For a conservative news forum, it's amazing how few realize the close connection with Gestapo raids like these with no legal consequences whatsoever and the war on drugs. It's all one and the same. RICO and forfeiture laws, disregard for legal constraints on searches and seizure, a booming prison industry and very little being done to stop it. Quite lucrative if you get into the food chain at the right point. A big dirty money circle. And today it might be drugs. Tomorrow it might be the Smith & Wesson you keep in your nightstand. Governments constantly test their populace to see what they'll put up with.
Don't you fell safe from terrorists, knowing that your local police dept has some shiny new APCs?