From: "Rich Gauszka" 


"George Sherwood"  wrote in message
news:443a9e02$1{at}w3....
> On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 13:54:25 -0400, Rich Gauszka wrote:
>
>> "It's shocking that this kind of action by the federal government could
>> be
>> sought and accomplished in secret, without anyone being notified," said
>> Schwartz. "It reminds me of the secret detentions" in
terrorist cases.
>
> GMAB.  Doesn't seem so secret if they were able to call their
> lawyers and get action on it. Sounds to me like the officers thought these
> could be removed easily, like a piece of jewelry. Then to compare it to
> the terrorist cases, it just stupid.
>
> George

Everyone I know that's passing on the article is doing it for the humor.
The seizure may have been seen as a good opportunity at the time but, even
with a bit of thought on the subject, one should have realized the negative
publicity wasn't worth it.  It was dumb rather than diabolical

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