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PC LOAD LETTER
10th October 2011, 04:26
They're going after extraterritorial conspiracy now ... even possession.

http://judiciary.house.gov/news/Statement%20HR%20313.html


Chairman Smith: H.R. 313, the Drug Trafficking Safe Harbor Elimination Act of 2011, which I introduced with Congressman Schiff, closes a loophole in federal law.

It also clarifies Congress’ intent that the drug trafficking conspiracy statute be given extraterritorial application. Drug traffickers are currently allowed to conspire with impunity in the United States and evade criminal prosecution when their goal is to traffic drugs outside of the United States.http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h112-313&tab=committees


112th Congress: 2011-2012
To amend the Controlled Substances Act to clarify that persons who enter into a conspiracy within the United States to possess or traffic illegal controlled substances outside the United States, or engage in conduct within the United States to aid or abet drug trafficking outside the United States, may be criminally prosecuted in the United States, and for other purposes.
......what?!

I really fucking hope this doesn't pass. It would make it illegal to fucking talk about, say, buying weed when you go to Canada for the summer.
Lenina Rosenweg
10th October 2011, 04:37
Its designed to increase domestic repression when the proverbial "shit hits the fan".This presumably will be used to make any form of US-Canadian and international Occupation solidarity more difficult.
Geiseric
10th October 2011, 04:37
Huh, when i first read it i thought it meant they are allowing themselves to arrest people who currently reside in other countries lol. from what i understand most drugs are sold here, in the u.s. not really in canada or mexico. still i didnt know that export of drugs from the U.S. was really that big an issue.
PC LOAD LETTER
10th October 2011, 14:30
Huh, when i first read it i thought it meant they are allowing themselves to arrest people who currently reside in other countries lol. from what i understand most drugs are sold here, in the u.s. not really in canada or mexico. still i didnt know that export of drugs from the U.S. was really that big an issue.
It's not regarding export from US. It's planning to buy or sell drugs in another country while in the US. Meaning, you plan it in the US, then go and buy drugs in another country.

So it'll be illegal for me to say "I'm going to buy some weed when I get to Mexico this summer." and considered conspiracy to commit extraterritorial drug trafficking.
Feodor Augustus
10th October 2011, 23:50
Drugs are bad, m'kay (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnU2f-rrvcg)!

:redstar2000:
Geiseric
11th October 2011, 00:09
Oh shit, that is pretty bad.