Slog - Comments on "Operation Green Reaper" http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/operation_green_reaper When dealing with society's most volatile criminal element, armed raids on private residences are absolutely necessary. Um, like to arrest these folks: Police and federal agents have been raiding indoor marijuana growing operations at houses in the Seattle area. The U.S. attorney's office says 14 people and two companies have been indicted. Federal agents and police called a 1 p.m. Wednesday news conference at the federal building in Seattle to discuss the raids and the investigation they call "Operation Green Reaper." The very practice of no-knock drug raids has come under fire lately on Slog, as I've written about here... Copyright 2008 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:30:57 -0800 Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:03:08 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by COMTE LEA's don't WANT to make a difference, that's not the point. The point is to make it LOOK like they're making a difference, even if reality says otherwise.

After all, if they REALLY made a difference, and were actually EFFECTIVE at reducing the amount of illegal narcotics available, eventually they'd run out of growing/manufacturing operations to bust, and additionally they'd run out of fodder for that for-profit Incarceration Industry we've been discussing below.

And that would all be "bad for business", as the free-marketeers like to say.

]]> COMTE http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/operation_green_reaper#c1004694 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/operation_green_reaper#c1004694 Drugs Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:26:33 -0800 Comment by Original Monique Uh...While I agree that no-knock raids are bad, the Cato Institute is a bunch of crazies.

]]> Original Monique http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/operation_green_reaper#c1004712 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/operation_green_reaper#c1004712 Drugs Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:40:39 -0800 Comment by ecce homo Two things:
1) Dan loves anus so much! He loves his own, he loves other mens in bathrooms, he loves Terry's. He has loved thousands of anus's over the course of his lifetime of buggering. Anything that offends the "anui" of the world is like watching the holocaust happen in front of him. To Dan, the persecution of anus's is like watching his best friend get gassed by nazis at aushwitz.
2) I love it when arrogant and ignorant city folk encounter something from the more rural part of this country. Not that any of you have actually shot a deer. No. Yet you go the extra step and conclude that someone who does is a serial killer. BRILLIANT!!! You guys sure do know a lot about life! I mean, between preening yourselves for a trip down to the glory hole, laughing at homeless people and finding new and exciting ways to make your hair look like shit, how do you have the time to chortle at the backwards ways of the common folk?
I take solace in the fact that city will turn into virtual slaughterhouses and you assholes will become cannibals when the impending collapse happens. That is, until you die from some ungodly illness picked up because you have no idea why it's important to core out your prey's asshole.

]]> ecce homo http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/operation_green_reaper#c1004719 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/operation_green_reaper#c1004719 Drugs Wed, 23 Apr 2008 12:44:35 -0800 Comment by COMTE LOL! e.c. astroturfs - himself!

]]> COMTE http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/operation_green_reaper#c1004788 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/operation_green_reaper#c1004788 Drugs Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:43:59 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle Has anyone ever watched jPod (on the CBC)?

That's my idea of grow operations ... well, except for Alan Thicke as the dad ...

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/operation_green_reaper#c1004793 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/operation_green_reaper#c1004793 Drugs Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:51:19 -0800 Comment by Greg @2: Even a blind squirrel finds a nut sometimes.

]]> Greg http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/operation_green_reaper#c1004794 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/operation_green_reaper#c1004794 Drugs Wed, 23 Apr 2008 13:52:10 -0800 Comment by Smokey Looks like North Dakota is a good place to grow pot!

]]> Smokey http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/operation_green_reaper#c1004935 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/04/operation_green_reaper#c1004935 Drugs Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:03:08 -0800