Barack Obama’s Youthful Civil Disobedience

Despite promises of “change” the current occupant of the White House in Washington, DC has continued a failed drug war that has caged thousands, spent billions and “has met none of its goals” according to analysis by the Associated Press:

After 40 years, the United States’ war on drugs has cost $1 trillion and hundreds of thousands of lives, and for what? Drug use is rampant and violence even more brutal and widespread.

In 1979, nine years after Dick Nixon declared a “War on Drugs,” drug use peaked. 1979 was also the year “Barry” Obama was graduating from a government High School in Hawaii, and according to Gene Healey in the Washington Examiner:

His yearbook page featured a pack of rolling papers and a shout-out to the “Choom gang.” (“Chooming” is Hawaiian slang for smoking pot.)

Smoking an illegal weed is one thing but advertising this fact, in his year book, is quite disobedient.

Healey points out the contradiction:

Far be it from me to condemn our president for harmless (and amusing) youthful indiscretions. As his predecessor put it, “When I was young and irresponsible, I was young and irresponsible.” But Obama’s older now, and he’s responsible for administering our nation’s drug policy. Surely he can’t feel comfortable locking up thousands of Americans for the sort of behavior that gave him a chuckle three decades ago. Yet, in his new National Drug Control Strategy, Obama “firmly opposes the legalization of marijuana or any other illicit drug” and boasts of his administration’s aggressive approach to pot eradication. Watch your back, Choom Gang.

When asked why the Obama Administration continues these costly programs, The Associated Press received this answer from the Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano:

This is something that is worth fighting for because drug addiction is about fighting for somebody’s life, a young child’s life, a teenager’s life, their ability to be a successful and productive adult.

Pardon me if I don’t thank the government for putting 37 million peaceful people in cages (10 million for the possession of a weed). It’s sickening. We can end this insane war on drugs, but not by electing a president with one-word campaign slogans. Nope. We can demand that the government release the peaceful people they have put in cages. If there is no victim, there is no crime.

You and the CD Evolution Fund can help end the War on Drugs in the following ways: – Support Free Keene’s “4:20 Everyday” celebrations. – Donate to the legal defense fund for Sovereign Curtis.