People are going to make mistakes in the process of enforcing the law. By nature, those mistakes are going to be more grave than a mistake made during other processes.
Minimizing the number of laws being enforced will also serve to minimize the grave mistakes that take place.
It's all connected.
I am amazed that you are all but ignoring that an INNOCENT person got charged and arrested in favor of rambling on about your political cause...They say you should never support a law unless you would have it enforced against your grandma.
Why?
Every law, every warrant is an invitation to send a SWAT team after someone. Every single time that happens, a chance exists for destroying someone's life. You have to expect that government is going to be full of violence and incompetence.
So, we better be able to justify the reasons we think it is worth the risk.
Pills? Am I willing to risk killing grandma over pills? No way. That's what brought this on and it can't be ignored.
Someone who appreciates small government wants to minimize the number of excuses that the police can interject into people's lives. The Drug War instead gives tens of thousands of excuses to send police after people every year. And there are never a shortage of Drug War horror stories.
The police arrested the right person on the warrant, the court issued a warrant for the wrong person.
Yeah, and judges issue warrants based upon the information in sworn statements provided by who?
Hmm, how many pca's have seen a dpa as the affiant on? And yes, you are consistent if nothing else!By the Prosecutor's Office.
You KNEW I would say that!
I am amazed that you are all but ignoring that an INNOCENT person got charged and arrested in favor of rambling on about your political cause...
Do you think the innocent guy sans house/job/etc is more ticked off that he got hammered for having the wrong name or about the war on drugs?
I'd give a good tongue lashing to whichever bureaucrat nitwit made the mistake, too. And hope that he/she got fired. But campaigning against government incompetence is.... redundant.
People are going to make mistakes in the process of enforcing the law. By nature, those mistakes are going to be more grave than a mistake made during other processes.
Minimizing the number of laws being enforced will also serve to minimize the grave mistakes that take place.
It's all connected.
Personally, I'd be more pissed about the war on drugs. People goof up. People make mistakes. Especially government bureaucrats. Asking the government to enforce something as vast and arbitrary as the drug war [STRIKE] and then expecting them to not make mistakes[/STRIKE] is absurd. It would be like handing my 3 year old a 12-gauge and asking her to take care of an ant problem in the kitchen. ****s gonna get wrecked.
I'd give a good tongue lashing to whichever bureaucrat nitwit made the mistake, too. And hope that he/she got fired. But campaigning against government incompetence is.... redundant.
Hmm, how many pca's have seen a dpa as the affiant on? And yes, you are consistent if nothing else!
I am amazed that you are all but ignoring that an INNOCENT person got charged and arrested in favor of rambling on about your political cause...
Do you think the innocent guy sans house/job/etc is more ticked off that he got hammered for having the wrong name or about the war on drugs?
EXACTLY. None of this **** would be happening if people weren't so gung-ho to run other people's lives for them.If a guy bet on a football game and a SWAT team came and gunned him down in his home, would we call for more responsible government home invasions? Or would we ask why the hell that is illegal in the first place?
None of this **** would be happening if people weren't so gung-ho to run other people's lives for them.
I may be wrong, but hasn't the "frontal assault" style of policing come about pretty much entirely as a result of the war on some drugs? I mean, I'm sure there's other factors, but from my POV that's the major impetus.So, you think there have been no screwed up warrants for Robbery, Theft, or Burglary?
Do you realize that for every drug arrest warrant issued there are probably 20+ issued for failure to appear in misdemeanor court?Mistakes happen in every aspect of policing. That is one of the reasons to drastically limit the opportunities for the government to enter our lives. If there is a person being victimized then most people will agree that intervention is acceptable. That is much less the case when the laws are about micromanaging people's lives.
Do you realize that for every drug arrest warrant issued there are probably 20+ issued for failure to appear in misdemeanor court?
IME arrest warrants for drug offenses (which normally only issue upon filing of a new charge where there isn't an outright arrest) make up a tiny percentage of warrants issued. Hell, there are vastly more civil body attachments open at any given time.
But let's keep ignoring that and that errors get made in those too... Instead let's focus on the political!
Do you realize that for every drug arrest warrant issued there are probably 20+ issued for failure to appear in misdemeanor court?
In 2011 there were 1.5 million arrests for drug charges, according to FBI statistics. No small quantity. A whole lot of opportunities for abuse and downright murder.
In 2011 there were 1.5 million arrests for drug charges, according to FBI statistics. No small quantity. A whole lot of opportunities for abuse and downright murder.
We can discuss other regulations that shouldn't exist. I've never shied away from those discussions.
We've also discussed holding these people accountable for their mistakes.
I really have no idea what point you're trying to make.