XPost: alt.true-crime, can.politics   
   From: gregpcarr@yahoo.ca   
      
   "Some Guy"  wrote in message news:469B7578.A3341588@Guy.com...   
   > SDgreen, why don't you trim your posts?  Why post a reply and quote   
   > the entire article?  Note how I am trimming my reply.   
   >   
   > sdgreen wrote:   
   >   
   >> > Hell's Angels drug network unravelled in court; Three local   
   >> > chapter members sentenced to jail   
   >   
   >> Time will tell if the HA network is any way disrupted.   
   >   
   > Why is my tax money used to pay for police and all their toys,   
   > gadgets, and overtime, which are spent dealing with this the low   
   > socio-economic underclass that partake in the drug world?   
      
   Hundreds of thousands in assets and cash were siezed in this investigation   
   and will be used to help pay the costs. Low socia-economic class? These ppl   
   are riding Harley-Davidson motorcycles worth tens of thousands of dollars.   
   Many of the ppl in the Hell's Angels own businesses and homes and some are   
   multi-millionaires. Drugs such as cocaine are illegal in every country on   
   the planet and if it can be reduced by 75% in this country or better it will   
   be a huge impovement in out towns and cities. Opium was once a problem and   
   it was 99.9% eliminated. I'm surprised the Hell's Angels were so sloppy on   
   the phone knowing how often they are subjected to surveillance but of course   
   they use the product and drink beer which must impair their operational   
   capability.   
   >   
   > Drug use, drug transportation and dealing, is a victimless "crime".   
      
   No. Drug users end up draining the health care system and commit crimes such   
   as assaults they wouldn't if sober as well as crashing vehicles into   
   innocent ppl. Without the drug transportation and dealing these ppl wouldn't   
   be able to get their drugs so it must be dealt with seriously.   
      
   > Let the gutter-dwellers have their drugs.   
      
   No. Many ppl start off middle class or even better but end up in the gutter   
   because of drugs. Also not fair to the gutter dwellers who are sober.   
      
    They've got nothing else,   
   > and the police could be put to better use - or reduce their ranks.   
      
   better use? Hire more of them for Project Ice (busting child pornographers)   
   or for combating fraud which by all reports is increasing as meth addicts   
   use it to fund their criminal lifestyle.   
      
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