Free Tommy Chong. He only sold bongs....

[Scaramouche]

This is dispiccable, really. Ashcroft and his henchman deserve to be exile from this land...


Comedian gets fine, prison time for Internet sales
Actor and comedian Tommy Chong, right, walks into federal court in Pittsburgh behind one of his attorneys before his sentencing for conspiring to sell drug paraphernalia.


ASSOCIATED PRESS
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 11 — Comedian Tommy Chong has been sentenced to nine months in federal prison and fined $20,000 for selling bongs and other drug paraphernalia over the Internet. Chong will be told in a few weeks where he’ll have to report to prison.
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[mitchtv]

1. well er , well,.... Ken Lay lost some property

too..

[Zero Gravitas]

2. Good to know that Aschcroft has stamped out all crime

and now has time to go after people selling bongs :eyes:

This is totaly outrageous.

[GainesT1958]

3. Ashcroft will go after anybody...

Who doesn't contribute to his boss first! :eyes:

Look out, Cheech--you may be next on the "list", maaan!

B-)

[Octafish]

4. So, Chong goes to jail for making peace pipes.

And Halliburton gets rich making no-bid US Government oil pipes.

[hippiegranny]

5. sick and wrong

:kick:

[OneBlueSky]

6. if selling bongs is worth 9 months . . .

what's selling the country worth? . . .

[Scaramouche]

7. We should all swear to ,"Follow the Green Van."

[Dude_CalmDown]

8. Unfuckingreal

I still am as shocked as I was when I was 8 years old and first learned that weed was illegal. Now we're locking people up for selling tobacco pipes. Unfuckingreal.

[buff2]

9. THOSE LOUSY SONSABITCHES!!!!!!!!!!

I can't believe this shit! The horrendous crimes bu$h and his cronies commit day after day and Chong has to go to prison for selling a BONG??? God damn.......I hate this group of nazis with a passion! Geesus........is this nightmare EVER going to end? :argh: :mad:

[Scaramouche]

10. The war on terra is merging with the war on drugs....

Especially drugs not made by the mega-pharmaceutical companies. Even using un-allowed generic drugs to save you life may one day be against the law...

And there are moves to lessen the health care that inmates receive...

Only the rich will survive...but before that:

Revolution Baby, Oh Yeah!

[Sophree]

11. There were others, too.

This was a sweep that happened about 6 months ago. 50-60 people were arrested, assetts (including houses) were seized.

It's ridiculous. :grr:

[sandnsea]

12. Prison time???

Eeeyikes! This is outrageous!

[Zuni]

13. I agree

A bong is just a peice of glass or plastic.

Why not make it illegal to sell tinfoil or aluminum cans? They can easily be converted into crude paraphenilia.

[Paranoid_Portlander]

14. The law is an ass...

... said Charles Dickens. This particular law is its hole.

[DemBones DemBones]

15. Sept. 11, 2003. Osama still free. Chong sentenced to prison.

Osama said to have masterminded WTC and Pentagon attacks, killing some 3,000 persons. Bush* "no longer concerned" about Osama.

Chong sold bongs on the internet. 9 months in a federal pen and $20,000 fine.

Also since 9/11, DOJ busted a dozen hookers in New Orleans.

Person or persons who sent anthrax spore through the U.S. Mail still free.

Responsible for killing several people (at least five that I rmember), terrifying the nation, causing probably hundreds of thousands of dollars expense in cleaning up office buildings and post offices.