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
It went in deaf ears, stupid minds!
Did’nt do any good..
GOOD GRIEF!!!!!!
Scarry
FINALLY- a good judge!
The ATF is one of the most problematic law enforcement agencies in the country. Just look at their record. It’s not very good. “Fast and Furious” being just one of the many dismal failures. But in all fairness, all of our law enforcement agencies are beginning to be a problem. They are becoming more militaristic and radical all the time. We see instances of “police brutality” on the rise every where. To them it seems the citizen is now the enemy, rather than the person you work for and took an oath to protect. We may need to start taking them down a notch.
Fast and Furious are crimes against humanity(200+ murders)!
Now stop the EPA IRS NSA and all the rest of the three letter nazis.
sweet
good it’s about time now they need to do it to the FBI and EPA and DEA
Der Fuehrer Obama will be talking to this Judge, through Fieldmarshall Holder, no doubt!