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Re: Aquatic Plants Digest V4 #669
>Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 18:07:20 EST
>From: K9AUB at aol_com
>Subject: Re: They're watching you!
>
>In a message dated 11/19/2000 12:56:00 Pacific Standard Time,
>Aquatic-Plants-Owner at actwin_com writes:
>
>> So if they have any reason to suspect that you might be growing
>> marajuana in your basement, they will show up to make sure they get
>> their piece of the action. If you were hypothetically growing pot, they
>> could take everything you own into custody, drop the criminal charges
>> against you due to insufficient evidence, and you would never get the
>> stuff back.
>>
>Absolutely true! A few years ago, my vindictive ex-wife decided to cause me
>some serious problems. After leaving me (to move in with her boyfriend, a
>local city police officer), she called the FBI and told them I was a
>"big-time drug dealer." It was not true; all I had were some aspirin in the
>medicine chest, and nothing else. However, 4 days later, at 7 AM in the
>morning, I had a DEA and FBI SWAT team outside my front door. They came in
>with a search warrant (based on testimony from a "confidential informant")
>and tossed my house, to include cutting open my mattresses and couch
>cushions, removing the light switches from the walls, etc., all in a vain
>search for drugs. However, the locals who accompanied the FBI seized my gun
>collection, worth around $10k. Although all charges were eventually
dropped,
>the guns were pronounced as "forfeited." Although they never suggested the
>guns had been used in any crime, and although all were owned legally, I
never
>did get them back, and I was never compensated for them. I was also never
>compensated for furniture and bedding destroyed, and I got to see my
>photograph on the 6:00 O'Clock news being led out of my house in handcuffs
as
>being a suspected drug dealer. It CAN happen to you! (So long as the news
>media says "alleged" and "suspected," they don't have any liability to you,
>either. Lovely.)
>
List Mom, are you out there?
Thanks,
Paul
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Paul Mouritsen.....mourip @ erols . com
Washington, DC
If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans...
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