Man Raided By FBI, ATF, Canadian LEOs After Handing Out 'Subversive' Materials

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Man Raided By FBI, ATF, Canadian Law Enforcement After Handing Out 'Subversive' Alex Jones Material
Gun seller questioned on militia, ownership of George Washington speeches

Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones/Prison Planet.com | July 6 2006

A Dillon Montana man had his home raided by 40 FBI, BATF and Canadian law enforcement agents after handing out Alex Jones' material to his local Sheriff which was subsequently deemed 'subversive'.

Richard Salada sells 80% completed firearms kits intended for purchasers who want to avoid having to register their weapons in government databases. The kits are completely legal in Montana.

Salada was politically active in disseminating the material of Alex Jones and others in his area, including handing out material to his local Sheriff.

"On Monday morning the Sheriff called me and said, I've read all your stuff, I would like to speak to you on Wednesday, could you come in," Salada told GCN radio host Jack Blood.

Salada said he thought the scheduled meeting on Wednesday was strange because there was an election on the Tuesday and the Sheriff wouldn't have known whether he'd still be in office or not.

"Wednesday morning I get a phone call saying 'I lost the election and it's even more important that we have our meeting than it was before'."

Salada collected material he had previously handed out to the Sheriff and traveled to his office.

"I walk into the room and there's way too many people in the Sheriff's office," said Salada.

Salada said he knew he was in trouble as he was introduced to BATF and FBI agents and handed a search warrant and a promise that his premises were going to be raided.

"I read the search warrant and low and behold there's no signed affidavit," said Salada.

Salada told the Sheriff that the search warrant was therefore void to which the FBI and BATF responded that the affidavit was secret and sealed by the court.

"Now they can make up the affidavit to match what they found if they want to," said Salada as he was told that the agents would carry out the search anyway.

Salada was then escorted by an estimated 40 FBI, ATF and Canadian law enforcement agents to his property. Salada asked if he could call his wife so as to enable her and their two small children to leave the property before the SWAT team arrived but was refused on the grounds that he was giving her a secret code to destroy evidence. However, the Sheriff allowed the call to be made and the family was able to leave. At no point was Salada shown any identification by any of the agents.

The cadre of agents, which now included Canadian AFT agents, then began the process of methodically cataloguing and seizing Salada's possessions - bizarrely urinating on the exterior of the property ignoring the two bathrooms located inside the building.

Salada was told, without being shown any supporting evidence, that five of the pistols he had sold were used to commit murders in Canada.

"I said look, guns don't kill people - people kill people," said Salada.

Following the raid Salada was questioned on his ownership of a Citizen's Rulebook, speeches by George Washington and Alex Jones' books and videos. He was asked why he read and listened to them and if he believed them.

The agents asked Salada if he was in a militia or if he knew anyone that was. Salada had previously sent out material asking why Montana didn't have a state organized militia when it was required by law.

The agents then specifically asked Salada about specific individuals in the freedom movement, including JPFO's Aaron Zelman, author Devvy Kidd and constitutional attorney Edward Vieira. The only way the agents could have known about Salada's interest in the work of Kidd and Vieira was if they had gained access to his e mail.

After this three hour interrogation the agents took Salada's entire inventory of 80% finished frames, copied his computer hard drive (causing the computer to break down), and left.

Tune in to the Alex Jones show today for more details on the raid. The audio MP3 of the interview will be posted here later.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/july2006/060706manraided.htm

I know this is on prisonplanet.com but does anybody know anything about this or if it is true?
 
Secret codes, bizarrely urinating government agents, speeches by George Washington, state militia - all this story is missing is an alien abduction and subsequent probing. Who is Alex Jones? Is Jack Blood a real person?
 
Alex Jones is out there, but I talked to Rick Celata and he told me that the raid went down as reported.
 
wow...I always wonder if we're missing any information but if this is accurate then I'm just disgusted. can someone remind me what country Montana is located in? :(
 
Ever since the whole unabomber thing montana has ZERO tolerance for anyhting even remotely resembling subservise/illigal/militia activity. I have an old army buddy that lives int he mountains and he said he sees feds around all the time snooping.

SW
 
Canadian authorities there?

The borders of our sovereign nation had Canadian authorities there. They didn't take the ruger .22's just the kits to make guns. They the FBI, wanted to know more about the cds and documentary's on the Nazi death camps etc, than the guns. Wanted to know more about the truth seekers and would not show ID. The North American union is here. No borders, police from other countries come here now. Alex and Jack and other like minded people have telling you for years now about this, finally people are waking up out of their TV slumber, and realizing that the U.N. is moving to dry up the arms world wide. They are trying to label the radio guys as subversive, a possible terrorist to try to shut up the rest of us, not. Alex has been very accurate on this for years. His batting average is very high, because he has researched this, found out who's behind pulling our strings and are exposing them. They are pulling the same as Hitlers men did not so long ago to quiet the truth and disarm the enemy. The middle class American, if we don't do something, will go the way of the American Indian.
 
I guess he found out about some giant goverment consiracy with the Flying Spaghetti Monster of omicron persi 7:eek: ! Hearing things like this makes me want to make a tin foil hat or something.:barf:
 
Some more links....

http://www.jpfo.org/alert20060608.htm

JPFO and Gun Owners of America (www.gunowners.org) are working to establish legal defense for KT Ordnance, and will keep you posted on our progress. In the meantime, please spread the word far and wide about this outrageous, indefensible action by the BATFE. Ask questions and _demand answers_ from those in power who claim they are "friends" of gun owners.

http://triggerfinger.org/weblog/entry/7073.jsp

http://www.clairewolfe.com/wolfesblog/00002067.html

The issue is not about tin foil hats nor black helicopters. The issue is about the power and authority of the BATF. These guys want to make up the law as they go, damn ethics and the Constitution. We will change the rules till we can convict you or drive you to the poorhouse and out of business. Congress has had to rewrite legislation several times to reign some of these mavericks in. Some of the folks at the BATF have blantantly disregarded the law and Congress's intent. Its time Congress took the F out of BATF as they have proved irresponsible and not worried about the rights of citizens. I suppose thats just a symptom of the times, with our Fourth Amendment rights being trashed and nobody seems to care.
 
The conduct of the atf and fbi is so typical,disgusting.I see it appears that foreign leo's are now in the mix.What next,un troops?:mad:
 
"bizarrely urinating on the exterior of the property ignoring the two bathrooms located inside the building."

Uh, I thought this was SOP because it's hard to gather forensic evidence after the cops use the bathrooms. Don't ask me, maybe they wanted to test the water in the bowl to see if any explosives had been flushed recently. The lab techs gotta do what they do I suppose.

John
 
Well at least they didn't bust down his door, german machine guns ablaze, stomp his cat and kick his pregnant wife.

They seemed to take steps to avoid violence during the search. Maybe they did learn something from Ruby Ridge or Waco . . . .
 
Wow, this story is so far fetched. One: 40 feds conducting a search for subversive mat'l. With Canadians conducting evidence recovery, yeah ok.Two: Affidavits are not required to be handed out. They are often sealed to protect source identities until trial.The defense will get an opportunity to review the affidavit during discovery. But at the search site, expect only the warrant. Three: secret codes and other 007 stuff. Nuff said.
This warrant probably was executed, but, I imagine, in a much different manner than described in this 1/2 wit article.
Don the tin hats......
 
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