Hello Voyager,
Thanks for the very interesting topic.
I did prepare something to post , but as you posted it first, allow me
to add something more.
Following an interesting link, given by Ken, at " The Watchtower Observer" ,
results, in this interesting discovery.
From the link :
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/DEBATE/longlist.htm
you'll see this:
National Coalition for Drug Policy Change
Resolution for a Federal Commission on Drug Policy
Long List of Signers
February 13, 1995
Table of Contents
Resolution 1
Introduction 2
Public Officials 3
Organizations 7
Medical Profession 9
Law Enforcement and Social Services 17
Media and Entertainment 23
Members of the Clergy 24
Legal Profession 27
Educators 31
Business 38
Note: The list of concerned citizens / taxpayers who have signed the Resolution is not included in this list. The list of concerned citizens / taxpayers numbers in the thousands.
Resolution
Whereas, the overall situation regarding the use of drugs in our society and the crime and misery that accompanies it has continued to deteriorate for several decades; and
Whereas, our society has continued to attempt, at enormous financial cost, and loss of civil liberties, to resolve drug abuse problems through the criminal justice system, with the accompanying increases of prisons and numbers of inmates; and
Whereas, the huge untaxed revenues generated by the illicit drug trade are undermining legitimate governments world-wide; and
Whereas, the present system has spawned a cycle of hostility by the incarceration of disproportionate numbers of African-Americans, Hispanics, and other minority groups; and
Whereas, the number of people who have contracted AIDS, hepatitis, and other diseases from contaminated hypodermic needles is epidemic under our present system; and
Whereas, in our society's zeal to pursue our criminal approach, legitimate medical uses for the relief of pain and suffering of patients have been suppressed.
Therefore be it resolved that our society must recognize drug use and abuse as the medical and social problems that they are and that they must be treated with medical and social solutions; and
Further be it resolved that an objective commission be immediately empowered by the President and by Congress to recommend revision of the drug laws of these United States in order to reduce the harm our current policies are causing.
Introduction
On February 26, 1993 a group of concerned citizens met at the Hoover Institution on the campus of Stanford University and unanimously passed a resolution which recommends that our country investigate the possibility of change in the way we handle our drug problem. The Resolution, which recommends that these medical and social problems be treated with medical and social solutions, is attached hereto. It further recommends that one final blue ribbon commission be immediately empowered by the President to recommend revisions of the drug laws of these United States to reduce the harm caused by this drug problem. The original signers of the Resolution, who are known as the National Coalition for Drug Policy Change, are as follows:
Dr. Milton Friedman Nobel laureate; Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Chicago; Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford, CA
Dr. Joseph D. McNamara Former Police Chief of San Jose; Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford, CA
Herbert Berger, M.D. F.A.C.P.; F.C.C.P.; Internationally recognized authority on drug treatment, Staten Island, NY
Judge James P. Gray Orange County Superior Court, Santa Ana, CA
Katherine H. Smith Founder, Group Resolving Anti-Social Problems (GRASP), Anaheim, CA
S. Clarke Smith, M.D. F.A.A.F.P.; Board of Directors, California Academy of Family Physicians, Anaheim, CA
Clifford A. Schaffer Author; Computer Consultant, Canyon Country, CA
Frederick H. Meyers, M.D. Professor of Pharmacology, University of California at San Francisco; Chairman of the California Research Advisory Panel on Drugs
Harvey L. Rose, M.D. Author of California's "Intractable Pain Treatment Act"; Family Practice, Carmichael, CA
John J. McCarthy, M.D., A.B.P.N. Psychiatrist, Executive Director, Bi-Valley Medical Clinic, Sacramento, CA
Gary Davis, M.D. Diplomate in Psychiatry, A.B.P.N., American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology, Citrus Heights, CA
Benson B. Roe, M.D. Professor and Chief Emeritus of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of California at San Francisco, CA
Stephen A. Fisher, M.D., Diplomate in Psychiatry, A.B.P.N., American Board of Psychiatry & Neurology, Berkeley, CA
Reverend Leonard B. Jackson First A.M.E. Church of Los Angeles, CA
Reverend J. D. Moore First A.M.E. Church of Los Angeles, CA
Donald McNamara Investment Consultant, New York, NY
Richard Arthur Educator; Former Principal of Castlemont High School, Oakland, CA; Author of Gangs and Schools, Richmond, CA
Richard Gibb Martin Owner, Marbros Construction Co., Garden Grove, CA
Howard Lavine Office of the Mayor, Baltimore, MD
*Kurt L . Schmoke Mayor, City of Baltimore, Maryland
*George Shultz Former Secretary of State; Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford, CA
*Unable to attend due to prior commitments
Since that February 26 meeting the Resolution has been signed by large numbers of people around the country. A list of those people who signed the Resolution before August 4, 1993 was hand delivered in Washington, DC, to Dr. Lee P. Brown, who is President Clinton's Drug Policy Director ("Drug Czar"), on August 4, 1993., and a list of these signers was hand delivered in Washington, DC to Ms. Kristine Gebbie, RN, who is President Clinton's AIDS Policy Director ("AIDS Czar") on November 19, 1993.
The list of signers is as follows:
Public Officials
Frank Jordan Mayor, City of San Francisco, CA
Susan Hammer Mayor, City of San Jose, CA
Elihu Harris Mayor, City of Oakland, CA
Donald M. Fraser Mayor, Minneapolis, MN
Robert R. Nolan Mayor, City of Upland, CA
Ann-Marie Burger Mayor, City of Saratoga, CA
Anne Rudin Former Mayor, 1981-1993, Sacramento, CA
Karen Tucker Former Mayor, Saratoga, CA
(end of page 3 out of a total of 65 - for paper size A 4 -)
Now for the sake of time, let's make it short and jump to the :
beginning of page 32 out of a total of 65 - for paper size A 4 -
Barbara Faye Swain Author, Pasadena, CA
K.E. Grubbs, Jr. Editorial and Commentary Director, Orange County Register, Santa Ana, CA
Jean F. Forsythe Publisher, American Eagle News, Northridge, CA
Rose Marie Couch Editor-in-Chief, American Eagle News, Northridge, CA
Steven D. Wallace Columnist, Chapel Hill Herald, Chapel Hill, NC
Harry N. Norton Writer, Guest Columnist, Altadena, CA
Seth Garrish Broadcaster, Worcester, MA
Buster Jones Writer, Albany, GA
...now it is slowly approaching, and please, take notice of the subheadings ...
Members of the Clergy
Reverend Bruce Larson Co-Pastor of the Crystal Cathedral, Garden Grove, CA
Father Joseph Ganssle OFM, President, Religious Coalition for a Moral Drug Policy, Denver, CO
Pastor Andrew L. Gunn President, Clergy for an Enlightened Drug Policy, St. Luke's United Methodist Church, Washington, DC
Reverend David S. Sandberg Senior Pastor, First Congregational Church, Berkeley, CA
Rabbi Haim Asa Temple Beth Tikvah of North Orange County, CA
Reverend Grayson Atha Minister, Mt. Zion United Methodist Church, Cincinnati, OH
Rabbi Alan Frehling University Synagogue, Los Angeles
Rabbi Steven Carr Rubin Vice-President, Board of Rabbis of Southern CA, Los Angeles, CA
James W. Prescott, Ph.D. Director, Institute of Humanistic Science, San Diego, CA
Reverend Thomas L. Sheridan S.J., St. Peter's College, Jersey City, New Jersey
Reverend Jonathan Tetherly Protestant Chaplain, Hampden County Correctional Center, Massachusetts Justice Network, Chicopee, MA
Reverend Alexander A. Di Lella, OFM Professor of Biblical Studies, Catholic University of America, Washington, DC
Rabbi Rav A. Soloff, Ph.D. Lansdale, PA
Sr. Francis Joseph Egan, O.P. Mt. St. Mary Convent, Newburgh, NY
Father William J. Patrick Priest Chaplain, St. Jude Hospital, Fullerton, CA
Reverend William Wallace Finlator Southern Baptist Minister (Retired) Raleigh, NC
end of page 32 out of a total of 65 - paper size A 4 -
Father Joseph P. Kane, S.J. Chaplain, New York City Department of Corrections
Reverend Gabriel Camacho Chaplain, New York City Department of Corrections
Sister Marion Defeis Chaplain, New York City Department of Corrections
Salimov Djabi Chaplain, New York City Department of Corrections
Reverend Charles Dunston Chaplain, New York City Department of Corrections
Reverend Ann Dub Hare Chaplain, New York City Department of Corrections
Abij Hasan Chaplain, New York City Department of Corrections
Sister Marie A. Henry Chaplain, New York City Department of Corrections
Sister Marie Hermann Chaplain, New York City Department of Corrections
Malik A. Kareem Chaplain, New York City Department of Corrections
Sister Constance Kennedy Chaplain, New York City Department of Corrections
Anas Khalid Chaplain, New York City Department of Corrections
Reverend Rufino Lecumberri Chaplain, New York City Department of Corrections
Jane H. Leggett Chaplain, New York City Department of Corrections
Reverend Maria Lopez Chaplain, New York City Department of Corrections
Reverend Lawrence E. Lucas Chaplain, New York City Department of Corrections
Father Walter Mitchell Chaplain, New York City Department of Corrections
Askia Muhammad Chaplain, New York City Department of Corrections
S. Mary O'Connor Chaplain, New York City Department of Corrections
Reverend Francis J. Passenant Chaplain, New York City Department of Corrections
Rabbi Herbert Richtman Chaplain, New York City Department of Corrections
Father John Soles Chaplain, New York City Department of Corrections
John H. Wilkinson Chaplain, New York City Department of Corrections
Reverend Alan Albert Snow Independent Humanist Ministers, Balboa Island, CA
Reverend Joan Torribio, M.A. Washington, DC
Reverend James K. Babcock Pastor, Holy Cross Melkite-Greek Catholic Church, Fullerton, CA
now here he comes, right at the end of page 33 :
Farris Lee Huff Ministerial Service, Jehovah's Witnesses, Compton, CA
beginning of page 34 out of a total of 65 - paper size A 4 -
Marian Gallagher Sisters of St. Joseph of Corondelet, Los Angeles, CA
Sister Bernadette Floersch Sisters of St. Joseph of Corondelet, Los Angeles, CA
Sister Margaret Reilly Sisters of St. Joseph of Corondelet, Los Angeles, CA
Cecilia Nevin Sisters of St. Joseph of Corondelet, Los Angeles, CA
Reverend Dr. David J. Jamieson Conference Minister, United Church of Christ, San Francisco, CA
Paul J. Masquelier, Jr. Executive Presbyter, The Presbytery of San Jose, San Jose, CA
Reverend Connie White Salinas, CA
Reverend Deborah Haffner-Doll San Rafael, CA
Bishop Felton E. May United Methodist Church, Harrisburg, PA
Dr. Patrick W. Grace Conover Policy Advocate, United Church of Christ, Washington, DC
Donald P. Buteyn Senior Pastor, First Presbyterian Church, Bakersfield, CA
Joseph Moss President, Men of Bethel A. M. E. Church, Los Angeles, CA
Harold Wilke UCC Minister, The Caring Congregation, Claremont, CA
Ms. Jerald L. Scott Program Director, The United Methodist Church, Washington, DC
Reverend Arthur E. Harrington Retired Minister, United Methodist Church, Claremont, CA
Virginia Wheeler Methodist Minister, South Laguna, CA
Ralph H. Lightbody Senior Pastor, Gardena Valley Baptist Church, Claremont, CA
Jon S. West Pastor, Morningside Presbyterian Church, Fullerton, CA
Kenneth E. Crouch Minister, Casas Adobes Congregational Church, Tucson, AZ
Frances H. Bray Missionary (Retired) United Methodist Church, Claremont, CA
Reverend William D. Auld Minister (Retired) Claremont, CA
Philip A. Anderson Minister (Retired) United Church of Christ, Claremont, CA
Kirk A. Ballin Minister, Unitarian Universalist Church, Roanoke, VA
Pierce Johnson Minister, United Methodist Church, Claremont, CA
Reverend Lincoln B. Wirt Pastor (Retired) United Church of Christ, Claremont, CA
David M. Held Retired Clergyman, Claremont, CA
Stanley H. Conover Minister (Retired), Claremont, CA
endo of page 34 out of a total of 65 -paper size A4 -
Ray Gibbons Retired Clergyman, Claremont, CA
George Aki Retired Clergyman, US Army Chaplain, Claremont, CA
Reverend Dr. Marcia Ball Claremont, CA
Elaine Asa Temple Beth Tikvah, Fullerton, CA
Father Paul F. Murke Los Angeles, CA
David J. Jamieson United Church of Christ, San Francisco, CA
Carolyn A. Portanova Executive Director, Catholic Family Center, Rochester, NY
John Kilgore Pastor, United Methodist Church, Claremont, CA
Barbara Kilgore Reverend, United Methodist Church, San Pedro, CA
Jack F. Miller Chair, Administrative Board, Aldersgate United Methodist Church, Tustin, CA
Gary Barmore Pastor, Fairview Community Church, Costa Mesa, CA
Rev. William Morris Pastor, Power of the Spirit African-Methodist Episcopal Church, Los Angeles, CA
Helen L. Morgan Retired Teaching Administrator, United Church of Christ, Pomona, CA
Corey June Minister, St. Cloud, FL
Willie Jarrel Soul Release Prison Ministries
Milton E. Stohs Lutheran Ministries Association, St. Louis, MO
John Diehl Deacon, Fairview Community Church, Costa Mesa, CA
Phyllis Soderberg Chaplain, Military Order of World Wars, San Clemente, CA
Marion P. Parcell Program Chairman, All Saints Church, Pasadena, CA
Clara Fehringer Director of Liturgy, Catholic Diocese of Lexington, KY
Charles G. Skubick Catholic Criminal Justice Ministry, Archdiocese of Detroit, Oakland City Jail, Rochester, MI
Marian E. Skubick Pastoral Minister, Catholic Chaplaincy, Archdiocese of Detroit, Oakland City Jail, Rochester, MI
Fr. Michael Cody, SSC Catholic Chaplain, Mass. Dept. of Corrections, Dorchester, MA
Gerald J. Prives Deacon/Prison Chaplain, St. Vincent De Paul Criminal Justice Ministry, St. Louis, MO
Peter J. Donohue Director, Detention Ministries, Archdiocese of Los Angeles, CA.
Pauline Grady, ASC Chaplain, USMCP, Springfield, MO
Mark C. Schmieder Prison Chaplain, Lebanon Correctional Institute, Cincinnati, OH
James E. Jacobson, S.J. Chaplain, Oregon State Penitentiary, Salem, OR
Peter L. Houck Chaplain, Kentucky State Reformatory, Louisville, KY
Rev. James A. Berry Chaplain Director, Catholic Ministry to Prison, Honolulu, HI
Angelita Hurtado Chaplain, Detention Ministry, Archdiocese of Los Angeles, CA
Paul E. Rogers Chaplain, Dodge Correctional Institution, Waupan, WI
Robert M. Gates Volunteer Minister, Catholic Detention Chaplain's Office, Central Juvenile Hall, Los Angeles, CA
Anne H. Gates Volunteer Minister, Catholic Detention Chaplain's Office, Central Juvenile Hall, Los Angeles, CA
Suzanne R. Spencer Minister, Unitarian Universalist Church, Studio City, CA
Rev. Rosalind Russell Minister, Director of Drug and Alcohol Home, Laguna Beach, CA
Virginia A. McCulloch Member, Unitarian Church Social Concerns Committee, San Pedro, CA
Rabbi Aaron Kriegel Encino, CA
Desmond F. Marsh Chapel Catholic Ministry, Federal Medical Center, Springfield, MO
Legal Profession
George E. Bushnell, Esq. President, American Bar Association, Washington, DC
Rufus King, Esq. Washington, DC
Jean Wilcox, J.D. San Francisco, CA
David M. McCarthy, Jr., Esq. Mansfield, MA
David A.Robinson, Esq. Member, Board of Directors, Orange County Bar Association, Irvine, CA
Diane E. Tiberend, Esq. Midway City, CA
Leona L. Lauder, Esq. San Francisco, CA
Robert S. Rivkin, Esq. San Francisco, Ca
Kate M. Schreuers, Esq. Orange, CA
Marilynn Mika Spencer, Esq. National Lawyers Guild, San Diego, CA
Kay Palmer Gray Court Reporter, Superior Court, Santa Ana, CA
endo of page 36 out of a total of 65 -paper size A4 -
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P.S. Youy'll get the same list , also from this link: -
http://www.erowid.org/psychoactives/law/bills/hoover_info4.shtml
Jim Rosenfield Newsgroups: talk.politics.drugs Date: 18 Feb 94 19:53 PST Subject: Signers of the "Hoover Resolution" Message-ID: <1484000476@cdp> National Coalition for Drug Policy Change Resolution for a Federal Commission on Drug Policy January 8, 1994
Table of Contents Resolution 1 Introduction 2 Public Officials 3 Organizations 6 Medical Profession 8 Law Enforcement and Social Services 14 Media and Entertainment 18 Members of the Clergy 19 Legal Profession 21 Educators 23 Business 29
Now the question: Why the Wtbs Inc., represented by :
Farris Lee Huff Ministerial Service, Jehovah's Witnesses, Compton, CA
participates with many, including members of the ' Clergy' to the : "National Coalition for Drug Policy Change "'??
Then what about some of the following WTBS Inc. quotes?
*** w86 4/15 12 Jehovah-The God of
Times and Seasons ***
11 Do you see any resemblance between the love and unity that must exist
among God’s true servants and the course that world leaders and people in
general have followed for centuries? In our century alone, the slaughter of
religious people by other religious people has taken tens of millions of lives.
Often those killing one another have been of the very same religion! That is
sure evidence that God is not backing them. Instead, as God’s Word shows,
their backer is no one else but Satan the Devil. That is why the apostle John
could say: “We know we originate with God, but the whole world is lying in the
power of the wicked one.” (1 John 5:19) Yes, Satan is “the god of this system
of things.” (2 Corinthians 4:4) He is the power behind the
leaders and people of this world whose actions
show that these men cannot be from God.
*** g87 4/22 6-7 Why Do the Clergy Mix in Politics? ***
Civil Rights, Social Justice
As mentioned earlier, however, some religious leaders are highly admired for
their active role in politics for other reasons.
An example from the United States is the Baptist minister Martin Luther King, Jr.,
a civil-rights leader in a long crusade against racial discrimination. Other clergymen
have been in the forefront of struggles for the rights of women and certain
minorities.
Priests and ministers have turned politically active in support of causes
such as
voting rights,
equal pay for equal work,
and fair employment opportunities.
Most recently, a “theology of liberation” has been promoted to ease the suffering of
the poor, such as by distributing land to the impoverished.
How do you feel about religious leaders’ involving themselves in politics in order to
promote social action or “secular humanism,” as such issues are sometimes labeled?
Even some clerics are uncomfortable with what they see happening. Keith Gephart,
a fundamentalist clergyman, commented: “When I was growing up, I always heard
that churches should stay out of politics. Now it seems almost a sin not to get
involved.” A newspaper writer on religious issues noted: “Beginning in the early
1970s, fundamentalist Christians have gradually come to believe that political
activism is a duty.”
NB In this case we can add: ' ... National Coalition for Drug Policy Change ".
*** g90 9/22 14 Part 4: "We the People" ***
At any rate, democracy is an obvious continuation of the trend started in Eden,
when humans decided to do things their way, not God’s way. It is the ultimate
in human rule, since it reaches out to embrace everyone, at least theoretically,
in the governing process. But the Latin saying Vox populi, vox Dei, “the voice of
the people is the voice of God,” is untrue. Thus, those backing democratic human
rule must be willing to share responsibility for its deeds. —Compare 1
Timothy 5:22.
*** w97 11/1 16-17 In the World but No Part
of It *** The “Beast” and “Caesar”
12 It would be incorrect to conclude that all humans in governmental authority
are Satan’s tools. Many have proved themselves people of principle, such
as the proconsul Sergius Paulus who is described in the Bible as “an intelligent man.”
(Acts 13:7) Some rulers have courageously defended the rights of minorities, being
guided by their God-given conscience even if they did not know Jehovah and
his purposes. (Romans 2:14, 15) Remember, the Bible uses the word “world” in
two contrasting ways: the world of mankind, which God loves and which we should
love, and the world of humanity alienated from Jehovah, of which
Satan is the god and from which we must stand apart .
(John 1:9, 10; 17:14; 2 Corinthians 4:4;
James 4:4) Thus, Jehovah’s servants have a balanced attitude toward
human rulership. We are neutral in political matters since we serve as ambassadors
or envoys of God’s Kingdom and our lives are dedicated to God. (2 Corinthians 5:20)
On the other hand, we are in conscientious subjection toward those in authority.
*** g93 2/8 19 Protests and Demonstrations-
Can They Change the World? ***
The same is true of the world system that has subjected mankind to centuries
of injustice, cruelty, and oppression. Ecclesiastes 1:15 pointedly explains: “That
which is made crooked cannot be made straight.” Yes, today’s world system
cannot be made straight, despite the noblest efforts. Why not? Because, as 1 J
ohn 5:19 says, “the whole world is lying in the power of the wicked one,”
Satan the Devil. Jesus pointed to that one as “the ruler of this world.” (John 12:31)
As long as this system operates under the influence of Satan, no amount
of patching up will bring permanent relief.
This does not mean that Christians are apathetic to the world’s problems or
unwilling to take positive action. Actually, Christians are told to be quite active,
not in protest, but in the work of preaching and teaching the good news of
God’s Kingdom—the very Kingdom government for which Jesus taught his
followers to pray. (Matthew 6:10; 24:14) The Bible shows that the Kingdom
will not try to salvage this irreformable world; it will completely eliminate the
wicked governments and social orders that now oppress mankind and will
replace them with a system that can establish true justice and righteousness
earth wide. (Daniel 2:44)
Again, actions hidden most of the JW worldwide.
This again bids the question: Why ....if there is nothing wrong with it?
Why not publishing and informing the congregations of such noble actions...
in the illustrious company of fellow clergymen / women?
Btw , this site is another public evidence that the WTBS Inc. , allow her representatives
to be called and known - worldwide - as ..." Clergy "!
Greetings, JC.MacHislopp
