World leaders met and are recommending an end to the worldwide drug war.
See story here

Enjoy!

Barry

Written By:  Barry Cooper and Marc Emery

IT’S true!  According to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting statistics, between January 2010 and September 2010, 31 kops per 100,000 committed homicide and 73 committed sexual assault. In comparison to 100,000 of the general population (this includes blacks, whites, Mexicans, gang members etc) only 5 citizens committed homicide and 29 committed sexual assaults.

If you have a choice to mingle with a crowd of 100,000 kops or 100,000 citizens, it’s more dangerous to hang out with the police.

I’m still amazed at the number of Americans (mostly the older) who still trust persons wearing a uniform of authority.  The older demographic was brainwashed so well they do whatever their preachers, police officers, politicians or judges tell them to do.  It’s this “authority worshiping” and blind obedience that led America to its current police state that houses 25% of the world’s prisoners but contains only 5% of the world’s population. Our parents and grandparents were duped into giving away our freedoms for an illusion of security. Losing your freedom to choose a peaceful, honest lifestyle is the greatest insecurity a human being can experience.’

It’s not the Muslim community or some non-American police force jailing all these Americans.  Unfortunately, it’s our own Christian people and courts that are responsible for these mass social injustices and civil rights violations. If the Muslims were caging over 800,000 Americans per year for non-violent marijuana crimes, our Christian army would label the offenders “terrorist” and immediately begin bombing.

I’m currently authoring an E-Book instructing citizens how to handle the first 72 hours after getting busted.  A section of my book deals with police, judges and prosecutors having no conscience.  The new FBI statistics reported above supports my claim. Here is an unedited excerpt from the book:

“I recently read the national best seller, “The Sociopath Next Door”, by Dr. Martha Stout, PH.D.  I totally agree when she states 1 out of 25 Americans is secretly a sociopath.  A sociopath is a person with no conscience. Sociopaths won’t necessarily murder you but if they do, they won’t feel bad about the crime and will justify their actions.  There are millions of sociopaths who have never committed a crime but they have murdered reputations, families and lives as they lie, cheat and manipulate to advance their personal agenda.  Sociopaths are exactly what you are dealing with regarding police, jailers, prosecutors, judges and most lawyers.  I’m teaching you this so you know your enemy.  You must get it through your head that these people do not have a conscience and they don’t feel sorry about ruining your life by unnecessarily torturing you in the hands of their Christian courts.

My mother instilled a strong sense of conscience in me and then I was separated from her at an early age.  I have since regained my conscience that was seared during my tour as one of our nation’s top drug enforcement agents.  This sociopathic attitude was echoed by my cop friends, prosecutors and judges who would privately announce “Fuck them.  They are trash and shouldn’t be breaking the law.  I don’t feel a bit sorry for them. Lock ‘em all up and do God a favor.”

It’s so embarrassing for me to share this because my behavior was mean and evil and I’m not that person any longer.  I’m sorry for what I did so it’s my duty to share this with you so you realize who and what you are dealing with in terms of American law enforcement.  Don’t’ expect any mercy during your arrest and the lengthy court process because sociopaths have no mercy.

I cringe every time I hear the following lie that has been repeated so many times, it’s accepted as truth:  ‘There are only a few cops, prosecutors and judges who make the rest look bad.’  This simply isn’t true. The reason all cops, prosecutors and judges are bad is because they enforce a penal code that is archaic, unfair, racist, biased, cruel, and designed to control the masses.  Any adult who receives a paycheck and props themselves up as a community leader while enforcing such a cruel system is “bad” or sociopathic.

The large concentration of sociopaths in the American criminal justice system is a generational phenomenon created when a patrolman in the 1930’s was rewarded for his conscienceless behavior and promoted to Chief of Police who then hired and promoted other sociopaths and fired and demoted the officers who have a conscience.  This pattern was repeated for several generations and has led to a large number of mindless, overweight murderers and molesters who are in charge of our sacred American justice system.”

The following is an addendum to this article written by famed activist, Marc Emery, while serving prison time for marijuana seeds:

In the course of human relationships, individuals are most likely to be victimized by the authority figures we have been brainwashed into obeying and respecting because of their status. Thats why children are far more likely to be assaulted or killed or abused by parents, teachers, police, politicians, priests, scout leaders, family members and anyone given credibility as an authority figure. The fact is, we should teach our children and all citizens that all trust must be earned, never given automatically. Authority figures are more likely to abuse trust because their hierarchal status feeds their ego: arrogance, belligerence, and sociopathic behaviour are more likely than if a complete stranger, albeit an ordinary non-authority figure,  harbored the same attitudes. Then when you add alcohol, it breaks down those restraints on moral, decent behavior and accentuates the arrogant, domineering behavior. Government officials and authority figures predatory behaviors thrive in the environment of unquestioned authority and alcohol.

Peace,

Barry

K9 False Alerts

Handlers’ beliefs influence drug-sniffing dogs’ performance

ANOTHER ACTUAL POLICE K-9 TRUE ALERT:

Notice how the handler allows the dog to work and does not manipulate the movements or alert of the K-9?  This is another true K-9 Alert.

The following principles must be understood before analyzing a K-9 alert.

1) The ability to detect a narcotics odor is not specific to police dogs only. All dogs have the ability to smell narcotic odors. A properly trained police K-9 is distinguished from an ordinary dog because the police dog is trained to communicate the presents of the narcotic odor. This communication is called an “alert.” An alert includes noticeable behavior changes triggered by odor interest followed by a scratch near the odor source. Behavior changes include but are not limited to: a sudden “head jerk” in the direction of the odor source, slowing or speeding of a wagging tail, body posture changes and changes in breathing patterns. If the K-9 detects the odor of a narcotic during a search, the dog communicates this to the handler by scratching near the source. Behavior changes without a scratch is not enough to announce an alert just as scratching without behavior changes is not an alert either. Both must be witnessed by the handler to announce the K-9 is detecting the odor of contraband.

A police dog goes through these behavioral changes, less the scratch, when curious about other odors such as urine or food so it’s an error for the handler to call an “alert” after witnessing behavioral changes only. It’s also an error to call an “alert” after witnessing only a scratch because the scratch was not preceded by the necessary behavior changes that are always produced when a dog is interested in any odor.

2) Unlike humans, a dog has the ability to separate odors mixed together. When presented with a bowl of stew, a human sees all the different ingredients but smells one odor. A K-9 however can smell, distinguish and separate each ingredient contained in the stew. S/he smells numerous odors and not just one. This explains why masking odors often used by smugglers do not work. If a smuggler wrapped a pound of marijuana in sheets of fabric softener, followed by a good wrap of foil and finally placed in a can of coffee, a dog smells the fabric softener, the foil the coffee and the marijuana. This “odor separation process” takes time! A K-9 cannot properly separate odors if s/he is rushed or hurried through this process. Because K-9′s can detect and separate odors, it is important to conduct exercises teaching the dog what odors provide the reward. For instance, during training, a dog is rewarded for alerting to a baggie of marijuana. Empty and uncontaminated baggies must then be presented to the dog for an alert. When the K-9 alerts, he is discouraged by giving a command of dissatisfaction and the pulled away from the baggies. This step is repeated until the dog stops alerting on plastic baggies. If this step is skipped, the handler is soon left with a “trashy” dog that alerts on every odor that surrounded drug odors during training. A K-9 must also have room to work through invisible scent cones created by a multitude of odors surrounding the vehicle. K-9′s must have this space to track the odor’s source. K-9 handlers should allow the dog to work freely by grasping the very end of the leash as not to restrict or manipulate the dog’s movements. In the video, the handler can be seen pulling and pushing the K-9′s head instead of allowing the dog to work freely. While teaching K-9 narcotic detector classes, I would often tell the students who made the same error “Don’t work the dog, let the dog work!” After correcting this poor habit many times with students, I learned the reason for this phenomena is the handler’s fear of his or her dog not performing by showing disinterest in the vehicle. A K-9 lacking proper motivation to search a car is very embarrassing when the handler’s peers watch the dog stare at traffic instead of searching for drugs.

3) After a K-9 has alerted, the handler encourages the dog by repeating statements such as “get it, get it, get it out of there.” These verbal commands excite the dog into scratching harder and faster and should never be used on actual street searches until the presence of a drug is confirmed by an officer. If the dog is encouraged to scratch, and no drugs are found, the dog is left with the impression that a scratch on a door for legal odors or no reason at all is what the handler desires causing the K-9 to be considered “dirty.” This term means the K-9 will scratch on anything to get his reward. If drugs are located, the K-9 should then be brought back to the previous alert area and encouraged to scratch. When the desired scratch is achieved, the handler “pays” or rewards the dog by throwing him/her a toy. The repeated process of verbally encouraging an alert and then rewarding the dog for compliance makes it possible to manipulate ANY AND ALL POLICE DOGS into scratching WITHOUT A NARCOTIC ODOR BEING PRESENT! This is referred to as a “false or forced alert.”

Greetings,

Four years ago, my first film, NeverGetBusted Volume 1: Traffic Stops, blew the whistle on police dogs false alerting. This film was the first to expose and demonstrate to the public the illegal practice of kops manipulating their K-9′s to alert. A short video clip of the chapter can be seen here:

http://nevergetbusted.com/2010/videos

RawStory.com just interviewed me and published a report, “False Positives’ Suggest Police Exploit Canines to Justify Searches.” It’s a really good article that echoes what I teach in the film.

Until this insane drug war is repealed, K-9′s should only be used to assist officers in locating controlled substances and should never be used to decide a 4th Amendment issue. As a former K-9 handler/instructor and current expert witness regarding police misconduct, I’ve learned there are too many ways a K-9 and handler can make an error or manipulate an alert that allows them to search your private property without consent. It’s insane when a tax-paying American citizen invokes his or her constitutional right by refusing a search only to have an animal “overrule” their decision.

Upon releasing the NeverGetBusted video, I was mercilessly attacked for saying “If you have your stash hidden really well, it’s better to give permission to search because if you refuse, the kops go wild by calling more officers and drug dogs to conduct a more thorough search and they will make their dogs false alert.” In comparison to giving a refusal, if a motorist agrees to the search, he usually checks the trunk, glove box, under the seats and then allows you to go free.

Prior to giving this unconventional advice, well meaning activists and lawyers repeated, “Never give consent” so many times, citizens automatically believed this was their only option. Currently thousands of people who refused consent are in jail so we know that refusing consent doesn’t always work. While refusing consent may help by preparing you for the courtroom, my advice of giving consent can be used to keep you out of the courtroom.

I’ve been hired on eight separate occasions as an expert witness regarding false alerts and have consulted in dozens more. It is not uncommon for me to receive and review ten or more police videos per month and the K-9 teams in America are becoming ridiculous. Most police K-9′s look like common yard dogs instead of well-trained animals. Now kops are not only manipulating alerts, but also they are announcing an alert when the K-9 did nothing but walk around the auto!

I have a tip regarding police K-9′s and it works. I have had dozens of citizens report this method, and it worked for me as well. Anytime a K-9 is deployed to search your auto, announce loudly and boldly that you are aware police can make their K-9 false alert and you know what a true alert looks like. This scares the officer and after hearing your stance, he will usually walk his dog around the auto and then leave.

One of the best examples of a K-9 being manipulated to alert can be found here near the bottom of the page:

http://nevergetbusted.com/2010/consult-with-barry

Peace,

Barry

This article was recently written by Lt. Andrew Hawkes regarding NeverGetBusted videos and the prohibition of marijuana.   The administrator of the site warned citizens and myself to stop calling the police names yet there are six examples of kops calling citizens names in the comment thread.   Also, the Lt. in his article calls pot dealers “parasites” and me a “traitor.”

Read the drug kop’s article and scan through the comments. Pay close attention to the very end of the string.  I was eventually booted from their site.

Lt. Andrew G. Hawkes has over 19 years of LE experience. He has a BA in Criminal Justice and is completing his master’s degree in Public Administration. He is a graduate of the Law Enforcement Management Institute of Texas and has a Master Police Peace Officer Certificate and a Police Instructor’s License from the State of Texas. Lt. Hawkes is the author of Secrets of Successful Highway Interdiction, an e-book that can be purchased online

Andrew Hawkes / PoliceLink.com

November 2010

Top Ten Stupid Things an Ex-Cop Turned Pro-Drugs Has Said

“May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won’t.” -General Patton

Like most cops, I was seriously angered when I heard about a certain Ex-Cop and how he had gone from being a police officer to teaching criminals how to smuggle dope. It doesn’t matter where you’re from, a traitor is a traitor. And a traitor has no friends, only enemies.

So I decided to take the advice of the great General Patton and watch this certain ex-cop’s video just so I could “know thy enemy”. It wasn’t long into the video when my anger turned into disgust as I watched him give advice that was not only stupid, it was down right dangerous. So I felt it was my duty to come up with this “Top Ten List” in hopes that some people out there will think twice before they buy this video.

10. “Never carry more dope with you than you can eat.” – He implies here that if you are smuggling dope and get pulled over by a cop, simply swallow your dope. Most experienced officers have been in a situation where someone has swallowed dope and had to be rushed to the emergency room to have their stomach pumped so they wouldn’t die. Eating and overdosing on dope can kill a person.

9. “All cops are drug addicts…” – He implies here that all cops are addicted to adrenaline. Feeling the rush of busting a criminal can hardly be compared with an illegal drug junkie. It is true that our job requires us to live in an heightened state of awareness but considering what we as police officers are called on to do and then turn right around and call us drug addicts is shameful. That’s really low even for this guy.

8. “Don’t drive too careful” – His point here is that a cop is less likely to pull you over if you are speeding. An estimated 1.2 million people die every year in fatal car accidents. Do us all a favor and keep this horrible piece of advice to yourself. On a side note, this piece of advice is irrelevant because a highly trained interdiction officer is going to pick up on other indicators even if the drug hauler is speeding.

7. “Love is the central theme” – He claims that the whole reason he made this video was out of love. Sorry but after watching the video, it is very evident that he wishes he were still a cop. But since he can’t be a cop, what better way to profit from his knowledge (limited as it is) than to market it to criminals? Profit, not love is the central theme of this certain video.

6. “The war on drugs is pointless because we only catch a small percentage” – we also don’t catch all of the child predators, murderers and thieves, but we dang sure try. This ex-cop seems to think that a lawless state with criminals and drug runners running amuck is the best for society. That is called anarchy and is absurd.

5. “Most Drug Dealers are good people” – is he sure about this one? Is he talking about the same cocaine and methamphetamine dealers who are smuggling their poison all over America costing thousands of lives and millions of dollars every year? I wouldn’t exactly call them “good”. A better word would be “parasite”.

4. “Marijuana is safe” – Once again, this is a flat out lie. The average marijuana joint contains nearly 50% more of the chemical benzopyrene (cancer causing) than the average tobacco cigarette. Marijuana has been proven to cause bronchitis, emphysema, bronchial asthma, and lung cancer. It is also been proven that marijuana is the second most common drug, after alcohol, present in the blood of fatally injured persons. That’s real “safe” now isn’t it? I could go on with more facts but what would be the point? Marijuana is NOT safe.

3. “It is impossible to overdose on marijuana” Tell that to Lake Highlands High School where 18 staff members were rushed to the emergency room after marijuana spiked muffins were delivered as a practical joke.

2. “Big Majority of Cops are Racists” – Maybe this ex-cop knew a few racist cops…big deal. There are bad apples in every profession. Again he is showing his ignorance and very limited knowledge of law enforcement. There are hundreds of thousands of police officer’s in this country, and most of them are not racists but decent men and women of all races just doing their job.

1. “Interdiction officers don’t work in the rain” – He is doing us a favor by telling dopers this myth. In fact, we should let him keep giving this advice!

Police Officer’s all over this country put their lives on the line every day to make our world a safer and better place for us to live. Maybe someday someone close to this ex-cop will be affected by the sinister world of illegal narcotics and he will have a change of heart. This is not a game. This is real and we ARE at war. This is a war on drugs and violence and every good cop has joined this fight to win!

Good luck and stay safe out there and remember that your number one priority is to go home at the end of your shift…

Comments

revcarey70

How is this ass marketing this video? As for his so called advice, WTF?

ssu459

6 days ago

Where did this nut case barry cooper work as a leo and how did he become one?

tootaboogy

sounds like barry is an ex-con, not an ex-cop.

k0stw

What a traitor.

Billmc972

5 days ago

I for one am a 30 year retired officer.I worked in the drug unit,community policing unit and tactical unit..
In all my years in police service I have never seen someone who is so stupid in thinking he can get away with drug smuggeling and openly admit that he was a leo. Apparently this idiot was never qualified to belong in a group of professionals that have pride and intergity in what they do. To all my brothers and sisters past and present I have been honored to have served in this family and will hold them dear to my heart until I take my last breath.

Gombino

5 days ago

Nice job, L.T. What a moron.

parent4life

5 days ago

Marijuana doesn’t cause cancer. Why do you say that it does? It’s one thing to enforce the law it’s another thing to invent fabrications and pass them off as facts. Marijuana doesn’t cause cancer, emphysema, heart disease, brain damage, liver disease or death, and its addictive potential is about on par with coffee.

And you’re right that our murder laws don’t prevent murders, but they don’t *encourage* murders to be committed either which is very different from the marijuana prohibition which literally encourages the Mexican drug cartels to murder innocent people in order to protect the $BILLIONS they make selling marijuana in the U.S.

$113 BILLION is spent on marijuana every year in the U.S. but because marijuana can’t be sold legally, every dollar of this goes straight into the hands of criminals. According to the ONDCP, the cartels make more than 60% of their money selling marijuana in the U.S., and as we read in the news every day the cartels are torturing, murdering and mutilating countless innocent people in order to protect this income.

If we can’t stop people using marijuana then we must allow our gas stations and supermarkets to sell it to adults with after-tax prices set too low for the cartels to match. There is no other way to drive the cartels out of the marijuana market and end their ability and incentive to continue murdering innocent people.

roybenz

5 days ago

MAYBE AFTER BUYING HIS VIDEO AND IMPLEMENTING HIS STRATEGY, WHEN THEY STILL GET CAUGHT, THE DOPE DEALERS & SMUGGLERS WILL GO LOOKING FOR THIS GUY AND GIVE HIM HIS JUST DUE.

JMoreeX1

4 days ago

10. He implies on eating marijuana, nothing else. You will not die from eating weed. 9. Cops do get a high off of what they do, everyone who loves what they do feel this, but with cops it’s more dangerous with the authority they have. 8. He’s simply saying not to drive on or under the speed limit. 7. Your probably right. 6. A previous poster already touched on this and did a good job, cartels get most of their money from selling weed. 5. Your always gonna lose when you say “most” but again he’s talking about marijuana dealers not “drug” dealers. There are dealers who only deal weed. They for the most part are good people. 4. This is where you show your pulling your info from the air just to support your misguided anger. Marijana has NEVER been PROVEN to cause any of that which you stated it did. It can upset bronchitis because of the smoke but if your house is on fire that’s gonna upset it too. The other chemicals don’t come from weed but from the blunt you wrap it with which is usually made of tabbaco. 3. It was a practical joke, that means they didn’t know they were eating weed. If your chilling and all of the sudden you start feeling the effects of marijuana and start getting paranoid you would go to the hospital too. Did they die or have any complications? No. 2. Hope not, when I’m an officer or Marshall or wherever my career brings me I don’t want to work in that type of environment. 1. F*** the rain. (sry if it’s sloppy, did this on my phone)

NativeTexanNarc

4 days ago

“parent4death” I don’t even know where to start (beside the obvious change to your moniker) You ways will only increase death. Alcohol is legally sold at supermarkets and gas stations cheaper than the bootleggers can produce it…and, ever since prohibition ended not a single person has died as a result of it’s use…nor, has there been a single dollar lost/spent due to its misuse. So, let’s add MARIHUANA to the mix and watch the costs to society in death and additional billions of dollars to skyrocket (just like alcohol produces). Thanks for stopping by–now, run along to your little permissive parenting group!

chipper368

6 Comments

Wow! I cannot believe all of the so-called upstanding citizens and “cops” on this site who believe marijuana is harmless, and don’t cause problems. As for the cartel, they don’t just push marijuana, so legalizing it won’t solve that problem. The only way to solve it is to treat them like the terrorist they are and send our military in to clean up the problem.

parent4life

4 days ago

Well NativeTexanNarc, you might have noticed that since alcohol was legalized the murders being committed by the bootleggers who controlled the illegal alcohol market have *completely* stopped. Cops are NOT being murdered to protect the smuggling routes and market shares of illegal alcohol suppliers, and that is a really good thing! However, we can’t say the same thing about the marijuana market. A great many law enforcement personnel are being murdered and massacred in Mexico due to the incredible profits available to those ruthless enough to go after them.

It’s so ironic that alcohol which, as you point out, is an incredibly addictive and harmful substance has ZERO violence in its production and distribution, while marijuana, which is so safe that it doesn’t even have an LD50, has some of the world’s most sadistic violence being committed by its producers and suppliers.

If the prohibition prevented people from smoking marijuana then we *could* argue that the deaths it causes were for a good cause. But the prohibition doesn’t stop people using marijuana. Last year alone, 850,000 people were arrested for marijuana-related offenses in this country while at the same time marijuana use *increased* by 8%. Instead of protecting people from marijuana, the prohibition creates ZERO legal supply amid massive and unrelenting demand. Just as with the alcohol prohibition, the suffering and loss of life that this causes far outweighs any “benefit” that the prohibition might yield.

Please explain in detail how “my way” will “only increase death” when there hasn’t been a single verifiable death caused by marijuana in the entire 10,000+ years that humans have used it. Thanks.

BarryCooper

4 days ago

Greetings,

I’m Barry Cooper, the producer of the videos addressed in Hawke’s article. They are titled “NeverGetBusted: Traffic Stops” and “Volume 2: NeverGetRaided.” We have sold over 50,000 copies and the videos have kept thousands of non-violent citizens from enduring America’s criminal injustice system of jailing our fellow Americans, most of whom are Christians. I’ve not only released these videos, but I also travel the U.S. as a guest instructor at many defense attorney conferences. I’m also a seasoned expert witness in Federal and State courts regarding police corruption. I’ve been featured in Maxim Magazine and have made the front cover of Texas Observer and Cannabis Culture. Bret Ratner, Hollywood giant and producer of Rush Hour 1,2, 3, Prison Break and many more, is producing a feature film about my life. I also founded KopBusters, which is an organization that catches kops in the act of committing crimes. I conducted three successful stings. One freed a mother from federal prison. One took a corrupt kop (mentioned in this string of comments) off the streets for child molestation and the third sting caught a captain stealing drug money. I can be seen on 4 episodes of SPIKE TV’s, Manswers. I was also recently featured on NPR’s, This American Life. You can find me debating on FOX, NBC, ABC, MSNBC news and I was recently endorsed by FOX news anchor, Judge Napolitano.

I have four brilliant kids (We won Zack back after winning a Supreme Court decision), two of whom are attending college at the age of 14 and 18.

The purpose of this resume is not to promote myself but to alert the reader that I’m not who Hawke desperately wishes I were.

Hawke’s article proves a person can have a master’s degree and still be ignorant. It’s also proof that some of our highest-ranking police officers are horrible at reporting facts. I never said nor suggested most of the things Hawke reported. Watch the video because after watching the video and reading this article, a third grader will realize Hawke’s misdirected anger caused him to report lies.

Although I certainly don’t need mercy because I’ve done nothing wrong regarding my videos and activism, it’s sad that Hawk’s carries a “no mercy” attitude which is counter to America’s favorite religion, Christianity. Our public servants should all show mercy when swinging the hammer of justice.

I also want to alert the reader I’m only one of a few million who agree with my anti-prohibition (anti-drug war) stances. There is an organization called Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, www.leap.cc, with over 6500 ex-police officers, judges and politicians who say the same thing I do. They would strongly disagree with Hawkes and most of their members carried a much higher rank than Lieutenant.

10. It’s not “dope.” It’s a plant that is impossible to overdose to death on. It’s also impossible to ingest enough marijuana to cause any harm in the time it takes to get pulled over. My advice is 100% safe for our citizens. The criminal side effects of being caught with a few joints by Hawkes causes much more harm to the citizen than eating the two joints and going home.

9. I didn’t say all cops were addicts. I said drug cops were addicted to adrenaline and it’s true. I use to teach street survival classes at various police academies and always explained how powerful an adrenaline addiction can be.

8. I didn’t say to drive crazy and cause a violent accident. I merely explained a powerful truth: If you are looking too good, you become suspicious to interdiction officers.

7. There is no way Hawkes can assume “love” wasn’t one of my motives when I produced the videos. I produced the videos to make money and out of love for humankind. Hawkes gets a paycheck every month so is he “protecting Americans just for the money? The videos were a great idea and I capitalized financially so I could continue my anti-prohibition efforts.

6. I never made this statement anywhere in my videos. I strongly caution Hawkes to stop saying things I didn’t say. His poor habit of misquoting is the reader’s first sign that Hawkes does not have reporting integrity. He also misquoted me in numbers 10, 9, and 3. I also support law enforcement arresting for crimes such as robbery, murder and theft. I’ve never advocated nor endorsed a “lawless state” as Hawkes suggests. I share L.E.A.P.’s views when they teach drugs don’t cause crime but the laws against drugs do.

5. I specifically said most marijuana dealers are good people because they are. Just as there are good people who deal cigarettes and alcohol, there are also good people who deal weed. Btw…cigarettes and alcohol kill more people each year than all 4 illegal drugs put together (weed, meth, coke, heroin.) Prescription meds share this same statistic. I ask Hawkes: “If cigarettes and alcohol became illegal tomorrow, would you begin arresting citizens for these substances?” Also, medical doctors “smuggle” smuggle the same “poisons.” Millions of hits of methamphetamine are prescribed to our children and adults every day in the form of Adderall and Ritalin. Doctors also prescribe heroin to millions in the form of Oxycodone and Hydrocodone.

4. Hawkes is spewing propaganda in this paragraph. Are you kidding me? He still believes all of this? Hawkes should visit Harvard University’s website and read the truth about marijuana. His false teachings are exactly why America doesn’t trust law enforcement.

3. See my paragraph #10 and there has never been an overdose to death on marijuana in 5000 years of recorded history. Unlike the legal drug, Alcohol, kids cannot die from smoking too much pot.

2. Not true. Police are racists. There is a reason 1 in 10 Black American Males are in prison (compared to 1 in 100) whites and it’s not because they are more prone to committing crimes than whites. It’s because our white lawmakers passed laws that discriminate and accommodate for race. In 1937, Harry Anslinger testified before the senate and said, “There are over 100,000 marijuana users in this nation. Marijuana needs to be made illegal because it often causes white woman to seek relations with Negros.” Thirty seconds later, marijuana was outlawed.

1. In the video, I explained officers are reluctant to search automobiles in the rain because citizens are forced to stand in the rain during the search. At the time of the video, certain border patrol checkpoints were closed during bad weather. In Texas, I never see citizens being searched in the rain and I never searched citizens in bad weather. If a kop makes me stand in the rain to search my car, that kop and his department should prepare for a huge lawsuit.

The poor Lieutenant states he is in a “War on Drugs” when he is really in a “War on People.” I would also ask this question to the author: “If this is a war, when will it end?” This insane war has lasted 30 years and even the D.E.A. admits drugs are more potent, cheaper and more readily available than ever before.

In closing, I’ll comment on Hawke’s last statement, “Good luck and stay safe out there and remember that your number one priority is to go home at the end of your shift.”

A public servant’s number one priority should never be to protect himself. His number one priority should be to protect citizens. Arresting pot smokers is doing the opposite. Police should never operate under such a selfish principle.

Peace, Love and NeverGetBusted,

Barry Cooper
CEO/NeverGetBusted
CEO/KopBusters
CEO/BarryCam

DAFLETCH

4 days ago

I am unfortunately disgusted with many of the responses on this post. Especially you Mr. Barry Cooper. You pretend as if you are providing some great service and are actively pursuing a better society. For all of you who are so selfish and arrogant enough to believe a society would function better on laziness and mediocrity, how pitifull. Now I may not be as educated and exposed to the media, running my show to various worldly television channels that suppert and thrive on indecency and immorality (“Maxim”, “Spike TV” : personal opinion), but I know that mankind will always try to justify what is just blaintently wrong. When I was 5 I tried to justify sneaking the doghnut from the kitchen (still my favorite snack, sorry to those who hate the cop/doughnut stereotype, no offense intended) but I knew it was wrong. I was hungry, it was not going to hurt anyone. The point is, I was trying to “get away” with something. If we lived in a world where a person’s actions had absolutely no effect on another’s well being, then by all means, smoke drink, shoot up to your heart’s content. Unfortunately we live in a world that demands consequences purely due to our existance. We as a society have to try to eliminate/control the surmounting results of every individuals selfish behavior. There are bad cops. Unfortunately I have worked with some. There are bad people of judgement, unfortunatley I was made aware of one of their articles advocating subhuman behavior. But if anyone wants to stand on the “Christianity” pedastal, and fain to represent “Mercy”, you had better recognize that seeking the praise of man by justifying such carnal behaviors is contrary to the admonition of God that man strive to better/perfect themselves. What about the mercy to those family members that are affected by the drug user. We are cops. Many of us mess up like normal people. Hopefully we never fall into the trap of complacency or sense of domination over our those we serve. Hopefully we never conduct in criminal behavior. But as long society stands by, condones, tolerates, and ultimately embraces the lazy, just enough (or not at all) to get by actions of others, we all suffer. So step up you lazy irresponsible members of society and enjoy a fuller, more fullfilling lifestyle. And stop hiding behind your justifications. OK. Thats my soap box. I am stepping off now. I know some of you anti law enforcement members will reply. I probably wont even read your reply. Sorry. To all my brothers and sisters fighting the good fight and truly doing the Lord’s work, may you do it with dignity, security, and wisdom. And if you are still imperfect as I am and reserve a SLIVER of selfishness (because the rest of your proffesion is absolutely selfLESS enough; one of my other justifications…lol) remember the number one rule IS to return home safely to your wife/husband/mom/dad/brother/sister/son/daughter…or other favorite loving soul occupied being. Our job to protect the public is secondary to their own stewardship to mind their own safety and get along with one antother. We are spread to thin Mr. Cooper to protect every citizen. We are not a government approved babysitting agency, although sometimes it feels that way. Glad I never had to sit through any seminar, acadamy class or talk show you ever gave. Hope you see the error of your advice, because it is not wisdom.

iHenry

4 days ago

WTF? Seriously. I can’t even think of a reply except to say WTF?
I hope some scumbag dies after watching his videos and they charge him with manslaughter for posting videos encouraging illegal activity.

sgtnovak

4 days ago

I simply cannot believe some of the people who post on here, claiming to be supportive of law enforcement, which Mr. Cooper is obviously not. Marijuana is one more thing that causes intoxication. It is not a wonder drug, it is used to get high. We already have alcohol, we don’t need more (where will it end?). Also, everyone says good, tax it and we’ll make money! Those same people are the ones who say cigarette companies are bad and exploit our youth for profit, yet it will be okay to do the same with marijuana. I know of several fatal accidents in which the primary factor was the driver was under the influence of weed and was doing stuff he probably wouldn’t normally do, and his reactions were also impaired. Why is that okay? Mr. Cooper is one of those guys that you can’t talk to because he will rationalize his position as long as he can make money. Hopefully one of his “friends” that he is helping will put him out of our misery. Oh that’s right, marijuana dealers are all such lovely folks. They have good jobs and are upstanding pillars of society, right? Another “expert” witness that is anything but. Mr. Cooper, you make my skin crawl.

fatherfortruth

3 days ago

What concerns this Oregonian is how many kops still believe the PR/propaganda about pot. Our founding fathers would, I believe, roll over in their graves if they knew what our current government says about cannabis and hemp! Most of those REAL MEN not only smoked it, but they believed it was one of our country’s greatest resources! Now… fast forward a couple hundred years, and we have come so far that we try to ban a plant that’s been used for thousands of years by humans for all the same things we use it for today. And this is just the tip of the ice-burg of knowledge about marijuana.

Most people get their info from only one source. And that source is the one that most justifies their own ego. “I’m just doing my job…” no longer cuts it for me. Hitlers henchmen tried that excuse during the Nuremberg trials. And they ended up dangling from the end of a rope.

Good luck KOPS! I hope your ego driven justification starts waking you up at night. I hope the sounds of children’s voices crying for their mom or dad who are in prison because of you arresting them for non-violent drug possession, haunts you and never lets you rest. I hope you will be met with justice, and served a dose of your own ‘tough love’.

There are good people who are cops. Therefore, the war on drugs forces good people to do very bad things. Karma is a bitch, even if you’re generally a good person. But if you continue enforcing these horribly failed policies, it will come back to you… It’s only a matter of time.

Then there are some very violent, abusive and racist people who are KOPS. So our policies actually give an open playing field for these people to perpetrate their lust for aggressive behavior. But because of the same policies, these dirt-bags are protected, and more often than not, are kept on the force because of how much money they bring in to the department.

I’m a father of three, beautiful, intelligent and healthy kids. I hope they will grow up in a world that encourages the use of cannabis and hemp. I’m tired of being lied to, and I will not allow this to go down another generation.

FIGHT THE NWO! BE THE CHANGE!

avictor

3 days ago

This article was not about marijuana but about a traitor to the force.
He also screwed over society in general as everyone’s tax money goes to train law enforcement and he then used the education or TRIED to the detriment of society.

Drug smuggling is illegal and a retired or past LEO has no business supporting illegal activity, period.

Because some people are getting unruly / hostile which saddens me particularly the hostility vented at “Parent4Life” I will address some points. I am not an LEO but was considering a career change and I have stayed part of this online community because I was impressed with the caliber of people and level of respect the members give one another.

The outward hostility dished out to Parent4Life does not reflect that. Misinformation has been used to berate Parent4Life and it reads as though they are being bullied to shut up.

Parent4Life was NOT hostile in sharing their opinion but some responses were. If this type of communication becomes the norm I will not be able to ‘stay’ part of this community. I am sure I am not the only one that feels that way and what fun is sharing if everyone always agrees or is afraid to be berated if they do not?

I am not a doctor but have studied marijuana for years for medical use.

Legalizing Marijuana would solve SOME problems. Just like legalizing Booze did. Unfortunately Booze is much, much more toxic then marijuana and the health issues linked to alcoholism are many.

I won’t be biased I watched my ex husband sit his life away stoned. Pot can be destructive. Just like booze a teen or adult high on pot with impaired judgment may make bad decisions they otherwise would not have.

My ex was like that commercial where the kid melts into the sofa. I worked 3 jobs to support us and our daughter. I fought with him to stop smoking it.
However as soon as booze touched his lips he was very violent and abusive and he drank when he couldn’t get pot.
He was destined to be a druggie no matter what – some people are just ill and chose to self medicate. Removing pot from the equation only made him a bigger loser.

We start with 2 main strains, Sativa and Indica. Indica is the strain that makes a person tired and medically is excellent for insomnia and also helpful for bipolar patients during manic episodes. Unlike lithium and other medications which must be taken regularly marijuana can be used as needed.

Those who suffer with depression are best helped with strains of Sativa which does NOT cause sleepiness.

BUT on the street dealers do not know what they are selling half the time.

You do not want a bipolar patient during a manic episode to take a strain of Sativa – and if that particular plant it came from shows properties which cause paranoia the damages can be real.

The stoners who run the medical marijuana dispensaries KNOW what every type they sell ‘does’. The patient divulges their diagnosis and they will match the right weed to the right symptoms.

I AGREE with those on this board that seem although a bit too angrily to demand marijuana is respected as many other drug.
Marijuana is a drug and it alters and should NOT be treated like no big deal.
But we cannot educate the public while it remains illegal at least not as well as we do other drugs.

To say taking away some of the cartels product / revenue is not worth it because they have other drugs to sell is like saying why arrest any of them since we can’t get them all.

Obviously selling multiple products are a wise choice for any business. How do you think they ‘recover’ from a large drug bust? If their coke gets confiscated at least they have the bread and butter revenue pot provides.

It does NOT cause cancer and has showed promise in fighting certain kinds even, and is MUCH better for the body then most drugs including Tylenol. I assure you given a choice you would rather have your child ingest a bag of weed then bottle of Tylenol.

Booze overdose and withdraws can kill a patient – no one has ever died of pot or THC withdraw or OD.

Pot is a gateway product for dealers not for users.
Many actually most, hard drug dealers started with pot used the product to learn the ‘business’ and their pot profits also to go into procuring and dealing harder stuff. They usually don’t take their customer base with them during the transition.

The country could use the tax revenue legalization would enable for sure.

It is not physically addictive and much less toxic then Tylenol. Unless the patient is allergic you cannot kill yourself with THC or marijuana.

Those teachers who got slipped the pot who went to the ER were scared as anyone would be if they found themselves high or altered but didn’t know what caused it, but not in any physical distress due to the actual drug, THC in pot.

Eating THC can be cause a VERY strong effect and it would be terrifying for someone who had no experience with pot or was not prepared.
Even seasoned pot heads wouldn’t want to ingest brownies from an untrusted source who knows what could be I them. But it is paranoia that sends people to the hospital just like panic attacks do.

However eating the raw weed does not release enough THC to do much of anything. THC requires processing beforehand, like cooking in butter – in fat or soaking in alcohol or it simply passes through the body.

There is a LOT of misinformation about pot. It first became illegal due to the paper industry because Hemp grows like weed and a nice paper product can be made of it. It was a real threat to the tree harvesters and paper mills. Hemp also has a very tiny amount of THC. You would be hard pressed to smoke enough to get any high.

The alcohol industry is more then happy to pick up the lobbying against booze reins as are the pharmaceutical companies. They make a lot of money off many medications that can be replaced with pot.

Marijuana CAN be dangerous if administered to someone with underlying mental illness because it can cause paranoia.

If made legal a pharmacist can educate and regulate. A very weak and tested all purpose strain can be sold OTC and purchased without pharmacist input or direction.

Cartels and gangs lose a form of revenue.

I agree the cartel and gang members should be treated like terrorist because they are. Gitmo is a perfect place for them versus in state prisons where they continue to run their ‘businesses’ even behind bars.

I also appreciate feedback and clearly I have taken some time to address this but I will not read responses which are meant to bully me into not sharing what I know or even think I know for that matter. I am not a criminal I do not sell weed or even partake but have taken the time to educate myself. And based on that I do believe it should be legalized.

BarryCooper

3 days ago

avictor,

Excellent post regarding the real facts about marijuana. Good job. However I take issue with your statement:

“This article was not about marijuana but about a traitor to the force.
He also screwed over society in general as everyone’s tax money goes to train law enforcement and he then used the education or TRIED to the detriment of society. Drug smuggling is illegal and a retired or past LEO has no business supporting illegal activity, period.”

Your logic is all twisted. How can you know all the great benefits of marijuana and still support the insane laws against it? A huge flaw born out of ignorance is the thinking that because something is against the law, it is wrong. Our country has had a history of bad law: i.e. The Christians use to drown supposed witches, Christian whites had slaves, woman couldn’t vote, alcohol was illegal.

Do you think a runaway slave deserved to be hung because that was the law? Do you believe men deserved to get shot for having bootlegged whiskey in the trunk of their car? Do you believe it was okay for Hitler to kill the Jews because it was the law?

And I didn’t “screw over society.” I helped society. Thousands of citizens have emailed thanking me for keeping them out of prison. And how am I “screwing over society” by filming korrupt kops? The police in Odessa, Texas planted drugs on Yolanda Madden, mother of two. I set a trap for the kops and they took the bait. Shortly thereafter, the same federal judge who sentenced Yolanda to prison for 8 years, released Yolanda and she is free today after serving 4 years. How is that bad?

It’s the kops on this string who are crazy. They talk about God as if He is the one giving them permission to enforce bad laws. I’m certain the Christian god didn’t endorse slavery but the white, Christian kops enforced those laws with a rope. Why can’t I find a kop who will debate facts and evidence?

Not a single kop has given opposing evidence of any kind to the good arguments found supporting an end to the Drug War. I challenge any officer to a public debate in Austin, Texas. If the kops are so right, then wy won’t they debate me about it? If they are so concerned that they have the truth, then why haven’t they met my challenge? Y’all aren’t the first kops I’ve debated about this and so far every kop does one of two things: They run behind god to dodge logic and reasoning or they simply attack me by saying they wish I were dead or in prison. I took college debate and was taught when the opponent started attacking and not addressing the individual arguments, the opponent was losing the debate.

Not a single officer commented about the higher ranking officers at L.E.A.P. who agree with me. Are they trash? Do they deserve to be locked up or put to death?

Listen to their attitudes. They actually hate citizens and have become bitter toward them. That attitude is reflected in their posts. They cry that they can’t save everybody yet don’t understand they are destroying more families then they are saving. And we aren’t asking for more police, we are screaming that America is over-policed.

And to the kops on this board who made comments regarding my personal safety and freedom….F765k you for that. I’m not afraid nor am I intimidated by any man…especially one wearing a police costume. Please have the courage and take me up on my challenge. Come to Austin for a public debate about my efforts and the War on People. You don’t like me because I don’t do as I’m told and I’ll never bend my will to oppressive aggression like is reflected on this board.

Barry Cooper/”America’s Top Drug War Insurgent”/RawStory.com

Anonymous

3 days ago

Dear Pig: I have worked with the most recalcitrant of individuals for over twenty-two years within TDCJ. After reading your statements, I see distinct parallels to this population. You both engage in prevarication & often exaggerate a point to absurdity. Dr. Stanton E. Samenow refers to these behaviors as criminal thinking errors. Just because you have a badge does not mean you don’t meet the DSM-IV-TR diagnostic criteria for antisocial personality disorder. God, did you get your criminal justice education at Sam Houston? In my opinion, you are spewing maligned verbiage like a dysenteric cur. Let me make a few points of my own. Like convicts, you pick the most extreme examples to make a point. Are you attempting to draw comparisons between cannabis violations and more serious crimes like murder or sexual offenses? Your misinformed statement about people being hospitalized for eating cannabis-laced food was an attempt to mislead others, like those who are incarcerated. Gosh, were these individuals hospitalized for long-term psychiatric illnesses? No, they were not! Did they die? No they did not. You cite various medical conditions that may or may not be linked to cannabis smoking. It certainly does not meet the criteria of a “necessary” or “sufficient” condition associated with scientific inquiry does it? Oh, I’m sorry, you wouldn’t know anything about that would you? What you do know is the gift of gab. Pigs molest justice every day when they pirate or steal from others because of criminal justice system they helped create through the manipulation of information. But, you have also manipulated the system to reap enormous profits in this so-called drug war. Many big busts may yield expansive cars, property, & various luxury items you auction to get the finest of equipment. Are you comfortable? What a fine job you’ve done. The mob was the baby of prohibition was it not? So, go drink you beer, beat your wife and children, and continue roll around in your spore. Using your logic, many other human activities need to be criminalized: alcohol consumption (a physically addicting substance); obesity; cigarette smoking; & coffee drinking. Do these things contribute to poor health? Research has shown that these variables may have a role in negative health outcomes; however, we have freedom to make choices don’t we? These are medical decisions. Cannabis usage should be a medical decision, not a criminal act. I have encountered many felons inside the walls of TDCJ. Many of them told me that they wanted to be a cop. Now, I understand why.

VoteYESonPROP19

3 days ago

2 Comments

Okay let’s see. Where to start?

Number 10. If it is cannabis that you are swallowing then I don’t believe it is very effective if it wasn’t cooked or heated first. It definitely won’t kill you. Maybe other drugs will kill you, but here in California only loser do those other hardcore drugs that you can overdose on. Respectable tax-paying, hard workers only use medical marijuana.

Number 9. I would think you would have to be an adrenaline junkie to be a cop. Busting bad guys is what makes the job exciting and risky. You never know when some whacked out person is going to shoot at you. Many cops also resort to certain drugs like alcohol and illicit drugs as a form of stress relief because police work is a stressful job, but they have programs to help them. You know seeing a school filled with dead kids or something like that would be hard for anyone to stomach and day after day. No thank you.

Number 8. Yes, I don’t think by don’t drive too careful he means go 100mph and run red lights. He simply says kops look for A+ drivers as a sign that they might be up to something. You would have to do something that the kop can say you did wrong. Not signaling for lane change, changing lane too slowly, etc. Kops can always find something to pull you over for if they want to. This is one of their lesser known skills. If they want to pull you over they will. Anyone that has a kop following them is going to be nervous, even if they are doing nothing wrong. This will affect their driving and they will make a mistake eventually.

Number 7. We live in a capitalist society my friend. I am to assume the author being from Texas and an LEO is Republican (just assuming not profiling) you have to understand capitalism by now, come on man. Capitalism fuels the drug trade. Supply and demand. Yeah? Whether he did it for love or money or both is irrelevant. He is doing this for the non-violent people who want to smoke their cannabis and be left alone. Yes, it may fall into the hands of violent offenders, but this is why cannabis should be legalized. To rid the world of the violence caused by cannabis prohibition. Good things do fall into bad hands. Take away the prohibition, take away the Al Capones of cannabis.

Number 6. You are comparing someone who rapes children to someone that sits in his room gets high, plays video games, and maybe has one too many Cheetos? Wow! I don’t even know what to say to that. You must be from Texas, oh yeah you are. I will agree that cannabis might not be the healthiest thing in the world for you, but you can’t compare cannabis users to rapists and murderers, well maybe in Texas you can. I guess maybe the cannabis smokers in Texas are a bit different from the ones in California, but I doubt it. Tell Texans to stay away from that Mexican cannabis. Organic California grown is the only way.

Number 5. I would actually agree with you that meth and cocaine dealers and users are parasites. These are bad drugs, but so long as there is a demand there will be a supply. I think there is a better way to deal with these drugs than is currently done. If I could wave my magic wand and rid the world of these drugs I would, but they are not going anywhere. Besides koppers need these drugs, ceasing assets of drug dealers creates revenue for many departments across the country. I could see why kops see only the benefits of the current legislation.

Number 4. Maybe this is true. Science can be biased. One group says this, one group says something else. Depends on motive. I wonder if eating cannabis like many do would make a difference.
So you are saying that cigarettes are 50% better for you than a marijuana cigarette? Ha! Think of this, idiots who smoke cigarettes usually smoke what 5, 10, 20 or more cigarettes a day. Well for me personally, I can’t even smoke an entire joint in one day. Way too much. I don’t use everyday or even every month for that matter. Cigarettes smokers have addiction problems causing them to smoke every single day. So do some cannabis smokers. I believe moderation is key to life. The golden mean. So I would have to say outlaw cigarettes before cannabis.

Number 3. He is right! It is possible to overdose on cannabis. Let me tell you it sucks. What he fails to mention is that there is no recorded lethal dose of cannabis its 5-10 thousand year history. It has LD50 that is so high no person could possible consume that much. LD50 is the FDA’s way of saying that at a certain dose of a drug will kill 50% of the users. You will die more quickly from Aspirin and caffeine because of their lower LD50 ratings. Cannabis does not kill. When you overdose you might wish you were dead or think you are dying, but you are just “tripping balls” as they say. Not fun. Not recommended. It can cause panic attacks and that is probably what made those 18 people have to be rushed to the emergency room where they probable didn’t do much for them except try to calm them down. They were freaking out, man!

Number 2. Well this is a brash over simplification. They might no be racist per se, but they sure do profile. Which can be construed to be a similar evil. I would have to say the majority of them are not in fact racists except maybe in southern states (like Texas) where the KKK is more prevalent. HA!

Number 1. Yes kops do work in the rain. They are getting paid they better be at least faking it, right? I have seen motorcycle kops with rubbers on driving in the rain. Crazy! What is nice though, in my experience, is that kops are often busy dealing with accidents or other safety issues during rain and are not really looking to pull people over as frequently. Who would want to pull people over and stand in the rain while someone is digging through their glove box trying to find their insurance card or registration. Maybe a rookie kop or a former marine. But not the rest.

If something does happen to Barry it will more likely be because of prohibition than the drug itself and it will not change his mind because that is what he if fighting for. A SENSIBLE drug policy. Oh, and Mr. Hawkes please keep your narrow views out of my state of California. Thank you and good day sir.

imolaavant

3 days ago

I say the flowowing as as father and a former drug user:

There are two major issues I take with your article
1. You are either being intentinonaly deceptive or you are ignorant about the field you work in.
2. To suggest that my son would have been better of with a father in jail than with a caring parent who had a medical problem is nothing short of disgusting.

Anyone with any knowledge of drug culture knows quite well that calling marijuna ‘dope’ is like calling tabacco crack.

People with addiction problems need help from professionals familiar with the issue. They do not need to be put in a cold hard cell.

I suspect that if ‘fornication’ (by it’s legal definintion) allowed for the hefty fines and asset fortutute rules that drug crimes are privy to that you’d be writing articles about unfaithfulness.

Please, for the sake of families, pull your head out of the sand. A father or mother enjoying a joint over a weekend do not deserve to have their children taken away from them and their lives, and that of their children, destroyed.

Let’s inject some common sense into this debate and look at the big picture.

I fi not by any means condole the use of drugs; buy when the ‘solution’ causes mare harm than the problem it’s time to step back and reevaluate.

maverick928

2 days ago

To the last post..Dude are you for real? If you have this hate in your heart for law enforcement then please do us all a favor and leave this site. And the next time you need a police officer then don’t call. Take care of it with your “Barry Cam or whatever other toy you have. And as for the title of Pastor? You sir are no Christian. In fact you are worse than an aethiest for you are a poser. Please , the line to leave starts with you….

BarryCooper

2 days ago

maverick928,

Please read my post about kops unwilling to address the issues. You fall into this category because you never gave any evidence why the Pastor was wrong. You’re ignorance shows when all you do is attack and wish harm on others.

You shouldn’t be so proud of your form of Christianity. It’s similar to the Puritan Christians who severely punished people for what they considered immoral. The Christians also have a history of murder and war.

It seems you think any person who isn’t a Christian deserves to be punished. If this is the case, then you have no business wearing an American police uniform because the highest law of the land (the constitution) forbids you from discriminating against others because of their religion or non-religion.

Go back to you judgmental church and pray for forgiveness. Then remove your kop uniform because you disgrace what police are suppose to be.

Barry Cooper

BarryCooper

2 days ago

10 Comments

CAN WE PLEASE GET A POLICE OFFICER WILLING TO POST EVIDENCE WHY WE ARE WRONG.

Kops should know what real evidence is and what it isn’t. Quoting scripture doesn’t hold up in court so it can’t be used as evidence. Lashing out is not evidence. Spewing statements with no reliable source is not evidence. Repeating what your Sergeant told you isn’t evidence. Repeating what your parents told you isn’t evidence.

The author of this article refuses to follow the proper reporting ethics by quoting me inaccurately and you believe him. If kops have so much integrity, then why are they saying so many lies and manipulating the facts on this blog?

I totally expect a kop to reply to this post with “you should be in prison” or “drugs are bad” or “we cant’ save everybody.” None of these statements hold any weight in a debate.

Barry Cooper

officerdangle

2 days ago

2 Comments

“Make the most of the Indian Hemp Seed and sow it everywhere.” General George Washington

“Speaking generally, the Commission are of the opinion that the moderate use of hemp drugs appears to cause no appreciable physical injury of any kind.” – Indian Hemp Drugs Commission 1893-1894

“It doesn’t matter where you’re from, a traitor is a traitor.“
Andrew Hawkes

This is true Andrew. I’m not sure where you’re from or where you received your education but unless you have bad reading comprehension skills I would ask for a refund. Apparently they did not teach you about the constitution……Especially the “Top 10” AKA The bill of rights!
BTW the constitution was written on hemp and the flag that Betsy Ross sowed was made of hemp too.

I tremble to think what the founders did with men of your character. From their writings we know that it would probably involve tying a yellow Hemp rope around the old oak tree.

“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”
Thomas Jefferson

“Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add ‘within the limits of the law’, because law is often but the tyrant’s will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.”
Thomas Jefferson

“When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.”
Thomas Jefferson

Most of Andrews enumerated tripe has already been dissected by my fellow patriots and so I’ll skip to the most egregious assertions.

6.“we also don’t catch all of the child predators, murderers and thieves, but we dang sure try. This ex-cop seems to think that a lawless state with criminals and drug runners running amuck is the best for society. That is called anarchy and is absurd.”

`Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life’- Aristophanes -

The 18th amendment to the constitution (The Volstead Act aka alcohol prohibition) took away Americans’ right to use alcohol. After 10 years of failed prohibition we saw massive increases in the murder rate, gangs and police corruption. (Mexico now)

After prohibition failed the gov had to pass The 21st amendment to the constitution to repeal the 18th amendment and give Americans their right to use alcohol back.

“Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within itself, for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man’s appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.”
- Abraham Lincoln – (December 1840)

My question for Andrew is… which constitutional amendment took away Americans RIGHT to use marijuana/hemp?
Let me help….there isn’t one, the drug war and drug laws are all unconstitutional and anyone who enforces these laws are preventing Americans from exercising their constitutional rights which by definition is treason. The type of people who take pride enforcing drug laws today are the same type that took pride enforcing segregation laws 50+ years ago.

“The urge to save humanity is almost always a false-face for the urge to rule it.”
– H.L. Mencken

“We in this country have to make up our minds — we can not have it both ways: we cannot be both drug-free and free.”
Lester Grinspoon, M.D., Harvard Medical School

4. “It is also been proven that marijuana is the second most common drug, after alcohol, present in the blood of fatally injured persons. That’s real “safe” now isn’t it? I could go on with more facts but what would be the point? Marijuana is NOT safe.”

I agree….You “could go on with more” but what would be the point because it’s all antiquated prohibitionist propaganda that you tell yourself to justify your tyranny against good people in the name of the war on drugs/people.

3. “It is impossible to overdose on marijuana” Tell that to Lake Highlands High School where 18 staff members were rushed to the emergency room after marijuana spiked muffins were delivered as a practical joke.

I have only heard of one credible study where marijuana was shown to cause death and it was a rat study. They discovered that the lethal amount for a rat was 25lb‘s.
It went like this… after years of study and millions of dollars spent they determined that a 25lb. Brick of marijuana dropped from 10 feet would kill the rodent.

“The Matrix is a system, Neo, and that system is our enemy. When you are inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters, the very minds we are trying to save. Until we do, these people are part of that system and that makes them our enemies. You have to understand that most of these people are not ready to be unplugged and many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, they will fight to protect it. The Matrix is everywhere. It is all around us. Even in this very room. You can see it when you look out your window or when you turn on your television. You can feel it when you go to work, when you go to church, when you pay your taxes. It is the world that has been pulled over your eyes to blind you from the truth.”

Morpheus

Gilmo007

2 days ago

This article really confuses me because I’m not sure If this cop saw the same video I saw. In the videos I saw the “ex-cop” exclusively referred to marijuana. That alone negates several of the points above because of the change of scope. Cops are often guilty of changing the scope of a discussion when they are bested. I’ve seen it when I get pulled over, when others have been pulled over, when I’ve called them for assistance and that’s pretty much all he did here. I’m really the most struck by this ill form of debate’s presence than most of the content. It’s the classic hallmark of Police Officer self-righteousness. Cops have always made a situation worse in my experience because of this common flaw. They often refuse to be wrong or listen to reason. Entry level authority jobs give people too much power and not enough wisdom or discression.

Retleo

about 2 hours ago

Name calling and personal attacks upon LEO members, or the LE Community as a whole, will not be tolerated. Posts that resort to name calling will be deleted without warning. As a point of order, the possession, use, sale, distribution of Marijuana is still illegal in most parts of this country (despite the efforts of the Marijuana/Hemp support crowd to legalize it).
Many of the excuses and justifications for Marijuana use listed in this thread are the same arguments that have been around since the 1960′s. In a very general way the positions of the LE Community and the Marijuana/Hemp crowd are diametrically opposed when it comes to the subject of Marijuana. I do not see there being any chance of the two sides coming to any agreement on this issue.
The rational of someone coming to a police site and espousing and supporting the use of Marijuana boggles the mind. If you expect to get agreement with your pro-Marijuana stance here I believe that you will be, predictably, disappointed.

Retleo

about 1 hour ago

We will one day when the pot laws are repealed and hopefully, the cops can be tried for their crimes against humanity and placed in the same cages they throw everybody else in. Hitler’s men were punished for following crazy laws.
Really BarryCooper? Crimes Against Humanity? I cannot control what Mr. Hawkes put in his article but I can, and will control the derogatory name calling, and the anti LEO tirades of posters in the threads. I was not stopping, or limiting people’s ability to make their points, whether for or against Marijuana. You Sir, have definitely stepped over the line with your comparisons of LEOs to Nazis. Thank you for your contributions to this thread, good bye and good night Sir!

• Retleo,

Are you kidding me? The Lt. wrote a crazy article about my videos and about pot prohibition and used name calling twice. We are merely pointing out why he is wrong. Please read my comments after some of yours:

“Name calling and personal attacks upon LEO members, or the LE Community as a whole, will not be tolerated. Posts that resort to name calling will be deleted without warning.”

The supporters of bad policy (prohibition) will have their posts deleted for name calling? In the article, the Lt. called me a “traitor” and pot dealers “parasites.” That’s name calling. What about the kops on this blog making comments that I belong in prison and should be hurt by prisoners? My kids read these threatening comments from these officers. You are being one sided and unfair. When kops start losing, they make up rules to hush the masses. Big deal. Delete whatever you want. You are wrong on this one.

“As a point of order, the possession, use, sale, distribution of Marijuana is still illegal in most parts of this country”

So what. It’s not illegal to talk back to the kops. It’s called First Amendment. This is your site and you have the power to stop the First Amendment here but that’s it. We aren’t going to stop talking back. The Lt. wrote many lies in his article and we are explaining his lies. His article is defamation/slander.

“I do not see there being any chance of the two sides coming to any agreement on this issue.”

We will one day when the pot laws are repealed and hopefully, the cops can be tried for their crimes against humanity and placed in the same cages they throw everybody else in. Hitler’s men were punished for following crazy laws.

“The rational of someone coming to a police site and espousing and supporting the use of Marijuana boggles the mind.”

The rational of police misquoting me and spewing propaganda boggles our minds. We are just as alarmed as you. When you print such a ridiculous and slanted article, expect your critics to answer and stop whining about it.

“If you expect to get agreement with your pro-Marijuana stance here I believe that you will be, predictably, disappointed.”

We never expect the current kops of this country to agree with us but we have the right to talk back. The only thing we are disappointed in is your frail attempt to delete our posts and allow the kops to make threats toward citizens who oppose their views.

Barry Cooper

Retleo

http://policelink.monster.com/member/current_user/verified_status_new

about 1 hour ago

4454 Comments

We will one day when the pot laws are repealed and hopefully, the cops can be tried for their crimes against humanity and placed in the same cages they throw everybody else in. Hitler’s men were punished for following crazy laws.
Really BarryCooper? Crimes Against Humanity? I cannot control what Mr. Hawkes put in his article but I can, and will control the derogatory name calling, and the anti LEO tirades of posters in the threads. I was not stopping, or limiting people’s ability to make their points, whether for or against Marijuana. You Sir, have definitely stepped over the line with your comparisons of LEOs to Nazis. Thank you for your contributions to this thread, good bye and good night Sir!

RETLEO blocked me from posting after this.

Peace,

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Recently on the O’Reilly Factor, host Bill O’Reilly bet guest John Stossel $10,000 (to a charity of the winner’s choice) that Proposition 19, the California ballot measure that would make marijuana legal for all adults, will fail.

Stossel, who supports Prop 19, said that it’s time to end marijuana prohibition because “it’s a war on our own people.”

“A war on our own people?” asked a bewildered and defiant O’Reilly. “What does that mean? They’re breaking people’s doors down?”

Yes, Mr. O’Reilly, that’s exactly what it means. Below is video of a Feb. 11 raid in Columbia, Missouri, in which a SWAT team broke down a family’s front door, terrorized a 7-year-old child, and shot and killed one of the family’s dogs. The reason for such tactics? The officers found a pipe and a small amount of marijuana.

More than 800,000 Americans – nearly one every 37 seconds – are arrested every year for possessing marijuana, something that’s safer than alcohol. It is a war on our own people, Mr. O’Reilly.


In another poor and puzzling attempt to defend our failed status quo, O’Reilly tried to compare marijuana to tobacco, by saying “marijuana is exactly as addictive as tobacco.”

Once again, he’s wrong. From TIME magazine yesterday: “Estimates vary, but compared with tobacco, which hooks about 20% to 30% of smokers, marijuana is much less addictive, coming in at 9% to 10%.” According a 1999 report from the federal government’s Institute of Medicine, “Compared to most other drugs … dependence among marijuana users is relatively rare … [A]lthough few marijuana users develop dependence, some do. But they appear to be less likely to do so than users of other drugs (including alcohol and tobacco), and marijuana dependence appears to be less severe than dependence on other drugs.”

More importantly, tobacco is responsible for killing more than 400,000 Americans every year, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Marijuana kills no one. But tobacco is legal – and few families have their doors broken down, children terrorized, and pets murdered because a parent is in possession of a cigarette.

And according to the most recent poll, it looks very likely that Mr. O’Reilly could soon be out $10,000. SurveyUSA shows Prop 19 leading among California voters 48 to 44.

- Article from Marijuana Policy Project.