Utah town's anger mounts over artifact arrests

I know its not just me when I notice how horrible Law Enforcement is these days. I question with every report, on a daily basis, whatever happened to the cops that used some judgement? What happened to the warning? What happened to the lecture and the slap on the wrist? What happened to the ride home and the humiliation of what could happen if you ever did it again?
Now days, cops are out tazering children. Cops are treating everyone guilty before reading them their rights. Cops have the right of way over an occupied ambulance? What ever happened to extenuating circumstances?

What the hell happened to our country?

Mr. Obama, this agency, under your watch, under your command, kind of overkilled this operation. Was Janet Reno advising you?

It's never a problem when it's "the other guy". Welcome to the crimnal justice system. Seems to be a problem now though???

The grave robbers should be punished. Time to pay the piper.

The good Dr. must have been plenty guilty to off himself.

Killed himself because he was guilty and humiliated, and was a thief, a grave robber at that, defines being a low life swine, how do you say it... oh yes, you reap what you sow. (another supposed good Christian, yea right)

Reminds me of Ruby Ridge. How soon they forget their past mistakes.

Looters rarely receive the maximum penalties under the law. If the good doctor had availed himself of an attorney and had any basic common sense he would have realized that, not to mention his apparently extensive contacts within the illegal artifact market.
Blaming the charges for his suicide is ridiculous.

And the remaining townspeople whining over the charges need to get over themselves. They knowingly, blatantly, and repeatedly broke the law.

I have to wonder how they would like it if a bunch of strangers started tearing up the local cemetery to find items to tear off of bodies and out of coffins to sell.

gbsparks wrote:

So, it's okay to plunder Native American burial sites, now?
The fact of the matter is that the "good" doctor had an 8,000 sq ft house filled with plundered artifacts.
Despite his local reputation he was also a thief and obviously he knew it.

Do you have evidence his artifacts were in fact plundered from public lands or are you just using "faith" to come to that conclusion?

.... and some folks think the South is the inbreeding capitol of the USA. Guess, you never been to rural Utah. Hell, you can still marry your sister there - it is God's will!

These are adults, who broke the law. A bunch of rednecks are pissed because someone has shut down their illegal operations? Good for the feds.

Monkeyspunk wrote:

Change we can believe in? Good job Osama, your Nazi storm troopers are just as vigilant as Bush's. STRENGTH THROUGH UNITY, UNITY THROUGH FAITH

Moron! Like Obama personally directed this? Do you really believe that? When your prostate explodes, it his fault too? Loser!

Law enforcement did their jobs. Not their fault that part of the county has a bunch of wackos with gun stashes and other considerations they have to make when arresting people. And being humiliated when arrested...being arrested IS humiliating. That is why you don't do the crime. It sucks when you are publicly outed. Law enforcement doesn't have to make considerations to your reputation when arresting you. If they send only two guys over with no support they can get killed. When you are connected to smugglers the cops have to assume there is a lot of danger involved. A smuggling ring often has a lot of firepower. If you don't want to be arrested in that way don't work with smugglers!

Monkeyspunk wrote:

Change we can believe in? Good job Osama, your Nazi storm troopers are just as vigilant as Bush's. STRENGTH THROUGH UNITY, UNITY THROUGH FAITH

You are one stupid mofo, probably a thief too.

Welcome to Obamareica, illeagal aliens and terrorists get tea and crumpets, Mormons get the SS, great. "he might have been dangerous" so instead of calling first they busted down the door, so there precious pc prosecution wouldn't be hurt, I'm sure they all got Iron Crosses.

I don't think the BLM did anything wrong here. Any cop going to make an arrest on someone who owns guns needs to take precautions. Sounds like these people are embarrassed about being caught. Typical conservative lawlessness!

That lady in the black top and white bottom...did she lose the bottom of her outfit ?

Could they not have picked these people up in town or at their regular jobs if they worked ? The doctor did not sound like some one they had to arrest the way it was hanndled. I understand that anytime the police have to do this sort of arrest there is danger, but no where in the article did it state that any of the arrested people were violent, dangerous criminals. Maybe the feds could have worked with the local law enforcement and this could have been handled a lot better than it was, with a lot less bad publicity that the police do not need. These people broke are presumed to have broken the law, if found guilty they need to pay for their crimes, but to have their doors kicked down in the middle of the night and dragged from their homes is way over the top. The feds need to use a little common sense with the type of crime and people they are dealing with.

This is roughly the same as sending a SWAT team after someone digging through a contemporary landfill. After all, these "artifacts" were just tossed around by the "Native Americans" who owned them. If they didn't care, why should we?

The government goes after these people but all the thieves on wall street go about their merry way robbing all the investors. Something wrong with this. The government is corrupt. The politicians are thieves and no investigations,

Not An Anthropologist wrote:

This is roughly the same as sending a SWAT team after someone digging through a contemporary landfill. After all, these "artifacts" were just tossed around by the "Native Americans" who owned them. If they didn't care, why should we?

Allright then, where are your granparents buried? Since you just tossed what ever you buried with them, you should have no issue with me digging them up and taking anyhting I want.