[alyscat]

There are now 2 threads on this, and I posted this reply in another thread...

This was posted on another site:

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I just got off the phone with the Captain in charge of the SWAT team for Lorain, Ohio Sheriff's office. This incident happened several days ago and there was no, repeat **no** SWAT team present. There was no family terrorized at gunpoint for hours.

There were four regular road deputies accompanying a representative of the Ohio Department of Agriculture in the execution fo a search warrant. Having law enforcement personnel present is routine and the warrant was executed without incident.

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So, there may well be more than meets the eye, we'll have to see as the story unfolds. The co-op may have been actually selling without a license, or selling food as organic that wasn't, or any number of things. Who knows? For the judge to issue the warrant, there had to be probable cause of something.

Now, I'm the first to tell you that our government is not blameless in many ways, but it would not surprise me to find that there was more to this story than meets the eye. If the government was doing a crackdown on food co-ops in general, we would have heard of more than one "raid" that day - that's the way they operate.

alys