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Old 01-09-2003, 09:27 AM  
machineg
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another one same idea ... stupid cops


Marijuananews note: This sort of thing happens regularly in DEAland, but it usually is not reported outside of the local area by the DEAland prohibitionist propaganda organizations, even when someone is killed.

Sometimes the Canadian papers have been guilty of printing the kind of reefer madness that encourages these excesses, but they also have the honesty to report the raids.

Dana Larsen of Cannabis Culture Magazine writes:

Pot-police go home-invasion crazy!

Three bad pot-related police home-invasions take place over one weekend.

Police shoot family dog, terrorize babies, scare families, beat people, victimize handicapped seniors!
By Dana Larsen
Editor, Cannabis Culture Magazine

"Abbotsford is a town outside of Vancouver with its own police force. On Sunday, Jan 3 at 5pm, Abbotsford black-clad SWAT police stormed a house with a search warrant for marijuana.

Despite 2 hours surveillance through open, curtainless windows, the police thought there were only 2 adults in the house. There were actually 11 adults and 15 children, celebrating a child?s birthday party. One police officer shot the family dog three times, killing it in front of the children and splattering blood onto a two-week old baby.

Witnesses were also said to have seen the police officers beating several people, and one man was admitted to the hospital spitting up blood, which witnesses said resulted from the police beating.

This is just one in a rash of marijuana-police home invasions that occurred over the weekend. In Edmonton on Saturday, Jan 2, police smashed through the front door and window of an elderly handicapped couple?s rooming house, victimized and handcuffed them, because they thought that some of their tenants might be selling marijuana. "These people live in a building where this type of activity was going on," said the cop.

Also in Vancouver, the same night that the Abbotsford cops were murdering the family dog, Vancouver police smashed their way into a home because they thought they smelled marijuana, they saw bags of fertlizer in the backyard, and they claimed the windows were moist. Actually, it was just a single man who burned incense, but if he had been holding a pellet gun in his hand when police smashed down his door, he would likely be a dead man. This happened in 1992, when police shot and killed 22 year old Daniel Possee in exactly this fashion, in a raid that netted a few ounces of marijuana.

Please take a moment to write your brief opinions to some of the media contacts below.

You might wish to note that the tragic thing is that these kind of violent police raids go on all the time, and they?re not acceptable even when it?s adults-only and there is some marijuana or a grow operation. Our society does not need people with guns and body armour invading homes to destroy marijuana plants and peaceful marijuana gardeners. These overzealous and violently aggressive officers are a threat to us all.

As long as the insane war against the natural herb marijuana continues, the police will be forced to continually invade homes they think might harbour pot plants, and innocent people will continue to be terrorized, endangered, and sometimes killed.
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