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
Entrapment
Kind of like the guy who started the fire in a Navy sub to get off work.
And last but by far not least… let us not forget that the CIA admitted to commiting over 300,000 serious crimes per year. Including murder, treason,sedition, drug and human trafficking, rape, and other serious crimes. “Senatorial hearings on CIA corruption”. To which our reps replied…. ok
All of them need to be FIRED and in jail for a yr.
Like ARES Armor store in Ca. http://fox5sandiego.com/2014/03/17/feds-raid-gun-parts-stores-despite-court-order/#axzz2xsfEG2OY
They’ve been doing it for decades, there have been protests and lawsuits, all to no avail.
Time to end the three letter terrorist agencies…We could do better without them……………………………..
Now press charges and make some F’ ing arrests already ! ! !
Check out http://www.agingrebel.com Donald Charles Davis has been writing about the ATF’s excesses for a long time now. He has a book available from Amazon that tells the story of how the ATF screwed over the Mongols motorcycle club. Good reading
show me where, in the enumerated powers in the constitution, we can have an agency that does nothing except infringe upon our right to keep and bear arms.