Jack Cole, and the LEAP BoD:

I just ran across the case of Brad Jardis and LEAP.

I must say, I am very shocked, saddened, and astonished at LEAP's response.

I have been a supporter of LEAP thru-out the years when I have had the means.

It boils down to this:

there is a clear conflict of morals here between a cop enforcing the law,

and the enforcing of a clearly immoral law.

In such a conflict, the refusal to enforce the immoral law wins.

Take an Reductio ad absurdum case:

a law that *requires* the cop shoots someone with drugs.

What is the clear moral choice?

Refuse to enforce the law.

Sadly, history shows that type of law has been on the books, except it was killing Jews.

(Please note I am not invoking Godwin's Law.)

It *is* a historical fact that, once the Nazis had killed a couple of hundred Jews,

they realized there was not a law that permitted them to kill Jews.

They corrected that oversight and passed a law.

6 million Jews (and at least 12 Million others) later, the Allied finally defeated them.

Under LEAP's logic, Mr Jardis refusing to shoot a Jewish person would be immoral.

(It makes no difference, you will admit, between shooting someone and being an accessory.)

What is the fundamental difference between killing someone,

vs otherwise destroying a sick person's life with an arrest for MedPot?

This is a difference in scale, not a difference in kind.

I would also note there are cases of people dying a painful death after

being arrested for MedPot, and then being unable to obtain more.

With the increasing number of laws trashing the Bill of Rights,

under the War banners of Drugs and Terrorism, what is LEAP going to do?

At what point does the law become so egregious that y'all speak out

for LE to take an active moral stand?

Just look at the differing responses to the orders to the police,

and the refusal by some, to the harsh crackdown on the Occupy groups.

Also by LEAP's logic, LEAP should *refuse* to allow any association with the

(at last count) of the 25% of federal judges that have refused to hear drug cases.

LEAP is also concerned about cops getting fired for just speaking out against

the Drug War – and yet these same cops must now feel that LEAP will dump them too.

LEAP's response to Mr Jardis sends a clear message that LEAP cannot be trusted by those LEOs.

I sincerely hope that LEAP will re-think its position on this issue,

because blind obedience (which you are clearly demanding) to a grossly

immoral law is grossly immoral itself.

In fact, the blind enforcing of the drug laws, especially against sick people,

have had a tremendous, corrosive effect on respect for the Law and LE.

*That* is something LEAP should be greatly concerned about,

which is one of the reasons I was *shocked* at LEAP's response to Mr Jardis.

(In fact, I should be one to assume the LEO's I encounter are honest.

Note that *all* traffic stops in the last 20 years in California

and Washington State has run thru *my* code for NCIC and DOL checks.

I wrote that portion of the message switchers in 1991.

I *want* to respect LE, but I *must* assume that *any* LEO I encounter

*must* be corrupt, because of the possible consequences.

This makes me very sad as a citizen.)

And, while I am unsure if MedPot was legal at that time in the state Mr Jardis was a cop,

you should clearly know a cop in a state with legal MedPot should obey the law

which makes it legal, even though it is still illegal under Federal law.

On a related topic, I would note the war on drugs has been, in the US,

a "police action" (all references deliberate). Mexico has a Drug War.

It is only a matter of time, a few years at most, before this war crosses the border

and US citizens (police and civilians) start getting killed at a rapid rate.

I say this because it is obvious, and LEAP is one of the organizations with the

access to those who *can* change the law.

In short, grow some balls. Time is short. Tens of Thousands have died in Mexico alone.

This war is coming to the US. I live in Albuquerque, and the border states are going

to be the first real battlefields in the next phase of this war.

I do *not* want this. I want this war to *end*.

And one thing is obvious – if this war does not end, the cartels *will* cross the border,

and cops are going to be the first to be killed because they are the most obvious targets.

The consequences of this trend scare the shit out of me.

Respectfully yours … bandit

http://freekeene.com/2010/01/27/brad-jardis-leave…

Quote:

Jardis, who has spoken publicly many times on behalf of LEAP, urged other New Hampshire police officers not to make the arrests either, claiming it’s unconstitutional to charge a sick person using marijuana for medicinal purposes.

"This is the opposite of what LEAP requires of our representatives," Cole said in his letter. "We have always said that we will in no way ask that any law enforcer decline to do his or her duty by refusing to enforce the laws as they are currently recorded. That would be unethical and wrong. What we do call on them for (to) is take action on their off-duty time to help us change those laws."

Does he have a wife? Kid? Bills?Whats he doing now?

There's a better way.

Brad Jardis as sheriff would probably boot the feds out of his county and stop enforcement of liberty violating laws.

That's the kind of platform everyone should be able to get behind!