Curl up in a tiny ball!
Hide! Right now!
Don’t go anywhere!
Don’t say anything!
And for heaven’s sake, stop thinking!
You’ve been warned!
Ignore this simple advice, you could end up like . . .
Aisha Jones or Roger Serrato or Eurie Stamps or Jose Guerena Ortiz or Pearlie Golden or Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams or Andy Lopez.
How did they end up?
Dead!
Killed by self-appointed judge-jury-executioner police, pumped up on power, their inflated sense of duty, their skewed sense of justice, unrestrained by many time-honored legal and constitutional mechanisms, which used to make America a safe and desirable place to live.
People who don’t end up dead are victimized in other ways. From a chilling but excellent article in the Huffington Post . . .
“The latest incident comes out of Atlanta, Georgia, where a SWAT team, attempting to execute a no-knock drug warrant in the middle of the night, launched a flash bang grenade into the targeted home, only to have it land in a crib where a 19-month-old baby lay sleeping. The grenade exploded in the baby’s face, burning his face, lacerating his chest, and leaving him paralyzed. He is currently in the hospital in a medically induced coma.
“Where too was the outrage when a Minnesota SWAT team raided the wrong house in the middle of the night, handcuffed the three young children, held the mother on the floor at gunpoint, shot the family dog, and then ‘forced the handcuffed children to sit next to the carcass of their dead pet and bloody pet for more than an hour’ while they searched the home?”
‘Protect and Serve’ is being replaced by ‘Shoot to Kill, Ask Questions Later’.
We need to ask . . .
What prompts over 50,000 SWAT team raids annually, many of them unjustified and horribly botched often for infractions as trivial as home poker games, organic gardening, betting on a football game, suspicion of music piracy, growing pot in the basement for personal use? These are hardly acts of terrorism compromising the safety of citizens or undermining the national security.
What happened to the constitutional requirement for search warrants?
What happened to restraint and respect for human life?
What happened to innocent until proven guilty?
What happened to common decency?
This is not a trivial matter.
Be informed: A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State.
Militarizing The Police – Part 2
Hide! Right now!
Don’t go anywhere!
Don’t say anything!
And for heaven’s sake, stop thinking!
You’ve been warned!
Ignore this simple advice, you could end up like . . .
Aisha Jones or Roger Serrato or Eurie Stamps or Jose Guerena Ortiz or Pearlie Golden or Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams or Andy Lopez.
How did they end up?
Dead!
Killed by self-appointed judge-jury-executioner police, pumped up on power, their inflated sense of duty, their skewed sense of justice, unrestrained by many time-honored legal and constitutional mechanisms, which used to make America a safe and desirable place to live.
People who don’t end up dead are victimized in other ways. From a chilling but excellent article in the Huffington Post . . .
“The latest incident comes out of Atlanta, Georgia, where a SWAT team, attempting to execute a no-knock drug warrant in the middle of the night, launched a flash bang grenade into the targeted home, only to have it land in a crib where a 19-month-old baby lay sleeping. The grenade exploded in the baby’s face, burning his face, lacerating his chest, and leaving him paralyzed. He is currently in the hospital in a medically induced coma.
“Where too was the outrage when a Minnesota SWAT team raided the wrong house in the middle of the night, handcuffed the three young children, held the mother on the floor at gunpoint, shot the family dog, and then ‘forced the handcuffed children to sit next to the carcass of their dead pet and bloody pet for more than an hour’ while they searched the home?”
‘Protect and Serve’ is being replaced by ‘Shoot to Kill, Ask Questions Later’.
We need to ask . . .
What prompts over 50,000 SWAT team raids annually, many of them unjustified and horribly botched often for infractions as trivial as home poker games, organic gardening, betting on a football game, suspicion of music piracy, growing pot in the basement for personal use? These are hardly acts of terrorism compromising the safety of citizens or undermining the national security.
What happened to the constitutional requirement for search warrants?
What happened to restraint and respect for human life?
What happened to innocent until proven guilty?
What happened to common decency?
This is not a trivial matter.
Be informed: A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State.