Police Destroy Organic Farm in Massive SWAT Team Raid

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The police raid of a small organic farm in Arlington, TX, which lasted for more than 10 hours and included aerial surveillance and a SWAT team,resulted in a confiscation of vegetables and plants on the property only,Huff Post reported.Owners of the property called � ��"Garden of Eden� �� are now demanding an apology from police and compensation for what was taken from them including 17 blackberry bushes,15 okra plants,14 tomatillo plants,native grasses and sunflowers, after police were granted a search warrant for marijuana plants. Ironically, no evidence of marijuana was found on the property. According to CATO� �� s Radley Balko,there areapproximately 40,000 raids per year which involve subjecting non-violent drug offenders and innocent bystanders to police terror by wrongfully having their homes invaded by police dressed as soldiers which at times can result in unnecessary death and injur

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Joan Brunwasser is a co-founder of Citizens for Election Reform (CER) which since 2005 existed for the sole purpose of raising the public awareness of the critical need for election reform. Our goal: to restore fair, accurate, transparent, secure elections where votes are cast in private and counted in public. Because the problems with electronic (computerized) voting systems include a lack of (more...)