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Law Enforcement Censored on Drug War

DATELINE: 8.26.2008

Arlington: Virginia - Retired police detective, Howard Wooldridge, representing Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP) was ousted from the National Asian Peace Officers Association (NAPOA) Conference in Crystal City because he was representing a view contrary U.S. government policy.

LEAP is a 10,000-member organization of police, judges, prosecutors, DEA & FBI agents, and others who know ending drug prohibition will reduce death, disease, crime, and addiction, while saving billions of our tax dollars each year.

On Tuesday (8.26.2008) acting under pressure from unnamed federal officials, Reagan Fong, President of the NAPOA, insisted on the immediate removal of LEAP from the conference vendor roster. It appears that some of the event’s other exhibitors took exception to the LEAP message and put pressure on the event organizer to expel LEAP from the event. While the incident was civil and took place prior to the second day’s session it represents a serious violation of Constitutional rights as cited within the First Amendment.

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Added: Sep-7-2008 
By: MaxBlacks
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Tags: LEAP, drug, war, law, enforcement, censored, prohibition
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  • Drug regulation is an issue for the states. It will save billions of dollars, end vast amount of bloodshed, and free up resources that could used better elsewhere.

    Posted Sep-7-2008 By 
    Guvnor (2416.24)  

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  • I've had some problems with an in-law drug-addict stealing some of my property. When I went to the police, they did nothing. After several incidents I had an officer tell me, "The police, sheriff, judges and lawyers are making too much money off the war on drugs. They're not going to stop it." I told him that if they weren't going to do anything about it then I would. He just grinned at me and replied, "I didn't hear anything."

    The war on drugs is just another way your More..

    Posted Sep-7-2008 By 
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  • Constitutional Rights do not exist anymore. Everyone know that.

    Posted Sep-7-2008 By 
    japaneseDREAM (98.64)  
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    • Yes, they do exist. They are essentially dormant. This is due to contracts YOU have signed with the corporation known as UNITED STATES. YOU voluntarily gave up your rights when you joined the corporation. Corporations have rules called statutes. They are NOT LAW. They have the force of law only because you agreed to it. It is a deception, but you bear the responsibility. There is a Roman maxim in law that states, "Let he who would be deceived, be deceived." You didn't study the documen More..

      Posted Sep-7-2008 By 
      TheGlenn (184.16)

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  • What a fantastic organization! Cops with a sence of logic. Although I dont think we should totally give up on the drug war. We should definatly stop wasting resources on marijuana related arrests. We have to try and keep out heroin, meth, crack, stuff like that.

    Posted Sep-7-2008 By 
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    • Ah yes the stairway drug ploy. Funny how most people who try pot usually have tried cigarettes and alcohol first. Never understood why cigarettes were never labeled the stairway to pot, or the stairway to alcohol. One thing is for sure, it IS a stairway to junk food.

      Posted Sep-8-2008 By 
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    • LEAP is about ending all drug Prohibition.

      Our case is not that some drugs are better or worse.

      Our case is that WE choose to let the black market control the drug trade at a cost of $69 billion/year and this INCREASES violent crime while doing very little to prevent drug use. We are creating todays Al Capones and giving them the power to regulate thier market with weapons instead of lawyers. Many innocent people are killed, maimed, or imprisoned as a result of this war and the war has do More..

      Posted Sep-9-2008 By 
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  • Drug laws in the US are ridiculous and end up causing more harm than good.
    Yes, drugs are bad including alcohol but the government does not have the right to not allow responsible people from using them.

    Or if you're an NRA nut: Drugs don't kill, people do!

    Posted Sep-7-2008 By 
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  • Yes, lets let drug lords overrun our cities, then we won't have crime. What screwed up logic.

    Posted Sep-7-2008 By 
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    • drug lords get rich because drugs are illegal.
      if drugs were regulated by the government there would be less crime due to the fact that the money is taking out of the criminals hands.
      just look at what happened with alcohol prohibition.
      the mobs exploded with wealth and crime exploded as well.
      you dont see any bootleggers rich now that alcohol is legal, do you?

      Posted Sep-7-2008 By 
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    • The problem with the war on drugs is has dolts like you convinced it works somehow.

      Posted Sep-7-2008 By 
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  • bah keep weed illegal, the price hasn't changed since the 70's and they don't even bother to arrest us for it here anymore... if the government gets a hand in it, then the price will go up and the quality will go down... they never do ANYTHING right.

    Posted Sep-7-2008 By 
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    • well one thing is for sure. they are not handling Drug abuse right. Prohibition doesn't work and increases crime.

      Once we end Prohibition we can get more serious about helping drug addicts.

      Posted Sep-9-2008 By 
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  • : "LEAP is a 10,000-member organization of police, judges, prosecutors, DEA & FBI agents, and others who know ending drug prohibition will reduce death, disease, crime, and addiction, while saving billions of our tax dollars each year."


    How evil can those or him or her who control(s) our system be? I don't get it.

    Posted Jan-4-2009 By 
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    • I wouldn't call them evil really, just greedy and naive and a little scared. From the stand point of a politician today I can understand being afraid to touch this issue, many massive industries that employ a lot of people are built around enforcement of drug prohibition, and more importantly they rake in a lot of money.

      At least a portion of that massive sum of money ends up going to the government, just like with the tobacco, alcohol and pharmaceutical industries which would lose a lot of mo More..

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