Do the powerful think they are invisible?
Lexington County is the home of many long-serving elected officials.
Lexington County is the home of many long-serving elected officials.
When politicians get elected, over and over, there is no doubt a sense of invincibility, and a “I can't be touched” mentality, that goes with popularity among voters.
The support staff serving those officials also adopt that aura of power. It was thick in Lexington County. It permeated the sheriff's office.
Why did the first indictment round go down like it did?
Why was Lexington County Sheriff James Metts indicted on a charge related to doing special favors for illegal aliens, and not gambling, despite the Danny Frazier tapes?
Frazier, on the tapes, talked about setting up gaming operations. The Lexington County Sheriff’s Department (LCSD) went into a flurry of activity, seizing the gaming machines, after Frazier's recording became public by WIS-TV reporter Jody Barr. That is also when Metts gave money back to some gaming-related contributors and expressed impatience with a local TV stations' coverage of him and the relation to the gambling recordings.
Maybe this:
After the first bust of video gaming devices by SLED, in the summer 2012 - one in Lexington County, one in Richland County - The LCSD began seizing the gaming devices with a fury, and announcing it to the media, with photos, every time a bust was made by sheriff's deputies.
Before that, the gambling law was considered ambiguous, with the gray area tied to a magistrate's decision regarding legal or not. The Town of Irmo even granted licenses for video games, against the waning of Mayor Hardy King. Irmo then had to rescind those license when SLED began seizing video game devices, and arresting video gaming parlor owners.
Lexington County law enforcement, if it was not enforcing a law against video gaming, could have been operating under the idea that the unclear nature of the law, is a defense.
So Metts could have reasoned: why not profit from it until there is a clear ruling on video gaming devices?
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ReplyDeleteSheriff Metts is the tip of the iceburg. County, state law enforcement are long on harassing the poor, short on going after gangs or their own corrupt excrement. There is never any good from folks doing what they are told because of a paycheck regardless of our laws and founding documents. Money is what we worship, the paycheck and we will violate and laws from Man or God for that paycheck. Frank Serpico showed us the widespread corruption in law enforcement. Whether at the Federal level with cross dressing J. Edgar Hoover or at the County level with Sheriff Metts or at the City level with Chief Scott, or the State level with SLED Chief Lloyd and Solicitor Meyers the good guys are not welcome in law enforcement. Who allows this to happen, particularly in SC? The so-called Christians that work in these dens of thieves, adulterers, and masochists, then "witness" together on Wednesdays and Sundays: We the People!
Time to move on...I got what I wanted with Fits and this blog...and not one of you can figure it out.
You are so correct
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