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Report: Blogger gets visit from cops for Googling “pressure cookers” and “backpacks?”
Hotair ^ | 08/01/2013 | MARY KATHARINE HAM

Posted on 08/02/2013 7:28:18 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: Balding_Eagle
"This is all a stunt to bring them publicity.

Agree.
21 posted on 08/02/2013 8:15:48 AM PDT by PowderMonkey (WILL WORK FOR AMMO)
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To: SeekAndFind
I have already taken a pro-active step should any cop types come to my door. The mat in front of my door reads, “COME BACK WITH A WARRANT”. So, before they ring my doorbell they should read that mat and get the hell off my doorstep if they don't have a warrant.

Should I answer the door, and they say they want to search, I'll have them read the door mat. If they hand me a warrant, they can come in. Otherwise, they are out of here.

Everything I have in this house is legal, but I don't want them messing around with my self defense weapons and perhaps seeing my battery fed security alarms of different types. No warrant, no lookie.

Never in my life would I have thought we should be worried about the privacy of our homes and possessions. It brings back every book or film I ever saw about searches of the Nazi Brownshirts, Gestapo, and the Russian KGB, and those entities not stopping at searching, but also rounding up those whose houses they went in.

We have to be careful now what words we put on the internet, what searches we do - we are under martial law, Gestapo/KGB tactics, it just doesn't yet have the words, Martial Law, officially printed on what is happening to us.

22 posted on 08/02/2013 8:25:53 AM PDT by Marcella ((Prepping can save your life today. I am a Christian, not a Muslim.))
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To: PowderMonkey

NEVER EVER give the police or any government agency permission to search your car, your house, your business or your person without having first contacted a lawyer. That should be the first demand “Show me a valid warrant”. Secondly, you should DEMAND that you be able to contact a lawyer. NEVER EVER ALLOW THEM IN YOUR HOME WITHOUT THEM SAYING THEY HAVE A WARRANT OR SUPERCEDING PROBABLE CAUSE OF AN IMMEDIATE NATURE.

NEVER, NEVER, NEVER!!!!!


23 posted on 08/02/2013 8:32:59 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Balding_Eagle

Well, a voluntary yes probably led to the more relaxed interview. If they’d had to get a warrant I bet they would’ve come back & trashed the placed. And shot the dog!


24 posted on 08/02/2013 8:33:47 AM PDT by Twotone (Marte Et Clypeo)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

Several weeks after the pressure cooker bombs, I wrote a whole article on pressure cookers and that is written on Survival Podcast website. It’s a long article and describes what type and model pressure cookers are available, right down to the price of each one.

First, that website having the word “Survival” in it, I’m sure brings the half white Hussein justice dept. or FBI or Homeland Security to that website. If they were watching who was researching pressure cookers, I was one of them. So far, no one has come to my house.


25 posted on 08/02/2013 8:34:32 AM PDT by Marcella ((Prepping can save your life today. I am a Christian, not a Muslim.))
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To: Marcella

First answer, “Do you have a warrant”...if no, then say “Come back with one.”.....if still persisting, say “I Demand a call to my lawyer”......then call your neighbor over to be a witness....


26 posted on 08/02/2013 8:34:40 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Marcella

You need to break out the leafblower.....heh

27 posted on 08/02/2013 8:34:52 AM PDT by ErnBatavia (Carlos Danger for mayor....NYC deserves him)
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To: ErnBatavia

where can I get one?


28 posted on 08/02/2013 8:37:39 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: null and void
Of all the people who've ever googled both "pressure cookers" and "backpacks" in the last year, Our Betters decide to noisily investigate a blogger?

They googled "pressure cooker bomb" and "backpacks," apparently not too long apart. And it was someone who just were let go from a job, and the cmployer was concerned enough to report it.

29 posted on 08/02/2013 8:38:02 AM PDT by norcal joe
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To: Gaffer

You could have your lawyer’s number in your cell phone and carry cell phone to door. If they give you any trouble, hit your lawyer’s number and start talking to his office. That would stop the cop types at your door (assuming they had no search warrant).

If they did have a search warrant, they come in while you are calling your lawyer anyway so he knows what is happening.


30 posted on 08/02/2013 8:38:15 AM PDT by Marcella ((Prepping can save your life today. I am a Christian, not a Muslim.))
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To: ErnBatavia

That’s it except mine doesn’t have leaves on it.


31 posted on 08/02/2013 8:39:05 AM PDT by Marcella ((Prepping can save your life today. I am a Christian, not a Muslim.))
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To: Marcella

Good advice..


32 posted on 08/02/2013 8:39:08 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Gaffer

I dunno.....just did an image search.


33 posted on 08/02/2013 8:49:29 AM PDT by ErnBatavia (Carlos Danger for mayor....NYC deserves him)
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To: ErnBatavia

My wife wouldn’t like it but I’d damn sure put one at my doorstep....


34 posted on 08/02/2013 8:53:17 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: Balding_Eagle

I’m thinking this whole article is bunk. First, you don’t let in anyone without a warrant. Second, they shoot dogs, not pet them. Third, there’s no way a real group of armed suits would not go into the son’s room.

Ok, let’s see... I have pressure cookers and backpacks in the house right now. Oh, noooo! Going to use the cooker pot to sterilize jars for jelly making this weekend. School is starting soon, so the kids’ old backpacks were thrown in the washer which will save on having to shell out $$$$ for new ones. I’m such a scary person of interest, sigh.


35 posted on 08/02/2013 10:55:01 AM PDT by bgill (This reply was mined before it was posted.)
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To: SeekAndFind
100 civil violations a week. That's 20 families a day being MOLESTED out of OUR 4th amendment RIGHT!

It's OK, it's the other guy this time. I'm a good citizen, why would they want to bother me?

When the commies start to run out of money, they have a habit of MURDERING people to get more!

Enjoy your Police State America.

36 posted on 08/02/2013 11:28:50 AM PDT by rawcatslyentist (Jeremiah 50:32 "The arrogant one will stumble and fall With no one to raise him up; And I will set)
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To: Balding_Eagle

“We have a rice cooker...no you cannot make a b*mb with that.. my wife uses it to make quinoa.”

“What the hell is quinoa?”

LOL


37 posted on 08/02/2013 11:59:32 AM PDT by TheConservativeParty ("Happy, happy,happy." Phil Robertson)
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