Government officials do some really crazy things in the
name of law enforcement. I recently
wrote about an armed raid on an animal shelter in order to
execute a baby deer.
That was paramilitary overkill (pun intended), though it
probably didn’t waste as many tax dollars as the regulatory overkill of the year-long sting operation by the Food and Drug
Administration against an Amish farm for the horrible crime of
selling unpasteurized milk to consenting adults who prefer unpasteurized milk.
And let’s not forget Robert Norlander, the thuggish, dumpster-diving IRS agent, who
sought to ruin the life of an innocent man because…well, for no reason.
Well, we now have something that may be even more absurd.
Radley Balko reports in the Huffington Post about “a
massive police action last week that included aerial surveillance, a SWAT raid
and a 10-hour search.” Sounds like the cops must have been up against the mafia.
Or a bunch of bank robbers, right?.....To Read More…
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