SWAT Team Invades Home, Kidnaps Child
Here in Colorado, a SWAT team stormed a family’s home and stole their 11-year old son. Why? Because a paramedic was annoyed that the boy’s father wouldn’t take him to the hospital for observation (the father has medical training and determined that it wasn’t necessary; the kid had fallen on a driveway and struck his head). Even if this were a case of negligent parents, of course, using a SWAT team was absurd: a pair of deputies sent to the family’s door would have sufficed. Instead, the SWAT team punched a hole in Mr. Shiflett’s door, threatened his daughter and generally were jerks.
Why? Sheriff Lou Vallario (may he never be elected again) complained
that the man was a constitutionalist.
I didn’t know that
respecting the Constitution was grounds for treating a home-schooling
family like a terrorist cell.
