Re: Let the crackdown begin....
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Well, here's the problem. Crosstika baits sober members into confrontations based upon his black-and-white view of the world; even his nickname is provocative.
I'd like him to reread his posts the morning after before posting, once all of the cigarette smoke has cleared and the sun has come up and they are sweeping up in the place and arighting stools. His posts smack of a hangover in the making.
Other than that, I will keep my opinion to myself about him. He is going around wreaking havoc on the forum and needs to have an
intervention.
This is not meant as a sarcastic criticism or namecalling; I am concerned about the welfare of the board. I have begged him to cool off and he won't.
In the above exchange, Darkwolf is once again ambushed by the absolutist shotgun approach of Crosstika, and tries to have an ordinary exchange anyway. When they carry him off the field, Crosstika "wins" the exchange simply by virtue of his inability to be tolerant of doubt, including self-doubt. He plays football; Darkwolf plays chess. At the same time.
This crackdown: this is known as a warrant sweep, something that takes place in cities on a fairly frequent basis. The thing to worry about is the feds becoming comfortable in local bailiwicks, or making State warrant sweeps to "help" local prosecutors. In other words, this sweep was a federal one, to sweep up federal wanted absconders or suspects.
There is no Constitutional violation in anything they did. Under the present law, in fact, they could do far more, and much worse to wanted suspects and parolees, on a much larger scale. They could enlist local law enforcement, and could probably merge agencies so that no one would be able to tell whether the sweep was a federal or a State operation.
Frankly, the thing looks like a test. The government is just now deeply involved in running experiments and tests with law enforcement and emergency reaction across the country. It may be that they just want to see what it would take to round up a bunch of people by surprise in one day. In that sense, it is ominous.
But the most ominous element of all of this is the present ability of the government to launch an overnight effort to mass arrest citizens on a flimsy legal basis. They know they have this power, and have worked to legitimize its use, and are rehearsing.
Let's don't use the government's rehearsal of terror as a reason to call one another out for quibbling and insult.
