[RIghtwardHo]

As a Prosecutor, I/we were right there in the “War on Drugs”. And while police tactics have evolved to this para-military nightmare since I practiced, be assured the War on Drug is a joke. It benefits almost no one except those who make money on said war.

[areukiddingme1]

Horrifying Collateral Damage Inflicted by Drugs

Drugs destroy lives!

[VerySadAmerican]

He blames “these drug dealers” for the kid’s injuries. What a piece of crap. Jackbooted thugs. I hope one day they know the pain this family is suffering.

What pisses me off more than anything is these cops will never admit they made a mistake. I saw an episode of THE FIRST 48 and this cop was convinced he had the right guy. Ended up evidence cleared the suspect. The cop kept saying “Man, I was wrong on that one. I’m going to have to be more careful in the future.” What would he have said if there were no cameras present?

[ConservingFreedom]

ping

[Cicero]

It’s got nothing to do with drugs, as such. It’s the new style police thugs.

[Gen.Blather]

I’ve written about this before. After three deputies put my renter and her abusive boy friend to bed because they were too drunk to stand, they sent in a SWAT team because they’d spotted 48 10’’ pot plants. Twelve men with machine guns and an armored vehicle arrived at 2:00am and smashed in MY DOOR and arrested these people who had no guns and had only a history of drunken fighting with each other. Why didn’t the three deputies make the arrest right then and there? Well, I suspect it was so they could get extra pay and practice. The damage they did was gratuitous and unnecessary.

IMO the state’s governor should be required to sign off on every no-knock raid. That would not deprive the police of their use if there was truly a reason. But you can bet if the governor’s signature was required there really would be a reason. It wouldn’t be for overtime pay and lots of fun on their part.

[driftdiver]

Perhaps I’d support the war on drugs if you couldn’t buy any drug you wanted in any city, town, or village in this country. The war isnt working.

[SpaceBar]

Even this article glosses over what happened. A baby had it’s entire face blown off, and faces a lifetime of reconstructive surgery and other incalculable complications.

[lastchance]

Lord Jesus, please heal this innocent child.

There are too many stories of how the WOD has become a War of Terror against innocent people.

[Dr. Thorne]

War on drugs, my a$$. It’s a War on the American People.

[Repeal The 17th]

“The war on drugs”
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It is like no one learned anything about the attempted “war on alcohol” (prohibition).

[terycarl]

drugs destroy lives....the police have procedures to follow and do so. If you don’t want a raid on your house, do not tolerate illegal drug use there

[DiogenesLamp]

"to the moral obscenity that is the war on drugs. "

What would be an even greater moral obscenity is the millions of deaths which would result by NOT having a war on drugs.

I think you are highlighting this and other abuses to support a false conclusion. A War on drugs is necessary, but excesses and abuses are not. Without a war on drugs, we go the same way China went after the Opium wars; The country is devastated socially and economically, and it collapses. Millions of people die.

What China went through by NOT having a war on drugs is FAR worse than these abuses you point out.

[lentulusgracchus]

[Art.] ....should awaken the country to the moral obscenity that is the war on drugs.

I stopped reading right there.

Liberal/Prog agitprop: Tell a sad story, blame the other side, and then enter a moral Nonnegotiable Final Judgment against them. No discussion, no negotiation -- just an absolute, unappealable, blistering, FINAL condemnation of the other side, delivered as psywar 24/7/365.

The last time this occurred on a broad scale in the U.S., it ended in the Civil War. So guess how this will work out?

[sitetest]

If the child dies, felony murder for every cop involved. Death penalty.