Posted on 03/17/2006 2:13:06 AM PST by freepatriot32
WINSTED, Conn. - Having marijuana in your house is illegal, but having marijuana images on your house is not, according to town officials.
Five months after Christopher Seekins was arrested and charged with cultivating marijuana in his home, neighbors have complained about the giant marijuana leaves he has spray-painted on the outside of his home on High Street.
"There's no reason anybody should have a problem with it," Seekins said Wednesday.
Town officials said the marijuana paintings apparently do not conflict with local laws.
"There's nothing in the property maintenance code that deals with writing on your house," Joe Beadle, chief code enforcement officer, said.
Seekins says the large leaves are in support of the cause of the legalization of marijuana. He believes firmly in the usefulness of hemp, the coarse fiber of the cannabis plant, from textiles to paper products.
"People have the wrong impression about it," Seekins said.
In October, police said they found 100 plants inside Seekins' house, along with grow lights, fertilizers and portable heaters.
Police charged Seekins, 26, with cultivating marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia. Free on $10,000 bond, his court case is pending.
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Information from: Republican-American, http://www.rep-am.com
Offending their sensibilities, that is! 'Course, offending people is only a crime so far if one offends certain favored groups.
Please do not assume from a screen name a persons sex. Paulson could be a lil red head with a dumpy butt for all we k now...
LOL!
I've been searching hard through various founding documents for that elusive "right to not be offended," so far to no avail.
Well there you go. Then a guy flashing women would be fine with you?
Please share some more wisdom. I don't want to lump all drugs together as bad. What are the good ones?
That will change.
Sure he does. There was an article a few months ago about the real hemp people wanting nothing to do with the potheads.
You can have him, and I hope you live on Libertarian Island.
Passive-aggressive behavior refers to passive ... resistance to authoritative instructions in interpersonal ... situations. Sometimes a method of dealing with stress or frustration, it results in the person attacking other people in subtle, indirect, and seemingly passive ways.
So, here we have this guy involved in a breach of the peace, offending people with his actions, acting in a passive-aggressive manner, and this is OK by you and your libertarian cronies. I suppose you'd say that we have no right not to be offended, huh?
But the flasher, whose actions also breach the peace, and alarm and offend others (legal definition), well, throw his a$$ in jail. Gee, looks like we DO have a right not to be offended.
Consistency is not your strong point, is it?
Apparently, this guy, Leon Parrish of the Board of Supervisors of Amherst County here in VA, found it.
"Parrish tells The News & Advance of Lynchburg that he doesn't think the county should be promoting anything that's offensive to anyone." (This is regarding the removal of the Confederate Flag from the County Seal)
It's amazing that some of these people are smart enough to breathe without being reminded.
"Indeed. Why people don't just shut the **** up and get in the back of the bus is beyond me."
Well, if he wants to be a martyr that's one thing. But I guess being a criminal defense attorney I'm looking at it from the perspective of someone who has to represent people like this. I can just see this guy complaining like crazy later about the system screwing him and his lawyer not doing his job when the prosecutors dig their heels in with a really crummy offer. It will have been his own fault, but I bet you a dollar he'll be blaming everyone but himself when he finds out he's going down for a long time. He'll be telling his lawyer he's heard about this person and that person caught with the same amount or more plants getting a better deal than him, and he'll be insinuating that his lawyer is selling him down the river, not doing his job. I've just dealt with too many people like this. Maybe I'm jaded. He's just daring the prosecutor and the judge to send him down for a long time. He's begging for it. If he was my client I would be advising him not to do this sort of thing, at least until his case is concluded.
But, maybe he doesn't care. Maybe he thinks he's going to change minds and embolden marijuana law reform activists with the statement he is making. Maybe he's convinced that he'll make a difference in his cause and he feels that's worth a few extra years in prison. I kind of doubt he thought it through that much before he painted all the pot leaves on his house though. I have a feeling he's going to regret this later.
Seems to work.
He's an idiot. He's pretty much throwing his chances of getting a good deal from prosecutors or a light sentence from the judge out the window and he's virtually ensuring that police in his town are going to ride him hard as long as he lives there.
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“He who would sacrifice liberty for safety deserves neither.”
Ben Franklin
If I ever find myself in a similar circumstance - I'll hire the best air brush artist I can find.
If the guy was butt-screwing his boyfriend and got caught, the ACLU would defend his "right" to butt-screwing homosexual sex to the bitter end. And they really wouldn't have to fight hard, that is all perfectly legal now.
But don't dare paint your house the way you want it. Might "offend" some dumb-ass liberal.
Nope, too many anarchists, libertarians, hippies, and dopers here. Plus we can import all we need, and since it requires a lot of manual labor, it's not a good crop for us.
Have a link to that article?
Nope, but it was here on FR, and I remember LMAO. If I can remember the title, I'll go look for it. There's only about what, three million pot threads in the archives?
Nah, do that dance with someone else. Enjoy.
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