District Court Judge Otis Wright slammed the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) in his opinion last week, writing “Society does not win when the Government stoops to the same level as the defendants it seeks to prosecute — especially when the Government has acted solely to achieve a conviction for a made-up crime.” Wright was referring to the ATF practice of “unfairly [enlisting] people in a ‘made-up crime’ by offering them a huge payday for robbing a non-existent drug stash house.”
The ATF has more than quadrupled the number of stings it conducts over the last decade. They use fake stash houses to target violent criminals, though generally capture only small time crooks.
“The time has come to remind the Executive Branch that the Constitution charges it with law enforcement — not crime creation. A reverse-sting operation like this one transcends the bounds of due process and makes the Government the oppressor of its people,”
The opinion is a response to a case in Los Angeles Antuan Dunlap was arrested by the ATF. According to Wright, there was “no evidence that Dunlap had been involved in drug house robberies in the past or that he would have participated in one had an undercover ATF agent not offered him the chance to steal as much as 25 kilograms of non-existent cocaine,” USA Today writes.
“Zero. That’s the amount of drugs that the Government has taken off the streets as the result of this case and the hundreds of other fake stash-house cases around the country. That’s the problem with creating crime: the Government is not making the country any safer or reducing the actual flow of drugs,” Wright wrote.
Source: Rare
Photo: BATF
Fear an intimidation!!!! What ever happened to America, home of the brave???
his is obamaa USSA: United Socialist States of America today wit the Jack boot police forces..
Scott A McMillan
Yeah like the Sandy Hook HOAX!!!
Government thugs. Pretty tuff when there are a bunch, nothing when standing alone.
Jail the ATF !
Good, we are already well on our way to jackbooted thugs running our government. And I am not kidding. The thing about government is we only know about 10% of what they’re actually up to.
This is another black eye to all of the good law enforcement officers. The DOJ and ATF need to realize that the western days are behind us but at least in those days all carried six shooters so if you had bad intentions regardless of who you were there would be consequences to your actions.
Look at New Mexico and how they shot a homeless man after blasting a flash bang right at his feet. Wtf.
Then Senator Yee in CA gets busted for attempt in gun running. Go Team Liberals.
This sounds cynical but it seems difficult to believe there is still a judge out there that isn’t corrupt or agenda driven … Or is it simply that with all the other “non-scandals” they couldn’t afford another one? The fact is that they were caught but how deep does the corruption go in our 3-letter agencies and how can the American People trust them to do their work in a fair and just manner?
That is NOTHING compared to what the DEA does and allows. The DEA allows drug dealers to sell drugs, businesses to accept drugs as payment, in order to get the names of OTHER drug dealers. They HEAVILY protect some, in order to capture a few. Our ENTIRE FED is corrupt.