Suspect for FBI Raid on 91-Year-Old Indiana Artifact Collector Identified

Gun Watch ^ | 6 April, 2014 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

Who accused 91-Year-Old Donald Miller of what has been unclear.  Speculation involving his numerous technological achievements have run rampant as people simply did not believe that the government would send 50-100 FBI agents to check out the collection of artifacts that this former member of the Manhattan project had gathered over the last 80 years.

But the unbelievable has become a bit more plausible  as more information has dribbled out.   Mr. Miller has not been charged with any crime, and maintains his innocence.   He claims that all his materials have been collected legally.

Others have speculated that envious collectors associated with the Obama administration are involved, that a museum coveted his collection, or that he is a Republican, and therefore subject to "special" treatment.   

The truth may lie somewhere in between.  In this article from wthr.com, it is revealed that a leftist Native American group, AIM, has an interest in the case:

An organization representing Native Americans believe human remains are buried among thousands and thousands of artifacts collected by Donald Miller in the U.S. and around the world.

The FBI investigation and massive effort to recover thousands of invaluable artifacts is being watched by the American Indian Movement. Until recently, its local chairman lived only a half-hour away from the Rush County site.

"We are glad something like this has happened," said Albert Runningwolf, American Indian Movement.

 Is the raid "payback" for support among leftist Native Americans?

With  the lack of transparency that has come to be expected from this administration, we may never know for sure. 

The idea that you have to "prove" that you legally own something that is in your possession upends the tatters of the fourth amendment and the presumption of innocence.    It moves us away from the core value of American jurisprudence, that whatever is not forbidden is allowed, and toward the core tyranny of authoritarian regimes where "whatever is not permitted is forbidden".

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[x1stcav]

I can’t wait for it to happen.

Think Solzhenitsyn.

[Dante3]

Yes.

[x1stcav]

Don’t be too fast to rule out coyote’ butts as the source of these miscreants.

[Navy Patriot]

Commandments Nine and Ten.

[Mastador1]

Don’t be too fast to rule out coyote’ butts as the source of these miscreants.

Well Coyote is known as the trickster!

[metalurgist]

An organization representing Native Americans believe human remains are buried among thousands and thousands of artifacts collected by Donald Miller in the U.S. and around the world.

So, what is the reason for the hundred man swat raid? Was the feral government afraid he was going to flush the evidence? Two agents couldn't show up with a warrant? Is this raid being used to intimidate us?

If 100 agents can be spared to look at arrow heads, congress needs to cut their budget.

[Vinylly]

His problem was that he allowed groups to enter his home to view his artifacts. He should never display valuable collections. It just only allows jealous people to seek revenge that he's got something they don't have.

[metalurgist]

I’m a Native American. I was born here too.

[piytar]

Hope he has enough money to lawyer up. The ACLU certainly could not care less about his Constitutional rights. Clearly, nor does the FBI or the fedgov.

[marktwain]

He is 91 years old. He is extremely smart and understands bureaucracy. He has chosen to attempt the difficult, but not impossible finesse of the situation with the “I am one of you, and have nothing to hide” defense.

He may be able to pull it off.

I expect he still has contacts, maybe people that he mentored, in high places.

He has not been charged, and they have not taken most of his stuff. Yet.

[Mark17]

He has not been charged, and they have not taken most of his stuff. Yet.

I wonder if they plan to "Waco" the guy?

[AlmaKing]

You mean they are feather Indians and not red-dot Indians?

[AlmaKing]

And I am a Native American, with all grandparents being born here.

Damn I’m tired of hearing that term. I say they are just natives.

The only tribe to fight with the colonists against England is the Huron as far as I know. And all 3000 of them live in Canada now.

[Bigg Red]

... they’re Native Americans, meaning what....

***
My ancestry is mostly Irish with a smattering of German, but whenever someone starts that Native American nonsense with me I say that I am Native American because I am an American born in America. I have even checked that box a few times on forms.

[Bigg Red]

See my post 34.

[Mastador1]

... they’re Native Americans, meaning what.... *** My ancestry is mostly Irish with a smattering of German, but whenever someone starts that Native American nonsense with me I say that I am Native American because I am an American born in America. I have even checked that box a few times on forms.

I actually have had a person of American Indian ancestry point a finger at me in a group conservation and say roughly that white people like me are to blame for blah,blah,blah. I firmly and impolitically told him he was stupid and that I was first generation and and my family had squat to do with his supposed issues and that further more the people of my heritage had suffered a hell of lot more than his people ever had. The look of confusion on his face was priceless.

[Calvin Locke]

Perhaps they thought he had the crushed hyoid bone from Jimmy Hoffa’s remains that the FBI hasn’t been able to find for what. forty years?

[Fightin Whitey]

Casino Indians not Call-center Indians.

[gr8eman]

Exacly...low hanging fruit! Very sad!

[Bigg Red]

Good for you. Really getting sick of all of it.