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
BATFE has been out of control for years. They created the messes at Ruby Ridge and at Waco. They had no proof that any crime was being committed so they manufactured one and then sent in SOG wannabes to make the arrests. Epic Holdup and Obama are using them to manufacture crimes again and now they are ignoring court orders which means that instead of enforcing the law they are ignoring it just like their leaders.
Hallelujuh, I hope they abide by the low but so far they aren’t doing so well,
WE THE PEOPLE SAY> THEY SHOULD GO TO JAIL>
I am thinking that this jerk of a “president” has created a lot of trouble, more than he is worth. He needs to be gone!
No, apparently they’ve been led to believe this is Nazi Germany and they are following the Fuehrer!
It isn’t just the ATF, police departments across the country are doing the same!!!
They dress their officers as f**e street hookers, etc., …it’s called “entrapment”, and should be illegal everywhere!!!
And yet we allow it to happen over and over again, and do absolutely nothing to show our contempt. I believe all federal agencies should be disbanded, they are not held accountable to anyone but their own agency, and are a direct drain on our economy. They are all a luxury we can no longer afford…
been happening for decades.
Its about time.
watch out -its coming