WIADOMOSCI Z WOLNOSCI

Jestes Amerykaninem, mieszkasz w USA, to jestes wolnym czlowiekiem. Czyzby?
Kumpel dzwoni z amerykanskiego raju i nadaje, ze nawet do glupiej roboty, oprocz podania z zyciorysem, trzeba tez oddac swoj mocz do probowki. Pocieszylem go, ze za PRL-owskiej komuny to nawet krew trzeba bylo oddawac w przychodni zakladowej. Pracodawca musi wiedziec czym jego prcownik sie poza zakladem pracy odzywia. A moze nie daj Boze zaciaga sie jakimis dymkami? Opiumem, nikotyna, haszyszem, trawka, w domu przy kominku fajeczke nabija? Taki wtedy to zaden wydajny niewolnik, a nawet i gorzej, bo zamiast pracowac zaczyna filozofowac i zgrozo nawet o wolnosci nadawac.
Poradzilem mu tez moczopalke zakupic i nosic przy sobie w czasie skladania podan o prace i juz zatrudnionym w pracy, aby byc przygotowanym na niespodziewane kontrole (http://whizzinator.com/index.html).
Ale Big Brother nie spi i juz w wolnej Ameryce glosy sa aby zabronic produkcji moczopalki:

FLUSHING' OUT THE DRUG SCAMS
Is Whizzinator illegal?

A Life-Like prosthetic penis called the Whizzinator and other products promising to help illegal drug users pass urine tests provoked U.S. lawmakers yesterday to take legal action with subpoenas of manufacturers.
Lawmakers objected to attempts to circumvent drug tests with products such as The Vhizzinator, a fake penis that can provide a flow of clean urine "again and again, anytime, anywhere you need it! according to the webside whizzinator.com.
A congressional subcommittee voted to subpoena the owner of Puck Technology of Signal Hill, Calif., the company that makes the Whizzinator. The panel also voted to subpoena the owners of Health Choice of New York and Spectrum Labs of Cincinnati, companies that lawmakers said also were suspected of selling products aimed at dodging workplace drug tests.
The owners were required to provide financial and operational records by Monday and to appear at a congressional hearing on Tuesday. "These companies seek through deception to make a buck by violating our trust and compromising our security," Rep. Ed. Whitfield said. "It is a risk we simply cannot tolerate. This panel will uncover how widespread these products are and recommend the necessary steps to end their use," Whitfield said in a statement.
Actor Tom Sizemore was caught using the Whizzinator to try and pass drug tests, California prosecutors said in February.
The House committee is investigating whether federal legislation is needed to stop companies from making similar products, such as drinks that promise to flush out drug ingredients in urine (TORONTO SUN, Thursday, May 12, 2005).

USA juz pobilo rekord Zwiazku Sowieckiego w liczbie osob siedzacych w wiezieniach. Gora ponad 2 miliony Amerykanow siedzi w wiezieniu. Wiekszosc na podstawie praw narkotycznych. Prywatne wiezienia przynosza profit, bo zatrudniaja za grosze wiezniow w swoich zakladach produkcyjnych. Amerykanie wiedza z historii, ze niewolnictwo zawsze bylo dochodowe. Dlatego je dalej praktykuja, tylko w innej formie. Wspolczesna (nowoczesna) formula niewolnictwa to: glupawe prawa + efektywno-nadgorliwe sluzby policyjno-sadowe.
Martin Luter King "had a dream" , na ktory Amerykanie jeszcze musza poczekac. Najpierw trzeba wyeliminowac rasistowsko-niewolnicze prawa narkotykowe, to moze wtedy sen o wolnosci Kinga zacznie sie w Ameryce spelniac.

55 YEARS FOR SELLING POT
Utah judge sentences pot dealer to 55 years, then complains that the sentence is too severe.
By the Drug War Chronicle

A federal judge in Salt Lake City has sentenced budding rap music entrepreneur Weldon Angelos, 25, to 55 years in prison for making minor marijuana sales to a police informant while armed. The judge then complained that the sentence was too extreme, and said that federal mandatory minimum sentencing laws gave him no choice. Earlier that day, the same judge had sentenced a man who had beaten an elderly women to death with a log to 22 years in prison.
Angelos would not have gotten such a stiff sentence if not for federal mandatory minimum laws. He had been carrying a pistol in an ankle holster while conducting his business, and although he was not accused of brandishing the weapon or threatening anyone with it, he was charged with three counts of possession of a firearm while engaged in drug trafficking. The first count carries a mandatory minimum five-year sentence, while each additional count carries a 25-year mandatory minimum.
"I have no choice," US District Court Judge Paul Cassell told Angelos at the November 16 sentencing, adding that he imposed the sentence "reluctantly." Cassell told Angelos that his attorneys should appeal the ruling, and that they should also appeal to President Bush for clemency. Sending Angelos to prison until he is 70 is "unjust, cruel, and even irrational," Cassell added.
It was a case that weighed on Cassell, who in a September hearing, asked the opposing legal teams in the case: "Is there a rational basis for giving Mr Angelos more time than the hijacker, the murderer, the rapist?"
Assistant US Attorney Robert Lund had no problem with the stiff sentence. Pot-seller Angelos was "a purveyor of poison," Lund said, adding that the fact Angelos carried a gun meant he was "prepared to kill other human beings." Lund neglected to point out that Angelos had not killed anyone, nor wounded them or threatened them. He also skipped over the fact that Angelos most probably carried a weapon simply to protect himself while working in a profession where the law offers no protection. "He might as well have killed someone," Angelos's wife Zandrah said bitterly as she sat in the courtroom with their two boys, aged five and seven. "He should have done worse than he did if he was going to get 55 years."
Judge Cassell should, one supposes, be given credit for speaking out against the insane cruelty of mandatory minimums in this particular case. But frankly, these judges who complain their hands are tied by mandatory minimums need to resist more effectively. Their "I was just following orders" judicial Nuremberg defense is begining to wear thin.
*Originally published in the Drug War Chronicle: www.StoptheDrugWar.org (CANNABIS CULTURE Issue 54 April.May 2005).