Reason Magazine has a letter from an Army officer who says that American police doing no-knock drug raids are often less sure of their targets, less restrained, and more aggressive than the Army is in Iraq. Where's all the moral outrage about civil liberties that we were hearing before the 08 elections?
But it's okay now. Everything has changed for the better!
ReplyDeleteYes, Yes, We Can! (kick in your doors without a warrant to search for drugs and thus buoy up the illegal product and put more money in the hands of drug kingpins)
MMMmmm... Surveillance State.
I've been listening to Ralph Walso Emerson of late. There was someone who could not stand an overbearing state, armies, etc.