Posted on 04/10/2008 8:06:37 AM PDT by woollyone
MIAMI -- Officers from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives barged into a South Florida home Wednesday only to discover they had the wrong address.
The ATF agents were supposed to conduct a raid at a home in the 2600 block of Northwest 49th Terrace in northwest Miami-Dade County, but they were off by one block. They entered a house on Northwest 49th Street instead.
A mother and her 2-year-old boy were among the innocent people inside the home when the agents came in
To make sure the government gets its cut of the action, of course.
They're nothing but glorified bagmen.
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand? After all, you knew ahead of time that those bluecaps were out at night for no good purpose. And you could be sure ahead of time that you’d be cracking the skull of a cutthroat. Or what about the Black Maria sitting out there on the street with one lonely chauffeur? What if it had been driven off or its tires spiked? The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!”
Thanks for the reminder of why we fight, FRiend!
Did they at least shoot a dog? If they didn’t then it was a total waste of time and taxpayers’ money.
Thank you.
I couldn’t find the cite.
I remembered part of the quote/passage and, at the time I read them, I was stunned and gratified that somebody had both the experience and ability to put that into words.
ATF ain’t law enforcement. That agency has long been a dumping ground and a tool of jackbooted thuggery.
What you said.
“Wrong address” is usually safer and easier.Perhaps they have a set number of raids they have to do and select addresses based on perceived difficulty of attack.Through the 80s and into the 90s addresses to raid with SWAT were selected in part based on desirability or value of the property to be confiscated.
You avoid this by disbanding ATF ASAP.
Yep. Be his spotter for the next scot-free murder.
Bull.
ATF almost got abolished in the ‘90’s - that’s what Waco was all about. And after that fiasco, instead of the agency being shut down, it was strengthened.
Typical gubmint outcome.
Not even a smattering of liberal, gun-hating, fear-mongering, over-the-top hyperbole in that one, eh...?
</SARCASM>
Show me anywhere in the Constitution where it says that the Federal government has any authority to regulate substances people consume.
That's an interesting concept. Sovereign immunity would probably save their bacon but if the abuse was blatant enough - and we might have that here - you might get a few sphincters to clench if you could find a prosecutor who'd actually prosecute it.
I wonder, can a citizen bring charges directly to the grand jury?
We were better served when reporters gave us the news.
Her response should have been, "No, you ignorant testosterone monkey, you are in the wrong place!!"
Recent congressionally passed law, now repealed, may have explicitly given this authority to the President. HR5122 also known as the John Warner Defense Authorization Act was signed by the president on Oct 17, 2006 John Warner National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007. Section 1076 Text of Hr5122 is titled "Use of the Armed Forces in major public emergencies". Removing the legalese from the text, and combining multiple sentences, it provides that: The President may employ the armed forces to restore public order in any State of the United States the President determines hinders the execution of laws or deprives people of a right, privilege, immunity, or protection named in the Constitution and secured by law or opposes or obstructs the execution of the laws of the United States or impedes the course of justice under those laws. The actual text is on page 322-323 of the legislation. As of 2008, these changes were repealed, changing the text of the law back to the original 1807 wording.
Given Miami’s street naming system, the folks at NW 49th Ave and NW 49th Court are saying “there but for the grace of God ...” the folks at NW 49th Terrace are saying “thank you, Jesus” as they head for Georgia.
Depends on whether it travels interstate. If its pot grown, sold, and that makes people stupid entirely in, say, CA, then I agree with you. California should be able to legalize whatever hell it chooses in that case. They have already chosen so many different versions of Hell there, that one more wouldn't make much of a difference.
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