Monday, January 26, 2004
Pardon Tommy Chong
Tommy Chong's Prosecution Is the True Crime
| Tommy Chong - the famous comedian, actor, and marijuna cult hero is serving 6 months time in Federal prison, unjustly, for selling marijuana using paraphernalia. Had he merely slipped a piece of paper into his wares or advertising -stating for medicinal use only- or for use outside the USA - he would never have been prosecuted.
Chong is the victim of a vindictive US Justice Department prosecution policy called "Operation Pipe Dreams". Costing millions of dollars to administer in 'the age of high criminal terror risk & ENRON' - these dear public resources went to prosecute a maker and seller of hashish pipes & roach clips. Chong further had the benefit of a pre-existent -no prosecutions merited- US government poicy which dated to the Reagan Administration or before. Ashcroft reversed it. Few examples of Government folly and disservice to the law and its reason exceed this one. For the sake of good law and conscience - move any candidate for public office to pardon Tommy Chong & to reverse the policy. |
// posted by scotty of course @ 11:12 AM 
