEATING
(some major infractions)
YOU’RE PLAYING FAST AND LOOSE
(Like Napolitano's cooch)
YOU’RE LYING
(but y’all call it "public school")
WE’RE DYING
(We’re fodder for your Lunchables)
YOU’RE FUCKING WITH THE TRUTH!
(and you know we got the proof!)
To disarm us is immoral
My quarrel is with FORCE.
Not a squirrel I’m a man
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I’m gonna make my own course.
Governments are involuntarythey carry guns but say we can’t.
Try to keep us wary reacting
Like they’re the queen ant.
Fuck that!
This ain’t no hive mind.
Boy it’s high time
that being a politician was seen
as a high crime.
And selling whatever you wanna sell
should be just fine.
Trading - making both folks happy.
I’m rapping so I can sell the truth.
Nobody’s bulletproof so
you better keep your gat intact
Owning a gun’s not at all violent.
In fact more violence comes from the
So-called "social contract."
That shit’s so wack
Like letting the Man steal half
your stack.
You’re getting jacked.
If I want a bowl packed
or to smoke a whole pack
Only I control that.
So tell the state to hold back.
Governments bring only danger.
They got drones, goons and rangers.
But I’m so hard bitch, I carry TWO in the chamber.
WE WILL NOT DISARM!
WE WILL NOT CONFORM!
WE WILL NOT LIE DOWN!
WE’LL RIDE OUT YOUR STORM!
YOU’RE STEALING
(but y’all call it "taxes")
YOU’RE CHEATING
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(some major infractions)
YOU’RE PLAYING FAST AND LOOSE
(Like Napolitano's cooch)
YOU’RE LYING
(but y’all call it "public school")
WE’RE DYING
(We’re fodder for your munchables)
YOU’RE FUCKING WITH THE TRUTH!
(and you know we got the proof!)
Freedom's one piece.
It's both guns, weed… and anything you feel you need
just as long as you don't
TAKE it, STEAL it or FAKE it.
You know I'm Persian
but no frontin', if this were The 300
I'd be startin' for the Spartans and
I'd fight 'til I'm departed.
If you wanna steal my stuff
Go ahead and do your fucking worst
I’ll no longer need my bullets so I’ll
Give ‘em to you first.
(CHAPTER 2)
Hi! I'm Susan. I'm a 64-year-old grandmother, a retired nurse, and many many other
things.
I have never used marijuana. But as a nurse I am intrigued by the documented and
clinical medical uses of it. And I don’t feel there's any legitimate reason to prohibit that
or any other medication.
They have to blur me on this because I'm a Veterans' Administration patient. And
because marijuana is still federally illegal, I have to protect my identity, because if I'm
positively identified I lose all my federal benefits that I earned with my own blood.
I was injured in while serving in the Marine Corps, in an incident with a helicopter. And
have had to use medical marijuana as a pain medication and to be able to sleep and
function, because I've been left with no alternative by the people who are supposed to
care for us, the Veterans' Administration.
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This is my girlfriend, we've been together for 3 years now. And we were both diagnosed
at the same time.
I've had 6 surgeries so far and supposedly got about 4 or 5 more to go. I did go through a
botched surgery where they basically butchered me. Not once, but twice. They medically
screwed me for the rest of my life.
For me having Multiple Sclerosis was severe body aches and pains. Things like
Oxycodone don't give me bad side effects, it just doesn't work. There's nothing I have
every found until I found medical marijuana where it's just relief.
The War on Drugs is a war on people. It’s a war on your daughters, your sons, your
neighbors, your friends. It’s a war on freedom, and a war on those who would defend
your freedom.
I've used medical marijuana because I've got issues with my back, a bunch of ruptured
discs. My left leg is partially paralyzed, I've got paralysis issues with my right arm and
shoulder. Parts were reattached. It makes the airport fun though…
Medical marijuana for me is a life saver. Because I've got Chron's Disease, and I have to
deal with worrying about every piece of food I put in my body. And when I put food in
my body that my Chron's does not agree with, I get horrible stomach cramps. There's
nothing else besides medical marijuana that takes these cramps away.
The War on Drugs is a war against everybody, because they use that as a foothold to gain
access to your car, your home, your business, to everything you do. All under the
pretence of protecting society or yourself from illicit drug use. How often you even have
a simple speeding ticket and the first thing out of an officer's mouth is "You don't mind if
we search your car, do you?" or "Where did that 10,000 dollars come from? Unless you
can prove where it came from, we're taking it. Because it might be drug money."
I don't believe the world would fall apart if drugs were legalized.
I don't think our society would collapse if marijuana were legal. I've been to Amsterdam
three times. Loved it. Amsterdam is a clean, well-run, beautiful city. They're
professional, put together and organized.
The War on Drugs leads directly to other mandates being crammed down our collective
gullets.
In the case of England's disarmament, the general population was convinced that if they
just gave up these few rights, which they were lead to believe were simply relics of a
bygone age, that they would be safer and free from intrusion.
In consequence, violent crimes have skyrocketed in the UK. The police are now
demanding closed-circuit cameras in all public areas and some private areas. And now
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England is getting to the point where they have laws regulating the hot water temperature
in your home.
Governments, state, local and federal, are going broke in this country. A big reason is
that we spend so much money incarcerating people. The vast majority of people behind
bars in the United States are there for non-violent drug offenses. And by far the largest
number of those are marijuana-related offenses.
Taking people who have not aggressed against anyone's natural rights, who have not
harmed anyone, who have not stolen anything, we're throwing them behind bars, and then
we're asking society to foot the bill.
Oh yes, prisons would probably empty out, it would be a ghost town in those prisons if
marijuana were ever totally legalized.
It's really no different than the argument that a lot of conservatives like to make against
social welfare: "Why should we have to pay for some deadbeat to pay his bills or put
food on the table?" But they never stop to make the same argument for "Why should we
have to pay to take care of someone who committed no real crime, and is now behind
bars in a government cage, and we're not paying for his livelihood, 100% outright,
instead of just some food stamps."
My name is Austin. I'm one of the owners here at Karmaceuticals. We are a local
marijuana dispensary in Denver. We try to offer the highest quality, lowest price
medicine for our patients.
You were born with the right to use it because it grows, just like a banana on a tree.
Another basic right we have is to put whatever want into our bodies as long as it is not
hurting another person.
(CHAPTER 3)
Freedom Of Ingestion is a basic human right.
Hello freedom fiends!
It's your boy, Neem
from the US. Get the US
out my bloodstream!
I own me and that
includes endorphins.
No, I won't ask permission
and I won't say please!
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Freedom fans, one fact
that I gotta make clear is:
If you ain't about your heater
than you're nothing but a THEORIST!
You can read and type,
but when the jackers coming
I know you'll lose the fight
on your ass with your thumb in!
Good morning Senator! Here's your coffee!
Thanks, I'll need it. I have so many laws
to write before November.
I'm so excited!
You should be. A slim majority lets me tell EVERYONE
what to do.
Freedom of Ingestion!
It's more than a suggestion!
And though it ain't a question
but those hos just keep oppressing.
And so we teaching lessons
for those with chiefin sessions
and those with Smith & Wessons
Freedom
is
possession!
The Lord said that "What goes into a man's mouth is not what defiles him. But what
comes out of it. For out of his mouth come lies and hate.
Some of the first weapon restriction laws in the United States were passed in the South in
the 1870s, as a response to the freeing of recently enslaved African Americans. These
laws were specifically designed to prevent freed slaves from possessing weapons, while
allowing the white land owner to maintain his power.
The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution says:
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the
people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
By the way, the phrase "well-regulated" does not mean "under government control." At
the time of its writing it meant "well trained, and with equipment in good condition."
Supreme Court Justice Scalia clearly understood this when he recently wrote for the
majority in Heller that: "The adjective 'well-regulated' implies nothing more than the
imposition of proper discipline and training."
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The Second Amendment means you gotta keep you, and your gat, intact.
To me, The Second Amendment means we always have an insurance policy. The Second
Amendment is a guarantor of our right to say "No!"
And if you pick up any dictionary, the word "No" does not mean "some" or "with the
exception of" or "except as for provided for by law." It means "NO!" And any parent
with kids knows, that "What part of 'NO' don't you understand?" But apparently there's a
part of "NO" that our government does not understand.
Governments are like pushy parents. Do you WANT pushy parents?
I'm not a gun enthusiast, I'm not a hunter, I'm not a member of the NRA. But there's one
thing that guns mean to me. They represent FREEDOM. Slaves and conquered peoples
are not allowed to own guns. And I will never be in that group. And I don't want any
other American to ever be in that group.
NOT LEGAL IN CALIFORNIA.
(UNITED NATIONS ANTI-GUN SCULPTURE)
The only people who want to disarm you and take away those things that you wish to
own, are those who want to be your masters. And it doesn't matter if they're from the
government, or from the Parent and Teachers Association.
A citizen is a person with a gun. A peasant is a person without a gun.
A gun to means I'm a free American. I'd like to ask every politician who supports gun
control, "Just what part of the Second Amendment don't you understand. Just what part of
'shall not be infringed' don't you understand? And why is it that you, along with your bed
partners of the NEA, try to re-write American history and force your beliefs down the
throats of our school students and try to tell them that the Second Amendment did not
bestow or protect an individual right to keep and bear arms?"
(NEA= NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION. THE LARGEST LABOR UNION
IN THE USA.)
Teachers' unions have become a bad thing. Because they support the status quo of the
slave camps, of the indoctrination centers.
In Germany, the party in power at the time, The National Socialist Party, passed a law
requiring all Jews to register their weapons. Shortly thereafter, they passed a law
requiring Jews to surrender certain weapons. Law stacked on top of law until all Jews
were legally forbidden to own weapons, with Jews eventually winding up in the
concentration camps.
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You get into a very slippery slope, where you get into The Führer Principle, where people
get it into their heads that the government has the power to do whatever they want if it's
for society's best interest, or for someone's best interest, or for some well-intended cause.
Politicians want to whittle away at our Second Amendment in order to protect
themselves, so that when they begin to make policy that people would vociferously
disagree with, there is no resistance. I believe it is so that when they finally attempt to put
themselves in power indefinitely, no one has any way to stop them.
(GOVERNMENT-SPONSORED SELF-DEFENSE CLASS. Today! 2 PM! FREE!)
Thank you for coming back to the second part of this class. My name is Timothy, I'm
from the government and I'm here to help you. We are gong to now assume that I'm the
bad guy charging at you, and I need you to take the defensive role we went over. Are you
ready?
Good job!
What do you think about guns and people being able to have guns?
I think that people have the right to protect themselves.
In Cambodia in 1975, Pol Pot restricted private ownership of weapons, en route to the
Khmer Rouge killing grounds. Josef Stalin in the Soviet Union used the same approach,
restricted weapon possession for private folk, and shipped millions off to the gulags.
Anybody in authority wants to disarm honest people. Because they see themselves as
being the person with power, the person of all-knowing, and they want to impose their
values on everybody else. They feel it's a threat to their authority if honest people are
allowed to carry a weapon for self-defense.
"It could never happen in America"? What about New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina
aftermath, 2005. When Mayor Ray Nagin declared "No one will be allowed to be armed.
We're going to take all the guns."
Shouldn't the aftermath of a natural disaster be the exact moment at which people NEED
their weapons?
(CHAPTER 4)
They want to be the ones with the guns. They don't want us to have the guns.
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Guns for protection…novel concept America. I've got news for you. There's only one
thing you need to keep yourself safe, it's called a rape whistle. And I've got them. In my
store. Only police can hear them.
I would ask people who say that their right to feel safe trumps my right to bear arms,
would you not rather have the freedom to walk in any public place at any time that you
desire?
These criminal gangs, literally shooting it up in the streets, shooting civilians, killing
everyone, anyone in sight, just to make sure that they maintain their hold on their
territorial monopoly.
I'm Sheriff Richard Mack, former Sheriff of Graham County, Arizona, retired now. I was
an undercover narcotics officer, I was a drug warrior. And fighting in the Drug War
actually taught me that the Drug War is nothing but a farce.
A monopolist or a cartel has a rather sweet deal, and it's not based on providing goods or
services, it's based on their monopoly. And anytime someone wants to enter the market
and try to break their monopoly they have an incentive to stop that. And in the black
market the way that manifests is through violence.
Smoking weed is NOT an immoral act, but since it’s illegal to get it, have it and use it,
people end up having to hang out with criminals.
In the past procuring medicine was a nightmare for me. You never knew what you were
getting, it was usually garbage.
And they get treated like criminals. Legalize weed, and the entire criminal aspect goes
away.
Welcome to Karmaceuticals, man! I'll give you a little tour here. Over in the back corner
we have our marijuana-medicated Dixie Elixirs, strawberry, orange. We also carry
edibles, gummies, lollypops, hard candies, chocolates, cookies, crispy treats. And then
the big shebang: 55 strains of medical marijuana at any one time.
Drug cartels don’t run liquor stores. If drugs were legalized tomorrow, drug lords would
be out of a job.
The decisive vote of the 36th state against Prohibition is happy news for the grain raisers
of the United States, and for many others throughout the land. With an eye on December
5th, work is being rushed in distilleries and bottling works. Thousands are being called
back to work in plants of allied industries. At least 500,000 new jobs are predicted as a
result of repeal. Keg and barrel factories perhaps the most closely allied line. The
immediate benefits from repeal extend into almost every line of business and commerce.
However, not everyone's waiting until December 5th. The lid is off in many places, with
the downfall of Prohibition being celebrated in real old-time hilarity. Yes, and by the
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renewal of old acquaintances, hotels and nightclubs report a real pre-war spirit among
those revilers.
Marijuana was outlawed in US in the 1930s from a combination of greed, fear and
racism. Alcohol prohibition had been tried and failed, so the nanny-state do-gooders
needed another crusade.
Rumors were spread that Blacks and Mexicans were trying to get white children hooked,
even though marijuana is not addictive.
A newspaper in 1934 reported:
"Marijuana influences Negroes to look at white people in the eye, step on white men’s
shadows and look at a white woman twice."
Billionaire newspaper owner William Randolph Hearst was heavily invested in paper
production from trees and did not want to have hemp paper compete with his empire.
Hearst used his newspapers as a bully pulpit, publishing prevarication like:
"Marijuana is a shortcut to the insane asylum. Smoke marijuana cigarettes for a month
and what was once your brain will be nothing but a storehouse of horrid specters. Hashish
makes a murderer who kills for the love of killing out of the mildest mannered man who
ever laughed at the idea that any habit could ever get him…."
A Montana paper reported:
"When some beet-field peon takes a few traces of this stuff… he thinks he has just been
elected president of Mexico, so he starts out to execute all his political enemies."
Harry J. Anslinger, a careerist fed goon and buddy of Hearst, basically became America’s
first drug czar, by spinning tales like:
"Most marijuana smokers in the US are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos, and entertainers.
Their Satanic music, jazz, and swing, result from marijuana use. This marijuana causes
white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers, and any others."
The DuPont chemical company considered hemp a threat to their new patent, Nylon, and
also considered this plant that they could not patent, a plant that people could grow at
home for free, a possible competitor to their pharmaceuticals.
William Randolph Hearst and the DuPonts goaded their buddies in Congress to
effectively outlaw pot with a marijuana tax act in 1937. This was a bill that no one read,
and was passed in one very long lie-filled session. The only resistance came from a
congressman who wanted more information before voting because he didn’t know what
marijuana was.
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Most drug laws in the US, and the current international War on Drugs, spring from this
single day of big business hijacking Congress.
Today many cops who enforce pot laws do so only because it provides them with cushy
jobs, good benefits and a chance to push people around.
And not many citizens know how marijuana became illegal. They just think "The
government knows best. Pot must be bad, or it wouldn’t BE illegal."
Oh-o! There will be no more scenes such as this. Barrel after barrel of prized whiskies
destroyed by government agents. It's going to be a cold winter for the barrel busters!
We're here for our patients. We keep our prices low. 43 dollars per 1/8 ounce is the
maximum for our members. And we have a daily special, every day it changes. We have
38 dollar 1/8ths as well.
Thomas Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence of the concepts of the
inalienable rights to life, liberty and property. How can you possibly defend your life,
liberty and property today without a gun?
The Second Amendment does not grant rights. The Second Amendment merely
guarantees a right that already exists.
Documents do not GRANT rights. They DECLARE rights. The Bill of Rights could be
outlawed tomorrow, and you’d still have those rights. They’re IN you. You’re BORN
with them. They’re INNATE.
If The Second Amendment were repealed, it wouldn't change our innate right to defend
ourselves. Because it's an innate right. Merely stating on paper that something is or isn't
so doesn't change the reality.
The Second Amendment did not yet exist on April 19, 1775, but the patriots at Lexington
and Concord knew they didn’t need permission.
The Federal Government likes to quote the Supremacy Clause, but maybe they ought to
read it. Because the Supremacy Clause does not say that The Federal Government is
supreme. Far from it. It says that only those laws made in pursuance of the Constitution
are supreme.
Natural Rights are the rights that you're born with. Like any animal on this planet you
have the right to defend yourself, the right to eat, drink, to stay alive.
All creatures have innate abilities to defend themselves, be it through teeth, claws, the
ability to camouflage.
What's under your shirt?
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I have a level III-A bullet-resistant vest on.
When you know, as a potential criminal, that every person around you is possibly armed,
probably armed, you're a lot less likely to mug grandmother on the street corner then if
you know that no one around has a gun and you do. It's already recognized that when you
pass laws restricting gun ownership, the law-abiding people that you don't have to worry
about are the only ones who are going to follow that law. The people who are going to be
running around mugging grandmother, robbing stores, doing those sort of things that
involve a gun, they're already willing to break the law, so what's breaking one more law
to them?
Article 1, section 7, of the Wyoming State Constitution says that "Absolute, arbitrary
power over the lives, liberty and property of freemen exists nowhere in a republic, not
even in the largest majority."
As far as I'm concerned, nobody gives you those rights. You're born with those rights, by
being a part of nature.
I don’t have to worry about cops pulling up and arresting me or scaring me or having a
criminal record, letting my grandmother down. I don't get in trouble and I never have. I'm
a good girl.
If 99% of the country voted to make eating ice cream illegal, it wouldn’t make eating ice
cream WRONG.
Gertie, this is Hettie. Hi honey. I was wondering is your son home from college yet? This
chemotherapy is making me sick and that pot he got me last time really helped. I could
sleep, I could eat. I need some help here. And I'm really hoping that you're there soon and
he's there and would you call me please honey? I'm just beside myself and-Gleeful salutations and a happy happy evening madam. Your unauthorized request has
been re-routed. Smoking ganja is very very bad. Authorities are en route to protect
yourself from yourself. Please remain docile when they arrive. Goodbye!
(CHAPTER 5)
If my mom's friend is ailing from something and she calls me up 2000 miles away and
says "Do you know of anything that can help?" and the only answer right now is "Write
your congressman."
A crime proper has been defined as "a debt in which one party had no say over the
terms." If I steal your wallet, that means that I owe you the contents of your wallet, but
you didn't have any say over us making that agreement, I just took your stuff. If I assault
you then I've caused you harm, I owe you compensation because you didn't have any say
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over that. If I sit in my living room and smoke a joint, I'm not causing harm to any other
person and I'm not harming anybody's property, so from there, where does the debt come
in? Who do I owe for having smoked that joint? Whereas again, if I steal your stuff, if I
assault you, if I violate your privacy, then I've aggressed against someone's natural rights.
We should never consider ourselves as doing something good for our community and that
we're actually serving people because we warehouse people with drug problems in
prisons. And we don't even keep drugs out of the prisons.
They say the definition of insanity is trying the same thing over and over and expecting
different results. This is certainly the case with the United States and its continued War
on Drugs.
Prohibition hasn’t made people quit smoking pot anymore than a total gun ban would
make a free man hang his head in shame and voluntarily turn all his hardware in to the
federal smelter.
Hello police?
Good morning this evening my friend. This is Johnny Patel. What can I do to you?
I went to the gun show and I bought this old gun and it's got the "shoulder thing that goes
up." So there's these men here now and they've got guns and they're trying to break in.
and they shot my dog and they're trying to take my things and they stomped on my
kittens!
They're from the government and they're there to help you, sir. Goodbye!
The politicians that we've elected to run things have turned our country into more of a
police state. A lot of people in this country worry about us heading toward Socialism. I
think we're closer to Communism now, the way the laws are changing they're headed in
that direction. And that's not what I served for.
The Tenth Amendment to the United States Constitution says:
"The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it
to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."
What the Federal Government would have us ignore is that The Tenth Amendment
secures all rights not expressly granted to the Federal Government to the States and the
People at large.
Nanny laws and taxation are enforced a the point of a gun because that's really the only
recourse a government has. Let's say you don't pay your property taxes on your home.
The government will send people to your house to try to collect on those taxes. If you tell
those people you're not paying your taxes, they send other people who are armed. If you
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tell those people to go away, they point guns at your head. If you still resist, they have
been known to shoot. But generally the threat of a gun is enough to intimidate someone
into putting their hands behind their back, at which point they put handcuffs on you and
take you to jail and then take your property.
I never understood why some people who hate cops and hate guns demand the
government enforce "peaceful", "utopian" agendas, when the government enforces those
agendas with cops, who have guns!
The Federal Government would have us forget that our Constitution expressly limits what
they can do. Our Constitution tells the government what it is allowed to do.
Statists on both sides always think we’re about three laws from perfection. But nanny
staters are nanny staters whether they've got their left boot or their right boot on your
neck.
One of the problems with having Democrats in power is that they’re in love with the idea
of civil liberties, but they don’t understand that you can’t have civil liberties without
economic liberties. And vice versa, the Republicans are in love with their version of
economic liberty, but they don’t understand that you cannot have economic liberty
without civil liberties, that they’re really two halves of the same concept or two sides of
the same coin.
People who support one section of our Bill of Rights while ignoring the rest are
hypocrites. Because the Bill of Rights is not something that you can pick and choose
from at will. Rights support each other.
The War on Drugs fuels the War on Guns. Look how the government wanted to disarm
honest citizens in the U.S. by trying to reinstate the Scary Black Rifle Ban to help the
War on Drugs in Mexico.
You cannot outlaw drugs and still claim to be pro-free market. Outlawing, prohibition, is
the most stringent form of regulation that there is. Conversely, you cannot have civil
liberties, on the Democrat side, and be against ownership of guns. How is one to possibly
protect those civil liberties if they don't have the weaponry and the means to do so?
Our Right to Free Speech allows us to protest when other rights are threatened. Our Right
to Bear Arms allows us physical defense of those rights. Our Right to Trial by Jury
allows us to be heard by our peers rather than silenced by a government.
And the War on Guns fuels the War on Drugs. When you outlaw THINGS instead of
ACTIONS honest people are treated like criminals.
I've been arrested one time for marijuana. It was before Colorado Amendment 20 was
passed. They threw the book at me.
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Our justice system has been replaced with a system of numbers. The prosecutors want to
increase their win-loss records. And police want to have their conviction rates
maintained. And it's all at the expense of the justice system in general. It's at the expense
of the People.
There are numerous parties who benefit from the War on Drugs. There are the
distributors of drugs who enjoy artificially large profits that are not based on real market
mechanisms, they're based on risk premiums. Also you have prison worker unions. They
have a very large lobbying presence in Washington DC, and at various state legislatures.
Of course marijuana possession is the number one reason for packing prisons full of
inmates and demanding the building of more prisons. So obviously if you're in the field
of prison work, you want to see more people incarcerated. Prosecutors get to enjoy a
tough-on-crime tough-on-drugs artificial moral high ground when it comes time to
campaign.
We now live in a culture where law enforcement believes that their ultimate goal is to rid
our community of drugs. Sheriffs run for office on that platform. "Oh I'll get rid of drugs
and we're going to be zero tolerance and we're going to get all these people out of here
and they're going to leave your kids alone and we're going to clean up the streets."
Politicians, same story, they can enjoy a pseudo-tough on crime stance without actually
having to go after real criminals. And there's an army of lawyers in this country who
actually make their living from public defender work. A large majority of people who go
to court on drug charges can't pay for their own legal defense. Take away the War on
Drugs and a lot of the indigent defendants aren't in court anymore and don't need public
defenders.
(CHAPTER 6)
And now, the Neema News, with Neema Vedadi!
And now for your daily dose of nanny statism in our daily segment, Tyranny Today!
Today a SWAT team in Maryland threw third-grader Bobby Wareham to the ground and
arrested the young boy for possessing a toy solider holding a toy gun in clear violation of
his school's zero-tolerance policy.
And in related news, a Michigan man was sentenced to two years in federal prison on gun
charges. Rod Simmons says his legal semi-automatic AR-15 rifle malfunctioned at a
public range and fired two shots on one trigger pull.
And police in Ban Francisco raided The Happy Heifer Health Food store with guns
drawn. They arrested owner Crunchy O'Doule for selling unpasteurized milk without a
permit.
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Neema news reporter Neema Vedadi now joins us live from the scene. Neema?
Well, Neema, Ban Francisco officials say they're cracking down hard on all unlicensed
commerce. If you do not have the proper 47 forms filled out in octuplicate then they
could be coming for you. Today small business owner Crunchy O'Doule found out the
hard way.
Ah…sweet milk, Mother Nature's lifeblood. Pure pure nectar, I almost don't want to sell
you. So precious, so life giving. But I suppose I must…
You won't get to! On your knees you dirty hippie! On your knees!
What's the problem, officer?
You don't have a license to sell that milk!
Give me the milk!
I'll try anything once.
Give me the milk!
Oh come on, man!
We're from the government and we're here to help you! It's unpasteurized! Cuff him!
Don't make me shoot this hippie!
Can I get fucked up on this milk?
Is everyone gone? Put a gun in his hand, say he's resisting.
Nanny laws and taxation are always enforced at the barrel of a gun. It is generally the job
of the politicians and the political class to make sure that citizens don't see that see that
and don't understand that.
Dad?
Yes, boy?
What's a presidential election?
Well, boy, a presidential election is a game that the robots came up with to let the
prisoners feel really special for one day every four years.
Oh….But it's just a game?
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Yup. Just a game. Like Waterboard or Monopoly.
Yay!
Yay!
A government can write laws until they run out of paper or run out of ink. But unless
they’re willing to pick up a gun and put someone in a cage for breaking those laws, those
laws are really just suggestions.
(CHAPTER 7)
If somebody ever comes around you talking to you about drugs, run away from them.
There are no good cops. There are good peace officers. There are men and women who
honestly understand self-ownership, and honestly understand the necessity for people to
be responsible for themselves….
This is an unloaded gun. This is a Glock 40. OK? I'm the only one in this room
professional enough to carry this Glock 40.
…unfortunately they are few and far between. The rest of them are COPS, who have
bought into the false assumption that they are some sort of a special breed, and have
special privileges and are immune from the laws of non-aggression.
There's a pig on the highway.
(They wanna take your guns.)
There's a cop on the highway.
(so they're the only ones.)
There's a pig on the highway.
(They wanna take your guns.)
There's a cop on the highway.
(so they're the only ones.)
(pig pig pig pig pig pig piggy)
(pig pig pig pig pig pig piggy)
(pig pig pig pig pig pig piggy)
(pig pig pig pig pig pig piggy)
There's a cop on every corner.
Looking for a doughnut.
There's a cop on every corner.
Snorting coke off his dashboard.
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There's a cop on every corner.
He's coming for your gun.
Thank you for your time, Sergeant Dan Banning, I'm Neema Vedadi from the Neema
News. So why don't you tell us in your own words exactly what happened today.
Well, we got a tip that these hippies were selling unlicensed, unpasteurized milk, trying
to say that it's healthy or something. It's not. The government's here to protect them, they
should know better. They can't do it without our help and our permission and we need to
keep things under control.
I've seen it far too many times, where plea-bargain systems have worked like this: some
poor sap arranges to where somebody can get some meth. He needs 50 dollars so he does
it. He gets caught holding the meth. And they say "Well, we're going to charge you with
about 7 or 8 felonies. You could be looking at 15 to 20 years. Or if you just plead to one
felony, we'll give you 2 ½ years in prison." And he ends up thanking everybody. And that
guy shouldn't be spending a DAY in jail.
No one's ever overdosed from marijuana. Alcohol kills thousands every year.
Pharmaceutical companies are pretty upset about this. I'm sure they're behind a lot of
leading the fight against medical marijuana.
Pot isn’t harmful, but it stays illegal because there’s too much money in KEEPING it
illegal. Big medicine, big alcohol, big government, big prison industry, they all feed off
the War on Drugs.
If they make it criminal, you have to deal with the criminals.
We are spinning our wheels, wasting our time, wasting our money, and creating another
branch of big-brother government. I'm fed up with it. It's doing no good.
It's a poison. It's milk that's not pasteurized. My dad did grow up on a farm and used to
drink unpasteurized milk. But that was on a farm and those were simpler times. You can't
do that now. We have rules and laws in place for a reason.
And if my choice is continuing as we are with this ridiculous Drug War, or ending
prohibition, then I'm all for ending prohibition. Prohibition doesn't work.
The only role of government is to coordinate those rules that people agree to and wish to
live by.
I wanna know that this government's gonna do to fix up my driveway.
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Take care of your own damn driveway. The government can only do things by stealing
the money from someone else. The government has no money of it's own. They can only
borrow it, counterfeit it, or steal it at gunpoint with more and more taxes.
It was a 3-year investigation we spent ¾ of a million dollars of taxpayer money, well
spent if you ask me. And we got this scumbag off the street. We got 12 gallons of milk
today.
Nanny laws are all those laws that politicians just love to enforce upon us regarding
victimless crimes. Too often these days I see so many against smoking. "Oh I was forced
to go into a restaurant and there was smoke in there and I couldn't escape. And now we're
all going to die."
All these ridiculous laws where there is no victim. But somebody wants to make sure that
you don't have a couch sitting on your front deck or an old washing machine in the back.
When, in fact, it's your own private property.
Anytime you prohibit any kind of transaction, whether it be drugs or milk or automobiles
or anything, you develop a black market…
A lot of the time, dealing with a "drug dealer", you have to deal with shady people,
people who are not good people, people who ARE out to get you.
…and in that black market you get a gigantic source of revenue based purely on the
willingness to take the risk in breaking the law to provide whatever it is that has been
outlawed.
If someone's cutting in on their market or cutting in on their territory it could spur a drug
war, it could spur an assassination, all sorts of violence and crime.
You walk in here you feel comfortable. It's like going to your pharmacy.
Here, if someone does something better or someone opens up next door to us, what do we
do? We up our quality, we come up with new ways to lower prices. We have to get our
creativity working, instead of our anger and blood.
We throw a karma-cola contest. We have competitions all the time. We give away free
medicine to everyone. This month we have three of our signature strains. The middle one
is our Grape Ape. On the left is The Wiz. And on the right is our Pop Special. We also
have two joints, some kief and some hash, and some hash oil. This is all being raffled off
the day before Halloween. So someone's going to have one of the best Halloweens of
their life.
Every day we also give away free medicine to our patients, help them out, keep the cost
low. We have games. Sometimes you draw cards, sometimes you guess the song on the
radio. We also have free-gram Friday, free T-shirt Friday.
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When you're dealing with a "drug dealer", they are not giving you the true deal….
When you have black markets you don't have any kind of legal recourse through the court
system for incidences of fraud or bad business practices….
…They are not going you the quantity or the quality you've paid for.
….Whereas with any normal, above-the-board business, if a person does not conduct
themselves in a socially acceptable manner, there are repercussions, customers can sue.
In the black market you don' have that recourse. The only recourse is violence. If
someone rips off your stash the only thing you can do is kick in their door and try to get it
back or shoot them. The drug trade becomes such a lucrative field because you're not
really selling drugs. What you're selling is the willingness to take that risk to provide the
drugs. The more people you have taking that risk, the less potential profit there is to be
derived from it. So there's an incentive for these drug dealers, these criminal gang
leaders, to take each other out.
The War on Drugs is unwinnable for numerous reasons. The first being basic Supply and
Demand. Anytime you have a demand for anything, a supply will evolve to satisfy that.
It's been show throughout history whether people have tried to ban prostitution, drug use,
guns, alcohol. Just because you make something illegal doesn't mean that people stop
desiring it.
Where there's a will, there's a way. Find the hole.
All you end up doing is pushing that desire underground where it mixes with seedy
elements of society and creates the crime that becomes associated with it.
I made the number-one mistake people make, at least once in their life, when trying to
buy marijuana. I gave my money to the dealer, and he said he would be right back. and he
never came back.
The black market is starting to diminish a bit. There's no longer the shady behind-theback-alley hand a bag over, hand the cash over. Now it's open. We're here.
We don't have criminal gangs shooting each other up in the streets over alcohol
distribution. That was a rather common occurrence in big cities in the 1920s. I have yet to
see a Budweiser truck shooting it out with a Miller Lite truck.
(CHAPTER 8)
You can see exactly what we're doing. There's nothing hidden, it's not laced with
anything. We just remove all the sketchiness.
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We've been fighting this Drug War for 40 years. We spend 70 billion dollars a year. And
what have we done? Drugs are more prevalent. They're more potent. And the rate of
abuse is just as high as it ever was.
The harder you crack down, the more draconian you make the penalties, all you end up
doing is creating more monetary value to go into that risk-based incentive. It's a vicious
cycle. You crack down, which raises the profits involved in selling, so then more people
want to get involved. So then you have the violence associated with trying to maintain a
monopoly and trying to maintain those artificially high profit levels. And because of the
violence, then you have to crack down even more which only further inflates the profit
level involved in delivering the substances. And it's an unwinnable battle.
Depending on the legislation, we're hoping it becomes a free enterprise. Where anyone
can join, anyone can open up a center. Competition, the American way, is a beautiful
thing. If they try to shut it down and make it really hard to enter this market, then the
quality's going to decrease, the prices are going to increase, and that's going to hurt the
patient.
We're actually giving cancer patients medication for free. If you go to any of the
dispensaries and you're a true cancer patient, most of these people help you out. Unlike a
pharmaceutical doctor who will just run you through for insurance co-pays every week.
My name is Eric Underwood and I'm the bio-engineer of this medical soda….
As an engineer I find many firearms to be fascinating pieces of machinery….
…I specifically designed it for my ailments. I'm a patient myself. I developed it for my
pains.
….the intricacies of their design, the skill with which they have been crafted, particularly
antique weapons, is something that I marvel at.
I would say that I have a passion for this.
Hard drugs are no different then guns or marijuana or anything else….
I don't think that people should take drugs, but I also don’t think that the government
should interfere with it.
…They are substances that people may choose to use or even abuse. But if there is no
coercion, theft or fraud involved, no one has any right to question it.
Should race cars be outlawed? How about boxing? Skydiving? Camping in bear country?
Those things are like drugs: VOLUNTARILY doing something dangerous and
exhilarating, for kicks.
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At one store I get a Hi-Point 9-milly,
papers for my joint and a pack of Phillies.
Yes I'm feeling very honored.
But if the world were truly free I could also
buy my marijuana.
They despise the very thought of.
In fact, take a look at this
Dog spit taxes my cigarettes
and my trans-fatty acid.
Only tape I see is red.
Fed goons are kitten stompin'
and this shit is poppin'
They'll shoot your dog man,
With a pussy .223.
Battle rifles stop your ass indeed!
Sergeant Ban Banning needs
to give an ass tanning
to the tax-taxing
fact-slashing
ass-gashing
cash-grabbing
folks from San Francisco
they can eat a bag of dicks, ho!
California Über Alles!
Dictating from the palace!
We got way bigger problems now
and banning's what caused 'em.
When the Schumer hits the fan
I'll be surviving with my band
with more AK-47 ammo than all Afghanistan!
Banning should be banned!
(Call Sergeant Ban Banning!)
Central Planning should be panned!
(Call Sergeant Ban Banning!)
We're fed up with the man!
(Call Sergeant Ban Banning!)
This whole system is a sham!
(Call Sergeant Ban Banning!)
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I really don't care what my neighbor does on the other side of this fence. Just as long as it
doesn't cross my fence and I don't have to pay for it.
(CHAPTER 9)
I think people are born with the right to exist. I think people are born with the right to
practice whatever religion, faith and values that are their own, so long as it doesn't mess
with anyone else. I think those are rights that you're born with and I think everything else
after that is earned.
She has a full-time job at a hotel and I have a full-time job tiling. And we both vote.
I feel there are still a lot of people that are against it. But here in Colorado there are so
many patients every day getting their medical marijuana cards. So many patients turning
away from prescription pills. It's a growing surge. Activism's huge.
Do you think that legalizing marijuana would help the economy in any way?
I'm working right now.
Being a little pot elf, I come in whenever I have free time. I trim up the buds so we get all
the big leaves off. Then they dry them for a couple days and then they sell it to the
patients who want it.
The medical marijuana industry is creating lots of jobs, if they allow it to.
You can fail or make it, that's what America does for you.
The generation between the Baby Boomers and Generation X, that actually see the whole
picture.
The generation that's in charge right now are a part of this whole "weed is awful drug
that's going to make you crazy and make you kill your whole family" idea.
If I try to talk to my grandmother about this she'll say "No, that's what the cows eat. You
don't smoke what the cows eat."
Some of the patients who come in here are in their 50s, 60s and 70s and they say "We've
been waiting so long for the day when we could go into a store and buy marijuana." They
can't believe it. So I have a gut feeling that when I'm 65 I'll be saying the same thing to
the next generation. I'll be saying "I can't believe this, it's legal all over America. I've
been waiting my whole life."
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Gun lovers, those of us who enjoy carrying and using guns should support those who
want to use marijuana or any other plant simply because all of our rights spring from the
same source. And the abrogation of anyone's rights abrogates all of our rights.
I believe that when the cartridge box is no longer available, the ballot box has very little
meaning.
And now the Neema News with Neema Vedadi.
WARNING: GRAPHIC AUDIO CONTENT. IF YOU HAVE SMALL CHILDREN
AND WISH TO SHIELD THEM FROM REALITY, PLEASE SEND THEM OUT OF
THE ROOM NOW.
We do apologize, but we are now interrupting your regularly scheduled broadcast for
breaking news. Just hours ago six drug police were eaten by bears while raiding a
marijuana farm near Yellowstone National Park in the tiny town of Closed-For-Winter,
Montana
It is not yet clear if the dope farmer had trained the bears, or if the animals simply had
good taste.
Here's an audio clip of the last radio transmission from the raiding party, lead by Sergeant
Dan Banning:
Nice bears! Stand back! We're from the government and we're here to help you! Nice
bears!
Chilling.
And in other news, today public schools received their lowest academic ratings ever, so
Congress rushed back for an emergency session to give schools even more money.
The vote was 434 "yays" to one "nay."
I don't believe the War on Drugs is winnable whatsoever. They've been fighting this for
years, spending trillions of dollars, infringing on our liberties, our privacy, and what has
it brought us? Not one step closer.
I was out on the streets, I lived in the drug culture, I was very successful at buying drugs
from drug dealers. If there's anything I learned it's that these people are just like you and
me, they're good people. They've got some habits that need addressing.
The government will never win the War on Drugs primarily because they don't want to.
Even if we did want to stop all drug use, I don't believe it can possibly be done.
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The War on Drugs serves as and excuse for unbelievable amounts of coercion, theft,
murder and control. And since control is their primary purpose in life, they have no
interest in winning the War. Because that would mean the end of it, and they would lose
all of their advantage.
SERGEANT DAN BANNING -TRIBUTE TO A FALLEN HERO.
Daniel "Dan" Banning was born just after the turbulent 1960s to a middle-class family in
the sleepy suburb of Oak Park, Illinois.
He once said "My only regret was not being born sooner. Man, I woulda loved to bash
some hippie heads for the mayor of Chicago."
Even as a child, he loved rules and regulations. He became school bathroom monitor at
ten, and reported keggers to authorities in high school.
He booted his crying mother's car after his police academy graduation, telling her, "I love
you, but I'll enforce any law they write." She died shortly after.
Dan Banning is survived by a half-brother, Baniel "Ban" Banning. The two used to fight
evil together, joyously cracking criminal skulls side by side, until Baniel went rogue,
opposing the righteous War on Drugs.
Dan Banning never married, saying "my job is my life AND my wife." He also leaves
behind his beloved drug dog, Peaches.
Sergeant Dan Banning will be mourned by fellow drug warriors nationwide.
Dan Banning: he took a bite out of crime, until crime took a bite out of him.
There is definitely a difference between a good cop and a bad cop. Andy Griffith was the
typical good cop. He was a peace officer. Nowadays we have law enforcement officers,
who are only concerned with enforcing the law as it is written on the books regardless of
what makes sense, or any common judgment regarding the situation. Most cops are good.
Most cops are my friend. There are a few bad ones.
What do you say to people who say marijuana might make you kill your neighbors or do
all sorts of bad things?
Prove it!
I haven't seen that yet.
You haven't killed your neighbors yet?
No, I haven't killed the neighbors over marijuana, not at all.
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Would you like a receipt?
Sure, why not?
Want to play the game?
Sure!
Picka-Pulla. You pick the card you're going to pull out of the deck.
Number 8.
We're going for a free gram of Pop's Special hash.
I'll take the top one.
Damn.
Alright then.
I'll see you later.
Soon.
I don't see this causing a problem. It's actually helping the whole economy. And if we
industrialized hemp, we could save the whole planet.
When you allow one right to be taken away, then the others follow naturally, like a bunch
of dominoes falling down. Once they see that right being taken away, let's say the right to
smoke, then pretty soon it's smoking pot or owning firearms or having any other pleasure
in your life. Any one thing leads to the next one going down the tubes.
All laws that prohibit peaceful behavior are illegitimate and stupid.
(CHAPTER 10)
In 2011, Medical marijuana is legal in fifteen states and the District of Columbia. Yet pot
is still illegal at the federal level. Medical marijuana dispensaries were routinely raided
and closed by feds with guns drawn during George Bush’s administration, and Barack
Obama has continued this.
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Obama campaigned on a promise to stop this practice, but jackbooted thugs are still
raiding marijuana health centers, ignoring the states’ rights guaranteed under the 10th
Amendment.
Feds are also trampling state's rights with regard to guns. Alaska, Montana, Idaho,
Wyoming, Utah, Arizona, Tennessee and South Dakota have passed Firearms Freedom
Acts, which declare the right to manufacture firearms and ammunition for use and sale
only within that particular state without federal interference or regulation. The Wyoming
law even allows for the arrest and prosecution of federal agents violating that law.
In response to this legislation, the feds have sent warnings to gun sellers in these states,
threatening their licenses to sell in other states, in essence, threatening their very
livelihoods. The feds refuse to recognize the states’ rights to pass these laws, claiming the
Commerce Clause in the Constitution prohibits this. This is a gross misappropriation of
the intent of the Commerce Clause, which was intended to encourage commerce between
the states, not give the feds ultimate control over all interstate commerce.
17 other states have introduced Firearms Freedom legislation.
Many US states recognize concealed carry weapons permits from other states, but only
three states, Montana, Michigan, and Rhode Island, recognize medical marijuana permits
from other states. So if a patient drives from Colorado to Montana, she would not legally
be permitted to possess her medicine while passing through Wyoming. If she travels a lot
for business, she’d either have to go without medical marijuana for extended periods of
time or put herself in constant risk by attempting to take her medicine with her.
In Alaska, Arizona, Vermont and Wyoming, a permit is not required to carry a concealed
gun. However, Alaska, Arizona and Wyoming still issue permits for people who want
them, because they are valid in some other states. In Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona,
Montana, and 33 other states, concealed carry gun permits are "shall issue." Any mentally
sound, non-felon adult can get one, yet a small amount of marijuana is a serious crime in
some of these states, and most have no provision for medical marijuana, even if you’re
dying a painful death of cancer.
These government permission slips for guns and pot also cost money. This randomly
applied tax violates several sections of the Constitution.
A concealed carry permit is nearly impossible to get in Los Angeles or San Francisco
unless you’re a judge or a movie star. Yet there, medical marijuana cards are practically
"shall issue", just about any adult who wants one can get one. But possession of a gun in
public without a permit is a serious felony.
You can walk around Wyoming with a loaded gun on your hip WITHOUT A PERMIT,
but they'll throw you in prison for a year or more for a few grams of pot. In California,
possession of a small amount of pot is a misdemeanor, or even the equivalent of a simple
traffic ticket .
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In November 2010, a ballot initiative to legalize all pot possession for personal use failed
in California. The vote was 53.9% against.
Before the vote, Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca said he’d continue to bust people
for marijuana possession …even if pot had become legal at the state level.
Obama-appointed Attorney General Eric Holder had the same plan, acting under pressure
from the President of Mexico.
But if you walk around San Francisco or Los Angeles with a gun on your hip, you‘d
likely end up with cops or even SWAT throwing you to the ground, putting a gun to your
head, and taking you to prison.
These issues are further confused by the fact that private firearm ownership is legal
nationwide: the Right To Keep And Bear Arms is clearly protected by the 2nd
Amendment. While we believe that Freedom Of Ingestion is a basic human right, at this
time it is not clearly stated in the law.
The overreach of the feds is invasive, harmful and applied in a seemingly randomly way.
The capriciousness of various states in allowing or denying firearm freedoms is confusing
and puts good folks at risk. Furthermore, none of this protects anyone from anything, and
only ruins the lives of honest people. The feds seem to resent the Constitution, feel it gets
in their way. Their continued failure to recognize individual freedoms will turn our
country into a bleak and unlivable police state.
And all states need to recognize their citizens’ natural rights if America is to keep from
sliding into a totalitarian hell.
(CHAPTER 11)
Nanny laws that y'all be statin'
are just real bad potty trainin'
and the bed-wettin' snitches
tell the federal bitches.
Ya better mind your own business.
Ten-round mags make me defenseless.
Empty 30 from the AK-47 in self-defense
it's guaranteed to leave ya senseless.
Private versions of the FDA, the SEC and all of the alphabet-soup government agencies
would evolve. You can see this already with things like Consumer Reports. Consumer
Reports goes out and tests products and says "These are the safe products, these are the
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products that have defects, these are the products that you should stay away from." You
would see a lot more of these private agencies evolve in the marketplace.
And what would happen is they would have to compete with each other based on the
credibility of their information. In the private market, these Consumer Reports-type
agencies would have a market incentive to guarantee the integrity of the information they
produce. Otherwise, word would get out that they produce bunk information, or that they
can be bought off. That damages their credibility and people stop going to that agency.
One of the other problems with government regulatory bodies, or government consumerprotection bodies, is that when they screw up the excuse is always that they didn't have
enough money, they didn't have enough manpower. The FDA misses the boat on drug
safety, so they get a bigger budget. In the private world, it doesn't work that way. If you
fail to do your job, you get fired. And if a private Consumer Reports-type agency fails to
do their job, they go out of business.
Taxes were unconstitutionally used to outlaw marijuana and enact forms of gun control
because the people who wanted to achieve this knew that they did not have a
Constitutional route for doing so. They came up with the idea that there are just certain
things in society that are too important for the Constitution to get in the way. So what
they did was they said "You can have your marijuana, you can have your firearms, but
they're taxed. And you have to have this stamp proving that you've paid the tax." And
then they conveniently issued no stamps. It would be synonymous today with state
legislatures saying that you can possess cigarettes if they have the little stamp that's on
the bottom of every pack. But then they get rid of the stamps that prove that the tax was
paid.
Taxation is sometimes referred to as "theft" because it involves the taking of property
where both sides do not voluntarily agree. Taxation cannot happen without coercion.
Hello, you’ve reached the Municipal Department Of Benevolent Protection. All circuits
are busy. Please press "1" to turn in your neighbor, or stay on the line to be transferred.
Happy afternoon, sir. This is Johnny Patel. So good to be servicing you. What is your
situational kerfuffle?
How CAN'T you help me? I need someone to help me right fucking now! They're trying
to take my health food store! They're trying to take everything I have! All I do is help
people! All I do is make people healthy, I give people crystals! And some organization
called IRS or some shit is trying to fucking take it all away! My money, my livelihood,
everything! You gotta help. You gotta send somebody over here…Robocop, the CSI
dudes, anybody!
Just pay your taxes! Goodbye!
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When I buy something from a provider, that provider is voluntarily agreeing to give me
whatever I'm buying from them, and I'm is voluntarily agreeing to relinquish my money
in exchange for what they're giving me. When it comes to taxation, that voluntary
exchange does not exist. The government decides that you will pay "X" amount of
dollars, for "X" service.
Would you tar and feather a tax collector?
Like they did in days of old?
Would you tar and feather a tax collector?
For breaking in and stealing your gold?
However, this doesn't involve a bargaining process between the government and the
person being taxed, it's just the government saying so.
I have seen the partners of the company have to spend a lot of money paying the State
just to be able to stay open.
Taxation is essentially taking property from you, it doesn’t matter that they’re promising
to provide a service. It would still be theft if I knocked on your door and promised to
protect you from vandals and then demanded money for it. The Mafia does this and it’s
called "a protection racket." But when the government does it, it’s called "public service."
We do have to pay sales tax as we do have a retail sales license. And the State finally
required all dispensaries, grow operations, and edible centers to apply. That cost us
$7500. And then we also have two grow centers, that's $1250 each. And every year we
have to pay and re-apply to be a dispensary, so that's going to be $10,000 every year. And
the more patients you have, the more you have to pay. There are three different brackets
and the top one is $18,500. It's a money-heavy industry. And the State wants their cut.
Every patient also has to pay $90 to the State to be on the registry. So just to get
medicine, to help you, you have to pay $90 to the State, just for them to agree that you
might need that medicine.
"Taxation through citation" is mine. I made it up a long time ago. Because a long time
ago I got sick and tired of the taxation that is being dished out by our patrol officers all
across this country. You highway patrol officers who sit there and write 15, 20, 25 tickets
a day, you're doing nothing but being a tax collector. That's a tax on the People, it is
ridiculous, it's a violation of the Eighth Amendment. And you sir, Mr. peace officer, you
swore an oath to uphold and defend the United States Constitution. Yet you think you can
violate that Constitution without any repercussion and issue these tickets all day long to
people who haven't done anything close to what you have done in violating your oath.
That's perjury!
No, I don't mind the government checking my e-mails on the Interwebs or tapping my
phone. They're just keeping me safe….from drug dealers, terrorists…
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You hate authority but you love government? You hate cops but love government???!!!
What the fuck!!!
…and anybody on the conservative Right side. I assume they all build bombs and live in
shacks and write manifestos.
Democrats wanna melt your guns, Republicans wanna burn your books. Democrats
wanna take away your internet and your pot. Republicans wanna take away your dildos
and your pot.
Of course we need the government. Without them how else would we have electricity, or
running water, or air to breathe? Or how else would we forcibly solve the injustices of the
world?
We'd solve the problems with the opposite of force: with free thoughts, free markets, and
free men.
But…but…but…
In the absence of government regulator bodies, it's still possible to have clean water,
clean air, non-toxic food. Humans received these things, they found these things, for
thousands of years before the FDA came along.
Had I had to keep taking the narcotics that they kept prescribing me I wouldn't be able to
function. I wouldn't be able to talk to you right now because I'd think there were 6 of you
standing in front of me.
If the government were not involved in the regulatory business there would be a lot more
competition in the marketplace. Take the FDA for example: any player in the game who
can't afford to jump through the FDA's hoops, who can't afford to hire all the lawyers
involved to play the game, their drugs don’t make it to the market.
They won't allow her to have medical marijuana but they'll allow her to put Interferon in
her body. Interferon is a very harsh drug that physically changes the entire body.
Whereas without those, consumers would be much more informed. They wouldn't be
relying on an FDA seal of approval. Which means they wouldn't be buying dangerous
drugs like Vioxx that ended up causing serious health problems but was considered
acceptable because it had the FDA seal of approval, so people thought it was OK.
Marijuana has been here since plants existed on the earth. Vicodin is human created, it's
chemically created, that's not natural. When you take a pill, you don't know what's in it.
Here, you can open a jar and smell it, you can touch it, you can look at it. You know
exactly what you're getting.
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(CHAPTER 12)
The government cannot protect anyone from anything, much less from themselves. It's
not physically possible. And it certainly is incredibly destructive the more they try.
The sent my 7 month old son a letter saying I was dead. Thank god he can't read. But
needless to say I was a little pissed.
I was just sitting in my house chilling, and some kids set a couch on fire next to our
building. Two policemen followed the firemen inside. They took our statements about the
fire, making it sound like we were the ones who started the fire. Then he turns to me and
says "Miss Pflieger, is there anything in your house that we need to know about?"
I didn't know my rights so I was honest and said, "There is." And then he asked "Do you
have any weed?" and I said, "Yes, just personal amounts." So I went in my room and
gave him my bongs and everything. Then he said, "I need you to turn around and put
your hands behind your back. I have enough here to charge you with felonies. But since
you were cooperative I'm only going to charge you with two misdemeanors." Like he was
doing me a favor.
He pushed me up against the cop car. I was in my shorts, pajamas and slippers. He had
the handcuffs on me so tight that my fingers started to turn purple. I didn't have hardly
any circulation left in my hands by the time we got to the jail.
My grandmother and my uncle are judging me for it. I have relatives all over who read
about it in the newspapers. The TV news showed my face over and over making it seem
like I'm some big drug dealer, when I just like to sit in my house and chill and smoke pot.
How can you tell a good law from a bad law? Since laws dictate action, and are backed
by action, it’s the same as telling a good act from a bad act. Any action is bad if it forces
anyone to do anything. Any action is good if everyone involved is involved voluntarily.
The government has no right to protect us from ourselves. Even dueling should be legal,
since it's voluntary.
Regulations’ are some fake laws
Stealin’ and killin’ are the real crimes
But flippin’ dimes will get you real time.
It’s a pity that the they skew the difference.
Schools ain’t cures,
for sure
they always work against us!
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I’m cool with you dueling
much more cool than
public schooling.
To duel is voluntary,
school’s a part-time prison.
Unlike a duel,
school is not your decision
BREAK!
You know what else isn’t?
RAPE!
Public schools are the ultimate tool of the politicians and the do-gooders to take control
of our children's lives and souls and bodies. They are slavery factories.
Public schools, which I call "government schools", are bad in the fact that they teach the
doctrine of the day. Whatever values people feel they should impose on others, that's
what they're teaching. It covers a whole lot more than the 3 Rs. Probably half the school
day can be composed of innuendo, slanting the news and just general information that the
kids don't even realize they're picking up. Trust me, I've had two daughters raised in the
California Public School System. And they are typically what you might expect from the
result of 12 years of public education in California.
(CHAPTER 13)
Wyoming is a beautiful place with clean air and low crime and a great economy. Our
skies are so clear they look hi-def. Why should we listen to demands on how to live our
lives in any way from people who live in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, New
York, Chicago and Washington DC. Those are cities with lots of pollution, high crime
and economies ruined by the same type of "glorious advances" they're trying to shove
down everyone's throat right now.
Same with the Feds. Washington DC has no right to tell me what to do with a gun in
Casper, Wyoming. There’s no connection. My guns can’t reach there from here. I’ll
never go there. My guns will never go there. There’s no commonality of interest. They
are there, I'm here.
Thank you so much for joining us this evening, I'm Neema Vedadi and this is the Neema
News. A study released today shows that the United States leads the world in
incarceration, largely from non-violent drug and weapon offences.
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A total of 7.3 million Americans are in the penal system, either in jail, in prison, or on
probation or parole.
Now to put that in perspective, our per-capita prison population is 5 times that of the
United Kingdom, 9 times that of France, 12 times that of Japan.
I don’t do drugs, but I understand that freedoms are interrelated. If you let the Man take
away one right, it makes it a lot easier for the Man to take away another right. Which is
why true advances in liberty will never happen until the gun folk and the dope folk quit
the fussin’ and the fightin’
The War on Drugs is theft of honest goods, literally at gunpoint. It’s just a redistribution
of wealth - stealing from honest people and giving to tax eaters. It’s immoral. War is only
justified if you’re attacked.
(CHAPTER 14)
(DON'T TREAD ON ME)
(WAR ON GUNS)
Property is anything that one has acquired without coercion, without theft, without fraud.
It makes no difference if it's guns, or marijuana or anything else that one acquires without
harming another person, is rationally legal property.
Your house is your property
And so is your mind
Your money's your property
And your organs when you die!
your free speech, your gun, your gold,
your health care, your guitar
your bedroom, your yard, your cat
your water rights, your car
What you eat and what you smoke
Who you marry who you poke
What I say and what I do
If it don't affect you
Screw you!
It's all my property.
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Screw you!
It's all my property.
GET OFF!
GET OFF!
GET OFF MY PROPERTY!
Women should arm themselves for the same reason that men arm themselves: to protect
their life, their property, and to help protect each other.
When you take guns out of the hands of honest, good, upstanding citizens, then the only
people who have the potential to commit violence are criminals. Therefore they have a
monopoly on violence, unless you're willing to wait for the police to show up in a timely
manner to stop them.
When seconds count, the police are only minutes away.
All aggression is violence, but not all violence is necessarily aggression.
If a person comes after me with a weapon, or without a weapon, and intends to do me
harm, they've already initiated aggression against me, which is violence. However, if I
stand my ground and use violence in return, I'm not initiating aggression. I'm not
aggressing against them, I'm acting purely in self-defense. And I think that's one of the
concepts that a lot of the so-called gun grabbers don't understand. They don't differentiate
between the use of a gun for self-defense and the use of a gun for aggression.
Aggression is always immoral. It's always immoral to aggress against someone else.
Most of the bad peace officers don't call themselves peace officers, they call themselves
"officers of the state." In other words, they're part of the police state. And they think that
their job is to write as many tickets as they can, to make as many arrests as they can. But
a true peace officer is there to protect people, not just make arrests.
There should be no distinction between government men and citizens. If we're all equal,
then we should all have equal access to protection.
If we're going to get our country back, if we're going to get American Constitutional
liberty back, we need the states, the counties and cities working with their People, again
remembering that We The People are the power source in this country for all political
power.
My gun is a Glock Model 22, it's a 40 caliber semi-automatic. Can you see it??! I'll
remove it from its holster, it normally doesn’t leave its holster under any circumstance.
(I like that you have your finger off the trigger)
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It never goes on it. It stays in the holster when I'm out in public. I've been carrying this
weapon in the open for 7 years now. Not once has it ever come out of its holster in
public.
George Mason said that "the Militia" was the People. So the reference to The Militia in
The Second Amendment is just talking about The People. Because The People are The
Militia. And George Mason also said that to disarm The People is the best and most
effectual way to enslave them. And so those of you who would enslave us in this country:
Charles Schumer, Dianne Feinstein, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama and
all of the czars in his administration….I challenge you, for once in your careers and lives,
support American idealism and support what America was based on. You are leading us
away from American ideals.
The difference between good laws and bad laws? Well, there's only one good law, and
that's the law of non-aggression. All other laws that are good must proceed from that.
I sued the Clinton Administration and lived to tell about it. One thing that it says in there
is that the states and the counties and the political subdivisions of the state are just as
supreme as the Federal Government. And who said that? The United States Supreme
Court. And if you look at the strength and power of the Tenth Amendment and State
Sovereignty, it was never intended by our Constitution to create another tyrannical
government worse than the one we separated from in the Revolutionary War. And so, no,
the states did not create the Federal Government to be our master or our Supreme Being.
The can quote that Supremacy Clause all they want. It'd be nice if they'd quote it instead
of saying that it gives them supreme power because it doesn't appear that any of them
have ever read it. But they never read any of the laws that they pass and shove down our
throats. It just is another sign of the corruption in Washington DC.
Some people are hungry for liberty because deep down inside they know they are selfowners. Unfortunately a lot of people don't understand that, and have even been
conditioned to no longer feel that. Why should they? Because it is our birthright as
human beings.
The difference between illegal and immoral is I don't need a law to tell me what is
"immoral." Inherently we know right from wrong. "Illegal" is something imposed on you
by the government. It's what they think is right and wrong.
The only way to get back to voluntary self-government is to become self-owners.
I don't have any right to tell Eric what he can and can't do with his Ericness. And I don't
expect to be told what to do with my Anastasianess.
Whether you're a gun owner or a weed smoker, it's all the same issue: do you have the
right to protect yourself and to live your own life as you see fit, without the government
trying to force you one way or the other into behavior that they deem is proper. As long
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as you're causing no harm to somebody else, you should be able to do whatever you
want.
Everything Hitler did was legal, because he made the laws.
We’re not recommending you break any laws. We’re not even saying "Every time you
break an unjust law, an angel gets her wings."
HOWEVER……
Martin Luther King, Jr. said:
"One may well ask: 'How can you advocate breaking some laws and obeying others?' The
answer lies in the fact that there are two types of laws: just and unjust. I would be the first
to advocate obeying just laws. One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey
just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws."
What we will say is this: When you give oppressors an inch, they take a light year. Every
time.
Jesus was very definitely killed by the government. For the same reason that they
continue to kill us today: he was not willing to be controlled.
Any law that protects me from violence perpetrated upon me by someone else would be a
good law. If someone wants to come to my house and shoot me, kill me, steal my
property, burn my house, there should be a law against that. And there are laws against
that. Bad laws are laws where there's no victim: a law requiring a hairdresser to get a
license….
The State is definitely starting to tighten the choke hold on us. They're making more and
more regulations and laws. It seems every week we have to stay on top of it, making sure
we're still compliant with everything.
…or that you can only have one liquor store every mile….
Wyoming State Senator Cale Case put it well. He said, "I don't like being exposed to
Kenny G's music, cigarette smoke or patchouli oil. But I will defend the right of other
folks to have all that junk, the right of business owners to allow it, and my right not to
have to be around it. Government should not regulate anything that citizens can avoid by
turning around and walking out."
Governments have set things up so that people don't have a choice to walk away.
…Laws against personal freedom such as smoking pot or drinking alcohol or any number
of basic things that you might do in any given day.
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Natural Rights are simply our rights to: life, every human being has the right to life, and
to defend that life….
Citizens should be able to own guns. Without a doubt. I think every has the right to
protect themselves, period. I don't care if it's walking across the street or in your home or
front yard, I think everybody should have the right to protect themselves.
…and to acquire and use peacefully acquired property with no interference from anyone
else.
We need our freedom. This country was built on freedom. Every citizen has the right to
prosper as long as it is not affecting anything or anyone negatively.
No voluntary, consensual activity can legitimately be illegal.
Natural Rights are not divisible. The Bill of Rights is not a Chinese takeout menu where
we can have one from Column A, one from Column B, but eliminate Column C. We
cannot allow anyone to pick and choose our rights for us. The Bill of Rights is one single
declaration with ten sections.
When we allow so-called authorities, or politicians, to take away or abrogate a right we
become their slaves. We have abdicated ownership of our own bodies and lives. And it
doesn't make any difference at all whether that's guns or marijuana or automobiles or our
marriages.
The Bill of Rights, and all Natural Rights, are all or none.
Violence isn't necessarily a bad thing, if it's used in self-defense. It's never immoral to
stand your ground and defend yourself, your life, your liberty, your property, or that of
another person who is suffering from the aggression of another.
Aggression involves committing a crime against the Natural Rights of another person.
Self-defense, even including violence, involves defending one's Natural Rights to life,
liberty and property.
30 years ago I was sleeping and heard an argument outside and looked out the window to
see someone who was trying to break into my car. I went to the closet and retrieved my
shotgun. I went to the door, and opened it and shouted at him to go away, to get away
from my car. He started toward me. I leveled the shotgun at him as he came toward me.
He was threatening me and said that he would kill me. I said "STOP! I'LL SHOOT!" He
said, "Oh, you won't shoot me."
And then I did.
(DON'T TREAD ON ME)
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(CHAPTER 15)
Hello, I’m Michael Dean
And I’m Neema Vedadi. We know you have many choices in educational guns & weed
films.
Um, I haven’t seen any.
Oh. Anyway, we thank you for watching the film we made, and hope you enjoyed it.
This educational documentary will undoubtedly upset some people who get a boner from
preying on the rights of others.
Therefore, we’d like to say this on record: if either of us are ever facing any felony
charges, the THING was planted, or the evidence otherwise manufactured.
And if either of us are ever found dead of a drug overdose, a car crash or an apparent
suicide, there was probably a government agency behind it.
And remember – the only power they have is the power you allow them.
(CHAPTER 16)
It's gettin' thicker than dreadlocks
they treat us like we're Dread Scott
don't wanna see the feds pop
or be the one that they'd stopped
or get in trouble cause I talked shit to their mascot
frickin' busybodies need to go and buy an ascot
tellin' me you own me then making sure I'm taxed out
maxed out, deep in-debted from the easy credit
that the fed imbedded then they betted it all be copacetic
if they were the medic but forget it
the people are getting pissed
blowing up like some unleaded
they want control unfettered
but ya'll know that smells fetid
like the crap hole that we're headed
to if they don't let me do me
and you do you
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and all the guns in the government
won't amount to a .22
if they keep on stompin' on amendment number two
and we don't even need you
take your welfare and your brainwashing free-school
and ya'll are so see through; easy to see you is evil
chorus:
Nobody owns me
ya'll haters don't
I own me
so back the fuck off
(x 2)
I make my own rules
take my own tools
you ain't in my shoes
no you ain't get to choose
I ain't pay you dues.
I pay 'em for my self
don't expect shit from me
and I ain't need your help
and in case you didn't know
this song is for the parasites
the feeders that bleed us and treat us
like they're the hand and we're the dice
no utopian paradise to be had from any plan
the world's too complex for any man to comprehend
all the supply and again all the demand
when the few control the view
their mistakes are multiplied
the decisions should be ours
like our bodies. Let's take back our lives
Only a slave if you submit
and ya'll know I got some fight!
and this ain't racist
it's for blacks, whites and Asians
Middle Eastern people, Latinos
and everyone who wants to be free, so
we'll even let it slide if you're emo
I never signed no social contract
I'm about to have to repo
myself, for my health
and my wealth
put your bills back on the shelf
capitol hill can go to hell
we should put them punks in jail
we could live our lives ourselves....
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chorus
So who's to say Barack Hussein
knows what's best for me?.....
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