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left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
Wed Feb 3, 2021, 06:52 PM Feb 2021

Judge to grant request from 'Qanon Shaman' for organic diet in jail

A federal judge on Wednesday said he would order corrections officials to provide the Capitol rioter known as the "Qanon Shaman" with organic food, hours after his lawyers said that he had gone nine days without eating. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth said during a hastily convened hearing Wednesday that the Bureau of Prisons should abide by Jacob Chansley's religious dietary restrictions.

Chansley, who also goes by Jake Angeli, practices shamanism and believes "that non-organic food, which contains unnatural chemicals, would act as an 'object intrusion' onto his body and cause serious illness if he were to eat it," according to an emergency motion filed by his lawyer Wednesday morning.

A Bureau of Prisons representative told Lamberth at Wednesday's hearing that Chansley's dietary request had been denied because corrections officials could not find any evidence that an all-organic diet is one of the tenets of shamanism.

Albert Watkins, Chansley's attorney, had asked in his emergency motion that the court either order jail officials to provide him with organic food or otherwise release him entirely because of the danger he was in without sustenance. Watkins said at Wednesday's hearing that he would drop his request that his client be released in light of the judge's order. Lamberth said that a written order would be forthcoming on Wednesday.

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/537229-judge-to-grant-request-from-q-shaman-for-organic-diet-in-jail

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Judge to grant request from 'Qanon Shaman' for organic diet in jail (Original Post) left-of-center2012 Feb 2021 OP
Is there anything more organic that shit? 11 Bravo Feb 2021 #1
It's organic. Eat it. Cirque du So-What Feb 2021 #2
I can recommend a recipe Geechie Feb 2021 #3
FEED ME ORGANICS Goonch Feb 2021 #4
All that organic food didn't keep your brain from rotting. louis-t Feb 2021 #5
you know, it's this kind of special snowflakism XanaDUer2 Feb 2021 #6
His mother has said non-organic food gives her boy 'flatulence' left-of-center2012 Feb 2021 #7
What? Deuxcents Feb 2021 #8
Only if they serve Kosher, Hilal, Rasta, also. marble falls Feb 2021 #9
Nothing but the best for mommy's treasonous li'l repuglinazi freak. Mc Mike Feb 2021 #10
How disappointing. (nt) Paladin Feb 2021 #11
Next, a date to the prom. theneworiginal Feb 2021 #12
I have no problem with this as long as he's not out posing a threat to others. Hermit-The-Prog Feb 2021 #13
This is something people need to take into account before they commit a crime. I don't have a liberal_mama Feb 2021 #14
Cockroaches are organic, aren't they? turtleblossom Feb 2021 #15
So, all inmates will now be eating organic, yes? ck4829 Feb 2021 #16

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,321 posts)
13. I have no problem with this as long as he's not out posing a threat to others.
Wed Feb 3, 2021, 08:43 PM
Feb 2021

If we're going to warehouse people, we should keep the warehouses civilized. That includes protecting the people we put in there from each other and accommodating reasonable requests.

liberal_mama

(1,495 posts)
14. This is something people need to take into account before they commit a crime. I don't have a
Wed Feb 3, 2021, 10:25 PM
Feb 2021

problem with them giving him his organic food, but what did he think was going to happen when he was jailed?

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