Natural Society – by Christina Sarich
The police state grows. Angela Kirking, a 46-year old woman living in Shorewood, Illinois does face-painting for children at local fairs. She also enjoys growing hibiscus plants for her own consumption. Apparently, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) believes her shopping for fertilizer and supplies at a local store called Midwest Hydroponics made her a very serious subject for investigation.
It seems that Ms. Kirking was so threatening, that after being observed shopping at her local hydroponics store, police agents staked out her home, sifted through her garbage, monitored her electricity usage, and finally busted into her bedroom in the middle of the night pointing guns at her, demanding to know if there were any illegal substances in her home.
Police and the DEA have also been staking out Midwest Hydroponics attempting to bust citizens who grow unauthorized plants without government permission. Kirking was witnessed ‘carrying a green plastic bag containing unknown items’ from the store, stated a Shorewood Patch report. Her ‘questionable’ bag contained fertilizer for her hibiscus flowers.
DEA and police watched Kirking for over a month, determining that her shopping habits made her worthy of tax-payer money and brute force should be applied to her situation. They even intercepted her utility bills, discovering that her usage was ‘consistently higher’ than other homes in her area. Officers were sent to sneak around her home at 4:15am – acting like criminals instead of protectors of the public good. The Shorewood Patch also reports that officers say they found ‘multiple plant stems’ in her garbage, smelling strongly of ‘green cannabis.’
Such little evidence and great effort to send a paramilitary force to scare the living death out of a woman in her bedroom as she slept. On October 11, 2013, Mrs. Kirking woke to gun-riddled strangers at 5:00am ready to ‘take her down’. Police waited for her husband to leave for work before entering her home.
Police confiscated her computer, some books, and some plants they categorized as marijuana and took her away in handcuffs.
“They had a gun pointed at me when they said, ‘Are there any illegal substances in your house?’” Kirking recalled.
In what country do they allow police to raid your home simply for growing flowers? Kirking’s attorney, Jeff Tomczak, is trying to get the search warrant voided because of its shaky pretexts. But oh, yes, we live in the United Police States of America.
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“unauthorized plants”
“Why is marijuana against the law? It grows naturally upon our planet. Doesn’t the idea of making nature against the law seem to you a bit . . . unnatural?” -Bill Hicks
“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.–Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government.” -The Declaration of Independence
A devastating ambush might give leviathan pause…
-flek
Un-flipping-believable, but not unexpected in the crazy world we live in.
Perhaps we all should do our own raid on the WH seeing as how michele has been preaching about growing a garden. Yea, and besides, barack always did say he was a pot head. 🙂
An important point to note here is that this kind of illegal, criminal behavior by police is considered “normal”, “within department policy”, and “for your protection”. Anyone who thinks anything to the contrary (like all of us here at the trenches) is considered be of a terrorist nature.
This is the second story that I have heard of where they are watching shoppers that go to these hydroponic stores. The last story was a man and his wife, and they also went through their trash. They had tea in their trash and then swat raided their home. So now it is illegal to grow food or herbs in your home. They know they can see what is in your back yard, but they cannot see what is inside your basement so it is killing these evil b tards. They want total control.
“Police confiscated her computer, some books, and some plants they categorized as marijuana and took her away in handcuffs.”
CATEGORIZED??? What the hell does THAT mean???
Either it is, or it isn’t. There is no gray area here.
Idiots.
Pharmaceutical drugs kill more people, annually, than both heroin & cocaine combined. There has never been a reported death due to marijuana.