Posted on 08/24/2015 6:31:56 AM PDT by Red Badger
Well, thanks Carl; now we have a name:
"Nowhere in his affidavit does Trooper [Nicholas E.] Nason state that he had firsthand knowledge that Mr. Jackson lived in the apartment or that he conducted any surveillance on the property.
If he was military, he'd be looking at a Dishonorable Discharge and time at Leavenworth. The Massachusetts State Police should have a court-martial and do the same.
This was not always the case. At one time the police considered themselves to be one of us. And they considered us to be one of them.
This won’t stop until the SWAT thugs have to pay. SWAT raids have exploded over the last 20 years and how has this benefitted society? Any lawsuit won’t result in a dime less for the thugs.
I think unfortunately we will need to see some real carnage before the public gets enough backbone to go against gangsta government.
Civil asset forfeiture PDs, Militarized local PDs. DHS Brownshits, TSA perverts, IRS goons, the highest incarceration rate on the planet, Jade Helm -15, all the other corrupt Fed agencies (ATF, DEA, FBI, CIA, EPA, BLM etc etc). Has the totalitarian state reached a tipping point with the public?
Union pushback and general social moral rot have combined to soften the degree of professional discipline that officers used to be made to respect. Now I wonder if they get sent on field trips to S&M halls for their training. In Boston, might not be far from the truth, might even go on their own accord.
The individual PD personnel, supervisors and the chief can be named in the suit to be filed as co-defendants, thus also liable for monetary damages..................make them think twice and even three times next raid................................
Hope they enjoy their new home(s) in Florida.............................
The LEO’s swat teams when they exeute these things never pre scout out their locations. They can do so simply by interviewing without tipping their hand the mail person who delivers to that location. Or have somebody pose as a delivery person. If they did that they’d be saving themselves a lot of grief.
If it’s a business like a tavern have somebody go in and check out to see if that suspect like a known thief or pusher is there. Been in one of those with two off duty coppers inside and nobody else. Just walked out and got stopped by one of the swat team members and told them who was in there but they didn’t listen. As they formed up at in both entrances and barged in with guns drawn (and laughed my phisteris off) but in this raid somebody could have gotten killed.
I hope they have lots of lawyers. That was a terrifying ordeal. Wrong house???? If they can’t get addresses straight, the swat teams need to be disbanded. That is the only contact these Americans (and many others) have had with terrorists - our own drug police.
When you support a political system where the govt can misuse it’s power to oppress a specific group of people, like the way lefties love to misuse govt against the political opposition, that power quickly becomes generalized. The next thing you know the govt is coming after the people who supported the original misuse. This is a rule that people never seem to understand. That power you misuse against another WILL come back at you. Most religions understand this and call it different things like Karma or the Golden Rule. Our degraded society has lost sight of these things.
I do sometimes enjoy the schadenfreude though.
They "felt" their lives were in danger? I hope they THOUGHT their lives were in danger.
In any event, they were correct - their lives WERE in danger.
The Horse, Hunter, and Stag
An Aesop’s Fable:
http://www.taleswithmorals.com/aesop-fable-the-horse-hunter-and-stag.htm
They not only had the wrong house, since the guy hadn’t lived there in months, THEY HAD THE GUY THEY WERE SEARCHING FOR ALREADY IN CUSTODY SINCE AUGUST 6th.......................................
Methinks they won’t be living in that place or state much longer, even have new BMWs to get to where they are going.......................
Then, of course, there’s also THIS “problem”.
POLICE STATE? WHAT POLICE STATE??
It’s legalized plunder by the state pure an simple. We love our dogs in this house but the cops LOVE REALLY their DRUG-SNIFFING critters. Why? Studies have shown that, because the United States is such a huge cocaine/heroin market, something like 80% or more of the currency in circulation has a dusting of one of those drugs on it!
What’s in YOUR WALLET?
In a trial in another of the growing list of 4th Amendment violating ILLEGAL, CRIMELESS currency seizures, the defendant’s attorney asked the judge to present the paper currency in HIS wallet for testing in the presence of the jury: All of it tested POSITIVE! The accused won and the state was ordered to return the defendant’s property. (But, because of who many of these officious state functionaries THINK they are, he may still be waiting!) (And, no, the judge’s dough was not seized nor was he jailed.)
And you thought those red light cameras were the REAL revenue producers? Silly you!
Dick B.
Sad but this is much more prevalent than it ever should be.
“The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the Crown. It may be frail — its roof may shake — the wind may blow through it — the storm may enter — the rain may enter — but the King of England cannot enter — all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement!” [William Pitt, in Parliament 1763]
Do SWAT teams *ever* enter the correct house???
How quaint......................
You would think that, as a bare minimum of due diligence, someone in the chain of command would have checked that the address was current and the person was NOT ALREADY IN JAIL..............................
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