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SWAT team raids house over … unpaid student loans

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Kenneth Wright does not have a criminal record and he had no reason to believe a S.W.A.T team would be breaking down his door at 6 a.m. on Tuesday.
“I look out of my window and I see 15 police officers,” Wright said.
Wright came downstairs in his boxer shorts as a S.W.A.T team barged through his front door. Wright said an officer grabbed him by the neck and led him outside on his front lawn.
“He had his knee on my back and I had no idea why they were there,” Wright said. According to Wright, officers also woke his three young children ages 3, 7, and 11 and put them in a Stockton police patrol car with him. Officers then searched his house.

So, SWAT roughs him up, puts his 3 kids in a police car, a treats him like public enemy number one. Why? Because they were after a MANIAC who became a public danger, after SHE defaulted on student loans. Did I say she? Yes I did. His divorced wife, who no longer lives there, was the one who had taken out the student loans. I guess that's a good enough reason to rough him up and terrorize his kids.

So, does anybody here still honestly believe that the government has not become too big for it's britches, and doesn't need to be taken down a notch or two? LOL. If so, then I fervently hope that you behind in the payments on any student loan that YOU may have taken out, because you may still need an education, despite the education you already received, as a result of student loans. But that's OK, just move out of your mom's house, and let HER take the ass kicking. LOL.

Article is here.
 
So, SWAT roughs him up, puts his 3 kids in a police car, a treats him like public enemy number one. Why? Because they were after a MANIAC who became a public danger, after SHE defaulted on student loans. Did I say she? Yes I did. His divorced wife, who no longer lives there, was the one who had taken out the student loans. I guess that's a good enough reason to rough him up and terrorize his kids.

So, does anybody here still honestly believe that the government has not become too big for it's britches, and doesn't need to be taken down a notch or two? LOL. If so, then I fervently hope that you behind in the payments on any student loan that YOU may have taken out, because you may still need an education, despite the education you already received, as a result of student loans. But that's OK, just move out of your mom's house, and let HER take the ass kicking. LOL.

Article is here.

I don't care what the article says. The FBI doesn't send a SWAT team to arrest someone who hasn't paid their student loans. You'd better start questioning the read. I can't believe you'd even entertaining that notion.
 
Well I will say that any group of men with automatic weapons that storm my house are absolutely right in what they are doing for the immediate future, thats for sure..

my Grandad always said "a man with a gun has priority over your views, whatever the case."

now of course, if this story is what it "seems", its a ridiculous abuse of power.
 
I don't care what the article says. The FBI doesn't send a SWAT team to arrest someone who hasn't paid their student loans. You'd better start questioning the read. I can't believe you'd even entertaining that notion.

Actually, I DO entertain the notion, because I remember Waco and Ruby Ridge.
 
Dept. of Education SWAT Raid Update: Not for a Student Loan, DoE Says - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine

Just received an e-mail from Department of Education Deputy Press Secretary Daren Briscoe in regards to this morning's news that a SWAT team was sent to execute a warrant on the estranged husband of a student-loan defaulter. Briscoe sends along this statement from Press Secretary Justin Hamilton:

Yesterday, the Depart of Education's office of inspector general executed a search warrant at Stockton California residence with the presence of local law enforcement authorities.

While it was reported in local media that the search was related to a defaulted student loan, that is incorrect. This is related to a criminal investigation. The Inspector General's Office does not execute search warrants for late loan payments.

Because this is an ongoing criminal investigation, we can't comment on the specifics of the case. We can say that the OIG's office conducts about 30-35 search warrants a year on issues such as bribery, fraud, and embezzlement of federal student aid funds.

All further questions on this issue should be directed to the Department of Education's Inspector General's Office.

This will certainly come as a relief to Millenial deadbeats, but the notion that "bribery, fraud, and embezzlement of federal student aid funds" is all it takes to get a paramilitary squad to bang down your door at 6 a.m, handcuff you in your boxers, and throw your three pre-teen children into the back seat of a squad car, all in the service of a warrant aimed at someone who no longer lives in your home, is frankly every bit as terrifying.

Unless and until we hear that this "criminal investigation" involves some kind of imminent threat of violence, there will be no margin of excuse for it, only new opportunities for bureaucrats and commentators to demonstrate that they are perfectly content living in and even contributing to a police state.

UPDATE: News10 ABC reports that it was the DoE, not Stocktown SWAT, doing the heavy lifting here:

A U.S. government official confirmed for News10 Wednesday morning federal agents with the Office of the Inspector General (OIG), not local S.W.A.T., served the search warrant. [...]

He went on to say OIG is a semi-independent branch of the U.S. Department of Education that executes warrants for criminal offenses such as student aid fraud and embezzlement of federal aid. [...]

The Stockton Police Department said it was asked by federal agents to provide one officer and one patrol car just for a police presence when carrying out the search warrant.

Police officers did not participate in breaking Wright's door, handcuffing him, or searching his home.
 
Dept. of Education SWAT Raid Update: Not for a Student Loan, DoE Says - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine

Just received an e-mail from Department of Education Deputy Press Secretary Daren Briscoe in regards to this morning's news that a SWAT team was sent to execute a warrant on the estranged husband of a student-loan defaulter. Briscoe sends along this statement from Press Secretary Justin Hamilton:



This will certainly come as a relief to Millenial deadbeats, but the notion that "bribery, fraud, and embezzlement of federal student aid funds" is all it takes to get a paramilitary squad to bang down your door at 6 a.m, handcuff you in your boxers, and throw your three pre-teen children into the back seat of a squad car, all in the service of a warrant aimed at someone who no longer lives in your home, is frankly every bit as terrifying.

Unless and until we hear that this "criminal investigation" involves some kind of imminent threat of violence, there will be no margin of excuse for it, only new opportunities for bureaucrats and commentators to demonstrate that they are perfectly content living in and even contributing to a police state.

UPDATE: News10 ABC reports that it was the DoE, not Stocktown SWAT, doing the heavy lifting here:

And it wasn't even his loan either.
 
I am missing the part where the DoE needs their own swat team.

Did they go over that part while I was in the bathroom?
 
I did a quick search and found no major news coverage of this event, only forums, and off news sites.. Would you provide a source that has more information regarding the incident. I generally don't trust one source for creditable information. I'm guessing there is nore to the story than what is presented.
 
I am missing the part where the DoE needs their own swat team.

Did they go over that part while I was in the bathroom?

Steven Chu has turned the Department of Energy into a group of shaolin kung-fu badass mother****ers.
 
Steven Chu has turned the Department of Energy into a group of shaolin kung-fu badass mother****ers.
The Department of Energy is a member of the Intelligence Community, deals in nuclear secrets and has it's own agents and ****.

We're talking about the Department of Education
 
The Department of Energy is a member of the Intelligence Community, deals in nuclear secrets and has it's own agents and ****.

We're talking about the Department of Education

Oh. Well, that's the ED - DoE is the Department of Energy.
 
I retract my... lack of outrage. The warrant says it was for "Financial Aid Fraud, Conspiracy, Theft of Government Funds, False Statement to a Government Agency, and Wire Fraud"

I had read elsewhere it was "related to a criminal investigation" so I gave law enforcement the benefit of the doubt. Since when are these crimes worthy of a busted door, guns-drawn raid?

(further investigation reveals that it wasn't actually SWAT. Just feds with guns and kevlar... performing a dynamic entry in very early morning... it's totally different)
 
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So, SWAT roughs him up, puts his 3 kids in a police car, a treats him like public enemy number one. Why? Because they were after a MANIAC who became a public danger, after SHE defaulted on student loans. Did I say she? Yes I did. His divorced wife, who no longer lives there, was the one who had taken out the student loans. I guess that's a good enough reason to rough him up and terrorize his kids.

So, does anybody here still honestly believe that the government has not become too big for it's britches, and doesn't need to be taken down a notch or two? LOL. If so, then I fervently hope that you behind in the payments on any student loan that YOU may have taken out, because you may still need an education, despite the education you already received, as a result of student loans. But that's OK, just move out of your mom's house, and let HER take the ass kicking. LOL.

Article is here.

They way I look at it is that they have no business using a swat team for non-violent alleged criminals. That is just a waste of tax payer resources and its extreme overkill.
 
They way I look at it is that they have no business using a swat team for non-violent alleged criminals. That is just a waste of tax payer resources and its extreme overkill.

I agree. Two Police officers could have handled this matter.

If the BATF had sent two agents to Mt. Carmel (Branch Davidians) in the beginning, lots of people would still be alive today.
 
I retract my... lack of outrage. The warrant says it was for "Financial Aid Fraud, Conspiracy, Theft of Government Funds, False Statement to a Government Agency, and Wire Fraud"

I had read elsewhere it was "related to a criminal investigation" so I gave law enforcement the benefit of the doubt. Since when are these crimes worthy of a busted door, guns-drawn raid?

(further investigation reveals that it wasn't actually SWAT. Just feds with guns and kevlar... performing a dynamic entry in very early morning... it's totally different)

Those little kids need to know who's boss.
 
I retract my... lack of outrage. The warrant says it was for "Financial Aid Fraud, Conspiracy, Theft of Government Funds, False Statement to a Government Agency, and Wire Fraud"

I had read elsewhere it was "related to a criminal investigation" so I gave law enforcement the benefit of the doubt. Since when are these crimes worthy of a busted door, guns-drawn raid?

(further investigation reveals that it wasn't actually SWAT. Just feds with guns and kevlar... performing a dynamic entry in very early morning... it's totally different)

Actually, from what I've heard, the use of SWAT teams to arrest someone, no matter what the crime is, is standard procedure if they think the person has had deadly training of some kind, such as military personnel.

A friend of mine enlisted in the Army and became a Ranger and the SWAT team was sent to arrest him for not going to court over driving with a suspended license.
 
I did a quick search and found no major news coverage of this event, only forums, and off news sites.. Would you provide a source that has more information regarding the incident. I generally don't trust one source for creditable information. I'm guessing there is nore to the story than what is presented.

That's why I say this is a covert totalitarian country. The media is under control. The system is under control. They let you know what they want you to know and censor the rest "political incorrect information".

Quote, "How Many US SEALs Died? (Apparently, Plenty)
Paul Craig Roberts
5-25-11

.....
Other than on the Veterans Today and ICH Internet sites, I have not seen any mention of the Pakistani news story. If the White House press corps is aware of the report, no one has asked President Obama or his press spokesperson about it. Helen Thomas was the last American reporter sufficiently brave to ask such a question, and she was exterminated by the Israel Lobby.

In America we have reached the point where anyone who tells the truth is dismissed as a "conspiracy theorist" and marginalized. Recently, a professor of nano-chemistry from the University of Copenhagen made a lecture tour of major Canadian universities explaining the research, conducted by himself and a team of physicists and engineers, that resulted in finding small particles of unreacted nano-thermite in dust samples from the wreckage of the World Trade Center towers in addition to other evidence that the professor and the research team regard as conclusive scientific proof that the towers were brought down by controlled demolition.

No American university dared to invite him, and as far as I know no mention of the explosive research report has ever appeared in the American press.
I find it astonishing that 1,500 architects and engineers, who actually know something about buildings, their construction, their strength and weaknesses, and who have repeatedly requested a real investigation of the destruction of the three WTC buildings, are regarded as conspiracy kooks by people who know nothing whatsoever about architecture or engineering or buildings. The same goes for the large number of pilots who question the flight maneuvers carried out during the attacks, and the surviving firemen and "first responders" who report both hearing and personally experiencing explosions in the towers, some of which occurred in sub-basements.

A large number of high-ranking political figures abroad don't believe a word of the official 9/11 story. For example, the former president of Italy and dean of the Italian Senate, told Italy's oldest newspaper, Corriere delia Sera, that the intelligence services of Europe "know well that the disastrous [9/11] attack has been planned and realized by the American CIA and the [Israeli] Mossad . . . in order to put under accusation the Arabic Countries and in order to induce the western powers to take part in [the invasions].

Even people who report that there are dissenting views, as I have done, are branded conspiracy theorists and banned from the media. This extends into the Internet in addition to newspapers and TV. Not long ago a reporter for the Internet site, The Huffington Post, discovered that Pat Buchanan and I are critics of the Iraq and Afghanistan invasions. He was fascinated that there were some Reagan administration officials who dissented from the Republican Party's war position and asked to interview me.

After he posted the interview on The Huffington Post, someone told him that I was not sound on 9/11. In a panic the reporter contacted me, demanding to know if I disbelieved the official 9/11 story. I replied that being neither architect, engineer, physicist, chemist, pilot, nor firefighter, I had little to contribute to understanding the event, but that I had reported that various experts had raised questions.

The reporter was terrified that he might somehow have given a 9/11 skeptic credibility and be fired for interviewing me about my war views for The Huffington Post. He quickly added at the beginning and, if memory serves, ending of the posted interview words to the effect that my lack of soundness on 9/11 meant that my views on the wars could be disregarded. If only he had known that I was unsure about the official 9/11 story, there would have been no interview

One doesn't have to be a scientist, architect, engineer, pilot or firefighter to notice astonishing anomalies in the 9/11 story. Assume that the official story is correct and that a band of terrorists outwitted not only the CIA and FBI, but also all 16 US intelligence agencies and those of our NATO allies and Israel's notorious Mossad, along with the National Security Council, NORAD, air traffic control and airport security four times in one hour on the same morning. Accept that this group of terrorists pulled off a feat worthy of a James Bond movie and delivered a humiliating blow to the world's only superpower.


.....

The mainstream media and a significant portion of the Internet are content for our perceptions to be managed by psy-ops and by non-reporting. This is why I wrote not long ago that today Americans are living in George Orwell's 1984.

How Many US SEALs Died? (Apparently, Plenty)
 
That's why I say this is a covert totalitarian country. The media is under control. The system is under control. They let you know what they want you to know and censor the rest "political incorrect information".

Quote, "How Many US SEALs Died? (Apparently, Plenty)
Paul Craig Roberts
5-25-11

.....
Other than on the Veterans Today and ICH Internet sites, I have not seen any mention of the Pakistani news story. If the White House press corps is aware of the report, no one has asked President Obama or his press spokesperson about it. Helen Thomas was the last American reporter sufficiently brave to ask such a question, and she was exterminated by the Israel Lobby.

In America we have reached the point where anyone who tells the truth is dismissed as a "conspiracy theorist" and marginalized. Recently, a professor of nano-chemistry from the University of Copenhagen made a lecture tour of major Canadian universities explaining the research, conducted by himself and a team of physicists and engineers, that resulted in finding small particles of unreacted nano-thermite in dust samples from the wreckage of the World Trade Center towers in addition to other evidence that the professor and the research team regard as conclusive scientific proof that the towers were brought down by controlled demolition.

No American university dared to invite him, and as far as I know no mention of the explosive research report has ever appeared in the American press.
I find it astonishing that 1,500 architects and engineers, who actually know something about buildings, their construction, their strength and weaknesses, and who have repeatedly requested a real investigation of the destruction of the three WTC buildings, are regarded as conspiracy kooks by people who know nothing whatsoever about architecture or engineering or buildings. The same goes for the large number of pilots who question the flight maneuvers carried out during the attacks, and the surviving firemen and "first responders" who report both hearing and personally experiencing explosions in the towers, some of which occurred in sub-basements.

A large number of high-ranking political figures abroad don't believe a word of the official 9/11 story. For example, the former president of Italy and dean of the Italian Senate, told Italy's oldest newspaper, Corriere delia Sera, that the intelligence services of Europe "know well that the disastrous [9/11] attack has been planned and realized by the American CIA and the [Israeli] Mossad . . . in order to put under accusation the Arabic Countries and in order to induce the western powers to take part in [the invasions].

Even people who report that there are dissenting views, as I have done, are branded conspiracy theorists and banned from the media. This extends into the Internet in addition to newspapers and TV. Not long ago a reporter for the Internet site, The Huffington Post, discovered that Pat Buchanan and I are critics of the Iraq and Afghanistan invasions. He was fascinated that there were some Reagan administration officials who dissented from the Republican Party's war position and asked to interview me.

After he posted the interview on The Huffington Post, someone told him that I was not sound on 9/11. In a panic the reporter contacted me, demanding to know if I disbelieved the official 9/11 story. I replied that being neither architect, engineer, physicist, chemist, pilot, nor firefighter, I had little to contribute to understanding the event, but that I had reported that various experts had raised questions.

The reporter was terrified that he might somehow have given a 9/11 skeptic credibility and be fired for interviewing me about my war views for The Huffington Post. He quickly added at the beginning and, if memory serves, ending of the posted interview words to the effect that my lack of soundness on 9/11 meant that my views on the wars could be disregarded. If only he had known that I was unsure about the official 9/11 story, there would have been no interview

One doesn't have to be a scientist, architect, engineer, pilot or firefighter to notice astonishing anomalies in the 9/11 story. Assume that the official story is correct and that a band of terrorists outwitted not only the CIA and FBI, but also all 16 US intelligence agencies and those of our NATO allies and Israel's notorious Mossad, along with the National Security Council, NORAD, air traffic control and airport security four times in one hour on the same morning. Accept that this group of terrorists pulled off a feat worthy of a James Bond movie and delivered a humiliating blow to the world's only superpower.


.....

The mainstream media and a significant portion of the Internet are content for our perceptions to be managed by psy-ops and by non-reporting. This is why I wrote not long ago that today Americans are living in George Orwell's 1984.

How Many US SEALs Died? (Apparently, Plenty)

The Israel Lobby? You know, I would have at least listened to your conspiracy theory if you threw out the anti-Semitism.
 
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