Posted on 05/07/2008 9:13:08 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
I hope he has a really good attorney.
the arkansas mafia is still alive
This happened in Atlanta to an elderly lady. She thought living in the rough area she lived, she was being attacked. Reached for her gun and was shot alot of times. Shame fear of drugs has caused death, when they claim they want to end drugs to avoid deaths. Stupid is as stupid does.
Anyone who thinks the war on drugs is a good idea is an idiot and certainly not a conservative.
The WOD warriors will be here soon to say the guy deserved it.
He had to walk two miles on crutches and an infected leg to his hearing last week
Doesn't this guy know anyone with a car?
I don’t believe drugs should be legalized, but I don’t think the Constitution should be gutted to fight them. These stories of abuses have been all too common over the past 20 years.
When we allowed authorities to wear ninja suits, it was all over.
bump for later
Although we had “anti-drug” laws on the books back as far as around 1910, there was no real effort to enforce the laws for many years. Until about 1935. In 1935, marijuana became illegal, and enforcement stepped up on a number of other drugs such as opiates and cocaine. Why, you might ask?
What was attempted in the United States between 1919 and 1933? Prohibition of alcohol. However noble its aims, it clearly failed. But during that time a large “crime fighting” bureaucracy was built up around enforcement of prohibition. Now, in 1933, during the depths of the Depression, this bureaucracy no longer has a mission. Since bureaucracies never die, it needed to create a new mission.
There are the roots of the war on drugs.
The American criminal justice system is nothing but a giant bloated bureaucracy of cops, courts, probation officers, prosecutors and social service providers. It is every bit as ineffective as the welfare system; it is just as big, just as expensive, and has done as much to solve criminal behavior as the welfare system ended poverty.
It exists to consume and consumes to exist. It solves nothing. And with every governmental bureaucracy, it will often abuse the individual in an exercise of the power of the state.
Anyone who calls others idiots with a broad brush is himself one.
The Revenuers were an agency without a mission.
These are the exact type of Cops I hate. Despise... They make the Nazis look nice, cause at least you KNEW the Nazis weren’t pretending to protect and defend anyone but themselves. I am a cop hater. I plead guilty. Never met one who didn’t have an ego bigger than Clinton. There are no good cops, just ones who’s own criminality hasn’t yet been exposed. But I am no WOD apologist either. Drug users and pushers need the death penalty. Publicly. Do that to every convicted dealer in every state on the same day, just once.. and you’d set bad that element a century! It is because we do not enforce draconian penalties, that we end up with draconian abuses by cops.
It’s not really that it is the cops fault.. they are just as sinful, corrupt, wicked as the next person... but as CS Lewis said so well...
Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victim may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
Cops do these abuses with the very approval of their own deluded corrupt conscience.
One that's not stolen? Doubtful.
The WOD is doing more damage than it’s preventing. Stopping dealers, no matter how desireable that may be, in no way justifies the tactics being used. Personally, I think users should be left alone. If you want to get anybody, get the dealers.
Some of them eventually figure out they're just eliminating the competition from the Chief's good old boy buddies, but the money is good, there are no standards and they get to play "I Spy".
(From another 20 year veteran of the cops and robbers biz)
No knock warrants should be immediately outlawed.
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