The Jack-Booted Thug(s) of the Week...

... are the Federal and local law-enforcement officers who, ignoring the lessons of the Kathryn Johnston incident which occurred a few years ago right up the road in Atlanta (which caused three of that city's officers to end up in prison), served a drug warrant at the Polk County, Georgia home of 76-year-old Helen Pruett, during which the frail woman suffered the latest in a series of heart attacks.  Pruett is now in the local hospital's ICU and is listed in critical condition.

Yep, you guessed it.  Just like in the Johnston case, these buffoons managed to raid the wrong house, despite their apparently performing a "comprehensive investigation": 

"Police say they have had her [Marchelle Holl, Pruett's daughter] mother's home under surveillance for two years."

They sure did an outstanding job with all of that time with which to work, didn't they?  Just think how much of our tax money went towards funding this total debacle.

At least Polk County Police Chief Kenny Dodd is refreshingly stepping up to do the right thing, instead of acting like the majority of his colleagues in similar situations who cowardly hide behind the "we're investigating the incident" smokescreen until the press coverage blows over:

"Dodd says he has gone to the hospital to check on Pruett and apologize to the family for what has happened."

Thank you, sir.  We suppose it would be too much to ask the Imperial thugs over at the DEA to do the same thing.

Look - we don't like that people use illegal drugs, and never have and wouldn't ever use them ourselves.  It saddens and sometimes disgusts us.  It is now patently obvious, however, even to current U.S. drug "czar" Gil Kerlikowske, that 40 years and $1 trillion of our tax money has failed to make even a small dent in the usage rate of drugs in America:

"'In the grand scheme, it has not been successful,' Kerlikowske told The Associated Press. 'Forty years later, the concern about drugs and drug problems is, if anything, magnified, intensified.'"

Just like Prohibition, the government is never going to win this fight.  It's clearly time to quit pouring resources and money down this rabbit hole, not least because fighting this losing battle with ever-increasingly unconstitutional tactics regularly inflicts harm on innocent bystanders such as Johnston and Pruett (to say nothing of empowering the kind of murderous drug gangs that this posse supposedly had in their cross hairs).  Decriminalize drugs, penalize people who drive while using or who otherwise put other people's lives and health at risk, and let free adult individuals make the decision whether or not to be stupid and ingest poison.

It does happen to be their bodies to do with what they wish, after all.