Re: so apparently swat thuggery is not limited to drug enforcement

Debtor prisons, coming soon to a city near you!

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On Jun 8, 2011, at 1:11 PM, "Karl Swenson" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Yea.  This is what I fear the most regardless of where it manifests, a
> government that is too big for its britches.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
> Behalf Of Mike Findlay
> Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2011 10:05 AM
> To: DADL (off topic)
> Subject: Re: [DADL-OT] so apparently swat thuggery is not limited to drug
> enforcement
> 
> Yeah I saw that and figured I'd refrain from posting it.  If I had posted it
> I was going to say that it appears that these thugs enjoy their jobs too
> much.  
> Kicking a door down for a student loan - what should be a civil matter.  I
> mean c'mon.
> 
> Mike F.  
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> From: Karl Swenson <[email protected]>
> To: DADL (off topic) <[email protected]>
> Sent: Wed, June 8, 2011 11:09:57 AM
> Subject: [DADL-OT] so apparently swat thuggery is not limited to drug
> enforcement
> 
> Nope, even defaulting on student loans gets you raided now.
> 
> 
> 
> http://www.news10.net/news/article/141072/2/Dept-of-Education-breaks-down-St
> ockton-mans-door
> 
> 
> 
> STOCKTON, CA - Kenneth Wright does not have a criminal record and he had no
> reason to believe a S.W.A.T team would be breaking down his door at 6 a.m.
> on Tuesday. "I look out of my window and I see 15 police officers," Wright
> said.
> 
> Wright came downstairs in his boxer shorts as the officers team barged
> through his front door. Wright said an officer grabbed him by the neck and
> led him outside on his front lawn. 
> 
> 
> 
> "He had his knee on my back and I had no idea why they were there," Wright
> said. 
> 
> 
> 
> According to Wright, officers also woke his three young children ages 3, 7,
> and 11, and put them in a Stockton police patrol car with him. Officers then
> searched his house. 
> 
> 
> 
> As it turned out, the person law enforcement was looking for was not there -
> Wright's estranged wife. 
> 
> 
> 
> "They put me in handcuffs in that hot patrol car for six hours, traumatizing
> my kids," Wright said.
> 
> Wright said he later went to the mayor and Stockton Police Department, but
> the city of Stockton had nothing to do with Wright's search warrant. 
> 
> 
> 
> The U.S. Department of Education issued the search and called in S.W.A.T for
> his wife's defaulted student loans. 
> 
> 
> 
> "They busted down my door for this," Wright said. "It wasn't even me."
> 
> According to the Department of Education's Office of the Inspector General,
> the case can't be discussed publicly until it is closed, but a
> representative confirmed the department did issue the search warrant at
> Wright's home. 
> 
> 
> 
> Wednesday morning, inspector general spokeswoman Gina Burress provided the
> following statement:
> 
> "The Office of Inspector General does not engage in the collection of
> student loans. Our mission is to conduct criminal investigations related to
> the programs and operations of the U.S. Department of Education, which
> include the student financial aid programs. We can confirm that we executed
> a search warrant at the residence, however our policy is not to discuss
> details of our on-going work."
> 
> The Office of the Inspector General has a law enforcement branch of federal
> agents that carry out search warrants and investigations. 
> 
> 
> 
> The Stockton Police Department said it was asked by federal agents to
> provide one officer and one patrol car just for a police presence when
> carrying out the search warrant. 
> 
> 
> 
> Police officers did not participate in breaking Wright's door, handcuffing
> him, or searching his home. 
> 
> 
> 
> "All I want is an apology for me and my kids and for them to get me a new
> door," Wright said.
> 
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