I don’t have to deal with Border Cops. Maybe you folks who do can tell me this is just an isolated incident …that border cops have a tough job and that they are generally nice guys. I won’t believe you though. That’s because most cops (95% plus) are psychopath fuckwads. That ruling is final.
If this was your wife and children … wouldn’t you want to hunt those fuckers down and make them pay? I would.
Quick discussion on living in a trailer ….. trailer trash.
I HATE that fucking term!!!! I was 18 years old the first time I dated a gal who lived in a trailer … it was in Topeka, Kansas. She was a nice young lady, and did the best she could. The last time was after my divorce when I moved back to NJ. She was a nice older lady, and she did the best she could. (Fact is, it was a double-wide and it was rather nice inside, as was the property.) I watched a 20/20 show this week and it showed people living in trailers in West Virginia. They are doing the best they can. I don’t know exactly why, but it just pisses me the fuck off to denigrate someone just because they can’t afford a “regular” house. Fucking snob elitist motherfuckers can go to hell.
As a matter of fact, I think this lady has better living arrangements than we do. We live in a nice neighborhood … but it’s in New Fuckin Jersey, crowds everywhere, free shitters galore, several cities where white people dare not venture, highest taxes in Amerika, and ruled by a fat-fuk Crispy-Cream traitor. She lives out in the open, under blue skies, bothered by no one (until recently). She should be sending ME a sympathy card! End of rant.
On to the story.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=nZN4KryFuzY
Family terrorized by taser-wielding, tire-slashing border agents
THREE POINTS, AZ — A mother says that while driving her children home from school on a dirt road in Arizona, she was stopped by lawless Border Patrol agents who threatened her with weapons, forcibly searched her, slashed her tire and left her stranded in the desert.
Clarisa Christiansen had just picked up her 7-year-old daughter from elementary school, and was traveling down a backcountry road. She also had her 5-year-old son in the truck. All three are U.S. citizens that reside in Three Points, Arizona, about 40 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border.
Border Patrol agents. (Source: Getty Images)
The family was completing the 15-mile journey when they were stopped by a group of 3 federal agents performing a roving border patrol stop. The stop took place about 2:15 p.m. on May 21st, 2013.
Ms. Christiansen was then approached by one of the agents, as she sat parked in the driver’s seat with her children strapped in the back seat. The agent began to question her. First she was asked if she was a U.S. citizen. She responded affirmatively, “Yes. Is there a problem?”
The agent peered into her windows and observed her children strapped helplessly in the back seat. The agent then requested that she exit her vehicle so that he could search it, according to the account provided in an ACLU document. Christiansen declined, saying she did not consent to searches. She requested to know why she was stopped. The agent refused to tell her, and kept demanding that she exit. As the two went back and forth, the agent became “clearly agitated” at her exercising her rights.
“You’re not going anywhere….This one’s being difficult. Get the Taser.”
“I was put in a situation where I was in the middle of nowhere,” Christiansen later narrated. “Three agent men against one woman with her two children in the middle of the desert, where nobody’s around, they could have done anything to me and my kids.
Ms. Christiansen then stated that if there was no reason for stopping her that she would be on her way. She began to put her vehicle in gear.
The agent stopped her. “Whoa, whoa, whoa. You’re not going nowhere,” the agent said according to Christiansen. He told the other 2 agents, “This one’s being difficult. Get the Taser.”
“Ma’am, do I need to tase you to get you out of your vehicle?” the CBP agent asked, after opening her door.
The argument continued. Christiansen feared for the safety of her children. “Mommy what’s going on?” they asked.
The agent then whipped out a retractable knife and threatened to cut her out of the vehicle. He forced his hand into her car and snatched her keys from the ignition.
The tire that was found slashed when border patrol drove away.
Ms. Christiansen had no choice but to exit the vehicle. The agents made her show them her papers and ran checks on her. The entire stop dragged on for 35 minutes. Then, without saying a word, the agents left.
When Christiansen tried to drive away, she noticed that one of her tires had been sliced open along the firewall. Her family was left stranded in the desert. “They slashed my tire,” she said. “It was a pretty obvious slash, straight cut on the side wall.”
With no one else around for miles, Christiansen had to contact a family member to come and help them. Later, she followed up with a complaint to the agency.
Richard Hill, one of the DHS officials who “investigated” her incident, told her he believed the tire had been “torn” and not intentionally cut. He disclosed the name of one agent who was present at the scene as “Agent Laguna.”
“They just seem to think they can do whatever they want and bully everybody around,” said Christiansen. “It’s just not right. It’s just not right. They scared me. They scared my kids. They changed my view on basically the way I look at them now.”
LEAWOOD, KS — An innocent family was terrorized by a paramilitary SWAT raid on their home that lasted 2.5 hours; yielding nothing. It took the family 2 years and $25,000 to discover the real reason their house was targeted: discarded tea leaves in their garbage and the purchase of indoor gardening equipment.
‘You’re in the wrong house!’
Robert and Adlynn Harte discovered how easily an innocent family can become the targets of state-sanctioned violence when a SWAT team showed up at their home looking for contraband. The terrifying experience took place at 7:30 a.m. on April 20, 2012.
“It was just like on the cops TV shows. It was like ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ ready to storm the compound.”
The Harte home was surrounded by paramilitary police. There was a sudden pounding at the door, which Robert quickly answered. If he had delayed opening the door, a man carrying a battering ram was prepared to breach the front door.
Robert was pushed to the floor and made to clasp his hands behind his head as strange men poured into his home. Rifle-toting, armored troopers stood over him with rifles screaming, “Where are the children in the home?”
The Hartes’ 7-year-old daughter and 13-year-old son had both been sleeping in their bedrooms, and were “shocked and frightened” as they were shuffled into the living room and made to watch as the invaders snooped through their belongings.
“We just kept saying ‘You’re in the wrong house!’”
Johnson County Sheriff’s deputies and police canines tore through the family’s living space for 2.5 hours. They took interest with the Hartes’ indoor garden, which was a family project to grow vegetables such as tomatoes, squashes, and melons in the basement.
The Hartes said that the deputies “made rude comments” and implied their son was using marijuana. Yet the deputies left empty handed. A receipt was left, saying “no items taken.”
‘Operation Constant Gardener’
The Hartes had no idea why they had been targeted. They were not involved in any illegal activities and had impeccable records — good enough to pass the rigorous background checks to get clearance with the Department of Defense.
The department would not give them any answers about the raid, only that they were looking for narcotics. No records were provided willingly.
“We were chosen more or less at random for this drug raid and we were like ‘what do you mean we can’t get the records? They raided our house,” Addie explained.
The family was forced to sue the department to get any answers about the incident — a year later. Documents later showed that their hydroponics equipment that had played a role in attracting the attention of SWAT. The police believed they were growing the forbidden cannabis plant inside their home using grow lights and hydroponics.
The couple discovered that the raid even had a name. It had been a part of “Operation Constant Gardener” — a drug sweep conducted by multiple police agencies in the region.
“With little or no other evidence of any illegal activity, law enforcement officers make the assumption that shoppers at the store are potential marijuana growers, even though the stores are most commonly frequented by backyard gardeners who grow organically or start seedlings indoors,” the couple stated in a lawsuit.
‘This isn’t a communist country’
It took an additional year and $25,000 to get the rest of the story.
It turned out that the police had first seen Bob Harte at a local hydroponics shop called The Green Circle in August 2011. Harte exited the store with a small bag, prompting police a surveillance effort. For months, cops began snooping through the family’s trash.
The shopkeeper of the hydroponics store, Bennie Palmentere, said he was disturbed that government spies were sorting through his customers’ trash. “This isn’t a communist country,” he said to KSHB.
The 5:00 a.m. garbage searches yielded some plant-like materials which they assumed to be marijuana. Using an unreliable field-testing kit, the plant material created a false-positive for marijuana, and a search warrant was acquired.
“We cannot understand how the low level of police work, which included using an unreliable field test, could have permitted a SWAT-style raid on our home,” the Hartes said in a public statement.
The plant material was never taken to a lab to pursue more definitive results. The warrant was handed out with little effort or evidence on the part of the police.
Bob knew instantly what the “plant-like materials” were: his wife’s discarded tea leaves from her daily hot beverages.
“You shouldn’t have to have that kind of money to find out why people came raiding your house like some sort of police state.”
“If this can happen to us and we are educated and have reasonable resources, how does somebody who maybe hasn’t led a perfect life supposed to be free in this country?” said Addie Harte to the AP.
The fact that it took 2 years and $25,000 to get the complete details about how their home was targeted a the source of contention for the family.
“This not what justice in the United States is supposed to be,” Addie Harte said. “You shouldn’t have to have $25,000, even $5,000. You shouldn’t have to have that kind of money to find out why people came raiding your house like some sort of police state.”
The Hartes’ experience sheds some valuable light on a dilemma that is faced all over the country. Their family is fortunate to have the resources and patience necessary to fight through expensive lawsuits required to provide answers about the investigation in which they were involved. Exposure is the best way to push back on the police state. However, most people would not have the resources to to do the same. The majority of the time, clandestine police raids are allowed to remain shrouded in secrecy.
The plant material was never taken to a lab to pursue more definitive results. The warrant was handed out with little effort or evidence on the part of the police.
Bob knew instantly what the “plant-like materials” were: his wife’s discarded tea leaves from her daily hot beverages.
“You shouldn’t have to have that kind of money to find out why people came raiding your house like some sort of police state.”
“If this can happen to us and we are educated and have reasonable resources, how does somebody who maybe hasn’t led a perfect life supposed to be free in this country?” said Addie Harte to the AP.
The fact that it took 2 years and $25,000 to get the complete details about how their home was targeted a the source of contention for the family.
“This not what justice in the United States is supposed to be,” Addie Harte said. “You shouldn’t have to have $25,000, even $5,000. You shouldn’t have to have that kind of money to find out why people came raiding your house like some sort of police state.”
The Hartes’ experience sheds some valuable light on a dilemma that is faced all over the country. Their family is fortunate to have the resources and patience necessary to fight through expensive lawsuits required to provide answers about the investigation in which they were involved. Exposure is the best way to push back on the police state. However, most people would not have the resources to to do the same. The majority of the time, clandestine police raids are allowed to remain shrouded in secrecy.
