TMR: Cops Use Armored Vehicle To Confiscate $80K In Fines From 75-Year-Old Man, Ex-CBS Reporter Claims Feds Bugged Her Computer, State Orders Man To Pay $30K In Child Support Even Though He’s Not The Father
Turn the page to Tuesday with The Morning Roar!Cops Use Armored Vehicle To Confiscate $80K In Fines From 75-Year-Old Man Why do local police forces need armored vehicles?According to officials in the small Wisconsin town of Stettin, police require these vehicles to intimidate and confiscate property from harmless couples in their mid-seventies. Sheriff’s Capt. Greg Bean sent twenty-four armed officers and an armored vehicle to the home of seventy-five-year-old Roger Hoeppner to collect a civil judgment.Mr. Hoeppner restores antique tractors and runs a pallet repair business for a living, so you can imagine his 20 acres of land sometimes have giant piles of wood pallets. It is this issue - the way Hoeppner used his land - that lead to a heavy-handed shakedown. The armored vehicle assault of Hoeppner was the culmination of a heavily litigated dispute over the use of his own property.The town had previously sued Hoeppner back in 2008, but the two sides were able to settle. Part of the 2008 settlement was for Hoeppner to clean up his property. The town felt that he did not and in 2011 they confiscated tractors, pallets, and other equipment to be auctioned. If that wasn’t bad enough, in April 2013, a final judgment was issued that imposed a $500-a-day fine against Hoeppner for not adhering to the May 2011 order. Hoeppner appealed the judgment, but lost.It was at this point that the authorities called in the armored vehicle to enforce the decree.When Hoeppner noticed the small army of police officers outside of his home he phoned his attorney. By the time Hoeppner’s attorney, Ryan Lister, was able to make it through the road block that had been set up to block access to Hoeppner’s home his client was already in handcuffs.From the Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel (emphasis mine):
Bean said deputies had to handcuff Hoeppner because he was not following all their instructions, but did eventually agree to pay the $80,000 judgment after a visit to a bank — accompanied by deputies.Bean also said the armored truck was summoned only after Hoeppner initially refused to come out of his house. Once the truck appeared, so did Hoeppner."I've been involved in about five standoff situations where, as soon as the MARV showed up, the person gives up," saving time, money and increasing safety, Bean said.Madison's police recently made a similar endorsement after officers used one to carry out the safe arrest of a man who had fired at police from a window of his home.MARV stands for Marathon County Response Vehicle, which his department obtained in 2011. It's the only one in the county and gets used 10 to 20 times a year, Bean said."People may not always understand why, but an armored vehicle is almost a necessity now," Bean said.
The end of that quote is worth repeating. The Sheriff’s Captain said that armored vehicles are almost a necessity now.Are you convinced that we live in a police state now?Nowhere in this article is the word consent mentioned, but I believe it is this idea that is at the heart of this ridiculous and sad disagreement. There is no issue with an organization, like a homeowner’s association, dictating certain conditions as long as the consent of the buyer is gained through a contractual agreement. If a prospective buyer does not agree with the stipulation outlined by an HOA, then they can choose to not purchase the property.It appears that the ordinances enforced on Mr. Hoeppner’s property were done without gaining his consent.Gaining the consent of the governed is the key to developing a system that does not violate individual rights.For more on the modern police state emerging, check out Marc Clair's interview with The Rutherford Institute's John Whitehead from the Lions of Liberty Podcast.Ex-CBS Reporter Claims Feds Bugged Her ComputerIn her new memoir Sharyl Attkisson, who previously worked at CBS, says a source who arranged to have her laptop checked for spyware in 2013 was blown away by what they found.The New York Post reports:
Attkisson says the source, who’s “connected to government three-letter agencies,” told her the computer was hacked into by “a sophisticated entity that used commercial, nonattributable spyware that’s proprietary to a government agency: either the CIA, FBI, the Defense Intelligence Agency or the National Security Agency.”The breach was accomplished through an “otherwise innocuous e-mail” that Attkisson says she got in February 2012, then twice “redone” and “refreshed” through a satellite hookup and a Wi-Fi connection at a Ritz-Carlton hotel.The spyware included programs that Attkisson says monitored her every keystroke and gave the snoops access to all her e-mails and the passwords to her financial accounts.“The intruders discovered my Skype account handle, stole the password, activated the audio, and made heavy use of it, presumably as a listening tool,” she wrote in “Stonewalled: My Fight for Truth Against the Forces of Obstruction, Intimidation, and Harassment in Obama’s Washington.”Attkisson says her source — identified only as “Number One” — told her the spying was most likely not court-authorized because it went on far longer than most legal taps.But the most shocking finding, she says, was the discovery of three classified documents that Number One told her were “buried deep in your operating system. In a place that, unless you’re a some kind of computer whiz specialist, you wouldn’t even know exists.”“They probably planted them to be able to accuse you of having classified documents if they ever needed to do that at some point,” Number One added.
In the post-Edward Snowden world the reaction to news of this kind is met with a shrug. There was a time when news of government agencies hacking into a reporter’s computer and planting evidence would have shocked the masses, but the populace seems to have almost become numb to these kinds of stories.People haven’t become numb because they don’t care. They care deeply, but they don’t believe the democratic system this country utilizes is a means for halting out of control government. Things will finally change in this county and throughout the world when enough people decide to stop feeding the intrusive and bloated parasitic government we have today.State Orders Man To Pay $30K In Child Support Even Though He’s Not The FatherThis is story is infuriating.From Ben Swann’s website:
In child support cases, courts sometimes force people to pay back the government’s welfare contributions to a child, even in scenarios when the person being ordered to pay support is not actually the child’s parent. According to WXYZ-TV ABC 7 Detroit, Detroit man Carnell Alexander is facing that exact situation after an ex-girlfriend of his listed him as the father of her child on an application for welfare benefits. Despite the facts that a DNA test proved that he is not the father and his ex-girlfriend agrees that he should not have to pay support, the State of Michigan is ordering him to either pay back the nearly $30,000 worth of welfare contributions it paid to the child’s mother or go to jail.
I encourage you to click the link and read the entire article. Long story short, the government wants the money. The facts be damned!Read The Morning Roar every weekday Monday-Friday!The Lions of Liberty are on Twitter, Facebook & Google+Receive access to ALL of our EXCLUSIVE bonus audio content – including “Conspiracy Corner”, “Degenerate Gamblers” and the “League of Liberty Podcast” by joining the Lions of Liberty Pride and supporting us on Patreon!
