We need police to catch murderers, thieves and con men, and so we give them special power -- the power to use force on others. Sadly, today's police use that power to invade people's homes over accusations of trivial, nonviolent offenses -- and often do it with tanks, battering rams and armor you'd expect on battlefields.
"I found over 50 cases where a completely innocent person was killed in one of these raids," says Balko. Often this happens because the homeowner does not realize who is breaking down his door in the middle of the night.
Iraq War veteran Jose Guerena just knew that armed men were bursting in. So he picked up his semi-automatic rifle. Before he could take the safety off, police fired 71 bullets, hitting him 22 times.
As former Australian politician Tim Fischer turns the shooting of Christopher Lane into an opportunity to push a travel boycott until the U.S. changes its gun laws, police in Sydney launched "a new plan to tackle out-of-control gun violence" there. The new action against gun violence was launched on August 21 and will pull together various police-sponsored gun control operations into one. The name of the new effort is Operation Talon. According to the Ballina Shire Advocate,"over 9,000 guns have been taken off New SouthWales (NSW) streets and 3352 people have charged" during previous operations in the last 12 months alone. NSW police commissioner Andrew Scipione explained: "There is no single source of gun violence... guns have fallen into the hands of organized crime, outlaw motorcycle gangs, mid-level crime groups and petty thieves and the lines are often blurred." Not ironically, Australia implemented a massive purge of guns in 1996, which included bans on "assault weapons" and other semi-automatic rifles and shotguns. They also did forced buybacks and then entered into a strict licensing and registration agreement where certain single-shot rifles and similar firearms could be owned but only if the owner provided justification for the possession of such a weapon. Yet 17 years after the implementation of gun control schemes that are very similar in many ways to those being pushed by Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Joe Manchin (D-WV), and Chuck Schumer (D-NY), the NSW police department is launching a new operation to rein in gun violence. The lesson: criminals do not pay attention to gun bans. They never have and they never will
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Homeland Security employee is the operator of a racist
website predicting and advocating a race war, a department official said
Thursday.
Ayo Kimathi, who is an acquisitions officer for Immigration and Customs
Enforcement, operates the site, War on the Horizon, which includes descriptions
of an "unavoidable, inevitable clash with the white race."Kimathi is black. The DHS official spoke on the condition of anonymity because the official was
not authorized to discuss the case publicly "Warfare is eminent, and in order for black people to survive the 21st
century, we are going to have to kill a lot of whites — more than our Christian
hearts can possibly count," reads a 2010 post titled "Black Ethnic Cleansing: An
Idea Whose Time Has Come."''Waging war against whites is at the core of the
Afrikan warrior's spirit. It's the flame that drives our willingness to fight in
the face of certain defeat and/or death." The website criticizes whites, gays and blacks who integrate with whites and
those of mixed race. Many of the postings are signed with the phrase,"We'll see
you on the battlefield." .read Story
The media’s decision to reveal the races of the principle actors in the coverage of Trayvon Martin’s killing and their efforts to conceal the descriptions of Christopher Lane’s murderers is instructive only in how the press identifies narratives. The fact is that the race of Lane’s killers is as relevant as was the race of Martin’s killer, which is to say not that relevant at all. The key difference is as simple as the fact that one narrativeattracts attention, e.g. “sells,” while the other does notread storyThe media that arguably fostered thecreation of a racial angle in the killing of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman from the minute it became a nationalstory has contorted itself in tortured ways to avoid describing the suspects in Lane’s
I haven't seen any suggestion to this, but what if........Michael Hill is a government plant ? He was carrying an AK-47, about 500 rounds of ammunition . No one was shot [even though he went outside a few times to shoot at police][how did he get back in ?]His brother stated that Michael was diagnosed "bi-polar" and has a long history of medical disorders. Opportunity to shoot the school employees and children but didn't. People don't talk about Sandy Hook too much anymore, could this be a reminder of school shootings to keep the governments anti-gun agenda going ??Wouldn't surpriseme a bit Michael Hill, who allegedly entered the elementary school with an automatic weapon was coaxed out of his rampage by a heroic school employee. The school bookkeeper talked him down ???
He doesn't look crazy like the other shooters, just sullen
ON "ABC-TV" DURING THE "NETWORK SPECIAL ON HEALTH CARE".... OBAMA WAS ASKED:
"MR. PRESIDENT WILL YOU AND YOUR FAMILY GIV...E UP YOUR CURRENT HEALTH CARE PROGRAM AND JOIN THE NEW 'UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE PROGRAM' THAT THE REST OF US WILL BE ON ????" THERE WAS A STONEY SILENCE AS <>OBAMA IGNORED THE QUESTION AND CHOSE NOT TO ANSWER IT !!! IN ADDITION, A NUMBER OF SENATORS WERE ASKED THE SAME QUESTION AND THEIR RESPONSE WAS."WE WILL THINK ABOUT IT." AND THEY DID. IT WAS ANNOUNCED TODAY ON THE NEWS THAT THE "KENNEDY HEALTH CARE BILL" WAS WRITTEN INTO THE NEW HEALTH CARE REFORM INITIATIVE ENSURING THAT THAT CONGRESS WILL BE 100% EXEMPT ! SO, THIS GREAT NEW HEALTH CARE PLAN THAT IS GOOD FOR YOU AND I... IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR OBAMA, HIS FAMILY OR CONGRESS...?? WE (THE AMERICAN PUBLIC) NEED TO STOP THIS PROPOSED DEBACLE ASAP !!!! THIS IS TOTALLY WRONG !!!!! PERSONALLY, I CAN ONLY ACCEPT A UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE OVERHAUL THAT EXTENDS TO EVERYONE... NOT JUST US LOWLY CITIZENS.... WHILE THE WASHINGTON "ELITE" KEEP RIGHT ON WITH THEIR GOLD-PLATED HEALTH CARE COVERAGES. If you don't pass this around, may you enjoy his Plan!
WHAT??? The Republic has a CONSTITUTION???
Amendment 28
Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United States that does not apply equally to the Senators or Representatives, and Congress shall make no law that applies to the Senators or Representatives that does not apply equally to the citizens of the United States .
Imagine what we could do if everybody passed this around.
So much for accountability. What does one have to do to get fired in government? Obviously it’s not ignore obvious security warnings that lead to multiple murders. From The Daily Beast:
Secretary of State John Kerry has determined that the four State Department officials placed on administrative leave by Hillary Clinton after the terrorist attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi do not deserve any formal disciplinary action and has asked them to come back to work at the State Department starting Tuesday.
Last December, Clinton’s staff told four mid-level officials to clean out their desks and hand in their badges after the release of the report of its own internal investigation into the Benghazi attack, compiled by the Administrative Review Board led by former State Department official Tom Pickering and former Joint Chiefs Chairman Ret. Adm. Mike Mullen. Those four officials have been in legal and professional limbo, not fired but unable to return to their jobs, for eight months… until today.
So have no fear America, the incompetent fools who let Benghazi happen are back on the job, serving you.
barack obama and his family welcomed Sunny, a one-year-old female Portuguese Water Dog, to the family on Monday, according to the White House. Sunny, who will join the obamas' four-year-old dog Bo, was described by the White House as "full of energy and very affectionate........did you notice, like most of his cabinet, they're black
Shark Eats Shark Off Delaware Coast
Researchers with the University of Delaware’s Ocean Exploration – Remote Sensing – Biogeography Group posted this photo of a shark eating a shark in the Delaware Bay on July 21, 2013.
It’s a shark-eat-shark world out there -- even in the Delaware Valley.
That’s how it seems after a photo of a shark swallowing down another shark which was already swallowing down a fish made the rounds this week.
The photo was snapped about a month ago by area researchers tracking sharks in the Delaware Bay off the Delaware Coast.
There is a very troubling trend taking place in America these days. It’s becoming more common to see the heavy boot of tyranny on the throats of anyone who exercises their First Amendment rights to criticize President Obama or the government. Police all over America are becoming more tyrannous in their enforcement of what they say are the laws. This is not good and we cannot allow our rights of free speech and assembly to be trampled upon by power-hungry tyrannists with badges.
Here is a perfect example of what I’m speaking about. Super-patriot Jim Hoft recorded this miscarriage of abuse by the police in St. Louis:
The police don’t have the right to tell American citizens to leave public areas. This should and must end up in a lawsuit and the termination of employment of the tyrannist police in Missouri who arrested these patriots for simply exercising their First Amendment rights!
Obama is no more a king than was George Bush or George Washington! The beauty of America is that a regular citizen can protest and ridicule the President of the United States. If over-zealous police are allowed to trample the freedom of speech and assembly by peaceful patriots in America, all is lost!
We are all rodeo clowns! And the wonder and beauty of America is where a common rodeo clown can ridicule the leader of the once-free world! We must never allow the precedent of tyranny to rule America! F*** Obama and everything he stands for!
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I read on another site that the "bored" teens were, one white, two black. Where are you Al Sharpton? Aren't all 3 guilty of murder ? No matter who pulled the trigger. [capital crime] full story
Monday, August 19, 2013
Absurd Government Law Enforcement: The Great Organic Blackberry Raid
Government officials do some really crazy things in the name of law enforcement.
I recently wrote about an armed raid on an animal shelter in order to execute a baby deer.
That was paramilitary overkill (pun intended), though it probably didn’t waste as many tax dollars as the regulatory overkill of the year-long sting operation by the Food and Drug Administration against an Amish farm for the horrible crime of selling unpasteurized milk to consenting adults who prefer unpasteurized milk.
And let’s not forget Robert Norlander, the thuggish, dumpster-diving IRS agent, who sought to ruin the life of an innocent man because…well, for no reason.
Well, we now have something that may be even more absurd.
Radley Balko reports in the Huffington Post about “a massive police action last week that included aerial surveillance, a SWAT raid and a 10-hour search.”
Sounds like the cops must have been up against the mafia. Or a bunch of bank robbers, right?
Not exactly. They raided an organic farm.
…the real reason for the law enforcement exercise appears to have been code enforcement. The police seized “17 blackberry bushes, 15 okra plants, 14 tomatillo plants … native grasses and sunflowers,” after holding residents inside at gunpoint for at least a half-hour, property owner Shellie Smith said in a statement.
The cops claimed that they were looking for marijuana. Even if that was the actual goal, why not just send a couple of cops to the door? We’re talking about an organic farm, after all, not a crack house run by the Hell’s Angels.
But let’s at least be thankful the cops seized okra plants. The people of Arlington, Texas, can now walk the streets safely, freed from the danger of vegetables running amok.
So what triggered this raid? View Full Article
This past Thursday, the Obama Administration quietly introduced a new endeavor intended to address the environmental effects of manmade objects that travel at supersonic speeds. White House Press Secretary Jay Carney revealed the program, adding that, “In the eight years preceding this Administration, no attention was given to residual supersonic atmospheric disturbances, especially on healthcare costs. This President will step up where others before him would not.” View Full Article Put simply, how do we repair the sound barrier?
Duck Dynasty kicked off its fourth season last Wednesday and they did it with a bang, raking in the highest ratings for any cable reality show in US history. read story
The good thing about being a libertarian is that you are motivated by freedom, which is a very noble principle, and you have lots of evidence on your side, whether the issue is economics or personal liberty. You can’t afford to be smug, of course, since it’s still a big uphill battle to convince politicians not to engage in plunder. But at least you can sleep soundly at night knowing that you’re on the side of the angels. And that even means you have self-confidence about your ideas and you can laugh when someone puts together some clever anti-libertarian humor. Here’s the latest example, sent to me by a TV journalist.
What makes this funny is that libertarians are sometimes quick to defend their rights, even when nobody’s trying to take them away. Which is why we sometimes get pigeonholed as being weird, like the family in the lower left of this poster, or paranoid, like the guy in the #8 spot of this poster. But let’s be thankful that there are some libertarians willing to raise a stink about government even if the rest ofthe world thinks we’re a bit odd. As we’ve seen dozens of times, most recently with the IRS and NSA, bureaucrats and politicians have a compulsive tendency to grab more power and make government more intrusive
Judge bars most motive evidence in Fort Hood trial
In this Aug. 6, 2013, file courtroom sketch, Maj. Nidal
Malik Hasan sits in court for his court-martial in Fort Hood, Texas. The
prosecutors pursuing the death penalty against the Army psychiatrist accused in
the 2009 Fort Hood shooting rampage will soon begin trying to answer a difficult
but key question_ determining why Hasan attacked his fellow soldiers in the
worst mass shooting ever on a U.S. military base. (AP Photo/Brigitte Woosley,
File) Full Story
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