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American Kills Himself in Taiwan Court After 4-Year Drug Sentence
    #23353626 - 06/17/16 04:59 AM (7 years, 7 months ago)

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American Kills Himself in Taiwan Court After 4-Year Drug Sentence

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JUNE 17, 2016
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By AUSTIN RAMZY
HONG KONG — An American man who had been convicted of growing marijuana in Taiwan killed himself in a courtroom after he was sentenced to a four-year prison term, according to court officials.

The man, Tyrel Martin Marhanka, 41, slashed his throat with a pair of scissors on Thursday, the Changhua District Court said in a written statement. He was rushed to a hospital but could not be saved.

He had been convicted of growing marijuana at his home in Changhua, in central Taiwan, and of importing marijuana and opium poppy seeds. A prison term of up to seven years was possible, but the court gave him a lesser sentence of four years because he had not sold marijuana and was growing it for his own use.

When a court interpreter told Mr. Marhanka the sentence, he replied, “Four years?” The Taipei Times reported, quoting witnesses. He said he did not want to appeal the decision.

“I don’t want to live anymore,” he said, before removing two metal objects, apparently the disassembled scissors, and cutting his neck, the newspaper reported.

The court said it felt “deep regret” at Mr. Marhanka’s death. An initial investigation found a magazine that he had seemingly used to conceal the scissors when he entered the court. A metal detector apparently did not uncover the scissors when he entered the building. The court said that the building did not have enough space for a more advanced scanner but that it would install X-ray machines in a new building.

Mr. Marahanka was not in detention but had arrived at the court hearing voluntarily and did not show any outward indications of suicidal impulses, the court said. Mr. Marhanka had a wife and two children in Taiwan and had lived there for several years. He had worked as an English teacher, but his neighbors said he lost his job after he was charged, the Central News Agency reported.

His death is likely to raise questions about security standards in Taiwan’s judicial system. Last year, inmates in a prison in southern Taiwan used scissors from a workshop to take guards hostage. They broke into a prison armory to seize firearms, which six of the inmates used to kill themselves, prompting calls for improved oversight.



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Re: American Kills Himself in Taiwan Court After 4-Year Drug Sentence [Re: trampis]
    #23353701 - 06/17/16 05:55 AM (7 years, 7 months ago)

This is disturbing. Its clearly his fault for such a volatile (understatement?) and permanent reaction to a temporary problem. He clearly wasnt thinking, although probably wasnt expecting 4 years in jail. That said, this guy killed himself partly because of the law against MJ. Taiwan is embarassed at the lack of security but how bout driving people to suicide over cannabis?

I mean, he was probably severely troubled in the first place. Id imagine growing in taiwan would be a very rare thing. Very sad for him and his family


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Re: American Kills Himself in Taiwan Court After 4-Year Drug Sentence [Re: Fractal420] * 1
    #23354494 - 06/17/16 11:34 AM (7 years, 7 months ago)

Damn the inmates took hostages and stole guns just to off themselves? Taiwanese prison must suck!


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Re: American Kills Himself in Taiwan Court After 4-Year Drug Sentence [Re: ShroomDoom] * 1
    #23354701 - 06/17/16 12:33 PM (7 years, 7 months ago)

prison everywhere sucks you don't want to be in there for 4 weeks let alone 4 years


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Re: American Kills Himself in Taiwan Court After 4-Year Drug Sentence [Re: Konyap]
    #23354840 - 06/17/16 01:34 PM (7 years, 7 months ago)

:badmanthisfeels:

It's sickening we live in a world where stuff like this happens.

My condolences go out to that mans wife and kids :sad:

Hopefully the people who brought him to "justice" burn in hell :shakefist:


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Re: American Kills Himself in Taiwan Court After 4-Year Drug Sentence [Re: trampis]
    #23356236 - 06/17/16 10:25 PM (7 years, 7 months ago)

Well ...it took courage......

Can't blame a guy for bailing on his meat sack :shrug:


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Re: American Kills Himself in Taiwan Court After 4-Year Drug Sentence [Re: Vitalux]
    #23356284 - 06/17/16 11:04 PM (7 years, 7 months ago)

takes courage to go to jail in taiwan for 4 years..


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Re: American Kills Himself in Taiwan Court After 4-Year Drug Sentence [Re: Near Dylan] * 3
    #23356405 - 06/18/16 12:14 AM (7 years, 7 months ago)

Jesus...

so many "I can't believes" in this article.
I can't believe he would rather slit his own throat than pull 4 years.  That is no small task.

I cant believe the life shattering consequences certain humans inflict on others because of a plant.

I cant believe there hasnt been some sort of forced revolution as a result of these punishments world wide.

I cant believe the happy little people are happy with their being told what to do lives.  Making a flock of babies, watching Trump rallies.

Oh well, lets all wake up tomorrow and do the same thing all over again.


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Re: American Kills Himself in Taiwan Court After 4-Year Drug Sentence [Re: Amanita86]
    #23356536 - 06/18/16 01:34 AM (7 years, 7 months ago)

Double posting other people's thoughts for the sake of relevance! Our world has not healed much for thousands of years. Then there is all this with religious anti-drug insanity, and that is before any actual problems arise. 

Lets go Kenya!  Kill more gays?  Marijuana smokers?!?!?!  Smoke crack we kill yer family?  Fucking crazy-ass people.

Dudes, people are fucking crazy, and if I had to stare at Taiwanese prison guards every day for four years while they treated me like an animal I would at least consider blowing my brains out.

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Amanita86 said:
Jesus...

so many "I can't believes" in this article.
I can't believe he would rather slit his own throat than pull 4 years.  That is no small task.

I cant believe the life shattering consequences certain humans inflict on others because of a plant.

I cant believe there hasnt been some sort of forced revolution as a result of these punishments world wide.

I cant believe the happy little people are happy with their being told what to do lives.  Making a flock of babies, watching Trump rallies.

Oh well, lets all wake up tomorrow and do the same thing all over again.




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Re: American Kills Himself in Taiwan Court After 4-Year Drug Sentence [Re: trampis]
    #23357332 - 06/18/16 09:31 AM (7 years, 7 months ago)

This man's death was a direct consequence of Draconian laws and associated, inappropriate prison sentences for a fucking innocuous - many would argue -  beneficial plant.

I'm sickened and saddened by this news.  I hope the fucking Taiwanese government gets sued by the surviving family.  Not only did a man lose his life, a wife lost a husband, children lost a father, and the community lost an educator...for what???  A handful of leaves.

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Re: American Kills Himself in Taiwan Court After 4-Year Drug Sentence [Re: Nature Boy] * 1
    #23358797 - 06/18/16 05:54 PM (7 years, 7 months ago)

That guy was really bad ass,made a statement that's for sure,freaked out a buncha little chinamen,oohh look at gajin cut own throat! Eehhh...


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Re: American Kills Himself in Taiwan Court After 4-Year Drug Sentence [Re: 5150]
    #23358913 - 06/18/16 06:36 PM (7 years, 7 months ago)

four years...


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Re: American Kills Himself in Taiwan Court After 4-Year Drug Sentence [Re: trampis]
    #23358994 - 06/18/16 07:18 PM (7 years, 7 months ago)

No metal detectors there. I have to take off my belt and remove coins just to see a judge in the states for a public intox charge lately.

To go through with it, slashing his throat against all human instinct through the beginning of DNA survivor mode is one hell of a will to overide it.

China claims Taiwan but my guess is the laws and politics are quite different. Meaning he would get out earlier than the sentence and because of U.S. interests from cheap labor his prison time wouldn't have been so hard.

Yet I was in County jail at a time when a kid hung himself. But still, wrong country at a wrong time and a bad choice. I tried to, yet the body reacts.

Another wasted life over a plant and poppy.


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Re: American Kills Himself in Taiwan Court After 4-Year Drug Sentence [Re: timelapses]
    #23359282 - 06/18/16 09:21 PM (7 years, 7 months ago)

Quote:

A metal detector apparently did not uncover the scissors when he entered the building.




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Re: American Kills Himself in Taiwan Court After 4-Year Drug Sentence [Re: trampis] * 1
    #23359668 - 06/19/16 01:16 AM (7 years, 7 months ago)

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did not show any outward indications of suicidal impulses




This statement interested me because they are looking for a reason as to why he did.  Oh maybe he was suicidal?

NO maybe the fucking law is mental for incarcerating people for plants.  Thats the problem here.  I don;t even have to question if he was suicidal as the act clearly came as a result of the sentence.


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Re: American Kills Himself in Taiwan Court After 4-Year Drug Sentence [Re: nice1returns]
    #23361348 - 06/19/16 04:48 PM (7 years, 7 months ago)

Noem, americans lives matter. In other places they do not.

Afraid that 3rd world could come to them instead of humanity. Wild ride we are living on.


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    #23361391 - 06/19/16 05:09 PM (7 years, 7 months ago)

Oh this we know.  People with big money don't like plants.  They are invested in making an absolute-whore out of natural plant medicines contained in these plants.  To pimp-out human biology and human plant/symbiosis to the people.

We all KNOW opiates are great, and all things good when used in moderation.  That is a fact actually.  Even ALLopiates


Crazy ideas should be welcome on a website like this.  I wish more people got straight-up pissed and said these "crazy things" about the nut jobs who control people just by virtue of having vast sums of money.  That is after all, actually and exactly what is going on here.


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Re: American Kills Himself in Taiwan Court After 4-Year Drug Sentence [Re: rajabrokes]
    #23361564 - 06/19/16 06:13 PM (7 years, 7 months ago)

Ummmm how do people put up with this?

That's a weird phenomena.  To be observed.  By people who are even minutely conscious.


It's a problem. 
Anarcho-syndicalism?  I think we owe it to ourselves to stop this.  Call me crazy.

Dismantle them is your only option.  To take (a machine or structure) to pieces. They do have a lot of money on their side though.  Sad how all people missed the fucking point of democracy.
It's kinda sad on many different levels.  What is next?  Some asshole will probably misquote Aristotle or some shit.  Maybe some regurgitated aspect of plutocratic retardation?

To keep madness in your every day life you need to not dismantle them.  If Aggression and war is your bag, then by all means, keep up being sycophants!

They will kill all sorts of women and children by next week.

You can basically be sure of that.  They will own you as well.

God forbid we tell them we know this.  The good people know this.  They always have known this.

Still, they convinced everyone to have stupid ideas that don't hold any water and encouraged those people to get mentally ill about it.

I Don't entirely blame the entire "western world".  I do blame them mostly.    When people talk about the illuminati and shit like that, they don't often know what they are talking about, almost ever.  They do have more of a shizotypal view about the world.  I think those people are most apt unfortunately,  and that includes you dissonant acid heads who can't help to see patterns in everything.

You can be sure you are being mislead on a massive scale.  Thats just rationality and science.

We don't want this.  Nobody ever did unless it was to enrich their power and money and impoverish massive populations of people who know nothing better than how to enjoy their lives without destroying others.
Democracy and the misuse of language, should be of interest to you.

Still, this is just me joking and making fun.  What happens when a similar and rich semi-conscious person makes a valid point?

I don't know what people think democracy is.  I don't think anyone knows what it is, actually. 

The golden mean.  You can't argue with logic like that.  Dont be a dick about logic.

These dudes wear fucking suits to their meetings.  They look like assholes.  They are not comfortable and neither are you.

End rant and fuck you for being dumb as a box of rocks, if you find a problem with a person far more intelligent than you talking some serious shit.

People with a voice, like me, is how shit actually goes about working.


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    #23361681 - 06/19/16 07:07 PM (7 years, 7 months ago)

It's dangerous.  Trump? Fucking Jesus Christ.

Yer all heading toward mass intellectual starvation and physical starvation.



Dude, these people would starve you to death.

Hazardous.  Stupid makes smart people squirm, and then they sit firm on stupidity especially when their pay depends on it.

We are bored and stupid and screwed to the end of it.  Money.

You can have your god.  We are, more than ever, drunk on pure unadulterated stupid.

You need to be god damned sure of it.

aPPPARENTLY. Before you have some balls.  Maybe your sister got sent to jail for ten years for smoking meth and weed.

My point is that you are all retarded and maybe you deserve being lead around your day by rich people who can't tell what the fuck anyone is about.  They don't care.  They would own you though.  Be sure of that.


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Re: American Kills Himself in Taiwan Court After 4-Year Drug Sentence [Re: rajabrokes]
    #23361767 - 06/19/16 07:37 PM (7 years, 7 months ago)

My question always has been, how does a complete ignoramus interrupt Noam Chomsky?  How do they get away with it?
  He knows what he is up against, and it is not experts in language. lol
They do, and he has "poned" the living shit out of everyone 4 x 30" times by being an intellectual and having half a fucking idea at hand.

It is insulting how smart he is not, and how smart normal people are.

He is basically a normal guy.  He is also sick of you larval goofy-fucking weirdo sycophants.

He just wishes you could have a conversations about stuff.  He is aware of your limitations, and he still wants to help people in that very real context. 

He failed at perpetuating western cultures the way he meant to.
And he will make fun of it to this day.

Sad how he never saw the fruits of his labor as much as he meant it to.

People are just illiterate and uninterested unless they have something to worry about. 

That's why the USA is so full of bullshit. sustenance and rape-kills.

We can't sustain destroying the entire world unless we make big changes.  Not the kinds of crimes against humanity that used to get us by.  The EU is damn certain they will take the fuck over.

Maybe you have an obligation to your children even?

I was kidding, but these people will eat you alive.  Still.  And they will.  Rich people owning you.


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