Little Rock Group Reports Threats from Medical Marijuana Supporters
By: KARK 4 News
Updated: November 1, 2012
A Little Rock group reports it's getting continued threats from supporters of the medical marijuana measure on Arkansas's November election ballot.
Family Council Action Committee Executive Director Jerry Cox released a statement Thursday clarifying morning radio news reports his office had increased security in the wake of threats from proponents of Issue 5, the proposed marijuana law.
"Security has been an ongoing concern ever since state Democratic Party Chairman Bill Gwatney was brutally murdered at the office next door to ours in 2008," Cox said, "but we have taken additional precautions recently due to all the vitriol coming from folks who want to legalize marijuana."
Cox said proponents of Issue 5 have called and emailed his office numerous times. "One caller told the lady who answers our telephone, 'I hope you die.' The people threatening my staff are vile, mean, and vulgar. They don't sound like sick people looking for medicine. They sound more like hardened criminals looking to profit from 'medical' marijuana."
Cox said he takes threats very seriously. "It doesn't matter if ninety-nine out of a hundred people don't make good on their threats. If one person does, that changes everything."
Family Council Action Committee Executive Director Jerry Cox released a statement Thursday clarifying morning radio news reports his office had increased security in the wake of threats from proponents of Issue 5, the proposed marijuana law.
"Security has been an ongoing concern ever since state Democratic Party Chairman Bill Gwatney was brutally murdered at the office next door to ours in 2008," Cox said, "but we have taken additional precautions recently due to all the vitriol coming from folks who want to legalize marijuana."
Cox said proponents of Issue 5 have called and emailed his office numerous times. "One caller told the lady who answers our telephone, 'I hope you die.' The people threatening my staff are vile, mean, and vulgar. They don't sound like sick people looking for medicine. They sound more like hardened criminals looking to profit from 'medical' marijuana."
Cox said he takes threats very seriously. "It doesn't matter if ninety-nine out of a hundred people don't make good on their threats. If one person does, that changes everything."
Comments
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Kell R.
October 18, 2012 at 3:01 pm
Stay on the high road to go against people like the Family Council. They know just which buttons to push to make you look even more foolish than them.
Eddie E.
October 18, 2012 at 2:12 pm
I also find it ironic that he is the director of "Family Council" and he wants the state to make decisions for families on how to medicate the sick. He has more in common with the KGB and less in common with an Arkansas family.
dhgunit d.
October 18, 2012 at 11:38 am
Yes, I am such a hardened criminal. I have never violated anyone else's rights to life, liberty, or property.......can Mr. Cox say the same as he fights to remove the liberty of people to make a choice about what they personally use as medicine? Maybe Mr. Cox should be forced to choke down the morphine that cancer patients have to and then tell me if he thinks that is the best solution for people. I am sorry, but Mr. Cox is scum. And that isn't a threat, that is just telling it like it is. Now he is using the media trying to make supporters of Medical Marijuana look like violent criminals. He is trying to get the dumb sheep to follow him, same tactic that Barack Obama would use. I cannot imagine the insecurity he must have to feel like he must force other people to live the way he says or be carted off to jail. So sad.
dhgunit d.
October 18, 2012 at 11:37 am
Jerry Cox and his "family council" have routinely spread lies and half-truths about the marijuana issue. They attempted to have it removed from the ballot claiming it was too complicated for voters to read but their true agenda is showing. Now they are likely fabricating threats to make people feel sorry for them and accusing supporters of this legislation of being "hardened criminals".
Steve M.
October 18, 2012 at 11:30 am
"One caller told the lady who answers our telephone, 'I hope you die.'"
That is not a threat. This group will lie, and has many times already trying to defeat this initiative.
Kell R.
October 18, 2012 at 10:50 am
