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Take the case of Kenneth Wright of Stockton, Calif., who was “visited” by a SWAT team from the U.S. Department of Education in June 2011. Agents battered down the door of his home at 6 a.m., dragged him outside in his boxer shorts, and handcuffed him as they put his three children (ages 3, 7, and 11) in a police car for two hours while they searched his home. The raid was allegedly intended to uncover information on Wright’s estranged wife, Michelle, who hadn’t been living with him and was suspected of college financial-aid fraud.
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The year before the raid on Wright, a SWAT team from the Food and Drug Administration raided the farm of Dan Allgyer of Lancaster, Pa. His crime was shipping unpasteurized milk across state lines to a cooperative of young women with children in Washington, D.C., called Grass Fed on the Hill. Raw milk can be sold in Pennsylvania, but it is illegal to transport it across state lines. The raid forced Allgyer to close down his business.
My God, on this Easter day, what have we become as a nation?
Can we endure much more of this before losing all we have been and all we ever sought to become?
We are no better than animals to be herded, and treated in the most vile manners, by those that get off on bullying.
The number of raids conducted by local police SWAT teams has gone from 3,000 a year in the 1980s to over 50,000 a year today.
They are also feared within the departments themselves. Can you imagine having a team at work that everyone else is afraid of?
originally posted by: Bassago
a reply to: Destinyone
We are no better than animals to be herded, and treated in the most vile manners, by those that get off on bullying.
You are absolutely correct. Two of my kids work for the state and they were telling me about their "SWAT" units. Those guys are so arrogant and self entitled it's unbelievable. They are also feared within the departments themselves. Can you imagine having a team at work that everyone else is afraid of?
It's time this insanity was ended.
Since 9/11, the feds have issued a plethora of homeland-security grants that encourage local police departments to buy surplus military hardware and form their own SWAT units. By 2005, at least 80 percent of towns with a population between 25,000 and 50,000 people had their own SWAT team. The number of raids conducted by local police SWAT teams has gone from 3,000 a year in the 1980s to over 50,000 a year today.
originally posted by: the2ofusr1
a reply to: 727Sky No need to go into the waste of time effort and money the Govt's. waste . I used to by what was called Crown assets disposal operations .You could literally buy a million dollars worth of stuff for like 50 bucks .I had one friend that was sending all the military hardware off to Iran and making a mint on the stuff .That was years ago .I have no idea how all that is handled now ...
First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out-- Because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out-- Because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out-- Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me--and there was no one left to speak for me.