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- From: ejh@khonshu.colorado.edu (Edward J. Hartnett)
- Subject: Re: Illegal telephone recording
- In-Reply-To: jason@jazz.cnd.hp.com's message of Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:10:55 GMT
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- Date: 21 Jan 93 11:33:59
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- In article <JASON.93Jan21101055@jazz.cnd.hp.com> jason@jazz.cnd.hp.com (Jason Zions) writes:
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- <snip>
- Moral: if you see someone commit an illegal act while attempting to get you
- to commit one, you're probably safe to do the deed; just be aware that it
- may take a few years and a lot of money to get off the hook.
-
- This reminds me of a guy in Washington D.C. I recently met who was an
- undercover drug guy for the Air Force in Italy. He was court-martialed
- 12 times (of course they held them off base, and he revealed that he
- was really an AF cop so he was never convicted. Then he would go back
- on the base and thw rod was leaked around that he got off on a
- technicality. Everyone thought he was a drug dealer.
-
- I told him that, if I was they type of guy that was going to buy
- drugs, I certainly wouldn't buy from someone who I hadn't first
- partaken with, just because I wouldn't trust them. He showed me, with
- a cigarette how he could fake smoking pot without actually taking any
- into his lungs. He said that before and after each bust he had to take
- a drug test to be sure that he was not taking any drugs. He told me
- that they trained him to fake smoking pot, snorting cocain, and taking
- pills, so that it would look just like he was doing it (I really
- couldn't tell the difference, and I even tried the smoking trick
- myself, and it works great). So just because you see someone doi
- something illegal, doesn't mean that he or she did.
-
- He was in the USAF, as I mentioned, and they have a lot less rules to
- follow than ordinary cops with respect to the rights of the accused,
- so I don't know whether civil cops would be allowed to do this smoking
- trick.
- --
- Don't blame me, I voted against Amendment 2!
-
- Edward Hartnett ejh@khonshu.colorado.edu
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