Comments on: Drugs The Drug War Ruins Antoher Family

By: Conspiracy Theory or Common Sense? Rejecting the Myth of Public Service | STATESMAN SENTINEL

Sat, 17 Sep 2011 23:00:59 +0000

[...] officers.” They are professional bullies and glorified tax collectors who spend more time ruining lives than saving them. Most cops share a collective mentality of being at war with the American public. [...]

By: Jacob

Jacob — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 14:46:41 +0000

FRY HER! if she gets her way and the slaves get a taste for freedom they might take away our pensions for being fat lazy bloodsuckers AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

Whatsup to the Ventura, CA cops who beat me, try to avoid another investigation for racism by the state attorneys boys! Also to the incompetent Ventura Co. judges who insure pensions but aren’t bothered by justice! And to the bloodsucking defense lawyers like David Goldshain from FCOP in Ventura who never counseled anything but take the corrupt DA’s deal and pay him his five thousand dollars to go handle setting up your punishment with his buddies, the DA and judges. It’s just one big fun game for all those parasites to make excuses to get fat off the backs of people who actually do productive work.

REVOLUTION…these bloodsuckers will bring us down even if we avoid them, they will bloodsuck us to death!

By: nemo

nemo — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 19:08:14 +0000

This isn’t anything new. Back in the early 1990′s there was a famous case in Montgomery County Maryland of a situation very much like this. The DARE-’educated’ snotty brat of a professional couple ratted on her parents in a fit of pique at parental discipline, and the parents lost just about everything. The father was some well-paid Fed civil servant. I can’t recall the name of the family at present, but it was a major to-do back then.

By: OBTC

OBTC — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 16:08:16 +0000

#52 | Tommy said:

“D.A.R.E.

I ratted out my parents and all I got was this lousy T-shirt”

THIS TRULY SHOULD BE ON A T-SHIRT!

By: Rick H.

Rick H. — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 04:59:18 +0000

Radley: Please fix the typo (“Antoher”) in the title of this post. I want to forward the link, but my inner spelling nazi wouldn’t let me do it!

By: Steve Verdon

Steve Verdon — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 20:19:58 +0000

Seriously, when is the right age to start talking to your kids about this kind of thing?

As soon as you get them a cell phone. We got one for my son at the age of 7, and right then and there I sat him down and talked to him about sexting. I told him,

1. The cops/school officials are not your friends.
2. The cops/school officials are not going to try and help you.
3. The cops/school officials will lie to you.
4. The cops/school officials are not your friends.

I also went through something like Sean L. Any question they ask should be met with, “I want to talk to my Dad (or Mom, and if they get her…I pity them).”

By: Tommy

Tommy — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 18:07:49 +0000

D.A.R.E.

I ratted out my parents and all I got was this lousy T-shirt

By: Marty

Marty — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 14:31:29 +0000

I remember reading about a kid who ratted his parents out in Russia in the early 20th century- they celebrated him on stamps and to other kids for decades. It turned out that the government made the kid up… DARE doesn’t even have to make its poster children up- they really exist!

By: SJE

SJE — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 13:58:47 +0000

We need some commercials:

“Kids, if you narc on your parents, they take away your TV”

By: ParatrooperJJ

ParatrooperJJ — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 13:53:12 +0000

A kid in the USSR turned in his parents for crimes against the state. He was then killed by his neighbors.

By: pegr

pegr — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 12:35:03 +0000

You guys don’t see it. The cops are doing him a favor. He had more than an ounce, but they wrote it up at 23.9 grams to keep from having to charge him with a felony…. Which they did anyway.

Inherently contradictory? Thems cops for ya.

(No such thing as a good cop…)

By: Jack Dempsey

Jack Dempsey — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 10:09:27 +0000

Wow, we have arrived! We now live in the age of the Junior Spies! George Orwell was right.

By: John C. Randolph

John C. Randolph — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 09:40:14 +0000

This story goes to show how important it is for kids to understand that governments are far more dangerous than drugs.

-jcr

By: Greg C

Greg C — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 05:46:24 +0000

I have a question about commenting on Huffpost ( since Balko’s stories now appear there and he is linking there a lot).. if anyone knows. Does commenting on Huffpost somehow connect my facebook account without my knowledge? Because I posted a comment on this article- created a dedicated account there through my email address ( not in anyway connecting to facebook that I was aware of), and now I have all these “friends” there that are my facebook friends. I don’t know.. all this facebook integration and all the other stuff with comments everywhere is starting to annoy me. I like to be able to comment as I do here or with a login for a specific platform. I hate all these sites that automatically connect through stuff and/or have all these different options to comment ( ostensibly so one DOESN’T connect with the other crap). I’m beginning to root for a myspace-like demise.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 05:28:02 +0000

I have told my kid more than once that if he ever tells the cops something that hurts me, Daddy is going to go “poof” and be gone forever.

By: Marty

Marty — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 04:16:26 +0000

#37 | nospam

‘It’s ALL about control of his life until those kids are grown up.’

exactly. it starts in the schools- if the parents and kids play by their rules, they get an attaboy. if the kid wants to play sports, he/she has to play by their rules. wanna go to college? play by their rules. these kids start pissing in cups as early as jr high, they’re routinely searched, their lockers are searched, dogs are patrolling hallways, cars are searched, computers monitored, everything’s regimented… If you wanna be free, start living like it. Put your kid in a private/homeschool/unschool situation- it’s a solid first step. If you don’t, your kid will be jumping through hoops to get the grades, certificates, and recognition that these assholes repeatedly tell them is so important. They don’t give a damn about our kids as individuals or helping to educate them.

By: Donald

Donald — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 03:56:15 +0000

Congratulations kids, you got the grades to get into Harvard or Yale. Now go swing around a pole a few times to pay for it since daddy’s not around to pony up the tuition.

By: johnl

johnl — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 03:31:34 +0000

Tell your kids the truth. That they should never talk to the police unless the problem they are trying to solve by talking to the police is worth killing their dogs over.

By: paranoiastrksdp

paranoiastrksdp — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 01:26:59 +0000

The child endangerment charge is to force him to cop a plea. You all know this.

Guess the kid will now get a hard lesson in the true cost of state worship. Sad.

By: croaker

croaker — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 00:15:29 +0000

Waiting for the followup when the DARE pig gives the child informer a hero’s medal at a school assembly for snitching out her father.