Reason Writers on Freedom Watch: Matt Welch Talks Dept. of Education Police Raids

On Wednesday, June 8, Reason Editor in Chief Matt Welch went on Judge Andrew Napolitano's Freedom Watch program to talk about the Department of Education's police raid in Stockton, California. Approximately 3 minutes:

Reason's most recent coverage of the incident is here.

Comments

[TPTB]

"It is very dangerous, this potential police state."

Oh, it's not so scary when you hear our side of the story.

[Federal Dog]

Potential??

[Mango Punch]

Matt Welch worked on his wardrobe!

[Boss Tweed]

Buy one get one free sale at Mens' Wearhouse, now till Father's Day.

[Elbib]

Not a police state until MSM says so.

[Tim]

"'The real power, the power we have to fight for night and day, is not power over things, but over men.' He paused, and for a moment assumed again his air of a schoolmaster questioning a promising pupil: 'How does one man assert his power over another, Winston?'

Winston thought. 'By making him suffer,' he said.

'Exactly. By making him suffer. Obedience is not enough. Unless he is suffering, how can you be sure that he is obeying your will and not his own? Power is in inflicting pain and humiliation. Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing. Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the old reformers imagined. A world of fear and treachery is torment, a world of trampling and being trampled upon, a world which will grow not less but more merciless as it refines itself. Progress in our world will be progress towards more pain."

http://www.george-orwell.org/1984/19.html

[Brandybuck]

Didn't the judge get on board the anti-Koch smearbund? So why is he interviewing Welch? Isn't he afraid the statism might rub off?

[IceTrey]

The raid was for fraud not defaulted loans.

[I, Kahn O'Clast]

And so what? Since when does fraud charges require SWAT tactics and raids? I was under the impression that the SWAT raids were justified because the targets were considered violently dangerous: e.g. a gang of drug pushers or human traffickers in a basement surrounded by automatic weapons.

And let us not forget they ultimately had the wrong home and brutalized innocent people. For FRAUD?

[bill]

matt welsch.....

[GILMORE]

Dear god, Matt, a normal suit. It must be June.

Only quibble is the shinyness on the lapels. Whats the deal? Don't tell me it was a backup tuxedo jacket again. And I guess, yes, it did rain yesterday. Rain provides excuses for things.

[GILMORE]

p.s. 2:40-2:56 goes kinda bonkers on the video playback. maybe its just me.