@zassounotsukushi And you can tell a person is a 'criminal" just by looking at him/her? That comment of yours is probably the most idiotic statement I've read, so far, about this case.
@WitchWindy Why yes, I think that anyone who does business with criminals deserves to have their property taken. When I work a register, I look at a customer, and I need 2 seconds, just 2, and BAM, I know if they're a criminal. I go through lines picking out "good, good, good, criminal". I turn the criminals away or call the cops. Sometimes I don't even call, I just use my telepathy to know what my government wants me to do. Easy as piecake. The guy in the video has no excuse.
Rev. Lester King, a property owner and citizen of the Batesville, Ms.The City of Batesville, Mississippi and local law enforcement agents announce a few years ago that they were going to take The Property from Rev. Lester King, Without compensating him for one dime, and then use the money they get from selling your land to pad their budgets Rev. Lester King is now detained without charges in the Panola County Jail awaiting court dated for 2/21 & 2/24 at the Justic court center, Sardis, Ms.
Law enforcement are no different than the politicians the majority of people have grown to hate.. They are not as much here for the people as they are for lies and lack of transparency. The amount of law enforcement rape cases and abuse cases that pass the radar is a significant problem throughout the world.
I don't know how seizing this motel will fix the drug problem. Wouldn't the police simply resell the motel for profit? Wouldn't a new operator be stuck with the same problem?
I live in Boston, about 40 minutes away from this hotel, and I even I know that this place is known for it's drugs and hookers.
Drive around back, beep once for drugs, twice for hookers... or something like that.
Its hard to feel bad for the owners since they must know this is going on, but its sad that the police are trying to take away the property instead of arresting the perpetrators.
LMAO, " How could this happen in America?" Thats how this country was formed, europeans have used civil forfeiture for hundreds of years may b even thousands LOL!
Here in Mississippi it's call imminent domain. The state can come in and take your land for whatever reason they want and call it good business. The Nissan plant up in Canton, MS was built because of land stolen/taken this way despite the law suits. It appears land ownership is not as solid as we Americans like to think we believe.
Using this logic, every police station which has ever had a dirty cop should have to forfeit their property to the people it is designed to protect. This is "unjust enrichment" clear and simple. It is time to take back individual property rights! May God, who bestows all blessings, intercede in this endeavor, and may it be supported by His people.
@lincloud10 "God" tells his followers in the bible to take the land that is rightfully theirs and kill anyone who says otherwise because "gods people" are the CHOSEN ONES. Sounds like Hitler to me....just sayin
@gawalla Thing is, the pics in this video don't do the justice of what it really looks like. These pics are from the 50's... there is no pool now and it looks like a crack house. It IS a crack house. This little video is meant to make you feel sorry for them, but it is not accurately portraying what this place really is. If they were so concerned with this as their retirement fund, they would sell the place and be done with it, problem solved... They are already past retirement age.
@be1tube LOL, this person lives down the street, they know what it looks like. The place is shady, but I don't think its enough to seize the property.
@SplurtaBeats The Caswells brought it on themselves. They rent their rooms by the hour, they know what kind of clientele they bring in. They deserve what they get.
I live about 2 miles from the Caswell. The fact that this has been known (as long as I can remember back to the late 70's, probably even longer) as THE place to go to do drugs, get a hooker, etc..then I believe it should be shut down and taken over. I think it's less to do with "making a profit" than it is to shut down the biggest trouble spot in town. Love how the family-type pics all seem to go back to the 50's or so, shows how long it's been since this was a family-friendly establishment,
@MomSarch who gives a fuck what people do in the hotel rooms, why not arrest them if they're taking drugs. the caswell family themselves have done nothing wrong so why should they be punished. your stupidity is what leads to shit like this happening. fuck the feds fuck the government they only look out for themselves
@MomSarch so this is more appropriately described as an inability of the police to perform their duties, right? If the commission of a crime on private property means the property can be confiscated, what about a murder inside a house? this makes no sense to me.
police is the private Army of the rich & ruling class paid for by the American taxpayer. The police will do anything that their Masters ask them to do. Police are armed & retarded they will hurt you & enjoy doing it. They get pleasure of out killing people. The more police we have more with crime we have because they create laws to make criminal out on anyone. if you're on jury acquitted anyone that accused by law enforcement only. It is obvious that the police are the enemy of the people
1:35 Notice that the video says the property is owned 'free and clear' which means 'pure profit' for the DOJ and Police. I take that to mean, if they want to steal and sell an asset with a bank lien, the bank gets paid off first and the thieves only get to keep what’s left. Interesting, huh? You can have YOUR property stolen because it was supposedly involved in a crime, but if a BANK owns the property it will never lose a dime of its equity. (Not sure if that's the case...sounds like it.)
well all you people just shrugged and accepted TSA's non-sensicle bullshit. (
99.9% of you just accepted being digitally laid naked before your government just because some pillow-biting buearacrat said so. Of course they are going to confiscate people's private property. Why not? keep voting the way you are voting people and expect alot more of the same. We are much closer to a police state than a free republic, and you asked for it.
This is totally nuts. So let's review...If I own a hotel, I'm supposed to now do a background check on EVERY PERSON who wants to stay with my hotel just to make sure they have not committed a crime? huh? and what if the background check reveals NOTHING but...there were errors? this is nuts. What can we do? I am sick of this. The Pharmaceutical companies are in cohoots with the FDA and now this? Where are we living? sure is'nt the USA I grew up loving and serving in the armed forces. :(
@NYdogMom I believe they are implying that the arrests happened at the hotel, not they their guests had ever been arrested. Not that that makes this ok. We are talking about 63 arrests at that property out of 125,000 rooms rented and over a 20 year time period. The State is obviously looking for any excuse to be able to recupe their deficits.
This is totally nuts. So let's review...If I own a hotel, I'm supposed to now to a background check on EVERY PERSON who wants to stay with my hotel just to make sure they have not committed a crime? huh? and what if the background check reveals NOTHING but...there were errors? this is nuts. What can we do? I am sick of this. The Pharmaceutical companies are in cohoots with the FDA and now this? Where are we living? sure is'nt the USA I grew up loving and serving in the armed forces. :(
this is not new....whites had been taking every single thing from THE REAL NATIVE AMERICANS......and they till this day,they are not just happy doing it to americans but they are invading other countries as well, IRAQ, AFGANISTAN AND LIBIA....HAVE A LITTLE TASTE OF YOUR OWN poison FUKKKERS...
@saldownik No thats why the need stand up and put the fear of god into any member of the political class who dares not stay with in the restrictions of a brilliant document...
Perhaps only bettered by the Swiss constitution that firmly places the the boot of the masses forever on the face of the political class where it belongs! By recognising the right to demand referenda whist at the same time protecting Individual rights from those same masses...
@CitizenBeta2 I like what you said -- and what we (the people) need in order to have a voice in this country again is a 'political' access through means other than the corrupt 'Good Cop/Bad Cop' (Dem/Rep or vice versa, depending on YOUR viewpoint) party system that currently legislates away our freedoms, money, property, and futures. Americans should remember that the founders of this country were revolutionaries - and people have been working to end that revolution/freedom ever since.
@brullotj In the UK we have the same problem. Ignored or not your constitution & the impassioned defence of its message is a gift we don't have here...
Check out the Swiss system though the people there can force referenda by petition to stop government laws and propose new laws! The results... they haven't had a war since 1818, they are ranked by the World economic forum as most the worlds most competitive economy, they have the lowest unemployment rate in Europe... and are NON-EU members!...
The police are merely hitmen for the largest mafia in the world: the government. If you don't give them what they want, they will ruin you. If you don't allow them to ruin you, they will kidnap or kill you.
The cops and criminals are no different.
The funny thing is, the police push the delusion on themselves that they're somehow beneficial to us, when in reality all they do is enforce the laws designed to rob and loot Americans. That being said, law enforcement are essentially traitors.
Wow. How many people have been arrested for crimes at private universities or restaurants, I wonder? So long as prostitution and certain drugs are illegal, there isn't a hotel or motel in the country that is safe from this law. (Maybe that's the real reason that they are illegal.) Frankly, nobody is safe from this immoral and disgusting law.
It appears that the "law enforcement" agencies are the real criminals.
One more sign that we live in a police state. "Land of the free" -- what a joke.
I have deleted my more personally experienced atrocities at the hands of the govt., ie NWO, ie, IRS because too many of you heathen do not deserve for those us who Know what's going on, to share our experiences with you. Most of you who follow the govt. shills, which outnumber the real Patriots 90 to1, are too illiterate for anyone to even scratch the surface of. INKIATARI is a prime example. The FEW of us cannot save this civilization. Ignorance is too profoundly entrenched. AGAIN.
@inkyatari You cannot think well enough for yourself so don't try to think for me. I have DEALT with face on with the vermin IRS. What I say about it I learned FIRST HAND. I don't need the likes of you to tell me what I think. I WON a ct. case AGAINST THE IRS, representing myself before the court. You are probably the type that at the first look they give you will crumble before them and kiss their asses.As for your reading ability, it's no better than the quality of your conclusions about me.
See how wrong you are? THERE IS NO CONSPIRACY. IT'S A DOCUMENTED, PROVABLE FACT. OUR WHOLE REALITY IS A CONSTRUCT. WE LIVE IN A VIRTUAL REALITY THAT IS REAL ONLY FOR THE 10% THAT ARE RUNNING THE SHOW.
@inkyatari If you are a shill for the govt.,I say this to you.You and others like you are the most frightened cretinous people on the planet; with shit on your noses from kissing ass.Of course one such as you likely believes that because I'm not frightened to speak up, I must be insane. That's the way govt. thinks. The govt. knows what I think of it. I put it on ct. documents claiming fraud and corruption; and won a cancellation of the fraudulent claim of theirs. It's recorded! On the record!
@Nickelberrynsc TAA made a good story in relation to this about a husband who kept beating his wife yet he wife went to the authorities, and the authorities just laughed at her because her man was working with them! If you don't think this has ever happened, you are pretty slow to see this world for what it is.. Often ruled by crooks, crooks that are above the law because they enforce it and have no real watchdogs. Law enforcement need to be monitored always, everywhere
@Nickelberrynsc Because our, authority are often not monitored, and so much behind closed doors, you get to see the zoo we are living in. If there's a God, I say fuck him to hell. Let him burn where he belongs, if this hell exists. You think Mexican police are bad, they are bad in all of america. Beating up people unjustifiably, getting away with it, Rape, getting away with it, You have no idea how dirty and perverted many of these control freaks are, until you hear them talking
@inkyatari Are you illiterate or what?! CAN you READ?! Before you speak out of your ass, check out my channel and see if you can find any videos related to Alex Jones. I am in the process of weeding out anyone who Alex Jones promotes. My comments are ALL based on years of diligent study and personal experience.The IRS is the NWO, ie its most powerful arm. There are many subagencies and they are all creating crisis and conflict, and then swooping in to offer "salvation". You are an idiot.
@olga2415 I'm not an idiot. I'm rational. I don't believe in fairy tale conspiracies like you. You say you delete people who like Alex JOnes, yet you spew the same garbage he does. Hypocrite much?
@inkyatari The reason he spouts some concepts I do is because he sucks people into believing he knows what's going on when in truth he's one of the 90% out here that suck up to the 10% so they can "survive and prosper". Well, I don't want to survive on this planet of zombies like you who not only kiss up to your own destroyers, but your ilk are the ones that fund their agendas. An Idiot cannot help being stupid. You're worse because you are ignorant by choice. I apologize to all idiots.
continued: I used to wonder why so many in the establishment were so brazen in their violations of law. Now I know. There cannot be accountability when all institutions of govt. are infiltrated and controlled by the same group of evil vermin; the NWO cabal. Trying to sue the proper perp is like trying to capture a puff of smoke in your hand. No one can ever tell you who recorded the documents, which clerk handled the transaction; you can find out nothing required in order to sue for damages.
I think I would make them work for it if they wanted to take my land.They would out number me and out gun me but I damn well guarantee you a few of them would not go home for dinner.And of course neither would I if I survived the onslaught.America today is the greatest illusion ever perpetuated against a people who thought they were free.
So what are the Local People going to do about this? Are you going to sit around and watch this happen or will you get some brass balls and stop the pigs by any means needed.
Allowing any agency to pad their budgets on their own like this should be criminal. These bastards stole my fathers 6 businesses, his home, his family farm (that had been in the family for over 200 years and was a reward for things in the revolutionary war) even his cars, trucks, seized all bank accounts and safety deposit boxes, ruined his life and the lives of my mother myself and siblings they took everything...and he never committed one crime or was convicted of anything. Estimated 9.8 mill
lol listen to you all thinking this is a choice.. they made the rules north america wide here and im sure there are same in all places with wealth.. see only the people they want to be rich will be rich.. rest of us they want dead kids.. dont mistake that.. they dont give a rats ass about you just your money has been proven time and time again.
There is NO Enacted Public Law called Civil Forfeiture. Wake-up people, the POLICE Department works for a STATE or CITY Corporation and may not dictate to the people. The COPS are try to treat you as one of them, a corporate employee of the Federal Government.
Easy mistake to make because it only flashed on the screen for a second. Anyway, this practice is outrageous and seems tailor-made for eminent domain abuse. What are the Caswells to do? this is obviously a business with a few sketchy clients but short of installing surveillance all over the place, and screening their customers (probably creating civil liability), I don't know how they can stay under the radar. Sounds like someone is looking to put their property to "better" use. It stinks!
This is sadly one of hundreds of thousands of examples proving that America is one gigantic criminal enterprise, from the office of the president, through every single department of state and government agency to the various States and their diverse agencies and departments; each and everyone working to hook the personal possessions of innocent citizens for their own reptilian-influenced profits. The only way for the American people to shake off this evil is by way of revolution.
They would have to drag my bullet-ridden corpse out of the burt up shell of what used to be a motel. I would force their hand. Either make it another Waco, or go away, your choice DOJ.
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Place is a shithole, get rid of it. all you 40 yr old idiots obsessed with local town politics should probably die in a fire, you will never make a difference in the town let alone the country it is how it is and you cant change it
@stcorbett13 -Your comment is the most mind-bogglingly ignorant thing I have ever heard on youtube. This is a person, like you, although obviously better educated and with a better work ethic. No doubt you would roll over, let the beasts fuck you while kicking a can down the road blaming everybody but yourself for not fighting the abuse of your civil liberties. I endear you to sign over your paychecks, or (Likely) welfare and food stamps to the tewksbury police department. What a stain you are!
@stcorbett13 You seem to think this is about a place. Thats what local Police and the Gov want you to think. this is about your rights. So much so they list the property as the defendant in the court papers. Like everyone else on here they see right though the sheer cloth laying over the defendant listed in this case. Make no mistake this is the United States vs Russ Caswell and his rights. How would you feel if someone took all you worked for even though you did nothing wrong?
62 arrests / 20 years = 3 arrests/year, give or take.
So if you run an inexpensive motel and lowlifes get arrested there every four months or so, the $#%%^&# law "enforcement" agencies can just up and steal your property. Helluva racket. Tar and feathers is too good for 'em, we need rope and lampposts.
I just saw this on Fox Business channel. It's a disgrace to everything our country stands for. It's a budget motel in a tiny town. The only reason the cops are trying to take it is because A) the mortgage is paid B) they get to keep a huge cut of the profit from selling the property C) they think they can get away with it under the guise of "crimes happened there" - uhm, duh. It's a motel. Crimes happen in every motel, hotel, holiday inn. This is disgusting.
The USA Army goes around the world killing hurting and plundering the people when they fight back we call them terrorist.The USA law enforcement they go around America hurting killing and plundering the people ,When the people fights back we call them homegrown terrorist that the game the elite plays that everyone is a terrorist except the rich people & political class they trained the people to think that everyone is evil but the rich & political class.
this is not the country I was born into. We have no morals and no sense of justice or personal rights or responsibilities. It's time to leave...But where to go? Costa Rica? I will wait till November 2012..maybe things will change, but I doubt it.
@klong1055 Costa Rica! that is HILARIOUS. Latin America is FAR, FAR, Worse than the U.S.A. in terms of the oppression and vulnerability of 95% of the population to the wealthy/predators/ruling class and their servants. The American news and entertainment media (and entertainment is weighted over news, of course) purposely depicts our Latin American ally countries as 'democracies,' mostly ignoring the ongoing slaughter of innocents, political murders (unremarked in situ), and vast corruption.
That is why most smart investors (a) own land in an LLC or other entity and (b) write a promissory note / deed of trust against the property to their benefit. Then if the property is subject to a suit or other taking other than eminent domain, they have to pay off the note first. So they might force a sale but they won't get any money.
This seemed like a valid argument. The only bad thing you did? YOU DON'T KNOW HOW TO SAY THE WORD TEWKSBURY. It's said like TOOKS-Bury. not TUUKS-bury. GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT.
So 1 out of every 2000 people that stayed there has committed a crime? I'm sure that every hotel in the country has unknowingly roomed criminals. Could any hotel property be seized? Or do we give the well-connected ones a pass?
there are names of the people who start the process of this. Why blame the entity entirely? Name the people who though up the idea to steal the hotel from those people in the name of justice.
That's so wrong. WTF? And people really believe this is a free nation??? Wake the FUCK UP! If it were free the gov't wouldn't be able to take what's yours...
Russ Caswell is going to be talking with Freedom Watch With Judge Napolitano tonight at 8 on Fox business channel. Regardless of your political view or view of FOX NEWS. This will be a good outlet to get the message out. So just tune in, even if its just for a little bit.
@pmonroe2 I stand corrected. Regardless I do think civil forfeiture to be wrong. No confiscation without guilt. I did get it wrong by 2 orders of magnitude...which does make it obscene...err, more obscene. ;-)
I question the fairness of this statute, but doing some quick math, .05% of 125,000 rentals over the course of 20 years, works out to roughly 312 arrests per year from the motel. Just under 6 arrests per week. Any other business with that sort of arrest record would probably be closed down in some manner... Now the question I have is, how many of those arrests were called in by the Caswells themselves, for drunk and disorderly patrons etc.
@Yogdog69 Your figures are incorrect. The video states that .05% of all room registrations (not guests, but registrations--a registration could entail one or more people in a room) over a 20-year period have resulted in arrests. The total number of registered rooms over that period is reported as numbering 125,000; .05% of 125,000 is 62.5, or 3.125 arrests per registration per year. The percentage of guests arrested from the total number of guests registered must be even smaller.
@OnlyEdandTheAlmost To clarify, the video states that the motel has averaged 3.125 arrests a year out of 6250 rooms registered each year. The 6250 rooms could and probably did have more than one guest in each.
@OnlyEdandTheAlmost (In other words, "3.125 arrests per registration per year" should have read 3.125 arrests per year out of 6250 rooms registered. We regret the error and blame insufficient caffeine consumption, liberals and The Government.)
@OnlyEdandTheAlmost I stand corrected. Regardless I do think civil forfeiture to be wrong. No confiscation without guilt. I did get it wrong by 2 orders of magnitude...which does make it obscene...err, more obscene. ;-)
@Yogdog69 Check your math. .05% of 125000 is actually .0005 x 125,000 divided by 20 years which is actually 3.125 arrests per year. I seriously doubt that is any higher than any other low-rent motel in any town in this country, not to mention it can't even compete with the arrests made during any week in March in a place like Daytona Beach. This looks an awful lot like thinly veiled eminent domain.
@vitigator I stand corrected. Regardless I do think civil forfeiture to be wrong. No confiscation without guilt. I did get it wrong by 2 orders of magnitude...which does make it obscene...err, more obscene. ;-)
So if the police are working with th LAW that means they have to turn the property over as Law abiding citizens, wich means they have no case if its the case. So how do you not stop this from happening to you? answer you can`t. Wellcome to the land of the free home of the slave/brave go back to your tv your I phone everything is OK.
Former United States president George H. W. Bush said, "[Asset forfeiture laws allow [the government] to take the alleged ill-gotten gains of drug kingpins and use them to put more cops on the streets."
What he meant to say was: ":Asset forfeiture laws allow cops to take anybody's stuff, sell it, and keep the money (just so long as they split the profit with us)"
@rbrown6984 - Actually or founders fought to stop this, but we as a population have sat on our lazy asses and watched the TV as the Police State was put into power while continuing to RE-Vote in the same Criminals over and over.
But if we don't do something soon we will have nothing left to do anything about. And that time frame is very short.
We don't have a Constitution anymore. The people who know and care are outnumbered by the people who don't know and don't care, and don't know they don't know.
One reason why we have the second amendment! The NRA should help this family out by devising a voluntary militia to protect this family's private property.
.05%, or .0005 of 125,000 is 62.5 arrests over 20 years, or 3.12 arrests per year.. just to save you the trouble of the math. There's a corrective annotation on the video if you don't have annotations turned on, that changes the video's original ".0005%" figure. And this is to say, just "arrests".. and not convictions, necessarily. Also, the video seems to suggest the owners would be left with "nothing" -- although they would still keep all their other assets like savings accrued, etc.
Crimes happen in just about EVERY hotel and motel in the US... Drug deals, prostitution, etc...
The biggest difference here, IMHO, is that the "big chains" can afford to hire lawyers to fight this kind of arbitrary and capricious bullshit, while the Caswells might not have enough money to do so.
The Feds and the Tewksbury Fascists are ganging up on the Caswells, bullying someone who cannot fight back.
When I did police work there were low budget motels owned by foreigners and they ran a disgusting and crime riddled location and knew it. It became a complete nuisance and lower the price of homes in that area. I believe in locations like that should be taken away from owners when there is valid proof the problems are there and have been there with the owners aware of it. It just provides a hide out for local criminals and drug users to use to deal in their drugs.
Which I automatically read as, "When I took a sacred oath to support and defend the Constitution, including, ESPECIALLY, the Bill of Rights, every word of all ten articles.
"Locations like that should be taken away from owners when there is valid proof the problems"
When there is valid proof, sure. That means due process.
Anything less, you are a vile oath breaker, far worse than the scum you arrest.
I did police work for years and dont believe in just taking something away from someone for monetary gain just because you can. These people seem to be just trying to make a living. If the police think the motel is a nuisance and crimes are being committed there at the motel, the police should step in and speak to the owners and get them to try to work with the police on the matter. It appears to me as if these people would work with the police to rectify the problem. I wish the owners the best!
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deb1926 1 week ago
this is like a physical manifestation of SOPA/PIPA.
cbxhc 1 week ago
welcome to america
7ranc3Addict 2 weeks ago
Don't steal. The government hates competition.
kevindanielvincent 2 weeks ago
Get to the root of the problem! Nothing will ever change if you don't address the root of the issue.
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furyofbongos 2 weeks ago
How can someone like me, living in a different state, help the Caswell family fight this injustice?
crackyhoss 2 weeks ago
Who's going to make the police forfeit their assets for failing to stop crime?
FlyingOverTr0ut 2 weeks ago
Well if he didn't want his hotel seized by the government they shouldn't have let criminals stay there.
zassounotsukushi 2 weeks ago
@zassounotsukushi And you can tell a person is a 'criminal" just by looking at him/her? That comment of yours is probably the most idiotic statement I've read, so far, about this case.
WitchWindy 2 weeks ago
@WitchWindy Why yes, I think that anyone who does business with criminals deserves to have their property taken. When I work a register, I look at a customer, and I need 2 seconds, just 2, and BAM, I know if they're a criminal. I go through lines picking out "good, good, good, criminal". I turn the criminals away or call the cops. Sometimes I don't even call, I just use my telepathy to know what my government wants me to do. Easy as piecake. The guy in the video has no excuse.
zassounotsukushi 2 weeks ago
@zassounotsukushi Not sure if troll or just really really fucking stupid.
DivideofNations 2 weeks ago
@DivideofNations You're not sure if using telepathy to find out what my government wants me to do is trolling?
You must deal with some very strange people on a regular basis.
zassounotsukushi 2 weeks ago
And people wonder why I hate our government. They are as corrupt as any, it's just not publicized by our liberal media.
RevoDan 2 weeks ago
Rev. Lester King, a property owner and citizen of the Batesville, Ms.The City of Batesville, Mississippi and local law enforcement agents announce a few years ago that they were going to take The Property from Rev. Lester King, Without compensating him for one dime, and then use the money they get from selling your land to pad their budgets Rev. Lester King is now detained without charges in the Panola County Jail awaiting court dated for 2/21 & 2/24 at the Justic court center, Sardis, Ms.
muhammadjames 2 weeks ago
Law enforcement are no different than the politicians the majority of people have grown to hate.. They are not as much here for the people as they are for lies and lack of transparency. The amount of law enforcement rape cases and abuse cases that pass the radar is a significant problem throughout the world.
luc59457 1 month ago
125 000 people stayed here @ .05% were arrested = 625 people were arrested. That's a lot!
1977sinnerman 1 month ago
Tyrants need no excuse!
socbutter 3 months ago
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luc59457 1 month ago
I don't know how seizing this motel will fix the drug problem. Wouldn't the police simply resell the motel for profit? Wouldn't a new operator be stuck with the same problem?
studolf 3 months ago
I live in Boston, about 40 minutes away from this hotel, and I even I know that this place is known for it's drugs and hookers.
Drive around back, beep once for drugs, twice for hookers... or something like that.
Its hard to feel bad for the owners since they must know this is going on, but its sad that the police are trying to take away the property instead of arresting the perpetrators.
ryansv1123 4 months ago
@ryansv1123 Well said. They like taking property as well because they are thieves in uniform. But how can a thief be in uniform? lol!!
luc59457 1 month ago
LMAO, " How could this happen in America?" Thats how this country was formed, europeans have used civil forfeiture for hundreds of years may b even thousands LOL!
Mariguana86 4 months ago
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Here in Mississippi it's call imminent domain. The state can come in and take your land for whatever reason they want and call it good business. The Nissan plant up in Canton, MS was built because of land stolen/taken this way despite the law suits. It appears land ownership is not as solid as we Americans like to think we believe.
WoodsWoman154 4 months ago
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WoodsWoman154 4 months ago
Using this logic, every police station which has ever had a dirty cop should have to forfeit their property to the people it is designed to protect. This is "unjust enrichment" clear and simple. It is time to take back individual property rights! May God, who bestows all blessings, intercede in this endeavor, and may it be supported by His people.
lincloud10 4 months ago
@lincloud10 "God" tells his followers in the bible to take the land that is rightfully theirs and kill anyone who says otherwise because "gods people" are the CHOSEN ONES. Sounds like Hitler to me....just sayin
Mariguana86 4 months ago
@gawalla Thing is, the pics in this video don't do the justice of what it really looks like. These pics are from the 50's... there is no pool now and it looks like a crack house. It IS a crack house. This little video is meant to make you feel sorry for them, but it is not accurately portraying what this place really is. If they were so concerned with this as their retirement fund, they would sell the place and be done with it, problem solved... They are already past retirement age.
MomSarch 4 months ago 2
@MomSarch The motel still looks like the pictures. Check out Google Street View for 434 Main St, Tewksbury, MA
be1tube 4 months ago
@be1tube LOL, this person lives down the street, they know what it looks like. The place is shady, but I don't think its enough to seize the property.
ryansv1123 4 months ago
Next they will want to take the property where people grow plants from a seed created by God. Oh Wait they already do that. Damn
TheMootsagootsa 4 months ago 3
I guess if the white house and congress are commiting crimes we can take their proerty, oh what the Feds already own that property. Damn
In this case they can keep selling the same property over and over again. Do you want to buy a motel?
TheMootsagootsa 4 months ago
New Caswell FB supporters page
Its under "friends of Russ Caswell"
hooleyboy 4 months ago
@SplurtaBeats The Caswells brought it on themselves. They rent their rooms by the hour, they know what kind of clientele they bring in. They deserve what they get.
MomSarch 4 months ago
I live about 2 miles from the Caswell. The fact that this has been known (as long as I can remember back to the late 70's, probably even longer) as THE place to go to do drugs, get a hooker, etc..then I believe it should be shut down and taken over. I think it's less to do with "making a profit" than it is to shut down the biggest trouble spot in town. Love how the family-type pics all seem to go back to the 50's or so, shows how long it's been since this was a family-friendly establishment,
MomSarch 4 months ago
@MomSarch who gives a fuck what people do in the hotel rooms, why not arrest them if they're taking drugs. the caswell family themselves have done nothing wrong so why should they be punished. your stupidity is what leads to shit like this happening. fuck the feds fuck the government they only look out for themselves
SplurtaBeats 4 months ago 11
@MomSarch so this is more appropriately described as an inability of the police to perform their duties, right? If the commission of a crime on private property means the property can be confiscated, what about a murder inside a house? this makes no sense to me.
gawalla 4 months ago 5
police is the private Army of the rich & ruling class paid for by the American taxpayer. The police will do anything that their Masters ask them to do. Police are armed & retarded they will hurt you & enjoy doing it. They get pleasure of out killing people. The more police we have more with crime we have because they create laws to make criminal out on anyone. if you're on jury acquitted anyone that accused by law enforcement only. It is obvious that the police are the enemy of the people
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platinumshadow03 4 months ago
1:35 Notice that the video says the property is owned 'free and clear' which means 'pure profit' for the DOJ and Police. I take that to mean, if they want to steal and sell an asset with a bank lien, the bank gets paid off first and the thieves only get to keep what’s left. Interesting, huh? You can have YOUR property stolen because it was supposedly involved in a crime, but if a BANK owns the property it will never lose a dime of its equity. (Not sure if that's the case...sounds like it.)
realjoeplummer 4 months ago 3
well all you people just shrugged and accepted TSA's non-sensicle bullshit. (
99.9% of you just accepted being digitally laid naked before your government just because some pillow-biting buearacrat said so. Of course they are going to confiscate people's private property. Why not? keep voting the way you are voting people and expect alot more of the same. We are much closer to a police state than a free republic, and you asked for it.
CobaltDaydream 4 months ago 4
da FUCK?
drshlotzkin 4 months ago
This is totally nuts. So let's review...If I own a hotel, I'm supposed to now do a background check on EVERY PERSON who wants to stay with my hotel just to make sure they have not committed a crime? huh? and what if the background check reveals NOTHING but...there were errors? this is nuts. What can we do? I am sick of this. The Pharmaceutical companies are in cohoots with the FDA and now this? Where are we living? sure is'nt the USA I grew up loving and serving in the armed forces. :(
NYdogMom 4 months ago
@NYdogMom I believe they are implying that the arrests happened at the hotel, not they their guests had ever been arrested. Not that that makes this ok. We are talking about 63 arrests at that property out of 125,000 rooms rented and over a 20 year time period. The State is obviously looking for any excuse to be able to recupe their deficits.
1775novten 4 months ago
This is totally nuts. So let's review...If I own a hotel, I'm supposed to now to a background check on EVERY PERSON who wants to stay with my hotel just to make sure they have not committed a crime? huh? and what if the background check reveals NOTHING but...there were errors? this is nuts. What can we do? I am sick of this. The Pharmaceutical companies are in cohoots with the FDA and now this? Where are we living? sure is'nt the USA I grew up loving and serving in the armed forces. :(
NYdogMom 4 months ago
Disgusting!
Civil Remedies Act in CANADA - basically the same thing!
ill318 4 months ago
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this is not new....whites had been taking every single thing from THE REAL NATIVE AMERICANS......and they till this day,they are not just happy doing it to americans but they are invading other countries as well, IRAQ, AFGANISTAN AND LIBIA....HAVE A LITTLE TASTE OF YOUR OWN poison FUKKKERS...
99cacahuate 4 months ago
Not any old piece of paper, but the will of power holders is the foundation of the law. Stop crying over your long forgotten constitution Americans.
saldownik 4 months ago
@saldownik No thats why the need stand up and put the fear of god into any member of the political class who dares not stay with in the restrictions of a brilliant document...
Perhaps only bettered by the Swiss constitution that firmly places the the boot of the masses forever on the face of the political class where it belongs! By recognising the right to demand referenda whist at the same time protecting Individual rights from those same masses...
CitizenBeta2 4 months ago
@CitizenBeta2 I like what you said -- and what we (the people) need in order to have a voice in this country again is a 'political' access through means other than the corrupt 'Good Cop/Bad Cop' (Dem/Rep or vice versa, depending on YOUR viewpoint) party system that currently legislates away our freedoms, money, property, and futures. Americans should remember that the founders of this country were revolutionaries - and people have been working to end that revolution/freedom ever since.
brullotj 4 months ago
@brullotj In the UK we have the same problem. Ignored or not your constitution & the impassioned defence of its message is a gift we don't have here...
Check out the Swiss system though the people there can force referenda by petition to stop government laws and propose new laws! The results... they haven't had a war since 1818, they are ranked by the World economic forum as most the worlds most competitive economy, they have the lowest unemployment rate in Europe... and are NON-EU members!...
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99cacahuate 4 months ago
This is EVIL
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this is a crime. Vote for Ron Paul - he will put a stop to this. END THE FED!!
ypepmf 4 months ago
this is a crime. Vote for Ron Paul - he will put a stop to this. END THE FED!!
ypepmf 4 months ago 4
Are you fucking kidding me!! How much is enough for these criminals?!
bozolazic 4 months ago 2
The police are merely hitmen for the largest mafia in the world: the government. If you don't give them what they want, they will ruin you. If you don't allow them to ruin you, they will kidnap or kill you.
The cops and criminals are no different.
The funny thing is, the police push the delusion on themselves that they're somehow beneficial to us, when in reality all they do is enforce the laws designed to rob and loot Americans. That being said, law enforcement are essentially traitors.
Maat922 4 months ago 3
Wow. How many people have been arrested for crimes at private universities or restaurants, I wonder? So long as prostitution and certain drugs are illegal, there isn't a hotel or motel in the country that is safe from this law. (Maybe that's the real reason that they are illegal.) Frankly, nobody is safe from this immoral and disgusting law.
It appears that the "law enforcement" agencies are the real criminals.
One more sign that we live in a police state. "Land of the free" -- what a joke.
peterscottfrost 4 months ago 2
All for Ron and Ron for all.
itcanbecheezcaketime 4 months ago 4
I have deleted my more personally experienced atrocities at the hands of the govt., ie NWO, ie, IRS because too many of you heathen do not deserve for those us who Know what's going on, to share our experiences with you. Most of you who follow the govt. shills, which outnumber the real Patriots 90 to1, are too illiterate for anyone to even scratch the surface of. INKIATARI is a prime example. The FEW of us cannot save this civilization. Ignorance is too profoundly entrenched. AGAIN.
olga2415 4 months ago
@olga2415 It's funny you think that since I don't buy into the NWO crap that I automatically believe the government.
There;s more evil in 30 minutes of CSPAN than in all of the conspiracy movement combined.
inkyatari 4 months ago
@inkyatari You cannot think well enough for yourself so don't try to think for me. I have DEALT with face on with the vermin IRS. What I say about it I learned FIRST HAND. I don't need the likes of you to tell me what I think. I WON a ct. case AGAINST THE IRS, representing myself before the court. You are probably the type that at the first look they give you will crumble before them and kiss their asses.As for your reading ability, it's no better than the quality of your conclusions about me.
olga2415 4 months ago
See how wrong you are? THERE IS NO CONSPIRACY. IT'S A DOCUMENTED, PROVABLE FACT. OUR WHOLE REALITY IS A CONSTRUCT. WE LIVE IN A VIRTUAL REALITY THAT IS REAL ONLY FOR THE 10% THAT ARE RUNNING THE SHOW.
olga2415 4 months ago
@olga2415 I think you've done more damage to yourself than I ever could by calling you out on your insanity.
Time to remove the tinfoil hat.
inkyatari 4 months ago
@inkyatari If you are a shill for the govt.,I say this to you.You and others like you are the most frightened cretinous people on the planet; with shit on your noses from kissing ass.Of course one such as you likely believes that because I'm not frightened to speak up, I must be insane. That's the way govt. thinks. The govt. knows what I think of it. I put it on ct. documents claiming fraud and corruption; and won a cancellation of the fraudulent claim of theirs. It's recorded! On the record!
olga2415 4 months ago
The IJ is fighting the good fight.
inkyatari 4 months ago
Satanic nation.
Anothercoilgun 4 months ago
HOW and WHY is that a LAW?!! Who do I call, write or picket to make it stop forever?
Nickelberrynsc 4 months ago 17
@Nickelberrynsc TAA made a good story in relation to this about a husband who kept beating his wife yet he wife went to the authorities, and the authorities just laughed at her because her man was working with them! If you don't think this has ever happened, you are pretty slow to see this world for what it is.. Often ruled by crooks, crooks that are above the law because they enforce it and have no real watchdogs. Law enforcement need to be monitored always, everywhere
luc59457 1 month ago
@Nickelberrynsc Because our, authority are often not monitored, and so much behind closed doors, you get to see the zoo we are living in. If there's a God, I say fuck him to hell. Let him burn where he belongs, if this hell exists. You think Mexican police are bad, they are bad in all of america. Beating up people unjustifiably, getting away with it, Rape, getting away with it, You have no idea how dirty and perverted many of these control freaks are, until you hear them talking
luc59457 1 month ago
Im in favor of stopping the government from doing things like this.
bigdansan 4 months ago 3
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olga2415 4 months ago
@olga2415 You are completely insane. YOu listen to Alex JOnes, don't you?
inkyatari 4 months ago
@inkyatari Are you illiterate or what?! CAN you READ?! Before you speak out of your ass, check out my channel and see if you can find any videos related to Alex Jones. I am in the process of weeding out anyone who Alex Jones promotes. My comments are ALL based on years of diligent study and personal experience.The IRS is the NWO, ie its most powerful arm. There are many subagencies and they are all creating crisis and conflict, and then swooping in to offer "salvation". You are an idiot.
olga2415 4 months ago
@olga2415 I'm not an idiot. I'm rational. I don't believe in fairy tale conspiracies like you. You say you delete people who like Alex JOnes, yet you spew the same garbage he does. Hypocrite much?
inkyatari 4 months ago
@inkyatari The reason he spouts some concepts I do is because he sucks people into believing he knows what's going on when in truth he's one of the 90% out here that suck up to the 10% so they can "survive and prosper". Well, I don't want to survive on this planet of zombies like you who not only kiss up to your own destroyers, but your ilk are the ones that fund their agendas. An Idiot cannot help being stupid. You're worse because you are ignorant by choice. I apologize to all idiots.
olga2415 4 months ago
continued: I used to wonder why so many in the establishment were so brazen in their violations of law. Now I know. There cannot be accountability when all institutions of govt. are infiltrated and controlled by the same group of evil vermin; the NWO cabal. Trying to sue the proper perp is like trying to capture a puff of smoke in your hand. No one can ever tell you who recorded the documents, which clerk handled the transaction; you can find out nothing required in order to sue for damages.
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olga2415 4 months ago
I think I would make them work for it if they wanted to take my land.They would out number me and out gun me but I damn well guarantee you a few of them would not go home for dinner.And of course neither would I if I survived the onslaught.America today is the greatest illusion ever perpetuated against a people who thought they were free.
vangard213 4 months ago 3
The Psychopaths days are numbered Keep the light shining on these Criminals Pickett outside courthouse Call local News
tommyk40 4 months ago
So what are the Local People going to do about this? Are you going to sit around and watch this happen or will you get some brass balls and stop the pigs by any means needed.
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TheFALuser 4 months ago
Allowing any agency to pad their budgets on their own like this should be criminal. These bastards stole my fathers 6 businesses, his home, his family farm (that had been in the family for over 200 years and was a reward for things in the revolutionary war) even his cars, trucks, seized all bank accounts and safety deposit boxes, ruined his life and the lives of my mother myself and siblings they took everything...and he never committed one crime or was convicted of anything. Estimated 9.8 mill
chrisdl62 4 months ago
lol listen to you all thinking this is a choice.. they made the rules north america wide here and im sure there are same in all places with wealth.. see only the people they want to be rich will be rich.. rest of us they want dead kids.. dont mistake that.. they dont give a rats ass about you just your money has been proven time and time again.
kami243n 4 months ago
There is NO Enacted Public Law called Civil Forfeiture. Wake-up people, the POLICE Department works for a STATE or CITY Corporation and may not dictate to the people. The COPS are try to treat you as one of them, a corporate employee of the Federal Government.
MrSchpankme 4 months ago
Easy mistake to make because it only flashed on the screen for a second. Anyway, this practice is outrageous and seems tailor-made for eminent domain abuse. What are the Caswells to do? this is obviously a business with a few sketchy clients but short of installing surveillance all over the place, and screening their customers (probably creating civil liability), I don't know how they can stay under the radar. Sounds like someone is looking to put their property to "better" use. It stinks!
vitigator 4 months ago
I stand corrected. Regardless I do think civil forfeiture to be wrong. No confiscation without guilt.
Yogdog69 4 months ago
outrageous ! it used to be like that during the World War II and after war during communist era in Poland.
questdental 4 months ago
This is sadly one of hundreds of thousands of examples proving that America is one gigantic criminal enterprise, from the office of the president, through every single department of state and government agency to the various States and their diverse agencies and departments; each and everyone working to hook the personal possessions of innocent citizens for their own reptilian-influenced profits. The only way for the American people to shake off this evil is by way of revolution.
dawes777 4 months ago
They would have to drag my bullet-ridden corpse out of the burt up shell of what used to be a motel. I would force their hand. Either make it another Waco, or go away, your choice DOJ.
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vastell 4 months ago
Email the executive town manager. Let them know directly how you feel hmchambers@tewksbury-ma.gov
hooleyboy 4 months ago
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Place is a shithole, get rid of it. all you 40 yr old idiots obsessed with local town politics should probably die in a fire, you will never make a difference in the town let alone the country it is how it is and you cant change it
stcorbett13 4 months ago
@stcorbett13 -Your comment is the most mind-bogglingly ignorant thing I have ever heard on youtube. This is a person, like you, although obviously better educated and with a better work ethic. No doubt you would roll over, let the beasts fuck you while kicking a can down the road blaming everybody but yourself for not fighting the abuse of your civil liberties. I endear you to sign over your paychecks, or (Likely) welfare and food stamps to the tewksbury police department. What a stain you are!
transientdreams 4 months ago 12
@stcorbett13 You seem to think this is about a place. Thats what local Police and the Gov want you to think. this is about your rights. So much so they list the property as the defendant in the court papers. Like everyone else on here they see right though the sheer cloth laying over the defendant listed in this case. Make no mistake this is the United States vs Russ Caswell and his rights. How would you feel if someone took all you worked for even though you did nothing wrong?
hooleyboy 4 months ago 2
125000 rentals x 0.05% arrested = 62 arrests
62 arrests / 20 years = 3 arrests/year, give or take.
So if you run an inexpensive motel and lowlifes get arrested there every four months or so, the $#%%^&# law "enforcement" agencies can just up and steal your property. Helluva racket. Tar and feathers is too good for 'em, we need rope and lampposts.
r0cketplumber 4 months ago 6
@r0cketplumber And, given local news (Tewksbury Patch) on 15 Feb, at least 4 of those 62 arrests were because of the hotel clerk's calling police.
be1tube 4 months ago
I just saw this on Fox Business channel. It's a disgrace to everything our country stands for. It's a budget motel in a tiny town. The only reason the cops are trying to take it is because A) the mortgage is paid B) they get to keep a huge cut of the profit from selling the property C) they think they can get away with it under the guise of "crimes happened there" - uhm, duh. It's a motel. Crimes happen in every motel, hotel, holiday inn. This is disgusting.
SearchStudent 4 months ago 4
The USA Army goes around the world killing hurting and plundering the people when they fight back we call them terrorist.The USA law enforcement they go around America hurting killing and plundering the people ,When the people fights back we call them homegrown terrorist that the game the elite plays that everyone is a terrorist except the rich people & political class they trained the people to think that everyone is evil but the rich & political class.
KYKIN44 4 months ago
this is not the country I was born into. We have no morals and no sense of justice or personal rights or responsibilities. It's time to leave...But where to go? Costa Rica? I will wait till November 2012..maybe things will change, but I doubt it.
klong1055 4 months ago
@klong1055 Costa Rica! that is HILARIOUS. Latin America is FAR, FAR, Worse than the U.S.A. in terms of the oppression and vulnerability of 95% of the population to the wealthy/predators/ruling class and their servants. The American news and entertainment media (and entertainment is weighted over news, of course) purposely depicts our Latin American ally countries as 'democracies,' mostly ignoring the ongoing slaughter of innocents, political murders (unremarked in situ), and vast corruption.
brullotj 4 months ago
The government agencies responsible for this theft should themselves be forced to pay the motel owners for pain and suffering.
AttyTude53 4 months ago 6
Injustice like this must be stopped...
harleynut1969 4 months ago 6
Tar, feathers, some assembly required. At best.
M0rmagil 4 months ago
That is why most smart investors (a) own land in an LLC or other entity and (b) write a promissory note / deed of trust against the property to their benefit. Then if the property is subject to a suit or other taking other than eminent domain, they have to pay off the note first. So they might force a sale but they won't get any money.
foobrak 4 months ago
YOu need to ask those authorities if its really worth their life to pursue such activities?
saganhill 4 months ago 2
This seemed like a valid argument. The only bad thing you did? YOU DON'T KNOW HOW TO SAY THE WORD TEWKSBURY. It's said like TOOKS-Bury. not TUUKS-bury. GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT.
idiot.
heyheybobbyj 4 months ago
I hope this goes to the supreme court. This is monstrous behavior on behalf of the police department.
CRMChicago 4 months ago
this is becoming common. We NEED the LAW changed. soon there will be too many cases like this, and I.J will not be able to fight them all.
williamwagener 4 months ago
"gang of thieves writ large" -Murray Rothbard
humanhiveanomaly 4 months ago
sick and sad.
MsStarlessone 4 months ago
So 1 out of every 2000 people that stayed there has committed a crime? I'm sure that every hotel in the country has unknowingly roomed criminals. Could any hotel property be seized? Or do we give the well-connected ones a pass?
utubewillyman 4 months ago 4
@utubewillyman This is probably a more attractive target because it's just owned by a family. Big hotels may have shareholders, etc.
lazerwraiths 4 months ago 4
How do these lawyers (the ones stealing the Caswell's land) sleep at night? Which scumbag cop first thought to commit this crime?
wizmindfire 4 months ago
Tell it to Suzanne Kelo.
robotguy 4 months ago
And People still point an accusatory finger at Mexico... lol We're better of course because our "Color Of Law" is just a little more vivid.
TrachycarpusTakil 4 months ago
Happens every fuckin day people. Aint a left or right issue. It is time to roll back the police state.
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Hozee1960 4 months ago
A revolution must happen to remove this corruption
Drsnafubar 4 months ago
there are names of the people who start the process of this. Why blame the entity entirely? Name the people who though up the idea to steal the hotel from those people in the name of justice.
redwormcharlie 4 months ago
That's so wrong. WTF? And people really believe this is a free nation??? Wake the FUCK UP! If it were free the gov't wouldn't be able to take what's yours...
Germantunedcars 4 months ago 3
Remember that this is the only way government can sustain itself. Take money and assets from people.
sevendst19 4 months ago 2
Al Capone ONLY wanted 10% of your earnings. The Government on the other hand make Capone and Madoff look like Rank Amateurs.
Getsometwo 4 months ago 2
This is like the English reformation, only worse.
FossEye 4 months ago 2
unf***ingbelievable
whataloadofbolloks 4 months ago
WTF? Never heard of this before. Legalized theft for politicians! GG! I really do dislike cops and politicians.
FlrLdy 4 months ago
The law breaking the law!! SAD!!
6109bubba 4 months ago
Russ Caswell is going to be talking with Freedom Watch With Judge Napolitano tonight at 8 on Fox business channel. Regardless of your political view or view of FOX NEWS. This will be a good outlet to get the message out. So just tune in, even if its just for a little bit.
hooleyboy 4 months ago 3
@Yogdog69
Your math was a little too quick. .05% of 125K works out to be 62 arrests over a 20 year period. You forgot to divide by 100!
radioguy
pmonroe2 4 months ago
@pmonroe2 I stand corrected. Regardless I do think civil forfeiture to be wrong. No confiscation without guilt. I did get it wrong by 2 orders of magnitude...which does make it obscene...err, more obscene. ;-)
Yogdog69 4 months ago
I question the fairness of this statute, but doing some quick math, .05% of 125,000 rentals over the course of 20 years, works out to roughly 312 arrests per year from the motel. Just under 6 arrests per week. Any other business with that sort of arrest record would probably be closed down in some manner... Now the question I have is, how many of those arrests were called in by the Caswells themselves, for drunk and disorderly patrons etc.
Yogdog69 4 months ago
@Yogdog69, you're off by 2 orders of magnitude. 0.05% is 0.0005, or 65.5 arrests over the 20 years... just over 3 per year, in other words.
frankdn109 4 months ago
Sorry-- 62.5
frankdn109 4 months ago
@frankdn109 beat me to it by a minute - and I would guess that 3 a year for a motel is pretty low.
lockestepchannel 4 months ago
@Yogdog69 Your figures are incorrect. The video states that .05% of all room registrations (not guests, but registrations--a registration could entail one or more people in a room) over a 20-year period have resulted in arrests. The total number of registered rooms over that period is reported as numbering 125,000; .05% of 125,000 is 62.5, or 3.125 arrests per registration per year. The percentage of guests arrested from the total number of guests registered must be even smaller.
OnlyEdandTheAlmost 4 months ago
@OnlyEdandTheAlmost To clarify, the video states that the motel has averaged 3.125 arrests a year out of 6250 rooms registered each year. The 6250 rooms could and probably did have more than one guest in each.
OnlyEdandTheAlmost 4 months ago
@OnlyEdandTheAlmost (In other words, "3.125 arrests per registration per year" should have read 3.125 arrests per year out of 6250 rooms registered. We regret the error and blame insufficient caffeine consumption, liberals and The Government.)
OnlyEdandTheAlmost 4 months ago
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@OnlyEdandTheAlmost I stand corrected. Regardless I do think civil forfeiture to be wrong. No confiscation without guilt. I did get it wrong by 2 orders of magnitude...which does make it obscene...err, more obscene. ;-)
Yogdog69 4 months ago
@Yogdog69 Check your math. .05% of 125000 is actually .0005 x 125,000 divided by 20 years which is actually 3.125 arrests per year. I seriously doubt that is any higher than any other low-rent motel in any town in this country, not to mention it can't even compete with the arrests made during any week in March in a place like Daytona Beach. This looks an awful lot like thinly veiled eminent domain.
vitigator 4 months ago
@vitigator I stand corrected. Regardless I do think civil forfeiture to be wrong. No confiscation without guilt. I did get it wrong by 2 orders of magnitude...which does make it obscene...err, more obscene. ;-)
Yogdog69 4 months ago
doesn't surprise me I left after 9-11 fuck that gov
mkent8083 4 months ago
So if the police are working with th LAW that means they have to turn the property over as Law abiding citizens, wich means they have no case if its the case. So how do you not stop this from happening to you? answer you can`t. Wellcome to the land of the free home of the slave/brave go back to your tv your I phone everything is OK.
speeder757 4 months ago
This sounds like a case for Saul Goodman
kr3wpimp 4 months ago
wanna no criminals in our govt who are traitors and violate laws with their nullvoid illegal laws
micknm 4 months ago
Civil forfeiture? Who gets these ridiculous laws passed?
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Wow, that is seriously messed up.
AlistairSylance 4 months ago
Former United States president George H. W. Bush said, "[Asset forfeiture laws allow [the government] to take the alleged ill-gotten gains of drug kingpins and use them to put more cops on the streets."
What he meant to say was: ":Asset forfeiture laws allow cops to take anybody's stuff, sell it, and keep the money (just so long as they split the profit with us)"
SearchStudent 4 months ago 3
Civil forefiture defies the Constitution
RCWorks 4 months ago 36
@RCWorks We fought a war to liberate ourselves from a despot for just this sort of thing.
rbrown6984 4 months ago
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@rbrown6984 - Actually or founders fought to stop this, but we as a population have sat on our lazy asses and watched the TV as the Police State was put into power while continuing to RE-Vote in the same Criminals over and over.
But if we don't do something soon we will have nothing left to do anything about. And that time frame is very short.
TheFALuser 4 months ago
@RCWorks
We don't have a Constitution anymore. The people who know and care are outnumbered by the people who don't know and don't care, and don't know they don't know.
hockeypuck999 4 months ago
Aww, that elderly gay couple deserves better than that.
jthighwind 4 months ago
LESS GOVERNMENT!
Goontron 4 months ago
sad
kikthatcan 4 months ago
this is THEFT!!! it goes way beyond just being wrong! it's completely insane, morally and ethically!!
robgazz 4 months ago
One reason why we have the second amendment! The NRA should help this family out by devising a voluntary militia to protect this family's private property.
jahmatic1979 4 months ago
.05%, or .0005 of 125,000 is 62.5 arrests over 20 years, or 3.12 arrests per year.. just to save you the trouble of the math. There's a corrective annotation on the video if you don't have annotations turned on, that changes the video's original ".0005%" figure. And this is to say, just "arrests".. and not convictions, necessarily. Also, the video seems to suggest the owners would be left with "nothing" -- although they would still keep all their other assets like savings accrued, etc.
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ablestmage 4 months ago
This type of activity in America makes me ill. What to god has happened to our country? This is just WRONG!!!
lindajof 4 months ago
it's not too long that being a cop in the U.S isn't going to be such a good thing......
Bammx2 4 months ago
Crimes happen in just about EVERY hotel and motel in the US... Drug deals, prostitution, etc...
The biggest difference here, IMHO, is that the "big chains" can afford to hire lawyers to fight this kind of arbitrary and capricious bullshit, while the Caswells might not have enough money to do so.
The Feds and the Tewksbury Fascists are ganging up on the Caswells, bullying someone who cannot fight back.
That's fucked up.
UncleKen926 4 months ago
When I did police work there were low budget motels owned by foreigners and they ran a disgusting and crime riddled location and knew it. It became a complete nuisance and lower the price of homes in that area. I believe in locations like that should be taken away from owners when there is valid proof the problems are there and have been there with the owners aware of it. It just provides a hide out for local criminals and drug users to use to deal in their drugs.
BGM111474 4 months ago
@BGM111474: "When I did police work...."
Which I automatically read as, "When I took a sacred oath to support and defend the Constitution, including, ESPECIALLY, the Bill of Rights, every word of all ten articles.
"Locations like that should be taken away from owners when there is valid proof the problems"
When there is valid proof, sure. That means due process.
Anything less, you are a vile oath breaker, far worse than the scum you arrest.
The very reason we have a Second Amendment.
50srefugee 4 months ago
I did police work for years and dont believe in just taking something away from someone for monetary gain just because you can. These people seem to be just trying to make a living. If the police think the motel is a nuisance and crimes are being committed there at the motel, the police should step in and speak to the owners and get them to try to work with the police on the matter. It appears to me as if these people would work with the police to rectify the problem. I wish the owners the best!
BGM111474 4 months ago 6
@BGM111474: "I did police work for years and dont believe in just taking something away from someone for monetary gain just because you can."
All due props to an honest cop who follows his oath and honors his shield.
I pray, sir,