Friday, April 29, 2005

SPAM MUNCHIES!
Dealing with e-mail, instant messages, and other messaging interruptions throughout the day is more damaging to one’s IQ than either lack of sleep, or using marijuana, according to a recent study of more than 1,000 Brits conducted on behalf of Hewlett Packard.
(Aunty Spam's Net Patrol, unearthed by LockerGnome)

Monday, April 25, 2005

DRACONIAN DRUG BILL INTRODUCED BY SENSENBRENNER

The full House Judiciary Committee is set to vote as early as next week on H.R. 1528, which creates a new group of mandatory miniumum penalties for non-violent drug offenses, including a five year penalty for passing a joint to someone who's been in drug treatment.

The "Defending America's Most Vulnerable: Safe Access to Drug Treatment and Child Protection Act of 2005" (H.R. 1528) was introduced by House Judiciary Committee Chairman James Sensenbrenner (R-WI) on April 6, and it has already passed out of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.

The bill would also create a 10-year mandatory minimum sentence for a first-time conviction of distributing a small amount of marijuana to a person under 18 years of age ... and a 10-year sentence for a second offense of distributing marijuana to a person under 21.

Families Against Mandatory Minimums (FAMM) also has an action alert on this bill:

MAKES THE FEDERAL SENSENCING GUIDELINES MANDATORY

CREATES NEW MANDATORY MINIMUMS

ELIMINATES THE SAFETY VALVE FOR LOW-LEVEL COURIERS.

PUNISHES DEFENDANTS FOR "RELEVANT CONDUCT" COMMITED BEFORE THEY JOINED A CONSPIRACY

AND THERE'S MORE!
(Suggested by Joe Paul)