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anotheranon) wrote2003-02-25 09:42 pm
anotheranon) wrote2003-02-25 09:42 pm
Your Taxpayer Money at work: Operation Pipe Dream
Feds weed out drug paraphernalia sites. And even better:
I'm not sure which disturbs me more - that this is what the government is spending its money/manpower on when it assures us that there are bigger fish to fry, or that redirecting these sites to the DEA would provide a spectacular opportunity for the DEA to track/develop a database of folks trying to buy rolling papers online.
Attorney General John Ashcroft told reporters that the government would ask a U.S. district court in Pittsburgh to point the sites to a Web page at the Drug Enforcement Administration explaining why they were taken offline, a new twist in crime-fighting.
I'm not sure which disturbs me more - that this is what the government is spending its money/manpower on when it assures us that there are bigger fish to fry, or that redirecting these sites to the DEA would provide a spectacular opportunity for the DEA to track/develop a database of folks trying to buy rolling papers online.