.............................................................. >From the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed]: From: Ian Goddard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: US Govt Killed Author Date: Saturday, June 17, 2000 6:17 PM The abuse of the best-selling author and medical-marijuana activist Peter McWilliams by the U.S. Federal Government during his life is beyond belief, primarily because it sparked no uprising of outrage. The DEA was out to destroy McWilliams for what he wrote. Trying to find anything they possibly could on him, they raided his properties several times, like this time: http://petertrial.com/dea_wishes.htm . When they found no cannabis they took things like his writings and lists of friends. They said his publishing business would be seized either by the DEA (if they found cannabis) or by the IRS. The raids on McWilliams properties weren't random, he was a target. There's no First Amendment if writers who threaten to make a difference are targeted and systematically destroyed by the powers that be. It even follows that the government finally murdered McWilliams... If Peter McWilliams had died of most AIDS-related complications, to say he was murdered by the initiation of force to prevent his access to cannabis would not be an entirely reasonable statement, since it's far from established, nor even claimed, that cannabis cures AIDS. However, what McWilliams died from, inhalation of vomit resulting from nausea induced by the medications he was taking, is precisely what McWilliams had used cannabis to stop before the DEA initiated force to prevent him from treating his nausea. Patients on AIDS drugs or undergoing chemotherapy are often made so nauseous they can't keep medications down. That was McWilliams' problem and the anti-nausea properties of cannabis, documented in many studies, was the effective remedy. If you need X to stop from throwing up so you can absorb medicine you need to survive, and I know that but I nevertheless initiate force to prevent you from using X, and then you die as a direct result of throwing up, for all intents and purposes I've murdered you. It follows therefore that the Federal Government technically murdered McWilliams, as the Libertarian Party aptly observes: ================================================================ Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 16:02:58 -0400 (EDT) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Release: Peter McWilliams Death From: Libertarian Party Announcements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- =============================== NEWS FROM THE LIBERTARIAN PARTY 2600 Virginia Avenue, NW, Suite 100 Washington DC 20037 World Wide Web: http://www.LP.org =============================== For release: June 17, 2000 =============================== For additional information: George Getz, Press Secretary Phone: (202) 333-0008 Ext. 222 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] =============================== Bestselling author Peter McWilliams is "murdered by the War on Drugs" WASHINGTON, DC -- Peter McWilliams, the #1 bestselling author and medical marijuana activist who was found dead in California on June 14, was murdered by the War on Drugs, the Libertarian Party charged today. "Peter McWilliams would not be dead today if not for the heartless, lethal War on Drugs," said Steve Dasbach, the party's national director. "The federal government killed Peter McWilliams by denying him the medical marijuana he needed to stay alive as surely as if its drug warriors had put a gun to his head and pulled the trigger. "Peter McWilliams may be dead, but the causes he so bravely fought for -- access to life-saving medicine, an end to the War on Drugs, and greater freedom for all Americans -- will live on." On Wednesday, McWilliams was found dead in the bathroom of his Los Angeles home. According to sources, he had choked on his vomit. McWilliams, 50, had suffered from AIDS and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma since 1996, and had used medical marijuana to suppress the nausea that was a common side-effect to the potent medications needed to keep him alive. The marijuana was completely legal, thanks to California's Proposition 215, which passed in 1996 and legalized the use of marijuana for treatment of illness. However, in late 1997, McWilliams was arrested by federal drug agents and charged with conspiracy to sell marijuana. After a federal judge ruled that McWilliams could not mention his illnesses at his trial -- or introduce as evidence any of the documented benefits of medical marijuana -- he pled guilty to avoid a 10-year mandatory-minimum prison sentence. While out on bail awaiting sentencing, McWilliams was prohibited from using medical marijuana -- and being denied access to the drug's anti-nausea properties almost certainly caused his death, said Dasbach. "First, the federal government arrested McWilliams for doing something that is 100% legal in California," he said. "Then, they put him on trial and wouldn't allow him to introduce the one piece of evidence that could have explained his actions. Finally, they let him out of jail on the condition that he couldn't use the one medicine that kept him alive. "What the federal government did to Peter McWilliams is nothing less that cold-blooded, premeditated murder. A good, decent, talented man is dead because of the bipartisan public policy disaster known as the War on Drugs." Ironically, on June 9, McWilliams appeared on the "Give Me A Break!" segment of ABC Television's 20/20, where host John Stossel noted, "[McWilliams] is out of prison on the condition that he not smoke marijuana, but it was the marijuana that kept him from vomiting up his medication. I can understand that the federal drug police don't agree with what some states have decided to do about medical marijuana, but does that give them the right to just end run those laws and lock people up? "Give me a break! [It] seems this War on Drugs often does more harm than the drugs themselves." Five days later, McWilliams was dead. McWilliams, the owner of Prelude Press, was a multi-million- copy-selling author of How to Survive the Loss of a Love, The Personal Computer Book, and DO IT! Let's Get Off Our Buts (with co- author John-Roger), a #1 New York Times bestseller. He also wrote what is widely considered to be the definitive book against "consensual" crimes, Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do. He joined the Libertarian Party in 1998 following a nationally televised speech at the Libertarian National Convention in Washington, DC. In that speech, McWilliams said, "Marijuana is the finest anti- nausea medication known to science, and our leaders have lied about this consistently. [Arresting people for] medical marijuana is the most hideous example of government interference in the private lives of individuals. It's an outrage within an outrage within an outrage." McWilliams' death was also noted by Libertarians in his home state. "Peter McWilliams was a true hero who fought and ultimately gave his life for what he believed in: The right to heal oneself without government interference," said Mark Hinkle, state chair of the California Libertarian Party. 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