-Caveat Lector- <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"> </A> -Cui Bono?- Prudy, Where I live, helicopters fly over checking for marijuana. They use the infra-red cameras that can detect a single plant. They fly as low as they want, anytime they want and anywhere they care to look. How in heavens could they not have that many plants pinpointed completely? These cameras will pick up one plant even if it is under larger trees, mixed in with other plants and even through conventional greenhouse material. There is just no way they did not have this information as this is not new technology. I have watched them flying over scanning for this for over two years now. Amelia (who seems to know too much about the camera's abilities :) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Prudence L. Kuhn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 24, 2000 4:51 AM Subject: Re: [CTRL] Armed & Dangerous > -Caveat Lector- <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"> > </A> -Cui Bono?- > > In a message dated 01/24/2000 1:18:22 AM Eastern Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > << > Although well-liked and generous to friends, Scott drank heavily, could be > cantankerous and deeply mistrusted the government, which he suspected of > having designs on this ranch, a remote and nearly inaccessible parcel with > high rocky bluffs on three sides and a 75-foot spring-fed waterfall out > back. > > "You know what he used to say," his third wife, Frances Plante, told writer > Michael Fessier Jr. in a 1993 article for the Los Angeles Times magazine, > "He'd say, 'Frances, every day they pass a new law and the day after that > they pass 40 more.'" > > To Los Angeles County officials, the fact that Don Scott got killed in his > own house during a futile raid to seize a non-existent 4,000-plant marijuana > farm is just one of the unfortunate facts of life in the narcotics > enforcement business. It doesn't mean that sheriff's deputies did anything > wrong. > > "Sometimes people get warned and we don't find anything," Gary Spencer, the > lead deputy on the raid and the one who shot Scott, told an L.A. Times > reporter in 1997, "so I don't consider it botched. I wouldn't call it > botched > because that would say that it was a mistake to have gone there in the first > place, and I don't believe that." > > Someone who did believe that was Ventura County District Attorney Michael > Bradbury. Although Scott's ranch was in Ventura County, none of the 31 > people > participating in the massive early morning raid, which included officers > from > the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department, the DEA, the National Park Service, > the > California National Guard and the Border Patrol bothered to invite any > Ventura County officers to come along. Furthermore, once Scott was shot, Los > Angeles County tried to claim jurisdiction over the investigation of Scott's > death, even though the shooting occured in Ventura County. > > To Bradbury, it was easy to see why. L.A. County wanted jurisdiction. In a > 64-page report issued by Bradbury's office in March of 1993, Bradbury > concluded that the search warrant contained numerous misstatements, evasions > and omissions. The purpose of the raid, he wrote, was never to find some > evanescent marijuana plantation. It was to seize Scott's ranch under asset > forfeiture laws and then divide the proceeds with participating agencies, > such as the National Park Service, which had put Scott's ranch on a list of > property it would one day like to acquire, and the Los Angeles Sheriff's > Department, which heavily relied on assets seized in drug raids to > supplement > its otherwise inadequate budget. >> > > I don't really approve of heavy drinking, but it's never been a capital > offense. I'm wondering here about the supposed 4,000 pot plant words. When > I read and heard about this, the wild-eyed raid by all the government > agencies that could grab a gun, was because some helicopter pilot said he saw > fifty pot plants hanging in a tree. Such vision. As for Scott's not > trusting the government, is someone out there saying he should have? Don't > forget, the raiders had already talked with a real estate developer who > wanted the land, and apparently they were already negotiating a price. Kind > of sounds like tax farming to me. > > And did they return the millionaire's assets and the land along with the five > million? I'm sure the estate was worth ten times the settlement figure. > People were taking up collections for the poor widow, because the government > grabbed everything and she had no money for the lawyers. They should give a > new name to that area--Nottingham. > > <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> > DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER > ========== > CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic > screeds are not allowed. Substance-not soap-boxing! These are sordid matters > and 'conspiracy theory'-with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright > frauds-is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects > spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL > gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; > be wary of what you read. 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