Monday on CNN's "The Lead With Jake Tapper," CNN justice correspondent Pamela Brown reported on Philadelphia police and prosecutors seizing the homes of people with no criminal charges.
The report highlighted a family who's 22-year-old son was arrested for a $40 drug charge but the parents, who were unaware of their adult sons criminal activity, were never charged with any crime are currently fighting city prosecutors to stay in the family home.
The homeowners told the story of police bursting into their home in suburban Philadelphia with a sledgehammer reportedly saying, "We're going to break your walls and pipes. This house is going to be ours."
As he was explaining what was going on, there was people closing doors with screws, locking them. They had the electric company here to turn off my electric and gas."
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Got a home? Want to keep it? Make sure there's no drugs there.
ReplyDeleteI didn't read where they were taking law biding people's homes.
Hope they start taking homes for being a gang banger peace of crap.
9:23 you dumb dumb ass. Got A Constitution? Want to keep it?
ReplyDeleteThen maybe, in between polishing your holier-than-thou Gestapo outfit (complete with shining silver SS Bolt), you can look up "innocent until proven guilty", or maybe "cruel and unusual punishment".
Taking a HOUSE for $40 worth of drugs and you cheer that???
Years ago, one had to CHARGED with a crime to get under the boot heels of the law.
People like you, thinking that the destruction of the Bill of Rights and the subversion of the law by the very people entrusted to uphold it, are good things because they are targeting people YOU don't think deserve any of those protections, are SO VERY reminiscent of the cheering, hysterical German citizens cheering Hitler as he targeted THEIR particular "enemy".
When the "targeting" was turned in THEIR direction, it was too late to yell "You can't do that!! Its against the law!". People like YOU had been cheering like crazy until it was their turn. So, in the spirit of "I'm too stupid to learn from history",
Keep cheering.
Oh yeah, don't forget to keep telling yourself "it could never happen here", in between breaths.
War on drugs has caused more problems than drugs ever did.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile the army is, according to the article slightly above this one, planning on defending this sort of action against any group who would protest against it. This nation is as lost as Hansel & Gretel were and it's heading into the gingerbread cottage w/o a clue of what's in there.
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