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06/18/2008: "Philadelphia police arrest activists because they are "hate group" but cannot think of charges"

Four young residents of a North Philadelphia house who circulated petitions questioning police-surveillance cameras were rousted from their home Friday and detained 12 hours without charges while police searched their house.

Daniel Moffat, 28, a co-owner of the house, said police had no warrant when they entered. The house was examined by officials from several government agencies and then shuttered by the city's Department of Licenses and Inspections.

"This leaves me homeless, without access to things I need. My whole life is disrupted," Moffat said yesterday.

The raid on the property on Ridge Avenue near Parrish Street was led by 9th District Police Capt. Dennis Wilson, who was quoted in an online story by the City Paper as saying of the residents: "They're a hate group. We're trying to drum up charges against them, but unfortunately we'll probably have to let them go."

[ These intimidation tactics are an outrage. ]

http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/attytood/Moscow_on_the_Schuylkill_Cops_bust_anti-camera_activists.html

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on Wednesday, June 18th, Dental Plan said

They're not an outrage if you consider the fact that the US spent the entire 20th Century gradually remodeling itself into a quasi-Communist entity. May as well burn the entire Constitution as the government's been violating it since the mid-19th Century and the people in general would just go nuts if they lost their Big Brother God. This is not the same country that it was in 1776 because it is populated by a far different breed of people.