This story... doesn't just baffle me... it scares the living crap out of me.

Nearly a dozen members of a police SWAT team in western Colorado punched a hole in the front door and invaded a family's home with guns drawn, demanding that an 11-year-old boy who had had an accidental fall accompany them to the hospital, on the order of Garfield County Magistrate Lain Leoniak.

The boy's parents and siblings were thrown to the floor at gunpoint and the parents were handcuffed in the weekend assault, and the boy's father told WND it was all because a paramedic was upset the family preferred to care for their son themselves.
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The sheriff said the decision to use SWAT team force was justified because the father was a "self-proclaimed constitutionalist" and had made threats and "comments" over the years.

However, the sheriff declined to provide a single instance of the father's illegal behavior. "I can't tell you specifically," he said.

"He was refusing to provide medical care," the sheriff said.

However, the sheriff said if his own children were involved in an at-home accident, he would want to be the one to make decisions on their healthcare, as did Shiflett.

"I guess if that was one of my children, I would make that decision," the sheriff said.

More here from Yahoo News.  The child was evaluated and immediately released, because the doctors couldn't find anything wrong with him, just like the father said.  So apparently the police were so fearful for the child's health that they thought it best to send in a dozen men with sub machine guns, where the child could have easily been shot and killed in the cross fire and confusion had gunfire erupted.  Are you fucking out of your minds?!

The rationale used to be that SWAT teams would only be used against heavily armed and dangerous people who were accused of serious crimes, or in terrorist situations, or hostage situations.  Now we're sending them in to take custody of children because they have a bruise on their head, and because heaven forbid, a citizen actually believes that the Constitution means something?  And people think this is acceptable?!

This is beyond outrageous.  It is criminal.  Whoever made the decision to send in a SWAT team in this case should be immediately relieved of duty, and fully investigated.  Their ability to adjudicate the law in a manner consistent with the Constitution is obviously in doubt.

Via The Agitator.