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President Obama Bans the Gifting of Some Military-Style Equipment to Police

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Mon, May 18th, 2015

No more playing war on citizens with federally funded military-style equipment for local police. So says President Obama. Police need to have a “guardian”, not a warrior, mind-set about their communities.

The DEA Has Become Too Powerful as a Lobbying Force to Keep the Disastrous War on Drugs

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Sun, Mar 10th, 2013

This week, no less than eight former directors of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) signed onto a public letter to two Senators accusing the Obama Administration of abandoning the War on Drugs simply because he has indicated he plans to largely respect the decisions of voters in Colorado and Washington when they legalized marijuana in…