WHAT WILL IT TAKE?

365 days a year, a few thousand drug reformers work to ensure your
freedom. Many of you understand that and appreciate the effort, the
daily sticking of the neck into the noose for a "fitting". Most of
you then pick up the remote and go to Orange County. You have been
hypnotized, repeatedly raped, robbed and buggered in numerous ways
then placed back on your living room couch (click) for home-brewed,
individually designed, therapy "viddies".

"Everything is broken..." As Mr. R. Zimmerman begins his umpteenth
tour, we should once again heed his words. When it's all broken, the
mind wants to shut down, to find a nice cave and do rituals designed
to cover up and eliminate the dread and fear that current circumstance
allows. If successful in destroying the lust for life and outgoing
nature of the American "dreamers", the corporataucracy will have
achieved world domination quite simply with the push of a button... a
button they trained the populace to push in case of danger.

Bullshift, hypocrisy, alternating lies and moralistic posturing, the
new staple, the means, the mechanism and the mayhem rolled into one.
We've been lied to, been deceived, duped and damn near destroyed.

The Little Lie That Could

It starts with a small lie, that many citizens think does some good
for a few. It begins with bending the constitution to protect that
vulnerable few.

It increases when the populace becomes jaded and uncaring to the
mechanism of lies, handing the future of liberty to those who proclaim
higher priorities must be given sway.

It continues to increase, to grow ponderous, overbearing and
inquisitorial.

It is what binds our ties to our terrorist enemies and propels our
domestic dilemma of gangs, violence, bigotry, financial overload and
societal fragmentation.

It is the drug war.

It is time to be brave, lest the chance to restore respect for
truth be lost forever to ignorance and greed.

Who owns the US? Certainly the people are losing ground. Energy,
pharmaceutical houses, insurance, bankers, builders, tobacconists,
brewers, security salesmen and international investors own much of
your future and your children's futures. Why? We allow it to happen.

Each day you remain silent, you reinforce and support the
corporataucracy and it's myriad and murderous ways and we are once
again and so easily one day closer to the destruction of America.

What do you want America to be, a land of cops and dogs and prisons?
That is where we are and will be forever if we do not soon sound the
alarm to prevent further damage from this ever lasting drug
prohibition. You hold the key; you are the one and only answer.

Why do you continue to support the lie? Why are you silent in the
face of glaring, open and obvious evidence to the contrary? Fear of
prison, fear of job loss, fear of neighborhood gossip, fear of rumors
and fear of fear itself. "Land of the free... home of the brave". If
he were given a tour of today's America, Francis Scott Key would
surely barf in his triangular hat.

They don't have enough rope for all of us. If you educate yourself
and take time to speak openly and honestly against the "little lie"
you will surely miss the next episode of Orange County. It's a tough
choice, but it's yours to make.

* Ed Rosenthal, America's Guru of Ganja is coming to Houston for the
4:20 Fest on Saturday, April 23 at the Last Concert Cafe, . Ed opens
the fest at 4:20 PM and gives a speech about safe, legal, medical
marijuana at 6 PM. Ed is the author of numerous books including
"Don't Get Busted", "Big Book of Buds and a dozen others. Following
an arrest by federal authorities, Ed's case was sent to the US Supreme
Court and he subsequently was given a 1 day prison sentence for
growing thousands of plants as requested by the city of Oakland.

The 4:20 Fest is a benefit for Houston NORML, Bayou City Compassion
and the Drug Truth Network. Eight great bands will be featured,
including Slapshifter, Mikado, Grooving Ground, Plump, Guy Schwartz &
The New Jack Hippies, Sean Reefer & The Resin Valley Boys, The
Hightailers and Mark May & The Agitators.

To learn more, listen to 90.1 FM, KPFT radio in Houston or visit
http://www.drugtruth.net.

Stand the hell UP! Shout it from the rooftops: "NO MORE DRUG
WAR!"