My Country She Wants to Get Rid of Me...*

This story should be plastered on EVERY single mainstream news station across the United States. This is our (thankfully bloodless) harbinger of the next Kent State. You think that's extreme, keep reading. This has the potential to cripple the next generation, the first wave of the police state setting precedent for another wave of in-debt college grads.

"A father was dragged from his home and handcuffed in front of his children by a SWAT team looking for his estranged wife - to collect her unpaid student loans.

From the Dailymail, link at end of post."

What if it was you, and you unknowingly went to meet the violent noise with a shotgun?

The story gets so much worse the deeper you read, I promise this is just the start. I'm going to build a list, highlighting the biggest B.S. but lets take one thing at a time. Here are the first two pieces of information that are causing my blood to boil with outrage.

1. A SWAT team drug an Innocent father in handcuffs in front of his children.
2. A SWAT team was dispatched to arrest a woman for unpaid student loans.

That's just the start. We find out it wasn't local cops. In fact, it was the federal government who issued the warrant and sent the SWAT team. That paragraph is quoted from the Dailymail article below. But first:

"He says he was then detained for six hours while officers looked for his wife - who no longer lives at the house...."

Now the part about the federal government, and I'll add to my list. 

"Mr Wright was later told by Stockton police that the order to send in the SWAT team came from The U.S. Department of Education who were looking for his estranged wife to collect defaulted loan payments.
Speaking to ABC News 10, a visibly shaken Mr Wright described what happened when he was woken by a banging on his front door[....]

[....]
The Department for Education refused to comment on the incident, saying they would not do so until the case was closed. They did however confirm that their Office of the Inspector General had issued the search warrant.

The office has its own branch of federal agents that carry out search warrants and investigations 
From the Dailymail, link at end of post."

1. A SWAT team drug an Innocent father in handcuffs in front of his children. 
2. A SWAT team was dispatched to arrest a woman for unpaid student loans.  
3. The DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION issued the SEARCH warrant (for a 6am door kicking).
4. The Department of Education has its OWN branch of Federal AGENTS that carry out such warrants. 
5. These Federal Agents are hunting down student loan offenders (surely there are better targets for SWAT teams?)
   

 NO. Those of us who still want to keep the dying ideals of liberty alive must publicize this atrocity. This is the first repercussion on the young, and it will only get worse with each passing generation. You want your daughter pursed by SWAT teams with SEARCH warrants sent by the Fed? You want your door kicked in because your old roommate didn't pay his loans back? You want your off the grid life to be brutally interrupted because YOU are latent on loans?

YOU CAN"T FILE FOR BANKRUPTCY WITH COLLEGE LOANS.

(Unless you can show that your education loan payment is an "undue hardship" on you, your family, and your dependents, your student loans are ineligible for cancellation (discharge) in bankruptcy.

However It is difficult to prove "undue hardship" unless you are physically unable to work and there is no chance of your making money. To discharge your student loans under this special case, you must file a separate motion with the bankruptcy court and present your situation before a judge.)

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Thankfully I have silver....
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2001010/SWAT-team-launch-dawn-raid-family-home-collect-womans-unpaid-student-loans.html?ito=feeds-newsxml 

*Title from Nas' "My Country" from that great album Stillmatic.