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"The P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act: An Excuse for Tyranny"
"Around 10 p.m. on March 5, Lundeby said, armed FBI agents along with three local law enforcement officers stormed her home looking for her son. They handcuffed him and presented her with a search warrant . . . "
Please read the entire article here:
http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/5049867/
Could this not have been handled at the proper jurisdictional level, keeping the boy in NC? This is Big Brother omnipotence and an example of why the Founding Fathers did not want a federal police force as we have now with the FBI.
It's also an indication of the folly of having the glory-seeking clowns in Congress write such flagrantly unread and unconstitutional laws that literally turn into federal cases many crimes that used to be handled at the local level. Apparently the twin towers' collapse in NYC also sucked out what few brains were left in the heads of politicians in Congress.
In the alternate universe of a Constitutional republic, if there had been sufficient evidence of a crime to indicate to a judge that the boy needed to be arrested, then the F.B.C.I. (Federal Bureau of Criminal Information--a resource and technical agency that also advises states of interstate crimes but has NO power of arrest) could have come down and indicated that there had been a complaint against the boy. They could then have advised local authorities to have him incarcerated in the county or city jail but that could happen only if the local law enforcement agreed that it was justifiable. If the sheriff disagreed and thought the incarceration was unnecessary or excessive, he could have nullified the Federal action. That's the way a true republic, respectful of its states and citizens, would have acted.
Storming a citizen's house and pulling a boy out of his home and taking him halfway across the country in the middle of the night is very reminiscent of Lincoln's tactics against his political enemies. According to contemporary accounts, it was the standard operating procedure in the early 1860s for Lincoln to have his thugs arrest legislators from the Midwest that were against the war and throw them into the "Bastille" as it was metaphorically described at the time. Whatever else they might be, good, bad, or ambivalent, such tactics just ain't Constitutional!
Now the family is left with the huge burden of attempting to defend this teenager against the leviathan Federal government with its routinely invoked power of intimidating anyone into plea-bargains based on their creating the financial ruin of the victims in their sights, guilty or not. This is a much different story than what occurs in local prosecutions by the states though those are no picnic, either. In addition to essentially carrying the burden of proving the teenager's innocence, the family also has to travel halfway across the country to the boy's place of incarceration in order to visit and get him representation. Whether the boy is guilty of the allegations or not, we seriously need a redress of grievances here.
Otherwise, let's just go ahead and frame the crimes properly and more dramatically by coming up with a central prison literally named, "The Bastille." If we do that then perhaps the zombies in this country will come back to life before it's too late and notice just what is so wrong with our current situation.
At the rate we're going, we'll be having a French-style revolution by the time it all comes to a boil--but then, there's something very attractive to the revolutionary spirit in me about the idea of the tyrants in Congress and the White House having their heads chopped off. I can dream, can't I?
No, wait, I can't--I just violated the Patriot Act!
wtc
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