Pikers. Cut off the damned roof and give chase!
"What we're dealin' with here, is a complete lack o' respect for the law!"
Posted on 08/08/2012 10:45:14 AM PDT by matt04
He fought the law, and the law got crushed.
The man who drove a tractor over several police vehicles in northern Vermont last week is on the verge of becoming a modern-day folk hero to some, with various online sites cropping up to canonize and defend the "simple farmer" from Newport, Vt.
Roger Pion, 34, was so angry about his arrest last month on marijuana and other charges, he took the law into his own hands, so to speak, and flattened 6 police cruisers and a van from the ">Orleans County Sheriff's Department.
The Aug. 2 incident got Pion arrested. But it also got the farmer some big-time media exposure as his story went national, sparking everything from T-shirts to ballads to Internet sites dedicated to "freeing" him. Since the episode, various websites have declared Pion a patriot and a saint — even a sainted patriot. A Facebook page, "Roger Pion, the magnificent," describes him as a hardworking farmer and father from a "down-to-earth family" that now needs help footing his legal bill.
Friends and family claim Pion has been subjected to abuse and harassment from law enforcement officials, while law enforcement officials claim Pion has a documented history of being "uncooperative and aggressive" during past police encounters, the Burlington Free Press reports.
(Excerpt) Read more at masslive.com ...
He’s an idiot. How it this supposed to help his family? Was it his tractor or his father’s?
I am a libertarian on drug laws, but as a practical matter, this will only do more harm than good.
Where is the distortion?
Some patriots did hurl tea into the harbor at Boston.
The Tories at that time period undoubtedly looked down on them for doing so.
The last statement is a fact: a government employee should fear violating the rights of American citizens; free citizens should not fear angering government employees.
That is reefer madness nonsense. There is no medical evidence that cannabis has ever caused any damage to the brain or body. Not a single case in over 5000 years of use. Nor is there any proof that it causes any psychological issues or permanent physical changes.
Alcohol,on the other hand,is 100% proven and guaranteed to cause permanent damage to every organ of the body when abused. Alcohol is 100% proven to be a direct trigger for blacked-out violence in some people - when they wake up in jail not knowing why. We usually don't see the full extent of damage because a failed liver or alcohol poisoning claims most alcoholics before everything else has a chance to rot.
Yes, there is a correlation between crazy people using more cannabis but that does not prove it caused their issues. For example: schizophrenics smoke 350% more tobacco than the general population but that does not in any way prove tobacco caused it. They also drink 200-300% more alcohol than most people.
Before you reply, please read all my related posts on this thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2908809/posts?page=111#111
HTH does he even have room to turn that thing around in that tiny state? I doubt there’s a field any larger than a quarter section in that state.
Pikers. Cut off the damned roof and give chase!
"What we're dealin' with here, is a complete lack o' respect for the law!"
He’s gonna have a long time to think about this. Sorry he is just plain stupid!!!
What’s that white speck on the dash daddy!!
That's what I'm thinking too. Maybe he can use the bipolar defense, but I'm guessing he hasn't been diagnosed yet.
Psychotic episodes = stoner logic
Anarchy was NEVER the goal of the founders. You and I agree that government needs to have a tight leash but that does not allow any cation at any time in retaliation. You skipped right over the idea of personal responsibility....how convenient
That's simply not true. Harvard did studies that showed long term pot used damaged the same area of the brain as is damaged in schitzophrenic/bipolar subjects.
Other studies have shown linkage as well.
5000 years of use
Are you just making crap up? Who's documented that pot was smoked 5000 years ago? And even if they did, what studies existed that they caused no harm?
he did move other personal vehicles so as not to damage them before his running over the police equipment ..BTW ..guns in trunk survived
believe when he was caught ...put tractor in reverse ..that constituted assault on officers ..
Where did I claim anarchy was the goal of the Founders?
Leaving aside the fact that they were being told by a government that offered them no representation that they had to take a commodity they didn't want and pay an extra tax for doing so, they still offered to pay the full market price of the goods.
Pion lives under a representative government and no one was forcing him to buy any police cars against his consent.
But I'm guessing he has not offered to pay full restitution.
I don’t believe anyone claimed the cases were equivalent. However, in both cases, the injured parties believed they had legitimate grievances against the governments whom wronged them.
Show me this study. I've gone through every existing research paper on this topic for the last 20 years and not a single one can show conclusive brain damage. There was one “brain scan” study but the technology was proven inaccurate.
The studies showing “linkage” show no greater link than can also be “proven” with tobacco.
Read the post I linked to. It shows schizophrenia rates have not increased even as cannabis use has increased exponentially around the world since 1970.
Evidence of Cannabis use has been found and dated to 2000-3000BC. There has never been a single person with bodily damage from cannabis. Research animals have been given constant doses exceeding anything a human can ever consume with no resulting damage.
The Founders were correct, and Pion is not.
Hence the inequity in your comparison.
So it's magic smoke then? That leaves no trace on the lungs?
Really?
Even the Founders would agree that arresting a man with possession of a plant and “resisting arrest” was a violation of the man’s freedoms.
But then, they (particularly the Anti-Federalists) had a far more limited view on the proper boundaries of government than even many Freepers today.
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