Brickbat: Keeping Drugs Off the Street

Tressa Beltran, former police chief of Hartford, Michigan, has been charged with multiple felonies, including delivery of narcotics, larceny, extortion, using a computer to commit a crime, embezzlement over $50 by a public official, and three counts of drug possession. Beltran reportedly admitted stealing from the drug disposal box at the police department. Now a new lawsuit against Beltran and the city claims she coerced Hai Quoc Le Jr. into providing her with pain medication he was prescribed for a torn ACL. Le is on parole, and according to his lawsuit, Beltran threatened to make his life "a living hell" if he didn't provide her with drugs, by reporting him to his parole officer and charging him criminally. Le says Beltran was often in her uniform and on duty when she met with him.

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[InsaneTrollLogic]

I think I know why Pluggo has access to so much CP.

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/congressmen-are-terrified-intel-agencies-tucker-carlson-warns-theyll-frame-them-kiddie

Joe Rogan and Tucker Carlson sat down for a wide-ranging three-hours-plus discussion last week, touching on everything from UFOs, spirituality, and religion; from artificial intelligence costs and benefits to questioning ‘science’ consensus; and from government secrecy and lying to the threat to democracy driven by our domestic intelligence agencies.

Stunningly, Carlson tells Rogan that congressmen were “terrified” that intelligence agencies will frame them with “kiddie porn” if they openly opposed the “warrantless spying” bill.

Specifically, he says US lawmakers “told” him that they are “worried” about being punished by intel agencies if they oppose reauthorizing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).

“People don’t say that because they’re worried about being punished. They’re worried about someone putting kiddie porn on their computer. Members of Congress are terrified of the intel agencies. I’m not guessing at that. They’ve told me that — including people on the intel committee, including people who run the intel committee,” Carlson said.

“The people whose job it is to oversee and keep in line these enormous, secretive agencies whose budgets we can’t even know – their ‘black budgets’,” Carlson continued, raising his hands into air-quotes.

[Dillinger]

>>I think I know why Pluggo has access to so much CP.

thought same thing when listening to podcast yesterday

[Fist of Etiquette]

But she ticked a box for the city.

[Don't look at me!]

There’s a box joke here someplace.

[Its_Not_Inevitable]

She tickled a box for the city?

[SQRLSY One]

She keeps a pop-up, poop-up joker in her box… Ass soon ass you try to “access” her box, out poops the joker, and SNATCHES all of your very best pills away from ye! Stay AWAY!!! Don’t even TRY to put shit in crazy!

[Jerry B.]

Now er know why cops shoot dogs. They’re afraid the dogs will lick the drugs up off the street before the cops can take them.

[Dillinger]

>>using a computer to commit a crime

this must be attachable to most crimes in 2024

[LIBtranslator]

See how sumptuary prohibition laws morph into asset-forfeiture looting, then sprout confiscatory tentacles? So when it turns out the narcs are reselling stolen dope to frightened dealers acting under the thumbs of probation officers, do we act surprised, nay, SHOCKED that anyone would dream of betraying the stupidity of the politicians passing these laws or guilelessness of voters gulled into supporting them? Understand instead that supply & demand is a law, kinda like thermodynamics and dynamics have laws.

[LIBtranslator]

It’s been 52 years now since the LP plank to repeal substance prohibition laws began winning votes from willing voters. Willingness is a term in Adam Smith’s law of supply & demand. Politicians effectively demand votes by threatening voters with an adversary’s stick or luring them with a carrot. Voters with any sense see–in the terror politicians have of losing sinecures–a stick and carrot of their own. By spending that vote on the Libertarian Party, the voter EFFECTIVELY tells the politician to repeal cruel laws or bear the shame of losing to a less cruel adversary. Unlike polls of liars & shills, votes are the actual leveraged coin of political barter, hence get results if wisely invested rather than squandered on cheap looter assurances.

[AT]

See what I mean? This is precisely what we were talking about a week ago with Dr. Lawhern’s article.

More often than not, the average person cannot be trusted to manage and self-medicate when it comes to pain medication. Self-administration frequently leads to addiction, and addiction frequently leads people to making decisions that they would otherwise NEVER make but for said addiction compelling them feed the beast.

There’s a reason they call it the downward spiral. Every decision starts ending up worse than the previous one.

[Vernon Depner]

The doctrinaire libertarian position is that everyone must be free to make their own choices about drug use, but, as everyone who has known a terminal addict knows, at some point in the addiction process the ability to choose is lost. At that point, they are not exercising any “freedom” and usually can’t be saved from self-destruction without coercion.

[AT]

They don’t think that far ahead. Because they sincerely believe that because they’re the exception to the rule, that the rule isn’t real. They fail to appreciate the long-term consequences of unchecked hedonism.

[Wizard4169]

Utter nonsense. Most users never become addicted. And just how the hell do you know what choices people would or should make? If people seek help for dealing with addiction, then by all means help them. If not, it’s none of your damn business. If focus were shifted from prohibition to harm reduction, even many genuine addicts could potentially lead productive lives.

[Vernon Depner]

You’ve never actually known any addicts, have you? Once in thrall to an addiction, they are not making any “choice”. The addiction pathology destroys the ability to make choices about using.

[gordo53]

Prohibition is stupidity.

[Wizard4169]

I can’t approve of the extortion, but taking from the disposal box? Recycling! Where’s the sense in throwing away perfectly good drugs?