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Fri, 07 Dec 2007 06:55:52 +0000

[...] Breaking: Two Officers Surrender In Johnston DeathBy Stephen Littau… adding more checks and balances, structure and supervision as well as providing the officers with extensive outside training. On the anniversary of her death, Johnston’s family filed suit against the city of Atlanta. More to come…The Liberty Papers – http://www.thelibertypapers.org [...]

By: Billy Beck

Billy Beck — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 07:24:49 +0000

“Authoritarians in both political parties want to dismiss us libertarians as crazy for demanding an end to the war on (some) drugs, that doing so would result in chaos.”

I see this rubbish all the time. I challenge it: “Look around you. We now have more law & order than ever before. How’s it working out for you?”

They just blank-right-out.

It’s an astonishingly durable delusion. I cannot imagine what it’s going to take to bring it into contact with reality.

By: Brad Warbiany

Brad Warbiany — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 16:33:57 +0000

I’m glad that they’re getting their punishment. I’d love to see it go higher, though. These were the foot soldiers in the war on drugs, and as we’ve often seen, the behavior of these men is not limited to “a few bad apples”. As the friend of Smith says, he thought he was doing a great thing and being a “good cop” until he finally realized that he was responsible for destroying an old woman’s life through lies and deceit. Those lies and deceit go farther up the chain of command, I’m sure, and I’d like to see some of them get their just desserts.

The truly sad thing about this is that it will do nothing to end the War on (some) Drugs. There is a wider lesson here, but the public doesn’t want to see it, the government is trying to hide it, and the media can’t sell any ads with reasoned discourse (they do better with perp walks).