[Tea Party Terrorist]

The list of the unintended consequences caused by the drug war is almost rivaled by the one caused by the invasion and occupation of Iraq.

[VerySadAmerican]

I put all cops into the same category. Ignorant power hungry thugs who’ve never read the constitution and like to push people around.

[NormsRevenge]

Next time I’m back in Minniesoda, I need to see if my Godson and Police Chief in his town has a battle tested ride.. He did time in Iraq, hope he lets me drive.

[ForYourChildren]

"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty."

---Thomas Jefferson

[Fido969]

ACLU looking to protect the rights of ordinary citizen? How’d this happen?

[The Toll]

No Knock = No future with your kids. Memorize it you halfwits.

[reefdiver]

It had to happen I guess, me and the ACLU on the same page

[gaijin]

after a series of long, low-intensity wars, the soldiers act as cops, and later the cops act like soldiers.

[sergeantdave]

“used as an excuse to execute a full-on SWAT raid to serve a warrant for an otherwise nonviolent crime...”

If you don’t want Nazi SWAT invading your domicile, get off your fat butts, save the kitchen remodeling for next year, stop worshipping Mammon, and elect yourselves a Constitutional, pro-second amendment county sheriff.

I have one, and there are no raids by city cops or the feds on our homes.In fact, he has run two police chiefs out of our county. Protecting your home and family isn’t rocket science.

[nathanbedford]

. . incident reports for search warrant executions, especially in drug investigations, often contained no information about why the SWAT team was being sent in, other than to note that the warrant was “high risk,” or else provided otherwise unsubstantiated information such as “suspect is believed to be armed.” In case after case that the ACLU examined, when a SWAT team was deployed to search a person’s home for drugs, officers determined that a person was “likely to be armed” on the basis of suspected but unfounded gang affiliations, past weapons convictions, or some other factor that did not truly indicate a basis for believing that the person in question was likely to be armed at the moment of the SWAT deployment. Of course, a reasonable belief that weapons are present should not by itself justify a SWAT deployment. Given that almost half of American households have guns, use of a SWAT team could almost always be justified if this were the sole factor.

Yesterday we discussed the impact of the war on drugs on race in America here and today we are confronted with the impact of the war on drugs on the right to keep arms, on the right to be secure in our homes from unreasonable search and seizure, and on the right to be free of police violence.

At some point we conservatives will have to begin to face the issue whether the war on drugs is harming conservative values more than upholding them. Whether the civil disintegration caused by the use of drugs is exceeded by the collateral damage done to society in the war on drugs.

When can a conservative say the lines will have crossed?

[MrB]

But, in related news, the ACLU says it’s OK to be arming up the government against the citizenry as long as democRats are doing it and Christians are the targets.

[JimRed]

...they actually found a weapon just 35 percent of the time.

We ARE getting better at hiding them...