From: hbcsc096@huey.csun.edu (justin gombos) Date: 12 Oct 1994 01:02:52 GMT Newsgroups: alt.drugs,alt.drugs.pot,alt.drugs.culture Subject: Re: I NEED THE D.A.R.E. info > If anyone could send me the name, authors, etc of the Document, > or, better yet, the actual document (or where to FTP it), I would > really appreciate it. I'm stuck doing a report for college. It's in this Green Panthers Document... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Proclamation of the GREEN PANTHERS! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The decade of the 90s demands a new focus and a determination of just what is required for survival into the 21st century, and whether we shall enter the century as free people or as slaves. Today we see genocide against hemp and other plants as a national policy, and the repression of subcultures as a national pastime. Born in the knowledge that at least 30 million U.S. citizens regularly ingest marijuana (hemp) to medicate themselves, the GREEN PANTHERS! was formed to provide leadership, resources and political focus to this sleeping giant army of marijuana users-- an army many times larger than all the U.S. military and police combined. The GREEN PANTHERS! come from varied backgrounds, but we all agree that the Earth's environment must be saved and that the hemp plant will play a vital part in the process. We also agree that oppression in the name of the War on Drugs must end at once, and wars fought over petroleum must be stopped once and for all. We are tired of being harassed, beaten, fined, fired from our jobs, forced to piss in jars, sent to concentration camps, and having our property seized and sold. The marijuana users' nonviolent nature has made them easy targets of police oppression. The arrests of marijuana users are as high as 400,000 per year with untold suffering at the hands of "corrections and enforcement authorities." Many of the GREEN PANTHERS! have been victims of such oppression, and we have proclaimed "Hell No!" to standing idly by while this mayhem continues. We spit back the government's declaration of war upon us. We declare that we shall resist by whatever methods necessary to protect ourselves, our families, our property, and our beloved planet Earth; and to regain the liberties lost under this fascist agenda disguised as the War on Drugs. Bearing these things in mind, we take our protests to the streets, to the countryside, and to the very doorsteps of our declared enemy who shall know no peace until they let our people go and let our people grow! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Revolutionary Toker -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Voice of the GREEN PANTHERS! P.O. Box 31231, Cincinnati, OH, 45231 Reproduction of articles authorized. Please cite Revolutionary Toker SPECIAL OUTREACH ISSUE DRUG WAR: ELITIST POWER GRAB The War on Drugs was developed like a marketing campaign, in selected cities. This was done so the government could monitor the reaction of the local populations for negative feedback. Test areas were far apart in areas with tightly controlled media. DRUG/GANG SWEEPS were developed in the ghettos of Los Angeles under the guise of controlling gang violence and drug dealing. The sweeps were nothing more than mass round-ups. Police picked up everyone on the street in a particular area and took them to a football stadium for processing. Initially called Operation Hammer, they continue as Operation Cul de Sac. The silence of the populace signaled approval of this tactic. JUMPOUT SQUADS were test-marketed in Atlanta to control drug sales on the streets. Jumpout squads consist of cars or vans loaded with heavily armed cops who pull up and charge out with their guns drawn, rapidly arresting and taking people away. Every major city now has jumpout squads because the public again was silent. BOOT CAMPS or concentration camps for drugs users were first established in Oklahoma. They combine marine- style boot camp and southern chain gang tactics. Along with extreme physical torment, inmates are subjected to "psychocorrectional" therapy--mental reprogramming right out of A Clockwork Orange. Twenty-seven states now have Boot Camp prisons for both men and women and to date three deaths have been reported, all from physical abuse at the hands of the guards. Mainstream Amerika loves them. FENCING IN HOUSING PROJECTS was the idea of turning public housing into prisons and the Chicago Housing Authority was the test site. Chain link fences topped with barbed wire encircle multi-story tenements housing tens of thousands of people. Residents have to wear photo I.D.'s on neck chains and pass through metal detectors every time they come home. Only recently has the Supreme Court ruled that the warrentless searches of apartments are unconstitutional. The government is currently looking for ways around this ruling. SOVIET-STYLE ROADBLOCKS began under the code name Operation Co-Flame (Cooperation from Florida to Maine). An overnight placement of roadblocks on I-95 stopped, searched and computer checked thousands of cars, license plates and drivers licenses. Once again, no one protested. Also, the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) has set up dozens of permanent roadblocks well inside the U.S. southern border to "check citizenship," and look for drugs. USE OF THE MILITARY AGAINST THE CITIZENS The National Guard went in first as unarmed assistants to Border Patrol agents, nowadays they carry M-16's. The Coast Guard, using everything from shotguns to cannons have been loose on the seas against smugglers for years. Use of active duty ground forces began with the Army operation against the growers in Humboldt County in California in 1990. National guard helicopters with night vision devices fly over cities and rural nightly as part of the "drug war." PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN was launched in 1986. The Partnership for a Drug Free America coordinated a media blitz to instill fear and suspicion of drug users, and to breed the attitude that drug users are subhuman loners and losers. The "Partnershit" pools the most creative advertising minds in the world. This organization is closely aligned to the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission. These organizations embody groups of extremely wealthy and powerful people who have a common goal of establishing a totalitarian one world government called the New World Order. THE COMING CIVIL WAR Each "Crime Bill" takes the country one step closer to a full blown civil war. Any group of five or more people, having anything to do with drugs for more than 30 days becomes an instant "street gang" punishable by a mandatory minimum sentence of five years. This includes five friends getting together twice in 30 days to smoke a joint. Each Crime Bill adds crimes punishable by the federal death penalty, while continually stripping away our Second Amendment right to protect ourselves from this government oppression. And without the Second, there will be no First Amendment. WHAT CAN YOU DO? First, link up with those of us who see this drug war for what it is--a war on the Bill of Rights! Second, get active! Join with GREEN PANTHERS! and start spreading the word. Third, strike back! Take your message to the streets, creatively. Poster, sticker, graffiti, complain, rant, rave, pitch a bitch, use GREEN PANTHERS! Creative Interference and NEVER consent to a search. If busted, don't cop a plea, demand a jury trial and use jury nullification. Cost them money. Threaten their power. That's the only language this government understands. * No Pot -- No Peace! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- What is Green Panthers? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GREEN PANTHERS! is the militant grassroots group in the hemp/drug reform movement Leading the offensive in resisting the War on Drugs. History and Perspectives GREEN PANTHERS! was formed in 1990 to perform direct-action protests and related activities in support of kindred organizations; and to encourage and lead the entire marijuana legalization movement to a more militant stand against government oppression. GREEN PANTHERS! sees the War on Drugs for what it really is--not a war on addiction, but a guise for a much larger war on the Bill of Rights and personal freedoms. The government's ban on our choice of natural medications, and its promotion of dangerous prescription drugs, are unacceptable to us. Cannabis- based medications have proven effective in the fight against the AIDS virus, cancer, multiple sclerosis, and blinding glaucoma, as well as a host of minor ailments. GREEN PANTHERS! exposes the government's control of natural remedies as grabs for the multi-billion dollar pharmaceutical market. We confront and defy the government whenever they attempt to make political scapegoats of the seriously ill. GREEN PANTHERS! believes the industrial use of hemp can prevent further damage to the environment with its non-polluting paper, fabrics, and fuel. GREEN PANTHERS! confronts drug war offenses with non-violent direct actions that have effectively mobilized public support and built movement-wide coalitions. In addition to organized protests, GREEN PANTHERS! encourages and educates individuals, organizations, and communities to resist the drug war on their own. Through GREEN PANTHERS! nationwide networks, our operatives document military and militarized police build-ups and offensives against the citizenry. This information is then spread across our movement as well as to the press, selected politicians, and other interested groups and individuals. When tactically practical, we take direct action to resist the oppression. Activities range from legal protests, to graffiti, phone ZAPs, and Creative Interference. Goals and Accomplishments GOAL: Oppose dishonest and misleading anti-drug propaganda in the major media. ACCOMPLISHMENT: GREEN PANTHERS! initiated the noisiest, most militant, demonstrations ever held in front of the offices of the Partnership for a Drug Free America in downtown Manhattan. GOAL: Protest the seizure of homes and personal property for drug offenses. ACCOMPLISHMENT: GREEN PANTHERS! held the first-ever protest against auctions of drug war seized property. GOAL: Defend the rights of sick people to have government-provided medical marijuana. ACCOMPLISHMENT: GREEN PANTHERS! responded to the Department of Health and Human Services efforts to terminate the medical marijuana program by staging several direct action protests at HHS headquarters in Washington, DC with four activists arrested for non-violent civil disobedience. GOAL: Support and develop community based initiatives to bypass federal medical marijuana prohibition. ACCOMPLISHMENT: GREEN PANTHERS! sent a team to California to gather petition signatures for the San Francisco Medical Marijuana Initiative, Proposition P, which passed by an 80 percent majority vote. GOAL: In the absence of a government medical marijuana program, to provide medications directly to those in need. ACCOMPLISHMENT: Facilitated supplies of medication to AIDS patients and other seriously ill people. GOAL: Oppose the use of "shock incarceration" Boot Camp prisons for brainwashing and physically abusing drug users. ACCOMPLISHMENT: GREEN PANTHERS! organized and initiated the first-ever blockade of the main gate of the Herman S. Toulson (drug war) Boot Camp prison in Jessup, Maryland. Our actions brought prison activity to a standstill for over an hour. (See poster on inside of this document.) GOAL: Organize coordinated resistance actions across the country to show the government that there are many who oppose their fascist War on Drugs. ACCOMPLISHMENT: GREEN PANTHERS! initiated an annual nationwide Week Of Outrage, (June 29 to July 4) when activists place signs of resistance where they cannot be ignored. GOAL: Bring together our diverse movement in coalition to resist and work for a peaceful resolution to the War on Drugs. ACCOMPLISHMENT: On the last day of the 1992 Week Of Outrage, a Stoners With Attitudes Team (SWAT) of PANTHERS! activists delivered the first movement-wide petition to the Bush White House calling for an immediate cease fire and urging a Peace Summit to end the War on Drugs. GOAL: To take direct action against the censorship of pro-legalization third party Presidential candidates by puppets of the major media. ACCOMPLISHMENT: On election day 1992, GREEN PANTHERS! activists held the first-ever protest of the main U.S. censorship organ, the News Election Service in New York City. (NES, a corporation owned by ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, and the Associated Press claims to gather complete vote counts from every precinct in the country for the national media on election night.) GREEN PANTHERS! exposed the existence of this company of liars to our movement and disrupted activities inside NES with specially designed information flyers for their employees. GOAL: To immediately put President Clinton on notice that potheads want to live in peace--and that GREEN PANTHERS! won't stop resisting as long as the war continues. ACCOMPLISHMENT: Held the first protest of the Clinton administration (Inhale to the Chief) across from the White House on the first day of work for the new presidency. Over 1,500 people participated, making it one of the largest winter demonstrations in the history of the pot movement. GREEN PANTHERS! goals are also pursued through coalition building with other militant environmental and personal choice groups. We have effectively worked with ACT UP, Queer Nation, and Earth First! in tactical operations. We believe these efforts have bonded the hemp/marijuana movement with theirs for years to come. Publications and Resources * GREEN PANTHERS! Action Manual, the first and only book on resisting the War on Drugs. * Revolutionary Toker, the most informative newsletter in the movement. * GP! also publishes numerous how-to flyers on creative interference designed to frustrate and confuse our declared enemies. * GREEN PANTHERS! provides training in direct- action, organizing, and non-violent civil disobedience to interested groups anywhere in the country. * GREEN PANTHERS! enlists help from doctors, scientists, engineers, legal and legislative experts, and chemists, who donate their time, knowledge, and effort because they believe in what we are doing and see our successes. Our outrageous actions and history making accomplishments have spawned questions about our structure and tactics. Q. How big is GREEN PANTHERS!? A. Those who say don't know, and those who know don't say. Our rapidly growing activist base covers the entire country. For tactical and security reasons, actual GREEN PANTHERS! membership numbers are not released. Q. How is GREEN PANTHERS! organized? A. To reduce the chance of infiltration by enemy agents and provocateurs, we urge our members to work alone or with friends they have known for years. When it is necessary to gather forces to protest or confront politically timely events and issues, we activate our members through National Calls from GREEN PANTHERS! Washington, DC headquarters. Q. Is GREEN PANTHERS! a part of, or front group for, any other organization? A. No. While many of our members hold memberships in other organizations, and we frequently work in coalition with other groups, we stand alone as a separate and independent grassroots direct action group. Q. What is GREEN PANTHERS! position on violence? A. GREEN PANTHERS! wages a non-violent resistance to a violent war. We firmly believe that the initiation of force by the government on the citizenry is immoral. However, we think that standing passively by while innocent people are being oppressed or killed is also immoral. We consider the inanimate machinery of oppression to be a weak link in the drug war, and it is those objects of destruction and oppression we shall stop. To those who say we are too radical, too loud and too proud; we say quit living in the closet! It's time to join the resistance, now! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GREEN PANTHERS! S/HIT LIST -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Phone Zaps Your Way to Resist the War on Drugs! Most large companies (Partnership supporters and enemy enterprises) have at least one toll-free (1-800) number for their customers to contact them. Zapping these numbers from pay phones will tie up their lines and cost them money. Should you choose, this also gives you an opportunity to let these companies know what you think of their products and policies. This information is provided as a tactic of Drug War resistance by GREEN PANTHERS! GREEN PANTHERS! represents the only militant resistance to the War on Drugs, and encourages all pot smokers to stand their ground for what they believe and to join our fight. For more info about the PANTHERS! see back panel. Enemy Front Groups D.A.R.E. ---- 1-800-TALK KFC (825- 5532) Funded by Kentucky Fried Chicken. Has info on how to tell if someone you know is on drugs and how to snitch them out. Boycott KFC too! P.R.I.D.E. ---- 1-800-487-7743 A real hate group teaching kids that drug users are less than human and deserve to be harrassed and snitched out. Partnership for a Drug-Free Amerika --- 1-800-843-8971 Has a budget of a million dollars a day to promote their intolerant agenda. Supported by most Fortune 500 firms. Weed Tip Line ---- 1-800-47-DRUGS National snitch line to report growers, dealers and users. A perfect place to burn up a lot of Drug War dollars by reporting nonexistant marijuana patches in remote locations requiring expensive helicopter searches. Nat'l Citizens Crime Prevention Campaign 1-800-WE PREVENT McGruff the gestapo dog. Pro-war on drugs, neighborhood snitch program development, bullshit propaganda about drugs. Cocaine Hotline ---- 1-800-COCAINE American Council for Drug Education 1-800-488-DRUG Nat'l Sheriffs' Assn. Neighborhood Watch 1-800-424-STAR Development Office of Drug-Free Neighborhoods ---- 1-800-955-2232 OSAP's Nat'l Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information ---- 1-800-729- 6686 Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms 1-800-ATF-GUNS U.S. Coast Guard (smuggling intercept) 1-800-368-5647. Anti-Drug Information Center (ADIC) 1-800-225-3784 U.S. Postal Service Drug Informant Line 1-800-654-8896 U.S. Customs Drug Informant Line 1-800-BE ALERT Oppression Machinery Suppliers Canine College ---- 1-800-433-1714 Drug dog training. Diversi Fleet Inc. ---- 1-800-325-8645 Police car fleet sales. DEF-TEC ---- 1-800-733-3832 High-tech police training in sniping, machine guns, concussion grenades, and raids. Laser Labs ---- 1-800-452-2344 Manufacture a hand held device that measures the amount of light passing through your car window. Federal law requires 70% of light to pass through. Their ad says, "Probable cause in the palm of your hand. More Stops! More Drug Seizures!" PDR I.D. ---- 1-800-232-7379 Visual Drug Identification System. A pocket drug ID system for cops. Ad says, "provides on the spot identification of illegal drug possession." UNISYS ---- 1-800-448-1424 ext. 175 Manufactures Unisys Drug Enforcement Systems which produces leads by gathering and cross-referencing information on vehicles, people, places, property, and events from other cases in different parts of the country over protracted periods of time. Tactical Applications In these times of very tight living, the appeal of inexpensive housing is irresistable. Take advantage of the public's need for affordable housing, and turn it into enemy telephone jamming by making up stickers that say, "Affordable Apartments in (your city). No Deposit, No Credit Check. Call 1-800- (fill in the blank). No coin deposit required." The more stickers you get up, and keep up, the harder the jamming on your designated target(s) will be. Stick them on phone booths around employment offices, food stamp offices, social service bureaus, bus stations, bars, fast food restaurants, college campuses, and in economically depressed areas. When strategic enemy 1-800 numbers are discovered, activists should spread the information across the movement. This is one of the best non-violent ways to directly engage those who war on us. Also please send GREEN PANTHERS! any enemy numbers you find so we can pass them along to other activists. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is Your Brain on D.A.R.E! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The program is based not on education but on psychological techniques that were originally intended to be used in a therapy environment to allow the subject(s) to open up. Big Brother has been very busy lately. You can find him in elementary schools across America in the stated capacity of "instructor" in a program dubbed DARE, or Drug Abuse Resistance Education. Begun locally in Los Angeles in 1983, DARE exploded on the scene like a new drug and is now firmly entrenched as the number one anti- drug program in the country. More fifth and sixth-graders now participate in the DARE program than all other drug education programs combined. In 1991 more than 5 million students in over 200,000 classrooms went through the program under the tutelage of more than 13,000 police officers. That's right, police officers. You see, the DARE program is "taught" by the law. Why police officers and not teachers? Ruth Rich, who developed the curriculum, explains that the policeman is the "missing link" in a long line of failed anti-drug programs. But a closer look at the techniques employed in DARE suggest that in this case the officer is simply a more direct agent of the state than the teacher. You see, the DARE instructor doesn't so much "teach" the students as befriend them. The program is based not on education but on psychological techniques that were originally intended to be used in a therapy environment to allow the subject(s) to open up. DARE officers are never instructed to tell the students not to use drugs. Rather they are to build the child's self-esteem and decision-making skills. Drug usage is merely one decision a child is confronted with. Ironically this type of "value neutral" or "non-directive" therapy has been demonstrated to be a dismal failure more often than not, encouraging the very behavior it sets out to eliminate. This conclusion is based on research collected by Carl Rogers and Dr. William Coulson, two men who pioneered the techniques in the 1960s. Rogers has outright denounced the therapy and Coulson, who has served on the Technical Advisory Panel on Drug Education Curricula for the U.S. Department of Education, now spends much of his time informing and warning parents, teachers, and school officials of the harm done to children by the DARE program. Schools that offer DARE first expose children to the program with occasional visits by police officers as early as kindergarten and continuing through fourth grade. These visits set the stage for the core curriculum: seventeen lessons delivered to students in each of the fifth an sixth grades. Before becoming instructors in the program, DARE officers receive 80 hours of instruction in psychological techniques. Coulson, who holds doctorate degrees in both philosophy and psychology from Notre Dame, denounces the training period as woefully inadequate and points out that even if the therapy practiced in the DARE program had worked on adults, it would never work with children who "don't have the reasoning power of adults." He further criticizes the program: "If a child decides to use drugs, the DARE program under the eye of the police has already taught them that they can make their own decisions." He further cautions that the DARE message is all the more dangerous coming from police officers. The Littlest Agent To be blunt, what we have here is an open invitation for professional informants to work the tools of their trade on the most trusting, receptive targets they'll ever have a shot at: young, impressionable children. DARE trainees are instructed that in addition to classroom teaching, they are to spend casual time with the students, befriending them in the hopes that the children will sing like canaries about someone they know who uses drugs. Don't take it from me, take it from the DARE program brief issued in 1991 by the Bureau of Justice Assistance: In addition to formal classroom teaching, DARE officers spend time on the playground, in the cafeteria, and at student assemblies, interacting with the students informally. They may organize a soccer match, play basketball or chat with students over lunch. In this way students have an opportunity to become acquainted with the officer as a trusted friend who is interested in their happiness and welfare. Students occasionally tell the officer about problems such as abuse, neglect, alcoholic parents, or relative who use drugs. DARE officers are even instructed to look the other way when they see DARE students using drugs so as not to destroy their carefully cultivated trust. Judy McLemore, a conservative Republican from Alabama, sat in on a DARE training session and recorded this response a program instructor offered a trainee who asked what he should do if he caught a kid drinking or smoking pot on school grounds: "I'd turn my head... if you tell on these kids, they will know you told and will no longer trust you." Still another program instructor said, "These kids will tell you everything; they'll tell you things that Mommy and Daddy would not want you to know." DARE program literature unabashedly describes the program as "four and one-half months of straight talk and conversation with someone who becomes a friend, a confidant, an ally." DARE succeeds only in allowing the state a firmer foothold into our private lives. One student who fell for the statist entrapment is 11-year old Crystal Grendell, whose saga was chronicled in a front page story in the Wall Street Journal April 11, 1992. An honor student before she confided to her DARE officer that her parents were growing a small amount of marijuana in their house, she has become a withdrawn "C" student since Mom and Dad's arrest and now "gets scared" when police drive by her house wondering "if something else is going to happen." Crystal's account of her betrayal of Mom and Dad differs sharply from that of the DARE officer, Chief Gillway. It began when the Chief asked his DARE class if they knew anyone who used drugs. Although Crystal had wished her parents would not smoke marijuana, she had not confronted them with this wish. However, after class that day she confided in the good Chief. He pressed her for details, assuring little Crystal that "nothing would happen to her parents." This assurance is what good Chief Gillway disputes. Crystal vows that knowing what she knows, she would never tell. Just Say No to DARE A copy of the DARE instructors' manual could make for extremely interesting reading, and according to the Drug Free Schools and Communities Act, local school districts are require to "provide full information about the elements of its drug prevention programs." It seems then that this manual should be made available for any concerned parent to inspect, yet it has remained singularly elusive. Gary Peterson, founder of Parents Against DARE, was refused a copy when he attempted to obtain one. Judy McLemore tried her local DARE officers, local superintendent of education, Alabama DARE training center in Huntsville, Alabama State Board of Education, U.S. Department of Justice, the DARE program developers, and her congressman -- all without success. Gee guys, if all you're doing is trying to help our poor kids steer clear of drugs, why all the secrecy? DARE backers love to portray parents who oppose the program as drug legalization proponents or even drug users. While a close look at the program certainly reveals that any casual drug user with DARE age children is justified in harboring a bit of paranoia about his/her child's participation in the program, the truth is that most organized opposition has come from the religious right who contend among other things that DARE undermines parental authority (good point) and that an hour spent in school on DARE is one less hour devoted to reading writing and arithmetic (another good point). No matter what angle you look at DARE from, there are plenty of targets to shoot. For all of its ominous implications, the program could claim some bragging rights in the arena of drug prevention if it could point to some demonstrable proof that DARE actually works at what it is ostensibly designed to do: curb drug usage among young people. As the program enters its second decade, however, the research and the studies are trickling and rather than confirming DAREs effectiveness, they almost unanimously confirm the fears that Dr. Coulson lectures against. Studies conducted at the University of Kentucky, the University of North Carolina, government agencies, and a group under contract to DARE America, show, if anything, increases in drug usage by DARE students in relationship to non-DARE students. M. Amos Clifford wrote in the California Prevention Network Journal, "...every expert prevention specialist I know... without a single exception... believes that DARE should be ranked somewhere between a sham and mediocrity." DARE fails at its stated objectives. The very people who pioneered the techniques employed in the program have long since admitted the failure of the techniques. DARE succeeds only in allowing the state a firmer foothold into our private lives. And the pawns employed are our children, a la East Germany and Soviet Russia. To me, this makes DARE the most nightmarish manifestation of citizen mind control on a large scale yet. 1984 is almost a decade in the past... "Who denounced you?" said Winston. "It was my little daughter," said Parsons with a sort of doleful pride. "She listened at the keyhole. Heard what I was saying and nipped off to the patrols the very next day." George Orwell (from 1984) "I can't blame Crystal for doing what she did. She told the truth when questioned by the authorities. That's what I've always taught her to do." Mother of DARE student Crystal Grendell after being arrested in a drug raid based on information provided by Crystal to her DARE officer. (Wall Street Journal. April 1992) "He's my son and I love him. He found it [marijuana] and did what he had to do." Jerry Herrera, father of DARE student Jouquin Herrera who tipped off police. (Rocky Mountain News, September 1991) About the author: Joe Palcsak wrote the above article after his child participated in the DARE program. He was especially offended by the mandatory exclusion of parents from the DARE sessions. Fight Oppression, Fight Bigotry, Fight Back! Join GREEN PANTHERS! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Defeating Urine Drug Tests -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GREEN PANTHERS! believes that urine drug tests violate your Fourth Amendment right prohibiting unreasonable searches and your Fifth Amendment right that is supposed to protect you from witnessing against yourself. As the U.S. government pushes its Drug Free Amerika agenda, companies are under increasing pressure to test potential and current employees for drug use. Right now 87% of the Fortune 500 corporations are drug testing. Companies doing business with the government must abide by the Drug-Free Workplace Act and test their employees. Drug tests have something very much in common with searches of your car or person -- that is, you have more rights if you DO NOT consent to the search. When you consent, you surrender your rights. Should you, by pressure of economics have to apply for work with a company that does urine drug testing there are many things you should know: * Drug testing laboratories have less quality control regulations than restaurants. * Your urine specimen will change hands many times before actual analysis. This "chain of custody" as it is called, is very important as many companies send in their samples via the postal service with who-knows-who handling the containers. Many are reportedly received damaged, leaking, or with labels having fallen off. This leaves open a high probability for mix- ups and other errors. * Chemical agents used in testing have limited shelf-lives which can also trigger false positives. If you are determined to avoid false positives, here are some things you will want to avoid: Ibuprofen -- A common pain reliever has caused false positives for marijuana use. Poppy seeds -- On breads has led to false positives for opiates. Cold remedies -- Sometimes result in false positives for amphetamine use. If you are aware that you soon have to submit to a urine drug test, here are some things you will want to keep in mind: 1. Hyper saturating your body with water and other fluids will dilute metabolites possibly below readable levels. Flush your system out. 2. Drinking vinegar DOES NOT WORK. Plus it's really nauseating. 3. Goldenseal also DOES NOT WORK. Some labs are reportedly testing for goldenseal along with looking for drugs. 4. Don't give urine from your first urination of the day as it can be heavily laden with metabolites. Urinate a couple of times before giving a test sample. 5. If you truly believe that your rights and survival are worth fighting for, you may be able to sabotage your cup of urine to frustrate analysis by: A. Adding a few drops of liquid chlorine bleach via eyedropper to your specimen or, B. Dropping in Draino or powder bleach crystals to block the analysis. (Crystals can be concealed under the fingernails.) C. Dilute sample heavily with water. D. Substituting someone else's urine. Approximate age and sex of the urine provider can also be determined, so choose who you borrow from carefully. Remember: Many labs and employers check for color, temperature, and sediment in samples. Be careful and attentive. Taking a B-complex vitamin the night before and day of a urine test will assure that your urine is a natural yellow color. Products That Can Protect Your Privacy: If you are subject to random tests, you will want to carry Urine Aid in your wallet. Just pour it into the sample. Only effective for pot, not cocaine or heroin. Only $25 from the Butterfield- Jay Foundation at (405) 521-URINE. They'll ship next day Federal Express for an extra $10. (Long distance calls returned collect in the evening.) Tell them that the GREEN PANTHERS! sent you. Naturally Clean herbal tea. When consumed shortly before a test, is an effective product in defeating urine drug tests for pot and other drugs. A sample can be obtained for a $20 shipping and handling charge by calling 1-800-447- 4692. Tell them GREEN PANTHERS! sent you. Other Informative GREEN PANTHERS! Publications * GREEN PANTHERS! Action Manual How to resist in your city! * Revolutionary Toker - The most informative drug war news anywhere. * The Drug Users Self-Defense Guide Hippie bashing on the rise. Fight back! * GREEN PANTHERS S/HIT LIST. Enemy 1-800 numbers! * Tell them what you think of their war! * Raid-Proofing Your Home For other resources to assist you in resisting the War On Drugs see center back panel. Count Me In! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- RAID PROOF YOUR HOME -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Curtains made of heavy, opaque fabric will conceal your movements from outside observation. Hang curtains securely to resist their being knocked down by gunfire and concussion grenades that land on the window sill. Floorboards can be removed from beneath lower floor windows to make that "first step" a real lulu. Sharp, gooey or even living contents can be waiting for the unwitting nazi who steps into the pit. Walls: An old fashioned stone walled house offers the best protection. Standard house walls will not even stop pistol bullets. Sandbags offer excellent protection and can be concealed behind desks, headboards and other furniture. They should be stacked like bricks and tightly pressed together. A great source for free filled sandbags is beneath the millions of orange construction barrels that litter the nation's roads and highways. Rooms and Hallways: You can deny entry to such places by installing a tangle of barbed wire, or better yet razor wire, three or four layers thick. Make coils approximately three feet in diameter, and stack them to head height. Secure the layers together with bits of strong wire, and then wedge and nail boards across the room to prevent the use of a shield or door to push through the entanglement. Military fragmentation and concussion grenades will not phase wire obstacles. Stairs: One of the best blocking ideas we've seen is the proper use of "lubricants." Start by removing carpeting to expose smooth wood. Keep a couple of five gallon cans filled with very soapy water ready to be spilled down the stairs. Unused stairways can have rows of 2"x12"x8' boards that have been studded with sharp nails, installed permanently. Upper Floors: Two layers of sandbags placed over sheets of 1" thick plywood on the floor will stop the enemy from shooting through, should they break in downstairs. Also use sandbags along external walls. Rooftop: Defend from helicopter- borne and foot soldier attack by using coils of wire and vertical poles. A less obvious method is to create a "carpet" of nails three feet wide around the edge to prevent the enemy from lowering into windows. Snip off heads of nails with bolt cutters and sharpen with a grinding wheel after driving into roof securely. Paint spikes to match color of shingles for a less obvious appearance. Chimney: Fill chimney with chicken wire to prevent grenades from dropping into your living room. Have a fabric "plug" ready in case teargas is pumped down into your house. Take a minute now and examine how the flue is constructed in your particular chimney. It's much better than trying to figure it out with gas billowing in your face. Basement: In many cases, the basement is the best place for an emergency exit. A tunnel leading to an adjacent property, large drainage pipes, thicket of bushes or your vehicle is worth consideration. Design your escape hatch to be camouflaged before and after you have used it. Other Considerations: Raids can occur at any time, but most often take place in the predawn hours. Keep a flashlight, small supply of food, water, clothes, shoes and other necessities in a "panic kit" that can be picked up as you run by. And don't forget to flush your stash! Be sure to include motion detectors, gas masks, guard dogs and fire extinguishers in your preparations. Your family should decide in advance what action to take under different scenarios. If you are unsure what scenarios to prepare for, read Chapter 5 of the GREEN PANTHERS Action Manual and see the movie Home Alone. With more and more homes being attacked in paramilitary raids, GREEN PANTHERS! offers the following suggestions on how to protect your family and property: Doors: Replace all hollow doors with solid wood or metal ones. Deadbolt locks are okay for stopping the average junkie looking for a TV to steal, but will probably not stop a tactical entry team. Add heavy slide latches at the top and bottom of exterior doors. The "Door Club" (made by the company that makes "The Club") will also help slow battering rams. The old fashioned door lock consisting of a heavy wooden beam resting in large hooks on either side of the door is still the best lock ever designed. Windows: Chicken wire and/or pieces of cyclone fencing nailed in place will prevent entry and block "distraction devices" such as Flash Bang and teargas grenades from being tossed in. Plant Chinese Holly and Barberry bushes in a thickness of at least three feet out from the window. These plants are sharp and prickly and will snag and tear clothing and skin. Anyone who's ever worked around these bushes will attest to their effectiveness. Standard Disclaimer Undertaking these structural modifications can be dangerous work, exposing you to cuts, bruises and even broken bones if you're not careful. Don't make your house so tight you cannot get out. Be especially careful when tunneling. GREEN PANTHERS! assumes no liability if you break something as a result of information in this article. Use good sense. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GREEN PANTHERS! Self-Defense Guide -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- YOU Can Do Something About Assaults On Marijuana and Drug Users! As a result of the extreme media hype by the Partnership for a Drug Free America, D.A.R.E, Straight, and other hate groups which depict drug users as evil sub-humans who have no rights, many stoners are being violently attacked by anti-drug bigots. In response, GREEN PANTHERS! have formulated this step-by-step guide for self- defense against a street assault that will help you deal with just about any situation that may arise. An Attack On One Of Us Is An Attack On ALL Of Us! If you are alone or outnumbered, these are your primary Self-Defense options: * In a verbal assault, you can: Avoid It: Use common sense and intuition to evaluate the situation and walk away. * If the situation continues: Speak Up: Demand they leave you alone. Look for sympathetic bystanders and ask for their help. Express your feelings: Example: "Don't just stand there, help me!" Run: If you are in danger, your first option is to run. Leave the area as fast as possible. Whistle: Whistles are effective in bringing assistance. Buy the loudest whistle available. Always carry and be prepared to use it. Continue blowing your whistle as you are running away. If you wear the whistle around your neck, the cord can be used to choke you or to pull you down. Use light, easily snapped string. NOTE: Many people recognize the sound of a whistle as being a call for help. If you hear a whistle being blown, go to the source. Consider the possibility of helping. Do not blow your whistle frivolously! Alarms: If you are attacked or chased, attract attention by setting off fire alarms, or by slapping on house or building windows, and hitting or kicking parked cars to activate alarms. Make lots of noise! Shelter: Be aware of places of shelter along your route. Go where there are people. These include stores, restaurants, bars, subway or bus stations and private houses. Don't be afraid to ask for help. * If the situation is unavoidable, your other actions to take include: Shout: Shout NO! as loud as you can. Plant a foot forward by stomping on the ground. If they do not stop; Punch: Accompany your foot stomp and shout with a single forceful blow to the attackers throat diaphragm or stomach. If they do not stop; Kick: A well placed, full power kick to the front or side of the knee will cripple anybody. Stomp: Ram your foot onto the instep of their foot. Causes great pain and can break bones. Poke: If the person will not stop their attack, do an imitation of Moe from the Three Stooges and ram your fingers into the assailants eyes. This is really gross, but if properly done will change your attackers mind completely. * The following are non-lethal weapons you can defend yourself with: Mace and Pepper Sprays: In some areas Mace requires a permit from the police to be legal. Effective use requires some practice. Try to position yourself to get the wind blowing toward your attacker in order to not get Maced yourself. Stun Gun: May be used to threaten or kept secret to surprise assailant. Delivers a potentially disabling dose of electric current. IMPORTANT! Stun guns require direct physical contact with the recipient of the shock. You have to get in very close. Keys: Walk with your keys protruding from between your fingers. Aim for eyes and drag down across cheeks to leave identifiable marks for police. Kubaton Sticks: Small metal or high-tech plastic "mini-clubs" available from martial arts supply houses and by mail order from the backs of gun and knife magazines. With adequate practice these can quickly end an attack. NOTE: Be aware that carrying a weapon may give you a false sense of security. You should always be ready and able to defend yourself using just your body. Use weapons only where it's legal or permitted and/or be ready to face the legal hassles. Weapons should always be your last line of defense. * Street Safety Tips: * Travel when mentally alert * Take a Self-Defense course * Don't walk alone * Walk with confidence * Don't wear headphones * Carry a whistle * Know your route * Make others aware of your route * Call friends after arriving home or leaving * Carry extra cash for bus, cab or other transportation * Remember: * Refuse to be a drug war victim. * No one has the right to attack you. * You have the right to defend yourself by fighting back if attacked. * Be aware of self-defense options and be prepared to use them. * Encourage friends to learn and practice self-defense. * Come to the aid of others who are attacked. Join the Resistance! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Count Me In! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm Subscribing, here's $20! My subscription to the Revolutionary Toker includes a copy of the GREEN PANTHERS! 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