(2010/08/01) Not right, not fair and not justice (Law Enforcement)
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 1 August 2010
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Edition #391
Not right, not fair and not justice
Act 1: Gary Johnson, Pro-pot activist - Colbert Report
Song 1: Drug Ballad - Eminem
Act 2: How the drug war hurts communities - Citizen Radio
Song 2: Down on the corner - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Act 3: Drug Czar toppled by drug Bolsheviks - The Onion
Song 3: Because I got high - Afroman
Act 4: Daniel Okrent on prohibition - Daily Show
Song 4: Drink the water - Jack Johnson
Act 5: Police tortured confessions - On the Media
Song 5: Behind bars - Felix "the Catt" and Baga Tricks
Act 6: Cops taser family in their backyard - Young Turks
Song 6: Paperwork - Opposite Day
Act 7: Drugs and Taser war - Citizen Radio
Song 7: New slang - The Shins
Act 8: Police taser trail - Rachel Maddow
Bonus iPhone/iPod Touch App Content:
Automatics for the People - Ilya Shapiro & Jackie Hilly - Colbert Report
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible entirely by you, the listeners, for all the ways you can help, |
| 0:04.1 | including signing up for a membership, check out the support box at BestOfTheLeft.com. |
| 0:08.8 | Now, welcome to the award-winning BestOfTheLeft podcast, with close today, |
| 0:12.1 | from the Young Turks, the Daily Show, Citizen Radio, the Onion Radio News, |
| 0:16.2 | the Cold Bear Report, the Rachel Maddo Show, and on the media, with a bonus video clip |
| 0:20.9 | for our iPhone app users from the Cold Bear Report. |
| 0:30.0 | My guest tonight is the former governor of New Mexico, |
| 0:34.7 | which I assume makes him the current governor of Old Mexico. |
| 0:38.1 | Please welcome Governor Gary Johnson. |
| 0:40.3 | Yeah! |
| 0:46.1 | All right, sir, thanks for coming on. |
| 0:51.9 | Now sir, you are the former governor of New Mexico. |
| 0:57.1 | Yes, correct? |
| 0:57.7 | Yes, I am. |
| 0:58.4 | Now, I get confused. Is that the good Mexico? |
| 1:00.5 | That is the United States of America. |
| 1:03.2 | Okay. |
| 1:04.0 | Now, let's get right to the heat of the meat. |
| 1:08.2 | I think that marijuana should be legalized. |
| 1:10.6 | I think that 90% of the drug problem today is prohibition-related. |
| 1:15.5 | I think that it's crazy that half of what we spend on law enforcement, |
| 1:18.8 | the courts and the prisons, is drug-related, about $70 billion a year. |
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