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To: The Working Man
No Knock Raids... Another legacy of the War on Drugs. I supported the WOD for years, but today I would say “No, the damage to the civil rights and liberties of the citizens of the United States far outweigh any benefits gained from the War on Drugs.”

Hear! Hear!

My sister's boy killed himself on drugs -- OD'd on heroin. It was a nightmare. But so were the three jail terms he'd already served. By the end of the third when I went to pick him up at the bus station on his release, all he could talk about was his rights and suing the jail-guards.

In short, he'd become a convict.

Those jail terms didn't set him straight and, meanwhile, the rest of us are suspects who stand to lose our property even on the accusation of drug use.

Drugs are terrible. They kill. So do the laws we've allowed to be passed to control them.

119 posted on 12/28/2013 4:05:53 PM PST by BfloGuy ( Even the opponents of Socialism are dominated by socialist ideas.)
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To: BfloGuy
Drugs are terrible. They kill. So do the laws we've allowed to be passed to control them.

Worse, the laws kill the innocent.
Argument can be made that the drug-users are guilty, for in the end their OD is the result of their own actions… a wrong address is guilty of nothing.

179 posted on 12/29/2013 5:28:30 PM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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