Sipsey Street Irregulars: How a Government Prosecutor Got Away With Seizing a Home to Live In

Sunday, July 26, 2015

How a Government Prosecutor Got Away With Seizing a Home to Live In

A recent report out of Oklahoma makes clear the startling consequences of a lack of transparency and oversight within law enforcement. Over a seven-year period, Oklahoma law enforcement authorities misused seized property, misspent seized funds and misplaced or lost evidence—including confiscated firearms.

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Sean said...: And the cops wonder why people are so hostile to them.; July 26, 2015 at 9:57 AM
Anonymous said...: I will always relish the look of disgust and hate .When I presented the Police armorer .With a court order to return 7 pre- 64 Winchester rifles ,to me.3 were so old they had no serial #'s. You know he had a place in his personal vault ,for those rifles. Behind enemy lines. In Unconstitutional, collectivist ,Ct. We will not comply,nor stand down.AAA/0.11B20.; July 26, 2015 at 12:21 PM
Anonymous said...: What would you do to anyone else, that tried to steal your property? Think about it.; July 26, 2015 at 1:01 PM
Jimmy the Saint said...: @Anonymous: "What would you do to anyone else, that tried to steal your property? Think about it."

Think about the fact that they may just want you to do something. Resisting almost always equals a good shoot. So they get your stuff anyway, get to off someone in the process, and - worst case scenario - they get a paid vacation after the fact.

It doesn't mean don't resist, but it does mean consider the full ramifications.; July 26, 2015 at 2:27 PM
Anonymous said...: These badged thieves need to suffer direct, negative consequences for this behavior. Not necessarily financial.; July 26, 2015 at 6:33 PM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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How a Government Prosecutor Got Away With Seizing a Home to Live In

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