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Police doing a late-night probation check get wrong address, go to home of Maine militia head ...
Bangor Daily News ^ | Dec. 15, 2012 | Abigail Curtis

Posted on 12/15/2012 10:19:45 AM PST by Daffynition

BELMONT, Maine — Mack Page was sound asleep in his bed at 11 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 3, when he was startled awake by the frantic barking of his black Labrador.

“What have I got now?” the 63-year-old commander of the Maine Militia remembers wondering. “A raccoon? A coyote?”

But it was none of those things. Instead, Page’s dark residence on a quiet Belmont road suddenly was lit up by men outside his windows carrying flashlights. He lives alone, he’s not in the best of health and he was scared.

“They called, ‘State police! Come out with your hands up!’” he said earlier this week. “I don’t know if I got paranoid or just angry, but I challenged them. ‘Who the hell are you?’ Am I going to get tazed? Am I going to get shot by somebody?’”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; US: Maine
KEYWORDS: donutwatch; knockknock; leo; papersplease; policestate; swat; thugwithabadge; wrongaddress
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**the state police officials have apologized to Page for the mistake.**

Mr. Page is lucky they didn't shoot his Lab. :(

1 posted on 12/15/2012 10:19:50 AM PST by Daffynition
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To: Daffynition

They are lucky he didn’t “mistake” them for home intruders.

Mistake my ass.


2 posted on 12/15/2012 10:22:38 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
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To: Daffynition

This is probably not the last of his problems. The state police were embarrassed by their mistake and he will have to pay for that embarrassment somehow.


3 posted on 12/15/2012 10:28:54 AM PST by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE www.fee.org/library/books/economics-in-one-lesson)
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This could have been a bloodbath. So now, the undercover police SWAT teams, out on midnight raids, just go the any house when they don't have a solid address?


4 posted on 12/15/2012 10:29:11 AM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Daffynition

They were trying to provoke him. Or scare him.


5 posted on 12/15/2012 10:29:35 AM PST by gaijin
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To: Daffynition

The lab was inside and they didn’t break into the house. That is a plus for the cops. Not breaking in and shooting the dog, however, may well get the cops involved reprimanded at some level.


6 posted on 12/15/2012 10:30:54 AM PST by arthurus (Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE www.fee.org/library/books/economics-in-one-lesson)
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To: Daffynition

In the age of Google maps, drones filling the skies and surveillance cameras on every tree, why should anyone believe this was a mistake?

It’s no secret cops hate militias, and if it’s common knowledge that Mack is in poor health, then maybe, just maybe, a midnight visit to his home when he’s asleep...


7 posted on 12/15/2012 10:33:35 AM PST by DPMD
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All of this for a “potential probation violation”?

The state police have nothing better to do with their time?

Good grief.


8 posted on 12/15/2012 10:34:50 AM PST by 2111USMC (aim small, miss small)
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To: Daffynition

This is not a simple misunderstanding that can be swept under the rug. To many wrong addresses keep happening.


9 posted on 12/15/2012 10:35:46 AM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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Where I come from we call it a pretext...; )


10 posted on 12/15/2012 10:37:47 AM PST by jsanders2001
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**the state police officials have apologized to Page for the mistake.**

I believe a formal investigation by a different agency with access to the anonymous informant is in order. It really sounds like a they were reminding the militia leader that they were watching him.

11 posted on 12/15/2012 10:39:13 AM PST by oldbrowser (Put Obama in check, now.)
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“I just want it to never happen again. Enough is enough,” he said. “I am adamant on having this whole thing turned around, and a whole new attitude from the state police.”

With that kind of an attitude, citizen, we may just have to shoot your dog next time.

12 posted on 12/15/2012 10:40:01 AM PST by Yashcheritsiy (It's time to Repeal and Replace the Republican Party)
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Late night probation check at 11pm that includes “come out with your hands up”? Is that how they conduct probation checks in Maine? Hard to believe.


13 posted on 12/15/2012 10:40:51 AM PST by ladyjane (For the first time in my life I am not proud of my country.)
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The school tragedy had the effect of sharpening public attention on guns, and if the cops had succeeded in provoking a shoot-out with a known militia member at exactly the same time, then the pressure for new gun laws about go up 500%.

Just more political treachery.

WHO was the right perp, hmmm....?? Let’s hear it.

We won’t because there IS no perp nearby —he WAS the target that night.


14 posted on 12/15/2012 10:41:31 AM PST by gaijin
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"So now, the undercover police SWAT teams, out on midnight raids, just go the any house when they don't have a solid address?"

Uh, yes. I read almost weekly about police going to the wrong address. I realize that most cop shows (CSI, NCIS, Hawaii 5.0) are fiction, but really? With all the resources at their command, the cops can't get the correct house so many times? I'm thinking incompetence.

And that is why, "when seconds count, the police are minutes away". Stay armed and stay safe, and use your head if they break in - this man did.

15 posted on 12/15/2012 10:42:13 AM PST by A Navy Vet (An Oath is Forever.)
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To: Daffynition
Globalist don't like people in militia's, or gun owners.
State police don't normally get involved in petty warrant sweeps. Shakespeare’s Marcellus said “something is rotten in the state of Denmark”.
16 posted on 12/15/2012 10:43:07 AM PST by swamprebel (a Constitution once changed from Freedom, can never be restored.)
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"Late night probation check at 11pm that includes “come out with your hands up”? Is that how they conduct probation checks in Maine? Hard to believe."

I didn't read the article. That is what this was about? I don't believe it.

17 posted on 12/15/2012 10:44:59 AM PST by A Navy Vet (An Oath is Forever.)
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“We did apologize to [Page], and he accepted our apology. Both he and state police are moving in a positive direction as a result of the incident.”

Gotta love PR guys. I am unclear how the phrase 'positive direction' would in apply in this situation other than if it is a Gov't PR synonym for "He's lucky we didn't shoot him [or his dog]."

18 posted on 12/15/2012 10:48:48 AM PST by vbmoneyspender
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Mistake my ass.?

You've got THAT right, FRiend. This was a total set-up designed to provoke a response quite different than the one that transpired. I fully expect to read about an armed "stand-off" or a shoot-out with massed LEOs in the not to distant future. Zer0 needs cover to exploit the CT horror.

19 posted on 12/15/2012 10:59:53 AM PST by Roccus (POLITICIAN...............a four letter word spelled with ten letters.)
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To: Daffynition
since when are search warrants good for the middle of the night? and for a PROBATION CHECK???

something stinks... warrants are generally served between the hours of dawn and dusk not like some NAZI's in the middle of the night

20 posted on 12/15/2012 11:01:38 AM PST by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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