Oh my…how tempting it is to accept the offer of the White House and to tell them what I think of them right about now…but…
…I sort of have a hunch that if I were to sit down and really tell the White House how I feel, I’d be banned from ever communicating with anyone there again. Rick Perry asked people what they thought and I answered him honestly…next thing I knew, I was blocked from his FB and Twitter accounts. Hrm…maybe he really doesn’t know how he functions as a sociopathic, cold-blooded murderer while appearing to be a real human being?
At any rate, below is the White House response to the recent petition I posted concerning Chris Williams, the medicinal marijuana grower in Montana who is now serving an 80 year prison sentence in a federal penitentiary.
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By The White House
Thank you for signing the petition “Grant a full pardon to Chris Williams, a man facing 80 years in prison for legally growing medical marijuana“ We appreciate your participation in the We the People platform on WhiteHouse.gov.
Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution gives the President the authority to grant “Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States.” For more than 100 years, Presidents have relied on the Department of Justice and its Office of the Pardon Attorney for assistance in the exercise of this power. Requests for executive clemency for federal offenses should be directed to the Pardon Attorney, who conducts a review and investigation, and prepares the Department’s recommendation to the President. Additional information and application forms are available on the Pardon Attorney’s website.
The President takes his constitutional power to grant clemency very seriously, and recommendations from the Department of Justice are carefully considered before decisions are made. The White House does not comment, however, on individual pardon applications. In accordance with this policy and the We the People Terms of Participation – which explain that the White House may sometimes choose not to respond to petitions addressing certain matters — the White House declines to comment on the specific case addressed in this petition.
Tell us what you think about this response and We the People.
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And I might just end up telling the White House folks what I think…but probably not until after I’ve had time to uh…munch a nice bowl of fresh green salad and calm down a bit!
Related articles
- 25,900 People Want Obama to Pardon a Medical Marijuana Provider Facing Life in Prison. Will He? (reason.com)
- Outrage at Potential 80-Year Sentence for Montana Medical Marijuana Grower (informationliberation.com)
- Colorado’s first marijuana club shut down in landlord dispute (denverpost.com)
Reblogged this on flying cuttlefish picayune and commented:
prisons are just for profit these days . . . Many non-violent people in them caught up in this crappy drugs-economy the US has in place so the 1% can shut down the jobs-economy! See also
http://narconews.com/darkalliance/
Awe, you got a generic rubber stamped form letter response stuffed into an envelope by some low level mail handler? A senator’s flunky sent me the same letter twice (identical to each other but not identical to yours) on two different matters and months apart so I imagine they all let mail handlers pass out a variety of standard print & mail responses. Although the reply to a letter sent to Bill Clinton when he was in office looked like he actually signed it himself in real ink, idk. I think getting anything thru to someone able to do anything with it is like the flustrating process of trying to speak to a real person via telephone. It is totally unjust to give life sentence to an American farmer of medicinal crops, insinuates that our govnt would rather perpetuate the illegal importation of herb by violent drug cartels.
Hey, I’m so special they couldn’t even wait for the envelope stuffer…they emailed it to me…to expedite the response time because they care so much…right? Maybe your senator and mine share the same flunky – last response I got from my senator he misspelled Monsanto…Doh! But hey, he assured me he was on top of things and really cares about me.
This case is really scary because this isn’t someone who set out to break the law…quite the opposite. He did everything the state had asked or required of him. The feds don’t want to lose the money from the cartels or from the big pharma lobbyists either one so hey, who cares if an innocent American gets nailed in the system…just let the $$$ keep flowing! Argh!
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