12/26/2003 10:50:00 PM|W|P|projectpeace|W|P|How fast can an evolutionarily determinate idea, essential to world peace, travel nowdays?
If you agree that prohibition of Cannabis should end in 2004,
that freedom to farm is a "self-evident" Natural right,
and that we have an obligation to our own, past, and future generations, to stand up for Natural values,
then please send an e-mail in support of this idea to your local newspaper, elected officials, and pass it on to wherever you think it might do the most good.
If everyone who recognizes the true essential value of Cannabis gathers the common will, as described below, this ancient global culture could speak with one voice, to announce the end of Cannabis prohibition by public consensus in 2004. It is conceiveable that there's enough sanity left in the world to end prohibition of Cannabis, right now. Unless the goal has a timeframe associated with it, the debate will continue to swing in the wrong direction, by sheer force of degenerate economics. Peace will not be achieved in as timely a way if the message is fragmented by time and space. Technology presently allows us, in fact demands that we "pull together" to finish prohibition before the effects of it finishes the Earth.
The critical urgency of a polar shift in fundamental human values is essential to healing this planet, reversing environmental, social and economic degeneration. In spring 2004 mankind must overcome the self-destructive policy of induced essential resource scarcity, and begin intensive organic cultivation of Cannabis in countries where hemp cultivation and a free-market carbohydrate-based economy can flourish in Natural freedom and abundance.
for peace,
Paul von Hartmann
Biodynamic Agriculturist
Solstice Week Suggestion for a Series of
Essential Global Consensus Conferences
to End Prohibition in 2004
Dear people of the Earth's drug reform community,
This is perhaps an idealistic, global appeal, for cooperation in coordinating decisive consensus, to achieve an end to prohibition in 2004. Think of it as a 'tug-of-war' with a rope, and the effect of everyone on one side pulling at the same time.
After almost seven decades of Cannabis prohibition in the U.S., there may be sufficient weight of reason built up by past imbalances, to swing the pendulum back in the direction of respect for Nature. To legally empower a series of drug reform conferences, whose purpose is to visibly achieve independant public consensus --in an election year -- could be the combination of time, technology & circumstance which has only recently become available and affordable enough to end prohibition by the power of one big NGO.
A 'Freedom to Farm Coalition' (FFC) or some such assembly could be the healing thought that turns the public to peaceful solutions, using the power of Natural Law and value. In its most simplistic terms, imagine a society which employed "Farmies" growing abundant fields of Cannabis instead of needing "Armies". What differences do you imagine? Photographs of this can be found here
http://profotos.com/pros/profiles/index.cfm?member=530
Rather than having discontinuous events, with no legal standing, and therefore no end to absurdly outdated discussions, I envision every drug reform organization, in every country, pooling resources, using mankind's vast technical abilities to communicate electronically, globally, constantly, to the end drug prohibition by global consensus in 2004.
If people move efficiently, in a timely and coordinated way, there is abundant reason and sufficient motivating consequence in mainstream public consciousness to end prohibition, if it is as stupid and wasteful a policy as we know it to be. If this debate is openly argued to logical conclusion, in a global blanket of realtime discussion, for a period of several weeks or months, I maintain that it is as possible as it is necessary, to identify and end prohibition as a dominant social policy by the end of year 2004.
The only time it is possible to hold politicians accountable is during an election year. It's the only time the people can "throw them out of office", as Lord Benjamin Mancroft suggested in Brussels, last March, "if they tell more lies than is publicly acceptable".
If on-going global media saturation can be achieved for detailing subjects as thoroughly as the O.J. Simpson trial and Michael Jackson's recent arrest, then surely there is sufficiently broad and compelling global public interest for ending the drug war. Once it has been widely discussed, denounced and unanimously understood to be extinctionistic social policy, people will see that the worst choice humanity can make is to waste more time and money this way.
If the move to end prohibition by global consensus is widely-supported by the rightminded, on-line drug reform community, I foresee circumstances of public awareness which influence politics, lining-up for a major shift in direct public involvement. At some point there must be a result to having reached unacceptable extremes of induced social, environmental and economic imbalance.
Degeneration of the quality of life on this planet has become so outrageously motivated and economically transparent, as exemplified by explosive situations in Colombia, Iraq, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Bolivia, Mexico and the U.S., that people are being pressed to seek realistic alternatives whether they know the root cause of the problems or not.
Asserting the combined human will at a determinate moment could be the pressure point of time & circumstance lining up to slay a tired dragon. Reinforcing the power of global communications technology, is essential to overcoming the economic intertia which prolongs a policy so obviously self-destructive. Self-empowered, the franchised prisons of the U.S. are fed by unobjective courts, seeking revenue, populated overwhelmingly by judges implanted by the pro-industrial status quo. Fortunately, the courts are sometimes peopled by human beings who have found the courage to render humane decisions, as was done in California, 9th Circuit Court, regarding medical'marijuana' laws this week.
This and other shifts in drug policy would benefit from a global consensus being sought by the drug policy reform community, at this particular point in time. Is it not absolutely necessary to keep the momentum going in the right direction, by disconnecting human society from perversely insincere and non-believable "paternalism", characteristic of chemical/corporate governments, imposing environmentally unsustainable, anti-Natural values and constrictons?
Governments which bomb and poison people, while claiming to be saving them, are no longer credible. Governments which dogmatically devaluate and criminalize the most valueable agricultural resources people can easily and Naturally grow are no longer credible. Governments who block harm-reduction measures, such as distribution of clean needles to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS, are not credible. Governments that give tax-cuts to the rich while ravaging the Earth's Natural resources that belong to no-one and should continue to be protected are no longer credible.
How obviously immoral and illegal do corporate/government atrocities have to become, until people amass the accumulated human will for peace, essential to participating meaningfully and decisively in providing for our own survival? An unequivocal mandate for humanity and decency must subject the U.S. government to global public accountabilty if that government is ever to regain global crediblity. If it does not, then the terrorist attacks are sure to continue, as frustrations boil-over and conditions become even more extreme.
The Natural Freedom to farm is what is fundamentally at issue in Colombia, as is the case in the war against Cannabis in the U.S., and anywhere that farmers are being attacked for recognizing Natural values over chemically-dependent, anti-Natural forms of agriculture. Distracting, intentionally mis-leading bureaucratic debate over whether or not drugs are 'good or bad' are costly and tragic waste, precluding more penetrating and significant issues, which are becoming much more critical. Evolution of sustainable human values, rather than addiction to short-term chemical fixes, and respect for the balanced operation of Earth's Natural Order is urgently vital to survival.
It is known, beyond reasonable debate, that drugs cannot be controlled, particularly not in the context of drug prohibition. The opposite has actually been proven, with the thriving black market of drugs in prisons being the obvious and extreme example.
According to the DEA, internet sales of chemical pharmaceutical drugs (which are far more addictive and dangerous to society than any conceiveable threat posed by coca leaf or Cannabis) are uncontrollable. Drug prohibition has been overwhelmed by electronic communication. Watch for threats to that civil liberty, in the name of fighting drugs or terrorism, "coming soon to a government near you..."
With mankind's increasingly affordable ability to communicate, communicating has evolved into an extension of collective responsibility that's in everyone's immediate best interest. Future generations are depending on us to coordinate and cooperate for realizing our fullest potential for world peace, before the opportunity passes.
If money were not a limiting consideration (and in questions of imminent extinction, it had better not be, unless we aspire to wind-up as wealthy fossils), then the strongest move our species could make would be to convene a sequential series of legally significant public forums. Circumnavigating the globe with science, reason and discussion for ending prohibition, two way discussion could be facilitated to a final decision.
These conferences would differ in that they would have legal standing, ending prohibition forever. Perhaps the creation of a Treaty of Natural Rights or some such document could be drawn up to signify the human right to farm, manufacture, sell and consume whatever Nature provides, with individual responsibility for individual choice being the guiding consequence of any decision.
Informed public consensus, is the goal. Global grassroots consensus is the most efficient way to transcend corrupted government manipulation, which conscripts people into supporting 'extinctionistic' prohibitionist policies.
A global "Town Hall Meeting", could be convened on-line, January 1st, 2004. In the next week, every drug reform group in the world could sign onto a public mandate to stop the spraying and end prohibition, asserting every person's individual Natural, legal right to farm. How fast does such a timely idea travel these days I wonder.
Transcending the economic inertia which maintains the status quo could take the form of a focused, traveling global forum. This could in fact be an efficient structure on which to design a workable form of human government. Unless people begin to communicate to peaceful consensus, we will continue to be led to the slaughter by predatory economics which as evolved in the absence of a truly free market.
Unless mankind's system of decision-making changes to reflect a more realistic perception of where we are in a terminal paradigm, eventually conditions of the global environment will deteriorate to the point that people are forced to face the fact that we are tied to an inefficient bureaucratic dinosaur, one small step ahead of extinction. Struggling to maintain control of the masses, predictably, control of communications has become the priority. This is most obvious seen from legislation currently being debated in the U.S., to prohibit broadcast of pro-Cannabis TV ads, while funding prohibitionist propaganda with hundreds of millions of U.S. tax dollars.
Coordinated income tax revolt was effective in ending the Viet Nam war. To end prohibition, a tax revolt may eventually result if other peaceful are unsuccessful. To avoid this, the discussion must evolve in a less drastic way. Tax revolt may be considered worse than homocide to a government bureaucracy, but for individuals committed to living lives of right-livelyhood and peace, it is an essential defense against self-destructive government conscription of labor and tarnishing of the soul.
for peace,
PvH
Project P.E.A.C.E.
Planet Ecology Advancing Conscious Economics
http://www.webspawner.com/users/projectpeace/
For the whole on-line set of Project P.E.A.C.E.
by
Paul Jeronimo von Hartmann
Project P.E.A.C.E.
Planet Ecology Advancing Conscious Economics
http://www.webspawner.com/users/projectpeace/
http://formalcomplaint.blogspot.com/
http://profotos.com/pros/profiles/index.cfm?member=530
http://fundamentalcoot.blogspot.com/
http://consciousevolution.blogspot.com/
http://admirableexpressions.blogspot.com/
http://www.webspawner.com/users/betweenthedreams/index.html (The website for "Return to Reason", a digital video documentary currently seeking funds to finish production.)
|W|P|107250832180621326|W|P||W|P|projectpeace@gmail.com12/15/2003 12:04:00 AM|W|P|projectpeace|W|P|Dear Union of Concerned Scientists,
Project P.E.A.C.E. is writing from France to ask the help of UCS in addressing unconscionable
human rights violations being perpetrated by the American government's Drug Enforcement
Administration (DEA) in Colombia. DEA's "Plan Colombia" is vicious chemical warfare of
incalculable global, moral and environmental consequence, emanating from Washington, D.C.
Please see the website for Mama Coca, in Colombia, providing in-depth understanding of explosive
conditions being spawned by the Bush administration.
http://www.mamacoca.org/index_en.htm
Maria Mercedes Moreno of Mama Coca is mobilizing International support within a drug policy reform
network of more than 150 NGOs cooperating globally as the European NGO Council on Drugs
(ENCOD)
http://encod.org/
I am a Californian filmmaker, living in Europe for the past five years, who shares the outrage and
disgust for unaccountable actions of America's outlaw government regime. Please let me know if UCS
would consider helping to support this effort. A strong statement of scientific perspective is
urgently needed from UCS.
Strategy currently being discussed, within this International drug policy reform coalition,
includes urging the Danish government to intervene with research which proves the adverse health
and environmental effects of glyphosate. Any assistance you can give will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you sincerely for your consideration of this request.
Wishing everyone at UCS thoughtful, peaceful Holidays,
Paul von Hartmann
Project P.E.A.C.E.
Planet Ecology Advancing Conscious Economics
http://www.webspawner.com/users/projectpeace/|W|P|107147548369778541|W|P||W|P|projectpeace@gmail.com