Fornits
General Interest => Open Free for All => Topic started by: Anonymous on April 14, 2005, 05:48:00 PM
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http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u ... itary_dc_3 (http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050414/us_nm/crime_military_dc_3)
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Soldier, quit bringing happy drugs into the country and start killing people!
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Says he was getting 10k per trip. 290,000 pills were found in their luggage this trip alone. What's the wholesale value of that stash, definitely over a couple million? Sounds like he was getting played, hardcore. Of course the govt will send him to life until he rots, and the people making the real money keep doing biz as usual. god bless amerika.
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Piece by piece that's in excess of $4 million per trip. Which is a modest estimation. He was getting screwed for sure. But when you make $16k a year... I guess beggars can't be choosers.
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Yesterday, my local conservative paper printed an AP piece about the drug war in So. America and Plan Columbia. The author quoted a DEA agent, who wished not to be identified, as saying "What we need to do is legalize this stuff so that it won't be so profitable". Unfortunately, either the archive section is down since yesterday or they didn't put it in the online version.
However, while looking for that, I found this
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-rev ... 31075.html (http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/entertainment/books/s_331075.html)
I really think things are changing. Rulers who wish to subvert the public liberty may have found an established clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just government, instituted to secure and perpetuate it, needs them not.
James Madison, "A Memorial and Remonstrance", 1785
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/fbi_cocaine_sting (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/fbi_cocaine_sting)
All our liberties are due to men who, when their conscience has compelled them, have broken the laws of the land.
--William Kingdon Clifford
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why doesn't the government want us to party? :smokin:
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" "It was a very pivotal year. It was the law of unintended consequences. We thought we were destroying the home ground of heroin importation in the country. The real consequences were just metastasizing it, just spreading that cancer and forcing it, in a way, to become better organized and more efficient, which it did."