2 posts tagged “crime”
watch this commercial that tries to warn you about the dangers of pot.
The first time I watched this commercial I thought it was going to be a message about staying youthful and not caring what others think - or something like that. Well as I heard the words in quotation marks, this is what I thought in capitalized letters.
"I stole from my little sister." OH COOL I DID THAT FROM MY BROTHER ALLL THE TIME!
I left my girlfriend 27 messages last night." WOW HE'S REALLY INTO HIS GIRLFRIEND TO CALL THAT THAT MANY TIMES - HE MUST BE REALLY SORRY ABOUT CHEATING ON HER
"I let people draw on me." WOW THAT IS GREAT - I WISH I COULD BE THAT LAID BACK TO LET FRIENDS DRAW ALL OVER ME - I NEED TO HAVE A DRAWING PARTY SOON!I I HAVEN'T LET PEOPLE DRAW ON ME SINCE HIGH SCHOOL!
"I ditched my friends and let them find their own way home." HAHA - I SHOULD TRY THAT ONE DAY!
UMMM I don't think that they wanted me to do that. then I went to the website- above the influence - thinking that this was a commercial about not doing heroine or meth - but it's about FREAKING pot!! arggg America sometimes you suck! We don't have a ban on fire arms but we ban pot - so now US guns flood Mexico so that the cartels can use them to sell to the US pot and cole. If people REALLLLY want to fight "drugs" - then they need to fight the legalization of fire arms in the US - it starts there, then those people need to go away so that we can legalize pot and tax the plant. Read this article from the La Times to understand this topic - the War we Gave Mexico - The drugs, guns and culture that fuel the violence all are linked to the U.S. This is the excerpt that explains it all -
"...three of the region's former heads of state -- including onetime Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo -- recently issued a report urging the U.S. to consider legalizing at least marijuana. Fat chance.
Similarly, at a news conference this week, Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. set off a firestorm when he mentioned in passing that the U.S. should consider restoring its ban on the sale of military-style assault weapons. That prohibition, adopted in 1994, contained a clause requiring Congress to renew the ban after 10 years. To nobody's surprise, Congress didn't, and now assault weapons, semiautomatic pistols and .50-caliber rifles that are illegal in Mexico flow into the hands of the drug traffickers there from an estimated 6,000 American gun dealers in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California.
Thus, America's political decisions to treat drug addiction as a crime rather than a public health problem, and to legalize AK-47s but not pot, fuel an incipient civil war in Mexico."
Troy Davis is scheduled to be executed on Sept 23, 2008 at 7pm. Last year he was scheduled to die on July 17th, 2007 - but with enough protests, emails, and phone calls, the Georgia Board of Pardons held off on his execution date. The Georgia Supreme Court refused his stay request, and now we have a few more hours to hear what the US Supreme Court has to say.
After his request was filled for a stay by the Georgia Board of Pardons last year, Amnesty International has been working hard in this corrupt-against-blacks US system and most recently he was denied clemency again on Sept 12 - so he is still scheduled to die on Sept 23, 2008. The worst part is that Georgia is 1 of 3 states where the governor can't grant clemency, so really all appeals must be made to the George Board of Pardons.
Just keep in mind that with enough protests from citizens and organizations, his execution was held off last year. It can happen again this year. Please find a way to do something about this - e-mail, blog, vlog, twitter, flickr, change your ghcat-im status - whatever you can do!
More than 20,000 people signs petitions. " Four thousand letters were received by the board written on his behalf, including letters written by Desmond Tutu, Harry Belafonte, and former FBI director William Sessions.[6] Sister Helen Prejean, Amnesty International US director Larry Cox, and the Council of Europe all spoke out against the planned execution.[7] The Vatican's nuncio to the U.S., Monsignor Martin Krebs, sent a letter on behalf of Pope Benedict XVI to Governor of Georgia Sonny Perdue urging him to spare Davis's life." <h href="en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_Anthony_Davis"from wikipedia
This is what ex-FBI director, William S. Sessions, has to say about the case.
for more info, read this recent NY Times article.
Amnesty Intl provides clear instructions on how to protest this.
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written on July 16th, 2007
The execution of Troy Anthony Davis is set for tomorrow, July 17th. Send an e-mail to protest it.
Amnesty International says that "Troy Davis was sentenced to death for the murder of Police Officer Mark Allen McPhail in Georgia. The case against him consisted entirely of witness testimony which contained inconsistencies even at the time of the trial. Since then, all but two of the state's nine non-police witnesses from the trial have recanted their testimony. Many of these witnesses have stated in sworn affidavits that they were pressured or coerced by police into testifying or signing statements against Troy Davis."
I understand the reality of stopping this will probably not materialize (which brings me back to when I angrily wrote about Stanley "Tookie" William's execution a few years ago) - but silence is worse - and even if his execution isn't stopped tomorrow, at least the Georgia state will see the intense the opposition is and *may* prompt them or some individuals to re-think the death-row policy.
Davis's case is especially apalling in the high error of its evidence (purported witnesses), and even members of Congress have written to Georgia's Board of Pardons. "Nobel-prize winner Rev. Desmond Tutu, singer Harry Belafonte, actor Mike Farrell, Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-IL), Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), Sister Helen Prejean, Sam D. Millsap, Jr. (former D.A. of Bexar County, TX), record producer and activist Russell Simmons and Murder Victims Families for Reconciliation are among those who have voiced support for clemency." (From Amnesty Intl)
So send an e-mail or fax to Georgia's Board of Pardons. Amnesty makes this very easy - you can do it all online here
