Quotes

"Fascism and communism both promise "social welfare," "social justice," and "fairness" to justify authoritarian means and extensive arbitrary and discretionary governmental powers." - F. A. Hayek"

"Life is a Bungling process and in no way educational." in James M. Cain

Jean Giraudoux who first said, “Only the mediocre are always at their best.”

If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law. Sir Winston Churchill

"summum ius summa iniuria" ("More laws, more injustice.") Cicero

As Christopher Hitchens once put it, “The essence of tyranny is not iron law; it is capricious law.”

"Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." Ronald Reagan

"Law is where you buy it." Raymond Chandler

"Why did God make so many damn fools and Democrats?" Clarence Day

"If I feel like feeding squirrels to the nuts, this is the place for it." - Cluny Brown

"Oh, pshaw! When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have." Owen Wister "The Virginian"

Oscar Wilde said about the death scene in Little Nell, you would have to have a heart of stone not to laugh.

Thomas More's definition of government as "a conspiracy of rich men procuring their own commodities under the name and title of a commonwealth.” ~ Winston S. Churchill, A History of the English Speaking Peoples

“Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.” ~ Jonathon Swift

Sunday, July 21, 2013

The Evolution of the America's Military Style Stasi-SS - Rise of the Warrior Cop

I once thought that the SS and America's police forces acting like the East German Stasi were merely rogue examples of aberrant behavior. I had hoped Waco and Ruby Ridge exposed a problem and taught us a lesson.
It did! But not the lesson expected. Dummy me. It taught every agency that it can grow it its budget, power and fear factor by having its own renegade military style police force!
US Department of Education calls in S.W.A.T. Team
 to serve warrant on student-loan defaulters.  
Now, not so much. Every agency, Fed., State and Local appears to have its own armed police force. Gibson Guitars was raided by armed military garbed Fish and Wildlife Police. Just the known Federal Agencies with their own 'Police' force numbers well over 120+. That includes armed police for the Dept. of Education. Which had held its own raids! 
The Dept. of Homeland Security has been buying urban tanks and purchasing all the ammo it can, enough to kill us all hundreds of times over.
The urge to exert power by force is a very dark and sick pathology in many of us. Unfortunately, it is manifest in a government that has grown out of control. 
When I was in Russia, I was in the care of ex-KGB men who acted as private security. I witnessed, when they needed to, exert 'people control' that was fast, hard and ruthless as they could be. I had not seen it as the case with American Police Agencies until recently. Now every small town has its own police sporting some kind of military type garb and acting without warrants. 
The NSA is just gathering data on us for when we are to be prosecuted at some future date for an offence to be named later. m/r

Rise of the Warrior Cop - WSJ.com




Is it time to reconsider the militarization of American policing?

    By 
  • RADLEY BALKO
On Jan. 4 of last year, a local narcotics strike force conducted a raid on the Ogden, Utah, home of Matthew David Stewart at 8:40 p.m. The 12 officers were acting on a tip from Mr. Stewart's former girlfriend, who said that he was growing marijuana in his basement. Mr. Stewart awoke, naked, to the sound of a battering ram taking down his door. Thinking that he was being invaded by criminals, as he later claimed, he grabbed his 9-millimeter Beretta pistol.
Stewart and his neighbors said they heard no such announcement. Mr. Stewart fired 31 rounds, the police more than 250. Six of the officers were wounded, and Officer Jared Francom was killed. Mr. Stewart himself was shot twice before he was arrested. He was charged with several crimes, including the murder of Officer Francom.
The police found 16 small marijuana plants in Mr. Stewart's basement. There was no evidence that Mr. Stewart, a U.S. military veteran with no prior criminal record, was selling marijuana. Mr. Stewart's father said that his son suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and may have smoked the marijuana to self-medicate.

Early this year, the Ogden city council heard complaints from dozens of citizens about the way drug warrants are served in the city. As for Mr. Stewart, his trial was scheduled for next April, and prosecutors were seeking the death penalty. But after losing a hearing last May on the legality of the search warrant, Mr. Stewart hanged himself in his jail cell.
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