Here's the section of that from C.I.'s "Iraq snapshot" today:
We're going to start with Iraq War veteran Sean Worsely. We covered him in yesterday's snapshot. If you're late to the story (I was), see that snapshot and also make a point to read Cara Wietstock's piece for GANJAPRENEUR which opens:
Veteran Sean Worsley stopped for gas in Gordo, Alabama to pump gas for
his wife on a family road trip to his grandmother’s house. While pumping
gas he was laughing and playing air guitar. He was approached by Gordo
PD for violating a noise ordinance with his music, and the events that
unfolded from there would change his life forever.
And here is Eboni Worsley, Sean's wife, speaking about the case and Sean joins her on the phone in this video.
Four
drive-by e-mails (non-community members e-mailing the public account)
who insist they are attorneys want it known that I am completely wrong
when I say this needs to be challenged in regards to medical.
Can I be completely wrong? Absolutley. And I probably am many times. I don't think I'm wrong on this.
Sean's
facing prison because he was going through Alabama and he and his wife
were stopped and he had marijuana. The marijuana was prescribed, he had
his medical prescription. Alabama does not prescribe medical
marijuana. Not only was his medication confiscated but he was arrested.
I
am on, among other things, metformin, gab-whatever, insulin (injection)
and chemo (which, right now, I'm taking orally). If I go through North
Carolina and am stopped and agree to a search, the officer certainly
has a right to search me. But does s/he have a right to confiscate my
medication? Do they have a right to hold me in jail and deny me my
medication?
Alabama's stupid in not prescribing
medical marijuana but I don't see where they have the right to
interfere with a medical treatment.
They
violated Sean's rights right there. He has TBI and Post-Traumatic
Stress. They knew that. They put him behind bars without access to his
medication despite knowing that. They denied him his medication.
I'd like to know what medical professional in Alabama, who has a background in TBI and PTS treatment signed off on this?
I know the answer: No one did.
The state of Alabama disregarded a patient's treatment plan, stopped the treatment and did so without any medical supervision.
Police officers are not doctors.
This was a violation of his medical treatment.
His attorney has attempted to argue sympathy and that it was prescribed and so blah blah blah.
I
don't disagree with that argument but I do see that it hasn't had any
effect at all. The attorney's argued that for how long now?
Yes, it's helped in the court of public opinion.
I'm
glad people are supporting Sean and that they are behind him in larger
and larger numbers as they learn about this case. But support for Sean
right now is not translating into freedom.
When you're defense doesn't work in court, you go on the offensive.
His
attorney needs to immediately file charges against the State of
Alabama. We're not talking about the arrest here, we're talking about
the medical issue.
If tomorrow I'm in North
Carolina and they decide to disallow their citizens having prescriptions
for chemo, are they able to interfere with my medical treatment because
I'm driving through their state? Are they able to immediately halt my
medical treatment and to do so with no medical supervision, without
consulting any doctor at all?
No, they're not.
That's what they did.
If
his attorney has any real sense, he'll file immediately on that. And
he can pursue to victory -- he'd have to really bungle the case to
lose. Or he can drop the case when the State of Alabama realizes how
much they could lose -- Sean could potentially get rich off this case --
if they allow it to go to court. If the State decides they don't want
to go to court, one of the first things they're going to do is either
offer some sort of 'time served' option or drop the original charges.
Either
way, Sean would win. And I'm on the other phone (the snapshots are
dictated). Okay, just ran by a friend with the National Lawyers Guild
and her verdict? That's a sound argument and that's what she would do
were she representing Sean. "Put some fear into them [State of
Alabama]," she says, "and see if they don't suddenly want to resolve the
whole thing without prison time."
The State,
any of the fifty, does not have the right to stop our medical
treatment. And to stop it without having Sean see a doctor first who
agrees that this treatment can be stopped? That's not the United States
of America and I don't see any court insisting that the government has
that right.
They overstepped their rights and Sean should sue on the medical issue.
On
e-mails, Brian Stelter of CNN became a news topic late Monday. He lied
that the notion that Joe Biden should refuse to debate Donald Trump was
coming from the right-wing. Several drive-by e-mails insisted I was
wrong not to cover that. One person wrote, "I read your blog because I
think you try to be fair even though you're a bleeding heart lefty. Now
I doubt that because you ignored this topic."
You now doubt that I'm a bleeding heart lefty or you doubt that I try to be fair?
Monday morning, before Brian became a news topic, we already covered this topic. In Monday's snapshot,
I noted Democrat of the Bill Clinton administration Joe Lockhart had
proposed that. I noted he did so in a column he wrote for -- not FOX
NEWS -- CNN. I noted that it was an outrageous suggestion and it went
against everything a democracy stands for.
Later
that day, Brian entered the news cycle. He lied. He lies all the
time. I have no respect for him. He's built his career on lying and
he's one sided -- I'd say he's more centrist than left -- and he's
partisan and he's a clown who is ugly and looks like a child molester.
That he lies and that I think he's ugly and looks like a child
molester? Those aren't new comments. I've made them here and at THIRD
in pieces with Ava.
He has no charisma and he's disgusting ugly.
Why is he on TV in front of camera?
At
any rate, I don't plan what I'm going to write ahead of time each day.
I have no idea what the snapshot's going to emphasize until I'm about
to dictate or sometimes in the middle of dictating. At which point,
I'll say, "Okay, this is going to go at the top, above everything you've
already typed."
I missed Sean's case
completely. I did not know about it, had not heard about it. I was
dictating the snapshot when the other phone rang and a friend with a VSO
was on the line asking if I was going to cover Sean? I learned about
him in the middle of the snapshot and we went with FOX NEWS because
hours before they had published a report. (Which was a strong report,
by the way.)
So on Tuesday morning, Brian was
back in the news cycle for lying yet again. And I'd just learned of
Sean's plight. What was I going to go with? Sean.
He's
an Iraq War veteran and the State of Alabama thought they could
overrule his doctor's plan, they thought they could cease his medication
immediately and they thought they could do all of this without having
him see a single doctor to determine the medical impact their actions
could have.
I'm always going to go with the Seans of this world, sorry.
We
need to stand together when we're under attack and what was done to
Sean wasn't just wrong, it was also an attack on every one of us.
