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OfflineSirTripAlot
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ACLU.........interesting
    #5558212 - 04/26/06 11:07 AM (17 years, 9 months ago)

Reactions? Do you think that race played a role?



ACLU: Meth Sting Targeted South Asians
Thursday, April 06, 2006


ATLANTA ? Prosecutors and police zeroed in on convenience stores owned by South Asians while ignoring white-owned stores during a sweeping crackdown on methamphetamine production, the American Civil Liberties Union contends.

The motion, filed Wednesday, says that authorities selectively targeted South Asians during an 18-month investigation that aimed to curb the sale of household products used to manufacture meth.

"They're targeting people who don't make meth, they don't use meth and they don't sell meth," said Christina Alvarez, an ACLU attorney handling the case. "People should be concerned that the government is continuing to blatantly scapegoat certain segments of society."

Prosecutors deny the allegations.

The ACLU hopes the filing will prompt a judge to toss out the case against dozens of South Asian merchants indicted last year in Operation Meth Merchant, a sting designed to send a message to retailers knowingly selling meth-related products to drug makers.

Beginning in early 2004, 15 undercover agents were sent to small grocery stores, tobacco shops and delis in six remote northwest Georgia counties.

Once there, prosecutors said the informants were sold products ranging from antifreeze to pseudoephedrine even after the informants told the clerks ? sometimes using slang terms ? that they planned to make meth.

The investigation raised eyebrows, though, when 44 of the 49 retail clerks and convenience store owners indicted were South Asian. All but one of the 24 implicated stores were owned by South Asians.

In an area where roughly 20 percent of the 600 retailers are owned by South Asians, critics said authorities were "scapegoating" minorities.

Prosecutors said federal law makes clear that it is illegal for merchants to sell products knowing ? or with reason to believe ? that they could be used to produce drugs.

Although a few of the cases have been tossed out, several have yielded guilty pleas and others are headed to trial, said David Nahmias, the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia. His office would not disclose an exact number, however, because cases are still ongoing.

In a statement, Nahmias denied claims that prosecutors intentionally targeted South Asian merchants and said attorneys were assessing each case on its own merits.


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Re: ACLU.........interesting [Re: SirTripAlot]
    #5558234 - 04/26/06 11:12 AM (17 years, 9 months ago)

It looks kinda sketchy, but I would definitely need to hear more about the case from the other side of the story to make my mind.

What is absurd, though, is that fact that someone can be charged for selling items that are legal. It is not the job of a storekeeper to stop people from creating drugs.


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Re: ACLU.........interesting [Re: Redstorm]
    #5558398 - 04/26/06 12:01 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)

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It looks kinda sketchy, but I would definitely need to hear more about the case from the other side of the story to make my mind.




Hmmm good point. I live in Atlanta and rarely see Asian convience stores, actually now that I think about it the sting was proably in all the methed-out areas conviniece stores, the ones I never go to


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Re: ACLU.........interesting [Re: Turn]
    #5558492 - 04/26/06 12:27 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)

I am one who despises the race card, but this looks like a pretty strange case to me...........


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Re: ACLU.........interesting [Re: Turn]
    #5558510 - 04/26/06 12:30 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)

Why bother arresting convenience store owners arrest the actual meth cooks this is a prime example of the incompetence and futility of the war on drugs which is wasting away our tax dollars without getting anything done.


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Re: ACLU.........interesting [Re: SirTripAlot]
    #5558517 - 04/26/06 12:32 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)

Yea they arrested a whole bunch of them they dont even know what meth is.


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    #5558543 - 04/26/06 12:40 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)

blasphemy...fucking pigs


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Re: ACLU.........interesting [Re: SirTripAlot]
    #5558902 - 04/26/06 02:37 PM (17 years, 9 months ago)

If I know anything about asian store owners, my guess is they couldn't even understand what the agents were saying.


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Re: ACLU.........interesting [Re: Baby_Hitler]
    #5561328 - 04/27/06 12:42 AM (17 years, 9 months ago)

They had a few articles about this on drcnet, they targeted a buncha people that didn't even understand very much english and the narcs would say "I need this stuff for my next batch" or "I need some matches to get some rp for my next cook" they used slang that even the judge didn't understand to make it so they were conspiring to aid in meth manufacture. They pretty much went for easy targets to look like they are doing there job. Noone gets pseudo from stores like that though unless they are stealing it, they never sell the boxes of 96, and the prices are made expensive. Most small cooks goto super markets, were they can get a buncha shit for the cheapest price. Small stores usually only have name brand p-fed and that shit has made gakk, better off getting generic brands at a buncha super markets.


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