Re: Civil disobedience and legal actions to promote liberty

From: Mike Linksvayer (ml@justintime.com)
Date: Tue Jan 11 2000 - 16:55:36 MST


Zeb Haradon wrote:
> I've always thought it would be a good idea to take a few pounds of
> marijuana, break it up into 1000 bags or so, and have 1000 people walk to
> the pollice station with a bag each and turn themselves in 1 by 1.. day
> after day after day.

I've always thought a Johnny Hempseed movement would be a good
idea. No vacant lot, roadside, ditch, or park should be without
hemp. It's a very hardy weed, should grow anywhere, or so say
hemp activists. One shouldn't be able to look at any
non-landscaped public property without bearing witness to the
absurdity and futility of making war against a plant.

> A movie I'm directing:
> http://www.elevatormovie.com

Fun idea. I look forward to viewing the finished product. :)

Later Zeb Haradon also wrote:
> Regardless of the origins of drug prohibition, I don't think that the race
> issue remains a powerful factor today in continuing it.

I don't know. However, race could become a powerful factor in
discontinuing prohibition. Look up incarceration rates for
black males. Or how prohibition has wracked Columbia and other
hispanic countries. If advocates of freedom have any opportunity
to play the feared "race card", this is it.

Mike



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