Libertarian ping! To be added or removed from my ping list freepmail me or post a message here.Libertarian ping! To be added or removed from my ping list freepmail me or post a message here.But heck, they got that half a joint off the streets.
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I don't appear too often on the drug war threads - though they are interesting reading. My question is: is it now protocol to shoot the dog? In these stories where the people own a dog, the dog ends up dead. And then, when I read the threads about people being cruel to animals - some become rabid (not really trying to sound punny) and say the people who are cruel to animals should be treated the same, sent to the lower regions of hell, etc... Just an observation or two.
The police should really plant a nice sized back of cocaine in the house when this happens. Otherwise they end up looking stupid, and we can't have that. Plant the coke boys, and never shoot the dog.
Boy I feel so much safer now. Several strands of weed taken off the illegal drug market. Whoopee!
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"When I called for help, I asked them to be NICE, maybe we could have a little chat and be sure to bring cookies." Expectations, disappointments.
They need to either defend their actions better or change the protocol.
I'd like to know that the police had a legitimate reason to use that kind of violence in the course of a misdemeanor arrest. Maybe they did, but none is mentioned in the article.
The ATF and Texas dont mix. Time to "redeploy" the ATF and DEA?
If those SWAT guys dont get to kick in doors every coupla days or so they start getting restless. The excuse for these raids is that if they dont swoop in, the dopers will flush the evidence. Ok. So maybe they should have to try knocking on the door, and then after they get off by flushing the first time, they can come back next week and shoot the dog?
"Based on the evidence in the trash, a regional SWAT team arrived at the home."
Now I know how to get back at the neighbors with the all night barking dog.
I am not a believer in legalizing drugs. But this certainly seems like overkill to me.
Also, I hate to say it, but this poor woman is foolish to admit ANYTHING to the police or reporters without a lawyer's advice. Fine, she wasn't smoking, but she admits she knew it was in the house. Even that could get her in trouble.
Maybe she needs a new boyfriend and needs to build a more stable situation in which to bring up her son. And her poor dog.
What will the pit bull haters say now? LOL!
The house suffered $5,000 damage...
In other words the single wide was totaled.
"They treated us like we were terrorists," she said. "They broke the door down. They shot my dog. They set my house on fire."
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