swecan.org omnämnt idag på Expressens kultursida
I dagens Expressen (9/7) så recencerar Anders Mildner Eric Schlossers nya bok| Reefer Madness – sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market. Jag kan inte hitta artikeln online (ordnar så att den blir läsbar här när jag har ätit middag, var sak har sin tid
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Jag läste det i tidningen idag, men vad menar han med att man på swecan säger att halva svenska befolkningen knarkar?… tyckte att det var en lite svårförståelig text…..
Peace!!!
Så här står det i Expressen:
“…sajter som swecan.org ger intrycket av att halva landet röker på…”
swecan.org är understruket som en länk och synns rätt tydligt.
Det har rasat in nya medlemmar idag, så detta var fin reklam..
Finns det någon länk?
Vilket håll var artikeln vinklad åt i övrigt?
Här är hela artikeln:
(förlåt mig Expressen 😳 )
Kul och se oss omnämda i en av sveriges största dagstidningar!
Nu får vi hoppas att expressen håller kvar samma anda och att aftonbladet slutligen hakar på.
Green: Går det inte att göra statistiken tillgänglig för alla, eller i alla fall moderatorerna?
- Anders Mildner wrote:Och straffen skärps ständigt, i vissa fall kan marijuanarelaterade brott till och med ge längre tid i fängelse än mord.
Det är ju bara _för_ sjukt. Å andra sidan, begreppet “marijuanarelaterat” som ovan används i annan böjelse, är nog bland de luddigaste beskrivningar av brott jag någonsin stött på. Ok, tänk er en seriemördare, som vi kallar Kim (man? kvinna?). Kim holkar en kväll innan han/hon beger sig ut på sin hobbyverksamhet. Kim åker fast och får avtjäna 360 år i fängelse. Kims brott är marijuanarelaterat. Kim förtjänar det.
Palle, en 23-åring med fläckfritt brottsregister, föder upp några gulliga plantor hemma i sin bostad. Palle sitter ibland med sina kompisar och puffar. Palle är en hyvens kille som de flesta gillar, eller iaf inte ogillar. Palle upptäcks, av okänd anledning, av farbror blå. Om Palle förtjänar något, så är det en stor kram.
Palles och Kims brott är båda marijuanarelaterade. Snacka om luddigt.
Over and out! - Kimblah wrote:Nu får vi hoppas att expressen håller kvar samma anda och att aftonbladet slutligen hakar på.
Hmm… Jag måste säga att jag föredrar Isobels ledarsidor framför denna recension.
Aftonbladet lägger locket på, det pratat överuvudtaget inte om frågan.Även om denna artikel inte var den bästa för våran sak så kommer frågan i alla fall upp och folk börjar diskutera saken.
Fan vad sjuk bild och bildtext till artikeln också! Den där bilden kommer juh från ett annat reportage Expressen hade för ett tag sen om Cannabis Cup.
Jag har last boken och rekommenderar den. Det framgar faktiskt inte i boken att Schlosser ar nagon narkotikaliberal, utan han tar upp fall om dubbelmoral och liknande.
Nedanstaende ar ett exempel som tas upp i boken. Notera att citatet nedan inte ar fran boken utan fran natet, men det handlar om en person som stas omnamnd i Schlossers bok.
Quote:For years the Justice Department has been lobbying Congress
for expansion of its forfeiture powers, for broader definitions of
property subject to forfeiture, and for procedures which give the
government greater and greater advantages over claimants. Their
lobbying has produced the current statutes, which put the burden of
proof on the claimant, make claimants pay in advance the
government’s costs of forfeiture proceedings, and in all other
ways imaginable put a heavy thumb on the scales of justice in favor
of the government and to the detriment of the claimant.The feds have used their powers to the fullest, declaring
“ZERO TOLERANCE” to be their policy. Zero Tolerance means no
sympathy for innocent owners of ships — such as the Monkey
Business (of Gary Hart fame) or Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institute’s floating lab that surveyed the ruins of the Titanic —
when a crew member is found by raiding customs agents to be in
possession of personal use quantities of drugs.Zero tolerance also means parents, grandparents, spouses,
friends, business partners, finance companies, landlords and all
manner of unsuspecting people get caught up in forfeiture
proceedings because of something someone else did which is beyond
their control.Although the statutes are supposed to protect innocent third
parties — according to the hype the Justice department is feeding
us — in reality innocent people are losing property as often as
criminals.These overbroad powers give law enforcement the unlimited
discretion to destroy the financial lives of innocent citizens, to
take away from them their status achieved over a lifetime of hard
work and “upward mobility.”These overbroad powers are often used to discriminate between
the powerful and the powerless. As a prime example of this,
consider the case of Assistant U.S. Attorney Leslie Ohta of
Hartford, Connecticut — the Iron Matron of forfeiture. As head of
her office’s asset forfeiture unit she was ruthless and extremely
successful, with her unit netting more than $26 million since 1986.
According to the Hartford Courant, “Ohta’s aggressive pursuit of
these asset forfeiture cases has won her national recognition in
the ranks of federal prosecutors, and she frequently lectures them
on how to apply the law.” (3-22-92).As head of her unit, Ohta mercilessly pursued Zero Tolerance,
making innocent parents and grandparents pay for the wrongdoings of
their offspring. The Hartford Courant reported that on several
occasions Ms. Ohta argued that “people should know what goes on in
their own homes.” (3-22-92).Presumably Ohta knew what was going on in her own home when
her son Miki began using and selling drugs.The Hartford Courant reported that the first incident happened
in 1989 when Miki allegedly sold marijuana to an undercover
informant from his parents’ home. Miki had another scrape with the
law in December 1991, when he was arrested for allegedly selling 50
“hits” of LSD from his parents’ car on September 3, 1991, and for
possession of marijuana when stopped by police, again in his
parents’ car, on September 29, 1991. In the September 29 incident,
his companion was allegedly in possession of two “hits” of LSD.Was Mrs. Ohta’s property forfeited? No.
As a result of relentless pursuit of this issue by the
Hartford Courant, and an article by the Connecticut Law Tribune,
the ironies of this situation did not escape public notice. The
U.S. Attorney’s Office transferred Leslie Ohta to another unit, at
least temporarily.In the end, however, the U.S. Attorney’s Office decided that
forfeiture of Ohta’s property would be “inappropriate”.Most of the forfeiture defense attorneys interviewed by the
Hartford Courant agreed that Ohta’s assets should not be forfeited
— not because she was a well-connected flag-waving forfeiture-
winning Assistant U.S. Attorney, but because, in principle, neither
she nor any of the innocent people she so hypocritically forfeited
property from should be punished for the actions of their children,
grandchildren or acquaintances.I agree except for the double standard. If the people
prosecuting these forfeiture laws are held to the same standard as
the people they have prosecuted, either Leslie Ohta’s house and car
should be forfeited or the government should be forced to give back
the property it took from other innocent parents, grandparents and
third parties. This should include all the innocent victims in the
country since the main Justice Department gave the blessing to
excuse Ohta for her son’s crimes.We want to follow up on this and make sure justice is done.
Please write us if you have any information about Ohta cases or
other Zero Tolerance victims. Send us your opinion (or share it
through the computer bulletin board) on whether Mrs. Ohta’s
treatment should also be the standard for forfeiture victims not
employed by the Justice Department. If you want to share your
thoughts with the Connecticut U.S. Attorney’s Office, write U.S.
Attorney Albert Dabrowski, Esq., 450 Main Street, Room 328,
Hartford, CT 06103, or you can write Leslie Ohta herself at 2273
Hebron Ave., Glastonbury, CT.Det är jätteskönt att Swecan får publicitet och vinner nya besökare samt medlemmar!
Vi måste fortsätta rekommendera Swecan för våra vänner och deras bekanta, och sprida flygblad!
Flummare i alla länder, förenen eder!
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