The True Story Of The Day The D.A.R.E. Officer Came To School

As you know, Real Heavy Politics also serves as a resource for `Rants' - such as this one found recently on the internet at Reddit.com:

It must have been in 1987 or so. I was in 2nd grade. the D.A.R.E. officer was paying our class an educational visit. The officer told us of all the evils of drugs, especially marijuana. Weed seemed to be the main focus of the the officer's attention. He was using an overhead projector when he showed us various types of paraphernalia. "If you see a pipe like this, or a clear baggy with this green plant in it, it's marijuana," the officer told us. "If you've seen this before, you should let me know right away so I can make sure no one gets in any trouble," we were told.

Then came the next slide, a photo of a marijuana plant. The officer explained to the classroom full of seven year olds, that this was a pesky weed. In fact, usually it just grows wild, with most people never realizing that this highly illegal plant is growing on their property. He asked us if any of us recognized the plant. One boy did, Daniel. When pressed, though, Danny seemed to regret piping up. The cop told him "If you have one of these plants, I need to know so that we can get it out of there before anyone gets in trouble. If there's one in your yard, and you tell us, we'll just remove it and no one will be in any trouble, but if we find it on our own, everyone goes to jail."

That's when Danny told the officer about the plants like that in his back yard.

That was the last time I ever saw Daniel. A few days later I overheard my parents discussing how his parents had been arrested for growing pot.

Now I am 30. I have a son about to turn 10. We have had the "D.A.R.E. talk." Basically, this is the talk explaining to him that what Daddy does at home is Daddy's business, never tell anyone. Now, usually the cops shoot for the 7-8 year old kids so they can get the info before the parents have had time to properly educate their kids about police deception.

Teach your kids that the D.A.R.E. officer is not their friend, and that he will lie to you. Tell them this story, like I did. "Don't be a Daniel," I told my son.

Only wimps don't tell their kids the truth about pot and the real purpose of the D.A.R.E. program. http://www.reddit.com/r/trees/comments/c9nfr/the_trues_story_of_the_day_the_dare_officer_came/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_Abuse_Resistance_Education#The_Use_of_Children_as_Informants

MSM's Coverage Of Gulf `SPILL' Pushing Some Into Rants

Got this one from a good buddy of mine today.

Time for the truth to be told. The rate of flow out of the main leak

is at least 259,000 barrels per day, not the 5,000 BP Oil is admitting
to on NBC 5/22/10 at 6:45 pm. The math is simple. You look at the
rate of flow out of the main leak. It is really gushing, for sure.
That pipe is 22" wide. Almost exactly the diameter of an oil barrel.
Every 3 feet of oil that comes out is 1 barrel. Count ...one thousand
one..... and estimate how many feet come out. That pipe is rated for
10,000 psi. I say at least 9 or 10 feet of crap erupts from the broken
end. Probably closer to 15, but we will be conservative. So, 3
barrels per second times 60 seconds times 60 minutes equals 10,800
barrels per hour. What is BP talking about and why didn't anyone at
NBC question this???? 10,800 times 24 hours EQUALS 259,200 barrels of
oily crap spewing into the Gulf of Mexico everyday! How can BP say
5,000????? This number is just for the main leak that most of the
video has focused on. When will we get to know the truth???? Are they
lying to keeps the markets up????? I guess we could employ a few
million to stand on the beach and sop up oil blobs for a few
years....Texas, LA, Miss, Bama..FLA, GA, SC, NC....MD......England?????
The Gulf Stream will take it back to the beaches in England ..poetic
perhaps. How many miles of coastline will be affected???? Fishing in
all those states will be highly compromised...all water
sports.........we have no idea how much this is going to cost the
worldwide economy.

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More Info.
Accidental Oil Pollution of the Sea: Report by Officials on Oil Spills and Clean-up Measures (Pollution paper)