This, and jf's other comments have got to be the biggest line of B.S. I have ever read on here. jf, you are a real piece of work. It's people who think like you that really make me worry about the state of this nation and world.

You're right about the sentence being unfair... we hear about child molesters and career criminals racking up literally two or three dozen convictions, still on our streets and destroying our society. Get the facts straight: There was no criminal conspiracy, there were no drugs, there was only a massive federal and state task force entrapping two stupid and desperate dupes (both slaving away in the ridiculously overpriced Keys economy -- one planning a wedding and desperately waiting to move out of the keys to a different job so that he can afford to take care of his wife, and another who had to move back to his old job in the keys because the jobs were so scarce when he tried to leave). You dangle bait long enough in front of people and sooner or later someone bites. The joke's on us, though. While these federal agencies spent three months, three agencies, thousands of man-hours in investigation and surveillance, hundreds of hours of phone-taps and recordings (mostly of these two really great guys shooting the breeze on the phone), real criminals were out there perpetrating real crimes and being ignored, raping, murdering and harming real people, like you and me. And by "real criminals," I mean those who commit crimes on their own, without the FBI searching them out and paying them thousands of dollars to do it, just so that they can pretend to play cops and robbers. These guys are you and me, with just a couple fewer IQ points. Is anyone so very squeaky clean that they could never be caught at a bad time and steam-rolled by the "justice" system? These cops are pansies who don't have the cojones to pursue real, dangerous criminals. So they spend their days entrapping suburban housewives and otherwise law-abiding minimum wage earners to pretend to commit crimes, complete with fake cartels and fake drugs. Fake criminals are so much easier, because they don't know how to properly execute a conspiracy, silence a witness, keep from being recorded by surveillance, and kill cops. I see the appeal, from an FBI agent's point of view. If I was lazy and self-interested, and just wanted to trade a few hours of busy-work for a paycheck, I'd probably do the same. But I'm not. I'd go after real criminals, and make a difference. Like I said, the joke's on you and the joke's on me. We taxpayers now have to pay twenty million dollars for this investigation and prosecution, and more millions on the prison maintenance for these two guys (for a total of perhaps 25 years), who were trying to live their lives before they were targeted for this sting. Thanks FBI and FDLE! You're the reason I have to stock up on so many guns -- because when I'm the victim of a crime, you won't be there. I'll be all by my lonesome with a dangerous criminal. Why? Because you're off padding your resumes with useless legal games, using parlor tricks, smoke and mirrors to paint average citizens as drug cartels, while conveniently ignoring any work that smacks of effort. Congratulations. Do something useful, so that I can sleep soundly at night -- go find somebody committing a crime NOW and stop them. Find somebody who committed a crime YESTERDAY and catch them. Don't waste all of our time and money convincing people to commit crimes TOMORROW and then sit around the surveillance cameras, bukkake-style, watching them do it. To good cops, fighting the good fight in the trenches every day: Thank you! Thanks for not wasting all of our time and money pretending to fight crime.