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| 2008-07-01 |
| Via the Volokh Consipiracy: Drug Arrests Were Real; the GERALD, Mo. — Like so many rural communities in the country’s middle, this small town had wrestled for years with the woes of methamphetamine. Then, several months ago, a federal agent showed up. Or not. Arrests began. Houses were ransacked. People, in handcuffs on their front lawns, named names. To some, like Mayor Otis Schulte, who considers the county around Gerald, population 1,171, “a meth capital of the United States,” the drug scourge seemed to be fading at last. Or it moved on.... Those whose homes were searched, though, grumbled about a peculiar change in what they understood — mainly from television — to be the law. Guess the local cops never watch TV. They said the agent, a man some had come to know as “Sergeant Bill,” boasted that he did not need search warrants to enter their homes because he worked for the federal government. No, Delbert - that's only if the But after a reporter for the local weekly newspaper See, NYSlimes et al. - that's how it's supposed to be done. Maybe you can convince the local reporter to give y'all some lesson. made a few calls about that claim, Gerald’s antidrug campaign abruptly fell apart after less than five months. Sergeant Bill, it turned out, was no federal agent, but Bill A. Jakob, an unemployed former trucking company owner, a former security guard, a former wedding minister and a former small-town cop (Read the rest at the link, if you can stand it.) Lessee: The local constabulary didn't know that there are no sergeants in the FBI or any of the other fed/police agencies that I know of (though it would have been easy for them to check) and they really believed that search & seizure laws don't apply to the feds. I can't decide which applies best: 'Wotta moroon' or 'Too stupid to live really should be a valid diagnosis.' Probably both. Oy. |
| Posted by:Barbara Skolaut |
| #3 You know what this is Boy? Sir that looks like a Browning Automtic Rifle Patrick McGuohan in deh Whiskey Rebellion, which this sorta sounds like. |
| Posted by: Lt. Col. Harlan Sanders 2008-07-01 20:25 |
| #2 "Say, where do you keep that FBI Badge, Max?" "None of your business, Sam." |
| Posted by: Abdominal Snowman 2008-07-01 17:57 |
| #1 Yikes! Something in the water must cause the dread Utter Dumbass to infect the whole population. I'll bet the reporter drinks only corn whiskey, like any righteous God-fearing pre-Cronkite old school reporter should. |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2008-07-01 17:44 |