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The Column Letter
Volume I, Issue 1
Information on an ATF Siege in Parma, Ohio
WITH EXPLICIT RESERVATION OF ALL RIGHTS (U.C.C. 1-207)
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Here's another message I grabbed off PatriotNet from my system. This is
another ATF siege -- but this time, the end result is wildly different from
the normal outcome of an ATF siege. What do you think would happen if the
militia hadn't shown up?
Last night at 11:00 PM the big story in Cleveland, Ohio was the siege at a
house in Parma (about 10 miles Southwest of Cleveland). At that time all
that was known was that ATF attempted to serve a search warrant on a 23
year old man who lived with his parents. When the agents tried to serve
the warrant the man slammed the door on their face. The BATF only had one
choice, call in the SWAT teams.
The TV crews in the field had to broadcast in the dark because the ATF and
Parma SWAT teams turned off power and ordered them to kill the lights in
the area. The local talking heads speculated that the young man was
holding his parents hostage, had a stockpile of illegal automatic weapons
and had threatened BATF agents with weapons.
One local talking head, Ted Henry of ABC affiliate WEWS Channel 5, went as
far as saying "well he must have quite a stockpile of weapons for the ATF
to serve a search warrant."
The siege lasted all night. Over 60 officers from the BATF, Parma and
local communities spent the night with their weapons trained on the house.
They tried bullhorns, inserting a hostage negotiation phone, inserting
optics, and all the other common tactics one would expect. They never made
contact with the young man.
This morning at around 6:30 AM, a BATF dynamic entry team (if you've seen
the pictures of the teams at Waco you know what these guys look like) went
into the house backed up by the Parma SWAT team. The team did not have to
break down the door because they were able to get the keys from the young
man's parents (OOPs, I guess they really were not hostages afterall).
After the BATF team secured the house they realized that no one was home
(OOPs, I guess their was not really a standoff afterall). One of the local
talking heads guessed that this 23 year old desperado walked out a back
door that was blocked from view by a wooden privacy fence. The talking
head did not venture a guess as to why the team of four agents (I am
assuming that there were four and not just two because of statements made
this morning by the BATF.) who originally went to the house did not secure
the back door when they felt it necessary to call in the guys in black body
armor.
They BATF searched the house today but would not comment on what they
found. The talking heads did mention that they did not see the BATF emerge
carrying anything from the house (OOPs, maybe there was not a stockpile of
illegal automatic weapons afterall). No one knows if the young man is
considered a fugitive because the BATF is not issuing anymore comments.
One final note, after the house was secured but before the search a BATF
spokesman explained a couple of interesting points. First they were not
serving an arrest warrant, only a search warrant so the press should not
expect any arrests. Second, the first two agents who approached the house
and had the door slammed in their face did not have the warrant with them;
the other two agents were somewhere else with the warrant (I assume,
perhaps wrongly, that these agents were at the scene but who knows.).
Third, the spokesman said that the agents were suprised the by mans
reaction because this was just a routine search. (yea, a routine search of
someones home, without a warrant, effected at 6:00pm on a Friday night so
that if they find something they can keep the guy in lockup all weekend
before you have to take him before a magistrate).
--
"They're not heavily armed jackbooted thugs... they're heavily armed
jackbooted clowns."
"They should issue these guys clown noses, rainbow wigs and big red
floppy shoes."
--- a friend commenting on the BATF