How to have your neighbor's house ransacked

ha ha

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Originally Posted by Teufelhund

Illinois Cops Give Family Ten Minutes Between Delivery of Mysterious Marijuana package and No-Knock Drug Raid.

I'm so glad we're free. What time does Idol come on?

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Texas SWAT (The show) shows this kind of stuff. Cops are starting to be like fireman. They love breaking shit. Even if your guilty, what the sense in breaking folks stuff. I'm sure the guy would have opened the door. Check out the documentry Training day.

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Originally Posted by coloccw

1) how do we know that the package WASN'T for them?

2) don't know what the warrant was for. I doubt they got the warrant in 10 minutes so they had it before the package was delivered, possibly for another charge(s).

3) everyone that talks to the news is innocent, didn't you know that? It's a fool proof test for determining innocence.

1> because it says "unsolicited" and it apparently was not in the name of anyone in residence?

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Brown says he didn't see the name, or even get a good look at the package which, says his son-in-law had the name "Oscar" and some other last name.

2>The warrant was in his name, but apparently the wrong township? I honestly dont know enough about the current "no knock" policies to comment intelligently

3>Innocent until proven guilty, and there is a matter of respecting civilians and their rights. That entire "Right to Privacy" thing in the Constitution is meant to prevent this exact sort of thing, because the British were doing pretty much the exact sort of thing in the name of the King, which was a large part of why that whole Revolutionary War thing happened. I get that in this day of armed drug dealers and the sophistication some of them are capable of, there is sometimes a need for no-knocks etc., but one would think that there would be a lot of emphasis put on getting it right.

Being a "tin hatter" here for a moment lets look at how similar our circumstances are-

-Taxation and other laws enacted without consent of the people? Yeap, Executive Orders my ass, did not realize we elected a King.
-Random search and seizure- Yeap, and getting larger. I mean it was cool when they were using it to bust drug dealers down in the Glades, but how about when they use no knocks to come in and search residences for "illegal" weapons, stockpiles of ammunition, etc.?
-A militant force with virtually unlimited power to search, detain, and question ANYONE at ANYTIME? Yeap, DHS- Department of Homeland Security and a lot of the rest of the alphabet soup organizations.