Mushrooms Worse than Murder. I am in a bad mood today.

Socio-Political Rants.

Repost from Drug War Rants

In Kansas, Stephen Fletcher tried to grow some psychedelic mushrooms in his apartment. Also in Kansas, Tremain V. Scott shot a man 18 times at close range, killing him. Both men are in their 20’s with little or no criminal conviction record.

Scott is facing 4-6 years. Fletcher is facing at least 11 1/2 years.

Yep, that’s the criminal justice system.

I don’t know why I go to Pete’s site. It just makes me fucking livid. I often put a comment that reads, “I don’t know why I come here it makes me really angry Pete.” and I am never bored with saying this over and over again although he might be hearing it over and over again.

Because this stupid drug war in the US and in other parts of the world is about the most pathetic excuse for locking non-violent people with no other criminal history behind bars just to make prison builders rich and politicians look tough on crime.

And instead of doing something about it, like building schools, educating people, having after school programs, rebuilding run down neighbourhoods and have tax incentives for companies to move in poor neighbourhoods, stuff that really would be TOUGH on crime.

These idiots keep just putting people in jail for statistic purposes. It’s akin to sacrificing parts of our society to the volcano for a good yield of crops, just in case.

What they need to do it decriminalize the whole lot of it, then we won’t have that many criminals running around in the first place right? Will they just put the gun runners, sex slave traders, husbands who beat their wifes in jail first and leave that kid alone!!

If you have an differing opinion. You know what? I don’t even want to hear it.

I mean I DON’T want to hear it.

Because I am in a bad mood over this already.

You may however find it cute I can personally get so upset over one Stephan Fletcher’s life which is about to be totally ruined for no reason but a whole bunch of reactionaries running the world today. I am so sick of all of them in every way.

Published by Yan Sham-Shackleton

Yan Sham-Shackleton is a Hong Kong writer who lives in Los Angeles. This is her old blog Glutter written mostly in Hong Kong from 2003 to 2007. Although it was a personal blog, Yan focused a lot on free speech issues and democratic movement in Hong Kong. She moved to the US in 2007.

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