tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post7667873900350135971..comments2023-11-10T04:17:00.492-05:00Comments on View From The Porch: No excuse.Tamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07285540310465422476noreply@blogger.comBlogger47125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-74848306961900939982011-03-14T19:03:11.631-04:002011-03-14T19:03:11.631-04:00Matt G,
The LEO's honestly doing their job ar...Matt G,<br /><br />The LEO's honestly doing their job are, by definition, excluded from my tar. If that isn't obvious, then I should prob'ly explain it in simpler terms.<br /><br />A badge is not a license to abuse the Constitution and thereby inflict harm upon the citizenry. When that abuse occurs repeatedly in an institution or agency -- local or Federal -- there need be no excuse for calling that activity what it is: despotic tyranny masquerading as law enforcement.<br /><br />The BATFE and the FBI have set that tone for lesser agencies to follow.Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14025768362210499102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-53555423298071524732011-03-14T10:16:01.793-04:002011-03-14T10:16:01.793-04:00"Well, that's progress for you: now your ...<i>"Well, that's progress for you: now your local uniforms are included on the 'citizens as free, no liability targets' card that used to be issued only at the Federal level."</i><br /><br /><b>John</b>, you might want to get a smaller brush; the one you're wielding seems to be spreading tar in some places where it doesn't really belong.Matt Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03500429239798601210noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-63639004188767549962011-03-12T21:21:11.283-05:002011-03-12T21:21:11.283-05:00...and here I thought only the BATF and FBI, histo......and here I thought only the BATF and FBI, historically speaking, were getting away with murders.<br /><br />Well, that's progress for you: now your local uniforms are included on the 'citizens as free, no liability targets' card that used to be issued only at the Federal level.<br /><br />Thirty+ years ago the BATF'rs shot and paralyzed some guy who responded with a cap and ball revolver to having his door kicked in, possibly in Wash, DC. It was a bogus beef being served, and after going thru several court levels the 'officers' were exonerated.<br /><br />It stunk then and still stinks, but it was a contested precedent that seemingly opened the doors to an open season on citizens by increasingly careless, heedless, hyper-aggressive LEO's.<br /><br />The sheep demand protection. Hiring the wolves, then enabling them, seems like such a good way to go, Mr. and Mr's Frightened -- until they huff and puff at y'r door about owning possibly contraband things. Like your money, property, precious metals, furniture that needs to be more equitably distributed, or perhaps to provide housing equality in a 'level class system'.. <br /><br />Or mebbe someone just needs laborers for the magnificent canal, Neva the Second, being dug in honor a New World Everywhere.Johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14025768362210499102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-10929103121317052452011-03-12T20:26:39.800-05:002011-03-12T20:26:39.800-05:00Jesus zardfarking Christ. I just re-read the arti...Jesus zardfarking Christ. I just re-read the article, I hadn't realised before that it wasn't "after two months, a trial determined that Officer Boogerhook was not guilty of manslaughter", it was "after two months of pud pulling, the DA decided he wasn't even going to bother with a fucking trial".<br /><br />Skip "killing a man at work and still having a job tomorrow", this is "killing a man at work and never even facing a court over it". But I'm sure he feels really bad about it. Not as bad as Eurie Stamps' family, of course.<br /><br />What in the flying fuckity fuck?perlhaqrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01920117742664645165noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-70949957426783019552011-03-12T20:19:40.216-05:002011-03-12T20:19:40.216-05:00GuardDuck: The old style <sarcasm> tags have...GuardDuck: The old style <sarcasm> tags have been deprecated in XHTML 4.01 in favor of using the sarcasm attribute inside of a <div> tag.<br /><br />Some more modern browsers have never even implemented the old tag at all, having fallen into the sarchasm.perlhaqrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01920117742664645165noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-1470895728194523222011-03-12T19:57:20.069-05:002011-03-12T19:57:20.069-05:00Another glorious tale of competence and unpossible...Another glorious tale of competence and unpossible occurrences of stupidity from the place where America used to exist. Like Illinois, California, and New York; that state is just another write off in the ledger of freedom. After years of electing Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, and Barney Frank to Congress is anyone truly surprised by this?atlharphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02038518966004553345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-48953941045720379482011-03-12T17:35:59.909-05:002011-03-12T17:35:59.909-05:00Derfel: I don't think GuardDuck was defending ...<i>Derfel: I don't think GuardDuck was defending those positions, just stating that they are what the police will claim.</i><br /><br />Thanks perlhaqr, I thought I had applied the proper sarcasm formatting, but apparently it doesn't show up correctly on all monitors.GuardDuckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08622236339096746029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-88840323495294502692011-03-12T11:00:59.667-05:002011-03-12T11:00:59.667-05:00"Thus perish all compromise with tyranny!&quo..."Thus perish all compromise with tyranny!"<br /><br />(William Lloyd Garrison -- setting fire to the U.S. Constitution on Framingham Green, July 4, 1844)Billy Beckhttp://www.two--four.net/weblog.phpnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-29492724455192713832011-03-12T10:56:47.106-05:002011-03-12T10:56:47.106-05:00Appropriate actions by citizens upon hearing the d...Appropriate actions by citizens upon hearing the door kicked open and the flash/bang explosion.<br /><br />1. Fall to the floor.<br />2. Spread your arms and legs.<br />3. Wait to be shot.<br /><br />After all, if there are drugs in the house, or there ever were drugs in the house, or your address is similar to that of a house that might have once had drugs in it, or the Police think any of the above might be possible, what right do you have to expect to live.<br /><br />Oh, and "professionals," as opposed to true professionals and trained amateurs, are above the safe gun handling rules.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-65633555875672856552011-03-12T10:52:56.552-05:002011-03-12T10:52:56.552-05:00How many more of these "dynamic entry" r...How many more of these "dynamic entry" raids have to go badly wrong before we the the people make it clear to our elected officials - who control the police - are going to be on unemployment if they don't stop?<br /><br />Regardless of your stance on drugs, I don't see how anybody can support this kind of thing unless there is DAMNED good reason to believe that the suspects are armed and dangerous. I don't want to see police officers killed, but I also don't want to see common people treated like enemy soldiers on a battlefield.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-43450390287859265992011-03-12T09:46:00.217-05:002011-03-12T09:46:00.217-05:00How many of us would WANT that job the day after n...<i>How many of us would WANT that job the day after negligently killing somebody?</i><br /><br />Hobie, you're talking about <i>us</i>. The sickening state of the Massachusetts public pensions is a rant for another day.<br /><br />Let's just leave it at Officer Oopsie is likely to be pulling full pension (on disability) in a year or two, which is nice, because he'll have plenty of time to get a full time job.<br /><br />I've been gone from there for 100 days now, and my blood pressure is still 20 points higher about this.Borepatchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05029434172945099693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-8203240229568395712011-03-12T09:24:24.442-05:002011-03-12T09:24:24.442-05:00How many of us would WANT that job the day after n...How many of us would WANT that job the day after negligently killing somebody?Hobiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13393344788210904114noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-5182942663057835982011-03-12T09:11:59.207-05:002011-03-12T09:11:59.207-05:00Derfel: I don't think GuardDuck was defending ...Derfel: I don't think GuardDuck was <b>defending</b> those positions, just stating that they are what the police will claim.perlhaqrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01920117742664645165noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-23246492066237455792011-03-12T08:09:48.941-05:002011-03-12T08:09:48.941-05:00Guardduck, so its ok to kill innocents to make a d...Guardduck, so its ok to kill innocents to make a drug arrest. Let me point out that regardless of the amount of alleged trafficking that the crime is not punishable by death. There is no doubt that the alleged perp. could have been apprehended without the smash raid to deny this would be ignorant. The police are not your friends!!!Derfel Cadarnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00904779790523776248noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-27657937361480063672011-03-11T23:30:38.966-05:002011-03-11T23:30:38.966-05:00Matt G,
Cosidering the crap we endure from famili...Matt G,<br /><br />Cosidering the crap we endure from families and associates of people who seriously NEED shooting, I have to agree with you.Montiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17926708261895308192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-77842641512196408502011-03-11T23:26:59.311-05:002011-03-11T23:26:59.311-05:00This comment has been removed by the author.Montiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17926708261895308192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-90193234062697707702011-03-11T22:22:12.329-05:002011-03-11T22:22:12.329-05:00Given the recent drunk on duty officers in Indiana...Given the recent drunk on duty officers in Indiana and Police Steroid scandal in NJ and NY, I have to wonder if anyone thought to do a blood test on Officer Boggerhook. If such isn't standard procedure on ANY shooting police or civilian should it be?Odysseushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16710666926746925370noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-3457372632772187702011-03-11T20:42:00.697-05:002011-03-11T20:42:00.697-05:00Matt G,
"What's most amazing to me is ho...Matt G,<br /><br />"<i>What's most amazing to me is how sensible and restrained the common sense remarks by the victim's family are. I'm actually not kidding, here.</i>"<br /><br />Srsly, me too.Tamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07285540310465422476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-17949534903152765192011-03-11T20:34:37.304-05:002011-03-11T20:34:37.304-05:00"Voire dire:" French for "jury tamp..."Voire dire:" French for "jury tampering."<br /><br /> yYt another reason to avoid MA: ill-trained SWAT cops. If the elite, get-all-the-kewl-toys guys are that bad, how much worse is the uniform working traffic? I sure wouldn't want to ever see that guy have to draw his weapon, and not just because I'm wishing him an uneventful career....Roberta Xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09956807794520627885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-57358274506150465282011-03-11T19:12:29.904-05:002011-03-11T19:12:29.904-05:00Sad, and pointless, especially with the man in cus...Sad, and pointless, especially with the man in custody. And you can bet this will NOT be covered more than a day by the media... And the REAL perp will walk.Old NFOhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16404197287935017147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-65338499163074356762011-03-11T18:35:48.991-05:002011-03-11T18:35:48.991-05:00Suspect already in custody, and not only did he ha...Suspect already in custody, and not only did he have his finger on the trigger but either he had the damned safety off or his rifle was defective; any guesses which?Firehandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04562365951182027709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-14431780974178717672011-03-11T18:10:35.514-05:002011-03-11T18:10:35.514-05:00The law is for protection of the people
Rules are ...The law is for protection of the people<br />Rules are rules as any fool can see<br />We don't need no hairy headed hippies<br />Scarin' decent folks like you and me<br /><br />Oh so thank your lucky stars you've got protection!<br />Walk the line and never mind the cost!<br />Don't wonder who them lawmen were protecting<br />When they nailed the Savior to the Cross<br /><br />(This moment of early 70s radical folk singer-songwriterism is brought to you without irony, by the good folks at Lewis Industries)Lewisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-76245722382797037542011-03-11T18:05:11.195-05:002011-03-11T18:05:11.195-05:00What's most amazing to me is how sensible and ...What's most amazing to me is how sensible and restrained the common sense remarks by the victim's family are. I'm actually not kidding, here.Matt Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03500429239798601210noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-41478739668383853112011-03-11T17:47:42.334-05:002011-03-11T17:47:42.334-05:00Well, they all went home at the end of the shift. ...Well, they all went home at the end of the shift. So that's something.Matthewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05414687981098467556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15907727.post-77951209779030533192011-03-11T17:03:27.865-05:002011-03-11T17:03:27.865-05:00How about Joseph Carpenter with a pneumatic nail d...<i><br />How about Joseph Carpenter with a pneumatic nail driver?</i><br /><br />You kidding? He'd be nailed to a cross for that.<br /><br />...Well, might as well pack my bags, I'm almost certainly going to hell for that one!<br /><br />JimAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com