War on drugs, or a foreshadowing of more things to come…
by CmdrFenix on May.06, 2010, under General
I will warn you all right now. The video I am linking at the bottom of this article isn’t easy to watch for anyone who likes dogs or animals, but here is what I’ve found so far. Police exercised a drug enforcement raid on a family in Missouri. Upon arriving around 8p, SWAT forced their way in (call it trying to exercise the element of surprise or whatever, but they forced their way in way harder than was needed), and almost immediately fired 5 shots killing one of the family dogs and severely wounding another. Only a very small amount of Marijuana was even found in the house, but they still saw fit to charge the parents with not only drug possession, but also child endangerment. I’m sorry, but their actions on the family endangered the children more than anything those parents did. All officers and investigators involved need to be reprimanded and perhaps find themselves brought up on such charges.
Stories like this really get my blood boiling because you have to wonder what the state will do you when you REALLY do something that pisses them off. In those cases you simply end up like the Branch Davidians or perhaps Randy Weaver. In this case, it’s another example of the failed war on drugs and a total overreaction of the system.
Where was the burden of proof for the police in obtaining that warrant in the first place? Have they gotten that easy to obtain that the privacy we thought to have in our homes is merely an illusion?
May 7th, 2010 on 5:11 am
Try to remember that “the state” is not the enemy. You sound like an anarchist when you talk like that.
I agree 10000%, as we discussed previously, that the cops were pretty bone-headed in this case. It’s not the first instance of unneccessary force in the “war on drugs”, and unfortunately wont be the last
May 7th, 2010 on 12:51 pm
I do not consider “the state” the enemy, but let’s be frank and honest… The state is what is ramming the “war on drugs” down our throat. The state is what caused both of the other examples I gave in my article. You cannot ignore the state’s impact in all this.
May 7th, 2010 on 4:45 pm
“The State” doesnt “Ram” anything “down our throats”.
Leave that to the porn stars please. I realize that like most conservatives, the only place you want government intervention is in our bedrooms, but if there’s any “ramming” going on, it should be between consenting adults in private.
That being said, you also cannot ignore the Nike Corporation’s impact for making the shoes the guys were wearing at the time. Or the impact of the FDA for making sure the cops had proper nutrition before the raid. Or the impact of the Canadian Ministry Of Forests for making sure enough TP got produced to supply their export industry enough to ship to the USA so all the cops weren;t sitting there on the crapper wondering what to do next, and therefore didn’t miss the raid.
If you try hard enough, you can draw conclusions/connections between -ANYTHING-. All you need these days is a chalkboard….