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

What is scary is that we all agree for the second time in two days.

Dark times are a coming....

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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Mike Findlay
Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2011 12:17 PM
To: DADL (off topic)
Subject: Re: [DADL-OT] so apparently swat thuggery is not limited to drug
enforcement

Same thought occurred to me.



Story updated:

http://hotair.com/archives/2011/06/08/video-swat-team-raids-house-over-unpai
d-student-loans/



Like the update says doesn't make it much better.  Love to see the affidavit
they completed to get the search warrant.  Haven't read an action packed
short story in a while.

Mike F.  



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From: Lance McLain <lance-X3DuywwxauBWk0Htik3J/[email protected]>
To: DADL (off topic) <[email protected]>
Sent: Wed, June 8, 2011 2:04:07 PM
Subject: Re: [DADL-OT] so apparently swat thuggery is not limited to drug
enforcement

Debtor prisons, coming soon to a city near you!

Sent from my iPhone

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-d
> own-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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