"Higher Education" California Style ?

Sadly this is what's going on probably at many more colleges around the country and not just San Diego State not to mention society as a whole, and we may see more busts like this one coming in the following months I'm sure seeing this one was ongoing for quite some time as many do, since last year. The government tends to do these things in bunches for dramatic and ,maximum effect, just like the spotty yet recently increased illegal immigration raids.

What's surprising is that this was running inside a fraternity, and one that openly distributed drugs without much concern for getting busted apparently, and quite ignorantly one might add.

Drug Bust Nets 75 San Diego State Students


The Paper Trail (usnews.com): "In a massive drug bust, police have arrested 96 people in the San Diego area—75 of them students from San Diego State University, law enforcement officials said today.

The undercover investigation—named 'Operation Sudden Fall' and joined by federal officials halfway through—was initiated in May 2007 after an SDSU student died of a cocaine overdose. A Mesa College student also died of an accidental overdose at an SDSU frat house late February this year.

Police seized marijuana, cocaine, ecstasy pills, mushrooms, hash oil, methamphetamine, prescription drugs, brass knuckles, one shotgun, three semiautomatic pistols, and about $60,000 in cash. Undercover officers conducted more than 130 drug buys in locations like fraternity houses, student parking lots, and dorms.

Eighteen SDSU students were arrested this morning, while the rest have been taken in over the course of the past year. Those arrested include students living in campus housing and fraternities; one student was majoring in criminal justice (arrested on charges of possession of cocaine and two guns), while two others—one getting his master's degree in homeland security and the other working as a campus police community service officer—were arrested on suspicion of selling cocaine.

All arrested students have been suspended from SDSU pending review.

Contrarily, here is the liberal point of view which contends this was just one big waste of money and a waste of time as well,using the age old drug users are just victims attitude, one which I happen to believe, as a former and now reformed user myself, a bunch if bullsh**.

A raid like this and the accompanying publicity in fact may just scare enough students around the country to change their ways as well which is certainly the intent here, with the students sadly snared in the net right at the top of the list and unfortunately are being used as the example, they cannot arrest everyone everywhere.

Critics Call College Bust 'Ridiculous, Nonsensical Waste'

75 San Diego State University Students Were Arrested for Charges Stemming From Possession and Sales of Drugs

ABC.com .. Critics of today's major DEA drug bust at a San Diego college campus called the sting operation a "ridiculous, nonsensical waste of DEA resources."
San Diego drug bust

Ninety-six people, including 75 San Diego State University students, were arrested for charges stemming from possession and sales of cocaine, marijuana, ecstasy and other drugs.

"It would be different if they picked one or two of the worst offenders, or if there was violence involved, but what is the point of this? Don't they have anything better to do than go after college kids?" asked Ethan Nadelmann, founder and executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, which promotes alternatives to the war on drugs.

Nadelmann said the DEA should prioritize major international violent drug trafficking groups over college students, the vast majority of whom he says do not go on to be drug addicts or dealers. "This bust could have happened at hundreds and hundreds of campuses across the nation."

Liberals are always the victims, against law enforcement mostly right down the line and if the world were cast in their image would be prison free and extinct within decades.

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