War on Drugs or War on People?: A Resource Book for the Debate

By Steve Otto
Ide House (February 1, 1996)

Still relevant – still available – a valuable tool

Book Description:
A chilling book, Otto exposes government corruption in their war on drugs: from the idiocy of outrageous prison terms for small amounts of pot, to minimal time for selling or possessing crack. Otto argues that the war on drugs is more of a war on people in an effort to stifle dissent and control personal actions in a draconian state, as seen in his confrontation with major politicians who accept kickbacks from drug overlords.

Review:
A reader from Amazon.com:
This information-packed book deals with an issue not taken seriously often enough. Read it with an open mind and a desire for knowledge. You just may be surprised by some things.

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Folk music from Nepal

Kathamandu is not a very hospitable place this year. Here are some scenes after a demonstration on Aug. 21, 2005.


Tired of the same old rock and rap? Try the sounds of Folk music from Nepal. Just click on the song title and it will play, if you have a sound system in your computer.
The Music and the sounds of the Revolutionary Artists and the masses from Nepali battlefield:
Presentation of Sen-Chyang Cultural Family' Twentyfirst Century's People's War:
1. Announcement
2. Welcome Song
3. 21st Century's People's War
4. Khojdachhan mera ti aakhaharu
5. Chyaggole Aanga (Tamang selow)
6. Dasi hoinau nari hami
7. Pared Kheldai Rifle Sanga
8. Hami Dalit houn Pilsiraheka
9. Na darhaiya (Maithili Song)
10. Basti Tira Jharera Bagareko Tati

Eric Folkerth Sings about Cindy Sheehan

Here is a new song, inspired by Camp Casey and Cindy Sheehan, by Eric Folkerth, Prairie Chapel Road.
You can view this video: low quality version and high quality version.
For just listening to the song: Download it here or Stream it here .

This could be your life – or maybe not

The following cartoons were originally published in the 1970s as a satire of religious fundamentalist comic books which could be found in bathroom stalls, restaurant counters and phone booths. I originally planned on including these in my new book:
Memoirs Of A Drugged-up, Sex-crazed Yippie ---
Tales from the 70's Counterculture: Drugs, Sex, Politics and Rock and Roll, but I ended up leaving them out.
These same fundamentalist comics are still being printed and distributed today. An outfit called The Only Hope, Inc. prints such comic books as Heaven? The Bottom Line, by Timothy L. Duvall and Chick Publications puts out similar tracks that have been distributed here in the Wichita and Kansas area. Since these comics are still being distributed today the cartoons, crudely drawn as they may be, are still relevant. Clicking on them will give a larger look at them.

The Ozark Music Festival, July 1974, The Midwest’s 1970s version of Woodstock

An Excerpt: Chapter 8, from Memoirs of a Drugged-Up, Sex-Crazed Yippie

When my friends and I watched the movie “Woodstock” in 1970, we could only imagine such an event. There was nudity among the concert goers, a nude swimming hole, open air markets for drugs and many concert goers were stoned out of their minds on acid. We had all been to many concerts in Kansas, but nothing like Woodstock. I was lucky to have made the last Woodstock-type festival, which was called the Ozark Music Festival.
It was in July of 1974 when we started hearing about it on the radio:
“The Ozark Music Festival, featuring the Eagles, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Bachman Turner Overdrive, The Ozark Mountain Daredevils, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Bob Seger, America and REO Speedwagon.”
That was quite a line-up. The event was to be at the Missouri State Fairgrounds in Sedalia. It was a three-day event hosted by radio celebrity Wolfman Jack.
“We’ve got to go to this,” I told Janet as we were driving to my job one day.
“That sounds good” she replied. “I’ll bet some of my friends will go. It sounds like an actual rock festival.”
“That’s what I’m hoping. It’s a three-day event.”
The festival started on Friday, July 19. I had called in sick for the day off of work. Naturally we packed my Galaxy with a cooler, our sleeping bags, and the same green pup tent we had slept in at Marion Lake.
It was a long drive to Sedalia, at least six hours. We were just a little west of Kansas City, when we got off the Kansas Turnpike for a bathroom break. We both went into a service station to use their bathrooms, which had the usual stench of urine. When we came out, we both grabbed some Cokes. We sat down on a wooden bench just outside the station’s glass door and walls. A woman who was about my mother’s age with dark hair, glasses and wearing a dress, walked out the service station door and asked us where we were headed.
“We’re going to a rock festival in Sedalia,” Janet said.
“I admire you kids today,” she said. “You can do so many things we were afraid to do when I was young.”
I’m not sure exactly what kind of things she was talking about, but in general, I realized we were the generation that learned to live free of all the restraints of the last generation. We probably didn’t think much of it at the time, but the older generation was bound by restrictions that were hard for us to imagine. It was natural a few of them would realize what they had missed.
As with Woodstock, this was an enormous event with people pouring in from across the country. The traffic was miserable. There was a huge line of cars waiting to get to the fairground’s gate. It took us an hour to get in. Once we got in it was worth the wait. The festival was like a free-for-all. There were people holding up signs, mostly cardboard or poster board with magic maker lettering, for just about any drug we wanted:
“Acid, Speed, Downers, Mescaline, Cocaine,” the different signs people held up said.
Almost every type of psychedelic drug and any type of pot we could want was for sale.
“There’s some opium,” said Janet. “We got to stop. I definitely want some of that.”
We stopped the car. The tall young guy with black shoulder length hair had a brown, fold-up card table full of little round foil wrapped balls. Janet walked up and opened one of them. She smelled it and examined it carefully.
“It’s $10,” the guy said.
“I’ll take it,” said Janet.
As we drove down the roadway along the fence we headed for the campgrounds, which were set up all around the edges of the fair grounds. There were extra green port- potties set up. There were tents and cars everywhere. A huge stage was set up at one end of the fairground. The amusement rides were open and running. There were food vendors operating just as if it were an actual state fair.
As we searched for a camping spot, we ran into Mari and Rhonda. We stopped the car as we passed in front of their tent.
“Why don’t you guys set up here with us?” Mari said.
We agreed. We parked the car and began to pitch our tent. We had some Pabst beer in the cooler. Once we got settled in we decided to walk to the stage. As we walked there was a sea of people. The overwhelming majority of them were under 30. It looked like a freak festival with many longhaired guys and lots of tie-dyed T-shirts. It was hot and many of the guys had no shirts on.
As we ventured down the path to the stage, holding beers in our hands, I noticed a woman in her thirties, with cropped dark hair and glasses. As she passed me I noticed she wore a long dark colored dress and had bare saggy boobs. I suddenly realized that there was actual nudity at this event, just like I saw in the Woodstock movie.
We also passed by some guys barbecuing naked. Janet joked:
“Get some clothes on Ethel,” using the line out of the Ray Stevens’ song “The Streak.”
When we got to the stage it was standing room only. The bands had begun to play. I remember seeing Bachman Turner Overdrive playing but I don’t remember which day it was. There was a lot going on. People were getting stoned. I noticed another brunette woman, about my age and my height, who had untied her pink halter-top and pulled it down over her jean shorts to bear her top. She had long flowing hair and her boobs were average size.
“I don’t see anyone selling heroin,” Janet said as she looked at the drug stands. “I don’t see any real narcotics. I could settle for morphine or Dilaudid. Keep your eye out for Dilaudid. It’s a synthetic form of heroin. It’s really good.”
That was the first time I had heard of Dilaudid. I later found out it’s also called hydromorphone, a synthetic narcotic that junkies refer to as “drugstore heroin.” Janet seemed obsessed with finding narcotics. I just wanted to have some fun. There were plenty of joints being passed around and we had plenty of liquor.
As the bands wound down for the night, we headed back to our campsite. We walked past the food vendors to get some dinner. There was plenty to choose from even though it was a little expensive. We bought some beef stew from a vend0r and ate it at one of the many white wooden picnic tables that were set up in the area.
As we walked back to our tent, I noticed a group of people camped just down from us who were smoking a joint and passing it around. There was a tall longhaired guy with a green tie-dyed T-shirt holding a bag of dope. With him were a tall slender blond guy with a yellow tie-dyed shirt and a girl with long dark hair flowing down her back, who wore a long red dress down to her feet, with no top on. She had large breasts shaped like basketballs, with small, thick, dark nipples.
“At other rock festivals I’ve been to people shared their drugs,” Janet said. “Everyone here seems to be off to themselves. There’s not much sharing. It used to be... ‘Hey come in this tent and do some MDA’ or ‘let’s do some acid in here.”
I had to think to myself, was it really like that? Or was Janet remembering things better than they really were. She had been to other festivals and this was my first one.
When we got to the campsite, Mari and Rhonda weren’t there.
“I’m drunk enough I can take my shirt off now,” Janet said. “If a guy can take his shirt off I don’t see why a woman can’t. It’s stupid for a guy to act like a monkey just because a woman takes off her shirt. People need to just get used to it.”
She lifted up her white T-shirt and took it off. She walked around to the campsite, most of the night with her boobs boldly and proudly displayed for all to see.
“We might as well smoke some of that opium,” Janet said.
She picked up a beer can and flattened the side of it, then poked holes in it. I had seen other people make emergency hash pipes that way before. She put a little piece of the black opium on over the holes.
“At least we can share,” Janet said.
She called over to a couple in the next tent:
“Do you guys want to smoke some opium,” She asked.
“Sure.”
The guy, who was tall and had long dark hair, and his girlfriend, a short skinny blond girl, came over and joined us.
“I’m Rob,” they guy said.
“I’m Jill,” the girl added.
Of the four of us, Jill was the only one wearing a top.

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Picture from Hippy Goddess.

Large number of Wichitans turn out for the Cindy Sheehan vigil

Here in Wichita, Kansas, at least 90 people showed up to support the candle-light vigil, at the Peace and Social Justice Center of South Central Kansas, for Cindy Sheehan, the Gold Star mother staying at Camp Casey, Crawford, Texas, demanding to see the president.
People lined the streets, some with candles, some with posters, others with flags. One mother brought a picture of her son who was sent to Iraq yesterday.
Some of the posters said “Let the Iraqis patrol Iraq.” Others just said to get out.
There was a unity to the purpose of the crowd, not only in support of Cindy Sheehan, but that the war had to come to an end and the US had to leave.One woman talked of being at the site at Crawford and some people, present, talked of making a trip there to support her.
Peace and Social Justice Center was responding to a nation-wide vigil, August 17, 2005, at 7:30 pm, all across this country.

A speech by Cindy Sheehan can be found at AlterNet.
Or at this video

Candy Krueger -- Wichita Kansas lost an important political activist

I often saw Candy Krueger at the many peace rallies I went to. She always had a sign and always had a good cheerful attitude. She was a dedicated activist and went to the Washington March for Women's Rights, April 25, 2004. With our black on pink T-shirts featuring the slogan "We Won't Go Back." emblazed over a crescent moon featuring a nude goddess silhouette holding the female symbol, 10 members of Wichita's organization ZAP took part in what was called by the organizers of the march and The Washington Post, ‘the largest march for women's rights in history’. The organizers estimated the crowd to be about 1.15 million and the Post estimated more than 500,000. This was clearly a historical event for those of us who went -- and a moment in time not to be forgotten, that we shared with Candy.
Candy, who died of a heart attack last Thursday, was quite a proud feminist and defender of women’s rights. These days there seem to be so few of us here in Wichita. Krueger participated many pro-choice and peace protests and had spent years doing clinic defense and helped us fight the local Religious Right. Her efforts will be missed and not easily forgotten. It is a sad day for our small community.
- Cam and Steve

Washington March for Women's Rights

THAT’S RIGHT EVEN IN THESE MODERN TIMES YOUNG AND OLD STILL MARCH

With our black on pink T-
shirts featuring the slogan "We Won't Go Back." emblazed over a crescent moon featuring a nude goddess silhouette holding the female symbol, 10 members of Wichita's organization ZAP joined possibly the largest women's march in US history, in Washington DC, April 25, 2004.
Wichita organizations that sent delegations to this historic event, including the local chapters of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, the National Organization for Women and Wichita's Maggot Punks. Some of us took planes, some got on a chartered bus and others drove. By my estimates we had well more than 20 people from Wichita.
Also attending was local abortion Doctor George Tiller and his staff. Tiller addressed crowd at a fund raising party held the night before the rally, not for from the site of the march. Tiller mingled with such celebrities as actresses Cybill Shepherd, Tyne Daly, Singer Cris Williamson and the rock group BETTY. He and his staff also took part in the march.
Both organizers of the march and The Washington Post, April 26, 2004, agreed that this may have been the largest march for women's rights in history. The organizers estimated the crowd to be about 1.15 million and the Post estimated more than 500,000. This was clearly a historical event for those of us who went.
"It was fantastic to be a part of the largest civil rights demonstration in U.S. History," said Carol June, a ZAP member.
ZAP is a rapid action street theatre group and the letters don't stand for anything.
"It took two hours for the demonstrators to clear the mall," June added. "There had to be over a million. Not only were people shoulder to shoulder, thousands were under the trees on the side and thousands more sat in front of the main stage in the grass."
The Post reported: "yesterday's March for Women's Lives was among the largest demonstrations ever held on the mall."
June's granddaughter, Danyale Lawrence-June, also marched with the ZAP contingency.
"It was exiting because so many people were there," said Lawrence-June. "It felt strange because of the size of the crowd."
She added that she liked the experience and hoped to attend future marches.
"There were people from all over, California, other states and people of all ages," she said.
The March itself had to be experience to be appreciated. By the time our group got to the last Metro (subway system) we had to walk slowly through a huge crowd. We met people from all over the country.
"I'm glad to see people from Kansas here," a lady from New Jersey said when she noticed that our shirts said "Wichita Kansas" on them. "It's good to know that some people from Wichita are pro-choice."
We discussed the constant battles we have with the religious right in this area. Many people were glad to know that anti-abortion groups like Operation Rescue don't represent all Kansans.
What really made this march unique were all the young people. Some were organized out of colleges. Some were high school age. They outnumbered those over thirty by two to one. This was clearly the younger generation of progressive women flexing their muscles.
There were a few hundred anti-abortion protesters and even with their bull horns they were clearly drowned out by the roar of their opponents.
Troops of young women chanted: "Pro life, your name's a lie, you don't care if women die;" "Pray, you'll need it, your cause will be defeated" and "It's my body, it's my choice."


While there were the usual conventional looking demonstrators, there were some really inventive outfits and chants. There was a group called Radical Cheerleaders, girls dressed in black with black and red socks, orange and read hair and sporting black pom-poms. There was a group of belly dancers. A few young girls went topless except for some pro-choice stickers over their nipples. There was a large group of women wearing T-shirts calling themselves Radical Women. They belong to a group called Revolutionary Feminist for Reproductive Rights. Their shirts attacked capitalism and called for universal health care along with supporting abortion rights.
Some other national organization present were Refuse and Resist, the Act Now to Stop War and End Racism (ANSWER) Coalition and the Ad-Hoc Nepal Solidarity Committee, whose members were distributing pamphlets called "Revolutionary Women of Nepal." The pamphlets discussed Nepal women's fight for abortion and other rights.
There seemed to be a large number of Trotskyist organizations and anarchist groups. Some anarchist wore black clothes and circle A's. Some had scarves they wore as if they were bandits. One person carried a black flag. There were other factions of leftists as well, everything from Young Democratic Socialists to the Workers World Party and the Revolutionary Communist Party.
There had been a large demonstration of several thousand against the International Monetary Fund in front of the World Bank the day before the women's march. It was dominated by anarchist, with large numbers of socialists. The crowd was smaller than anticipated. I attended it and it was a lively march, with lots of young people chanting, banging drums, carrying lots of anarchist flags and even flipping off the industrial leaders who met inside these buildings. Many of these radical groups came back the next day for the women's march.
One of the major themes of the day was to get rid of President George W. Bush. Anti-war activists and political groups of all kinds stuck to the theme that this president has been a disaster for the US.



The Wichita Eagle, our local daily, did not print any stories of local people who attended the march. When contacted, a reporter for the Eagle, said she was unaware of local people going. She added that the paper decided to go with the national wire story and didn’t talk to members of either side.

Vietnam and Iraq = no “light at the end of the tunnel”

Here are some excerpts from speeches by two presidents trying do deal with a military conflict in Vietnam.
Lyndon Baines Johnson
Speech at Johns Hopkins University
April 7, 1965

“Tonight Americans and Asians are dying for a world where each people may choose its own path to change.
This is the principle for which our ancestors fought in the valleys of Pennsylvania. It is the principle for which our sons fight tonight in the jungles of Vietnam.”
… The first reality is that North Vietnam has attacked the independent nation of South Vietnam. Its object is total conquest.
(This is an out-right lie. According to Lonely Planet’s Vietnam
History:
“Pro-independence forces, dominated largely by the leadership of Ho Chi Minh, resisted French domination during and after WWII. Ho Chi Minh's declaration of Vietnamese independence in 1945 sparked violent confrontations with the French, culminating in the French military defeat at Dien Bien Phu in 1954.
The negotiation of the Geneva Accords of 1954 between the Vietnamese and the French temporarily divided the country into two zones (the Communists assumed control of the north and the anti-Communist, US-supported Ngo Dinh Diem took the south). Free elections were to have been held across the country in 1956, but Diem reneged on the plan - Ho Chi Minh seemed likely to win - and instead consolidated his own power in various ways, including fixing a referendum. Western powers embraced his government.”
There never was an independent south.)

Of course, some of the people of South Vietnam are participating in attack on their own government. But trained men and supplies, orders and arms, flow in a constant stream from north to south.”
…. We have helped to build, and we have helped to defend. Thus, over many years, we have made a national pledge to help South Vietnam defend its independence.
(Again, the above history shows South Vietnam’s independence to be a lie.)
And I intend to keep that promise.

… We hope that peace will come swiftly. But that is in the hands of others besides ourselves. And we must be prepared for a long continued conflict. It will require patience as well as bravery, the will to endure as well as the will to resist.
… This generation of the world must choose: destroy or build, kill or aid, hate or understand.
We can do all these things on a scale never dreamed of before.
Well, we will choose life. In so doing we will prevail over the enemies within man, and over the natural enemies of all mankind.”


Richard M. Nixon
Nixon's Address to the Nation on the War in Vietnam
"The Silent Majority" Speech
November 3, 1969

“Now, let me begin by describing the situation I found when I was inaugurated on January 20.
--The war had been going on for 4 years.
--31,000 Americans had been killed in action.
--The training program for the South Vietnamese was behind schedule.
--540,000 Americans were in Vietnam with no plans to reduce the number.
--No progress had been made at the negotiations in Paris and the United States had not put forth a comprehensive peace proposal.
--The war was causing deep division at home and criticism from many of our friends as well as our enemies abroad.
… In view of these circumstances there were some who urged that I end the war at once by ordering the immediate withdrawal of all American forces.
From a political standpoint this would have been a popular and easy course to follow. After all, we became involved in the war while my predecessor was in office. I could blame the defeat which would be the result of my action on him and come out as the Peacemaker. Some put it to me quite bluntly: This was the only way to avoid allowing Johnson’s war to become Nixon's war.
But I had a greater obligation than to think only of the years of my administration and of the next election. I had to think of the effect of my decision on the next generation and on the future of peace and freedom in America and in the world.
Let us all understand that the question before us is not whether some Americans are for peace and some Americans are against peace. The question at issue is not whether Johnson's war becomes Nixon's war.
… Fifteen years ago North Vietnam, with the logistical support of Communist China and the Soviet Union, launched a campaign to impose a Communist government on South Vietnam by instigating and supporting a revolution.
(As with President Johnson, this was an out-right lie. See Lonely Planet History above.)
In response to the request of the Government of South Vietnam, President Eisenhower sent economic aid and military equipment to assist the people of South Vietnam in their efforts to prevent a Communist takeover. Seven years ago, President Kennedy sent 16,000 military personnel to Vietnam as combat advisers. Four years ago, President Johnson sent American combat forces to South Vietnam.
… In January I could only conclude that the precipitate withdrawal of American forces from Vietnam would be a disaster not only for South Vietnam but for the United States and for the cause of peace.
For the South Vietnamese, our precipitate withdrawal would inevitably allow the Communists to repeat the massacres which followed their takeover in the North 15 years before.
--They then murdered more than 50,000 people and hundreds of thousands more died in slave labor camps.
--We saw a prelude of what would happen in South Vietnam when the Communists entered the city of Hue last year. During their brief rule there, there was a bloody reign of terror in which 3,000 civilians were clubbed, shot to death, and buried in mass graves.
--With the sudden collapse of our support, these atrocities of Hue would become the nightmare of the entire nation-and particularly for the million and a half Catholic refugees who fled to South Vietnam when the Communists took over in the North.
… At the time we launched our search for peace I recognized we might not succeed in bringing an end to the war through negotiation. I, therefore, put into effect another plan to bring peace-a plan which will bring the war to an end regardless of what happens on the negotiating front.
It is in line with a major shift in U.S. foreign policy which I described in my press conference at Guam on July, 25. Let me briefly explain what has been described as the Nixon Doctrine-a policy which not only will help end the war in Vietnam, but which is an essential element of our program to prevent future Vietnams.
We Americans are a do-it-yourself people. We are an impatient people. Instead of teaching someone else to do a job, we like to do it ourselves. And this trait has been carried over into our foreign policy.
In Korea and again in Vietnam, the United States furnished most of the money, most of the arms, and most of the men to help the people of those countries defend their freedom against Communist aggression.
… My fellow Americans, I am sure you can recognize from what I have said that we really only have two choices open to us if we want to end this war.
--I can order an immediate, precipitate withdrawal of all Americans from Vietnam without regard to the effects of that action.
--Or we can persist in our search for a just peace through a negotiated settlement if possible, or through continued implementation of our plan for Vietnamization if necessary-a plan in which we will withdraw all of our forces from Vietnam on a schedule in accordance with our program, as the South Vietnamese become strong enough to defend their own freedom.
I have chosen this second course.
It is not the easy way.
It is the right way.”

IRAQ and AFGHANISTAN
And today we have the war in both Iraq and Afghanistan. Here are more excerpts:
President George Bush hasn’t made that many speeches, but those he makes already sound similar to those above:
“We also must never forget the most vivid events of recent history. On September the 11th, 2001, America felt its vulnerability -- even to threats that gather on the other side of the earth. We resolved then, and we are resolved today, to confront every threat, from any source, that could bring sudden terror and suffering to America. “
Right before he started the war Bush said of Saddam Hussein:
"He is a danger not only to countries in the region but, as I explained last night, because of his al Qaeda connections, because of his history, he is a danger to Americans," Bush said, referring to Tuesday's State of the Union address. "And we're going to deal with him. We're going to deal with him before it's too late."
And as in Vietnam, the war was initiated on a lie.
Recently Bush stuck to his theme that this is a war on “terrorism.”
According to The Wichita Eagle’s Phillip Brownlee:
“But President Bush made clear that he is sticking with "war on terror," using the phrase five times during a speech Wednesday, the New York Times reported. Of course, this is mostly a PR debate, and whether it’s called a war or a struggle doesn’t change the challenge that we face.”
Many of his supporters are making the same arguments made in the 1960s and 1970s about Vietnam, that we should “stay the course” until some type of victory.
Now lets look at Jonathan Gurwitz, of the San Antonio Express-News, 07/27/2005 who writes:

“Supporters of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan repeat the erroneous assumption that those conflicts have nothing to do with terrorist violence because they mistakenly believe its verity somehow bolsters opponents of those wars. Nothing could be further from the truth.
The fatal conceit of those who see more violence as a sign of a failed policy is that the previous policy — doing nothing or, worse, appeasing terrorism — gave us a smoking Pentagon, a hellish void in Lower Manhattan and a cratered field in Pennsylvania. The vast majority of American deaths in a war on terror that is now approaching its fourth year still occurred on a single day in 2001.
Columnist Gerard Barker wrote recently in the Times of London:
"Yes, our engagement in Iraq has increased the risk that we will be attacked, but that fact in no way instructs us to get out of Iraq or the Middle East. On the contrary it makes it more urgent than ever that we win there. The right way to tackle that view is not to indulge it, sympathize with it or nurse it, but to correct it. The right way to deal with anti-American and anti-British sentiment in the Muslim world is not to pull out our troops from Iraq and beg forgiveness, but to continue to fight there on behalf of the majority of good Muslims for the kind of country they need and deserve."
The war in Iraq has everything to do with the war on terror in the United States and Britain and everywhere in the world. It is, in fact, now the primary battlefield on which that war is being fought. Like the residents of Popper's imaginary village, we ignore that reality at our own peril.”
Exchange the words “communism” for “terrorism” and you find about the same arguments. We slog on loosing the lives of our young with some misguided belief in our god-like abilities to create nations in our own image and likeness. This is called imperialism. It has never worked and never will.
We will loose again, as surely as we lost the first time. The enemy is different, but the conflict is the same.

THOSE WHO DO NOT LEARN FROM HISTORIES MISTAKES ARE DOOMED TO REPEAT THEM!

Memoirs of a Drugged-Up, Sex-Crazed Yippie

Once again I’m plugging Memoirs of a Drugged-Up, Sex-Crazed Yippie. It takes the reader through the life of a 1970s counter-culture drug user. Mark Spies goes from casual pot smoking to habitual use of pharmaceutical narcotics and cocaine. Due to the changing sexual attitudes, Spies has several unconventional sexual encounters. The 1970s brought us the “Woodstock generation.” There was a sense of idealism that developed at the beginning and died at the end of that decade. Many counter-culture books focus on the 1960s, yet there are plenty of events in the 1970s that deserve attention. Nixon’s war in Vietnam and Cambodia dominated the news and affected America’s youth. Nixon’s war on drugs impacted the counter-culture life style. Then there was punk rock, disco, casual cocaine use and revolutions braking out around the world by 1979.With politics in the background, this book gives the reader a look at drug use and the difficult business of drug dealing. The drugs, sexual attitudes, music and politics made the 1970s what they were. Taken as a whole, this book will give some insight into the people and events of the 1970s counter-culture.
The Author is a free-lance writer, living in Kansas. He is the author of War on Drugs/ War on People, published by Ide House, 1995, an expose of government corruption connected with the “war on drugs.” Otto has published numerous articles in magazines, journals and newspapers. For More information the book can be seen at Amazon.com or can also be purchased Direct from the publisher.

Is hydrocodone safe?

Here’s an interesting website. You can buy hydrocodone. But that will only work if you can read Russian. The whole site is in a foreign language. Here is some advice for you hydrocodone users. Such products as Lortab have acetaminophen in them and large doses are dangerous to take. It is best to extract the acetaminophen by crushing the pills, soaking in hot water and then letting them cool in the refrigerator. The cold causes the acetaminophen to settle in the bottom of the liquid.

Terrorism or Democracy?

President George Bush has declared the 毛-ist (Maoist) insurgents of Nepal to be “terrorists.” This is not surprising with his “you’re with us or against us” philosophy. Of course many of us are against him.

According to Conn Hallinan, Nepal--Nursing the Pinion, February 15, 2005:

“The Bush administration sees the Nepal insurgency as another domino in its international war on terrorism, arguing that the country could become a "failed state" and hence a haven for terrorists. The CPNM has been placed on the State Department's "Watch List," along with Al-Qaida, Abu Sayyaf, and Hezbollah. While the White House claims this is about "terrorism," there are suspicions in the region that American involvement is also part of an overall U.S. plan to ring China with military bases and regimes friendly, or at least beholden, to Washington.”

Unlike past Marxist-Leninist and even毛-ist organizations who have called for a one-party state, 毛-ist Guerrillas in Nepal have called for participation of all parliamentarian parties and a multi-party state. The guerrillas now control about 80% of the country side.

According to Baburam Bhattarai, CPN(Maoist):
THE ROYAL REGRESSION AND THE QUESTION OF DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC
“Precisely in this context the question of anti-monarchy common minimum programme and slogan acceptable to all the democratic forces, including the parliamentary and revolutionary democratic forces and the international community, has become pertinent. It has been the considered view of the CPN(Maoist) that the programme of election to a representative Constituent Assembly and institutionalization of the democratic republic is best suited for the purpose. The old slogan of restoration of the parliament or re-activization and amendment of 1990 Constitution, advanced by the parliamentary forces and the international community, has been totally outdated and inadequate in the new context. A brief recapitulation of the incessant struggle between the monarchy and democracy since the 1950s in the country should leave no one in doubt that without the complete abolition of the archaic institution of feudal monarchy and its puppet RNA no form of democracy can be secure and institutional in Nepal. It has been proved time and again that the so-called 'constitutional monarchy' seen in operation in some of the highly developed capitalist countries cannot be replicated in a semi-feudal & semi-colonial society. Hence any attempt on the part of the parliamentary political parties and the international forces to preserve the thoroughly rotten and discredited institution of monarchy, in this or that pretext, does not correspond with the historical necessity and ground reality of balance of forces in the country, and the agenda of 'democratic republic' has entered the Nepalese politics.”