steveh_131
Grandmaster
Officers obviously have the same moral obligation to weigh their actions as we do. Where you and I seem to be missing each other is at this line you're wanting to draw. There is no moral issue here, in this instance, that I can find.
On the contray, breaking into someone's house and kidnapping them presents a very important moral issue. The fact that it is being done on the governments' behest has absolutely no bearing. It's either morally right or morally wrong to break into someone's house and kidnap them. The law doesn't determine that morality.
Their standard is whether or not the actions are legal. Being a Jew is legal, being a drug manufacturer is not. Owning firearms is legal, being a drug dealer is not. Seems pretty cut and dry to me.
It is NOT cut and dry. The law changes constantly. How can we base our morality on laws that change every minute of the day? What will be illegal tomorrow? Owning bath salts? So tomorrow it becomes morally acceptable to break into someone's house and terrify their children with grenades because they own bath salts? Do you realize how absurd this is?
See above. Explain how this is tyranny.
Government agents breaking into your home for silly reasons most certainly qualifies as tyranny.
Furthermore, your graph showing the number of incarcerations proves literally nothing except showing we have more inmates.
level.eleven posted plenty of data on this. No more is necessary.