Posted on 02/16/2005 10:37:03 AM PST by Scenic Sounds
PAMPA, Tex., Feb. 9 - No one prosecuted the war on drugs in the Texas Panhandle more zealously than Richard James Roach. As the blustery and hot-tempered Republican district attorney for five counties overrun with methamphetamines, he had eked out an election victory in 2000 vowing a crackdown and was soon gleefully reeling off the harsh sentences he had wrung from juries: 36 years, 38 years, 40 years, 60 years, 75 years - even 99 years. "I think it's quite clear that the good citizens of this district are fed up with drugs," he said.
He had barely missed riding the issue to victory in an earlier race. "My campaign is centered around doing something with the dope dealers," he told a local newspaper in 1996, complaining that "it's kind of hard to fight drugs when you've got dirty law enforcement."
But of all the quarry brought down by drugs in the district's 4,600 square miles of achingly flat oil fields and cattle rangeland northeast of Amarillo, the biggest by far was the stunned figure clapped into handcuffs by F.B.I. agents in the Gray County courthouse here one morning last month: the $101,000-a-year prosecutor himself, Rick Roach.
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He is gonna think he is in the Hitler/pineapple scene on Little Nicky.
What a dumb druggie.
Amen!
Yep, and a cetain former president got nothing at all, besides disbarred, for commiting Felony Perjury before a Federal Grand jury. I for one did not really give a damn if he got his knob polished, but lying to a Grand jury? Once again, a govt official walks for a thing you or I would be in prison for.
All the way down to the local level, this stuff stinks. We had two county deputies busted by the Hiway patrol... drag racing two brand new police cars down Hwy 71... they got two weeks suspension WITH PAY.
You won't get it with drug legalization.
I try not to use any drugs at all unless you consider an antibiotic or some teas drugs. I don't even use Novocaine at the dentists office. I guarantee that you are a drug addict compared to me.
You and I have lost the Freedom to be secure in our homes and our vehicles because of the WOD.
You and I have lost the Freedom to conduct financial matters free of the prying eyes of the government because of the WOD.
You and I have lost the right to have unfettered legal representation in court because of the WOD.
You and I have lost the right to travel freely because of the WOD.
I guess I should be happy that I still have the right to bitch about the WOD, that is probably the only unfettered right we have left, but I am doubtful that we will have it for long.
You may like it that the government puts a gun to your head and takes your money so that it can oppress you.
I have nothing but pity and loathing for people like you that willingly give up personal freedom and rights.
"Don't worry . . . bones. You can still have your Viagra."
Sweet. Otherwise that would've been a pretty *stiff* penalty.
Bones
The current way we determine the legal status of a drug is so inconsistently applied that it's a joke
Sec. 812. Schedules of controlled substances
(1) Schedule I. -
(A) The drug or other substance has a high potential for abuse.
(B) The drug or other substance has no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States.
(C) There is a lack of accepted safety for use of the drug or other substance under medical supervision.
Please explain why Alcohol and Nicotine are not schedule I drugs
Pot has a low potential for abuse. The US government supplies it to 7 people for medical purposes. Why is it a Schedule I drug?
I fully agree with your last two posts. If there isn't equal treatment under the law, there is injustice. And so long as that injustice exists, the fewer the number of laws, the less the injustice. It's one of the reasons I hold the positions I do.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Blah blah blah blah
The paradox lies in the fact that Marijuana is not outlawwed for reasons of drug use.
The reason I believe this is because of the following facts...
1. Industrial hemp is bred for high seed and fiber yield.
2. Industrial hemp has such low levels of THC, that getting high is an impossability.
3. Industrial Hemp is EASILY visually distinguishable from "smoking grades" of hemp.
There are many big money interests who stand to lose vast amounts of money should hemp be legalized. Paper, timber, petroleum, pharmaceutical, and textile industies all benefit from the status quo.
Drug use of Marijuana is not the reason it is illegal... it is the EXCUSE.
At the cost of your medical privacy?
At the cost of your financial privacy?
At the cost of your physical privacy, with cops driving around with IR scanners peering through your walls?
Read my tag line. You send YOUR kid to die for narc-o-topia. Mine are going to graduate school, and then overseas to some non police state.
Yeah...Karma's a harsh mistress...ain't she?
OK fine with me. Take all the soda, tea, coffee, chocolate, alcohol and tobacco off the shelves.
Classic. LOL.
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