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80-Year-Old Man’s Last Moments With Wife Interrupted by Drug Raid

When Utah’s Barbara Mahaffey died of colon cancer last May, police were in the house within minutes searching for her prescription medication, as her distraught and mourning 80-year-old husband watched helplessly. “I was holding her hand saying goodbye when all the intrusion happened,” he said.

“I was indignant to think you can’t even have a private moment,” he added. “All these people were there and they’re not concerned about her or me. They’re concerned about the damn drugs. Isn’t that something?” Mahaffey said.

He said the authorities treated him as if he were going to sell his wife’s pain medication on the street.

Mahaffey has filed suit against the police for the search. His attorney said, “I don’t believe the public would intend for the government to be rummaging through your cupboards while your wife is lying in the next room being prepared to be taken to her final resting place. That’s an extraordinary violation of privacy.”

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  • http://twitter.com/CausticPop Gareth

    It’s comforting to know that the government’s enforcers would go so out of their way to protect us little people from… octogenarian widowers.

  • Anonymous

    You can rest easy in your beds tonight, citizens. Justice has been served.

  • JackofSpades

    There are obviously instances of governmental abuse that are greater in scope and magnitude. However, this might be the purest, rawest, and most concentrated form of governmental abuse I’ve read about in the last few days, if not week. Terrible.

  • Michael Mills

    But, but, think of the children! God I hate that justification for every strong arm tactic ever employed…

  • Anonymous

    I knew the government did raids for cocaine and even marijuana, but for prescription medication now? Seriously this is messed up.

  • Anonymous

    The consequences of a society that masks a war against a minority of its own people as a war against an inanimate object.

  • Mike

    Sweet mother of God. What’s more damaging to society, police and government doing as they damned well please, regardless of any rights you are supposed to have, or drugs? Face the facts, the “war on drugs” has become an excuse for abuse of power at many different levels. All it takes is one yahoo in one agency tasked with enforcement, and doors get kicked in, pets and people get killed, and then we hear “oh, sorry, wrong address”.

    Bull shoi!

  • jhowa

    this crap seems to be on the rise. once they take guns from us….it will all be down hill…..kinda like “shindlers list”

  • stvjas

    Welcome to the ‘New America’ the Police-Statism-Soclism-currptism…..

  • Anonymous

    What? This is government insanity at its worst. Who notified the police that this poor man’s wife was about to take her last breath? And, what gave the police the opinion that they must immediately raid their sovereign home and confiscated her legally obtained prescription drugs? This is nothing but “Big Brother” in full jack-booted thug mode!

  • Anonymous

    I’m beginning to believe that there are a lot of government officials that are in need of a full-blown psychiatric evaluation. That should also include a full MRI brain scan to see how many of their brain cells have burned up and turned to dust!

  • SomeoneWhoCares

    Who are these people in the police force that would do such a thing? Don’t they have a conscience? Where is their soul? How can they go home to their families and sleep at night knowing they violated another in such a manner? The buck stops with the individual. Stop participating in taking away our liberties. All the way, from top to bottom, stop this insanity by not participating. Quit your jobs if you have to. At least then you’ll save your soul.

  • Ken Henry

    It is obvious we all are appaled by the actions of a system cold, disengaged
    With people and the absense of caring humanity. You would think if they cared they would have first priorly to get him help, trained to be better prepared, considerate and
    Compassionate. Wrong. Rather the more militant and disengaged with
    The people they serve!
    Shamefully it’s becoming more obvious those who swear to
    Protect and serve, have little more consideration as if you were standing
    In line at the vehicle tag agency.
    You take a number and wait, pay your money and no “how are you
    hope you have a good day”!. “Give us the money”, and out the door at
    the discretion of ungrateful government workers.
    These servants of the community get paid know matter bow they treat
    You.

  • Franklin

    They typically have quite serene consciences, knowing they upheld the law dutifully and firmly, as they were trained and instructed. There is doubtlessly no remorse, and certainly a plethora of stoic and arrogant rationalization.

  • BrunoT

    You’re missing the point. Someone on the force wanted those drugs for their own purposes. To use, to sell, or to give to informants “off the books” for information. Nice police state we’ve got going.