Tea Party News NetworkIn America, we have certain rights. Central to our civil liberties is a presumption of innocence until having been found guilty in a court of law and the right of citizens to be secure from unreasonable searches and seizures.
One Florida couple found out the hard way that though these rights exist in theory, the modern federal government feels free to play fast-and-loose with these concepts.
At approximately 6:16 am on June 10th, 2014, Kari Edwards and her live-in boyfriend were seized upon by a SWAT team who smashed in the door and using flashbangs and armed to the teeth, swarmed upon the couple and even stripped Ms. Edwards naked in the process.
The couple says that the group entailed personnel from DHS, for whom Edwards once worked. After smashing in the door, the tactical team threw in flashbang grenades, traumatizing their cat and swarmed upon Edwards’s boyfriend and Edwards who had just gotten out of the shower.
“They busted in like I was a terrorist or something,” Edwards said.
“[An officer] demanded that I drop the towel I was covering my naked body with before snatching it off me physically and throwing me to the ground.”
“While I lay naked, I was cuffed so tightly I could not feel my hands. For no reason, at gunpoint,” Edwards said. “[Agents] refused to cover me, no matter how many times I asked.”
“I have never been in any trouble before,” Edwards later stated. “Haven’t even had a traffic ticket in over ten years.”
The couple claim to have seen several different agency uniforms and Edwards repeatedly asked who they were and why they were there. Edwards claimed that they would only identify as “police” and refused to identify why they were there.
The couple has surveillance cameras which caught much of the action. When they were discovered, agents turned the cameras toward the wall.
After two hours and after the agents had thoroughly trashed the house, Edwards was given a warrant signed by Jonathan Goodman, a federal magistrate judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida that authorized the agents to search for computers and electronics.
Edwards’ boyfriend fixes up old computers but she claimed that the police barely looked at any electronics and did not seize any of the electronics in the house.
Like so many recent instances regarding federal militancy, the root cause of the police action can be justifiable while the manner in which police are investigating alleged illegalities is wholly inappropriate. If the police had a warrant to search for electronics, it’s possible to have executed that warrant without the firepower once reserved for Army Rangers going door-to-door in Fallujah.
Where is the justification for the use of excessive force in this instance? These F’N pigs want to terrorize the population and are trained to do so. The American people have become refugees in their own country. With our police forces around the country being trained by Israeli Mossad, why should we expect to be treated any different than the Palestinians in the Gaza strip.
I think this should be awake up call to regularly “clean” your computers. I have been using a “free” software program-in short you can donate if you want. There are many “freeware” programs on CNN download and or Softpedia. http://www.privazer.com is great! It will remove old OS from your hard drive as well.
NO — it’s a wake-up call to “clean” our government of murderous crooks and tyrants.
We should NOT have to change our behavior to adapt to their criminal ways. We need to roll their heads down the street so we can live in freedom again.
And what makes you so sure that the “freeware” isn’t just more comprehensive spyware? If you don’t know who wrote it, you don’t know that at all.
Jolly -I understand that no matter who is in office, there will and always has been liars, theifs and corruption. That, to be on the “safe side” and protect yourself at all times. No one, but you can be prepared to protect yourself. The “minute” you start depending on others to do so you already “lose!” And, instead of looking down your nose at something before you even check it out for yourself makes me think you’re your own worse enemy.
CNN really???