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I've been absent for awhile, yes. Life kind of gets in the way sometimes, if you know what I mean? It's been a whirlwind of stuff happening. Lots of things...
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And I felt obligated to post something after several weeks of not writing.
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Premature.
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There was some news today, a drug-bust gone bad in NH. A police chief is dead, several officers wounded, a reputed EMT that sold steroids from his home, with a woman who is also dead and not being publicly disclosed. The drug bust was BIG... Members of the team included police officers from many towns, without warning they burst into the alleged drug-dealer's home, causing and encountering "immediate gunfire".
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And why wouldn't they? No matter how stealthy a bust is, your job in law enforcement is to invade a home and seize a substance. In the case of Jose Guerena Ortiz, an ex-marine who had served several tours of duty in Iraq, had returned home and become a miner, marijuana madness caused a similar hail of bullets, when he was gunned down in his home while his wife and young son watched in horror as a SWAT team burst into their home with little warning. And with a storm of gun-fire.
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He took over 70 bullets to his body... for suspected sale and possession of marijuana. I'll cover his case in my next post.
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It's at this point, I stop and wonder, why does/did this ever happen. Why has the violence common in Mexico, come to the US now, and my neighbors? Has the threat from steroids, marijuana and other personal substance consumables increased? It hasn't... And what is there to gain with newspapers glorifying such violence? "Drug Bust and the Death of a Police Chief in Greenland, NH"? Without complete and comprehensive information?
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The person allegedly selling steroids was reputed to be an EMT/firefighter. The woman, no one is talking about her - she's simply a Jane Doe at this point. That's not what I call transparency. It's collusion and delusion on the part of our safety net, aka, law-enforcement and our law-makers that such violence occurs.
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Did we learn nothing from from the era of the 18th Amendment which banned production of alcohol? Do we really believe firefights over plants and personal consumption of drugs is worth the deaths of police and civilians?
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The media blatantly hid the kind of drug that law-enforcement busted that house in Greenland, NH for... resulting in several deaths. They capitalized on the intrigue! Do the deaths of law enforcement officers and civilians serve to protect society when it involves illegal drugs? Shouldn't the substance be weighed in accurately, much like murder is, for a cause of reasonable threat? The couple may have been involved in the sale of a illegal drug, but when was the last time you saw such violence in the case of a child abuser, a internet hacker, so many similar crimes for which common sense is in charge.
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To me it's wrong.
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It mostly comes down to the fact that 1% of society makes the rules of what the real game is... whether real or not real; we the other 99% have no choice but to follow, do our jobs, stand in line. To get into lock-step.
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We're taught today that drugs are bad. We're also taught drugs are good. We're told there are drugs bad enough that police must take people who use and sell them down, like Al Capone, Bonnie and Clyde.
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Now, can you imagine something like this happening in 1909?
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It did, but it resulted in zero busts, and no deaths. In fact the biggest bust in history caused hardly a ripple in the space/time continuum.
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The Pure Food and Drug Act passed June 30, 1906. It became law. Brought about the following:
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In 1909, the federal gov't banned the sale of Coca-Cola. Not because cocaine was in Coca Cola any longer, that had changed in 1903, but rather, Coca Cola replaced the cocaine with caffeine in it's soft-drink. And the federal gov't busted Coke! Banned it!!!
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We're not speaking about coffee-beans here, which is considered crude plant product; btw. Raw plant material technically, by law, there can be no law. A drug can only be a drug if processed in a lab.
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Caffeine is a drug. It is. While coffee is a simply a natural plant product, "slow-roasted, and freeze-dried to perfection". Much like cannabis should be...
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The case was United States vs Forty Barrels and Twenty Kegs of Coca-Cola. The court upheld the ban initially, until Coca-Cola struck a deal behind closed doors with the gov't, agreeing to reduce the amount of caffeine they added to their soft-drink.
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In a future post I hope to put together the law and the control the federal gov't actually has over crude plant material. Most of the right of law-enforcement comes from politicians who often have ulterior motives passing laws.
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That this drug bust involved steroids seems to me important, that immediate disclosure to the public ensue. Many commenters on news-sites, wrote expecting it to be marijuana. No one knew.
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This is what I mean by: "The Doping of America".
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Who do we trust, who do we believe?
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Think about it.
