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Kansas couple: Indoor gardening prompted pot raid
yahoo ^ | AP | HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH

Posted on 03/30/2013 7:44:49 AM PDT by bgill

Two former CIA employees whose Kansas home was fruitlessly searched for marijuana during a two-state drug sweep claim they were illegally targeted, possibly because they had bought indoor growing supplies to raise vegetables.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; US: Kansas
KEYWORDS: agenda21; garden; marijuana
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First, they tried to crack down on farmers' markets and now they're after your 'maters. Next, they'll ban home gardens.
1 posted on 03/30/2013 7:44:49 AM PDT by bgill
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To: greeneyes

ping list?


2 posted on 03/30/2013 7:45:10 AM PDT by bgill
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To: bgill

Had they lived in Colorado or Washington state it would have gone in noticed.


3 posted on 03/30/2013 7:48:20 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: greeneyes; afraidfortherepublic

ping.


4 posted on 03/30/2013 7:49:27 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: bgill

The police were targeting the house for asset forfeiture.

Too bad he didn’t have a dog they could shoot.


5 posted on 03/30/2013 7:52:37 AM PDT by glorgau
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To: bgill; greeneyes; Mr. Silverback; cripplecreek; NoLibZone; Lucky9teen; Pete; bicyclerepair; ...

Greeneyes, I vote you ring up the gardener ping list too! (I’m alerting the Agenda 21 list.) Other gardeners and freedom lovers need to read this story. It isn’t (IMHO) just another “oops” story. The ptb really DO want to control all the food sources.

If you doubt this, take a peek at the Agenda 21 threads.

If anyone wants to be on or off the Agenda 21 ping list, please notify me by Freepmail. It is a relatively low volume list in which we have been exploring the UN Agenda21 and related topics. We have collected our studies with threads, links, and discussions on the Agenda 21 thread which can be found here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2738418/posts

NEW ACTION THREAD:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2863065/posts

Post 128 of the Action Thread is a summary of the history of Agenda 21, “what they are doing”, “what to do about it” and a good bibliography for further reading.


6 posted on 03/30/2013 7:52:54 AM PDT by TEXOKIE (We must surrender only to our Holy God and never to the evil that has befallen us.)
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To: bgill

Growing vegetables is risky business these days.

It is nice they knocked, and no dogs were injured during their raid.


7 posted on 03/30/2013 7:53:56 AM PDT by KEVLAR (Liberty or Death)
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To: bgill

Growing your own food? Bad
EBT card? Good

No prepping — government dependency only, please.


8 posted on 03/30/2013 7:55:26 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The ballot box is a sham. Nothing will change until after the war.)
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"You can't go into people's homes and conduct searches without probable cause," Pilate said.

How quaint. How...pre-Obama...

9 posted on 03/30/2013 7:57:28 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Fighting Obama without Boehner & McConnell is like going deer hunting without your accordion)
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Hello! You can’t grow you own vegetables, think of the poor farmers./////

Mayor Bloomberg: “Home grown vegetables are not ‘safe’ until WE THE GOVERNMENT put the approval stamp on them”

“Sometimes people need WE THE GOVERNMENT to educate them. It is for your own good.”


10 posted on 03/30/2013 7:59:35 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: bgill
We've done some indoor gardening, and I always worried about this, not because I grow dope, but because I have faith in the corruption of "law enforcement."

It's the 90% of LEOs who give the other 10% a bad name.

11 posted on 03/30/2013 8:01:09 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Somebody has to be courageous enough to stand up to the bullies." --Dr. Ben Carson)
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Growing your own food? Bad

They should have shot Wickard, and sent Filburn to Congress.

12 posted on 03/30/2013 8:02:25 AM PDT by tacticalogic ("Oh, bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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There was once a former cop who made “don't get busted” videos about police techniques and dealing with cops.

Then he started setting up houses with legal indoor grow rooms and placing cameras inside. SWAT would come soon after and be surprised with “smile you're on camera” signs. Some of the warrants even supposedly had “confidential informants” saying they testified about pot growing. He basically proved the informants were made up and cops were doing illegal random searches with imaging equipment.

Soon after, he was arrested many times under suspicious circumstances. He was never found guilty but stopped making the videos...

13 posted on 03/30/2013 8:03:49 AM PDT by varyouga
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I love the scene in "Unintended Consequences" when Henry Bowman looks out the window and sees several shadowy figures clustered around his front door, about to break in. Clearly a home invasion in progress. He takes out most of the group and leaves two survivors for questioning.

Turns out it's a bogus ATF raid. Okay. No more survivors. And Henry Bowman goes to war.

14 posted on 03/30/2013 8:08:06 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The ballot box is a sham. Nothing will change until after the war.)
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To: bgill

This has nothing to do with marijuana plants. Two former CIA employees? Girl, please.


15 posted on 03/30/2013 8:10:13 AM PDT by ponygirl (Be Breitbart.)
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To: COBOL2Java
"You can't go into people's homes and conduct searches without probable cause," "I wash my hands of this man's blood." Pilate said.
16 posted on 03/30/2013 8:16:53 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (What word begins with "O" and ends in economic collapse?)
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To: ClearCase_guy

You can grow your own food, but only if it receives lavish government subsidy and a significant portion is distilled into alcohol so it can ruin automobile motors under the rubric of ‘clean’ energy.


17 posted on 03/30/2013 8:35:23 AM PDT by relictele
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To: tacticalogic

stealing that for my facebook page.


18 posted on 03/30/2013 8:46:00 AM PDT by jdub (A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.)
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To: varyouga; bgill
Some of the warrants even supposedly had “confidential informants” saying they testified about pot growing.

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist (no slight intended given your background) or even a legal scholar to understand that if the judge doesn’t have the identity of the “confidential witness”, then the essential constitutional probable cause might be based on nothing more than neighborhood gossip or a rogue law enforcement agency.

In a sane process, any judge who actually honored the 4th A. would require, under seal, the witness's identity confirmed with drivers license, perhaps finger prints, etc.

Of course, without a bona fide witness, there would be no supporting "testimony", no probable cause and citizens as here would suffer from fewer unreasonable searches (with taxpayers picking up the bill).

If the testimony was bogus (as could be easily proven in cases such as this), it might have been given out of spite or obtained via police coercion and could be subsequently handled accordingly (expose the witness to criminal and civil liability, or clean up the agency).

19 posted on 03/30/2013 8:56:03 AM PDT by frog in a pot
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To: ClearCase_guy
Check out a copy of the 1984 epic The Killing Fields with Dith Pran, the Cambodian photo journalist, if you haven't already.

One scene which sticks in my mind is a child who discovers and uproots tomato plants in one of those grizzly labor camps because such activity isn't officially sanctioned by the masters. The child, or course, receives an outpouring of praise for his discovery.

20 posted on 03/30/2013 8:56:38 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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