Small Town Petty Police Tactics
The folks in Saranac Lake thought they could have one good weekend this dismal winter during their winterfest a couple weekends ago. But Eliot Ness and Thomas Dewey in the S.L. Police and the Franklin County DA figured it was time to enforce the petty underage drinking laws. They sent a man, woman and two kids, posing as a family, to old fashioned good restaurants and when the lady ordered a glass of wine with her meal, they arrested the waitresses and owners for serving a 20 year old. Needless to say, they hit the bars too during the rush and bagged a total of 11 places. They even arrested some prison guard officer's daughter too, for selling beer in the supermarket to the DA's rats. This is so petty and fascist, but it's not hard to believe. We've become a nation of fascist puritans, where "freedom loving" folks are just dying to let the police eavesdrop their phones, search their cars and houses and drug test them without question. Sounds like model Soviet citizens to me. But the good folks of S.L. are fighting back by demanding separate jury trials, as to tie the arseholes in the DA up with over twenty trials in a town that now hates them.
