{"id":18309,"date":"2011-07-30T08:36:32","date_gmt":"2011-07-30T15:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/?p=18309"},"modified":"2015-07-30T15:56:30","modified_gmt":"2015-07-30T22:56:30","slug":"dana-goes-to-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oooorgle.com\/BeyondTheCorral\/dana-goes-to-jail\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana Goes to Jail!"},"content":{"rendered":"

TokeOfTheTown.com<\/a> | Have you ever wanted to go into a courtroom and honestly tell the judge and prosecutor what you think of their marijuana laws?” Walker asked on the Facebook page, “Dana Goes to Jail!<\/a>”<\/p>\n

“I have a golden opportunity to do just that and I plan to take full advantage,” he said. “Those of you who personally know me know I am fully capable of turning righteous indignation into an entertaining show, and I plan to pull out all stops on this one.<\/p>\n

“I owe Thurston County over $3,000 for a marijuana charge from back in 1997,” he said. “I am currently unemployed, I am not a fan of hot weather, and I wouldn’t mind at all spending a few weeks in jail just for the opportunity to tell a court where they can stick their laws.<\/p>\n

\u200b”If everyone throws a few shovels full of dirt into the cogs of the Machine then the Machine can’t function,” Walker explained. “If even a relatively insignificant number of criminal defendants demanded full jury trials and court-appointed attorneys and then refused to pay any fines then the entire prison-industrial complex would implode.<\/p>\n

“I am also fulfilling a psychological need to take back control of my life,” Walker said. “I highly resent the fact that I have been forced by circumstance to kiss their evil asses for over a decade and I will now have my say. I am a keen patron of irony and I LOVE the fact that I am going to reclaim my freedom by going to jail.”<\/p>\n

When the time came in the court room, Walker was able to get his entire statement read into the record.<\/p>\n

“I am an active and contributing member of my community and I have earned the respect and admiration of large numbers of the people in my community,” Walker said in his statement to the judge, “and I hate to admit it as it goes against my ‘outlaw’ image, but I even obey the traffic laws.<\/p>\n

“In spite of all this I now have four felony convictions and three misdemeanor convictions, all for marijuana; I have spent over six years of my life incarcerated in a federal prison and four years on federal probation over marijuana, and Thurston County now wants me to pay a fine of $2,010 for marijuana plus $1,754 in interest on that fine that was accrued as I sat in a federal prison all those years,” Walker said.<\/p>\n

“Since I have been smoking marijuana on a regular basis for over 40 years now and suffered no ill effects of any kind whatsoever that I am aware of, since I consider this state’s marijuana laws to be an unacceptable, unconstitutional, and outrageous infringement upon my personal liberty, since I love smoking marijuana and I intend to continue smoking marijuana at any time that I darned well please, and since making someone like me into a criminal over marijuana is insane and stupid; then today I am placing the State of Washington on notice that from this point forward I will not only never again pay the state to prosecute me for marijuana but that I intend to make it as expensive to prosecute me for marijuana as I possibly can — and since I have been in the system for a long time I know how to do that,” Walker told the judge.<\/p>\n

“I would also like to point out that the feds had me under their thumb for over 10 years and they did not break me — and as of a few days ago I am no longer under that thumb,” Walker said. “And so today I am celebrating and reclaiming my freedom by informing the state that since I will no longer pay your fines and since I no longer fear your jails then — as far as marijuana goes — you no longer have any power over me and that in fact the stick is now in my hand.”<\/p>\n

“If I had known what you were going to say, I wouldn’t have let you make the statement,” the judge told Walker. “Once you got started I didn’t want to be rude and interrupt you.”<\/p>\n

Walker was then handcuffed and led away.<\/p>\n

By Steve Elliott<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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