{"id":5709,"date":"2010-10-06T13:10:37","date_gmt":"2010-10-06T17:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=5709"},"modified":"2010-10-06T14:14:39","modified_gmt":"2010-10-06T18:14:39","slug":"montessori-school-raided-by-new-mexico-drug-cops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/10\/06\/montessori-school-raided-by-new-mexico-drug-cops\/","title":{"rendered":"Montessori school raided by New Mexico drug cops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can rest easy, knowing that a potentially dangerous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2010\/10\/06\/nm-cops-raid-montess.html\" target=\"_blank\">grow op<\/a> has been investigated by New Mexico <strike><font color=\"red\">Schutzstaffel<\/font><\/strike> drug cops:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;We were all as a group eating outside as we usually do, and this unmarked drab-green helicopter kept flying over and dropping lower,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Of course, the kids got all excited. They were telling me that they could see gun barrels outside the helicopter. I was telling them they were exaggerating.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After 15 minutes, Pantano said, the helicopter left, then five minutes later a state police officer parked a van in the school&#8217;s driveway. Pantano said she asked the officer what was happening, but he only would say he was there as a law-enforcement representative.<\/p>\n<p>Then other vehicles arrived and four men wearing bullet-proof vests, but without any visible insignias or uniforms, got out and said they wanted to inspect the school&#8217;s greenhouses. Pantano said she then turned the men over to the farm director, Greg Nussbaum. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ms. Pantano must have nerves of steel . . . most schools would have gone into emergency lock-down at the sight of all those paramilitary types deploying in the driveway.<\/p>\n<p>The comments on <em>BoingBoing<\/em> were good, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2010\/10\/06\/nm-cops-raid-montess.html#comment-903881\" target=\"_blank\">this one<\/a> was great:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The War on Organic Produce continues to go well. Each of those tomatoes cost the taxpayer $75.00 US! WE WILL NOT BE SATISFIED UNTIL THE DRUG CZAR IS RUMOURED TO CURE GOUT BY WASHING THE FEET OF THE AFFLICTED.<br \/>\n&#8212;<br \/>\nSeriously: What the fucking fuck fuck happened to Probable Cause in this day and age? &#8220;We&#8217;re spending $20,000 on this operation because we herd thai leik mudkips, so we kipped in thair mud so thai can mud whail thai kip.&#8221; In the immortal words of Plato, NON FUCKING SEQUITUR is <em>NOT<\/em> a RIVER in EGYPT!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What else floats the same as a <em>Cannabis Sativa<\/em> plant??? &#8211; er, WOOD! &#8211; Good, what else? &#8211; well, tiny rocks. &#8211; OH! A DUCK! &#8211; Right! So if the suspects are raising ducks &mdash; THEN THEY&#8217;RE RAISING POT! &#8211; WELL \/DONE\/!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Law Enforcement by Superstition is horse-shit.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can rest easy, knowing that a potentially dangerous grow op has been investigated by New Mexico Schutzstaffel drug cops: &#8220;We were all as a group eating outside as we usually do, and this unmarked drab-green helicopter kept flying over and dropping lower,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Of course, the kids got all excited. 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