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Update: Nathan Archer Convicted By Second Jury
Show of Support Needed At Friday, March 14 2008 Sentencing Hearing


Jury Deadlocks 11-1 to Aquit, Judge Declares Mistrial
County Re-Tries Medical Marijuana Patient Nathan Archer

Clear evidence of prosecutorial misconduct, malicious prosecution, police misconduct, judicial misconduct

Misconduct: Detective Schuyler Boyce; Misconduct, Malicious Prosecution, Disregard for the Law: San Diego County District Attorney Robert Bruce; Judicial Misconduct: Judge Margie Woods

When the jurors were dismissed they had an opportunity to ask and answer questions with the prosecuting and defending attorneys. The prosecutor, D.A. Robert Bruce, was asked the same question three times by different jurors.

Finally, the third time, it came at him point blank: "When you learned that Mr. Archer was a valid medical marijuana patient, why did you continue prosecuting him?"

San Diego County District Attorney Robert Bruce threw up his hands, replied, "Well personally I think this whole medical marijuana thing is a bunch of poppycock," and walked away. (This was witnessed by the remaining 11 jurors, Mr. Reyes with his counsel, and the defendant, Nathan Archer, and his counsel.)

The Mayor of the City of San Diego, showing support for the will of the people, submitted an amicus brief yet the County continues wasting tax dollars with its attacks on innocent patients.

Nathan Archer is seeking help organizing a class action law suit against San Diego County, including but not limited to qualifiable medical marijuana patients, their care-givers, their doctors, and non-patient land owners who have had their freedom and/or property threatened with seizure or seized by San Diego County.

(complete article)

Update: Archer Convicted By Second Jury
Friday, March 14 2008 Sentencing Hearing for Nathan Archer

Background: In April, 2006, the San Diego Police Dept. raided the residence of Nathan Archer, a 40-year-old chronic pain patient in San Diego, seizing 30 plants (police inflated the number to 98 plants by counting garbage and dead plants) and 28 oz. of processed medicine. After failing to get a jury to convict Archer in a previous criminal trial, San Diego County District Attorney Robert Bruce retried Archer. On January 30, 2008, after assistance from a cross-deputized federal DEA Agent who served as an expert witness, the second jury convicted Archer of cultivation and possession of greater than one ounce of marijuana and he remains at home in Sausalito while awaiting sentencing.

Please come out to demonstrate to the San Diego justice system that Nathan is part of our medical marijuana community, and to encourage the judge towards lenience.

Come show your support for Nathan at his sentencing hearing!
When: 9:00 a.m. before Judge Kerry Wells
Where: San Diego County Superior Court, Central Courthouse at 220 West Broadway, Department 36 in the heart of downtown San Diego

Court location and information

For more information, contact Sonnet [at] AmericansforSafeAccess.org



The Love and Death of a San Diego Activist

The Last Words of Steve McWilliams

July 10, 2005

Dear All,

This is my time to say goodbye to you. I came to California and San Diego to celebrate life and health with the right to use marijuana for my pain and suffering. But the law that was supposed to protect patients like me has been turned on its head so that no patient can feel safe ever again. Taking the methadone was only supposed to shut down the pain from the headaches which lately have been very bad. I wanted to stop the pain but that got out of control too. I didn't realize what I was taking. I just wanted the pain to go away. But now, with everything that happened I know I will never be whole again.

I am an advocate and activist for a good cause - my good health. As an activist I believe in acting when the time is right. To be an impeccable warrior - I believe that my actions - of not being here - can help move the discussion of medical marijuana back to what's good for the patient without the DEA telling us what medications we can use.

Judge Reuben Brooks is a wretched, evil little gnome who thinks he can practice medicine and tell me what medications I can take. After last week I expect to be called to the Federal Courthouse or somewhere to talk about my use of methadone. I cannot allow the government to decide what drugs I must take. It's my life. I had intended to see my Dr. Geanacou who has been the best doctor I've ever had.

I am gone now. I didn't want to wake and worry Barbara - she has no idea that I'm gone. This was my last chance to help the medical marijuana movement and others that I care about. None of this was ever planned by me - no one knew what I was set out to do. After last week my mind and body have not been the same. Thinking is much, much more difficult. I still feel very dizzy and nauseous. I know that I will not be able to recover to the pain level I was at before. I have been hurt by last week and that was just an accident. I believe now though that I will be locked up in some kind of cell. I refuse to allow the govt. to control my life. That's what so much of this has been about - my right to use a medicine that worked for me.

As an activist I've given everything to the cause - all my possessions, my time and my life. You can't give more than that.

NO Retreat
NO Surrender


Love Steve

Posted with permission from Steve's wife Barbara

(complete article: The Last Words of Steve McWilliams)
(complete article: The Love and Death of a San Diego Activist)



From Draft NOtices, January - March 2008

Struggle Heats Up In San Diego High Schools Over Military Training Programs
by Paula Hoffman

Aren’t shooting ranges on high school campuses in complete contradiction to the “zero weapons tolerance” rules? Is JROTC, in reality, a well-planned, back-door recruitment tool that targets vulnerable young people? Do parents and students have a clear understanding of what JROTC is all about? Are students being offered fair and equal educational support by school counselors, administrators and teachers? These are the issues being tackled by a coalition of parents, students, teachers and community organizations in San Diego, California.

The new Marine Corps JROTC program at Mission Bay High School opened in September. During the summer, Principal Cheryl Seelos and strongly pro-military board members pushed for its initiation. MBHS was one of the few schools in San Diego never to have had JROTC. Now, as hundreds of low-income Latino students are bused in daily, the military sees fresh opportunities to brainwash and recruit. Despite passionate speeches by many opponents of JROTC at two summer school board meetings, the final vote was four to one in favor of JROTC, with board member John de Beck casting the only nay vote. Subsequently, picketing and leafleting outside the school during class registration in August was the beginning of outreach efforts to inform students and parents of what was happening.

At the same time, the doors of the beautiful rebuilt Lincoln High School campus were about to open — and so were the doors of its JROTC program. Within the first few weeks of school, it was observed by UJIMA Institute for Civic Responsibility founder Mshinda Nyofu that Lincoln High was quickly building a new shooting range to go with its JROTC program. The absurdity was obvious. Why are we teaching students to shoot and carry arms on campus, even as we attempt to deal with the painful on-campus and off-campus violence affecting communities everywhere? UJIMA began raising questions about the issue in the community around Lincoln High.

(complete article)



Curious Goings On At Independent TV KUSI 9/51

In his published Comments About Global Warming, San Diego weatherman John Coleman starts out
It is the greatest scam in history. I am amazed, appalled and highly offended by it. Global Warming... It is a SCAM.
Here are the first two paragraphs of John Coleman's "Bio Page" from the web site of his San Diego employer, KUSI News 9/51:
"Being a TV weatherman in San Diego is an outrageous scam," says KUSI NEWS' 6, 10 and 11 PM weathercaster. Then he laughs. He knows there is plenty of truth in his joke, but he also knows it's a long way from the whole story.
(complete article)


San Diego Hate Group
Condemned Records
Info [translated from a Greek website]
The stated goal of Condemned Records is to release "serious Nationalist Skinhead music." Condemned Records publishes its own hate-rock magazine, featuring interviews with popular movement bands that are then posted on the label's Web site. Past issues have included interviews with Bound for Glory, Definite Hate and Murder Squad.

Condemned also sends out a newsletter via E-mail to update its customers on new CD releases and to promote hate-music concerts. One recent issue of this newsletter issued a call for hate-rock owner labels to stop squabbling. "It's our policy to promote all shows that we hear about, we promote all records that we hear about, and we link to who ever wants to share links with us. Aryans banded together to survive ice ages, well it's been getting pretty cold lately!"

In addition to the band interviews and product catalog, the Condemned Records Web site links to another site called Free The Order, which pays homage to the 1980s white-power terrorist group that robbed armored trucks of $4.1 million and machine-gunned a Jewish radio host to death in preparation for race war.


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