The War on Drugs is FUCKED UP!!

Yesterday, the Atlanta police provided even more horrifying evidence that the
government's war on drugs continues to be a disastrous failure.

The case involves one of the latest casualties of war: 92-year-old Kathryn
Johnston of Atlanta, whose November 21 death was the result of a botched "no
knock" drug raid on her home. Visit
http://www.mpp.org/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=glKZLeMQIsG&b=1425757&ct=3290937
to read her story.

A search warrant stating crack cocaine was being sold in her apartment allowed
the officers to cut through the burglar bars protecting Johnston's home and
burst through her door without identifying themselves.

Johnston, who lived alone, apparently mistook the plainclothes officers for
intruders and fired on them with an old revolver her niece had given Johnston
for protection in her notoriously dangerous neighborhood.

She didn't hit any of the officers. The police responded, firing 39 shots,
killing Johnston and apparently wounding three of their own.

After her death and a fruitless search of her home, the officers planted
marijuana to justify the raid.

An excerpt from an Associated Press article reveals the despicable depths to
which the officers sank before, during, and after the raid:

"The deadly drug raid had been set up after narcotics officers said an informant
had claimed there was cocaine in the home.

"When the plainclothes officers burst in without notice, police said, Johnston
fired at them, and they fired back.

"Assistant U.S. Attorney Yonette Sam-Buchanan said Thursday that although the
officers found no drugs in Johnston's home, Smith planted three bags of
marijuana in the home as part of a cover story.

"The case raised serious questions about no-knock warrants and whether the
officers followed proper procedures.

"Atlanta Police Chief Richard Pennington asked the FBI to lead a multi-agency
probe. He also announced policy changes to require the department to drug-test
its nearly 1,800 officers and require top supervisors to sign off on narcotics
operations and no-knock warrants.

"To get the warrant, officers told a magistrate judge that an undercover
informant had told them Johnston's home had surveillance cameras monitored
carefully by a drug dealer named Sam.

"After the shooting, a man claiming to be the informant told a television
station that he had never purchased drugs there, leading Pennington to admit he
was uncertain whether the suspected drug dealer actually existed."

 

Saw this on the MPP website earlier today. It sounds like something out of a movie but it is actually happening.

 

yea.. it was in my newsletter from MPP

 

leave it to the pigs...

 

This is fucking bullshit. ask yourselves, what if this was you? your family? your friends? This is intolerable.

 

I'm becoming desensitized to this kind of thing, which sickens me, but its just so common and so expected. This really needs to be brought up in the supreme court... all the wrongful deaths as a result of this drug war, the people should be tried for murder...

 

Sickening. Have you guys ever seen Penn and Teller's episode of Bullshit about the drug war? They actually do a very good job.

 

I love Penn and Teller's Bullshit. i haven't seen the one on the war though.

Yeah, we have much bigger things to worry about right now. I know that I would defend myself if people in street cloths broke into my home.

I too seem desensitized to these horrific tragedies because I hear about shootings and stabbings daily on the street of Boston. I hate watching the news because that's all you ever hear about.

 

"A war on people who just love to dance
A war on music, a war on speech
A war on teachers and the things they teach
A war for the last 500 years
War's just messin' up the atmosphere
A war on Muslims, a war on Jews
A war on Christians and Hindus
A whole lotta people just sayin' kill them all
They gotta a war on Mumia Abu Jamal
The war on pot, is a war that’s failed
A war that's fillin' up the nations jails
World war one, two, three and four
Chemical weapons, biological war
Bush war 1, Bush war 2
They gotta a war for me, they gotta a war for you!"

-Spearhead