More than 10,700 snared in fugitive roundup

[Newsjock]

http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation/121759,fugitive110206.article

WASHINGTON---- Nearly 11,000 fugitives, including sex offenders, gang members and others wanted on a variety of charges from kidnapping to weapons offenses, were swept up last week in a 24-state operation, the Justice Department was to announce Thursday.
Among the fugitives caught were 1,659 sex offenders -- including 971 who failed to register with authorities as required by law -- in what the government called the largest number ever captured in a single law enforcement effort.

The sweep, led by the U.S. Marshals Service, ''has made our nation's neighborhoods and children safer by taking off the streets some of the worst sex offenders, violent felons and gang members,'' Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said in a prepared statement.

[williesgirl]

1. Thank God for elections or this would never have happened.

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[bemildred]

3. The timing is a mere coincidence.

:-):-)

[tridim]

6. The timing is criminal in itself.. Why did Gonzo leave these criminals

on the street for so long? For political gain?

[bemildred]

8. LOL. Yes.

And there are thousands more out there, no doubt, lurking and waiting ...

[Ian David]

2. They lured them all to one location... a "GOP Support Our President" Rally

Some people say.

[waiting for hope]

5. LOL.....with promises

of trips to exotic locations and plasma screen TV's!

[Ian David]

4. "...taking off the streets some of the worst sex offenders.... violent felons...

"... the rest of them are expected to vote for Republican candidates on Tuesday, or to return to Washington to serve their constituents," Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said in a prepared statement.

[olddad56]

7. In a couple of years, they will be rounding up 11,000 political fugitives

and holding them without charging them with any crime.

[MrPrax]

13. Maybe they did?

11,000 is a lot of people...wouldn't take much to load the list with political 'operatives' by mistake -- seize their computers, personal effects, blackberrys (have a look) and keep it until after the election -- then drop the charges with the usual...'our mistake, Sir' crap.

Any large federal police action so close to an election is suspicious and dangerous -- regardless of the alleged motives.

[razors edge]

16. Or just plant the evidence on the computers.

Then they don't have to let them go or face charges of false imprisonment.

[MrPrax]

28. Oh! That's Good...

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[Poll_Blind]

30. .

1.:spray:
2.:rofl:
3.:o
4.:think:
5.:scared:

PB

[razors edge]

32. Sounds like Diebold's motto,

"We Guaranty Results."

Always open to opportunity, just send your totalitarian requests in a self addressed stamped envelope.

;-)

[endarkenment]

9. We are in for a weekend of wild bullshit.

Nonstop 24/7 GOP bullshit paid for with your tax dollars. It is so much fun. Meanwhile, get on the phone and get out the vote.

[Nordmadr]

10. This has been a test of the emergency American round-up system.

If this were a real emergency you would already be in custody.

Don't you normally arrest criminals immediately when you are able, and not wait until you can do 11,000 at once?


On edit: It seems to me there are only a couple reasons to do it this way.

1) Practice
2) Publicity

You would do it this way if it was a big sting in which this was a great network of criminals involved in some grand operation together. Drug cartel for example. mob bust. You know, organized crime types of things. Like speaking out against the president.

Olafr

[crikkett]

15. .

:scared:

[olddad56]

18. Of course it is a test, then don't have the ovens built yet.

[Zodiak]

19. Your post seems to have the mose sense in it.

Either through publicity or through practice, Gonzo is measuring his dick with this.

From the data below (arresting people already in jail), it looks more like a publicity stunt than an actual practice round-up of large groups of people. As is typical, the pukes are padding their numbers.

[Nordmadr]

23. Just noticed that Emergency American Round-up System

forms EARS. I'll bet they could even come up with a great little slogan for it. Feed it to Hitler youth.

"Report dissidents and keep EARS open".

Are we there yet?

Olafr

[Nordmadr]

24. Now don't gt me wrong. I'm all for arresting dangerous criminals.

This just seems eery to me given recent events, and FAR too much like political propoganda.

Olafr

[olddad56]

29. How about the really dangerous crinimals,

Liek the ones in the White House. I'd like to see those scary fuckers rounded up.

[itsmesgd]

33. practice makes fascist

check out the following terms on "the google" in the internets.

rex-84
operation cable splicer
garden plot

Sure, they're getting ready for illegal immigrants, or was it for a natural disaster? They cant keep their background straight. Just say it already. This is for the enemies of King's Dick and George.

[acmejack]

11. Bullshit at it's finest!

Presented by Alberto "the Enabler" Gonzales

[struggle4progress]

12. The numbers don't add up: they arrest 11000 dangerous fugitives and net 200 guns?

From hundreds of gangbangers and thousands of "others sought on kidnapping, robbery, burglary, carjacking and weapons charges"?

The number of arrests is about one per minute over the week. If you imagine pairs of officers sweeping out to do this, and figure that an arrest takes a pair two hours (grab the guy, take him in, do the other routines), there's no way to do the arrests in that period with less than about a thousand officers.

But the story says "Hundreds of state and local law enforcement authorities" and then adds that the "totals represent a fraction of doors knocked on, liquor store drive-bys, construction site surveillances and tips chased down by agents during the weeklong sweep."

The true story will be much less exciting if it evder comes out.

[struggle4progress]

14. "Some .. arrested in Michigan were already in custody on other charges"

Were they mainly clearing warrants by arresting people already in jail?

<edit: link>
Close to 500 fugitives arrested in Michigan as part of a federal sweep
Paul Egan / The Detroit News
www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061102/UPDATE/611020443

[struggle4progress]

17. Gonzales press statement mentions Foley's "Adam Walsh Act" -- is this just damage control?

[EC]

20. They did this before, remember?

Operation Falcon.... 14-4-2005 at 10:23 AM

NEWS: Operation Falcon Captures 10,000 Fugitives During Week Long Dragnet.

Operation Falcon, a nation wide, week long dragnet in the United States has apprehended 10,340 fugitives. The dragnet captured 162 accused or convicted of murder, 638 wanted for armed robbery, 553 wanted for rape or sexual assault, 154 gang members and 106 unregistered sex offenders.

http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread134282/pg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Falcon_(Federal_Dragnet)

http://www.usdoj.gov/marshals/falcon/facts.html


What became of most of them I do not know...

[Cronus Protagonist]

21. Did they arrest everyone at the GOP convention that year?

That would have been sure to net a lot of fugitives, fer sure.

:evilgrin:

[Carni]

22. what a shame all those republicans willl miss voting on Tuesday!

One more blow to the GOP base! lol

[Infinite Hope]

25. On their way to Gitmo...

Now we know why Bush Co. passed wanted that law. This is the equivalent of the first roundup of the "Jews" (1930's Germany comparison). The it'll escalate. And as we all know, if it gets out of hand, it can easily be used to political opponents.

[jasmeel]

26. Is this what those big prisons were being built for? n/t

[Straight Shooter]

27. They mention, first, sex offenders, then gang members. But look at the numbers:

"The dragnet captured 162 accused or convicted of murder, 638 wanted for armed robbery, 553 wanted for rape or sexual assault, 154 gang members and 106 unregistered sex offenders."

106 sex offenders, out of 11,000 fugitives.
154 gang members, out of 11,000 fugitives.

What a crock. I wonder how many unpaid parking tickets and hot check writers were rounded up, or maybe minor infractions for possession of pot, et cetera.

[Ian David]

31. How many people became victims because Bush wanted to wait...

until the week before elections to round all these people up?

What about this woman?

Murder Victim Had Obtained Protection Order

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2554116