Today on the Josh Tolley Show: ALARMING NEWS -- Store Raided and Looted BY COPS Dressed as Thugs!

Today, Josh interviewed David Adams, a friend of the owner and a witness of the atrocities committed during the Botany Bay raid 8/15/12 in Lexington Kentucky.

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Policing for Profit: Facts About the Botany Bay Raid, Lexington Kentucky

On August 15th, around noon, the Lexington police department stormed into The Botany Bay with about 10 officers to conduct a seizure that was triggered by certain products the government claims are illegal.

Only one officer was in uniform. The others were in plain clothes or decked out in SWAT gear. They refused to show identification to witnesses. When one witness asked how he would know they were police officers, he was told, "You don't."

The shop was open for business. No employee or customer was armed or the least bit dangerous. Here are some facts:

1. There is a state law that is pretty fuzzy. It lists several specific compounds as illegal, then basically says, "and whatever else we decide." This is completely unconstitutional as no one can possibly comply with "whatever we decide."

2. The owner of this business has worked diligently and spent thousands of dollars to comply with the law. The law is clear regarding intent. But when the police were presented with evidence of the business owner's good faith attempts to comply with the law, the cops ignored that and continued to loot and pillage. Keep reading...

I'd Like to Report a Crime: Predatory Law Enforcement Actions in Lexington

I witnessed an armed robbery in broad daylight. The thieves were bold, armed, wore no masks, didn’t hurry. They weren’t afraid of being caught. Although, it turned out they sure didn’t want anyone watching.

The Herald-Leader reported this robbery. They got a couple of facts wrong, starting with calling the looting of a retail store an “enforcement action.” To the handful of us recording the siege, it was hard to distinguish this “enforcement action” from a 7/11 smash and grab.

I arrived just after nine grown men had swarmed into the Botany Bay on Winchester Road. After they handcuffed the four young unarmed employees, aged 18 to 24, the looting began.

Much of it is on video shot through the front window. The entire raid would have been recorded except that the first thing the vandals did was rip out the security cameras. (They also stole the modem and router. Why? Did they feel compelled to further punish the tax-paying law-abiding business owner? They appeared to be all in for that enforcement action.)

The safe was open so they took the few hundred dollars there. They must have been disappointed they didn’t get to actually break into the safe because they destroyed it anyway. Keep reading here...

Decriminalize Everything Starting with Raw Milk, Cannabis and Industrial Hemp

From Nourishing Liberty:

Why are consenting adults being put in jail for harmless substances? I’m looking for some good answers here. I say decriminalize it all. If you have other answers, please share in the comments below.

Let’s start with cannabis, seeing as how the insanity of the drug war is fresh on my mind. Ingesting cannabis never hurt anyone. Ever. The other day, a toddler ate a bunch of cannabis cookies and fell asleep for 16 hours. That’s it. The side effects of cannabis are silliness and sleep. Give me one sane reason to keep this illegal.

But isn’t cannabis a gateway drug?

No. Our own government proved that smoking cannabis does not lead to anything other than silliness and sleep. In fact, “Both alcohol and tobacco tend to precede cannabis use, and it is rare for those who use hard drugs to not have used alcohol or tobacco first.”

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