What the Funk?
Jacob Sullum | April 20, 2005, 10:34am
From freevibe.com, the government-sponsored Web site that tries to be cool while lecturing kids about the evils of drugs:
You want the Funk? We've got the Funk! This ringtone will get you in the groove and remind you where to go to get the facts on drugs. And remember, you have the power to stop your friends from using drugs or alcohol. That's right--your cell phone is a powerful way to help start a conversation with a friend who might be using drugs.
The ringtone consists of what sounds like music from a '70s porn movie overlayed by a self-consciously hip announcer who manages to make you want to smack him just by intoning the four syllables "free-vibe-dot-com." How could that possibly "help start a conversation with a friend who might be using drugs"? Here's one scenario:
Friend: "Dude, your ringtone is way cool."
You: "Are you high?"
[Thanks to John Chase and Allen St. Pierre for the link.]
mr strauss | April 20, 2005, 4:26pm | #
On march 22 I blogged about this freevibe site.
Here is the link. But I cut and paste the text of my post here, for conveinence,
seeing as it seems applicable and because some might find it interesting.
The Anti-Anti-Drug
I got an spammy kind of newsletter email today that posed the lurid question, "is your friend on drugs?" Being masochistic, I clicked the link. (I just can't seem to look away as America transforms itself into a fecal-spattered retard.)
I ended up at "Freevibe.com." It's one of those great examples of doublespeak that pervade this dark moment in history. Somebody evil said "hey! let's co-opt the language of counterculture and use it to more effectively propogate lies and fear! We'll call our propoganda site freevibe.com."
Anyways, I posted the following to their message board. Of course it didn't immediately appear, which tells me that they moderate every post. That says it all doesn't it? That's how wretched these slime are. That's how fearful they are of truth.
The point is, I want to encourage others to post to these anti-drug sites. Email them. Leave notes in guestbooks. Blanket the internet, ideally, in the truth. Compose your own, or feel free to use mine. You are welcome to sign your own name to. And of course adjust the site name from freevibe as appropriate:
I encourage any who visits this site (ed. note: this site=freevibe) to think critically about the disinformation propagated by it. The reality is that smart people often choose to take drugs regularly for years, and do so while living healthy, happy lives. The greatest disservice that one citizen can do to another is to lie to him in the name of his health. Evils are almost always committed while the perpetrator says "it's for your own good." The demonization of drugs is the demonization of drug users, and is just such an evil.
Make your own choices. Own your own responsibility. Drugs neither undermine a man's pursuit of greatness, nor relieve him of his responsibility to aspire towards it. There are three great truths: Love, Art, and Liberty. If you do drugs, do them in the service of these truths. If you don't, then please aspire to serve these truths nonetheless. "Freevibe" is an affront to liberty, an artistic catastrophe, and an unholy caricature of love.
Respectfully,
mr strauss
www.popgoeslethal.com
Truth. The anti-anti-drug.
