isn't that enough? No, I guess not.
We arrest them for trying to see if
Hemp could be crop of the future. For more good info on this please see this
Special Report in The Hemp Report. For even more information you can download this
PDF file from Dr. Dave's
Hemp Archives.
Now here's the real kicker:
From today's The New York Times:
Indians Face Obstacles Between the Reservation and the Ballot Box
By Adam Cohen
When Edna Weddell, a Yankton Sioux tribal elder who gets around with a walker, tried to vote in South Dakota this month, a poll worker stopped her. She had to produce a photo ID first, she was told. Ms. Weddell's granddaughter pointed out that South Dakota law allows voters who do not have an ID with them to sign an affidavit instead, but the poll worker would not budge. Ms. Weddell was forced to retrieve her ID from home before she was allowed to vote.
That story is one of many circulating in South Dakota about Native Americans illegally turned away or harassed when they tried to vote on June 1. Another woman says that when she voted on the Pine Ridge reservation, she saw an Indian walking out of the polling place visibly upset. "They won't let me vote because I don't have a photo ID," he told her. There are more reports like this, and at least one of white election officials improperly opening a ballot box in an Indian area after the polls closed.
and this from Indian Country Today a few days ago:
Indian vote could decide Senate majority, presidential election
By Jerry Reynolds
WASHINGTON - It is still early for the 2004 presidential elections, early enough that every crystal ball is bound to be cloudy.
Even so, this much can be said with certainty: events have fallen out in such a way as to position the Indian vote for decisive influence on Nov. 2. In fact, the Native vote has never been so crucial to the prospects of a president, nor to the majority party in the Senate.
This is due to two factors: a polarization in American politics that has led each presidential candidate to concede the electoral vote in about 30 states to his rival, as a foregone conclusion; and an anticipated tight election in which the winner, as in 2000, may be crowned by only a handful of electoral votes.
The next thing you know they will want to put Reagan's head on Mt. Rushmore to stick out our forked tongue at them some more.