Discussion: The New Pinkertons: Private Firm Raids Marijuana Grows In California

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When the 1% crack down, men like these will shoot your Grandmother.
Typical ‘drug’ bait and switch…Poppy plants “make an impression” on Trouette yet his company focuses on marijuana…
After millions and millions in DEA and Homeland Security money for local drug enforcement, LAM is “filling a void that law enforcement cannot” by making the easy busts?!?!?!
What’s this guy smoking?

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This nothing more than another militia, a bunch bullies who like dress up in military gear and pretend they’re something other than what they are: assholes with an inflated sense of who and what they are. It’s only a matter of time before they kill someone and/or get into a shootout with actual law enforcement.

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The war on drugs is not a weekend sport, it’s a travesty of enormous proportions.

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So these clowns are taking it upon themselves to fly around and decide what’s legal and illegal and then then act upon it? What sort of fuckery is this?

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i would flat shoot these bastards on my land, fuck that shit.
this is more Koch bullshit you bet.

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Well, this won’t end well

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WTF? These bozos have no right to raid anything.

If a property owner tries to defend their property, it’s going to be a fucking bloodbath.

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There’s never a Hell’s Angel around when you need one!

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Are these guys being paid? How is the operation being funded?

I wish someone would crack down on this nonsense!

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If they came on my land, I’d “stand my ground”.

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Something fishy going on, I have no idea what this really means…

“Lear was incorporated the same year, and the company has worked with a non-profit founded in Melo’s memory.”

Who’s funding the non-profit? Or was it a charity that is now being raided to pay these yahoos?

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I also wonder of these guys do not raid the farms if they are “hired” by the grower to protect it.

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Wait until they run into a buzz saw on one of those raids. Armed gang with no authority gets pummeled in a Northern California forest.

Go ahead make my day

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One question that wasn’t asked is whether they warn the sheriff about the raids. Someone is taking a big chance if they are not and it wouldn’t seem like not warning the sheriff is good and safe operating procedure.

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Reading further, I see that these morons are supposedly hired by private companies to police the land, but I wonder what the cost is. But, yes, who funded the non-profit and got it started?

Non-profit. Heh.

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just paid mercenaries of big pharma

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They probably sell the pot they steal for their payment. I’d imagine they do very well financially.

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Yeah and they all have small dicks.

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Mine too