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Anti-Rave Bill Passes
Joe Biden's anti-rave legislation, now known as the Illicit Drug Anti-Proliferation Act, passed the House and Senate late last night. The legislation, which holds venue owners liable for drug use on their property, generated considerable controversy last year. This time around Biden avoided debate by attaching the bill in conference to legislation establishing a national network to track abducted children. Drug policy reformers worry that the law could have wide application, discouraging people from hosting events that might attract drug users.
Ben|4.11.03 @ 4:49AM|#
"God hates drug users and the people who are in the vicinity of
them."
Sounds like an uptight guy, maybe he should use some drugs.
|4.11.03 @ 5:07AM|#
Thank the Democrats again for intrusive government meddling in
our personal lives.
Slow Joe Biden can kiss my American ass!
|4.11.03 @ 5:21AM|#
As a couple of conservative non-drug users, we feel this is an
incredibly offensive and oppressive piece of legislation. Just like
the anti-smoking ban in New York, this will force the owners to
become de facto Stazi for the DEA.
What a damn shame. But there's nothing in the Constitution saying
that Congress has to pass "good" laws, or even moral ones.
Say goodbye to concerts, bars, and movie theaters. Say goodbye to
protest marches. Say goodbye to skateboard parks. Say goodbye to
any gathering of people, because "someone might do drugs and we
can't take that risk." Just be sure to remember this outrage when
election season comes.
|4.11.03 @ 5:26AM|#
Someone should pass legislation holding congressman and senators responsible every time someone does drugs in their state.
JDM|4.11.03 @ 5:50AM|#
You should all take comfort in the fact that this law is too
absurd not to be repealed as soon as the damage starts.
Too many people will lose too much money.
Still, too bad for the sacrificial lambs...
geophile|4.11.03 @ 6:09AM|#
If any real damage starts. The biggest problem with these laws is that they can lay dormant for years before they you bite you in the ass years down the road, while no one is looking, in a way never intended by the original legistlation.
Bob|4.11.03 @ 6:12AM|#
Such irony - in the same week in which we're freeing people halfway around the world from a brutal tyranny, we take the inititative in finding ways to tyrannize ourselves.
Marcus Tullius Cicero|4.11.03 @ 6:23AM|#
Excellent move! Congrats to Senator Biden and his colleagues!
|4.11.03 @ 6:25AM|#
I wonder what would happen if we could sneak a joint in the capital and light up during a session of congress...
|4.11.03 @ 6:34AM|#
Why waste money on these incompetent humans doing drugs? A bullet is much cheaper and removes stupidity from the gene pool. Oh wait, i forgot, it's ppl's right to be stupid and waste other's tax dollars on rehab... ah well. it's better than nothing i guess.
Sean|4.11.03 @ 6:52AM|#
Does this mean, with just a couple smuggled joints into the DNC
and RNC conventions next year, we can get the whole lot of them
locked up?
98-0 in the Senate. Who abstained?
|4.11.03 @ 7:19AM|#
Where the hell am I supposed to get good drugs now? I can't go down to the street corner in the bad part of town, I might get arrested. The only really safe venue for getting good quality drugs was at raves. Now what will I do?
Greg|4.11.03 @ 7:23AM|#
We'll have to see what the courts say about this. There are definatly some 4th amendment issues at work here.
|4.11.03 @ 7:50AM|#
Let's all go over to Biden's house and snort some toot, but make sure the cops are watching. That guy just needs to be behind bars himself. The loathing plagirizer.
|4.11.03 @ 7:51AM|#
Somebody bring a baggie and let's head over to Senator Joe's place to toke up. If we get caught, we can always say Senator Joe let us do it.
|4.11.03 @ 8:48AM|#
I used to think that Republicans were pro-interference in our
personal lives, but against interference in our buisnesses, and
that the Democrats were the other way around.
However, maybe I was too hasty in giving the Demos a pass on our
personal lives.
Obviously, no unobtrusive/reasonable measures that club management
could take could prevent all drug use inside the club. But even if
it could, why should club owners be in the position of having to
enforce the drug laws?
Frankly, as a Non-Drug User and a Non-Raver, I am still sick unto
death of this stupid tendency of our government to try to regulate
our lives. Could anyone rationally suggest that our government
makes a good moral role-model?
berto|4.11.03 @ 9:01AM|#
So, any chance a court might clean up this mess? Congress is
always passing laws they know to be unconstitutional. Sometimes. .
. sometimes. . . courts fix it.
They pull down statutes in Iraq and take another dump on freedom
here. Asshats.
Smoker - if you want drugs, go to any high school or college. I
guess this means all schools will have to be closed?
|4.11.03 @ 10:01AM|#
Biden...ugh. I used to vote Democrat. Now the Republicans are light-years better on foreign policy and no worse than the Dems on drug policy. What the hell...guess I'll vote Republican for a while. Big picture: prohibition will have to get worse before it gets better. Let's pass so many insanely draconian anti-drug laws that even people who've never smoked a joint start to get outraged.
|4.11.03 @ 10:13AM|#
I have idea- Lets start mandatory drug testing for congress- make these assholes piss in a cup once a month.
dave-id|4.12.03 @ 1:27AM|#
Since when does our freedom depend on a cost-benefit analysis of
our productivity. The problem with the republican party is that
they have lost "freedom" as a value. To them freedom is good only
if it leads to something like "productivity."
What about my right to the pursuit of happiness?
What if I chose to pursue happiness by smoking pot?
And for those of you idiots who know all about the dangers of drugs
because you've NEVER tried them- you must face the truth that most
people make a rational decision to use drugs because it provides
them a positive experience, and it does not harm their lives.
|4.12.03 @ 1:52AM|#
geophile wrote: "they you bite you in the ass years down the
road, while no one is looking, in a way never intended by the
original legistlation."
if Bush gets faith-based education passed, the liberals will use
this years down the road to shut down private schools that don't go
along with the leftist agenda, like Catholic schools. everyone
knows there's drugs at school - but public schools will be
protected by sovereign immunity.
Evan McElravy|4.12.03 @ 1:53AM|#
David, I wouldn't give the GOP too much credit for being anti-interference in business, either. On free trade, Bill Clinton was light years ahead of the Bush crowd.
Andy|4.12.03 @ 1:59AM|#
"Also, on a pure cost-benefit basis, I'm not convinced the drug
war is a net loss" --PNC
Have you considered all the productivity losses from imprisoning so
many people? I don't know the exact numbers, but aren't there
something like 500,000 people currently in jail in the US for drug
offeneses? Supporting 500,000 people is no small cost, especially
when they could be working if they weren't in prison.
But I am biased... I'm a pro-drug libertarian type. To be otherwise
would be highly irrational:)
Andy
David|4.12.03 @ 2:08AM|#
Gotta disagree with the whole Reason/LP crowd on this issue, and
I will reiterate my chief complaint and what I believe to be the
primary source of the LP/Reason crowd failing to gain a serious
foothold in American society: the perception (borne out by this
thread) that the majority of LP/Reason-ers are not just
"anti-anti-drug," but actively PRO-drugs.
This single issue is, I believe, going to keep LPs out of office
for many, many, many years. Drop this as a platform, and the
prospects for LPs would improve dramatically.
My two cents.
PLC|4.12.03 @ 3:19AM|#
David-id:
You asked "Since when does our freedom depend on a cost-benefit
analysis of our productivity" - this was one of the points I was
trying to make. Laws should not be made on a cost-benefit basis;
cost-benefit ought to be considered in some forms of regulation,
but legality and morality are not utilitarian constructs.
Andy - no, I haven't considered the productivity loss nor the cost
of imprisoning drug offenders, since I haven't really considered
the question at all. My point was that we should not take it on
faith that the drug war is a net loss. I have not read nor seen
anything to convince me either way. Which probably implies (but
certainly does not prove) that it is close to a wash...
Also, david-id: I've never stuck a fork in my eye either, but I'm
pretty sure it's not pleasant, nor very smart.
R.Crusoe|4.12.03 @ 3:39AM|#
DAVE & RENEE: "Say goodbye to concerts, bars, and movie
theaters. (Movie theaters!?) Say goodbye to protest marches. Say
goodbye to skateboard parks. Say goodbye to any gathering of
people"
I went to see "Phone Booth" at the Big-8 Megaplex last night, but I
didn't smell anything funny. Movie theaters!? Which theater do YOU
go to, fella?
As far as mob-gatherings becoming a thing of the past -- isn't that
a good thing?
SEAN: "Does this mean, with just a couple smuggled joints into the
DNC and RNC conventions next year, we can get the whole lot of them
locked up?"
Outstanding! I LOVE IT! (I like the way you think, Sean!)
ROSS STRIKER: "The Rave Act can too easily be used by Corrupt
Government officials and their agents to intimidate and/or target
for arrest any political/association the U.S. Government or police
deem undesirable."
Isn't THAT the whole idea? Duh!
|4.12.03 @ 6:44AM|#
Wow! You guys are really starting to pass some odd laws over
there, isn't it starting to feel a little hmmn, sinister? I can't
help thinking you're losing a lot of your freedoms without much
more than a whimper.
Aside from the obvious historical lessons of prohibition (it
doesn't work but makes bad guys rich and makes criminal out of the
otherwise law abiding) the way this bill has passed seems cynical
and undemocratic.
Maybe you should attempt to do something about this 'attaching' one
piece of legislation to another crap? To this British outsider it
seems that the majority of your bad laws and 'pork barrel?' daft
govt spending etc are attached on to something else, often
something halfway sensible as well. Remove this horse trading
element from the legislative process, make every bill stand on its
own merits and you might acheive a more honest debate on items such
as this one.
|4.12.03 @ 9:05AM|#
This is another waste of taxpayer money. Rather than concede
defeat, the federal government enacts another inanane law. If there
was a chance that this law would really affect drug use, it would
be different.
For the record, I am staunchly anti-drugs. But then, I am also
staunchly anti alot of things--and I don't suggest making them
illegal. Thus, I am in favor of legal drugs.
Bottom line: the costs of the drug war outweigh the likely
benefits--and certainly the actual benefits received. Any rational
person could see this... and more do every day.
JD Weiner|4.12.03 @ 9:51AM|#
Sean (and everyone else who's suggested similar ideas): I'd love to see that happen, but I know it won't. Laws like that are only enforced against the "little people", or somebody the police really want to get. It was suggested a while ago, after the Tina Bennis case, that if a janitor were found with a joint in the basemen of the Supreme Court, they could impound the entire Supreme Court building...but you know it's not going to happen that way. Re-reading 101 Things' section about the Bennis decision, I don't have much faith that the Supreme Court will overturn this law; the Bennis decision was pretty absurd too, with the Court literally displaying a complete ignorance of the Fourth Amendment, but there it is. Still, every politician who voted for this is just begging to have drugs planted on his property.
David F|4.12.03 @ 10:53AM|#
hey all!
hey david -- as a reason subscriber and LP member, i am against
drugs, don't do 'em, etc., but these types of intrusive law making
is an anathama to the libertarian soul. it does not mean that
libertarians are necessarily "pro drug" or libertine. there's a
difference between the opportunity to do something and choosing not
to do it and having something outlawed.
(that garden of eden thing and that apple bit -- since it has to do
with "morality" and acquitision of knowledge, if it were around
now, neocons would make eating the apple punishable by death...
while democrats would tax it to prohibitive levels due to
misunderstood environmental concerns)
and, dems and reps want to control both business and personal lives
-- just in each their own special ways.
Matt -- we're just trying to catch up with europe and its lack of
freedoms... :-)
(european arrest warrants, written constitutions, etc).
cheers all,
drf
PLC|4.12.03 @ 11:22AM|#
David F - perhaps you are not "pro-drugs" but there is certainly
a vocal minority of LP members who are viscously pro-drug (many
whom I've spoken appear to have joined the party simply because
they love the reefer). Just take a look at the title of Mr.
Sullum's new book.
This irrational pro-drug stance of the LP, along with the lunatic
fringe (conspiracy theorists, anarchists, etc.) will keep the party
irrelevant now and forever more. Libertarian ideals and
philosophies will continue to have an impact on government, but
primarily through think-thanks and the Republican party. If
anything, the LP hurts the libertarian movement but turning off the
majority of Americans...
Also, on a pure cost-benefit basis, I'm not convinced the drug war
is a net loss (drug use decreases productivity and average
productive years while increasing health care costs) to society.
But this really shouldn't be the cornerstone of the argument. Seat
belt laws are clearly net positive on a cost-benefit basis, but
they are still wrong and immoral.
Madog|4.12.03 @ 12:02PM|#
If people use drugs on public property, does that mean the public gets arrested too? We better start building more jails. Wait! There are drugs in jail too! We better just execute everyone, that will win the drug war!
|4.12.03 @ 12:50PM|#
by, Ross Striker
"RAVE ACT" threatens our Right to Public Assembly, Free Association
and Free Speech
Imagine a political rally without people or music: That nightmare
is just around the corner
if Senator Biden can get Congress to pass the "RAVE Act." Many
citizens will be afraid to attend and/or organize public and
political meetings out of concern they can be charged and
imprisoned because "one person or COINTELPRO government agent" may
bring illegal drugs to a public event. The Rave Act can too easily
be used by Corrupt Government officials and their agents to
intimidate and/or target for arrest any political/association the
U.S. Government or police deem undesirable. The RAVE ACT will give
the U.S. Government the power to charge and imprison organization
leaders and members for crimes they did not commit.
It appears these "Constitutional concerns" have taken a back seat
with several "drug legalization supporters and organizations" that
continue to focus on the "illegal drug aspects" of the "RAVE Act as
the main reason to stop the ACT from being passed." Consequently, a
majority of Americans may come to believe the "RAVE ACT" is being
opposed by organizations/persons who support illegal drug-use. So
much public attention on the Act's "illegal drug provisions"
obscures the Rave Act's true Constitutional threat to all Americans
and may help Senator Biden get the ACT passed.
Brian|4.13.03 @ 2:00AM|#
PLC-
Is that you, Mr. Ashcroft?
Fork in the eye--what an appropriate analogy. That would explain
why THOUSANDS of people try soft drugs, enjoy them, and use them
again, with little or no adverse effects on their health or quality
of life. Just like all those people that stab themselves in the eye
with a fork repeatedly.
Your sanctimonious anti-drug stance is no less irrational than the
pro-drug stance you ascribe to certain members of the LP.
David-
With the possible exception of the income tax, I dare you to come
up with an example of the government intruding on the lives,
liberty, and property of its citizens that is more widespread and
egregious than the drug war. THAT is why this is such a big issue
to us, both drug users and non-drug users alike. To "drop it from
the platform" would be a monumental retreat from principles...and
if I was willing to do that, I'd just be a Republican.
JDM|4.13.03 @ 2:31AM|#
Brian,
"With the possible exception of the income tax, I dare you to come
up with an example of the government intruding on the lives,
liberty, and property of its citizens that is more widespread and
egregious than the drug war."
Since the Drug War is largely financed by income tax, you could
define it as part of the evil of income taxes too.
Your challenge becomes "Aside from 75% of the evil the federal
government does, find an example of evil worse than the drug
war."
Anyway, even playing by tour rules, here's one - Social Security.
Here's another - Medicare.
N.Ostradami|4.13.03 @ 7:46AM|#
BRIAN, you asked: "I dare you to come up with an example of the
government intruding on the lives, liberty, and property of its
citizens"
Can you spell P.A.T.R.I.O.T ?
(The last four letters of which, by the way, will manifest itself
not as an acronym, but as an ironic twist of events before the
decade is out -- and as a fitting nemesis to this idiocy.)
Loveboat|4.13.03 @ 7:52AM|#
Will they now arrest the entire crew and management, (and perhaps shut down the entire Holland-America Corporation) if they find one joint on an Alaskan cruise ship? Or will they just sink the thing?
Brian|4.13.03 @ 9:25AM|#
Good points on SS and Medicare, though one could argue (i'm not
one of them, BTW) that some people derive _some_ benefits from
those programs...I'm not sure what benefits are actually being
realized through the drug war. Besides, if the point is to give the
LP broader appeal, I can't imagine that attacking those sacred cows
would help us any more than a focus on drug laws.
I think PATRIOT will be just as bad in the near future, though I
don't know that its effects have been felt on quite as large a
scale...YET.
Good points all around, though.
JDM|4.13.03 @ 11:31AM|#
Brian,
I forgot to mention the most important one - public
education.
Vouchers and SS reform both polled well for Bush, in spite of the
political conventional wisdom. Vouchers were shot down by the
teachers' unions this time around but at least they were tried in
Congress. There's bound to be some reform of Medicare in the next
couple of years, and Bush's plan for SS reform is supposed to be
put to the Congress this year. Hopefully it will be a step in the
right direction. If partial privatization works, it will open the
door for more later.
All of this is pretty important stuff for libertarian ideas, and it
owes nothing to the LP.
Hank|4.13.03 @ 11:57AM|#
PLC - Are you sure you don't work for the ONDCP?
I think its safe to say that the drug war is a net loss when you
consider the human costs. Calculate the no-knock warrants, the
sovereign immunity of the DEA, the infringement on states rights
and the trampling of the constitution. Calculate the innocents
gunned down by DEA agents in black masks and unmarked body armor
because they kicked down the wrong door. Calculate the, otherwise
healthy families scattered to the winds because mommy or daddy like
to smoke a little reefer to unwind. Calculate the lives destroyed
everyday in the unneccessarily violent drug trade. Calculate the
money made by terrorist organizations, profits made possibly SOLELY
because of prohibition.
Or stop calculating and just admit to yourself that prohibition is
wrong. And as for sticking a fork in your eye, yes that would be
dumb and painful, but what the fuck does that have to do with
drugs?
You assume too much.
|4.14.03 @ 1:04AM|#
Anyone have a link that shows who voted for this abomination? Best email me directly. Thanks!
Brian|4.14.03 @ 1:15AM|#
Fyodor--
I'm posting it, in case anyone else wants to know. Every Senator
voted for it except for Kerry and Lieberman, who were presumably
out campaigning.
You can see for yourself at www.senate.gov, click on roll call
votes, and the most recent ones are at the top. This one is vote
00132.
Jim|4.14.03 @ 1:47AM|#
A couple of points about the drug war...
The loses of freedoms that are furthered in the PATRIOT act had
their way paved for them by years of drug war rights abuses. We've
been living with them for years, but since it doesn't directly
effect most of us (how many people do you know who have actually
had their property confiscated because their teenage kid was
smoking pot?) and/or mostly effects marginalized folks (like drug
users and minorities in poor gang-ravaged neighborhoods that we'd
never enter) it is a hell of a lot more palatable than it once was
to the general public. Not that I believe it will stay that way,
esp. since the war on terror is potentially far more reaching than
the simple use of politically incorrect chemicals. As such I think
the drug war is still the biggest evil but may be supplanted in
years to come by anti-Terror zealotry.
Most of the studies of 'lost productivity' are questionable at
best, many studies finding no significant impact from testing
positive to drugs and work performance. The most highly publicized
study was based on individuals already enrolled in some kind of
alcohol or substance abuse program, not necessarily representative
of the average drug user. Lost productivity from drug use may also
be a consequence of the drug war. Because of the prevalence of drug
testing (encouraged by the government) many drug users are deprived
of the opportunity to work the best job they are suited for. And of
course being in jail really messes up your ability to earn a
paycheck. In any case, society loses productivity to a lot of
things that are generally regarded as good things, like marriage,
children (think of all the women who quit working to stay home with
the kids), shorter work weeks, retirement and more vacation time.
The 'loss of productivity' argument is often specious because it
does not consider other benefits derived in exchange.
The pragmatist in me agrees that the pro-drug legalization side of
libertarianism is an impediment to the philosophy's advance, but
the cost to freedoms in the name of drug war are so huge that no
libertarian can ignore it and maintain their principles. Otherwise,
one might as well be a Republican (or a conservative).
fyodor|4.14.03 @ 2:45AM|#
Brian,
thanks. 98 zip, shee-it. Guess that's one area where libertarian
arguments have made much headway, huh? Either that or tying it to
the child abduction bill was pretty friggin' clever. Kinda leaves
us with no one to blame but Biden. Was the House just as
bad??
Jim,
thanks for the example of "losing productivity" for ostensibly good
things. Don't you just get sick when people claim all sorts of
indirect harm to justify victimless crimes? Glad your antipathy
towards the drug issue doesn't turn you away from the libertarian
position, but I wonder, if the drug issue is what's holding
libertarianism back, what libertarian positions would do any
better?
DJ|4.14.03 @ 3:10AM|#
>> The Rave Act can too easily be used by Corrupt
Government officials and their agents to intimidate and/or target
for arrest any political/association the U.S. Government or police
deem undesirable.>>
(But that's the whole idea. isn't it?)
M.Sheen|4.14.03 @ 3:12AM|#
>> Say goodbye to concerts, bars. Say goodbye to protest marches. Say goodbye to any gathering of people.
Jim|4.14.03 @ 3:39AM|#
Fyodor,
For whatever reason people seem ameniable to liberty-based
arguments until for them it goes 'too far'. I find most people I
talk to would not support an out-and-out ban on smoking, but many
like the idea of complete bans on smoking in 'public places', high
cigarette taxes to discourage smoking and pay for the (fictious)
health expenses. Unfortunately I don't meet many people who can
articulate or believe in a philosophy based on freedom. We've
become so used to government regulation of things that the 'man in
the street' thinks it's necessary. Or they may agree with the
principle but think that it's not practical in practice. That is
unfortunate.
Libertarian arguments based on pragmatism, stressing the 'law of
unintended consequences' may have a chance, however. We may not be
able to win people over on principle, but if it can be demonstrated
that a particular policy actually has consequences opposite of or
worse than the problem it intends to address, maybe some less
liberty-damaging laws will get passed. A good example of that would
be welfare reform. They didn't get rid of it completely but it did
reduce government dependancy and improve the finacial condition of
America's poor.
|4.14.03 @ 8:48AM|#
I find it fascinating how horrible some people find the "self-service" psychoactive drugs. These same folks then go home and crack open a beer or three and watch the ballgame, put their kids on Ritalin, and take Prozac. Now I know how it was at the time of the Salem witch trials.
|4.14.03 @ 10:45AM|#
Between Teddy Joe Biden and the recent statewide smoking ban, I'm soooooo embarassed to live in Delaware I've got half a mind to move (seriously!).
Todd|4.14.03 @ 11:56AM|#
No, seriously, you shouldn't do drugs. They'll make you go crazy and kill and eat your friends. I saw it on CSI last night. TV doesn't lie.
|4.14.03 @ 11:57AM|#
It's getting to be that the only place you can get good drugs and good poontang is at a public school.
wtf|4.14.03 @ 12:13PM|#
there's still ravers? i thought that shit died ten years ago. maybe they should pass an anti-breakdancing law if they're trying to piss off youngsters.
Victor|4.15.03 @ 6:25AM|#
The scarry thing is that this bill is just not aimed at raver's but, if you read the bill it applies to any gathering. Hey, how about we send little Mary sunshine with a few joints to the next church meeting or getting your friends back at their next house party. Or, maybe will get lucky and one of our Senators will forget to remove his stash before entering congress. How much more beating can our Constitution take?
DJDevon3 from SouthFloridaRave|4.16.03 @ 9:52AM|#
SouthFloridaRaves.com Owner -
How about a year from the date it passed we organize a protest of
enormous proportions. I can help with Global promotion if someone
in DC wants to organize and mobilize the local political ravers. I
have major connections and can bring the people. We here at SFR are
extremely pissed off that some of our freedom's might be
obstructed. We go to Iraq to "Free" them yet why would they want to
be part of a "Democracy" that is contradictory. We ourselves only
have the freedom to protest. All decisions are up to rich
politicians that protect their own agenda's, quasi-capitol hill
alliances, and lobby interests. I say a real democracy, a real
"Free" country, is one where everyone in the public votes on every
issue. Congress is meant to represent the people not opress them.
How can a bill like this be included in the same bill as the Amber
Alert.
There is something fundamentally wrong with the way politics are
organized. If Congress wants to improve the quality of life they
should revamp the government! I love my country not because of
so-called "Democracy" but because I live here. The U.S. government
is too ambitious in world domination, control, and opression. They
are doing it in slick little political moves and soft terminology.
The Government is trying to use terrorism as a tool to frighten us
and keep us under control. We used to not let it even bother us.
Yes, 9/11 was a shame but we've lost by changing our way of life
and attitude in America. There is potential for a domino effect and
we will end up like the U.S.S.R.
My entire life is rave culture and rave music. I am a proud
American, I am more proud to be a Raver. Ravers are everything
positive about the world. I whole-heartedly believe that if all
americans were ravers the world would be a better place. Because I
am a raver does not diminish my professionalism at my place of
work, work ethic, or potential to excel. I do not do drugs, I am a
Life-Boyscout, an American, and a proud Raver. True ravers are
about the music. All this talk about drugs is just a cover for
trying to take away my sovereignty, pride, lifestyle, and love of
electronic music.
Ian|5.29.03 @ 8:07AM|#
I believe that this world my be ready to be a complete totalitarianism because of the act. The ignorant man who claims that any assembly with music and people spells trouble and drug abuse well this in itself is nonsense. Yes, now rock concerts, marches, festivals, raves, bars, dance clubs, circus's, and conventions may be all removed from society and mindset. Doublethink is the key if it isn't happening now then it never happened "Down with Big Brother" was Orwell's little quote but I thought it relevant. Anyway together we must raise or voice, stomp our feet and brandish our glow sticks of red, white, and blue and march to the capital. Let us hold raves in DC,Chicago, New York, Kansas City, Sacremento, and all the great cities. Let us be proud ravers and bring the P.L.U.R vibe to the rallies the raves the street the workplace, and of course with you in your letters to congress. To rave isn't to nonconform and cast moral to the side no to rave is to be free from hate and violence and it is to drown thy self in the music.
|6.19.03 @ 8:52AM|#
It's a damn shame when the "man" has to put tabs on us in the
music Industry.
I think to myself back in the 60's it was ok to do all the drugs
you could do, because it was all about
"self-exploration"........
Ummmmmmm Hello!!!!!!!
You same asses that did all that back in the day are making the
laws of today.....
How can that be any good.
This all just pisses me off, I am a promoter and a dj for the last
6 years, "Angstie-e" is the name and it seems the people I talk to
regarding anything that has to do with "RAVES" or even the
Electronic music scene in general has a nasty "STIGMA" to it
all.
Damn that Media................
I say you'll get yours one day Mister.
No one doggs you for your twisted,pot smoking," Oh I NEVER
Inhailed",scandelridden, "It's ok to get a BJ in the White
House",Lets cover our tracks as best we can then make some stupid
ass Rave Act Laws so we look better, Pathetic, Overpaid, Did I
mention Scandelous.....LIVES
So stay the Fuck outta ours.
|2.17.04 @ 7:56AM|#
What the fuck ever happened to our damn FREEDOM?People are always bragging how FREE the U.S. is, but take shit like this......doesnt sound very "freelike" to me. I'm sorry to blow up like this but these anti rave fucks are really pissing me off.We dont bitch about gothics,punk rockers, or rockers, they do drugs, hell, even rich and popular people do drugs! Now, we have all the other countries laughing at us, where the hell is the love, and most of all PLUR!
|2.17.04 @ 7:56AM|#
What the fuck ever happened to our damn FREEDOM?People are always bragging how FREE the U.S. is, but take shit like this......doesnt sound very "freelike" to me. I'm sorry to blow up like this but these anti rave fucks are really pissing me off.We dont bitch about gothics,punk rockers, or rockers, they do drugs, hell, even rich and popular people do drugs! Now, we have all the other countries laughing at us, where the hell is the love, and most of all PLUR!
|2.17.04 @ 7:56AM|#
What the fuck ever happened to our damn FREEDOM?People are always bragging how FREE the U.S. is, but take shit like this......doesnt sound very "freelike" to me. I'm sorry to blow up like this but these anti rave fucks are really pissing me off.We dont bitch about gothics,punk rockers, or rockers, they do drugs, hell, even rich and popular people do drugs! Now, we have all the other countries laughing at us, where the hell is the love, and most of all PLUR!
|2.17.04 @ 7:57AM|#
What the fuck ever happened to our damn FREEDOM?People are always bragging how FREE the U.S. is, but take shit like this......doesnt sound very "freelike" to me. I'm sorry to blow up like this but these anti rave fucks are really pissing me off.We dont bitch about gothics,punk rockers, or rockers, they do drugs, hell, even rich and popular people do drugs! Now, we have all the other countries laughing at us, where the hell is the love, and most of all PLUR!
|2.17.04 @ 7:57AM|#
What the fuck ever happened to our damn FREEDOM?People are always bragging how FREE the U.S. is, but take shit like this......doesnt sound very "freelike" to me. I'm sorry to blow up like this but these anti rave fucks are really pissing me off.We dont bitch about gothics,punk rockers, or rockers, they do drugs, hell, even rich and popular people do drugs! Now, we have all the other countries laughing at us, where the hell is the love, and most of all PLUR!
Jared Larner|3.2.04 @ 1:09AM|#
Okay i read the quote below and i figured it was worth
resending. it was the first thing i read that actually had a
constructive message.
+++ What allowed this anti-ecstacy rave act to pass was
this.+++
the fact that one bill, "anti-ecstacy rave act" was DENIED!! than
they literally used a paper clip and attatched it to the AMBER
alert system. we need some kind of legal protection from this. we
should no longer allow one bill to be attached to another. i will
be organizing something if i recieve enough support (contact me at
DJDIGITZXT@AOL.COM), that will help me figure out a way to
accomplish this. i doubt it will be anything radical.. simply a
petition or a way to create an ammendment.
WE NEED TO STOP THE BULLSHIT!
Listen to the message below "MAKE EVERY BILL STAND ON ITS OWN
MERITS"
"Wow! You guys are really starting to pass some odd laws over
there, isn't it starting to feel a little hmmn, sinister? I can't
help thinking you're losing a lot of your freedoms without much
more than a whimper.
Aside from the obvious historical lessons of prohibition (it
doesn't work but makes bad guys rich and makes criminal out of the
otherwise law abiding) the way this bill has passed seems cynical
and undemocratic.
Maybe you should attempt to do something about this 'attaching' one
piece of legislation to another crap? To this British outsider it
seems that the majority of your bad laws and 'pork barrel?' daft
govt spending etc are attached on to something else, often
something halfway sensible as well. Remove this horse trading
element from the legislative process, make every bill stand on its
own merits and you might acheive a more honest debate on items such
as this one."
Jared Larner
= DJ DIGITZ =
= XT CREW =
www.emdef.org
Jared Larner|3.2.04 @ 1:10AM|#
Okay i read the quote below and i figured it was worth
resending. it was the first thing i read that actually had a
constructive message.
+++ What allowed this anti-ecstacy rave act to pass was
this.+++
the fact that one bill, "anti-ecstacy rave act" was DENIED!! than
they literally used a paper clip and attatched it to the AMBER
alert system. we need some kind of legal protection from this. we
should no longer allow one bill to be attached to another. i will
be organizing something if i recieve enough support (contact me at
DJDIGITZXT@AOL.COM), that will help me figure out a way to
accomplish this. i doubt it will be anything radical.. simply a
petition or a way to create an ammendment.
WE NEED TO STOP THE BULLSHIT!
Listen to the message below "MAKE EVERY BILL STAND ON ITS OWN
MERITS"
"Wow! You guys are really starting to pass some odd laws over
there, isn't it starting to feel a little hmmn, sinister? I can't
help thinking you're losing a lot of your freedoms without much
more than a whimper.
Aside from the obvious historical lessons of prohibition (it
doesn't work but makes bad guys rich and makes criminal out of the
otherwise law abiding) the way this bill has passed seems cynical
and undemocratic.
Maybe you should attempt to do something about this 'attaching' one
piece of legislation to another crap? To this British outsider it
seems that the majority of your bad laws and 'pork barrel?' daft
govt spending etc are attached on to something else, often
something halfway sensible as well. Remove this horse trading
element from the legislative process, make every bill stand on its
own merits and you might acheive a more honest debate on items such
as this one."
Jared Larner
= DJ DIGITZ =
= XT CREW =
www.emdef.org
DJ DIGITZ|3.2.04 @ 1:13AM|#
Okay i read the quote below and i figured it was worth
resending. it was the first thing i read that actually had a
constructive message.
+++ What allowed this anti-ecstacy rave act to pass was
this.+++
the fact that one bill, "anti-ecstacy rave act" was DENIED!! than
they literally used a paper clip and attatched it to the AMBER
alert system. we need some kind of legal protection from this. we
should no longer allow one bill to be attached to another. i will
be organizing something if i recieve enough support (contact me at
DJDIGITZXT@AOL.COM), that will help me figure out a way to
accomplish this. i doubt it will be anything radical.. simply a
petition or a way to create an ammendment.
WE NEED TO STOP THE BULLSHIT!
Listen to the message below "MAKE EVERY BILL STAND ON ITS OWN
MERITS"
"Wow! You guys are really starting to pass some odd laws over
there, isn't it starting to feel a little hmmn, sinister? I can't
help thinking you're losing a lot of your freedoms without much
more than a whimper.
Aside from the obvious historical lessons of prohibition (it
doesn't work but makes bad guys rich and makes criminal out of the
otherwise law abiding) the way this bill has passed seems cynical
and undemocratic.
Maybe you should attempt to do something about this 'attaching' one
piece of legislation to another crap? To this British outsider it
seems that the majority of your bad laws and 'pork barrel?' daft
govt spending etc are attached on to something else, often
something halfway sensible as well. Remove this horse trading
element from the legislative process, make every bill stand on its
own merits and you might acheive a more honest debate on items such
as this one."
Jared Larner
= DJ DIGITZ =
= XT CREW =
www.emdef.org
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