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Title: Man to serve 55 years in prison for marijuana
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Marijuana Policy Project
URL Source: http://www.mpp.org
Published: Dec 12, 2006
Author: Rob Kampia
Post Date: 2006-12-12 15:59:42 by Neil McIver
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Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court let stand the mandatory 55-year prison sentence that a lower court imposed on a man who was convicted of carrying a handgun during three marijuana deals in Utah. By refusing to hear the case, the U.S. Supreme Court ensured that 27-year-old Weldon Angelos will spend just about the rest of his life behind bars for selling three eight-ounce bags of marijuana to an undercover informant. As his attorneys noted, the sentence he will serve is harsher than the sentence for raping a child -- or the sentence for detonating a bomb aboard an aircraft. Even the federal judge who was required to issue the mandatory minimum sentence called it "unjust, cruel, and even irrational." Yet, the U.S. Supreme Court let the sentence stand without comment. You can read more about this abrogation of justice at http://www.mpp.org/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=glKZLeMQIsG&b=1847069&ct=3290929. If this outrages you like it does me, do something about it. Please help the Marijuana Policy Project continue lobbying Congress to change these cruel and unjust laws by making a financial contribution to our work at http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?ID=M722158827853968238661565&af=y today. We cannot keep up the fight without funding from people like you. If you haven't yet decided whether to support MPP financially, here are 10 reasons you should donate $10 or more to MPP at http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?ID=M722158837853968238661565&af=y by the end of the year. 1. Mitchell Lawrence: This 17-year-old high school student with no prior record received a two-year prison sentence for selling $20 worth of marijuana to a Massachusetts undercover police officer. 2. Unnamed Florida college student: The 19-year-old was raped by his cellmate -- a violent sexual offender -- as he served the first of four weekend sentences for delivering marijuana, a felony offense. (See http://www.mpp.org/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=glKZLeMQIsG&b=1425757&ct=2087257 for more details.) 3. Ryan Wilson: The 22-year-old died after being shot with a Taser stun gun by Colorado police, who were investigating whether Wilson was cultivating marijuana plants. 4. Anthony Diotaiuto: The 23-year-old was shot 10 times in the head, chest, and limbs by a Florida SWAT team that later found a little over an ounce of marijuana in his home. (See http://www.mpp.org/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=glKZLeMQIsG&b=1425757&ct=2087219 for more details.) 5. Clayton Helriggle: The 23-year-old died in the arms of his roommate after being shot in a "no knock" raid by Ohio police, who later found a small amount of marijuana in his house. (See http://www.mpp.org/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=glKZLeMQIsG&b=1425757&ct=2087233 for more details.) 6. Jonathan Magbie: The 27-year-old quadriplegic died in a Washington, D.C., jail while serving a 10-day sentence for marijuana possession because the facility could not provide the medical care he needed. (See http://www.mpp.org/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=glKZLeMQIsG&b=1425757&ct=2087239 for more details.) 7. Tyrone Brown: The 33-year-old received a life sentence from a Texas judge for testing positive for marijuana while on probation for a $2 stickup committed when he was 17. (See http://www.mpp.org/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=glKZLeMQIsG&b=1425757&ct=3282611 for more details.) 8. Lester Siler: The 44-year-old was brutalized by five rogue Tennessee police officers who suspected him of selling drugs. Siler was beaten and held at gunpoint, had his head held underwater in a toilet, and was threatened with shooting and electrocution. (See http://www.mpp.org/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=glKZLeMQIsG&b=1425757&ct=2087253 for more details.) 9. Accelyne Williams: The 75-year-old retired minister died from a heart attack that was induced by the stress of a Massachusetts SWAT team entering his apartment during a "no knock" raid. No drugs were found. 10. Kathryn Johnston: The 88-year-old was shot and killed in a "no knock" raid by Georgia police, who allegedly later attempted to pay an informant to lie about the circumstances of the drug raid. (See http://www.mpp.org/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=glKZLeMQIsG&b=1425757&ct=3290937 for more details.) And these individuals are not rare examples. Rather, they are simply 11 examples of the hundreds of thousands of Americans who are detained, beaten, harassed, tortured, arrested, prosecuted, jailed, imprisoned, and/or killed each year by the government in the name of marijuana prohibition. Would you please stand with me at http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?ID=M722159177853968238661565&af=y in MPP's fight to end the government's war on (actual and imagined) marijuana users? Sincerely, Rob Kampia P.S. As I've mentioned in previous alerts, a major philanthropist has committed to match the first $3.5 million that MPP can raise from the rest of the planet in 2006. This means that your donation today at http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?ID=M722159217853968238661565&af=y will be doubled.
Executive Director
Marijuana Policy Project
Washington, D.C.
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#1. To: All (#0)
Eighth Amendment – Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
The system is in the hands of right wing loons and the truth be known there isn't much we can do about it other than keep clear of its claws.
Jesus said if you smoke pot you'll burn in hell for eternity. That's AFTER you spend the rest of your life in prison or get killed by bunga bunga.
The only thing reichwingers like more than killing foreigners 10,000 miles away in elective wars is locking up and torturing people for petty crimes.
That is NOT TRUE. Jesus never mentions bunga bunga by name. He just says, "killed by the man"... He never says the "man" is "bunga bunga". That's just some weirdo interpretation.
the law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal bread.
Yep. Locking up people gets their rocks off.
the law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal bread.
"The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer." Total insanity.
I'm thinking these goofy mandatory drug sentences will serve to create a more reckless, dangerous criminal. I mean why not do a Brinks truck, or rob a bank and face decades less jail time?
It's generally not enough to lock up pot dealers for life though for your average Freeper however. No- they aren't satisfied unless they are raped daily by other inamates and brutalized and tortured. Reichwingers are not content with merely sending to people to prison cells- the prisons themselves have to be inhuman hells on earth and torture chambers. Many a thread can be found where they laud and approve of prison rape, torture, and murder.
Well, of course. That's how you can tell they are good Christians.
the law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal bread.
insane
Ephesians 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high [places].
This is obscene and criminal. And that is all I can say on a public forum.
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act - - George Orwell Even the federal judge who was required to issue the mandatory minimum sentence called it "unjust, cruel, and even irrational." Yet, the U.S. Supreme Court let the sentence stand without comment.
#2. To: Neil McIver (#1)
#3. To: Jethro Tull (#2)
#4. To: Neil McIver (#1)
#5. To: Hmmmmm (#3)
or get killed by bunga bunga.
#6. To: Burkeman1 (#4)
The only thing reichwingers like more than killing foreigners 10,000 miles away in elective wars is locking up and torturing people for petty crimes.
#7. To: Neil McIver, *LEAP* (#0)
---Henry Kissinger, New York Times, October 28, 1973
#8. To: Neil McIver (#0)
-Thomas Paine
#9. To: Hmmmmm (#3)
(Edited)
#10. To: bluedogtxn (#6)
#11. To: Burkeman1 (#10)
Many a thread can be found where they laud and approve of prison rape, torture, and murder.
#12. To: Neil McIver (#0)
#13. To: Neil McIver (#0)
As his attorneys noted, the sentence he will serve is harsher than the sentence for raping a child -- or the sentence for detonating a bomb aboard an aircraft.
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition
In a CorporoFascist capitalist society, there is no money in peace, freedom, or a healthy population, and therefore, no incentive to achieve these - - IndieTX
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