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
should have done a lot more!!!!!!!
MEDA SURE LETS YOU KNOW ABOUT THE F**E NEWS!!! BUT THEY COVER UP THE MUSLISMS CRIMES!!!
Worthless
THE ‘FOUNDERS’ TOLD US THAT ‘WE THE PEOPLE’ HAVE THE RIGHT AND DUTY TO TAKE OUR COMMUNITIES BACK…
Written July 4th, 1776…In the ‘Declaration of Independence…
“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
This Statement, signed by Our Founders, Pertains to All Levels of Government, Federal, State and Local…and Means that if:
Your Local Police Dept, Your Local Judicial System, Your Local Political System, Your Local Penal System, etc. Is Out of Control and Doing Harm to the Citizens…
IT IS NOT ONLY OUR ‘RIGHT’ but Also Our ‘DUTY’ to Provide NEW GUARDS…
Time for ‘WE the People’ to Be Our New GUARDS!
We Now Have the Technology and the Plan to Make this Happen…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DIvLbY0vAI
Thay pick on the week because thay scared off the real criminals
Freedom is just another word for nothin left to lose!
Could they go after the DEA and CIA next for smuggling drugs into America?
FBI & James Darby!
and by “slaps” means “doesnt do $#%&!@*”
Same goes for all agencies… it is called ENTRAPMENT and it has been illegally used for decades!