Sure would like to know what useful purpose this serves:
At 5:30 a.m. on May 10, armed men broke into the bedroom of Kirk Kyle Farrar’s 12 year-old daughter and shook her awake. The men led her downstairs at gunpoint and forced her to lie on the floor next to her mother and father, with her hands behind her head. Another armed man took Farrar’s two-year-old son from his crib, and would not let his parents hold him. “My son screamed for his mother for what seemed like an eternity,” Farrar wrote in an email to friends, obtained by Reason. “I will never forget the hopeless feeling of not being able to comfort my son or daughter.”The armed men who broke into Farrar’s home were officers with the Meridian, Idaho, Police Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration. They were executing a federal warrant for Farrar’s arrest for the crime of selling bongs.
Farrar’s wasn’t the only family traumatized that morning. Agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration, the U.S. Marshals Service, the Idaho National Guard, and four Idaho police departments raided the homes of 13 other headshop owners and employees on May 10. All of the headshops had their inventory seized. One shop lost more than $80,000 worth of merchandise (bongs and pipes marketed as “tobacco water pipes”). Another headshop owner had his and and his employees' vehicles seized.
The investigation into these 13 shops and their employees (two of which are still at large) for selling drug paraphernalia was led by U.S. Attorney Wendy J. Olson, a Barack Obama appointee.
When it comes to law enforcement, it's assuring to know we've gor our priorities straight.
You know, sometimes it's easy to understand how the Ron Paul people and all the other Unserious Persons who don't deserve to be taken seriously could form the worldview that our entire Democratic-Republican duopolistic system of government is just an elaborately bedecked Punch-and-Judy show designed to distract us from our rulers' true intentions, which are to gradually strip away what's left of our civil liberties and make us servile slaves to a police-state enforcement arm of multinational capital. Because, well, it sure seems like that to me sometimes too. Sure would be nice if our leaders would prove me wrong every once in a while.
---Vitelius
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