Anyone interested in what really happened to America in the 20th century should take a look at the Wikipedia entry for Peter McWilliams, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ain't_Nobody's_Business_If_You_Do

Perhaps if the police or the judge that issued the warrant had read it, Ms. Johnson would be alive today.

Until we demand change, none of us is safe, whether we use drugs or not. If the death of an old woman in her home is not proof enough, that the police can kill you anytime, anywhere, including your own home and use the cover of the war on drugs to hide their actions, than you the reader have become more blind than Lady Justice, and by your silence you support the tyrants that wait to kill you and take your property in this the land of the free and the home of the brave.

Vote, Speak, Convince Others, before they come for you.

[Drug use is an individual life-style choice. It is not a medical problem. I am utterly opposed to the medicalization of all bad behavior, as you can see by reading Addicted to the Drug War, Vices Are Not Crimes, Mel’s ‘Malady,’ Foxman’s Fetish, and more under Junks Science and Criminal Injustices]

[Incentives are inverted in ALL government enterprise, so that bad conduct is seldom punished. Government enterprise is eternally protected. When a bureaucrat or a bunch of them fails, they get more funding. Their job security and pensions are in perpetuity (try and fire a teacher!). Libertarians understand the economics of such sluggish immoral systems. That’s why we are vocal about them. On the other hand, you don’t want to be a private company or entrepreneur who does harm to a consumer. A lawyer doesn’t even need to prove intent or harm to be able to ruin such a practitioner. There is very little incentive in the private sector to do what government employees get away with daily. Other than its voluntary nature, this is why commerce runs relatively so smoothly. When the government does evil things, there is simply no accountability, because different laws apply to state officials, and because people, many of them conservatives, want to keep state employees a hallowed and protected species, not subject to the laws we are all subjected to.—ILANA]

As a NYC cop and a an old right conservative supporter of the free market I can’t believe how fast you libertarians, when it comes to to your support of drugs and using them, will attack the local police.
I for one support the legalization of most drugs and can’t wait till they are legal so you guys can quit bitching about the so called goons. I would bet my life that not one of those cops wanted nor expected that outcome and I would also bet that cop is going through a tough time right now.

Doctors “kill” more patients everyday through negligence and mistakes but you guys will not mention that becasue they are not statist goons. The death does not matter to you, the person(state) that did it matters.

[Why assert with no proof? One of the greatest libertarians alive, Thomas Szasz, has devoted his life to exposing the corruption and cooptation of the medical and psychiatric professions. That’s big on my list too]

This is a terrible tradgedy and one that needs answers and correction.

But. too many libertarians consider themselves experts becasue they can hit a target but have never been in situations that make them, make these life or death decisions in one or two seconds.

I will pray for this poor lady and her family but also the cop that did not want this when he woke in the morning.

I do hope this lady was not protecting one of her grandkids or great grandkids and was killed becasue their illegal activity.

I’m looking for the ballistics to tell me whether or not they were hit by “friendly fire”. Regardless, she was still heroic for standing up for herself.

Given the neighbors’ report concerning her character and behavior, I am very skeptical of the story of the alleged “buy” at her house.

The ATF lost 4 agents in the initial raid (though there is considerable controversy about who actually killed the agents in question). Shortly thereafter, the FBI and – ultimately – the military were brought in to liquidate the Branch Davidians.

While our all-knowing, “compassionate” overlords allowed the 92-year-old granny to own a rusty revolver for protection, the goons who killed her have access to weaponry (post-1986 full auto or select-fire) that has been illegal for any US civilian to own for the last 20 years. (A civilian can own pre-1986 models of such firearms in certain states provided the BATFE gives approval to do so (an 18-month process). They are very, very expensive – often costing as much as a luxury vehicle – well out of reach of the average civilian. I’m sure the SWAT team’s arms were all provided by our tax dollars which are spent so freely by our ever-compassionate overlords.