Evansville, Indiana police intent on "sending a message" that online threats against police will not be tolerated organized a massive raid against a forum troll on an online forum. The police decided to bring a TV crew to film their raid against their critic, they also brought a SWAT team. Rather than knock on the accused's front door, which was wide open, the police instead threw two flash-bang stun grenades through their front window and storm door.
Do you notice a pattern when dealing with any aspect of the government at nearly any level? We all have. There is a certain cast of mind at work here. This is my attempt to frame it up and identify its main features.
Experience shows that if something is going to go really wrong, predictably waste your time, annoy you and attack your dignity, and finally just prove to be totally ineffective at accomplishing the task, there's a good chance that it involves the government. ... (more)
Following reports last week that U.S. Army wheeled tanks would be rolling down residential streets and highways in St. Louis as part of a training program, local news media channels featured interviews with residents who praised the sight of troops on the streets as a valuable crime-fighting tool similar to that used in foreign countries.
As we reported on Friday, the exercise is part of a U.S. Army program run by military police from Fort Meade, Maryland focused around train... (more)
Those are words no appointed state official wants to utter to the chairman of a key legislative committee after just three weeks on the job.
But Washington State Patrol Chief John Batiste had little choice in making that apology after a state legislator received a barrage of nasty, even threatening, e-mail messages apparently sent by troopers and their families.
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I wonder if they'll be on the receiving end of a SWAT raid as a result... - Chris
SANTA FE (KRQE) - A new zero tolerance policy cuts no breaks to Santa Fe police officers accused of lying, creeping and drunk driving, among other infractions. The police chief said it's a long time coming.
Effective Friday, Chief Raymond Rael said any officer accused of sexual harassment, domestic violence, DWI, lying or any felony could be fired immediately. Rael said he will make a recommendation for termination, though it will be up to the city manager to make the final decisi... (more)
Sounds like a step in the right direction, but I'll believe it when I see it. - Chris
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. --Does a fork or dinner knife pose an unacceptable danger to President Barack Obama?
One wouldn’t think so, given the hundreds of lunches and dinners he’s attended ranging from state dinners to political fundraisers to run-of-the-mill stops on the rubber-chicken circuit.
However, at one such lunch Friday afternoon, guests heard an unusual announcement that they needed to hand over their silverware for security reasons.
Bush Attorney General Alberto Gonzales gets confronted by Luke Rudkowdski of http://wearechange.org and Abby Martin of http://mediaroots.org about torture.
SOURCE: Jan 22, 2002 - Department of Justice memo to White... (more)
The political left wing has long tried to cast doubt on the fairness, and even the efficacy, of free market capitalism by branding it as a “trickle down” system. This epithet is meant to show how the middle and lower classes are dependent on scraps of wealth that happen to fall from the buffet table of the rich. This characterization of an unfair and inefficient system has helped them demonize policies that lower taxes (if they also extend to the wealthy) and reduce regulation on bu... (more)
As exponentially more government and law enforcement drones take to the skies over America, new research has highlighted the fact that the unmanned vehicles are extremely vulnerable and can be relatively easily hijacked and controlled.
Professor Todd Humphreys and his team at the University of Texas at Austin’s Radionavigation Laboratory are warning that the drones could be “spoofed” and taken over by anyone with the right readily available equipment. ... (more)
This video hit the front page of reddit earlier, I find it funny because it's a great example of what police actually spend their time on rather than what people perceive police spend their time on.
If you watch the stupid shows on TV, you probably have the impression police are busy investigating murders, fighting drug king pins, engaging in high spee... (more)
Stanley Gibson, a disabled Gulf War veteran, was murdered in a Las Vegas parking lot last December 12. He was shot seven times in the back of the head, without provocation, by a stranger wielding an AR-15 rifle. The killer, 34-year-old Jesus Arevalo, remains at large and is easy to find: He’s an officer with the Las Vegas Metro Poli... (more)
Yikes. About a month ago, we wrote about some comments by Congressional staffer Stephanie Moore, the "Democrat's chief counsel on the House Judiciary Committee," in which she still couldn't come to grips with the fact that the public rose up against SOPA -- insisting that it must have been some nefarious "misinformation" campaign. We went throug... (more)
It sure is funny watching bureaucrats lie. In the clips below, Michele Leonhart, the current head of the DEA, is asked repeatedly whether heroin and other hard drugs are worse than marijuana, to which she repeatedly dodges the question and/or bloviates about nonsense.
Next up: "Does meth, crack & heroin cause more deaths than marijuana?"
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Whoopsie daisy, an armed government goon-squad accidentally raided the wrong home while looking for inanimate plant-substances, they left a terrified older woman in their wake.
The situation could have potentially ended in bloodshed as her son loaded his gun up and was ready to defend himself and his mother from what he presumed was a non-state-sanctioned armed invasion. The man fortunately put his gun down and was not murdered by the invaders "for their own safety." So... no h... (more)
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