Sunday, July 05, 2009

Self Flagellation at the Point of a Gun

I’ve posted in regards to the marijuana charges against David Mayo on a number of occasions.  Most recently, I had noted that Mayo was going to fight the charges against himself at trial, but that changed within a matter of three days, and Mayo copped a plea.

In today’s Grand Rapids Press, front page and center, David Mayo performs an act of contritionary self flagellation which hits all the right notes for the armed audience which is the State.  His self flagellating “confession” is headlined Grand Rapids Press sports columnist David Mayo says ‘I’ve come out on the other side’ after marijuana conviction.

Mayo writes, among other things, the following.

I have learned I am not physically addicted to anything but am predisposed to all manner of mental addictions, dating to childhood…I was just addicted to language…I was just addicted to sports.

I suppose, if an individual is predisposed to swallowing the propaganda churned out by the State regarding marijuana, Mayo’s words will be embraced with all the joy of a prodigal son’s return, and his self flagellating obeisance, going all the way back to his childhood, follows the script utilized in many defense arguments where the fault lies in not having shoes as a kid, or having been spanked ten times, or some other “tragic” circumstance, rather than personal responsibility.

Mayo accepts personal responsibility, but I think his front page self flagellation and his attending Narcotics Anonymous have been coerced at the point of the State’s gun.

Here is a man who has been a sports journalist for twenty-four (24) years for the same newspaper.  Evidently a dependable and productive employee.  A man who may have enjoyed smoking marijuana from time to time, how terrible, who now carries the State label of “felon,” and who has been forced to grovel for his life and livelihood and for what?  For the good of society?

Mayo’s self flagellating mea culpa is the culmination of the injustice inflicted by the State, and it all started with the State’s questionable procuring of purchase invoices for hydroponic growing equipment, which sets a precedence for the State to obtain records of your individual purchases, whether those purchases are benign or not.

Posted by John Venlet on 07/05 at 07:28 AM
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