But the problem is still the public supporting anything that makes them feel safe no matter what harm is done to others. There is too much rationalizing and excuse making by the public. Not enough people are willing to describe the well intentioned as evil or to see that when good intentions become obsessive then they become a source of evil.

There is an entire culture here that needs to be challenged.

Sorry in advance for the horrible pun, and I'll probably set richtaylor off with this story, but I've been following this story in the local news for the past week. It made the national news yesterday. The Washington Post reported on the orig…

Radley we need one of your updates…

“”This has happened before, and without oversight, it will happen again,” said Mayor Calvo. “If that is the standard of justice that Prince George’s County Police Department and the Sheriff’s Department want to operate, I think we have a fundamental problem. They’re not allowed to rewrite the Constitution of the United States.”

Now county police say the package had nothing to do with the mayor. They say it was part of a larger drug scheme, and they’ve made two arrests, collecting six large packages containing $3.6 million worth of marijuana. That’s 417 pounds of pot, but they still believe the raid was justified.

“There was a search warrant involved in that situation that authorized those activities,” said Chief Melvin High, Prince George’s Co. Police.

Mayor Calvo is demanding a federal civil rights investigation into the no-knock raid, a raid he says a judge never authorized.

“We were astonished that not only did they not apologize, but they refused to clear our names,” said Mayor Calvo.

He has the support of several lawmakers who are calling for action.

“When I heard about this, all I could think of was, my goodness, this could have happened to anybody,” said Sen. Jennie Forehand.”

Also I recall reading a couple of years back about the practice of sending pot or other controlled substances then picking up the package before the addressee had a chance to bring it inside. So how is it that the police department and the sheriff’s department had never heard of this practice?

However, there was a much uglier impetus involved as well…a racial one. Recall the old line about how you couldn’t sell ‘firewater’ to ‘Injuns’? The same rationale – based upon the same ugly prejudice – was involved in the formulation of the drug prohibition laws.

Minorities were thought to be literally barely civilized and that tenuous veneer of civilization would be destroyed courtesy of exposure to those then legal drugs. Blacks were thought to become unstoppable, rapacious killers that could not be brought down by the then standard .32 caliber ammo supplied to police departments, hence the ‘upgrade’ to .38 caliber ammo. Mexicans were thought to become insane machete-wielding dervishes after toking The Demon Weed. Such were the beliefs of the so-called ‘progressives’ of the day.

Now, you’d think that in these supposedly enlightened times, with nearly a century of proofs belying those stereotypes, that there would be a great hue-and-cry from so-called ‘progressives’ to eliminate these racially offensive laws. Particularly when you consider the very damaging effect that these laws have upon the political fortunes of the Democratic Party, which is heavily dependent upon the votes of minority members of the population as a large portion of its’ base, and which considers itself the political home of ‘progressives’.

Recall what happened in Florida during the 2000 Election, with all those voters stripped from the rolls? The vast majority of those who were, in the case of those who were legally on that list of the disenfranchised (and not those lumped in because their names were similar to the felons) were minorities. Minorities who were disenfranchised thanks to felony drug convictions…for something that wasn’t a crime prior to the ‘Progressive Era’.

You’d think the ‘progressive’ community would be raising Hell, wouldn’t you? You’d think there’d be ringing denunciations of the provable racist nature of the drug laws, and therefore, the DrugWar. But what do we hear, instead? Crickets chirping sound positively deafening in comparison to the silence when the subject is brought up in those very same ‘progressive’ quarters.

‘Progressives’ have been noticeably absent in the legislative trenches in the fight to end drug prohibition. And yet they’re the first to decry situations like this when they happen. But…they refuse to consider their own culpability in acquiescing to the underlying problem leading to the results.

If every time you bend over, you feel a sharp pain in your anus, and you keep seeing the same guys hovering around your backside wielding sawed-off broom handles and wearing evil smiles, and you can’t make the connection, then you may be pitied for being stupid.

If you can make the connection, and won’t, then you have no excuse for what happens.

Drug Prohibition has hurt this nation by depriving millions of the chance to change society peaceably via the democratic process by their being stripped from the voting rolls and socially and economically marginalized to boot courtesy of not being able to get a job thanks to those laws.

Arguably, this hurts the ‘progressive’ community several orders of magnitude more that it does what passes for the ‘conservative’ one. Yet, as I pointed out, their silence on the issue of the drug prohibition itself is suspect. Which makes any righteous indignation uttered in response to this and other similar incidents ring hollow.

Chief, what you been smokin’? Whatever it is, it couldn’t be pot.

Hopefully, the mayor isn’t expecting an apology. Police never do anything wroung.

The asstard needs to bend over and take it like a man. If I had my way, he would be bending over — over a prison bunk, that is.

Or maybe we should bring back the whipping post and show Jackson how the rest of us on the plantation live.

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A vehicle take down for a buy-bust drug protocol is what was used to approach my son who was to be served with a routine document search warrant. Because gambling was newly included under the narcotics umbrella and since no rules had yet been (and in fact may still not be) instituted for document search warrants for gambling…my son was approached by SWAT officers using a drug protocol which is highly dangerous, and he in fact was unjustly shot and killed by a veteran officer of the Fairfax County Police Dept./SWAT team.

Athough my son was determined to be by police assessment, a low-risk, non-threat, no criminal history, never owned a weapon, Fairfax County optometrist, who was standing errect in his stocking feet, wearing a pair of jeans, and short sleeved polo shirt, while talking with the undercover detective peaceably at the undercover detective’s vehicle, who then signalled the SWAT team, while he (my son) had no idea he was and had been misled by the undercover detective, my son stood quietly compliant while he was nevertheless met with dynamic over-excessive force, and although he made no attempt to move…he had his life stolen from him and our family, at the age of 37.

Conscience seems to be lacking in many who cause mayhem and then are abled and allowed to just walk away without so much as a second thought for those whose lives they traumatize or change forever.

I am sorry that two of God’s four-legged creatures were killed…but what was done to my son, broke God’s fifth commandment…and our families hearts.

Everyone needs to wake up and stop the insanity…eventually we all will be accountable…if not now…then to Him someday.

Yes the soldier was growled at by a dog from a neighbor in his own yard and then charged for shooting it and shooting in city limits. The cops bust into the mayors house, probably knowing the mayor was innocent beforehand, and they will get nothing for shooting his dog that was running away. Now the biggest difference is one is a citizen nobody (penalized), the other is a clown suited thug (rewarded).

“The 13 year old girl incident… the cops went in because the door was ajar. This wasn’t a SWAT exercise. While scary and demonstrating inefficient govt. bureaucracy (how many times do you have to come to the wrong address to make a change?!!), this doesn’t look like abuse to me.”

The police may act as though they did not know the perp for whom the arrest warrant did not live there for at least 8 years now, and they had been there at least two times prior so I’m betting bullshit is in the air, because they knew. The scary part here is that the girl could have been shot easily, and the cop would have gotten away it, because he would have claimed he was scared by her.
Now I’m not sure how legal the entry was by the police, but by them saying with this arrest warrant, and having seen movement in the house we can enter sounds a little fishy to me.

I do know that I am from a small town in Iowa, and no one even to this day locks their doors, but them farmers would shoot your ass in a heart beat if you just walked in without being asked in.