Lake County (IL) Metro Enforcement Group Employees Fail

September 23, 2012January 6, 2014 Pete Eyre 666 Views cop block, copblock.org, darryl perry, drug prohibition, Illinois, lake county metropolitan enforcement group, lindy vopnfjord, lucy steigerwald, Paul Brown, Pete Eyre, police raid, search warrant, Self-ownership, video

On Friday, September 14th, 2012, some individuals employed at the Lake County Metropolitan Enforcement Group raided a house owned by Paul Brown.

This is yet another iteration of actions taken based on a bad idea – arbitrary external authority. What rationale did those with badges give for the actions? That in the dwelling may be a plant that some who claim authority have deemed illicit. Yet, it is the individuals themselves who kicked in a door, pointed a gun at a stranger who hadn’t harmed them, and engaged in numerous other transgressions of rights.

Only by focusing on that fact – that each individual is responsible for their actions – will these raids stop.

Rather than unthinkingly giving the real aggressors a free pass by chalking-up their actions to the place where they work, hold them accountable. Name names. Reputation is key. In this case, don’t mitigate personal culpability by calling those who invaded the Brown home the “Metropolitan Enforcement Group”, instead, list the names of those involved.

Instead of reciting the text those criminals claimed enabled them to raid the house and hold the family at gunpoint (i.e. drug prohibition, search warrants, etc.) recognize that they’re merely pointing to scribbles on paper signed by strangers who have no more right than you or I to dictate to another what substances they can or cannot put into their body. Don’t reinforce the claimed double standards, erode them. Stop granting them any more clout or authority. One mind at a time, it’ll cease.

Lake County Metropolitan Enforcement Group website, or call: (847) 680-8720
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No Knock Raid by Lindy Vopnfjord
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Pete Eyre

Pete Eyre is co-founder of CopBlock.org. As an advocate of peaceful, consensual interactions, he seeks to inject a message of complete liberty and self-government into the conversation of police accountability. Eyre went to undergrad and grad school for law enforcement, then spent time in DC as an intern at the Cato Institute, a Koch Fellow at the Drug Policy Alliance, Directer of Campus Outreach at the Institute for Humane Studies, Crasher-in-Chief at Bureaucrash, and as a contractor for the Future of Freedom Foundation. In 2009 he left the belly of the beast and hit the road with Motorhome Diaries and later co-founded Liberty On Tour. He spent time in New Hampshire home, and was involved with Free Keene, the Free State Project and The Daily Decrypt.