Just not good enough.
Summary executions all around.
Posted on 05/03/2012 5:06:17 AM PDT by Shane
You are correct. Yes it can. A person is in serious trouble at 72 hours without water and is on the knife edge of survival after that. Even if they don’t die, serious long-term effects can ensue.
You don’t care if a government abuses the constitutional rights of a fellow citizen?
It always starts with the “undesireables”—then it moves up to “respectable” citizens.
That could be you, one day.
But you may not be “forgotten” for four days. You may be “remembered” a month or two down the line.
Your crime?
You owned a gun.
You disagreed with Der Fuhrer Obama publicly.
You voted for the “wrong” politician.
You read a conservative book (”extremist literature”).
This isn’t about the kid doing drugs; this is about the government seeing what we, the American people, will tolerate being done to them without due process.
Just not good enough.
Summary executions all around.
What narrative? If the facts are not: Left in a cell for five days without food, water, and no charges. Then why the he’ll was he apologized to by the supervising DEA agent. What am I missing? He left in the cell with an “unknown” white powder?
These are the known facts and these facts are not disputed by the supervising agent.
So what narrative am I missing?
So in your world it’s cool to pick up citizens, imprison them without charges for five days without food and water?
Don’t get yourself invested in this one. This story is a real stinker for the gubment.
It is entirely true this young man may have been dehydrated to the point of near death.
Cut him some slack. He did not deserve this to happen and we know the offices of the government covers up everything they can. So it is good to bring this incident to the public’s attention. It is the way to get out any information as to the poor operations in some departments.
Of course not. I’m a professional and work on buildings all over the world.
We all know potheads are complete losers who never leave mommy’s basement and fill the holes in their brains with taco bell.
“You must lead a rough life; In my world, being deprived of food and water for four days is certainly torture, and being forced to drink your own urine is certainly denigrating. And I have been on both ends of military survival training, so I think I can speak from personal experience.”
Same here.
The problem here on my part, and freely admitted is I am trying to find the relevance when looking at people like Gilad Shalit and Daniel Pearl who were beaten within an inch of their lives, starved, deprived of water and in the case of Pearl, decapitated as what torture is.
This was depraved indifference on the part of the DEA and yes, justice for this aggregious crime against a citizen of the US should be handed out to the idiots who did this.
40 days? Where in the world did you read 40 days?
Just how did I answer my own question? Bush is no longer president. Obama signed the most recent law. I disagree with the laws content. American citizens are entitled to due process. Either post something that makes sense or go away.
“So it is good to bring this incident to the public’s attention. It is the way to get out any information as to the poor operations in some departments. “
I agree. I just didn’t like the way the media presented this.
I agree with you.
Why did we have to pass a Constitutional Amendmend to ban alcohol, but some executive orders and some bills through congress and Presto Bingo there is an out and out war on drugs that was never oficcially declared an actual “War”.
Because since the early 1900’s the constitution has been watered down so much it is almost meaningless....
They had to use a constiutional amendment BECAUSE they simply couldn’t have passed a bill through congress and got the president’s signature BECAUSE the “War on Drugs” is inherently Un-constitutional as it is an abuse of federal power in relation to the average citizen.
It was only through the twisted liberal logic of a “welfare state” that they were able to justify the “War on Drugs” for the “Good of Society” since the progessive playbook was to make Government “responsible” for the “good of society”.
Also forgot to mention that I think that if states want to ban drugs in the same way they have “dry counties” and “dry states” then by all means it is up to the states to do so.
Broken glass and meth came from him shoving his stash and his glass pipe in bum, then trying to eat the evidence later. Sounds a lot more plausible than some white powdery substance "hanging out" in a cell, and accidently ingesting broken glass.
Why don’t you feel outraged? Because there’s something wrong with you ? Something broken inside?
Probably...
That's not enough.
When I heard of this case there was only one question that neede to be asked in court. How much does he want? Give him a blank cheque.
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