BEWARE: No-Knock SWAT Attacks

Townhall.com ^ | March 24, 2014 | Katie Kieffer

[who knows what evil?]

No. This was in November...vegetable plants (all were outside) had already been pulled. We have the affidavits where the informant(s) are named. None of the items you cited are applicable...one of the informants is a 'pillar of the community' and has friends on the police force.

I use three workbench lights from Home Depot to grow my seedlings (which are planted in Spring)...that is why I have been warning people about 'grow lights' on the garden thread...apparently they are now considered 'probable cause'.

Too late for us...only by the grace of Jehovah that we weren't gunned down in our own home. Everyone else? Keep an eye out.

[Elsie]

While we do not know the exact number of wrongful No-Knock SWAT invasions, a 2006 article by Cato Institute policy analyst put the number at 40,000 a year!

What a USELESS sentence!

We either know or we don't.

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NO one will convince ME that over 100 a DAY occur in this country!

[Elsie]

Do you STILL live there?

[Elsie]

But the Swatters usually only cause flesh wounds...

[Elsie]

Us older dudes can do some math in our heads; can’t we!!!

[Elsie]

Way less than CHOICE has...

[Elsie]

They had every intention of conducting a 'no knock warrant' right here in Red Hampshire...

Sounds like some ELECTED 'officials' need to be on the RECEIVING end of these 'neighbor' caused visits...

[Elsie]

NO one will convince ME that over 100 a DAY occur in this country!

But; then again; not enough people know or CARE that CHOICE consumes 3,300 human lives every day in this country.

[who knows what evil?]

Do you STILL live there?

Yes, although I am vacating the neighborhood this weekend. We hope to go back to Tennessee this coming October, come 'heck' or high water.

[Durus]

I think it might be time to formulate an exit strategy for my state. :-(

[who knows what evil?]

We either know or we don't.

Not really...how would CATO know that my wife and I were victims of a 'no knock'? It didn't make the papers because no blood was spilled and pit bulls weren't involved. Ergo, no interest from statisticians...

[who knows what evil?]

My wife was BORN here, and she can’t wait to leave. Her friends are ALL in Tennessee...

[who knows what evil?]

That'd be over 100 mistaken identity raids every 24 hour period, right?

The KEY word here is 'wrongful', NOT 'mistaken identity'. Our name was on the warrant, but they discovered that we were only guilty of growing tomatoes and peppers. Like the paperwork says: 'Nothing was seized'.

Give them time...they'll outlaw gardens soon enough.

[doorgunner69]

The first pic looks like al queda prancing around.

[S.O.S121.500]

Had Enough Yet ?

[Carry_Okie]

NO one will convince ME that over 100 a DAY occur in this country!

I suggest you read Radly Balko's book, Rise of the Warrior Cop. In New York City alone in 2002, there were 450 such raids per month, 10% of which were visited upon the wrong address, this according to Police Chief Raymond Kelly.

[Elsie]

That’s 15 a day

[lentulusgracchus]

[Art.] How many more Americans need to endure needless pain and bloodshed before we recognize the constitutional right of states to legalize drugs?

There it is. Another junkie-wannabe, whining for her OJ's.

Bah.

[OneWingedShark]

Ummm...what’s a good-for-nothing ‘representative’ going to do about this when it’s carved in stone in the US Constitution?

The USSC has a proven history of hatred of the fourth amendment — and the first, and the second, and the sixth, and the ninth, and the tenth.

[lentulusgracchus]

It is liberal, not conservative, philosophy that brought us Prohibition and all its cousins.

The problem changes when we realize that, as with Indian drunkenness (shared with other populations, hence "Irish disease", which I've had in my own family as such because it's true), there are people for whom some substances are too powerful and too powerfully addictive, who lose their humanity because they indulge.

Don't tell me a junkie's going to turn down a smoking heroin joint. Give him a whiff of that, and then impress me by showing me how he waves it off and says "no".

Addiction is a game-changer. It's no longer a matter of free consumption.