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****PLEASE FORWARD AND DISTRIBUTE WIDELY****
Unheard Voices Documentary Project
The Unheard Voices documentary project is seeking interviews and testimonials from drug-related offenders and ex-offenders, and their families, on the far ranging consequences of their criminal convictions.
Inspired by Steven Spielberg's Shoah Project, which gathered video testimonies from survivors and other witnesses to the Holocaust, the Unheard Voices documentary project is building an archive of testimonies on the cultural holocaust that has been the War on Drugs.
"No issue has had more impact on the criminal justice system in the past three decades than national drug policy. The 'war on drugs,' officially declared in the early 1980s, has been the primary contributor to the enormous growth of the prison system in the United States during the last quarter-century and has affected all aspects of the criminal justice system and, consequently, American society." ~ The Sentencing Project, "A 25 Year Quagmire: The 'War on Drugs' and its Impact on American Society." (2007)
If you or anyone in your family has had a criminal conviction for a nonviolent drug-related offense, we would like to hear about the lasting impacts to your lives, and how you overcame your circumstances, or were permanently affected. Your stories will help put a human face on a critical social issue that has been overwhelmed by fear, politics, racial prejudice, and intolerance, in an era where the public attitude has been, "out of sight, out of mind." When the stories hit home, the policies begin to change.
We seek written testimonials and interview subjects for our video archive. If you would like your voice to be heard please contact Director Charles Shaw at charles.shaw@opendemocracy.net.
Unheard Voices is a collaborative venture of the Exile Nation Project, openDemocracy and the Tedworth Charitable Trust. Interviews & Testimonials will be initially published on the openDemocracy Drug Policy Forum.
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cool, i've got more than a few friends who might qualify 
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cool, i've got more than a few friends who might qualify
Sadly I have a few myself.
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it is very sad. police state insanity ftw!! 
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We don't live in a police state. Hyperbole FTL.
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Well, we live in a state where the people are afraid of the police, which is a problem.
And in parts of georgia, it sure feels like a police state. Although that's usually in wealthy areas where the people there are the ones who want it that way.
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Bump!
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I was arrested for small amount marijuana and paraphernalia when I was 18. They dropped the charges
down to misdemeanor disorderly conducts so that I could continue to serve in the military without
any blemishes. Served six years and left with an honorable discharge and commendations including
the bronze star and purple heart. Now even at 27, I am still discriminated against because employers
that require background checks can easily relate the "dismissed" drug charges with the disorderly conducts.
In short, "dropping" the drug charges has done nothing but ensure that I could continue serving the military,
but the drug charges are still on my background check clear as day. I may as well have been convicted of them.
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Well, we live in a state where the people are afraid of the police, which is a problem.
And in parts of georgia, it sure feels like a police state. Although that's usually in wealthy areas where the people there are the ones who want it that way.
Don't listen to the rich jew from NYC. You live in a police state.
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Inspired by Steven Spielberg's Shoah Project, which gathered video testimonies from survivors and other witnesses to the Holocaust, the Unheard Voices documentary project is building an archive of testimonies on the cultural holocaust that has been the War on Drugs.
Very interesting that you make the connection on how the drug war is a holocaust. Do you use the word holocaust because of political pressure to eradicate the "counter culture"?
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they will wipe us out with pot smoke filled chambers
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I was thinking more along the lines that the government over the next few years will begin a massive fanatical propaganda campaign that is financed by but not run by them as a way to get the citizens to gain the trust of the media. They will not just vilifying users, but brainwash other people to think that users are less than human, that they are insects, only worthy to be crushed under the foot of justice. Then, a detrimental catastrophe will occur: a high ranking official is assassinated, building is destroyed, a child in a Texas suburb is taken; which will trigger the brainwashed masses to react violently. Crowds of people will form make shift militias arming themselves with their weapons that are afforded to them under the 2nd amendment and gathering all the Medical Marijuana lists, police files of paroled drug offenders, and other sources of information that identify drug users and begin to systematically hunt and exterminate every user and drug sympathizer. Self-testing drug kits will be utilized to determine if one is indeed a user or not and upon negative results the user will be "cleansed". Secretly, the government will be funding the heads of these militias and encourage them to continue their campaign, which they do until the militia can't find anymore users to kill. We have to be careful that our future doesn't end up like this!
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VizualDistorshon said:
Very interesting that you make the connection on how the drug war is a holocaust. Do you use the word holocaust because of political pressure to eradicate the "counter culture"?
You must be confused, I never even used the word "holocaust" in anything I said there.
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I was thinking more along the lines that the government over the next few years will begin a massive fanatical propaganda campaign that is financed by but not run by them as a way to get the citizens to gain the trust of the media. They will not just vilifying users, but brainwash other people to think that users are less than human, that they are insects, only worthy to be crushed under the foot of justice. Then, a detrimental catastrophe will occur: a high ranking official is assassinated, building is destroyed, a child in a Texas suburb is taken; which will trigger the brainwashed masses to react violently. Crowds of people will form make shift militias arming themselves with their weapons that are afforded to them under the 2nd amendment and gathering all the Medical Marijuana lists, police files of paroled drug offenders, and other sources of information that identify drug users and begin to systematically hunt and exterminate every user and drug sympathizer. Self-testing drug kits will be utilized to determine if one is indeed a user or not and upon negative results the user will be "cleansed". Secretly, the government will be funding the heads of these militias and encourage them to continue their campaign, which they do until the militia can't find anymore users to kill. We have to be careful that our future doesn't end up like this!
WHAT have YOU been smoking man??!
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Re: Unheard Voices [Re: geokills]
#12869917 - 07/08/10 07:58 PM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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Lulz the use of the word 'holocaust' in this thread triggered some interesting 'similar threads' results
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Re: Unheard Voices [Re: Rafiki]
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Totally j/k btw.
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Re: Unheard Voices - A Drug War Documentary Project [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
#12870150 - 07/08/10 08:53 PM (1 year, 7 months ago) |
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anyone have any contact info for the project? ive emailed the director, i would love to work on this in any way, even if its just fetching coffee, loading equipment, or even editing.
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Re: Unheard Voices - A Drug War Documentary Project [Re: kintos]
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I can't wait for this to come around. This "Drug War" is a huge waste of honest tax paying people's money. Since I started smoking marijuana, I've realized all the bullshit I've been told my whole life to believe about drugs and how a "moral society" is supposed to be. The idea that marijuana, a non-habit forming and non-fatal plant, is illegal and alcohol is A-OK makes me wonder how blind society really is. It's ok to drink just about anywhere and appropriate to even drink in front of children, but if you smoke a joint you'll be arrested and forever be branded a criminal. Hell, if you smoke pot in front of a young kid you'd probably be labeled a violent criminal, pedophile, and overall scumbag.
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On another note- friend of mine had a wiring fraud charge and was put on probation. A couple months later he tested positive for thc in a drug test and he was put in jail for three weeks. Now his original wiring fraud charge was completely dropped and his case was transferred to a drug court that has given him another probation period.
Tell me. Is it fair that someone should be drug tested when their original criminal charge had nothing to do with drugs? Was it necessary to spend hundreds-- maybe thousands of dollars in tax payer money to have the case transferred to a different court and different probation officer?
Penn & Teller's: Bullshit! Has a great episode on the Drug War that I would encourage a lot of people to check out.
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I was thinking more along the lines that the government over the next few years will begin a massive fanatical propaganda campaign that is financed by but not run by them as a way to get the citizens to gain the trust of the media. They will not just vilifying users, but brainwash other people to think that users are less than human, that they are insects, only worthy to be crushed under the foot of justice.
Yep, all that was accomplished in the 80's and continues today. (Thanks Mrs. Reagan).
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Re: Unheard Voices - A Drug War Documentary Project [Re: Pun]
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if you smoke pot in front of a young kid you'd probably be labeled a violent criminal, pedophile, and overall scumbag.
You can be charged with "Child endangerment." Your child can be taken away from you.
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the drug charges are still on my background check clear as day. I may as well have been convicted of them.
you can petition to have the record expunged
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Charles Shaw does some good stuff... 
The way this entire broken system operates should without a doubt be thrown into question..
We as a society need to educate ourselves on alternative ways of dealing with these problems.
There are so many symptoms of dysfunction and corruption- the bureaucratic industrial complex is obviously out of control.
We may not live in a genuine police state yet, but it's getting worse.. The militarization of local police forces nationwide has created a monster.
"The drug problem" is a convenient excuse for them to achieve increasing control over our lives..
Whether it's mandatory drug testing, increasing their budgets across the board, random traffic stops, profiling, banning anonymous prepaid phones, the list goes on...
All drugs should be legalized and regulated, at the very least under strict controls..
But I honestly can't see that happening in the United States, where we can't even get our health care system right. 
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Re: Unheard Voices [Re: Adamist]
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If you doubt that we're turning into a police state, you should read the story of this guy, who was refused entry into the U.S. because he used LSD in the past.
Apparently the Patriot Act can be used to bar entry to "known drug users", among other things (check out the "Ideological exclusion provision"). 
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Re: Unheard Voices [Re: Adamist]
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i used to think we weren't a police state until i lived in a country that isn't. very eye opening experience, and to me it seems that we're relinquishing more control of our lives to the government every year.
i take full responsibility for the behavior that led up to my conviction, and i did my time and paid my debt to society. but i also find it outrageous that our society makes it so difficult for anyone to bounce back from a drug conviction. a felon's employment options are extremely limited unless they are fortunate enough to know a trade or have already earned a degree, and even then it's hit or miss depending on the employer. up until recently you couldn't even get any sort of federal aid for school, including loans, for drug convictions. that applied only to drug convictions i might add. thieves, sex offenders and rapists have no trouble getting into the fafsa program at all. most (if not all) major property management companies refuse to lease to felons regardless of the circumstances surrounding their conviction i.e. their age at the time of the arrest. it just doesn't seem right that i can't get an apartment today over something really stupid i did when i was a teenager.
so as it stands now, with a drug conviction on your record you can't work, school is a complete fantasy unless you're wealthy, and you can't live anywhere unless you buy property or lease from an individual. i straight up lied on my leasing apps before 9/11 because i knew they wouldn't check. that and i needed a place to live. after 9/11 i couldn't renew with a company i leased with for nearly 3 years without any trouble whatsoever, excellent credit and steady work history. in this sense i feel that the war on drugs victimizes people and often forces them back into the criminal lifestyle that led them to being convicted in the first place, especially in the case of offenders who come from poverty. in no way does society benefit from putting so many people at such a crushing disadvantage for the remainder of their lives.
i hope this film reaches a lot of people.
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Re: Unheard Voices [Re: millzy]
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btw, i'd also like to add that i think a good solution to this issue would be for states to pass laws prohibiting employers and leasing agencies from discriminating against drug offenders if their conviction is a misdemeanor or over 5 years old in the case of felonies. fafsa has already been fixed thankfully.
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Re: Unheard Voices [Re: Adamist]
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If you doubt that we're turning into a police state, you should read the story of this guy, who was refused entry into the U.S. because he used LSD in the past.
serves his ass right, I'm barred from canada because they consider me a danger to their society
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It's fucking unbelievable... they are grasping at straws at this point. Googling someone who's trying to enter the country?
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Re: Unheard Voices [Re: Adamist]
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Is this project only for people from the states?
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Re: Unheard Voices [Re: Adamist]
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Adamist said:
If you doubt that we're turning into a police state, you should read the story of this guy, who was refused entry into the U.S. because he used LSD in the past.
Apparently the Patriot Act can be used to bar entry to "known drug users", among other things (check out the "Ideological exclusion provision").
Stories like that make me wish I was dead rather than a citizen of the police states of america. Someday maybe.... if I'm lucky I'll have enough money to leave....
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Re: Unheard Voices [Re: Adamist]
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Adamist said:
If you doubt that we're turning into a police state, you should read the story of this guy, who was refused entry into the U.S. because he used LSD in the past.
Apparently the Patriot Act can be used to bar entry to "known drug users", among other things (check out the "Ideological exclusion provision").
his daughter's name is soma
nice dude, nice
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OneMoreRobot3021 said:
...the Unheard Voices documentary project is building an archive of testimonies on the cultural holocaust that has been the War on Drugs.
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OneMoreRobot3021 said:
We don't live in a police state. Hyperbole FTL.
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Don't shoot the messenger, Doobie. Being all pseudo-political-activist about shit looks cool to the hipster bitches
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I sent an email and told part of my story... got an email back like an hour later and seems they are interested so we'll see.
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i called the director, said he has gotten a bunch of good stories from the shroomery, im gonna meet with him thursday. I might end up working on the project in some capacity.
he said it was going to be a creative commons project so other people can use the content in other documentaries, essays ect. im kinda hyped about this finally a documentary i care about.
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Re: Unheard Voices [Re: kintos]
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Yeah I just got off the phone with him. I'm going to meet with him sometime in the next couple weeks.
I fully support this venture.. let's make it happen like serious. !
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count me in
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Looks like ill be helping out with some of the bay area shoots and some editing. Hopefully ill be meeting some fellow shroomery members.
although it seems like charles shaw is/should be a memeber of this site, he would fit right in, pretty chill/ laid back guy.
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the drug charges are still on my background check clear as day. I may as well have been convicted of them.
you can petition to have the record expunged
When I was a minor (17) I was arrested for small cocaine possession. Anyways I was never convicted and my record was expunged.
However years later at the age of 24 I signed up for the US Marine Corp. Everything went accordingly. They got all my information, passed all the tests with flying colors, and at the last moment before getting my deployment date I was told that I wasnt going to be able to join because of my juvenile record.
I then tried the US Army and US Air Force, i Was declined for a minor drug charge when i was a minor which had been expunged.
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Re: Unheard Voices [Re: Akira]
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i think i heard a couple of years back that they're overlooking felony drug convictions now with people trying to enlist.
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Re: Unheard Voices - A Drug War Documentary Project [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
#12925151 - 07/20/10 02:04 PM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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i got more than a doozy to tell you...how about being sued by the treasury dept for 870,000 dollars for 3 lbs of mushrooms....or held in solitary confinement for over a year periodically having my feet beaten with billy-club while strapped to a chair, being forced to defecate on myself and endure more than 24 hrs without water(because i had the audacity to run for my life) and later fleeing the country while the constitutionality of the "crack tax" law was debated, and finally judged unconstitutional...pm me if you want that interview
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SuperD 
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Re: Unheard Voices [Re: millzy]
#12927461 - 07/20/10 09:26 PM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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millzy said:
i think i heard a couple of years back that they're overlooking felony drug convictions now with people trying to enlist.
Hardly surprising considering the wake of destruction caused by our drug laws. Everybody knows somebody that's a convicted felon because of the WOD.
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Toad_Stool
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Re: Unheard Voices - A Drug War Documentary Project [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
#12953400 - 07/25/10 10:36 PM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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worst thred ever
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Nexius
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Re: Unheard Voices [Re: millzy]
#12961063 - 07/27/10 10:50 AM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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millzy said:
i think i heard a couple of years back that they're overlooking felony drug convictions now with people trying to enlist.
A few years ago, yes you could have a waiver to join.
Now no, the economy is so bad everyone and their sister is goin to the military, waivers are not being accepted in many many branches, or if they are... they're reserved. This can change on the next fiscal year (October)
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ToughLove78
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Re: Unheard Voices [Re: Nexius]
#12964363 - 07/27/10 09:34 PM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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This is my first post ever, my bfriend intorduced me to the shroomery.
This is my war on drugs~ I did three years in prison for living with and staying with my ex piece of crap old man... Never sold a drug in my life (too stingy) and in the great state of NC found myself being interagated for over 12 hours in a basement with guys with masks on...
Finally go to jail after much raising h*** IRS took all our belongings house, cars, furniture, clothes, money, etc etc and ultimately lost my two little girls....
So much for justice..Guess he should have told me of the 254 grams of coke in the wall, huh?
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calibret
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It's just absurd that the government thinks they can control what people put in their own body or do in their home. It's not their business and it's been shown with a certainty that they cannot do it.
All the billions of dollars that have been spent on the WOD and keeping people in prisons and still anyone can find any drug that they may desire. What stupidity!
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hpi
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Adamist said:
If you doubt that we're turning into a police state, you should read the story of this guy, who was refused entry into the U.S. because he used LSD in the past.
serves his ass right, I'm barred from canada because they consider me a danger to their society
Id welcome you down here to Montreal, want me to sneak you into Canada pris? I'll allow you entry into Canoodia for a perma NO ban 
Whens this documentary come out?
EDIT: What did you do btw?
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Re: Unheard Voices - A Drug War Documentary Project [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
#12990327 - 08/02/10 11:17 AM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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I have a story for this. It is extremely personal, and a very big issue to me. Because of judicial/correctional actions I do not know where my little brother is, or if he is even ok. I'll write up the details and email it.
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Akira
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Re: Unheard Voices - A Drug War Documentary Project [Re: mothballs]
#12996543 - 08/03/10 01:52 PM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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mothballs said:
i got more than a doozy to tell you...how about being sued by the treasury dept for 870,000 dollars for 3 lbs of mushrooms....or held in solitary confinement for over a year periodically having my feet beaten with billy-club while strapped to a chair, being forced to defecate on myself and endure more than 24 hrs without water(because i had the audacity to run for my life) and later fleeing the country while the constitutionality of the "crack tax" law was debated, and finally judged unconstitutional...pm me if you want that interview
Wait a minute. Are you fucking serious? This sounds like the plot to a war prisoner story. Explain your story please...
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mothballs
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Re: Unheard Voices - A Drug War Documentary Project [Re: Akira]
#13001226 - 08/04/10 11:25 AM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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it's actually two stories...the first i was at a wsp concert and a guy spilled a tray of beer on me because we were dancing and i didnt see him so he got all agro, so instead of fuck with the vibe, i offered to pay for his drinks and took out a 50 and had just given it to him when the cops rushed us thinking a deal was going down...i tried to explain but it was useless...we were up aginst the wall being searched...when they touched me i tried to bounce into the crowd but not sucussfully
when i got to the jail they put me in a type of cradle with my hands stapped crossed against my chest and my feet upturned and strapped due to the curvture of the device....after a few hours the arresting officer came in with a rubber billy club and beat the soles of my feet for what seemed to be forever assuring me that it would teach me not to run from the pOlice....they left me there for about 2 days forcing me to urinate and deficate on myself without water and food
they let me out...gave me food and water and new clothes and let me take a shower and sleep for the night....woke me up again in the morning to do it again
i stayed in solitary confinement for 15 months
the caught me with 16 pills and gave me 7 years+1 for escape
being paroled after 4 years, the police got me with a suspicous package in the mai which they claimed contined a few pound of mushies
i was sued by the fedral treasurary dept under the tennessee cack tax law...for 870,000dollars before i was even indited.....realizing that this was a lifetime sentnce as that parole would depend on punctual payment...i left the country never to come back
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SuperD
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Re: Unheard Voices - A Drug War Documentary Project [Re: mothballs]
#13001523 - 08/04/10 12:19 PM (1 year, 6 months ago) |
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And I thought I got fucked hard in the war on drugs. Ouch man, feel bad for you and hope for the best. No one deserves to be treated like that..and especially over what, 16 pills? These drug laws have got to fucking change.
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I'd like you to meet my local drug dealer
Bruce Campbell for a day! said: Go misidentify a mushroom please.
"Marijuana in its natural form is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man." DEA Administrative Law Judge Francis Young, 1988
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