An American Nightmare - the Arrest of Roger Stone

[Moonglow]

Last Friday, on a quiet residential street at 6 in the morning, the neighborhood exploded in light, noise and terror. Seventeen SUVs and two armored vehicles arrived in front of one house. Each vehicle had sirens blaring and lights flashing. The house, which abutted a canal, was soon surrounded by 29 government agents, each wearing military garb, each carrying a handgun and most carrying high-powered automatic rifles.

In the canal were two amphibious watercraft, out of which more heavily armed government agents came. Circling above all this was a helicopter equipped with long-range precision weaponry and high-powered spotlights.

Four agents approached the front door to the house. Two held a battering ram, and two pointed their rifles at the door. One of the agents shouted and banged on the front door until the terrified owner of the house emerged, barefoot and wearing shorts and a T-shirt. He was greeted in the dark at his open front door by two rifle barrels aimed at his head.

This was not a movie set; it was not a foreign city in a war zone; it was not the arrest of the Venezuelan opposition leader in Caracas. It was Middle America, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The agents worked for the FBI, and the target of this operation was not a drug kingpin or a terrorist operative or a kidnapper of babies. It was a peaceful American in his own home — a political operative and longtime friend of President Donald Trump's, named Roger Stone.

Why were there more FBI agents sent to arrest Stone than Navy SEALs sent to kill Osama bin Laden? Why jackboots in the morning in America? Here is the back story.

Read more at Judge Andrew P. Napolitano - An American Nightmare

The Democrats have gone insane, and they sent their lapdogs in the FBI to "take down" a man who presented no threat of violence to anyone with an all-out assault on him and his wife.

Is our country safe from these people?

No, the answer is clearly no.

If this can happen to Roger Stone, it can happen to anyone of us.

Welcome to the bottom rung of the police state...Tried to warn you folks but nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

 

[Faun]

You obviously aren't aware of how warrants are usually served. Stone had already threatened to kill a witness against him, and was a flight risk. Cops are too aggressive when they arrest people, but this time wasn't out of the ordinary.

Flight risk?

You know that’s bullshit. Why lie?

No passport and broke and he is almost 70.

Mueller told CNN and made it a show. Period. Pull your tongue out of his asspipe.

Sadly for you, you have zero proof Mueller tipped off CNN.

Res ipsa loquitor. The thing speaks for itself.

No, your insanity speaks for itself. CNN being ready for an arrest at Stone’s house the very next day after it was announced an arrest was coming, does not offer evidence Mueller tipped them off.

 

[bripat9643]

If this can happen to Roger Stone, it can happen to anyone of us.

Of course it can. Where have you been during the last three decades? When, mostly, blacks complained about the militarization of law enforcement, and blacks took the brunt of the treatment by trigger-happy goons in military gear. Now that one Roger Stone - why is that one special? - gets the exact same treatment, all of a sudden you start to wax hysterical. You thought you'd be safe?

Stone survived the onslaught, unharmed. Have all those who have been SWATted been so lucky? Darn if you knew, blissfully, invincibly ignorant...

You aren't really comparing street thugs to Roger Stone are you?

These creeps wanted to punch a 15 year old boy in the face because he smirked. Of course they are. In their view, simply being a Republican is a crime.

 

[bripat9643]

Last Friday, on a quiet residential street at 6 in the morning, the neighborhood exploded in light, noise and terror. Seventeen SUVs and two armored vehicles arrived in front of one house. Each vehicle had sirens blaring and lights flashing. The house, which abutted a canal, was soon surrounded by 29 government agents, each wearing military garb, each carrying a handgun and most carrying high-powered automatic rifles.

In the canal were two amphibious watercraft, out of which more heavily armed government agents came. Circling above all this was a helicopter equipped with long-range precision weaponry and high-powered spotlights.

Four agents approached the front door to the house. Two held a battering ram, and two pointed their rifles at the door. One of the agents shouted and banged on the front door until the terrified owner of the house emerged, barefoot and wearing shorts and a T-shirt. He was greeted in the dark at his open front door by two rifle barrels aimed at his head.

This was not a movie set; it was not a foreign city in a war zone; it was not the arrest of the Venezuelan opposition leader in Caracas. It was Middle America, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The agents worked for the FBI, and the target of this operation was not a drug kingpin or a terrorist operative or a kidnapper of babies. It was a peaceful American in his own home — a political operative and longtime friend of President Donald Trump's, named Roger Stone.

Why were there more FBI agents sent to arrest Stone than Navy SEALs sent to kill Osama bin Laden? Why jackboots in the morning in America? Here is the back story.

Read more at Judge Andrew P. Napolitano - An American Nightmare

The Democrats have gone insane, and they sent their lapdogs in the FBI to "take down" a man who presented no threat of violence to anyone with an all-out assault on him and his wife.

Is our country safe from these people?

No, the answer is clearly no.

If this can happen to Roger Stone, it can happen to anyone of us.

Welcome to the bootm rung of the police state...Tried to warn you folks but nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

Your ilk are the ones bringing on the police state, douchebag.

 

[Likkmee]

Is he related to Oliver ? I understand now

 

[bripat9643]

Siete, curious, do watch CNBC 24/7 or do you use the internet to research stuff.

So sad if you are a Rachel "Blinky" Maddow victim and a TDS victim, which seems to be the case.

if Trump didnt do the shit he does nobody could talk about the shit he does ...

see how that works ?

That's 100% wrong.

 

[bripat9643]

Last Friday, on a quiet residential street at 6 in the morning, the neighborhood exploded in light, noise and terror. Seventeen SUVs and two armored vehicles arrived in front of one house. Each vehicle had sirens blaring and lights flashing. The house, which abutted a canal, was soon surrounded by 29 government agents, each wearing military garb, each carrying a handgun and most carrying high-powered automatic rifles.

In the canal were two amphibious watercraft, out of which more heavily armed government agents came. Circling above all this was a helicopter equipped with long-range precision weaponry and high-powered spotlights.

Four agents approached the front door to the house. Two held a battering ram, and two pointed their rifles at the door. One of the agents shouted and banged on the front door until the terrified owner of the house emerged, barefoot and wearing shorts and a T-shirt. He was greeted in the dark at his open front door by two rifle barrels aimed at his head.

This was not a movie set; it was not a foreign city in a war zone; it was not the arrest of the Venezuelan opposition leader in Caracas. It was Middle America, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The agents worked for the FBI, and the target of this operation was not a drug kingpin or a terrorist operative or a kidnapper of babies. It was a peaceful American in his own home — a political operative and longtime friend of President Donald Trump's, named Roger Stone.

Why were there more FBI agents sent to arrest Stone than Navy SEALs sent to kill Osama bin Laden? Why jackboots in the morning in America? Here is the back story.

Read more at Judge Andrew P. Napolitano - An American Nightmare

The Democrats have gone insane, and they sent their lapdogs in the FBI to "take down" a man who presented no threat of violence to anyone with an all-out assault on him and his wife.

Is our country safe from these people?

No, the answer is clearly no.

If this can happen to Roger Stone, it can happen to anyone of us.

From a retired FBI agent:

Here's the general rule of thumb: Arrest one, bring 10. Arrest 10, bring 100. Overwhelming numbers remove the fight-or-flight instincts in the cornered or desperate. This keeps the target, as well as the arrest team, safe. For this exercise, I conducted a tactical assessment for the Stone operation, using my experience as a critical incident commander as the baseline. I quickly saw how easy it is for personnel ranks to swell, considering the following "rough estimate" needs here: onscene command (1-2), arrest team (5-7), breach team (2-3), outer perimeter (4-5), surveillance team (2-4), crisis negotiator (1-2), log keeper (1), evidence response (crime scene) team members (4-5), evidence photographer (1), public affairs (1) and subject transport team (3). With Stone's residence positioned along a canal, yes, maritime assets (2) would have been stationed there, as well.

The thing is, the team of law enforcement was not there simply for an arrest, it was there to execute an extensive, court authorized, search warrant as well.

Hence the need for machine guns.

Machine guns? So now semi-automatic guns are machine guns?

I don't know why the Court Judge who approved this type of search and arrest warrant did so,

but some of the Judge's criteria to authorize such type search, just before day break, is probable cause that the suspect will destroy evidence or flee or resist the arrest and or search...

Seems excessive to us laymen, especially since Roger Stone did not try to resist, but hind sight is 20/20... and 'better safe than sorry' also comes to mind.

Who said they were semi-automatic? The judge didn't authorize 29 men on the raid.

 

[bripat9643]

Stone was not a flight risk.

Who says?

The judge, for one.

the judge is the one that made the ruling, you dumbass ...

Magistrate Judge Lurana Snow told Stone he could not travel outside of South Florida, Washington, D.C. and New York City. Stone was also told he could not have any contact with any witnesses.

Whether he's a flight risk isn't the result of a judges ruling, moron. The judge also didn't make a ruling on whether he was 66 years old.

 

[bripat9643]

You obviously aren't aware of how warrants are usually served. Stone had already threatened to kill a witness against him, and was a flight risk. Cops are too aggressive when they arrest people, but this time wasn't out of the ordinary.

Flight risk?

You know that’s bullshit. Why lie?

No passport and broke and he is almost 70.

Mueller told CNN and made it a show. Period. Pull your tongue out of his asspipe.

Sadly for you, you have zero proof Mueller tipped off CNN.

Res ipsa loquitor. The thing speaks for itself.

No, your insanity speaks for itself. CNN being ready for an arrest at Stone’s house the very next day after it was announced an arrest was coming, does not offer evidence Mueller tipped them off.

When was the arrest announced?

 

[Faun]

Last Friday, on a quiet residential street at 6 in the morning, the neighborhood exploded in light, noise and terror. Seventeen SUVs and two armored vehicles arrived in front of one house. Each vehicle had sirens blaring and lights flashing. The house, which abutted a canal, was soon surrounded by 29 government agents, each wearing military garb, each carrying a handgun and most carrying high-powered automatic rifles.

In the canal were two amphibious watercraft, out of which more heavily armed government agents came. Circling above all this was a helicopter equipped with long-range precision weaponry and high-powered spotlights.

Four agents approached the front door to the house. Two held a battering ram, and two pointed their rifles at the door. One of the agents shouted and banged on the front door until the terrified owner of the house emerged, barefoot and wearing shorts and a T-shirt. He was greeted in the dark at his open front door by two rifle barrels aimed at his head.

This was not a movie set; it was not a foreign city in a war zone; it was not the arrest of the Venezuelan opposition leader in Caracas. It was Middle America, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The agents worked for the FBI, and the target of this operation was not a drug kingpin or a terrorist operative or a kidnapper of babies. It was a peaceful American in his own home — a political operative and longtime friend of President Donald Trump's, named Roger Stone.

Why were there more FBI agents sent to arrest Stone than Navy SEALs sent to kill Osama bin Laden? Why jackboots in the morning in America? Here is the back story.

Read more at Judge Andrew P. Napolitano - An American Nightmare

The Democrats have gone insane, and they sent their lapdogs in the FBI to "take down" a man who presented no threat of violence to anyone with an all-out assault on him and his wife.

Is our country safe from these people?

No, the answer is clearly no.

If this can happen to Roger Stone, it can happen to anyone of us.

Welcome to the bootm rung of the police state...Tried to warn you folks but nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

Your ilk are the ones bringing on the police state, douchebag.

What are you talking about, you fucking moron? The Justice Department is headed by Republicans. The FBI is headed by Republicans.

 

[Moonglow]

Last Friday, on a quiet residential street at 6 in the morning, the neighborhood exploded in light, noise and terror. Seventeen SUVs and two armored vehicles arrived in front of one house. Each vehicle had sirens blaring and lights flashing. The house, which abutted a canal, was soon surrounded by 29 government agents, each wearing military garb, each carrying a handgun and most carrying high-powered automatic rifles.

In the canal were two amphibious watercraft, out of which more heavily armed government agents came. Circling above all this was a helicopter equipped with long-range precision weaponry and high-powered spotlights.

Four agents approached the front door to the house. Two held a battering ram, and two pointed their rifles at the door. One of the agents shouted and banged on the front door until the terrified owner of the house emerged, barefoot and wearing shorts and a T-shirt. He was greeted in the dark at his open front door by two rifle barrels aimed at his head.

This was not a movie set; it was not a foreign city in a war zone; it was not the arrest of the Venezuelan opposition leader in Caracas. It was Middle America, Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The agents worked for the FBI, and the target of this operation was not a drug kingpin or a terrorist operative or a kidnapper of babies. It was a peaceful American in his own home — a political operative and longtime friend of President Donald Trump's, named Roger Stone.

Why were there more FBI agents sent to arrest Stone than Navy SEALs sent to kill Osama bin Laden? Why jackboots in the morning in America? Here is the back story.

Read more at Judge Andrew P. Napolitano - An American Nightmare

The Democrats have gone insane, and they sent their lapdogs in the FBI to "take down" a man who presented no threat of violence to anyone with an all-out assault on him and his wife.

Is our country safe from these people?

No, the answer is clearly no.

If this can happen to Roger Stone, it can happen to anyone of us.

Welcome to the bootm rung of the police state...Tried to warn you folks but nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.

Your ilk are the ones bringing on the police state, douchebag.

Yep, sitting at a CPU drives 'em wild...

 

[tyroneweaver]

You obviously aren't aware of how warrants are usually served. Stone had already threatened to kill a witness against him, and was a flight risk. Cops are too aggressive when they arrest people, but this time wasn't out of the ordinary.

Also threaten to kill that person's dog... And he was at risk of destroying evidence that the search warrant, authorized by a Judge who found probable cause, was to entail.

I have no problem with Lindsey Graham reviewing it, but 99.9 to 1, it was done according to protocol for the circumstance.

Ruby Ridge is in my state. I'm smarter than that.

 

[Ame®icano]

You obviously aren't aware of how warrants are usually served. Stone had already threatened to kill a witness against him, and was a flight risk. Cops are too aggressive when they arrest people, but this time wasn't out of the ordinary.

That's a lie. He would have been arrested on the spot if he had.

Fucking moron, he was indicted with witness tampering over it.

Witness to what, exactly?

 

[Care4all]

They didn't actually have CNN in tow, CNN was watching stone's house because of recent articles on Mueller request for Stone's congressional testimony and a special prosecutor sealed indictment in the court the previous day

 

[Ame®icano]

You obviously aren't aware of how warrants are usually served. Stone had already threatened to kill a witness against him, and was a flight risk. Cops are too aggressive when they arrest people, but this time wasn't out of the ordinary.

That's a lie. He would have been arrested on the spot if he had.

Fucking moron, he was indicted with witness tampering over it.

Tampering with a witness to what crime?

He tampered with a witness in a federal investigation, you fucking moron.

Please explain what exact crime is being investigated?

 

[Ame®icano]

You obviously aren't aware of how warrants are usually served. Stone had already threatened to kill a witness against him, and was a flight risk. Cops are too aggressive when they arrest people, but this time wasn't out of the ordinary.

Also threaten to kill that person's dog... And he was at risk of destroying evidence that the search warrant, authorized by a Judge who found probable cause, was to entail.

I have no problem with Lindsey Graham reviewing it, but 99.9 to 1, it was done according to protocol for the circumstance.

so 99.9 times out of 100 they take CNN in tow?

you'd shit a brisket if they did this to the left. now you run for any cover you can find to continue the hate of people you don't even fucking know.

They didn’t “tow” CNN. That’s your lie, not reality.

CNN just happens to be there.

 

[Ame®icano]

You obviously aren't aware of how warrants are usually served. Stone had already threatened to kill a witness against him, and was a flight risk. Cops are too aggressive when they arrest people, but this time wasn't out of the ordinary.

Flight risk?

You know that’s bullshit. Why lie?

No passport and broke and he is almost 70.

Mueller told CNN and made it a show. Period. Pull your tongue out of his asspipe.

Sadly for you, you have zero proof Mueller tipped off CNN.

Proof is CNN being there.

 

[eagle1462010]

Excessive force from hell..............intimidation tactics...........Stone isn't a cereal killer.........just an investigative reporter who they are trying to say was in with Assange................

Ridiculous

 

[Ame®icano]

You obviously aren't aware of how warrants are usually served. Stone had already threatened to kill a witness against him, and was a flight risk. Cops are too aggressive when they arrest people, but this time wasn't out of the ordinary.

Flight risk?

You know that’s bullshit. Why lie?

No passport and broke and he is almost 70.

Mueller told CNN and made it a show. Period. Pull your tongue out of his asspipe.

Sadly for you, you have zero proof Mueller tipped off CNN.

ROFL! Yeah, because CNN always shows up when the FBI stages a raid in a city 700 miles away at 6:00 AM.

They were on stake out for months, just in case of FBI showing up.

 

[Valerie]

when he attacked john mccain as a traitor, roger stone was clearly projecting.


ENOUGH ALREADY!





President Trump’s former campaign adviser Roger Stone spent Labor Day vilifying John McCain in a pair of social media posts, denouncing the recently deceased Arizona senator as treasonous and corrupt.


Mr. Stone lashed out at McCain in separate Instagram posts Monday, a day after the Vietnam War veteran and lawmaker was laid to rest at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.


“Enough already,” Mr. Stone captioned a photograph he shared on Instagram of a People magazine issue honoring McCain. “I knew John McCain Well since he was In the House. A bitter cranky and vengeful man responsible for the death of 134 servicemen in on the Deck of the USS Forrestal and as corrupt as the come,” Mr. Stone wrote.


“John McCain was epically corrupt, and a cranky mean spirited p—k,” Mr. Stone wrote in a subsequent Instagram post captioning a photograph of an article published by The New York Times. “His passing of the Russian dossier to the FBI was a fraudulent act of treason and he will get his just reward from his maker,” he added.


Months before being captured in Vietnam and held for years as a prisoner of war, McCain survived a fire that killed over 100 fellow service members stationed abroad the USS Forrestal aircraft carrier in the Gulf of Tonkin. McCain’s critics have smeared him as being complicit in the tragedy, but fact-checking sites including Snopes have found those claims to be false.


More recently, McCain acknowledged that he gave the FBI a copy of the so-called “Steele dossier” that alleged connections between Mr. Trump and Russia — a subject of an ongoing investigation being conducted by special counsel Robert Mueller on behalf of the Justice Department.


“I did what duty demanded I do,” McCain wrote in his recently published memoir, “The Restless Wave.”


A longtime Republican strategist, Mr. Stone, 66, advised Mr. Trump’s presidential election campaign in 2015. He subsequently raised eyebrows over his contacts in 2016 with Guccifer 2.0, an internet persona operated by Russian military officials, and his claims of being in touch with Julian Assange, the publisher of the WikiLeaks website responsible for releasing internal Democratic Party documents in the lead-up to Mr. Trump’s election.


In an interview conducted after The Washington Times first reported that Mr. Stone exchanged private Twitter messages with Guccifer 2.0 during the presidential election, McCain called for bringing him before investigators.


“Obviously I think he and others need to be questioned,” McCain told CNN last March.