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NJWeedman Back to Jail
TSA Agent Arrested for Terroristic Threats
http://reason.com/blog/2013/09/11/marvel-at-tsas-screening-process-as-empl
Opposition to Intervention in Syria Higher Among Military
http://reason.com/blog/2013/09/11/poll-finds-opposition-to-intervention-in
Obama Gives Speech on Syria
http://reason.com/blog/2013/09/09/reason-live-tweets-obamas-syria-speech-t
Sweden Protests Barack
http://noarmycanstopanidea.com/thousands-protest-against-barack-obama-in-sweden-pics/
Anti War Celebs Who Have Disappeared
http://www.buzzfeed.com/johnekdahl/14-principled-anti-war-celebrities-we-fear-may-hav-a1x1
Russell Brand Nazi Comment
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165 years ago (10 years after he escaped slavery) Frederick Douglass wrote the following to his former slave master: quote,
“I entertain no malice towards you personally. There is no roof under which you would be more safe than mine, and there is nothing in my house which you might need for your comfort, which I would not readily grant. Indeed, I should esteem it a privilege, to set you an example as to how mankind ought to treat each other.
I am your fellow man, but not your slave,
Frederick Douglass”
A judge ordered heroic Ed “NJWeedman” Forchion back into a state cage this week. The state lawyer complained that NJWeedman was supposed to do probation, but he never did. Probation is when a person is told by a state agent that he must report to a state building on a regular basis to pee into a cup for a state worker and have the results analyzed in a state lab to make sure he wasn’t using his body in a way that state bureaucrats doesn’t approve of. Many question the effectiveness of this practice.
NJWeedman will serve out the rest of his 270-day sentence in Burlington County Jail in Mount Holly, NJ. 10 days of every month, however, he will be released from the jail to go to California to receive injections for the painful leg growths from his bone cancer tumors. Then he must go back to jail.
Forchion said the state’s medical marijuana law is broken. Quote: “The purpose of the Compassionate Use Act was to protect patients from prosecution, and that’s what happened to me. I’m a medical marijuana patient. … The law has gotten to be pretty irrelevant. I’m not complying with the law, and I will smoke marijuana for my own health needs, and I’m sure there are plenty of other people who do the same thing. The judge just wasted a bunch of resources of the community by jailing me for possession of my medicine.”
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A TSA screener at the LA International Airport was arrested yesterday on suspicion of making terroristic threats to inflict damage more devastating than 9/11 — The letters were filled with religious references and said America, quote, “will be reduced to nothing.” Who hired this guy to be an agent of the federal government? Is this who you want going through your luggage?
Reason.com reports this week that a new poll finds that opposition to intervention in Syria is higher among military than the general public. What does this tell you?
Despite its unpopularity, Barack Obama gave a speech this week making his case to go to war with Syria. In it, he explained how it would be different from Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya, because it would be a controlled strike with a clear objective. I think we’ve heard that before. And Americans aren’t the only ones who aren’t buying it. The British have already made clear their opposition to intervention, and the international community is in agreement.
Obama recently visited Stockholm to convince the Swedish government to join NATO and support the US attack on Syria. In response, 3 thousand protesters organized a spontaneous protest in the streets. The crowd identified itself as left-leaning, anti-war, anti-secrecy, and anti-torture.
But while overnight coalitions are forming across the world to protest Obama’s new war, Americans remain confined to their information bubble. Buzzfeed this week featured an article titled “14 Principled Anti-War Celebrities We Fear May Have Been Kidnapped” — Hollywood was up in arms during Bush’s wars. Where is their moral outrage now?
At least one celebrity isn’t afraid to let free speech rock the boat. TheSuperficial.com reports this week that culture jammer Russell Brand used his spotlight at the GQ‘s Man of The Year Awards to joke about the fact that Hugo Boss, the event’s sponsor, made a fortune selling uniforms to the Nazis. While it’s true that the fashion designer was later convicted of supporting Nazis, the Hugo Boss reps didn’t find Brand’s joke funny. Shortly afterwards, Brand was kicked out and uninvited from the after-party.
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