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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFBI Raids Wrong Apartment--Takes Chainsaw to Wrong Door, Holds Wrong Woman at Gunpoint
FBI Raids Wrong Apartment--Takes Chainsaw to Wrong Door, Holds Wrong Woman at Gunpoint
Last Thursday morning, Judy Sanchez of Fichburg, Massachusetts woke up to a nightmare. After hearing heavy foot steps climb the stairs, she walked into her kitchen to find a blade sawing down the door.
"I took two steps, face the second door, and I heard the click of a gun, and saying, FBI, get down, so I laid down on my living room floor, Sanchez told WHDH.com. "I was screaming, You have the wrong apartment, you have the wrong apartment, over fifty times. And then I seen the big blade coming down my door."
Sanchez then lied face down on the ground at gun point while her 3-year-old daughter cried hysterically in another room.
"It was very cold, doors were open, they wouldnt let me get up to get my jacket or even so much as get my daughter. It was horrible," Sanchez told WHDH. .......................(more)
The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/769674/fbi_raids_wrong_apartment--takes_chainsaw_to_wrong_door%2C_holds_wrong_woman_at_gunpoint/
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FBI Raids Wrong Apartment--Takes Chainsaw to Wrong Door, Holds Wrong Woman at Gunpoint (Original Post)
marmar
Feb 2012
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abelenkpe
(9,933 posts)1. Sad story
That poor little girl must have been so scared!
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)2. Reminds me of that classic scene in the prophetic cult movie "Brazil"
Released in 1985, is a brilliant forshadowing of how the "terrorism" meme threatens to
eclipse our collective reason and humanity, and threatens to reduce us to groveling powerless
pawns subject to random search, seizure, detainment etc. at the whim of a corporate-
run Frankenstein government.
saras
(6,670 posts)3. You mean there's a RIGHT door to take a chainsaw to?
Only here. Nowhere else.
T S Justly
(884 posts)4. Good. At least no flags were burned. K&R (nt)