Kansas Newspaper Co-Owner Dies Following Unprecedented Raid by City’s Entire Police Force

August 15, 2023 — bunkerville

Kansas of all places? Lessons learned by the Feds apparently. Coming to a town near you. The Newspaper had decided not to publish the story, but what the heck. Maybe the police can get something during a fishing expedition of grabbing everything. One can ask so who authorized the search warrant? This is what happens in a police state and Kansas apparently is on its way. Here we go:

Joan Meyer, the 98-year-old co-owner of the Marion County Record -a weekly newspaper published in Marion, Kansas- tragically passed away after an unprecedented police raid on her home and the newspaper office on Friday.

The city of Marion’s five-officer police force, along with two sheriff’s deputies, conducted the raid on the Marion County Record’s office and the home of owner and publisher Eric Meyer. The shocking operation left Joan Meyer, Eric’s mother, and co-owner of the paper, dead, and has been characterized by Meyer as an assault on press freedom.

The raid came on the heels of a bitter feud between the Marion County Record and a local restaurant owner, Kari Newell. The newspaper had reportedly acquired sensitive documents potentially leading to the revocation of Newell’s liquor license. These documents included evidence of drunk driving convictions and operating a vehicle without a license.

What does the Governor have to say??

Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly said questions need to be answered regarding a law enforcement raid of a local newspaper in Marion County, Kansas.

From Marion Record:

A two-page warrant signed by Magistrate Laura Viar was given to the Record at the time of the search.

Marion vice mayor Ruth Herbel’s home also was raided at the same time.

The warrants alleged there was probable cause to believe that identity theft and unlawful computer acts had been committed involving Marion business owner Kari Newell.

County attorney Joel Ensey, whose brother owns the hotel where Newell operates her restaurant and was asked for it but said he would not release it because it was “not a public document.”

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The search warrant against the Record authorized the seizure of a wide array of items, including computer hardware and software, digital communications, cellular networks, servers, hard drives, utility records, and documents related to Newell. Specifically, the warrant focused on the ownership of computers that could be involved in the alleged “identity theft of Kari Newell.”

During the raid, police not only seized computers and internet routers from the Meyers’ home but also dug through Eric Meyer’s personal bank and investment statements. Joan Meyer, waiting for a Meals on Wheels delivery at the time, reportedly watched tearfully as the police conducted their search. The distressing event left her unable to eat or sleep, contributing to her death, according to the newspaper.

In addition to Joan Meyer’s death, one of the newspaper’s reporters was injured when an officer grabbed her cellphone out of her hand.

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So this is what we have come to. The Swamp comes to Kansas.

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Kentucky couple under house arrest over quarantine order – includes ankle bracelets

July 20, 2020 — bunkerville

 

Elizabeth Linscott and her husband were told police will be called if they venture 200 feet from their home.

How soon will we be forced to “show our papers” when moving about? Where is the law and where are the courts? We are now being restricted in traveling between states, how much sooner until we are thrown in COVID ridden jails? What happens when and if there is a vaccine? Does anyone believe we will not be forced to be vaccinated?

 

 

A Kentucky couple is under house arrest after one of them tested positive for coronavirus and refused to sign self-quarantine papers.

She said there’s no exceptions for emergencies and she has an infant.

Elizabeth Linscott got tested for COVID-19 because she was planning to go visit her parents.

“My grandparents wanted to see me, too, so, just to make sure that, you know, if I tested negative, that they would be okay, everything would be fine,” Linscott said.

After testing positive but without showing any symptoms, Linscott said the health department contacted her, requesting she sign documents.

“I agreed to comply to call the Health Department if I was to go. I was to call the Health Department if I was to leave my house for any reason,” she said.

 

 

But, she chose not to sign.

“I had gotten a message from them, a text message that stated, because of your refusal to sign, this is going to be escalated, and law enforcement will be involved,” she said.

Later that week, the county sheriff greeted Linscott’s husband, Isaiah, at their front door.Hardin County Sheriff John Ward said his office executed court documents from a Hardin County Circuit Court judge. The health department declined to comment.

h/t: Gateway Pundit

Tens of thousands are out in the street defying the non-logic of self quarantine.

Guess they get a pass.

All is well in the swamp.

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FTC now becomes the piano teachers police!

December 7, 2013 — bunkerville

This is how our country is being turned into a police state. One group at a time. Now it is the piano teachers who teach our kids. Why not lock them up? Come on guys, just do it. Let’s have at it. Obama? You want to become a fascist Dictator? Oh, you are already think you can run a totalitarian state. Good luck fellow. Here we go:

Bureaucrats at the Federal Trade  Commission must have a lot of spare time. The agency recently swooped to  rescue the American people from the threat posed by a collaborative organization  of 22,000 professionals who sit down with youngsters and teach them how to play  a piano.

The administration has demanded the group dig up 20 years’ worth of paperwork  regarding its policies, hire “compliance officers” and set up pointless training  sessions for employees.

Reported first by the Wall Street Journal, regulators forced the Music  Teachers National Association, a century-old nonprofit, to accept a consent  decree over the group’s code of ethics, which simply encouraged members not to  pilfer or recruit students from fellow members. Only in a twisted bureaucratic  mind would such a sensible provision be seen as a restraint of trade or a  violation of federal law. The Federal Trade Commission is singing  off the wrong song sheet.

The association did  everything possible to appease the peevish regulators, including expunging the  offending language from its code of ethics. The code has never even been  enforced, because the obligation for members to follow the code is moral, not  legal. This wasn’t enough. “Although MTNA demonstrated to the FTC that its  code of ethics is voluntary,” the group explained in a statement, “and that the  Association has never  enforced the solicitation provision, the FTC offered MTNA the  unappetizing choice of entering into a settlement or spending hundreds of  thousands of membership dues dollars fighting the federal government.

Read more: Washington Times

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Police device can see through clothes – I love NY!

January 22, 2012 — bunkerville

Of course  Orwellian Mayor Bllomberg embraces the technology. Takes 12 seconds to get to it:

 

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Mayors against the U.S. gun industry — Looking at World Court in the Hague

April 28, 2010 — bunkerville

Here we go- hang on to the 2nd Amendment with all you have. Endless assault on our constitution. Sedition? This is Sedition.

Since the Mayor’s getting very little done in Springfield or Washington or in the courts to expand gun control, now he wants mayors in other countries like Mexico to drag American gunmakers into the World Court in the Hague.

Daley says, “We are shipping guns there by the truckload to people to kill each other. They’re not manufactured there. And we want the drugs that come from other countries that is a conduit, like a highway through Mexico, into the United States! And we sit like we have no responsibility. We should not ship any guns to Mexico.” 

Backing up Daley is Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, one of more than a dozen mayors — including the Mayor of Mexico City — who signed a resolution to pursue this tactic. Read more: http://www.wlsam.com/Article.asp?id=1786071&spid

http://biggovernment.com/publius/2010/04/27/chicago-mayor-daley-wants-us-gun-makers-sued-in-world-court/

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California Democrat proposes mandatory gun registration

April 7, 2010 — bunkerville

You have to know that the boys in the hood are going to step right up to register those nasty puppies.

A CA Democrat is proposing a new law requiring residents to register their shotguns and rifles or go to jail.

Feuer is no friend of firearms owners: his previous legislative effort, which Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed into law, required all new handguns to include “microstamping” technology that can imprint serial numbers on spent ammunition casings.

The proposal comes as the U.S. Supreme Court is considering a landmark civil rights case, McDonald v. Chicago, which will decide whether Second Amendment rights in the federal constitution trump state anti-gun laws. But California is proposing mandatory registration — and not a flat ban, as Washington, D.C. once tried and the justices rejected — and even legal scholars specializing in this area disagree about whether registration is constitutional.

“Even though the constitutionality of such a measure is a close call, it is a horrible public policy choice,” says Gene Hoffman, chairman of the CalGuns Foundation. “Just as Canada is about to do away with their long gun registry after squandering $1 billion, California wishes to attack law abiding gun owners for firearms not used in crime.”

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ATF Seizes 30 Dangerous BB Guns

March 1, 2010 — bunkerville

Now this is a story for Comrade Lockandload: “With minimal work it could be converted to a machine gun,” Crenshaw said. BB Guns turned into machine guns. Ah, let me think about this for…one second. First they come for the BB guns, then??

A local business owner is flabbergasted after a shipment of 30 toy guns for his store was confiscated by ATF agents in Tacoma.

Brad Martin and his son, Ben, sell the Airsoft BB guns from their store in Cornelius where they’ve been in business for seven years.

The Martins said they buy their stock from Taiwan because the merchandise is less expensive. But the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives seized a shipment of 30 in October. That shipment is worth around $12,000 and the ATF is promising to destroy the entire shipment.

Special Agent Kelvin Crenshaw said the toys can be easily retro-fitted into dangerous weapons.

Brad Martin is furious about the loss of money, for sure, but also in what he now thinks as a loss of his time and the use of government agents to seize toy guns.

“All this manpower, all this time, all this taxpayer money, [it is] wasting my time and my profitability,” Martin said. “[Just] to seize 30 toy guns!”

Ben Martin disagrees that the toy guns could ever be considered dangerous.

“To say these are readily convertible to machine guns is absolutely preposterous,” he said. “The round wouldn’t go into the firing chamber and even if the firing pin did strike the primer the gun would basically blow up in your face.”

“With minimal work it could be converted to a machine gun,” Crenshaw said.

Full Story and update: KOIN

H/T  The Agitator

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Obama Making Plans to Use Executive Power-the Dictatorship begins

February 13, 2010 — bunkerville

 The NYTimes reports:”With much of his legislative agenda stalled in Congress, Obama and his team are preparing an array of actions using his executive power to advance energy, environmental, fiscal and other domestic policy priorities”. Obama doesn’t care one wit about congress or the Dems in congress. It’s going to be rule by executive order.  This should come as no surprise. One of the most concerning is the EPA. Lisa Jackson, Czar of the EPA, has made it clear she believes she has the authority to control carbon emissions. We posted earlier about controlling all water in the U.S.  This from the NY times no less.

“The challenges we had to address in 2009 ensured that the center of action would be in Congress,” said Dan Pfeiffer, the White House communications director. “In 2010, executive actions will also play a key role in advancing the agenda.”

 “We are reviewing a list of presidental executive orders and directives to get the job done across a front of issues,” said Rahm Emanuel, the White House chief of staff.

Any president has vast authority to influence policy even without legislation, through executive orders, agency rule-making and administrative fiat.

The Environmental Protection Agency is moving forward with possible regulations on heat-trapping gases blamed for climate change, while a bill to cap such emissions languishes in the Senate.

In an effort to demonstrate forward momentum, the White House is also drawing more attention to the sorts of actions taken regularly by cabinet departments without much fanfare. The White House heavily promoted an export initiative announced by Commerce Secretary Gary Locke last week and nearly $1 billion in health care technology grants announced on Friday by Kathleen Sebelius, the health and human services secretary, and Hilda L. Solis, the labor secretary.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/13/us/politics/13obama.html

Our earlier posts:

Czars steady march: https://bunkerville.wordpress.com/2010/01/17/czars-continue-their-steady-march-begin-states-rights-takeover/

Obama’s stealth revolution: https://bunkerville.wordpress.com/2010/02/02/obama%e2%80%99s-stealth-revolution/

http://hotair.com/archives/2010/02/13/some-house-dems-wonder-whether-obama-wants-them-to-lose/

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Police want to gain Web users’ private data

February 5, 2010 — bunkerville

Steady drip, drip, drip of the loss of our freedom. When is it going to stop? This from the Dept. of Justice– latest attack.

Anyone with an e-mail account likely knows that police can peek inside it if they have a paper search warrant.

The most controversial element of what is being hatched  is probably the private Web interface, which raises novel security and privacy concerns, especially in the wake of a recent inspector general’s report (PDF) from the Justice Department. The 289-page report detailed how the FBI obtained Americans’ telephone records by citing nonexistent emergencies and simply asking for the data or writing phone numbers on a sticky note rather than following procedures required by law.

It sounds very dangerous,” says Lee Tien, an attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, referring to the police-only Web interface. “Let’s assume you set this sort of thing up. What does that mean in terms of what the law enforcement officer be able to do? Would they be able to fish through transactional information for anyone? I don’t understand how you create a system like this without it.”

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10446503-38.html

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IRS is buying shotguns

February 3, 2010 — bunkerville

Acquiring Shotguns

Ain't she a real Beauty?

This ought to tell us more than we want to know! Good taste in Shotguns–a Remington parkerized shotgun ought to do the trick.
Utilizing Speedfeed® stock variations and Speedfeed® fore-ends, the shotguns are virtually indestructible and are the best choice when weather extremes are a factor. The addition of the R3 recoil pad to all Model 870 Police shotguns reduces the felt recoil of heavy loads by 30%.
Solicitation Number: TIRWR-10-Q-00023 
Agency: Department of the Treasury
Office: Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
Location: Field Operations Branch Western (OS:A:P:B:W)

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) intends to purchase sixty Remington Model 870 Police RAMAC #24587 12 gauge pump-action shotguns for the Criminal Investigation Division. The Remington parkerized shotguns, with fourteen inch barrel, modified choke, Wilson Combat Ghost Ring rear sight and XS4 Contour Bead front sight, Knoxx Reduced Recoil Adjustable Stock, and Speedfeed ribbed black forend, are designated as the only shotguns authorized for IRS duty based on compatibility with IRS existing shotgun inventory, certified armorer and combat training and protocol, maintenance, and parts. Swell!

Submit quotes including 11% Firearms and Ammunition Excise Tax (FAET) and shipping to Washington DC.
https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&tab=core&id=6ea438aaee9ff47b6a9c11f057930694&_cview=0

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