Comments From Best Selling Author / AIDS Patient Peter McWilliams, Now In Federal Custody
Travis Hardison
caes...@mindspring.com (caesurae) wrote:
> Comments From Best Selling Author / AIDS Patient Peter McWilliams, Now In
> Federal Custody
>
> It is difficult to briefly respond to a nine-count, 41-Page, Federal Grand
> Jury Indictment containing 182 "overt acts", but I shall do my best. As
> several readings of the Indictment has my mind swimming with numbers, I
> shall use numbers to respond:
> 13. While in federal custody, I was denied my AIDS medication--which must be
> taken without fail six-times-a-day, a regimen I have followed scrupulously
> for 28 months--for more than 5 days. Already, a mutation of the AIDS virus
> maybe replicating within my body, one that science cannot treat, one that
> may kill me. In other words, my government has already taken my life for the
> crime of treating my life-threatening illness--a treatment approved by my
> 4 physicians and by 56.4% of the California Electorate.
>
> Peter McWilliams
> In Federal Custody (with no bail-out in sight)
> July 28, 1998
>
God, how convenient for the government if McWilliams simply dies in
their custody. All the rest of this just seems like the government DEA
boys being their usual heavy-handed selves, but this last thing seems to
be a deliberate act and a particularly monstrous one.
Apart from how one feels about the larger issues here, I don't see how
anyone could feel pride in a government that can behave like this. I am
ashamed.
>
> "One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws." - MLK
>
> --
> caesurae <caes...@mindspring.com>
T.J. Higgins
> God, how convenient for the government if McWilliams simply dies in
>their custody. All the rest of this just seems like the government DEA
>boys being their usual heavy-handed selves, but this last thing seems to
>be a deliberate act and a particularly monstrous one.
>
> Apart from how one feels about the larger issues here, I don't see how
>anyone could feel pride in a government that can behave like this. I am
>ashamed.
"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." -- H.L. Mencken
--
TJH
dwha...@my-dejanews.com
In article <caesurae-290...@user-38lcmvj.dialup.mindspring.com>,
caes...@mindspring.com says...
<snipped article about Peter McWilliams and medical marijuana.>
So, caesure, what's the medical reason you smoke pot?
Dan Harper
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> God, how convenient for the government if McWilliams simply dies in
>their custody. All the rest of this just seems like the government DEA
>boys being their usual heavy-handed selves, but this last thing seems to
>be a deliberate act and a particularly monstrous one.
Just further proof that we need more government. The government wants
nothing more than to take care of us, and I for one am *grateful* that
they're out there protecting me from authors who smoke marijuana for medical
purposes.
> Apart from how one feels about the larger issues here, I don't see how
>anyone could feel pride in a government that can behave like this. I am
>ashamed.
Governments behave like governments. Power corrupts, absolute power
corrupts absolutely. The more power the gummint has, the more corrupt it
becomes.
But remember, it's For Our Own Good. They're protecting us, and I for one am
*grateful*.
--
Deo vindice,
Dan
http://www.dixienet.org
dwha...@my-dejanews.com
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<caesurae-300...@user-37kb9vs.dialup.mindspring.com>
In article <caesurae-300...@user-37kb9vs.dialup.mindspring.com>,
caes...@mindspring.com says...
>
>In article <6pq7mn$9e4$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, dwha...@my-dejanews.com wrote:
>>
>> In article <caesurae-290...@user-38lcmvj.dialup.mindspring.com>,
>> caes...@mindspring.com says...
>>
>> <snipped article about Peter McWilliams and medical marijuana.>
>>
>> So, caesure, what's the medical reason you smoke pot?
>
>thanks for your concern.
Please answer the question.
cmpa...@my-dejanews.com
dwha...@my-dejanews.com wrote:
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> In article <caesurae-300...@user-37kb9vs.dialup.mindspring.com>,
> caes...@mindspring.com says...
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> >In article <6pq7mn$9e4$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, dwha...@my-dejanews.com wrote:
> >>
> >> In article <caesurae-290...@user-38lcmvj.dialup.mindspring.com>,
> >> caes...@mindspring.com says...
> >>
> >> <snipped article about Peter McWilliams and medical marijuana.>
> >>
> >> So, caesure, what's the medical reason you smoke pot?
> >
> >thanks for your concern.
>
> Please answer the question.
>
> Dan Harper
In one of the debates about medical marijuana use in California, one high
profile lawyer had a legal prescription to obtain medical marijuana to
relieve the stress of his job.
Chris Palmer
dwha...@my-dejanews.com
caes...@mindspring.com says...
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>In article <6pqj71$pfc$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, dwha...@my-dejanews.com wrote:
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>> References: <caesurae-290...@user-38lcmvj.dialup.mindspring.com>
>> <6pq7mn$9e4$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>
>> <caesurae-300...@user-37kb9vs.dialup.mindspring.com>
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>> In article <caesurae-300...@user-37kb9vs.dialup.mindspring.com>,
>> caes...@mindspring.com says...
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>> >In article <6pq7mn$9e4$1...@nnrp1.dejanews.com>, dwha...@my-dejanews.com
wrote:
>> >>
>> >> In article <caesurae-290...@user-38lcmvj.dialup.mindspring.com>,
>> >> caes...@mindspring.com says...
>> >>
>> >> <snipped article about Peter McWilliams and medical marijuana.>
>> >>
>> >> So, caesure, what's the medical reason you smoke pot?
>> >
>> >thanks for your concern.
>>
>> Please answer the question.
>
Because I already know the answer, and I knew you'd
be a weasel and avoid answering a question that would
show that your real interest is not in legalizing
marijuana for medicine (which, btw, I don't oppose) but
in legalizing it for recreational use 'cause you like
to get stoned. That puts people like Peter McWilliams
in a different class than you.
Just consider this my one trick response to your
one trick post.
Dan Harper
dwha...@my-dejanews.com
In article <caesurae-300...@user-37kb8c6.dialup.mindspring.com>,
caes...@mindspring.com says...
>
>ok, when did i ever claim otherwise?
Oh, I agree that you didn't claim it, but by the
same token, neither did you seem eager to answer
my question.
> am i not allowed to have an interest
>in the medical marijuana issue because i like to get stoned?
Sure you are. However, I'm not stoned so it's evident
to me that your medicinal interest is ancillary
to your recreational interest. It's not like you've
made other posts touting the medicinal value of hypericum,
heroin, or half a dozen other non-approved medicines I
can think of off the top of my head that have medicinal
value. No, your interest in non-medicinal, and that
makes your post...well...how should I put this...
disingenuous.
Dan Harper
>obnoxious, as you probably intended it, and i knew you were just looking
>to call me a 'weasal' or something..
If the shoe fits mr. wea^H^H^Hcaesurae.
>> > am i not allowed to have an interest
>> >in the medical marijuana issue because i like to get stoned?
>>
>> Sure you are. However, I'm not stoned so it's evident
>> to me that your medicinal interest is ancillary
>> to your recreational interest.
>
>you would be wrong. i am willing to accept a rescheduling of cannabis to
>allow medical research / use and decriminalization of possession for
>recreational use, as i have stated in the past.
I am right. Your primary motive is to be able to get
stoned without fear of the law. You wouldn't be
carrying out this campaign if your only goal was to
see marijuana legalized for medical research.
> of course i would prefer
>it not to be regulated at all... but that doesn't mean i'm unwilling to
>compromise.
Some compromise--from unregulated to decriminalized. The
fact remains you want to be able to smoke your pot
with impunity. The medical research angle is just a means
to an end.
>> It's not like you've
>> made other posts touting the medicinal value of hypericum,
>> heroin, or half a dozen other non-approved medicines I
>> can think of off the top of my head that have medicinal
>> value.
>
>actually, i have. i have posted a number of times regarding fda regulation
>of herbal preperations and natural nutritional supplements, as well as the
>regulation of organically produced goods.
I guess the fact that you post so many pro-legalization of
marijuana posts has made it seem as if that's all you post.
But then again, that is where your heart lies, and I'm
at a loss as to why you don't just admit it.
>> No, your interest in non-medicinal, and that
>> makes your post...well...how should I put this...
>> disingenuous.
>
>wrong again. lots of folks claim to sympathize with mr. mcwilliams, but i
>wonder how many have bothered expressing such views to their legislative
>representatives?
I wonder if you use capital letters in all those letters you've
written to your representatives. You have written your representives,
haven't you? Did you use your real name?
Dan Harper