In the past both of you have had me arrested for exercising my free speech rights.

Its obvious to me that neither of you respect my opinions or agree with them, but as a matter of law and your obligation to enforce them you must ensure that not only are the elections fair but my RIGHT to express my political opinions are protected.

     The New Jersey Attorney Generals Office fought to have me incarcerated for making “POLITICAL ADS” calling for the end of the RACIST DRUG WAR. It took a Federal Judge to order the State to release me after 5 months in the Burlington county jail. (August 19^th, 2002 – January 25^th, 2003)

      (FOR DETAILS SEE: http://www.njweedman.com/censorship )

    The U.S. Attorney Generals Office had me arrested 3 times for publicly complaining about the U.S. Attorney’s Office not protecting my free speech rights from state officials who jailed me for making political ad’s. (August 4, 11 and 18^th 2003)

(FOR DETAILS SEE: http://www.njweedman.com/hypocrite.html )

The actions of the police are repugnant to me, I am an American and as such I take get offense at the loss of my “FREE SPEECH RIGHTS”. In the past Federal judge Irenas issued this ruling in: FORCHION Vs STATE OF NEW JERSEY, 240 F.Supp.2d 302

The First Amendment exists so as to promote debate on issues of public importance. In this case, the advocacy of the legalization of marijuana is a legitimate political position in this country. The Libertarian Party, whose presidential candidate received over 380,000 votes in the 2000 election, advocates the legalization of drugs. Libertarian Party website at http://www.lp.org/issues/relegalize.html and http://www.lp.org/campaigns/pres/. Many elected public officials have called for a liberalization of the nation's drug laws. Simply put, Plaintiff's place in this debate will do nothing to harm a public that is already itself debating the current state of our nation's drug laws.

I now ask/request that both of you take this action to ensure that a fair election process takes place. I ask/request that you both send a memo to each and every municipality in the state of New Jersey and inform them that I am a legitimate candidate and have the RIGHT to campaign for the office of the Governor and that I should not be accosted, harassed or intimidated while campaigning. Otherwise I can’t campaign. I can’t afford to be arrested every weekend or shot and killed by a “COP” who gets scared. This is my fear: “Cops kill citizens all the time and rarely are they ever held accountable, the police officers and law enforcement types who investigate the “crime of murder by cop” almost always side with the cop and justify the murder. (i.e) he had drugs in his system. There is no doubt in my mind that my dead body would test positive for marijuana thus my “murder would by deemed justified” by any law enforcement agency assigned to investigate.

The New Jersey Supreme Court and Appellate Court have clearly ruled on the issue of "FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION" in the past.

"...where political speech is involved, our traditions insists that government allow the widest room for discussion, the narrowest range for its restriction."....."Political expression includes any fair comment on any matter of public interest, whether or not subject of an election campaign, whether or not embarrassing to local governing body, and whether or not irritating to one's neighbors.'' STATE of NEW JERSEY Vs MILLER, 83 N.J. 402, 416 A.2d 821 (1980) "...individuals, severally or in association, have a right to denounce public body, its officers, and its programs, in most searing terms, and even with wide margin of error." BOARD OF ED., BOROUGH OF UNION BEACH Vs NEW JERSEY ED. ASS'N, 53 N.J. 29, 247 A.2d 867 (1968).... "Constitutional Right of Free Speech and assembly can-not be abridged simply because others might take offense at what is being said or advocated and create a disturbance." FACULTY AD HOC OCT 15th VIETNAM MORATORIUM COMMITTE Vs BOUGH OF GLASSBORO, 111 N.J. SUPER, 258, 268 A.2d 75 (1970) -- HURWITZ Vs BOYLE, 117 N.J. SUPER. 196, 284 A.2d 190 (1971)

            Attorney Generals, I’m have no problems with the average citizen while campaigning publicly. They only problems I have are with “POLICE” who don’t respect my right to express my opinions or treat me as a second class citizen. I refer to this a the DRED SCOTT DOCTRINE on my website.  ( http://www.njweedman.com/dredscott ). Failure on your part to ensure that my right to campaign will either force me to abandon my campaign, which would be a disaster for “FREEDOM in AMERICA” or force me to defend myself when accosted by the police. I don’t want to end up dead or like “H. Rap Brown” or “Joann Chesimard” who defended themselves against police abuse.

                                                                        RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED,

                                                                        EDWARD FORCHION

                                                CANDIDATE FOR THE OFFICE of the GOVERNOR

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