Drug War Stories

Russ has got a couple recent stories up on the ups and downs of the Drug War in Law Enforcement.

Russ lauds a recent US Supreme Court ruling that evidence couldn’t be used if police don’t have a warrant and one tennant agreed to a search and the other disagreed.

Russ agrees with the ruling because the police were led to a stash of heroine by the wife of a woman who was ticked off at her husband. (I wonder which episode of COPS this was on?)

As a matter of enforcement, it raises a lot of issues and head aches for police officers. Lets say that one owner refuses entry to police, but a month or two months later, the other owner lets them in. How’s the court going to hold in a case like that?

You add to that, that in marriage unless you’ve got a prenup, the property of parties in the marriage is really considered joint. I mean, isn’t the stash of heroine as much the wife’s property as the husbands? Or if not the stash itself, the property which the stash is located on? Again, its pretty clear to me the Supremes blew it.

He then has the story of a Mississippi man (Cory Maye) who killed a police officer in an errant raid where the police went to the wrong house. The man claims not to have understood it was a police officer and was nervous as he was staying in a seedy part of town.

There was 1 Gram of Marijauna found in the apartment. Maye was clearly not a drug dealer, but at worst was a casual user (but this could have been his live-in girlfriend as well.)

All told, there are cases for death row, but this one doesn’t add up. Truth be told, despite the conflict over whether police announced their presence, Maye clearly didn’t do this with Malice Aforethought. At worst, this should be Voluntary Manslaughter and Haley Barbour should do the right thing and commute this guy’s sentence to the Manslaughter Sentence which is 2-20 Years in the State Penitentary.

Russ seems to be more focused on the point about the drug war rather than the facts of the case:

I also don’t want your average marijuana user’s rights violated by macho trigger-happy cops with a cowboy mentality and the mistaken belief they’re winning the War On (Some Taxpaying American Citizens Using Non-Alcoholic, Non-Phamaceutical, Tobacco-Free) Drugs by busting in, guns drawn, scaring the hell out of peaceful, law-abiding people and their kids.

Wouldn’t disturb law abiding users of illegal drugs. Seriously, its not a drug war issue. Its a legal issue and those considering it, need to treat it as such.

I Pity the Foos Who Are Ungrateful

Stop the ACLU posts the story of Christian peace activists who were resecued by the US Military, however you wouldn’t know it by reading their press release which described the effort as a release, as if the terrorists let them go out of the goodness of their heart.

Its nice to “love your enemies” but the ingratitude showed to our soldiers who resecued them is beyond the pale. This reminds me of an A-Team episode (doesn’t everything, though?) where the A-Team tried to be non-violent in accordance with the requests of some pacifists who were being persecuted. Finally, the A-team was forced to get physical to save the lives of the pacifists. Afterwards, the pacifist leader yelled at Hannibal Smith. It looked petty on film and looks even more petty in real life.

Also, I think that the peace activists aren’t loving their real enemy. What becomes clear is that they don’t view the terrorists as enemies, they’re not threatened by them. They’re worldview forbids such plain thinking that people who want to kill people for Allah are a threat.

Instead, the people they loathe and hate are the United States military and it shows by their pettyness. So, in loving their real enemies, they did a pretty poor job.

Stop the ACLU Blog Burst

Abstinence Is Harmful?

Today the American Civil Liberties Union issued a press release which is featured on their website’s “Newsroom” page that is titled, “ACLU Hails Rhode Island Department of Education Efforts to Stop the Use of Harmful “Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage” Curriculum in Public Schools“. Only the ACLU and a liberal state like Rhode Island could find abstaining from sexual activity harmful.

The fact is that abstinence is the only form of birth control and STD prevention that works 100% that it is employed. By practicing the ultimate in safe sex, NO SEX, no children are unnecessarily slaughtered in the name of choice, no drugs are being used in order to prevent pregnancy for the sake of promiscuity, and no one will need to be treated for sexually transmitted diseases. So what is the ACLU’s difficulty with teaching this effective form of birth control? Homosexuals in this nation cannot be married in any other state than Massachusetts. And no other state except Massachusetts recognizes marriages performed to same sex couples. If abstinence is taught as it should be, as the ONLY effective form of birth control and STD prevention, homosexuals will not be receiving the indoctrination that the ACLU believes that they should.

By accepting that teenagers are going to have sex before marriage and taking a position of defeatism in the war to prevent this from occurring, we are then telling teenagers to go ahead and have sex. This is akin to telling your child not to shop lift but if they are going to anyway to not get caught. Then teaching them methods on not getting caught as opposed to teaching them to just plain not do it.

Abstinence is not harmful, it is the only truly safe and healthy program out there. Condoms don’t protect against Human Papilloma Virus or Herpes. Hormonal birth control don’t protect against STDs and is only 92% effective (this means if you have sex 100 times, you have an 8% chance of getting pregnant even with the pill when taken as directed.). And we all know how many women forget to take the pills. Add to that the dangers when artificially changing the hormonal balance in a woman’s system can lead to increased chances of cancer and heart disease.

• Fact – Condoms break, leak, and do not protect against HPV or Herpes. Some people are have allergies to latex.
• Fact – Birth Control Pills don’t protect against STDs and mess with the hormonal balance in the woman’s body.
• Fact – Herpes is transmitted by skin contact and requires no fluid transfer.
• Fact – A fetus is a living being called a baby not tissue or a parasite.
• Fact – Abortion has been linked to increased occurrences of Breast Cancer.
• Fact – Post abortive women experience a high rate of depression and repeat abortions.
• Fact – Some risks associated with abortion include internal bleeding and infection.
• Fact – The only way to avoid these complications is to not have sex and the ACLU calls teaching this fact harmful.

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