Editor:
The biggest drug bust in Western Slope history, or an exercise in self-aggrandizement by Sheriff Lou Vallario and TRIDENT? Great police work or one undercover Judas setting up friends for the drug cops?
One defense attorney said they spun this “whopper” to justify their pathetic existence.
Our problem is the misguided and counterproductive drug laws forced upon us by the Bible thumpers through our Big Brother government. We have tried to legislate personal morality and succeeded in imprisoning a greater percentage of our citizens than any other country in the world.
Our drug laws create the black market that makes drug trafficking profitable and hence, violent. We say addiction is a treatable illness, yet we build ever more prisons instead of hospitals.
As attorney Tom Silverman said, “This incident is a local manifestation of a failed national drug policy.”
Without your undercover rat, Lou, you and your narco pals couldn’t catch a cold. Have you been keeping that quarter million-dollar armored tank nice and shiny for the next parade, Lou?
Bruno Kirchenwitz
Silt