8 arrested in Michael Phelps case
Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Holy crap. Sheriff Lott is certifiable.

Lott says the picture indicated a law was being broken in his jurisdiction. He said he couldn't ignore the violation just because Phelps is rich and famous.

We've now learned that since investigators began trying to build a case, they've made eight arrests: seven for drug possession and one for distribution. These are arrests that resulted as the sheriff's department served search warrants.

We've also learned that the department has located and confiscated that bong.

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Phelps Swimming Suspension

Michael Phelps has been suspended by USA Swimming for three months over that picture of him smoking pot from a bong.

“This is not a situation where any anti-doping rule was violated, but we decided to send a strong message to Michael because he disappointed so may people, particularly the hundreds of thousands of USA Swimming member kids who look up to him as a role model and a hero,” USA Swimming said in a statement Thursday.

The organization has also cut off financial support to 23-year-old for the duration of his suspension.

Word is Phelps will not fight the suspension, which he says is ‘Fair.’

Kellogg’s Breaks Endorsement Deal With Olympian Michael Phelps

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Michael Phelps Talks Possible Early Retirement In Wake Of The Marijuana Photos
In his first interview since a photo surfaced showing him smoking marijuana from a pipe at a college party last November, 14-time Olympic medal-winning swimmer Michael Phelps says he is contemplating whether or not he will compete in the 2012 Games due to his shame over the public scandal.

Here is some of Phelps Interview with the Baltimore Sun:

“This is a decision of mine that I’m not going to make today and I’m not going to make tomorrow,” Phelps said. “It’s going to require a lot of time and energy and a lot of thinking for myself - but also talking to Bob and talking to my family and just deciding what I want to do.

“Yeah, there are still goals that I have in the pool, 100 percent. But I’m not going to let anything stand in my way. If I decide to walk away, I’ll decide to walk away on my own terms. If it’s now, if it’s four years, who knows. But it is something I need to think about and decide what I want to do.”

Read the rest of Phelp’s Interview with the Baltimore Sun here.

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Braithwaite explains that the desire to avoid shame aids in the development of conscience and social bonds. He distinguishes between two types of shame: stigmatizing shame which rejects and permanently labels offenders and reintegrative shame which only rejects the offender's deed but not the offender himself.

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"Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger."
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SCAPEGOATING -
Blaming social problems on a cultural, racial, or behaviorial group.

PREJUDICE -
Selling the public on the idea that all members of the targeted group are 'bad' people.

LIES -
'Facts', which cannot be verified, and pseudo scientific studies are used as propaganda against the targeted group. History is rewritten.

NO PUBLIC DEBATE -
"These people have no right to have their viewpoiunt aired." and " Anyone who disagrees or questions us must be one of them!"
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DEHUMANIZATION -
Characterizing all members of a targeted group as subhuman and typically capable of monstrous deeds and/or crimes.

PROTECT OUR CHILDREN -
"They corrupt, seduce and or destroy our children."

CIVIL LIBERTIES SACRIFICED -
"We must give up some of our freedoms, liberties, and rights in order to combat this menace to society."

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Marihuana Tax Act violated his privilege against self-incrimination

LEGAL DESCRIMINATION -
Laws criminalize members of targeted group and they may be denied jobs, the right to own property and/or be restricted as to where they may live or go.
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INFORMERS -
Citizens are urged to 'turn in' friends, neighbors, co- workers and family members.

SECRET POLICE -
Non-uniformed police squads set up to wage war on targeted groups utilizing deception, infiltration, espionage and entrapment.

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CONFISCATION OF PROPERTY -
Property and assets are seized from people who are members of targeted group. Property may be divided between the informer and the state.

REMOVAL FROM SOCIETY -
Prisons, rehabilitation camps,'hospitals', executions and genocide...
("kill them all" "Zero Tolerance")

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Pot charge possible after Phelps' pipe photo

More Michael Phelps articles

SC Sheriff Investigating Phelps' Pot Pipe Pic AP Video

Michael Phelps Could Be Facing Legal Trouble

"Not only are we here to protect the public
from vicious criminals in the street
but also to protect the public from harmful ideas."
- Robert Ingersoll - Former DEA Director (1972)

“Ideas are more powerful than guns.
We would not let our enemies have guns,
why should we let them have ideas.”
- Joseph Stalin

More On Michael Phelps Infamous Bong Photo & Apology

Michael Phelps Hits The Bong, Probably Not A Good Idea…

Police say charges could be filed against Phelps SmokeScreen News

Michael Phelps apologizes after marijuana photo surfaces

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More Phelp's stories/pics

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Pot Smokers Unite Against Kellogg
Since Cannabis Culture Editor Marc Emery's call for a boycott of Kellogg's a few days ago for dropping Olympian Michael Phelps after he was photographed smoking a bong, pot smokers from across the globe continue to put the heat on the cold cereal company. Surprisingly, the mainstream media seems to be paying attention.
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Boycott Kellogg Co. for Dumping Michael Phelps
Cannabis Culture Magazine Editor Marc Emery is encouraging all marijuana smokers to boycott Kellogg's cereal company for dropping their sponsorship of Olympian Michael Phelps after he was caught on film smoking from a bong. full story

Pot-Smoking Phelps Isn't Alone Among Athletes

Olympic Champion Michael Phelps Caught With Marijuana Pipe

In Defense of Michael Phelps’ Bong Hits
Posted by The Marijuana News Staff on February 6th, 2009

Michael Phelps Drug Charge Threat
US: News of the World 09 Feb 2009

Hey, Bong Boy Phelps - It's Not the Pot That
Canada: Column: Southey, Tabatha Globe and Mail 07 Feb 2009

Maturity and Celebrity
US ND: Edu: Editorial: Liden, Stephanie Dakota Student 06 Feb 2009

Michael Phelps Is Not Alone
CN QU: Editorial: Montreal Gazette 07 Feb 2009

Phelps' Legacy Will Not Be Remembered
US IL: Edu: Column: Johnson, Jeremy Daily Vidette 04 Feb 2009

Real Moral to Phelps' Bong Story
US TX: Column: Parker, Kathleen Dallas Morning News 07 Feb 2009

Stop The Reefer Madness! By Steve Almond
CN Source: Boston Globe February 06, 2009 Boston, MA

You have no doubt seen by now - several hundred times - the photo of gold medalist swimmer Michael Phelps sucking on a bong.

As might be expected in our age of manufactured sanctimony, the pundits have gone into overdrive on the Olympic icon. "This is a sad day for Phelps," Christine Brennan moaned, in that vaunted organ of conventional wisdom, USA Today, "and a sadder day for the millions of parents and young athletes who planned their lives around his races last August. How disappointed must they be that a glorious hero, a person in whom they placed their trust, has done something illegal for which he must apologize?"

Boycott Killoggs
Thats some really weird schtuff as Johnney would say...

A Grass-Roots Situation
Shadowed in cycles through recent decades while other legal or illegal or performance-enhancing stimulants took turns getting all the hype, marijuana has just hollered in the case of merely the most-decorated Olympian in history, Michael Phelps. It has tried to yell from the recent past of the Super Bowl most valuable player, who alighted at Disney World only four months after a forgotten arrest.

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* Michael Phelps and Sheriff Lott : He's gunning for you, Michael.

* Michael Phelps Apologizes for Bong Shot

* Michael Phelps Marijuana Bong Discussion On “The View” (02/02/09)

Michael Phelps comes to terms with 3-month suspension By Associated Press

USA Swimming suspends Michael Phelps for 3 months By Associated Press

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