Waking a person unnecessarily should not be considered a capital crime. For a first offense, that is.
Robert A. Heinlein
Time Enough for Love
[This is for Barb. It’s something she can relate to after recent events.—Joe]
The View From North Central Idaho
Ramblings on explosives, guns, politics, and sex by a redneck Idaho farm boy who became a software engineer living near Seattle.
I have the uncanny ability to cause long-lost relatives, college friends I haven’t spoken with in 20 years, and telemarketers to call me upon command, simply by taking a very unusual-for-me Saturday afternoon nap, once every few months.
One day I will figure a way to monetize this. Until then I merely rage internally upon waking.
The corollary is that it shouldn’t be a capital crime to react instinctively on being awakened by a no-knock raid that happens to be served on a wrong address.
I wouldn’t say that.
Heinlein’s comment is humor. Your point is a hard fact of human rights and correct application of the Constitution. In fact, it isn’t a crime at all, capital or otherwise, to react that way. But it is a crime to commit a no-knock raid (on any address, “right” or not).