Point a gun at my 11 year old, coppa? You are a dead man walking, you just don’t know it yet. I will hunt you down & blow your fucking head off. No histrionics, no ranting or raving, just locate, identify, confirm, kill.

How could any sane adult think otherwise? And while a surface reading of the constitution seems to specifically forbid these sorts of raids and the laws behind them, experts like highly trained government lawyers and supreme court judges read that same language and and can definitively assure us those words don’t mean what ordinary people think they mean.

#13 Because then they wouldn’t have the opportunity to use the fun military toys they brought along or the opportunity to instill fear into the neighborhood, which is the primary purpose of such raids.

The panel also upheld Whalen’s ruling that there was nothing unreasonable about DEA agents cuffing and pointing guns at the girls’ parents while serving a search warrant for a consensual crime at the wrong house.

So much for the presumption of innocence and so much for proper weapons safety (eg pointing your weapon at the head of an 11 year old).

However would the panel for the US 9th Circut react if the “professionals” at the DEA kicked in their door in a mistaken raid and then had the “professionals” terrorize everyone found on site by waving loaded weapons at them?

Move along folks, nothing to see here, simply business as usual.

These types of para-military police actions remind me of a quote from Aleksandr I Solzhenitsyn’s experiment in literary investigation, The Gulag Archipelago:

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?… The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If…if…We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation…. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

I guess Americans didn’t love freedom enough to cast of the repressive yoke of US government terrorism and tyrannywe purely and simply deserve what will happen afterward.

Respect authority.

Shocker.

The system itself is beyond reproach and always will be, else the system ceases to exist. Prime directive #1 is that the system takes priority above all else.

Only if it can be proved that a State agent acted solely for personal gain or in otherwise purely criminal fashion will the agent be punished or the methods called into question. This is another way of saying that the agent in question has threatened the system, challenged its sovereignty by propounding his own.

Meanwhile, in CA yesterday, a jury found a Riverside cop guilty of rape for purely criminal behavior conducted outside the line of duty. That’s a victory, but a small one imposed by the State on itself and well after the harm was done.

It should be a shot across the bow to any claim of “new professionalism” that “highly trained” paramilitary professionals dealing with young female civilians have to use the same methods on them that they’d use on grown men. That says that they possess no discernible competence at hand-to-hand combat or restraint, which would by definition be a mark of “being highly trained.” To say nothing of their inability to use psychological tools to control the situation.

What we really need is to end the armaments transfer program and create a national fund/mandate that provides for mandatory Aikido training for all law enforcement officers to complement their firearms qualifications.

He’d never allow this in HIS home (but of course not even DEA makes “mistaken address” raids on federal judges’ homes – the neighborhood is too expensive). It is sooooooo difficult for the
Aristocracy to “feel the pain” of the middle class.