BURMA OUT!!!! Rangoon RED ..The a

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Subject: BURMA OUT!!!!   Rangoon RED ..The answer to the prob

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This is the past and the future. 

Burma has a reputation for growing some of the best mary jane 
leaf in the world. Unfortunately, the world does not get to smoke 
any, because Burma is such a weird and murderous [place 
these days. BUT if the world LEGALISED SOFT DRUGS and 
Burma got rid of all its little poppy fields. Then I am sure this 
would be a case of profits from the land. Soft drugs instead 
of hard. 

 Rangoon RED ..The answer to the prob

Sheesh, do jazz musicians have to think of "everything" 
neoprogressive ;-)

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Read this farce of a story ..

Conviction For Pot Growing Spouse of Kissing Informant


Paul Elias 
The Recorder/Cal Law 
September 23, 1999 




A jury Tuesday convicted a Mendocino County man of being a major marijuana 
grower and carrying on a continuing criminal enterprise, a heavy-duty charge 
that will require a judge to sentence John Dalton to at least 20 years in 
prison.

The conviction came after a three-week trial and despite the fact a Drug 
Enforcement Administration agent on the case kissed Dalton's wife during the 
investigation.

The conviction was also won with the help of the wife, Victoria Horstman. 
Horstman, on behalf of the government, secretly tape-recorded bedroom 
conversations she had with Dalton about his pot farm. The DEA paid her $4,800 
for snitching on her husband. The DEA suspended agent Mark Nelson without pay 
for a month in 1997 after he confessed to the kiss during an internal 
investigation prompted by complaints made by Horstman.

Dalton's attorney, J. Tony Serra, tried to get U.S. District Court Judge 
Susan Illston to toss the case based on Nelson's inappropriate conduct while 
interrogating Horstman at a government "safehouse." Serra also complained 
that Horstman's surreptitious bedroom recordings also constituted outrageous 
government conduct.

"The court finds the incident at the house between agent Nelson and 
defendant's wife, as well as the DEA-sanctioned tape-recording of marital 
communications in the defendant's bedroom, very disturbing," Illston wrote in 
a June 29 order. "A government agent encouraging the wife of an individual 
under investigation to place a recording device behind the headboard of their 
bed, shortly after an admittedly inappropriate encounter between the agent 
and the wife, goes beyond poor judgment or merely using a close family member 
as an informant. Using the wife of a defendant as an informant is one thing, 
tape-recording the activities in their marital bed is quite another."

Still, Illston said Nelson's conduct and the rotten tape-recording weren't 
enough to warrant dismissal of U.S. v. Dalton, 96-276. She also said Dalton 
waived any marital privilege because, while representing himself, Dalton 
submitted transcripts of the recordings in a self-written and unsuccessful 
motion to dismiss.

However, prosecutors did not introduce the tapes at trial. Dalton was 
indicted and arrested in 1996 and charged with operating a giant pot farm 
during the early 1990s. After three days of deliberation, a jury on Tuesday 
convicted him of cultivating 6,000 plants worth about $2 million between 1991 
and 1994. The jury acquitted him of witness tampering and a 1993 charge for 
cultivating pot.

Dalton faces a maximum penalty of life in prison and a $4 million fine when 
Illston sentences him on Dec. 10.

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Bloody yanks , never leave well alone huh?

Does one hate Hoover? Only day and night..

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of HH the Dalai Lama, the Shan Democratic Union,  film maker John 
Pilger, the Free Burma Coalition,  Dennis Skinner MP, Tony Benn 
MP, Ann Clwyd MP, Congress-woman  Maxine Waters, 
parliamentarians, Socialist Workers' Party,  Dr and Welsh rugby 
star JPR Williams, sportspersons, Hendrix  bassist Noel Redding, 
S African jazz pianist Abdullah Ibrahim,  All Burma Students 
Democratic Organisation, All Burma Students Democratic Front, Tasmanian
Trades & Labour Council, Tim Gopsill, editor. The.Journalist@xxxxxxxxxx, and
numerous others.   

Supporting a Genuine war upon drugs and human rights abuse.
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Rachel and James http:www.mihra.org/2k/rachel.htm

Founded during UN50. Mihra's roots are in music and anti-racism and 
was first in line in calling for a sports boycott of Burma for the Sydney
2000 Olympic Games. Mihra also advances protection of creators rights 
in an anti-cultural market, currently 93.8% monopolised by the recording  
/ publishing Grand Cartel. 

Major solo work "Piece of Mind". With orchestra, Holland 69. same  
time as Beatles "Abbey Road".   http://onlinetv.com/rogerbunn.html
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