We had a raid on one of our strip clubs by "Federal Agents" (FBI) last week looking for money violations, here is my letter to the Las Vegas Review Journal that they published today....
[b]Stormtroopers wearing black and numbering above 20 burst into a place of buisness and aim their automatic weapons at everyone inside, yelling, "Hands up!" You might think this was Germany in the late 1930's, but it's not. It's Las Vegas in the year 2003. What right do federal "agents" have raiding a strip club looking for campaign contribution information? The show they put on is disturbing. The same job could have been performed by maybe two or three agents just going to the door and showing a warrant.
>I'm sure most people don't care, it was just a strip club and all the dancers and patrons aren't soccer moms and dads. Well, if this had happened at Starbucks in Summerlin the people would be outraged. I for one, am. This is America, not Nazi Germany. This is becoming more and more common. People are not surprised to see a front page news story reporting on 20 FBI "agents" storming a building. This is not what the Founding Fathers had in mind when they created the federal government.
I have an idea for the FBI stormtroopers: Go guard the southern border of this country and leave small businesses alone.
Bob Mayo
North Las Vegas[/b]
Here's the link to the story:
[url]http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2003/May-15-Thu-2003/news/21328364.html[/url]