The Baltimore Sun reports on another instance of jack booted thuggery, this one perpetrated by the Prince George’s County, Maryland Sheriff’s Department. Having allegedly intercepted a package containing marijuana that had been mailed to the home of the mayor of the town of Berwyn Heights, the sheriff’s department evidently presumably concluded that someone in the mayor’s home – possibly the mayor himself – was a dangerous drug dealer, and a violent criminal. I say presumably, because there is no other explanation – nomrational explanation, at least – for what the sheriff decided to do. Seems the department thought it was necessary to stage a violent, paramilitary style raid on the mayor’s home. In the course of this “police” action, members of the sheriff’s SWAT team shot and killed the mayor’s two dogs, and generally terrorized the inhabitants of the home. The mayor was forced to descend the stairs of his own home, clad only in socks and his underwear, backwards and with his hands up. Only problem is, the thugs were mistaken. Seems that two individuals were recently apprehended for participation in a smuggling ring that had their goods shipped to unsuspecting homes. Has the sheriff’s department apologized? Of course not. Seems like just another case of a bunch of jack booted thugs with too many resources, too little smarts, and not enough real criminals to chase. Like Roger Clemens.