“But you understand the point: you, a presumably-law-abiding citizen can be made as much a victim of government employees defying the Constitution as this man was.”
We all know that. But not all those accused of growing pot are innocent. I venture to guess that the vast majority are guilty. He’ll have his day in court.
The tone of the article is: here’s a nice guy, doing nothing wrong, and some dirty cops burst in and kill his dogs. I really doubt that is all to the story, frankly. But that’s what juries and courts are for.
You talk about enormous potential personal rights violations by armed agents of the government so cavalierly.
I suppose you’d feel that way if they guessed wrong about you. Oh we had a hunch, and now all your pets are dead and your house is smashed up, you were threatened at gunpoint.
ANd you realize that the longtime pets you had aren’t just like a vcr or toaster that you can simply replace with an identical whatever. And that you almost joined them.
Yeah, I’d take that real casual too. This country is becoming (and is) a damn police state and the police officers #1 order is “Officer Safety Above Everything Else” including your constitutional rights and your life, even if they f%@k up royally - nobody will even get fired, and they won’t worry about what they did to you because YOU WILL BE DEAD and what can a damn jury do for you then?!?!
That’s what the deal is going on here. Wake up. They are terrorizing regular people here, even when they get the intel wrong and kill the wrong innocent people. No repercussions of any magnitude for any of them. Government is untouchable. Does the chief lose his job? Does the swat team get disbanded? Does the swat leader get fired and go to jail? Do any of them lose pensions over accidental innocent deaths? Nope.
The effing sheeple are just supposed to sit back, and take it, and pray the cops don’t accidentally riad their house, shoot their animals and bust the place up, either because some loser trying to get a plea deal gives their address, or the cops eff up all by themselves and park in front of the wrong house or type the wrong address on the warrant.