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Digital Director & Fellow @RSI: Occupational licensing reform, social media regulation. @FedSocRTP. Fellow @SlothInstitute. Mountaineer. 16 CO/CA 14er🏔📸 More⤵

Aug 23, 2019, 5 tweets

This should send shivers

Haughton had no criminal record, lost both of his jobs.

“They messed up my life. I want the world to know that the system is not right. If I didn’t have strong people around me, they would probably leave me in jail. You’re lost in the system”
@ByLynhBui

@ByLynhBui "Months after his release, he is only now fully rebuilding his life after the setback devastated him and his family of six children."

@ByLynhBui "Twenty days after his arrest, a state police lab test looking for drugs in the bottles came up negative. Yet the 45-year-old father sat behind bars for two more months total before the last of the charges were dropped after a second all-clear in a federal lab test."

Sometimes, government will just ruin an innocent person's life because of honey.

In America.

Lotta reasons I love my job, among them is #cjreform and reforming stupid regs that send people into jail and/or poverty, or other loss of liberty. This enrages me

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