So, where do all you no-knock raid apologists stand on this one?
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Posted on 06/08/2011 8:54:30 AM PDT by RIghtwardHo
I mean this guy could be a stand in for Chris Rock in “What not to say to the cops”.
Police States are color blind.
And another qutoe from your link:
“The Department of Education has put the American people on notice with this new policy of using arrest warrants and police action to deal with those who default on their student loans,...”
Continue reading on Examiner.com
Failure to pay back student loans can now lead to arrests by Dept. of Education - National Finance Examiner | Examiner.com http://www.examiner.com/finance-examiner-in-national/failure-to-pay-back-student-loans-can-now-lead-to-arrests-by-dept-of-education#ixzz1OhxjoeQS
Doesn’t sound like fraud at all, just a defaulted loan.
Agreed. I don’t care if it IS fraud ... the Dept of Education sent a SWAT team to serve a search warrant?????????? I don’t see those SWAT teams showing up at Goldman, Sachs.
Can't or won't?
See my post at #63. It is now policy to arrest student loan defaulters.
It is only over a defaulted loan.
See, our government and the FED have become a fascist state. And the ponzi scheme known as fiat currency, needs ever more and more debt to keep the system going. Since the people have no jobs, that system is in trouble. This is their solution. Make debtors pay, one way or the other.
The Police State as arrived.
SUCH a great point. Well done.
I don’t want to believe it is *this* simple. Sadly, I’m not surprised for some reason....Perhaps this type of stuff will be the flashpoint.
Better sooner than later.....
I know we all make mistakes, but Malkin got some of her facts wrong the first time (which she admitted and corrected), so likewise I wonder if there is more to this story than meets the eye.
Meanwhile, I am groaning at the thought that last year I consolidated tens of thousands of dollars in student loans via the US Dept. of Mis-education. How I look forward to shaking that monkey off my back.
Here is a decent article - with pictures and better detail.
Don't get all paranoid. They've updated the story and it's now on a different URL on their site. It's still the top story on their homepage
So this is what the dept of Education needed shotguns for.
That AND going for the homeschooled kids. Surely as the sun doth shine!
I’m not sure where defaulting on a loan becomes fraud, which is the difference between innocent circumstances and criminal intent.
If this was merely a *search* warrant, looking for documents, then it certainly could have been carried out in a more civilized manner.
On the other hand, if you’re going to barge into someone’s home, you’d better be prepared for them not to like it, in a way that can ruin your day. But the FBI I believe manages to do it without a full-blown SWAT raid.
=> Let’s do this, BUT start by visiting the homes of your local District Attorney:
Inspector General Finds HESC Played Favorites With Student Loan Payments
Criminal Charges Possible
ALBANY, NY (08/19/2010) An investigation by New York State Inspector General Joseph Fisch found that Joseph Catalano, Assistant Vice President of Collection and Default Management at the New York State Higher Education Services Corporation (HESC), prompted his subordinates to unlawfully arrange special treatment for former Albany County prosecutor Michael P. McDermott by reducing his student loan payments 60 percent, purging his collection debts and blocking the garnishment of his wages, at a cost of more than $24,670 to state and federal taxpayers.
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Yet another (and maybe the most critical) reason that Dept. of Education (and a whole host of other extra-Constitutional federal agencies) needs to be ELIMINATED. How long ago was it that if someone told you that the federal Department of Education would have an Office of the Inspector General that included SWAT teams, you would have reasonably called them insane? Now this level of totalitarianism is right here in our faces!
Thanks for the ping Bama.
DEA can haz Swat. Can DoE haz too?
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