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The Politics Of Consciousness A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

by Steve Kubby

Foreword by Terence McKenna

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The Politics Of Consciousness © 1995 by Steve Kubby

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Cover design and interior illustrations by Steve Kubby

ISBN 1-55950-133-2 Library of Congress Card Catalog 95-79300

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Appendix 5 “You Don’t Have to do Drugs to do Time”

Drug War Atrocities: Selected Case Histories (Case histories taken from the HR’95: Atrocities of the Drug War Exhibit. For information write to PO Box 1716, El Cerrito Calif, 94530, (415)380-9103. To arrange an exhibit, call

(510) 215-8326.)

Deborah Lynn Mendes “How very naive I was.” Deborah was enjoying a successful career as an assistant vice president and branch manager for the Bank of America when she was offered a position by a former practicing

attorney who had several commercial accounts at her bank. He represented a group foreign investors who were involved in real estate and other business transactions in US and overseas. Her indictment alleged that she assisted these investors in drug trafficking activities managing their funds, purchasing and leasing residences and commercial warehouses

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store cocaine, and depositing drug proceeds in less than $10,000 increments to avoid Federal Currency Reporting requirements. Although the prosecution called 70 witnesses at the trial, none of these witnesses provided first-hand testimony that Deborah knowingly and willfully participated in a conspiracy to distribute cocaine. The case was based entirely on circumstantial evidence relating to her involvement in financial and real estate transactions on behalf of the investment company. She had no knowledge of the illegal activities of her employers. In July, 1992, Deborah returned from Mexico where she was living and selfsurrendered to the authorities, anxious to clear her name and prove herself innocent of the charges against her. “Unfortunately, I thought I simply had to turn myself in, tell my story and ‘Liberty and justice for all’ would prevail,” she says. “How very naive I was.” Amy Ralston Pofahl Serving time for her ex-husband’s crime Amy’s husband, Charles “Sandy” Pofahl, was a graduate of Stanford Law School, a successful Dallas businessman, and 20 years her senior. She was married to him for a few

years, until she could not handle his alcohol problem any longer. In 1989, Amy had been separated from Sandy for a year and had started her own promotional company in Los Angeles, called Prime Time, when her nightmare began. She found out that her estranged husband had been arrested for manufacturing and distributing MDMA (Ecstasy) which he had heard was legal in Germany at the time. It had turned out that it was not. Somehow the Ecstasy supposedly was traced to markets in the US. Amy made the mistake of going to her husband’s aid during his first two years of confinement in Germany.

As a result, she, too, became

a target of the US government.

“The federal agents promised that if I refused to help them gain the information against my husband, they would destroy my life,” she says. “This they did.” First, Amy’s friends and even clients of her thriving, new business were intimidated by

agents who said she was a drug dealer and that associating with her would get them in trouble. Then, Amy was arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit the crimes attributed to her husband and his co-defendents, and money laundering. Asserting her innocence and lack of involvement in the case, Amy refused to plea bargain or “cooperate” in giving information that she did not have. On top of that, her court-appointed attorney lied to her about her rights, and also refused to present the evidence or call witnesses in her case as she requested. Further, the prosecutor was able to move the trial to Waco, Texas,

where the judge’s court had a 100% conviction rate. Amy’s husband received a six-year prison sentence in Germany, of which he served four. Rumor has it that he returned to this country after cutting a deal with the US government, the terms of which are unclear. Amy is now serving a 24-year sentence for his crimes. “So much for keeping the streets free of criminals by demanding harsh mandatory minimums, because every single person who pled and was guilty in my case was handed their freedom in exchange for testimony,” Amy points out.

Appendix 5 “You Don’t Have to do Drugs to do Time” 155 Rev. Tom Brown Our Church Founded in 1988 and incorporated in March, 1994, Our Church believes in the use of

God-given herbs and plants for “spiritual insight.” It is recognized by the state of Arkansas as a tax-exempt religion, and uses the Cannabis flower as its sacrament. Rev. Tom Brown, a licensed minister of Our Church, decided to exercise his religious rights, and deeded one acre of his 39-acre farm to the church, so it could grow its sacramental herb. Later that month, Brown, along with 10 other church members,

met

with the local county sheriff and told him that they planned on cultivating Cannabis on church grounds, but promised not to sell any. They cited the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 (which allows the Native American Church to engage in peyote rituals), and claimed that it gave them the right to grow their sacrament. In August,

1994, Rev. Brown was arrested and charged with the manufacture of 435

marijuana plants and three peyote plants. During his trial, he was not allowed to present any evidence of his religious defense or even to mention Our Church. He was sentenced 10 years in prison, and his entire 39-acre blueberry farm was forfeited, even though the “crime” was not committed there, but on a separately deeded parcel. As he prepares to appeal his conviction, Rev. Brown resides at a federal prison where he cleans toilets and

earns $5 a month. The Youngs A family imprisoned, or the Hatfields-McCoys revisited. Clyde and Patricia Young and their eight children were living on the border of Mississippi and Alabama on land surrounded by the property of a wealthy businessman, J.P. Altmire. In 1988, Altmire wanted to purchase their land. When the Youngs refused to sell, Altmire wrote letters to lawyers, prosecutors, and the local sheriff branding the family “a bunch of troublemakers.” The Youngs refused to budge, and in August of 1988 their eldest son was arrested for cultivating marijuana on Altmire’s property. The Youngs’ house was torn up with picks, shovels and dogs. The police seized all the money in the house, including the children’s piggy banks and a 90-year-old uncle’s Social Security check. No drugs were found. The following year, the house was raided again and the whole family was arrested, including the old uncle, as well as Clyde’s mother, sisters and brothers. At the indictment,

the Youngs learned that “drug residue,” a scale, and a notebook containing first names and references to amounts were found in a 1986 raid at the hunt club owned by Clyde’s mother. The Youngs’ trial judge was Altmire’s former lawyer and friend, Charles Butler. Butler did not allow the defense to admit the 36 letters Altmire sent to local authorities. Prosecution witnesses included the police chief’s grandson, who was facing a long prison sentence for three prior drug convictions, a witness facing 40 years for drug trafficking, and another witness who is now serving a seven-year sentence for perjury. Experts

testified that the handwriting in the seized notebooks was not that of Patricia Young. Clyde and Patricia Young and four of their children were found guilty of possession

and conspiracy to distribute marijuana in an ongoing criminal enterprise. Clyde was given

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26 years. Patricia got 24 years, eight months. Their four children received 15, ten, five and three years each. The Tuckers A case of “Conspiracy to manufacture felons, or life for light bulbs.” By July, 1992, the DEA was involved in Operation Green Merchant, a campaign to eradicate indoor marijuana cultivation across the USA. Their targets were hydroponics stores and their customers all over the country. They would copy down the license plate numbers of customers, then follow and spy on them, steal their garbage, and subpoena utility bills to check electrical usage, among other tactics in their effort to catch and arrest people. Out of Operation Green Merchant grew Operation Triox. This time the DEA’s target was a small hydroponics store called Southern Lights and Hydroponics, Inc. in Norcross, Georgia. The owner, Gary Tucker, was approached by the DEA to put cameras in his store to secretly film all of his customers. His refusal to cooperate led to a promise to shut him down. The feds did more than that before they were done. Gary Tucker, his wife Joanne, and his brother Steven were convicted of conspiracy to manufacture marijuana based on the offenses of a few of their customers, with whom they had no contact beyond selling equipment which is completely legal. The Tuckers had no marijuana whatsoever; none on their person, none in their homes,

none in their store. Nor did they have any drug paraphernalia. They were never caught selling drugs or buying drugs.

Jodie Israel and Calvin Trieber Is it prosecution or persecution? Jodie was indicted along with her Rastafarian husband, Calvin, and 24 others for an

alleged 10-year marijuana conspiracy in Billings, Montana. It was called Operation Reggae North by the FBI, as most of the defendants were Rastafarians, who believe that smoking “‘ganjah” is a religious sacrament which brings them close to God. Jodie was charged with possession of less than two ounces of marijuana, a supposed sale of four ounces (of which there was no evidence), money laundering, and conspiracy to sell larger amounts of marijuana. Jodie and Calvin are first-time, non-violent offenders. They believe their case to be one of political harassment and selective prosecution, as it is aimed at a distinctive cultural group: Rastafarians. Meanwhile, their four children, who range in age from 11 years to 24%, have been virtually “orphaned” by the government. Their mother has been sentenced to 11 years, three months in prison, and their father to 29 years. “It is so hard to explain to a child why you can’t be with them,” Jodie says, “and I believe it puts a tremendous burden on their little hearts. I feel these sentences are for the entire family, not just the inmate.”

Appendix 5 “You Don’t Have to do Drugs to do Time” 157

James Geddes “T honestly feel like I have been kidnapped by the state of Oklahoma.” In 1992, James Geddes was walking along a street with a friend when he was arrested. Police obtained a search warrant and went to the home rented by his friend. They found a small amount of marijuana, smoking paraphernalia, and five marijuana plants growing in the vegetable garden. There was no evidence that James lived at this house, although he was a frequent visitor. He refused to plea bargain, as he claimed his innocence, and was sentenced to 75

years and one day for cultivation of five plants, and to another 75 years and one day for possession of marijuana. He was also charged with possession of a firearm and paraphernalia.

“T honestly feel like I have been kidnapped by the state of Oklahoma,” states James. “T have never murdered anyone, raped anyone, or hurt any children. People feel they have the right to choose their sexual preference. If they want to end a life by abortion, if they want to inject nicotine into their lungs, if they want to drug themselves with alcohol, but because I choose to smoke a little marijuana, I have to go to prison for years, maybe the rest of my life.... “How can it be that the President, his wife, the Vice President and his wife, the Mayor

of Washington, DC, even the Speaker of the House can do these things, but I must pay dearly?”

WARNING: If you are doing business with someone who is doing anything illegal, you are not safe. Even ifyou don’t know what they are doing.

David Ciglar A hero who saved over 100 lives. Before his arrest, David was being retrained in a new career as an MRI technician. He had been injured on his job as a firefighter/paramedic as he was carrying a woman from a building. He has been credited with saving over 100 lives. Based on a tip to the DEA, David was caught with a plastic tray of 167 small marijuana seedlings growing in his garage. Under a threat that his wife would also be sent to prison and children to a foster home, he pleaded guilty. His home was seized. “My family is devastated,” David says. “My wife is living every day wondering if she can make it financially and mentally. My kids don’t know why their dad was taken away for such a long, long time. I have not even bonded with my youngest daughter. She was just two when I left her. “It will be proven

in the near future that this is a miracle

plant, and the federal

government has destroyed my life over it.”

Hamedah Ali Hasan “I was not willing to lie for the “deal.’” Hamedah’s instructors in the Steps to Success Program attest that she was an impressive student with lots of promise. She was poised to make a decent life for herself and her three daughters, ages 11, seven, and one, and ready to seek employment with the

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exceptional skills she has. She never got the chance to prove herself, though. Instead, she sits in prison facing a life sentence for a crime she did not commit. Hamedah has no prior criminal history. She was never arrested or observed doing anything illegal related to the offenses of which she has been convicted. Shortly following her arrest, Hamedah was offered immunity (all charges dropped) in exchange for her “cooperation” with the U.S. Attorney in obtaining a conviction against her cousin. She had no knowledge of the offenses and was not willing to lie for the “deal.” The trial consisted primarily of hearsay testimony from alleged co-conspirators who were either getting immunity themselves or currently serving prison sentences and testifying in exchange for a possible sentence reduction. Loren Pogue “It takes only two hours to destroy your life” Helping his part-time employee close a sale of land in Costa Rica has sent Loren Pogue, real estate agent, missionary,

former

serviceman,

Mason,

Shriner,

Lions

Club

member, American Legionnaire, Veteran of a Foreign War, and past director of a children’s home, to prison for 27 years. He fell victim to a reverse sting operation. As it turned out, Loren’s employee was a paid recipient of $250,000 of government informant money. The informant pleaded with Loren to help him sell a plot of land on a Costa Rican mountainside to a group posing as “investors” — in reality, undercover agents who were shopping for a place to put an airstrip. That Loren had no drug history, that the airstrip was never built, and that, even if built, it would have been useless because of its location: none of this played any part in the court’s decision. Pogue never saw nor spoke with the undercover agents prior to the one meeting he had with them. Loren has 15 adopted children. He went “from a happy, joyful life, in a two-hour meeting, to pain, hurt and suffering.” His family cannot afford to visit him, as he is being held 1,500 miles away.

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“..brings the issue of drugs and freedom out of the closet and placed it where it

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