Federal agents' pre-dawn raid on reporter's home raises questions

FOX News ^ | October 28, 2013 | Todd Starnes

[july4thfreedomfoundation]

Thank-you.

[Jacquerie]

The Revolutionary generation did not have peaceful means to assert their liberty rights against George III.

We do. It's in Article V of our constitution. If it isn't utilized, it is entirely our fault.

[Borax Queen]

That’s very sad to hear — I didn’t realize they had gone so far over to the darkside too.

[ilovesarah2012]

You don’t think they monitor this site along with FB and others? My daughter is always telling me the black helicopters are gonna get me. I don’t think she’s kidding.

[VideoDoctor]

Let’s see how the MSM responds to this. Frankly, I expect them to remain silent...which sort of scares that crap out of me.

Hate to inform you but the MSM works for Hitler and the Gestapo.

[qaz123]

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

If their warrant didn’t particularly describe the paperwork that they seized from her, than they violated the warrant and committed a theft. They could have gone and drafted another one to get that stuff, after articulating to a judge why they wanted it.

Those things are pretty specific for a reason. It prohibits the police from going on fishing expeditions, as it appears in this case.

But, at the end of the day, absolutely nothing will happen. Have to protect the state at all costs.

[TalonDJ]

The militarized lockdown of Watertown, Mass., during which heavily armed officers went door to door without search warrants terrorizing families at gunpoint and ransacking homes, led Ron Paul to observe that the manhunt was more frightening than the attack itself, saying it resembled “scenes from a military coup in a far off banana republic.”

When that happened there were a lot of people here on FR defending the police's actions. Even though all the gestapo tactics did not actually catch the guy (it was a phoned in tip from outside the search area). It was pretty revolting. "Yeah but they were scarey and KILLed some people so it is ok if the cops round up half the town and point guns at their heads."

[ExSoldier]

Scouring the world for psychopaths people of similar mindset?

There, better?

[Stentor]

There, better?

If it makes you sleep better.

[ExSoldier]

I guess. I have been losing a lot of sleep lately. Sorry to correct your stuff. I probably wouldn't like it either.

[Stentor]

I didn’t take it badly. I saw your point.

[OneWingedShark]

It's not a felony (or two) if the police do it to everyone, right? [/sarc]

(I love how the pic shows the 10-year imprisonment form of the second, just on its face.)

[2harddrive]

Those PVC potato guns are supposed to be a LOT of FUN! Don’t they use lighter fluid as a propellant?