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President Obama and the BIG JOINT, together in Canberra, at last. The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds. - John Maynard Keynes It seems that the recent campaign mounted by Lismore City Council to have President Obama visit Nimbin has been unsuccessful, and so, it has been proposed that we do what we were going to do before Lismore Councils got involved and that's take our world famous Big Joint and the Obama Banner pictured above "to" President Obama when he speaks at Parliament House in Canberra on Tuesday afternoon, March 23rd. It's time to go back to the "Big House" one more time, this time with a wireless webcamera to bear witness. We are sure hoping that one of the things President Obama is coming to Australia to speak with to our Parliament about is his position on Medical Marijuana. And if not, why not? President Obamas support in allowing the medical cannabis dispensaries in America to get established has energized us like never before and we are keener than ever to get this issue onto our politicians desks and have it dealt with once and for all. It's a realistic dream, we have never been this close to total Global Cannabis Law Reform, never been this close to a commonsense End to Marijuana Prohibition. SPEAKING TO THE DEMONSTRATION on Tuesday MARCH 23rd. The first question I need to answer is "Are we prepared to once again climb the Mount Everest of political activism in Australia?" I'd say most positively YES!!! The Big Joint crew just successfully completed a mission to the Gay and Lesbian MardiGras parade which was in "lock down- anti terrorist mode" in February, indeed, it was the most secure thing I ever saw. 1,000 N.S.W police, 2,000 security in black shirts and bullet proof sunglasses with plugs in their ears and over 5,000 brown shirted parade officials, plus representatives of the army, navy and the air force in and out of uniform. And everyone, including the global
television audience, all saw the Big Joint with over 150 members of the
Australian Federal Police marching ahead of it, as if in solidarity. I'm sure
it looked like the police was dancing with joy, as if
in celebration of the pot laws being changed!!! So I feel totally
relaxed about 'dealing' with the levels of security as it relates to the
Big Joint Demonstration in the Authorized Assembly Area. (A.A.A.) Bottom Line? This webspace will feature a 'live as we go along' type webcamera / blog because that's the way we been doing it since 1996 and it's the only way we can do it on the almost zero budget at our disposal.
THE TIME WE
TOOK THE BIG JOINT TO THE N.P.I.C
For those who have come in late; Part 1. The Polite Force is becoming one of the most successful propaganda weapons we have ever assembled, how successful? Highly! If you can remember and if you were there, no matter where you went during MardiGrass 09, any time day or night, everywhere you cared to look you could see a POLITE hat or a member of the POLITE FORCE staging a succession of what where in essence, and by design, Avante-garde Tableau Vivants: Avant-garde means "advance guard" or "vanguard", the adjective form is used in English to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics. Avant-garde represents a pushing of the boundaries of what is accepted as the norm or the status quo, primarily in the cultural realm. The notion of the existence of the avant-garde is considered by some to be a hallmark of modernism, as distinct from postmodernism. Tableau vivant is French for "living picture." The term describes a striking group of suitably costumed actors or artist's models, carefully posed and often theatrically lit. Throughout the duration of the display, the people shown do not speak or move. The approach thus marries the art forms of the stage with those of painting / photography. Each tableux capturing the POLICE - POLITE message, thousands and thousands of photographs of the POLITE FORCE have now become part of the public domain, the concept is out there and thriving on facebook and youtube, indeed the POLITE Cannabis Activists from Nimbin have already become a global phenomena and part of cannabis law reform legend.
For those who have come in late; Part 2. The plan is point out the POTential revenue that would be raised by the HEMP revolution, please keep uppermost in mind we are not talking about a government tax on home grown cannabis for personal use, we are talking about the revenue that will be generated by the hemp Agri business - Fibre, Fuel and Food. Number One carbon scrubbing plant on the planet, I repeat, Hemp is the NUMBER ONE Carbon scrubbing plant on the planet. Hemp is stronger and requires far less fertilizer than, say, cotton; being naturally insect repellent, and having few insect predators capable of effectively attacking it, it needs little to no pe$ticide$. As food, hemp seed is right up there with the Soya bean for nutrition and a lot more versatile. Since Hemp seed is the only food source that has the vital Omega Acids 3, 6 and 9 it can help reduce humanities reliance on fish, currently the main source of omega acid. I should also add that cannabis has a growing reputation amongst cancer patients as a wonder drug and it's 'miracle cure' reputation for breast and prostate cancer has been scientifically verified since the last time we took the BigJoint to Canberra. Another example? How about old growth Tasmanian forest being sold as wood chips for a couple of dollars a tonne. Irreplaceable forest for a measly $2 per tonne. If the government were to legislate a redeployment of the 'woodchip' industry into the 'hemp industry, within a few years the HEMPchip industry will be churning out high quality pulp and what's left of the old growth could stay alive until someone wants to pay its real value; $200,000,000 a tonne. Since a hemp seed is 35% oil, containing the highest oil percentage of all seeds, hempseed is ideal for bio diesel and when the sustainability of a bio diesel industry is compared to the unstable future of the oil business, case closed, I mean the price of oil has never come down in my lifetime, hemp based fuel could save Australia billions and billions of dollars. Still yet another example? Hemp is being used in the Ukraine around Chernobyl to absorb radioactive isotopes from the soil. That's just some of the reasons. Stimulate the Economy, cure cancer, save the trees and fish, reduce our dependency on oil and clean up nuclear waste........... I am not making this up, cross check all this info on Google. Bottom Line? We do not want cannabis legalized just so we can sit around and smoke pot all day long, we have common sense reasons why 'out door' cannabis should be relegalized so that all Australians can benefit from this wonderful plant, indeed, from a global perspective, no other country on earth stands to gain as much as Australia does by relegalizing the hemp plant in this time of Global Economic Turmoil. We have the acreage, the sunlight and the willing workers required to become the earths leading supplier of hemp for Fibre, Fuel, Food and Medicine.
till next update....
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