America, here’s your cruel, senseless,
immoral Drug War….
By Mark J. Perry
About six weeks ago, I reported the disturbing case of
David Eckert (“America’s
cruel Drug War now includes forced anal probing of innocent victims by law
enforcement agencies“), who was anally raped by law enforcement officials
in New Mexico and their medical accomplices in a futile search for drugs that
escalated through multiple cavity searches, enemas, and X-rays, and ended up
with a forced colonoscopy.
Jacob Sullum reports today in Reason (“Drug
Warriors Kidnap and Sexually Assault a Woman After Getting Permission From a
Dog“) on another disturbing drug search case that
produced no drugs, this time of an innocent 54-year old New Mexican woman who
was victimized (kidnapped, sexually/medically assaulted, and raped to be
specific) by law enforcement officers and their medical professional
accomplices. In a failed attempt to find drugs following a false positive alert
by a dog, the victim was subjected to multiple invasive body cavity searches of
her vagina, buttocks and rectum by two different doctors, a forced enema, a
forced X-ray, and an forced CT scan.
Result: No contraband. Then to add
insult to injury, the victim refused to sign a consent form and is now being
billed $5,000, apparently the “going rate for sexual assault and gratuitous
radiological bombardment” as Jacob Sullum aptly describes it.
Jacob provides all of the gory details and then ends
with this insightful commentary:
This kind of abuse tends to draw attention only when
the victim is “innocent,” meaning he or she is not in fact smuggling drugs. But
how can any society call itself civilized when it allows human beings to be
treated this way in the name of locating arbitrarily proscribed substances?
Having arrogated to itself the authority to regulate what people put into their
own bodies, the government ends up forcibly delving into those bodies in search
of the chemicals it has anathematized. To enforce politicians’ pharmacological
prejudices, the government’s agents and their medical accomplices become
kidnappers and rapists. There is nothing noble or decent about this immoral
crusade, and anyone associated with it ought to be ashamed of himself.
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