We don’t make the laws, we just enforce them. Sometimes we enforce laws that were never broken. Sometimes we let our dogs bite you even if you’re compliant and we plant criminal evidence on you, but hey, it’s all in a day’s work of protecting and serving the public. And as always, we protect and serve the public equally, without regard to race.
These are your local police. These are your local police on prohibition. Any questions?
Wednesday, June 17th, 2009 at 3:20 pm | By: Radical Russ
“They shot through the door in front of screaming children that were begging them to let the dog out and she was cowering in there,” said homeowner Corina Amato, “They shot through the door and she ran upstairs in the bedroom, and they went up there and pumped AK47 shots into her in my bedroom.”
“This is the bullet hole where they shot my dog,” said Amato’s boyfriend, Rick Johnson, as he pointed to a splintered hole in the bedroom’s wood floor, “There was a pile of guts and blood right up underneath the bed.”
Police destroyed the front door, and now the couple must nail up pieces of plywood to secure their home… or what’s left of it.
The living room is unlivable, the bedroom furniture—splintered and the office has been turned upside down, not to mention tearing holes in the walls, shattering the porcelain bathroom and ripping apart the music room.
The search turned up plenty of herbs Amato had growing in her sunroom, but not the one a confidential informant suggested they would find—marijuana.
This could be you. A “confidential informant” — a snitch — often will tell police what they want to hear in exchange for leniency for their own crimes. The police, following the standard operating procedure, will approach your home as if you are Tony Montana from Scarface, lying in wait for the police with a few of your “little friends”. They’re armed to the teeth and armored against the attack they have been trained to believe you will engage once they burst through your door late at night without knocking. They will destroy your property, smash your TV, slash your furniture, break your electronics, and ruin your home, so they can impress upon you that you are a no good drug dealer and they’ve made your drug dealer life miserable. And God help you if you have a dog, even if it’s a black lab or a dachsund or a chihuahua, because they are trained to believe all dogs are pit bulls or rottweilers ready to attack police and must be shot immediately, if not to protect themselves, then to impress upon you no good drug dealer types that they have the power to kill and next time it might be your wife instead of your dog.
This is how, in the Land of the Free, we deal with our fellow free citizens suspected of planting the wrong herb indoors. We don’t even need proof; the word of a criminal is reason enough to spend your tax dollars on a violent and destructive urban military assault on your castle.
The final line of the story is most amusing:
No one has been charged, and the department has neither apologized nor offered any restitution for killing their dog or trashing their home.
Apology? Restitution? For what? In the police’s eyes, they did nothing wrong. They followed standard procedure in enforcing prohibition laws. The snitch may have made a mistake, but not the cops. How could they have known there would be no contraband unless they broke all the furniture, tore holes in the walls, and destroyed the bathroom to be sure it wasn’t hidden? So what if two innocent people had their home destroyed and their beloved pet murdered in front of their terrified children? That’s the unavoidable cost of fighting the Drug War; there’s always collateral damage in a war.
My fantasy hope is that when these cops who kill dogs go to hell, Cerberus is waiting for them with the ghosts of all the slain canines and all cops’ scrotums smell and taste like peanut butter for eternity.
Thursday, May 14th, 2009 at 7:20 pm | By: Radical Russ
Official Stash Dog Roscotelli "Smelly Felly" "Semicolon Puckerbutt" "Nutstomper Boobsquisher" Gomez-Sanchez-Rodriguez-Ramirez Coltrane , and the ONLY green thing he cares about, The Ball V*.
I’ve only recently become a dog-person. I fell in dog-love with Roscoe, the Jack Russell terrier, a couple of years ago, and since then I can’t imagine living my life without him. When my wife takes him out of town, I miss him more than her (only because I can call, email, and text her – I’m not a cad!)
He sits in a chair beside me as I type up news stories for the Stash. Around 10am he makes me take him outside to pee, forcing me to disconnect from The Borg for a while, probably keeping me somewhat more physically and mentally healthy. Around 1pm, we walk to the park with The Ball* and have our Noontime Dog Fun event. Around 5pm he needs to go out again and forces me to take another break, otherwise I could literally be in front of the computer from 6am-8pm straight (and have done so many times… not healthy!)
But should the effort to legalize marijuana ever see the light of day, what would be the effect on our canine companions? We know that second hand smoke can cause lung and nasal cancer in dogs, as well as breathing problems, salivation, diarrhea, vomiting and cardiac abnormalities. What would happen to man’s best friends should they be exposed to not only tobacco smoke, but marijuana smoke as well?
Uh, since tobacco smoke causes cancer and lung disease in humans and marijuana smoke does not, I’d suppose that marijuana smoke doesn’t seriously hurt dogs, either.
And what if our curious canine friends decided to eat a stash of hash?
Then we put him in his timeout box and sternly say, “Bad dog!”
Monday, January 19th, 2009 at 11:59 am | By: Radical Russ
“You express a great deal of anxiety over our willingness to break laws. This is certainly a legitimate concern. Since we so diligently urge people to obey the Supreme Court’s decision of 1954 outlawing segregation in the public schools, at first glance it may seem rather paradoxical for us consciously to break laws. One may well ask: “How can you advocate breaking some laws and obeying others?” The answer lies in the fact that there are two types of laws: just and unjust. I would be the first to advocate obeying just laws. One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that “an unjust law is no law at all.”
Now, what is the difference between the two? How does one determine whether a law is just or unjust? A just law is a man made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law. Any law that uplifts human personality is just. Any law that degrades human personality is unjust.”
Today our nation honors what would’ve been this week the eightieth birthday of the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., on the eve of the inauguration of Barack Hussein Obama as the 44th president of these United States. I was sixty-four days old when an assassin’s bullet cut down Dr. King in the prime of his life. Today I am six-hundred forty days older than Dr. King when he was killed. Tomorrow I will see something few people my age and older thought we’d ever see, yet something Dr. King had dreamed from the start.
There remains a grave injustice to be battled, the most unjust of laws to be disobeyed, a law that by its definition is not rooted in eternal law and natural law: the man made code that declares nature itself to be illegal, the prohibition on cannabis. Yet when I mention marijuana law reform in the context of the great civil rights struggles in America, so many are quick to dismiss me with snickers of derision. ”You just want pot legal so you can get high!” is a common refrain.
Prince George’s County Police said Berwyn Heights Mayor Cheye Calvo brought a 32-pound package of marijuana into his home that had been delivered by officers posing as delivery men. The Tuesday evening raid was conducted by county police narcotics officers and a sheriff’s office SWAT Team.
Sheriff’s office spokesman Sgt. Mario Ellis says deputies “apparently felt threatened” when they shot the dogs.
Calvo said officers entered about 7:30 p.m., first shooting 7-year-old Payton. They then pursued 4-year-old Chase, who ran away and was shot by police from behind, he said.
It takes a special kind of man to shoot a fleeing dog in the back. Especially a black lab. Everybody knows what a vicious reputation that breed has… if you’re a duck. The worst thing that dog would probably have ever done to a decent human being not participating in a SWAT raid is lick him to death.
Obviously the first shot at the older dog made such a noise that the second dog was scared off. Could you have not just fired a warning shot to scare both the dogs off?
“The bottom rung of humanity abuses animals for their amusement,” Judge John Kinsella told Emanuel Lopez, 19. “Anybody who abused animals for their own amusement has a problem.”
Lopez pleaded guilty in May to stealing the puppy on March 21 from a Petland store in Naperville. The dog was returned to the store three days later and has since been adopted.
Naperville Police Detective Richard Arsenault testified Wednesday that after stealing the dog, Lopez and some friends drove around the area, “Blowing marijuana smoke in the dog’s face until it passed out.”
OK, let’s get something straight: you do not force your animals to get stoned, period. It is animal abuse, it is unnecessary and cruel. There may be no real physical harm to the animal (cannabis smoke is non-toxic), but it is unnatural for an animal to breathe any sort of smoke and intoxicating their primitive brains probably stresses them out. Besides, puppies are entertaining enough as it is, especially if you’re stoned.
On the other hand, I’d like to ask Judge Kinsella if he ever enjoys the entertainment value of the racetrack, the rodeo, or the circus.
TITLE OF BILL : An act to amend the penal law, in relation to restricting ownership of vicious dogs
PURPOSE : To prohibit those convicted of a felony crime related to selling or possessing a controlled substance from owning or possessing a vicious dog.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS : Section 1: Adds a new Penal Law section 270.25 to create a crime of owning or possessing a vicious dog for those persons that have previously been convicted of a felony for selling or possessing a controlled substance. A vicious dog is one that weighs more than 20 pounds and has either been trained to physically attack persons or has exhibited a vicious disposition or propensity. The unlawful possession of a vicious dog is a class A misdemeanor.
EXISTING LAW : There is no crime now for possessing a vicious dog for drug dealers that use such dogs as weapons in the perpetration of the sale or possession of controlled substances.
JUSTIFICATION : The Penal Law prohibits convicted felons from possessing guns, knives and other dangerous instrumentalities. Since attack dogs are used commonly by drug dealers in the place of guns in the pursuit of their drug trade, the possession of these live “weapons” in place of a gun should also be criminalized. In addition, the police would be protected when arresting recidivist drug dealers. The law would also protect the general public from these dangerous animals.
You know what else we should do? Make it a class A misdemeanor for these guys to take any martial arts classes or lift weights. Fist fights are another way these drug dealers pursue their drug trade, right? Police would be protected, too, since they could easily arrest such 98-lb weaklings.
This is yet another stupid salvo in the War on Drugs. This is obviously aimed at pit bulls and rottweilers, and not so subtly at inner-city minorities, who tend to own those dogs, mainly for security and protection in the under-policed areas of poverty in which they live. So now the ex-con who had the misfortune to be caught growing a marijuana garden, who can’t protect himself in his home with any wort of weapon, now can’t even have a trusty guard dog.
I guess they’ll have to get a nice poisonous snake for a pet… they’re still legal, right?
RevRayGreen: I'll post a pic of me and my son....gimme a minute
Missippi Hippy: Guess what... I'm gonna be a new... ummmmm well, my pet piggie Ganja is in labor and they ain't mine in the same sense. See what your wife [...]
RevRayGreen: days they didn't talk back..or act disrespectful..
RevRayGreen: feel so lucky my son is 18 going 19 and my daughter 16 going on 17..relish the days that can't talk back
Urb Age: Congrats Spof thats awesome. My little Clara is about to hit 20 months. Im not the activist I used to be, but its made me a better man.
Urb Age: Heck I was gonna go up there, but just not feeling well this weekend..Dang it, I hate it when that happens..
RevRayGreen: wishing I was hanging at NORML cafe...
JohnH: Just a quick comment about tokin' and sperm motility....been tokin since age 14 and have 8 kids ranging in age from 30 to 9...(what can I say, I found 2 [...]
slash5city: really ..oprah 35 yr or more in the closet toker ...outed ....o my god !!
SneakerPimp: that would be huge news just imagen the headline
RevRayGreen: maybe Oprah smokes and keeps it on the DL...
SneakerPimp: and good afternoon
mr reuben: I could do without seeing Rob K. on tv. But Bruce and Eithan get a big thumbs up from me.
SneakerPimp: waitn for NSL and congrast for spofett.
mr reuben: I don't respect her opinion bluzguy.
Missippi Hippy: Something about the last year in a contract... folks become more ballsey... and Oprah has big ones.
Adam: Oprah won't actually go off air for over a year, 2011 sometime. Maybe with here leaving the network soon, she'll be more likely to speak out about MMJ.
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waitn for NSL and congrast for spofett.
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