By Monica Listokin "In reverse stash house stings, ATF’s hire ex-offenders as confidential informants and pay them to recruit people from impoverished neighborhoods who are often poor, uneducated and in desperate need of money. The fake plot is to rip off a fictional drug dealer for a huge sum of non-existent cash and drugs. In fact, many homeless men and women as well as drug abusers, with low level education and blocked opportunities are often enlisted. The plan promises an escape from financial hardship and poverty. The ATF ensnares people who need help, not handcuffs. Federal agents go even further – they ask participants to bring their own weapons and sometimes supply the weapons themselves. At this point, the fake plot to commit a Hobbs Act robbery, the arbitrary quantity of drugs that the ATF determine, along with the possession of a weapon during the commission of a crime of violence carries mandatory minimum sentences averaging 15, 20 years to life in prison. The sentences for these charges are mostly based on the amount of fictional drugs offered by ATF's and this gives the ATF immense power to dictate sentences before the fictitious crime has even been committed." LIKE our page on FACEBOOK @ ReverseSting.org & follow the movement. Please sign our petition on CHANGE.ORG http://chn.ge/1svE1yC