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Silver Rocket Bitches!
29th December 2013, 11:41 AM
This is some bullshit right here. A swab test cannot indicate how long ago the thc was absorbed.

The Los Angeles Police Department has announced plans to ramp up use of a portable tool that checks for drug use, beginning with a New Year’s Eve crackdown on intoxicated drivers. Officials cited increased medical marijuana use as a main justification.
A state grant supplied the LAPD with a swab testing tool that will be employed at DUI (driving under the influence) checkpoints and jails, Los Angeles officials said at a Friday press conference.
The conference was held to highlight use of the tool alongside breathalyzers - which check for blood-alcohol content - at sobriety checkpoints during the New Year’s holiday.
LAPD officers can ask a driver to consent to a voluntary portable oral fluids test of their gum line and cheeks. The tip of the tool is then put into a portable machine for immediate testing rather than requiring a blood test. Such blood tests have previously been necessary to verify an arrest made on the suspicion of drugged driving.
Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer pointed to the increased use of medical marijuana and the prevalence of dispensaries in the city as reason to step up enforcement of DUI policing.
“There’s a growing recognition that driving under the influence of drugs is something we need to be clamping down on more effectively,” Feuer said at the press conference.
The swabbing test is not completely untested, though it was only used 50 times in Los Angeles ahead of Friday’s announcement. City prosecutors said they have not used results from the test as evidence in any case thus far.
The portable oral fluids test screens for amphetamines, cocaine, benzodiazepine (Xanax), methadone, methamphetamine, narcotic analgesics, and THC – which indicates that marijuana has been used the past several hours.
“Traditionally, our office has focused on drunken driving cases,” Feuer said. “We’re expanding drug collection and aggressively enforcing all impaired-driving laws.”
The city attorney’s office filed 598 DUI cases in the past year that involved drugs. In comparison, the city filed 577 drunken driving cases during the 2012 winter holiday alone.
Thus far in the 2013 holiday season, over 1,500 people have been arrested in Los Angeles County on suspicion of DUI, according to the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department.
It is yet unknown what other capabilities the testing method has, or how the LAPD will use biometric data gleaned from the swabbing results.
In June, the US Supreme Court ruled (http://rt.com/usa/supreme-court-dna-police-171/) to affirm law enforcement’s right to legally take DNA samples from those who are arrested – even if they have not been convicted for a crime or gone to trial.
Los Angeles County has held the distinction of possessing one of the largest DNA-sample backlogs in the US, including an especially high number of unprocessed rape kits.

http://rt.com/usa/portable-drug-test-lapd-902/

Twisted Titan
29th December 2013, 12:37 PM
The swabbing test is not completely untested, though it was only used 50 times in Los Angeles ahead of Friday’s announcement


I just checked the lastest census info the city of LA has a population of 9.8 million.

So based upon 50 attempts and ZERO court convictions the bacon brigage feels that it is a good thing to subject 10 million people to oral rape.

woodman
29th December 2013, 02:44 PM
Maybe they are trying to get more people to give up their cars, thus an increase in revenue creating jaywalking tickets.

ShortJohnSilver
29th December 2013, 06:24 PM
Can't you get DNA from an oral swab? Just thinking like a cretin, I mean, typical govt bureaucrat.

Hypertiger
29th December 2013, 06:39 PM
Well it's time to shit or get off the pot.

I did pot for awhile...then asked myself...What is this doing for me other than allowing me to see the future where you all die in a fit of agony over and over again?

So then I stopped.

If you have not found Truth by now...You are just an addict supporting a dealer or a dealer supporting addicts.

And where is the report from?

Russia today...aka Soviet Union today.

But frosty the (King) Edward Snowden (born in (Queen) Elizabeth City, North Carolina) is a whistleblower (American computer specialist, a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employee)...and he ran to Russia where it is cold to escape the heat trying to melt him..."In May 2006 Snowden wrote in Ars Technica that he had no trouble getting work because he was a "computer wizard""

His handler that worked for the US based British Guardian is Glenn Greenwald.

Glenn Greenwald has a wife or partner...

"Greenwald lives in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the hometown of his partner, David Michael Miranda. Greenwald has said his residence in Brazil is the result of an American law, the Defense of Marriage Act, barring Federal recognition of same-sex marriages, which prevented his partner from receiving a visa to reside in the United States with him"

Looks like Greenwald has an axe to grind with the USA.

"Three of The Guardian's four leader writers joined the SDP on its foundation in 1981, but the paper was enthusiastic in its support for Tony Blair in his bid to lead the Labour Party, and to become Prime Minister"

"In recent years the Young Fabian group, founded in 1960, has become an important networking and discussion organisation for younger (under 31) Labour Party activists and played a role in the 1994 election of Tony Blair as Labour Leader. Today there is also an active Fabian Women's Network and Scottish and Welsh Fabian groups."

"With the advent of a Labour Party government in 1997, the Fabian Society has been a forum for New Labour ideas and for critical approaches from across the party. The most significant Fabian contribution to Labour's policy agenda in government was Ed Balls' 1992 pamphlet, advocating Bank of England independence. Balls had been a Financial Times journalist when he wrote this Fabian pamphlet, before going to work for Gordon Brown. BBC "

Russian president (Vladimir Putin ex KGB) flag http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Standard_of_the_President_of_the_Russian_Fede ration.svg

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

The guy on the horse is St George...The patron Saint of England...Russia...and Rio de Janeiro...

"The traditional legends have offered a historicised narration of George's encounter with a dragon."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Naval_Ensign_of_Russia.svg Variant flag of Russian Federation or St. Andrew's flag

Traced to Peter the great https://www.abdn.ac.uk/news/3153/

How about Julian Assange Australian citizen and subject of the Queen?...wanted on sex crimes charges? (Assange was a hacker as a teenager, then a computer programmer)

http://www.mithral.com/~beberg/manifesto.html

I created Hypertiger in 1987

The handler of...

Bradley (King) Edward Manning...that has now changed into Chelsea (Queen) Elizabeth Manning...sex change artist?

"In espionage terminology, "honeypot" is one of several ways to refer to a recruitment that involves sexual seduction."

That ties the USA the UK and Russia together...Following the 1917 Russian revolution a central bank was set up.

http://hypertiger.blogspot.ca/2013/06/what-basically-is-too-much-information.html

Then add the French revolution/empire to the mix and you have France...

What ties China the last member of the security council to all this?

http://www.sacu.org/dengfrance.html

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

"he participated in the 1954 Geneva Conference and helped orchestrate Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to China. He helped devise policies regarding the bitter disputes with the U.S., Taiwan, the Soviet Union (after 1960), India and Vietnam. Zhou is best known as the long-time top aide to Mao Zedong, specializing in foreign policy. Their contrasting personalities made them an effective team, according to Henry Kissinger, the American diplomat who had extensive dealings with both men:
Mao dominated any gathering; Zhou suffused it. Mao's passion strove to overwhelm opposition; Zhou's intellect would seek to persuade or outmaneuver it. Mao was sardonic; Zhou penetrating. Mao thought of himself as a philosopher; Zhou saw his role as an administrator or a negotiator. Mao was eager to accelerate history; Zhou was content to exploit its currents.[1]
Largely due to his expertise, Zhou was able to survive the purges of other top officials during the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s. His attempts at mitigating the Red Guards' damage and his efforts to protect others from their wrath made him immensely popular in the Revolution's later stages. As Mao Zedong's health began to decline in 1971 and 1972, Zhou and the Gang of Four struggled internally over leadership of China. Zhou's health was also failing, however, and he died eight months before Mao on 8 January 1976. The massive public outpouring of grief in Beijing turned to anger towards the Gang of Four, leading to the Tiananmen Incident. Although succeeded by Hua Guofeng, it was Deng Xiaoping, Zhou's ally, who was able to outmaneuver the Gang of Four politically and eventually take Mao's place as Paramount leader by 1977."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Economic_Zones_of_the_People%27s_Republic_ of_China

Here's some more older material. John Dimitri Negroponte http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Director_of_National_Intelligence

http://hypertiger.blogspot.ca/2008/05/break-free-or-march-to-oblivion.html

Hypertiger
29th December 2013, 06:42 PM
Dope smoking can be used to help you sleep or help you wake up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBecM3CQVD8

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

Silver Rocket Bitches!
29th December 2013, 07:16 PM
I created Hypertiger in 1987



How's that fit in with the rest of that tangent story you posted? It's an interesting post and appears to stem from the original link being to RT. There are other media outlets reporting the same story such as http://www.scpr.org/news/2013/12/27/41219/la-dui-checkpoints-will-expand-testing-of-drug-imp/. Maybe you have another interesting anecdote to go along with scpr.org?