I do not believe the following rumor, but I think Dallas residents should check into it, just in case.
An email came to me today saying that an unnamed Dallas Sam's Club was raided by the FBI. The FBI was looking for names and addresses of hoarders.
If the FBI did this, then the Special Agent in Charge of the Dallas office ought to be transferred to whatever city the Bureau now designates as the disciplinary city. (In the 1950's, it was Butte, Montana, until agents discovered that the place is really nice, though chilly in the winter.)
Why would the FBI be called in? What federal law was violated? What would the FBI do with the information? Send in a SWAT team to confiscate 1,000 pounds of pinto beans? Janet Reno would go into orbit. She does not need another round of Texas civil rights infringements.
I can see the headlines: "Waco II -- Raiding the Bean Hoarders!"
"Dallas (Reuters) -- An FBI SWAT team successfully gained entrance into a local Mormon church in Plano, Texas yesterday. Three tons of pinto beans and rice were recovered, along with 157 gallons of liquid soap. 'There was only minor resistance,' said FBI agent Burris T. Warmbuckle. 'These people may talk tough, but when they saw 37 men in black hoods, the fight went out of them.'"
Mormons have always been prominent in the ranks of the FBI. If word gets to Senator Hatch and Senator Bennett that the U.S. Attorney General's office is compiling lists of Mormons, or anyone else, for following the dictates of the church on food storage, there will be a lady's head on a political pike.
So, as I say, I don't believe this rumor. But if it's true, it's time for Miss Reno to move back to Florida. So, if you live in Dallas, you might check it out. If you know an LDS member in the Dallas FBI, ask him to check into this. If the story is true and verifiable, then it's time to give the ACLU something useful to do -- and the American Farm Bureau, too.
If you find evidence that it's true, send me the name and address of the store, a phone number, and a contact person. Mail this to my manager, Debbie Grigg, at icetyler@juno.com. |