That the WOD might include some occasional brutal consequences as this story illustrates seems almost a given. What remains uncertain is whether such efforts to implement prohibition II might someday rise to the level where outsiders may look upon our plight and conspire to liberate us from so many civil rights abuses in the form of regime change for our own good.
As a free society I think it best to put the dictatorial tendancies down and step back and away, rather than someday finding ourselves the target of some liberating faction hellbent on restoring our Bill of Rights.