a-k-a Tommy Chong

[normiss 622]

anybody else see this?

What a sad government we have.

That is one FUCKED up thing to do.

[marcandalysse 0]

from the movie's website

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a/k/a Tommy Chong chronicles the entrapment and incarceration of comedy icon Tommy Chong of the legendary comedy duo, Cheech and Chong. Josh Gilbert takes on the event in his documentary, and offers a sometimes frightening, often hilarious account of Operation Pipe Dreams, a nationwide drug paraphernalia sting spearheaded by a federal prosecutor named Mary Beth Buchanan, appointed by George Bush three short days after the attacks of 9/11.

After fully armed SWAT teams raided the comedian's home and his business, Chong Glass, Chong was sentenced to 9 months in federal prison for "conspiracy to manufacture and distribute drug paraphernalia through his family business, specializing in handmade glass water pipes, or "bongs". Of the 55 defendants prosecuted, Tommy Chong of Cheech and Chong was the only one with no prior convictions to receive jail time. Justifying the sentence, George Bush's appointee, Mary Beth Buchanan cited the classic Cheech and Chong comedy Up In Smoke as evidence that Tommy Chong had become wealthy "trivializing law enforcement efforts to combat marijuana trafficking and use." As Roger Ebert said after viewing the film, "You do not have to approve of drugs to be offended."

The film provides a charming portrait of a counter culture icon set against the backdrop of a War on Drugs gone horribly awry.

"The reason angels can fly is that they take themselves so lightly." --GK Chesterton

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I remember the original story.
He was selling water pipes online. That makes it interstate sale.

Because of his movie career, they implied intent.

Hope they never see any old WFFC video.

[diablopilot 2]

I haven't seen it, but reading on wiki about it lead me to this fucked up cunt.

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

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[normiss 622]

It was the shipping to two states that got him.

Someone WITH a head shop was the "customer".
I smell entrapment.

[Rainbo 0]

Another excellent expenditure of $12 million worth of taxpayer money. Makes me feel much safer when I go to bed at night . Kind of like when your watching COPS and they got twenty police and numerous cars, and other equipment and lots of big guns and all they get is a black kid with a nickle of weed in his pocket, great payback on investment there also

Rainbo
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"Blessed are those who can give without remembering, and take without forgetting."

[dropdeded 0]

Ride to altitude went over his temporary digs for awhile there when he was doin time at the Taft Prison

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[happythoughts 0]

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Another excellent expenditure of $12 million worth of taxpayer money. Makes me feel much safer when I go to bed at night . Kind of like when your watching COPS and they got twenty police and numerous cars, and other equipment and lots of big guns and all they get is a black kid with a nickle of weed in his pocket, great payback on investment there also

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On May 7th, 2008, federal agents raided Spectrum Labs on an investigation related to Spectrum Labs’ detoxication products. The raid, one of nine during the day, was part of Operation True Test, an investigation being led by U.S. Attorney Mary Beth Buchanan. The investigation targeted companies that sell "masking products" that are supposed to help drug-users pass employer drug tests. Of the nine search warrants issued, none were for businesses within Mary Beth Buchanan's district, the Western District of Pennsylvania. [3]

In executing their search warrant, the federal agents seized over 10,000 copies of Tommy Chong’s yet to be released documentary, a/k/a Tommy Chong. [4] It has yet to be determined exactly why the DVDs were seized during the raid.

For some reason, everything is an "Operation".

If they were searching for masking products, there was no purpose for seizing the dvds, other than suppressing free speech.

When the COPS episodes are about Tampa, it is about hookers.
They get on tv and identify the corners where hookers can be found. After all, we aren't all politicians who can afford to have the $5K top-shelf variety delivered.