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NYPD: Couple Not Terrorists, Just Rich Kid Junkies
2013-01-01
Investigators say they believe 27-year-old Morgan Gliedman and 31-year-old Aaron Greene are just two more products of privilege squandering their advantages on drugs.

"It looks like they're junkies," a high-level police source says. "Well-to-do junkies, not terrorists."

Indeed, in the first days of the investigation police reached the tentative conclusion that the explosives and weapons were just part of a drug-fueled, twisted sense of what constitutes cool. A neighbor lends credence to the police view when he adds, "There was always a heavy cloud of smoke emanating from the place, and one got the sense that they were both heavily into drugs."

Green's personal hygiene, cops say, is what might have been expected of a junkie."To be honest, you could smell him before you saw him," the neighbor says.

By midday Sunday, police had reached the tentative conclusion that the explosives and weapons were part of some drug-fueled fantasy life. To cops, Greene appears to be living proof that going to Harvard does not necessarily make you any less a knucklehead. As for Gliedman, it may turn out that the raid on the apartment was the best thing that could have happened for her child, who can now expect to begin life in the New Year away from explosives and guns.
So it's "move it along, nuthin to see here" time. Made official by the fact that the Times actually had something on it this morning...
But we could still give then ten years each just for being rich, spoiled morons with explosives...
Posted by:tu3031

#9  police also found the makings for more of the stuff, as well as a sawed-off 12-gauge Mossberg 500 shotgun, a Ruger 12-gauge shotgun, a dozen 12-gauge shotgun shells, 9 high-capacity rifle magazines, and 60 5.56-caliber tracer rounds. There was also a 37mm flare launcher, a replica of a M203 grenade launcher.

Plus a whole pile of manuals and books. That's a lot of initiative for 'junkies' whose main focus oscillates between being high and trying to get high. Maybe the cops are using 'junkie' as a generic term for druggies, but I'm not buying it. Definitely a "nothing to see here" cover story.
Posted by: SteveS   2013-01-01 22:05  

#8  Yep. Booted out three sailors last year at my command for using it.
Posted by: Pappy   2013-01-01 21:32  

#7  never touched it/smoked it myself. I know the Navy had a big cleanup about it
Posted by: Frank G   2013-01-01 20:59  

#6  Stop droolin
Posted by: Shipman   2013-01-01 19:57  

#5  Salvia
Posted by: Frank G   2013-01-01 18:35  

#4  saw an interesting article about "Non Mariuana" that tells much about Addiction, available in all gas stations.

It's NOT grass and not sold as grass, so it's legal(For Now)BUT still Smokable, and still gets you HIGH, So Kinda slips by the Radar.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2013-01-01 16:31  

#3  ...products of privilege squandering their advantages on drugs.

Self-Radicalized
Posted by: DepotGuy   2013-01-01 15:55  

#2  Good precendent for some future defense: just junkies who thought explosives were kewl, dood.
Posted by: USN,Ret.   2013-01-01 15:21  

#1  A "Drug-fueled fantasy life" seems to have been a strong factor in most of the mass murders of recent years, to the point where I think the ones where I haven't heard it's a factor are only the ones where it's been suppressed.

In addition to that, there seems to be a strong overlap between drug use and terrorism, as well as drug trafficking and terrorism, not to mention drug manufacturing and terrorism...
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2013-01-01 14:27  

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