Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Police state tactics

Many of my liberal friends, althought we disagree on this countries foundational principles among other things, believe in the second amendment but somehow still feel that the government is out for it's citizens best interest and don't believe in stories like the one below and simply discredit the source whatever it is because it may tarnish their perspective and they may, God forbid, have to admit they are wrong. I have read several stories from around the country where their are instances of this happening so I am beginning to post them now when I find them so that they may be exposed, remembered and counted and to create public awareness. For those who do not understand what this means it is this...

Our fourth amendment right is being violated!
Our second amendment right is being violated!


What is important here is not to freak out and take one story at face value even though I believe it is a cause for concern but remember them, count them and eventually you will begin to see a pattern unfold that may paint a rather dismal picture of what is left of our rights.


In a federal raid last month, more than 150 armed agents pounded on doors around town at dawn and rousted 16 residents...

Those arrested the morning of June 10 told friends and relatives that they had opened doors to the barrels of automatic weapons. There were at least eight to 10 armed agents per home...
Those snared in the sting ranged from convicted drug users to some of the town's most upstanding citizens. They were taken to Moab and charged, some with as many as four or five felonies, and all of them with at least one felony — violation of the antiquities act...
One of those charged was Harold Lyman, 78, the town founder's grandson. A week before the raids, he was inducted into the Utah Tourism Hall of Fame. Another was a physician, Dr. James Redd. He killed himself a day after the raids. A week later, another of the raid's defendants, a man from Santa Fe, committed suicide...
Hurst, a private archeologist in Blanding, said "they put them in leg chains and shuffled them off to jail like they were Saddam Hussein."...

There are also inconsistencies in the handling of artifacts that add to ambivalence about the laws. The Bureau of Land Management has been known to smash pots and rock objects when there was no place to store them. And BLM and U.S. Forest Service agents were implicated in one of the recent search-warrant affidavits for taking and selling items themselves — an allegation the U.S. attorney's office won't comment on...


http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_12765729

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