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Barney Frank Escapes Arrest When Partner Arrested for Pot
- November 07, 2009 12:29:40
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- The Democratic congressman was present for a marijuana bust at his partner's home in Maine in 2007.
Rep. Barney Frank admitted Friday that he was sitting on the porch of his partner’s Maine home when police came to arrest his partner for marijuana possession.
Frank, responding to new reports that he was present during the Aug. 2007 arrest of ... Read full article »
Rep. Barney Frank admitted Friday that he was sitting on the porch of his partner’s Maine home when police came to arrest his partner for marijuana possession.
Frank, responding to new reports that he was present during the Aug. 2007 arrest of ... Read full article »
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Barney is a freak and a liar and a disgrace, he needs some acid to give him a clear perspective on life...LOL. What goes around comes around and Frank will get his.View thread
...oh, I know why...
Allen J. Duffis
Editor
The Conservative Independent
www.conserveind.com
Just don't get so wiped out on the herb that you end up sitting on these!
Get that lying sack of manure out of office!!!!
How laughable!!!
In other words Frank is as big a liar as Obama, who gets the prize is anybodys guess....
Totally, freaking, amazing! Barney is cohabiting with his partner who is raising marijuana and he was "unaware" of marjuana plants in the same residence?
Not only is Barney Frank a progressive/socialist on the issues, he is an out-and-out liar! If he actually gave that statement to law enforcement officers, isn't he just as guilty of lying to a public official in the course of an investigation - just like Scooter Libbey??
How did marijuana become illegal in the first place? Think of the history you already know about the 1930s. America was in the throes of the Great Depression. Millionaires were in the process of becoming billionaires while the rest of the country felt themselves lucky to have a roof over their heads and food to eat (which not everybody did, by the way). In Europe, the Nazis had consolidated power in Germany and were preparing to go on the rampage.
Now, against that backdrop, you have unemployment soaring in the US. Mexican workers were known to enjoy this herb called marijuana, which helped them relax after a hard day's work. Many people wanted to send the Mexicans back to Mexico because of the job market. Meanwhile, William Randolph Hearst and the DuPont brothers had patented a form of paper-making process whose economic viability was threatened by a plant called hemp. Their future millions and billions in profits might have been totally negated by hemp, had they not found a way to have the government ban its production.
It just so happened that the marijuana herb enjoyed by the Mex...
How did marijuana become illegal in the first place? Think of the history you already know about the 1930s. America was in the throes of the Great Depression. Millionaires were in the process of becoming billionaires while the rest of the country felt themselves lucky to have a roof over their heads and food to eat (which not everybody did, by the way). In Europe, the Nazis had consolidated power in Germany and were preparing to go on the rampage.
Now, against that backdrop, you have unemployment soaring in the US. Mexican workers were known to enjoy this herb called marijuana, which helped them relax after a hard day's work. Many people wanted to send the Mexicans back to Mexico because of the job market. Meanwhile, William Randolph Hearst and the DuPont brothers had patented a form of paper-making process whose economic viability was threatened by a plant called hemp. Their future millions and billions in profits might have been totally negated by hemp, had they not found a way to have the government ban its production.
It just so happened that the marijuana herb enjoyed by the Mexican laborers was a specific variety of the plant also known as hemp. So to make a long story short, Hearst and the DuPonts manufactured false propaganda about the detrimental effects of marijuana, a.k.a. hemp, and this was supported by the anti-Mexican camp, and the result was that the government banned hemp on the basis of the propaganda about marijuana, and the DuPont brothers and the Hearst family lived happily ever after.
There you have the introduction to Chapter 1 of the answer to your question.
Subsequent chapters (which I may or may not ever write, probably will not, but if I ever do) will tell you about how the tobacco, alcoholic beverage producers, and ... tada (fanfare)... the pharmaceutical companies of today still benefit from the fact that marijuana is still illegal.