Sick. Just SICK.

[Occhidiangela]

Stratford High School is in Goose Creek, a middle-class suburb of Charleston. It's considered one of the best high schools in South Carolina -- a place where students do well on state tests. 

Sounds like my High school, in 1976.

Parents move to Goose Creek so their kids can go to Stratford. But McCrackin, the school's principal, feared it was becoming known for drugs. There had been 15 arrests in the first three months of the school year, compared with 16 arrests the entire year before.  

Sounds like my high school, 1976.

Acting on a tip from a student, McCrackin called the police. Together, they monitored several days of videotape. Convinced they were witnessing drug activity in the main hallway before class, they planned the raid.

Sounds like my high school, 1976. That time, a few dozen stoners got busted for nickel bags, and a few got hit on Cocaine. Progressive school, I suppose. B)

I am not going to say I find the Principal's approach subtle, and perhaps he was trying for a shock and awe approach to send a message. 6 45 AM? UH, why not do the bust at lunch time? That is what they did in my high school, in 1976. I expect the local school board and some of the parents are gonna give him a case of the red ass.

In future, please have a care with how you characterize cops. Your reference to cops as Nazi Thugs is a crock of crap, and you know it, Mr "Not So Retired Activist." :)

My wife's brother in law, the Cop, just got moved from the Family Violence division to the Homicide division. He and the boys pulled a guy in last week who did in a lady who the perp he met via the internet in Florida, and who the perp subsequently robbed, killed, and buried. The cops here got him, they extradited his sorry ass back to Florida. The good guys won that one.

I've got two old military buddies who work DEA: for the past 15 years. NOT Nazi Thugs.

Ciao