WHEN the Democrats screw the Obama nomination at the convention you will want and need alternatives. Here is one alternative.

Former Georgia congresswoman Cynthis McKinney, running for the Green Party presidential nomination in 2008, has published a manifesto of her values as a candidate. Following are her positions in opposition to the oppression that is the war on drugs and against the United States of America's authoritarian prison industrial complex.

Green Party candidate Cynthia McKinney

When, like Obama has, you adopt the arguments and policies of the oppressors in order to be accepted by the supporters of continued oppression then those who really do oppose oppression win nothing by supporting an Obama.

Rev. Wright, like Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks before him, confronted the institutions of continued racist oppression in America. Obama denounced the Rev. Wright for doing the right thing. Rev. Wright is called divisive by the racists of the status quo for confronting and pointing out the continued institutions of racism in America. This, pure and simple, is adopting the arguments of the racists who attack as racist anyone like Rev. Wright who confronts the manifestations of racism in America.

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In an effort to maintain a high level of critical thinking when looking at Democrat and Republican candidates, especially presidential candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, I have had some intense and in-depth debates with some war policy reform advocates who I have the greatest respect for. I know they have decades of experience with this atrocity of a policy and their perspectives are informed not only by a passionate antipathy toward the policy but also by their own aggressive investigative research into the causes and effects of the war on drugs.

(I don't waste much time with the authoritarian Jim Crow Republican candidates. Except for the much maligned and Republican Party subverted campaign of Congressman Ron Paul Republicans have nothing to contribute to social justice, human rights or civil liberties in America in terms of drug war policy. Republicans are, even more than the Democrats, the problem not the solution.)

Here is a recent interview, that I've posted on my blog, with Ralph Nader where Nader adroitly articulates his reasons for running for president again in 2008. He also analyzes Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in context with his social justice values. Values that I share 100%.

Nader Interview on Obama, The Clinton's and Democrats today

Since 1996 Ralph Nader has run for president of the United States not to win but to inject into the campaigns social values too long missing from the Democratic candidates policies and platforms. Last week Ralph Nader opened an exploratory campaign for the 2008 presidential election.

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OR: Why do Jim Crow Democrats eat our young

The Jim Crow/Dixie-crat/Blue Dog Democrats, who support the war on drugs, have been supporting the mass electoral disenfranchisement of minorities and poverty oppressed urban Americans since Bill Clinton gave us a world record prison population in America. So many traditional core Democratic constituents have been disenfranchised or have become disaffected by this policy that not even a Black candidate like Obama campaigns to the poor and Black communities anymore because he knows that these communities are no longer politically viable thanks to three dozen years of drug war electoral suppression and repression. This is why all of the leading Democrats of the past dozen years have campaigned most to the "middle class", which is a euphemism for rural white, rather than to traditional Democratic territory pluralistic urban interests.

This past July, after citing a litany of social problems that they attribute to the war on drugs, the U.S. Conference of Mayors passed the following resolution:

"NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the United States Conference of Mayors believes the war on drugs has failed and calls for a New Bottom Line in U.S. drug policy, a public health approach that concentrates more fully on reducing the negative consequences associated with drug abuse, while ensuring that our policies do not exacerbate these problems or create new social problems of their own; establishes quantifiable, short- and long-term objectives for drug policy; saves taxpayer money; and holds state and federal agencies accountable..." U.S. mayors call for end to drug war

America's mayors are the drug war front line elected executives who must mop up the blood in our streets and repair the social damage done to urban America by the federal prohibition against regulating  distribution to the $ 144 billion U.S. consumer demand for intoxicant drugs.

"Progressive Dennis Kucinich takes over a new House subcommittee, signaling changes in national drug policy"
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"Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other members of the Democratic leadership have effectively embargoed major crime or drug policy legislation for the next two years, to avoid looking soft on crime in the 2008 election."
A Change in the Weather
The Los Angeles City Beat
02-01-07

"Frankly, I fail to see how it protects children to make them run the gauntlet of their formative years between addict peer dealers, gangsters and social predators on one side. On the other; police, prison and mandatory minimums of anal rape tough love if the children don't 'just say no'. The fact is kids are not physically capable of making that decision. According to the director of the National Institutes on Drug Abuse Dr. Nora Volkow, "When teenagers fail to just say no to drugs, Dr. Nora Volkow blames their brains, not their willpower -- they lack links between some crucial brain regions that won't fully form until they're adults." Nancy Pelosi's phony 'for the children' politics

"Like deer in the headlights most Democrats seeking the White House in 2008 are deathly afraid of questioning the status quo of America's failed drug war policy. But it is that very policy that is fostering more crime, violence, addiction and corruption in American society.

"Over seventy percent of all crime is drug-related." House Government Reform Committee, Chairman Dan Burton, R-IN, December 12, 2002"
Why Democrats & Speaker Pelosi are soft-on-crime

(Reich-wing Democrat) "Sen. Bob Casey Jr. said Wednesday he is open to the idea of a temporary troop increase in Iraq...."

Throughout the primary and general election I took endless garbage from Democrats for my pointing out that Bob Casey has never disavowed either the Iraq War or escalating that war. I refused to support Casey for this reason. Instead I supported the ONLY candidate who absolutely opposed the Iraq war, Green Party candidate Carl Romanelli.

The Democrats spent millions of dollars to keep Pennsylvanians who oppose the Iraq War from ever hearing the alternative perspective of Carl Romanelli. They smeared him. They slandered him. They demagogued and attacked bitterly those of us who saw reality and opposed Bob Casey.

Now you idiot sycophant Democrats have a U.S. senator in Bob Casey who will absolutely get more of Pennsylvania's children killed in the sand and cities of Iraq.

Congratulations Pennsylvania Democrats. You are officially the dumbest voters on the planet.

Support for the Iraq war is an act of treason against the national security, public health and public safety United States of America!

TREASON!

The Philadelphia Daily News piece, Philly's drug dealers: Younger all the time AS DEADLY YEAR NEARS THE END, A LOOK AT 2 OF THE HUNDREDS OF TEENS WHO SELL DOPE bemoans how children in the drug trade are getting ever younger. As if this should be some kind of surprise. Why not? After all, the drug black market exists due to the same economic social engineering policy that the alcohol prohibition was based on in the Roaring Twenties of the last century. A big part of why America ended the alcohol prohibition was because of how it corrupted children.

The drug black market is all economics and America's politicians are STUPID! The Democrats and Republicans all think that they can deprive children of all other opportunity while at the same time demanding that those children not use their God given initiative to work and make money.

The city of Philadelphia has a $ 700 million economy that under-employed and under-educated young people are told to stay away from......

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At my LeftIndependent blog regarding the FBI crime report this week:  

The Washington Post reported that "Violent Crime Is Up For 2nd Straight Year"

"A surge in violent crime that began last year accelerated in the first half of 2006, the FBI reported yesterday, providing the clearest signal yet that the historic drop in the U.S. crime rate has ended and is being reversed."

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"While no one is certain of the causes, experts cited an increase in the number of young men in their crime-prone years, diminished crime-fighting assistance from the federal government, fewer jobs for people with marginal skills and even the ongoing growth in methamphetamine use in some places."

Most crime is economic. People in poverty oppressed communities that are today being pressured by Chinese competition and illegal immigration for low wage factory jobs in our cities instead turn to the $ 144 billion illicit black market for drugs that entices them into America's criminal subculture. As long as drugs are illegal the black market will grow, thrive and induce poor people to turn to a life of crime for personal economic viability. It is prohibition economics. the same prohibition economics that wisely motivated America to abandon the alcohol prohibition of the last century's Roaring Twenties.

MORE>>>> More Violent Crime - A Drug War Economic Success Story

Thanks to the folks at TalkLeft blog for finding this tidbit on GOP wanna-be 'Jim Crow Joe' Biden.

The Associated Press reports in the Wilmington Star that Delaware's United States senator, 'Jim Crow Joe' Biden, in a 2008 presidential campaign stop in the deep South of Columbia, S.C. told a Republican audience: 'Biden noted Delaware was a border state and "a slave state that fought beside the North. That's only because we couldn't figure out how to get to the South - there were a couple of other states in the way."

So Biden would have preferred it if his state had fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War. Why am I not surprised? Democratic U.S. senator Jim Crow Joe thinks the state of Delaware should have been on the other side of the Mason-Dixon line. What a thug!

MORE: 'Jim Crow Joe' Biden from Delaware

The Christian Science Monitor has produced a massive three part report, Rethinking Plan Colombia, on the status of Plan Colombia, one of America's forgotten wars that still lingers on. Endlessly killing and sucking billions of dollars down a black hole while costing Colombia and America the lives of our best and most dedicated citizens who become counter-narcotics agents only to be ripped from life violently.

The Monitor enumerates all of the minutia of hectares of coca sprayed. And the billions spent on helicopters, mercenaries and in creating the second largest U.S. embassy in the world. All seemingly, to no avail in reducing either the supply or the demand.

The Monitor never once touches on the economic heart of the issue. Nor do they look at all at the totality of the causes and effects of the drug war policy. A policy that Plan Colombia is only one very small part of.

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Last week it came to light that a Northampton Co. PA juvenile court judge, the Hon. William F. Moran, told a white kid he was lucky because minority kids would probably get treated worse in court for the same crime. He was attempting to raise the larger question of "invidious racism" in the American criminal justice system.

I wrote four pieces defending the judge and expanding on the issue of racism in American justice. The forth essay is:

The invidious economics of Jim Crow

"Undereducated and poverty oppressed children, with little in the way of economic opportunity in the Lehigh Valley, today face anarchy in the totally unregulated enticement of an annual $ 295 million retail black market in illicit drugs. A $ 6 billion black market state wide annually. Children are expected to run the gauntlet of their formative years between addict peers, gangsters and predators, offering them economic opportunity, power and high on one side. Minimum wage, police, criminal laws, prison and the threat of mandatory minimums of anal rape tough love on the other to dissuade them from the glamor, glory and riches of drug market profits."