cannabisnews.com: Time is Running Out! Time is Running Out! Posted by FoM on May 22, 1999 at 08:04:23 PT From Someone Who Attended B.E. Smith's Trial! Source: McWilliams.com Come on people get off your butts. B.E. Smith was convicted and he did not have to be. Every time I sat in the court room in his case, I was the only one there other than his friends and family! Now our rights to medicinal marijuana have been tossed out the door. If every medicinal patient chipped in $10 he would have had a formidable defense team. If even half of the medicinal patients showed support and rallied in front of the court house, we may have been able to sway the jury for nullification. If a large group of us educated the jury with jurors rights info from FIJA, maybe more of the jury would do the right thing.Now we need to create an uproar. Write! Write! Write! Use the power of the pen. Let the public know that the federal government just robbed us of our states rights. Motivate everyone to write their congressman and senator to let them know we are pissed and that we will never vote for them again unless they make a change and listen to the people not the lobbyists.This may be our last chance for a fight.We must get our rights back!!!From Peter McWilliams!Unknown Author!News article found bt Cryote!Thanks Cryote!http://www.sacbee.com/news/news/local01_19990521.html Home Comment Email Register Recent Comments Help Comment #7 posted by FoM on May 24, 1999 at 13:17:16 PT E-Mail Came Back! Hello John!I hope you find this since it now is in the older news section but I sent you an e-mail with the address you posted and it came back to me as undeliverable! I tried!Peace, FoM! [ Post Comment ] Comment #6 posted by FoM on May 23, 1999 at 22:44:04 PT Your Welcome For The Page! Glad you liked it John! It is late here in Ohio! I live here too! LOL! Here's the page that I keep special pages on of people that have impressed me and have just been down right kind! I'll e mail you tomorrow!Good Night!Peace, FoM! Our Friends [ Post Comment ] Comment #5 posted by John R. Bills on May 23, 1999 at 21:54:23 PT: Thanks for the page! Dear FoM, Thank you so very much for your kindness and thoughtfulness; I really appreciate it. Most, if not all of these links are in my favorites folder. It is getting late here in Ohio and I am hitting the sack. Can you e-mail me your e-mail adress to johnrbills hotmail.com so that I can give you some ideas without boring the masses with the details? Again, thanks. [ Post Comment ] Comment #4 posted by FoM on May 23, 1999 at 21:17:03 PT California MUST challenge Feds! Hello John! That sure came from the bottom of your heart and believe me I agree! Thank you for sharing what we should do and what you will be doing! I haven't seen you since I made you this small page so I posted it below and it is linked on my friends page I have!I can change anything you want in it too. I just guessed at links. I put links that I like alot on the page for now.Peace, FoM! John R. Bills Page [ Post Comment ] Comment #3 posted by John R. Bills on May 23, 1999 at 19:29:04 PT: California MUST challenge Feds! Dear People, I too was shocked about the outcome of this trial, and was caught off guard by it. I am not residing in California any more but you can be sure that I will let MY representatives and senators know of my displeasure. People must realize that this is the ONLY SURE Way to affect a change in the system. One of the biggest reasons we are so hard on the drug culture from a governmental standpoint is that parents groups started reading more stories about the horrors of drug use around 1985. Before this, only 3% of the public thought that drugs were a major problem. After the stories began, this number jumped to 48%. Do we really want a bunch of upset, misinformed, and unenlightened parents groups shaping our policies? Look around you folks, this just isn't working. We jail more people than any other country in the world, INCLUDING communist China. 60% of federal inmates are non-violent drug offenders. We are building prisons at a rate of ten times that of new schools. One of the biggest reasons that kids are going off the deep end is that the future is getting bleaker and bleaker for more and more of our youth. Read the Shaffer report authorized by Nixon almost 30 years ago( http://www.pdxnorml.org/ ) and you will know that these researchers saw this coming even then. Did you see this kind of youth violence 10-15 or more years ago? NO! Our youth need to believe in their future, and prisons are NOT the answer. Compassion, education, and TRUTH are what our children need; not seeing their future jobs sent out of the country by NAFTA, or companies looking to prisons for cheap labor, sometimes as little as 20 cents an hour! A majority of these prisoners are in there for non-violent drug offences. These are offences where the victim is the one convicted. Can it really be a good thing to be putting VICTIMS behind bars? I, for one do NOT want my parents making the rules, and, in effect subverting supposedly inalienable rights handed down by our forefathers. They wrote it that way in the first place to prevent the very thing that is happening now in our courtrooms. People, CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES AND SENATORS, and begin to work WITH the system so we can stop this tide of woe before it engulfs more of us. Polititions need to hear our united voices through e-mail, letters and phone calls shouting for an end to this! I AM, and I have everything at steak in this: my job and family. I AM NOT AFRAID!!! Peace, John R. Bills [ Post Comment ] Comment #2 posted by FoM on May 23, 1999 at 10:04:03 PT Missed Court Date! Hello Dr. Ganj!This upset me too that I didn't know more on B.E. Smith's plight until it was too late. I hope that here at Cannabis News I will be able to find these human rights stories and get them out in the open so this doesn't happen again. I'm a small fish in a big pond but I'll do mu darnest to never let something as important as this to go by unnoticed!Peace, FoM! [ Post Comment ] Comment #1 posted by Dr. Ganj on May 22, 1999 at 17:53:57 PT Missed Court Date Had we known about his (Smith's) important Federal trial, more of us could have appeared for support.The next one I know of is Tod's (McCormick), and after this blatant disregard for one's rights, it seems Tod is for a rough go.At least Tod's case will be in L.A., where there is a good chance of few of the jurors there have been abused by the system, and will lash back with a not guilty verdict.We must know in advance about these cases, or we can't possibly be expected to help.See you all in court.Dr. Ganj http://www.levellers.org/lemodel.htm [ Post Comment ] Post Comment Name: Optional Password: E-Mail: Subject: Comment: [Please refrain from using profanity in your message] Link URL: Link Title: