While the United states Armed Forces (private mercenaries) are stationed at 737 bases, in 130 nations around the world, defending “all freedom-loving people everywhere in the world,” Eric J. Holder, Jr., attorney general of the U.s., tells the national media that the Drug Enforcement Agency will cease raiding medicinal marijuana dispensaries:

       What the President said during the campaign, you’ll be surprised to know, will be consistent with what we’ll be doing here in law enforcement. … He is formally and technically and by law my boss now, and so what he said during the campaign is now American policy.

       Postscript: A month later Drug Enforcement agents (acting under-color-of-law) raided Emmalyn’s Cannabis Clinic, in San Francisco, california

       [added 10/10/2021] Thanks to Freedom’s Phoenix for this entry.

Subsequent Events:

2/27/2009                   3/12/2009                   3/25/2009                  4/8/2009

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Current U.s. National Debt:

$36,167,124,467,492

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