COPS GOING OVERBOARD

To Orwell Today,

Hi Jackie,

Thought you might enjoy this commentary of mine:

Officers sometimes go overboard in drugs search

Freedom-loving citizens should be aware that we have had several recent cases in our police state where officers raided buildings suspected by circumstantial evidence to have illegal drugs or drug-producing operations only to find tomatoes, fish tanks or kids playing video games.

With their guns drawn, police in Pullman, Wash., serving a marijuana search warrant, found a green leafy plant material, which turned out to be tomato plants.

In Brooklyn, N.Y., while searching for a meth lab, police broke down the door of an innocent couple, only to discover a fish tank and the chemicals needed to maintain it.

In another recent case, an upward spike in a family's power consumption alerted police to a potential marijuana growing operation. When they raided the house, officers discovered that the family was merely playing video games in the basement. They received some new games for Christmas and had been ceaselessly playing them since which explained their higher than normal electricity bill. The children hardly noticed the real police breaking into their own basement, as they were fully engrossed in a killing spree over a virtual Afghan poppy field.

When the police announced that the family was in the clear, it made me wonder if perhaps there is a place somewhere where the scales of justice are not so topsy-turvy; a place where peace officers give families friendly reminders that it's not so healthy to revel in imagined killings.

Best regards,
Jim Banholzer

Greetings Jim,

Your police-state warning is timely with recent "Orwell Today" postings about out-of-control cops up here in Canada, where they're becoming a sick joke and the laughing stock of the world (except that it isn't funny).

All the best,
Jackie Jura

Canada cops taser 82-yr-old patient
("corporal said to guys 'Ok, get him',
then bang, bang, bang 3 times")
Cops taser patient on oxygen tank
Taser Oxygen
(spark could have blown sky-high)
Cops threw teen into padded cell
(hands & feet tied; leashed to door)
Stun-gun probe upsets victim's mom
Taser Mom
('cops trying to discredit his reputation')
CanCom/AOL, May 10, 2008
CANADA'S COPS UNLEASHED
& CANADA'S KILLER COPS
& CANADA'S HERO ROBERT DZIEKANSKI
& ANIMAL FARM DOGS &
34.MiniLuvTorture & 7.Systems

Taser parties a growing USA trend
(cops selling stun-guns to women)
BBC, May 10, 2008
SHOCKING STUN GUN CIVILIANS
& 40.Electric Shock Brainwashing

Sniffer dogs government's best friend
("keep kids safe from drugs")
ToryParty, May 3, 2008
27.Goodthink
& POLICE DOGS IN ANIMAL FARM
& DRUG WAR IS PEACE

Police raid suspected meth house
(only find a fish tank)
Warrantless search upsets homeowner
(accused of grow-op over hydro bill)
Inventor of drug LSD dies at age 102
(1 gram enough for 20,000 people)
TVNews/VanSun/AP, Apr 30, 2008
DRUG COPS HOME INVASIONS &
20.Police Snitches & 37.We're Dead
& CANADA COPS UNLEASHED

CONCERNED CITIZEN DRUG WAR
(no more dealers or users)
& Drug scene kills another business
(constant threat of violence)
Gov't wants more needle injection sites
(free crack cocaine, heroin...)
Drugs Tobacco
Gov't bans tobacco selling & smoking
(in or near all public buildings)
BusExam/VicTimes Apr 14, 2008
22.Doublethink & 35.Brotherhood
& DRUG WAR IS PEACE

7.Systems of Thought and 20.Thought Police & Snitches and 37.We Are The Dead and 38.Cellars and 34.Ministry of Love (Torture) and 43.Big Brother Tells 'Why'

WHY ORWELL WROTE 1984

Jackie Jura
~ an independent researcher monitoring local, national and international events ~

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