My boss is a Gulf war vet and he still has his body armor and kevlar helmet.
I have a NYPD hat{two of them really}.
I also have the new generation BDU jacket.
Do I have to worry about getting raided/
Start with the University of Texas tower shooter Charles Whitman....then of course Lee Harvey Oswald....
Not always a good defense.
You probably don’t have to worry about getting raided, but you can bet that if it happens, after your funeral the SWAT lawyer will talk about your police and paramilitary gear.
I have several history books and some insignia that my father captured in WWII, so after my funeral they’ll probably talk about my Nazi memorabilia. My rather modest gun collection will be “an arsenal” and my reloading gear will be “explosives manufacturing material”. My seabags full of old uniforms will be “enough military gear to outfit a small army”.
I believe that the vast majority of police officers are honest, brave public servants who have a Hell of a tough job. That doesn’t mean that don’t screw up on occasion, and I think that they tend to circle the wagons when it happens, and the lawyers they retain spin events as hard as they can to make the mistake look justified. It’s their job.
I’m probably much more likely to get hit by lightning than get killed in a SWAT raid, since I avoid illegal activity and those that engage in it.
I’m sure that if I lost the lottery and that one in a million mistake brought the door kickers to my house, and I wound with twenty holes in me, they wouldn’t be issuing press releases later attesting to my sterling character.
“Do I have to worry about getting raided”
It would appear we ALL have to worry about that.
Look at this in terms of the recent (and eventually to be over turned we can only hope God help us!) decision in Indianna, that the cops are free to enter your home, at any time, for NO REASON AT ALL.
I’ve always considered myself a law and order person. But on the few occasions where a cop has come to my door, I never let him in. I close the door and speak with the officer outside.
I have my 4th amendment right.
Gosh darn it, this is America people.
THIS IS AMERICA.
We have rights, that our amazing founding fathers had the God given brilliance to enumerate for us. GOD GIVEN RIGHTS, Rights that anyone in their right mind KNOWS they should have.
Rights, that come from God, that mankind has been struggling to gain and protect for thousands of years. So that is is not just a situation of strong against weak, where “might” makes “right”.
SINCE THE FREAKING CAVES.
Honestly, I am a conservative, but I am just about ready to go full libertarian with some of the stuff I see here and elsewhere.
It looks like this guy was clean, but EVEN IF he was not, is he Charles Manson? Is he son-of-sam? Is he Osama Bin-Laden?
The actions of the cops in this situation CANNOT be justified.
I hope you also have a couple of dogs for them to shoot so maybe they don’t have to shoot you or a family member. On a SWAT raid shooting is optional and dogs are the default targets.
It's a distinct possibility - not because they suspect you - but just because these raids are going to become more common - on ANYONE for NO REASON...and if they find things like you have - BINGO - they are even taught to look for bomb makers with one criteria being if they are cleverly putting can of gasoline next to the lawn mower to make it look innocent.
Everybody better keep their nose to ground as to what's happening in this country. The Indiana SUPREME COURT just abrogated our rights to be secure from search in citizens homes that dates back not only to our Constitution, but to the Magna Carta! Read THIS for a chill:
“Indiana High Court Rules People Cannot Resist Illegal Entry by Police Into Homes
“cannot resist ILLEGAL entry”!!! how can they even put that on paper - But THEN -
“Indiana Sheriff: House to House Random Searches Now Possible”
http://mountainrepublic.net/2011/05/19/indiana-sheriff-house-to-house-random-searches-now-possible/
“Sheriff Hartman showed such an indifference toward the rights of the people that he was asked three times to explain his views. The sheriff made it clear that he would use random house to house searches if he believed it was necessary.
The opinions of Newton county Sheriff Hartman has created a movement to remove him from office.”
We are well on the way to becoming a Police State-country
I’m sure they all do. My grandfather was a Kansas City cop. He kept all kinds of ‘souvenirs’.