[April 03 2009] Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: No More War On Drugs (and Their Users): It's Creating A Full-Control Police State That Will Be Fully Ensconced Within The Next Generation... Net Effect? The Creation Of A New 'Criminal Class' To Prosecute, Persecute, And Control - Info and Reading Options

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<strong>In The News:</strong> Flap n' Babble over the US budgets in both chambers of congress but they <a href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/capitol-briefing/2009/04/after_recess_a_packed_agenda_f.html?hpid=topnews" rel="ugc nofollow">both pass their versions</a> so they can take a looooong Easter vacation (and the nation MAY be safer for that). President Obama just finished a town hall talk in Strasburg Germany where he was treated like a rock star but NOT QUITE everyone is impressed.<blockquote>Posted: Thursday, April 02, 2009 12:15 PM by Domenico Montanaro Filed Under: The First 100 Days, Barack Obama From NBC News International NBC Producer Andy Eckardt on the ground in Strasbourg, France, reports that approximately 500 to 1,000 so-called 'black block' protestors are reported to be scuffling with police when trying to get into the city. In the historic center, it is business as usual with an increasing police presence. Many people are out in the streets on this warm and sunny spring day. Security zones throughout the city will be enforced by 9:00 pm local time (4:00 pm ET), which will make access to the inner city very difficult without special permission. [<a href="http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/04/02/1875561.aspx" rel="ugc nofollow"><strong>In Full</strong></a>]</blockquote>He also announces a tour of France China Russia and other countries in June. Meanwhile, the G20 summit is over after mass demonstrations in London and tension among world leaders regarding financial industry regulations From Le Monde Dipomatique:<blockquote><strong>TRANSLATION: Minute-by-minute cascade of major announcements follows end of G20 summit (<em>Le Monde</em>)</strong> Written by Mark Jensen Thursday, 02 April 2009 There was an extraordinary cascade of major news announcements in a two-hour period at the conclusion Thursday afternoon in London of the G20 summit. -- They were reported minute-by-minute on the web site of Le Monde (Paris) in brief squibs translated below. [<a href="http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/8502" rel="ugc nofollow"><strong>In Full</strong></a>]</blockquote>Tobacco industry 'up in smoke'? The <a href="http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-na-tobacco3-2009apr03,0,5223437.story" rel="ugc nofollow">house passes a bill that allows the FDA to rule that Nicotine IS a drug</a>, and cigarette ARE a delivery system allowing them to regulate it's content, distribution, and more. The federal tax has just risen from $0.39 to $1.01 per sales unit creating a situation where only the rich will be able to smoke. The lowest common denominator in rolling tobaccos, Bugler, just went from $2.75 a pouch (a little over a pack of ready made cigarettes) to $4.00. making it likely that the poor, unemployed, and otherwise economically disenfranchised will quit in droves and the rich won't care about the price increase, or other consequences of the FDA's regulation. EX-governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich is indicted along with members of his family, for among other things, attempting to sell president Obama's vacated senate seat and attempting to <a href="http://www.usnews.com/usnews/politics/bulletin/bulletin_090403.htm" rel="ugc nofollow">shake down Chief of Staff Emanuel</a>. The North Koreans are coming! The North Koreans are coming! Launch preparations are happening for either an ICBM or a communications satellite depending on which media outlet you read. <b><i>This reminds me of another 'Cold War' incident... Look 'below the fold' in the 'Notes:' for archival footage, and be VERY afraid!</i></b> ...and finally, Ward Churchill wins his wrongful termination suit [<a href="http://www.dailycamera.com/news/2009/apr/02/ward-churchill-trial-blog-jury-university-colorado/" rel="ugc nofollow">Article</a>] against Colorado University and is awarded ONE dollar ($1.00). It was interesting to note that the 'Right side' of the forums at the Boulder Colorado Daily Camera truly believed that the minimal award was somehow relevant to the issue at hand. <strong><img height="484" alt="ChurchillsDollar" src="//web.archive.org/web/2im_/http://leighm.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/churchillsdollar-1.jpg" width="300" align="left" />Churchill wins his case, awarded $1 in damages</strong> The University of Colorado unlawfully fired Ward Churchill for expressing his political beliefs, a Denver jury decided Thursday. But in what legal experts labeled a “compromise verdict,” the four women and two men on the jury only awarded the former ethnic studies professor $1 in damages. Chief Denver District Judge Larry Naves will decide at a separate hearing whether Churchill, 61, gets his job back at CU or is given a lump sum of money instead. CU will also have to pay Churchill’s legal costs. [<a href="http://www.dailycamera.com/news/2009/apr/02/ward-churchill-trial-blog-jury-university-colorado/" rel="ugc nofollow"><strong>In Full @ The Daily Camera, with 182 comments and counting</strong></a>] Churchill, when handed the dollar bill, shouted: "Here the Dollar!" Reporter John Aguilar of the Boulder Daily Camera reported the proceedings via 'liveblog' over the four week duration of the trial. Excellent job John. A search at the Daily Camera's site for those bloggings is [<a href="http://www.dailycamera.com/search/?q=churchill+trial+blog&sortby=date&sources=site&all=on" rel="ugc nofollow">Here</a>] <b>Follow up (<i>April 03 2009 1430 PDT</i>):</b><blockquote><b><big>Juror speaks out </big></b> Members of the jury declined to talk to reporters after the verdict Thursday, and were escorted from the courthouse by sheriff’s deputies. But a woman identifying herself as juror Bethany Newill called the Caplis and Silverman show on Denver’s KHOW radio Thursday evening, and said the $1 award wasn’t intended to send a message that Churchill was a fraud. She told the lawyers-turned-radio hosts that five of the six jurors were intent on awarding Churchill money but that one was insistent he get nothing. Newill said they ultimately agreed on the nominal figure because Churchill’s attorneys didn’t provide them with a clear formula for determining damages for lost income or non-economic losses, like harm to reputation. “We sat there for pretty much hours debating this,” she said. Silverman asked if Newill thought the jury would have landed on a higher figure if Lane had called an economist to the stand to quantify Churchill’s losses. “Definitely, I do,” she said. [<a href="http://www.coloradodaily.com/news/2009/apr/02/ward-churchill-trial-blog-jury-university-colorado/" rel="ugc nofollow"><b>In Full</b></a>]</blockquote>Essentially, the jury unanimously felt that CU was culpable for attempting to punish Churchill for exercising his First Amendment rights. More reason for celebration from the other British colony-gone-continental, Australia:<blockquote><b><i>Friday, April 03, 2009</i> <b><big>Australia endorses UN indigenous rights declaration</big></b> Ingrid Burke at 1:21 PM ET</b> [JURIST] Australian Minister of Indigenous Affairs Jenny Macklin [official profile] announced Friday that the country has endorsed [statement] the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples [text, PDF]. The move reverses the position of the country's former administration on the declaration. Macklin said the decision by the country's current Labor Party [official website] government to sign the declaration was rooted in its desire to improve relations with the nation's indigenous people... [<a href="http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2009/04/australia-endorses-un-declaration-on.php" rel="ugc nofollow"><b>In Full @ Jurist Paper Chase</b></a>]</blockquote> [<em><strong>After the commentary, John Kay & Steppenwolf on the subject of hard drugs, and the REAL victims... the users. Courtesy of the respective artists.</strong></em>] <center><hr width="400" noshade="noshade" size="3" /></center> <strong>"All The News You Never Knew You Needed To Know ...Until Now." Travus T. 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