The case of Domingue casts doubt on the legitimacy of the agencies tasked with carrying out the war on drugs. How can we expect these people to protect us and our children from the scourge of drugs if they’re going to turn around and sell and even use them if they get the inclination to?
“During the raid on Domingue’s house in January, authorities found a whopping 300 grams of cocaine hydrochloride, oxycodone pills, methadone, Xanax and ‘a voluminous number of manila envelopes that contained additional prescription medications,’ the documents say.
The Free Thought Project contacted the Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Office for a statement, but our request was not immediately returned.
What this case illustrates is the criminal incentive created by the war on drugs and the monopoly of power granted specifically to those tasked with carrying it out. Making arbitrary substances illegal, and then tasking individuals with the control of those substances creates a temptation of easy money that is hard to pass up.
Domingue’s case is hardly isolated as this scenario is but a broken record of corruption, playing over and over.
As the Free Thought Project reported in January, a California police officer was busted after driving 247 pounds of marijuana all the way across the country. Yuba County Deputy Christopher M. Heath was caught in York, Pennsylvania with a shipment of marijuana that was worth over $2 million.
This case is similar to Domigue’s as Heath was an officer on a narcotics task force, meaning that he was responsible for putting nonviolent people in prison for using and selling drugs as well. Meanwhile, he was selling drugs and taking part in the same actions that he was locking people up for. State hypocrisy at its worst.”
Source: Free Thought Project
There all in it how else could it get here
Viet Nam was for the drugs as was Afghanistan. Everyone knows the CIA and the DEA are the biggest dealers in the states.
Obummers dealers probably!