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Pro-cannabis campaigner, Ming the Merciless, has vowed to get into the European Parliament in a bid to hit back at a system which he said imprisoned him with paedophiles and rapists for a littering offence. Galway-based Ming, whose real name is Luke Flanagan, was released this week from jail after having served nine days of his 15 day sentence for failing to remove some of his posters from poles around Galway City. An angry Ming said yesterday he should not have been locked up with serious criminals for such a petty offence. Ming, who has been campaigning for the legalisation of cannabis said he feared he would be attacked in jail, but admitted he had emerged unscathed from the experience, and that it had been a valuable lesson. "I discovered that in one of the jails where I was kept, 42 out of the 68 prisoners were jailed for circumstances related to alcohol. That is a drug which has been rammed down our throats and here we are filling the jails with victims of it." Ming announced that he will be standing for the Choice Party in this summer's European Parliament elections. Copyright Examiner Publications Ltd, 1999 In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107 and The Berne Convention on Literary and Artistic Works, Article 10, news clippings are made available without profit for research and educational purposes. |
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