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January 25, 2005
Dozens Including School Official Indicted in Virginia Trafficking Bust
The Daily Press in Newport News, Virginia, reported today on the arrest of dozens of people in a major operation by the Peninsula Narcotics Enforcement Task Force. The 324-count indictment
refers to drug trafficking going back to 1996 and charges that the numerous defendants "would and did on a consignment and
cash basis obtain, distribute, and possess with the intent to distribute in excess of 10,000 pounds of marijuana, in excess
of 300 kilograms of cocaine and 20 kilograms of cocaine base, known as crack, throughout the course of the conspiracy." It
follows eight months after the task force seized "$2.2 million in cash, a money counting machine, and digital scales from
a storage shed in Newport News," according to the article.
One of the people indicted is an assistant superintendent in Prince Georges County, Maryland, Pamela Hoffler-Riddick, which
has led to coverage by the local NBC affiliate. That's nearby to where DRCNet is based in Washington. I haven't seen the report, which was posted on the web at about 6:30pm
this evening. The CEO of the county school system, Hoffler-Riddick's boss, made some appropriate remarks in which he refrained
from rushing to judgment and expressed compassion for her and her family. Hoffler-Riddick has been placed on administrative
leave for the time being.
Obviously I don't whether she is innocent or guilty, and the law presumes her innocent until proven guilty. The federal
jurisdiction is the one headed by US Attorney Paul McNulty, according to an article about the same operation in The Virginian-Pilot, and he is scheduled to make an announcement and provide further information tomorrow. McNulty
is the son-of-a-bitch who prosecuted Dr. Hurwitz, and that makes any indictments brought by his division suspect in my book, especially high profile indictments such as those
against Hurwitz or Hoffler-Riddick -- McNulty and his crew may have a special penchant for seeking to make high-profile takedowns
on prominent citizens that biases their decisions. But that is speculation only and is neither here nor there in this case
insofar as the information currently available is concerned.
Regardless of my suspicions of anything prosecutor McNulty does, my main suggestion in this post is directed at the newspapers
that have reported on the indictments. They should investigate whether the cash and equipment seizures done eight months ago
had any noticeable impact on the price or availability of drugs on the Peninsula, and they should return to the topic in a
month or so to see whether this week's indictments have had any effect. If, as is overwhelmingly likely, the answers are "no"
and "no," their editorial boards should ponder what the rationale is for drug busts or prohibition itself.
Get Virginian-Pilot letter-to-the-editor information here. Get Daily Press letter-to-the-editor information here. NBC4 accepts comments online here.
- Dave Borden, DRCNet
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WEEKLY: THIS WEEK'S CORRUPT COPS STORIES
A sheriff on the border succumbs to temptation, a prosecutor in San Francisco trades leniency for crank, two jail guards in
New Jersey see their retail operation crash and burn, and a love-struck West Virginia cop makes a bad choice. http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/391/thisweek1.shtml
If this gets out-dated and you are tired of seeing it, please tell me why! "I'm pretty sick of it, I know!" The Drug
War I'm talking about!
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OK, maybe I lost a couple of my possible affiliations with certain companies. But I know who you are! Big Companies
don't scare me, but the .GOV does. I've seen how I got sucked in. I've been harrassed by police! I know what it's like to
be a normal kid growing up in this country. I was watching this thing on the AE channel about Hollywood "Kid Stars". Although
I know some had very stressful upbringings, I don't (or can't) feel sorry for them. Sorry. Try getting victimized when you
are a 'nobody', or so they thought!
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Anyway, I tried to find this show I watched on the History Channel website and couldn't find it. They were selling the
book in the bookstore. Not there now! It was about how all this ignorance about DRUGS started. It was based on the Book "Drug
Crazy" by Michael Gray. I'm glad I took notes. It had to do with 2 real bad Government employees. Harry Anslinger and
J. Edgar Hoover. Beaurocrats, ignorant of substances they didn't understand, never tried, and didn't care what they did about.
They started the "Reefer Madness" movement. And I wish everyone would have had the science teachers and Mrs. Mauston, I had
for teachers. While making reports on them (drugs), though, I wanted to learn more. Like try them. I don't think it was a
mistake, either. The worst drug today is alcohol and since the Old Testament it has been that way. If that one is legal, why
aren't the others?
I'll tell you why! This Beaurocrat, Harry Anslinger, became the head of a New Department of Government. The Federal Bureau
of Narcotics. While states wanted to make their own laws, Anslinger wanted to make a name for himself and because, even today,
the money involved in narcotic trade and guns is so steep that fearing the people vrs. government could be a problem without
the control of these, then new, High Powered Weapons, also where Hoover was concerned, became a how-to get control and keep
control measure. To get Roosevelt to sign into law a Stamp Tax on Machine Guns which would ban the transfer, without government
knowledge, they first headed it up with a Marijuana Tax. This eventually led to the "illegalization" of Marijuana. Mary Jane,
Hemp, Weed, Reefer. Get it? The show went on to say that Morphine, which I've needed and been refused due to 'Ignorance',
was 'illegalized' after the Civil War, not because of a problem, but "because of predjudice". Immigrants comming into the
US from China, Mexico, and surrounding countrys, it was thought, were bringing with the drug, more prostitution. They
also believed the Chinese men were using Opium to seduce women into prostitution.
Laudenum, which in those days was cheaper than beer, mothers would dose themselves and their children with after a hard
day of work.
The 1900's brought about the Temperance Movement. My notes say something about over half the population, but I know not
for sure what I was writing so I cannot quote that fact. Around World War II , they (christian missionarys) were
killing drug addicts to create a drug free society. Up until 1914 and the Harrison Tax Act, drug users had nothing to fret,
but all of a sudden they became criminals. Heroin was thought to be the Devil's Medicine. 10,000 doctors went to jail for
using opiates after 1914, and by 1925 Heroin is permanently banned from legitimate use. Soon after, Lucky Luciano opened the
largest underground drug cartel, The French Connection.
My notes say that Nixon re-invents drug laws and "Operation Golden Flow" comes to pass. In order for vets to get out
of Viet Nam, they had to pass drug screens.
13 states decriminalized Marijuana, but the FED wants money! Gofiger! I don't believe I want my government in My Doctor's
office or competeing with me for or putting me out of business, (which is what alot of Big Companies like car insurance and
health insurance fear), sorry again!
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