Mike McDaniel at the American Thinker today has a post exposing us to the malfeasance of the FBI in their effort to go after Private Vaults in Los Angeles county. McDaniel starts out with this:
Most Americans don’t know how much police officers rely on the Constitution, and particularly the Bill of Rights, in their daily work. This is particularly true of the Fourth Amendment, which regulates search and seizure:
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
There are necessary exceptions to the warrant requirement. Without them our police couldn’t function. However, probable cause (PC) matters. Simply put, it is facts or evidence that would cause a reasonable police officer to believe a crime had been committed, and a specific person committed it. That’s largely what keeps “show me the man and I’ll show you the crime” politicized fishing expeditions from happening.
Apparently, the FBI doesn't care about anybody's Constitutional rights. So, while going after Private Vaults, they decided to open clients' vaults and "forfeit" their private property and keep it. They managed to steal $86 million in jewels, cash, gold and silver and other valuable property. This is outrageous, illegal, a violation of rights under color of law. To make it worse, it was planned and by design.
It’s a classic case. In order to open any safe-deposit box and seize its contents, the FBI would need to have PC regarding each and every box they opened. They didn’t. Not even close.
"That the FBI had the chutzpah to ignore the judge’s warrant, which explicitly “d[id] not authorize a criminal search or seizure of box contents,” did not sit well with the court."
The FBI along with the Department of (in)Justice, the AFT and other agencies have become the thug arm of the Democrat party. As McDaniel points out the likelihood of anyone being held accountable is next to zero. But it is true that the FBI has legitimate duties, and those duties should keep them busy enough. Perhaps defunding these agencies would be appropriate?
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