My Response to an Email about the Outing of a NH Undercover Cop

I received this email on June 9th around 4 pm and the return email addy was fake. The person, who claims to be Edgar Winters, was upset about CopBlock’s post outing an Undercover New Hampshire Drug Task Force Agent Charles “Charlie” Newton.

what a bunch of assholes you are! have you no idea of the real world effects of drug trafficking? think about the children who witness and experience violence associated with drug use, abuse and trafficking. it isn’t the land of make believe you stoners think it is. in the real world, hopeless addiction leads to child neglect and abuse. have you ever been in a crack house? have you ever seen a mother so strung our on heroin that she would sell her daughter for the next high? get real, people. i’m all for ferreting out abusive police officers, but don’t get in the way of those who are doing the community a good service. the life they save may be yours. regrettably.

Here was my response to them, before getting the bounce back.

Edgar, if you’d like to have a conversation I’m all for that. If you want to attack and belittle be, get it over with and be on your way.

In hopes that you’re willing to do the first I’d like to respond to some of your comments and leave you with some material if you’re so inclined to read it.

“have you no idea of the real world effects of drug trafficking? think about the children who witness and experience violence associated with drug use, abuse and trafficking. it isn’t the land of make believe you stoners think it is.” 

Would there be such violence if the government didn’t have a war on the drugs? Would people prefer to get their drugs from places like Walgreens, a business that wouldn’t shoot at you, and other pharmacies that they already go to for drugs?

“in the real world, hopeless addiction leads to child neglect and abuse. have you ever been in a crack house? have you ever seen a mother so strung our on heroin that she would sell her daughter for the next high?” 

Have you ever seen someone over does from legal drugs? Has anyone sold their child for an Oxycontin or morphine hit? Those are legal but I don’t see you advocating doctors be jailed for giving them to people.

“get real, people. i’m all for ferreting out abusive police officers, but don’t get in the way of those who are doing the community a good service. the life they save may be yours. regrettably.

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Sadly, officers take more lives than they save. Since that’s the case, me being more likely to be killed by a cop than a terrorist or drug dealer, I’ll take my chances with the latter.

If you’d like to learn more about how the governments prohibition on drugs creates such problems check out this article: http://www.adamsmith.org/blog/justice-and-civil-liberties/how-the-drug-war-created-crystal-meth/

Also, I’ll say this, would Al Capone had been such a mobster if alcohol wasn’t illegal during his rise to the top? This country tried to ban a substance, that people clearly want, before and it didn’t work. The definition of stupid is doing the same thing and expecting a different result.

Thanks for your time and I look forward to your response, though I’d appreciate it if you kept the attacks to a minimum.

In Liberty,

Ademo

I’m more than happy to discuss things civilly via email but you have to leave a valid email address for that to happen.