The New Obama Police State: Stalinist Tactics Used By Feds To Collect Student Loans?

Posted by Brian
h/t to The Blaze

Have you always thought that officers dressed in military-style gear busting through doors and dragging people out into the street in their underwear was something that you saw in the movies, or in black and white newsreel showing Soviet or Nazi soldiers rounding up dissidents?

Kenneth Wright of Stockton CA was probably wondering if he had woken up in the middle of a 'Twilight Zone' episode, the one where a racist Vic Morrow walks out of a bar and steps out into 1930's Nazi Germany, and is identified as Jewish.  Except that he is in 2011, in the United States, is black, and his wife owes on a Federal student loan.  For this, a S.W.A.T team shows up, busts down his door, drags him out in his underwear, terrorizes his three children, and holds him in the back of a police cruiser for six hours.  In the end, they released him, as his estranged wife no longer even lives at the address.  Oh, and they "fixed" his door by screwing a piece of plywood over the hole.

Folks, this is scary stuff.  Yes his wife should pay off her loan. But to send a S.W.A.T. team at six in the morning!?  A bigger question is this - Is this going to be the norm for federal law enforcement?  I mean, where was the imminent threat to these officers that a paramilitary action was called for?  What kind of treatment would the wife have been subjected to had she been home?  Look at how Mr. Wright was treated, and he wasn't even the "target".

Who was it that issued the search warrant and called in S.W.A.T.?  The Department of Education.  Is this how the DOE is going to proceed in the future in collecting delinquent loans.

At the end of this video Mr. Wright tells  everybody to make sure they pay their bills or this could happen to them.  The tactic by the jackboots appears to have worked.

Maybe the feds ought to change the title of the department to the Department of Re-education.