“WHAT MAKES YOU DIFFERENT TO ME?” (poem) (D Nentwig - copyright 2006)
I have feelings and so do you,
So, what makes you different to me?
We all have the capability to see this life through
To understand what it means to really be free.
Some take different paths, making individual choices instead,
But how does that make you any different to me?
The heart still burns
And the soul still yearns
For peace and freedom…all across humanity.
Everyone’s been through hell, some a lot worse than others
And it’s these trials that link us together, you and me.
But turn your trials into triumphs, your dirt into flowers
And you’ll start taking a hold of your own destiny.
Until our hearts stop beating, we’ll constantly know that we’re alive,
So what makes you think you’re any different to me?
We all have a need to feed, a primal instinct to survive
And seek out that Global right …to be free.
We all need a home, a place to truly call our own,
And again, this links us together, you and me.
We all want a loving family, to stay out of strife and enjoy life,
And maximise our own potential capabilities.
But sometimes my freedoms are denied, my choices are condemned,
By others usurping these rights and choices from me.
For in the land of the free, injustice is now an art form,
An addiction controlling the minds of our society.
Open your eyes, people, it’s everywhere you look,
All around us are others trying to segregate you from me,
Ridiculing, hating and persecuting us
Just for exercising our God-given right to be free.
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Joseph L. Blau - “Freedom…means the right of the individual to choose, and to adhere to whichever beliefs he may prefer, to join with others in association to express these beliefs and to occur no civil disabilities because of his choice”.
Lord Holme Broadcasting Standards Commission Chairman, UK - “If you imply that one experiment with a cannabis cigarette will result in doom and destruction ... people will say we know that's not true”.
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“INJUSTICE IN THE BARREL”. (D. Nentwig - copyright 2005) song
Injustice in the barrel
And it’s levelled at our heads,
With bullets of No Tolerance,
Being discharged by the Feds.
Injustice in the barrel,
Being pressed against our skulls,
Allowing hypocrisy in Democracy
Just to justify their culls.
Oh why have we let it get this far?
And oh, why do we wage this uncivil war?
Injustice in the barrel,
Being fired out day by day,
Firing hate crimes like projectiles
To oppress whoever they may.
Injustice in the barrel
Full of death and misery,
For when it comes to our rights and choices,
The price of freedom is never free.
Oh why have we let it get this far, Australia?
And oh, why do we wage this uncivil war
…..upon our people?
…..upon this Great Southland of ours.
…..upon our people, yeah.
Injustice in the barrel,
Being played out like Russian Roulette,
For when it comes to the ‘fair go‘ for one and all,
How quickly they tend to forget.
Injustice in the barrel,
Against illicits they join ranks,
But when it comes to their personal drugs of choice,
Our Government fires nothing but blanks.
Oh why have we let it get this far, Australia?
And oh, why do we wage this uncivil war
Injustice in the barrel,
Whenever will it end?
For if our Government fails us,
Upon whom can we depend?
(No seriously…I want to know!)
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Joshua Liebman - “Tolerance is the positive and cordial effort to understand another’s beliefs, practices and habits, without necessarily sharing or accepting them”.
Thomas I. Emerson - “The right of all members of society to form their own beliefs and communicate them freely to others, must be regarded as an essential principle of a democratically organised society”.
Dr. Fred Oerther M.D. (USA_ “Should we believe self serving, ever growing, drug enforcement/drug treatment bureaucrats, whose pay and advancement depends on finding more and more people to arrest and treat? More Americans die in just one day in prisons, penitentiaries, jails and stockades than have ever died from cannabis throughout history. Who are they protecting? From what?”
Frank Zappa - musician - “Fact of the matter is, there is no hip world, there is no straight world. There’s a world, you see, which has people in it who believe in a variety of different things. Everybody believes in something, and everybody by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence”.
Orson Scott Card - Professor of writing and literature at Southern Virginia University “Reasonable argument is impossible when authority becomes the arbiter”.
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“THIS LITTLE CANNABIS FINE”. (copyright D.Nentwig ‘04)
(Parody of “This little light of Mine”)
On Monday, they told us we shouldn’t use drugs,
But on Tuesday they gave all legal ones a great big hug,
On Wednesday, they said, “Come out to play”,
But on Thursday they unleashed policies full of hate and decay.
On Friday, they legally got ‘off their face’,
But on Saturday, against all illicit drugs they gave chase,
Then on Sunday they gave police the power to fine…to unleash their Political crime.
This little Cannabis fine is just a big waste of our time,
This little Cannabis fine is nothing but a Political crime.
This little Cannabis fine is wasting Police time
When they should be out there trying to bust up REAL crime.
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Angel Raich vapourising Cannabis in hospital- 2003.
This woman was arrested, persecuted and taken to court in 2004 by the pro-legal, anti-illicit drug Czar Crusader, John Ashcroft.
(It’s time we stopped persecuting and busting people for victimless ‘crimes’. Let the punishment fit the crime. No crime, no time. No harm, no foul. By the way, victimless crimes in regards to medical cannabis do have a victim….that victim is the victimised sufferer, forced not only to be a victim of their ailment, but also to be a victim of the same Government and Policies that are supposed to be put in place to help them, not to hinder them….but are now put in place to help the wallets of the drug cartels and the Politicians and drug bodies who are sponsored by them).
………Which raises the question? Why are so many dangerous, toxic, deadly and addictive substances splashed all over our society in the name of legally, advocated drugs? But at the same time condemning and crucifying a natural plant genus/ race/ species on this earth.
Welcome to Hypocrisy in Democracy, Government style).
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Quotes from Jesus Christ
“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you”
“Let him who is without sin cast the first stone” -
“First cast the (bottle of) Beam out of thine own eye, before you see fit to cast the (medical or recreational Cannabis) mote out of thy brothers eye”. (words in brackets - MCA)
“Judge not, lest ye be judged”.
“And this commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another as I have loved you”.
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“HATE CRIME” - (D. Nentwig - copyright 2005
We’re talking ‘bout a hate crime,
Being perpetrated on mankind.
Nothing but a hate crime,
Tearing out our eyes and making us ‘blind’………..(to the Truth).
We’re talking ‘bout a hate crime,
Being unleashed upon us all,
Nothing but a hate crime,
Unleashed to make us stumble and fall.
We get told that our herbs just ain’t the way,
But at the same time, drunken louts keep our police at bay…..
(mostly children & teens)
We’re talking about a hate crime, people,
Full of bigotted, racial prejudice……..
This is nothing but a biased hate crime,
Because this part of Australian law is full of injustice…..
(‘Our’ drugs good, ‘your’ drugs bad, Ha! What a joke.)
We get served up hate with a side-order of lies,
Oppression dealt out just to silence the cries.
We get brutality served up with a side-order of fear,
And get told that our beliefs are for only yester-year.
Can you believe this fear? Can you believe this hate?
Can you believe this bullshit that decides our fate.
I thought this was a democracy, I thought I had a say,
But in reality, it’s just their way or the highway.
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“GETTA ‘LEGAL‘ FIX”.- (D. Nentwig - copyright 2005) 
We give kids ‘speed’ (amphetamines & caffeine) at the age of four,
So that when they grow up they crave it for ever more.
We teach kids to ‘drink’ at the age of five (by our example and advertising…remembering of course that ethanol is a drug),
So that when they grow up their body needs it to survive.
With these things in body and mind by the age of six
It’s no wonder that kids grow up craving a ‘fix’.
Alcohol, caffeine, cigarettes, prescription pills
G.C.C. drug dealing really gives me the chills.
(GCC – Gov’t controlled cartels…..or is that CCG - Cartels controlling Government?).
Global genocide on a massive scale,
But this is really only but part of the tale
Because in reality it is only Corporate greed,
That have allowed these toxic substances to succeed.
In fact, with the amount of side effects that people endure
Most people would rather have the dis-ease than to suffer with the cure.
Alcohol kills approximately 4,000 a year,
But to them they’re just statistics, so they have nothing to fear.
There’s plenty more where they came from
The next generations up.
And before they reach the age of wisdom,
Someone’s already filled their cup.
They can’t be confused with the facts
To them they’re just illusions.
They mix the truth with fallacies,
To draw their own conclusions”.
NOTE: The last Australian stats for alcohol implicated death was in 2007 and it had reached 6,000 for 1 year!
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Judge James Gray - Orange Country, California, Superior Court - “The war on drugs has turned into a war on our people. We almost can't do it worse than we are today. There's got to be a better way”
Dr. Murkesh Haikerwal. A.M.A - Don’t forget, “Any drug that acts on the brain can have potential side effects”.
…….(So why the “Our drugs all good, your drugs all bad”, policy?)
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“CAN YOU BELIEVE?” - (D. Nentwig - copyright 2005)
Can you believe this oppressive deceit that is allowed to go on day by day?
Forced to use only what ‘they’ say you can use, and taught that legal drug abuse is okay.
Can you believe anything that they do or that they say,
When it’s all blatantly biased, it’s their way or no way.
Can you believe what you read, I know I don’t, not any more, anyway,
Because I have seen the lengths the media go to,
To have their legal drug abuse fears allayed.
Every 5 minutes, it’s always the same,
Their so-called “intelligent nightlife”. never seems to get the blame.
“Time for another Bourbon”, seems to be a catch-cry to all,
So, why don’t our Law Bodies give a shit to thousands O.D’ing legally in our malls.
4,300 died last year, legally dropping dead in our streets, 
pubs and clubs,
Which seems perfectly legal so long as they don’t use ‘illicit’ drugs.
Can you believe the hate and bias that goes on within our parliament,
With Cannabis users being called “dickheads” and “losers”,
Yet at the same time treating alcohol as sacrament.
Can you believe the pedestal that their drug has been put on,
Yet at the same time they create a Drug War that,
Because of its bias, can never be won.
Can you believe that over 5-6 years they haven’t even made a dent,
Because to my eyes, that billion dollars, to our Farms and Hospitals should have been sent.
..........Former P.M. John Howard. “We have invested Federal funds, more than $1 BILLION over 5-6 years in relation to fighting the scourge of drugs” - (illicits only, of course).....
Can you believe these anti-Cannabis campaigners who wield bias instead of the criteria of harm,
But at the same time fall silent as mice when it comes to raising the legal drug alarm.
Can you believe that our drug taking Law officers are going into pubs and clubs,
Walking through a legal drug abuse establishment, looking for illegal drugs!
Can you believe that our Law bodies and Politicians advocate legal drug abuse,
Yet at the same time condemning and crucifying ANY illicit drug use.
Can you believe that even though ‘legal’ drug abuse is rampant on our streets,
The police only target illicit drug consumers when they’re on their different beats.
Can you believe the hypocrisy that gets unfurled like a sail,
With legal drug dealers and abusers getting a Golden Handshake,
Yet everyone else gets the ‘9 inch nail’.
Can you believe the vile extent our Government goes to
To push their legal drug dealing,
Yet, at the same time give no thought or care to anyone else’s feelings.
Can you believe the hate campaign that has been waged against the tree,
Yet at the same time, legal drug dealers get given complete immunity.
Note: If the drug ethanol isn’t on par with heroin, then how would you be able to do this to someone completely narco-ed on a drug that this country calls a ‘drink’? ‘Drinks’ don’t do this to people, but drug abuse does.
Can you believe the decadence, the new lows our society sinks to,
By showing that legal drug abuse is the norm, i.e.
What Mates do”.
Can you believe that when it comes to the Cannabis herb,
The attitude is, “Let us prescribe and control it”
Yet, at the same time, you can buy an entire carton,
With no-one to stop you from consuming it.
How can we believe a single thing they tell us anymore,
The truth is out, the lies are old, there are no more excuses for this war.
Can you believe their nonchalant attitude when it comes to their ‘legal’ drugs side-effects.
But when it comes to ‘illicit’ drug use, it’s literally ‘all hands on deck’.
For when it comes to drug use, it’s always “Govvy knows best’,
For they know that their drugs pass the Revenue test.
Free Drugs Administered and advocated by all,
As long as they’re LEGAL and you answer when they call!
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“THE QUESTION”. - (D. Nentwig - copyright 2006)
Who dropped the ball…
When it came to looking after Australia?
Who didn’t answer the call…..
When it came to amending their failures?
Who turned a blind eye…..
To the suffering of thousands every day?
Who turned a deaf ear…..
To the screams and cries of those afflicted in many different ways?
Which of you have failed…..
In the respect of making it fair?
Which of you look down upon….
Those who are scruffy and have long hair?
Which of you discriminate against others…..
Just simply because of their creed?
Which of you call others ‘dickheads’ and ‘losers’….
Simply because they chose to smoke ‘weed’?
Which of you justify your own crimes and legal drug abuse…..
By persecuting and condemning another’s drug use?
Who among you can truly say, “I’m as Aussie as can be!”….
When our ‘fair go’ has turned to “Go and get stuffed”, unless you legally get ‘off your tree’?
Who among you stands with a beer in your hand, casting the first stone…..
Hypocritically justifying your own drug abuse by persecuting others in their homes?
Who among you dares to cast the ‘mote’ out of your ‘brother or sister’s’ eye….
Yet fails to cast out the bottle of ‘Beam’, found pleasing to your own eye?
Who among you truly believes that ‘No Tolerance’ policies are the way…..
That oppression, condemnation and un-civil wars are all okay?
How many of you indulge in your caffeine drug beverage first thing in the morning….
While all the while still condemning illicit drug users as useless scum and boring?
How many of you light up, chew gum or slap on a patch of a drug called nicotine…..
Yet, in your own mind, you’re not a ‘druggo’ or an ‘addict’,
Or even someone who needs to ‘get clean’?
How many of you don’t give a second thought about popping a pill or two…..
Yet you’ll take up arms and wage brutal civil war,
Against people having a quiet ‘brew’?
How many of you have not yet realized that a drug is a drug is a drug….
And still eradicate and persecute ALL illicits while advocating and dealing ALL legal drugs?
THE QUESTION IS – WHY?
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George Orwell - “At any given moment, there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas, which it is assumed all right thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to state this or that or the other, but it is ‘not done’….
Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the highbrow periodicals”.
Ph.D. H.B.M Murphy, M.D. Dept. of Psychiatry, (McGill University, Montreal) - “The question arises, therefore, why cannabis is so regularly banned in countries where alcohol is permitted. It may be that we can ban cannabis simply because the people who use it, or would do so, carry little weight in social matters and are relatively easy to control, whereas the alcohol user often carries plenty of weight in social matters and is difficult to control, as the U.S. prohibition era showed.
It has yet to be shown, however, that the one is more socially or personally disruptive than the other”.
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“TRIPPING THROUGH TIME.” (poem by D. Nentwig - copyright 2005)
Let’s take a trip back in time
To when the use of alcohol was a crime.
When a pub for men
Was classed as a drug den,
And where people illegally ‘wasted’ their time.
Let’s take a trip back to yesteryear,
To when alcohol users lived in fear,
Of the badge and the gun,
of a war waged but never won,
And where oppression brought many to tears.
Let’s now step forward to the present time,
With rules reversed – Cannabis use now a crime.
They now push all legal drugs,
And advocate all pubs and ethanol drug clubs,
While condemning all others in their spare time. (Cheers!)
Let’s take a trip back in fear,
With cannabis persecution being unleashed every year,
With torment, hate, slander and abuse,
Literally bringing people to tears.
(Cheers and beers vs tears and fears).
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Matthew Schnur - student of cell and molecular biology (at the University of Northern Colorado) - "As sure as we view the concept of a flat earth as ridiculous in modern times, so shall the future view our ignorance of medical marijuana in a homologous fashion"
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“A STAIN OF PSYCHOSIS”. (poem by David Nentwig - copyright 2006)
A stain of psychosis on history’s page
With legal drug abuse now proclaimed as ‘all the rage’.
Our out-of-control society has been let loose,
To remove their inhibitions through misuse and abuse.
Lies and deceit are now an essential part of life,
And we still have to wonder why this world’s in so much strife?
Commercial instead of compassionate, bond instead of free,
Why, in the name of greed, do we put up with this slavery?
We get taught what to do, we get taught how to be,
We even get taught how to legally get ‘off our tree’.
For on this ‘No Tolerance Policy’, I’d swear that something’s been missed,
Either that, or the policy makers were all out getting pissed.
For the ball’s been seriously dropped in regards to making this fair,
But yet our sleeping country still seems blissfully unaware,
That a crime has been committed against 3 million of its own,
With fellow human beings having to live in fear, and terrorized in their own homes.
If you walk the streets, you walk in fear of the colour blue and the gun,
Stalked, in effect, by a policy of terror and a fear of never again seeing the sun.
You’re looked down upon, degraded, treated like shit
And called ‘dickhead’ and ‘loser’ by those more unfit.
Aust-racised (sic) from your community, exiled from your own home,
Treated like a slave in the land of the free, just for having a ‘cone’.
But on ‘the other side of the fence’, freedom reigns,
With thousands of legal drugs waiting to ‘cure’ your pains.
You still have, somewhat, of a choice, but only from what ‘they’ choose,
And as long as what you choose is legal, they don’t care if it’s misused or abused.
Abuse legal drugs? “It’s the all Australian way”,
“What mates do!” and “Who gives a shit?”, are the catch-cries for today.
This attitude must stop and information is the key,
For nothing comes from Prohibition except hatred, abuse
And a downright sadistic mentality.
This attitude must stop and information is the key,
For nothing comes from Prohibition except hatred, abuse
And a downright sadistic mentality. (Repetition is the law of memory!)
“Eye for an eye, and soon everyone walks around in the dark”.
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Don't Make us Laugh!.....
Ronald Regan - (former Pres. Of the USA) "Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves."
Australian Government - “This is a country that has always told itself a strong story of ‘Fair Go’ and equal opportunities for all. A country where one individual is just as free as the other to pursue the upholding of their rights through an independent body (ie one not bought and paid for by drug cartels) which can advise, advocate and act on our behalf in the protection of our rights”.
(www.aph.gov.au/hansard/reps/dailys/dr260603)
In the Australian Parliament, under the headline of “Liberalism - what are these objectives”, Ms Burke, MP, stated in 2003 that: “They include an open society, a compassionate society, and a society in which the individual is free to pursue his or her goals, and one that encourages them not to be limited by constraints, except insofar as is necessary to permit others to have the same liberties”.
The words Liberal and Liberty mean freedom.
They do not mean that Masters have the right to dictate liberally anything they choose to force on others.
They do not mean that recreational and medicinal drug takers, advocators and pushers (albeit ‘legal’ ones) have the right to liberally hunt down, persecute and eradicate beliefs, culture, and choice when it comes to the individual’s right to choose the medication or recreation that best suits them, the individual.
Remember..........
Forced choice is no choice at all. It is slavery.
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What is slavery?
Slave - ‘One held in bondage to another. One whose person, family, life, labour or skill is in the absolute ownership of another by capture, purchase etc. and whose status, as such ,is recognised by law and custom. A bondman, serf, thrall”.
“Anyone who is subject to the will of another person”.
Slavery: “A status, condition, of a slave. Bondage, serfdom”.
(from Webster’s Universal Dictionary).
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“WHO RULES?” (poem by David Nentwg - copyright 2006)
Humanity’s future isn’t quite set, carved in bone, or set in stone,
Because we aren’t ready to give in, quite yet,
And we definitely aren’t ready to give up our homes.
Give up our rights, our freedom and beliefs,
And obey without question our ‘Commander-in-Chief’.
For when a ‘king’ or ruler forgets why they rule,
They end up serving only themselves and those in the same pool.
Our rights are ‘dealt’ out as ‘they’ see fit,
Without our Government and Law bodies giving a ‘shit’
About what we want and what we need,
And as such, only their ‘legal’ substances are allowed to succeed.
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