Drug War Criminals
Send your nominations for Drug War Criminals to [email protected] with a couple lines about why this person is such a dirty, low-down, DRUG WAR CRIMINAL
1. Alameda County Assistant D.A. Norbert Chu
2. Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allman
3. Mendocino Major Crimes Task Force Commander Bob Nishiyama
4. John P. Walters and his daddy too!
5. Federal Prosecutor David Kowal (Charlie Lynch’s prosecutor)
6. San Luis Obispo County (CA) Sheriff Pat Hedges (Charles Lynch)
7. DEA Special Agent Rachel Burkdohl (Agent in charge of Lynch case)
8. Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Maricopa County, Arizona (Volunteer chain gangs, Tent City, Pink underwear, Underwear march)
9. Rush Limbaugh “Too many whites get away with drug use. The answer is to… find the ones who are getting away with it, convict them, and send them up the river!”
10. Richard M. Nixon, for burdening posterity with the Controlled Substances Act of 1970 and the ‘war on drugs’ concept.
12. CA Governor Jerry Brown
15. Judge Antollini (From the Will Foster Trial)
16. Judge Marilyn Patel (From the Eddy Lepp Trial)
17. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia
“Scalia was the swing vote to uphold the Federal Governments prerogative to go after medical consumers of homegrown pot, on the grounds that this activity supposedly affects interstate commerce.”
-from the article “Antonin Scalia, judicial activist: how the conservative justice legislates from the bench” by Cathy Young
Scalia ruled that the state of Oregon could deny unemployment benefits to two members of the Native American Church that were fired for using peyote in their religious ceremonies
(Oregon vs. Smith 1990)
18. DEA Agent Karen Tandy
9/29/09- “Today’s DEA arrest of Marc Scott Emery, publisher of Cannabis Culture magazine, and the founder of a marijuana legalization group, is a significant blow not only to the marijuana trafficking trade in the U.S. and Canada, but also to the marijuana legalization movement…. Drug legalization lobbyists now have one less pot of money to rely on.”
19. San Diego DA Bonnie Dumanis- Operation Green Rx
20. Anslinger
21. Rockefeller
22. William Randolph Hearst
23.-29. The Washington State Supreme Court
30. J. Edgar Hoover
31. Carlton Turner, White House Drug Czar, 1986
“Marijuana leads to homosexuality… and therefore AIDS”
32. Los Angeles DA a Steve Cooley
33. California Attorney General Kamala Harris
34-50(ish). Columbia, MO SWAT Police Chief Ken Burton, The Columbia Missouri Civilian Police Review Board, The Columbia Missouri SWAT Team, Columbia Missouri City Manager Bill Watkins
51. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper
52. Louisiana State Judge Raymond Childress
53. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg