The Drug Dealer. (An analogy for WMD)

3-Oct-2003 | epluribus_2

[epluribus_2]

For use in helping the No WMD Found critics understand the Iraq phase of this war.

[epluribus_2]

You're a police chief and are responsible for the safety of your community. Reports from sources that have never been doubted before say a certain abandoned house is laden with crack and weapons run by a well known dealer. Everyone worries about guns shooting off in the night and this dealer has been busted before for both offenses but is in operation once again.

Your informants give you specifics as to where they hide the drugs and how they operate. You go to get a warrant and the DA/Judge says - you may be violating civil rights here so we are hesitant to give you permission. After some time and some evidence they finally give you a warrant to look for drugs - but not guns.

You knock on the door politely at 1:00 am, 8:00 am, 2:00 pm and are told - leave or we will shoot. Some shots are actually fired. You finally kick in the door and arrest everyone, seizing the guns (or Al Samoods).

Searching the home you find a number of children in horrific states of mental, physical, and sexual abuse. But you look in the bathroom cabinet where the drugs were reported to be but find nothing. You smell clorox and see discarded cleaning equipment, noting the fully funcional toilet. No drugs.

You know what happened. Everyone knows. You also know you did the right thing and with time can prove it all.

But...

1. Attorneys for the defense ask for child abuse charges to be thrown out since warrant was for drugs. No one seriously wants to put the kids back with the dealer but you are criticized for overstepping your authority. 2. The neighborhood mob demonstrates against the police citing blatant human rights abuses. 3. The dealer, released again, wants his kids back. 4. Heck, the dealer may even run for democratic local office.

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[George from New England]

Good post, thank you.

[jcb8199]

Another way I like to think of it is like this:

-It's OK to prevent crime by gun control and crime prevention legislation;
-It's OK to prevent hardships on a mother by providing abortion;
-It's OK to prevent hunger and disease through social welfare programs;
-It is NOT OK to prevent attacks against the USA through preemptive strikes, say, against Iraq...

HUH?!?

[ItsOurTimeNow]

Bump!