Tommy Chong was sentenced to 9 months in federal prison, a $20,000.00 fine and forfeiture of $103,000.00 in his business accounts as well as his domains www.chongglass.com and www.tommychong.com. The article states that he will likely serve out his time within five weeks at a prison near his home in Pacific Palisades, California. The actor asked for community service by using his celebrity for anti-drug awareness. The federal judge didn’t agree.
In case you’ve forgotten, Tommy Chongs arrest was the orgasmic climax in an Ashcroftian justice fantasy know as “Operation Pipe Dreams.” The sweep targeted businesses, particularly websites known to sell drug paraphernalia and was executed from Pittsburgh to Phoenix to southern California.
While other countries relax and eliminate their drug laws, seeing no benefit in persecuting their citizens any longer, the US has made dramatic increases and innovations in criminalizing casual drug use even further. Under Ashcroft, the DEA thugs have exploited fear by linking drug use to terrorism, provided even stiffer penalties to incarcerate even more citizens for casual use and are discovering new and exciting ways to force us all to become DEA agents by having children turn against parents and parents turn against children by becoming informants.
“People selling drug paraphernalia are in essence no different than drug dealers,” said John Brown, acting DEA chief. “They are as much a part of drug trafficking as silencers are a part of criminal homicide.”
I wonder if there are any plans to raid Walmarts across the country? Because the materials for making silencers as well as drug paraphernalia are widely available there, as well. Talk about a huge DEA win, imagine them seizing Walmart’s assets? With that kind of money backing their “The War On America,” we’ll soon become supplicant wards of Ashcroft’s frightening totalitarian state. Well, I’m sure he will get us there, one small victory at a time.