Posted on 08/28/2002 12:27:14 AM PDT by rmmcdaniell
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:08:10 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
DOVER, N.H. (AP) Police arrested nine current and former McIntosh College students on drug charges Tuesday, as the city police chief said he was pushing federal prosecutors to seize a college dorm under federal drug forfeiture laws.
''It is an open-air drug market like we've never seen in the city,'' Chief William Fenniman said of the dormitory at 181 Silver St., where most of the suspects lived. ''My idea is ... to stop the building from being used for illicit activity. Whatever it takes to do that, I'm willing to do.''
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Yeah to hell with the constitution and property rights. Lets punish the property owners instead of the scumbag tennants. I remember reading a similar story were a guy who owned a Motel had it siezed by the drug nazis because some guest got caught selling drugs in one of the rooms. I shudder to think what would happen if this sort of thing becomes more common. Before you can rent a room expect to have your bags checked and have to submit a urine sample to worried hotel owners trying to protect thier property.
student, Scott O'Connor, told Foster's Daily Democrat he approved of the arrests. Drug use at the school ''makes me want to transfer,'' he said.
To where Mr. Bowtie dweeb? Every College has drug use. Its not a College's fault that there are lowlifes everywhere.
So I guess the electronic schools set up in a strip mall are 'school zones'.
Does this mean if there is a K-Mart in the same strip mall and you buy a shotgun you can be prosecuted for having a 'gun' within 1000 feet of a 'school zone'.
Un-freakin'-believable. Screw the JBT's!
Ah the Libertarian PC police strike again. That's right anybody who dares to speak out against rampant drug abuse on a campus is automatically shown up for scorn.
And let's all hail the drug culture, correct?
You're right about that, they are an intimidating looking weapon alright. I would like to have one myself.
Here we have some young adults going to a culinary school who might smoke a bit a weed, and now they want to use these fedewral forfeiture laws to steal a dorm away from a college?
And who IS this guy who thinks he can force a college to turn their backs on those who are looking to improve their lives by going to school? What does he think they're going to do with their new skills, manufacture massive amounts of munchies and sell them on the black market?
Apparently, the chief is a bit worried about who might be baking his donuts.
No, I said 'Screw the JBT's.'
I have a problem with the ever increasing power given to law enforcement and the courts over American citizens when there are many more pressing issues that should be dealt with such as illegal immigration.
Actually I was on a pro-druggies "bong" list but I never asked to be put on it and asked to be taken off. What is it with your holding in "high" regard a piece of polyurethane anyway?
As for trolling it looks like the poster of this thread was trolling for knee jerk reactions of JBT and you did not disappoint.
''It is an open-air drug market like we've never seen in the city,'' Chief William Fenniman said of the dormitory...An open-air dormitory, in New Hampshire? Brrr.
Okay, I get it, druggies good, people who pick your vegetables and clean your toilets bad.
I'd say a more pressing issue that we should all be concerned about IS the ever increasing power given to law enforcement and the courts over American citizens. I'd say on a scale of 1 to 10, that'd be a 10, whereas the problem with college age students smoking marijuana in their dorm rooms would be a 1. Immigration might rate a 3 or so.
But the wholesale disregard of the very principles upon which this country was founded isn't simply revolting, but incredibly wrong. What makes it even more troubling is that there are some here who agree wholeheartedly with these totalitarian tactics, and feel that these kids deserved to have machine guns pointed at them because they smoked marijuana.
I wonder if they would feel the same if it were THEIR kid with a machine gun pointed at them, and oops, the gun went off by itself. Then it'd just be tough luck, as we all know that LEO's who discharge their weapons "accidently" during a drug raid are NEVER held accountable. EVER.
Why thank you, I will take that as a compliment.
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