Now, I’ll also mention too that a fellow that has been in touch with me for an awful long time, his brother was in the CIA, or is in the CIA. He will never talk about the CIA to him. He’ll never give anything away whatsoever, except one bit of advice. He said, never watch the television. Never watch the television. It’s the greatest scientific indoctrination tool ever devised. Haven’t you figured that out? It’s changed the whole culture of nations, not just one nation. Why do you think it was mandatory that everybody in Britain have access to have televisions by the government? Why do you think China is under the same program to get everyone with a TV right now? Because they love to have you entertained? Do you really think that? And India is on the same route right now, as well, too. Most of your ideas and opinions, and how you emulate, because you emulate things. You mimic what you see, as Charles Galton Darwin and others have said in the past. It becomes you; you become it. And that’s what’s happened. It’s been very, very, very successful. Never watch the television. You can’t watch a movie unless you do it critically, if you watch it critically. Not there to enjoy it. Remember what they say. It’s your emotions they get you on. And it’s interwoven, all these emotional themes all through movies. You’re played like a harp, and they embed ideas into you, along with the movies, and predictive programming too, so you’ll accept that which is still to come. And you’ll behave the same way as the characters in the movie when it comes. “Oh well, what can you do? I’ll just watch Much Music or Television.” You’re given a mind of your own and you’ve got to use it for yourself.

And believe you me, if you ever had a nation or wanted a nation, you’d have to make sure that everyone took their turn, everyone took their turn, just like jury duty, to go in and oversee the guys that are supposed to be taking care of everything on your behalf. It’s a tight club right now. It’s been like that forever. Because they never intended to give you anything called democracy or in fact a republic. Gangs and fraternities run the systems of the countries. That’s how they’re run. And under taxation, and it’s true what Marx said, and it’s true what Lenin said, that part of it, in fact, all wealth comes from labor. And tax is another term for labor. When they take your labor from you, and give you nothing back for it, that’s called stealing and slavery. Slavery, folks. But no teacher told you that, did they? Look in the dictionaries, if you can find an old enough one, because they keep changing them too.

From Hamish and myself, from Ontario Canada, it’s Good Night, and may your god or your gods go with you.

The U.S. Army has used local television stations in the U.S. as training posts for some of its psychological-operations personnel, according to Yahoo! News blog The Upshot. Since at least 2001, both WRAL, a CBS affiliate in Raleigh, N.C., and WTOC, a CBS affiliate in Savannah, Ga., have regularly hosted active-duty soldiers from the Army’s 4th Psychological Operations group as part of the Army’s Training With Industry program. Training with Industry is designed to offer career soldiers a chance to pick up skills through internships and fellowships with private businesses. The psyops soldiers use WRAL and WTOC to learn broadcasting and communications expertise that they could apply in their mission, as the Army describes it of quote “Influencing the emotions, motives, objective reasoning, and ultimately the behavior of foreign audiences”.

The relationship between psyops training with industry and news operations has stirred controversy in the past. In 2000, after a Dutch newspaper reported that pscy-ops troops had been placed at CNN’s news room under the program, CNN discontinued the internships and admitted that they had made a mistake. A spokesperson said at the time quote “It was inappropriate for PSYOPS personnel to be at CNN. They are not here now and they never again will be at CNN”.

According to some it’s about protecting civilians. Others say it’s about oil. but some are convinced intervention in Libya is all about currency, specifically Gaddafi’s plan to introduce the gold dinar, a single African currency made from gold; a true sharing of the wealth.

It’s one of these things that you have to plan almost in secret, because as soon as you say you’re going to change over from the dollar to something else, you’re going to be targeted. There were two conferences on this, in 1996 and 2000, called the World Mathaba Conference, organized by Gaddafi. Everybody was interested, I think most countries in Africa were keen.

Gaddafi did not give up. In the months leading up to the military intervention, he called on African and Muslim nations to join together to create this new currency that would rival the dollar and euro. They would sell oil and other resources around the world only for gold dinars. It is an idea that would shift the economic balance of the world. A country’s wealth would depend on how much gold they have and not how many dollars they trade. And Libya has 144 tons of gold. The UK has double that, but ten times the population.

If Gaddafi had an intent to try to reprice his oil or whatever else the country was selling in the global markets and accept something else as a currency, or maybe launch a gold dinar currency, any move such as that would certainly not be welcome by the power elite today who are responsible for controlling the world’s central banks. So yes that would certainly be something that would cause his immediate dismissal and the need for other reasons to be brought forth for removing him from power.

It’s happened before. In 2000 Saddam Hussein announced Iraqi oil would be traded in euros and not dollars. Sanctions and an invasion followed. Some say because the Americans were desperate to prevent OPEC from transferring oil trading in all its member countries to the euro. A gold dinar would have had serious consequences for the world financial system, but also may have empowered the people of Africa, something black activists say the US wants to avoid at all costs.

Defense contracting. From missile defense maker Northrop Grumman, to chemical and biological weapons producer Battelle, weapons builder Pragmatic, to war fighter supporter BAE.All of the big names are here at Charlottesville community job fair.

“Business is very good for BAE Systems currently. We’re the second largest defense contractor in the world. Anything that the Department of Defense does, we do as well, to support them. We’ve been fortunate over the last several years to experience a considerable amount of growth.”

Growth in Iraq, Afghanistan, and at the U.S.’s more than 1000 military bases worldwide. And with a pentagon budget of just over $685.1 BILLION in 2011, there are plenty of defense dollars to go around.

And the defense contractors are raking in the dough. And you know when Dwight Eisenhower talked about the military industrial complex in 1961, we’re there now.

Hello initiates and welcome to module one of the Illumicorp video training course. I would like to officially welcome you as a member of the team. You’ve joined our organization at perhaps the most exciting point in our long history. Our founders shared a passionate dream. To transform this country, and eventually the whole, world to one cohesive organization. When Illumicorp finishes gaining centralized control over the resources of the planet, and we will, we can then organize, distribute, and govern to the benefit of all. After competition and decent are eliminated, we’ll build a utopia for the world to share, based on need, and rejoice together in a harmonious new world.

This presentation is designed to enlightened you about our organization’s goals and achievements. As your guard, I will help to answer some basic questions you may have about Illumicorp, and familiarize you with the valuable role will play in helping us reach our prime objective. So please take a tour with me as we march together towards an exciting new world.

All people are aware of class. To them society is made up of the rich, the middle and the poor. The one thing that all three classes don’t understand is that the pyramid continues upward. There is a detached hidden capstone made up of an elite board of directors who own and manage Illumicorp. The three classes below, in essence, become the assets and resources of Illumicorp. Illumicorp is divided into various administrative branches. But each branch has the same five levels in their hierarchy. You will begin at the bottom in the initiate category. As such, you role will be to make sure that your orders are carried out through the sub corporations and institutions controlled by Illumicorp.

You will be placed in plain sight at the head of a company or institution in the public sector to carry out the plans delivered from above. Remember, your role is very important. You’ll be the face of Illumicorp to the outside world. You are our connection to the masses below. Never speak publicly about your orders or your masters.

Now let’s look at Illumicorp six administrative branches and their functions. You’ll be placed in a top position of power among one of the following sectors. In this way, as you are monitored and guided from above, you will decide strategy and introduce programs to further our goals. For that is the secret to Illumicorp success. Control the head, and you control the body.

I. BANKING & BUSINESS
This is potentially Illumicorps most effective instrument for global control. Through international banking, we manipulate the face of all countries. We’ve introduced many institutions such as the IMF and WTO to work in our favor to impoverish disobedient nations. Always remember, debt is a powerful weapon against countries that don’t share Illumicorps vision.

Perhaps our greatest achievement in banking is the Federal Reserve system. It is a collection of international banks owned by Illumicorp members and financiers. It was created to form a centralized banking system through the Federal Reserve Act of 1913. An act that was indeed penned by some of our most esteemed members.

Many of you might still assume that the government itself prints and issues the currency. That is not the case. When America needs money they go to our boys and ask for it. The money is printed, but it is only representative of a loan. Interest accrues on that dollar until it is paid back to the Fed. In fact the federal taxes paid by the American population go almost entirely to paying off this debt. So you see, Illumicorp derives a healthy amount of its operation funding directly from the debt of the public. Needless to say, this is one of our most crucial sources of funding and one of our proudest achievements here at Illumicorp.

Through mergers and acquisitions, we have slowly and silently bought up the majority of U.S. industry. Illumicorp and its members own most of the oil, transport, banking, media, food and communications industries in America and abroad. Through fewer and fewer conglomerates we are able to affect with great precision the machinations of labor and government. Ultimately, corporations will replace government as a centralized international body that can meet the needs of the public worldwide, without the chaos created by national self interest. When Illumicorp goes public, corporatism will be the foundation for world government. Conglomerates were merge into one cohesive corporation that is responsible only to Illumicorp and the needs of its global employment force.

II. MILITARY & INTELLIGENCE

Illumicorp control of the American military is another impressive tool in our possession. We have nurtured these institutions lavishly to serve as the prototype for our global police force. When ready, our technology and man power will dominate those who oppose the coming New World Order. By utilizing American patriotism we have fostered in the American soldier the philosophy of peace through superior force. When the time is right, we will migrate that mentality towards the belief in a global government, who must protect all people through superior force.

We have used the American military industrial complex to build the arsenal necessary to instigate the final cleansing, outlined in Illumicorp great plan. Our primary target will be Islamic nations who will never submit to our western centric domination. They also hold much of the remaining oil reserves of the planet. Illumicorp must own that precious recourse as it is crucial in maintaining our domination over the countries of the world.

Through Illumicorp enormous funding of the military, we can develop new forms of warfare and population reduction. The public can’t imagine what we’re in the process of developing. Soon, even the weather will be a weapon under our control. We will be able to create droughts, floods, hurricanes, and even tsunamis, with no fingerprints attached.

III. POLITICS

The political system of America has been under direct control of Illumicorp for some time. It was actually a relatively easy acquisition, and has been even easier to manage. Politicians know of our unspoken agreement, and will do anything to stay in power.

A two party system benefits Illimicorp, in that is reduces all issues into a black and white debate. Through media we can play side against side, using each when necessary to support our goals. Due to a diminishing faith in the system among the public, Illumicorp has designed a rogue candidate program to provide a voice for the dispossessed. This disperses the impetus for dissent among those who do not feel represented by our candidates and builds a database of potential dissidents.

IV, EDUCATION

At the turn of the last century, Illumicorp took a serious interest in public education. Our supreme council realized that by creating a private organization to dictate curriculum on a federal level, children could be conditioned into obedience on a mass scale. In the interest of promoting Illumicorp principles in the classroom, hundreds of millions of dollars were invested to create the General Education Board in 1902. The result of doing this is evident today. The doctrines of public education have transformed recent generations into a weaker, more docile mass. Through meticulously planned curriculum, we have control over the process by which the average child learns, thus we can mold them into obedient workers who are conditioned to accept the implementation of the great plan.

In addition, Illumicorp has set up many associations, including the American Historical Association, that determine and uphold the official view of history. Knowledge is power, so we must at all costs be the authors of the truth. By writing history to suit our interests, dissenting voices cannot gain ground and we can vastly influence culture to achieve our prime objective.

V. MEDIA

Illumicorp uses the media to shape public opinion on current events and condition desired attitudes about our future agenda. Through news, entertainment, and advertising we can program a variety of emotions and responses into the collective unconscious. In the past, we were limited entirely to print media. But bow we have multiple mediums to utilize in programming and conditioning the masses. With cable news, we have directed the public to a more entertainment based consumption of world events. Infotainment. This medium is far more effective at subliminal reinforcement of desired attitudes towards our objectives. For instance, we are currently instilling a sense of duty towards environmental issues.

With our growing control of the weather through HAARP and chemtrails, we will scare the public into accepting our global protection agendas. We will then phase into the great cleansing which must occur, to return the population to a manageable size. We reinforce the desired norm through advertising, creating a model for people to look up to that is virtually impossible. The result is an incomplete desperate individual seeking acceptance. Through reality television game shows, we repeat the pattern of individual survival verses group survival. This breaks down the idea of community breeds individuals who seek only their self interest, with a public that is constantly suspicious and scheming we maintain the status quo of a divided population that never thinks to look up.

VI. RELIGION

Religion has served its purpose incredibly well. It is oldest and perhaps the broadest form of social control utilized by Illumicorp. With religion, there is a written code of conduct that must be followed. The authors of the holy scriptures know quite well how to lace that code with demands, to maintain their dominance over the population. This system has survived for millenia, to hold the flock together and bring us to today.

Admittedly, religion is losing its power of control. However, the fanaticism that has arisen due to this decline is particularly helpful to Illumicorp. Our invisible influence in the church has helped bring the Christian fundamentalists out of the background. We help control their opinions on current issues through policies designed right here at Illumicorp headquarters. They are sent to our ministers who then preach the word of god, and their interpretations of the Bible to their followers. Their blind faith is used to transform them into willing soldiers, to defend our cause during the catastrophes ahead.

As the final phase is enacted, we will propagate end time prophecy to convince them of their convictions.

The rise of Islamic fundamentalism works to Illumicorp advantage as a threat that will demand violent action. In the coming years, planned terrorist attacks will warrant a full scale retaliation and initiate the final phase of the great plan. Christians will support our actions, since they will believe them to be proof of the end times, prophesied by Illumicorp religious leaders.

A word from our PRESIDENT
We are in the last days of darkness. Together in secret, we wait to begin the final phase of the great plan. The sun is rising, and it will beam a glorious dawn upon our new world. As an employee of Illumicorp, you are above the limitations of nationality, class and religion. You are a member of the Illumined now. Your loyalty and your devotion belong only with us. Help us finish the plan. Together, we will proudly initiate the New World Order.

Now that you have a basic understanding of how we work over here at Illumicorp, I would like to introduce to you one of our latest projects. THE CONTROL GRID
Since ancient times, it has been the desire of the illumined to wield control over the masses below, both to protect us from them and them from themselves. The tools through the ages have been effective, but always are blunt and inaccurate. But now, with the release of new technology to the masses, we have the real ability to introduce a control grid with finance, industry, governments and military under our strict control, who can safely shift the population into a new world, monitored and controlled, by Illumicorp.

Technology such as the internet, GPS, and RFID chips are pillars of the invisible prison we are erecting around the people. Within the decade, we will have real ID cards that contain criminal records and pertinent information all linked to federal databases. Cell phones will tell us where each individual is linked to the same database. Through intelligence agencies and Homeland Security, we’ll monitor individuals who oppose the great plan and remove them from the grid. Quickly the population will learn that they have a choice; support the system and benefit from its luxuries or reject it and lose access to the grid.

Well, that was quite an overview. I hope it gave you an understanding of our process and basic overall structure here at Illumicorp. Don’t worry if you can’t remember specific details at the moment. Once assigned to your administrative branch, you’ll be shown the second Illumicorp training module. Your initiate supervisor will brief you on your specific duties at that point.

Also, please review your copy of the great plan and the attached codeword and symbols booklet. You will need to know the ways we communicate internally through public channels. This concludes part one of the Illumicorp video training module. I wish you the best of luck, and may our plan complete and supersede. The dawn of a new era is on the horizon and it will shine gloriously over the new world that we have built together.

The United States is no longer the land of the free. Americans live in a system with literally millions of unnecessary government regulations that have destroyed the free market and sent millions of well paying jobs over seas. Americans today are constantly watching their speedometers and trying to conform to every little rule, yet their are so many rules that it’s impossible for even the most honest and hard working Americans not to be breaking some type of law on a daily basis.

NIA has just learned that if you buy a new Toyota at a dealership in San Diego, the sales transaction is now video taped in order to satisfy a requirement of Homeland Security which they claim is to prevent the laundering of drug or terrorist money.

If you are driving on a New York state highway and pay your toll with a denomination of over $20 the New York State Thruway Authority collector must collect your license plate number and report you to the Department of Homeland Security.

The U.S today is experiencing a merger of state and corporate power. The average small business owner in America is being squeezed by government forcing Americans to rely on a select few corporations who have all the wealth and power.

“If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny.” -Thomas Jefferson

Politicians don’t have anything to give. They can only take. They can only take and give to others. It’s like a politician saying they can create jobs. They don’t create jobs they just take money from one group of people and pay another group of people. Politicians cannot create jobs. American innovators, business creators, entrepreneurs with the lack of red tape not more red tape. Deregulation not more regulations. That’s what will create jobs in this country.

The age of pharmaceutical microchipping is now upon us. Novartis AG, one of the largest drug companies in the world, has announced a plan to begin embedding microchips in medications to create “smart pill” technology.

The microchip technology is being licensed from Proteus Biomedical of Redwood City, California. Once activated by stomach acid, the embedded microchip begins sensing its environment and broadcasting data to a receiver worn by the patient. This receiver is also a transmitter that can send the data over the internet to a doctor.

The idea behind all this is to create “smart pills” that can sense what’s happening in the body and deliver that information to the patient’s doctor. Novartis plans to start microchipping its organ transplant anti-rejection drugs and then potentially expand microchipping to other pharmaceuticals in its product lineup. This same technology could soon end up in pills made by other drug companies, too.

So you’ve got an artificial system which conned people to use money. And then of course they could create their cities, hire people for standing armies – you can’t get a bunch of guys together to go and conquer anybody if you don’t have some means of keeping them there, something as reward. They’ll just go home eventually and get bored and fed up. So money was always the key to this civilization – building process. This, building of cities, empires, society itself, and the Freemasons like Albert Pike and McHai and a whole bunch of other ones are always extolling their own virtues of being able to build society, build culture…

So we have an elite who have used war, money, cities, culture creation, religion, and all the things coming in to the culture – festivals, generally is based on lunar and solar and stellar mythologies to keep the people in check to keep them happy dumbed-down stupid, and obedient more than anything else – obedience is so important.

And of course the sun god was used down through the ages up until the present day as a reincarnated sun god, you see. It’s the same ole thing we’ve hashed over and over where an invisible god, the grand architect of the universe as the masons call him, always chooses and SON, his own son, to push life into the world. Because they claim that we the profane are dead, you see. In a sense they’re right there, because if you don’t know reality you are dead. Because living as a human means you are a sentient, aware, fully conscious being. You’ll find in all religions they’ll have the same terminology…

Which is the big con today. Everybody is rushing around in their cars as fast as we can go, and they think they’re living because they keep moving. And they don’t do shopping lists anymore – they’ve just got to keep moving and have noise blaring all the time and music playing or something you see, because they are scared to think.

Peace is not peace as you know it. Peace comes when there’s absence of consciousness and opposition to this agenda. That’s what they mean by peace. And peace comes when there’s not enough of you to cause a trouble and those that are left don’t have a functioning brain to use. That’s peace. And hence the rush towards chips and chipping the brain and implants and stuff like that and a totally controlled society. They want peace. They don’t want to give us all this media nonsense, this constant propaganda that keeps us running in circles and chewing the grass like good little sheep.

It takes away from their profits because they want pure profits yous see they want 100% profits from us. And they’ve got to allow us to entertain ourselves to keep us obedient and grazing – and sports and circuses and all of that kind of thing and buying toys, junk from China, as rewards, little Pavlovian rewards at the end of the month, you know. That’s all taking from their ultimate profit and that upsets them because it’s not efficient enough. And the system that’s coming into being they want utter efficiency where a person will not be born unless they have work for you to do.

And we’ve gone through a horror show down through the ages of watching people being oppressed, doing what they do naturally which is to resist, so you have force. And for every force there is an equal and opposite reaction. And of course then they control the conflict, the conclusion the synthesis of it all and before you know it we’ll just move into where they want us to go. We are the sheep they are the good shepherds. Good shepherds pat the sheep. They know them by name. The sheep come up to them and like them, because the sheep don’t know what they’re there for. They think that they are there to be happy. They don’t know, they don’t even ask, why does this shepherd spend so much time taking care of us and talking to us? It’s because the sheep don’t know what they’re there for. They don’t know their function is to feed the shepherd, make a profit, then take the wool and replace them. That’s a good shepherd. A bad shepherd sharpens their knives in front of the sheep and slaughters one, the rest of them are terrified. They run off when they see them. So, the good shepherd wears a suit and tie and says I promise to help you – in whatever category you put yourself into, whichever ready made pigeon hole you put yourself into – I’m left wing, I’m right wing, I’m up, I’m down.. whatever. it’s their system and they lead you where they want you to go.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes.

The very word “secrecy” is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it.

On the outskirts of the national capitol today, black limousines with darkened windows converged on a hotel where private security guards imposed iron clad control. The limos carried royalty, political power brokers, and industrial titans, to a secret meeting that will last all weekend. It’s known as the Bilderberg group. Could their objective be world domination?

The Council on Foreign Relations. Professor Carroll Quigley is allowed to examine the confidential papers and the secret records of this network. Quigley reveals that these men aim “to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole”. In short they seek total and quiet control of the entire world. And the CFR is their most visible conduit for carrying out that agenda.

What I’m about to say is fact. The secret organizations of the world power elite are no longer secret. They have planned and are now leading us into a one-world Communist government.

You would think that a situation like this would be on the cover of every major newspaper. That is until you realize the people who are behind this movement are the same people behind the mainstream media. You are not told what you are not supposed to know. The North American union is the same concept as the European Union, the African Union and the soon to be Asian Union and the same people are behind all of them.

Marijuana history 101, or should I say extremely brief marijuana history 101. It’s big, complicated, and we’ll only be able to scratch the surface. So let’s get started. The first thing that strikes one as odd when looking at the history of marijuana, which is also known as cannabis, is how very much legal it once was. In fact, it wasn’t only legal, it just happened to be one of the largest agricultural crops in the world, including the United States. You see, cannabis can also be hemp. And just what is hemp? Well it’s by and large the most robust, durable, natural soft fiber on the face of this planet. Up until 1883, and for thousands of years before, cannabis hemp was the largest agricultural crop in the world. It has thousands of uses and products. The majority of fabric, lighting oil, medicines, paper and fiber came from hemp. The first marijuana law to exist in the United States was a law ordering farmers to grow hemp. Benjamin Franklin used it to start one of America’s first paper mills. The first two copies of the Declaration of Independence were written on cannabis hemp paper.

Up until the 1800′s, most of the textiles in the United States were made with hemp. 50% of medicine marketed in the last half of the 19th Century was made from cannabis. Even Queen Victoria used the resin abstracts from cannabis to alleviate her menstrual cramps. But the funny thing about industrial hemp was that you couldn’t get high from it. Yet, it was lumped in with the following, which also made little sense…Reefer Madness. In the early 20th Century, yellow journalism had surfaced. Articles depicted Blacks and Mexicans as frenzied beasts who would smoke marijuana, play devils music, and heap disrespect and viciousness on the readership, a majority of which happened to be white. Some offenses included looking at a white woman twice, laughing at a white person, or even stepping on white men’s shadows.

And this ended up leading up to a law in the form of a tax stamp. A tax stamp that would not only include marijuana, but also hemp and cannabis medicines. It speculated that hemp’s potential for an abundance of new products was going to be in direct competition with other sources. And this added to the refer madness, led to eventual downfall of all forms of cannabis. Popular Mechanics Magazine had actually prepared an article entitled, New Billion Dollar Crop. Hemp was touted as being able to produce more than 5,000 textile products from its threadlike fiber and more than 25,000 products from its cellulose, ranging from dynamite to Cellophane. It’s superiority as a source for paper was also becoming known. Especially with the development of hemp processing equipment. Now the new marijuana tax act was all fine and dandy, except for one thing. If you wanted to grow hemp, you needed to buy a stamp. But they weren’t giving any out, to anybody. And so, in effect, all forms of cannabis became illegal. Things pretty much stayed that way until WWII, when the Government decided that hemp once again, was a good thing, and produced a video…Hemp For Victory. But by the time the war was over, hemp again became bad. And in 1948 when the marijuana law once again came into question, Congress recognized that marijuana was made illegal for the wrong reason. It didn’t make people violent at all. It made them pacifists. The communists would use it to weaken America’s will to fight. Congress now voted to keep marijuana illegal for the exact opposite reason that they had outlawed it in the first place. And all through the years, report after report, commissioned by everybody. From the Mayor of New York to the President of the united States, has come back with a view that marijuana should have no criminal penalty attached to it. Yet, marijuana as remains illegal today as it did over 70 years ago.

Dwight Eisenhower once spoke of a “military industrial complex”. Have we built up a marijuana prohibition complex? When Nixon got into this, with this war on drugs he had things he wanted to do, he had an agenda. A lot of the information was kept and warehoused in the library of Congress and also at major Universities was actually recalled and destroyed. The Nixon report that came out through his administration was called the Shafer Report.

And then when it came back saying marijuana was essentially harmless, he total ignored it, said, ‘we’re going to launch a war on drugs anyways’.

1970, beginning the war on drugs, 76 New Jersey troopers became detectives, I was one of them. They designated one third of us to undercover, I happened to fall in that one third, That’s where I spent the next 14 years of my life. What we were targeted on, was the pot smokers.

There are many, many police officers however, who believe that it ought to be legalized, regulated, and controlled. They see the hypocrisy between our existing laws relating to alcohol and marijuana, in their day to day life, shift after shift, and they get it. But they don’t want to lose their jobs. They don’t want to lose their promotion to Sargent or the assignment to detectives. They want to be a chief someday and they don’t want to piss off the people in power. Judges, lawyers, prosecutors, defense lawyers, prison guards, there’s all of those people in the criminal justice industry. Are their being protected? Well in a sense, yes they are. Defense bar, similarly we make money, the more things they prohibit, the more money we make.

If you’ve been caught, a young person in the U.S. with so much as one marijuana cigarette, you can’t get a loan or grant from the government to go to college. If you’ve been convicted of murdering somebody, or raping someone, no problem. You go right down and they’ll give you the loan. I guess the message is, it’s OK to rape and murder a village, just don’t go and smoke a joint afterwards.