Antiwar.com has a great piece about the self-proclaimed Christian soldier who founded Blackwater, and his personal vendetta to wipe Islam off the map, one innocent at a time. Sounds exactly like what Jesus would do.

Once again, we come back to the War on Drugs. Either you are your brother’s keeper or you are not. Consenting adults engaging in consensual activities should not be subject to any law whatsoever. It is these no-knock provisions, need to preserve “evidence,” and the like that embolden cops to feel like their access to private property is more important than the 4th amendment. End the war on drugs, prostitution, gambling, and every other non-violent victimless crime, and much power will be removed from the cops.

Just today in the AJC you can read the headlines of “Cop accused of molestation”, “cop accused of identity theft” and routinely you read of cops killing innocent unarmed victims with both guns and tasers. Rape of suspects, beatings of suspects, questionable jailhouse deaths, and the like are WAY too commonplace.

You are right in noting 9-11 as a turning point, but the police state in this country has been growing for much longer than that. Somewhere police went from being “peace officers” to “law enforcement officials.” That summary leap and the midset that went with it are at the root of the problem. When b.s. charges like “disturbing the peace” and “interfering with an officer” can be leveled at anyone even asking a question of an officer, then we live in a police state.

Personally I blame the War on Drugs which ultimately is just a War on american citizens and their liberty. To fight the war our government MUST violate privacy, lie, cheat, bribe, etc. Since their are no victims in the crime of use or sale, there is no other legal way to secure evidence. The theft of property under “civil asset forfeiture laws” only futher emboldens these criminals. Now new cruisers, boats, cars, and the like are just a traffic stop away. Under law, a charge doesn’t even need to be filed. Nice work if you can get it.

These clowns work for us, not the other way around, and it is high time this nation begin the discussion of whether or not it is time to eliminate government run law enforcement in favor of private, competing security agencies. And also an end to the War on Drugs.

Believe me, the sentiment is far more than mutual.

The Sex Offender Registries are virtually useless but there is one way in which they are certainly useful and that is that they are pretty good at helping identify d-bags who are no-accounts and not worth knowing. I’m not speaking of the people who are listed on the Registries, I am speaking of the brain-less, fact-less, do-gooders who are drawn to the Registries. Those “people” also tend to be moronic hypocrites as well. I do appreciate that the Registries help identify those scumbags.

Here’s the communication/interaction model I suggest for those scumbags – you stay away from me and my business and I will do the same for you. You bother me and my family and get into my business and I will do the same for you. You pass retroactive laws to harass me and my family and I will harass you and your family. Believe me, it is absolutely quid pro quo and then some. EVERY single day. These illegal laws will not exist without a response. So while the laws literally do nothing useful day-in and day-out, the response actually has an impact.

I wonder if it occurs to you that when President Obama said “The Cambridge Police acted kind of stupidly” in arresting professor Gates in his own house for disorderly conduct after his residence therein evidently already been accepted by the officer, he evidenced his agreement with your sentiments in your “Gates’ arrest reveals loss of rights” column today. I wonder if you remain such a Republican leaning libertarian that you must begrudge him credit and rub in the “gaffe” criticism to which I suspect you would object if, say, Newt Gingrich had uttered it, as I can imagine him doing, at least off the record.