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Heavily armed drug cops raid retiree\u2019s garden, seize okra plants<\/a><\/p>\n

If we let the elderly fry their okra, we might as well just give Hezbollah our whole freaking Navy.<\/em> \u2013 Reader Michael Lichens<\/p>\n

In other \u201cGeorgia police invading homes to kill and maim for nothing\u201d news, this man was killed, in his drug-free home, by a SWAT team on a drug raid<\/a>. In this, he strongly resembles the innocent Georgia pastor who was also killed in a drug raid on his home in 2009.<\/a><\/p>\n

And that pastor was only the beginning for that illustrious group of cops, who then went on to hurl a grenade at a dangerous baby in a crib in yet another drug raid.<\/a><\/p>\n

Funny story: the people who permanently disfigured and possibly brain-damaged that baby in his crib will face no charges<\/a>. \u00a0Let that be a lesson to them! \u00a0 Here is their handiwork<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now you might be the sort of person who thinks that the way to deal with this is change the policies and training regimen governing police behavior, as well as vote out the morons who architected this insane policy and vote in people who will create sane policies so that cops\u00a0can\u2019t simply burst into your home and start shooting you on the basis of nothing. \u00a0But no, that would be too sensible. \u00a0So instead various states like Indiana and Georgia are\u00a0passing or contemplating laws authorizing homeowners to shoot cops<\/a>, while doing nothing to stop no knock raids. \u00a0Because that certainly won\u2019t lead to a completely foreseeable escalation of bloodshed or anything.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"