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   From: ed.buck.sodomized.gavin-newsom@disney.com   
      
   California law allows for the prosecution of people who supply   
   the weapon that causes the drug death---in this case meth. When   
   will the Los Angeles County District Attorney, or however the   
   state Justice system works in California, file charges against   
   Mr. Buck? I mean I know it sends, or used to send, dozens of   
   (brown) people to death row a year so I know it isn’t soft, and   
   its prison system is overfull. We all know Three-Strikes laws   
   started in CA. I know CA can be hard on crime when it wants to   
   be hard on crime (usually when brown people are involved). I   
   want Ed Buck to be charged with the death of Gemmel Moore as he   
   supplied the weapon that caused Moore’s death, to face a jury of   
   his peers, and hopefully, after a trial, get convicted, and then   
   sent to prison.   
      
   And I don’t want his political connections, extensive as they   
   are, Democratic and progressive as they are, to cover his ass   
   one fucking bit and neither should any of you. I want the door   
   to be closed to him, permanently. Perhaps I’ll get my wish---   
   from all appearances, Mr. Buck is a good fundraiser but is   
   perhaps not very rich. He can’t buy his way out of this one,   
   maybe.   
      
   I’ve encountered Buck’s type myself, when I was younger. I was   
   savvy and sensed , well, evil, and kept away and warned others   
   they should too. Not everyone is as savvy as I am. Until these   
   predators are named and shamed---we are having a national name-   
   it-and-shame-it moment and not a fucking moment too soon---more   
   young gay and bi and questioning men are going to have their   
   lives cut short.   
      
   And for what it’s worth, they ran Buck out of Arizona for   
   “sexual inappropriateness.” I wonder what that was.   
      
   His victim’s name was Gemmel Moore. He deserves justice.   
   It pleases me to be able to write the follow-up. Ed Buck is in   
   prison on state charges, and there are now sources stating   
   federal charges are coming as well.   
      
   Ed Buck, the wealthy West Hollywood Democratic donor who has   
   been linked to a number of bizarre deaths since 2017, has been   
   formally charged with providing methamphetamine to a man who   
   overdosed in his home and now faces life in prison, federal   
   prosecutors said Thursday.   
      
   Buck, who was arrested Tuesday night in connection with state-   
   level charges tied to similar allegations, was charged in   
   connection with the death of Gemmel Moore, whose 2017 overdose   
   first put Buck under public scrutiny, according to a news   
   release issued by the U.S. attorney’s office in Los Angeles.   
      
   In their statement, federal prosecutors said Buck had “provided   
   narcotics to a series of other men, one of whom suffered two   
   overdoses several weeks ago.” He is expected to appear in   
   federal court later on Thursday.   
      
   Buck faces a minimum of 20 years in prison if convicted.   
      
   A debate over whether to charge Buck locally or federally had   
   brewed in recent days, according to one of the sources who spoke   
   to The Times.   
      
   This man was a predator. He’s now off the street. Now, of   
   course, he deserves and is entitled to a trial before a jury of   
   his peers, a fair trial at that. I hope he gets that. I hope   
   that jury does what I’d consider the right thing, and deliver   
   justice for the two men who died at Buck’s hand, and the third   
   who almost died.   
      
   Rolling Stone notes the far right, a group that generally   
   loathes gay people and really would love to line us all up and   
   shoot us (yes, really, and if they say they “love they sinner,   
   hate the sin”, they’re fucking 100% lying), is having a heyday   
   with this, especially those QAnon people. I do not care. Rolling   
   Stone also notes what I noted in 2017.   
      
   But the truth is that Buck’s arrest is significant because it   
   does point to a larger conspiracy — just not the one that far-   
   right trolls think. Members of the community have long argued   
   that Buck targeted vulnerable members of the community — men who   
   were HIV-positive or homeless or struggling with drug addiction   
   — for one specific, bone-chilling reason: because he believed he   
   could get away with exploiting them. And if the years of police   
   inaction regarding the allegations against Buck are any   
   indication, he was correct in this belief. The fact that it took   
   the deaths of two men to prove that is a tragic, shameful   
   reminder of just how much power men like Buck still wield, and   
   how little is shared by those our society deems disposable.   
      
   Yup. There’s others out there, who aren’t megadonors for the   
   party (or any party) who are predators, preying on the   
      
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