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Save Ed Rosenthal
Hey man Ed is being dogged by the feds for his
marijuana work with sick people. It is the feds who
are sick but we have to stand behind Ed and help him
with his legal expenses so please donate what you
can...tc
Note: Tommy is doing a benefit show at Ed's house in Cali. Don't miss it. Very intimate affair. For more info and to donate to his legal fund, go here.
marijuana work with sick people. It is the feds who
are sick but we have to stand behind Ed and help him
with his legal expenses so please donate what you
can...tc
Note: Tommy is doing a benefit show at Ed's house in Cali. Don't miss it. Very intimate affair. For more info and to donate to his legal fund, go here.
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13 Comments:
good luck
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DarkStar8491, at Sat Feb 24, 11:35:00 AM PST
Tommy, how the hell are you?
I hope you get your pinche' coffee biz going so that I can buy a sack... I mean baggy err...
I mean can.
el_callejero
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EL_CALLEJERO, at Sat Feb 24, 04:08:00 PM PST
Tommy,
You know I would be down with it brother but that kinda dough is a little beyond my living expenses. Im disabled and Im saving my beer cans to come see you and Shelby on my birthday again in June. Im the BIG 50 this year. (Punchline Sacramento). If I try to go to everything Imma be one broke ass mudda! Maybe if you let me be in a movie I can afford to go to more events. Maybe I can stand outside and park cars lmaooo! Ok you rich azz Hollyweird types go give Tommy a hand. He needs someone to save BIG ED! Save BIG ED save BIG ED. Wheres the Save Big Ed T-shirts?
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Bobby, at Sat Feb 24, 04:46:00 PM PST
doing some homework on wikipedia, we can hope that rosenthal's trial goes well, and that the courts can see how unconstitutional the csa really is, and that the government has no power to regulate the power that belongs to the states, like the commerce clause, which seems illigal, and of course the csa. for example, when the prohibition of alcohol came into effect, most states passed their own laws banning alcohol, and the government passed a constitutional amendment for prohibition, (which was overturned) unlike the csa, which is not an amendment.
i love wikipedia
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DarkStar8491, at Sat Feb 24, 07:21:00 PM PST
Damn Tommy I would love to go but its just too far too fast right now...
Ed is an Icon I have learned a lot from him over the years...one thing I am learning now is the new nixons are on the warpath so watch your back and your front.
PEACE Russ
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Trailer Trash Lot 420, at Sat Feb 24, 08:12:00 PM PST
Youre absolutely right, man! As usual. Its a shame stop marijuana researches that can benefit millions of people, just because (I can say) the damn government says...
We all around the world must stick together and fight against the fuc**** feds!
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...Tauico!, at Sun Feb 25, 10:52:00 PM PST
I just checked wikipedia on the matter and I hope Ed will be free to do his research. I would come Tommy but from Greece it is too far away..
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Nazith, at Sun Feb 25, 11:47:00 PM PST
can't be there, but posted about it on my blog to spread the word and will be making a humble donation to help Green-Aid, et al, continue their defiance of unjust laws.
xo.
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StonedGrrrl, at Wed Feb 28, 04:43:00 AM PST
Dear Tommy,
I read about your blog in the local newspaper, in a brief saying that you support Ed Rosenthal and the feds are sick. I thought I'd share my protest leaflet with you:
We can STOP this drug war!
We can end this persecution. WE, the oppressed, the powerless, have the power in our hands to stop this holy war on us. We don’t have convince a single Pharisee or fence sitter. All we have to do is stand up for our rights, stop cooperating in our own persecution, and never plead guilty.
If all you have done is violate drug laws, you are not guilty. The law is. An unconstitutional law is null and void, not from the moment it is declared so, but from the moment of its enactment. It is an illegal law, a violation of the rights of the citizenry as a whole, whether they agree with or violate it. It is an act of civil war on the citizenry, a use of governmental force against those who have violated nobody’s rights. In the case of drug laws, it is a holy war, because is involves matters of religious opinion and practice.
Medicine is inherently a religious activity, dependent upon your opinion about what is good or evil for your own body and mind. “Medicine man” and “witch doctor” refer to the priest-doctors, or shaman, of aboriginal religions. It is only among the more civilized cultures that the roles of doctor and priest have become separated and specialized. But medicine is still a matter of opinions about things good and evil for oneself and one’s family, matters intensely personal and confidential between healer and patient. Or at least they should be.
This particular violation of our rights has been going on for most of 90 years. It started with the religious fervor that produced Prohibition of Alcohol. (Interesting that “Christians” imposed a Muslim taboo on a supposedly free nation.) While our great-grandparents figured they needed a constitutional amendment to ban alcohol, and another to rescind the ban, the U.S. Supreme Court found, in Whipple v. Martinson: “There can be no question of the authority of the state in the exercise of its police power to regulate the administration, sale, prescription and use of dangerous and habit-forming drugs....The right to exercise this power is so manifest in the interest of the public health and welfare, that it is unnecessary to enter upon a discussion of it beyond saying that it is too firmly established to be successfully called into question.”
The entire drug war rests on this bald assertion, from a two-paragraph opinion in 1921, the height of Prohibition, an opinion without argument or citation of precedent to support it. After 90 years, it is no longer so manifest, and it can be successfully called into question.
Of course the Pharisees who run our courts won’t easily give up any power and don’t have to consider any argument. But we can force them to consider, simply by no longer consenting to our own persecution.
The criminal justice system is on the verge of collapse from too many laws. Even with 99% of defendants pleading guilty, uncontested cases take years to come to judgment. Jails and prisons are either full or voters won’t pay for enough guards to fill them. Defense attorneys routinely waive speedy trial rules, wanting to stay on the good side of judges, court clerks, and other lawyers.
Never plead guilty. If even 10% of defendants would go to trial, the system would grind to a halt. Or police and prosecutors would have to stop acting like persecutors, and prioritize their efforts on real criminals. Defense attorneys join the court and prosecutors in scaring you into pleading by only telling you the maximum penalties for the charges you’re facing, then mentioning the minimum penalties when presenting a plea deal. Prosecutors only offer to drop counts that they couldn’t prove anyways. If you take the plea, the judge gives you the presumptive sentence. There’s 100% chance you will be punished. And you cannot appeal the legality of a law you plead guilty to violating.
You lose nothing by taking your case to trial, no matter how damning the evidence may be, or how serious the charges. The jury may be on your side, needing only a good excuse to acquit you of some or all charges. The judge cannot legally give you a longer sentence or a larger fine for making the state prove every element of every charge. You can appeal the law, having maintained your innocence, especially if you challenge the law pre-trial. And you make them pay for your conviction, instead of giving it to them cheap. Don’t accept conditional release. The system’s greatest weakness is lack of jail and prison space and/or guards. They get around that by asking you to hold yourself captive in your own home and neighborhood, at your own expense, with payment for “supervision” to boot. They get you to consent to open your home, workplace, vehicle, and body to unwarranted searches, and that’s just the beginning of the surrender of your rights and the rights of those around you. If you violate, you get a new charge, Escape, and perhaps other charges. Why open yourself up for new charges?
Have patience, and they will let you go. Hold out for release on your Own Recognizance, rather than Conditional Release. Don’t bail out in Oregon; the 1989 Legislature made it legal to steal fines and assessments out of bail money paid on your behalf, completely subverting the purpose of bail.
The 1989 legislature made probation mandatory, making probation officers the true judges of individual offenders. Judges set the maximum terms of supervision, but PO’s set the minimum terms. In handling a big caseload, they have to prioritize their supervision on those who need it most.
Their only power over you is the threat of jail and prison, which is in short supply. Make it clear in all you do, say, or write, that you won’t cooperate with your persecution, that you’d rather go to jail than surrender your rights while free, and you can keep your rights. They appreciate honesty, seeing so little of it.
If you wish to avoid prison entirely, remember the lesson of Persephone: If you eat in Hades, they can keep you forever.
Oregon’s Constitution has several key provisions that could be useful in appeals and lawsuits:
Article 1, section 1. “Natural rights inherent in the people. We declare that all men, when they form a social compact are equal in right: that all power is inherent in the people, and all free governments are founded on their authority, and instituted for their peace, safety, and happiness; and they have at all times a right to alter, reform, or abolish the government in such manner as they may thing proper.”
If all men are equal in right, where do legislators get the right to tell all of us what substances we may possess and trade? It certainly doesn’t increase our peace, safety and happiness to have cops busting into our homes, kidnaping us, stealing our stuff, holding us for ransom, and enslaving us over differences of opinion about what is good or bad for us. No man or group of men have that right.
Article 1, section 3. “Freedom of religious opinion. No law shall in any case whatever control the free exercise, and enjoyment of religious opinions, or interfere with the rights of conscience.”
What is the free exercise and enjoyment of religious opinions, if not living by your beliefs? It is certainly as much a right of conscience to decide that something is not wrong as it is to decide that it is wrong. And rights of conscience are individual rights, not dependent on institutional religion.
Substance prohibitions are inherently religious. Our Lord freed us from the substance taboos of the Pharisees of his time and for all time: “Hear me everyone, and understand: There is nothing that enters a man from outside which can defile him; but the things that come out of him, those are the things that defile a man. If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear!” Mark 7:14-16.
He gave us six simple laws to live by, and would not like us bowing under the yoke of new substance taboos, recent traditions of men rather than the eternal laws of God. Possessing and using pot doesn’t harm my neighbor or bother my conscience; it is loving myself. Sharing pot is loving my neighbor as myself. “Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore, love is the fulfillment of the law.” Romans 13:10
Article 1, section 13. “Treatment of arrested or confined persons. No person arrested, or confined in jail, shall be treated with unnecessary rigor.” The jail is as cold as Hades. The inmates need long johns. I have been telling Sheriff Gilbertson so. He says he doesn’t have the money to properly clothe his captives. I have now taken it to the county commissioners.
Regarding my own arrest, Easter 2005, for sharing pot cookies at my protest: I won my case, pro se. The jury acquitted me on all charges but possession, a charge I didn’t argue. I was sentenced 9-21-06 to 18 months probation, including 10 days in jail, and a $500 fine, stolen from my bail money. I have filed my notice of appeal. I visit with my PO twice monthly, but do not allow searches or pay fees.
My driver’s license was suspended by a sneak attack at sentencing, with a statute rarely used. I filed a motion to reverse the suspension and another to void ORS 809.265, the hammer DA Campbell hit me with. The suspension was voided after 10 weeks, and notice of appeal has been filed on his little hammer.
This protest continues, for over 3½ years now, every Sunday from 11 AM to 1 PM at the corner of 6th and G, in Grants Pass, Oregon. And I now have a talk show, Uncommon Sense, on takilmafm.com, live on Mondays from 10AM to 2 PM.
Come out of your closets! You have nothing to lose but your fear.
Rycke Brown, Natural Gardener rycke@gardener.com 541-955-9040
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Rycke, at Fri Mar 09, 10:10:00 PM PST
Hey mister Tom,
You may be familiar with this quote, but if not; Benjamin Rush, who was a physician and signer of the Declaration of Independence said, "The constitution of the republic should make provision for medical freedom as well as religious freedom. To restrict the art of healing to one class of men and deny equal priviledge to others will constitute the Bastille of Medical Science." This may not help in Ed's defense but is a valid argument from one of the founding fathers.
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Darrell, at Wed Mar 14, 10:13:00 AM PDT
I've said it before. Somewhere. But there IS no war on drugs, just a war on peoples FREEDOM to use drugs. That is some sick shit.
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Malicious Matt, at Sat Mar 31, 09:16:00 PM PDT
I hope that everyone will do their part to help Ed!! I myself(at 23yrs) suffer from Rheumatoid arthritis and know how pot can help! It dosen't do much for my pain but it really helps with my nausea and attitude! Without weed I wouldn't want to get up in the morning! It is so important to change the ignorance of society on the effects of marijuana!
Tommy your awesome!
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Crystal, at Thu Sep 06, 02:01:00 PM PDT
its november now and i was just wondering whats goin on with Big Ed? P.S ima big fan of you tc,it would be an honor to meet you and your wife. im so sick of this state (CT) and im down to move to cali. me and my friend ashley are scrapin some dough together to move out there,u open that coffee shop i hope to see you guys one day....one love
brit
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