Posted on 09/26/2010 8:35:34 AM PDT by AtlasStalled
Law enforcement officials have warned Oregon hunters to be on the lookout for armed Mexican drug cartel members in the forest who are guarding their marijuana grow operations as reported by Mark Freeman for the Mail Tribune. The deer hunting and pot harvesting seasons coincide. "We have serious problem out there" said Jackson County, OR Sheriff Mike Winters as reported by KTVL.
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When we hike, or camp in WA and OR, we always carry. And its not for protection from bears or cougars
In Vietnam the VC would use our own expended LAW rocket tubes and fill them with three or four grenades. It sounds like somebody was "kickin' it old school" in the drug fields.
When we go hunting here in CA we always carry autos,you never know when you are going to walk into a growing camp....
I’ve been thinking of either Idaho or Montana, someplace with forests and mountains. How does Idaho compare with Montana in terms of conservatism?
So now they have ceded part of Oregon to Mexican drug dealers? Nice.
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“In Vietnam the VC would use our own expended LAW rocket tubes and fill them with three or four grenades.”
Now that you mention it, I think I remember reading that some growers had sought the advice of former VC how to booby-trap their crops.
I think they also use Punji sticks as traps. Can’t improve on tradition, I suppose... :(
There have been some more unusual traps set. One time some deputies were investigating a grow and one of the cops stepped on a trap. A rattlesnake flew straight into the air and onto the officer and it bit him. A box had been rigged underground with a spring in the bottom... trip the wire and the box would open and fling the snake onto the intruder. Inventive!
I know the VC would use bamboo vipers for booby-traps and to guard tunnel entrances. The snakes would be secured so they couldn't escape.
Meanwhile AZ faces lawsuits by the Feds.
I just looked at my notes:
The grenade trap was found in Champaign County, Ohio.
The snake trap was in Kentucky. It was a hidden mesh cage and the snakes were Copperheads, more than one. Ouch!
Mexican Indepenence Day is being celebrated in many Oregon cities, as well.
Either make drug use a death penalty crime or legalize it;either way would be more effective than the halfway measures in place for decades.
Oh wait,I forgot the halfway measures ensure some crooked officials and cops get rich along with the drug dealers...
I think hunters here are forbidden to carry a pistol for defense or varmints in addition to the prescribed weapon of the season,i.e. bow or shotgun.Not sure if high-powered rifles are even legal for deer hunting here.
“Wow, such a strong response to the cartel problem here.”
We’re at war and we don’t even know it.
I was traveling on I-40 and stopped at the Walmart in Sallisaw, Oklahoma. I needed to visit the restroom and there was MS-13 gang graffiti all over the stalls. They had marked their territory. Sallisaw is not a Hispanic town, it just happens to be on the interstate.
I told the store manager about the graffiti and said they needed to report it. I got the old-run-around “sure, we’ll see to it tomorrow”... yeah, right. Wake up, people.
“Either make drug use a death penalty crime or legalize it;either way would be more effective than the halfway measures in place for decades.”
Make *having* drugs a prison sentence, the length to be determined by how much is in their possession. Like X months sentence per ounce of Y drug.
Make *selling* drugs a death penalty crime.
Make it very dangerous to get caught with drugs. One issue, though, is to protect people from being framed.
I was listening to Tom Gresham’s GunTalk radio program. (Go to http://www.guntalk.com/ and download some shows if you’ve never heard it, the show is GOOD!) Tom said that crooked cops have been known to plant bags of weed in people’s cars so they could rack up drug busts on their resumes. No joke, that’s what he said.
So there needs to be some measures in place to make sure that innocent people aren’t framed.
“I think hunters here are forbidden to carry a pistol for defense”
Which makes no sense. If you’ve got a bow for archery season, that doesn’t make for good defense against two-legged predators.
Someone here said yesterday the Founding Fathers were spinning in their graves like a lathe.
Interesting story. Sad that enjoying a weekend could get one killed. I am certain the drug runners have better weapons that shitguns and hunting rifles ...maybe the Feds should go after them rather than bothering citizens who have ‘assault looking’ weapons.
The way it works is that an officer who is basically dishonest pockets a couple bags from a major drug bust,and then if that officer encounters someone he dislikes intensely one of those bags is "found" after a "search" justified by the officer claiming the driver/subject acted aggressive/nervous/furtive. The bags can also conveniently be "discovered" after a SWAT raid gone bad due to wrong address or bad tips.It takes only a second for someone to drop a bag in the couch cushions during the confusion and noise of a "dynamic entry scenario".Bags can also be "found" when the officer just "knows" the suspect is guilty of something but there is no evidence .
This is not a new problem;planted evidence is an old dirty trick of dishonest cops.In one of the books wriiten by an old border agent,he defends dropping a gun next to the dead innocent shot by an officer,saying"one man had already lost his life and nothing would be gained by ruining the life of another(the officer who mistakenly shot the victim).At that point I lost all respect for that writer/officer.Such officers are the lowest form of scum because they pretend to be one of the good people.
THE major problem with America's police is that bad cops are protected,not dismissed and prosecuted.
Sounds like a good reason for a new hunting season.
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