LOL! Thousands of pot plants found on Rupert Murdoch's land in Carmel Valley...

[RevolutionStartsNow]

Just on our local news.

Apparently "someone" was using his land to grow it there.

:rofl:

[mcctatas]

1. Was it Rush?

or is he only into pharmecuticals?

[aquart]

2. Did he take a cut?

[Rick Myers]

3. Owner pays. Seize all assets now!!!

Off with his head!!! Evil weed!!! :smoke:

[EFerrari]

4. That would be the place to do it. Fertile river delta.

lol

[K8-EEE]

5. How come "someone" doesn't want to grow anything interesting in my yard?

All I got are zinneas, zucchini and tomatoes!

[cui bono]

8. Sounds good to me... what time should I come by for some pasta primavera?

:toast:

[K8-EEE]

13. Actually about 4 times a week you can come over for that!!

And please do! I HATE to brag but my tomatoes rock (pic in my journal!)

[cui bono]

14. You know what? I saw that post before! It must've been on the latest page

or something... somehow I saw it.

I'll have to find that thing you mentioned - that helps them grow - for my mom. She has tomatoes in her yard. Once I get around to landscaping I want to put in a little veggie garden too.

[wildhorses]

6. hmmmmm....

did it look like this:

[zabet]

30. My favorite! An herb garden!!!!! n/t

[alfredo]

36. Certainly not Toledo Window Box. Suburban basement maybe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toledo_Window_Box

[rucky]

7. "I was just holding it for a friend." n/t

[cui bono]

9. Of course he'll get off with the "I didn't do it, I didn't know it was there" excuse

unlike other unknown, not that rich types.

[Webster Green]

10. 'Tis the season..

[kestrel91316]

23. That junk looks like it's all full of seeds and worthless. I suggest you

send it to me for proper disposal.

[Webster Green]

25. You had me going there for a second..

I wish I could send it to you though..

[SammyWinstonJack]

33. ...

:evilgrin:

[Mnemosyne]

37. And those red 'patches' look possibly dangerous;

I'll help you test it; a personal sacrifice I am willing to endure for science! :smoke:

And, I bet it stinks to high heavens too! :evilgrin:

[kestrel91316]

39. I think it must be moldy........

[Mnemosyne]

40. lol Mmmm! n/t

[haele]

11. Doesn't this fall under federal forfeiture laws?

As far as I am aware, even if someone was using his land illegally, the feds consider him responsible and liable...

Like they do to poor grandparents and clueless best friends, confiscate that land and throw his ass in jail (or at least put a warrant out for him). I'm sure it's not a supposedly legal in California medical marijuana patch up there.

Haele

[MagickMuffin]

15. You are correct

The Feds SHOULD seize his assets. After all how do we know he didn't aquire his billions off the pot trade???

I remember an incident where the DEA busted into someone's home in the wee hours while the homeowners were sleeping. I can't remember his name but he was very wealthy and owned a lot of acres outside of L.A.

Needless to say the homeowner went downstairs with a loaded gun thinking someone was breaking into his home. The Feds shot him dead. I don't know if they took his land.

"They killed my husband to get his land," says Frances Plante, a 39-year-old with miles of fringe on her suede jacket. As we hike through Trail's End, the 200-acre ranch outside Malibu, California, she calls home, her Rottweilers tag along, poking their snouts in the bushes and barking into the wind.

Last summer, Plante married Donald Scott, a millionaire by inheritance. For the last 25 years he had been holed up in his canyon in the Santa Monica Mountains, surrounded on three sides by national parkland. His first wife had left him, and Plante had moved in two years ago. "We were just down-home, country folk," Plante says. "Donald was a real sweetheart." But he didn't trust the park service, which had long wanted to annex his land. "He thought they were trying to terrorize us and get us out of here."

Plante's honeymoon ended at 8:30 a.m. last October 2, when 32 men and women drove up the dirt road to Trail's End. The brigade, led by the Los Angeles sheriffs, included representatives of the National Park Service, the Forest Service, the Los Angeles Police Department, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the California Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement, the National Guard, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory--a NASA subsidiary invited by the sheriffs to collect marijuana pollen on the property.

Under a 1984 federal statute, narcotics agent are encouraged to confiscate property from suspected drug traffickers without bothering to arrest or convict anyone. The law offers a double incentive: an easy standard of proof (requiring only "probable cause" to connect the property to a drug crime) and cash commissions (up to 85 percent on seized assets). As of May 1993, drug agents had seized $3 billion worth of property, and the government's inventory now includes 33,000 homes, cars, airplanes, yachts, and cash deposits. Local agencies are encouraged to spend the booty on law enforcement--training, equipment, informants--but some have used it to buy air conditioners, large-screen TVs, fitness equipment and gifts for secretaries. If Trail's End had been seized and sold for its estimated value of $5 million, the Los Angeles sheriffs might have enjoyed a windfall of $4 million.

The Justice Department calls asset forfeiture a "scorched-earth policy" to wipe out major drug dealers. But given its low-risk, high-yield construction, it's no surprise the law is routinely abused. In 1991, two Pittsburgh Press reporters reviewed 25,000 DEA seizures. Their conclusion: instead of targeting traffickers, the drug statute "mostly ensnares the modest homes, cars and cash of ordinary, law-abiding people." Or, in Donald Scott's case, a 200-acre ranch that guaranteed a promotion to the first cop aggressive enough to grab it for the government.

MORE:
http://www.villagevoice.com/generic/show_print.php?id=11865&page=cotts&issue=9338&printcde=MzU1MzE3ODgxMQ==&refpage=L25ld3MvaW5kZXgucGhwP2lzc3VlPTkzMzgmcGFnZT1jb3R0cyZpZD0xMTg2NQ==

[NaturalHigh]

17. While I understand your sentiment...

asset forfeiture laws, at least as they are written now, are a crock. How they could ever pass constitutional muster, no matter what the makeup of the court, is beyond me.

[Mythsaje]

19. Oh, yeah... It's government sanctioned theft, plain and simple.

And, no, it should never have passed Constitutional muster. Now, of course, it certainly would.

Slimeballs.

[RevolutionStartsNow]

12. Here's the only link I could find on it, apparently just reported...

http://thecalifornian.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070713/NEWS01/70713023/1002

[NaturalHigh]

16. "A man camping without permission on the property...

was said to have grown the plants, which were discovered and reported by a Murdoch employee, they said. The man escaped authorities."

How long was this guy supposedly camping there to grow 3400 pot plants?

[Ghost in the Machine]

18. dammit! They just let Bin Laden escape again!!

[MagickMuffin]

20. Hey kids, Why isn't this on the Greatest YET???

Certainly enough people has posted here that should have voted it to greatest:shrug:

GET busy, just click the recommend button:hippie:

[dickthegrouch]

21. So the best way to rid ourselves of......

our repuke friends is to plant a few extras in their gardens and tip-off the cops?

:evilgrin:

(added on edit)

We could redistribute a few war profits that way!

[AlCzervik]

22. He should start smoking some of it, it might make him a better person.

[Ilsa]

24. Send some to Bill O'Raly while you're at it. nt

[Blue_Tires]

26. "Reefer" Murdoch?

[leftofthedial]

27. have they seized all his assets yet

as they would were it your land or mine

[Telly Savalas]

35. They'll sell his media empire at a county auction.

[JacquesMolay]

28. Probably schwag...

...n/a

[LeftishBrit]

29. ROTFL!

I was just posting on another thread that I hoped the next scandal would be about Rupert Murdoch - maybe my wish is coming true!

Though mind you, I think the pot would do far less harm to people's brains than anything else produced by Murdoch.

[Oilwellian]

31. Didn't our drug czar just say...

Anyone who grows marijuana is a terrorist?

[SammyWinstonJack]

32. He should partake and spread it to his "news" lackeys. Mellow out!

It would be a good thing. :evilgrin: :smoke: Do the World a favor.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

34. Does this now make him the Ultimate Terrorist as touted by our new Drug Czar? n/t

[mmonk]

38. Nail him.

His land, his possession.

[underseasurveyor]

41. Crap

:wow:I didn't know he lived in Carmel Valley. Gads now I feel so, so, byucky x(