Thursday, July 2, 2009
Crime / Media The Conscientious Journalist of the Day Award Goes To...
Posted by Jonah Spangenthal-Lee on Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 1:35 PM
...the Seattle PI's Levi Pulkkinen for his reporting on a federal operation to bring down a methamphetamine distribution ring in Tacoma, Vancouver and Olympia:
Announcing Operation "Arctic Chill" Thursday, federal law officers offered no claims that the arrests or the seizure of about 19 pounds of meth had a lasting impact on the Mexico-based drug trafficking organization supporting the Western Washington effort. Nonetheless, Special Agent in Charge Arnold Moorin of the Drug Enforcement Administration argued that the operation and others like it can aid U.S. law enforcement in bringing down the Jalisco, Mexico-based cartel apparently directing the ring.
The Seattle Times apparently also asked federal agents about the impact of the raid, but their response is buried at the end of the story.
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I like this.
Meth - bad. Cocaine - mostly the same.
So long as they ain't wasting my tax dollars on MJ arrests trials and jail space.
Meth - bad. Cocaine - mostly the same.
So long as they ain't wasting my tax dollars on MJ arrests trials and jail space.
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So will the Stranger be asking the King County prosecutor's office about, and reporting on, the impact (or lack there of) of the hate crime charges filed against the 47-year-old Seattle man for allegedly threatening to kill a gay man in Downtown Seattle earlier this week?
If the ends must justify the means then we are moving into territory just as dicey as if we rely on the ends to justify any means.
Sometimes we do things just because doing them is the right thing to do....
If the ends must justify the means then we are moving into territory just as dicey as if we rely on the ends to justify any means.
Sometimes we do things just because doing them is the right thing to do....
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Much as I think the War on Drugs is a failed crusade, I love it when the cops fuck with Chapo and the Sinaloa cartel. Fuckers.
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