No More Swat Style Pot Raids

If there's no changes,a recent B.C. Supreme court ruling should spell the end to SWAT style drug raids in B.C. Justice Catherine Bruce ruled that the police practice of using a battering ram to smash down doors and entering the premises with guns drawn and ready and pointed at peoples heads was a recipe for tragedy and could not be tolerated.The majority of Canadians seem to agree if the papers are any measure.The judge was probably aware of several recent cases in the US in which deaths occurred and not always to the correct targets.Of course there were the usual cries from the kill em all crowd,led by Surrey Mayor Dianne Watts.Watts finds evil in every corner and has traveled all over Europe in an effort to support her drug courts and other lock 'em up measures.She managed to avoid all the countries with harm reduction policies and hit all the pro prohibition countries which proves that you can find evidence for just about any plan you want to back.Watts is first to claim success if it suits her but also first to complain of runaway crime if that fits her agenda.The simple fact is that the police have been using this kind of brute tactic for years and it is one of the last remaining practices from an era where they could do what they wanted to addicts as they were considered less than human.It's sad that there are still people like Watts and Steven Harper that still think they can arrest their way out of the drug problem.They've had nearly 100 years and it's just getting worse.They've scared off all the old hippie types and what's left is a bunch of criminal gangs with world wide connections and no respect for life.If that's progress,something is very wrong.