tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post7256644970680694812..comments2024-03-08T07:09:46.527-07:00Comments on Pro Libertate: Praetorian PresumptionsWilliam N. Grigghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14368220509514750246noreply@blogger.comBlogger44125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-18376161387541514772009-08-07T11:40:40.894-06:002009-08-07T11:40:40.894-06:00Mr. Grigg, thanks for another gem of sparkling tru...Mr. Grigg, thanks for another gem of sparkling truth. The reality of the Orwellian police state is truly upon us.<br /><br />Anonymous who said, "These people have become almost feral in nature." My sentiments exactly!<br /><br />Feral. Like jungle predators, or sharks engaged in a feeding frenzy when the scent of blood drives them to take large chunks out of each other and themselves.<br /><br />I've seen videos where a cop, in his frenzy to silence the protestations of some little kid on a bike, has pepper-sprayed, or tazered himself. <br /><br />Also, it's obvious that cops now long to all look and sound alike: The ubiquitous bald head, the blank-eyed, surly expression, the same tone of voice, mannerisms etc.<br /><br />Individuality is shunned. "Police" everywhere are morphing into some sort of homogenous, menacing, out-of-control organism.<br /><br />Also worrisome when "altercations" do occur, usually as a direct result of "police" provocation, the one or two who initiate the abuse are quickly joined by 3,4,5,<br />6+ and the dynamic of the event takes on the precise characteristics of predators closing in to devour their prey. <br /> <br />Like beasts, once they've gotten a "whiff of blood" nothing and no one on earth can stop them and I've never heard a voice of reason in the lot. <br /><br />Women "cops" who avidly join the fray are beyond reprehensible.<br /><br />Thanks,<br />b<br />911=USraelAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-42131282696667284572009-08-02T14:09:46.682-06:002009-08-02T14:09:46.682-06:00The rough and tumble reporter should go tell a gan...The rough and tumble reporter should go tell a gangbanger or cop he is weak for carrying a sidearm. After all in Obamessiahs politically correct liberal utopia we can just hug and sing Kumbaya together as we sign over our paychecks to the whores in DC. Have you seen my Che Guevara t-shirt dude I'm going to the collective to get some sprouts.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-651196321957092612009-08-02T00:00:29.896-06:002009-08-02T00:00:29.896-06:00Dunno Will. The officer was there to investigate a...Dunno Will. The officer was there to investigate a break and enter which had occurred, albeit a legal B&E. The owner, from the get go was a racist ass and obstructed him from doing his job instead of showing his ID and getting the cop on his way. When he followed him out of the house and proceeded to carry on his vocal harassment in public, he got popped. Maybe not the wisest thing to do, but on the other hand, maybe it was. <br />It certainly has been a "teaching experience" about Gates's and Obama's racism, to anybody that's not a blind liberal.<br />ML Jones said always get a second opinion. A surgeon will usually want to operate. Likewise maybe someone who's forte is the growing threat/reality of the police state here in the US will view the incident in that light. I don't know that I agree in this case.<br />Thank you.BobSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-75886830240857270612009-08-01T01:49:56.858-06:002009-08-01T01:49:56.858-06:00When are the blind Mormons going to wake up and ki...When are the blind Mormons going to wake up and kick the New World Order Minions out of the Deseret News??Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-89361780234533363652009-07-31T17:29:49.964-06:002009-07-31T17:29:49.964-06:00Good question, Anon 4:56am: “Where were you guys w...Good question, Anon 4:56am: “Where were you guys when Bush and Alberto VO5 were busy dismantling 200+ years of developing Constitutional law?”<br /><br />Let me hasten to say that while I don’t think the question applies to most of Will’s readership, it is a good question for the worshipful neocons and republicans who supported Bush. I think their Bush-worship is summed up nicely by David Limbaugh in a 2006 <a href="http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DavidLimbaugh/2006/05/09/time_for_honest_debate_on_nsa_surveillance_program" rel="nofollow">column</a> about the NSA’s warrantless surveillance and wire-tapping (which he supported): <br /><br /><i>“Does anyone really believe President Bush wants to spy on innocent old ladies or any other group of innocent Americans? Does anyone – besides the loony left and unwitting dupes they have convinced – really believe President Bush has a sinister desire to consolidate executive power, make himself a dictator and eviscerate the Fourth Amendment?”</i><br /><br />In a <a href="http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DavidLimbaugh/2006/02/07/domestic_abuse" rel="nofollow">column</a> before that, and puffed up with self-righteous “patriotism,” he gave his “permission” to the NSA to eavesdrop on any communication he may have with anybody the government believed to be a member of al-Qaeda. Would he give his “permission” to the TSA to grope and manhandle his wife in the name of fighting terrorism? Personally, <b>I</b> think he would.I Hate Bobby Flaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-62169034984953038572009-07-31T15:10:11.547-06:002009-07-31T15:10:11.547-06:00Liberanter. I have to disagree when someone says ...Liberanter. I have to disagree when someone says that they have no say as to what they do, say, act, etc. Nobody put a gun to their heads and said, "Listen hear! You're going to do such and such or else!". Simply doesn't happen. They know damn well what they do and the consequences and are fully 100 per cent behind their actions because if they had any conscience whatsoever they would act accordingly. If they had any decency at all they wouldn't be in government period. That they don't do the decent thing tells you all you need to know. They aren't simple powerless puppets but willing co-conspirators of the first order. I have no sympathy for any of them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-41306246889361853132009-07-31T13:53:16.840-06:002009-07-31T13:53:16.840-06:00Anon 4:56 - Your statements about misplaced blame ...Anon 4:56 - Your statements about misplaced blame are correct, whether for the current occupant of the Oval Office, or for his immediate predecessor(s). The fact is that both are/were nothing but figureheads, which has been the case for every president in the modern era. Nothing emanating from their mouths or pens represents their own thoughts, beliefs, or decisions. Everything they write, say, do, or order in an official capacity is pre-scripted for them by the corporate-media-military-academic complex that is the REAL power behind the imperial facade. The last president who attempted to speak and act independently, one John F. Kennedy, met with a quick and violent death just a few days after he made known his intentions to take on the very same Federal Reserve against which one Congressman Ron Paul is now doing battle (and on that note, let us pray that the Good Shepherd is watching over and protecting Ron, for he is facing down the very essence of satanic evil on this earth).liberranterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00555275410576294081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-43296936513281148362009-07-31T06:34:35.289-06:002009-07-31T06:34:35.289-06:00Having been in Peru during their Independence day ...Having been in Peru during their Independence day ( 7-28-2008) I never once witnessed the Phalanx of armed police that was pictured. Although liberally peppered throughout the country - urban areas in particular, are muchas Policia. In the rural areas, unlike Amerika, very few police are present.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-87280866260135282602009-07-31T05:56:21.668-06:002009-07-31T05:56:21.668-06:00This is an excellent post, Mr. Griggs; I hope all ...This is an excellent post, Mr. Griggs; I hope all of your posts are as equally well written, insightful, and stimulating.<br /><br />I also hope that the commentors (commentators?) here understand that it is not Obama, as such, who presents a threat to us. The comment that "With the recent buying frenzy of both guns of martial utility and ammo in the wake of the election of that communist Kenyan catamite to the White House...." misses the point.<br /><br /><br />Indeed, the most savage, unrelenting and somewhat successful attack on our liberties was launched and maintained by the Previous Occupant and his henchmen and henchwomen. While the Obama administration is continuing the Bush Administration policy of destroying the dollar and moving wealth out of the middle class to the Fatcatocracy class, Obama is not -- so far -- arresting citizens and slamming them away for extended periods without access to family, lawyers and the courts, as Bush was doing. Obama has not made the assaults on the Constitutional rights of us all that were made by Bush.<br /><br />It is not a left vs right matter.<br /><br />The culprit is government. All governments are inherently hostile to liberty. When those governments and their "leaders", including county and municipal governments, state governments, special governmental districts, and Federal governments, are all elected [to one extent or another] by voters -- we have to conclude that millions of our neighbors and fellow citizens just don't get it: They continue to elect incompetents, collectivists, plutocratic adherents, and police state enablers. They are, as the contemporary philospher Eric Fromm has put it, dailey involved in escaping from freedom. They want secuity, more than they cherish freedom.<br /><br />I have had a few good chuckles about the frantic buying of weapons in anticipation of and in the wake of the election of President Obama. Where were you guys when Bush and Alberto VO5 were busy dismantling 200+ years of developing Constitutional law? Many of us progressives had already bought our weapons in the wake of the election of President George Bush.<br /><br />It is intellectual folly and wishful thinking to talk about making some sort of armed resistance to the United States government. Is is a crime to advocate it. Our guns are best used to defend ourselves from intruders into our homes and businesses, and from assaults by thugs.<br /><br />As some of you may know, it is generally considered a crime in almost all jurisdictions to resist an illegal arrest. That is, if an officer arrests you without a warrant or probable cause, you can be charged for the additional crime of resisting that arrest if you try to resist it. They -- the cops -- are familiar with this special treatment they are given by legislation and the courts. If they want to arrest you for some charge that will stick, they will make an illegal arrest in the hope that you will resist it. Gotcha!<br /><br />I think part of the problem here is that we have allowed cops and prosecutors and courts to frame this issue wrongly. If a cop does not have a warrant or probable cause or the instruction of a magistrate to arrest someone, then what the cop is doing is not making an arrest. What the cop is doing should be seen and characterized as kidnapping, assault and abuse of office. If there is money involved that a cop may want to seize and forfeit, then theft may also be involved. A citizen, of course, has every right to defend himself or herself from those kinds of crimes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-85696017704858702112009-07-30T22:56:09.950-06:002009-07-30T22:56:09.950-06:00Brian, I had read that about the new policy in Chi...Brian, I had read that about the new policy in Chicago, but now it’s back the way it was. It seems the police changed the policy on their own without checking with their rulers. If they changed the policy from don’t-shoot-unless-you're-threatened to shoot-if-you-SUSPECT-someone-is-a-felon, could anybody really tell the difference? Aren’t they always scared and trembling? I was just reading a story about a homeowner who was shot as soon as the police crashed through the door. The guy was descending the stairs and blam, he's dead. The cops thought he had a gun. He was holding a blue plastic cup, but, you know, whatever.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.wbbm780.com/New-rules--when-cops-can-shoot-at-fleeing-vehicles/4897101" rel="nofollow">Not So Fast On New Fleeing Policy</a><br />CHICAGO — Chicago aldermen – not Police Supt. Jody Weis – would decide whether police officers can fire their weapons at felony suspects fleeing in motor vehicles, under an ordinance introduced Wednesday amid conflicting statements about an impending policy change.<br /><br />Chicago Sun-Times columnist Michael Sneed reported the new deadly force policy scheduled to take effect Aug. 3. It was confirmed to her by Police Department spokesman Roderick Drew, who did a subsequent radio interview discussing the new policy.<br /><br />But, the change was apparently not cleared with the powers that be at City Hall, a no-no for any Chicago police superintendent.I Hate Bobby Flaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-38607444501269377602009-07-30T17:59:16.528-06:002009-07-30T17:59:16.528-06:00The Peruvian police look like a cross between Robo...The Peruvian police look like a cross between RoboCop and (except for the coloration of the body armor) Imperial Storm Troopers. Perhaps a few of them collapsed from heat stroke during the parade or exercise.Marc Swansonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05638073945201888881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-65689076837967257162009-07-30T10:46:21.100-06:002009-07-30T10:46:21.100-06:00This is just another facet of the general state of...This is just another facet of the general state of things that I have called Orwell's boot<br /><br />I hope to start a discussion on the true nature of the problem, and it is not some conspiracy. It is us. --- At least I think that it is.<br /><br />Orwell's Boot: our inevitable? descent into tyranny<br /><br />>From the book 1984<br /><br />"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever." <br /><br />To paraphrase Sun Tzu: If you do not know the nature of the problem you are dead meat. Please go here, read and comment I would like to start a discussion among people who agree that we do not know why more people do not want freedom, and how we may address the problem of growing government and eroding freedoms.<br /><br />Here are some ideas to remember.<br /><br />If (an agency of) the government can tell you what drugs not to take, it can tell what drugs you must take.<br /><br />If (an agency of) the government can tell you when and where to pray, it can prohibit you from praying<br /><br />If (an agency of) the government can tell you you can not have an abortion, then it can tell you that you must have an abortion.<br /><br />If (an agency of) the government can tell you who you can not marry, it can tell you who you must marry.<br /><br />If (an agency of) the government can tell you who you can not have sex with, then it can tell you who you must have sex with.<br /><br />All of these agencies consume our resources, and produce nothing useful.<br /><br />http://factotum666.livejournal.com/829.html#cutid1Doug Nusbaumhttp://dnusbaum.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-90850294539399744352009-07-30T04:49:50.141-06:002009-07-30T04:49:50.141-06:00Will, here’s dash-cam video of the 14-year-old New...Will, here’s dash-cam <a href="http://carlosmiller.com/2009/07/14/new-mexico-police-chief-tasers-girl-leaves-gaping-wound-on-her-head/" rel="nofollow">video</a> of the 14-year-old New Mexico girl who had to have surgery after the police chief tasered her in the head. Her injury required 18 staples and four stitches and it is nasty. The police chief had said that he drew his taser and warned her to stop, but it looks like he had the taser in his suety hand before he even got out of his car.<br /><br />At the end of the clip the news anchor said “So far no charges have been <b>filed against Kailee</b> for the fight she had with her mom.”I Hate Bobby Flaynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-34436277619193124142009-07-30T03:36:42.672-06:002009-07-30T03:36:42.672-06:00[cont.]Also, the arsenal of nuclear weapons in the...[cont.]Also, the arsenal of nuclear weapons in the hands of the tyrants is strategically non relevant. With the exception of us using it on the japs in order to hasten their surrender ( and intimidate the Soviets who were thinking of staging an all out invasion of Japan in order to increase areas under her auspices in the Postwar Geopolitical scheme), no nation state has ever been able to figure out a way to profit from the employment of nukes in an actual conflict.<br /><br />In fact, the only thing that acquisition and possession of nukes have done is deter nuclear armed nation states from going to all out war with one another. <br /><br />The other irony being that in the Postwar world, even being a nuclear power has not done much to confer any actual advantages when said nation states went to war with a non-nuclear power.<br /><br />In fact, many a declared nuclear power have had their imperial ambitions checked by a far weaker, non nuclear armed foe. Specific cases? Us in Vietnam, Lebanon, and Somalia. The Soviets in Aghanistan. The Indians in Sri Lanka. China in Vietnam. Israel in Lebanon.<br /><br />The underlying reasons for this unlikely but consistent phenomenon are explained comprehensively in Martin Van Creveld's excellent book _Transformation of War_ but my main point is that if gov'ts are unable to find a workable strategic and tactical niche for nukes when faced with a foreign foe, it is unikely that they will find a way to wring out any advantages when facing domestic dissent.<br /><br />After all, the State can only function in a business-as-usual fashion via regimentation imposed by bureaucracies and their ancillary infrastructures and any disruption can only threaten the State's ability to operate. And few things are as unpredictably disruptive as the use of nukes.<br /><br />Besides, the statists want to rule over a given region and it's populace in order to leech off the fuits of the latter's productivity. Can't do that in a devastated and contaminated wasteland.<br /><br />As for the idea of withholding money from the Parasite Class as a grand strategy, it is possibly feasible but only in conjucntion with other parallel endeavours.<br /><br />I also agree that the inability of gov't to pay it's minions can only portend changes for the better. Understatement, that.<br /><br />The beautiful thing about this kind of ploy is that such a campaign of resistance can be widespread - that it can continue to grow and self perpetuate - without any centralized leadership or hierarchical organization meaning there is no single focal point for the gov't to target and destroy.<br /><br />And with the preponderance of modern mediums of real time mass communications and info dissemination( cell phones, the 'net etc), such a form of resistance will find a emergent intelligence among a myriad of players - each with their own motives and purposes - all coordinating on an ad hoc basis to grow, evolve and adapt even as the the top heavy, vertically centralized Nation State struggles in vain to contain growing dissent as it's ponderous Boyd Cycle is being out maneuvered by fleeter and more agile small groups of elusive non-state actors.<br /><br />Read John Robb's _Brave New War_ for THE definitive case study of the collpasing order of the nation states - whose ascendance which began during the Peace of Westphalia has reached it's apogee and is now in gradual decline - and how they are being stymied by non-state dissenters. <br /><br />Even though the non-state actors described in _BNW_ would be genuine terrorists by our definition a lot of the observations and concepts can be useful across the entire spectrum of a resistance movement.<br /><br />One other aspect of Robb's ongoing study which should be of immense interest to _Pro Libertate_ readers is what he terms the creation of Resilient Communities which are, simply put, self suffcient communities which can weather any privation caused by systemic disruptions and failures but which can also be applicable for folks like us in cases where the state attempts to logistically deprive restive groups/regions of the necessities required for staying alive.LibertyorDeathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11511646464982949092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-69875784084846964172009-07-30T03:29:49.502-06:002009-07-30T03:29:49.502-06:00Mr. Gulliver,
I happen to agree with most of your...Mr. Gulliver,<br /><br />I happen to agree with most of your observations.<br /><br />But to clarify my original point, I was in no way advocating that We the People should wage a conventional Second Generation Warfare (based on attrition, mass, the seizing and holding of territory, and sheer firepower) against the tyrants if the Line should ever be crossed..<br /><br />My only point(s) was that by doubling our numbers:<br /><br />1) We are making an already formidable task (i.e. tracking and disarming 240 million privately owned firearms from 75 million Americans) even that much more strategically problematic for the Parasite Class to successfully pull off. With that accomplished we can probably deter - or at least defer - any nationwide gun prohibition scheme. If not, then we can make it a sheer impossibility for those cretins to pull it off.<br /><br />2)We don't have any control over the odious pro victim disarmament crapaganda being excreted by all the major mediums of "news" nor do we seem to be able to check the momentum of gun prohibition on the political front - both domestically and on a global scale. What we CAN do is to participate in the buying frenzy of guns, ammo, spare parts, support/repair/maintenance gear and training in their use ( followed by regular practice) so we can get our skills, practical nuts-and-bolts knowledge, and firearms related logistics sorted out while such is still legal and can be achieved with a minimal of hassles.<br /><br />3)With any collpase of the State - a distinct possiblity with the continuing economic downturn and the only scenario that can possibly halt our incremental but snowballing descent into Leviathan's Lair - not only will we be faced with danger from the statist forces in the form of martial law. In the ensuing chaos, we will also face threats from private sector predators and aggressors.<br /><br />One ugly, unimpeachable and eternal truth about the human condition is that no matter what racial, ethnic, cultural, or religious group you belong to there will be some other group who have taken it upon themselves to vilify you and when sweeping upheaval or crises comes to the fore, they will take it upon themselves to rape, rob, and murder you and your's.<br /><br />History is filled with defenseless people who have been kiled en masse by bandtitti - both official and otherwise - during tumultuous periods.<br /><br />The only way to avoid being a victim is to have teeth and the ability to use them to lethal effect.<br /><br />4) The fact that small arms cannot stop tanks and APCs does not render them usesless. As Vin Suprynowicz pointed out in one of his many excellent columns, while your M1 Garand cannot stop a tank from driving onto your lawn or into your domicile (which you should have E&Eed out of long before), it sure as hell can stop bullying on an individual basis e.g. some uniformed thugs trying to rape your wife or seize and inventory your cache of food/ammo/medicine, whatever. Besides, those tankers and pilots have to leave their planes and tanks sometime.....<br /><br />The Werhmacht learned this painful lesson in the Balkans and the Taigas west of the Volga, the Imperial Japanese Army got taught in China, and the Soviets learned it in Afghanistan.LibertyorDeathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11511646464982949092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-42523356465597001072009-07-30T02:57:27.090-06:002009-07-30T02:57:27.090-06:00Im not sure on the accuracy of this article, but i...Im not sure on the accuracy of this article, but it was emailed to me by the FOP.<br /><br />New Policy Allows Police To Shoot At Fleeing Cars<br />Previously, Shots Could Only Be Fired At Cars Used To Attack<br />CHICAGO (CBS) ― <br /> <br />1 of 1<br /><br />The Chicago Police Department has instituted a major change in policy regarding the use of deadly force. <br /><br />Effective next Monday, police officers will be able to fire their guns under circumstances where they previously could not. <br /><br />The new policy, from police Supt. Jody Weis and confirmed by WBBM Newsradio 780 Wednesday morning, allows police officers to shoot at fleeing vehicles if the driver or passengers are suspected of committing a felony. <br /><br />The old policy allowed officers only to shoot at vehicles that pose a threat to them or others, such as if the driver were trying to run down the officer. <br /><br />But now, officers need not be under attack to open fire. <br /><br />Mike Krauser, WBBM 780 <br />(© MMIX, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights ReservedAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-59724061555398322212009-07-30T00:36:08.229-06:002009-07-30T00:36:08.229-06:00With all due respect, but being a professor of Afr...With all due respect, but being a professor of African-American studies at Harward *is* a crime.<br /><br />First of all, it is theft. Just like the cop, the professor is a parasite. In fact, cops sometimes do something good; this professor of made-up bullshit "science" is a well-paid charlatan, period.<br /><br />Secondly, the main occupation of the professor is brainwashing young people into believing his racist and collectivist drivel. For that alone he deserves to be hanged. Child abuse (and this indoctrination *is* a child abuse) is a serious crime.<br /><br />Now, this doesn't absolve the cop. It's just the irony of two parasite assholes trying to out-asshole each other...averrosnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-65336161545832107552009-07-29T22:43:11.778-06:002009-07-29T22:43:11.778-06:00The affirmative action Harvard professor was an ar...<i>The affirmative action Harvard professor was an arrogant, insulting, trash-talking black racist jerk who caused his own problem.</i><br /><br />I stipulate to the description of Mr. Gates. <br /><br />However, being an arrogant, insulting, trash-talking jerk of any race, creed, or color <i><b>is not a crime.</b></i> Nothing Gates said or did justified the criminal assault on his person by the "powerless white police officer" (Ann Coulter's phrase) who dragged the professor away from his home in handcuffs. <br /><br />Obama, as I've pointed out, was entirely wrong to examine this outrage through the filter of race, as opposed to seeing it as a patent abuse of power by an arrogant police officer offended at being "dissed." <br /><br />Once Crowley had identified Gates as the owner of the property and satisfied himself that there had been no break-in, his authority over the matter ended. From that point on he was an armed trespasser and should have simply withdrawn, rather than baiting Gates outside on a pretext to arrest him on a spurious "disorderly conduct" charge. <br /><br />There is no law anywhere against insulting a cop. Being a racially obsessed idiot,while thoroughly unpleasant, isn't a crime.William N. Grigghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14368220509514750246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-81864506424789027362009-07-29T22:22:51.278-06:002009-07-29T22:22:51.278-06:00The black racist affirmative action president; the...The black racist affirmative action president; the black racist affirmative action governor; and the black racist affirmative action Harvard professor stand on one side. An honest policeman stands on the other.<br />Many decades ago the doorbell rang in the course of student party I hosted in Stockholm. Outside was Swedish policeman 18 inches taller than myself. I asked him what the problem was with a "sir".He said Your party is too loud." I turned the stereo to a much lower sound level and he left. 15 years ago, I drove through a red light at major intersection in Chicago in the wee hours when there was no traffic. When I realized what I had done, I stopped just passed the intersection, got out of my car, and I waited. A police car with flashing light appeared, drove by, stopped and backed up. The officer got out of his car and asked me if I had just driven through the red light. I replied, "Yes, sir." He then asked why I had stopped. I explained that as soon as I had realized what I had done, I realized that with my luck there had to be a polceman watching.He wish me goodnight and left.<br />The affirmative action Harvard professor was an arrogant, insulting, trash-talking black racist jerk who caused his own problem. Fortunately his behavior provoked the affirmative action black racist president to unveil his stupidity and racism when he told the press that he did know what had happened but that the police had acted stupidly and whined about the mythical racial profiling by policemen that the study he himself had sponsored in Illinois had concluded did not exist. <br />One last story. I friend of mine who was one the highest paid call girls in Chicago had finished servicing a scion of one the world's richest families in his penthouse. He refused to pay her so she picked up an extremely expensive and fragile artwork. The scion called the police. Two detectives arrived. They listed to the two stories and then the senior detective looked at the penthouse owner and said,"Pay the lady, asshole."Roberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00740668904926516649noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-63758301501535890122009-07-29T18:18:26.591-06:002009-07-29T18:18:26.591-06:00I am beginning to enjoy Mr.Griggs. The fact is the...I am beginning to enjoy Mr.Griggs. The fact is the government is trying to turn this country into a nation of slaves. Some how we live for the banks and multinational corps and every other thought is terrorism. Under the guise of helping the downtrodden abused and "victims" and protecting all of us the all persuasive government and their goons wont be happy until everyone has been denounced and sent to the gulag. We have a giant paranoid machine designed to do nothing other then to "get the bad guys". In the old days they had other names but one wrong move one time and your life is effectively ruined. More laws lower thresholds broader meanings and the net culls more "bad guys". Anyone that thinks Hate laws are to protect some one is delusional. Its thought crime and the gulag likes it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-48130505158321374902009-07-29T13:36:58.947-06:002009-07-29T13:36:58.947-06:00— Jack Dunphy is an officer in the Los Angeles Pol...— Jack Dunphy is an officer in the Los Angeles Police Department. “Jack Dunphy” is the author's nom de cyber. The opinions expressed are his own and almost certainly do not reflect those of the LAPD management.<br /><br />If the LAPD almost certainly does not share this opinion, then why do they continue to hire thugs like this who do?JohnHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18268269399461175169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-36896988628928256202009-07-29T12:46:53.761-06:002009-07-29T12:46:53.761-06:00Anon 6:42:
It's not clear from your post whet...Anon 6:42:<br /><br />It's not clear from your post whether or not you're still a police officer. I certainly hope that you are still on a force somewhere; if all cops held the philosophy you do, there would be infinitely more respect for both police officers and the institution they represent. In short, if government policing is our only near-term option, we need MANY more like yourself to make it work and to keep liberty alive!liberranterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00555275410576294081noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-30102336593868633532009-07-29T12:45:12.286-06:002009-07-29T12:45:12.286-06:00Yet another awesome article. Great insight and app...Yet another awesome article. Great insight and approach to getting the point across. I wish more Americans understood what has happened to law enforcement in the last twenty years. I have two co-workers both with teenage children who have recently gotten in trouble with the law, very minor things. When they asked me about it, I basically said "your children really did nothing wrong, it's that in the last twenty years the state has criminalized adolescence”. It really surprised them, and enlightened them a bit. Keep up the good work, I recommend you to anyone with "authority issues".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-68020630463461511912009-07-29T07:42:29.359-06:002009-07-29T07:42:29.359-06:00Having formerly been a police officer both in a ci...Having formerly been a police officer both in a city (San Diego) and in a small town (Putnam, CT and Yreka, CA), I can say that there are still many police officers - although far fewer than in my day - who legitimately wish to help keep the peace, rather than enforce "the Law".<br /><br />This sergeant would not have been serving Mr. Gates well if he had not done his best to establish that A) Gates was not an intruder in someone else's home, and B) that Mr. Gates was not trying to send the "cops" away under duress ("bad guys" with a gun on him, etc.) It is good procedure to move a person out of the dwelling briefly to make sure all is well. <br /><br />Where this broke down was when Mr. Gates became abusive. Crowley was right to remove him from the house, but should have immediately released him once it was shown he was there legitimately. The problem is that most police academies teach their officers that, one you have had to lay hands upon a person, you must arrest them. Otherwise the department and the officer may be sued. I am _not_ saying this is a good reason, simply that it is inculcated into the minds of police officers in their training. <br /><br />A good police officer will - as many of us have - immediately release a person (849b in Californica) when it is determined that A) it is safe to do so, and B) there as been no real crime committed ("refusing the 'legal order' of a police officer" should not be a crime.) A good police officer will not draw his gun and shoot a person - black, white or whatever - for not complying with his directions.<br /><br />While, there are still many officers who truly wish to help keep the people they serve safe, they are becoming a minority. Our country has indeed become a police state, and for the most part, "the policeman is not your friend." <br /><br />Planning to be in the 3% (if my courage holds)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-46460050701676619012009-07-29T04:29:42.123-06:002009-07-29T04:29:42.123-06:00There's an interesting observation about affin...There's an interesting observation about affinity of the leftists (all civilian disarmament noises come from them) to the common criminals:<br /><br />in the Stalinist Soviet Union the arrested common criminals were officially called "socially close elements" - as opposed to political prisoners. The treatment of the "socially close" was much more lenient, as documented by Solzhenytsyn, Freed, Varlamov, and others.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com