To Protect and To Serve or To Molest and to Perv? . . . . .

Jeebus:

ALBUQUERQUE >> A second lawsuit was filed Friday against southern New Mexico authorities accused of illegally subjecting drug suspects to invasive body cavity searches. And the attorney who filed the cases says she has been getting calls from others saying they were detained after the uncertified drug-sniffing dog at the heart of both cases raised suspicions.

Albuquerque civil rights attorney Shannon Kennedy filed the new lawsuit against the Hidalgo County Sheriff's Office on behalf of Timothy Young, who says he was strip-searched in a gas station parking lot, then taken to the hospital for a cavity search. The lawsuit claims the searches were unreasonable, and that the body cavity search was in violation of the search warrant issued. Kennedy says the warrant was issued to search his body but not body cavities.

The sheriff of the border county could not immediately be reached for comment.

Kennedy has also filed suit against the sheriff's office and police in Deming on behalf of a southern New Mexico man who was taken to two hospitals and forced to have anal probes, three enemas, two body X-rays and a colonoscopy following a traffic stop.

The lawsuits have raised questions about drug searches along the border. In addition to the two cases filed by Kennedy, the American Civil Liberties Union says it is preparing to sue U.S. Customs and Border Protection on behalf of a woman who was crossing into El Paso in December and subjected to invasive searches after a drug dog alerted agents.

Attorney Laura Schauer Ives says the woman was strip-searched, vaginally probed then taken to the hospital for more invasive tests, a forced bowel movement, X-rays and scans. No drugs were found, the ACLU said. 

http://www.lcsun-news.com/las_cruces-news/ci_24486027/second-new-mexico-suit-filed-over-body-cavity


Ok -- can we as a society finally arrive at a majority consensus view which postulates that at the point in which your civilian police corps, with legal sanction from the government, is forcing anal probes, vaginal probes, enemas and colonoscopy procedures on innocent people - your vaunted and interminable war on drugs can officially be classified as a colossally, embarrassingly and utterly miserable fucking failure?

Wow!  And what is particularly galling and execrable about these cases is that the affected individuals had only been detained initially on minor traffic infractions.  Imagine getting pulled over for a burned out tail light and the next thing you know, because the Barney Fife of police dogs alerts on your car, you are spirited off to multiple hospitals where, against your consent, they begin shoving probes up your ass and/or in to your vagina, giving you forced enemas and then outpatient surgery colonoscopies -- only to find absolutely fucking NOTHING! This is America in the 21st century folks!!  Aren't you proud?!

But this is all part of the right wing, Christo-fascist utopia that people like Ted Cruz and his Christian Dominionist lunatic pals yearn to coerce over all Americans as the unquestioning law of the land and it ought to make anyone who sincerely loves this country nervously wonder whether freedom and democracy will even be around for their descendant's futures.


----TFG