Here is my hope for you Pro-drugs Dude, go out there and point your gun at the police.
Thank goodness that they no longer need a warrant as of a couple days ago:
“Kentucky v. King - the US Supreme Court has ruled that cops who smell marijuana coming from your home can break down your door and arrest you, just as long as they knock first and claim to have heard you destroying evidence. They don’t need a warrant either. Today in America, police can now randomly patrol neighborhoods and apartment complexes sniffing around for pot. When they smell it, they can knock on your door and then break it down, claiming they heard noises from within.”
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Glad to hear we are getting tough on those dopers. We have to give up some of our freedoms in order for them to keep us safe. Glad those S.C. justices have the balls to do this. Although they probably don’t have the guts to cross out the entire 4th Amendment. But they might as well.
Fourth Amendment:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
We can only assume it was issued on lies... why?
Because Pima County SWAT is now on their 5th version of this story and the warrant you speak of has been sealed at the request of the Sheriff himself...
Infact Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik told Arizona Daily Star columnist Josh Brodesky that he may never release the search warrants and police affidavits. Link: http://azstarnet.com/news/local/article_47d3b9b2-8345-11e0-a48d-001cc4c03286.html
This is where you position begins to fall apart... notwithstanding you must engage in accusations of your own (calling folks drug users) to make your rather feeble point...
But anyway...
The department's excuses for keeping all of this information under wraps make little sense. In his May 18 press release (http://pimasheriff.org/bulletins/officer-involved-shooting-update/), for example, Public Information Officer Jason Ogan wrote, "The investigation that lead to the service of the search warrants on May 5 is a complicated one involving multiple people suspected of very serious crimes.
Sometimes, law enforcement agencies must choose between the desire of the public to quickly know details, and the very real threat to innocent lives if those details are released prematurely." Dupnik used the same line of reasoning. "Those are the real sensitive parts of why we are having difficulty with trying to put information out publicly--because we don't want somebody getting killed," Dupnik said.
The problem with that explanation is that the search warrants and affidavits weren't sealed until four days after the raids were executed, right at about the time the troubling questions about Jose Guerena's death began to make national headlines...
>> Here is my hope for you Pro-drugs Dude
Just be grateful his kids weren’t playing Scrabble behind their father as he took 71 rounds.
You raise a good point. Did the judge know he was putting the lives of children in jeopardy? Is this exercise of narcotics control exemplary of intelligent justice and planning? I don’t think so. It’s imperious authority akin to the kind of statism we defeated in WWII.
BTW, a warrant is not a sentence to death.
Furthermore, I ain’t a “Pro-drugs Dude”.