BURMA OUT!!!! Rangoon RED ..The a (r)

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Subject: Re: BURMA OUT!!!!   Rangoon RED ..The answer to the prob

re Burma Red, is this where most of the marijuana flooding the
Australian market for years comes from? Better not to smoke anything.
ds


Roger Bunn wrote:
> 
> burmanews@xxxxxxxxx, "Burma Net-l @igc.apc.org" <burmanet-l@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
> burmanet2-@xxxxxxxx
> 
> This is the past and the future.
> 
> Burma has a reputation for growing some of the best mary jane
> leaf in the world. Unfortunately, the world does not get to smoke
> any, because Burma is such a weird and murderous [place
> these days. BUT if the world LEGALISED SOFT DRUGS and
> Burma got rid of all its little poppy fields. Then I am sure this
> would be a case of profits from the land. Soft drugs instead
> of hard.
> 
>  Rangoon RED ..The answer to the prob
> 
> Sheesh, do jazz musicians have to think of "everything"
> neoprogressive ;-)
> 
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> Read this farce of a story ..
> 
> Conviction For Pot Growing Spouse of Kissing Informant
> 
> Paul Elias
> The Recorder/Cal Law
> September 23, 1999
> 
> A jury Tuesday convicted a Mendocino County man of being a major marijuana
> grower and carrying on a continuing criminal enterprise, a heavy-duty charge
> that will require a judge to sentence John Dalton to at least 20 years in
> prison.
> 
> The conviction came after a three-week trial and despite the fact a Drug
> Enforcement Administration agent on the case kissed Dalton's wife during the
> investigation.
> 
> The conviction was also won with the help of the wife, Victoria Horstman.
> Horstman, on behalf of the government, secretly tape-recorded bedroom
> conversations she had with Dalton about his pot farm. The DEA paid her $4,800
> for snitching on her husband. The DEA suspended agent Mark Nelson without pay
> for a month in 1997 after he confessed to the kiss during an internal
> investigation prompted by complaints made by Horstman.
> 
> Dalton's attorney, J. Tony Serra, tried to get U.S. District Court Judge
> Susan Illston to toss the case based on Nelson's inappropriate conduct while
> interrogating Horstman at a government "safehouse." Serra also complained
> that Horstman's surreptitious bedroom recordings also constituted outrageous
> government conduct.
> 
> "The court finds the incident at the house between agent Nelson and
> defendant's wife, as well as the DEA-sanctioned tape-recording of marital
> communications in the defendant's bedroom, very disturbing," Illston wrote in
> a June 29 order. "A government agent encouraging the wife of an individual
> under investigation to place a recording device behind the headboard of their
> bed, shortly after an admittedly inappropriate encounter between the agent
> and the wife, goes beyond poor judgment or merely using a close family member
> as an informant. Using the wife of a defendant as an informant is one thing,
> tape-recording the activities in their marital bed is quite another."
> 
> Still, Illston said Nelson's conduct and the rotten tape-recording weren't
> enough to warrant dismissal of U.S. v. Dalton, 96-276. She also said Dalton
> waived any marital privilege because, while representing himself, Dalton
> submitted transcripts of the recordings in a self-written and unsuccessful
> motion to dismiss.
> 
> However, prosecutors did not introduce the tapes at trial. Dalton was
> indicted and arrested in 1996 and charged with operating a giant pot farm
> during the early 1990s. After three days of deliberation, a jury on Tuesday
> convicted him of cultivating 6,000 plants worth about $2 million between 1991
> and 1994. The jury acquitted him of witness tampering and a 1993 charge for
> cultivating pot.
> 
> Dalton faces a maximum penalty of life in prison and a $4 million fine when
> Illston sentences him on Dec. 10.
> 
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> 
> Bloody yanks , never leave well alone huh?
> 
> Does one hate Hoover? Only day and night..
> 
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> 
> Follow the plea by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, and the appreciations
> of HH the Dalai Lama, the Shan Democratic Union,  film maker John
> Pilger, the Free Burma Coalition,  Dennis Skinner MP, Tony Benn
> MP, Ann Clwyd MP, Congress-woman  Maxine Waters,
> parliamentarians, Socialist Workers' Party,  Dr and Welsh rugby
> star JPR Williams, sportspersons, Hendrix  bassist Noel Redding,
> S African jazz pianist Abdullah Ibrahim,  All Burma Students
> Democratic Organisation, All Burma Students Democratic Front, Tasmanian
> Trades & Labour Council, Tim Gopsill, editor. The.Journalist@xxxxxxxxxx, and
> numerous others.
> 
> Supporting a Genuine war upon drugs and human rights abuse.
> Sydney 2000 : Burma Out!
> http://www.mihra.org/2k/burma.htm
> 
> Music Industry Human Rights Association
> http://www.mihra.org / policy.office@xxxxxxxxx
> 
> Rachel and James http:www.mihra.org/2k/rachel.htm
> 
> Founded during UN50. Mihra's roots are in music and anti-racism and
> was first in line in calling for a sports boycott of Burma for the Sydney
> 2000 Olympic Games. Mihra also advances protection of creators rights
> in an anti-cultural market, currently 93.8% monopolised by the recording
> / publishing Grand Cartel.
> 
> Major solo work "Piece of Mind". With orchestra, Holland 69. same
> time as Beatles "Abbey Road".   http://onlinetv.com/rogerbunn.html
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