[angkor]

>>>>I’ll be interested in hearing the rest of the story.<<<<

See #9 above and click the link tot he Plain Dealer story.

I’m as concerned as anyone about the potential misuse of SWAT teams, but it appears not to have happened here.

They needed a license, they refused to get one. A search warrant was issued to inspect their facility and to obtain evidence of known and further wrongdoing.

End of story.

[WayneS]

Most localities do not use their SWAT teams to serve simple search warrants.

[DJ MacWoW]

I don't think it's the end of the story. The local comments on the story that I found seem to indicate it's not. Hopefully more will come out.

And there are other links on FR.

While Navy Seabee Is Fighting in Iraq, His Family Under Attack by Food Regulators in U.S.

Btw, why has the government the right to approve our food?

[Wallace T.]

I disagree, whether or not there was a SWAT team involved in the raid. First, the co-op sold legal products. Second, as a co-op, these legal products are to be sold to members only. The general public cannot buy from it unless they join the co-op. Therefore, the local government has no justification to interfere with the operation of this private business. This is the sort of nanny state attitude that has led to the disastrous problems that, on a larger scale, led to the subprime mortgage crisis and the decrepit state of the American automobile business. It has to stop.