Why Does DEA Teach Meth-Cooking to the Public?
This is just bizarre. I swear, every time I think I'm on the verge of understanding what motivates these people, they find increasingly strange ways to waste our money:
Cooking methamphetamine takes only a few hours and requires simple household ingredients, like striker plates from matchbooks, the guts of lithium batteries, drain cleaner.
"It's pretty gross," said Matt Leland, who works in career services at the University of Northern Colorado and who recently helped cook the drug in a lab. "If someone was truly interested in manufacturing meth, it would not be that hard."
The Drug Enforcement Administration invited Leland and other citizens - such as software engineers, a teacher, a pastor and a school principal - to make methamphetamine last week in a lab at Metropolitan State College of Denver. [Denver Post]
Ok. We understand that DEA is teaching private citizens how to manufacture meth, but why? Why the hell would they do that?
The class was held as part of the DEA's first Citizens Academy in order to give the public a close-up view of what the agency does to keep drugs off the street.
That's interesting, and I'm eager to attend, but it doesn't answer the question because cooking meth isn’t part of DEA's job at all. Their job is, of course, to stop people from cooking meth, which has now become the precise opposite of what they're doing.
The whole thing is mindlessly indulgent when you consider that no one really needs a chemistry lesson to infer that the constant explosions at their crazy neighbor's house might explain why he has so many strange visitors.
If you're gonna teach meth-cooking, teach it to immigrant store clerks before you arrest them for naively selling household items to undercover narcs.
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Comment posted by Anonymous on Thu, 03/20/2008 - 8:45pmAnybody who thinks "teaching people how to make meth is accomplishing something good" is seriously retarded. Man you must have religous far up your arse.
WHY?
Comment posted by Anonymous on Sat, 06/09/2007 - 1:17pmTHERE NOT TRYING TO STOP THE DRUG WAR.THERE TRYING TO INTRODUCE IT,SO THEY CAN VIOLATE PEOPLES CIVIL RIGHTS.WE GOT A CORRUPT GOVERNMENT THEY DO WHAT EVER IT TAKES TO GET THE JOB DONE,EVEN IF MEANS THEY HAVE TO BREAK THE LAW. THEY PUSH THIS DRUG,SO THEY CAN WATCH THEM WITH VIDEO AND WIRESAND THE FBI TOLD ME THEY DON'T INVESTIGATE THE DEA,QUOTED FROM BOBBY HAMILTON WIRE FRAUD IT IS CALLED VIOLATING THE PRIVACY OF OUR LIVES.JOB SECURITY
The War On Drugs
Comment posted by Anonymous on Wed, 08/22/2007 - 12:47pmIf there's less meth seized, it's because the enforcement people are doing such a good job. If there's more meth seized, it's because the enforcement people are doing such a good job. If the price of meth goes up, it's because it's more scarce, and that's because the enforcement people are doing such a good job. If the price of meth goes down, it's because dealers can't get rid of it, and that's because the enforcement people are doing such a good job.
No matter what the results are, it's possible to rationalize or "spin" it to how you want it to look. And every day, John Q. Public sits there like an idiot and pays for it.
After 35 years of actually accepting this "war on drugs" propaganda, paying the enormous cost of it, and seeing zero results, one thing we know for sure - the average taxpayer is either not terribly bright, they're blessed with infinite patience, or both.
The truth is out there - in fact it's here.
http://www.allpositiveoptions.com/APOMeth1.htm
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You all really think you know everything?
Comment posted by Anonymous on Mon, 06/04/2007 - 1:20pmI never understood you "anti-drug war" people. Drugs are killing our youth and dragging in more and more illegal immigrants. The DEA in no way condones or supports illegal dangerous drugs in anyway. It is amazing the falsified documents "anti-drug war" protesters try and dig up to give the DEA a bad name. The drug war will continue, and drug enforcement officers and supporters will continue the war on drugs and the violence and negative impact illegal drugs has on our national image and general public.