Attorney General Right to Halt Charity Drive by Wells Police ; It's Not How Worthy the Cause Is, It's That the People Conducting It Wear Badges and Guns.

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It may seem the height of uncharitableness to say it, but the Maine Attorney General's Office was right to shut down a charity campaign run by the Wells Police Department.

The state law that prohibits such actions is a wise one, even if it has to be applied at Christmastime to a drive to raise money for a fellow officer: Jack Haubois, a 17-year-veteran of the force, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer just before Thanksgiving.

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Attorney General Right to Halt Charity Drive by Wells Police ; It's Not How Worthy the Cause Is, It's That the People Conducting It Wear Badges and Guns.

The law was passed, though, because there is a fundamental problem with ha...

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