RedBaron
Registered User
All Over, Alaska
I've seen many times evidence of cops and undercover cops fringing on "entrapment" in order to bring charges against suspects; for example, cops that had infiltrated an outlaw biker gang and were buying guns from the individual gang members under the guise of being "gunrunners"; were dissatisfied with the legal semi-auto firearms being sold to them by the bikers, and returned them asking that they be made fully automatic and then resold to them (illegally now) as automatics in order to "prove organized crime" under the RICO Act...same thing as undercover wardens that I have seen or heard of asking me or any other law-abiding citizen to commit a game violation. Even if I wasn't risking losing my plane, ethically I could never mis-use our God-given natural resources like that. Besides, I need my plane, I can't afford to lose it or my career flying hunters, so I have enjoyed a lifetime of hunting activity violation-free; however knowing I could lose my airplane even for 6 months proving a bogus charge is scary, so avoiding even the appearance of evil becomes necessary.
Losing a plane or even two planes obviously wasn't nearly enough deterrent for the Defendant Lepping, and doubtless even now is even sufficient deterrent in the future after the fact. I know him personally, have flown him in my own airplane and other company aircraft and feel lucky to have been paid on all accounts, his reputation as SB said is well established in the Alaskan community. And in his case particularly, it is NOT a case of entrapment in the slightest sense, rather, it would seem to me a case of really the charges convicted for are scarce in comparison to the years of violations.
I like TJ, but I wouldn't want to be around if someone tried to take his plane.
Nuff said.
RB
Losing a plane or even two planes obviously wasn't nearly enough deterrent for the Defendant Lepping, and doubtless even now is even sufficient deterrent in the future after the fact. I know him personally, have flown him in my own airplane and other company aircraft and feel lucky to have been paid on all accounts, his reputation as SB said is well established in the Alaskan community. And in his case particularly, it is NOT a case of entrapment in the slightest sense, rather, it would seem to me a case of really the charges convicted for are scarce in comparison to the years of violations.
I like TJ, but I wouldn't want to be around if someone tried to take his plane.
Nuff said.
RB
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