Pine Mountain pot raid linked to Asian gangs

An April 16 Pine Mountain pot raid allegedly linked to Fresno-based Asian crime organizations led law enforcement to the discovery of 15.5 pounds of processed bud, 856 marijuana plants and the arrests of two ...

[Watcher]

See what happens when local law enforcement makes the blunder of announsing to the world that when it comes to pot growers we look the other way. People whose morals are subject to the wind came here from all over the US just to grow their pot and share their violence.

We all owe a big thanks to the Mendocino County shariffs Dept.

[James M Kinder]

Come on folks, get real. These poor philanthropists were probably giving the pot to AIDS patients, with any proceeds left over to the Little Sisters of the Poor Orphanage. You folks in Mendocino love growers, remember? It is your main source of income. In Medocino, they should be viewed as a HEROES. Put a statue up in the town square. Are you all realizing that you are the laughingstock of California? Keep it up, every organized crime group LOVES your pro-pot laws and big tax free/risk free profits!

[James M Kinder]

The whole "medical marijuana" industry is a scam, it is just amazing to me that the idiots were not smart enough to start yelling "medical," and "where's your damn compassion, man?"

Had enough yet, Mendocino? The Chinese Triads are moving in with la Eme and every piece of white trailer trash in the State, all to grow "medical" marijuana.

Face it. You all had a great thing going, a neat sideline income, and wanted legal insulation. So you created "medical marijuana." Of course, the law of unintended consequences brought you organized crime, disorganized crime, and violent crime (i.e. home invasion robberies). Was it really worth it?

TURN IN THE GROWERS TO THE FEDS, AND COLLECT A REWARD! IT'S FUN, EASY, PROFITABLE, AND THE RIGHT THING TO DO.

[saundra richards]

If the government becomes a law breaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. To declare that in the administration of the criminal law the end justifies the means 'to declare that the government may commit crimes in order to secure the conviction of a private criminal' would bring terrible retribution.
[From dissenting opinion in Olmstead vs. United States, in which the court upheld the use of wiretaps in a case involving an investigation of bootlegging. Brandeis strongly defended the individual right to privacy from government intrusion.]
-Louis D. Brandeis, 1928

[Anonymous Fed Worker]

While I do not agree with informing to authorities in general, I think the time has come to clean up the "medical marijuana" scammers in California. Based upon the recent uptick in raids, it is clear that the Feds are targeting Mendocino this year, as they really should. I heard the Feds are looking hard at Covelo this year, especially the Mina Road area and old Bauer Ranch, as well as Willits. Ukiah obviously is also in the cross hairs, as those fools recently busted found out.

In So Cal, they offered cash rewards for tips last year. It resulted in a huge take from forfeited property. Agents are now flooding Mendocino, the informants were in place last year. About time you guys get smart and start cashing in.

[saundra richards]

“The care and feeding of informants is big business in the U.S. government,... It's like the CIA's `black budget.' Obviously, no one really wants to keep the exact number of informants and amount paid them, because most intelligent people know that the system is being distorted by all the selling of information.”
William Moffitt

[curious]

How do Kinder, Watcher, Fred (anonymous Fed worker) and the rest of you fit into one tiny boiler room?

That b.o. in there must be terrible. I bet you all can't wait for this measure B stuff to be over.

[Watcher]

curious wrote:
How do Kinder, Watcher, Fred (anonymous Fed worker) and the rest of you fit into one tiny boiler room?

That b.o. in there must be terrible. I bet you all can't wait for this measure B stuff to be over.
__________
Your so right.
I shower once a day but I don't thing every one else in here does. I also think some of them take drugs.

[NO ON MEASURE B]

IN ANOTHER ATTEMPT BY LOCAL NEWSPAPERS COOPERATING WITH LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT, IN A COORDINATED STATE WIDE EFFORT TO PUT FEAR IN THE PUBLIC, JUST BEFORE MEASURE B THE ANTI-MEDICAL MARIJUANA MEASURE COMES UP FOR VOTE IN MENDO COUNTY, THE LOCAL PRESS HAS STEPPED UP A RACIST FEAR CAMPAIGN ABOUT ASIAN AND SPANISH STREET GANGS “TAKING OVER”. IN RECENT MONTHS THE PUBLIC HAS BEEN HIT WITH A BOMBARDMENT OF “ASIAN GANGS” AND MEXICAN “CARTELS” ARTICLES. ACCORDING TO THE LOCAL PRESS EVERY PERSON OF COLOR IS A “GANG MEMBER” IN MENDOCINO COUNTY. LAW ENFORCEMENT CONTINUES TO PORTRAY ANY AND ALL SPANISH OR ASIAN MARIJUANA CULTIVATORS AS BEING “CARTEL” OR “MEXICAN MAFIA” ACCORDING TO THE BELOW ARTICLE THE PINE MOUNTAIN BUST WAS “linked to Asian organized crime groups operating out of Fresno,” says Nishiyama.“The groups are apparently moving into Mendocino County from the Bay Area and Stockton areas.”

THESE TALES ARE REMINISCENT OF A TIME WHEN THE CHINESE IN EUREKA AND HUMBOLDT COUNTY WERE ROUNDED UP AND SHIPPED OUT BY STEAMER

[Lonely]

More than 1 minority sranding together (they don't even have to be the same ethnicity)= a gang
gangs=violence as Watcher so quickly concluded
violecne = 3 murders in the county last year.
gimme a break, the only violence I've seen or read about is by meth heads

[Watcher]

Lonely

"More than 1 minority sranding together (they don't even have to be the same ethnicity)= a gang
gangs=violence as Watcher so quickly concluded
violecne = 3 murders in the county last year.
gimme a break, the only violence I've seen or read about is by meth heads"
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You're quoting the wrong person. You need to put the joint down and let your brains reassemble and try again.

[Watcher]

To: "NO ON MEASURE B"

Measure B is not a "ANTI-MEDICAL MARIJUANA MEASURE".

It's a anti "lying, cheating, child poisoning, drug dealing, send the lawless horde home" measure.

Thank you

[saundra richards]

At present, the only facility licensed by DEA to cultivate research marijuana is the University of Mississippi, and this supply is strictly controlled by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). In contrast, all other controlled substances, including LSD, heroin and MDMA (Ecstasy), are available to researchers from multiple private manufacturers. Judge Bittner found that NIDA has repeatedly refused to supply marijuana for FDA-approved studies that aim to develop marijuana as a prescription medicine. Professor Craker’s application, if granted, would break the unique monopoly on research marijuana and allow for unobstructed, FDA-approved studies, paving the way for marijuana’s development as a fully legal medicine...(taken from ACLU website)

[saundra richards]

The Hinchey vote comes at a time when Congress has focused unprecedented scrutiny on DEA’s continued obstruction of medical marijuana research. Two months ago, a U.S. Department of Justice-appointed administrative law judge, Mary Ellen Bittner, recommended that DEA grant a license to University of Massachusetts professor Lyle Craker permitting cultivation of research-grade marijuana to be used in Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved studies that aim to develop marijuana as a legal, prescription medicine. Despite this recommendation, DEA has yet to act on professor Craker’s nearly six-year-old application

[NO ON B]

IN ANOTHER ATTEMPT BY LOCAL NEWSPAPERS COOPERATING WITH LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT, IN A COORDINATED STATE WIDE EFFORT TO PUT FEAR IN THE PUBLIC, JUST BEFORE MEASURE B THE ANTI-MEDICAL MARIJUANA MEASURE COMES UP FOR VOTE IN MENDO COUNTY, THE LOCAL PRESS HAS STEPPED UP A RACIST FEAR CAMPAIGN ABOUT ASIAN AND SPANISH STREET GANGS “TAKING OVER”. IN RECENT MONTHS THE PUBLIC HAS BEEN HIT WITH A BOMBARDMENT OF “ASIAN GANGS” AND MEXICAN “CARTELS” ARTICLES. ACCORDING TO THE LOCAL PRESS EVERY PERSON OF COLOR IS A “GANG MEMBER” IN MENDOCINO COUNTY. LAW ENFORCEMENT CONTINUES TO PORTRAY ANY AND ALL SPANISH OR ASIAN MARIJUANA CULTIVATORS AS BEING “CARTEL” OR “MEXICAN MAFIA” ACCORDING TO THE BELOW ARTICLE THE PINE MOUNTAIN BUST WAS “linked to Asian organized crime groups operating out of Fresno,” says Nishiyama.“The groups are apparently moving into Mendocino County from the Bay Area and Stockton areas.”

THESE TALES ARE REMINISCENT OF A TIME WHEN THE CHINESE IN EUREKA AND HUMBOLDT COUNTY WERE ROUNDED UP AND SHIPPED OUT BY STEAMER

[reality checker]

saundra richards wrote:

At present, the only facility licensed by DEA to cultivate research marijuana is the University of Mississippi, and this supply is strictly controlled by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). In contrast, all other controlled substances, including LSD, heroin and MDMA (Ecstasy), are available to researchers from multiple private manufacturers. Judge Bittner found that NIDA has repeatedly refused to supply marijuana for FDA-approved studies that aim to develop marijuana as a prescription medicine. Professor Craker’s application, if granted, would break the unique monopoly on research marijuana and allow for unobstructed, FDA-approved studies, paving the way for marijuana’s development as a fully legal medicine...(taken from ACLU website)

The university of mississippi, being the only one allowed to produce cannabis for the government certainly do have a monopoly.

[whats up]

Can't see in this article how the march traffic stop and the april 16 raids are connected to each other, the fact they are all Asian, how are they asian-gang-related?

[Watcher]

NOTICE TO THOSE WHO DON'T GROW OR SELL POT!!!

Don't let yourself be swayed by the pro pot propagandists. They're going to do their best to convince us that there's no connection between any of the problems were are having in this county and the thousands of drug dealers getting rich at the cost of our kids health and futures and our safety and freedom.

DON'T BELIEVE THEM!!!
Their plan didn't work. It's time for plan B.

Vote YES on measure B.

[saundra richards]

The sea is dangerous and its storms terrible, but these obstacles have never been sufficient reason to remain ashore... Unlike the mediocre, intrepid spirits seek victory over those things that seem impossible... It is with an iron will that they embark on the most daring of all endeavors... to meet the shadowy future without fear and conquer the unknown.
-Anon.,
Check out the facts, look at the websites, think about wether the proposed changes will affect who you think it will....don't be guided by hateful exaggerated posts,,,look at the facts and decide what you think is best....gotta wonder about the motives of someone who uses fear as tactic to swing a vote...

[slingshot]

saundra richards wrote:

The Hinchey vote comes at a time when Congress has focused unprecedented scrutiny on DEA’s continued obstruction of medical marijuana research. Two months ago, a U.S. Department of Justice-appointed administrative law judge, Mary Ellen Bittner, recommended that DEA grant a license to University of Massachusetts professor Lyle Craker permitting cultivation of research-grade marijuana to be used in Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved studies that aim to develop marijuana as a legal, prescription medicine. Despite this recommendation, DEA has yet to act on professor Craker’s nearly six-year-old application

This is nothing new. several of the states that are cannibis legal are only legal for research, none of which is taking place thanks to roadblocks by the feds. See,the fed's one shot at making a proprietary drug from MJ wasn't nearly as good as the real thing and the only way they (the feds) can make money off MJ is by keeping it illegal. So many tales in this county of fokls getting popped with Xlbs but low and behold when they get to court the paperwork says less than Xlbs. Where's those other lbs? Paying for some LEO's vacation timeshare. Liza was right:MONEY makes ze world go round.