In Missouri, a family had it’s doors kicked in for a narcotics search warrant. The families dogs were shot seven times in front of a 7 year old. In the video, you can hear the guy’s anguish when he learns his dogs were shot. I’m surprised the Gestapo didn’t use a flash-bang grenade.
Why do our cops act like the military? There are rumors that military assets were used to track down the Times Square Bomber, which is a clear violation of Posse Comitatus. Yes, it’s good they got him, but it’s a easy slide to use such technology to track you when your late on your taxes.
If, like me, you think that the police state is going to increase in it’s tyranny then you need to prep for this. Watch the video and analyze the tactics used and develop methods to counteract them. If you have ever watched COPS or SWAT, then you can see just what needs to be done to counteract these assault tactics. I’m not endorsing attacks on the police, what I am calling for is for you to educate yourself in case an unconstitutional incident occurs. Like a pile of cops coming to take your firearms because some bureaucrat signed an “executive order.”
If anything, watching shows like COPS has shown me is that the more aggressive and tyrannical law enforcement acts, the less justice there is in the world. It’s a counter-intuitive notion to the politicians who want to “be tough on crime.” But to those of us who have been the subject of police brutality, we know with power comes corruption. Without transparency and oversight of law enforcement, then we have a police state.
Please do not confuse the ability of common citizens to use cell phone cameras to document police activity as oversight. It certainly helps, but it’s not the same as leadership establishing clear policies and enforcing them. It’s one thing to snap a picture of a cop with his hand in the cookie jar, quite another to have the cop not steal at all.
This guy very well could be the kingpin of some massive marijuana cartel, I would like to see the supporting evidence of how the warrant was obtained. I could simply black out the basement windows and run tons of lights to burn electricity in order to have a narcotic warrant served on my house. Matter of fact, they did that in Texas somewhere to show how easy it was to get a warrant served on a house with no illegal activity. Was the force used necessary to protect the public from harm? Did the kid need to be traumatized by having his dogs killed? If they pulled that shit on me as a kid I would have tried to kill the fucktard cop with an axe.
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“If they pulled that shit on me as a kid I would have tried to kill the fucktard cop with an axe”
We think alike:
http://middleoftheright.blogspot.com/2010/05/cop-or-no-cop.html
In my house, someone’s gonna get hurt. 3+ invaders at the end of the hallway meet .357, Then 2 steps to the shotgun for real kickass fun. It’ll most likely make me meet the dog in the video at the rainbow bridge and all that, but how the hell are you to know WTF is up at 2 am when there are unannounced people in your house?
Raids like this, using SWAT, are a waste of money and time, and are traumatic at best for the raidee and the family. I can see the need for SWAT, but they are overused in general. 150+/- raids like this happen EVERY day. For a bit of pot? For a possible offender with no known violent tendencies?
I have a long memory, and believe that “revenge is a dish best served cold”. Killing my dog in an invasion of my home for any reason, when a simple knock will do, is reason for revenge.
And where does it say that a search warrant must be conducted at the point of a gun?
I can’t agree. A legal search warrant and appropriate force. What did you think a swat team does when they enter a drug house where the criminals could resist with lethal force? It is difficult to reason with a dog and when you are on their property they naturally want to defend. Obviously the dog doesn’t understand police and warrants and sadly the police might have to shoot them to protect themselves. I see nothing wrong in this video just part of the sad harvest that comes from illegal drugs. As a parent I don’t want some dirt-bag selling my kids drugs and I want law enforcement to enforce the law.
“What did you think a swat team does when they enter a drug house where the criminals could resist with lethal force?”
Any citizen could do anything at any point. Is that reason to treat ‘we the people’ like pre-guilty prison inmates or enemy combatants?
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“…I want law enforcement to enforce the law.”
Where I want law enforcement to be accountable under the law. And as my servants, I hold them to a higher standard. For example, they could come in the day, in a suit and tie, and search (or is that a crazy idea?).
King George and his occupation force were also just enforcing the law. Emphasis on ‘force’.
And what law creates a thug who tyrannizes the citizenry? Who is above the law of the mere citizens? It’s not Constitutional.
“All laws which are repugnant to the Constitution are null and void.”
— SCOTUS Chief Justice John Marshall, Marbury v. Madison, 1803
We the people have this notion, that we instituted the government to “secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity” -Constitution
And,
“That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.” -Declaration of Independence
And when ‘enforcement’ is destructive toward those ends – It will be altered, or abolished by ‘we the people’.
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The point is that it is WRONG for armed thugs to come into your home, brutalize your family, kill your dogs, and kidnap you.
Wouldn’t we all rather see the end of the thuggery?
It happens 100 to 150 times a day in the US. Regularly at the wrong house. Innocents, Neighbors, Grandmas, Kids, and babies are killed. But the enforcers are ‘cleared of any wrong doing’, because it’s ok to kill random citizens for no reason, as long as they’re wearing a costume. Botched Paramilitary Police Raids: An Epidemic of “Isolated Incidents”
http://www.cato.org/raidmap/
But if you insist that they are doing your bidding…. And as you sanction that brutatlity on others, others like me and mine – Well then – ‘right back atcha’!
May it be visited upon you, and/or your spouse and kids.
You, and your little dog, too!
Don’t think it can happen to you?
http://reason.com/archives/2010/05/11/a-drug-raid-goes-viral
“What did you think a swat team does when they enter a drug house where the criminals could resist with lethal force?”
So s ‘search warant’ = guilty criminals who could resist.
We can skip the whole Constitution and Trial thingy. They are already condemned to be executed if they resist.
Brilliant!
GoneWithTheWind – Please re-read your comments. Your complaint was about consensual sale of something you disagree with. Balance that against violation of Liberty, Property, and Murder by a third party (thugs), on behalf of a fourth party (you).
The Constitution and Declaration speak to the primal necessity of natural rights. We should all re-read them, and cogitate on what they might mean.
Bush did away with posse comitatus!