It is a little unfair to blame LE when the sh*t is dropped in their laps.
Open source posting?? Anyone who sources on the board better know how to adequately insulate themselves from anyone who scrutinizes the board. Now there may be something that rolls to the board via ratting, but that's assuming that LE has the resources and the desire to pursue it. DEA already knows who the major names are.
I am annoyed at the local involvement. I am annoyed that people who had so much to lose would be connected in a direct physical way. I know this is a reality sometime but when you start digging into these busts you see error after error ( mostly in judgement ). Don't miss the opportunity to learn something from this in your outrage: Maybe I didn't fully comprehend the information or it is inaccurate. I am not judging anyone here except if that boy ratted to the police then he was such a pussy that he couldn't even handle the arrest. The police have no authority to cut you a deal it's the prosecutor who does. There is never an honorable time to roll, but most are going to do it and you have to assume that if the odds of beating it are overwhelming the person will give something up. You just hope it is that guy who scammed them or the rec gealers. Through their lawyer of course and to the prosecutor.
That at least buys everyone some time. But the reality is you shouldn't be that vulnerable to anyone. You don't have a direct contact relationship exchanging gear and money and information with people who have criminal records. They don't have anything to negotiate with and it is not so much a question whether they will go to jail, but how long?
If you are dealing in amounts of drugs above personal use you don't have any bro's locally and nobody but your supplier gets a physical addy!!!!!!!!!!! Ever!!!!! That address the supplier has shouldn't be a box with real identification!! A picture of you dosen't get them there if you have no record. If you have a record you shouldn't be handling gear because you already used your get out of jail free card! You shouldn't be in the game if you need physicall connection with other people who are aware of what you do. You don't go meet up at the bodybuilding contests and act like you are like everybody else! You are not! And this is what happens over and over again. You retire and handle nothing more than personal and then you can be a bro in spirit and truth.
This is so basic and yet we are our own worst enemies. Or God allows protection to be removed so He can have all of us. And if it takes putting you in a jail cell to get you to call out to Him, it wouldn't surpise me if thats exactly whats going on. He loves you that much. Thats my own spin, you don't have to agree on any of this. Thats okay.
Now having said that my heart aches when I think of the mountain Mike is looking up right now. But if Mike really looks up He will see God! And with God on his side he will get through this and he will be able to look back and say
God worked it all out for good.
Many want to get angry and say we have a right to do mega doses of roids and I would support that right. But don't tell me there aren't alot of young men who will never beable to know what it would have been like if they had never taken that first tab. My friend STK comes to mind and Mike and countless others as I say this.
I think we can all agree it is the best of times and the worst of times. Maybe thats what everyone experiences in life. I don't know. I can't go back and neither can Mike or you.
Allbeef
Just an after thought. My job ( even though I self appointed myself some time ago ) is to critique busts, programs and identify areas of vulnerability or error. If you didn't know that about me go back and look at the threads of JJ and me where we bare it all. We did that in hopes of conveying as much information as we could to the most people we could in the community. One of the things we didn't really ever have coming up was a lot of succesful guys sharing their thoughts openly. I said in the above post " we are our worst enemies " and much of what I know today is from trial and error and watching others go through the same process. I will never pass up an opportunity to discuss an arrest because how will they know unless it's been said. Oh I wish I could magically make it all better, but as most anyone whos been through an arrest knows " you walk through it alone ". Thats really where you see whether all those stetements about what you will do are true. The best advice I have for someone who has the potential for an arrest is get Rick Collins Book and read what the risks are for what you are choosing to do and then if you accept the risks and stay involved then rehearse, rehearse, rehearse what your response will be to an arrest. If you are locally involved, stop the involvement if you can and if you can't you must reherse your response to an arrest with your local friend. The faith that it takes when you are both in seperate rooms being told the other one is rolling is astronominal. Now if you are a very special guy ( I think it's two in ten ) you will never roll whether your friend rolls or not. But for the majority of guys it will be little easier if you have both read the book and rehearsed ahead of time.