Americans who enjoy this movie forget that its violence could not be possible had America not outlawed the coca plant worldwide, in violation of the natural law upon which America was founded. Its sad that America creates this kind of violence and then, instead of feeling guilty about it, they create "entertainment" like this so that they can spend their spare time thrilling to the chaos that they themselves have created. Movies like this for Americans are like gladiator contests for the Romans: a way to delight in the violence that one's own culture has created.
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Colombiana
(2011)
More entertainment courtesy of America's imperialistic war on plant medicine
16 February 2022
Hart to Hart: Old Friends Never Die
(1994 TV Movie)
Missed opportunity for a spin-off
21 December 2021
Warning: Spoilers
Despite the ridiculously complicated plot to kill Jonathan -- which seemed to involve first killing everybody EXCEPT Jonathan -- this feature contains an hilarious but all-too-short sequence with an Hawaiian Detective named Whoo, whose laconic and deadpan responses to witness testimony are hilarious and should have prompted producers to create a whole new detective series around the man. He even as his own catchphrase: "Whoo knows. Whoo," he says mysteriously, with only the hint of a smile on his face, as he points to his own temple.
The following snippet of dialogue gives some idea of the sort of dry humor evoked by Detective Whoo (whom Jennifer keeps mistakenly referring to as Woo):
ALFRED: His name was Harold Simpson.
WHOO: Is, Mr. Raine. His name IS Harold Simpson. Because a man has died doesn't mean his name has changed.
ALFRED: Fine.
WHOO: And I understand he was one of your invited guests?
ALFRED: Yes. Yes, he was... IS an aspiring author.
WHOO: WAS an aspiring author, Mr. Raine.
Being dead, it seems unlikely he'll write many more books.
The following snippet of dialogue gives some idea of the sort of dry humor evoked by Detective Whoo (whom Jennifer keeps mistakenly referring to as Woo):
ALFRED: His name was Harold Simpson.
WHOO: Is, Mr. Raine. His name IS Harold Simpson. Because a man has died doesn't mean his name has changed.
ALFRED: Fine.
WHOO: And I understand he was one of your invited guests?
ALFRED: Yes. Yes, he was... IS an aspiring author.
WHOO: WAS an aspiring author, Mr. Raine.
Being dead, it seems unlikely he'll write many more books.
Crisis
(I) (2021)
More Drug War Propaganda
11 March 2021
More Drug War propaganda in which the DEA violates the constitution with glee, in an effort to fight a problem of its own making. Earth to DEA: prohibition causes the violence that you are fighting. Drugs are not the problem: the DEA and the Drug War are the problem. A truly scientific nation would not criminalize plants and lace marijuana with a weed killer that causes Parkinson's disease. (DEA HEAD JOHN C LAWN IS A CRIMINAL WHO SHOULD HAVE BEEN TURNED OVER TO THE HAGUE FOR WAR CRIMES AGAINST HIS OWN PEOPLE.) They would study plants in order to benefit from psychoactive substances. Marcus Aurelius used opium. So did Marco Polo and Benjamin Franklin. Sigmund Freud thought cocaine was a godsend for his depression. Plato, Aristotle, Cicero and Plutarch were all influenced by the psychedelic-fueled Eleusinian Mysteries. The entire Vedic religion was founded to worship a psychoactive plant. Yet Empire America decides that Mother Nature's plant medicines are now "evil drugs." What superstitious nonsense, which conveniently can't be debunked since the DEA bans study on the plants that they vilify and criminalize.
The Drug War is Christian Science, the religion that says we should be able to do without medicine. For Nancy Reagan wasn't the first to tell us to say no to Mother Nature's godsends, it was Mary Baker Eddy, founder of Christian Science: A RELIGION. Moreover, Jefferson was rolling in his grave when the mendacious DEA stomped onto Monticello in 1987 and confiscated the ex-president's poppy plants, in violation of the natural law upon which Jefferson founded America.
The "most popular" review of this movie totes the drug war line, talking about the evil that 'drugs" do to society. Nonsense. Drugs are AMORAL. Substance misuse calls for education and research, not for a war on substances. If a friend of Marco Polo's had OD'd on drugs, Polo wouldn't have blamed the substance, he would have blamed the idiocy of the user and called for better education. Yet "scientific" America demonizes substances, and enforces Christian Science Sharia, forcing everyone to say no to mother nature's godsends, and then goes overseas and burns the plants that we detest in an act of outrageous imperialism. All because men like racist Harry Anslinger and company first demonized a plant in 1914. Anslinger: the nasty drug enforcer who hounded Josephine Baker to her death -- not because she used heroin but to keep her from singing songs that offended white America.
American Drug Warriors are sick with a kind of puritanical scientism: they're all for Elon Musk's plans to computerize our brain, but they're scared to death of improving our minds with the plant medicine that grows at our very feet. So they demonize it and insist that it can do no good for anybody -- all lies, lies, lies. The only drugs that "fry the brain" are Big Pharma pills that are harder to kick than heroin and dull the brain rather than allowing the user to achieve self-actualization. But Americans have been completely bamboozled by 50+ years of drug war lies and censorship. That's why I'm probably the only one to pan this movie for its insipid anti-American message, which encourages us to fight a war that was created by racist laws -- in violation of Natural Law, a drug war that represents the establishment of religion. So thanks to all involved for a horrible anti-American movie that treats the despicable lying DEA as heroes -- the same DEA that has kept godsend meds from the elderly and depressed for half a century now. Thanks for the ruined lives. Thanks for the Mexican Drug War. Thanks for the Colombian Drug War. Thanks for the Drug Cartels. Thanks for the drive-by shootings. Thanks for leaving my mother nothing but addictive drugs in her old age. Take a bow, Gary Oldman. (For shame.)
Hey, I know: if we must have a drug war, fine. Let's ban alcohol and cigarettes and have regular drug tests for these substances in the workplace. Anyone found with even a trace of these substances should be removed from the American workforce at once. Now, THAT's a drug war that I could get behind: one that punishes the use of only the most deadly substances of all. But hypocritical white protestant drug warriors don't want to punish people like themselves -- that's why they can ban psychedelics with a straight face, even though they have to rout through the backstacks at the library to find any incidences of death from such substances, meanwhile the newspaper screams every day of new deaths via alcohol and cigs. If all plants were legal (imagine that!) and Americans were educated, no one in their right mind would buy highly addictive substances to seek personal transcendence. The DEA makes all the horror happen by outlawing godsend meds, thereby making a market for the hard stuff -- because Drug War dogma to the contrary, human beings have always sought self-transcendence and always will. When you rule out the safe stuff, they'll go to the hard stuff. So when the DEA fights opioids, it's like an arsonist returning to the scene of the crime to help put out the fire. Earth to DEA: you're causing all the evil that you pretend to be combating!
PS
Notice how the DEA agent walks up to a black man in the movie and kicks him in the groin -- for no apparent reason other than the fact that the DEA agent is furious -- and self-righteously so, despite the fact that folks like himself are causing all the problems that he's encountering. And we wonder why George Floyd was killed. It's because the Drug War has police constantly looking for trouble rather than sitting back and waiting for folks to actually misbehave. The Drug War, in fact, is the punishment of pre-crime. Let's start behaving like every other civilized country in the past: let's keep plants legal and punish folks for actual bad behavior instead. Let's finally learn the lesson that Prohibition taught us: prohibition causes violence.
The Drug War is Christian Science, the religion that says we should be able to do without medicine. For Nancy Reagan wasn't the first to tell us to say no to Mother Nature's godsends, it was Mary Baker Eddy, founder of Christian Science: A RELIGION. Moreover, Jefferson was rolling in his grave when the mendacious DEA stomped onto Monticello in 1987 and confiscated the ex-president's poppy plants, in violation of the natural law upon which Jefferson founded America.
The "most popular" review of this movie totes the drug war line, talking about the evil that 'drugs" do to society. Nonsense. Drugs are AMORAL. Substance misuse calls for education and research, not for a war on substances. If a friend of Marco Polo's had OD'd on drugs, Polo wouldn't have blamed the substance, he would have blamed the idiocy of the user and called for better education. Yet "scientific" America demonizes substances, and enforces Christian Science Sharia, forcing everyone to say no to mother nature's godsends, and then goes overseas and burns the plants that we detest in an act of outrageous imperialism. All because men like racist Harry Anslinger and company first demonized a plant in 1914. Anslinger: the nasty drug enforcer who hounded Josephine Baker to her death -- not because she used heroin but to keep her from singing songs that offended white America.
American Drug Warriors are sick with a kind of puritanical scientism: they're all for Elon Musk's plans to computerize our brain, but they're scared to death of improving our minds with the plant medicine that grows at our very feet. So they demonize it and insist that it can do no good for anybody -- all lies, lies, lies. The only drugs that "fry the brain" are Big Pharma pills that are harder to kick than heroin and dull the brain rather than allowing the user to achieve self-actualization. But Americans have been completely bamboozled by 50+ years of drug war lies and censorship. That's why I'm probably the only one to pan this movie for its insipid anti-American message, which encourages us to fight a war that was created by racist laws -- in violation of Natural Law, a drug war that represents the establishment of religion. So thanks to all involved for a horrible anti-American movie that treats the despicable lying DEA as heroes -- the same DEA that has kept godsend meds from the elderly and depressed for half a century now. Thanks for the ruined lives. Thanks for the Mexican Drug War. Thanks for the Colombian Drug War. Thanks for the Drug Cartels. Thanks for the drive-by shootings. Thanks for leaving my mother nothing but addictive drugs in her old age. Take a bow, Gary Oldman. (For shame.)
Hey, I know: if we must have a drug war, fine. Let's ban alcohol and cigarettes and have regular drug tests for these substances in the workplace. Anyone found with even a trace of these substances should be removed from the American workforce at once. Now, THAT's a drug war that I could get behind: one that punishes the use of only the most deadly substances of all. But hypocritical white protestant drug warriors don't want to punish people like themselves -- that's why they can ban psychedelics with a straight face, even though they have to rout through the backstacks at the library to find any incidences of death from such substances, meanwhile the newspaper screams every day of new deaths via alcohol and cigs. If all plants were legal (imagine that!) and Americans were educated, no one in their right mind would buy highly addictive substances to seek personal transcendence. The DEA makes all the horror happen by outlawing godsend meds, thereby making a market for the hard stuff -- because Drug War dogma to the contrary, human beings have always sought self-transcendence and always will. When you rule out the safe stuff, they'll go to the hard stuff. So when the DEA fights opioids, it's like an arsonist returning to the scene of the crime to help put out the fire. Earth to DEA: you're causing all the evil that you pretend to be combating!
PS
Notice how the DEA agent walks up to a black man in the movie and kicks him in the groin -- for no apparent reason other than the fact that the DEA agent is furious -- and self-righteously so, despite the fact that folks like himself are causing all the problems that he's encountering. And we wonder why George Floyd was killed. It's because the Drug War has police constantly looking for trouble rather than sitting back and waiting for folks to actually misbehave. The Drug War, in fact, is the punishment of pre-crime. Let's start behaving like every other civilized country in the past: let's keep plants legal and punish folks for actual bad behavior instead. Let's finally learn the lesson that Prohibition taught us: prohibition causes violence.
Drug War
(2012)
More Custom-Made Violence from Richard Nixon
20 February 2021
Drug War movies are just modern Gladiator Shows for American Drug Warriors. Producers of such films exploit the violence created by the absurd Drug War for personal gain. Americans, used to urinating for employment, fail to realize that the Drug War is simply the enforcement of Christian Science Sharia -- Christian Science: the religion that says we have a moral obligation to renounce the medicines of Mother Nature. The Drug War is corrupt. No other society has ever scapegoated substances like this to turn ordinary people into criminals. Producers should stop exploiting it. And movie reviewers should stop treating these movies as if the Drug War that prompted the action was somehow moral and common sense. Thomas Jefferson didn't think so -- and he was rolling in his grave when the DEA confiscated his poppy plants, the same DEA that has been lying about psychoactive plant medicine for the last 50 years. Enough drug war propaganda movies, already.
Episode demonstrates what's wrong with America's Drug War
25 July 2020
Jake and Malachy place a metal waste basket over a drug suspect's head and start banging it with metal tools, in order to elicit testimony. Malachy frets that it may cause the suspect brain damage, but he's just joking: Jake and Malachy are obviously enjoying themselves. This shows what the Drug War has done to American (and Canadian) principles: it has thrown the idea of "due process" out the window and allowed us to behave like Nazis towards folks who sell substances of which politicians disapprove. What next? Concentration camps for drug suspects? Because they filled the niche that we stupidly created for them with our unprecedented drug war? Let's put a metal can over the head of alcoholic drug warriors and see how they like it. (This comment will be deleted, of course, America being a drug warrior society through and through.)
Drug War propaganda
24 July 2020
Yet another RoD episode that focuses on the modern boogieman of 'drugs' -- a problem custom-created by racist American politicians as a way to keep citizens' minds off of social problems and bad legislation -- such as the drug war itself, that creates violence and addiction out of whole cloth by outlawing the psychoactive plants of mother nature, shunting users off onto far more addictive drugs, creating the Oxy addicts featured in this episode, who then empower and enrich government through the purchase of methadone -- the same government whose drug war lies and plant criminalization led to the addiction in the first place. (I can only hope that the usual drug war instinct for censorship won't result in IMDB suppressing this review. They surely wouldn't censor a review that decried racism in a film -- why should I be blocked for decrying a public policy that leads to a million minority arrests a year -- for mere possession of mother nature's plants?!)
Yet another plot whose violence is all the result of America's Drug War
3 June 2020
Warning: Spoilers
Like the majority of episodes of Republic of Doyle, all the violence in this episode was created out of whole cloth by America's Drug War Sharia. Had America not begun criminalizing plants back in 1914 in violation of natural law, Republic of Doyle (and countless shows like it) could not exist. In this case, Jake and author Garrison Steele attempt to clear MMA fighter Vince Bragg of murder charges for which he's taking the fall, not realizing that the powers-that-be are selling plant medicines (ooh, I mean they're selling "drugs," of course). One wonders how many shows like this would be left if police could only arrest people for actually behaving badly, rather than for the pre-crime of possessing substances of which racist politicians disapprove.
Naive and unrealistic plot
29 May 2020
Warning: Spoilers
In this episode, drug researcher Dr. Ng is suspected in the attempted murder of Psychiatrist Jennifer Sullivan. Why? Because she is slowing the approval process of Ng's new psychedelic drug for use in psychiatry.
If the script writers knew more about the drug war, they would know that the approval process for any psychedelic drug is already going to be glacially slow, without the help of any nay-saying psychiatrist. The DEA has been fighting to shut down research on such drugs for over four decades, and they have yet to ease up significantly, even though the evidence from the last 60 years is that psychedelic therapy can do more to combat alcoholism and depression in one afternoon than the addictive drugs of Big Pharma can do in a lifetime.
Therefore it's quite amusing when Jake speculates that Dr. Sullivan is the only thing standing between Dr. Ng and "a truckload of cash." Alas, were that only the case! Then America might no longer be the most depressed (and addicted) country on earth, with 1 in 8 American males and 1 in 4 American females addicted to antidepressants - many of which are harder to quit than heroin (source: psychiatrist-author Julie Holland).
If the script writers knew more about the drug war, they would know that the approval process for any psychedelic drug is already going to be glacially slow, without the help of any nay-saying psychiatrist. The DEA has been fighting to shut down research on such drugs for over four decades, and they have yet to ease up significantly, even though the evidence from the last 60 years is that psychedelic therapy can do more to combat alcoholism and depression in one afternoon than the addictive drugs of Big Pharma can do in a lifetime.
Therefore it's quite amusing when Jake speculates that Dr. Sullivan is the only thing standing between Dr. Ng and "a truckload of cash." Alas, were that only the case! Then America might no longer be the most depressed (and addicted) country on earth, with 1 in 8 American males and 1 in 4 American females addicted to antidepressants - many of which are harder to quit than heroin (source: psychiatrist-author Julie Holland).
Running with the Devil
(2019)
Another Hollywood Drug War Movie that Celebrates Torture and Hypocrisy
30 October 2019
Warning: Spoilers
Another attempt by Hollywood to glamorize the perverse logic of America's drug war. Notice how the hypocritical DEA agent "hero" happily TORTURES her witness, and then has the nerve to tell a man who's selling NATURALLY-OCCURRING SUBSTANCES that he's "dirt." Is this what American values have come to, thanks to our government's decision to criminalize Mother Nature? Why is Natalia Reyes' character on a high horse when the Drug War is quashing research on valuable drugs for depression -- and single-handedly creating the violence that the DEA sets out to fight? Hey, here's an idea: re-legalize MOTHER NATURE and then fight BAD BEHAVIOR, NOT PLANTS.
Don't Laurence Fishburne and Nicolas Cage have better things to do in Hollywood than produce propaganda for the DEA - an agency which steals elections for conservatives every year by locking up a million liberals for possessing naturally occurring substances and then taking those liberals off the voting roles by turning them into felons?
U.S. elections aren't being swayed by the Russians, they're being stolen by American movie producers, including companies like Jaguar Bite and so-called Patriotic Pictures, who have done everything they can with this movie to bequeath DEA tyranny to their great grandchildren, by celebrating the perverse torture-friendly values of today's drug warriors.
Don't Laurence Fishburne and Nicolas Cage have better things to do in Hollywood than produce propaganda for the DEA - an agency which steals elections for conservatives every year by locking up a million liberals for possessing naturally occurring substances and then taking those liberals off the voting roles by turning them into felons?
U.S. elections aren't being swayed by the Russians, they're being stolen by American movie producers, including companies like Jaguar Bite and so-called Patriotic Pictures, who have done everything they can with this movie to bequeath DEA tyranny to their great grandchildren, by celebrating the perverse torture-friendly values of today's drug warriors.
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