Congress is about to expand the drug war

[pisshead]

how incredibly conservative.



Marijuana Policy Project Alert

June 2, 2005
Congress is about to expand the drug war
FROM: Rob Kampia, executive director, Marijuana Policy Project

[align=left]The Marijuana Policy Project is forwarding you the message below on behalf of DownsizeDC.org.[/align]



[align=left]New legislation currently making its way through the House of Representatives poses a grave threat. If passed, H.R. 1528 will force Americans to inform on their friends, family members, or neighbors within 24 hours of acquiring any knowledge about their involvement in drug-related activity, including marijuana.[/align]



[align=left]Please click here to stop this bill in its tracks.[/align]



[align=left]As is often the case with new federal violations of civil liberties, this bill is constructed to appear as though it is designed to protect children from drugs, but its implications are far more sinister:[/align]



[align=left]* Observe one student passing a joint to another, and you could fall under this law. You would be required to report the incident to authorities within 24 hours or risk prosecution and a mandatory minimum sentence of two years in prison.[/align]



[align=left]* If a neighbor under 21 mentions buying some marijuana for a party, you would be required to report him or her to the government or risk jail time yourself.[/align]



[align=left]* If your brothers or sisters have children and mention to you that they and their spouses sometimes smoke marijuana in their bedroom after their kids are asleep, you would be required to immediately inform on them or face prison time.[/align]



[align=left]You can see what a threatening new environment this proposed legislation would create for everyone. It would erect barriers of paranoia between friends, family members, and neighbors and is rife with potential for police abuse, extortion, and the creation of false informants.[/align]



[align=left]DownsizeDC.org is mounting a campaign to defeat this bill. Click here to learn more and then take action by sending a message to Congress telling them what you think of this bill. Please send a message now, while we can still stop this terrible legislation.[/align]

[align=left]Thank you.[/align]



[align=left]P.S. H.R. 1528 is supposedly designed to protect children â?? but the bill is actually anti-family. It expands mandatory minimum sentencing and increases the ways those minimum sentences could kick in. It's absolutely draconian.[/align]



[align=left]Passage of this bill would be a setback. It's almost always harder to repeal a bad law than it is to stop it from passing in the first place. Please act now.[/align]

pisshead Reviewed by pisshead on 06-02-2005. Congress is about to expand the drug war how incredibly conservative. Marijuana Policy Project Alert June 2, 2005 Congress is about to expand the drug war FROM: Rob Kampia, executive director, Marijuana Policy Project Rating: 5

[pisshead]

for anyone who doesn't know...this is called tyranny.

[BlueCat]

great post PH I signed! thanks

[pisshead]

awww, the government loves the children.

let's teach the children to grow up in soviet russia and nazi germany so they know what the new freedom is supposed to be like.

wow, the bill talks about conspiracy law...i didn't think conspiracies existed...i guess it's just everyone elses' conspiracies, because we all know a government has never conspired to do anything.

forget what the founders said about watching government like a hawk and government being evil...

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c109:H.R.1528:

link to the bill.

[XTC]

wow what an ugly legislation. I signed the petition. "The two most important things in life, never rat on your friends. Always keep your mouth shut."--Jimmy "The Gent" Conway

[pisshead]

SEC. 11. LIFE IMPRISONMENT WITHOUT RELEASE FOR DRUG FELONS AND VIOLENT CRIMINALS CONVICTED A THIRD TIME.

Section 401(b) of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 841(b)) is amended--

(1) by striking `or 420';

(2) by inserting `420, 424, 425, or 426' after `419,'; and

(3) by striking `If any person commits a violation of this subparagraph or of section 418, 419, or 420 after two or more prior convictions for a felony drug offense have become final, such person shall be sentenced to a mandatory term of life imprisonment without release and fined in accordance with the preceding sentence.' and inserting `If any person commits a violation of this subparagraph or of section 409, 416, 417, 418, 419, 420, 422, 424, 425, or 426 or a crime of violence after 2 or more prior convictions for a felony drug offense or crime of violence or for any combination thereof have become final, such person shall be sentenced to not less than a mandatory term of life imprisonment without release and fined in accordance with the preceding sentence. For purposes of this subparagraph, the term `crime of violence' means an offense that is a felony punishable by a maximum term of imprisonment of 10 years or more and has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against the person or property of another, or by its nature involves a substantial risk that physical force against the person or property of another may be used in the course of committing the offense.'.


FREEDOM? is this why we're bombing iraq?

[nicholasstanko]

Fuck that bill. Where's amsterdam with his conservative euphamisms and corrolative banter proclaiming how bush is doing the right thing. hey wh dont we make our own truth commercials depicting what happens with all the drugs and drug money the dea picks up.

[stoner spirit]

Damn that's horrid! I have sighned the patition, and let a few more people know about this bill. If they have any sense of what the hell they're doing to this country, maybe they'd stop this tearany. Are we supposed to be good little Russians and obey every single command they give us? Are we supposed to eat this shit up with a soupspoon? I think not, I'd rather be gutted alive, or have pieces of burning metal tossed into my belly, than live in tearany.

[5HT]

"how incredibly conservative."

I fucking hate how Republicans and the Bushies go on about conservatism when their fucking war in Iraq and war on drugs is anything but. you want to shrink government and get rid of silly programs, eradicate the DEA then!

[Button Basher]

Woah, time out a second.

Think about this for a sec pisshead. Sure, it's another law that takes away your freedom but it's just another law that noone will obey.
Chances are anyone in your vicinity when your talking about cannabis will be safe enough to let it go. This doesn't necessarily mean EVERY time someone hears drug talk they will stalk you to your address, write it down and take it to the cops. If anyone cared that much about drugs in society, they'd report you anyway for advocating their use, policy or no policy.

People arn't going to live in fear for the rest of their lives knowing they didn't tell PC Plod about those guys making marijuana jokes on the train . People will fuck it and acknowledge how dumb it is. What do you say when a cop asks you if you knew about some guys buying drugs?

You say "no".