Has the GOP Finally Gone TOO Far?: Gov’t Shutdown = the U.S. Blues
This morning at Starbucks there was a petition for customers
to sign in opposition to the political theatrics in D.C. causing a shutdown of
federal services. The CEO of Starbucks himself started this and I saw it happening "live" on CNN yesterday in Atlanta, Georgia and today in my own backyard.
States are forced to act like they have separate sovereignty
in absence of federal funds to pay for things like park rangers and pay for it
themselves at hot spots that bring in huge tourist tax dollars for them and
their constituent small business owners who need this day to day over-spill
revenue tourism creates for the local economy.
Our precious veterans are showing up at sentimental
monuments for the psyche of the U.S. Military and casting aside “Gov’t shutdown”
barricades in an act of civil disobedience and manning these places themselves
so they may be celebrated everyday for everyday people. (One guy who looked
like a “tea bagger” said, “as long as no one is victimized here and people are non-violent & low-key & respectful there won’t be any need for law
enforcement anyway – if we all just act responsible, we’ll all be OK. Hell,
there are even some guys around here who already started maintenance. I myself
love landscape architecture and been eye’n this place up to improve it from
what they been paid to do.”)
Christian churches are using their fresh garden harvests to
give-away and serve as foodbanks for all the hungry families who need
subsidized either because they were on a federal program or they’re a younger
couple with kids who bought that big home in the suburbs and daddy lost his
job.
In Colorado, the first commercial crop of hemp in 56 years is
harvested to help struggling desperate farmers, and demand is high. One problem: It's illegal in the eyes of the
federal government.
Last year things got tricky.
Colorado, along with Washington state, legalized recreational marijuana. When a
state law conflicts with a federal law, the feds win. But in the case of
small-scale marijuana use, federal authorities have been advised to back off,
letting local jurisdictions handle the issue through regulation, according to a
recent Justice Department memo.
Hemp was legalized under Colorado's
Amendment 64, but more as an afterthought, says Eric Steenstra, president of
Vote Hemp, a national advocacy group. State lawmakers were directed to come up
with a plan to regulate hemp farming, and that authority was given to the
Colorado Department of Agriculture.
"It should not be treated like
a drug, it should be treated like corn," says state Sen. Gail Schwartz, a
Democrat and chair of the Agriculture, Natural Resources and Energy Committee.
For years hemp was widely grown in
this country, even promoted by the government during World War II. But it
eventually fell out of favor, and the last known commercial harvest was in
Wisconsin in 1957.
Colorado's rules for hemp farming
are still being determined and will not go into effect until next year.
Has the GOP gone too far?
Are the “tea baggers” anarchists –
do you agree with Democrat Harry Reid on this?
“‘Anarchist’? Why in the
world wouldn’t I use the term anarchy?” said Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid,
D-Nev., in a CNN interview. “That’s what they are. They’re anarchists. They
don’t believe in government — at any level. … They’re anarchists, just like
they were at the beginning of the 20th century. … They’re not blowing up
buildings and they’re not killing people. But they’re throwing monkey wrenches
in the wheels of government.” That a reporter parroted the line almost verbatim
explains why Obama and the Democrats believe they will win the PR battle over
which party voters will blame for this partial government shutdown.
Anarchists. Indeed I say.
What’s next are one of
these libertarian-republican hybrid strain of “tea bagger” gonna agree with
U.S. Attny General Holder the top-cop and state that targeting non violent low
level marijuana users is NOT a good use of federal dollars and local cops should
not being tapping into NSA’s database supposed to be used exclusively under
FISA guidance and not to track the movements of “love interests” running parallel
surveillances to guarantee a bust for anything they happen to “randomly” do
that's illegal.
Are traffic stops like that
constitutional when they have nothing to do with terror and yet local
enforcement tapped into the “switch” in NSA’s D.I.C.E to target and track and
bust “love interests.”
Should something like this
be made to “go away.”
I know one thing if a Putin
and his bare chest come to Sewickley to try and “wrestle” me, I want the
federal government to protect and serve me.
john alan conte jr.
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