I'm going to have problems explaining myself

I have made fun of "ACLU stoners" several times on this blog. That is because of when they were smoking marijuana. At the time, they were supposed to be monitoring the Minuteman volunteers, which should be a serious job, maybe even a dangerous job (according to their own hysterical rantings)--even though it turned out to not be dangerous. This was no time for getting high. If they want to go home afterwards and chill out with a smoke, that's their business. Openly and flagrantly smoking dope while they were supposed to be watching a so-called "vigilante" group is just stupid.

It boils down to this: I don't care if someone smokes marijuana, as long as it doesn't interfere with me. If they have a small toke when they want a buzz, that's their risk and their problem. There are legal ways of getting high, and there are illegal ways. If they choose an illegal way then it's their risk of getting caught. Plenty of people make it a point to get loaded on beer or other alcohol on frequent occasion and no one thinks anything of it because alcohol is legal. I am of the opinion that many things that people think are bad, are not really when used in moderation. This includes alcohol and marijuana.

So, here is another article regarding Anthony Diotaiuto :

The search warrant, provided by Diotaiuto's family, shows that the SWAT team was looking for money, bookkeeping records, firearms and other evidence that Anthony Diotaiuto sold drugs.

An inventory of items seized from the home listed 'cannabis' and 'drug paraphernalia,' as well as shell casings, firearms, and a BB gun. It did not say how much cannabis, or marijuana, or what type of paraphernalia was found.

It has already been said that Mr. Diotaiuto owned two firearms. He had a handgun, to go with his valid concealed weapons permit, and he had a shotgun. These two weapons make perfect sense to me. A handgun for when you have to leave the house, a shotgun for when you're home. These two weapons are exactly, and I would even say only, what a person needs who is concerned only with protecting himself and his family. A hunter would need more firearms, and a collector would definitely want more. Yet, undoubtedly (I'm just waiting for it), someone is going to call two guns an arsenal. So that's how "firearms" were seized. Also notice that they seized a BB gun. (Cough).

They seized shell casings. What gun owner does not have some shell casings laying around somewhere. I am not even a reloader and I have a couple of big plastic bags full of empty shells.

They found cannabis. How much, exactly? Three or four ounces? Three or four kilograms? I really want to know.

They also seized "drug paraphernalia." For anyone not familiar with marijuana use (come on, I know you're out there somewhere), this could include an alligator clip. You know, the kind that you put on the end of a wire for electrical/electronics purposes.

So here he have a man who worked two jobs, went to church every Sunday, had done everything he should to get a concealed weapons permit, and smoked a little dope.

Here's my crackpot theory: he was made an example of. Some pusher distributor of an illegal drug got nailed, and to lighten his sentence, he gave the police the names of some of his customers. Someone else, doing standard research on the names, noticed that one of them had a concealed weapons permit. And he was made an example of.

I just want to once more point out this paragraph:

The search warrant, provided by Diotaiuto's family, shows that the SWAT team was looking for money, bookkeeping records, firearms and other evidence that Anthony Diotaiuto sold drugs.

Firearms, there mere possession of them, apparently, would be evidence that he sold drugs.

He's an example for all of us.