The latest victory from the front line in the War On Drugs:
After a two hour search of the house, during which the police refused to produce a warrant or answer any questions, they turned up nothing (the warrant was produced after the raid was completed, not before). But that's not the worst part of the story.
It seems that the authorities in Kansas aren't too keen on answering pesky questions from citizens whose homes have been raided by heavily armed agents of the state. The Hartes hired a lawyer, and after two years and $25,000 in legal expenses, finally did get an answer that shocked them: Bob was observed in a hydroponics store by a Missouri state trooper several months before, and the local police had sifted through their garbage to find wet plant material that a field test identified as marijuana. Turns out that Addie Harte has a preference for brewing her own tea- which is obviously highly suspicious activity!
Too late for that, I'm sorry to say. The Land of the Free, Home of the Brave now is some sort of police state.
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Bob Harte groggily opened his front door and found a fully-armed Johnson County SWAT team in front of him early in the morning of April 20, 2012. It was 7:30 a.m. when he'd heard a knock at the door and pulled himself out of bed to answer it while his wife and two kids slept. A SWAT team surrounded his home, and a deputy had a battering ram ready to charge through the door had Bob had not opened it. The deputies pushed Bob to the floor of the entry way of his home and stood over him with rifles screaming, “Where are the children in the home?” Bob told them they were in their rooms and the deputies ran to find them. |
After a two hour search of the house, during which the police refused to produce a warrant or answer any questions, they turned up nothing (the warrant was produced after the raid was completed, not before). But that's not the worst part of the story.
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After the raid, the couple thought they could access public records to find out why law enforcement suspected drugs were in their home. They told 41 Action News they were shocked to find out they could not access any of those records under Kansas law. |
It seems that the authorities in Kansas aren't too keen on answering pesky questions from citizens whose homes have been raided by heavily armed agents of the state. The Hartes hired a lawyer, and after two years and $25,000 in legal expenses, finally did get an answer that shocked them: Bob was observed in a hydroponics store by a Missouri state trooper several months before, and the local police had sifted through their garbage to find wet plant material that a field test identified as marijuana. Turns out that Addie Harte has a preference for brewing her own tea- which is obviously highly suspicious activity!
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“This not what justice in the United States is supposed to be. You shouldn't have to have $25,000, even $5,000. You shouldn't have to have that kind of money to find out why people came raiding your house like some sort of police state,” Addie Harte said. |
Too late for that, I'm sorry to say. The Land of the Free, Home of the Brave now is some sort of police state.
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