Willie? Weed? Noooooo….
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The United States Border Patrol, darling of the rightwing in their quest to keep America safe from terrorism, busted Willie Nelson yesterday and took his skinny butt to jail.
SIERRA BLANCA, Texas (AP) — A U.S. Border Patrol spokesman says country singer Willie Nelson was charged with marijuana possession after 6 ounces was found aboard his tour bus in Texas.
Patrol spokesman Bill Brooks says the bus pulled into the Sierra Blanca, Texas, checkpoint about 9 a.m. Friday. Brooks says an officer smelled pot when a door was opened and a search turned up marijuana.
“Six ounces?” Juanita asked. “Hell, on any given day you could shake Willie’s shirt and six ounces of pot would fall off. If six ounces is all the pot you can find on Willie Nelson’s tour bus, it’s amazing that a fight didn’t break out.”
“I would like to deeply and sincerely thank the DEA, Border Patrol, and the Hudspeth County Sheriff’s Office for freekin’ nothing,” Juanita announces.
There’s a story, and I don’t know if it’s true, but if it’s not, it should be. A couple of decades ago, Willie was arrested for possession in Waco. During his trial, the arresting officer took the witness stand to explain that he stopped because there was a car on the side of the road and the driver was asleep in the front seat.
“And what was your probable cause for searching the car for drugs?” Willie’s defense lawyer asked the office.
The young officer sat still for a minute and then replied incredulously, “Uh, because it was Willie Freekin’ Nelson.”
That’s just gotta be a true story.
Willie Nelson is 77 years old. He’s producing amazing music and touring almost constantly with acts a quarter his age. He raises more money for charity than anyone else in Texas. He has a black belt in taekwondo and plays pretty good golf. He’s on his fourth wife, having pooped-out all the other ones. He’s still making movies, and he won a Grammy last year. He’ll be 78 in three months.
He is a walking advertisement for marijuana use.
How did they know it belonged to Willie? It is a tour bus; it could belong to someone else. Sounds like music profiling to me.
1Don’t they have anything better to do than bust Willie for pot on his bus, for cryin’outloud!!!!!!!!!!!! I am almost speechless with disgust. Geez, Louise!!
2The officer smelled pot when the door was opened? Duh. After all these years of Willie touring in it, the bus is probably so saturated with pot fumes it could float down the road on its own. Free Willie! (The man, not the whale.)
3Come on now guys! Willie can sing Tom a fine tune while visiting the jail .
Tom could even dance for Willie!
4Willie arrested for pot? Good grief, what is happening in America these days? The next thing ya know some far RWNJs will decide they want to put another intellectually challenged idiot in the White House.
Oh wait…
5I know Willie is a Texan, but he might think about boycotting the place considering how well they treat him when he’s just passin’ through.
6Willie can probably get a prescription from some California doctor, or Oregon, or Arizona, or Alaska… shoot, Texas is ‘way behind!
7In Alaska, I hear you can have up to 4 ounces in your house for personal use. Separate 2 ounces, Willie, and go around to your friends and say….” ‘ere”!
8This is on http://crooksandliars.com on Mike’s Blog Roundup. Check it out, y’all!
9Dang, if all they found was six ounces, they weren’t trying very hard.
This is so stupid. The country is falling apart. We have Orange Slushy Pumpkinhead threatening to shut the government down. We have Michelle Bachmann shooting her mouth off. We have two wars ongoing, TSA agents getting their jollies at our expense and all the cops can think to do is arrest Willie?
Must have been a slow day for the cops in Podunkville, TX.
10This is unAmerican! Oh wait, this IS America.
11I’m gonna ask the question…. one more time.
Ya reckon…. anybody will ever arrest a Wall Street Banker…. for ANYTHING???????????
12I have long been of the opinion that Willie is perhaps the most subversive man in America, so much so that I can even forgive him his golf addiction.
13IIRC, one of the times he got busted on the bus, the judge threw out the charges because his honor’s mother had explained to his honor, That’s Willie Nelson and don’t you dare even think about putting him in jail.
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