Newsbrief: Paramilitary Drug Raid Tactics Anger Eugene Residents

DRCNet ^ | 12/13/02 | DRCNet

[Pahuanui]

Eugene, Oregon's, Whiteaker neighborhood sounded like a war zone around dawn on October 17, and residents are fighting mad. It wasn't a terrorist attack, though, just another example of a drug war run amok. Police serving a search warrant for an alleged marijuana grow enlisted an armored personnel carrier and 45 SWAT team officers armed with shotguns and automatic rifles to raid a cluster of houses in Whiteaker.

But after throwing flash-bang grenades, kicking in doors, and handcuffing four people -- including one nude woman and one woman dressed only in underpants and a t-shirt -- for hours in a room in one of the houses, police came up empty-handed. Police also admitted to placing a black bag over one of the women's head until she agreed to cooperate with them, the Eugene Register-Guard reported on December 5.

Neighbors are not impressed. Since the raid six weeks ago, resentment has only mounted. "It was completely inappropriate to have that kind of militaristic action there," said Whiteaker Community Council president Majeska Seese-Green. "We don't want it to happen in Whiteaker again, or any other neighborhood," she told the Register-Guard. The community council will issue a formal statement condemning the raid, she added. Seese-Green and three other residents also took the complaints to the Eugene Police Commission, where they questioned the wisdom and safety of such raids.

Not that the police are listening. Instead, officers involved trotted out their tired old excuses for treating the people they are supposes to serve and protect as if they were enemy combatants. "We rely on the element of surprise and speed," said Captain Steve Swenson, head of special operations for the Eugene Police Department. "The third element is the overwhelming display of force when you come through the door," he added, sounding more like Colin Powell preparing to invade Iraq than a police officer making a marijuana bust.

Except it was a marijuana bust that wasn't. No drugs were found, nor any weapons, nor have any formal charges been filed against the victims of the raid. Police have returned all items seized, and the county DA told the Register-Guard the case won't go to the grand jury unless more evidence is developed. Oops.

[Imal]

Oh, okay, well then I guess that makes it perfectly reasonable for you to sling a bunch of insults around. It beats having to address the facts, I suppose.

I hope you don't mind if I step aside to avoid getting mud all over me.

Ciao.

[dcwusmc]

I know. You, at least, are semi-sane. Someone with whom I can have a civilised conversation... unlike the 24x7 "ALL drugs are evil" WODDIES...

[dcwusmc]

Facts and truths are something WODDIES like dougie-poo avoid as you and I avoid doggie-poo. If it shows drug warriors in a bad light (IOW, if it's true) then it must be spin by lefties or someone equally bad. It must be comforting to be able to have such a narrow view of the world and the Constitution. If their gooberment says so, it's Holy Writ. Only blasphemous heathens would DARE question such an edict. Or demand that gooberment actually FOLLOW the Constitution AS WRITTEN, without any of the creative interpretations...

[Roscoe]

Kevin Gray
ACLU National Board; former campaign manager, Jesse Jackson and Tom Harkin

Not surprising.

[Roscoe]

gooberment

More evidence linking illicit drugs and brain damage.

[dcwusmc]

What's the matter, roscoe-poo? Can't handle truth and logic so you pick nits? You Constitution-haters have serious problems with facts and you well know it. I guess that's why you can't stand someone who won't give FedGov the homage you think it's due. That's OK, you drink your gooberment-issue Koolaid. I'll pass, thanks.

I do wish you thugs had the stones to say things like this ( "More evidence linking illicit drugs and brain damage.") in person... you are a coward as well as a chickenshit.

[Roscoe]

And even more evidence...

[dcwusmc]

OK, chickenshit, wanna come over and match piss test results? Right now? Surprise test and all? I'd pass. Would you? I know you JBTs have access to only the finest of drugs from your caches ("evidence" lockers) and take nothing but the best to your parties. I have it on the authority of the ex-spouse of a cop who was there/did that. Know what? I believe her. She had nothing to lie about (unlike you)....

[Roscoe]

And yet more evidence.

[dcwusmc]

More evidence of what, thug? The inconvenient facts that you so adroitly try to avoid? I note you have nothing to say about a spur-of-the-moment piss test. Is that because you know you'll fail? I won't. Come on, thug... take the test. I will if you will, right now. And I'll pass.

You are nothing but a mouthy JBT with delusions of adequacy and you know it. I would guess that's why you run your mouth so much from the safety of your keyboard.

[Roscoe]

And still more.

[DouglasKC]

It must be comforting to be able to have such a narrow view of the world and the Constitution.

It is. We vote for people we want to make and enforce the laws that will keep us and our children safe and they do it. Works for me.

If their gooberment says so, it's Holy Writ. Only blasphemous heathens would DARE question such an edict. Or demand that gooberment actually FOLLOW the Constitution AS WRITTEN, without any of the creative interpretations...

It's not your gooberment? What country are you from and why are you attacking our government?

[dcwusmc]

YOUR government uses the Constitution as toilet paper, routinely kills or jails its subjects on the most flimsy of bogus charges, then demonizes its VICTIMS and does all this with YOUR support and adulation. That is NOT what I spent well over 20 years protecting and defending. You are a despicable troll who has no business talking about being "conservative;" you have absolutely NOTHING left to conserve. Dashole's got it all and you and yours kiss his a$$ daily just so he won't talk bad about you. WHAT DO you have left worthy of conserving? The Bill of Rights is a dead letter, with BI-PARTISAN support; the authority of the Sovereign States has been dumbed down to their being satraps for all-powerful FedGov; Government rape-camps are full to overflowing with kids whose main crime is to have a substance that YOU (and FedGov) disapprove of as you sip your martinis and puff your cigars... and you think you're a CONSERVATIVE? Bull-loney...

[DouglasKC]

YOUR government uses the Constitution as toilet paper, routinely kills or jails its subjects on the most flimsy of bogus charges, then demonizes its VICTIMS and does all this with YOUR support and adulation.

Well YOUR government...ummm...oh yeah...I forgot. Your government was voted out of the White House in the last Presidential election, out of the house of representives in 1994 and out of the Senate in November. Sucks to be you.

That is NOT what I spent well over 20 years protecting and defending. You are a despicable troll who has no business talking about being "conservative;" you have absolutely NOTHING left to conserve.

We will conserve liberals like yourself so that you can be held up as an example of what not to become to our children.

Dashole's got it all and you and yours kiss his a$$ daily just so he won't talk bad about you. WHAT DO you have left worthy of conserving? The Bill of Rights is a dead letter, with BI-PARTISAN support; the authority of the Sovereign States has been dumbed down to their being satraps for all-powerful FedGov; Government rape-camps are full to overflowing with kids whose main crime is to have a substance that YOU (and FedGov) disapprove of as you sip your martinis and puff your cigars... and you think you're a CONSERVATIVE? Bull-loney...

One word: T-H-E-R-A-P-Y. :-)

[Roscoe]

Your government was voted out of the White House in the last Presidential election, out of the house of representives in 1994 and out of the Senate in November. Sucks to be you.

ZAP!

[Roscoe]

[dcwusmc]

You two psuedo conservatives can FOAD as far as I am concerned. MY government hasn't been in office since Reagan. Only the more and bigger gooberment party has held sway, with you two morons cheerleading it on when your section has its turn. And Roscoe I notice you are still using your dumbass graphic. I am waiting for you to agree to take a piss test with me and see who passes and who won't... Dougie-poo, you can join us. We'll have them test for pot, opiates, booze, nicotine and cocaine... I'll pop clean on all of them. Will you two Dassholes?

[Roscoe]

Still more evidence from dcwusmv that ignorance, stupidity and drugs go together.

"Just before leaving office, Reagan created a 14th Cabinet department, for veterans' affairs. As part of major antidrug legislation he also created the Cabinet-level post of 'drug czar' (director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy)."

http://library.thinkquest.org/12587/contents/personalities/rreagan/rr.html

[dcwusmc]

Quote: "... I am waiting for you to agree to take a piss test with me and see who passes and who won't... Dougie-poo, you can join us. We'll have them test for pot, opiates, booze, nicotine and cocaine... I'll pop clean on all of them. Will you two Dassholes?"

So you wanna respond to this???? Or are you too chickenshit or too dirty to take a piss test?

[dcwusmc]

...sound of crickets chirping... and Roscoe was so QUICK to post his dumbass graphic....

Posted to Roscoe aT 12:18 AM: Quote: "... I am waiting for you to agree to take a piss test with me and see who passes and who won't... Dougie-poo, you can join us. We'll have them test for pot, opiates, booze, nicotine and cocaine... I'll pop clean on all of them. Will you two Dassholes?"

So you wanna respond to this???? Or are you too chickenshit or too dirty to take a piss test?