Pot Halloween-Scare is a Monstrous Lie

What better than a good scare for Halloween 2016? We’ve got it in Orlando. Never mind Halloween Horror Nights at Universal, SeaWorld’s Halloween Spooktacular, the Spooky Empire Horror Convention, or even Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Party at the Magic Kingdom. Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demmings held a news conference on Monday October 24^th with the express purpose of frightening the wits out of Central Floridians with the alarm that “Marijuana-laced candy might”…MIGHT…”be put in trick-or-treat bags for Halloween”. Not that they would, just that they might. And here’s the really neat trick. It’s all because medical marijuana could be legalized on November 8^th, fully a week after Halloween.

So a proposed constitutional amendment that hasn’t passed yet, although it's pretty certain it will, is the cause for all the alarm by Sheriff Demmings. When politely asked for examples of when and where children had received marijuana-laced candies…even in states where marijuana is legal, Demmings couldn’t offer any. He admitted that “even though the potential for the marijuana edibles appearing this year may be somewhat minimal, it is still a threat in our community.” Yes, just like the threat to our community of being gunned down by rogue police officers or having an engine fall off of an airliner on the approach to OIA and killing someone. Possibility equals actuality in Demmings playbook. But is Sheriff Demmings going to protect us from either of those two possibilities, as well? Of course not!  

It's better to scare the voters with fictional pot-laced candy horror stories.

            Demmings also added this dire warning “I believe the passage of the amendment could be problematic and would negatively impact the overall public safety of our community.” How will its passage on November 8^th harm the kids on October 31^st? Do the pot candy pushers have a time machine to go back over a week from when medical marijuana is legalized on November 8^th, or sometime thereafter, with reams of the now-legal pot-infused candy to foist on unsuspecting kids?

But drug warriors like Demmings insist it's better this way.

            Tellingly, this whole Chicken Little press conference was hosted by the anti-medical marijuana group “Don’t Let Florida Go to Pot”, a sky-is-falling local group from Pine Hills that claims, without any evidence, that people in other states are putting edible marijuana in packages that look appealing to children. Demmings called these phantasms that are packaging the pot candies in other states “mean-spirited people” who are just trying to “create confusion and injure our children.” Demmings finally made the claim that Colorado is where kids might have gotten the pot edibles while trick-or-treating. The Associated Press had reported on an incident in 2014…yes, two years ago…where eight kids in Colorado ate some pot brownies, but it turned out to be a case of bad parenting at an adult party where the brownies were left right where the kids in the house could find them. None of the kids got them while going door to door. That was the only incident the Associated Press found. Marijuana was legalized in the state in 2012. If it was such a danger, one would think there would be hundreds of stories like that by now. There are not.

The HELL with saving him...we've got to defend the kids who are not being offered pot.

            But why let the facts get in the way? It serves Sheriff Demmings anti-drug agenda, (where Orange County is enriched by continuing its drug war efforts) better by scaring everyone with an imaginary monster than to admit his concerns are baseless.

On Your Knees for Trump



While watching CFN13 our local cable news outlet in early October 2016, a segment was aired about how leading conservatives, fearing a lower voter turnout in Florida on November 8^th, are launching an evangelical campaign called “Face Down 40”. It’s intended to reawaken the religious right by praying, fasting, and then voting for Donald Trump for president. Face Down 40 takes its name from people bowing their heads in supplication for the 40 days leading up to the general election.

 

If prayer works, and social conservative and Face Down 40 organizer Pam Olsen claims it does, why has whoever they are praying to let come it to this, begging for his attention just 40 days before the vote? This seems to be a rather uncaring and capricious being on whom they are wasting their breath. What is He waiting for? Pam Olsen revealed how much she trusts prayer to work when she says "If we go back to sleep again (as she thinks Christians did in 2008 and 2012), just like we've done so many times, then we're in trouble and it's on us.” So what good is praying? If just two of you Christians pray for something, doesn’t Matthew 18: 19-20 where it says “Again, I tell you truly that if two of you on the earth agree about anything you ask for, it will be done for you by My Father in heaven. For where two or three gather together in My name, there am I with them,” guarantee it will happen? I have read numerous Christian responses to this piece of scripture, all claiming that it is taken out of context. Read the paragraphs before and after it. What caveats does Jesus impose? “Anything you ask for, it will be done for you…” There is no “but only if you do this, this, and this first”, or "it only applies to the most holy among you.” Christians use those excuses to get themselves out of a hole they’ve dug themselves into.

 

            Over a year ago, when the Republican field was crowded with 17 candidates, no less than four of them; Scott Walker, Rick Perry, Mike Huckabee and Ted Cruz. all claimed divine inspiration to run and made it clear God favored them and wanted them to be president. What happened? The most unsavory character of them all, Donald Trump, is who Pam Olsen and her evangelical cohorts are now praying for to win. She is actually praying for a man who, in what he whimsically called locker-room banter, talks about grabbing women by the crotch, that he wanted to f*ck a woman he was not married to when he had only recently married third wife Melania, and "when you're a star, they let you do it”. As president, would Pam allow him to grope her crotch, or have sex with her while her husband was away - because he’s a star? If her answer is no, why would she support, and encourage others to support, such a person? Olsen claims Trump’s conversions on key social conservative issues is genuine and deserving of evangelical support, yet she offers not one shred of evidence that it is genuine or that he has converted. Sort of like her support for Christianity on not one shred of evidence that the bible is true.

 

        Pam simply wants to believe it, and she wants evangelicals on their knees for the next 40 days praying that this misogynistic, sexist, dishonest, shallow, and crass XY chromosome carrier attains the presidency. Why would this god they are praying to offer up a candidate who is so lacking in everything the evangelicals stand for? This man has been married three times, has claimed he didn’t need a god’s forgiveness, has called women dogs, pigs, fat slobs, bimbos, and disgusting animals, supported abortion right up until he became a Republican candidate (before then, he was a registered Democrat), claims he could shoot someone and not lose voters, and has unashamedly claimed “it doesn’t really matter what they write as long as you’ve got a young and beautiful piece of ass.” Any man of God would do the same, wouldn’t they, Pam? You would no doubt be flattered if Trump told everyone - in front of your church - that you are a “piece of ass”.

       At least his final word there accurately describes you, Pam.

Uh, um...praying and communion....that's what he means!