A few choice words on busting babies

Well this story is so bugging me this afternoon that I decided to vent a little to the station that published the account.

What is our society coming to when a child barely out of diapers is interrogated and punished like a common criminal for playing with dirt? The adults involved in this authoritarian outrage should be punished, not a child engaged in innocent play that is completely normal and expected in her age group. I mean really, didn't you ever make a mud pie?

The child learns nothing from this experience except that she can't trust the authority figures in her life to protect her and the undue and overboard reaction of "kid cop" Porter has educated her on drugs all right. Since she's already been punished for passing fake ones (a connection she is unlikely to have made on her own), she is more likely to be curious to find out about real ones.

Not that Porter would mind. Keeping kids interested in drugs is what keeps a prohibition profiteer like Sgt. Porter in clover.

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