So, of course the money was returned, right???
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Posted on 02/05/2015 8:33:28 AM PST by Rusty0604
CNSNews.com asked the Fairfax County Police Department in Virginia how many times Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) teams had been dispatched to make arrests in 2014, after it was reported that a SWAT team was deployed to bust up a high stakes poker game in a residential neighborhood last year.
The department responded by saying a Freedom of Information Act request needed to be filed. Even then, there is no guarantee the information will be released.
In November, the Fairfax County Police Department deployed a SWAT team, armed with semi-automatic rifles and wearing ski masks, to break up a poker game in a residential Virginia neighborhood late last year. As 10 men sat playing the high-stakes card game in the basement of a Great Falls resident's home, the heavily armed tactical unit burst through the doors, seizing $150,000 in cash and arresting at least eight people for illegal gambling, The Washington Post reported in January.
The reason? Because the host of the game, which included a buy-in of $20,000, was reportedly taking a 1.5 percent cut from the proceeds, allegedly to pay the dealers and player assistants. While wagering small amounts of money on “games of chance” isn’t entirely against Virginia law, making more than $2,000 on any game or taking a cut from the top is, the article points out.
However, the host was not charged with anything, according to the article.
This most recent episode occurred almost nine years to the day after Salvatore J. Culosi Jr., a 37-year old optometrist in the nearby suburb of Fair Oaks, was shot and killed by a Fairfax County officer after a SWAT team showed up at his home to arrest him for illegally betting on NFL football games
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Hey now, if you don’t support deploying SWAT teams to make arrests of even minor criminals, then you’re obviously one of those Occupy Wall Street anarchists who hates the police and wants to keep them from doing your job.
/FR bootlicks
“If you’re not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about...”
meanwhile, disease ridden illegal alien criminals may “move about the cabin freely as the the POTUS has turned off the obey the law sign for illegals”
Every little town now has a SWAT team complete with black outfits and black ski masks to oppress the peasants.
Later
Sure seems that way.
Ping.
Massachusetts has their on technique. No FOIA suckers.
Massachusetts SWAT teams claim they’re private corporations, immune from open records laws
That is why they were there, the cash. Everything else was secondary.
With all the laws and regulations, everyone is doing something “illegal”.
I’ve seen that, thanks for posting the reminder.
About two years ago a teen ager was spotted on his parents property with a BB gun in a semi-rural area of Fairfax County. Within half an hour, the Fairfax police had deployed a swat team, a helicopter, a mobile command center, and blocked off roads for half a mile around. The teen ager had by that time gone back inside without any hint that he had caused all of the activity.
My take on this is that (1) “life imitates art”, but you cannot be a super hero as in the movies unless you find super villains to fight, so the police are always looking for the opportunity to find them, and (2) the federal government pumps money into to local police to develop swat teams buy swat team equipment, and so forth, and if you don’t ever use it, what’s the point?
Totally insane. They send a SWAT team when Andy and Barney will do.
So, of course the money was returned, right???
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And that is why they did it. The cash. They get to keep it and then they buy more Shoot-em-up-Rambo Gear.
"Did you really think we want those laws observed?" said Dr. Ferris. "We want them to be broken. You'd better get it straight that it's not a bunch of boy scouts you're up against... We're after power and we mean it... There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted – and you create a nation of law-breakers – and then you cash in on guilt. Now that's the system, Mr. Reardon, that's the game, and once you understand it, you'll be much easier to deal with."
- Ayn Rand, 1957 -
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