Illegal Search And Destroy Operations

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     Our Founders intended our Constitution's Fourth Amendment to guarantee citizens the right "to be secure in their persons, papers, houses, and effects," protecting US citizens from the much hated general searches conducted by the King's police force in the American colonies, the British Army, who intruded into homes at will, and rummaged through people's lives, papers, and property, abusing the rights any individual, family, church, business, or group which those British soldiers deemed undesirable. 

     The Declaration of Independence documented these violations of individual rights which helped spark the American Revolution:  
 

          "He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

           He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

           For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

           For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of                  

           these states."

     These same kinds of "intelligence operations," general searches which rummage through the lives and relationships of targeted groups and individuals, are run today by US police powers operations (who have replaced the English King’s Army as our police forces) which have and do wildly overstep the Fourth Amendment guaranteed boundaries and engage in scofflaw conduct. Targets of these abuses vary over time, but have and do include Blacks, conservative religious groups, anti-war activists, sexual orientation (ironic given FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover was gay while that was still criminalized), as well as ordinary family bookstores, independent grocery stores, businesses large and small, some of which are run by people with political views certain police powers deem to be undesirable, and are conducted among members of communities they prefer to suppress.
 

     Police powers targeting of reasonably suspected criminal conduct is permitted, of course. But our Constitution (in the First and Fourth Amendments, among other provisions) specifically prohibits police powers operations which target people based upon their views, opinions, speech, or religious beliefs

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     Police powers targeting of people based upon their views, speech, religion, and other legal activities is illegal. Targeting of people or groups for these purposes is itself criminal conduct (18 U.S.C. §§ 241, 242). But DOJ has never prosecuted these types of institutional crimes. Rather, as described above, it actually has and does conduct them through its police powers operations such as FBI. So, these illegal practices have continued, as documented  in the federal court complaint downloads at https://banbrainhacks.org/courts-reject-federal-law and other sources, such as the Senate’s Church Committee investigation of FBI and CIA at https://www.senate.gov/about/powers-procedures/investigations/church-committee.htm

     Unconstitutional and illegal government police powers which violate the rights of private citizens, groups, and private businesses who are acting within their legal rights – whether they are politically left, right, center, or totally non-political - continue today. This endangers every single American, your family, your business, your religious group, your personal pattern of lawful conduct within rights. This illegal targeting can occur simply because you are unliked, unpopular, or become a person of interest to a police powers or “intelligence” official or informant - because you’re unusual, or too beautiful, or too poor, or too successful, or a visionary, or a leader with opinions they don't like, or come from a family they’ve already abused and harassed, or ….. well, they just want some excuse to target you. The practical effects on American families and businesses are outlined at https://banbrainhacks.org/punitive-police-powers including the shocking statistical and practical conclusion about American policing today.