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Local Reporter Tries To Find Drugs At Occupy Boston, Hilarity Ensues

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Like many of the Occupy movements across the country, Occupy Boston has been nursing a delicate drug problem on the premises, and as more people get arrested for dealing and taking drugs in the tents, one local news station decided to visit the site and night and find out just how rampant the drug use is. With protesters claiming they are getting a bad reputation for a select few of “bad apples,” WHDH sent a reporter to find drugs, and it didn’t take long for coughing and laughing groups of people within tents to push the reporter away.

WHDH reported that, this week, members of Occupy Boston had been arrested as the police had begun sending undercover officers to find the people bringing drugs into the camp site. Drugs are explicitly prohibited and the protest organizers have put signs up telling people not to bring drugs or alcohol. Despite that, several dealers have been arrested. WHDH reports:

Members of Occupy Boston now occupy a local jail after three more people were arrested for selling drugs at the peaceful protests. Boston police said plain clothes officers went to the camp Thursday night to see if they could buy crack. Officers said two men offered to sell some, but they had run out of their supply.

Police said the men then walked the officers to the Pine Street Inn [a local homeless shelter] where a third man provided the drugs. Occupy Boston members are aware some drug dealers are here but it is a select few that are a problem.

After this report, WHDH sent their reporter Tim Caputo on site at Dewey Square, where he found several people during the day willing to claim that “it’s not a drug environment,” but at night, he followed the scent of marijuana to “a tent with smoke billowing out.” When someone told the people inside that “Channel 7″ was outside, the group started coughing, cursing, and shouting, and told the reporters to leave. While some members of the protest insisted there was no drug use there, it’s hard to imagine what else was going on in that tent that involved smoke and marijuana scents that would cause everyone to run and hide from the cameras.

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  • Anonymous

    Shocking!  Get the dogs and let’s clear the park of this refuse.  I’m kidding.  Look, I don’t drink or smoke anything, but if I was stuck in a tent in cold weather, I’d want a little pick me up.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

    Smoking a doobie titillates the lamestream Fixed News?  Shocking!!  I have a better and more factual perception — Fixed News consists of the offsrping of Doug Niedermeyer, late of Faber College and offed/fragged by his own men in Vietnam.  The collection of morons on Fixed News includes Tim Caputo, Junior G(oof)ball.  Fox’s desperation is showing in their attempt to smear OWS.

  • JimmyTrackScorn999

    Plentiful drugs at OWS protests?  Rush Limbaugh might want to start looking for a Guy Fawkes mask.

  • Anonymous

    What a cheap shot for the journalist.  I can’t believe it.  Going undercover to smear the whole movement, and stumbling on a nest of . . . pot smokers

    I used to think that you really had to have something on the ball to be a journalist, but you don’t, really.  All it requires is the ability to turn in something on a deadline.  Any junk will do. 

  • Anonymous

    WHDH, is an NBC-affiliated television station in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the largest NBC station not owned by the network. – - – - It is interesting that any report you liberals don’t like must be from Fox news.

  • Rio

    Fixed News! squawk..Fixed News!  “Fox’s desperation…”

    Boston’s Channel 7 is NBC.

  • Rio

    What about the crack dealers, no comment?

  • joe

    if he wanted to find dope–just go to congress…

  • joe

    you want to buy crack????
    GO TO WALL STREET—-THIS IS NOT EVEN A JOKE—MORE WALL STREETERS ARE ON CRACK PER CAPITA THAN ANY WHERE IN AMERICA…

    thus again–we see irony..

    HEY REPORTER—GO TO WALL STREET AND SEE IF YOU CAN BUY CRACK——
    but of course that would NOT serve the purpose huh?

  • http://www.facebook.com/mcthorogood Michael C. Thorogood

    Who needs illegal drugs when you can just get psychotropic medications from your local pill mill, er I mean doctor.  Be careful though, a known side effect of these so-called medications include the thought of suicide.

  • I am Who I am

    so let’s not spend time on the core subject of the protests and the reason they exist, even if it ‘s now a national and worldwide phenomenon….
    let’s instead try to find some pot(!?!) in a tent, and try to discredit the whole movement because we are not journalists we are agenda driven fucking morons…

    nice, really….

  • Norbit

    Breaking News:

    FOX reporting on TOXING – where protestors take pics of police officers’ badge numbers & names, and they twitter outsiders the info in order to harass them through e-mails, facebook, and the like.

    FOX states that Mainstream Networks are aware of the practice – but are NOT REPORTING IT in order to help bolster public support for the OWS movement.

    In other words, the mainstream media is DELIBERATELY misrepresenting – through omission –  the very News we entrust them to reporton!

    So we have an Administration that will LIE about anything, and a Media that will LIE about anything!
    Your Democratic Party.

  • http://www.facebook.com/PeacefulPerson Cami Pray

    WOW anything for a story filled with drama. This isn’t news this is propaganda machine. Keep the spin going. How about the undercovers go to Wall Street and see how much crack they could buy, or xanax, or crank. How about they go to the SEC. Give me a break. Another light shines on the chief cops being on corporate americans side and not the peoples.

  • hatessnark

    all the Boston local channels have a hard time filling their endless hours of breathless news reporting, they have to resort to this gotcha stuff over and over.  Is it the same in every city?

  • Anonymous

    Is Tim Caputo,  Neil Cavuto’s missplaced son, once removed via consonant?

  • Anonymous

    So what?

  • Anonymous

    Again.So what?

  • Anonymous

    News is about the ratings.
    Stories to exaggerate!!

  • Anonymous

    “And you can see it only one place!
    News 7″

  • Markopolo

    Score to date:  

    Occupy Wall Street arrests = 4,000

    Tea Party arrests = 2

    Occupy Wall Street wins in the too-stupid-to-be-allowed-loose category.

  • Pingpong

    Violent OWS Protesters Prevent Woman in Wheelchair From Leaving Event
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=b1K1r_w8u38

  • Marymary57

    Assault, extortion, and harassment at Occupy Ottawa
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=N2FCSH16TfY

  • Carlton_paul

    (OWS) Liberal Protester Uses Child As Human Shield
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=U20Cvetv17M

  • Bridgeport

    Occupy Wall Street Forced To Set Up Female-Only Tents To Stop Rampant Sexual Assaults…

    (NYP) — Zuccotti Park has become so overrun by sexual predators attacking women in the night that organizers felt compelled to set up a female-only sleeping tent yesterday to keep the sickos away.

    http://weaselzippers.us/2011/11/05/occupy-wall-street-forced-to-set-up-female-only-tents-to-stop-rampant-sexual-assaults/

  • Cancan

    Man Arrested At Occupy Wall Street For Urinating On Cop Car…

    (NYP) — A man who’s been seen for days with the Occupy Wall Street protesters was arrested for urinating on an NYPD van parked next to Zuccotti Park, police said.

  • Bridgeport

    Colorado Occupier Arrested For Torching Condo Complex That Caused $10 Million In Damage…

    (Coloradoan) — Investigators arrested a 29-year-old man associated with Occupy Fort Collins on suspicion of setting the Oct. 24 fire that destroyed an Old Town condominium complex and severely damaged another.

  • Bridgeport

    Oakland Mayor Praises Occupy Oakland Protesters After Riots Cost City $6.1 Million, “Good Day For The 99% Movement”…

  • Blameme

    Occupy Boston: Three Protesters Arrested For Selling Crack…

    Undercover cops probing reports of drug dealing in the Occupy Wall Street tent city busted Atu Austin, 31, of Roxbury and Lamont Daughtery, 21, and Thomas McLaughlin, 29, both of Hyde Park, on charges of selling crack.

  • Lance

    Classic: Wall Street Traders From Chicago Board Of Trade Dump hundreds of McDonald’s Job Applications On Occupy Chicago Protesters.

  • http://profiles.google.com/kfitzer Ken Fitzer

    The crack dealer was clearly not at the encampment. The losers that offered to make the sale went elsewhere to make their deal. I suspect the two crackheads were in the neighborhood long before Occupy Boston showed up.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=553398269 David Bloch

    I live in Boston and the local media has been trying to malign the movement since its inception, doing “expose’s” on the “the lack of cleanliness” and the “drug problem.” I’ve been to many of their marches and been at the camp myself several times. It is usually impeccably clean, even cleaner then some of areas of downtown and the poorer neighborhoods. The camp has a good portion of homeless people there that have been either welcomed by the Occupiers or been “urged” to go there by BPD. As i’m sure many are aware, many homeless people do fucking drugs. (crazy, i know.) The Pine Street Inn that was described in the article is a well-known homeless shelter that probably has the biggest concentration of drug addicts in the area, so no surprise there was a crack dealer there. And as far as the pot smoking… honestly if you think weed is a big deal just because the government says it is, then i’m not even gonna go into that… thats another argument. The bottom line is, I’ve met many of the people there. They are not dirty. They are far from uneducated. And they are probably some of the nicest people you’ll ever meet, both the permanent occupiers and those like myself who come in for the marches. For a truly leaderless camp, things run pretty smoothly, but not perfectly, (but, dare i say, better than Congress?!). There are drug addicts, homeless people, and even mischievious little anarchists (GASP!). But this is representative of the general population. Well maybe not the suburban, homogeneous neighborhoods I suspect some of you live in, (no offense.) Nonetheless, my point is, take the Media with a grain of salt. They are not Stalinist, lazy, useful idiots who want to kill everything you love. And they are not truly noble revolutionary heroes that are PERFECTLY fighting for economic justice. There’s truth somewhere in the middle of that spectrum, rarely shown in the media. 

  • Lance

    So you are part of the doper, rioter, anarchist, sexual predator bunch, eh?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=553398269 David Bloch

    Not a rioter (haven’t met any of those yet), I do have slight anarchist tendencies (maybe even more of a LIBERTARIAN) , certainly not a sexual predator. But i do smoke weed. 

  • Lance

    If you smoke weed your are an idiot and a disappointment to your parents.  Loser.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins
  • joe

    number of tea baggers? 1000
    number of OWS—100,000

    like comparing toledo to New York City—

    at least OWS are are full of govie dead beats on disability–ASKING THE GOVERNMENT TO GET OUT OF THEIR LIVES….

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUsBvkfQKUw

    AHHHHH-this never gets old~

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=553398269 David Bloch

    LOL okay. Smoking weed doesn’t preclude me from being successful. Hey look at Rush Limbaugh, he was a JUNKIE, and look where he is! And I’m not an idiot, or a loser. Actually far from both. Or a disappointment. Is this a case of Self-Projection, Lance?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VTR7OAHC55DNHUAFUT6K2IJK2E Lemon Limey

    Over 5 million Americans have been addicted to pain pills.  Odds are you were either one of them or were related to someone that was.  Give it up.

  • Anonymous

    Really? You don’t think the erroneous post by Bill Adkins should have been corrected? Why do you object to Ajolily posting the real information?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=553398269 David Bloch

    Lemon Limey, I’m not addicted to anything, especially pain pills. I don’t look down upon pain pill addicts though, I just feel bad for them. They should just light up a joint. Can’t get addicted to those. Don’t even need a prescription!

  • Anonymous

    Again, why your obvious objection to reporting the truth? Is it because you prefer to blame Fox News even when it wasn’t Fox News?

  • Rio

    The two took the undercover cop somewhere else because they were out of it,  but certainly knew where to go get some more.  Didn’t you listen to the video?

    Frances pasted the comment in the blog:

    “Officers said two men offered to sell some, but they had run out of their supply.”

    The officers were IN THE CAMP when they were attempting to make the purchase.  Now you can suspect all you want being as though you aren’t there, the cops were.

  • Rio

    I’ll let you figure it out for yourself, if you can’t, so what.

  • Anonymous

    Fox new local and natinal are two differant things. Same with NBC.
    and besides the media is always hyping crap for ratings.

  • http://profiles.google.com/kfitzer Ken Fitzer

    I reiterate my statement – I suspect the two crackheads that led the undercover to the Pine Street Inn were in the neighborhood long before the Occupy Boston encampment popped up.

    As Boston resident and Mediaite poster David Bloch posts in this very thread – “The Pine Street Inn that was described in the article is a well-known
    homeless shelter that probably has the biggest concentration of drug
    addicts in the area, so no surprise there was a crack dealer there.”

    I stand by my statement.

  • BR

    First of all it is NOT Fox News.  Second, do you know what an idiot that you sound like?

  • Anonymous

    In Massachucetts Smoking weed is not a crime under an ounce. They give you a ticket like for parking.

  • BR

    Enough drugs for Obama to show up for a little blow?

  • Lemonlimey

    They should put you in jail and throw away the key.  I know kids that did marijuana in college and they are STILL screwed up 30 years later. 

  • http://profiles.google.com/kfitzer Ken Fitzer

    http://jointhehousingrevolution.wordpress.com/2011/01/page/2/

    “At Pine Street Inn’s long-term housing for the chronically homeless,
    there are no curfews. No lengthy applications. No drug screenings. No
    mental health checks. Those things come later; housing comes first.”

    http://www.pinestreetinn.org/

  • Rio

    How many rapes, sexual “assaults” theft, and fights are going on in the board rooms or trading floors on Wall Street?  Defication on the hallway floors?  Are they tossing bottles, paint cans and rocks at the police on their way to work?  Is there reason for the police or press to trudge into the offices on Wall Street to find drugs?  You think they take crack to work?

    There’s been an article posted in here several times where it states women have left the camp because they are aftraid of what’s going on inside.  OWS’s security is obvioulsy not capable of handling what is going on.  A “no snitch” rule has also been reported by protesters to the press which would draw members of the media there out of curiosity, the OWS dummies just haven’t figured out that it is they and what they do and say that is attracting attention they obviously want or they’d shut up, no snitching.  lol

  • Lemonlimey

    Oh, so we are counting people that COULD BE called “Tea Party” members or “OWS” when arrested AWAY from protests and gatherings?  

    Then the score is OWS = 19,500, Tea Party 8.

  • Anonymous

    Yes, but Bill Adkins was obviously blaming “FIX” news, and he was wrong. Ajolily and Rio corrected him. Your “so what” infers you would rather the lie go unchallenged.

  • Anonymous

    Do you think prison would of helped your so called friends?

    THE PRISON SONG

    One day a friend took me aside and said, “I have to leave you.
    For buying something from a friend, they say I’ve done wrong.
    For protecting the name of a man, they say I’ll have to leave you.
    So now I’m bidding you farewell for much too long”.

    And here’s a song to sing for every man inside.
    If he can hear you sing, it’s an open door.
    There’s not a rich man there who couldn’t pay his way.
    And buy the freedom that’s a high price for the poor.

    Kids in Texas smoking grass, ten year sentence comes to pass.
    “Misdemeanor in Ann Arbor”, ask the judges,”Why?”.

    One day a friend said to her kids, “I’m gonna have to leave you.
    For selling something to the man I guess I did wrong.
    And although I did the best I could I’m gonna have to leave you.
    So now I’m kissing you farewell for much too long”.

    And here’s a song to sing for every man inside.
    If he can hear you sing, it’s an open door.
    There’s not a rich man there who couldn’t pay his way.
    And buy the freedom that’s a high price for the poor.

    -GRAMHAM NASH

  • Anonymous

    America has been raped by Wall Street!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Anonymous

    Big effing deal! They caught several people smoking marijuana during the night in Boston!

    That’s what remained from good old investigative reporting…

    Congrats to that crappy channel and to Mediaite for echoing this remarkable journalistic achievement!

  • Anonymous

    Only if he beats George W. Bush to the party

  • Anonymous

    I’d be willing to bet that crack cocaine probably makes people do less stupid things than alcohol.

  • Anonymous

    If you say dumb things like that you should be castrated then kill yourself. Idiot.

  • Pablo
  • Pablo

    Yeah! Who cares about getting the facts straight! OCCUPY EVERYTHING!

    Moron.

  • Pablo

    Well, that is where they found the heroin dealers with the 6 year old.

    http://tinyurl.com/6yygqo5

    Remember all the Tea Party smack dealers they arrested?

  • Pablo

    I’d be willing to bet that you’ve never known a crackhead.

  • Pablo

    LOOK AT ME! I MAKE RIDICULOUS SHIT UP IN ALL CAPS!!!!

    JOE IS REALLY SMART! HE TOTALLY KNOWS WHAT HE’S TALKING ABOUT!!!!!

  • Pablo

    Can you show us where they touched you?

  • Pablo

    What is the reason the protests exist? Better yet, what is their ask? What’s the goal?

  • Gino’s Opinion

    These links have nothing to do with tea party protests. When you post lies and deceit to prove your point, you only disprove it that much more.

  • ASAP

    Ok, Facist Fuckface. 

  • Mark

    Violence Hits Occupy LA: Woman Arrested For Setting Another Person’s Clothes On Fire, Second Woman Attacks Man With a Tent Pole…

  • ASAP

    Another Fascist Fuckface. 

  • ASAP

    * fascist

  • Anonymous

    Been busy hacking acounts lately?

  • Anonymous

    Are you one?

  • Anonymous

    Afraid?

  • Anonymous

    Do you drink alcohol?

  • Anonymous

    Your “Big Effin Deal” supports some of the biggest “corporations” in Mexico that use violence to stay in business. You are so far removed from what it take “to put that joint in your hand” you don’t even think about what it took and who suffered to get it there.

    http://couriernews.suntimes.com/news/8550859-418/vicious-violent-drug-cartel-puts-chicago-area-on-mexican-border.html

    “In Mexico, feuding drug cartels are suspected of tens of thousands of murders, some of them gruesome beyond compare. They have been known to kidnap, torture, kill and mutilate their enemies. Here’s an example: The Juarez Cartel got blamed for what happened to a 36-year-old kidnapping victim whose skinned face was stitched onto a soccer ball in Sinaloa, Mexico, in January 2010. Cartel members, including a hit squad called the Scorpions, are believed responsible for murders in Chicago, too, a police source said.”

    “Fear of cartel violence, as well as rampant bribery, has prompted many officials in Mexico to look the other way while tons of marijuana and other drugs cross the border. But the cartel bosses aren’t just ruthless killers. They’re also seasoned businessmen who run their operations with a logistical know-how that rivals corporate giants in the U.S.”

  • Pablo

    No, I don’t have time for that sort of thing, nor am I interested in your internet security problems. I like facts not your stupid fantasies.

  • Pablo

    Afraid people don’t protest. Answer the question or piss off.

  • Pablo

    You think that when you have to resort to lying, you’d step back and reevaluate what you’re doing. You’d think. But then, they don’t think. They only fantasize.

  • Anonymous

    In other words, crack was not found for sale at the protest site.

  • Anonymous

    Funny, you have like most false likes made in my name wafflehead.

  • Pablo

    What part of “I don’t care.” eludes you, meathead?

  • Anonymous

    Coward!

  • Pablo

    Teabagger!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

    Regardless, they’re repeating the meme ‘OWS is dope smoking hippies from the ’60s.’ 

  • Anonymous

    I’m sure you would want to look Wafflehead.

  • Anonymous

    Wafflehead!

  • Anonymous

    The banks are scewing us.
    Are you a big fan of Skank of America or Shitty Bank, Wafflehead?

  • Anonymous

    More people in Occupy movement than at the Tea Party rallies..

  • Anonymous

    These areas are now small communities themself.
    Do you know any community without any crime?

  • proud2teabagu

    A whole movement made up of dope heads and they found some dope heads. Interesting.

  • Pablo

    Someone should tell Graham that you don’t get 10 years for a misdemeanor. He sure sings pretty, though.

  • Pablo

    Crazy, ain’t it?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Brian-Kirkland/100000195274498 Brian Kirkland

    Roughly 10% of Americans use illicit drugs. That people at these occupations use them is not the issue. The issue is why are all these people in the streets, how long will they be there and are they there for valid reasons.

  • Rio

    No, no other words, the plainclothes officers went in there to buy crack, two men offered to sell some but said they were out of their supply.  So, they took the officers over a mile away to another area to purchase the crack.  Wonder who at the camp bought what they had?

  • Anonymous

    I agree they are supporting drug cartels in Mexico, so why don’t we make it legal so it can be grown here.       That would destroy the cartels, the violence, and deaths.   It would also help our budget deficit by needing so many DEA agents and other costly drug enforcement cost.  Another good reason for making it legal.  

  • Anonymous

    No matter how many times you say the same thing, crack was not found for sale at the protest site.

  • Anonymous

    Oops, hit like instead of reply. Subtract one like.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TWK2YYJTTIDLZIVV7NKZM23Z6Q Tyler

    I’m here with Tea Party Alliance and we’re trying to spot and report any bad behavior within the OWS movement. 

  • Anonymous

    It’s no surprise you fools buy the crap Beck and FoxNews sells, you’ll believe a crack head if it supports the fantasy that you want to believe.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=553398269 David Bloch

    LMFAO messed up 30 years later? what kinda shit were they smoking?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=553398269 David Bloch

    cool

  • Anonymous

    Oh! The shame of it all!
    The shame. The shame. The shame.
    The end of civilization is upon us.

  • Anonymous

    So your the wambulance squad.

  • Anonymous

    Ah, time to bone up then!
    http://occupywallst.org/

  • Anonymous

    I live in a medical marijuana state.  We grow our own.  Most middle Americans grow their, know someone who grows for them.  We’re not dealing with drug cartels for pot.  This president is treading on very thin water if he starts cracking down on medical marijuana.  For the first time the majority of Americans want it legal and it’s something that crosses red and blue states.

  • Anonymous

    Some one needs to tall this man the huffing isn’t smoking pot.

  • Anonymous

    But everyone know your mom always says what a good boy you are!

  • Pablo

    That isn’t an ask and it isn’t a goal, nitwit.

    Helpful hint: Credit Union.

  • Pablo

    Isn’t the point of moving into downtown parks to get media attention? If you don’t want to be watched, GO HOME.

  • Pablo

    What is the Occupy deal if not one great big whine?

  • Anonymous

    David is a paid organizer of the movement that would only explain his blindness to the real situation. The group are lawless elements that have no respect for our laws are for their fellow citizens. They are for from heroes. They are Obama’s army of misfits. that need to get a job.

    Hard to find a job when you high.

  • Anonymous

    The song was written in 1973,
    Clay Whitten, college graduate, given 10 years for possession. [WHITTEN - says doesn't feel he did anything wrong.] Reform of Texas law now possible. State Senator Betty Andujar, conservative Republican has bill to introduce that would remove prison terms for possession. [ANDUJAR - says using pot parallel to drinking during prohibition.]
     REPORTER: Charles Murphy

    http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/program.pl?ID=25054

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

    Are you serious?  The only lies and deceit demonstrated here are yours when youi deny the very fabric of what the Tea Party represents.  These links are dead on Tea Party principled actions – anti-immigrant, ‘saving’ the nation and Georiga.  We have met the enemy and they is the Tea Party/Republicans. 

  • Rio

    Did FoxNews report this?  I don’t know.  Did Beck report this?  I don’t know.  What I do know is that NBC reported it as Boston 7 is NBC.  Had you checked out the video or read through the thread you would have known that.  So, looks like you are the obvious fool believing in a fantasy.

    You people remind me of a broken animal See and Say, all that’s left is the bleating and squawking, your strings are full of knots, even a two year old would be bored.

  • Rio

    The dealers were at the site and a buy was made, and you know for a fact that the supply they sold was not sold at the site.

  • Anonymous

    It is time for the American public both the right and the left to admit that we have lost the war on drugs. We can not win a war when a small investment will bring in thousands of dollars. Human greed will overcome the fear of the law. In Singapore, Philippines, China and other Asian countries,the death penalty is on the books, people still take the risk. The financial gains are to great to worry about death.

    Legalize all drugs, drive the price down and the criminal element out of the manufacturing and selling of the drugs. Set up drug users registration centers and allow the users to buy and use what they choose. Use the tremendous amount of money being wasted on a war that can not be won on education, rehabilitation centers, If a person wants help to overcome the  drugs let them enter a free rehab center: If he or she want to use and destroy their life then put no obstacle in their way. Get High and Die, society does not give a dam. This motto alone will stop and make a user think. False compassion and high profits drive this industry.

    There are a certain number of people that are destined to be losers and we can not save them. Let them pump whatever they want in their veins and leave them alone. Make it affordable so as they do not have to turn to a life of crime to support their habit. The statitcs are available to show the hidden cost of crimes committed by the user to support a habit.

    Educate our children on the use of drugs and work in the ghetto to provide opportunity for our youth. The democratic approach of all talk and no actions has not and will not elevate our people from bondage that these plantation owners have placed on our brothers with their meager entitlements.

     

     

  • Rio

    “say dumb things?”  Like you.  You might want to ignore your own advice.

  • Anonymous

    The main problem is that we are spending billions on a drug war that we can not win because the American people do not have the stomach to take the steps necessary to defeat this enemy. The only solution is to legalize all drugs. Our new drug fighting motto should be Get High and Die, Society does not give a dam, just leave the rest of us alone and go into the night quietly. Stop all public benefits for drugs users. .

  • Mar

    You are an idiot.  Worse, you are probably an idiot on drugs.

  • Pring

    “medical marijuana”   Don’t kid yourself.  You and yours are POTHEADS, DOPERS, IDIOTS, DRUG USERS.

  • Lengk

    You think the drug cartels are just going to WALK from billions to be earned in the illicit drug trade?  Unless you distribute it FREE to anyone the drug cartels will just undermine the cost structure of those “legally” growing and using it.  You don’t think the cartels spend BILLIONS protecting their crop from the law now and having to pay bribes?  What happens to their cost structure when they don’t have to do that anymore?  They will drive dope down to $1 a pound and STILL net billions from it.

  • Anonymous

    First of all I do not use drugs.I have never and I shall never use drug.  I am a realist that you can not win a war on drugs. Second I do not call my intellectuals superior idiots because I can not comprehend the wisdom behind their words. That reflects bad on me. Instead of calling me an  idiot why not try to post a readable intelligent reply why I am wrong. Look up the statics before you show your lack of knowledge on the issue. Trillions are spent on a war that can not be won. I am open to new ideas. What do you propose we do just keeping on with the same thing and waste trillions of dollars. That is the height of stupidity.
    “Insanity:
    doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Albert Einstein Why not keep the comment civil so they will have some value.

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  • Pablo
  • Pablo

    21 lbs isn’t a misdemeanor, genius.

  • Anonymous

    Clay Whitten, college graduate, given 10 years for possession in Texas.
    The 21 lbs arrest was someone else.(Frank Demolli).
    Can’t read huh, Wafflehead?

  • Dflojak

    I’ll take that bet, my paycheck against your welfare check.

  • Dflojak

    Does that include the bums that are there for the food and drugs, the union members who are paid or forced to be there, the drug dealers and stoners that are there for he party? Then, for once in your life, you are right.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

    Ahh, yes – the Christian right.  And here’s more Tea Party consequences — make sure you have all your quarters  http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/notorious_murders/mass/heavens_gate/5.html

  • Anonymous

    Needless smarm from a fool is always welcome here at Mediaite. That’s what we can count on you to deliver.

  • Anonymous

    Someone needs to tell you that, “tall”, and, “Some one” are examples of your really poor writing ability. You even let it stand for over seven hours.

    Let’s watch and see how long it takes the genius to edit her comment.

  • Anonymous

    Now we know – you are high when you write! How could you have given us a better gift? Not only are you delusional, but you live in a mind altered state of intoxication. This explains a lot.

    You are also incorrect about a majority of Americans being in favor of legalizing cannabis. I am glad you grow your own, good for you, but don’t get caught sharing – that is distribution, and we wouldn’t want to see the polecat behind bars… or would we?

  • Anonymous

    Take another hit, polecat.

  • Anonymous

    I don’t think you understand the definition of the word “fact”. You can attempt to spin this any way you like, but the fact remains that crack was not found for sale at the protest site.

  • Anonymous

    So, being high you find it difficult to use the correct word in your reply (pot head hint – it’s supposed to be “you’re”) – do you?

    Too bad. I guess you think Tyler here is a real buzz kill.

  • Anonymous

    Hey not to interrupt but what’s up with Beck’s site? The posts aren’t loading. I can’t seem to find info. Be gone foe a while but will check back here if you have an answer. Sorry for the inconvenience. Thanks.

                                                                                                                                                      jw

  • Pablo

    That wasn’t Christian and it wasn’t the right, genius. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peoples_Temple_in_San_Francisco

  • Pablo

    Possession of what? It doesn’t say. You still don’t get 10 years for a misdemeanor, and never did.

    You also don’t know a pancake when you see one. This is what a waffle looks like. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Oolong_the_Rabbit%27s_last_performance_%282003%29.jpg

  • Anonymous

    I’d be willing to bet that every crack cocaine user is not a caricature like the images of crack cocaine users portrayed in the media.

  • clever

    Everyone knows the wall street Scumbags don’t do drugs thats those nasty teabaggers,

  • Anonymous

    Record-High 50% of Americans Favor Legalizing Marijuana Use
    Liberals and those 18 to 29 most in favor; Americans 65 and older most opposed.
    http://www.gallup.com/poll/150149/Record-High-Americans-Favor-Legalizing-Marijuana.aspx

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

    Oh, sure it was – you klowns could pervert anything and have, moron.

  • Anonymous

    TV news people are among the dumbest people walking the earth. Thank God for YouTube so their humiliation can live on forever.

  • Anonymous

    Mandatory sentencing (1952, 1956)Mandatory sentencing and increased punishment were enacted when the United States Congress passed the Boggs Act of 1952 and the Narcotics Control Act of 1956. The acts made a first-time cannabis possession offence a minimum of two to ten years with a fine up to $20,000; however in 1970 the United States Congress repealed mandatory penalties for cannabis offences.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_history_of_marijuana_in_the_United_States

    Don’t care what it is!
    Wafflehead has a better ring to it than pancakehead

  • Anonymous

    LOL
    I did like your link.

  • http://www.thefriendcenter.com/ SoThere

    A stoner. That explains it.

    “TMP”

  • Pablo

    Seek help, Bill.

  • Anonymous

    Yes it does. I have yet to meet a conservative pot smoker, and I have known quite a few. Most of them are quite liberal and this may explain the liberal bent in our academic institutions as well as the political arena.

    For instance, Nancy Pelosi. You would have to be stoned out of your tree to understand half of what she says much less agree with any of it. After all, her favorite word is the Word – that’s what she told a group of nuns when asked what her favorite word is.

    Astounding.

  • Anonymous

    Looks like the firewall is the problem. The site displays fine, but the comments are not accessible.
    It has been reported, but we will check in the AM -

    Maybe Legion took it down? (spooky – oooooooo)

  • Anonymous

    I still maintain one of these days there’s going to be a Fox News reporter or that pencil-neck James O’keefe floating down the Hudson River with a Don’t Tread on Me flag poll sticking in his butt.

  • Anonymous

    What search trends tell us about Occupy Wall Street and the Tea Party
    http://googlepolitics.blogspot.com/2011/10/what-search-trends-tell-us-about-occupy.html

  • Anonymous

    Just wow.  More Christian heart on display. I suppose.

  • http://twitter.com/RealKrisHardy Kristopher Hardy

    This sums up the whole Occupy Protest for you: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVpTxRNwifQ

  • http://twitter.com/RealKrisHardy Kristopher Hardy

    Sure. Watch the movie “Inside Job.”

  • Anonymous

    As usual the liberal hate mongers climb out of their sewer and attack any time some one posts a rational post that solves a problem. I will post an expanded version so as dispel the theory that as one put it that I am stupid. That like Forest Gump calling Einstein stupid. This is my idea what is yours.

    The money spent on fighting the drug war is a waste of the
    nations resources. The industry generates trillions of dollars and our
    government since January 1, 2011has spent $46,079,469,915 of tax payer money on a war that we
    can not win. (1
    ) The amount of cash generated by the drug trade is astronomical. Human nature  being what it is,
    where greed is the prevalent trait and  the amount of money available for bribery will lead honest men astray. The peddlers
    of this evil has  corrupted our  law enforcers, our judges and our
    businessmen.

    The corruption is
    only part of the problem  the warehousing
    of the criminals involved in the trade has reached a point that we can no
    longer afford to maintain the high rate of clients that are being  incarcerated by the Justice department. Our jails are overflowing.

    The nation philosophy and  approach to the drug problem is not working,  to continue to employ the same methodology is
    a mistake and a flight from reality, to think  that we can stop the flow of illegal drugs and
    deter their use by interdiction and the warehousing of massive number of
    criminals is an illusion.  Albert Einstein said “ Insanity: doing the same thing over
    and over again and expecting different results.

    ” There are two approaches to the problem and both will work.The first approach is not valid for consideration because
    the American people do not have the intestinal fortitude to use strict laws  and enforcement policies. The laws have to be
    so severe that even the staunchest  of
    the law and order cult would not be willing to see policies put in place that
    would be effective. The civil rights groups will be claiming cruel and unusual punishment. For an enforcement approach to work the following will have to be
    enacted. The possession of any drug in any amount, no extenuating  circumstances
    to be punishable as  follows. by first
    offense ten years no parole, second offense twenty years no parole, the third  an automatic fast tracked death penalty. This will not happen in the States
    because of our misplaced compassion.  For
    an enforcement method to be successful , we must focus our resources on the
    users and not the importers and distributors. The hard core criminal gangs that
    run the drug industry will not be deterred regardless of the penalty. Users will
    be more likely to change habits with stiffer penalties.  If thirty or forty of third time offenders
    are being executed daily the message will get out.Drug use is not profitab

    The second approach is more realistic and it protects the
    public from the acts of criminality carried out by the lawless elements in
    their unquenchable  thirst to get high.
    We must decriminalize all drugs-(from Mary Jane to crack).  Set up licensed manufacturing facilities of the
    drug of choice, monitor and inspect the facility, charge a licensing fee, tax
    their product as it leaves the laboratory. Use the free market system and
    license any facilitates that can meet the requirement. Competition will keep the
    prices suppressed.

    Causal users can purchase their drugs, not on some darkened crime laden corner but a  well lit safe distribution center. Register, buy and go. We can protect the public by legalizing the
    drugs and getting the users registered. For driving, accidents etc handle it
    the way we enforce our alcohol abuse laws. Heavy penalties for supplying to minors.  Education programs in all schools. Lets stop the insanity of a losing drug war.
    “It
    is estimated that $107.8 billion, or almost 60 percent of total costs are
    related to crime. Figure 6 displays the crime costs related to drug abuse.5 Overall
    crime related costs rose 5.7 percent annually between 1992 and 2002. The major
    drivers of this increase were increases in police and corrections expenditures
    and productivity losses from incarceration. This rate of increase is greater
    than the summed increase of population growth and general inflation (3.5
    percent) and growth in the general economy (5.1 percent).” As suggested above, the large majority of
    these costs are for drug specific offenses—sales

    For the hard core users that can not function in society set
    up dorms for them to live. Have a distribution center on site as well as a
    first class rehab center. Make treatment available to those who want help and
    those that do not give them their drugs and let them live their life huddled in
    a corner fighting demons that come with the highs.  If they have their drugs, huddled up in a
    corner they can do no harm to anyone. Society can not save everyone, accept that fact and let the eternal lost, live in their drug induced world till they are taken to the great drug lab in the sky. .   1. Drug War Cost Clock web site   2. Executive Office of the President Office of National Drug Control Policy Washington, DC 20503 Publication Number 207303 Printed in December 2004

  • Anonymous

    Recently Marines in Iraq wrote to Starbucks because they wanted to let them know how much they liked their coffees and to request that they send some of it to the troops there. Starbucks replied, telling the Marines thank you for their support of their business, but that Starbucks does not support the war, nor anyone in it, and that they would not send the troops their brand of coffee. So as not to offend Starbucks, maybe we should not support them by buying any of their products! I feel we should get this out in the open. I know this war might not be very popular with some folks, but that doesn’t mean we don’t support the boys on the ground fighting street-to-street and house-to-house. If you feel the same as I do then pass this along, or you can discard it and no one will ever know. Thanks very much for your support. I know you’ll all be there again when I deploy once more. Semper Fidelis. Sgt. Howard C. Wright 1st Force Recon           Can some one verify this?

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Starbucks charges $5 bucks for a cup of coffee… these soldiers should have approached Dunkin Donuts first… I think their coffee is much better!!

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Republicons are too ignorant to understand that people who smoke marijuana are too stoned to commit crimes… they’re just looking for the nearest White Castle to grab a bite to eat!! Stoners are harmless!!

  • Rio

    My, my, my….we have an update!  Says a man that spends most nights in the camp, the camp  has….gone downhill…. changed drastically and….. is deteriorating……..pretty quick!

    http://boston.cbslocal.com/2011/11/04/3-charged-with-dealing-crack-occupy-boston-deteriorating/

    And, why?   “A lot of drug use, alcohol use, people getting into fights.”  Wonder where they bought the drugs?  Could it be…..from the “Obamaville” dealers that were fresh out of their supply when the undercovers attempted a buy? 

  • Spermin Cain

    Yes. It is a verifiable bullshit e-mail. Don’t be a sucker.

  • Anonymous

    I can not verify and star buck will not comment.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=553398269 David Bloch

    LOL you’re fucking insane

  • Anonymous

    Did I hit home. You have to be a paid staff member to praise this group of lawless criminals.

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  • CWS

    i did not see anyone “running from a camera”,nor did i see any “smoke billowing out” . haha , blatent lies. 

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