A squad of SWAT cops in California broke down a man's door at 6 in the morning to serve a search warrant.
The search warrant was because his ex-wife defaulted on her student loans.
Whose SWAT team did the raid was not clear, whether it was the Stockton cops or goons from the Federal Department of Education. (That's right: The Department of Education has armed goons to collect on those student loans.)
Busting down a door at 6AM to serve a search warrant because of a defaulted loan? If that is not per se unreasonable, then I don't know what the frak is. The "protect and serve" motto is bullshit, unless the cops are protecting and serving the elites. They sure as hell aren't serving the people with fascist bullshit like this.
And, as BadTux has noted before, a hell of a lot of Americans, including 99.44% of the Teabaggers, are just fine with that.
UPDATE: It apparently was an operation by the DoEd's armed thugs, not the Stockton police, who sent one cop to watch. The fact that the target of the raid was no longer living there calls into question the competence of the DoEd's investigators.
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(H/T to a comment here)
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The raid itself probably cost as much as a semester of college.
The original story is now no longer on the Interwebs, and the DofEducation has released a statement saying that it was part of an investigation of "white collar crime", not because of a student loan default. Of course, the two might be one and the same, if the claim is that she got student loans but was never actually a student, or lied on her student loan application, or ...
- Badtux the Curious Penguin
They can pressure the local station to take down the story, but that's kind of futile nowadays. It'll always be out there.
The government with gins and private courts, people without guns and no court of recourse.
We live in great land comrade, the government is not so much.
Eck!
But of course every single one of these laws was passed by SOB's that the majority of the voters in the corresponding districts or states voted for... and who *continue* to get re-elected, year after year, because the voters apparently are satisfied with the job they're doing, I guess.
Democracy is the notion that the general public deserves to get the government they want, good and hard.
- Badtux the Cynical Penguin
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