RSLudlum
08-14-2012, 07:45 PM
Useful Idiots??
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrPAvQlFT3o
Joe Biden was the author of the RAVE Act and Dj's support this ticket??
I guess memory doesn't serve them very well. Obama's buddy Biden introduced and was the original sponsor for the RAVE Act which directly threatened DJs' livelyhoods through onerous requirements of club owners/promoters to prove their venues were not "crackhouses" as redefined under the statute. But hey, maybe Lenin really knew what he was talking about when he spoke of "useful idiots".
This (http://www.alternet.org/story/14259/chemical_warfare%3A_the_rave_act?page=0%2C0)is an article from 2002 which in a sordid way compares entrance into a club like airport security on a "heightened state of alert" day which we have all come to be known as a normal day at the airport now. It goes into detail what the RAVE Act is, how it was implemented/enforced, and Biden's role in it and the War on Drugs.
from Chemical Warfare: The RAVE Act
The RAVE Act is of questionable constitutionality, contradicts the government's own research and could endanger lives. In other words, it's perfect for the war on drugs (http://www.alternet.org/story/14259/chemical_warfare%3A_the_rave_act?page=0%2C0)
At the security checkpoint, a man in a windbreaker asks you to remove your jacket, your shoes and your hat. You lift your arms parallel to the floor and he frisks just about every inch of your body. Your hair is searched. He checks your piercings. You lift up your tongue so he can look underneath with a flashlight. You think, "So this is how produce feels." You pass the inspection, minus one Chapstick.
This is not the scene at airport security on a "heightened state of alert" day. This is a party, and you're in the pre-party phase. Up against the wall and spread 'em. And try to relax.
It's a scene partygoers have become familiar with. Searches, pat-downs, and confiscations of "paraphernalia" have become SOP at many venues, courtesy of the War on Drugs. And the pressure put on promoters to keep their events substance-free is about to ratchet up a notch, as congress ponders the controversial Reducing Americans' Vulnerability to Ecstasy Act, adorably nicknamed the RAVE Act...
Enter Senator Joe Biden, Democrat from Delaware and preeminent crusader in the War on Drugs. Currently, he serves as chair of both the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs and the International Narcotics Control Caucus. He authored the law that established the nation's drug czar. In 1996, during a debate with Orrin Hatch, he insisted that "I'm the guy that suggested in the first national drug strategy that we get the military involved." He was a narc's wet dream.
Biden put together the bill called the RAVE Act. It cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee last June with "congressional findings" that, according to the Washington Post, declare bottled water, chill rooms and glowsticks to be drug paraphernalia. It also retains the crackhouse law sentencing guidelines: Party organizers whose patrons get busted with drugs can face fines in the millions and up to 20 years in federal prison.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrPAvQlFT3o
Joe Biden was the author of the RAVE Act and Dj's support this ticket??
I guess memory doesn't serve them very well. Obama's buddy Biden introduced and was the original sponsor for the RAVE Act which directly threatened DJs' livelyhoods through onerous requirements of club owners/promoters to prove their venues were not "crackhouses" as redefined under the statute. But hey, maybe Lenin really knew what he was talking about when he spoke of "useful idiots".
This (http://www.alternet.org/story/14259/chemical_warfare%3A_the_rave_act?page=0%2C0)is an article from 2002 which in a sordid way compares entrance into a club like airport security on a "heightened state of alert" day which we have all come to be known as a normal day at the airport now. It goes into detail what the RAVE Act is, how it was implemented/enforced, and Biden's role in it and the War on Drugs.
from Chemical Warfare: The RAVE Act
The RAVE Act is of questionable constitutionality, contradicts the government's own research and could endanger lives. In other words, it's perfect for the war on drugs (http://www.alternet.org/story/14259/chemical_warfare%3A_the_rave_act?page=0%2C0)
At the security checkpoint, a man in a windbreaker asks you to remove your jacket, your shoes and your hat. You lift your arms parallel to the floor and he frisks just about every inch of your body. Your hair is searched. He checks your piercings. You lift up your tongue so he can look underneath with a flashlight. You think, "So this is how produce feels." You pass the inspection, minus one Chapstick.
This is not the scene at airport security on a "heightened state of alert" day. This is a party, and you're in the pre-party phase. Up against the wall and spread 'em. And try to relax.
It's a scene partygoers have become familiar with. Searches, pat-downs, and confiscations of "paraphernalia" have become SOP at many venues, courtesy of the War on Drugs. And the pressure put on promoters to keep their events substance-free is about to ratchet up a notch, as congress ponders the controversial Reducing Americans' Vulnerability to Ecstasy Act, adorably nicknamed the RAVE Act...
Enter Senator Joe Biden, Democrat from Delaware and preeminent crusader in the War on Drugs. Currently, he serves as chair of both the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs and the International Narcotics Control Caucus. He authored the law that established the nation's drug czar. In 1996, during a debate with Orrin Hatch, he insisted that "I'm the guy that suggested in the first national drug strategy that we get the military involved." He was a narc's wet dream.
Biden put together the bill called the RAVE Act. It cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee last June with "congressional findings" that, according to the Washington Post, declare bottled water, chill rooms and glowsticks to be drug paraphernalia. It also retains the crackhouse law sentencing guidelines: Party organizers whose patrons get busted with drugs can face fines in the millions and up to 20 years in federal prison.