[maine-iac7]

Scarry - too close to home. Actually, too close to any of us in the country.

On anonymous tips, they can come in like an armed military brigade - over an unsubstaniated ‘parols violation’?

It seems these brigades now pull a full out assualt without first even doing the most curury investigation of the matter -

Truly third world.

What if Mack hadn’t been who he is and had the personal connections he did? And if he hadn’t had the smarts to make the contacts he did?

If he had opened his door and come out as instructed, he could well have ended up with lots of daylight holes in his body because some nervous gendarme with a gun trained on him thought he saw a gun or a suspicious movement? One shot shot have been followed by a volly.

Question: What parole violation, let alone from an anonymous tip, would warrent such a brigade action - and in the middle of the night?

I'd also be suspicious of - and law enforcement should consider - regarding anonymous tips - that the bad guys often make these 'tip calls' in the hopes the good guy that may be a hindrance to his activities - get taken out.

[Daffynition]

http://bangordailynews.com/2010/10/29/news/maine-militia-fights-public-perception/

[Chickensoup]

Friend on the force told me once that when things get slow and beds empty in jail the police troops do sweeps of probationers because most are young and will be in violation one way or another (smoking, alcohol present on property, some illegal substance in house, stolen property, underage females..., registration expired...on and on doing the bogus things young people do) Probation expectations are so stringent that they always can be brought in.

We have become a totalitarian police state.