Well where to begin this blog. I am so ashamed at the current status of our country and it only seems to be getting worse under Harper's Communist Conservative's. We can't even get the world to vote us into the UN yet counties like Portugal are notice and accepted, for one because they are open to change and new ideas of failed policies (decriminalizing the personal use of ALL drugs) and having great success.
We suck at taking care of the environment, the tar sands are one of the biggest dirtiest oil operations in the world. We have wars, obesity, diabetes, 33,000 people a year dying of prescription drug overdose, conservative Mp's that drive around drunk with cocaine in their pockets, Catholics and priests raping children for the past 100 years, Bp oil spills, human trafficing and hundreds of thousands of children being smuggled into the sex trade dying of std's or of beatings by pimps because they said no to the 40th John of the day, sexual creeps, predators and stokers like Col. Russell Williams and Harper still wants to throw peaceful adult cannabis users in prison for a joint and a few plants. How does this solve anything? Has nothing truly changed since the 40's? Am I to believe that marijuana is the same evil today that is was proclaimed to be during refer madness? We spend billions of dollars on the failed war on drugs and just a few hundred thousand on people that smuggle our children. If I don't live in the real life story of George Orwells 1984 then I hate to imagine the future.
Stephen Harper has for the 3rd time a new bill, bill s-10 which is another attempt for mandatory minimum's for cannabis offender's. It's 2010 and with bills like this you send a message to people that nothing in the world has changed since refer madness! The Conservative's have been telling us the whole time they've been in office that they are tough on crime and that crime rates are going down. Well then why do you need to spend billions on more prisons if crime rates are going down? I know because he plans to make money off the prisons by filling them up with peaceful cannabis offenders thus leaving the real criminals free on the streets to do what they want. Welcome to Canada parole for pedophiles and mandatory prison for cannabis offenders.
Even the US has pulled away from the failed policies of mandatory prison for cannabis offenses so why continue the same failed waste of money mistakes? Cause it's either Harper's way or the highway. Any leader that can sit in his office and knowingly repeat a failed policy is not a leader at all but a puppet that works for himself and large industry.
We need a true leader, a leader that is not afraid of change. A leader that is not afraid to stand up for the ethical and moral rights of it's people. A leader that can't be bought by large industry but will stand up to large industry. A leader that can keep us industrialized yet move forward with green ideas and innovations like...like countries such as Germany! An industrialized powerhouse that has embraced the green eco-friendly markets with great success.
Not complete...to be continued!
Mike Krahn
