Posted on 03/05/2011 5:14:47 PM PST by Glenn
When Gary Adams heard a series of "booms" early Thursday, he figured one of the kids had left the TV on overnight. He had no idea, he said Friday, that law enforcement agents were about to flood his Bellevue house, looking for an accused member of the Manchester OGs gang who once lived there.
A few clock ticks later, agents broke open all three doors into his Orchard Avenue home, shattering glass. Then some 15 Federal Bureau of Investigation agents and state and local police entered his home.
"When I hit that bend and turned," he said, pointing toward the staircase that lands near his front door, "there was a laser sight on my head."
An hour later the agents left, without their suspect, Sondra Hunter, who remained at large. An FBI agent apologized and promised the bureau would pay for the damaged doors, he said. These days, agents don't hesitate to break doors. Several federal agents have been shot in recent years, and some of the 29 accused gangsters whose indictments were unveiled Thursday are accused of gun violations.
The entry to Mr. Adams' house, though, raises the question: Absent a search warrant, when can law enforcement knock in a door?
(Excerpt) Read more at post-gazette.com ...
“No Search Warrant?”???????
Tell me the guy’s 4th wasn’t breached....
I am thinking she use to be his girlfriend?
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He finally got his badge, was assigned to a field office, and immediately ran into an impenetrable wall of backstabbing politics and factions who are more interested in pushing their agendas than solving crimes.
He stuck it out for two years before deciding he wanted out. He now works for the local PD and is much happier than he ever was in the Federal Bureau of Intimidation (sorry, but I had to throw the Thunderheart quote in).
FBI agents just worked up because Odumsky won’t let them collectively bargain.
So you're saying that YOU should be fiscally responsible for the repairs. The FBI produces nothing. It has no money of it's own. That's taxpayer's (read you and I) money you're talking about.
I read the entire article.
This country needs to start over.
All the cops in this country are out of control. In the scenario you present....they wouldn’t give a $hit.
Sad thing is, I believe you’re absolutely correct!!!
If you think like a hammer, everything becomes a nail.
We are all nails to the FBI, ATF, DEA and other goon squads.
“this is the FBI, for crying out loud, not a bunch of bumbling Barney Fifes. “
Are you sure?
It would be nice if there were an organization that fought to protect peoples’ rights that was not the ACLU and was a pro-American group. I can see why some people think the ACLU is worthwhile. These stories happen way too much, though sadly, in many of them, innocents are shot.
(BTW, I can get addresses for people who are 2nd or 3rd cousins of mine I never met or knew existed till last few months, just using online searches and mostly free sites.)
It sounds like FBI is getting their personal info from collection agency.
For five years I was receiving collection calls for the Hispanic guy who had my number at one time.
It’s no longer the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Just Full Blown Imbeciles these days.
I hope he sues the FBI into oblivion and is able to retire early.
These are probably Obama’s goons doing a death squad training exercise.
Incompetent? A journalist once wrote that is what the 'I' in FBI may stand for.
Then again....this on FR:
"My sophomore-year college roommate became a Secret Service agent. She resigned a few months ago. The Secret Service being ordered to harass non-violent anti-Obama activists was the last straw for her."
46 posted on Wednesday, June 17, 2009 10:07:15 PM by Jill Valentine
>>Further, the FBI should be fiscally liable for the repairs.
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>So you’re saying that YOU should be fiscally responsible for the repairs. The FBI produces nothing. It has no money of it’s own. That’s taxpayer’s (read you and I) money you’re talking about.
Granted it would be infinitely better if the agents were themselves personally liable; that, however, isn’t going to happen.
Federal law gives immunity from civil suits to “federal employees” who are “in execution of their duties;” I bring this up because it REALLY burns me —it was the rationale behind a panel of judges giving John Murtha *spit* immunity from slander suits from the Haditha marines. This despite two *major* failings: 1) that one key feature of an employee is the ability to be fired; representatives/senators cannot be fired, only recalled; and 2) the duties of a single Legislator do not include [unilateral] the pronouncement of guilt/innocence in a criminal case— of this the FBI agents actually *ARE* federal employees and [it can and will be argued] were “in execution of their duties.”
Far better would be a criminal case on violation of this law:
US CODE, TITLE 18, PART I, CHAPTER 13, § 241 — Conspiracy against rights
If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same; or
If two or more persons go in disguise on the highway, or on the premises of another, with intent to prevent or hinder his free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege so secured—
They shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, they shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.
The Constitutional right being secured, in this case, being the 4th Amendment... however, I *really* don’t foresee a government employee [the prosecutor] picking up this case. This law is *FAR* too dangerous to enforce in a government corrupt as ours (i.e. it could be used as the basis for, in the district where that federal judge ruled ObamaCare to be unconstitutional, prosecuting every legislator who voted for it).
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