Posted on 08/01/2014 7:46:40 AM PDT by null and void
When it comes to environmental regulation compliance, the Department of Homeland Security isn’t playing — as evidenced by a recent federal raid of a South Carolinian’s home to confiscate a Land Rover that violated EPA emission rules.
Jennifer Brinkley said she saw a line of law enforcement vehicles approaching her home and wondered what was wrong, the local WBTV reported. Homeland Security agents then went to her 1985 Land Rover Defender and lifted the hood.
“They popped up the hood and looked at the Vehicle Identification Number and compared it with a piece of paper and then took the car with them,” she said, WBTV reported.
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Ms. Brinkley said on Fox News that she had spent considerable money ensuring her vehicle would pass inspection laws and that it was in compliance with emission rules.
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Are you inferring that a Police State is safer that the good old days when Law and Order kept us safe?
Addendum: ...”to whoever we want...”.
It appears to have one of those thick plastic bedliners. Those things are tough. About 5MM thick. Look along the top of the bed rails.
If only they were half as enthusiastic about enforcing immigration law.
They may have jurisdiction, but good grief! Who cares if 40 Land Rovers are gathering dust in American garages. Don’t they have anything more important to look into? And couldn’t one cop and a tow truck handle this just as well as a caravan of DHS vehicles?
LOL!
Insanity. Some push back has got to happen against these fed thugs sooner or later.
If true, this is a very weird story. Why is DHS involved? Why is the federal government confiscating this vehicle without even testing it? In my state, auto emission compliance is checked every two years when you renew your license tabs, it has nothing to do with the federal government. And if you fail the test, they don’t impound your car, but you are given time to fix the problem. You won’t get your tabs, but they won’t take your car.
Probably a legit 85 LR 110.
If someone called it a defender, I doubt many would say it is a wrong description.
I mean the bullet “dents” in the tailgate. They are not holes.
Because at it’s heart it’s a customs issue, not emmissions. The vehicles look to have entered the country illegally.
Now, I’m not saying that this is a good use for guys who could be running down illegal aliens, but as a legal matter this is a Federal matter and ICE (which is the DHS component involved) does have jurisdiction. As it’s pre-DHS predecessor (the old CBP, I believe) would have as well.
What gets me is the placid, almost sonambulistic, manner in which people accept this kind of behavior. I’d be jumping up and down yelling for somebody’s head.
There is reason to suspect that VIN on the vehicle in question had been altered. That’s illegal.
So what? That makes it the business of jackboots at DHS?
If this is legitimately the concern of DHS then it is past time to openly acknowledge that DHS is the State Police, the domestic military.
Thus, since we have been previously informed that the DHS is not subject to the 4th amendment (or any other part of the Constitution), it logically follows that the feds have effectively suspended the US Constitution in toto.
Based on what the Republicans are doing in congress to combat mass lawlessness of the feds (nothing), it is also reasonable to assume that 2014 and 2016 elections will do nothing to change the direction of our burgeoning police state.
You may want to exercise more discretion when talking with your liberal neighbors. All it takes for a swat team to hit your home is an anonymous tip from one of your offended Democrat comrades saying you have a couple 30 round mags for your AR15.
Regardless of the name, DHS had a list of VINs that they were looking for. Where did that list come from?
Did some European agency bust an exporter and get the list and pass that along to the DHS? Were the vehicles owned legitimately by the exporter, or were they stolen? If they were stolen, it’s almost a given that the VINs were altered.
Probably a different gang, but this article from 2010 describes what may well have been going on:
Another one (from 2013):
http://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/10863159.Mystery_of_Bolton_Land_Rover_thefts/
Or this (from 2012):
http://www.swiftcover.com/about/press/most-stolen-car-revealed/
Whew. I guess all that ruckus on the border is solved freeing up the manpower to go after the real criminals.
Excellent!
http://jalopnik.com/the-feds-just-seized-40-land-rovers-imported-to-the-u-s-1605985758
If the government has such a list, why do they not publish it?
I wonder what Governor Nikki Haley will do about this violation of the Constitution.
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