Native americans outraged by raid

From: http://www.buffalonews.com/city/article739114.ece

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Despite outrage from Tonawanda Seneca Indians complaining that their sovereignty was violated, federal authorities offered no apologies Thursday for conducting a raid at the Native American reservation and seizing synthetic marijuana and other merchandise from four smoke shops.

The top local U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent said the man-made pot has been linked to a number of overdoses that have landed young people in hospitals across Western New York.

But Native American merchants and clerks said they thought that the government overreacted by coming in heavily armed in a lightning-fast raid.

"There were more than 30 agents at my business. They held my employees at gunpoint. It was as if my employees were a drug cartel," said Norrie Spring, owner of Sacajawea Smoke Shop in the Genesee County community of Basom.

Dale M. Kasprzyk, resident agent in charge of the DEA's Buffalo office, said, "These drugs are dangerous, and manufactured to replicate marijuana. There have been overdoses and hospitalizations."

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People who sell that synthetic stuff from China deserve exactly what they get. If that is what it was. I was listening to 103.3 on the way to work and heard it was from china.

I think their problem is the show of force. Not so much the seizure of the synthetic drugs. The Govt has begun, to use extreme force when ever it conducts any sort of business... This is just another intimidation tactic.

Just google the lady who had Swat smash down her door, and allow CPS to take her kid and put the kid on dangerous drugs. Or the FDA using SWAT to raid Amish farmers... or the FDA using swat, to raid non processed food marts, or the FDA using swat to raid unpasturized milk distributors.

More and more, the US Govt is using militarized police forces, more heavily armed than the Iranian military to conduct 'raids' on businesses, and families...

But, I am sure your ok with that.

And also, why is it that the Govt must 'protect us' from this 'drug'? Whatever happened to freedom of choice? Oh ya, forgot, we live in Amerika, and having the freedom of choice is no longer a right, so we MUST have the govt protect us from our selves.

You do know that the Indians have and use military style weapons on the reservations, right. The Mohawks shot at helicopters in the past and the nightly AK fire on the Tuscorora reservation reminds me of my time in Nogales Arizona.


b.b.

About 20 years ago a native american hired me with regard to a federal tax matter - she had made the mistake of putting the funds from a tobacco business into a bank with off-reservation locations.

The person she was "renting" the business from got upset and tried to "evict" her. She called and asked me to come to the location to help her argue her case with the tribe's law enforcement.

When I arrived there were about 30 people including my client and her friends and family, the "landlord" and his friends and family, and several tribe LEO's.

I was the only person without a rifle in hand.