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As if the name isn't hilariously evil enough...
This would have been front-page news a decade or two ago. So far out as to be unbelievable except by the lunatic fringe. "Nah, the government would never go that far."
Full fucking stop. No government agent is coming in my home without a judicial warrant. I am not a big man. I am not a tough man. I AM able to enforce that statement. We'll play Ruby Ridge II up in here come to that.
Imagine conservatives trying to spin that shit.
Police: "Well the law says we can kick his door down and take his shit without approval from the judiciary. So we tried. And the mad man turned his front door frame into a hell storm of lead!"
Y'all liberals better pull your head out your ass in a fucking hurry. Fascism is here, now, today. If you can't defend yourself, you are not peaceful, you are harmless.
(And I know, I'm old, so it's easier to throw my life down. But I'm not getting on the concentration camp train.)
Okay, for those of us that don't want to go down in a hail of bullets, what is the option if we wanted to survive? Any good countries to look at moving to?
You appeal in court and have anything they charge you with thrown out as unlawful search and seizure.
Fascism is actually here when the courts no longer function, but the courts will always be the courts.
That's right, Jebediah. You tell 'em. Ain't no varmints nor lawmen gettin' through yer door. They'll get a face fulla buckshot, aw' right.
Dang old revenuers, man!
Own a musket for home defense, since that's what the founding fathers intended. Four ~~ruffians~~ Gov Ops staff break into my house. "What the devil?" as I grab my powdered wig and Kentucky rifle. Blow a golf ball sized hole through the first man, he's dead on the spot. Draw my pistol on the second man, misses him entirely because it's smoothbore and nails the neighbor's dog. I have to resort to the cannon mounted at the top of the stairs loaded with grape shot. "Tally ho lads" the grape shot shreds two men in the blast, the sound and extra shrapnel set off car alarms. Fix bayonet and charge the last terrified rapscallion. Bleeds out waiting on the ~~police~~ EMTs to arrive since triangular bayonet wounds are impossible to stitch up. Just as the founding fathers intended.
This story is ridiculous, but also nobody is putting you in a concentration camp. Settle down. What is with people's persecution fetish?
The government barging into people's homes without a warrant to investigate spurious crimes is out-and-out fascism. It's absolutely persecution.
Well, for one it is a direct violation of the Fourth amendment of the US Constitution which protects US citizens from unreasonable search and seizure.