All officers take an oath to protect and defend the Constituion of the United States, and usually of their home state. We need to use the new media to hold them accountable for the observance of their oath.How are we going to do that when the Supreme Court seems to think that the constitution doesn't prohibit these murderous home invasions?
In recent months, because of reading more and more of these stories, I have completely reversed myself on the position of the Drug War.
I would now rather try to deal (as a society) with the consequences of increased drug use than have this backwoods 3rd-world animals-in-uniform running the Thugocracy known as America.
End the War on Drugs and you end 90% of the justification for these unspeakable savages. I know they'll come up with other reasons (like unpaid student loans), but taking away the War on Drugs will go a long way towards pulling the carpet out from under their feet.
End the War on Drugs and you end 90% of the justification for these unspeakable savages. I know they'll come up with other reasons (like unpaid student loans), but taking away the War on Drugs will go a long way towards pulling the carpet out from under their feet.
A classic case of throwing the baby out with the bath water.
Reading Ann Coulter's latest book regarding the "mob", the para-military units that have overrun our police and fire departments (yes, Austin FD has a "Regional Strike Force" and a "Special Operations Battalion") in my opinion, are yet another manifestation of the liberals trying to destroy the system so that We The People no longer trust, rather now detest and are repulsed by government law enforcement.
I wonder how long it will be before we hear of IEDs used routinely as perimeter defense against such offensive police action.
I have no reason to expect such a raid on my home, yet in the event of having to relocate, it is now a security decision to not only know the neighborhood, but also the history of the existing property. For example, say I was to look at some property owned by what appears to be a well compensated executive, if his child was black-sheep or if he himself managed to irritate an OIG over some pittance, even though he has long sold the house and is living in another part of the country, we know that government can't be bothered with any level of recon or simply confirming the address. Do I now have to sleep in clothes suitable for being hog-tied in while out on the front lawn for half the day as thugs ransack the home looking for the previous occupant?
It would seem that architects would have a new specialty to offer, and that is designs of a home that would stymie the thugs efforts to get to the owners and their children quickly, affording the owner time to call for legal representation (since obviously the criminals engaged in the lethal violence against you are on the other end of 911)
Now we can design labyrinth entryways with water features. Master bedrooms as strong rooms. Window designs intended to withstand teargas rounds fired at them, fence work and landscaping designed to injure the fast moving intruder coming at night. Will we need to string up piano wire in our hallways as a inexpensive last resort to protect us from being beaten into a coma, gunned down, or at the least thrown out in the front lawn in something we would never be seen in public?
Your neighbors voted for this demonic crap, now we have to live like Jews in Nazi Germany or Christians in present day Nigeria, or white farmers in Zimbabwe. Its Mogadishu because our politicians hate us and know we hate them, and now have a military guard to protect them and harass us.
Prior to about 1911 or so, people could buy cocaine, morphine, marijuana and opium, mostly without legal restrictions. The US managed to survive up to that point.
As Prohibition demonstrated, you CANNOT win the "War on Drugs" without establishing a police state. Even WITH a police state, the Soviets could not stop drug use.