In other things it took until yesterday to hear with regarding being raided by the State, I am told that this sort of thing happens because we have a broken Democracy (tm), and what we need is more Democracy (tm).

I presume that this is because I am well-known as a cynic about Democracy (tm) for all the reasons that I am cynical about every other system that ends in -cracy. 'Cause we all know what that root means, right?

In this case? No, Democracy (tm) is directly to blame. The fine American tradition of the no-knock raid is a direct product of the gutless, hyperphobic, cowardly, craven, selfish American voter - and the politicians who shamelessly indulge them - which is positively delighted to throw a few innocent people under the bus from time to time in the name of security theater and sleeping safely in their beds in the knowledge that as long as they're doing it to Julia, they're not doing it to them.