Posted on 04/22/2013 5:56:56 PM PDT by LucyT
Friday, April 19, 2013, during a manhunt for a bombing suspect, police and federal agents spent the day storming people's homes and performing illegal searches. While it was unclear initially if the home searches were voluntary, it is now crystal clear that they were absolutely NOT voluntary. Police were filmed ripping people from their homes at gunpoint, marching the residents out with their hands raised in submission, and then storming the homes to perform their illegal searches.
This was part of a larger operation that involved total lockdown of the suburban neighbor to Boston. Roads were barricaded and vehicle traffic was prohibited. A No-Fly Zone was declared over the town. People were "ordered" to stay indoors. Businesses were told not to open. National Guard soldiers helped with the lockdown, and were photographed checking IDs of pedestrians on the streets. All the while, police were performing these disgusting house-to-house searches.
Thanks for the link.
Don’t argue with a pawn; they just suck out your energy.
You are a true moron, 100 brave cops collecting overtime surrounded the boat and machine gunned it. Brave
Why didn't the cigarette smoker drag the half dead 19 year old out of his boat by the scruff of his neck?
I went to your web page.
Interesting.
Dozens of quotes from our founders, constant reference to the Constitution, yet every thing you have posted here is contrary to what the founders believed.
As for your safety...
There was very little crime during Hitler’s rule.
There is very little crime today in Saudi Arabia.
The problem is the manner in which crime is to be fought. There is the way our founders planned for and the way of the iron fist.
As for all of the stuff on your web page, I put that in the same category as the flag and the Bible on a KKK flyer or the religion of the Westboro Baptist Church.
Projecting again. LOLAYDS!
Hitler said the same thing, I feel safe now!
Wow!!!!
This is your reply to post 94?
Can you tell us one person they protected in this fiasco? I don’t want to hear what their job description says but reality in this incident. And how many citizens did they instill terror into?
Then go back over to DU. Pawn.
***** “You are a true moron, 100 brave cops collecting overtime surrounded the boat and machine gunned it. Brave” ****
Like that scene in “First Blood” .... sorry I am chuckling ... but you are right
TT
(Arm Citizens and respect will flow from all 4 corners)
Good idea. The Constitution forbids unreasonable searches. It doesn't forbid searches. And the law is well-established that if lives are immediately threatened warrants are not needed either.
These searches were designed only to make sure the residents were not being held by the at large terrorist, and to make sure their property was clear before the search moved on. Nothing else.
The folks in the video were back in their home ten minutes later.
And the chances are almost 100% that the residents gave permission for the search in the first place, which moots any Fourth Amendment arguments anyhow.
I'd like some of the keyboard commandos who are raving about how bad this is to produce a link to a single example of citizens not giving their consent for the searches. Or of Watertown residents complaining about the actions of law enforcement officers after the fact. I've asked many for this in the last couple of days, but so far that well has come up dry. All I've been able to find is a community that is very grateful to the police, and a bunch of internet posters who don't know the law.
The only thing missing was the shout[s]”Juden Raus!”
In fact, if they were any survivors of the Nazis going house to house in the 1940 and 1939 Germany and Eastern Europe, they would have flashbacks.
He would have been shot for trying to help him get away.
And his dog.
That is what taxes are for the 9,000 cops running around collecting overtime, you think they could do this? Try out their new toys.
It reminds me of what we have to go through when going through 'airport security' and what we can carry on and can't while being stripped searched.
Again, the only thing missing were the shouts of “Juden Raus!”
Did you fall on your head?
Did ya get arrested for being stupid?
They would NEVER do that to the local Mosque those guys attended, under any circumstances. And THAT says it all.
Why wasn't he arrested or shot for disobeying 'martial law'?
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