by Nobody | Aug 19, 2013 |
Having been on “R” block in the CCHOC for a couple months, I have had a front row seat to observe the failure of the jail to address or even make a serious effort to address the plight of the mentally ill within its walls. The HOC is rife with mental illness. Many of its prisoners are here because they are mentally ill. Those who are mildly mentally ill on the outside frequently become dangerously so on the inside. The jail seems to be designed to take people who are a little crazy and drive them completely out of their minds.
There is no apparent therapy provided for mentally ill people here, except for a couple of meetings a week for the chemically dependent. There is, as far as I can tell, no psychiatrist. A psychologist, Barnes Peterson, who lacks the training to prescribe, makes the decisions about medication and passes them on to a Physician’s Assistant, who prescribes. These two frequently change people’s medication, then have the medication ground and dissolved in apple sauce. . . even though some of them are time release medications. This is completely irresponsible, as grinding many medications destroys the time release mechanism. (more…)
by Nobody | Jul 2, 2013 |
Dear Dean:
I am happy to bear witness to your pledge to “get involved” in the Liberty Movement. I am even happier to inform you that you have already done so, in at least three ways: your letter to Adam, your letter to me, and your donation to my defense fund!
Being a jailed civilly disobedient activist can be compared to being the star of a movie. A movie should have a star, it would be boring without one, but no movie can be made with only one actor. Not only must other actors be found to play supporting roles, but a director, cameraman, and a producer are also required to make almost any movie. Voluntarists are frequently equipped with oversized egos, so it is often hard to find people to fill the vital supporting roles in our movement.
I was not trying to get put in jail this time, I was just doing my thing, which happened to be illegal. My focus these days and going forward will be more on making things change through mass protest, agorism, and through playing important supporting roles in civil disobedience than on actively trying to get myself arrested. I hope that you will continue to work for liberty in every way which makes sense to you…and that you will give yourself a break on the issue of civil dis. Not all activism gets you arrested, and actively promoting causes on Facebook is activism, in a way that lackadaisically pressing “like” is not.
If you cannot think of any other activism to do, I would challenge you to spend four hours a week actively promoting my case, spreading word of it to new audiences, and hopefully getting word of it to spread virally.
Alternatively, you might want to work a few extra hours each week and donate the extra money to a deserving liberty organization, whether it is my defense fund, the Free State Project, the Civil Disobedience Evolution Fund, or some other organization.
In Liberty,
Rich Paul
(Editor’s note: You can write to Rich for free at MailtoJail.com!)
by Nobody | Jun 13, 2013 |
I, Rich Paul, have finally been sentenced after sitting in jail for seven weeks. My sentence is:
- One year in jail – With good time and time served I should be out sometime around December 18th
- Three years probation
- Various fines about $2500
Is this sentence fair? Of course not. I’ve harmed no one. I provided good product at a fair price to an adult who wanted it. I wish that more people would do that rather than making their living ruining lives to be paid with stolen money.
I can hear the drug warriors thinking, “But weed is a gateway drug.” Oh, really? The government-worshipping drug warriors should be relieved to find out that when the government’s Institute of Medicine studied the gateway effect, they found no causal relationship between the use of cannabis and the use of harder drugs like alcohol, cocaine, and heroin. Moreover, researcher and addiction specialist Todd H. Mikuriya, in his study entitled “Cannabis as a Substitute for Alcohol : A Harm Reduction Approach”, found that alcoholics who used cannabis were more likely to avoid relapse into the active use of these more dangerous drugs.
The “gateway effect” seems to be pretty well debunked. Spread the word!
I will be appealing my conviction and have already raised over $8,000 towards that end. I hope that you will help by donating here in either bitcoin or dollars.
