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minnow 
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Posted on: Mar. 28 2004,9:54 pm |
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"SPENCER, Iowa -- A Spencer woman faces additional felony drug charges after being arrested last week.
Tiffany Ferguson, 24, faces the additional charges of distributing an illegal substance to a person under the age of 18 within 1,000 feet of Spencer Middle School and using a person under 18 years of age in drug trade.
Ferguson was arrested last Sunday on charges of possession of marijuana with intent to deliver and possession of drug paraphernalia after police searched the home of Ferguson and her husband, Andrew. Andrew Ferguson was also arrested on drug charges.
Tiffany Ferguson remains in Clay County Jail on $45,500 bond.
While searching the Ferguson residence, authorities seized marijuana, drug paraphernalia, ledgers, about $400 in cash and a 1988 Honda Prelude."
You should know that if convicted this woman will recieve a 20 year mandatory minimum sentence. No parole...judge can't do a darn thing...he must hand out 20 years.
I want no part of this. In my view, what's taking place is a sickness in our society. Do you know in Maine or New Mexico she would have paid a $50 fine. It's because of people like Geo and Sheriff Harig, here in the midwest, that enable this kind of atrocity to happen. Count me out.
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MrTarzan
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Posted on: Mar. 28 2004,10:20 pm |
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I agree that is pretty harsh if what you say is true. 24. What a waste of a life. She will be 44 when she gets out.
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Posted on: Mar. 28 2004,10:39 pm |
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Good. Enlisting children to purvey intoxicants. If you think that a harsh sentence is too much MOVE! We don't want that kind of trash walking among our children.
Thank your maker that the law exists to punish criminals for those kinds of repulsive crimes; without the law criminals of that caliber would be at the mercy of pissed off parents.
I know if this were not a civilized society, you come close to pulling that sh*t around one of my kids, may god have mercy on your soul.
Children need every safegaurd we can offer. Using kids as mules and selling near a MIDDLE SCHOOL. You two make me F'N sick.
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Truth
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Posted on: Mar. 28 2004,10:44 pm |
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Yeah the poor criminal, lets bake her some cookies and cry about it. What about the thirteen and fourteen year old kids in the nearby school. What about the waste drugs could make of their lives.
This piss a** soft spot I you guys are displaying for the monster that placed those children into harms way is exactly what's wrong in this country.
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minnow
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Posted on: Mar. 29 2004,12:26 am |
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So, l see. Alcohol is a far more toxic and dangerous drug that cannabis. So is tobacco. Yet she gives a beer or cigarette to a teen and she's gets $150 fine. A joint of cannabis 20 years.
Ok...let me think for a moment. Hrmmm...$150 fine as opposed to 20 years (no parole). They are all drugs afterall.
Yes, logic and compassion tell me it's perfectly fair. LOL 
You're the real monster truth(lies) and history will prove it. Anyone who would even consider such harsh judgment is a hater...a sicko and should be executed.
Speaking of kids, how about these kids of drug warriors like you:
1. Dan Burton, II (18), son of Representative Dan Burton (R-IN), was busted in January of 1994 on charges of possession of marijuana with intent to distribute. Allegedly, Burton II was transporting seven pounds of marijuana in a car from Texas to Indiana when he was caught in Louisiana. Burton II plead guilty to felony charges of possession of marijuana with intent to distribute. Rather than face ten to sixteen months in federal prison, Burton was sentenced to five years probation, 2000 hours of community service, three years of house arrest and random drug screening. Five month later police found 30 marijuana plants and a shotgun in Burton's apartment in Indianapolis. Under federal mandatory minimum rules, Burton should have received at least five years in federal prison, plus a year or more for arrest while on probation. State prosecutors decided that the total weight of marijuana from the 30 plants was 25 grams (about one ounce), thus reducing the charge to a misdemeanor. The Indiana prosecutor threw out all the charges against him saying, "I didn't see any sense in putting him on probation a second time."
2. Al Gore III (13), son of Vice President Al Gore (D), was caught smoking what appeared to be marijuana by school authorities at St. Alban's School. Al III was suspended as a result of the incident. While the story appeared in the foreign press, the story was suppressed in the US media. London's Daily Telegraph charged, "The crusading American media and Washington's political elite have closed ranks to protect Vice President Gore from embarrassment over his teenage son's indiscretion."
3. Randall Todd Cunningham
The son of Duke "Death Penalty for Drug Kingpins" Cunningham (R-CA) was convicted for possession of 400 pounds of marijuana. In court, the congressman cried and pleaded for mercy, explaining that his son "has a good heart. He works hard. He's expressed to me he wants to go back to school." While out on bail, the hard working son tested positive for cocaine three times; when an officer tried to apprehend him following the third positive test, Randy hurled himself out a window and broke his leg. Still, the congressman--who has denounced Clinton's "soft-on-crime liberal judges" and railed against "reduced mandatory-minimum sentences for drug trafficking"--won for his son the mercy denied so many others. Randy got 30 months--half the federal "mandatory" minimum sentence.
4. Morgan Grams (21), son of Senator Rod Grams (R-MN). "was stopped in July in a borrowed rental vehicle after his father called the Anoka County sheriff for help finding his son. A deputy found 10 bags of marijuana and the beer cans in the Isuzu Rodeo,"
Source: Associated Press 1/12/00.
Grams had been previously jailed twice on drug-related offenses. Chief Deputy Peter Beberg "found Grams driving a sport utility truck with 10 bags of marijuana inside-an unspecified amount. A 17-year-old passenger was charged with possession of nine of the bags and later spent time at a juvenile detention center. The 10th bag was found under Gram's seat, according to a report by deputy Todd Diegnau,"
Source: Associated Press 11/14/99.
5. Richard Riley, Jr., son of Education Secretary Richard Riley (D), was sentenced to six months' house arrest in June of 1993 for conspiring to sell up to 25 grams of cocaine and 100 grams of marijuana in South Carolina. The initial charges carried a penalty of ten years to life in prison. Riley's light sentence allowed him to continue his work at an environmental consulting firm.
Source: James Bovard, "Prison Sentences of the Politically Connected," Playboy; July 1999.
6. Cindy McCain, wife of former Presidential candidate John McCain (R-AZ), "admitted stealing Percocet and Vicodin from the American Voluntary Medical Team, an organization that aids Third World countries. Percocet and Vicodin are schedule 2 drugs, in the same legal category as opium. Each pill theft carries a penalty of one year in prison and a monetary fine." However, McCain did not face prosecution. She was allowed to enter a pretrial diversion program and escaped with no blemish to her record.
Source: James Bovard, Playboy; July 1999
The list goes on and on...
No justice...no peace.
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Posted on: Mar. 29 2004,12:24 pm |
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| Quote (minnow @ Mar. 28 2004,9:54:pm) | | Tiffany Ferguson, 24, faces the additional charges of distributing an illegal substance to a person under the age of 18 within 1,000 feet of Spencer Middle School and using a person under 18 years of age in drug trade. |
Good. It sickens me that people use children to further their (illegal) habit. Now don't go off on me for being against pot, I'm actually not. If it was legalized then she wouldn't be selling pot and wouldn't be using kids to do it. You don't see people running whiskey anymore since prohibition was repealed. But until pot is legalized, leave the kids out of it!
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minnow
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Posted on: Mar. 29 2004,12:42 pm |
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Her 17 year old sister took the liberty of stealing an 1/8 oz from older sis...and was subsequently caught with it later that evening. The prosecutors in this case, probably with views much like yours, chose to go for mandatory minimum sentence. It should be noted however that the 1000 feet rule has been determined unconstitutional for sex offenders.
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Posted on: Mar. 29 2004,3:22 pm |
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I don't know the womans whole story, but I think that mandatory sentences of twenty years are wrong. If the judge sentences her based on all the facts to twenty years, fine, otherwise, what if it was her first offense? Twenty years? That is o.k. with everyone? You cheer for that Truth? Was she sellling to children or near children? How much under 18? Six months? I don't know, but many other crimes that I think are worse carry lighter sentences.
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minnow
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Posted on: Mar. 29 2004,3:36 pm |
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"You cheer for that Truth?"----->Oh yes! He most certainly does! Matter of fact, I'm certain he'd like a more severe sentence if possible. This is the type of person who's been allowed to move on up into positions of authority in our government, rewarded if you will since 1981 and the beginning of the Reagon era. It's a true sickness, that will reveal itself to the world one day...
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Truth
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Posted on: Mar. 29 2004,5:56 pm |
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I will agree political leverage in avoiding equitable punsihment is WRONG! But, I see plenty of jack hole criminals get probation for serious violations of the states Criminal Sexual Conduct Laws in this state. Do you cheer for that? I see people get easy probationary sanctions after being found guilty of burglary, felony theft and gross DUI violations. Do you cheer for that.
Yeah minnow forget it all. Anarchy in the name of freedom, right. At least that way when you are the beaten helpless victim of violence and wrong doing, we could just ignore you. Defend yourself or parish. Do you cheer for that; no standards no morales?
Minnow, point two, involving Al Gore III being suspended, did not mention criminal investigation. That was school discretion not a criminal matter. Were authorities made aware?
What was Ferguson's criminal history score? Do you have access to her PSI report?
BTW, middle school children are between the ages of thirteen and fifteen
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