Minuscule town raided by FBI
Image from Flickr.com. Coming to a small town near you – ain’t that America!
Kinsman, Illinois is a sleepy little town with a population just over 100. It’s about 50 miles southwest of Chicago, and there isn’t much there, not even a gas station or a single cash advance in Golden Valley store. All that’s in the town is a church, a Post Office, and a bar. Most business there is agricultural, or agriculture related. However, a small butcher shop on the outskirts of town was of great interest to the FBI.
The reasons aren’t clear, but the targets sure were
First World Management runs a butcher shop on the edge of town, and the meat it provides is meat that is slaughtered and butchered to Islamic dietary specifications. Islamic dietary laws are very specific about meat, and for meat to be considered Halal (similar to Kosher) it must be procured according to a very specific set of rules, or dhabiha. The shop in question slaughters and butchers dhabiha meat for consumers, most of which are in Chicago. There are only a few employees, all Muslims – less than 10, most of which live in trailers behind the shop.
Over a dozen FBI vehicles, snipers and a helicopter…and no arrests!
Nearly 100 FBI personnel descended on this location on Sunday, October 18th, and no arrests were made. (This cost taxpayers a lot more than a few payday loans in Golden Valley worth.) No one in the town, not even the mayor was aware anything was going to happen. The only people who did were the Grundy County Sheriff’s Department, who were notified two weeks in advance of the incident. You can read up on the incident at Fox News, though more coverage is likely to be forthcoming.
Aren’t we supposed to NOT have secret police in this country?
It’s speculated that the raid was done in order to root out immigration violations. However, no arrests were made, and the size of it makes it look like something beyond the scope of immigration affairs. There was a recent terrorism arrest and plot, but if this were an anti-terror raid, why wasn’t anyone detained, and why weren’t any charges filed? The FBI is a multi-billion dollar a year expense on the taxpayers, and it is highly dubious that they don’t have anything to do. State intimidation is one of the things that the Founders and Framers were universally against, so this looks suspicious to say the least.
Image from Darkmatterpolitics.typepad.com.
Nothing like this happens for no reason, but why the stonewall?
No action of this sort is ever done for no real purpose, although at times it seems as though the ends don’t justify the means. (Actually, ends never justify means – if means are unjust in and of themselves, the end is therefore unjust as well. Ends justifying means is a rationalization, a Freudian defense mechanism.) Why were no arrests made, and why weren’t any charges filed? To top it off, why won’t the FBI comment as to why the raid was undertaken? As agents of the Government, they are accountable to the People, whether they like it or not. Let us hope that they don’t go wasting all the quick cash they get from taxpayers on simply being goons with a Congressional dispensation, and no one wants to see an American Oprichnina.
