The War On Drugs Is A War On You! The Sandy Smith SWAT Raid [c7G8UBXP7oA]

00:01 You see that? This is a citizen's rule book. Everybody should have one and we're about to read Article 4, you see that? Article four right here I'm not trying to talk down to you folks but you should know your rights most of you don't Sandy Smith unfortunately didn't The right the people to be secure in their persons houses papers and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated Fourth Amendment Your Bill of Rights. And no warrant shall be issued but upon probable cause supported by oath or affirmation in particularly describing the place to be searched and the persons are things to be seized." Now that's your bill of rights from your Constitution Let's get a close shot at that for people, right here... now the story we're about to get too is the disgusting case of Sandy Smith who lives out in Spicewood Springs Texas

01:00 Known to be famous because of Willie Nelson living out there. She lived there for 30 years Her husband died a few years ago She's a widower and there hadn't any problems until about A year ago when complaints started getting filed on her by the local homeowners association according to Mrs.. Smith 13 times The health department from Austin was called out there complaining about her septic tank. There's no one even around her! They checked it, the septic tank was kosher in perfectly working order she was left alone then suddenly the homeowner association was telling her she was using too much water and she said well wait I barely use any water what is this? I pay for my water there not a water shortage there million-dollar homes being built all around me you guys have got swimming pools then she tried to call him out to drill a well on our land She was tired of harassment

01:57 The guy who wanted to drill the well said, I'm sorry. I might get involved in this after he'd agreed to drill it She's a really nice old lady What was the problem? Then a couple days later...a couple weeks ago they were raided First by a black helicopter military we've called around our sources and found out over her land about 100 feet over house terrorizing them and then instantly as it peeled away and disappeared About 15 to 20 different officers jumped out in Rambo outfits, black uniforms, camel uniforms regular army Travis County SWAT team. Aimed guns at their heads five machine guns total on one man One of the renters that lives in one of the small homes there on the property

02:39 And then they ran behind the house, a minute into the raid. Found out that the commonly growing weed that we're about to show you... ...that's all over Central Texas and the country for that matter was not indeed marijuana Did they stop there? Did they apologize for coming on our property in violation of The Fourth Amendment There is only ten of them They are the supreme law of the land It is called treason to violate them Did they apologize? Did they leave? No! They began to be rude They didn't leave the property, they went further to search the three homes that are on the Three Acres. And then they left and she was humiliated Sandy Smith in front of all her neighbors people in the community The local newspaper The Chronicle came out and interviewed them and actually did a fair story and said look On page 20 you didn't have a warrant this weed is as common as dirt or fire ants In Texas

03:45 I called one of my friends up who lives out in the country and i said, I want to come over to your house and see if you've got this weed growing on your backyard. He lives on a couple acres it's growing everywhere along every fence...in the creek bed by his garage here it is ladies and gentlemen Is this growing in your yard? Are you going to get a SWAT team right with no warrant they don't care about breaking the law It's criminal activity we're gonna expose it And this stupid weed that is just as common as fire ants or dirt in Texas My goodness we walked about five feet. Mike pan back to that other little area of bushes over there. We walk over here, about 15 feet look at this marijuana right here where the children can smoke it as they swing for the children they can just roll up a joint and smoke it Look at that devil weed growing everywhere! We're going to take your property were gonna seize your property because common weed was growing on it

04:49 Gotta stop the drugs. Maybe double the cocaine and triple the heroin are flowing in, in the last 10 years since the drug war really got expanded? But who cares if our rights are being destroyed and more drugs are coming in, the government ships them in! It feels good doesn't it?! We're gonna raid your house over a common weed look over there let's continue Pure weeds I just called my friend up who lives in Travis County and said can we come out to your place and see how this weeds growing he said sure I don't know if its growing Ladies and gentlemen, behind your gas stations on the side of the road it's everywhere. Are you going to get a SWAT team raid tomorrow? And even after they knew that it was common weed they still searched the homes without a warrant They could care less even when they knew It is disgusting Nazi behavior! Who's safe when this is growing everywhere and they've got a pretext to bust into your house and ransack your home You got a problem out there Your criminal gang members and we're gonna expose ya

05:47 Look at it, it's just growing everywhere. Look out there Mike! I know its everywhere Alex Well we just showed you all this growing 15 feet from the swing set that is 15 feet from more of the weeds look right here huge marijuana plants The helicopters are about to attack any second let's get over there Is your property safe? No because we don't need warrants anymore It may be illegal and violate the fourth amendment but who cares This is Nazi New World Order America Devil weed

06:27 It's everywhere! Hand over your property. This is incredible There's more of it, look come SWAT teams will be hitting this home within the hour Okay I'm Sandy Smith and uh...I was a...it was my day off from work I was standing out by my van and anyway this helicopter started circling right above my place I didn't know you know what was going on and one of my neighbors called me say, I have my little phone You know it's carrying around one of my neighbors called said Sandy they're taking pictures at your place And I said I said oh my god. That's a distance guy over here next to me He's been suing me for the past year and you know he's called like the health inspectors only 13 times and As I said oh my god. I said he's taking pictures in my place is gonna use against me in court so uh I

07:28 I called Sybil, you know she's been helping me and this guy has been paying her to help me because i don't have very much money. She is your lawyer? Yes she's my lawyer and he's been paying her to defend me against this guy over here okay so i tried to call her and she was gone so she wasn't there so i called this gentleman that's been paying her to help me And he said, and I said this helicopter is circling. And I said they're taking pictures to use against me in court and I said what can I do about it? It just scared me to death. He said that guy wouldn't spend that kind of money to hire a helicopter to take pictures to use against you in a lawsuit. You know, he's not gonna spend that kinda money. This has gotta be something else. Then Dave came out and he said this is like Vietnam

08:13 Okay, and then the Then all of a sudden it was just like hell broke loose. There was cars there was vans There was this woman jumped out at this vehicle I would stand over there behind my van talking to this guy on the phone And she said throw that phone down spread out on this band and I mean it just I mean I was just you know It just terrified me. I mean I just I did that in and I leaned against my bed and She had this gun on me And I didn't know what I had done. I said, you know what? What is going on and then after this happened She made me stand out there in the hot Sun for a few minutes and then Wayne that's the guy here He was you know We was putting some dirt around his stuff on my flower beds and he come up wheeling a wheelbarrow They grabbed him and these guys were just swarming all over the place they had I mean These guys hit arms like tree trunks They had tattoos all over them

09:06 And anyway, he came with him up this wheelbarrow of dirt and when he did they grabbed him throwed him down right here. And then Dave uh he had come out of the house they grabbed him and throwed him down here The other guy that has this little house over here. He was fixing to go to work at three o'clock he was taking a nap they banged on his door and then they They when it come to the door, they grabbed him. He had five m16 in his face They dragged him out of the house brought him over here and throwed him over there Okay And finally she let me you know That woman said okay well we'll and they were just all over the place and it finally this woman come over Here and she said

09:48 I tell you she said, I'll go ahead and let you sit over there by them. So she let me sit right here so I was sitting right here I said I said Ask Dave I said Dave Can I have a drink of coke or something? So he got up to him in my coat and And she said She said You sit back down Or you will be handcuffed And I said, well...I said I just wanted to get a drink of Coke. And so anyway then she called one the big guys over and she said, I want this man handcuffed he is a menace to my safety! And you know there's seven guys out here with M16s how could be a menace to her safety? But I mean she was really being a bitch but they were nice. Were they pointing their guns at you? Oh yeah oh yeah she pointed gun at me they would point guns at all us

10:29 Okay, so anyway. How many people total would you say were out here? Oh at least 15 or 20 and going back to the helicopter how this all started I want to go through the raid okay Mrs Smith how high off the ground was the helicopter oh it was very low i mean it was right over the top of the building You could hear it just circling and circling And uh... So you'd say it's about 30 feet above those trees It was real low because all the neighbors noticed and it was making a lot of noise I thought it was black. The police in the Chronicle implied that they got some report of this here on the surveillance Tattletale Society. Do you think it was some quote do-gooder neighbors that saw some weeds your backyard and called? Well, I wouldn't doubt it

11:18 I wouldn't doubt it, but the thing about it was the helicopter did not spot anything because everybody told me they were down at R.O.'s BBQ before this ever started Before the helicopter ever came over They stopped in the parking lot of those two little cafes that are out there suiting up Before they ever came down here and said we got a big drug bust going on They told everybody that Now it seems if the police were really worried about their safety They wouldn't send a helicopter first to fly them for 15 minutes Well, it's like they were trying to terrorize us is the way it seemed to me. Like it was some kind of message thing or something and after they left we were so upset because we saw they had been through all our houses while there's out here We were at gunpoint. We had no choice and they came through the back of all our houses cuz they were all open You know, we've just let's just country out here without a warrant without a warrant They never said anything at any time about a warrant And it's not like the shifts don't know may I work this door for 15 years? I know all that shares

12:12 And, you know they could come to me and ask me anything at any time. They'd say Sandy somebody said yes we're looking weeds behind your house can we take a look I say sure i don't care maybe here three years but you can have the last traffic ticket I had was 20 years ago and I don't even smoke cigarettes much less marijuana. How long have you lived here? I've lived here 30 years. Ever any problems no Then after they had left, we were so upset because they had taken my friend's BB guns and laid them on the chair with them cocked. They knocked down a painting on my bedroom

12:51 They also, let's see. Oh yeah what else did they do? Okay over here in this other little house and he was going to work his kids were in school thank God because it was like 2 30 in the afternoon and They knocked down the curtains in his house Plus they opened all the drawers And there was like a little tin can or something with some toys in it they had opened that And, but what really upset me the most was everybody was telling everybody all around here said well they busted Sandy and she had five marijuana plants and they spread eagles are on the ground with handcuffs behind her. I've been out here for 30 years! This totally destroys my reputation. It makes me look like some kind of criminal that's why i would like a public apology about this it has put so much stress on me that I'm going to have to go to the doctor

13:38 I get something for my nerves, I can't even sleep good anymore thinking about it. And at work sometimes I just almost cry thinking about it and everybody's talking about it. It just really put a strain on my life because you always thought this was my homestead and I thought it was safe here but it didn't work out that way So you and your late husband moved out here 30 years ago to get away from the big city. Are you saying this is, I mean talk about that and what this has done to your serenity or quality of life? Yeah, well my husband was a musician. He had in way I feel like he's trying to help me because he had a record in the 72 called I'm A Little Man and it was number one hit on all three stations in Houston and when we came here and saw this place that would just roll in and And we looked all over Texas looking for a place to buy and we saw this place and he said This is the place I want to be We lived here for 30 years. He's been dead now eight years but

14:42 I tell you what, he would roll over in his grave if he's seen all this stuff that has happened to me. I think it is all these people moving out here we never had this problem until now they want a homeowner association and they are telling people out here why don't they go to Austin where there are crack houses deserted house but out here were just poor ppl trying to survive and everybody knew that was for mobile homes. Well you know houses are going for over $1 million-$10 million around Well, if somebody wants to give me ten million dollars this place I'll move. Have folks been trying to sell the property? Well what we figured is why this guy over here's harassing me so much it's because he owns all this land back in here He's a biggest property owner plus he owns the lot right below me and you know It's like two and three acre tract So he's always hated it because I had this corner lot

15:34 And if he had this corner lot, then he figures he can have the whole shebang. That's what I figure he is trying to put in some development so he is trying intimidate me and scare me so bad because he asked like for $65000. So he figured that would scare me so bad that I would just give him my place or something. Now he has called the health department on you say 13 times? Thirteen times yes. Three seconds after the SWAT team arrived they had identified the fact this was not marijuana but they continued their raid for an estimated 30-40 minutes ransacking all three of the homes that are in this general vicinity. not just the one where this was found. So they knew it wasn't marijuana right when they showed up, now they had to find something inside? They went right straight to it. Within 30 seconds after their arrival of an estimated 12-15 officers in approximately 7 or 8 vehicles plus dirt bikes uh...they knew that this was not marijuana because they went directly to it and yet they stayed here another thirty two forty minutes holding individuals at gunpoint rousting one from his home at gunpoint with five guns in his face

16:35 And they searched all three of the homes, not just the one nearest their suspected marijuana. Well I believe that they might have just been stupid to think this was marijuana but they should have left after the first 30 or 40 seconds with an apology but instead of that they did violently illegal things to the home of Mrs Smith and her friends So they showed up They ransacked the homes, but before even that happened. Before 30 seconds on the property they knew this wasn't marijuana but they were trying to find something would you agree with that? Absolutely and... Were they trying to have a pretext an excuse for what they did? Apparently we speculate this way We think that they had a complaint which was insufficient to obtain a warrant so they contrived this whole little charade To come in and search her property