dannyp19
04-10-2006, 08:49 AM
Source: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n435/a09.html
Hat tip: http://www.theagitator.com/
Drug cops in Falmouth, Mass. sent a hot, young female cop to pose as a student at the local high school. She befriended several adolescent boys with low self esteem by pretending she was interested in them, then she asked them to get her marijuana. If you've ever been a high school boy, it won't surprise you to learn that they came through, even though most of them had no history of drug use at all, much less of drug peddling. Of course, they were promptly arrested, booked, and touted out as the latest Drug War trophies.
What a sick spectacle. Is this really what it's come to? Manipulating emotionally fragile teenagers into commiting crimes they otherwise wouldn't have commited with fake romantic advances? This isn't fighting crime. It's creating crime. Any Drug Warrior want to proudly stand up for this one?
The article hints that this is an isolated incident. Not so. It's happened before (note that U.S. Drug Czar John Walters "applauds" such efforts). And not just in high schools. In the book Smoke and Mirrors, Dan Baum talks about how drug agents have also befriended lonely widows and widowers via personal ads, persuaded the poor saps to get hold controlled substance for them with promises of romance, then put the clamp down when the sad, lonely old fools came through. Some with no previous criminal record served years in prison.
Makes ya' proud to be an American, doesn't it?
Hat tip: http://www.theagitator.com/
Drug cops in Falmouth, Mass. sent a hot, young female cop to pose as a student at the local high school. She befriended several adolescent boys with low self esteem by pretending she was interested in them, then she asked them to get her marijuana. If you've ever been a high school boy, it won't surprise you to learn that they came through, even though most of them had no history of drug use at all, much less of drug peddling. Of course, they were promptly arrested, booked, and touted out as the latest Drug War trophies.
What a sick spectacle. Is this really what it's come to? Manipulating emotionally fragile teenagers into commiting crimes they otherwise wouldn't have commited with fake romantic advances? This isn't fighting crime. It's creating crime. Any Drug Warrior want to proudly stand up for this one?
The article hints that this is an isolated incident. Not so. It's happened before (note that U.S. Drug Czar John Walters "applauds" such efforts). And not just in high schools. In the book Smoke and Mirrors, Dan Baum talks about how drug agents have also befriended lonely widows and widowers via personal ads, persuaded the poor saps to get hold controlled substance for them with promises of romance, then put the clamp down when the sad, lonely old fools came through. Some with no previous criminal record served years in prison.
Makes ya' proud to be an American, doesn't it?