Aztec Justice

American Spectator ^ | 13 may 08

[rellimpank]

"A sad commentary is that when one of these individuals was arrested, he inquired as to whether or not his arrest and incarceration would have an effect on his becoming a federal law enforcement officer," reported the DEA's Ralph Partridge, describing one of the 96 arrestees in the recent San Diego State University drug sweep.

It is a sad commentary on many aspects of higher ed, and it gets sadder. Two students have died of drug overdoses on SDSU's campus in the past year. The DEA was surprised by the extent of the campus drug ring, which is believed to have a direct connection through a Pomona gang member and SDSU health-sciences student to Tijuana's brutal Arellano-Felix

[sinanju]

In his autobiography “Right Turns” Michael Medved recalled how quickly and efficiently drugs swept through collegiate America in the late sixties. He was personally convinced this “counterculture” phenomenon had expert marketing and distribution behind it.

[henkster]

It was (and still is) Satan, tempting as usual. The whole counter-culture of the ‘60’s was all “me me me” self-centeredness. The very definition of sin.

[iopscusa]

Expert marketing and distribution behind it...aka KGB abetting the breakdown of US Citizen morals.

[G.Mason]

" ... He was personally convinced this “counterculture” phenomenon had expert marketing and distribution behind it."

Meaning who, exactly?

[ovrtaxt]

Medved believes in a “conspiracy” huh? According to him, all conspiracy believers are, by definition, nuts.

[Randy Papadoo]

The really neat part is that all these hip, slick, and cool, too-smart, college students just absolutely ignored the fact that many of them were committing FELONIES, and what that might mean if they got busted.

Can you believe that a senior student who had tailored his education for a career with Homeland Security, actually asked if his arrest would keep him from getting the federal law enforcement job he sought?

These guys should be jailed for stupidity!

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[webstersII]

Prohibition didn’t work forever in the early 20th century and it’s not likely to last forever this time, either.

Our culture just doesn’t seem to accept it.

[tvdog12345]

“The really neat part is that all these hip, slick, and cool, too-smart, college students just absolutely ignored the fact that many of them were committing FELONIES, and what that might mean if they got busted.”

The college students’ behavior is rational, considering that what they were doing should not have been illegal at all.

It has gotten to the point now where it is impossible to live without breaking laws. You may be a felon too, Randi, you just haven’t had an officious cop point it out to you yet.

[fungoking]

” ... He was personally convinced this “counterculture” phenomenon had expert marketing and distribution behind it.”

“Meaning who, exactly?”

If it were an all black college Pastor Wright would blame whitey, the man, the CIA.

[sinanju]

Maybe so, but Satan needs human hands to carry out that kind of work.

[sinanju]

I know from my readings that the traditional mafia in those days had an aversion to dealing drugs.

I believe it was a new generation of non-traditional drug dealers—like the real-life version of the guy Johnny Depp played in “Blow”—who exploited the new hippie market and opened up the Columbian and Mexican connections (the “French Connection” having been broken up in the early sixties).

[sinanju]

Well... Opium was associated with the Chinese. Heroin with those Negro jazz musicians. Marijuana with those Meskin’ laborers. Amphetamines with those disreputable truck drivers.

I guess LSD was the only pedigreed hippie drug. Unless you associate it with the academics and authors who first experimented with it.

[G.Mason]

Thanks for your view on that.

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[sinanju]

I’ve never heard of the Cold War Russkies involving themselves in drug-running. I have read some interesting articles about the North Vietnamese, Cubans and Chinese growing poppy and flooding South Vietnam with heroin as a weapon of war back in the day.

I believe it WAS that artificially cheap heroin that the Harlem gangster Frank Lucas was smuggling in from Saigon in the early seventies...

[ctdonath2]

Felonies are increasingly petty.

My current favorites-
NY: simple ownership of an AR15 magazine (metal box + spring) made after 1994 is a felony.
GA: trespassing on a designated construction site (even if a mere empty field) is a felony.

...and those students you mention were just smoking or taking meds, largely indistinguishable from other common legal behaviors, and harmful to no one (but _maybe_ themselves).

[sinanju]

Not stupidity, per se.

People who have been raised on a life without consequences can be expected to think and behave accordingly. Certain parents seem to think that discipline is just too much work and that kids magically learn how to be adults in college.

[Randy Papadoo]

Fortunately, most of us have been able to live our lives without getting involved in committing felonies. By “most”,
I mean almost everybody.

The laws these students broke have been on the books longer than thay have been alive. Everybody knows using these drugs is illegal. They took the risk willingly, and got caught, greatly damaging their lives.

I have no problem with your post, however I still use the word “stupid” to describe them. Do you think any of those arrested are saying, “Damn it! I knew better!”

This was a huge case for LE, and may have an impact on “casual” or “recreational” college users’ drug-dabbling. (Not the addicts.)

Our prisons are full of people like this. Folks who use better wise up, ‘cause there is always room in prison for them.