Dogs Die in Invasion
Looks like people may have to start wearing tactical gear while just lounging around in their own homes. And don’t forget the dogs. Have them fitted too.
Mayor Cheye Calvo of Berwyn Heights, Maryland, and his mother-in-law were handcuffed and forced to kneel on the floor during the July 29 raid, which police said was part of an investigation into a scheme in which drugs apparently were sent to unsuspecting people.
The FBI and the U.S. attorney’s office in Maryland are investigating the incident, FBI spokesman Richard Wolf said Friday.
Calvo had asked for the federal probe.
“We lost our family dogs,” he said Thursday. “We did it at the hands of sheriff’s deputies who burst through our front door, rifles blazing.”
[...] Police said the scheme involved shipping drugs to unsuspecting people’s homes and intercepting the packages. About $3.6 million in marijuana had been seized, police told the AP.
In this instance, investigators told the AP, a package containing 32 pounds of marijuana was sent from Los Angeles, California, to Calvo’s house in Berwyn Heights, a town of 3,000 residents 10 miles from Washington.
The package was addressed to his Calvo’s wife, Trinity Tomsic.
The Calvo’s dogs were shot to death during the invasion. One was 7 years old and the other was 4. The family has no recourse because the invasion happened because of an “investigation” and someone thought the mayor was some kind of drug lord operative. Thanks to FISA and the “war” on drugs, the peace this family once enjoyed has been shattered forever.
Of course, the drug dealers share the blame. They are sending packages full of drugs to random strangers. The DEA knew this. They knew that the Calvos were probably innocent. But they wanted to show the big bad drug dealers who was boss. Except it wasn’t the big bad drug dealers who suffered two horrible losses during a home invasion.
I don’t know what the Calvos can do to rebuild their lives after this. I suppose they should be thankful that they didn’t have children in the home at the time. They can be thankful that neither of them were shot in place of their dogs. And they can be thankful that the government will shoot anything moving when they’re during a drug investigation and/or raid.
Or they can join millions of other people in demanding the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution be honored by all arms of the government- including the federal branch.
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John Edwards admits to having an affair, but he’s denying fathering a child with his former lover.
First of all, I think Elizabeth Edwards is a beautiful person inside and out. She’s a true inspiration and certainly DOES NOT need the garbage that she’s going to have to put up with now. According to Sen. Edwards, she’s known about the affair for a while and they’ve worked through it. Except now she has to see it again, know that her friends know, and know that her children know. Not only that, but she’s got to wonder if Rielle Hunter’s child does belong to John. I don’t believe for one second that the level of trust she had for him prior to his admission has been restored. At least not to the point where she can brush away the suspicions about that child’s parentage.
Secondly, why? Why with Hunter? What was the draw? I, unfortunately, can understand why people feel the need to seek comfort with someone else. But did it have to be someone who may have been a friend to his wife? He couldn’t go on be more discreet? Craig’s List, I hear, has plenty of opportunities for this kind of “comfort” and “companionship” with all the necessary discretion.
Some people are going to call for Elizabeth to dump his cheating ass. I don’t think that would be a good thing for her to do at this junction. She’s fighting terminal cancer, trying to grasp whatever time she has left, and a divorce- with all it’s stress and heartbreak- would not be good for her physical health. She’s working to give more time to her children, time she should NOT spend in divorce court. She most certainly doesn’t need this crap to feed her illness, but the press and the gossip hungry don’t give a damned about that. No doubt CNN and Fox will run with story day and night for a flippin’ week. I hope that Mrs. Edwards stays far away from the television. I hope that the relentless press doesn’t camp outside her home trying to get her commentary on what’s happened. She does not deserve what they will do to her. She deserves to live in peace right now- more than anything. And so do her children.
But that won’t happen with the American press. They’ll be on this like vultures on a buffalo carcass. That’s John’s fault and is just one more reason that he has completely fallen from grace in my eyes. I don’t care what good he’s done in his history or what his grand presidential plans were. He wallowed in the mud and gave the press a whiff of blood- at the expense of his beautiful wife’s health and the happiness of his children. He should be ashamed about that and so should his former mistress. They should both hang their heads in shame and do whatever they can to remove themselves from the limelight.
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