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Cop Tries To Cook Meth At Government Science Lab, Blows Up Building

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Back on July 18, Christopher Bartley (a police lieutenant for the National Institutes of Standards and Technology), tried to refill a butane lighter. 

Or he tried to cook a batch of meth. 

Either way, the result was the same: he accidentally blew the windows out of a highly secured government research facility.

Bartley, who served in the army and was recently acting chief of NIST’s police department, was on duty at around 7:30 last month when an explosion "ripped through the lab sending a blast shield flying about 25 feet."

Firefighters got the butane lighter explanation from Bartley, but investigators became suspicious when they found pseudoephedrine and drain opener at the scene. 

They became even more suspicious when they found a recipe for methamphetamine.

That discovery apparently prompted Bartley to admit that in fact, the explosion was the result of an attempt to cook meth at the site. He resigned the next day and would later be charged with "knowingly and intentionally attempt[ing] to manufacture a mixture and substance containing a detectable amount of methamphetamine."

Open and shut, right? Not so fast, says Bartley’s attorney, Steven VanGrack. 

You see, what looks to everyone like one man’s attempt to use a government research lab to live out a fantasy of becoming Walter White, was actually a well meaning attempt to "understand more about this substance." It was "unauthorized training experiment," VanGrack continues, adding that it "clearly failed."

Apparently, the court is meant to believe that had Bartley succeeded in cooking the drug, he was merely going to educate his fellow officers on the process, presumably in an attempt to increase awareness. 

"He wanted to see how to make it," VanGrack concluded.

And on that point, there seems to be little doubt, but as Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) said after the blast made news, this isn't exactly what taxpayer money is supposed to be funding. "The fact that this explosion took place at a taxpayer-funded NIST facility, potentially endangering NIST employees, is of great concern," Smith said, in a letter to the Secretary of the Department of Commerce (embedded below). 

As for the facility itself, we'll leave you with the following description from the official government website. The punchline is highlighted for your amusement:

Welcome to the National Institute of Standards and Technology's web site. Founded in 1901 and now part of the U.S. Department of Commerce, NIST is one of the nation's oldest physical science laboratories. Congress established the agency to remove a major handicap to U.S. industrial competitiveness at the time—a second-rate measurement infrastructure that lagged behind the capabilities of the United Kingdom, Germany, and other economic rivals. Today, NIST measurements support the smallest of technologies—nanoscale devices so tiny that tens of thousands can fit on the end of a single human hair—to the largest and most complex of human-made creations, from earthquake-resistant skyscrapers to wide-body jetliners to global communication networks. We invite you to learn about our current projects, to find out how you can work with us, or to make use of our products and services.

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Fri, 08/21/2015 - 17:25 | 6453423 City_Of_Champyinz
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Sheesh if you cannot cook meth in a fucking science lab you have issues...Next time he should probably make sure the damned hood is actually on and sucking out the fumes. 

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 17:29 | 6453447 realmoney2015
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End the war on drugs and the cops can fight real crimes. You know the crimes that have victims!

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 17:31 | 6453465 EscapeKey
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you mean like wall street selling securities designed to self-destruct, and which insiders label as crap?

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 17:38 | 6453514 Tall Tom
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You mean lying politicians, like Medical Doctor Rand Paul, who directly PROFIT FROM OBAMACARE, thus support the implementers, like Mitt Romney?

 

And you did not think that it is about money? LMAO

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 17:40 | 6453526 OldPhart
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Meth...Department of Commerce...could there be a connection?

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 17:48 | 6453572 Squid-puppets a...
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i like the guys defence.

Henceforth, all homeless people are not 'murdered by cops', they are 'participants in unauthorised biology experiments' 

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 17:54 | 6453604 TeamDepends
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To Serve And Cook Meth

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 17:56 | 6453611 Scooby Dooby Doo
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Yes! Federal agent just shot in JooYork shitty. Nice!

Scooby sing along to follow.

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 22:17 | 6453694 realmoney2015
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Tall Tom...

Rand does not profit from Obamacare and national healthcar. He opposes it. He wants to repeal it and not replace with a program like the Donald does.

Trumps money is in real estate. Do you think that he likes the Fed created real estate bubble. He has benefited from their money printing schemes more than most. There is only one candidate serious about ending the fed!

Half the sale of the candles with silver coin prizes (https://www.etsy.com/shop/ScentSavers?ref=hdr_shop_menu) will support Rand's moneybomb on September 7th!

Of course you can donate directly and support the moneybomb for Rand Paul on September 7th here: https://secure.randpaul.com/

Sat, 08/22/2015 - 00:40 | 6454675 Tall Tom
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Rhetoric.

 

The Republican Party is another branch of the Socialist Party which has subverted America.

 

Look at the results. Actions speak louder than rhetoric.

 

Even Trump donates to the Clinton Foundation and golfs with Slick Willie.

 

What a sick game.

Sun, 08/23/2015 - 23:07 | 6460413 mkhs
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They do not hire high IQ individuals.  Morons with guns is the official status.

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 17:57 | 6453618 Creepy A. Cracker
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"The Honorable Penny Pritzker"

LOL! 

Sorry.

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 20:27 | 6454143 claytonmoore50
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"Death from natural causes"
"But he had 68 bullet wounds, how is that natural causes?"
"It's natural to die from that many bullet wounds..."

Sat, 08/22/2015 - 15:14 | 6456145 Fish Gone Bad
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Excessive ventilation.

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 23:05 | 6454533 WOAR
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"Henceforth, all homeless people are not 'murdered by cops', they are 'participants in unauthorised biology experiments.'" 

Aperture Science?

 

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 17:53 | 6453596 booboo
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Well duh..fuck yea, we're just trying to streamline the flow, cut out the middleman, Mena airport runways are under repairs. The only thing is if the CIA finds out this guy is toast and his department head will be brought in for a reprimand, this could be a intergovernmental turf war brewing over who gets the west and who gets the east, either way someone is going to get shot in the nuts.

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 18:20 | 6453716 Tall Tom
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You can downarrow that all that you want. It does not change any fact.

 

Fact: Mitt Romney implemented the ACA in the state of Mass. while he was Governor. He signed that Socialized Medicine Bill into law.

 

Fact" Rand Paul is a Medical Doctor and has profitted from Medical Insurance Scams as Medicaid and Medicare. Furthermore the Medical Lobbyists who support this guy have BOUGHT HIS VOTE.

 

Fact" In 2012 Rand Paul BETRAYED HIS OWN FATHER and supported the SOCIALIST Mitt Romney...before Romney was selected as the Republican Party's candidate and while there was still an active contest between Ron Paul and Mitt Romney for delegates to the Republican National Convention held in Tampa Bauy, Fla. in August, 2012.

 

Rand Paul says a lot of things that you may want to hear. But he is a disloyal sellout and an Washington DC insider crony politician.

 

He was disloyal to his own father. He has proven himself untrustworthy, as untrustworthy as the Republican Party which he represents.

 

You know. The party that voted to FUND OBAMACARE, NOT ONCE, BUT TWICE, in September, 2012, and in December, 2013? They controlled the House of Representatives and that is where ALL FUNDING ORIGINATES.

 

And while they were voting...TO SCREW YOU OVER...they were MOUTHING that they wanted to overturn Obamacare?

 

Of course the greatest screwover was the passage of the Fast Tracking of the TREATY for the Trans Pacific Partnership a few months ago.

 

But you all deserve what is going to happen to you with this great Economic Meltdown. You are going to PAY for your SELECTIVE 30 Second Attention Spans.

 

And nothing will give me a greater pleasure than to watch all of you suffer for your OUTRIGHT IDIOCY.

 

So knock yourselves out as it will not change any of these INCONVENIENT TRUTHS.

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 18:42 | 6453793 AGuy
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Tiny Tom,

 So you voted for Obama or will vote for Hilary? Nobody is perfect. Rand is far far better than Trump, or any of the other Candidates (RNC or DNC). Unfortuanately Rand does not have a chance, since he been black balled from the media. Trump is rising to the top, because he simply is getting the majority of air time in the Media. I would take Rand over any of the other candidates.

 

As far as Rand Paul - Obamacare, Doctors are net losers from Obamacare as the govt and insurance now dictate which procedures are permitted and how much they are getting paid. Lots of doctors are retiring because of Obamacare since they can't make any money.

 

 

 

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 22:10 | 6454424 realmoney2015
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Tiny Tim, you are wring again man: Here is what Rand said about Obamacare: "When the Supreme Court upheld ObamaCare, the first words out of my mouth were: I still think it is unconstitutional! "

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 22:14 | 6454438 realmoney2015
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Oh yeah, and h has been performing surgeries for patients who dont have insurance for no charge: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2014/05/rand-paul-performs-free-eye-surgery-for-uninsured-patients/

 

Sat, 08/22/2015 - 00:41 | 6454676 Tall Tom
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Rhetoric.

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 22:26 | 6454470 SixIsNinE
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I remember Ron Paul being completely boxed OUT during the 2012 campaign ... it was ignore and marginalize, then maybe a cheap shot or two...

Trump would not be getting this attention if MSM didn't want him to...same system...

I remember as a youth in the 1980s buying a book about this dude Donald Trump.   something about investing....

listening to Cuttingthroughthematrix.com i learn that it's common to groom people for the roles they will play, way down the line...how do you think Trump always bounced back from his bk's?  

he's a made man

excellent for the break & circus, for sure...

now is Bill Hicks really Alex Jones ? /ss

Sat, 08/22/2015 - 00:45 | 6454684 Tall Tom
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 So you voted for Obama or will vote for Hilary?

 

I refuse to vote. I refuse to give any support. I refuse to give any validation to this corruption.

 

In fact when it shreds apart at the seams I will be celebrating the destruction.

 

A vote for Trump is a vote for Hilarity as Trump FINANCIALLY SUPPORTS the CLINTON FOUNDATION.

Sat, 08/22/2015 - 01:55 | 6454751 Curiously_Crazy
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" Socialized Medicine Bill"

Stop calling it socialised - and stop calling your country socialist. It's nothing of the sort.

If anything it's a fascist oligarchy - your medical care is *Forced Private* medical care. It was lobbied for by the PRIVATE insurance companies.

Australia, Norway, Sweden, New Zealand and to a lesser degree Canada and many others have socialised health care and guess what - we all pay WAY less than you do for BETTER care. Way better care. The stats don't lie.

Sat, 08/22/2015 - 04:16 | 6454861 jefferson32
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Fascism is a socialism. Both Hitler and Mussolini were socialist statesmen, and the most famous fascist party is called, after all, national socialist.

Sat, 08/22/2015 - 02:15 | 6454767 Macon Richardson
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Tall Tom, you speak the truest words I've ever read on ZH. As you can see, however, they are wasted on the ZH droids. Everything they have learned, they had to memorize.

Sat, 08/22/2015 - 18:14 | 6456520 goldpercent
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Alright stretch

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 18:33 | 6453751 Arthor Bearing
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The Wall Street drug makes you feel really good for a little while, but after a while you crash real hard

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 17:30 | 6453466 doctor10
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He's speshul.

a "wrist slap" and a proper ventilated hood will be made available next time around

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 17:35 | 6453496 Tall Tom
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He is a cop and not a chemist.

 

A Hotel Room, with the adjoining room, in a high dollar Mission Valley Hotel, was blown apart a couple of years ago due to somebody manufacturing drugs.

 

Next time you are at the Ritz Carlton it may behoove you to see what your neighbors might be up to. They may kill you in the process....or MAIM YOU BY BURNING YOU. You may actually live through it, scarred up for life.

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 18:04 | 6453646 Scooby Dooby Doo
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Oh, ok TALL TOM tanks for the tip!

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 18:35 | 6453761 Ass Burger
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There has actually been a huge spike in dorm room explosions recently due to college kids trying to make thc hash oil with butane.  

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 19:39 | 6453973 logicalman
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Simpler to just smoke it.

If you really must make oil, use a rice cooker A LONG WAY FROM ANY POTENTIAL IGNITION SOURCE.

Even then, stand well back whenever possible.

 

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 22:28 | 6454477 SixIsNinE
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Colorado - just go to the store & buy it ....simple as a six-pack , dude!

 

Sat, 08/22/2015 - 01:04 | 6454711 MontgomeryScott
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DAMNIT, TOM, I'm a COP, NOT a CHEMIST!

 

Since this tweaker dealer ALSO worked for N.I.S.T., he was probably lookiing for a way to cook 'public opinion' regarding the provable use of Nanothermite tech; developed and patended by Sandia Laboratories in N.M.; in the destruction of the WTC complex (but he washed his stuff with Procaine and Ether, and then tried to cook it out of the mix with 'normal office fires' that he set [using propane tanks] as an excuse for the symmetrical collapse and months-long pyroclastic shit taking place down in the basements).

I'll let YOU go to the Ritz-Carlton Chain Of Hotels (Incporated) in Bloomberg's NYC '(d)ream of the future'. You can bring me a soda (or rather, 'large fountain drink'; in P.C. vernacular). Bring me back a box of 'Ritz' crackers, too.

I'm SURE that this brave and valiant (and OBVIOSLY MALIGNED) chemist was simply looking to quantify a method of standards of purity for Hister methamphetamines, as per the National Institute for Standards and Technology 'guidelines'; outlined in their 'employee handbook' (or, 'COOKBOOK').

 

Sat, 08/22/2015 - 04:05 | 6454857 Hugh G Rection
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Is this the first time NIST ever tested for explosives?

 

They seemed to forget about that one on 9/11...

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 17:26 | 6453426 spieslikeus
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Jesse!

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 21:55 | 6454382 So It Goes
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YESSSS!!!!!!

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 17:27 | 6453435 EscapeKey
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that sounds as retarded as ross william ulbricht's defence in the silk road case

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 17:32 | 6453437 Chuck Knoblauch
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Drain Opener = Drain Cleaner (Draino)

It will rot your brain and teeth.

It will kill you eventually if ingested regularly.

Does Draino give it its blue color???

 

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 17:35 | 6453494 MayIMommaDogFac...
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Does Draino give it its blue color???

It is only blue on TV.

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 17:37 | 6453511 Chuck Knoblauch
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I thought high quality Meth was blue?

That's what Walt's distributors wanted to sell.

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 18:01 | 6453630 Tall Tom
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Clear as ice, colorless, and clean.

 

And TeeVee is nothing more than a very poor substitute for reality.

 

I got rid of that many years ago and did not watch one episode of "Breaking Bad". The only way I know what you are writing about is from the context of what I have read in comments like yours. 

 

Why watch fiction when this activity surrounds me daily...on the streets...in realityville?

 

It is sick shit.

 

One of my homeless pickers just died from Congestive Heart Failure due to his indulgence of smoking that shit. I ran him to the Emergency Room as he thought that he had Pnuemonia. (I knew better and had asked him if was was experiencing Heart pain.) Well within an hour he had his first Heart Attack that killed 85% of his heart.

 

Then we have an ASSHOLE, Realmoney2015, that wants that shit legal?

 

METH KILLS. My friend was only 39 YEARS OLD. That happened ONE WEEK AGO TODAY.

 

I watch this shit LIVE, every fucking day.

 

I want to go out and KILL THE METH DEALERS. Maybe Murder needs to be legal.

 

Do NOT tell me that you are sorry. You are not. And that is okay.

 

It is TRAGIC. It is REAL. And there is NOT ONE DAMNED THING THAT I CAN DO TO STOP IT.

 

Legal or not it would have happened, as if laws actually prevent behavior. (THEY DO NOT.)

 

It is fucked up and Hollywood should not be glamourizing it and profitting from the misery of REAL PEOPLE.

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 18:06 | 6453652 Scooby Dooby Doo
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DEEP breaths TALL tom.

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 18:41 | 6453783 SuperRay
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There are too many people in the world. Legalize all drugs and let the great die-off begin. No taxpayer funded drug treatment. Let all the left wing bleeding hearts start privately funded drug treatment programs. They'll be helping members of their own party anyway. And get these fucking illegal families out of here!!

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 18:17 | 6453708 skipjack
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Sorry for your loss, but you cannot stop those who want to self-destruct - ask any family member of an alcoholic. And yes, all that shit should be legal. Maybe if mary jane or hash or lsd or whatever else was legally available, he'd have not gone for the drug that would absolutely kill.

 

 

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 18:33 | 6453750 Tall Tom
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The Pot dispensary is forty feet from my doorstep.

 

Pot is readily available.

 

If I wanted it then I'd have NO PROBLEM getting it. 

 

Hell the Sheriffs drive by while people are smoking it outside. They turn a blind eye. The Pot Laws are not enforced by the locals.

 

The FBI had surveilance set up a few weeks back, maybe a month or two back, "undercover", as Cox Cable Repairmen..

 

They were so obvious.

 

After I loudly announced outside to my next door neighbor that "He is an FBI Agent. He is not here to fix the cable or increase the Internet Speed", they have not been back.

 

It was the same AGENT, repeatedly, over a period of three months.. They did not even bother to change Undercover Agents. They are fucking idiots...Keystone Cops.

 

(But I have to admit that I enjoyed blowing his cover...as if it had already not been noticed by others.)

 

Yeah.

Sat, 08/22/2015 - 01:25 | 6454728 MontgomeryScott
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"The only way I know what you are writing about is from the context of what I have read in comments like yours."

 

I'm not a methamphetamine-using dopesmoker, but I played one on T.V. ONCE (way back, in the 1950's).

In FACT, I've NEVER HEARD OF a periodical named 'High Times' magazine, and I NEVER went to my local 'Head Shop' (that also sold porn movies and 'adult novelties') to buy one. EVER. The B-17 Bomber meme was popular WAY before Bernanke graduated from grade school, but I know NOTHING about this. Dropping greenies out of bombers was SO OLD and DATED by the time he did it that I had to BUST UP LAUGHING when this story came out (NOT like I have any knowledge of the reference or anything).

I don't bother to change undercover agents, myself. I let them change THEMSELVES (WHAT am I, their fucking nanny nursemaid?). I'll let Eric Holder buy their Pampers.

 

 

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 18:36 | 6453766 Miffed Microbio...
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No, it should not. Tom and I see reality and you are living in the abstract.

I will agree pot should be legal because it is a plant, also coca plants which have been used for 1000s of years by indigenous people. The problem is when you extract the pharmacological components, concentrate them and take high doses. This actually is true for legal drugs and medications used by modern medicine. High doses of pharmacologically active legal substances is primarily what we see as overdose in hospitals today. The toxic effect can be lethal. Lucky ones get away with some liver or kidney damage.

These are not natural substances, they are dangerous and have destroyed many lives. They are not the drugs of the 60s.

Miffed

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 18:38 | 6453740 BeaverCream
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Do you want to kill all the doctors that prescribe legal drugs to people and get them hooked on purpose so that they can write mad scrips all day and drive a beamer to work?  Those are the real drug dealers, get your priorities straight.  Street drug dealers are providing a service for fucked up people without any hope. If you're going to ingest something as poisonous as meth you obviously have a serious mental problem that isn't going away and the truth of it is that something really hard is probably the only thing helping, in the fact that it's killing you more quickly.  (many) Medical doctors on the other hand prescribe drugs to well meaning people who have faith in them and honestly don't know any better. 

Think bigger. 

Sat, 08/22/2015 - 00:50 | 6454688 Tall Tom
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Legalizing Meth is legalizing Murder.

 

You did not get the double entendre?

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 19:32 | 6453955 Stumpy4516
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Tall Tom, everyone knows meth is highly dangerous.  But a segment of people think it is fun to walk an edge.  Not the dealers fault they just supply a demand.  Even in the 60's they had a saying, Speed Kills.  That was not about driving.  But even today the speed freaks keep making themselves.

LSD wasn't good enough so they had to try PCP.  Cocaine was too mild and lost it's image of being on the edge, so they had to start trying Crack.

Heroin is coming back (again and again) and those people will even stick needles in their arms to search for the edge to walk. 

Now I do not know about meth or crack - but professional detox people will tell you they would rather try to clean up a heroin addict than a hard core alcoholic.  The success rate for alcoholics is much lower than people think, they seem to keep relapsing and getting worse.  Get clean, miss the excitment of walking the edge and back to it they go.  Seen it.  It is their choice and they always are confident they can walk the edge and win this time.

The problem is the buyer not the seller. 

Sat, 08/22/2015 - 00:52 | 6454692 Tall Tom
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The problem is the buyer not the seller. 

 

The problem is BOTH PARTICIPANTS.

 

One cannot play without the other.

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 20:12 | 6453984 logicalman
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If you do serious research on anything you wish to put into your body and are prepared to accept whatever risk shows up, go for it, but you have to accept the consequences of your actions.

Why I don't go to McD's or any other fast food place.

 

Sat, 08/22/2015 - 01:01 | 6454706 Tall Tom
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Yeah. Tonight there is this woman who has a son who is addicted to Opiates attempting to "intervene".

 

The problem is that SHE has been Court Ordered to go to NA Meetings herself or, alternatively, spend 180 Days in jail.

 

She has not gone to any meetings and attempting an intervention on her Drug Addicted son?

 

Her ex-husband has LOST HIS 2nd Amendment and 4th Amendment in order for the son to remain living at his home.

 

Now is that somebody who has a problem making it a problem for all of these losers...IN DENIAL??

 

THAT is the type of people that I live around. ENABLING LOSERS. And if it is NOT FUCKING OBVIOUS that the son HAS NO CARE WHATSOEVER to the damage his little bust caused...then you are in denial.

 

Your suggestion is much easier written than enacted. It is a simple solution which is logically applied by the healthy. (I would kick that loser OUT.)

 

But then there is that CODEPENDENT ASPECT OF ADDICTION....

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 22:38 | 6454492 SixIsNinE
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true TT,

if the Big Pharma Drug Cartels did not have a monopoly on medicine / drugs, we should be in a competitive "free" market, just like the brewers & vinyards towards the real-deal medicines... not sad marginally better than placebo "anti-depressants" flouride .... having possession & related being an incarcerated "crime", and the authorities can legally seize your home & belongings...based on what?

It's an amazing time to be alive, and I thank the Zeros here & the Tylers for everything...

i could start a music show in which i dj music and interject with ZH stories & comments, reading selected ones that might be interesting to some Zeros that might like to stream their ZeroHedge whilst multi-tasking ...

I like House music, especially the Ibiza - Barcelona style, all styles are a possibility - big large BASS, it would be standard to expect a subwoofer to be required for best results....

 

 

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 17:41 | 6453532 negative rates
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We love to the see the effects of running kerosene through your veins for 50 years, yet it's done daily by our congress critters.

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 17:28 | 6453442 WhackoWarner
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Gee whiz

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 17:28 | 6453448 Tall Tom
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Now NIST actually deserves to have the Buildings demolished by Thermite implosion.

 

Could not have happened to any institution more deserving.

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 18:30 | 6453743 WernerHeisenberg
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+ 47 floors!!!

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 17:29 | 6453450 IridiumRebel
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Los Pollos Hermanos, Putos!!!

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 17:41 | 6453451 blindman
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we must never forget education is expensive and dangerous
not to mention challenging, humiliating and sometimes
depressing or/and exhilarating. even exp[losive.
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Fri, 08/21/2015 - 18:41 | 6453788 Kprime
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live a little

learn a little

get or give the occasional blow job.

 

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 20:06 | 6454073 blindman
Fri, 08/21/2015 - 17:29 | 6453456 Rusty Shorts
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Well Jumping Crack Bass

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 17:56 | 6453614 booboo
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I see 21st century folk song in the making;

Jimmy crack coke and I don't care

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 17:31 | 6453457 HeadintheGame
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And our tax dollars certainly shouldn't be funding a prick like Lamar Smith either!

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 17:30 | 6453459 DetectiveStern
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Smart guys don't join the police.

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 17:31 | 6453470 NoDebt
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That's the damned truth.

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 18:08 | 6453659 Scooby Dooby Doo
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Real smarties join the FBI and start `anonymous` websites to catch the crazies!

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 22:03 | 6454406 TalkToLind
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You're darn right.  Hey, wait a minute...this website is anonymous!

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 22:43 | 6454503 SixIsNinE
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the broader concerned public should be aware by now, 2 years since the Snowden leaks, of the complete lack of privacy on the net and electronics in general...

remember just 8 years ago, Obama began campaigning and the hope & change meme had just begun ....

i remember moving to DC in 1992 when Clinton took office... I still have a campaign button with HOPE enblazoned opposite below the Clinton name with the Whitehouse in the background...

Hope was with us :) ) irrational exuberance just around the corner.....

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 17:59 | 6453626 MsCreant
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They are not allowed to. If their IQ is too high, they "fail the psychological test."

Sat, 08/22/2015 - 02:12 | 6454766 Curiously_Crazy
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. Smart guys don't join the police.

Smart guys are not allowed to join the police. If your IQ is above the cutoff you can't join. Can't have these brownshirts actually thinking for themselves.

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 17:30 | 6453460 NoDebt
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His union will get him his job back with retroactive pay, a healthy raise and a couple hundred grand for his pain and emotional suffering through this ordeal.  The incident will be scrubbed from his record and he'll get a commendation medal to replace it.

But hit just ONE black guy....

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 17:32 | 6453471 Bill of Rights
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No worries folks the blonde bimbo with big tits on TV just told me the COPs are Hero's and here to protect me .

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 17:50 | 6453580 atomicwasted
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Don't denigrate big tits.

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 17:31 | 6453476 Forrest Grump
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Reminds me of this guy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Leonard_Orr

Some arson investigators and an FBI criminal profiler have deemed Orr to be possibly one of the worst American serial arsonists of the twentieth century. Federal ATF agent Mike Matassa believes that Orr set nearly 2,000 fires between 1984 and 1991. Furthermore, arson investigators cited that after Orr was arrested, the number of brush fires in the nearby foothill areas decreased by over ninety percent.

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 19:28 | 6453949 VWAndy
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I remember those days. He set many of those fires while he was on the clock.

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 17:31 | 6453477 mt paul
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maybe a plane flew into and blew up

the NIST lab

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 18:07 | 6453654 Keynesians say ...
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Meth can't melt steel beams

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 17:35 | 6453495 Chuck Knoblauch
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Why does this article refer to drain cleaner as drain opener?

Shame on you Zero.

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 17:48 | 6453571 negative rates
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The Dr. uses it to open up his sinus's, so he had the name changed and promoted as such, look it caught on, even you are using it.

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 17:43 | 6453542 XitSam
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"Why did you give us a story about the lighter?"

"I was afraid you'd think I was cooking meth."

"But you were cooking meth."

"Right. Can I get my job back now?"

Just another day in bizarro world.

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 17:43 | 6453546 oooBooo
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Doesn't NIST have chemists that could help this cop not cause an explosion? Not to mention prevent contamination of the building.

 

 

 

 

Sat, 08/22/2015 - 02:16 | 6454768 Curiously_Crazy
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It was a cop remember, an ex army one at that. He was probably following a shake and bake recipe he found on the net and wasn't aware there were other ways.

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 17:45 | 6453557 Yen Cross
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  You sure he wasn't a security officer at the N.Y. Fed.?

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 17:48 | 6453568 IndianaJohn
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Give me Librium or give me Meth.

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 17:58 | 6453583 withglee
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he accidentally blew the windows out of a highly secured government research facility.

Based on NIST analysis, the building then should have fallen at free-fall speed ... ala WTC7.

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 22:38 | 6454494 Fred Hayek
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The post above deserves a million plus arrows.

NIST are the lie on demand bastards who took several years to come out with an attempted explanation of WTC7 that didn't just admit, "Fer chrissakes, it was a controlled demolition". Their best shot at it ended up with a model in which the upper left and right sides of WTC7 as viewed from the perspective of all the video clips we've seen, would have both folded in dramatically toward the center of the building. Unfortunately, in the real world that didn't happen at all. The most hopeless arts and crafts student could discern at a glance that NIST was full of shit.

They probably got more money the next year from the Feds for selling their fucking souls and lying on cue.

Sat, 08/22/2015 - 01:32 | 6454733 dreadnaught
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"Collapse by CGI" wonderful!

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 17:57 | 6453617 TrulyStupid
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This man is a Keynsian hero... a prime example of the broken window theory of economic growth. Just think of the GDP he created.. broken window must be fixed, lawyers must be hired to defend and prosecute, moralists must preach, Foxnews must judge, sheeple are entertained. Insurance premiums must go up to support stimulus spending ...  A jail cell must be procured at huge annual expense.....

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 18:02 | 6453641 Full Nelson
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You could easily substitute headline words: "Cop" with "Yellen", "Cook Meth" with "Print", "Government Science Lab" with "Fed" and "Building" with "Ponzi Scheme".

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 18:10 | 6453671 Barrack Chavez
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This bureaucrat was just on a "training mission" to learn how to cook meth

The EPA bureaucrats just made a "minor mistake" dumping millions of gallons of toxic waste into rivers.

Hilary thought she was sending porno pictures, not classified documents, on her unauthorized private email setup.

Bernanke assures us that the subprime contagion remains well contained; Yellen assures us that the markets are not being propped up by inept lending at 0% to politically favored institutions.

And lastly, I want to remind everyone that OJ is still looking for the real killer...

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 18:14 | 6453693 WillyGroper
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Clearly such "cooking" has been going on for some time given the quality of NIST's work.

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 18:15 | 6453697 Rentenmark
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Yo Mr. White, way to go.  Fat stacks, dead presidents..yo.

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 18:16 | 6453699 FrankHerbert
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not a very bright cop, like many i've met over the years. many more are outstanding, but for 'some odd reason' it's the dickwipes that stand out.

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 18:37 | 6453775 Clowns on Acid
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He just wrote the script for the Breaking Bad movie.

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 22:52 | 6454517 SixIsNinE
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maybe with all the overt propaganda predictive programming & social engineering, maybe they ARE filming these arrests and will use this "reality tv" footage in a new netflix show, or somthing....:)

production & tv/film crews need work too ... looking back at all the movies & shows that we watched as reruns on tv growing up, the hollywood & new york tv/movie industry must've been so bustling & fun & creative ... something else is happening now ...

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 18:40 | 6453786 kchrisc
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The gun and badge thugs are a pillar of the community. Not!

This video is instructive as to how the awareness of the gun and badge thugs' true purpose:

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article42659.htm

Zion is a scheme, not an ethnicity.

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 18:42 | 6453792 Ms No
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He probably figured he may need a couple extra bucks since his pension may vaporize in the next couple weeks. 

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 18:52 | 6453817 Nostradumbass
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"He wanted to see how to make it," VanGrack concluded."

I believe the correct spelling of the attorney's name is VanCrack.

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 19:12 | 6453890 VWAndy
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Stupid Fucking Tweekers.

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 19:23 | 6453926 Smiddywesson
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Lots of smart people in the BU, but the really smart ones punch their ticket and get the heck outta there.

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 19:30 | 6453951 Burticus
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NIST, which conveniently avoided explaining how WTC Building 7 collapsed at the acceleration of gravity through its point of maximum resistance, has its own police department?!

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 19:41 | 6453982 Sokhmate
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Is there a current project to educate 18 year old girls about penis insertion techniques in various orifices?

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 19:46 | 6453993 logicalman
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You looking for a teaching job?

Fri, 08/21/2015 - 23:38 | 6454605 22winmag
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I'm surprised the cocksucker wasn't cooking up STEROIDS.

 

Cops love steroids!

Sat, 08/22/2015 - 01:03 | 6454708 DeusHedge
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how can you eat ravioli at a time like this ..jk

Sat, 08/22/2015 - 02:23 | 6454779 SirBarksAlot
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This isn't new news.  The governments have been in the drug bznz since the Opium Wars.  This idiot is just the fall guy.

Sat, 08/22/2015 - 08:29 | 6455025 sam site
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NIST was the federal agency that aided and abetted the 9-11 Inside-Job Conspirators by suppressing  physical evidence of thermite used in controlled demolitions. 

They even claimed there were no reports of explosions during the obvious controlled demolition explosions reported by firefighters.

NIST also authored the "pancake" theory of the collapse of the twin towers while ignoring the nearly 300 - 4 inch thick vertical I beans holding up each tower. 

NIST is just another worse than useless, corrupt federal agency like the FDA, CDC, FCC, EPA and many more.

No wonder The Department of Commerce, along with the Departments of Education, Energy, Commerce, Interior and Housing and Urban Development were targeted for elimination by Ron Paul. 

All useless, corrupt, parasites feeding off the public.

 

 

 

 

Sat, 08/22/2015 - 09:03 | 6455065 silverer
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I'll bet they became even more suspicious because of the massive explosion. But the rest of the story is classic.  He wanted to try it, so he could use it for instructional material. Now lets extrapolate that out a bit:  "I had to do 180 MPH in my Ferrari so I could experience what speeding was like, so I'd know why I shouldn't do it."  Or "I had to shoot that guy to see what happened.  It was experimental, of course." 

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