US Attorney Throws Alexander White Plum a Softball

In a weird move Saturday, the US Attorney for South Dakota served a
civil Summons & Complaint on "ALEXANDER "Alex" WHITE PLUME, PERCY WHITE PLUME, their agents, servants, assigns, attorneys, and all others acting in concert with the named Defendant."

Posted by Bob Newland
Candidate for Attorney General of South Dakota
http://www.SoDakHEMP.org/
http://www.CommonSenseJustice.Us

In 2000 and 2001, Alex White Plume planted industrial hemp legally on
his land within the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. In
August of each of those years, armed paramilitary groups financed by the
United States invaded the Pine Ridge Reservation, destroyed White
Plume's hemp crops, then fled back across the border to U.S. strongholds.

In 2002, White Plume planted hemp again. Two weeks ago, the White Plume
tiospaye (extended family) harvested the hemp, which had been contracted
to the Madison Hemp & Flax Co. of Lexington KY. Thus, White Plume became
the first farmer within the borders of the U.S. to complete the cycle of
planting, cultivation, harvest, sale,a nd delivery of industrial hemp
since 1958.

Saturday, August 10, 2002 federal agents served a Summons & Complaint on
White Plume at his home near Manderson SD. Strangely, the feds decided
to use a civil route this year, rather than the brutal and frightening
tactics they usually seem to prefer.

There are a number of ramifications to the civil court approach, many of
which are probably not apparent yet.

The Summons and Complaint are posted at:

http://www.sodakhemp.org/summons.htm

You need to read these documents. Not only do they contain a unique
perspective and documentation of events since the Oglala Sioux Tribe
re-legalized hemp on the Pine Ridge Reservation (a sovereign nation) in
1998, but they provide a glimpse into the minds of U.S. Attorneys
(perhaps a little tired of being required by politics to terrorize
peaceful honest people?).

Read and see. Tell us what you think.

We think already that this is one of the most remarkable documents ever
published by a US Attorney, in the middle of one of the most dramatic
developments in our "war on the war on hemp".

Alex White Plume has invited you all to come to Kiza Park, three miles
north of Manderson SD on Wednesday, August 14, for a ceremonial final
harvest of the Lakota Hemp Project Industrial Hemp Fields. Music, Lakota
ceremonies, friendship and fun are promised for all, even DEA agents.

With a hempy heart,

I am

Bob Newland