1984 is Now Here in the USA. The NDAA is Clearly Unconstitutional... Infinite Detention Without Trial by Jury is in the 6th Amendment BUT... The SCOTUS Ruling was That The Government HAS THE RIGHT to Incarcerate American Citizens Indefinitely for Vague Charges... or NO CHARGES AT ALL...

NDAA is No Longer the subject of a Lawsuit. 

Trial by Jury is part of the 6th Amendment to the Constitution. 

Obama clearly signed a law that is UNCONSTITUTIONAL.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Defense_Authorization_Act_for_Fiscal_Year_2012

The most controversial provisions to receive wide attention were contained in subsections 1021–1022 of Title X, Subtitle D, entitled "Counter-Terrorism", authorizing the indefinite military detention of persons the government suspects of involvement in terrorism, including U.S. citizens arrested on American soil. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedges_v._Obama

The legislation permitted the U.S. government to indefinitely detain people "who are part of or substantially support Al Qaeda, the Taliban or associated forces engaged in hostilities against the United States".^[7] The plaintiffs contended that Section 1021(b)(2) of the law allows for detention of citizens and permanent residents taken into custody in the U.S. on "suspicion of providing substantial support" to groups engaged in hostilities against the U.S. such as al-Qaeda and the Taliban^[6] respectively that the NDAA arms the U.S. military with the ability to imprison indefinitely journalists, activists and human-rights workers based on vague allegations.^[8]

A federal court in New York issued a permanent injunction blocking the indefinite detention powers of the NDAA but the injunction was stayed by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals pending appeal by the Obama Administration. On July 17, 2013, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the district court's permanent injunction blocking the indefinite detention powers of the NDAA because the plaintiffs lacked legal standing to challenge the indefinite detention powers of the NDAA. The Supreme Court declined to hear the case on April 28, 2014, leaving the Second Circuit decision intact.^[9] 

http://www.zazzle.com/gregvan/1984+gifts

and NOW for something completely different..

and more FUN.

League for Spiritual Discovery:

http://www.zazzle.com/gregvan/lsd+gifts

What IS the League for Spiritual Discovery ?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/League_for_Spiritual_Discovery

The League was a BRAND NEW RELIGION that had as a HOLY SACRAMENT the chemical LSD. Founded by Dr. Timothy Leary to challenge the laws making LSD illegal. The plan was that there was pre-existing cases legalizing Peyote by the Native American Church, so why not LSD? Sadly, this plan didn't work... However it did inspire Leary to recommend that other individuals start their OWN religion...

Why SHOULD you found your own religion? Write your OWN Bible? Well, WHY NOT? It would be more LIKELY to work for you than a religion written by someone else thousands of years ago...

One of the first things you have to decide is: should you have followers? Is your place in the cosmos to BE Jesus, Buddha or KRSNA? Or... do you want your own religion to be a private affair? "Think for Yourself and Question Authority" - Timothy Leary Visit the "Official" website:

 http://www.discovertheleague.org/

Link to the Brotherhood of Eternal Love

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brotherhood_of_Eternal_Love

The Brotherhood was a Laguna Beach criminal organization

founded by surfers that smuggled Hashish into the USA from Mexico inside of hollowed out surfboards. A person that was talented enough to build their own surfboard would have an easy time creating one that had a space for contraband. Once the resin coating of the board has dried it is impossible to tell what is inside... Then they just put the boards on to the roof rack and drove across the border at Tijuana... A clever technique!

They also distributed a brand of LSD-25 called Orange Sunshine. One of the most popular brands created in the USA...

Famous for High Quality and LARGE Dose... The Brotherhood was hired by the Weather Underground to orchestrate Timothy Leary's Jailbreak... He was successful and moved to a foreign country called Algeria to live briefly with Eldridge Cleaver. What ever happened to The Documentary Movie called ORANGE SUNSHINE?

Link to Youtube Movie Trailer

Aldous Huxley wrote a book called ISLAND where he describes a psychedelic utopia... The Leary Group IFIF attempted to create this paradise in Mexico off the coast of Baja California... of course, it didn't work due to many different factors... but a second attempt was wildly successful... It's called Humboldt Nation and is situated on the North Coast of California.

You might be motivated to shout: EUREKA! I HAVE FOUND IT! If you look at the Official Seal of the great state of California, you will see a seated lady overlooking a bay with boats and the word Eureka... NOT KIDDING...

http://www.netstate.com/states/symb/seals/ca_seal.htm

It refers to the Gold Rush of 1849 when miners were supposedly quoting ancient Greek Mathemticians... A more likely phrase would have been YAHOO! But that would lead to copyright infringement... Yippie! was already taken by Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin's group Youth International Party.  

Legalize Medicinal Psychedelics: Let Doctors and Patients Decide for Themselves... Get Corrupt Politicians OUT of the Doctors Office... 

IMMIGRANTS MADE SILICON VALLEY... Sure, All the Famous Names in High Tech are White Men... BUT... Behind the Scenes... People From All Over The World Came Here... AND BUILT A MIRACLE.

Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniac, Bill Gates, Paul Allen, William Hewlett, David Packard, Gordon Moore, Andy Grove, Robert Noyce, Jack Kilby, Thomas Watson, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, William Shockley, Herman Hollerith, Alan Turing, John Von Neuman, Charles Babbage, Fibonacci, Nikola Tesla, Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell...  If You Don't Recognize any of These Names... Just Google Them! and be Thankful that Great White Men Created Electricity, Computers and the Internet!

HOWEVER... At INTEL... Tadashi Sasaki was a Japanese engineer who was influential in founding Busicom, driving the development of the Intel 4004 microprocessor... Engineers Vinod Dham and Rajeev Chandrasekhar were key figures on the core team that invented the 486 chip and later, Intel's signature Pentium chip. 

I worked In Silicon Valley in 1976...  

When I was working at System Industries in Santa Clara, California (1976) the owner of the company (Dr. Edwin Zschau) went to Japan to learn how to run a business.

They were doing very well in comparison to USA companies and there was a lot of interest in learning why. So we adopted many oriental concepts and implemented them in our business. One thing was that we had a company song. We had a birthday meeting every month and we would all sing the company song.

Lyrics:
"System, System Industries, Here we go, Hand in hand. Solving Data Mysteries for the betterment of man."

We had many people from foreign countries working there. Immigrants made our company better. That was a universal fact of life about Silicon Valley... The brightest engineers worldwide came here for work. I had a neighbor from Nicaragua who came to work at IBM. And another Engineer I knew came from Germany at the end of WW2 to work at Lockheed. Very Common.

In my office we had: Dan Aragaki, Steve Wakasuki, Jesus Del Real, Benjamin Aragaki, Ming Leon, Ben Yamada, Aman Kawaja... and ME... and Out on the Assembly Line it was all Oriental or Hispanic Women... 

~~~~~~ (~);-} ~~~~~~

So It Is Very Important to Allow Immigrants to Work and Study in the USA... 

The only way the United States can remain the world's most prosperous, powerful country is by embracing immigration. That's the inescapable conclusion from a new study published on Tuesday in the Lancet that predicts the world's population will peak far sooner than anticipated, and start shrinking before the end of this century.

There is, however, no guarantee that the US will embrace immigration, even to save itself. Domestic politics, currently inflamed by divisive nativist leaders, have turned immigration into a contested topic. A country that rose to historic heights of influence and prosperity by welcoming immigrants, is now led by a President who has weaponized the issue with unfathomable cruelty.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/15/opinions/global-population-decline-study-us-immigration-ghitis/index.html 

In reversal, federal government will allow international students to stay in the U.S. while taking only online classes. The repeal follows outspoken criticism from universities, legal experts and higher education advocates, who deemed the rules unfairly punitive for foreign students. 

Federal officials agreed to reverse the policy earlier Tuesday, federal judge Allison Burroughs announced at the hearing for a lawsuit filed by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology last week. National media outlets previously reported that the White House was considering scaling back the rule after blowback from dozens of universities across the country. https://www.texastribune.org/2020/07/14/international-students-online-classes/

Meetings with Remarkable Men - In Silicon Valley. Dr Edwin Van Wyck Zschau - President of System Industries. 

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/06/meetings-with-remarkable-men-in-silicon.html

History of Silicon Valley: Almaden - IBM's Successful Utopia. Near San Jose, California IBM built an IDEAL WORLD, Later, Silicon Valley was Built and The Light Rail Connected Almaden to The Rest... All the Way to NASA/Lockheed.

Far out in the farmlands south of town, IBM built a disk drive factory in the early 60's. They wanted to attract the world's finest talent so the built nice houses, shopping centers, a golf course, tennis club and swimming pool. This self contained utopia had everything a family could want... It is still there and functioning beautifully. Come visit sometime... it's wonderful.

Later, the entire city of San Jose became interested in computers. Silicon Valley was born.

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2017/06/almaden-ibms-successful-utopia.html

Great Movies: TRON and TRON Legacy. Science Fiction that takes us inside a computer to a Stunning Fantasy World. Computer Graphics Masterpiece... Partially filmed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory at the Shiva Nuclear Fusion experiment. 

https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/09/great-movies-tron-and-tron-legacy.html

Top 50 list of Famous Marijuana Smokers.

Top 50 list of influential people who smoked marijuana.

1. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA
"When I was a kid, I inhaled frequently. That was the point."
(Source: YouTube)

2. ASSOCIATE SUPREME COURT JUSTICE CLARENCE THOMAS
"The White House said today that Judge Clarence Thomas, President Bush's Supreme Court nominee, had smoked marijuana while in college."
(Source: New York Times)

3. PRESIDENT BILL CLINTON
"I experimented with marijuana a time or two."
(Source: YouTube)

4. PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
"I wouldn't answer the marijuana questions. You know why? Because I don't want some little kid doing what I tried."
(Source: New York Times)

5. MICHAEL PHELPS
“[Phelps] firmly denies that he takes drugs, suggesting that the notorious photo of him smoking from a bong was a one-time lapse of judgment.”
(Source: Huffington Post)

6. FORMER SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE, NEWT GINGRICH (R-GA)
"That was a sign we were alive and in graduate school in that era."
(Source: New York Magazine, May 1995 (p.42))

7. JON STEWART
“Do you know how many movies I wrote when I was high?”
(Source: The Daily Show)

8. GEORGE SOROS
"He said he had tried marijuana, enjoyed it, 'but it did not become a habit and I have not tasted it in many years.'"
(Source: Reuters, 2/6/97)

9. BILL GATES
“As for drugs – well, Gates was certainly not unusual there. Marijuana was the pharmaceutical of choice…”
(Source: Gates: How Microsoft's Mogul Reinvented an Industry--and Made Himself the Richest Man in America)

10. GEORGE CLOONEY
“The owner of a local cannabis café told reporters George Clooney was no stranger there.”
(Source: The Weed Blog)

11. LIBERTARIAN PARTY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE GARY JOHNSON
“In that state somebody came by and said, 'Gary? Would marijuana help do you think?' And my response was immediately, 'Yes, I don't know why I didn't think of it, but I think that would help immensely.' And it did."
(Source: Huffington Post)

12. LEBRON JAMES
“James also revealed he and his teammates smoked marijuana one night after getting access to a hotel room in Akron.”
(Source: ESPN)

13. MAYOR MICHAEL BLOOMBERG
''You bet I did. And I enjoyed it.''
(Source: New York Times)

14. SARAH PALIN
"I can't claim a Bill Clinton and say that I never inhaled.”
(Source: CBS News)

15. WOODY HARRELSON
“I do smoke… it’s about personal freedom… Seventy-two million people in this country have smoked pot…. These people should not be criminals.”
(Source: New York Daily News)

16. AL GORE
“Mr. Gore had said his cannabis consumption was 'infrequent and rare.'”
(Source: The Guardian)

17. BILL MAHER
"Look, I have never made a secret of the fact that I have tried marijuana... About 50,000 times."
(Source: YouTube)

18. WILLIE NELSON
“Don't tell me about health when you're talking about legalizing marijuana because it's not dangerous health-wise. I'm the canary in the mine, and I'm still healthy.”
(Source: The Guardian)

19. SNOOP DOGG (SNOOP LION)
“It makes me feel the way I need to feel.”
(Source: Esquire)

20. FORMER GOV. ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER (CA)
"I did smoke a joint and I did inhale."
(Source: CBS News)

21. MAYA ANGELOU
“Angelou settled into a job as a waitress and began smoking marijuana with abandon.”
(Source: Maya Angelou (Bloom's BioCritiques))

22. KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR
“Regular marijuana use didn't impede the ability of basketball legend… Kareem Abdul-Jabbar”
(Source: Forbes)

23. BRAD PITT
“I was hiding out from the celebrity thing, I was smoking way too much [marijuana].”
(Source: Daily Mail)

24. ANGELINA JOLIE
“… the one that has the worst effect for me was pot. I felt silly and giggly - I hate feeling like that.”
(Source: Metro)

25. HARRISON FORD
“At the 2002 NORML Conference, Bill Maher called for "prominent people... who smoke a lot of pot," like Ford.”
(Source: Celebstoner)

26. DAVID LETTERMAN
“I went through one period when I smoked a surprising, a really breath-taking, amount of grass almost every night.”
(Source: Cannabis Culture)

27. JACK NICHOLSON
“The hard drugs are gone, but he continues… to smoke cannabis.”
(Source: Daily Mail)

28. JEFF BRIDGES
“If it's (marijuana) offered I'll take it but I'm not a regular smoker, despite what people may think.”
(Source: azcentral.com)

29. OLIVER STONE
“I went to Vietnam, and I was there for a long time. [Using marijuana] made the difference between staying human or, as Michael Douglas said, becoming a beast.”
(Source: The Raw Story)

30. JOHNNY DEPP
"I'm not a great pothead or anything like that… but weed is much, much less dangerous than alcohol."
(Source: Celebstoner)

31. BOB DYLAN
“Bob Dylan introduced Sir Paul to marijuana in the mid-Sixties after discovering the Beatle was a 'pot virgin.'”
(Source: The Telegraph)

32. MORGAN FREEMAN
"Never give up the ganja."
(Source: The Guardian)

33. JACK BLACK
“There is an occasional celebratory jay, but it's not a wake-and-bake scenario anymore at all.”
(Source: Huffington Post)

34. SETH ROGEN
“I smoked a lot of weed growing up.”
(Source: High Times)

35. MATT DAMON
“The first time I smoked was at home with my mother and step-father.”
(Source: Weed Quotes)

36. CONAN O'BRIEN
“I’ve tried pot, but it doesn’t do much for me.”
(Source: Pink is the New Blog)

37. ROBERT DOWNEY JR.
“Robert Downey Jr. said he started smoking weed at age 8.”
(Source: NBC - New York)

38. JENNIFER ANISTON
“I enjoy it once in a while. There is nothing wrong with that. Everything in moderation. I wouldn't call myself a pot-head.”
(Source: Daily Mail)

39. BILL MURRAY
“Arrested and convicted for possessing nine pounds of marijuana in 1970.”
(Source: Celebstoner)

40. HUGH HEFNER
“Smoking helped put me in touch with the realm of the senses.”
(Source: Schaffer Library of Drug Policy)

41. TOMMY CHONG
“Legalizing marijuana means a lot more to me than just smoking a joint. I want to be able to use cannabis to treat my cancer without being arrested.”
(Source: CNN)

42. CHEECH MARIN
“Q: Do you even smoke pot? A: Yeah, every once in a while, I’m Cheech!”
(Source: Yahoo News)

43. ROBIN WILLIAMS
“When we were growing up we knew the side effects of the drugs we were taking… marijuana, side effects were laughter, Frosted Flakes.”
(Source: HBO.com)

44. WHOOPI GOLDBERG
“Smoking cigarettes and pot every now and then are my habits.”
(Source: New York Post)

45. FORMER GOV. JESSE VENTURA (MN)
“I grew up in the '60s. If you grew up in the '60s and say you didn't smoke pot, you are either a liar or you really didn't grow up in the '60s.”
(Source: YouTube)

46. STEPHEN KING
“I don't smoke very much marijuana at all anymore, because I'm afraid of additives, which come from decontrol and deregulation.”
(Source: High Times)

47. BRUCE WILLIS
"I only liked pot, though. I smoked a lot of pot and when I wasn't acting, I was out dancing every night.”
(Source: Ask Men)

48. NEIL YOUNG
"I try not to smoke too much. I don't want to set a bad example for the kids."
(Source: Celebstoner)

49. MONTEL WILLIAMS
“… and I will [use marijuana for medical reasons] every day until I drop dead.”
(Source: YouTube)

50. CARLOS SANTANA
“Santana built this place in 1983, about when he began smoking marijuana after 10 years of abstinence.”
(Source: CBS News)

and... Popeye the Sailor man. "Spinach" in his pipe gave him power.


You are not alone... It is estimated that over 50% of adults in the USA are criminals.