The reason is obvious. In almost every single instance where police and agents hold press conferences, the formulaic nature of it becomes evident.

I cannot say with any accuracy that there is a ‘playbook’ by which police, drug agents, prosecutors, etc. have a limited set of statements to make to the press in such instances, but it certainly seems to be the case, with the same phrases being uttered time and again with suspicious regularity.

I do know for certain the DEA has been using taxpayer’s dollars to publish ‘manuals’ intended to be used in any debate with drug law reformers..

So…what diff would it make if they showed up? They would never stray outside the safe boundaries of their scripts; they wouldn’t dare engage in an actual debate, as they’d be rhetorical roadkill within minutes. And that kind of loss of ‘face’ has political consequences. Ones that they don’t want to experience under any circumstances.

Cato tells me the same thing happened this time.”

Gee i wonder y?

Cato tells me the same thing happened this time.

Since it seems everyone on the panel already agrees with the answers being “no” and “yes”, I can’t see there being much of a debate. I agree with smallwood, it would be better to have someone representing an opposing viewpoint.

I was reading about a six artists/independent news reporters in town to cover the RNC convention being detained and having their equipment confiscated. For what? “Suspicion of Trespassing on railroad property”.

http://tiny.cc/xhnxa

I had a couple of police officers give me a hard time a few days ago while I was downtown snapping some photos of the Excel Energy Center and the surrounding area (Nothing sinister planned, and I do live less than three blocks from this area!) – Seems that the police are telling people to not take photos “because of heightened security”. What a bunch of bravo sierra.

No.

These bastards have had generations, now, to fix the rot from within. Instead they grow more insular and aggressive by the day, while their sycophants in the media continue in their miserable failure to afflict the comfort these bastards enjoy. There may really be only “a few bad apples”, but every individual in the so-called profession who lets the mountain of crap pile ever higher is equally rotten.

Hell, the very idea of “law enforcement” is half of what got us this far down the slippery slope in the first place. Because if it’s “the law”, you know, then it MUST be enforced.

Intercourse that, sideways, good and hard.

Until these crumbs clean house, they don’t deserve the back of my hand, let alone any manner of podium from which to blather their self-serving drivel.