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2014-04-03 -Land of the Free

Family spends $25,000 to learn why SWAT team uselessly raided their home

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Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-04-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 No beloved family dogs or pets were shot this time???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-04-03 00:31|| 2014-04-03 00:31|| Front Page Top

#2 On The Federal Level Now We Know What the Hollow Points are For. Feds have started raiding businesses and homes, one business, one home at a time. The purchases were not defensive. The are for an offensive. A 91 year olds home was raided for his collection of artifacts a few days ago. A ammunition manufacturing business in Montana was raided last week, probably to get a list of customers.

This sinister government is going to get nasty now.

Posted by Bubba Graiting8281 2014-04-03 09:38|| 2014-04-03 09:38|| Front Page Top

#3 In other words, if the Feds have an issue, you will not get letter in the mail, you will not get a couple of agents knocking on the door, this regime intends to come at you with a full blown raid. You are the enemy. And they will make that known to you and to the rest of America.

Posted by Bubba Graiting8281 2014-04-03 09:48|| 2014-04-03 09:48|| Front Page Top

#4 If that's not unlawful search under the constitution it comes very, very close. Instead of paying all that money they should have gone to the ACLU and O'REilly factor and put the heat on the cheap.

That Sheriff should be forced to resign as incompetant.

Posted by rjschwarz 2014-04-03 14:48|| 2014-04-03 14:48|| Front Page Top

#5 A sheriff resign? Surely you jest. LEO and judges are beyond criticism or blowback.
Stories like this are starting to put a new spin on the old phrase "pour encourage les autres" -- that is, terrorize the innocent population to "encourage" them to submit without question.
Alex Solzhenitsyn is said to have written a few lines starting with "And how we burned in the camps later, thinking..." Google it. I am not sure he actually wrote that, though.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2014-04-03 15:38|| 2014-04-03 15:38|| Front Page Top

#6 I guess the brothers in the hood aren't important or too dangerous.

Posted by Dale 2014-04-03 16:06|| 2014-04-03 16:06|| Front Page Top

#7 This wasn't the Feds, it was the County Sheriff, and with few exceptions that is an elected position. They can, and should, scream bloody murder loud and long. Might be able to get him booted come election time.

I'm sure there are other instances of questionable actions by this guy and his department.

Posted by Secret Asian Man 2014-04-03 17:01|| 2014-04-03 17:01|| Front Page Top

#8 This stems from a perverse incentive that police have in drug matters; civil forfeiture.
They raid your house and find drugs, they get the house, and your cars, and anything else they want by saying you bought it with drug money. Simple as that. The brothers in the hood another poster mentioned have no assets to seize, used car and a few $$$ laying around. Bob Harte obviously has a much more attractive asset base to plunder.

Posted by bigjim-CA 2014-04-03 19:21|| 2014-04-03 19:21|| Front Page Top

#9 ...back in colonial times they (sheriff and magistrates) simply accused you of witchcraft to confiscate your property and dispose of it for gain after they disposed of you.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-04-03 20:18|| 2014-04-03 20:18|| Front Page Top

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