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Another in what will become a continuing series of posts about police who don’t make me feel safe or secure.

The first is hilarious:  a traffic enforcement camera snaps a picture of an allegedly speeding car, and after a careful review of the evidence a summons is issued.  If you look carefully you can see that the speeding car was being towed.

The second is not at all funny:  someone mailed some pot to the mayor of DC suburb Berwyn Heights.  So a SWAT team broke down his door, shot the family’s two dogs, and interrogated his family as the dogs bled to death.  The unopened package of marijuana was still outside, waiting perhaps for its real recipient.  The cops didn’t have a no-knock warrant.  Had they knocked, the dogs would be alive.  [Update 9/11/2008:  he was innocent.]

George Bush has condemned Russia’s invasion of Georgia.  Bush, who tramples on the sovereignty of three countries before breakfast, said “Russia has invaded a sovereign neighbouring state and threatens a democratic government elected by its people. Such an action is unacceptable in the 21st century.”  Unacceptable indeed.

Bush further criticized Russia’s actions as “disproportionate.”  If he was aware that last week marked the 63rd anniversary of the one-sided nuclear first strike against Japan, he didn’t give any sign of it.