Texas has it's problems. But this latest case happened in New York City. Something amazing is happening in Texas, though. Since the Tulia drug sting in 1999, people in Texas have been hoding drug policy to some serious scrutiny. In addition to investigating the Tulia incident and overturning all of the convictions based on that one lying sack of shit excuse for a cop, they've also been keeping the Dallas sheetrock scandal in the headlines as well as their purgoring crime lab.
They've got two bills in their legislature right now; one to eliminate state funding for area drug task forces and another to require coroboration of the testimony of undercover officers (imagine that!)
Now, there's not a whole lot of difference between drug warriors in Texas and those in places like Bradenton, New York, LA or anywhere else. Just recently, a newly formed area taskforce have been busy as beavers rounding people up in batches of 12 to 50 right around here. For some reason, 50 seems to be the magic number.
Operation Pipe Dreams was run out of Pittsburgh and Tommy Chong was charged in this jurisdiction, even though he was in LA and the bogus business set up by law enforcement for this sting was located in Maryland. I seriously think it has something to do with our SA, Stephan Zappala. I don't
know if or how he may be related to Joe. But, the more I see how they're running the shop around here, the more likely it seems.
I guess a lot of innocent people are getting the shaft in these sting operations. Why not? That seems to be what happens each and every time we let Betty Sembler train and equip law enforcement and recruite them to her sacred cause.
That's why I say that these people are Nazis, for real, no kidding, not exagerating or being expansive or disrespecting victims of Nazi crimes in the 30's and 40's. Right now, a kid or an adult who stands merely accused of drug crimes wherever there's a strong drug warrior bias in LE, the courts and the general population may just as well be a 12yo who once drank a half a glass of champaign at New Years sitting in an intake room. They have a snowball's chance in Hell of seeing justice.
And I think this will remain true unless and until we can get DFAF and the TOUGHLOVE parent movement off the public dole. So that's my primary goal. I want my kids to raise their kids in a world free of threat from these sadistic lunatics.
To the extent that a society limits its government to policing functions which curb the individuals who engage in aggressive and criminal actions, and conducts its economic affairs on the basis of free and willing exchange, to that extent domestic peace prevails. When a society departs from this norm, its governing class begins, in effect, to make war upon the rest of the nation. A situation is created in which everyone is victimized by everyone else under the fiction of each living at the expense of all.
--Edmund A. Opitz
