Friday, October 25, 2013

Radley Balko — As The Drug War Escalates, SWAT Teams Become 'Bullies With Badges And Guns'

Former Sheriff William "Dub" Lawrence has watched with dismay as America's war on drugs has escalated, and SWAT teams have become more aggressive, more militarized, and less focused on resolving disputes peacefully.
"SWAT teams have been infiltrated by bullies with badges and guns who foster a mentality that killing criminals reduces recidivism," he says. "We're on the wrong track. I look at what's happened to law enforcement today, and I'm ashamed and heartbroken by what I see. We've lost sight of what's important. We've lost sight of what the job should be about, which is protecting the constitutional rights of the people."
The Huffington Post
As The Drug War Escalates, SWAT Teams Become 'Bullies With Badges And Guns'
Radley Balko

Mixture of hooliganism and hard fascism right here in the good old USA.

Between the war on drugs and the war on terror, human right and civil rights are down the toilet.


2 comments:

Unknown said...

Hey, someone has to be the fall guys for the bankers so why not their victims, the dispossessed? Lest they have a political voice?

But keep supporting a government-backed counterfeiting cartel that benefits one proportionate to his wealth (assuming one reaches a threshold where he too can be an oppressor) and this is what we will have, the very rich and the very poor.

The following is just a command against usury but what we have is far worse since government-backed credit creation drives people into debt:

“You shall not charge interest to your countrymen: interest on money, food, or anything that may be loaned at interest. You may charge interest to a foreigner, but to your countrymen you shall not charge interest, so that the Lord your God may bless you in all that you undertake in the land which you are about to enter to possess. Deuteronomy 23:19-20

Are we feeling blessed or cursed?

Cue Franko to deny we should heed what God said through Moses:

The Rombach Report said...

Bullies? More like storm troopers. The war on drugs is a colossal failure and racist. African Americans are 4 times more likely to be arrested for marijuana possession than white Americans. At the very least President Obama who admits to smoking pot and doing a little blow when he was younger should support repeal of federal laws against marijuana and grant a mass presidential pardon of people rotting in jail for non-violent drug crimes.