[Vigilantcitizen]

This is the same story I linked to on the other thread.

[gaucho]

This is just so wrong. The DEA is truely a Dumb Evil Agency and the WOD just doesn't work. Even more amazing that they would get such long prison terms.

[LIBERTARIAN JOE]

Good article... I remember this case. It's a perfect example of how we live in a country not under the uniform rules of constitutional law, but under the whims of hordes of bureaucrats. Horror stories relating to the WOsD are more prevalent, but the same thing happens to the 'peasants' who stand up to those little dictators on property-rights issues, educational issues, etc.

It still amazes me how brilliant the Founding Fathers of the old, dead Republic were. They saw this kind of thing coming, structured government to limit it, and warned us to prevent it, by force of arms if necessary. We've all dropped the ball and this kind of stuff will increase in the future until the point that everybody will be affected by gov't crimes like this, and there will be nothing you can do about it.

Just think about what the above story tells us about the gov't we live under. A real criminal could rape your wife or child, steal everything you own or assault you to near death (or maybe even kill you), and that criminal will be punished much less than these people whose only 'crime' was to try to make an honest living in a field the gov't doesn't approve of.

[Vigilantcitizen]

"In the spring of 1994, the Tucker family received lengthy prison sentences -- "

On Easter Sunday morning of that same year, a very good friend of mine's wife was broadsided and killed by a Mexican illegal dui who had run a red light at the end of an interstate exit ramp, not far from where this guy's store was on Buford Hwy.

The illegal received a 4 year sentence, but was released to an official from the Mexican consular after doing a year, supposedly to do his remaining time in Mexico.

Steve here gets 10 years because some of his customers perform an illegal act with the product they bought from him.

I was one of his customers and I got looked at myself.(I'm clean except for speeding tickets).Steve's store was the only place I could get bat guano without ordering it through the mail, and bat guano worked great on my orchids and azaleas, much better than rabbit or chicken manure.

This was obviously a witch hunt with an overly strict sentence given out of anger and frustration of the Feds not being able to force Steve to talk.

And is the major reason I'm anti WOD.

[RaceBannon]

This is so stupid.

If these people are so innocent, how did the jury convict them so easily?

"Even after the jury had returned guilty verdicts against all three Tuckers"...So, it was a setup with the jurors, too?

Druggie losers.

[philman_36]

FYI

[Darheel]

The War on Drugs is a war by government against its own citizens.

[bassmaner]

WOD bump

[agrace]

He simply became another of the anonymous drug offenders who make up 57 percent of all federal inmates.

That statistic alone should make anyone pause.

[MonroeDNA]

This is insane.

[fightu4it]

"The Southern Lights investigation had uncovered, all told, more than 100 small, hemp-growing operations across north Georgia, and resulted in at least 30 arrests."

They could have taken down all of these illegal pot growers without their obvious illegal actions against Southern Lights. On this one they were "out of control."

[jmc813]

WOD Ping

[MEGoody]

I see. So Gary was just your average guy running a gardening shop. Right.