Not that we really needed more reminders about how we are living in a police state, and while I really don’t have anything new to say and I’m in a hurry to get to a class, I would feel amiss if I didn’t mention two appalling incidents which illustrate how out of control things have become.
Ostensibly to “educate” them, police in Indiana performed what they called a “simulated drug raid” on a group of 5th graders in which the children were subjected to searches by police and the K-9 unit. One of them was attacked and bitten so badly by a police dog that he had to be taken to the hospital:
BRAZIL, IN — Children were subjected to a “simulated raid” of a party so they could witness police searching citizens with dogs and look for reasons to arrest them in a “drug awareness” event. The idea went from bad to worse when one of the children was attacked by the police dog as it sniffed them for drugs.
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Dog handler, Ray Walters, issued a report that described the event that resulted in his dog attacking the 5th grader’s leg.
“As I got closer to the actors, Max [the dog] began searching the juveniles,” wrote Walters. “The first male juvenile began moving his legs around as Max searched him. When the male began moving his legs, (this is what) I believe prompted Max’s action to bite the male juvenile on the left calf.”
The unnamed boy was transported by ambulance to St. Vincent Clay Hospital for puncture wounds on his leg from where the police K-9?s fangs had ripped his skin open.
As to what”educational” purpose was involved, I guess it was to let them know that they live in a police state in which their rights mean nothing, and all resistance is futile.
Then I saw a report in Reason with one of the creepier headlines of the day:
Man Subjected to Anal Search, Multiple Enemas After Traffic Stop
Here’s what happened:
1. Eckert’s abdominal area was x-rayed; no narcotics were found.
2. Doctors then performed an exam of Eckert’s anus with their fingers; no narcotics were found.
3. Doctors performed a second exam of Eckert’s anus with their fingers; no narcotics were found.
4. Doctors penetrated Eckert’s anus to insert an enema. Eckert was forced to defecate in front of doctors and police officers. Eckert watched as doctors searched his stool. No narcotics were found.
5. Doctors penetrated Eckert’s anus to insert an enema a second time. Eckert was forced to defecate in front of doctors and police officers. Eckert watched as doctors searched his stool. No narcotics were found.
6. Doctors penetrated Eckert’s anus to insert an enema a third time. Eckert was forced to defecate in front of doctors and police officers. Eckert watched as doctors searched his stool. No narcotics were found.
7. Doctors then x-rayed Eckert again; no narcotics were found.
8. Doctors prepared Eckert for surgery, sedated him, and then performed a colonoscopy where a scope with a camera was inserted into Eckert’s anus, rectum, colon, and large intestines. No narcotics were found.
Throughout this ordeal, Eckert protested and never gave doctors at the Gila Regional Medical Center consent to perform any of these medical procedures….
Hey, bend over and enjoy it pal! This is the war on drugs!
All your children and all your anuses are belong to us!
MORE: Amy Alkon says this sort of thing used to be unimaginable:
It Used To Be “Absolutely Unimaginable That This Could Happen In America”
This is utterly horrible. Horrible, horrible, unwarranted Police State behavior.
Agreed. So what will it take to stop it? I really do think that the cops who did this — along with the medical personnel and the judge who issued the warrant — should be given a taste of their own medicine. There is no other deterrent. No matter how much money is awarded in a civil suit, the bill ends up being footed by the taxpayers. Many legal scholars have proposed getting rid of sovereign immunity (a good idea), but that does not seem likely to happen, because short of war, power is never surrendered by those who have it.
And in Las Cruces, NM, a woman was “charged $1,122 by a local hospital for a forcible body cavity search ordered by the Metro Narcotics Agency that did not turn up any illegal substances.”
No word on whether they tried to bill Eckert for his colonoscopy, but that procedure is pretty expensive.
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18 responses to “In the war on drugs, your children aren’t safe, and neither is your rectum!”
NO, the Echert/Reason story must be a fake. Are you sure it wasn’t an Onion article?
If this is the country we are living in, I want out. This is like something out of a nightmare.
I refuse to believe it – for the sake of my sanity.
Nixon started the war on drugs as part of his “southern strategy.” Pit the black against the white(more white voters) The young against the old(older voters were more likly to vote) and the rich against the poor(poor people vote much less then rich people) and war on drugs to prevent black people from being able to vote with felony or in some states misdemenors that black people are more likly to commit. In 2000 election in florida a democratic poll taker found more black men she talked to couldn’t vote then could!
Maybe they were looking for republican party headquarters when they looked up his rectum.ask former senator larry(I am not gay)craig about that.
Regarding the second item, a judge signed off on the cavity search based on a LEO’s subjective observation that the man appeared to be clinching his buttocks when exiting his vehicle during a routine traffic stop. That judge should be removed from office.
Ahem, it was Democrat majorities in the house, senate and the presidency in the 1930’s that started the war on pot. Pols in both parties are guilty of supporting the immoral WOD.
People always blame the War on Drugs!!!!!! on the GOP, but…
The Dem had control of both houses of Congress for many decades as the war heated up.
SWAT teams were formed all over the country under Dem control of Congress.
Clinton’s first two years were unified Dem control of the executive and legislative branches and they did nothing.
Ditto Obama.
Hell, Obama just does shit by executive order, he could wave his hand the war would be over, but instead he’s ramped it up.
The Dems like it just fine, they’re more of the jackbooted types, the GOP does it for ‘moral’ purposes.
It always slays me that when you bring up Prohibition people always say it doesn’t work, but that lesson apparently has nothing to do with prohibiting anything but booze.
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Good point Veeshir, and the situation will worsen as Obamacare kicks in, because of the mandatory drug treatment coverage. The drug treatment community wants to cash in and they will see keeping drugs illegal as the best guarantor of a continued supply of captive customers.
That story gets worse, I saw this on Drudge.
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/11/05/man-seeks-millions-after-nm-police-force-colonoscopy-in-drug-search
They sent him a bill for $6k for the medical procedures.
That adding insult to insulting injury.
Everybody involved in that travesty needs to be charged with a felony, fired and prohibited from any position of authority over anything.
Take away their ant farms.
Thanks Veeshir! The police offered this rather typical “explanation”:
“We follow the law in every aspect and we follow policies and protocols that we have in place.”
If that is the law, then the law is an ass!
Or in this case, the law is up your ass!
I think I have the perfect preliminary punishment for all the cops and docs and the judge and everyone in the chain of command.
Strip them naked. Lock their head and hands into stocks at waist level. Leave all the appropriate fluids and medical paraphernalia on tables behind them.
Then give the local prison inmates a work release. Let them carry out the procedures as they will, the only stipulation being that they have to do them in the same order as these malefactors have done and that it be done without benefit of anesthesia.
Then make it clear to every official person in that town that if it ever happens again, this will be the preliminary punishment.
We’ll give them a “fair trial” afterwards. You know, the same kind they like to give to us peons.
Oh, yes, and for the sake of transparency, the stocks will be placed in front of Deming City Hall.
They got another guy: Timothy Young –
http://www.kob.com/article/stories/s3210356.shtml
“We have done public requests to find anything that would show this dog has been trained, we have evidence that this dog has had false alerts in the past,” Eckert’s attorney Shannon Kennedy said.
The doctors from the Gila Regional Medical Center have been turned over to the state licensing board. It’s possible they could lose the ability to practice medicine.
And the police officers will be answering to a law enforcement board.
This was interesting:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/11/07/new-details-emerge-about-new-mexico-man-at-center-of-police-departments-anal-probing-controversy/
He had drug priors that the prosecutor didn’t prosecute.
M.Simon, a snitch who needed a lesson?
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