Part of the FCC licensing process requires certification that none of the parties to an application are “drug traffickers”
“Subtitle G: Denial of Federal Benefits to Drug Traffickers and Possessors – Denies Federal benefits (grants, contracts, loans, licenses, and public housing): (1) for up to five years to any person convicted for the first time of any Federal or State drug trafficking offense; (2) for up to ten years upon the second conviction for such an offense; and (3) permanently upon a third or subsequent conviction. Imposes one or a combination of the following sanctions on persons convicted for the first time of drug possession offenses: (1) ineligibility for Federal benefits for up to one year; (2) required successful completion of an approved drug treatment program; or (3) required community service. Extends benefit ineligibility for up to five years with respect to possessors convicted for a second or subsequent time. Permits penalty waivers under certain circumstances if the offender submits to a long-term treatment program for addiction. Supends the benefit ineligibility period if the offender attempts to enter a drug rehabilitation program or is rehabilitated either through such a program or otherwise. Exempts Government witnesses from penalties under this subtitle.”
Notice how it slips so easily from “drug trafficking” to first time possession offenses of even a state law. As the LPFM application window approaches, expect a lot of people to get caught in this net.
Ron Paul is on the warpath against the war on drugs. Read this sentence from the beginning of Nancy Reagan’s Say No to Drugs act if you still aren’t convinced.
“Title V: User Accountability – Subtitle A: Opposition to Legalization and Public Awareness – Declares the congressional finding that the legalization of illegal drugs is an unconscionable surrender in the war on drugs.”
Specific substances are “illegal” only because an elected body or some bureaucrat operating from a vaguely written law declares it to be so. It’s preposterous that the Congress in 1988 would declare it “unconscionable” that any person in the future would dare to discuss making something illegal to become no longer illegal.
Every time Congress passes a law, they are creating more criminals.
Let’s keep wasting resources until the Chinese pass our standard of living, then it will be too late to pay them back for the borrowed money that has funded this nonsense:
http://www.alternet.org/1-million-hours-pot-arrests-how-quotas-and-illegal-stops-waste-nypd-resources