Something similar happened a couple of years ago to the Mayor of a small town in Prince Georges County in Maryland. The county swat team kicked down the guy's door and shot their two dogs in front of them. They claimed it was a drug raid.
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 3:02 PM, G Money <gm0n3...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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:318186 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
