Dasani
(Enthusiast)
12/18/03 07:24 AM
Re: The Sunday Boston Herald Dec 14th

I will relay this to everyone, yet once again. EVERYTHING IS ARRESTABLE, BUT NOT CONVICTABLE! That means I can come to your house and arrest you for just about anything, i.e. throwing a lit cigarette out the window of a car, using curse words in the presence of minors, anything. Believe it or not, stupid stuff like that IS arrestable. But no jury in the world would ever convict you on it. Now, if the Prosecutor had a real bad hard-on for you (or really disliked you for personal reasons)and wanted to get you convicted, he would utilize all the available resources to try to secure a conviction, after all, it's just the governments money he's wasting. But you on the other hand, even if you are not CONVICTED, you still must go through the arrest process, retain an attorney, pay a buttload of legal fees and court costs, and suffer great humiliation just to prove your innocence. Sometimes, the B.S. I mentioned above, is every bit as terrible as a convition itself, with the exception that it doesn't stay on your record. The bottom line is this: Unless you Best if kept off the board somebody off really bad, you are not going to be the one that they make an example out of. They will go for the ones that they already have a case against and seeking to add additional charges to, or someone who is a center of influence that will generate media attention, like a celebrity, athlete, etc... I don't know what the woman in the story did, but I can assure you she has had dealings with LE before, and wasn't just randomly picked from a hat and then arrested for using OP's. As we have seen, the government has declared war against the distribution of drugs through Online Pharmacies. They will start with the easy ones that are in obvious violation of the law, like the no record OP's, and once they've shut them down, they'll look to close down the rest of them. Of it doesn't happen, they will seek to secure a change in the law which will eliminate any grey area. It will then be written in black and white. The only downside to them seeking a change in the law, is that it may backfire on them, and the US will legalize all OP sales. The government risks shooting themselves in the foot, so they may just call it quits after all the no-record OP's are gone. We'll just have to wait and see. Sorry so long, but this is an area I am very familiar with.


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