What are you basing this on? I mean I know this is how it's always portrayed in film because it's exciting, but that doesn't mean it's how this actually played out in reality.

Unfortunately law-enforcement agencies behaving like para-military goon squads in situations where it's utterly uncalled for is becoming more and more common.

Ever since Columbia, MO SWAT injured a man and shot his dog (all on video) they changed there requirements for such action. SWAT use has dropped significantly since then. The charge? A few joints. Columbia is a college town.

You're right. The topic was deviating and I was responding to the comments on armed enforcement but the quote didn't work.
My apologies.

It's the reporter calling it a raid. Who the hell listens to any kind of stupid panic buzzwords like that from the news before actually reading the reports or actually seeing something having been filmed for proof?

Everyone is using the word raid, and it's all so similar that it nearly sounds like everyone just read the same single article and then went about repeating it. Amazing lack of detail here.

Not to deviate too much, but this needs to be emphasized. The war on drugs accounts for an overwhelming majority of people in state and federal pen.

As far as what the FBI did, I don't have much sympathy for the guy, but on the other hand the FBI was a bit stronghanded.

You would think... but actually, that ain't the reason :-)

"Dammit, we need more taxes from other people to keep paying for our own fuck ups!" isn't exactly a stinging criticism against the businesses.

That's some really messed up logic you have there.

They evade taxes yet lots of tax payers money is spent on helping them out and you don't see anything wrong with that?

They evade taxes and basically break the law yet demand that the FBI, which is paid with tax payer's money, is used to catch others who break the law and you see nothing wrong with that?

Or in short: any company that evades contributing to society and then demands society does as it pleases, should be told to f**k off instead of so much money being wasted on a single individual that didn't harm anyone except that very same company who screwed society over by not paying taxes. To me, that's poetic justice if anything.

You have a weird way of reading. All I got from that is "corporations should pay their taxes". But maybe my english is just bad.

No... your English is just fine.

it is the reason...
aka
eagerness of your government to throw people in jail. drugs, copyright infringement, jaywalking, not picking up a can when told...

I thought it was cheap labor because prisons are private run sweat shops in the US where they make millions off prisoners fashioning stuff like license plates?