http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFALonjLay0
FROM DAN NORCINI
Guys – some of you might get this out to your distribution lists.
If I recall correctly, the “Crime” that Gibson was potentially guilty of was using exotic woods in some of their guitars, a charge which the company vigorously denied. I do not know whether or not this is true, but regardless, the manner in which this has been handled is especially disturbing.
Also, in this case, I am not sure what the charge was against the water company or against the Duncans.
Pay attention especially to the lawyer’s comments about 18:3o into the film where he begins to talk about the states pushing back against this unconstitutional encroachment upon the rights of their citizens.
The point in this video is not whether the folks who were subject to these Gestapo-like raids had done anything wrong – it was the manner in which they are treated. Why not first approach the owners of these companies in a civilized manner and let them know that there are certain issues which they are running afoul of, if that is the case, and seeing if that will resolve the question. Why conduct a massive para-military raid other than the idea to intimidate?
Those who naively believe that the Constitution will protect them from this sort of thing are assuming, dangerously so, that those in DC actually will abide by the restraints imposed upon their power by that document. We have already seen that is no longer the case.
Our last line of defense is the states and that means getting your state legislatures and the governor to begin to draw a line in the sand. It also means that the local sheriffs are going to have to learn their powers and begin to exercise them, particularly with respect to the feds.
No one here is arguing that those who commit crimes should get away with it; what is being argued is that our rights, supposedly guaranteed by the Constitution are being systematically violated by an ever-increasingly hostile federal government. Can any of us even imagine the trauma inflicted on these citizens by these runamok federal agents busting down their doors and herding them into rooms like some sort of violent criminals???
All of the people I know are law-abiding citizens who work hard, are ethical and who play by the rules. When things reach the point that those such people are fearful of their own government, can we really say that any of us are actually a free people any longer?
I believe it was Thomas Jefferson who said that freedom exists where the government is fearful of its citizens and that tyranny exists where the citizens fear the government.
Then again, maybe the new normal here in the US is for the general citizenry to tremble in fear of offending their masters in DC because they unknowingly step across the line of some one of myriads of endless laws or regulations that continue to proliferate, each one further restricting what we may or may not do here in the land of the free.
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