Like McDonalds or Kinkos, illegal drugs are a kind of franchised enterprise. There are tens of thousands of entrepreneurs retailing (or "pushing," as they like to say) dope allover the country. The American economy is built on small businesses. We often think of dope as a big city business operated by Afro-American toughs from pimp-cars in dark allies. More than half of all drug businesses are really operated in rural, suburban and small town settings. About 10% of all drugs are "pushed" and/or used by kids. Adults favor other, more dangerous drugs such as beer. Gettysburg is of course, famous for a July skirmish which helped to end the Civil War. It's in South-Central Pennsylvania amid bucolic farms and picturesque rural beauty dotted with the occasional antique cannon. It's also a thriving center for the illegal cocaine trade. Rolf Garcia, the small town's chief of police, has been arrested for his supposed involvement with the a local drug franchise operated by high-schoolers. The Attorney General claimed that local students were operating a cocaine franchise pushing to cheerleaders and fans, and who knows whom else. It was a typical small business, the backbone of the American economy. The AG also claimed that when state cops were about to bust the children, Chief Garcia tipped off his seventeen year-old son. The kid is then supposed to have tipped off the business operators. That give the kids time to flee the bust. Why would the chief of police protect the pushers? We don't approve of drugs (or beer for that matter), but there should be some rational uniformity in ethics. I think that if my son and his friends were about to be busted for doing what big shots allover the country are doing, if I thought that lives would be ruined over a little dope, I think I'd have made a call, too. Why not check who's selling dope right inside the Attorney General's office? or in the Department of Imprisonment? Rebecca's Bargain Antiques Collectible Vintage Photos Fine Prints - Old Maps Sheet Music - Old Books Elegant Antiques and Collectibles "While you were out, your exterminator called" Anonymous, 1967 You are welcome to use or republish any of our material. Please give www.prisoners.com credit as the source. Return to the Public Enemies Menu. Return to the Main Menu. Go to our site's Search Engine. Send us Your Comments, Questions or Input.