Posted on 06/20/2014 9:34:51 PM PDT by kiryandil
Federal agents this week searched the Florida home of a 'doomsday prepper' they alleged had stockpiled over 50 high-powered assault rifles and several explosive devices buried around his property as 'booby traps'.
However the warrant showed up little more than barrels of food.
Martin Winters, a father-of-three from Valrico, surrendered to police on Wednesday following a widespread two-day hunt.
Investigators had claimed the 55-year-old was preparing for 'an end-of-times event as prophesied by the Book of Revelations', according to ABC News...
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Well-rested and ready to snap off some crushing one-liners, I trust? LOL! :)
You misspelled “FBLie”...
lol yeah, that would be good. No need to prep when you own everything.
Thanks, GG2. I’m on it.
No, they won’t apologize. The FBI is mad as a wet sitting hen because they could not kill him. Of course it is not over yet, he could, and probably will if the opportunity arises, have an “accident” in jail.
Heck, if you're an old guy with a couple Alka-Seltzer tablets in a plastic tube, that's all they need if they want to hassle someone. Obama-nation, abomination, they think they're hearing bombing the nation. Crazy times.
Could be they were tipped it was doughnuts.
Doughnuts!?!?! What the heck do you mean by doughnuts? Is that some kind of secret code? Don’t be saying doughnuts on the weekend!!!!!!!!!
True, but there has to be some legal workup to see if the immunity can be “permitted”.
And as usual, I’m sure “local” politics will not be an issue. /s
The following was pulled form Wiki, so take with a grain of salt. There may be more recent precedent that updates, this, I didn’t check.
Counties and municipalities are not entitled to sovereign immunity. In Lincoln County v. Luning, 133 U.S. 529 (1890), the Court held that the Eleventh Amendment does not bar an individual’s suit in federal court against a county for nonpayment of a debt. (By contrast, a suit against a statewide agency is considered a suit against the state under the Eleventh Amendment. See, e.g., Edelman v. Jordan, 415 U.S. 651 (1974); Ford Motor Co. v. Department of Treasury, 323 U.S. 459 (1945)). In allowing suits against counties and municipalities, the Court was unanimous, relying in part on its “general acquiescence” in such suits over the prior thirty years. William Fletcher, a professor of legal studies at Yale University, explains the different treatment on the ground that in the nineteenth century, a municipal corporation was viewed as more closely analogous to a private corporation than to a state government. Fletcher, note 2.
County and municipal officials, when sued in their official capacity, can only be sued for prospective relief under Federal law.[4] Under state law, however, the Court in Pennhurst noted that even without immunity, suits against municipal officials relate to an institution run and funded by the state, and any relief against county or municipal officials that has some significant effect on the state treasury must be considered a suit against the state, and barred under the doctrine of sovereign immunity.
Look up Carl Drega. It has happened. It will eventually start happening more. I'm way past the point of feeling any pity over dead feds.
The Feds run around feeling people’s groins (TSA), harassing conservative groups (IRS), shutting down coal energy (EPA), harassing and shutting down gun dealers (BATFE), forcing people to provide contraceptives (HHS/PPACA), and generally making random people’s lives a living hell. Then they wonder, I’m sure, why certain people want to kill them.
PING!
Yep, look up Stuart Charles Alexander. I was not at San Quentin when he was there, but I had been there earlier. I was on death row a lot. It is a pretty depressing place, but it was also the safest place to be.
A 12 ga. shot gun shell fits perfect in 3/4” PVC.
One potato gun can get you busted.
If the Fed wants you they will get you.
The choice is how you want to go.
so they get an agent to lie on an affidavit plus they are afraid of someone who believes in the Bible
I guess hope and change has occurred
Are there federal statues against potato “launchers”?
null and void ‘And hoarders, don’t forget hoarders!’
I prefer to be thought of as a planner. Hoarder serves the purposes of the MSM well, especially with these semi reality shows featuring out and out nutcases to a gullible public.
I am not a hoarder but have you thought of shoelaces? Civilization would come to a screeching halt without them and they can serve multiple purposes. Think offense, medical, utility uses and best of all they are not illegal yet. I am currently trying to corner the shoelace market.
That's exactly how corrupt the feds have become, IMNSHO.
It's not like it has not happened before....
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