To: rogue yam
You do not have sufficient information to reasonably conclude that the force was excessive or that the citizen was innocent. Let's see, he's DEAD. that's pretty excessive.
Citizen innocent? Innocent of what? He was defending his property.
The cops, had they had half a brain should have just LEFT. Since when is a drug bust worth more than a citizen's life?
141 posted on
01/31/2007 8:15:29 AM PST by
Centurion2000
(If you're not being shot at, it's not a high stress job.)
To: Centurion2000
I personally have believed from the get go that the war on drugs was, is and always will be, the most disastrous , costly in terms of human lives lost and/or shattered and in tax-dollars flushed down the toilet of stupidity,and sadly self inflicted (potentially lethal)(suicidal?) wound, this country has ever suffered.
Despite the stupidity of the fools who declared the war on drugs in the first place and the jackasses who still wage it with all the rabid zeal of jihadist's in heat, this old timer was still way out of line. Whether the trespassers were cops or crooks and if a war on terror did not exist, you can't use lethal force against people you suspect to be pi$$ing on your prize winning roses.
You do have the right to call 911,turn off the interior lights, arm yourself with every weapon you own and blow away any and all who kick down your door and storm into your home without identifying themselves.
146 posted on
01/31/2007 9:51:19 AM PST by
F.J. Mitchell
(Fear of offending those rabidly determined to destroy you, is good manners turned malignant.)
To: Centurion2000
Let's see, he's DEAD. that's pretty excessive.The problem that these senior citizens have is that they no longer live in the country of their birth, or the one they were promised when they immigrated.
The world changed around them while they were watching Oprah.
It's really sad how people get lured into a sense of comfort and complacency while the world around them collapses into something they despised or actively avoided in their younger years.
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