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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.)