Saturday, November 22, 2014
Teen Facing Possible Life In Prison For Weed Brownies Says Independent Media Saved Him
Teen Facing Possible Life In Prison For Weed Brownies Says Independent Media Saved Him
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Source: The Anitmedia
Earlier this year, we reported on Jacob Lavoro of Round Rock, Texas’ story;at the time, he was being charged with a first degree felony for selling hash oil brownies. He was set to receive an absolutely insane possible sentence of life in prison for weed brownies. He is now officially on 7 years deferred probation, and he did not have to serve any time in prison. He believes it’s because of the extensive alternative media coverage of the amount of time he was set to face.
In an interview for The Anti-Media, I asked him to just say whatever he wanted about his case and how he feels about the charges being reduced so drastically, and he said this:
“I feel good about not going to prison. I think all the media pressure I had on my side helped me tremendously. I think if I didn’t have that kinda pressure that they would have been successful in putting me behind bars for quite a while.
I also still think as a first time offender the verdict is still pretty harsh.I’ve seen rapists get off with less probation. I fully agree with legalization, so this so called justice system can stop ruining young peoples and older peoples lives over something so harmless as weed. Because this is proven so far to continue to hold me back from getting approved in any apartment complex and a lot of private houses even including some jobs.“
His charges were reduced to just one second degree felony of 1-4 grams of hash with intent to sell, as opposed to the original charge, where the entire weight of his brownies were counted as pure hash.
This is a victory for Jacob Lavoro, for cannabis and anti-drug war activists all over America. This is also a victory for the Independent Media’s power to influence things as seemingly concrete as legal cases by publicizing injustice to an extreme degree.
We have the power to stand up against injustices like this one, and truly change the outcome by spreading around info, and getting masses of people to comprehend the immorality of a situation.
From Ferguson, to Round Rock Texas, 2014 has proven itself to be a year of empowerment for the people, a year of collectively standing strong in the face of injustice with success.
Please share this good news with as many people as possible, because it’s just such a positive thing. If you shared the articles about Jacob facing up to life in prison before, you made your contribution to his freedom from incarceration, and what you did made a significant difference....
In an interview for The Anti-Media, I asked him to just say whatever he wanted about his case and how he feels about the charges being reduced so drastically, and he said this:
“I feel good about not going to prison. I think all the media pressure I had on my side helped me tremendously. I think if I didn’t have that kinda pressure that they would have been successful in putting me behind bars for quite a while.
I also still think as a first time offender the verdict is still pretty harsh.I’ve seen rapists get off with less probation. I fully agree with legalization, so this so called justice system can stop ruining young peoples and older peoples lives over something so harmless as weed. Because this is proven so far to continue to hold me back from getting approved in any apartment complex and a lot of private houses even including some jobs.“
His charges were reduced to just one second degree felony of 1-4 grams of hash with intent to sell, as opposed to the original charge, where the entire weight of his brownies were counted as pure hash.
This is a victory for Jacob Lavoro, for cannabis and anti-drug war activists all over America. This is also a victory for the Independent Media’s power to influence things as seemingly concrete as legal cases by publicizing injustice to an extreme degree.
We have the power to stand up against injustices like this one, and truly change the outcome by spreading around info, and getting masses of people to comprehend the immorality of a situation.
From Ferguson, to Round Rock Texas, 2014 has proven itself to be a year of empowerment for the people, a year of collectively standing strong in the face of injustice with success.
Please share this good news with as many people as possible, because it’s just such a positive thing. If you shared the articles about Jacob facing up to life in prison before, you made your contribution to his freedom from incarceration, and what you did made a significant difference....
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LocalOrg: Don't Replace Facebook, Disrupt It
LocalOrg: Don't Replace Facebook, Disrupt It: November 11, 2014 (Tony Cartalucci - LocalOrg) - Facebook is a problem. It is undoubtedly being used by special interests to manipulate ...
Don't
November
11, 2014 (Tony Cartalucci - LocalOrg) - Facebook is a problem. It is
undoubtedly being used by special interests to manipulate and monitor entire
populations both within the United States and well beyond. It represents a tool
that in no way serves the people actually using it, and instead allows special
interests to use the users. It is a dream global panopticon for the
abusive dictators that run Western society and presume dominion over what they
call an "international order."
But in order to counter this threat,
Facebook cannot simply be "replaced." It specifically, and what it represents,
must be disrupted entirely.
Facebook is a Skinner Box for
Humans
Facebook has been at the center of several recent
controversies that are increasingly leaving users disillusioned and in search of
alternatives. At the center of these controversies is Facebook's "news feed"
feature. Ideally, news feed would work by showing on your timeline updates from
those individuals and organizations you follow. There are two options for news
feed - "most recent" and "top stories." Facebook has decided to upend this
feature by insidiously controlling what appears on your news feed regardless of
which option you select.
Now,
you will no longer receive regular updates from accounts you follow, and instead
will see a "filtered" version determined by Facebook's algorithms. Many Facebook
users are unaware of this fact and are perplexed as to why they are no longer
receiving regular updates from accounts they follow.
Facebook's
own explanation as
to why they've implemented this policy is as follows:
Don't
Replace Facebook, Disrupt It
11, 2014 (Tony Cartalucci - LocalOrg) - Facebook is a problem. It is
undoubtedly being used by special interests to manipulate and monitor entire
populations both within the United States and well beyond. It represents a tool
that in no way serves the people actually using it, and instead allows special
interests to use the users. It is a dream global panopticon for the
abusive dictators that run Western society and presume dominion over what they
call an "international order."
But in order to counter this threat,
Facebook cannot simply be "replaced." It specifically, and what it represents,
must be disrupted entirely.
Facebook is a Skinner Box for
Humans
Facebook has been at the center of several recent
controversies that are increasingly leaving users disillusioned and in search of
alternatives. At the center of these controversies is Facebook's "news feed"
feature. Ideally, news feed would work by showing on your timeline updates from
those individuals and organizations you follow. There are two options for news
feed - "most recent" and "top stories." Facebook has decided to upend this
feature by insidiously controlling what appears on your news feed regardless of
which option you select.
Now,
you will no longer receive regular updates from accounts you follow, and instead
will see a "filtered" version determined by Facebook's algorithms. Many Facebook
users are unaware of this fact and are perplexed as to why they are no longer
receiving regular updates from accounts they follow.
Facebook's
own explanation as
to why they've implemented this policy is as follows:
Rather than showing people all possible content,
News Feed is designed to show each person on Facebook the content that’s most
relevant to them. Of the 1,500+ stories a person might see whenever they log
onto Facebook, News Feed displays approximately 300. To choose which stories to
show, News Feed ranks each possible story (from more to less important) by
looking at thousands of factors relative to each person.
Facebook's real motivation is more likely a
combination of
implementing soft-censorship and an effort to monetize news feeds by forcing
content makers to pay in order to access people already following them. What's
left is wealthy content makers like large corporate media outfits monopolizing
the public's attention whether the public wants it or not. ....
combination of
implementing soft-censorship and an effort to monetize news feeds by forcing
content makers to pay in order to access people already following them. What's
left is wealthy content makers like large corporate media outfits monopolizing
the public's attention whether the public wants it or not. ....
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