They have been doing no knock raids in the States for years. What usually happens is a low-level thug wants to stay out of jail. So he acts as an informant (RAT) and tells the police about a fellow trouble maker in order to stay of jail. Then the cops decide to act on this oftentimes bad information and conduct what is known as a "no-knock" raid. A SWAT team storms into the suspects house in the middle of the night and terrify the occupants of the house.
These no knock raids often end very tragically, with the deaths of family members. There have even been cases of raids being carried out at the wrong address!
First of all it is horrible and deplorable to think of all the innocent people that have suffered because of this misguided drug war. Medical clinics run by sick and dying little, old ladies being raided by armed thugs is reprehensible. Especially when it is tacitly condonded by the federal government. It is beyond stupid to prohibit a substance that has never caused a single overdose death and does not cause lung cancer in the name of public safety. But to then have the US government engaging in its' own propoganda war to try to say that drug users are to blame for funding terrorist activities. It's despicable and just plain inaccurate.
And we are supposed to be scared of the terrorists.
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