I think what needs to be fully understood here is this: we have militarized our civilian police forces.
Look, we arm our SWAT teams with M-16s, body armor, black uniforms, Kevlar helmets, and masks. We train them to move with military precision. We transport them to a suspected crime scene in armored personnel carriers and accompany them with light tanks. And then we act surprised when they raid some innocent's house like a military raid and someone gets killed.
It's what we asked for, people. It's what we paid for. And it is definitely what we got.
We are using this militarized force to fight a theoretical war on drugs that should not be fought in the first place.
Who owns your body? If the answer is that you own your own body, then who has any realistic right to say what it is you do with or to that body--unless you harm others.
Get government out of the business of controlling personal behavior that has no direct impact on another.
After all, it has been succinctly noted by better minds than mine: Power corrupts; and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Now, what are we the people going to do about it?
I weep for my country.
Crusader Rabbit