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, March 30, 2014

Our Militarized Police - How Nice to Have Our Own SS in every Burg and Borough - The Economist Versus SWAT

Our enemy government becomes a bigger, more heavily armed enemy. m/r

PJ Media » The Economist Versus SWAT

By Jack Dunphy On March 29, 2014 @ 11:05 pm In Crime,economy,Gun Control,Homeland Security,Politics,US News 
On Monday morning, two LAPD officers responded to a reported incident of domestic violence in the Hollywood Hills, a neighborhood where violent crime is all but unheard of.  Radio calls of this nature can be harrowing, but as the officers approached the house there was nothing to indicate that this one was especially so.  Until the shooting started [1].

Once at the doorway the officers were met with gunfire, which wounded one of them.  They returned fire with uncertain results and held their ground until help arrived.  With the wounded officer removed to safety, additional officers surrounded the house and attempted to communicate with the gunman.  When repeated efforts to talk to the suspect went unanswered, a SWAT team was called in, and when they entered the house they found the man dead from a gunshot wound.  As of this writing it has not been determined if the suspect killed himself or was killed in the initial exchange of gunfire.

Few would argue that use of a SWAT team in these circumstances was unwarranted.  Here you had a suspect who had already shot at two officers, wounding one of them.  He was believed to be barricaded in the home with access to unknown numbers and types of firearms and ammunition.  The first officers to answer the domestic violence call, with no indication of what awaited them beyond the threshold, approached the door with their semiautomatic handguns holstered.  Their pump-action shotgun would have remained in their car, as would have the semiautomatic rifle that some officers are trained to use.  The patrol officers who responded after the gunfire would have been similarly armed.  And while the first officers taking up positions outside the house would have been wearing Kevlar helmets, their concealable body armor would have been viewed as insufficient for the task of engaging and arresting a suspect whose willingness to kill had already been demonstrated.  Furthermore, the officer-needs-help call was answered by officers from several police stations, few if any of whom had ever had the opportunity to train as a coordinated unit.

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