Shocking footage out of Cedar Rapids Iowa shows cops and
government employee "strike teams" breaking into houses of flood victims and
threatening anyone who questions their actions in complete violation of the 4th
amendment right that protects against unlawful search and seizure.

No warrant, no knock home invasions are being carried out on
the flimsy pretext of "checking for structural damage" as cops harass and
threaten with arrest people who refuse to have their homes ransacked by thugs in
uniforms.

Cedar Rapids police chief Greg Graham promised
residents over the weekend that "Law enforcement officers are not entering
homes," and that firefighters would only enter homes through unlocked doors and
windows yet the video clearly shows locked houses being broken in to.

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Watch the clip.

People who attempt to gain access to their home before it has
been "cleared" by authorities are being apprehended, and those who attempt to drive around
police checkpoints that have been set up in the affected areas are arrested
at gunpoint.

"Each strike team consisted of six or seven people, including
police, firefighters, utilities workers, and city employees," reports the Iowa Gazette.

Angela Tague, a member of the STAR 1 search and rescue team
from Ames, ran into any angry homeowner on E Avenue NW.

"He was saying 'Where do you live?' and 'How would you like
it if someone busted your door open?," Tague said.

Police Officer Josh Bell later had a heated exchange with the
man, and told him that if he didn't go back inside his house and stop
harassing the strike team, he would be escorted out of the area.

The man was visibly agitated about his broken door and
pointed at Bell.

"It's wrong," the man said, over and over.

So people who are uncomfortable with jackbooted thugs breaking
down their door without even knocking and express their distaste for it are to
blame for "harassing the strike team"?

Respondents to the You Tube clip and the newspaper article
expressed their outrage at the behavior of those in the video tasked with
"helping" flood-stricken people yet doing nothing more than intimidating and
invading their homes.

"You break down the door of my private residence and when I
object you threaten to escort me off my own property. Fine example of police
work. Did anyone think to knock first? Thomas Jefferson said that the main
reason for citizens to be armed was to protect themselves from tyrannical
government. If this isn't tyranny then I don't know what is. A man's home is his
castle," states Steve Delaloye.

"A sad day for America when government thugs abuse the trust of
the citizenry like this," writes one.

"So these cops and fire fighters are part time structural
engineers, or what?? What are they inspecting for in the structures? Gas and
electric could be shut off at the source, and any spills are so diluted they
wont catch fire. The police chief said no police would enter any homes, and what
do you know, mr fat ass cop goes piling through the window thinking he's T.J
Hooker. Damn, this is just sad, sad , sad," adds another.

One Iowa resident expresses her anger that authorities will not
let her re-enter her home.

"I sit here with tears streaming down my face. I have been
trying to be patient and await to enter my home. Now today, I am told there will
be no re-entry's until further notice. I cannot express how ****ing mad I am. I
understand the houses can be unsafe. Just let me at least see my house, so that
I can assess if it hit my top floor. I have pictures and memories on my top
floor of my deceased mother, all I want to do is rescue those," she writes.

As we reported in 2005, Hurricane Katrina was exploited by the
federal government and used as a martial law drill while victims were abused and
treated like rats in a laboratory.

Door to door gun confiscations were ordered and cops ransacked
homes and took weapons from multi-million dollar homes which were in the high
and dry areas and completely unaffected by the hurricane. In some cases,
residents were kicked out of their own homes for no reason.

Outrageous footage showed cops seizing handguns from the home
of a grief-stricken old women as they assaulted and punched her in the face.

Where does the government think it derives the authority from
to break into people's homes whose lives have already been devastated by massive
floods on the flimsiest of pretexts?

The 4th amendment states, "The right of the people to be secure
in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and
seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable
cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place
to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

Even if there was a legitimate reason to inspect homes, why on
earth do they not even bother to knock on the door?

Cops immediately attempt to break in or climb through windows
uninvited because this procedure is all about sending a message - when a crisis
unfolds we are the bosses and you - the peasants - will yield to our
tyranny.

Lawsuits need to be filed immediately by people in Iowa and
elsewhere who have had cops invade their homes in complete violation of the 4th
amendment and a pretext needs to be set that will put a stop to the government's
routine exploitation of natural disasters as an opportunity to impose martial
law measures on needy victims that have already had their lives devastated.

With reports indicating that the Mississippi river is in danger of
bursting its banks, the precedent that was set with Hurricane Katrina could be
set to advance as government minions and jackbooted thugs across the country
lick their lips at the prospect of kicking down more doors and harassing
innocent people.

Contact the
Iowa ACLU and demand they pressure the authorities to stop these
illegal home invasions immediately.