Barry “Never Get Busted” Cooper to run for Governor of Texas?

According to Joey Dauben (email sent to [email protected]), former narcotics officer Barry Cooper is considering running for Governor of Texas as a Libertarian. According to Dauben, no final decision has been made. Cooper, who is from East Texas, is an ex-narcotics cop who busted through the national media and talk show circuit hawking his DVDs that show people how to hide their drug stash.

Alabama Libertarian and marijuana activist Loretta Nall, who ran for Governor in 2006, has publicly criticized Cooper, calling his video a dirty trick. She has speculated that the video is an intentional set-up to get illegal drug users inform on themselves through a purchase database, as well as issuing a scathing review of the video. Loretta believes that following the video’s advice will in fact get people busted, rather than protecting them, and she has also said that she thinks he might still be working as an undercover narcotics agent.

I return, Cooper has threatened Nall. They had a heated exchange, documented on Nall’s blog.

Cooper’s website is here. His bio reads:

Barry Cooper brings excitement and energy to any room he inhabits. His bold “in your face” style of teaching is always incorporated with humor. Barry uses this charismatic humor to capture his audience as he passionately speaks about injustices and prejudices. Barry seems to enjoy the “shock and awe” reactions he gains from his audience by addressing these sensitive issues. Barry has filed as a Libertarian candidate for U.S. Congress District 31 in Texas:
http://lptexas.org/candidates.shtml While campaigning, he will focus on Criminal Justice Reform, Family Law Reform and Public School Reform.

Barry is an eight year veteran beginning his Texas law enforcement career as a police dispatcher for the Gladewater Police Department. He was soon hired by the Big Sandy Police Department where he trained his own narcotic detector dog and soon became one of the top highway interdiction officers in East Texas. Although Barry had less than five miles of highway to practice seizing narcotics, he held a county record of nearly one- hundred drug arrests and a record marijuana seizure.

Barry was quickly recognized and contacted by the Permian Basin Drug Task Force located in Odessa, Texas which had jurisdiction in nineteen surrounding counties. Here Barry received extensive training and worked joint operations with the ATF, DEA, FBI, U.S. Military and Border Patrol. Barry is well trained in all interdiction methods including undercover operations, reversal operations, search warrants, K-9’s, traffic stops and public transportation narcotics interdiction (buses and airplanes.)

Barry’s talents were soon noticed and he began traveling the State of Texas teaching narcotics interdiction classes to various police academies and agencies. The standard agreement between Barry and the host agency was to pay wages and all expenses for a two or three day class which included an eight hour shift of Barry demonstrating his interdiction skills. If Barry failed to make a drug arrest in the eight hour shift, he forfeited all monies and the class was free. Barry never had to give any money back!

Barry carries the same confidence in his instructional DVD…if a customer is not 100% satisfied with their purchase the customer gets a full refund including postage.

After two years with the Permian Basin Drug Task Force, Barry was contacted by his earlier employer, Gladewater Police Department, to become head of their narcotics division. Barry’s desire to return home and bring his training back to East Texas resulted in a two year stint with the G.P.D. where Barry once again became the leading drug enforcement officer.

Political pressures including arresting the mayor’s son for methamphetamine, a city councilman for marijuana, and outperforming the DEA and local task force caused Barry to quit law enforcement and become a successful entrepreneur. During his career, Barry had accumulated an impressive record of over 300 felony narcotics arrests, 500 misdemeanor narcotics arrests, the seizure of over fifty vehicles and millions in cash and assets.

Barry is the former owner of three car dealerships, a tire shop, a limousine service, a mixed martial arts company (cage fighting) and finally CEO of NEVERGETBUSTED.COM.

Why Barry Cooper is No Longer a Police Officer
Barry now admits during his tour of duty in the war on drugs his conscience often bothered him while seeing everyday, hard working, non-violent citizens torn from their children and spouses and placed in jail during a raid or traffic stop.

Barry explains, “I knew what I was doing was wrong but my need for fame, adrenaline and peer acceptance overrode my good conscience.” Barry now realizes this is a war on people not a war on drugs. He explains “This war on people is a failed policy. We have more prisoners of this war in jail then ever before yet even the DEA admits we have more potent drugs and a larger supply of drugs available than ever before.”

After leaving law enforcement, Barry began building small businesses for a living. He is the former owner of three car dealerships, a tire shop, a nightclub, a limousine service and a cage fighting company. Barry continued his education by returning to college and joining the debate team where he uses these skills to educate against propaganda.

While living his civilian life, Barry continually noticed the abuse of law enforcement growing worse. Barry himself was unjustifiably arrested five times and became the target of a botched civil raid which left bruises on his 13 year old daughter. One of his arrests includes him being jailed for theft in 2006. After being released from jail, Barry learned the “theft” charge stemmed from him not returning Jeepers Creepers I and Jeepers Creepers II on time to a local video rental store. The charges were dropped after the media aired the story. Barry admits he might have deserved jail time for his choice of movies but not for being late on a return. The other four arrests were just as unreasonable and led to charges being dropped or being found not guilty by a jury.

After experiencing these crazy searches and arrests, it was clear to Barry the courts were doing nothing to protect him and others of their 4th amendment rights which promises to protect citizens from unreasonable searches and seizures. This is when Barry decided to release a series of DVDs and writings (beginning with Never Get Busted Again Traffic Stops Volume I) to help parents, students, teachers, bankers, laborers and other citizens from going to jail for something as unreasonable as marijuana possession.

Barry is not soft on crime. He explains, “If we release all non-violent drug offenders we would have room for the sex offenders, murderers, burglars, robbers, etc.” Barry contends law enforcement should place people in jail for the crimes they commit and not the drugs. “If somebody abuses drugs to the point they are influenced to harm persons or property, then lock them up for harming the person or their property. This ensures the drug abusers who cause harm are locked away and the millions of drug users who never commit crimes get to stay home, go to school, continue working and be with their families.”

Barry has recently received global attention by being reported in over 300 newspapers and magazines across the world including an exclusive front page story in the Dallas Observer and Houston Press. Barry has been a guest on numerous radio and television programs including MSNBC Tucker Carlson, FOX Geraldo At Large, ABC I Caught, The Adam Corolla Radio Show, NBC Mike and Juliet Morning Show and the syndicated Todd and Tyler Radio Show. Barry currently gives a tip of the week on Playboy Radio and was recently featured on the front cover of Cannabis Culture Magazine. He has also appeared in Rolling Stones Magazine, Radar Magazine and Don Diva Magazine.