Wednesday, January 30, 2013

Green thumb? Washington state looks for pot consultant

Wash. vows to try to keep weed in state _ but how?
This Jan. 26, 2013 photo taken at a grow house in Denver shows a marijuana plants ready to be harvested. Last fall, voters made Washington and Colorado the first states to pass laws legalizing the recreational use of marijuana and setting up systems of state-licensed growers, processors and retail stores where adults over 21 can walk in and buy up to an ounce of heavily taxed cannabis. Both states are working to develop rules for the emerging recreational pot industry, with sales set to begin later this year.(AP Photo/Ed Andrieski)


SEATTLE | Wanted: A green thumb with extensive knowledge of the black, or at least gray, market.
As Washington state tries to figure out how to regulate its newly legal marijuana, officials are hiring an adviser on all things weed: how it's best grown, dried, tested, labeled, packaged and cooked into brownies.
Those angling for the job were expected to learn more Wednesday in Tacoma. The state Liquor Control Board, the agency charged with developing rules for the marijuana industry, reserved a convention center hall with a capacity of 275 people — plus an overflow room — for its bidding experts to take questions about the position and the hiring process.
"The Liquor Control Board has a long and a very good history with licensing and regulation. We know it and know how to do it well," said spokesman Mikhail Carpenter. "But there are some technical aspects with marijuana we could use a consultant to help us with."
Last fall, Washington and Colorado became the first states to pass laws legalizing the recreational use of marijuana and setting up systems of state-licensed growers, processors and retail stores where adults over 21 can walk in and buy up to an ounce of heavily taxed cannabis. Sales are due to begin in Washington state in December.
Both states are working to develop rules for the emerging pot industry. Up in the air is everything from how many growers and stores there should be, to how the marijuana should be tested to ensure people don't get sick.
Article continues at rapidcityjournal.com 

TSA Protester With 4th Amendment Written on Chest Wins Trial Over Airport Arrest

Adan Salazar
Infowars.com
January 30, 2013
A young man who visited Pennsylvania’s Richmond International Airport and presented an abridged version of the Fourth Amendment on his shirtless chest can sue the TSA for violating his First Amendment right to free speech, a U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday.

After being detained and questioned at the airport for over an hour, Aaron Tobey put forth a civil rights lawsuit against a host of defendants seeking $250,000 in damages.
Tobey approached the Richmond airport terminal in December 2010 and opted out of the radiation-firing nude body scanner; instead, he chose the enhanced pat down where he stripped down to his shorts and staged a silent protest via his body.
What Mr. Tobey had written on his body is likely what incited consternation among the screeners. On his chest and gut, Mr. Tobey had inscribed in black marker the words, “Amendment 4: The right of the people to be secure against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated.”
Circuit Judge Roger Gregory, in his majority opinion, offered a more precise version of events:
In anticipation that he might be subjected to enhanced
screening, Mr. Tobey had written the text of the Fourth
Amendment on his chest as he believed AIT scanning was
unconstitutional. Before proceeding through the AIT unit, Mr.
Tobey calmly placed his sweatpants and t-shirt on the conveyor
belt, leaving him in running shorts and socks, revealing
the text of the Fourth Amendment written on his chest. Agent
Smith advised Mr. Tobey he need not remove his clothes. Mr.
Tobey calmly responded that he wished to express his view
that TSA’s enhanced screening procedures were unconstitutional.

At this point, Agent Smith radioed for assistance. As commanded
by her supervisor, Appellant-Agent Jones, Agent
Smith ordered Mr. Tobey to remain in front of the AIT unit.
Agent Jones and unknown Appellant-Agent Doe then asked
RIC police for assistance. At no point did Mr. Tobey refuse
to undergo the enhanced screening procedures. Nor did he
decline to do anything requested of him. In fact, Mr. Tobey
alleges that he “remained quiet, composed, polite, cooperative
and complied with the requests of agents and officers.
The lawsuit claims that Tobey, “in the exercise of his rights to Free Speech and to petition the United States government for the redress of grievances, was arrested without probable cause, falsely imprisoned and maliciously prosecuted for the partial removal of his clothing and display of the text of the Fourth Amendment on his chest…”
The TSA had originally moved to dismiss Tobey’s lawsuit claiming that his “bizarre behavior gave rise to further police inquiry” and provided a reasonable basis for detention; however, they weren’t able to dismiss the claim that his First Amendment had indeed been violated, a complaint that was validated by the Circuit Court of Appeals.
Aaron’s father, Robert Tobey, reportedly says he’s proud of his son and argues there was nothing bizarre about Aaron’s behavior whatsoever: “Bizarre behavior in an airport to me is someone jumping up and down you know causing a ruckus. This was just the opposite.”
Wired.com noted, “In sending the case to trial, unless there’s a settlement, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled 2-1 and reversed a lower court judge and invoked Benjamin Franklin in the process,” referring to Judge Gregory’s published opinion where he stated:
While it is tempting to hold that First Amendment rights should acquiesce to national security in this instance, our Forefather Benjamin Franklin warned against such a temptation by opining that those “who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” We take heed of his warning and are therefore unwilling to relinquish our First Amendment protections—even in an airport.
Wired further noted that TSA had questioned Tobey “about his affiliation with, or knowledge of, any terrorist organizations, if he had been asked to do what he did by any third party, and what his intentions and goals were,” a disturbing detail that will not come as a shock to a majority of Infowars readers.
According to Newsplex.com, “The circuit court’s opinion will either be appealed by the government to the entire Fourth Circuit or it will be ordered back to the U.S. District Court.”

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Through the Eyes of a Conspiracy Theorist

One thing about being a conspiracy theorist, you see the world in a different way than most.

When you know that the OKC bombing was an inside job set up by Bill "How dare you sir!" Clinton and Eric Holder, trusting the government doesn't seem like a very good idea.

When you know that 9-11 was an inside job, going to war in Iraq and Afghanistan doesn't seem like such a good idea.

Seeing the Patriot act get passed and losing constitutional rights doesn't seem like such a good idea either.

 Knowing that the underwear bomber was let onto the plane without a passport (after being rejected by airport security) because a well dressed man that worked for the U.S. government made it so, makes naked body scanners (that they just so happened to have ready to roll out) not seem like such a good idea.

Knowing that Obama and Holder set up Fast and Furious (Purposely sending guns from the U.S. to Mexican drug gangs) in an attempt to undermine the second amendment and create new gun control laws, let's you know that Obama only sheds crocodile tears for Sandy Hook victims.

When you know that Tuscon, Aurora and Sandy Hook were all inside jobs of one kind or another, giving up your right to keep and bear arms doesn't seem very wise.

When you know that Osama bin Laden had been dead many years when the "raid" took place, it makes you very suspicious when so many members of seal team six get killed in an old national guard helicopter, not to mention other odd deaths of seal team six members.

One thing about seeing things in this light, you see that it's government(s) that do (or cause) the most evil things in the world, not individuals.

If you can imagine it, subtract all these inside jobs (and the things they caused)(Iraq war, Afghanistan war, Patriot Act, NDAA) from your mind.

Pretend like none of these things ever happened.

Wow, America seems like a pretty good place again doesn't it?

Tuesday, January 29, 2013

In Mali - Forces Backed by UN - France - and Obama Slaughter Civilians

In Mali, Forces Backed by UN, France, and Obama Slaughter Civilians Written by 
 
Summary executions and mass human rights abuses targeting innocent civilians in Mali are being perpetrated by soldiers loyal to the dubious Malian regime in a campaign supported by the United Nations, the new socialist French government, and the Obama administration. According to human rights groups and witnesses on the ground, the atrocities are increasing as the number of murdered victims continues to rise — eerily reminiscent of similar tragic interventions in Libya, Syria, and the Ivory Coast.

The regime ruling southern Mali out of the capital city of Bamako, which seized power in a military coup last year led by a U.S. government-trained officer, is currently attempting to recapture the northern regions of the country. The vast swath of territory in the north was declared independent last year by a group of historically oppressed nomadic Tuareg rebels armed with weapons obtained from the recent Western-backed war on Libya.

Islamic fighters with various loyalties joined the fight against the corrupt central government, too — providing a half-baked excuse for the UN, the French government, Obama, and various African despots to enter the fray on behalf of the illegitimate regime in the south. After the UN Security Council purported to “authorize” an international invasion on behalf of the coup-installed regime, forces from France openly began their military campaign earlier this month under the guise of fighting “Islamic extremism.”

Obama, the U.K. government, and a motley assortment of African tyrants — most of whom continue to be propped up with Western taxpayer money — quickly joined the battle as well. But within days of the military operation to crush rebels in the north, disturbing reports of gross human rights violations perpetrated by Western-backed forces began to emerge from across the region.


More at thenewamerican.com

Sandy Hook Eyewitness Testimony - Newtown Resident

Fast and Furious - Does Obama Only Cry For Dead White Kids?

Fast and Furious commenced in 2009 and eventually led to the deaths of agents Brian Terry and Jaime Zapata and hundreds of Mexican citizens.


Fast & Furious/Obama Murdergate



 Dave Workman of Examiner.com writes:
Still very much in play is a legal action by Issa's committee to get its hands on thousands of documents currently protected by presidential privilege since Barack Obama took ownership of Fast and Furious in July, giving cover to Holder, who did not want to release the documents.

 The question remains, what's in there that Holder and the White House do not want the committee to see?

 What's in there, indeed?  
Why did the president need to invoke executive privilege on an issue he and the attorney general knew nothing about? 
 If they're so innocent, they should pony up the documents.
The White House and DOJ have withheld evidence, stonewalled and covered up Fast and Furious from the very beginning.
Then they appointed an inspector general who works for Eric Holder to investigate Holder.
Is it any wonder that IG Michael Horowitz produced a highly biased sham report that protects those at the top of the food chain?
The Obama administration and its collaborators in the media will keep the truth from coming out no matter how many dead bodies pile up.
The latest flurry of activity from the ATF is just more of the same nauseating chum Holder and Obama have been throwing out for two years.
 Read more M. Catharine Evans at Potter Williams Report. Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2012/12/atf_fires_managers_over_fast_and_furious_obama_and_holder_get_off_scot-free.html#ixzz2JNj3OOGp Follow us: @AmericanThinker on Twitter | AmericanThinker on Facebook

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