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marmar

(77,078 posts)
Wed Feb 1, 2012, 10:26 PM Feb 2012

FBI 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 wouldn’t 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 OP
Sad story abelenkpe Feb 2012 #1
Reminds me of that classic scene in the prophetic cult movie "Brazil" 99th_Monkey Feb 2012 #2
You mean there's a RIGHT door to take a chainsaw to? saras Feb 2012 #3
Good. At least no flags were burned. K&R (nt) T S Justly Feb 2012 #4
 

99th_Monkey

(19,326 posts)
2. Reminds me of that classic scene in the prophetic cult movie "Brazil"
Thu Feb 2, 2012, 12:01 AM
Feb 2012

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.

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