From: N8KDV

Gee, Steve, you seem to have calmed down a little bit, today, so I'll answer
you, though if I had good sense, I'd probably recognize the futility of trying
to reason with you.



Perhaps, but you did not answer my earlier question ;-) You alluded to the
fact
that the reason he was prosecuting you in the manner in which he was because
he was
running for another State office. Can you show us any evidence that he was
running
for this office *during* the time frame in which he was prosecuting you?

Well, he had lost an earlier race to Jan Graham, the state's Democratic AG. He
had already announced his intent and formed a fundraising committe to explore
the possibilities of another run. I believe he lost the 2nd attemp, though I
don't know if it was in the statewide primary or the General Election. I had
left the state by then. The fact that he had two failed campaigns for AG was
mentioned in RHF's URLs. If you need more documentation, I'm sure you're
capable of finding it on your own.



BTW, have you ever heard of prosecutor making such
statements to the press in a case involving misdemeanor marijuana before
the
case even went to trial?

Sure, all the time. Happens around here at least. After all, at the time you
were a
bit of a *high profile case* as it were.


Could you document pre-trial statements from a prosecutor in Holland, MI, in a
case invovling a qarter of an ounce of pot. In a case that didn't even include
an arrest? Waiting for your URLs....




Second, thanks for proving my point that I was dealing with a prosecutor
with
misguided priorities.

*Misguided priorities* Bryant? His *priorities* were to enforce the law as
the
citizens of the State of Utah saw fit.


So, why did he not enforce the statewide laws supported by the majority of Utah
citizens against polygamy? Against harder drug use by local Cedar City
citizens? The job of a prosecutor is not to enforce only those laws that he
believes he can make money on, while not endangering his local re-election
attempt.

Even though Iron County has some of the highest rates of
polygamy (hardly a victimless crime, particularly with frequent case of
forced
juvenile marriages) and methamphetamine abuse, here was a prosecutor that
made
a career of trying to send college student caught with miniscule amounts
of
marijuana to prison. It tells you a lot about the inhabitants of that area
that
they would four times relect an official with such misguided priorities.
The
fact the Your Pesident thought such misguided priorites ere cause for
federal
appointment says a lot about Bush, too.

Guess you'd have to provide some *statistics* for us to peruse before we
could make
a judgment as to what you are stating above is true.

The non-statistical evidence is in RHFs URLS. Read them, if you can.

But obviously it would
appear
that the residents of Iron County were happy though, they *did* elect him
four
times! You don't like elections or the *will* of the people Bryant?

Your view of democract is pretty twisted. That perspective would still have
police officers in the South looking the other way while minorities were being
lynched. Burns' failure to enforce polygamy laws or to crack down on Iron
County meth labs was wrong, even if it did keep him being re-elected by the
citizens of the Utah county with the largest number of polygamists.




What I would like anyone still following this foolishness to do is read the
rest of your web sites instead of the snippet you chose to edit out. When
they
do so they'll find out about:

1. Mr Burns' twice-failed attempt at statewide election to the Utah office
of
State Attorney General. Verifying, of course, what N8KDV said I was lying
about.

No, what I was asking about is referenced in my first statement in this post.
That
is: Was he running for this office while he was prosecuting you? Simple
question.


I don't think the election was in 2001, but most likely, the next year. But
when you're a politician your actions in a year prior to an election definitely
seems to convey PR possibilities.




2. The atrocious crimes perpetuated by polygamy upon juvenile females. Mr.
Burns ran for office bragging about having never prosecuted a single
polygamist
married to an underage female. Obviously, a quarter ounce of marijuana was
a
far more serious crime in his twisted scheme of reality. That George Bush
would
reward Mr. Burns with a federal office is a telling indict of Mr. Bush's
own
priorities.

3. That Cedar City paid its debt caused by bad Wall Street investments by a
collusion between the County Attorney (Scott Burns) and the City Attorney
(Alice Burns, Scotty's wife!) to heap inordinate penalties on travelers
passing
through Cedar City. The routine was to file multiple charges with threats
of
multi-year prison terms to get their victims to pay fines when they agreed
to
non-contested plea bargains. So, the Burns' moral crusade against pot was
an
extremely profit-based crusade. Yep, it's easy to see what Bush finds so
delightful about this fellow.

What you won't find in your sites, Mr. Fisk, is the way Scott Burns engaged
in
a form of personal assassination against anyone he prosecuted. For example,
the
interviews he called into three newspapers make it appear that I was caught
smoking pot with a male student in a hotel room.

Nice overtones and subtle
hints of homosexuality. What he failed to mention was that there were over
15
people of both sexes and severaal schools in the hotel room relaxing and
socializing and that the substances found were not on my person. One might
wonder why a prosecutor would leave that information out.

BTW, it was 200 miles from WSU and not a WSU-sponsored event, as you
suggested.

Again, folks, don't take my word for it. Read Roy Fisk's own URLs:

http://www.marijuana.org/PRmenageAtrois.htm

http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread15289.shtml

http://www.hempevolution.org/media/m...g/mo011205.htm

Thanks for all your help, Roy Fisk! Remember, it was George Bush, your
favorite
President, that chose to reward an individual like Scott Burns.



Yada, Yada, Yada. Spin, Spin, Spin.

Yawn!


And we all know, Steve, that your every word is full of meaning and there isn't
anything you'd ever dare to spin, right?

Come on, Steve. Be a reasonable person, instead of a constant warrior.

And thanks, again, to RHF.
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