Posted on 03/30/2013 7:44:49 AM PDT by bgill
Two former CIA employees whose Kansas home was fruitlessly searched for marijuana during a two-state drug sweep claim they were illegally targeted, possibly because they had bought indoor growing supplies to raise vegetables.
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Good thing my ancient Troy-Bilt tiller is off the books!
And we have two dogs and that would make us a prime target!
One of my favorite books. I passed it on when I was done with it.
Which way to civil court ?
“With little or no other evidence of any illegal activity, law enforcement officers make the assumption that shoppers at the store are potential marijuana growers, even though the stores are most commonly frequented by backyard gardeners who grow organically or start seedlings indoors,” the couple’s lawsuit says.
Oh, it was a book. I looked it up thinking to rent the movie, and there was a movie with that name from 2010. However, the plot wasn’t anything like that.
Love your tag line!
Somebody already did make grow setups for SWAT but he had cameras, not traps. See my post 13.
I think he even made a show about it called “Cop Busters” but it was shut down rather quickly and quietly...
We just smiled and waved/Sittin’ on that sack of seeds.
Yep it's a book. A very expensive book if you can find it at all. Seems the powers that be didn't like it when it was published and pretty much shut it down. But if you look around it can be found, a very good read and I learned quite a few things. It's really to bad it has never been reprinted.
BTTT!
Back in the sixties a couple of friends got word to one of our little small town cops that some guy had some LSD. The cop went after the guy and found a pill in his pocket. He sent it off to the state lab for testing and thought he was going to be hired by the FBI after this big bust. It came back a birth control pill.
I notive the woman is really concerned about “rights”. I wonder how many “rights” she stepped on, or helped her colleagues step on, in her former job.
bgill, I usually don’t ping the garden list more than once a week, but will make an exception for this. While there is much talk on this thread about no probable cause etc.,I think it is important to realise that the laws passed to declare the “war on drugs” did curtail individual rights to a degree.
I had a little experience with a drug task force. They followed a handy-man all the way from St. Louis to my house. He lives in our county, and his girlfriend’s house is just down the road from us.
The person helping me care for my dad was at my house, and had contacted this person regarding some work she wanted done at her house, and he said he would stop by and discuss it with her when he got back into town.
I was on the computer when a polite police man knocked on the patio door, and asked if he could come in and look around. He later explained that they had followed a suspected drug dealer to my house, who had precursors for meth in his vehicle. He looked around the basement briefly and we headed upstairs.
My front room and kitchen was swarming with cops as was the yard. There was a lot of tense moments and disrespectful treatment from the guys outdoors.
Anyway long story short after about 4 hours of them grilling the nurse’s aide and this guy. They confiscated his matches which he had bought for wedding favors(his story) and told us we might be called to testify.
What did they base their raid on? They followed a guy who bought a bunch of matches to our driveway, and he knew my Hubby’s name(Hubby taught school and it’s a small town).
A neighbor who used to be a reserve cop, told us that they don’t have to have a warrent when suspicion is related to drugs. This was important to know, because even his wife thought that they couldn’t have swarmed the house with out some evidence.
I told the rudest guy there, that I thought a few manners would yield better results when dealing with law - abiding citizens, and we had a little tense discussion about it before he left.
Anyone can be labeled a suspected drug dealer, or terrorist based on little or no evidence, and forget the 4th amendment-that’s where we are at today. It is a sad state of affairs.
Improbable cause PING!
"What is truth?" Pilate said. (John 18:38)
You said that for a joke, but it is true. It is just a matter of time. I woupl opine in less than 24 months.
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