Posted on 04/24/2013 8:15:55 AM PDT by jt2
How is it at all legal for the police to have coerced people from their homes during the house to house search that was conducted in Watertown MA last week?
By 'coerced', I mean being told to leave their residence by police SWAT teams. When you have 10 police pointing rifles at you, yelling at your to get out of your house, I'd consider that coersion.
These people were removed from their homes and forced to go someplace else. It appears that they were not 'allowed' back into their homes for hours.
How is that possible in America?
Were homeowners able to decline having their homes searched?
Were they allowed to remain or return to their homes if they wanted to?
Could they have been arrested for interfering with police work for declining to have their homes search, or for trying to remain in their homes?
This is a major story...that is being ignored by the MSM. If all of that was legal and allowable, then we really have no rights left in this police state that we live in.
There were other videos showing other residents hustled out of their homes, and not just the one video of the green house. Some of the videos were shot by the media, like this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_Gb6i5DF9k
Is there any evidence
any documentation
any proof
anywhere
that during the Watertown search legally owned firearms were seized or confiscated from anyone?
Was anyone arrested anywhere in Watertown for armed defense of their residence?
True. Extreme cases can call for unusual and sometimes uncomfortable situations. Our history is filled with them. The scary thing is the precedent that can result. We need to be vigilant that this is not acceptable..that it is the exception, not the rule.
The question is how extreme was this case. Like 9/11, this is brand new. We have not had street chases after terrorists before Boston. Other countries have regular cases like this. When is it permissible, and how can the government abuse this precedent for non-terror related incidences.
This is much ado about nothing.
No one “told” them or “demanded under color of law or authority” that the residents leave their abode.
They residents do not recognize their rights, period.
I’m sure the leo came on to them with a sense ofuurgency but, they didn’t force them to leave.
Witness the leo banging on the doors of what were apparently and at that moment unoccupied.
Having received no answer despite loud exortation and banging on the doors with the butts of their rifles, they didn’t break down the door and search the residence but, they did give up and move on to the resident.
If the people of Newtown wanted to excercise. Their 1, 3, 4 and 5th. Amendment that was wholly their prerogative and right.
That! Is exactly what happened.
Break in or go to the next?
There was no answer from within and they moved on to the next home and did so until they received an answer from within.
At that point they forcefully and with a sense of urgency exhorted the resident to leave for their safety, so they could secure the property and ensure the Islamist fag wasn’t in there.
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