We the People of Johnson Co MO - Monday, October 24, 2022 👿👺 Amendment 3 is NOT About Marijuana; It's About Installing an "Equity Officer" Into Our State Constitution.
Hi Folks!
I just received this video from one of the folks who attended our last We the People Meeting. It’s 14 minutes and 6 seconds. Take a coffee break to sit down and LISTEN to this. You may need to listen a couple of times. The only reason NOT to listen to this is if you are in favor of imbedding a Chief “Equity” Officer into the Missouri Constitution, who will have jurisdiction over business licenses according to his/her evaluation of the licensees’ alignment with communist woke principles and fascism.
I’ll do some bullet points, but I’m NOT as well versed on this as the speaker in the 14 minute video.
Bullet Points:
This is NOT about marijuana.
Empower Missouri (the architect of Defund the Police) and the ACLU are backing this amendment; both organizations are funded by Soros money
The harder to find information about this amendment shows that it is about enshrining within the Missouri Constitution a Chief “Equity Officer” who will oversee not only marijuana licenses, but in later stages licenses for all business.
As such, it embeds fascism into the Missouri Constitution (I’m not kidding.)
The criteria for a marijuana sales licensee are:
Sec. 4:1K The licensee must live in a zip code area where little marijuana (mj) currently is used.
Licensee must formulate a “voluntary plan” as to how the business will be run. This plan must be evaluated and “approved” by the Chief Equity Officer. This means ESG (Emotional Social Governance) mandates will be written into the “voluntary” plan.
Sec. 4:4H - I This “voluntary plan” will be supervised by the Chief Equity Officer, and if it is not being followed the Officer can fine the licensee, restrict, suspend or revoke the license. Keep in my the “voluntary plan” must meet the criteria of the Equity Officer. This does not sound “voluntary” to me. This is government controlling your business, also known as fascism.
Sec 12: A - E designates criteria for who can apply for licenses. They must reside in a zip code where:
30% or more of the population lives below the poverty level
the rate of unemployment is 50% greater than the state average
the historic rate for incarceration for mj offenses is 50% greater than the rate for the entire state
the license applicant must:
have a net worth less than $250,000
have an income no more than 2.5 times the poverty level, which amounts to $34,000/year.
This license applicant as specified above is NOT a good business risk. Period. But that’s who is specified for application as a vendor, supplier or employment applicant.
The Chief Equity Officer is NOT elected, nor is s/he appointed by the Governor. SO, who appoints this person to OUR GOVERNMENT?
In addition, once this Chief Equity Officer is appointed, THAT POSITION CANNOT BE REMOVED FROM THE CONSTITUTION. WHAAAAAAAAT!?!?!?!? 😲
Amendment 3 is riddled with Environmental Societal Governance (ESG) requirements in the language. This is a very strong step towards a full infiltration of our Missouri government.
The Left communists have realized some states will not vote woke communism into their state legislature. So, they are working very cleverly and very deceptively to put it into the government of those states by remarkably sneaky state Constitutional Amendments.
Let’s take some “for instance” ideas on this “Chief Equity Officer (CEO).” I’m going to refer to the officer as “he” for the sake of brevity. For instance:
What if the CEO jurisdiction expands beyond the business of mj?
What if the CEO jurisdiction expands to Contruction? Heating & cooling? Schools? Churches? Real Estate? Agriculture? Banking?
What if the CEO jurisdiction continues to expand throughout ALL business in Missouri. Don’t laugh; it could happen in a heartbeat.
The 3rd Amendment states it will: “allow persons with certain marijuana-related non-violent offenses to petition for release from incarceration or parole and probation, and have records expunged.” Really?!?
Here’s what this means - Anyone with a mj offense plus many other offenses could have their offenses plea-bargained down to a simple mj possession offense. Then they could be released from prison, parole or probation and have their records expunged, as though they had done NO criminal offenses. That’s truth; not conjecture.
Who do you think may have the privilege of identifying these folks, getting them plea-bargained and released? My guess is the CEO or his designee.
Thank you for helping get important information out to the people in our county. Other than the nasty & deceitful ads on TV and a few political mailers, it feels like we live in an information desert in regards to local & even some state politics. What resources do you recommend for researcing candidates & ballot initiatives?