I don't see, how by any stretch of the imagination, one could arrive at "no-knocks" as being constitutional unless life was in immediate danger.
What if the person in the house is hard of hearing?
What if the person in the house has the headphones on?
What if the person in the house has a heart condition?
It used to be thought that if one innocent man were imprisoned, it should be obvious the law needs reformed.
When did this change?
Since when is self-defense of life and property negated by a "split-second" ability to identify uniform, and automaticly accept uniform as "no-shoot, ever, no matter what"?!?!?
This is warped logic to me, perverting the idea that created this nation, and was ratified into law.
These laws exist, and haven't been challenged, so they are allowed to exist.
Its time the sheeple start challenging.
Here is a man who made a critical choice to do what he thought was right....... is this what it has to come to?
http://www.filecabi.net/video/pedkillcop.html
This man chose his line in the sand at the government being able to tell him he had to wear some nylon across his chest to protect himself in a car he owned and operated on roads he pays for. Is his reaction extreme? Obviously. Is it beyond understanding? Obviously not, when you look at voting records, legislative intitatives, corporate lobbying, special intrests, bi-partisan laws that limit 3rd parties from even DEBATE!
The police are the front line between law and citizen.
They are militarizing in response to increased violence being directed at them, instead of looking at the lawmakers and saying "HEY, can you not see how this violates rights morons?!?"
The American people seriously need to wake up and understand what authoritarianism is.
Bush said "you are with us, or against us".
Its about time the American people say that to the bi-partisan scham that has become our government.
“The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves.”
-Dresden James
“Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no Constitution, no Law, no Court can save it...Where do you stand Citizen?”
-Judge Learned Hand (1961)