Mayor Cheye Calvo got home from work, saw a package addressed to his wife on the front porch and brought it inside, putting it on a table. Suddenly, police with guns drawn kicked in the door and stormed in, shooting to death the couple's two dogs and seizing the unopened package. In it were 32 pounds of marijuana. But the drugs evidently didn't belong to the couple. Police say the couple appeared to be innocent victims of a scheme by two men to smuggle millions of dollars worth of marijuana by having it delivered to about a half-dozen unsuspecting recipients.
And now it seems that the cops knew all along that the drug distributors were sending packages to innocent people's homes and then scooping them off the front stoop.
This is one of the costs of the War on Drugs: The cops have turned not into peace officers, but an occupying army. The only difference between the local SWAT and narcotic goons and the U.S. Army is the color of the uniforms, for the cops seem to really have a liking for basic Gestapo-black uniforms for this kind of oppression.
UPDATE: From Mayor Calvo's statement: "We have witnessed a frightening law enforcement culture in which the law is disregarded, the rights of innocent occupants are ignored, and the rights of innocent animals mean nothing. We would never have believed it if we hadn't seen it for ourselves."
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Seriously, when I read this kind of story or I hear about yet another tasering, all I can think is "Oh, no. It can't happen here."
No, indeed. Nope. Uh uh.
Shit. Fear sure can keep us in our place.
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