During the peak of the fraudulent "war on drugs",the DEA flew a chartered plane around Florida and Georgia once a week, picking up cops, security guards, corporate dicks--any policewit with delusions of grandeur, and would fly these guys to a weapons range in Miami-Dade county- so they could fire grenade launchers, anti-aircraft weapons and rockets, --an amazing array of firepower utterly unrelated to their job or tactics-- and recruit them to inform, to --join "Infraguard"? Dunno.
As the safety committee at Morgan Yacht corp, I was in charge of protecting large tanks of, among other things, very flammable solvents- pretty serious chemical hazard. When I laughingly declined my own invite to the gun party, it took about a month for my name to turn up on a list of suspected drug smugglers- even though my boat had not been even launched yet.  

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