Dennis Kucinich At HEMPFEST 2011 Seattle Saturday Main Stage

[StitchesAndLollipops]

Wow. He's seriously the only politician I've ever seen that didn't make me feel ashamed to be a human. Lovin' this guy and his message! I hope he gets elected and can actually change some things!

[TheFrigginAwesome]

amen brother

[Chupaskabra45]

THeyre all too stoned to clap lol

[Chupaskabra45]

WHOOO!!! DENNIS KUCINICH!!!

[iceXiceXindica]

and plus dude didnt say anything about marijuana...

[iceXiceXindica]

im from ohio n all for the cause but come on dude u cant read off a fucking phone and expect to reach people

[liberty202]

george washington ,thomas jefferson smoked cannabis and advised america to grow hemp!

[LuMagazine]

The Constitution was written on hemp, but here it seems Dennis is reading his speech on his iPhone.

[slutypet]

@LuMagazine your point?... -.-

[luckylyre]

great speech, and words spoken truthfully. thank you Rep Kucinich!

[ecavallari]

that was dynamite! thank you Dennis. I feel better now

[shonangreg]

I agree with much of what Kucinich says, but he seems to be insisting on a pacifist foreign policy. Out of Libya? Either Kucinich is isolationist to the point of enabling a world of thugs, or he won't pick up a weapon to help a friend or innocent bystander. This is an unrealistic, naive stance, in my opinion. Firmness will yield more peace and ultimately more freedom than will withdrawal.

[JournalistJohnson]

Hey Dennis...smoking dope stunts your growth!

Oh wait....

[brokehammer]

Wow, it was actually sunny in Seattle today. Impressive, that and that Dennis read that speech of that little tiny smart phone screen.

[bigjohnson9687]

"I grew up with the idea that democracy is not something you believe in, or a place you hang your hat, but it's something you do. You participate. If you stop doing it, democracy crumbles and falls apart. ...Young people, if you participate, the future is yours." - Abbie Hoffman

[bigjohnson9687]

"To be radical is, in the best and only decent sense of the word, patriotic." - Michael Harrington

[shonangreg]

@bigjohnson9687 We have radicals on the other side of the aisle as well. Aspiring toward radicalism sometimes just results in noisy people who refuse, for a while, to take "no" for an answer, witness the Tea Party. That and reaction thereto hardly seems progressive to me . . .

[bigjohnson9687]

"America did not become great through softness and self-indulgence." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

[bigjohnson9687]

"To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely." - Edmund Burke



[bigjohnson9687]

"The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government . . ." - George Washington, Farewell Address, September 17, 1796

[855842]

My Man!!!

[ABevs1]

@voltrabbit7 I know plenty about Ron Paul. If the media shaped my opinions then I would be a war loving capitalist. Which I am not. Believe it or not but you can actually be informed and still not like him or agree with his philosophies. I like some of what he wants but I think the rest would be disastrous.

[MIB205]

we might as well make t-shirts that have all the facts that explain why pot should be legal and why prohibition on it isn't working. then just wear that shirt every day for the rest of your life. prohibitionist spews out some worry or pondery it be like look at the shirt i was not put on this world to answer the same questions over and over again to people who think what we've been doing, are still doing, and as far as we know will still be doing is working 3-4 years smoking never been caught.

[ABevs1]

You have that backwards. Ron Paul should be Vice President at best. I know all the potheads love him but his economic policies are insane.

[SkullOfYorick]

@ABevs1 They're not exactly insane. They're the policies that broadly existed in the United States until the early twentieth century. I think free-market capitalism would certainly be preferable to corporatism, which is what we have now. However, an intelligent argument can be had as to whether free-market capitalism would be better than communism or anarchism. Besides, as much as Paul and Kucinich respect each other, neither would serve under the other, as neither compromises on principles.

[MrCrowley9000]

ron paul uses his mind to speak publicly

dennis kucinich reads from his phone or teleprompter to speak publicly

i want to see all politicians be forced from now on to speak without teleprompter

they can only use their minds to speak publicly from now on,

lets see how far in a sentence obama can get without reading anything

that buttwipe wouldnt stand a chance in a debate with ron paul even if he was reading a teleprompter

[PyROphantasie]

Was that Milton at the end?

NO, i don't have you're stapler!

[PyROphantasie]

Wow, this just gave Kucinich 420 AWESOME points!

[Maysey1]

Right on Dennis, first time hearing you and I like your message here. I'm here in CA, but if I was there in Seattle, you'd definitely have my vote!!!!

[phillisthebarbarian]

Paul/Kucinich 2012!!!!

[ilovealexjones1]

look at that retard in the right of the stage....giving sign language...seriously?? who the hell cares... what a waste of money and time....

[JodieEmery]

@ilovealexjones1 There was no money spent on interpreters for the deaf. Everyone at Seattle Hempfest is a volunteer. And there are a lot of deaf people who use cannabis and deserve to understand the amazing speeches being made. I don't see how that can bother you.

[ilovealexjones1]

@JodieEmery maybe i dont want the deaf to understand...maybe they should learn to read lips, think of all the people with ADD that were distracted by the person doing that stupid sign language. i have had college classes COLLEGE and their were huge classes and some of them have some idiot doing some retard sign language up front as if sitting in a room of 200 students isnt enough you have some moron in the front doing some retard dance so someone can understand the teacher...its a joke....

[m0rbusPolytox]

@ilovealexjones1 what an ignorant prick you are! ever came to your mind, that there may have been people attending, WHO ARE DEAF? (or have other hearing problems)

wow, i'm baffled by such a degree of dickish-ness, honestly, how could anyone be so oblivious and arrogant? i hope you lose your hearing in an accident, i really do,

then again...

...you are a stereotypical american, eh?

gladly, i know not all americans are as stupid as you seem to be.

[ilovealexjones1]

@m0rbusPolytox dont be a fool i do have hearing problems ever since i was in grade school they would come back with the hearing tests and how i have trouble hearing mid range (what the human voice talking generally is) but id ont have to get colleges to pay for stupid interpreters and stuff for me, i dont make others foot the bill or sacrifice to accommodate me...granted its nothing serious and i get along fine, it hardly is enough to really affect my life either way,

[m0rbusPolytox]

@ilovealexjones1 oh, so you have trouble eharing people talk, fine. so YOU don't need an interpreter - but how about the deaf, who can't hear anything?

they should stay at home and not go outside and participate in our society, right?

come on, what you said is just stupid!

how about ramps for paraplegic folks? not necessary i guess... at least in your mind.

you are a poor individual!

i am so glad i live in europe, where there's much less of your kind and we know the meaning of "SOLIDARITY".

[ilovealexjones1]

@m0rbusPolytox to be fair alot of businesses that would normally NOT need ramps because they do not server such customers are FORCED to have them as a result of the govts legislation...if a business choose to be handicap accessible then good for them, it will probably only help their business, but if they choose not to then that is their right....o wait that is not true any more not the govt forces businesses to be handicap accessible...

[RadicalRuss]

@ilovealexjones1 The position you extol means that every business can do cost/benefit analysis as to which groups are small enough to discriminate against where cost of serving them outweighs the profit.

[ilovealexjones1]

@RadicalRuss you mean like how they do cost benefit analysis of what products they sell in suit the needs of their customers...so if someone needs a specialty item should the store be forced to carry it at a reasonable price...i mean is someone going to cry discrimination when the story dosent have an item that is not worth the story carrying???i mean isnt that how a business works ?? you do cost benefit analyst in order to maintain a profitable business???instead of doing what ever...

[ilovealexjones1]

@RadicalRuss you do relaize that discriminaton isnt illegal right...if i own a business i can say for insteace that i dont want to serve teenagers....or i dont wnat to server who ever....its called private property, dumb ass...i guess i in your world i can run aroudn your house uninvited and when you tell me to leave i can say 'DISCRIMINATION"....you know what if my business will lose money (thus making my workers lose money) all so some stupid ramp can be built i wont do it....

[ilovealexjones1]

@RadicalRuss yes we should force business to take a loss just so we remain politically correct...good job...its idiots like you that is harming businesses all across the country...because of idiots like you private property means nothing now adays...not all that matters is the 'good of the collective' the good of the 'commune' at the expense of the individual....where in this republic the rights of the individual are supposed to be protected....dumb fuck kill your self and your family...

[toknowandgrow]

I still don't like you Denis and all those stoned people don't believe your bullshit you POLITICIAN! 

[angelbe88]

People who want to create change also, take their money out of the big banks and go to credit unions. I can't believe so few are doing this.

[dondude69]

GO SEATTLE!

When you're done send you're activists here (Colorado).

[suzycooke]

Bernie Sanders/ Dennis Kucinich 2012

[ABevs1]

@suzycooke YES!! Sanders/Kucinich would be a million times better than Ron Paul and Kucinich.

[mattyelle1]

I love this guy. He realized that Washington DC is a lost cause, so he's touring for a revolution! Dennis Kucinich is the modern version of JFK, Martin Luther King, Ghandi, Che, Bob Marley, John Lennon,and many more. Time for a worldwide awakening, criminalization of the real criminals who hijacked the white house and a revolution of entire societies! Love all, but please people, please stop these bastards: Rothschild, Rockefellers, Bushes, Isreal State, current white house administration, etc!

[lb8825]

Ron Paul 2012! Legalize Marijuana!

[1316wmed]

smokescreen

[HerbMaster13]

Much Love Dennis <3

[NLAnonymous]

Forget the zionist puppets Obama and Ron Paul.

People become visible and take to the streets...

Kucinich for President in 2012!

[763873]

@NLAnonymous Ron Paul has spoken many times against giving aid to Israel. How is he a Zionist?

[NLAnonymous]

@763873 Marketed by CNN, Foxnews,Viacom and his personal TV station? Freemason ties? Funds coming out of nowhere and friends of Reagan (remember the actor of commercials turned pres?) It is even worse propaganda than Obama who had us all fooled... They are trying reverse psychology. If he gets elected (which he won't) he will shut up and conform to the rules the zionists and bilderberg give him, just like Obama. /watch?v=GyPLFKUdhqY /watch?v=yMg-q19RJck please wake up!

Kucinich 2012!!

[763873]

@NLAnonymous . Paul has a 30 year record of voting against Zionist policies. You claim that whoever gets elected doesn't make a difference yet you claim to support Kucinich in 2012.

You fail at trolling you shill, go suck a cock

[763873]

Paul Kucinich 2012 FTW!!

[EscpdFrmPsykward]

Fuck Ron Paul, Kucinich should be President!

[Kesava1975]

Dennis Kucinich - He doesn't read from teleprompters, he reads from Blackberries lol

[PrackFerpent]

Sounds like Obama has a challenger.

[coolrog7564]

do you feel that vibration underneath your feet, that is big pharma,alcohol and other monopolies quaking in their boots.

[FlowerClown]

RON PAUL FOR PRES...DENNIS KUCINICH FOR VICE. The only thing they agree on is POT everything else they are opposite Dennis for President but he can find a better VP.

[pappawheely]

RON PAUL FOR PRES...DENNIS KUCINICH FOR VICE.....IS IT POSSIBLE?????

[terramortim]

@pappawheely I could see it. They have different economic ideas, but generally they're both pro liberty and pro constitution, anti-war, and for the will of the people above the will of the ruling class. Paul works with Kucinich all the time on legislation they agree on.

[JohnnyContempt]

I have trouble with anyone, ANYONE who uses terms like "NEW WORLD" and "NEW ORDER" over and over again.

Sorry, just creeps me out.

[JohnnyContempt]

@JohnnyContempt I will grow pot if I want to! We need less government. I don't need no stinking license!

Wake up to who you are! You have God given rights. God gives you those rights! The founders simply realized this and put pen to paper.

Grow some balls, grow some plants. If the police show up. Learn how to talk to them or not at all.

If you go before the judge, learn how to use their words so you don't contract with them.

Learn who you are.

You are a child of God!

You don't need permission!

[clf5848]

Only congressman I trust to tell the truth always. Glad he's from my state

[elitemathlete]

Is he texting while making this speech?

[Channelography]

@elitemathlete He appears to be reading the text from a smartphone.

[youngbuck189]

Kucinich is so much better than Ron Paul. too bad liberals dont have money behind them like the conservatives.

[dragnet53]

damn that speech is long. surprised these kids with A.D.D. haven't started doing stupid things. I am all for legalizing marijuana. =)

[gkaba369]

Paul/Kucinich 2012 petitions are online.

[cvetanka777]

never mind the vice presidency... CAN imagine Dennis Kucinich as world leader!!,,,

[pkmusicproject]

Hospitalization for drug offenders? All they do is force prescribe a life sentence of more harmful drugs paid for by medicare.

By the way, how many hot particals did he just suck in?

[IronRangeSurvival]

Dennis Kuntcinich for charges of TREASON2012.....with the rest of the fake "representatives" in D.C.

The U.S. CORPORATION is not America, we the people, or Constitutional anything......

it's UCC, IMF and ADMIRALTY LAW...hence B.A.R.......THE BRITISH ACCREDITATION REGISTRY.

time to WTFU people.

[IronRangeSurvival]

KUNTcinich took a plane ride with Obama and brought back, "it's not what we wanted, but best we have" "health care reform"......

Keep dreaming Kunttards......he's a fraud. I never lost memory from weed; whats your problem?

[darwinthealien]

Imagine Dennis as President and Ron Paul sitting at home wearing a tinfoil hat and rambling on about how planet nibiru is going to come and end the world as we know it! how amazing would that be???

[aratsky2]

Imagine Ron as President and Dennis Kucinich as Vice President! how amazing would that be???

[PQPRockford]

@aratsky2 I have an easier time imagining Dennis as Pres and Ron as VP.

[burn413]

@aratsky2 they wouldn't be able to accomplish next to anything other than hold the line a little against a corrupt house and senate. president and vice prez r basically powerless without backing from the senate and house and they most definitely wouldn't have their backing. this whole election is part of the charade called government . what we need to do is get everyone to NOT vote and show r masters we know what their doing to our country and we are done playing their game of debt slavery

[newdimensionfilms]

@aratsky2

other way around would be better imo

[jstncbllr]

@aratsky2 The difference being that Ron Paul wants to *undo* the government and let the private sector have free reign. (Because the "free market" is always right, right?) While Dennis, OTOH, believes in democracy and *reforming* the government via public activism.

They're both anti-war, but on most of the other issues Dennis discussed here, Paul would have an opposing position.

[TheAtheistHominid]

ron paul is a doctor... get this... a doctor who denies biological evidence and the fact of evolution (backbone of all medical science and biological knowledge on earth). that is a scary thing, and tells me his reasoning is all screwed up.

[m0rbusPolytox]

@aratsky2 IT WOULDN'T at all! Paul's a hipocrite, just another republicunt! also, you can't deny his racist undertone throughout his career... and what makes you think Kucinich would EVER want_to run with Paul ?!? they couldn't be more different: Kucinich is IN FAVOR of a public option, IN FAVOR of social-security, IN FAVOR of stricter gun-laws, and IN FAVOR of a "SOCIAL-DEMOCRACY", with more reglementations of all markets! (as any decent human being SHOULD be) Ron Paul,however,HATES these!

[SkullOfYorick]

@aratsky2 Yeah, sadly, they don't agree on industry and the economy, though. But, maybe, Kucinich would be willing to serve in a role that would be purely non-economic.

[7stringSupression]

@aratsky2 Two Republicans...yeah real amazing

[bluetextonwhitebg]

@aratsky2 Fucking hell, people, DO YOUR RESEARCH!! Ron Paul is NOTHING like Kucinich! So RP wants to end the wars and legalize weed? Whoopty fucking doo. If you ever made the effort to research RP or Google his voting record, you might also discover that he is extremely racist, homophobic, and severely pro-life (even in cases of rape or risk of the mother dying). But his supporters don't know that side of them, do you? All you fuckers ever care about is getting high.

[realist283]

@bluetextonwhitebg His supporters do the research, mindless idiots like you do not, back to the stable!

[whiitedog]

@bluetextonwhitebg  Do you have a better candidate in mind?

[soopajdelux]

@aratsky2 i dont get the dennis kucinich and ron paul comparison . if you are down with what is being said here why on earth are you digging on ron paul? not even close to the same... more similarities between paul and the current republicans.

[slutypet]

@aratsky2 too good to be true

[aratsky2]

Dennis Kucinich for Vice President!

[bluegreen1138]

@aratsky2 Russ Feingold for president

[MadXMax187]

The constitution was written on hemp, no wonder the Neo-Cons are trying to destroy it.

[millgiass]

@MadXMax187 Everyone in congress & the senate but a select few are.

[MadXMax187]

@millgiass True, I guess Neo-Con was just a euphemism for the real puppet masters that own this country. I am well aware that pretty much everybody in congress is bought and paid for by multinational corporations and Zionist extremists. Most Democrats are pretty much Neo-Cons to, Obama being on the right of even most Neo-Cons with his attempts to cut social security whereas Neo-Cons defend it.

[fonkymaster]

@MadXMax187

Greatest political comment ever.

Here, take 30 internets.

[mattyelle1]

@MadXMax187 Noe-cons? That must include Obama then, he has been ignoring the constitution worst than Bush & Reagan combined!

[MadXMax187]

@mattyelle1 Sure does, William Kristol (one of the head Neo-Cons) was quoted saying "Of course, since his sound policies are more like the policies people like me have been advocating for quite a while, I’m happy to support them. He’s a born-again neo-con."

[SpitfireOFatj]

@MadXMax187 "The constitution was written on hemp"

Drafts were. Hemp was used for almost all paper. The original however was on stretched sheepskin, also known as parchment.