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[Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer]

Andrew Vida wrote:
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> Peter Fels & Phoebe Palmer wrote:
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>> I had my documentation in order they agreed, asked to see the plants..I 
>> showed them...they complemented me on the job i'd done and cut them all 
>> down and loaded them up in their truck. One of the guys cut several buds 
>> with his leatherman and put them in his pocket while looking me in the 
>> eye. Everybody was very polite.
> 
> 	CA has so changed since 76.  Couldn't pay me to live there anymore - 
> though it can be pleasant enough to visit.
It's a highly variable state with very different political and social 
climes in different locations.
> 
>> They pointed out that it was still a fed crime and i could fight it if i 
>> wanted to, but they'd just turn it over to the feds. Said they'd let me 
>> know if they were going to charge me, and drove away. On request i 
>> provided my extensive medical documentation...cancer survivor, screwed 
>> up back, history of depression, etc, etc.
>> A couple of months later i got a letter saying they weren't going to 
>> prosecute but that the green pot had deteriorated in the evidence locker 
>> and they'd tossed it. Things being what they are, it was probably sold 
>> out the back door.
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> 	Of course it was.  Does LE get any more corrupt than in the Golden State?
Sure...this was very minor corruption really..way nastier elsewhere.
> 
>> When i was younger, i would have fought it out to the end. Perhaps i'm a 
>> bit closer to grown up now.
> 
> 	Just smarter.  You'd never win. 
I'll bet it wouldn't take much to get you to argue the other side here 
with conviction, Andy.
  In addition you would almost certainly
> go to prison, cancer or not.
Cancer is long gone, thankfully. Unless they actually turned it over to 
the feds and surrendered some of their turf..the legal precedent was 
solidly in my favor.
   Those people have no souls - in fact they
> are not even human, all appearances to the contrary notwithstanding. 
> I'd call them reptiles, but the insult to reptiles would be unconscionable.
Bah...I disagree. Sure, some of them qualify, but most cops are OK and 
some are excellent human beings. They are not responsible for bad law 
and policies...that's a separate set of problems they take flack for.
They deal with the azzholes for us, day in and day out. I'm grateful for 
that.
It can't help but sour their outlook. One tends to become like the 
people you are around to some degree. They have to fight that tendency 
constantly.
That so many of them manage to perform professionally and remain decent 
folks and good neighbors says a lot for mankind.
Fact is, most of us need them. pf
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