Wednesday, July 30, 2008

You keep and use all kinds of substances to alter your mind and body. You have all manner of weapons including knives, clubs, and maybe even guns as well. You're violent and dangerous. You'll do anything to hurt others around you. You belong in prison with all of the other criminals who are just like you. You deserve to be shot dead, murdered in cold blood, and burned to ashes.

You are a citizen of the United States of America.

I read the news daily. I read world news, national news, local news; political news, economic news, science news; and I read the comic strips too because I need to laugh after reading all of that news. I really look forward to reading news regarding crime. I love to hear about the authorities, especially the DEA and local police departments, busting dangerous criminals and keeping innocent people such as myself safe to walk these dangerous streets. I love to hear about all of the raids that net so many drugs and cash and other ill-gotten gains.

I love to read the news about crime because most of the time, it's hilarious!

Imagine.. the police raid a home. Oh, it's a big deal. Some dangerous criminal is arrested along with his accomplice bitch. Their children are whisked away to some child services department because they were being terrorized by these monstrous parents. There's cash in the house. There are weapons in the house. And the jackpot, DRUGS DRUGS DRUGS.

And the community is greatful. Neighbors would never have known that this kind, lovable man, and his adorable wife, along with their happy, honor roll children were actually terrorists in the mist. All those birthday parties that the neighborhood children were invited to were just a cover for something far more sinister. That woman in that house probably didn't even bake those cookies for the PTA meeting.

Oh my God! Thanks to the local police departments for protecting this community.

AAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA HILARIOUS!

Guess what folks!? The fantasy is over. Let's stop our imaginations. What's the real story behind this family? What aren't the local police departments and DEA telling us?

That man could be YOU. You've got drugs in the house. Yeah! Come on. Prescription medication. How about that over the counter stuff? You've got that as well. Weapons? Hell yeah. How do you cut your steak dinner? Of course you've got knives. So, yeah, you've got weapons. When you hear that bang signaling your front door being violently ripped off of its hinges, that could be your home!

Sure you've got a reason to have all of these things. But, the police don't know and don't care. You are a Masochistic Drug-Abusing Criminal. You belong in prison with the other animals. Your wife belongs in prison with the female animals. Your children.. well it would be hard to demonize them. So, let's just say, those precious angels are going to get the chance grow up in a loving home because obviously your home was never good enough since, You are a Masochistic Drug-Abusing Criminal.

The best part is when you read the story in the news. Those medications aren't medications any more. They're hardcore DRUGS. Those knives in the kitchen were used against the police officer although all you can remember after that loud noise is an assault rifle getting intimate with your forehead. It gets even better when you hear the charges against you along with all of the supporting evidence. You find out the hard way, it's not about what you have or the intentions of use, it's about what the police can make a jury believe. You feel your heart drop to the bottom of your stomach. Yeah, you've got a long fight ahead of you.

The police have ruined your life, destroyed your credibility with friends and neighbors, got you fired from your job, and forced you to move to a new community to start over. All you did that day was go to work, come home, and go to sleep! Why? Because, you are a Masochistic Drug-Abusing Criminal.

Cato Institute
An interactive map of botched SWAT and paramilitary police raids, released in conjunction with the Cato policy paper "Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids," by Radley Balko.

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