From: hays@ssd.intel.com (Kirk Hays)
Subject: Re: Gov't break-ins (Re: 60 minutes)
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In article <1993Apr5.155733.114@pasadena-dc.bofa.com>, franceschi@pasadena-dc.bofa.com writes:
|> On a Los Angeles radio station last weekend, the lawyers for the
|> family of the MURDERED rancher said that the Los Angeles Sheriff's
|> Department had an assessment done of the rancher's property before
|> the raid.

The briefing documents for the raid had a notation on them about a
similar local property which had sold for $800,000 prior to the
raid, if recent TV coverage can be believed.

|> This strongly implies that the sheriff's department wanted the property;
|> any drugs (which were not found) were only an excuse.

The Ventura County DA came to the same conclusion in the report he
released, which lambasted the Sheriff's Office.

Too bad the old man was nearly blind, and didn't take a few
goose-stepping Drug Warriors (TM) with him.

-- 
Kirk Hays - NRA Life, seventh generation.
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to
do nothing."  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
