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Spring (Texas) man raided by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services (Scary Carnivore reference!)
The Villager ^
| November 13, 2003
| Jim Belew
Posted on 11/19/2003 11:39:05 AM PST by TexRef
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This is crazy!!!
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posted on
11/19/2003 11:39:06 AM PST
by
TexRef
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To: TexRef
Another victim mugged by gov't.
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posted on
11/19/2003 11:42:39 AM PST
by
etcetera
To: TexRef
When will this insane War on Orchids end????
4
posted on
11/19/2003 11:43:11 AM PST
by
Texican72
To: TexRef
Sure is!
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posted on
11/19/2003 11:44:32 AM PST
by
EggsAckley
(..................."Dean's got Tom McClintock Eyes".........................)
To: TexRef
You jackbooted goverment thugs, go raise some trout fry and repopulate our streams or something useful.
To: TexRef
We can go after an elderly person growing orchids, terrorize him and tear up his home, but we offer driver's licences and benefits to illegal aliens.
We have some serious priority problems here in the United States.
... Simply amazing
To: TexRef
Carnivore is just one more example of how our country is turning into a police state.
To: TexRef
War on Terror...tax dollars in action
Flower Cops in vests and handguns take on elderly diabetic disabled person....
and steal his stuff...
Good thing he didnt have a dog to shoot or pick up his 12 gauge double barrel to defend himself as they circled around the back of his house..
thugs...nothing more probably less
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posted on
11/19/2003 11:54:51 AM PST
by
joesnuffy
(Moderate Islam Is For Dilettantes)
To: StolarStorm
See Plato's Republic......
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posted on
11/19/2003 11:58:51 AM PST
by
ffusco
(Maecilius Fuscus,Governor of Longovicium , Manchester, England. 238-244 AD)
To: farmfriend
ping
To: TexRef
I wonder if they actually thought this old orchid grower was going to shoot it out with them?
I've always thought that after you've ID'd yourself to an officer you are free to leave. If he/she/it tells you that you can't go, you ask if you are under arrest and tell them that if you aren't you want to leave and they really have to let you go...guess I'd get shot by a game warden, huh?
To: TexRef
This kind of thing just makes me crazy. I don't do anything like this but I have this unsubstantiated fear of having something like this happen to me one day.
Return his computer and his records, you thugs!!!
I hate this. Idiots who don't know what they're doing.
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posted on
11/19/2003 12:06:09 PM PST
by
TruthNtegrity
(God bless America, God bless President George W. Bush and God bless our Military!)
To: TexRef
And while they rifled his possessions they were looking for and hoping to find guns and drugs
guess he should be gratefull they didnt find any or supply one or the other for their search....
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posted on
11/19/2003 12:11:06 PM PST
by
joesnuffy
(Moderate Islam Is For Dilettantes)
To: StolarStorm
Carnivore is just one more example of how our country is turning into a police state. Maybe, but I suspect that this guy just got "caught" by overenthusiastic investigator that doesn't understand the law he/she is enforcing.
Either the original offer was made by a government agent posing as a smuggler, or the smuggler got caught and they found the message on his computer (or webmail account). Given the delay, I would suspect the latter.
To: TexRef
We are At War now.
If you do No Wrong, there's Nothing go Fear.
It's for The Children.
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posted on
11/19/2003 12:12:50 PM PST
by
Doctor Stochastic
(Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
To: Texican72
"When will this insane War on Orchids end????"
It's the War on SOME Orchids, obviously.
Use an Orchid, go to jail.
HS Proms will be the next targets.
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posted on
11/19/2003 12:14:20 PM PST
by
LocalYokel
(my state might be blue but my county was red)
To: Texican72
"When will this insane War on Orchids end????"
It's the War on SOME Orchids, obviously.
Use an Orchid, go to jail.
HS Proms will be the next targets.
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posted on
11/19/2003 12:14:20 PM PST
by
LocalYokel
(my state might be blue but my county was red)
To: ffusco
There really is nothing new under the sun!
Thrasymachus asks "Is Injustice More Profitable than Justice?"
The answer is obviously yes. It is cheaper and safer for the state to send out the goon sqaud to attack an old man who has commited no crime than it would be to go after a dangerous or wealthy criminal.
To: TexRef
This is crazy!!! The smaller the man, the bigger the ego. There is hardly a bureaucrat in Washington anymore who doesn't either carry a gun or have the power to initiate a raid. And every one is itching for the chance to do it.
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