>From: "Peter McWilliams" >Subject: Letter from Mary Smith >Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 09:51:25 -0800 >X-Mozilla-Status: 8001 >X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 > > >I am sending this on behalf of Mary Smith, BE's lovely wife -- a beautiful >letter from the heart, which conveys what only a suffering wife and mother >could about the terrible injustices done to innocent people be our federal >government. > > > >Peter. > > > >besmith@snowcrest.net >Subject: BE SMITH NEWS >Date: Monday, January 10, 2000 2:24 PM > >I am sending out a newsletter type setup in this email. I am specifically >going to discuss my husband's case, (BE Smith), but there are so many people >out there suffering through this issue of the medicinal marijuana. People in >prison, people being prosecuted, sick people being imprisoned, sick people >trying to keep court dates, and struggling through an unjust and unfair >system that will not recognize LAW, of the state of California. > >Sick people that do not have money to fight the giant and unjust >conglomeration our federal government has become. They lose their homes, >everything they own, end up in debt they cannot pay. Many of them who are >imprisoned lose their families while there. And many are just too sick to >fight. They plea bargain to a lie that is forced upon them, that they are >guilty of something we the people have voted in. That they are guilty, AND >THEY ARE NOT. > >Some of the people you all may have heard of, like the Kubbys, Peter >McWilliams, Todd McCormick, BE Smith, Rene Boje. These few are just the tip >of the iceberg. There are those, who, like Michael Baldwin, a dentist from >Sacramento, are fighting hard, the Kubby's, my husband BE, Rene Boje, who >are trying to stand their ground against what is happening, and standing in >truth, and still losing. And so many, I can't name here. > >I have said it before, and I will keep on saying it, I don't smoke pot, but >I voted for Proposition 215. I didn't even agree with my husband smoking it, >but I do now. He has been diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, or >PTSD, or PTSS (syndrome.) IT was BE's way of dealing with his PTSS. He >thought it was less harmful than alcohol, and so do I. I believe it has >helped BE to this day, to be alive, and functioning as much as he has. > >BE was found guilty on May 21, 1999, and taken to Sacramento County Main >Jail. He spent 5 months there in 23 hour lock down, waiting to be sentenced; >then transported to a Federal prison. This is a man, who served his country, >did his time in the military, came home dysfunctional, and is being punished >for it, and for what he thought was following law, by having a >recommendation, doing everything he could to stay within the legal >boundaries of proposition 215. BE is being punished by the very same >government he honored by serving in the military of the United States of >America. > >I've got to say, BE has not been shown the same respect he has shown his >country. And now, BE is serving 27 months in a prison camp, because a judge >thought he was an evil man. What a miscarriage of justice! Because my >husband has PTSS and was open and honest about using the marijuana. > >Judge Burrell was wrong in his assumption of BE. BE needs to be helped with >his PTSS, not imprisoned where he can get no help. Indeed, where it is much >harder on a man suffering with PTSS. And yet, there are SO MANY OTHERS >SUFFERING, TOO. I just can't and do not know how to express my grief for you >all, who are fighting for your life over this issue, or those of you who >have loved ones involved in this fight. Except to say I love all of you, and >to say I know God loves you, too. Our government might not recognize the >treasure in you, the treasure of a human life that needs to be shown love >and consideration, but I do, and so does God. God loves you and treasures >you all. > >BE's address is: > >BE SMITH 11691-097 >UNIT 5 >PO BOX 6000 >SHERIDAN, OREGON >97378 > >He loves letters, he lives for them. He still believes he tried to follow >law. Proposition 215 is beautiful. I wish there was room here to put it. If >215 was followed in all of its beautiful legality by our courts, my husband >would not be in prison. And many, many others would not, also, nor would >there by those struggling so severely, who are sick, and battling with the >courts, and who could die in prison. > >BE has met a friend who needs someone to write him. He speaks very little >English, is Spanish speaking, so needs someone who can write in Spanish to >write him. He knows no one here, and needs someone to write him. > >Jose Vasquez 13601-006 >Unit 5 >PO BOX 6000 >SHERIDAN, OREGON >97378 > > > >================================================================ > >This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to > the mailing list . >To unsubscribe, E-mail to: