Here is another unfortunate victim of drug prohibition mania's human meat grinder, which daily wrecks the lives of 10's of 1000's of otherwise responsible peaceful people snared in its medieval jaws. This particularly-disgusting law enforcement idiocy not surprisingly began with the Department of Home(Father)land Security by way of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE). BRITON JAILED IN US IMMIGRATION CRACKDOWN FOR 'THIRD OF A JOINT' A Briton who has lived and worked legally in America for 35 years, married a US citizen and raised three children there, has been locked up in a New Jersey jail after falling victim to a draconian immigration crackdown prompted by the Sept 11 2001 terror attacks. Paul Clements, 58, a permanent US resident and former tour manager for bands such as the Rolling Stones and Dire Straits, is threatened with expulsion from his adopted homeland after his passport and green card were confiscated following a work trip abroad. ...

... of the bizarre legal system in this country that brands Wendy Whitaker of Macon GA as a Registered Sex Offender for the rest of her life... ... because when she was seventeen years old she got caught giving a blow job to a sixteen-year-old boy. Read the entire bizarre story of how the government keeps raping Wendy Whitaker at Classically Liberal , and ask yourself, "Should I be able to find this poor woman's photo and detailed information on the Federal Department of inJustice website?" [Try it--it's easy. User friendly, you might say.] I went to several of these Protect Your Children type websites that (for a modest fee) will tell you about sex offenders in your neighborhood. According to them, if I send in $12, I will get a list of the 35 registered sex offenders living in my zip code, right here in good old Pike Creek DE. You have to wonder how many of them committed the egregious sin of a little groping, fondling, fingering, or fellating in the back sea...

I am always troubled when law enforcement organizations choose to enter the political arena. Yes, I understand that they have a right to do so, and I also understand the dynamics that make them desirable from the point of view of many candidates. But when the AFL-CIO endorses a candidate, we all know that this is a labor organization standing behind a candidate in the belief that said candidate will pursue policies that match the declared interest of the endorsing group . And while steel workers might argue that they know a thing or two about buying American , or restaurant workers might make claims to represent the dining public in terms of tobacco prohibition in eating establishments , there is something entirely different about law enforcement labor and professional organizations lining up behind a candidate or an issue. Law enforcement organizations attempt to leave the impression with voters that (a) they are dispassionately sharing professional knowledge about what will keep ...

This week Narco-Sphere news drops another bomb shell . That is war funding in Iraq included a supplemental provision for funding the militarization of Mexican society and that the money will be used by groups like Blackwater. Essentially setting up our own right-wing paramilitary group for Latin and Central America, and it will likely be used against all the normal countries we use this for: Cuba, Haiti, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Brazil. This is combined with the fact that we have re-activated the American 4th fleet to dominate the naval lanes of the Caribbean and Latin America is very bad news. As a descendant of a founder, and long line of naval officers, usually I'd say how happy I am, but in this case without a firm commitment to work with the other countries of the OAS to interdict right and left wing paramilitary drug cartels, I have no such enthusiasm. Clearly this is being used to dominate naval lanes in the way the Athenian Navy did, as gunboat diplom...

Well, at least according to Bill Piper the director of the National Drug Policy Alliance who concludes with this teaser: For years President Bush has wasted taxpayer money on drug war programs that even his own analysts have concluded are ineffective. Now we know why. A recent Congressional investigation found that the Office of National Drug Control Policy ( ONDCP ) used taxpayer money to boost support for Republican candidates in 2006. U.S. Drug Czar John Walters and his deputies traveled to almost twenty events with vulnerable Republican members of Congress in the months prior to the election. The taxpayer-financed trips were orchestrated by President Bush's political advisors and often combined with the announcement of federal grants or actions that made the Republican candidates look good in their districts. Karl Rove commended ONDCP officials for "going above and beyond the call of duty" in making "surrogate appearances" in "the god awful places we ...