Spring (Texas) man raided by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services (Scary Carnivore reference!)

The Villager ^ | November 13, 2003 | Jim Belew

[TexRef]

This is crazy!!!

[Vigilantcitizen]

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[etcetera]

Another victim mugged by gov't.

[Texican72]

When will this insane War on Orchids end????

[EggsAckley]

Sure is!

[No Blue States]

You jackbooted goverment thugs, go raise some trout fry and repopulate our streams or something useful.

[SaveTheChief]

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

[StolarStorm]

Carnivore is just one more example of how our country is turning into a police state.

[joesnuffy]

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

[ffusco]

See Plato's Republic......

[Libertarianize the GOP]

ping

[sailor4321]

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?

[TruthNtegrity]

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.

[joesnuffy]

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....

[justlurking]

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.

[Doctor Stochastic]

We are At War now.
If you do No Wrong, there's Nothing go Fear.
It's for The Children.

[LocalYokel]

"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.

[LocalYokel]

"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.

[LittleJoe]

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.

[hopespringseternal]

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.