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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGeorgia County Sheriff Evicts Four-Generation Family In Raid Resembling 'Drug Bust'
http://www.thenation.com/blog/167718/georgia-county-sheriff-evicts-four-generation-family-raid-resembling-drug-bust***SNIP
The group says the early morning raid resembled a drug bust with officers sneaking across Frazers property in the middle of the night before fifty officers stormed her home to serve an eviction notice.
Occupy Our Homes claims Frazers home was foreclosured on fraudulently by Investors One Corporation in October 2011, and she has been fighting it in court ever since. In January, activists set up camp on her lawn and told the Frazer family they would defend their home.
Sheriff Thomas Brown said police used intelligence to wait until the activists were not present at the home to guard it, and neighbors were asleep, to serve the unprecedented eviction, which includes kicking out Frazers 85-year-old mother and 3-year-old grandson. Occupy alleges that police refused to allow Frazer to shower or for her elderly mother to get dressed and told Frazer to behave as if it were a fire drill.
Adding insult to injury, the police then rounded up her dogs and took them to the pound.
Again acting as though a major crime was going down, police blockaded the neighborhood and wouldnt allow anyone to secure the familys valuable personal belongings from the curb.
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Georgia County Sheriff Evicts Four-Generation Family In Raid Resembling 'Drug Bust' (Original Post)
xchrom
May 2012
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Unfortunately, what I read there is actually an expression of our humanity.
HereSince1628
May 2012
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HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)1. We are making history in the tradition of our ancestors...
DURHAM D
(32,609 posts)5. +1000
salin
(48,955 posts)3. Every day there seems to be another sign that we are losing our humanity.
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)4. Unfortunately, what I read there is actually an expression of our humanity.
As a species, we have some warts.
And that particular atrocity will be explained away as 'just enforcing the law' for folks who are just trying to run a business.
Baitball Blogger
(46,709 posts)7. When do the good guys start coming up with an effective response?
I realize getting politically active is one positive response, but remember the days of the communes? I wish there was some incredibly wealthy person out there who was ready to put together a place that truly welcomed the poor, tired huddled masses, yearning to be free. It doesn't have to be forever. Just long enough to get through this bad spell in history.
gopiscrap
(23,761 posts)6. Fucking asshole cops
all they are good for is protecting the one percent...I really think the only way things will get better is if riot abd cause havoc and inconvienience for the one percenters!!!
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Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)9. The uniform in all it's "glory".
It will become standard practice for the thugs in blue to use military style force as a regular practice (just as in third world countries).