Comments on: We’re number 2

By: Les Jones

Les Jones — Fri, 21 Oct 2005 01:26:16 +0000

Vice always wildly inflates the street value of the drugs. I keep waiting for an anchorman to say “Wow, that’s twice what I’ve been paying!”

By: Phelps

Phelps — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 20:09:38 +0000

You guys are missing the point. They are bragging about moving One Billion, Two Hundred Million Dollars worth of revenue from Tennessee to other states. You think that demand isn't being met? It is being met -- it is just someone outside of Tennessee getting that money.

By: Standard Mischief

Standard Mischief — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 18:14:17 +0000

Head on over to:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act

Enough loopholes to drive an armored personnel carrier full of gun grabbing national guard troops through.

�The President of the United States can waive this law in an emergency�

“In December 1981 additional laws were enacted (codified 10 USC 371-78) clarifying permissible military assistance to civilian law enforcement agencies�including the Coast Guard�especially in combating drug smuggling into the United States. Posse Comitatus clarifications emphasize supportive and technical assistance (e.g., use of facilities, vessels, aircraft, intelligence, tech aid, surveillance) while generally prohibiting direct participation of Department of Defense personnel in law enforcement (e.g., search, seizure, and arrests). For example, Coast Guard Law Enforcement Detachments (LEDETS) serve aboard Navy vessels and perform the actual boardings of interdicted suspect drug smuggling vessels and, if needed, arrest their crews.)”

For that matter, after you see Nagin’s Navy, there’s enough of a loophole to drive a water buffalo and a truck full of MREs through.

By: _Jon

_Jon — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 14:47:33 +0000

Isn’t using National Guard helocopters in the act of law enforcement unconstitutional?
I thought that could only be done if a State of Emergency were declared.

I don’t know anyone who buys the entire plant…

By: Standard Mischief

Standard Mischief — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 14:03:34 +0000

$2500 per plant? What have they been smoking?

I’m assuming they got the biggest plant of the lot and weighed it green (not dried). Then they multiplied that by the cost of the highest grade stuff, sold at the street level.

I don’t know what the going rate is, but even the dopey dumbass people I happen to know aren’t that stupid.

Looks good on paper though.