LINKS: American (and other) justice systems dole out disproportionately harsh sentences

25 years in prison for possessing pills that you have a legal prescription for.  Arrested, assaulted, tasered for flying a flag upside down.  Fined $100 for throwing trash in a trash can (that’s littering, y’know!).  This is the sick sad world we live in.  Totalitarianism is spreading.

• WAR ON DRUGS: Man Released From 25 year Prison Sentence Possession Of Pills For Which He Had A Prescription

  58 vicodin pills. That he had a prescription for. But in Florida, a “prescription defense” is not legal! What the fuck!?!?!?!?!?This type of shit happens all the time.

  (tags: politics WarOnDrugs drugs Vicodin marijauna MarkO’Hara Florida Tampa news articles OverlyHarshPunishments prescriptions prescriptionDefense)

• CENSORSHIP: North Carolina Deputy Sheriff Brian Scarborough Violently Invades Couple’s Home Without A Warrant, Assaults Man, Arrests Couple As Another Officer Threatens Them With A Taser – For Flying Flag Upside Down

  It’s funny that police just earlier that week told them it was okay to fly the flag upside-down.The “man in fatigues” angle is interesting too.

  But this type of stuff is disgusting. It is completely unamerican to arrest people for expressing their view

  (tags: politics censorship flags AmericanFlag BrianScarboough police brutality policeBrutality tasers warrants MarkKuhn DeborahKuhn RandySorrell)

• OVERLY-HARSH PUNISHMENTS: Put trash in a trashcan, get fined $100 for littering

  I knew the UK was crazy like this, but New Zealand too?Let’s face it, people. Totalitarianism is spreading across the entire planet, incrementally, millimeter by millimeter, in nearly every possible facet of society.

  This is just another example.

  (tags: politics OverlyHarshPunishments littering trash trashcans rubbish rubbishBins Wellington NewZealand news articles)