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I don’t believe we need SWAT teams or no-knock raids. There was a 2:00am raid on my rental unit by 12 machinegun carrying, fully armored deputies. They knocked down MY front door. They were after a drunk, elderly couple that were growing 48 18” tall pot plants. Earlier that day, there had been 3 deputies there and the couple was falling down drunk. The deputies saw the plants, but didn’t arrest these two elderly idiots. They waited for a no-knock raid.

Why? At a guess, overtime. Also, why have a SWAT team if you don’t use it? I was really annoyed.

I’m grateful they didn’t drive their armored car though my rental unit.

We need to get rid of SWAT teams. Also, we need to stop this war on drugs. I don't like drugs, I never took any illegal drugs in my life nor would I, but it is time to end it. As long as the pot smokers are not at the wheel of a car or some other vehicle, operating heavy machinery and/or making life and death decisions for the country, it is no skin off my nose. We should not have no-knock raids at all, if someone fired back because of it, it is a legit form of self-defense. IIRC, I remember a "Picket Fences" episode where a drug dealer shot and killed three cops on a no-knock raid and the sheriff was on the jury and he argued the case the perp used his Uzi in self-defense since he did not know they were police. To the perp, it could have been another criminal or the "bogey man."

Getting back to more matters here, I'd hate to be kicked out of my home because of something like this, I'd rather be there to watch them search as well as protect Mom and my cats. At least tell the people to hide in their basement or away from windows or something.

I mean if the shoe was on the other foot, how would they like it if we crashed down their doors and yell "boogedy, boogedy?!"

As I get older, I get more libertarian.

I don’t think drugs are worth the loss of life. I don’t do or have anything to do with drugs, but these SWAT raids that end up badly just for small users and sometimes on the wrong house is just plain stupid and totally unjust. I would rather spend the money on terrorism.

Also, we need to stop this war on drugs. I don't like drugs, I never took any illegal drugs in my life nor would I, but it is time to end it. As long as the pot smokers are not at the wheel of a car or some other vehicle, operating heavy machinery and/or making life and death decisions for the country, it is no skin off my nose.

Libertine! </sarcasm>