8/28/07
“An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.”
-- M. K.Gandhi
-- Non-Violence in Peace and War, 1948
TWO FACE CHARGES IN DRUG CASE
Marquette Mining Journal: February, 1972
“Two Marquette residents charged with possession of marijuana made their initial appearances this week in Marquette District Court.”
“David Peano, 20, of 1426 Lincoln Ave., and Marcia Campbell, 21, of 1015 Waldo St., were released on bond, pending preliminary examination on the charges brought by the Marquette County Sheriff’s Department.”
“Outgrowth Of Probe”
“Arrest of the two was an outgrowth of investigation by the sheriff’s department of an incident in which drugs were smuggled into the jail.”
“Randall L. Tessier, 20, Waldo St., in whose cell the drugs were found, was charged with possession of marijuana and other dangerous drugs. When he appeared in district court, he requested time to retain an attorney and reserved the right to a preliminary examination, which is set for Feb. 17.”
Tessier was serving a 60-day sentence for use of marijuana when the drugs were discovered in the plumbing of his cell. They were believed to have been delivered by rope through a broken jail window, which has since been repaired and covered with new mesh screening, Sheriff Adrian A, Pequet reported.”
January 6, 1972
Mr. Randy Tessier
Marquette County Jail
Marquette, Michigan 49855
IN REPLY REFER TO: Our File No. 11865
….There is one other absolute requirement in my representing you in this matter. There may be facts and circumstances present in your case which would cause me to determine that it is in your best interests to involve yourself in one or more of a number of psychiatric counseling programs potentially available to you. We must have an explicit understanding that you will make yourself available for psychiatric counseling to whatever extent I request that you do so at any time during my representation of you. This boils down to the fact that I very well may require you to go into psychotherapy or be committed to a mental hospital or make yourself available for extensive medical and/or mental testing for examination.
This may be somewhat distasteful to you, but I must have this commitment for [sic] you before I can involve myself in any representative capacity whatsoever in your case. I don’t pretend to have the capacity to diagnose or even characterize your medical or mental condition, but I must have an absolute understanding that you will cooperate in an effort to have this kind of specialized information about you available to me. I do not intend to quarrel with you about whether or not you are to one degree or another mentally ill, and I do not intend to quarrel with you about whether it is or is not necessary to your case for me to obtain the opinion of trained people in the mental health field. If I want this kind of information, you must cooperate in an effort to provide it to me. This, of course, extends to treatment if some time during the case I request that you go into treatment on either an in-patient or an out-patient basis. I would expect you to do that, other conditions permitting.
Please do not read into perhaps the stern tone of this letter anything other than the fact that I regard you as a young person with a great deal of trouble who must have, in addition to the talents of certain trained individuals, absolute discipline within his own life during this time. I do not regard you as a person who is about to discipline yourself. Your situation is too frightening, the stakes are too high, and you have neither the prospective [sic] nor the training to act in your own best interests in many cases. For this reason, the discipline must come from or through me. This is the very best protection, and I want you to understand the motivation for the requirements I have set forth in this letter.
I would like very much for you to reflect upon all of these matters and make a list of questions you have for me. We will talk at great length about any matter of concern to you at any time.
Very truly yours,
WISTI & JAASKELAINEN
J. Kent Bourland
JKB/dt
January 25, 1972
Mr. Randy Tessier
Marquette County Jail
Marquette, Michigan 49855
IN REPLY REFER TO: Our File No. 11865
Dear Randy:
Thank you for your letter.
You strike me as a person who has enormous energy resources, which from time to time sort of boil over and make a mess. Energy is not only necessary for a full life, but it must be directed in the most shrewd and thoughtful ways if it is to effect change outside its origin. I guess energy is really very fragile because it can be dissipated completely in a very short time—and yet, it is capable of causing a great amount of work to be done. I think you have a tendency to ground yourself unnecessarily. I like seeing you learn to keep yourself from being grounded out and thus preserving the potential for work.
It seems to me that you have been operating as though the revolution were over. This can be a fatal mistake. You must learn to believe your own rhetoric and accept the fact that for now it’s a pretty dangerous world for people who are too enthused about life to maintain a protective posture as they go about their business.
Very truly yours,
WISTI & JAASKELAINEN
J. Kent Bourland
JKB/dt
Rain—
And pain—
Are both
For growth.
“An Australian entrepreneur was selling oysters raised in tanks laced with Viagra.”
Harper’s Magazine
‘Researchers announced that they can now use a woman’s butt fat to grow new breasts. Using standard liposuction, the ‘Celution’ therapist will extract fat cells, from which stem cells will be separated; in just one hour the cells will be ready for injection. The new breasts will fill out over the next six months.”
Harper’s Magazine
“What I’m trying to say, in language even more oblique, is that the human psyche can sometimes see evidence of what is not present to the senses. ‘Bosh,’ one hears you exclaim, ‘this man is writing about nothing!’ But is he? It could be that he is writing about something somebody said to him after he had regained his senses for himself and detected shreds of rabbit fluff here and there. Imagine a man coming round after five days in the human tank that denatures us all and finds no memory worth talking about. I suspected as much from my ten-day immersion in whatever I was immersed in.”
Paul West, The First Aphasiac Memoir
From Harper’s Magazine
“Washington, Aug. 27 --….According to a police report obtained by the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call….a plainclothes police officer investigating complaints of sexual activity in the bathroom arrested the senator (Larry E. Craig, Republican of Idaho) on June 11 after what the officer described as sexual advances made by Mr. Craig from an adjoining stall. The officer said Mr. Craig had tapped his foot, in what the officer described as a known signal to engage in lewd conduct, and he had also brushed his foot against the investigator’s and waved his hand under the stall divider several times before the officer showed him his badge.“ ( He pled guilty to disorderly conduct)
-- The New York Times, 8/2807
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