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kebra@... wrote:

From: kebra@...
Subject: Re: Re: [Eurodrug] action letter for André Fürst
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 16:30:56 +0100
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Switzerland should not participate to the War on Hemp

Dear Sir (Madam),

I would like to express my indignation regarding the unconditional
sentence of André Fürst, owner of Chanvre-Info, to 29 months of prison
for his involvement in the promotion of hemp. Such an injustice is
tainting the exemplary image of Swiss democracy. Mr. Fürst is the victim
of a scandalous reversal in the Swiss cannabis policy due to hidden
pressures. He is one more victim of the failed War on Drugs led by
G.W.Bush, which is imposed on you in order to forget about Iraq,
Afghanistan and other iniquities committed by the US government.

Since September 11, the US administration supported by an international
religious, neoconservative and sectarian lobby is executing a strong
pressure on governments, politicians and media of the countries favoring
reform drug policies. President Bush's intention is obviously to
strengthen the prohibition and to decapitate the pro-cannabis movement.
Another recent example of these totalitarian-like methods is an attempt
of extradition to the USA of the Canadian hempseed seller Marc Emery.
Both Canada and Switzerland should rather stick to the defense of their
own sovereign policies, instead of following this dangerous madman.

The long Swiss process of elaboration of an efficient strategy could be
considered as a model of expert approach and reconciliation. The
majority of cantons were applying a preemptory tolerant policy towards
users, hundreds of hemp shops and hemp producers. Switzerland should
depenalize the consumption and regulate the market. All scientific or
politic commissions, Federal Council and even the Parliament approved in
the first lecture this new approach. So why are you now denying yourself
and returning back to the brutal repression?

André Fürst respected the recommendations of your failed project of
regulation. He invested in and promoted the biological hemp with
multiple usages, which could be very useful either in order to help
agriculture to become free of subsidies, or for the regulation of great
social problems. His cause seemed to win until the reversal in the
Parliament and its unacceptable judiciary consequences. André Fürst is
guilty of having as many others anticipated a consensual reform, which
was buried without any valid reasons. In Switzerland of the 21st
century, a man should not be thrown to the jail for having tried to
improve the society. Such proceedings resemble to a Stalinist purge –
initiating a reform movement in order to better hang its leaders. You
must intervene in order to reestablish justice and morality.

In order to stop this parody before it makes too many victims, you
should use your influence to declare a moratorium, a general amnesty and
exceptional clemencies for the cannabis cases of the period of
1996-2004. It is in your power to stop controversial activities until
the vote of the popular initiative Pro-chanvre, instead of sentencing
the activists that you were letting in peace for so many years. It is
neither just nor moral and still less efficient and pragmatic. Bush's
wars are not our struggles.

Go on with the reforms of drug policies, in Switzerland as well as
in Canada or in the United Nations. Freedom to Farm!

Laurent Appel
Journalist
Strasbourg (France)

Thank you for copying the letter here under, signing it and writing your
name, profession, town or canton and country. You can send it to the
addresses below as well as to the Swiss representation offices in your
country and to any other person or organization that might be concerned.
You should keep in mind that faxes and letters are more difficult to
filter than e-mails.

Thank you in advance for your support,

Chanvre-Info


For everybody
Président de la Confédération Helvétique
Samuel Schmid
Palais fédéral Est
CH - 3003 Berne
tél.: 031 324 50 33
fax: 031 323 57 82
e-mail: samuel.schmid@...

For Swiss citizens
Conseiller fédéral, Chef du Département Fédéral Justice et Police
Christoph Blocher
Palais fédéral Ouest
CH - 3003 Berne
christoph.blocher@...

For foreigners
Conseillère fédérale, Département fédéral des affaires étrangères
Micheline Calmy-Rey
Palais fédéral Ouest
CH-3003 Berne
Tél. (+41) 031 322 21 11
Fax (+41) 031 324 90 47
http://www.calmy-rey.admin.ch/f/contact/cntrequest.aspx  (copy the letter into the form)

For politic organizations NGOs and CSOs
Division politique III - Nations Unies, Organisations internationales, Environnement, Culture, Francophonie
Bundesgasse 28
CH-3003 Berne
Tél.: (+41) 031 323 23 46
Fax: (+41) 031 323 21 30
e-mail: PA3A@...

For everybody
Direction de la sécurité et de la justice (DSJ) du canton de Fribourg
Claude Grandjean, Conseiller d'Etat
Grand-Rue 26, Case postale,
CH-1701 Fribourg

Chancellerie d'Etat
Rue des Chanoines 17, Case postale
CH-1701 Fribourg
Tél: 026 305 10 45
Fax 026 305 10 48
http://admin.fr.ch/cha/fr/pub/meta_navigation/contact.cfm  (copy the letter into the form)




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