Saturday, May 27, 2006

Good grief, this is horrible.

Look what I found on All Hat No Cattle:

An agent posing as a dealer called and asked to speak with Jeff. Nicole replied that he wasn't home, but gave the man a number where she thought Jeff could be reached. An innocent gesture? It sounds that way to me. But to federal prosecutors, simply giving out a phone number made Nicole Richardson part of a drug dealing onspiracy. Under draconian mandatory minimum sentences, she was sent to federal prison for ten years without possibility of parole.


-- Walter Cronkite, former Managing Editor and News Anchorman of CBS Evening News – Discussing the injustice and human toll of our current “war on drugs”, in “Telling the Truth about the War on Drugs

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