I.A.S.H.I.C.J.S.
I Am So Happy I Could Just Shit!
II am not
going to beat around the bush. I publish this blog as an Advocate for Medical
Marijuana and Medical Ethics. Both are in serious need of reform. I want to
help. I work like hell to find and dig up factual errors and distortions of
reality that are the output of both an adversarial Government and Medical
Community bereft of all traces of Character.
I joined
and belong to Facebook for serious reasons. I did not join for social chit chat
or to exchange trivia but to find and contact the pool of the people who are the most concerned with the future of Cannabis in Canada. In the course of the last six
months I researched over a thousand potential friends. I selected, contacted
and have been accepted by over 350 friends: all of you! Each of you was selected for contact by the
positions and statements you made and by the number of friends in your sphere
of influence and contact. I worked under the somewhat naïve impression that my
acceptance as a friend indicated that you knew who I was, had checked out my
blog, and were actually interested in and potentially was an ally and a source
of support.
My
Disappointment with you all
Last Friday
I posted “An Appeal for Help to All My Facebook Friends” and asked all of you
simply hit the share button and post a link to on it their time line. I was
under the impression that I would get a reasonable response from the 250 odd
friends on my mailing list if from nothing but an automatic reflex hit on the
Share. Not!
I have been
let down by you all to a degree that you simply cannot imagine, 4 days to
respond and comply and to my knowledge at this point only two of my Friends(?) were
paying any bloody attention at all. Jack Kungel and Sandy Daviau are the only
two sites of the 250 advised who simply did as requested and shared my link on
their timeline. By doing so they helped distribute the message that I was
searching for victims of outright persecution. Simply posting it on their
timeline exposed my appeal to a potential 400 of their friends who might visit
the sites and those two friends did more to help my cause that the total of all
you other two faced $^%$ with loud mouths and huge followings.
Your
failure to simply punch the button destroyed the exposure of the link to my
appeal to millions of your collective friends. Any
one of them might have been able to contact a Medical Marijuana patient
who needs recognition as victim of our shared enemy. They are the only ones who know and can tell the
truth about the basis of the persecution of one of the few doctors in this
country who had the balls and moral character to defy a blockade to Medical
Marijuana applications by his fellow 67000 ethically challenged physicians with
their refusal to sign applications.
I am not
overstating the millions exposure number. I wondered just what kind of
distribution number I had missed do I did a random skip and jump through my
list and selected 20 Friends at random all of whom had at least 1000 friends
and checked their timelines. Not one fucking share. I did a head count and your failure to act cost my message close to 3000
potential contacts each, or 60,000 in total. What the collective
total of what you 200+ other failures cost in potential views is incalculable.
Right now I’m down on my knees begging for you too once just do it. It is early
enough to salvage so please just help. The minimal distribution of my post by
my only two
verifiable friends to only 400 of
their circle resulted in three responses from Dr.K`s patients who`s opinion of
Dr.Kamermans is not for a bunch of armchair voyeurs. Today I am e-mailling the
truth of their witness to John and Sandi only. They earned the right to a share
of the truth by their sharing of mine.
Here’s
another bit of straight talk
I’m not
done with this little clarification of the relationship I am trying to build
with you all in Facebook. I don’t want Friends! If you read my last post I simply
want to get Canada to a point where Medical Marijuana
is affordable to the people who need it, and I want a following of people who
are not interested in friendship but understanding, following and helping
advance the causes I am advocating.
One of the
biggest disappointments I have had with my Facebook experience is watching the
tremendous amount of time, work and good intention that are simply wasted
because it all is uncoordinated effort with no direction and no real purpose.
What the hell are invitations to events supposed to prove or accomplish? The
best metaphor I can come up is an invitation from a lonely coyote to all his
buddies to come out and howl at the moon with him. The harmony sounds great to
the participants but the only ones who get the message are a few other coyotes
in hearing distance. The rest of the world audience simply is left wondering
what fuck of the moaning and groaning is about?
Nobody
outside the Facebook crowd has any real idea of the discontent and controversy
that is going on within the Cannabis community or the enormity of the change
that will be made to our society when all the dust settles. The public at large
is simply aware that marijuana is taking its own sweet time coming to its
inevitable legalization but they have no idea of the dirty tactics and lies
that the opponents are using to delay and distort the process and the results.
I want to
tap the knowledge, energy and support latent within our cannabis circle and use
it to raise public awareness of what is at stake in all this mess, by the time it comes to a vote in the
Commons.
I want to
find a bunch of allies who will help me rattle the chains and scream living
Jesus. That will take active participation thinking and time but I am now
inviting you to join me in actively and aggressively trying to wake them up.
Before you
make any decision as to following me, it is only fair I tell you where I am
going. In the course of the coming year my advocacy and blog posts will be
divided among five major topics and areas of concern. These are priority
because they all stem from the Medical Marijuana conflict but involve matters
of, legality, privacy, ethics and decency that are equally importance
In order of my present priority of their
importance:
- Kamermans Defence
- The Prime Minister’s Responsibility
- Legality of the Medical Records Seizure
- CMA-The Doctors Character Wàsteland
- Political Advocacy Coordination
- PPL/DPL Advocacy re City Hall
Why each?
If you actually give a shit,
you’ll find out in my next post.
Blaine Barrett
Remember the source of the name
S`mee
again: Don’t like it? Goan fuck yourself!
Your choice.
Perspective is key. While Facebook is a great tool for an activist, it has many faults. If you familiarize yourself with the shrinking-bubble phenomenon of Google/Facebook/et. al. and the way the social tools operate, you'll discover that while there is an expansion of your social sphere, there is a hidden contraction as well; it has to do with the way these entities sort and present the information you see in your browser and is more than I plan to tackle right now, but in a few words: you're not seeing everything that's in "your stream" because they think they know what you want to see and only show you that.
ReplyDeleteThat doesn't even touch on signal/noise ratio... with 585 'friends' on Facebook, i'm certain I miss a ton of what my associates are busying themselves with simply because I can't keep up with it all.. a catch-22 of building a large digi-social base.
In other words, I, and I'm sure many others, never saw the plea you mentioned.
When I do decide to 'like' or 'share' I understand that I am doing two things: 1) making a statement about myself so that others can get a better idea of what makes me tick, should they have any interest (I presume there is a degree of that, otherwise I don't think Facebook would be nearly so popular). 2) perhaps hopeful that some of those who glance at the bits in my stream: a) learn something, express themselves, share it with their circles, get off their butts and do something and/or at the very least - smile.
I use my blog as my platform for ranting much more often than Facebook or twitter.
All of that being said, I am your digital friend... we've never met, but I think you have some profound thoughts and are a terrific communicator. I hope that FB keeps showing me your updates and that I see them, too :) If I miss it, I'm glad you have a blog where I can so easily catch-up on your expressions!
Well I live in Alberta Canada wheir Medical Marijuana is Legal but wheir none of our provinces doctors want to help their patients with needs out. And to show you that I have a need for it I was in a roolover in which STARS air ambulance was required to fly me to hospital. Now when I asked my doctor for Medical Marijuana because I'd try'd it out since my brain injury and it had given my affected arm a shortened relief unlike BOTOX which you need 5 needles in my case which each needle costs $400.00 so thats $2000.00 times that by 4 times a year thats $8000.00 a year times 5 years now thats $32000.00 for BOTOX alone. And our doctors don't want me to use marijuana because it gives him and our other doctors a bad feeling. But people don't like being ripples in our society and Marijuana isn't bad but people just can't accept something that they are unsure about.
ReplyDeleteI am from central Alberta living in central Iowa. We are still working on legalizing medicinal MJ. We envy folks in Colorado, Washington & California.
ReplyDeleteWhile living Alberta, I never encountered a problem obtaining "Yellow Jackets" ~ "Diet + Energy" pills from my doctor. 1 of my doctors even offered me a prescription for Medicinal MJ.
I truly believe you have to know the right people. Hard to do & not get hurt.
I'm sorry Blaine. I completed the survey about Dr. Kamermans but forgot to share the link on my timeline - which I just did now. Please accept my apologies and please continue your dedicated blog :)
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