"English common law has required law enforcement to knock-and-announce since at least Semayne's case (1604), and in Miller v. United States (1958), the Supreme Court of the United States recognized that police must give notice before making a forced entry.[1] In the U.S. federal criminal law, the rule generally requiring knock-and-announce is codified at 18 U.S.C § 3109.[2]"
A thousand years of "Your Home is Your Castle" was erased with the advent of the Nixon 'No Knock' Law.
"The number of no-knock raids has increased from 3,000 in 1981 to more than 50,000 in 2005, according to Peter Kraska, a criminologist at Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond.[4] Raids that lead to deaths of innocent people are increasingly common; since the early 1980s, forty bystanders have been killed, according to the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C.[4]"
"The number of no-knock raids has increased from 3,000 in 1981 to more than 50,000 in 2005, according to Peter Kraska, a criminologist at Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond.[4] Raids that lead to deaths of innocent people are increasingly common; since the early 1980s, forty bystanders have been killed, according to the Cato Institute in Washington, D.C.[4]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-knock_warrant
I doubt you think you are supporting the Rise of a Fascist State.
The fact is the Government could have arrested David Koresh as he jogged on Double E Road or was in town.
1. They chose NOT to do that. Deciding on a more Cecil B. DeMille Spectacular. 75 Stormtroopers, dressed to kill, storming a Farm compound filled with men, women, and children.
2. Once this backfired, the Government used every available tactic to induce the residents to "Come on out, we won't kill you".
3. After the residents were all killed, the amazingly efficient Propaganda Machine convinced the American Public that the 'residents deserved it'.
It's NOT surprising that the American Public is so accepting of Donald Trump. America is already halfway there to an Authoritarian Government.
"We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid."
"Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do."
The Bill Clinton, Janet Reno and through her, the BATF and the FBI.
He may have been a pedophile and a cult leader, but the reason they went in there in the first place was to arrest him on 'arms violations', clearly violating the man's right to bear arms.
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