“If you applaud the paramilitarization of domestic police forces”
A SWAT officer once saved my cousins life.
“and see no problem with no-knock raids and civil asset forfeiture prior to any conviction in a court of law,”
Don’t smoke dope. You see, it is my firm belief that to Liberaltarians what you posted are symptoms of the thing that you folks hate the most, the drug war.
I’ve been right all these years. You scratch a Liberaltarian and you will find a pothead that just wants to get fried and not be hassled by “the man.”
John Hancock.
A man who drank rum from morning to night. A man who was a rum runner.
America’s Founder, John Hancock.
Hooray for Liberty!
Natural Law does NOT ban drugs. It does ban sexual perversion.
In your zeal to prosecute a certain sort of crime, that you find particularly odious, you’re willing to throw every protection from abusive governmental authority out the window. It’ll come back to bite you, and me, and every other citizen who just wants to live a reasonably free life, without constant intrusion.
Here’s an exercise for you: substitute “pothead” with any leftist bogeyman you can come up with. Chances are, you can plausibly be categorized as one or several of them. Abuse of authority does not stop with the crimes you deem worthy of authoritarian abuse. It spreads. History shows us that.
You deserve everything you’re asking for, here, if you can’t see this.
And, for the record, I do not smoke marijuana. I do, however, believe global warming is a scam, that abortion is wrong, that homosexuality is immoral and that Janet Napolitano is a dangerously incompetent boob who would raid my house because I fit her particular take on “extremist” for believing the aforementioned.
Chances are, you do too, otherwise you wouldn’t be a FReeper.