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Video of SWAT Raid on Missouri Family

Ignore this if you do not want to be disturbed and horrified.

Radley Balko of Reason has posted video of the SWAT raid on a Missouri home that he wrote about last February.

It's horrifying, but I'd urge you to watch it, and to send it to the drug warriors in your life. This is the blunt-end result of all the war imagery and militaristic rhetoric politicians have been spewing for the last 30 years -- cops dressed like soldiers, barreling through the front door middle of the night, slaughtering the family pets, filling the house with bullets in the presence of children, then having the audacity to charge the parents with endangering their own kid. There are 100-150 of these raids every day in America, the vast, vast majority like this one, to serve a warrant for a consensual crime.

All for a small amount of marijuana. This was passed on by Danny Danko, also via Mother Jones.

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Scarlett . : 2010-05-12 21:23:29
I live in MO, my house was raided a little over a year ago. They showed up on our front porch at 9pm w/o a warrant and said they'd lock the house down til they got one. We were guilty, but not the ones that needed our house tore up with 12, count them, 12 county police, hwy patrol, and unmarked cars. We lived outta town, they shut the road down while this was going on. We were sitting in the kitchen playing with our son. They weren't too violent or crazy, but they took our kid away, slapped us with felonies and misdeamonors for posession and child endangerment. a year later we just got our charges and still no where near getting our son back... We ha 17 counts of paraphenailia and under a 1/2 oz. of marijuana... Our son turns 4 in August. I was in college and was going to graduate that semester from nursing school... A goal that is going to probably never be achieved for the felonies that i will live with...
rick. : 2010-05-11 07:25:36
This is nothing but a distraction guys, while they do the same shit over in Iraq and Afghanistan with killing one or many of your family member just like a dog.
slay. : 2010-05-10 10:36:14
hey duffalo..blow me
guest : 2010-05-08 18:09:34
Police forces flexing their "power".
kron. : 2010-05-08 12:33:01
these pigs are fucking sick i dont know how they sleep at night
malcolm kyle. : 2010-05-08 04:46:30
Prohibition is a sickening horror and the ocean of incompetence, corruption and human wreckage it has left in its wake is almost endless.

Prohibition has decimated generations and criminalized millions for a behavior which is entwined in human existence, and for what other purpose than to uphold the defunct and corrupt thinking of a minority of misguided, self-righteous Neo-Puritans and degenerate demagogues who wish nothing but unadulterated destruction on the rest of us.

Based on the unalterable proviso that drug use is essentially an unstoppable and ongoing human behavior which has been with us since the dawn of time, any serious reading on the subject of past attempts at any form of drug prohibition would point most normal thinking people in the direction of sensible regulation.

By its very nature, prohibition cannot fail but create a vast increase in criminal activity, and rather than preventing society from descending into anarchy, it actually fosters an anarchic business model - the international Drug Trade. Any decisions concerning quality, quantity, distribution and availability are then left in the hands of unregulated, anonymous, ruthless drug dealers, who are interested only in the huge profits involved.

Many of us have now, finally, wised up to the fact that the best avenue towards realistically dealing with drug use and addiction is through proper regulation which is what we already do with alcohol & tobacco, clearly two of our most dangerous mood altering substances. But for those of you whose ignorant and irrational minds traverse a fantasy plane of existence, you will no doubt remain sorely upset with any type of solution that does not seem to lead to the absurd and unattainable utopia of a drug free society.

There is an irrefutable connection between drug prohibition and the crime, corruption, disease and death it causes. If you are not capable of understanding this connection then maybe you're using something far stronger than the rest of us. Anybody 'halfway bright', and who's not psychologically challenged, should be capable of understanding that it is not simply the demand for drugs that creates the mayhem, it is our refusal to allow legal businesses to meet that demand.

No amount of money, police powers, weaponry, diminution of rights and liberties, wishful thinking or pseudo-science will make our streets safer, only an end to prohibition can do that. How much longer are you willing to foolishly risk your own survival by continuing to ignore the obvious, historically confirmed solution?

If you still support the kool aid mass suicide cult of prohibition, and erroneously believe that you can win a war without logic and practical solutions, then prepare yourself for even more death, corruption, terrorism, sickness, imprisonment, unemployment, foreclosed homes, and the complete loss of the rule of law and the Bill of Rights.

"A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded."
Abraham Lincoln

The only thing prohibition successfully does is prohibit regulation & taxation while turning even our schools and prisons into black markets for drugs. Regulation would mean the opposite!

Duffalo : 2010-05-08 00:46:00
"I am not writing 'the government' because 'the government' was the antagonist in this video. If I were to send this video to my elected representative (and I know who that is!), he would surely lean back in his chair and howl in laughter because he is an evil white guy in a suit and is therefore an inhuman monster incapable of either compassion or rational thought. He's the enemy and I'm a victim. My contribution to the solution is to sit at my computer and be outraged. This is a serious upgrade from my previous efforts that consisted of 'waiting for our god forsaken country to wake up'."
wystri. : 2010-05-07 20:01:47
"guest : 2010-05-06 20:42:41
Who the fuck wants this shit in their country?"

^^seconded. something is TERRIBLY fucking wrong with this.

lizzy. : 2010-05-07 08:42:00
no joke i am on the verge of tears. this is absolutely fucking horrifying. i am so disgusted and tired of the police state we live in, the overzealous 'security' and the fucking outright dismissal of our rights. end the drug war!

INDIVIDUALITY AND EXPERIMENTS IN LIVING NEED TO BE PROTECTED FROM THE GOVERNMENT.

teleomorph : 2010-05-07 02:25:35
THIS is why we need to support drug-law reform and intelligence in society with every fiber of our being. We must ALL wake up.
Nicko. : 2010-05-07 00:19:37
Shameless and shameful. Seems as though sociopathic behavior is not only tolerated on the police force, but encouraged.
guest : 2010-05-06 20:42:41
Who the fuck wants this shit in their country?
Gaugenmaier. : 2010-05-06 20:22:50
absolutely horrible.
TOOL : 2010-05-06 17:56:23
I meant to say Land of The Free but I couldn't think straight after watching that video. I had to go take a walk to calm down. And all that over a tip that someone gave the police. Unbelievable!!!
TOOL : 2010-05-06 17:00:23
America home of the free..........I think not
bbl337. : 2010-05-06 15:15:44
OH WHAT THE FUCK. When the video first came out I said the police should be charged with two counts of animal cruelty and endangering the welfare of a minor... they're charging the parents with that now? They're not the ones who shot 5 rounds near the child
slay. : 2010-05-06 14:58:16
im not writing to the government because the government was the antagonist in this video. its pigs like this that are the scum of our beautiful earth. they deserve the opposite of respect, and it makes me physically and mentally ill to see shit like this. i hope those cunts die a slow and cancerous death. im done waiting for our god forsaken country to wake up, this war has dragged on longer than any war in US history. what the fuck.
American Person. : 2010-05-06 14:08:39
this is beyond disturbing. its amazing how low life and skummy some police officers really are, to kill dogs for no reason is just disgusting. i cant believe this is allowed in america!!!
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