04-11-2006, 06:26 AM
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Junkie
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another overreaction?
I'm sure they were worried about.....something.
http://www.thebulletin.com/archives/...dsnotosama.htm
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George Norris may never answer the door again.
Last time he did that was on October 28, when six (count 'emsix) United States Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) agents showed up on his doorstep, all covered in bulletproof Kevlar. Evidently, the U.S. Government decided to dress up as Big Brother this Halloween.
If only they had been looking for candy.
Instead, the agents entered the Spring-area home of the 65-year-old Norris and his wife, Kathy--tearing through virtually every room in the house. "They showed me a search warrant and sat me in a chair and told me not to get up. That amounts to house arrest."
During the four-hour "plant raid", some of the FWS agents went into the street in front of Norris' house and stopped neighbors, demanding to see identification and asking about suspicious activity around the Norris house. "People came by the house later asking 'What the heck was that all about?!'"
When the FWS agents left, they had packed up and taken all of Norris' records for the past 25 years, along with his computer.
So what did George Norris do? Did he plan a terroristic act that he intended to perpetrate on American soil? Did he smuggle in dangerous drugs that he planned to sell to school kids?
No.
Although he has been neither arrested nor charged in any crime, George Norris stands accused by the federal government of illegally smuggling orchids into the United States. Yes, orchids. Are these orchids that could be used to make a bomb? Can these orchids be sold as a controlled substance?
No.
On October 28, the FWS agents involved in this oh-so deadly dangerous raid did just that, led by FWS agent Jeff Odom, who did not return calls from The Bulletin on this matter. "I think (the Lacey Act) is a decent law, but it can be interpreted too broadly, and it can be abused." Norris says that he had documents proving that the orchids were imported legally, "but they wouldn't listen. They didn't want to listen. They had a plan and went through with it. They don't even understand their own regulations."
And quite a plan it was.
Of the six agents involved in this one-of-a-kind raid, four stormed up the driveway and through the front door while the other two covered the back of the house. "They were ready to shoot us if we slipped out the back," says Norris of the armed agents. Evidently, the agents were ready to use deadly force in the pursuit of this very dangerous criminal. "They had the route mapped out to Woodlands Memorial Hospital--just in case they had to take my body there."
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I feel a whole lot safer from terrorists now that this potential homicidal maniac is no longer importing rare flowers.
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