War On Drugs

Here is another example of what the "war on drugs" has come to. A Maryland mayor's house raided by police, his dogs shot, and his family traumatized.

If this report is accurate, it just goes to show what can happen to anyone. It could have been worse. Many people, myself included, take the security of their homes seriously and will shoot first and ask questions later if someone comes busting through the front door.

No one wants to harm a law enforcement officer who is just doing his job, but when the door crashes open, the homeowner doesn't know who is breaking in. With the number of home invasion incidents reported in the news, the potential victim can't afford to take a chance on it being just an overzealous bunch of cops.

With $30 billion spent annually on the "war on drugs," you'd think it would have been won by now. So what do we have to show for all the money and effort expended to rid our country of dangerous drugs? Well, more drugs and a lot of people in jail. It's a lot like the time they decided to make alcohol illegal in America. The result was .... more alcohol and a lot of people in jail. Oh, yeah, and the birth of organized crime.

Maybe it's time to rethink this perpetual problem. We already know that the traditional methods of dealing with this type of situation do no good and, in fact, make the problem even worse.

Illegal drugs aren't going away as long as people want them, and no one wants America to continue down the road to becoming a police state.

I know, we're pretty far down that road already.