-Caveat Lector- <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"> </A> -Cui Bono?- Friends, neighbors, Legislators, Officials, and Officers: Take a moment to consider the following. Laguna Beach local "peace officer" threatens anyone suspected of growing medical marijuana -IN COMPLIANCE with California "compassionate use" LAW as reflected in the passage of Prop. 215, and as upheld in written opinion by California Attorney General Dan Lundgren - with SWAT raid. Perhaps this friendly GOON should be SWATted with public opinion. The LAW is the LAW Mr. PO-lice-man. In Los Angeles Ramparts Division we've recently seen what can happen when the police set themselves above the law. If we can't have rationality on the part of the police, we can at least DEMAND that they DO NOT COMMIT ILLEGAL ARMED RAIDS on CITIZENS. Fascism is unfashionable in 2000. Get with the program - "to protect and to serve." If police break the laws or assault citizens illegally they should be made to pay the price of criminal behaviour - "REMEMBER RAMPARTS." We as a society cannot tolerate criminal activity on the part of those entrusted with LAW ENFORCEMENT ! Insanity is doing the same thing over and over - and expecting different results. Drug prohibition directly CREATES Billions of dollars in criminal drug smuggling. 17 years of "drugwar" has also created another vast industry, based upon the imprisonment of victimless criminals - the "land of the Free" imprisons a greater percentage of it's population than any other nation. Something is terribly wrong. Read what ex-Los Angeles police http://www.copvcia.com (site may be temporarily down) The solution is decriminalization or legalization. The problem is: http://www.drugwar.com http://speech.csun.edu/ben/news/cia/ http://www.dcia.com http://www.madcowprod.com http://www.druggingamerica.com Dave Hartley Asheville Computer 86 N. Lexington Ave. Asheville, NC 28801 http://www.Asheville-Computer.com/dave -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Greer Sent: Monday, January 31, 2000 4:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ALERT: Laguna Beach Police Ignore Law, Threaten SWAT Raids DrugSense FOCUS Alert # 158 January 31, 2000 Laguna Beach Police Refuse to Uphold Prop. 215, Threaten SWAT Raids ------- PLEASE COPY AND DISTRIBUTE ------- Make Writing At Least One Letter a Week Your Commitment to Reform Together we ARE making a difference ------- DrugSense FOCUS Alert # 158 January 31, 2000 Prop 215 co-author Anna T. Boyce, R.N. will join Steve and Michele Kubby for an emergency meeting with Laguna Beach Mayor Kathleen Blackburn at 4:30 PM on today. Several other patients will also be attending, to lodge a protest against the threats made by the Laguna Beach Police Department that they will order a SWAT raid on any citizen who attempt to grow even one medical marijuana plant. Andy Kinnon, Regional Director for AMMA arranged the emergency meeting with Mayor Blackburn specifically to discuss threats and civil rights violations made against Steve Kubby by the Laguna Beach Police Department. The AMMA group is currently considering taking the LBPD to the Orange County Grand Jury for felony violations of the Compassionate Use Act, Americans with Disabilities Act, Unruh Act, and especially the Bane Act which provides enhanced penalties where an officer of the law threatens a disabled person who is attempting to exercise rights granted by the state. AMMA also calling for an investigation of the Laguna Beach Police Department for violating their oath of office to uphold the law, violating the California Constitution and endangering the public safety. It would be very helpful if you could fax a letter sometime this week, on your official stationary, to Mayor Blackburn, explaining your frustrations about this issue and urging the implementation of the Compassionate Use Act. Please make the point that there is no reason to vote anymore if the laws that we pass are so blatantly ignored by police. The Laguna Beach City Council Fax is (949) 497-0771. The Laguna Beach Home Page: http://www.scag.org/homepages/laguna_beach/frmain01.htm As an alternative to faxing, you can transmit your fax or statement to Steve Kubby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> via e-mail and he will deliver it to the Laguna Beach Mayor. Laguna Beach is just a small city and we are a national organization. Let's focus our total resources on forcing the police to obey the new medical marijuana law. After all, if police are successful in gutting Prop. 215, then we'll face the same problems everywhere else, even if a federal medical marijuana law were to pass. This is the battle that we must win and we need to make our voices heard loud and clear in Laguna Beach California. Please do what you can to help pave the way for this historic effort to finally force the police to accept the will of the voters who passed the Compassionate Use Act. Thanks for your effort and support. WRITE A LETTER TODAY It's not what others do it's what YOU do *************************************************************************** PLEASE SEND US A COPY OF YOUR LETTER OR TELL US WHAT YOU DID ( Letter, Phone, fax etc.) Please post a copy your letter or report your action to the sent letter list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) if you are subscribed, or by E-mailing a copy directly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your letter will then be forwarded to the list with so others can learn from your efforts and be motivated to follow suit This is VERY IMPORTANT as it is the only way we have of gauging our impact and effectiveness. ************************************************************************** CONTACT INFO Contact: The Laguna Beach City Council Fax is (949) 497-0771 Please write a letter to Mayor Kathleen Blackburn in response to the article about police threatening a SWAT raid on any who attempts to exercise their legal right to cultivate medical marijuana, even if it is just one plant. You can also e-mail to Steve Kubby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> who will print up your letter and send it on to the Mayor. EXTRA CREDIT Two grand juries are currently deciding if they want to investigate AMMA's civil rights complaints and what priority their complaint will have with other important cases. PLEASE send a letter today to the two people listed below and tell them that why this issue is personally important to you and to the future of our country: Placer County Grand Jury Nancy Gregoi, Foreman 11490 C Avenue Auburn, CA 95603 Fax (530) 889-7447 Voice (530) 889-7469 Orange County Grand Jury c/o Carol Duensing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 700 Civic Center Dr. West, Room A100 Santa Ana, CA 92702 Voice (714) 834-3320 In addition, PLEASE send a letter today to: Bill Jones Secretary of State Sacramento, CA 95814 916-657-2166 fax 916- 653-3214 http://www.ss.ca.gov/ AMMA's carefully documented civil rights complaints are posted for public inspection at: Orange County: http://www.kubby.com/ComplaintGrandJury.OC.html Placer County: http://www.kubby.com/Complaint.Grand.Placer.html Sec of State: http://www.kubby.com/Complaint.SecState.html Attorney General: http://www.PetitionOnline.com/AMMA/petition.html *************************************************************************** ARTICLE Top Story: Steve Kubby¹s Interview With A Nark Posted by Richard Cowan on 2000-01-29 19:21:36 US: OPED: The Dark Side of Sgt. Sunshine URL: http://www.marijuananews.com/ Source: http://www.kubby.com/AMMA.html Posted January 29, 2000 (MarijuanaNews note: I think that Steve Kubby¹s interview with a nark shows, as Steve says, "a prime example of what the drug war ideology has done to our police." This is by no means a unique phenomenon. This is an international ideology that has corrupted law enforcement around the world. Even prohibitionists should be disturbed by the refusal of the police to obey the law. This is a danger to everyone.) 1/28/00 SPECIAL REPORT: THE DARK SIDE OF SGT. SUNSHINE I spoke today to Sgt. Bob Rahaeuser, Head of Narcotics for Laguna Beach. The super-friendly Sgt. Rahaeuser, immediately suggested we use first names and came across like the nicest person you could ever speak to -- until we came to the subject of medical marijuana. That's when "Bob" went back to a very stern Sgt. Rahaeuser, who told me that he considers marijuana an addictive and dangerous drug. I asked about their arrest policy, now that the Compassionate Use Act was the law. Sgt. Rahaeuser explained that he will arrest anyone for any amount of marijuana over an ounce. Furthermore, he told me that if he had ANY reason to suspect if someone had just one plant, he would have a SWAT team raid them immediately. I explained that even under Dan Lungren's guidelines, patients were allowed two plants, but Sgt. Rahaeuser was firm and said, "Dan Lungren would never say any such thing." I offered to send Sgt. Rayhouser a copy of Lungren's "Peace Officer Guidelines," but Sgt. Rayhouser refused my offer. Then Sgt. Rahaeuser offered me some advice, "marijuana is addictive and leads to heroin." I pointed out to Sgt. Rahaeuser that the Drug Czar's own IOM report said that there is no evidence to support either of those assertions. Sgt. Rahaeuser discounted my claims, telling me that it went against his 26 years of professional experience. I explained to Sgt. Rahaeuser that the Compassionate Use Act was the law, that it has not been successfully challenged and that he had an obligation to uphold the law, regardless of his feelings. Sgt. Rahaeuser disagreed and said that it was only a law if the courts said it was a law and they aren't saying that. I pointed out to Sgt. Rahaeuser that rights not defended are soon lost and he responded that "any attempt to test the Laguna Beach Police Department will be met with a (SWAT) raid." After thanking Sgt. Rahaeuser for his frankness, I explained my medical condition and my documented life-and-death requirement for medical marijuana. Sgt. Rahaeuser expressed his concern for my health, but told me he was "glad" I had been arrested for attempting to assert those rights before, since "there was not possible way to justify growing so many plants." Once again I thanked Sgt. Rahaeuser for his clarifying the position of the Laguna Beach Police Department. Call me "Bob," said the once again warm and friendly Sgt. Rahaeuser, "and I hope you feel better...really I do!" Postscript: Sgt. Rahaeuser is a prime example of what the drug war ideology has done to our police. The fact is that Sgt. Rahaeuser, an otherwise honest and dedicated police officer, has clearly demonstrated his contempt for those he is supposed to serve and for his oath of office. Furthermore, Sgt. Rahaeuser's blind allegiance to his zero tolerance ideology makes it impossible for him to tolerate any implementing of the Compassionate Use Act. So zealous is Sgt. Rahaeuser's blind obedience to his drug war mentality that he refuses to believe his own copy of Dan Lungren's "Peace Officer Guidelines," which says: "One marijuana plant produces approximately one pound of bulk marijuana. One pound will make approximately 1,000 cigarettes. Therefore, one can argue that MORE THAN TWO PLANTS would be cultivation or more than necessary for personal medical use." 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