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Yesterday, USPS Tells Me To Post My Address Where Police Can See It, Now I Know Why

Posted by Zenphamy 9 years, 8 months ago to Government
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SWAT Raids Wrong Home, Force Small Children Out in the Snow, Blame it on the Family

"After throwing four small children and their parents into the freezing cold, officers tore apart the family’s home, looking for non-existent contraband. Why was the contraband non-existent? The SWAT team basically flipped a coin over which door to kick in, and they chose the wrong one.

Being that the SWAT team tore apart their home, terrorized this family, threatened the lives of their small children, all over being in the wrong house, they naturally paid for the damage and issued an apology, right? Wrong.

According to the lawsuit, they did not apologize, and they told them to fix their own house. After the raid was over, the cops had the audacity to blame their ineptitude on the family by telling them it was their fault for not having the proper numbering on their door!

So turn the rusty gears of the American police state."
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Yesterday, I received my First Notice from the USPS on how and where to place my address on my property so that police and emergency could find the correct address. I live in a town of less than 500 so I imagine everybody pretty much knows where I live, but here the the government goes on another CYA Control bunch of nonsense.

Should this make me feel any safer?

And many of you think I should pay attention to populist politics and vote. Hah and BahHumbug.

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    Posted by Zenphamy 9 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Illinois, 2 or 3 years ago, a similar scenario. cop was shot and their State Supreme ruled for the home owner.
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    Posted by $ jlc 9 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    It's a little worse than that I think, term. If you are the first person to call the police in an altercation, you have a certain advantage in being considered 'the victim who called for help' and hence the innocent/injured party. So, even if you do not have an insurance involvement, you may have to call in order not to be defaulted to guilty.

    And if someone calls in against you; always countercharge.

    Jan
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    Posted by term2 9 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I think that unless it was something that involved the insurance company requiring a police report, I would just as soon NOT get police involvement.
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    Posted by term2 9 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Unfortunately, when they WANT you, they will manufacture something to get you. This is why OJ won his criminal court case. People just believed that the LAPD planted the glove, period. They figured it was done so many times before that it there was a pretty reasonable doubt about it this time.
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    Posted by $ jlc 9 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    That is really the rub, isn't it: I am more afraid of the police than of the criminals.

    Jan
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    Posted by Herb7734 9 years, 8 months ago
    I also live in a small town. Not as small as Z's but where the police are pretty familiar, if not with individuals, at least individual neighborhoods. I have had to deal with them on several occasions and always found them to be polite. I was once stopped by a patrol officer whom I thought unjustly ticketed me. He seemed a bit arrogant but it might have been because I was feeling resentful. I later went to court and got the ticket wiped. The officer was there, was courteous and agreed that I might be right. I live in a nice town Just lucky, I guess.
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    Posted by Turfprint 9 years, 8 months ago
    The amount of people killed by individuals is miniscule compared to the number of people killed by governments.
    Same for torture.
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    Posted by wdg3rd 9 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    If you don't have something they can find to use against you, they will still "find" something to use against you. Your word against theirs whether it was in your sock drawer or a cop's pocket.
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    Posted by $ allosaur 9 years, 8 months ago
    While reading here, Old Dino conjured up a vision of Planet of the Apes inhabitants dresses up like SWAT all jumping up and down, wildly waving weapons and going, "Oo! Oo! Oo!" in or about a trashed house.
    Perhaps that would make a good editorial cartoon for a local newspaper at the proper time and place with a caption of "Wrong Address.".
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    Posted by term2 9 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Government will figure it out and do their inspections one way or another. If they want you they are powerful enough to get you. Just don't have anything they can find to use against you. Might as well let them in before they break everything
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    Posted by term2 9 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    If you are going to live here you might as well number your house, but maybe you incorrectly remember what the right number is supposed to be
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    Posted by term2 9 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I think you have to hide anything that could possibly be thought of it twisted into something illegal. That would be cash, valuables, and assets they could "suspect" were derived from drug operations. Imagine what's going to happen when our government is really strapped for cash and goes on a rampage against gold we might have.
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    Posted by term2 9 years, 8 months ago
    A few years back I started hosting a few parties at my home which allowed consensual sex among attendees. The county , under Mormon pressure, raided my house one day to find ANY possible violations of anything in order to harass me. They discovered the septic tank was 200 gallons too small even though 10 years earlier they had inspected and approved it in writing. They forced me to replace it or having the house condemned ($20,000 fix). They broke my gate, destroyed an exterior door and had 20 county multi agency people invading my house hoping to find whatever they could use (they found nothing). I could have easily started shooting them in the dark basement in which they entered. It was a frightening experience which left me zero respect for our local government. I feel safer in my home from common thieves and robbers than from the police. I don't even want police around any more
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    Posted by Eyecu2 9 years, 8 months ago
    I am looking forward to reading about the cops making this mistake on a well prepared family. Who kill about 3/4 of the SWAT team before they pull back. Then after it grinds it's way through court the cops have to pay and cover the damages...

    A guy can dream right? I know it would never happen that way. Be another Ruby Ridge or Waco. Since they have total control of the media. No matter what happened the citizens will always be wrong.
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    Posted by Technocracy 9 years, 8 months ago in reply to this comment.
    When I was a kid, I made a tidy sum going around the neighborhood with paint and stencils to paint house numbers on the curb. Charged $2.50 (early 70s) and made a nice pile of cash.
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    Posted by $ jbrenner 9 years, 8 months ago
    About once every three years my county "offers" the opportunity for us to get our street number easier to read to make it easier for local police and fire authorities. Politely I say no.
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    Posted by VetteGuy 9 years, 8 months ago
    This happened to a neighbor of mine a few years ago. We have "rural style" mailboxes out at the street, with the house numbers, and they are all on one side, so the mail delivery truck only has to make one pass down the street.

    One night, my neighbor woke up to a yard full of cops, lights flashing and guns drawn. A domestic disturbance call had come from the house across the street.
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