MAPTalk-Digest Tuesday, February 28 2012 Volume 12 : Number 006
001 Friday night: LEAP's Neill Franklin on Fox News Channel (w/ John Stosse
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002 Drug War Propaganda - kindle edition
From: "Doug Snead" <>
003 RE: Drug War Propaganda - kindle edition
From: "Leroy Casterline" <>
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Subj: 001 Friday night: LEAP's Neill Franklin on Fox News Channel (w/ John Stossel)
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Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:22:36 -0800
from Tom at LEAP:
http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/fox-news-reporting/transcript/illegal-ev
*Friday, Feb. 24 at 9 p.m. ET*
Hosted by John Stossel
With the government adding more than 80,000 pages of rules and
regulations every year, it's no surprise that regular people break laws
without even trying. Like the little kids who open lemonade stands and
get shut down by police. Or the small businessman who spent six years in
federal prison for breaking Honduran regulations (and, to make it worse,
the Honduran government said he didn't). Or the family in Idaho who
can't build a home on their land because the EPA says it's a wetland
(only because a government drain malfunctioned and flooded it).
In this Fox News special, John Stossel investigates why America has
become a country where no one can know what is legal.
ILLEGAL EVERYTHING
John Stossel argues that America has become a country where no one can
know what is legal.
Kids who open lemonade stands are now shutdown by police. Stossel tries
to open a lemonade stand legally in NYC. That was quite an adventure.
It takes 65 days to get permission from the Department of Health and
Mental Hygiene.
With government adding 80,000 pages of rules and regulations every year,
it's no surprise that regular people break laws without even trying.
A small businessman spent 6 years in federal prison for breaking
Honduran regulations (and, to make it worse, the Honduran government
said he didn't). A family in Idaho can't build a home on their land
because the EPA says it's a wetland---but it only resembles a wetland
because a government drain malfunctioned and flooded it.
TAXI TROUBLE: Want to start a taxi business? Too bad -- it's illegal.
Illegal, that is, unless you buy a government-issued "taxi medallion"
that can cost as much as a million dollars. One city has a free market
for cabs -- Washington, DC -- but lobbyists there are pushing to regulate.
ILLEGAL FOOD: Increasingly, government tells us what we can and can't
eat -- bans on trans-fat, happy meals, "raw" foods. California
officials raided a raw food club, and arrested clerks for selling
unpasteurized milk. Farmer Joel Salatin, author of "Everything I Want
To Do Is Illegal," explains why Americans DON'T have the freedom to
choose the food they eat.
*ILLEGAL DRUGS: Drug use is illegal -- but should it be? Where drugs
are legal, businessmen replace gangs as the dealers and pay taxes.
Portugal decriminalized all drugs 10 years ago--including crack,
ecstasy, and heroin. What has happened since then? We go to Portugal and
get the facts from police, politicians, and drug addicts.*
ILLEGAL SEX: Our government bans prostitution because people think it's
a dirty, dangerous business. But in brothels where prostitution is
legal there is no crime or disease. On this show, three sex workers
confront a prosecutor.
One bit of good news is that while there may be so many laws that no one
knows if he's a lawbreaker, it has never been easier to "watch the
watchmen." Tiny cameras in our iPods and cell phones allow citizens to
film law enforcement and hold our government accountable. But in the
last few years, cops have arrested and jailed people for taping in
public. The arrests are not legal, but they happen anyway.
Fortunately, arrests are caught on tape.
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Subj: 002 Drug War Propaganda - kindle edition
From: "Doug Snead" <>
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:23:33 -0800
My book, "Drug War Propaganda", is now available as an inexpensive amazon
kindle edition.
http://www.amazon.com/Drug-War-Propaganda-ebook/dp/B007CB5VFE/
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Subj: 003 RE: Drug War Propaganda - kindle edition
From: "Leroy Casterline" <>
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:02:45 -0800
Petition in support of Guatemalan president's call for drug legalization to
be presented at the sixth Summit of the Americas, April 14-15, 2012
Please sign and promote the petition:
http://signon.org/sign/support-guatemalan-president
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