{"id":4449,"date":"2009-08-18T14:59:54","date_gmt":"2009-08-18T13:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/?p=4449"},"modified":"2009-08-21T14:37:56","modified_gmt":"2009-08-21T13:37:56","slug":"legalizer-school-teaching-dea-agents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/2009\/08\/legalizer-school-teaching-dea-agents\/","title":{"rendered":"Legalizer school teaching DEA agents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">No one wants others to suffer. That&#8217;s the &#8220;Chink in the Armor&#8221; that Serra talks of. There may be some maladies that can be helped by marijuana, even if it is only psychologically. Those who are ill have been catapulted into the middle of the debate &#8230; a war, by a heartless and cruel group of people who want to get high and those who will not go speechless to watch our loved ones become like them. There seems to be no middle ground for those on our side understand all too well what the wrong message and role-modeling wrong behavior means.<br \/>\nThese days, people on both sides of an issue are so polarized they won\u2019t talk to each other, much less listen. Our side, with some willing to listen and talk, allowed the legalizer&#8217;s side to take ground that didn&#8217;t belong to them and more of the youth and those ill, (the vulnerable) are being hurt because they are now addicted.<br \/>\nTalking with and listening is an important issue with me \u2013 one is often surprised where one finds truth.<br \/>\nA friend suggested I read Sun Tzu\u2019s book for the perspective of \u201cknow your enemy\u201d. Understanding this, plus at the prodding of those I work with against drug use, I began to learn about the legalizers \u2013 an interesting study.<br \/>\nAnd then tonight; it\u2019s ironic sometimes what one stumbles upon, poking around on the net! I happened onto a site that offered schooling toward a Criminal Justice Degree. I paused as I perused it; something wasn\u2019t right, but as I looked it over, I couldn\u2019t figure out what it was. I was thinking their ad, offering a salary of $40,000 as a DEA agent, wasn\u2019t much of a motivation &#8211; not much to put one\u2019s life on the line for! Still, I couldn\u2019t quite leave that site. That \u201csomething\u2019s wrong feeling\u201d was stronger every moment; maybe I was seeing it, but I couldn\u2019t recognize it. As I decided to search for it, I found it, printed lightly \u2013 almost as if it were not meant to be noticed.<br \/>\nWhat I\u2019d noticed was the logo of one of the five schools offering the degree, one I\u2019d seen before, many times now in my study. Evidently this time, for me it had been subliminal . . . . the link probably won\u2019t mean anything to someone who hasn\u2019t studied the players in the legalization movement \u2013 \u201cit\u2019s near impossible to keep up on even most issues in this \u2018age of information\u2019. I wonder if the DEA knows about this?\u201d, I thought as I shook my head and began to laugh. \u201cI wonder if my prohibitionist friends know about this? Gotta be someone\u2019s idea of a bad joke &#8211; a legalizer&#8217;s school teaching future DEA agents\u201d, I told myself. &#8220;I&#8217;ll bet users have noticed, &#8230; some of them&#8221;.<br \/>\nThe school offering the degree? It\u2019s the University of Phoenix. The university\u2019s founder is John Sperling &#8211; one of the three men in what I call the \u201cDaddy Warbucks Cartel\u201d, the three men most responsible for funding the ballot measures all across the nation for the legalization of marijuana. (no; they&#8217;re not local grass-roots [pun intended] campaigns.)<br \/>\nAnother is Peter B. Lewis, of Progressive Insurance. Wouldn\u2019t it seem fitting that the government require all the \u201cmedical marijuana users\u201d who drive, to sign with Progressive for their auto insurance? Could be real revealing, couldn\u2019t it? The third man, is George Soros \u2013 all three radical politicos.<br \/>\nAnother interesting thing I found that ties in as well &#8211; on an OSI, Open Society Institute\u2019s site, (one of Soros\u2019 numerous non-profits), I listened to a panel discussion over the net &#8211; about how nations like Iran have been successful at shutting down communications and the internet \u2013 what works and what doesn\u2019t in totalitarian nations.<br \/>\nI found it interesting that it\u2019s just exactly how the government of Iran recently reacted, attempting to shut down the ability of the people to talk with each other after this fraudulent election. Does anyone else find it ironic that proponents of drug legalization are in bed with a man who (I believe) essentially plans to take away others\u2019 freedom?<br \/>\nIf all three groups won&#8217;t talk, won&#8217;t listen, won&#8217;t give, it&#8217;s a loose \/ loose \/ loose, for everyone! Again, our side gave up or lost too much ground here and all sides are willing to fight to the end.<br \/>\n<em>Source: examiner.com June 18th 2009<\/em><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No one wants others to suffer. That&#8217;s the &#8220;Chink in the Armor&#8221; that Serra talks of. There may be some maladies that can be helped by marijuana, even if it is only psychologically. Those who are ill have been catapulted into the middle of the debate &#8230; a war, by a heartless and cruel group [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-sector","category-social-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drugprevent.org.uk\/ppp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}