I find it interesting ...

[truedelphi]

86. Until recently I didn't even use marijuana. But for years I was a home health aide.

For almost a decade, I couldn't legally tell a patient who had spasms from MS to use it, as I could lose my nursing assistant license. I knew it was a great remedy for that. But I had to zip the lip as if word got out that I had ever mentioned such a thing, I would be without employment. Then the Prop 215 victory came my way and I could let people know about this remedy.

I was asked way back in 2002 to write an article for the indie monthly I wrote for, regarding what happened to local people in Marin County Calif when they got busted for marijuana. Even medical marijuana. Believe me, this situation of getting busted was always much much harder on people of color than rich white people. Until I researched that article, I thought the War on Drugs did not really exist in the liberal, LaLa land of California. Boy was I wrong. I learned the War on Drugs was a war on people of color, on middle class older women with immune system disorders etc.

Anyway I think the confusion you think you see in me is a reflection and projection of your
own denial about the harm you are doing in supporting a criminal, one who has had every advantage come his way due to his position in upper class society. Are you aware that the fraternity that Holder belonged to in college is the African American version of Skull and Bones? Anyway his position in society and his willingness to game the system - showing a lack of morality - offered him the ability to land the nation's highest job at Justice. Perhaps you somehow feel that his ethnicity means he is your ally. Unless you work on Wall Street, or are heavily connected to the MIC and Surveillance State, he is not your ally and he is not your friend.

On edit: I also wrote a quite lengthy article several Sundays ago about the War on Drugs, before there was any indicaction that there wouldbe a flurryof articles about Holder here on DU. I talked about all the point sthat I am making here - that the War on Some Drugs is a war on the poor, and people of color and on people who are sick. This attitude of mine is not a new argument of mine. It is a decades' old argument of mine. (Rules at DU prohibit promoting one's DU articles in someone else 's discussion but if you ask I can PM you the URL for the article.)