Don Matthews didn't have a lot of money. As you can see from the picture, his friends don't have money either. What's your standard for not having a lot of money? They claim that "over $200,000" worth of fireworks were "stolen" by the police. Dunno about you, but that sounds like a lot of money to me - they ain't talking about a couple of packs of Black Cat firecrackers here...
Don Matthews didn't have a lot of money. As you can see from the picture, his friends don't have money either.
- exodus
To: exodus
What's your standard for not having a lot of money? They claim that "over $200,000" worth of fireworks were "stolen" by the police. Dunno about you, but that sounds like a lot of money to me - they ain't talking about a couple of packs of Black Cat firecrackers here...
# 84 by general_re *************************
You should pay attention to what you post, general_re. You took the fireworks story out of context.
Just as seing a story here on FreeRepublic doesn't mean that Jim Robinson was personally involved in the story, so Don Matthews reporting a story about $200,000 worth of fireworks doesn't mean that he paid for the fireworks himself.
On July 27th, 1998. An annual fireworks convention and show at Weedsport NY was interfered with by a New York City Task Force, NYC Bomb squad and some members illegally pretending to be ATF agents.
New York City is about 300 miles from Weedsport.
These Thugs held 8 Federally licensed pyrotechnicians captive on the side of the road for periods up to 12 hours. They also confiscated (stole) their merchandise valued at over $200,000, this is known as Grand Theft.
These incompetent Thugs also took the confiscated fireworks to a quarry and tried to explode them all, but they left live charges scattered around the quarry. By which could cause serious harm to the public.
They did this under the pretense of enforcing an unconstitutional law which states that if an individual has over $50.00 in fireworks in their possession, they are presumed (thought crime) to have this for sale.
As shown, these thugs were totally out of their jurisdiction.
All in all we have Kidnapping, Grand Theft, False impersonation of Federal Agents, Destruction of private property, and enforcement of unconstitutional laws.