Booby-Trapped Pot Injures Three Drug Agents

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[chance33_98]

Booby-Trapped Pot Injures Three Drug Agents 

A booby-trapped pot plant left two national guardsmen and one agent from the Alcohol Beverage Commission with non life-threatening injuries when it exploded. The explosion happened during a routine marijuana eradication conducted by the Governor's Task Force.

At 2:00 p.m. Thursday afternoon, three drug agents found roughly 30 plants in a secluded Maury County pot patch. Suddenly, there was an explosion near the three agents.

"They cut a plant and a device detonated."

Maurice Hobbs, a special ops sergeant with the Tennessee Highway Patrol, rushed to the men who suffered injuries, including ringing ears and cuts from flying shrapnel.

"It was very loud. There was a crater in the dirt indicating, it was some kind of high explosive. It blew a log in half."

Thankfully, no one was seriously injured, but blast experts said had the men been standing directly in the path of the blast wave, the situation could have been much more serious.

"There were enough explosives there to cause extensive damage."

Bomb experts asked News 2 not to disclose how the booby-trapped pot plant was triggered, but agents did tell us it was powerful, sophisticated, and there for a purpose.

"More than likely it was for law enforcement personnel."

"He's taking time to plant marijuana, taking time to build a device for us, hoping to hurt us or kill us."

News 2 spoke to the TBI coordinator for the Governor's Task Force on Marijuana Eradication. He said to date, his men have seized around 400,000 plants across the state, with each plant valued at close to a $1,000. Money is a prime reason some growers booby-trap their crops. If you have any information on who made the bomb, call the Tennessee Highway Patrol.

[Roscoe]

If adjectives were arguments, you might might stand a chance.

[Roscoe]

All grants of power to Congress in Sec. 8, as elsewhere, must be read in conjunction with the final clause, cl. 18, of Sec. 8, which authorizes Congress '' [t]o make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing powers.''

[tpaine]

All grants of power to Congress in Sec. 8, as elsewhere, must be read in conjunction with the final clause, cl. 18, of Sec. 8, which authorizes Congress '' [t]o make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing powers.''
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Congrats roscoe, you actually made a point on constitutonal principle.
-- Now, -- do you agree that the 10th amendment severely restricts the congressional application of cl. 18, Sec. 8?

[servantoftheservant]

We're not a communist country.

What a disingenuous, vacuous response. You didn't address my question. Either you're an idiot, or you're evading the question.

[dcwusmc]

Why would you think that of Roscoe? I mean he's such a big gooberment freak anyway, why on earth would you think he'd flinch from seeing firearms banned if it would further his war on Americans called the war on some drugs?

[dcwusmc]

Ever hear of Marbury v Madison? A piece of legislation repugnant to the Constitution, which, by the way is a set of limitations on GOOBERMENT, NOT we the People, is void from the day it was enacted, not merely the day it is found so, and is not to be enforced or any similar thing. So it's up to you to prove the CONSTITUTIONALITY of the thing rather than the opposite. Just because your FedGov goons usurp a power not theirs to have does NOT make it Constitutional and it matters not HOW many Congressional "findings" you have. You can have 2,302,239,295 and they mean zip. I suggest you READ THE CONSTITUTION before you open your mouth. It limits YOU, the GOOBERMENT GOONSQUADS, NOT we the people.

[Roscoe]

A piece of legislation repugnant to the Constitution

Prohibitions on dope aren't.

[dcwusmc]

Backward, indeed. The Supremes "found" a "right" to commit murder and call it abortion the same way FedGov "found" some "authority" to prohibit drugs, in the name of racism and control over various groups of people. No one need PROVE a right to self-medicate. FedGov must prove that it has the legitimate authority to BAN something, which it has not been able to do, despite your maudlin drools all over the thread.

[Roscoe]

The Supremes "found" a "right" to commit murder and call it abortion the same way FedGov "found" some "authority" to prohibit drugs

Backwards. The CSA is carefully grounded in, among other things, the Constitutional powers of Congress to regulate trade among the states and with foreign countries.

By contrast, dopers and abortionists want the courts to invent "Constitutional rights" for them.

[tpaine]

All grants of power to Congress in Sec. 8, as elsewhere, must be read in conjunction with the final clause, cl. 18, of Sec. 8, which authorizes Congress '' [t]o make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing powers.''
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Congrats roscoe, you actually made a point on constitutonal principle.
-- Now, -- do you agree that the 10th amendment severely restricts the congressional application of cl. 18, Sec. 8?
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Your failure/inablity to answer the above is noted. Thanks.

[dcwusmc]

Roscoe, I am really glad you post your drool here. I know of several EX-Woddies who have read your barbra streisand over time and came to the rational conclusion that if you are FOR it, a believer in liberty and the Constitution MUST be AGAINST it. You are really making the case AGAINST the war on Americans called a war on some drugs. Thanks from the bottom of my heart. You do far more good than you know... or intend, if you are not secretly on the side of truth, justice and the American way.

[redheadtoo]

I once had a teacher who was a retired police captain. He told the class about his officers finding a shack in the woods that they were certain was a meth lab. Because it was likely to be booby trapped he felt it was too dangerous to send his men in. So, he called the fire department instead.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

If adjectives were arguments, you might might stand a chance.

How many dodges is this now? Wake me up when you've figured out how to make your case like a conservative and not like a socialist. It's really easy, by the way---I could make the case for you. I've already given you a hint, but you keep on arguing down dead-end streets.

[Texasforever]

Drug legalization is not a "conservative" issue

[Kevin Curry]

What are you babbling on about?

Never mind. If it isn't intelligible, it likely isn't important.

[Kevin Curry]

Thanks from the bottom of my heart.

Bottom of your bong, maybe.

[Kevin Curry]

Wake me up . . .

I vote we just let you sleep.

[Catalyst]

"The CSA is carefully grounded in, among other things, the Constitutional powers of Congress to regulate trade among the states and with foreign countries."

You think the potential of interstate sale is enough to regulate a product?

[Roscoe]

war on Americans

Backwards. That's what the drug dealers were doing with their booby traps.