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This on-line complaint has been formally submitted using the Bayefsky.com site at http://www.bayefsky.com/tree.php/area/complain
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Complaint Form to the Human Rights Committee
Table of Contents
Date: 22 July 2005
1. Information concerning the author of the communication
| Surname (Family Name) |
| von Hartmann | | Given Name |
| Paul | | Nationality |
| California Republic, United States | | Profession |
| Cannabis scholar & minister/journalist, filmmaker | | Date of Birth (dd/mm/yyyy) |
| 16/07/1955 | | Place of Birth |
| California Republic |
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| Please specify how you are submitting this communication: |
| Victim of the violation(s) (set forth below) |
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2. Information concerning the alleged victim(s) (if other than the author)
| Surname (Family Name) |
| All Our Relations | | Given Name |
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| All nations are being effected | | Profession |
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| The whole world, and every individual on it is being effected. The sacrifices of previous generations are being disrespected, and the future quality of life on Earth is being degraded. Whether we realize it or not, we are all being aggressed, threatened and sickened by prohibition in one way or another.
Presently I am visiting France, but conditions are more extreme in countries such as the United States, Colombia, and Bali where prohibition-related human rights violations are an on-going condition of day-to-day life, and economic dominance. |
3. State concerned
| What is the name of the State concerned? |
| United States; Bali, Indonesia; United Nations |
4. Articles violated
| Articles of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights allegedly violated: |
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| Article 1
Sub-sections 1, 2 and 3 |
5. Domestic remedies
Steps taken by or on behalf of the alleged victim(s) to exhaust domestic remedies-recourse to the courts or other public authorities, when and with what results.
If possible, enclose copies of all relevant judicial or administrative decisions. |
| For the past thirteen years I have taken individual responsibility for the whole truth about the Cannabis plant and have repeatedly demanded that the United States government and the United Nations do the same. 'ganja', etc.) is the most ancient, and most useful agricultural resource known to man.
Considering all available objective ecological evidence, and present conditions threatening synergistic collapse of the Earth's Natural Order, human social evolution, and extremely disparate global economics; it is quite apparent that Cannabis is an essential, critically determinate resource, without which mankind cannot achieve sustainable existence on this planet.
Please see the websites listed below for referenced rationale and a complete account of the activities of Project P.E.A.C.E.
The Fundamental Challenge of Our Time
http://fundamentalcoot.blogspot.com/
Mailed to the White House (Washington, D.C., USA) and the U.N. High Commissioner (Geneva, Switzerland), by registered post, dated 04/07/1998
Formal Individual Complaint to the U.S. Government
http://formalcomplaint.blogspot.com/
posted on-line and globally distributed on 29/07/2003
webpage for Project P.E.A.C.E.
Planet Ecology Advancing Conscious Economics
http://www.webspawner.com/users/projectpeace/
with links to other relevant websites and blogs |
| | Document(s) to be attached | | Title and description of the document to be attached | Format | Date | "At What Cost Prohibition?"
The greatest failure of current global agricultural policy is not commonly discussed in the context of farming issues. By failing to distinguish between "drugs" and "herbs" the worst tragedy of the 'drug war' has been the nutritional empoverishment of humanity and the crippling of organic agriculture.
(at_what_cost_prohibition.rtf) | Electronic | 2005-07-22 | "Hempseed as a nutritional resource: An overview"
Summary The seed of Cannabis sativa L. has been an important source of nutrition for thousands of years in Old World cultures. Non-drug varieties of Cannabis, commonly referred to as hemp, have not been studied extensively for their nutritional potential in recent years, nor has hempseed been utilized to any great extent by the industrial processes and food markets that have developed during the 20th century.
(callaway.hempseednutrrev2004.pdf) | Electronic | 2005-07-22 |
| | If domestic remedies have not been exhausted, explain why: |
| In addition to being convicted as a "tax protester" in Federeal Court (October 1996), I have repeatedly attempted to bring attention to this matter. There has been no reply from either the U.S. government, nor the United Nations. In the absence of response or acknowledgement of my efforts to date, I am running out of the individual and financial energy required to continue further domestic remedies.
Please see:
The Fundamental Challenge of Our Time
http://fundamentalcoot.blogspot.com/
Formal Individual Complaint to the U.S. Government
http://formalcomplaint.blogspot.com/ |
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6. Other international procedures
| Has the same matter ever been submitted for examination under another procedure of international investigation or settlement (e.g. the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, the European Commission on Human Rights)? If so, when and with what results? |
| The Fundamental Challenge of Our Time
http://fundamentalcoot.blogspot.com/
was submitted under the U.N. 1503 procedure in 1998 |
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7. Facts of the Claim
| Detailed description of the facts of the alleged violation or violations (including relevant dates). |
| Relate the facts to the relevant articles of the treaty
"Article 1 (Sub-section 1)
"1. All peoples have the right of self-determination. By virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development."
(End of document)
P.E.A.C.E. Complaint in reference to Article 2::
Regarding freedom to pursue "economic, social and cultural development"
It is well-documented that a Cannabis agricultural tradition, in some form, has been a part of human social and spiritual development, since time immemorial (C.Sagan). Cannabis use today transcends religious, international, chronological, economic, gender, political and philosophical boundaries, making the Cannabis plant the foundation of the world's only truly global culture.
Yet, in spite of all available spiritual, moral, scientific and legal rationale, and a significant percentage of the national (U.S.) and global general public opinion; A natural (agricultural, manufacturing and free market trade) relationship with this valuable and ancient "herb bearing seed" (Genesis 1:29), is being suppressed through an intransigent and counter-productive "drug" (actually an herbal) prohibition.
Absent prohibition the following harms would be eliminated:
1. Induces essential resource scarcity of fuel, food, and shelter for humans, animals and future generations.
2. Institutes a black market economy.
3. Corrupts governments, locally and globally.
4. Creates essential resource disparity, that inevitably leads to wars over energy, water and other essential natural resources.
5. Creates an economic vacuum that has addicted and corrupted our economic system to be dependent on toxic, evenly distributed and finite resources for our essential needs.
6. Degrades the environment on regional and global levels. "Global Broiling" is the best example of the far reaching effects that mankind's addiction to chemicals is already having.
7. Creates poverty, where abundance could easily exist.
8. Causes malnutrition, illness and death from nutritional deficientcies.
9. Threatens everyone's food security
10. Perverts human social evolution toward violence.
11. Responsible for the rise of GMOs, having created protein shortages.
12. Economically empowers the least conscious
13. Disrepects Science
14. Institutionalizes Disrespect for Nature
15. Inhibits free spiritual evolution.
16. Robs us of our Natural Rights, upon which our government was founded and ultimately.
17. Robs other creatures, with whom we share this planet, of an unique and essential resource.
18. Creates conditions of misinformation, which ultimately harm people.
19 Accelerates the spread of HIV/AIDS between infected mothers and nursing infants.
20. Creates a "forbidden fruit" which makes adolescent experimentation and possible abuse by people of rebellious character more likely.
21. Comprimises the legal distinction between "herbs" and "drugs," institutionalizing control of all natural products, both poitically and economically.
The illegality of Cannabis prohibition goes beyond mere legislation. Prohibition of the world's most ancient and useful agricultural resource is a violation of the Natural Order, upon which all creatures have always depended for survival. Mankind is far beyond its rightful authority in legislating scarcity of an unique and essential natural resource, upon which other species also depend for their survival.
It has been repeatedly and conclusively determined, through mulitiple credible scientific investigations, objective government commissions, learned legally relevant counsel and a broad base of respected individual opinion, that Cannabis prohibition is a counter-productive, waste of resources; that is having catastrophic repercussions impacting conditions of the global environment, human economics, natural rights and, consequently social evolution. In order to avoid synergistic collapse of integrated systems and accelerating decline in the quality of life on Earth, and "Global Broiling" in particular, it is undoubtably within the best interests of our own species, and each and every one of us, as individuals, that the prohibition of the Cannabis plant be ceased, and discarded immediately as acceptable, morally accountable, respected legal policy. Prohibition is, in fact, a failed and critically dangerous public policy, and a violation of everyone's natural, human rights.
(End of P.E.A.C.E. statement)
"Article 1, Sub-Section 2
"2. All peoples may, for their own ends, freely dispose of their natural wealth and resources without prejudice to any obligations arising out of international economic co-operation, based upon the principle of mutual benefit, and international law. In no case may a people be deprived of its own means of subsistence."
(End of document)
If you were on an island in the middle of a vast ocean, and someone offered you a barrel oil petroleum or a bag of fresh fertile Cannabis seed, which would you choose to open? Mankind is floating out in space, with an open, almost empty, barrel of petroleum. I was born in the California Republic, and have the natural right, and moral obligation, to grow Cannabis as the basis of my naturally thankful, spiritual, nutritional, moral and economic right-livelihood.
Using petroleum, as I am being forced to do in order to travel by public transport, is offensive to me, on a profound and terrifying level. I recognise the connectedness of all things, and feel conscripted into supporting an "extinctionistic" economy by being denied a free choice between natural, sustainable products and chemical products.
Absent Cannabis prohibition, people all over the world could plant Cannabis to produce sustainable fiber, fuel, oil, food and cellulose, while conditioning the soil, providing wind-breaks, dust and pollen screens, detoxing contaminated soils, breaking the cycle of invasive pest species, manufacturing organic biocides to replace toxic agricultural chemicals and eliminate the spraying of "drug war" herbicides on defenseless populations, fragile ecosystems and unstable economies. (Lessman, Jelsma)
(End of P.E.A.C.E. comment in reference to Article 1, Sub-section 2)
"Article 1, Sub-section 3:
"3. The States Parties to the present Covenant, including those having responsibility for the administration of Non-Self-Governing and Trust Territories, shall promote the realization of the right of self-determination, and shall respect that right, in conformity with the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations."
(End of document)
P.E.A.C.E. comment in reference to Article 1, Sub-section 3:
To "promote the realization of the right of self-determination, and shall respect that right, in conformity with the provisions of the Charter of the United Nations..." means to leave people alone if they are not harming anyone. If I grow, manufacture, trade in and consume Cannabis in a respectful and responsible way, then the government has no business in interfering with my life, my spiritual development, nor my material productivity.
Cannabis agriculture is essential to stabiliztion of the Earth's ecosystem, which makes possible "the realization of the right of self-determination."
Remedy requested:
a) Interim Remedies
This case is urgent in nature, and I ask that the Committee request that the state party take interim measures prior to the Committee's final determination of the case.
Mr. Brian Epis, an honorable man, a peaceful and productive citizen and devoted father, is in court for using and growing medical 'marijuana' in compliance with California Stae laws. (Please see
http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/258/bryanepis.shtml for details)
Please intervene by contacting the following concerned parties
IN THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT
regarding the case of theUNITED STATES OF AMERICA vs. BRYAN EPIS
(Appeal No. # 02-10523; USDC No. CR S 97-381)
APPEAL FROM THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
The Honorable Frank C. Damrell, Jr.
United States District Judge, Presiding
BRENDA GRANTLAND, ESQ.
265 Miller Avenue Mill Valley, CA 94941
(415) 380-9108
"Interim measures are only requested for the purpose of avoiding irreparable damage to the victim of the alleged violation."
Mr. Epis is threatened, again, with the loss of his freedom after two years alraedy spent in prison. Last week, Mr. Steve McWilliams, who was also a Cannabis patient/activist, committed suicide under similar circumstances. The pressures are enormous for people who are committed to freedom, being threatened with having theirs taken away as punishment for their activism.
Project P.E.A.C.E. is formaly requesting that interim measures involve a stay of prosecution, or deferral of sentence in Mr. Epis' case. Also I am requesting the immediate release of Schapelle Corby who is currently imprisoned in Bali.
b) Final Remedy Requested
Remedies which the Committee is asked to request of states parties include: payment of a specific sum of compensation to victims of Cannabis prohibition, making restitution in full for lost time and property; reinstatement in a position of employment at the same level of seniority; amendment of legislation to eliminate the possibility of future prohibition of Cannabis; and the immediate release of non-violent Cannabis "green prisoners." |
| | Document(s) to be attached | | Title and description of the document to be attached | Format | Date | "facts_of_the_claim.rtf"
Facts of the Claim continued from electronic form, includes Epis brief in full.
(facts_of_the_claim.rtf) | Electronic | 2005-07-22 |
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8. Date and signature
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| 22/07/2005 | | Location |
| France | | Signature |
| Paul J. von Hartmann |
9. List of Documents Attached (do not send originals -- only copies)
| | Title and description of the document to be attached | Format | Date | "At What Cost Prohibition?"
The greatest failure of current global agricultural policy is not commonly discussed in the context of farming issues. By failing to distinguish between "drugs" and "herbs" the worst tragedy of the 'drug war' has been the nutritional empoverishment of hum
(at_what_cost_prohibition.rtf) | Electronic | 2005-07-22 | "Hempseed as a nutritional resource: An overview"
Summary The seed of Cannabis sativa L. has been an important source of nutrition for thousands of years in Old World cultures. Non-drug varieties of Cannabis, commonly referred to as hemp, have not been studied extensively for their nutritional potential
(callaway.hempseednutrrev2004.pdf) | Electronic | 2005-07-22 | "facts_of_the_claim.rtf"
Facts of the Claim continued from electronic form, includes Epis brief in full.
(facts_of_the_claim.rtf) | Electronic | 2005-07-22 |
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