Denial-of-Service Style of Protest

kountdown

kountdown

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Here's an idea that might work, in theory. In computer terminology, a denial-of-service attack happens when a target computer or server is flooded with so many communication requests that it slows down or crashes. This could be used to protest marijuana laws in the United States under these conditions: Everyone in favor of legalization of marijuana pick a day of protest. On this day we all go to our local law enforcement, marijuana in hand, and have a sit/smoke-in with the intention of getting arrested for possesion. In fact, we would need to be arrested for this to work. When all these cases go to court, everyone demands a jury trial. If there were enough people who did this, there is no way the government could accommodate every jury trial, every charge, every court appointed attorny thats requested. It would slow the whole system down to the point they would have take action, hopefully by decriminalization. This may have been thought of already and may sound stupid but its an idea that I thought I would open up for discussion.
 
olylifter420

olylifter420

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no buddy, if they make the new national defense authorization act which gives the feds the power to detain you without due process, a jury or a court hearing and be detained till the "hostilities end'' hostilities being the war on terror... john stewart did a cool skit on this yesterday.

pretty fucked up and i think they would do a non bid contract just like the one they gave to the corp that developed 1.7 million smallpox vaccines to a building corp owned by a politician or something to build detainment camps... if they are fucking our bill of rights amendments why would they care about our health or living conditions in those camps..
 
ford442

ford442

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also, that is what is already happening virtually - look at any court docket in the US and you will often find about 30% - 60% of the cases are for people caught with marijuana.. the court systems know that something needs to change, but it is not the cops or the judges who make the law...
 
Dan Kone

Dan Kone

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kountdown said:
Here's an idea that might work, in theory. In computer terminology, a denial-of-service attack happens when a target computer or server is flooded with so many communication requests that it slows down or crashes. This could be used to protest marijuana laws in the United States under these conditions: Everyone in favor of legalization of marijuana pick a day of protest. On this day we all go to our local law enforcement, marijuana in hand, and have a sit/smoke-in with the intention of getting arrested for possesion. In fact, we would need to be arrested for this to work. When all these cases go to court, everyone demands a jury trial. If there were enough people who did this, there is no way the government could accommodate every jury trial, every charge, every court appointed attorny thats requested. It would slow the whole system down to the point they would have take action, hopefully by decriminalization. This may have been thought of already and may sound stupid but its an idea that I thought I would open up for discussion.
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Truly brilliant and original idea. I like this a lot.
 
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WIGGIM

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I think this would good one of two ways it would either show how the stystem is flawed and they would really start to make head way in to legalizing it or they would make it a manditory fine or slam time for Possion under a certain amount
 
nathenking

nathenking

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ford442 said:
also, that is what is already happening virtually - look at any court docket in the US and you will often find about 30% - 60% of the cases are for people caught with marijuana.. the court systems know that something needs to change, but it is not the cops or the judges who make the law...
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but those 30-60 percent cases that are pertaining to MJ are a big chunck of change for alot of evil people.
 
ArmenTamzarian

ArmenTamzarian

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I've had similar ideas. One of them involves reporting each incident of cannabis use of which you are aware. The key is to do it in a way that does not incriminate anyone and doesn't let the police make arrests. Imagine if a local police department got several hundred calls a day about people smelling marijuana in the park, on the street or that you suspected a man shopping at 7-11 three hours earlier might have been under the influence of marijuana because he was moving slowly and buying candy. Eventually it would drive them crazy filling out the paperwork, if it didn't simply tie up their phones all day. What is more, they can't do shit about the person reporting an actual crime!
 
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