West Texas Roundup: "the Tulia 46", Scary Video... Options

[Roxdog]

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=76...371435828&hl=en

The nightmare began in the early morning hours of July 23, 1999. Before dawn, Tulia, Texas, police arrested 46 men and women in the biggest ... all » drug bust in Swisher County's history. The "Tulia 46," as they became known, were rousted from their beds in the before dawn and taken to jail while still in their pajamas.

[JerryB9105]

Thanks RD -- What a story, what a slap to the justice department for something like this to ever happen anywhere in the world (and it happened right there in Texas) -- Damn.

What I find absolutely dumb when it comes to the law is the one who is working 'undercover' (like that's something extra special that protects them from the rain) is that they buy drugs (over and over again) and it is done entirely with the blessings of the law. The same when it comes to dealing with hookers -- these guys with the blessing of the law are there on the streets among the people selling and they are there under the guise of buying // in my book that makes them equally guilty // no extra protection from the rain // in my book that is encouraging a crime to take place, at least it's participating in one.

Glad to learn that the guy whose word was enough for the law (no witnessess, no fingerprints, no recordings, nothing other than what he alone claimed it to be) was found to be questionable -- it ONLY WAS because national attention turned to it. How about the corrupt system beyond that jerk that sent those innocent people to jail? What about them? Nazi Germany all over again // this time with a cowboy hat instead of an arm band with bent cross.

[Cary]

Well that was FUBAR. Some cracka's beatin' down the black folks was what it looked like to me. The Old South is full of that kind of treatment. Good to see Ed Bradley exposing that BS.