No, this is one very awful and unfortunate incident in a country of 300+ Million people. I'm not supporting the drug war in it's current state....but don't think that cops barging into houses and shooting the family pet is anywhere near a common occurrence.
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Vivec <gel21...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/05/this-is-your-war-on-drugs/56380/ > > This is the neverending War on Drugs, the precursor to the neverending War > on Terror. > > "This is our nation's drug enforcement in a nutshell. We started out by > banning the things. And people kept taking them. So we made the > punishments more draconian. But people kept selling them. So we pushed > the > markets deep into black market territory, and got the predictable violence > . > . . and then we upped our game, turning drug squads into quasi-paramilitary > raiders. Somewhere along the way, we got so focused on enforcing the law > that we lost sight of the purpose of the law, which is to make life in > America *better*." > > All so someone can't smoke some grass,or snort some powder and get high > like > people have done for centuries. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:318177 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
