Keeping America Safe: SWAT Team Storms Family Home,
Shoots Pet Dogs, Over Small Bag Of Marijuana Shipping in hard narcotics from abroad while
busting casual dope smokers
Video of a SWAT narcotics raid in Columbia, Missouri has gone
viral on the internet after officers stormed into a house, shooting
one family pet dog and killing another in front of a small child,
only to discover an insignificantly small amount of marijuana.
The incident provides a compelling example of how the phony
war on drugs in America operates.
The raid occurred in February, but the footage has only recently
come to light as the case has been ongoing.
The video shows heavily armed officers forcibly entering the
home of 25 year old Jonathan E. Whitworth and his wife and 7-year-old
son.
Police are
said to have received "intelligence from two
informants that claimed Whitworth had a large amount of high-grade
marijuana at his residence."
The footage reveals that a shot is immediately fired by the
officers upon entry to the house. According to a report in the
Columbia
Daily Tribune, this shot was not thought to have
wounded either of the two dogs, one corgi and one pit bull.
A further report
in the Tribune somewhat contradicts this explanation,
as it outlines the incident as described by the Columbia Police
Chief Ken Burton:
Three officers shot at the pit bull, and the first missed
completely, which is when the corgi is believed to have been
shot in the paw, he said. The pit bull acted aggressively
toward a SWAT member again as they pushed into the home, which
resulted in the animal being shot, he said. After being shot,
it moved to attack a SWAT member, which is when the dog was
killed.
The police chief did not indicate any regret for sending an
armed SWAT team into a family home and shooting up the dogs,
rather he indicated that the warrant to search the home was
executed too late to catch Whitworth with more marijuana.
“It was not a mistake to shoot the pit bull,”
Burton said. “I wouldn’t be standing here if an
officer had been bitten by a pit bull instead of the reverse
happening.”
The raw footage follows this analysis of the incident by Alex
Jones in which he explains how it is a centerpiece of the government's
phony war on drugs. Alex explains how the CIA and other agencies
of government have admittedly carried out narcotrafficking operations
for decades. This is especially true in Afghanistan, where troops
guard opium crops, and the fight against the Taliban and al
qaeda is mired in drug trafficking.
Whitworth pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of possession
of drug paraphernalia. This was in exchange for dropping charges
of misdemeanor marijuana possession and second-degree child
endangerment. Casual pot smoking constitutes child endangerment,
bursting into homes and firing automatic weapons is apparently
a valid solution to this problem.
An internal review is scheduled for completion in two weeks.
Whitworth and his family are reportedly considering a civil
action against the department.
Reaction to the incident and the video has been heated. The
Columbia Police Department has been bombarded with phone calls
and e-mails following what it has described as a "widespread
misinformation campaign" on internet message boards and
blogs. The department also says it has received a direct death
threat toward Columbia police officers.
This is not an isolated incident. According to research
by the CATO institute, paramilitary police forces
are conducting up to 40,000 forced, unannounced raids every
year on nonviolent drug offenders, bystanders, and wrongly targeted
civilians.
While militarized police are trained to aggressively crush
any notion that marijuana use is tolerable, federal government
agencies, aided and abetted by giant offshore financial corporations,
are shipping in the majority of hard narcotics into the U.S.
These controlling powers are working to keep marijuana illegal
as a pretext create artificial scarcity and jack up their profits,
as well as to pack privately owned and run prisons with non
violent offenders.
This is reality at the centre of the phony Drug War, as documented
in Kevin Booth's excellent documentary films American
Drug War and How
Weed Won The West.
Video of a SWAT narcotics raid in Columbia, Missouri has gone
viral on the internet after officers stormed into a house, shooting
one family pet dog and killing another in front of a small child,
only to discover an insignificantly small amount of marijuana.
