Posted on 12/09/2005 4:24:09 PM PST by elkfersupper
Aspen will be looking for a new police chief soon.
If you had read further down, you would know I knew about the "American political system". What I said was called sarcasm. I should have made it abundantly clear by including the sarcasm tag.
"The employee said guns were in plain sight but not drawn as the officers came in"
I believe those items are called holsters. Did the employee think the cops would carry their weapons in paper sacks?
Even bigger mistake - screwing with the wealthy in Aspen. Everybody knows the Drug War is for the little guy.
"Maybe the police should have served caviar while they conducted the sting? I don't see how the rich should be treated like cream puffs just because they can afford coke over crack."
Can you say "limousine liberals"?
Apparently 'screw the Constitution, there are people getting buzzes on' is now a 'conservative' position.
They keep arresting them but there never seem to be any fewer of them. We can't repeal the law of supply and dmenad; the only way to win this war is the way we won the war on rumrunning ... legalization.
They couldn't clean up the Mob during Prohibition despite photo-ops like this. The most effective move we made against the mob then was legalization ... and that's the most effective move we could make today.
In New Mexico they can. Not sure about Colorado, but I suspect so.
Copy that. Only the worker bees and the nouveau-riche suffer incarceration and asset forfeiture.
As far as I can tell, Republicans are more likely to question the War on Drugs than Democrats. For example, William F. Buckley.
They keep arresting them but there never seem to be any fewer of them.
Bingo. The War on Drugs is a game of Sorceror's Apprentice in which everytime you knock one of these guys down, two more pop up to take his place.
And what about the immigration violators? What happened to them?
"in street $$$'s 2 oz would be more like 56K"
Crunch your numbers again. That would be about a thousand dollars a gram. I don't know what cocaine costs in Aspen, but my guess is it is probably a good bit under a $100 a gram. The per ounce price could easily be less than a grand. A grand is the going rate where I live and there isn't nearly as much cocaine here as there is in Aspen. Two grand for two ounces would work out to a little less than $36 per gram. It's probably worth more than that on a per gram basis but not too terribly much. Cocaine has gotten relatively cheap over the years. I saw a 2003 Colorado Drug Threat Assessment that said that in 2002 "powdered cocaine sold for $650 to $1,200 per ounce in Denver and $600 to $700 per ounce in Colorado Springs." http://www.usdoj.gov/ndic/pubs4/4300/cocaine.htm Everyone knows there are a lot of coke users and a lot of money in Aspen, odds are there are plenty of people competing for the business and per gram prices are low. A lot of these guys are probably buying larger than single gram amounts anyway to bring out to their little ski condos and have their little coke parties.
A braindead Democrat.
The great majority of freepers oppose the war on drugs. Does this make FR a "braindead Democrat" forum?
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