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people throughout the
#   Caribbean and struggled against drug abuse on the islands, died Friday,
#   when a SWAT team burst into his apartment unannounced, looking for drugs.
#   
#   They misread a floor plan by "an informer."
#   
#   The same Drug Control Unit was investigated for a death in 1988, and it
#   was revealed that their officers routinely FABRICATED INFORMERS to obtain
#   search warrants.
#   
#   The agents chased the 75-year-old minister to his room, then broke through
#   his bedroom door...he became so frightened while being handcuffed that he
#   began vomiting and collapsed. He died a few minutes later.
#
#   The Reverand Accelynne Williams was a scholar who could read Greek and
#   Hebrew.


The New York Times, CyberTimes, April 29, 1997

                The Police and Civil Liberties

A unanimous Supreme Court affirmed the importance of civil liberties
yesterday when it ruled against exempting ALL drug raids from the Fourth
Amendment's requirement that police executing a search warrant knock and
announce their presence before entering someone's home or hotel room. 

The Court's unanimity in the case is a special embarrassment for the Clinton
Administration, which argued that a no-knock entry should routinely be allowed
in drug searches unless the police knew that neither they nor the evidence
would be in danger if they announced their presence. 

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Illegal drugs are a great benefit to drug dealers.

The Drug War is a great benefit for perpetuating
and expanding corrupt Governmental power.

#   "Smoke and Mirrors---The War on Drugs and the Politics of Failure"
#   By Dan Baum, ISBN 0-316-08412-3, 1997
#   
#   The War on Drugs made the criminal justice system one of the top growth
#   industries during the eighties and nineties.
#   
#   Police jobs at all levels of government swelled by 36 percent and prison
#   jobs by 86 per