Perhaps one of the reasons why we don’t hear about the excessive use and abuse of paramilitary SWAT team units against low level drug users is that, apparently, the only people who want to broadcast anything about it without demonizing those being perpetrated on is Russian TV.
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Nicholas Casey via The Wall Street Journal: Authorities battling drug traffickers in this violent border city [Ciudad Juarez] have begun to suspect that their efforts to impede the flow of drugs into the U.S. has fostered demand—and turf wars—on their own territory. (Emphasis mine) They’ve begun to suspect that prohibition worsens the problem in every […]
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Aren’t drug warriors awesome? In a report by Radley Balko of reason magazine detailing the very shady practices of the NYPD and their has-to-be-fucking-unconstitutional “stop and frisk” program, he writes, While only about one tenth of 1 percent of the stops yielded a gun (at present it’s nearly impossible to legally carry a gun in […]
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Being a Kentuckian with an interest in liberty, I find myself in the envious position of perhaps having a senatorial candidate in my state commonwealth who can legitimately be perceived as a guy who isn’t a political douchebag. Rand Paul (R-KY) has a strong pro-liberty pedigree in that his father, the venerable Ron Paul (R-TX), […]
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When Afghan terrorists get more consideration than American civilians, it’s pretty evident we have a problem.
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And I’m ‘Firmly Opposed’ to the Obama Administration. Via the Huffington Post: Yet the entire premise for maintaining the government’s policy — that keeping marijuana criminally prohibited “reduces [its] availability and lessens willingness to use [it]” — is demonstrably false. Under present prohibition, more than 1/3 of 8th graders, more than 2/3rds of 10th graders, […]
Via the Marijuana Policy Project: The agenda for the publicly funded conference, held at the prestigious U.S. Grant Hotel from May 10 through May 13, is not available to the public. In fact, the conference is under the close guard of about a dozen San Diego Police officers and even some military personnel. We do […]
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Chief Burton of the Columbia, MO Police Department: I hate the internet. The Internet: We hate you too cocksucker. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbwSwvUaRqc&feature=related
Another day, another botched paramilitary drug raid. An elderly Polk County woman is hospitalized in critical condition after suffering a heart attack when drug agents swarm the wrong house … Holl remembers the Kathyrn Johnston (sic), the elderly woman shot to death in a botched drug raid in Atlanta, and thinks thinks this kind of […]
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From Jacob Sollum: This is exactly the sort of mindlessly draconian policy that a president with any interest in dialing back the war in drugs would avoid. Hope and Change indeed.
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