America’s Troubled House

The police did not follow normal police procedure in this affair. Normal surveillance would have made an attempt to tie in the home of delivery into the narcotics ring by background searches. This is a no brainer and would only have taken a few minutes to ascertain the residents and to muster up enough background materials to determine the who and the affiliations that the suspects may have had to the illicit operation. I definitely see a significant lawsuit in the future for a police department that has overstepped its mandated authority.

"While rare, these cases say something about our culture. "

Unfortunately, they are not rare. Check out the Cato Institute's own botched drug raid map:

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What amazes me is the initial reaction from the police that they had a no-knock warrant. The fact that they did not shows the way they will wipe this clean. And I like the way the police chief is outraged that there will be a federal civil rights review. Now he won't just be able to whitewash this away.

The most compelling reason to legalize drugs there is. Naked aggression towards the bill of rights and humanity itself has become normal behavior. Young "cops" raised in an atmosphere where might makes right, and you are always right, is the problem.

McCain says, "We are all Georgians". I say we are all Beryn

Let's not blame this on the dubious "homeland security."

These are young cops, trained to be thugs by thugs, who think they are always in the right no matter who gets killed, maimed, humiliated, publically, taser'd, etc. etc.


Even if you care about individual rights, and who does, this is not justifiable behavior around marijuana. This is hysteria, plain and simple.

Zero-toleranc at work. What a great idea. I say we should abolish homeland security. I blame them more than anyone else.

I think it's best if we all continue to pretend that we live in a free society, certainly if we raise too many questions we will be tagged as being unpatriotic. Fear of such a label has kept media and politicians silent on almost any issue where our freedoms are squashed in the name of whatever works. Damn 1984 was a funny movie.

The use of no knock warrants has gotten out of control. The police are killing innocent people on a regular basis now. They are doing it because they are afraid. Afraid that if they give warning, one of them might be hurt or killed. All their macho swagger is just for show, they live in fear.
The only answer is, as always, for the people to rise up and end it. If a group of masked men invade your home with no waring, kill as many of them as possible. Hopefully you can get all of them, as they really don't expect resistance. Then hire a lawyer again oping they are all dead as a dead cop can't testilie.

The terrorists don't have to do one other thing to America; unfortunately we will do the rest to ourselves. Since when do Americans live in fear? I rebuke that entire idea. Man up, people.

America. Love it or leave it. As with an abusive spouse, it's time to say enough is enough. Canada, here I come.

The police killed the dogs because the Mother -in -Law screamed. Shame on them. They act like third world Storm Troopers. The whole law inforsement of that County should hang their heads. Ever since 9-11 our freedoms have eroded it's a slippery slope and we are going down.

The police said at the time they shot the dogs because the Mother in Law scremed.
Shame on them. They sound liike Storm Troopers in a third world country. Since 9-11 we have been loosing freedoms. To quote .. it's a slippery slope, and we are sliding down it.

I think the problems come down to the fact that law enforcement sees itself now as less a servant of the people and more an enforcer of the government's laws. This goes hand in hand with the government seeing the people as accountable it it as its property and denying the fact that the government, according to the constitution, is answerable to the people. It's like that *** detective down in florida who thought he was owed free coffee by starbucks by virtue of the fact that he was a police officer of some authority. One could easily imagine such behavior in russia, nazis germany, or, more appropriately, occupied france. The people are no longer the masters of our society, we are cowed servants who dare not raise our heads too high or complain too loudly for fear of being called disloyal, a malcontent, or being placed on "the list" of people to be watched. No one can deny that the job of the police officer is a dangerous one and they have the right to use sufficient force to protect their own lives and the lives of others. But what we saw in this raid is indicative of an all too familiar "cowboyism" that is pervading our government. Playing it fast and loose and under the impression that you're not answerable to anyone because we're bad asses. It is a failure of leadership from the top on down and it is a problem of the culture which needs to be addressed.

America has become a police state and they don't even offer universal healthcare.

More victims of the "War on Drugs." I hate cops for this very reason, and I keep loaded 12 gauges for just such an occassion.

The time has come for all good men (and women) to come to the aid of their country., The new generation of Americans ushered in by the late President, John F. Kennedy, has failed WE THE PEOPLE horribly.
"The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of good government." Greg Glaser, Founder, Common Sense Coalition



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is the first and only legitimate object of good government."
--Thomas Jefferson to Maryland Republicans, 1809.