Call for User Activists to work on Inpud website
Send out to your local activists
Dear fellow activists,
We are people from around the world who use drugs. Some of us sometimes meet in the real world. But most of us most of the time meet online. We need our own website to be able to organize User Activists on the international level and as a platform for global user activists communication.
In a message last week I announced that we bought www.inpud.org and a hosting package. I now call for User Activists who have the skills to build and maintain the Inpud website. I will be part of the website group, but I myself am totally not skilled enough to lead this group. People who know my personal website already saw that the only way I know to make a site is to cut and paste. We need people who know how to do more with site building.
Candidates send in some written (user activist)back ground on themselves and about the cyber skills you have. Send it to [email protected]. Below I give some details on the hosting package and first idea's on lines of work to do with the website group.
I propose 5 days for people to present themselves as a candidate. That is Saturday 3 February.
Share your talents
greetings
Stijn Goossens
HaRdCOREhARMREdUCER
I'm hitting the road, heading for Salt Lake City
I'll pull out of South Dakota just after dawn, headed across the Northern Plains to Denver tonight, then over the high passes of the Rockies and on to Salt Lake City Wednesday night, so I can get up bright and early Thursday morning to attend the opening session of the Harm Reduction Project's 2nd National Conference on Methamphetamine, HIV, and Hepatis.
Law Enforcement: This Week's Corrupt Cops Stories
This week, we have a prison guard busted for smuggling drugs OUT of a jail, along with more typical drug-smuggling guard cases, a teenage military policeman in trouble, a retirement age former cop busted, and another Nashville police officer found guilty of drug corruption charges.
The War on Neighbors of Drug Dealers Continues
81-year-old Isaac Singletary was gunned down in his yard by police who were investigating someone else.
Singletary was known for chasing drug dealers off his property, but when he emerged with a gun and threatened two undercover officers lurking in his yard, they promptly took him down. It was Jacksonville, Florida's third fatal police shooting in 3 weeks.
An investigation is pending, but the police chief sounds confident (predictably) that the shooting was justified. From News4Jax.com:
I fail to understand what's so surprising about someone defending their property from unknown trespassers in a high-crime neighborhood. If the officers were surprised to be confronted, they shouldn't have been. They were out of uniform on private property.
It seems likely that both parties involved in this tragedy could have handled it better. Hindsight is 20/20. But the drug war is blind. Prohibition would still be a nightmare if police could enforce it without killing innocent people. Unfortunately, they can't.
Rest in peace, Isaac Singletary. And all the others.
Singletary was known for chasing drug dealers off his property, but when he emerged with a gun and threatened two undercover officers lurking in his yard, they promptly took him down. It was Jacksonville, Florida's third fatal police shooting in 3 weeks.
An investigation is pending, but the police chief sounds confident (predictably) that the shooting was justified. From News4Jax.com:
"You don't expect somebody to come pointing a gun at you, and once they do that, the officers will tell them to drop the gun," JSO Chief Dwain Senterfitt said. "We're still investigating what statements were made, but obviously, at that point, the officers' lives were in danger."
I fail to understand what's so surprising about someone defending their property from unknown trespassers in a high-crime neighborhood. If the officers were surprised to be confronted, they shouldn't have been. They were out of uniform on private property.
It seems likely that both parties involved in this tragedy could have handled it better. Hindsight is 20/20. But the drug war is blind. Prohibition would still be a nightmare if police could enforce it without killing innocent people. Unfortunately, they can't.
Rest in peace, Isaac Singletary. And all the others.
Isaac Singletary