Friday, December 20, 2013

This is being done in our name all across America

The nation's moral panic on drugs has gotten so extreme that it now seems 'reasonable' to anally rape people that your dog barks at in a 'drug' way.  Carpe Diem has the story:

About six weeks ago, I reported the disturbing case of David Eckert (“America’s cruel Drug War now includes forced anal probing of innocent victims by law enforcement agencies“), who was anally raped by law enforcement officials in New Mexico and their medical accomplices in a futile search for drugs that escalated through multiple cavity searches, enemas, and X-rays, and ended up with a forced colonoscopy.
Jacob Sullum reports today in Reason (“Drug Warriors Kidnap and Sexually Assault a Woman After Getting Permission From a Dog“) on another disturbing drug search case that produced no drugs, this time of an innocent 54-year old New Mexican woman who was victimized (kidnapped, sexually/medically assaulted, and raped to be specific) by law enforcement officers and their medical professional accomplices. In a failed attempt to find drugs following a false positive alert by a dog, the victim was subjected to multiple invasive body cavity searches of her vagina, buttocks and rectum by two different doctors, a forced enema, a forced X-ray, and an forced CT scan.
Result: No contraband. Then to add insult to injury, the victim refused to sign a consent form and is now being billed $5,000, apparently the “going rate for sexual assault and gratuitous radiological bombardment” as Jacob Sullum aptly describes it.
If you know me and are in any way associated with or support the enforcement of our truly vile drug laws don't tell me so I can continue in my delusion that you are a civilized person.  Because I will no longer knowingly associate with cruel bigots.  And if I find out that you're one while in my house, I'll throw your ass into the street.  So on second thought, maybe you should find some other friends.  Perhaps a nice gang of sadists.

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