Let’s remember, there’s at least one other person out there who thinks this is stupid, too, and thinks drugs should be decriminalized. And his name is Ron Paul. Get. On. The. Train.
Disturbing Video shot in Missouri that should wake people up
SWAT team breaks into home, fires seven rounds at family’s pit bull and corgi as a seven-year-old looks on. They found a “small amount” of marijuana, enough for a misdemeanor charge. The parents were then charged with child endangerment.
(via sarijuana)
How does any of this make sense? How can we as a country continue to support action such as this? Was this family an immediate threat to anyone? Even if they had a 100 plants, so what? What actual harm is being produced by this family? Who is terrorizing whom by harshly enforcing these laws? The only harm I see being inflicted here is by overzealous agents of state authority taking an arbitrary law to an extreme.
I find the charges of child endangerment against the parents laughable when it was not the parents who were firing live ammunition inside the home, and it certainly wasn’t the parents who traumatized him by killing his dog and dragging his parents away for an idiotic set of restrictions on a plant that the majority of American now seem to agree should be lifted.
This won’t appear on the mainstream media because it’s too common of an occurrence, and too much money is riding on it, and the most media is seemingly afraid of speaking any kind of truth to power for fear of losing their precious “access”.
If you want drug crime to stop, then stop making possesion and use of drugs a crime and move toward a legalization and treatment paradigm. The only reason we have not from what I can see is that too many people are making too much money and scoring too many easy political points by maintaining our idiotic and failed “War on Drugs”. Either that, or we really are collectively a nation of hypocritical idiots completely cowed by official power.
Wow. They say that the dog was being aggressive, but you can hear in the video that they shoot immediately as soon as they enter and then you hear the dog crying for a little bit. Also, all that armor you’re wearing can’t protect you from a Corgi? This is so disgusting. Over a misdemeanor amount of a drug that pacifies people.
