Posted on 10/28/2013 8:52:02 AM PDT by BulletBobCo
Audrey Hudson’s husband had just left for work on August 6 when suddenly, her dog began barking. The nationally-known journalist walked over to the curtains and peeked outside to discover her Chesapeake Bay home was surrounded by law enforcement officers wearing full body armor.
The phone rang. It was her husband.
“I’m in the driveway,” he said. “The police are here. Open the door.”
And so began Hudson’s nightmare – held captive by armed agents of the U.S. Coast Guard, Maryland State Police and the Department of Homeland Security as they staged a pre-dawn raid in search of unregistered firearms and a “potato gun.”
“I think they found a great way to get into my house and get a hold of my confidential notes and go through every other file in my office." But instead of taking the potato gun, agents seized unrelated government documents and notes from the former Washington Times journalist.
Agents took Hudson’s records during a search for guns and related items owned by her husband, a civilian Coast Guard employee. They also confiscated her legally registered firearms, according to court documents obtained by The Associated Press.
The armed agents held Hudson and her husband in the kitchen as they searched their home. At some point, one of the agents asked if she was the same person who had written a series of stories critical of the Federal Air Marshal program in the mid-2000s.
Hudson did indeed author those stories for The Washington Times.
“Those stories were embarrassing to the agency,” she told me.
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Thank-you.
We do. It's in Article V of our constitution. If it isn't utilized, it is entirely our fault.
That’s very sad to hear — I didn’t realize they had gone so far over to the darkside too.
You don’t think they monitor this site along with FB and others? My daughter is always telling me the black helicopters are gonna get me. I don’t think she’s kidding.
Hate to inform you but the MSM works for Hitler and the Gestapo.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
If their warrant didn’t particularly describe the paperwork that they seized from her, than they violated the warrant and committed a theft. They could have gone and drafted another one to get that stuff, after articulating to a judge why they wanted it.
Those things are pretty specific for a reason. It prohibits the police from going on fishing expeditions, as it appears in this case.
But, at the end of the day, absolutely nothing will happen. Have to protect the state at all costs.
There, better?
If it makes you sleep better.
I didn’t take it badly. I saw your point.
(I love how the pic shows the 10-year imprisonment form of the second, just on its face.)
Those PVC potato guns are supposed to be a LOT of FUN! Don’t they use lighter fluid as a propellant?
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