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Aloha Council Members 6-1-2007 <br /> THE WAR ON POT IS OVER <br /> POT WON!!! <br /> Several months ago I brought before the Council's attention, the police invasion of my ho ~orq ~e~5-~006j~~ d~lso,my <br /> <br /> filing of a Police Commission complaint; this complaint, HPC 06-28, was heard by the Police~om~issiorYon'4-~0-2007. ' <br /> I present a letter to me, from Corp. Council Lincoln Ashida, dated May 8th 2007, that the ConJ[nission has sustained my <br /> complaint and they forward it to the Chief of Police and Internal Affairs. ' <br /> I am currently in discussions with an attorney as to any action I may take regarding this gross violation of my civil rights. <br /> The facts of this case are compelling reasons for the County to get out of the eradication business, as it is impossible to <br /> tell from the air whether the Cannabis in question is medicine, or sacrament, or contraband. <br /> The County needs to hold separate hearing on the acceptance of this grant in order to tune up eradication efforts by our <br /> county police so that the county is not exposed to tort actions of any sort, especially one which reacts to loss of life or <br /> property due to eradication efforts over residential land when a helicopter crashes into someone's home. <br /> The council should eliminate authorization to operate over any residential land while patrolling for large scale growers in <br /> forest and former sugar cane land. <br /> In order to conserve police resources especially given the scores of unfilled positions in the Force, a 'low-priority' which <br /> does not mean 'NO priority', enforcement of simple possession by the police should be mandated by the council. <br /> If someone is observed growing SO or more plants and they are not a registered medicinal grow site and cannot show <br /> legitimate religious exemption then contraband profiteering should be prosecuted. <br /> Anyone making contraband prices off of growing what I consider medicinal sacrament is no real friend of those with <br /> legitimate medicinal or spiritual need, as we are forced to over-value our natural Sacramental medicine and often pay 50 <br /> times what this herb should cost. <br /> And it is the love of money which is at the root of this evil war on a plant and the citizens who choose to use it. <br /> Only two classes of people actually benefit from these evil laws the Cop's and the Crooks but the average citizen does <br /> not. <br /> in total waste of police resources nine cops and 5 gas guzzling vehicles unnecessarily came to my farm, why so many <br /> vehicles, because, should I have be found to be in violation, then police forfeiture options take effect and the police get <br /> to keep 76%. These laws have turned the county police into 'Sheriff John' robbing the poor to feed the rich, a <br /> paramilitary styled raiding party who are bullet-proof vested, armed and no visible badge or ID who able to use military <br /> style helicopters to spy on citizens. <br /> Is that the Republic that Franklin, and Jefferson Washington and the other founding fathers envisioned or do we get a <br /> police state. <br /> Our state constitution guaranteed the ENJOYMENT of the pursuit of life liberty and happiness in consonance with this <br /> the County should stop harassing citizens for pot and go after profiteers exclusively. Free up courts and police to go after <br /> Crippling problems like ICE and assaults and property crimes. <br /> Aloha <br /> Rev. Dennis Shields <br /> ~arr,m. No• ~J • 1 <br /> def. Dote JUN 0 5 200 <br /> <br />