Scary story for today

WorldNetDaily has a story today (hat tip Radley Balko at Reason) that scares the living daylights out of me. Essentially, an 11-year-old boy fell while horsing around with his sister and bonked his head pretty good. His family determined he was fine, but a neighbor called paramedics anyway, and things spiraled from there. Ultimately, a magistrate ordered the Sheriff to go and get the boy, and the Sheriff certainly complied:

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.

So why the lack of deference to the family's judgment? Apparently their politics weren't quite right:

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.

It's one thing to disagree with someone's political or governing philosophy. It's quite another to use it as a justification for this kind of insanity.