Speeding Praetorians

They are doing that stuff around here too! I’ve been thru this a few times already. Without the arresting part, so far!

Thanks, Carl!

I am just now (today) feeling normal again. Hit me hard Weds. morning – I think it was some deli meat I ate the night before. Probably lost 5 pounds since then… hey, maybe I could market it as the next rapid weight loss diet plan?

But yeah – it’s as sick as I’ve ever been, too. You lose the will to live, almost – which gives me some insight into how it must be for people with chronic severe health problems. I don’t know whether I could take that for very long….

You bet, Carl!

I’m still far from 100 percent, incidentally. I done et something I ought not to have last week and have been doing the Dysentery Disco ever since… so, pardon any unusual incoherence. I hope to be firing on all cylinders soon…

The moon, the stars, the world:
The illusion of courts & jurisdictions

Long walks on night patrol
that’s what good for the soul:

peeking into windows
watching tired housewives

trying to fight off
their beer-maddened husbands.

Thank you, Carl,
I look forward to intelligent discussions with you. IF we could purge the law-enforcement community of the “bad apples” (along with the politicians that make “bad law”) we would be better off. Of course, this would dilute the power of the “thin blue line”, but it could be doable.
Please Google “oath keepers” for more info.
Thanks,

I have had two different officers tell me that the cops frequently lie in court. I believe them.

LYING IN COURT

Google: TestiLYING

I believe that testiLYING is common practice among drug warriors. I consider them the scum of the earth because most if not all of them know that the Drug War is pure bullshit! If I knew that some drug warriors were headed into a deadly ambush I would remain silent.

TestiLYING is perjury. Purgery is a felony and I insist on “equal protection of the laws”.

I’ve been screamed at by cops on multiple occasions. I’ve had a cop lie in court against me (traffic ticket).

Keep in mind, I am a risk adverse engineer with two college degrees. I am professionally employed. I am shy by nature. I tend to keep to myself. These events all happened when I was in my thirties. I have never committed a real crime in my life. Not even as a teenager.

I drive with a camera running because of what has happened to me.

I now do almost all of my driving in a little plain four door sedan. Due to this in the last 3 years I haven’t been hassled. The last time I had to deal with a cop was two weeks before I bought this car.

Anyway, like you say, this isn’t supposed to happen to good people. But I’m not good people because I am not a sheep. If I pretend to be a sheep I am left alone.

EИJOY

I enjoy your writing too Carl, I think you bring a lot to the table. It will take a big posse both numerically and mentally if America hopes to detox from its stupor and rejoin the ranks of legitimate first world society.

One of my best friends is an ex-cop/soldier named Stan, and he enjoys nothing more than rehashing his many stories of Praetorian privilege. He loves Bill O’Reilly and brings to life the staunch Traditionalist that Bill portrays to be in front of TV cameras and contractually obligated teleprompter scripts.

Stan tells of celebrity favors, trying to give CPR to some ladies dad but he croaks anyway. About finding a dead fat guy in a recliner who died because the neighbor girl who helps out turned off the air conditioning in his RV; he’s too big to get out of the chair anymore; and ends up literally cooking to death.

What needs to stop, is third world behavior.

Third world thinking is chasing perps with clubs and guns. Second world thinking is there really are bad guys and good guys, and we need strong men to deal with them accordingly using the savings of the First Worlders against their will.
First world thinking is saying balls out = all men are created equal = each man can pursue happiness in the privacy of his own property, whether it be an opium planter or as a brothelkeeper. How can we the richest strongest males build a framework where the capable many ascend to us First Worlders and stand shoulder to shoulder instead of only the chosen few.

VEИOM

In the case of mammals such as the platypus & slow loris, only the males produce venom; production levels rise greatly during breeding season and mate competition. It is believed that mammals use venom as an offensive weapon to assert dominance during this crucial life or death period.

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Hi Carl,

Apologies for the delay in responding. My old friend Sal – Sal Monella – showed up the other day and I have been worshipping the god with him since then. I think I am just now coming out of it. Never buy green meat!

Based on all you’ve written – including your civil tone – I expect you’re one of the old style cops. That is, someone who can be reasoned with, who isn’t a steroid-jacked thug with a badge. You’ve got perspective and are thoughtful. Not an “it’s the law” martinet. I wish there were more out there like you.
But something has changed. For one, cops in general have become more militarized. The buzz cuts, the tactical gear – and the attitude. For two, the balance that used to exist – not perfect, but it did exist – between what they call “officer safety” and acting with some degree of forbearance toward civilians has shifted. All too often, Officer 82nd Airborne expects and demands absolute servility – and will escalate the situation out of all proportion. These are the stories we keep seeing pop on in the news and on YouTube. For example, the case of the older man who was Tasered in his own home just because he didn’t want to go to the hospital after falling. He was scraped up a little, but didn’t feel the need. But the cop would not respect his wishes and ended up using the Taser on this clearly harmless older guy who posed no threat to “officer safety.” Etc.

I’ll add to this as I recover!

Boscoreli,

Did you even read what Eric wrote?

He wrote nothing false or misleading. What happened is a misinterpretation on your part. He cited his source – which, by extension, came from the freaking Cato Institute. Eric never denied that he was charged with reckless driving but rather he was making a point that Saunders hardly received consequences for his actions. “Consequences” being the key word he used in the sentence before he gets into talking about Saunders and reckless driving.

Since your sticking with “just the facts ma’am” then stick to all of them. “The police don’t accept the ruling” – I didn’t find that in any news story I read. So, other than Martinez speaking against him I haven’t found any of his fellow officers speaking out against it.

Passing the buck to the civil service commission? True, they are responsible for reinstating the guy, however, he wouldnt be up for a rehire if he was fired, as he should have been, for his McDonalds incident.

Further more, quit acting as the voice of logic if you are not also going to be open-minded; this guy obviously felt comfortable enough to deliberately break the law – I wonder why. Could it be that he was surrounded by fellow officers that commit similar offenses? Yes, that is even more possible than you’re claim that his fellow officers want him out.

This is not a crime blotter, ladelling out the gruel of the official lies whilst wearing Uncle Ben’s hat! Where is the sauce for your assertions friend? Sauce please. Even if Eric timidly bows to your corrections and edits the post with these facts, do the underlying abstractions within this story change?

You see, the act of isolation involved in concept-formation is a process of abstraction. It’s a selective mental focus that takes out or separates a certain aspect of reality from all others.

Eric here is isolating certain attributes from the “Praetorians” that possess them. He’s also depicting the context and specific actions that “Praetorians” perform which define them as such. These abstractions so made concrete and gleefully understood by like-minded men such as myself as concretes thus become the building blocks of new knowledge and social pattern recognition and coordination skills.

There are thousands, and maybe millions who know what “praetorians” are, and why placing their third world Cro-Magnon asses above 1st world men is the root cause of our recent slide from first world status back down to second and even third world status wherever this unterfahren be found.

Cops operate under a third world mindset. At best they work with their fellow praetorians to preserve a second world authoritarian lifestyle.

The higher naked apes are able to perceive entities, motions, attributes, and patterns regarding entities. Under property rights and self determination, they can ascend and remain in first world status.

But what most animals and many naked apes cannot perform is the process of abstraction—of mentally separating attributes, motions or properties from entities.

It has been said that an animal or socially deficient naked ape can perceive two oranges or two potatoes, but cannot grasp the concept “two.”

Peace officers ought not to have bad laws to work with. Get rid of the bad laws beginning with unconstitutional Drug Prohibition* which is an open invitation to corruption and does great harm to harmless persons. Drug Prohibition has degenerated into a legal racket that serves opportunists and parasites on both sides of the law.

Tinsley Grey Sammons (1936 –)

*Destroy the toughest first and the rest will fall like dominoes.

Carl, you come across as solid and honest. But your statement “Most of us [cops] really do care about the good people and enjoy putting true low lifes in jail.” in not in alignment with reality. Tell me please, are there no cops you’re aware of in your department who:

. Have an “I’m your overlord” attitude toward non-cops.

. Beat people well beyond what is necessary to subdue or arrest them.

. Scream gratuitously at people.

. Lie in court and then brag about it to other cops.

If your answer is “no” to all of these, then either you live in a very exceptional part of the country or you’re blind.

And tell me please, whether or not you enforce victimless “crimes”, such as the drug war, do you or would you feel any compunction about taking part in ruining people’s lives for personal choices they have made?

One last question: have you or would you report any rogue cops you are/were aware of to your superiors? If yes, would you see to it that your superiors followed through in taking appropriate disciplinary action or criminal charges?

Thanks,
JdL

And no response for the words that hurt most of all?

Carl, in my posts “good people” are those who conform and obey. “bad people” are people who fail to do at least one of those two things. Who fall outside the narrow band of choice we are allowed. Who go outside what has been called “the hassle free zone”.

It’s very easy for someone to dislike cops these days. Those of us who in one way or another do not conform or obey some edict regarding our person have negative encounters with cops. Repeatedly until we give up and at least pretend to conform and obey.

First of all, it’s “anarchyst”, NOT “anticryst”. Show a little respect for us “mundane people”, “Carl”. Don’t forget that we pay your salary and pension . . .
It looks like I hit a nerve. I WAS THERE. The “thin blue line” protects ALL sworn officers, regardless of their criminal behavior and is emphasized EVERY DAY at the academy. Of course, the instructor put in a disclaimer “you didn’t hear it from me”, but . . .
You appear to be one of those that cannot take constructive criticism about your “profession”. Grow up, will ya,

I have had the exact same thought. If safety were truly the matter of concern, then the logical conclusion would be the outlawing of all private ownership of transportation and only public transportation for all of us mundanes.

Since the unconstitutional Drug War began, how many innocents have been arrested, jailed, imprisoned, impoverished and even killed while unconstitutional drug laws were being enforced.

Were every individual who has violated his oath of office to be hanged, the rope makers would have to hire another shift.

We’re sorry we killed your daddy little girl. Here’s a few million taxpayer dollars to make it all better.

Gawdfukindamn! What does it take to outrage the American People?

Hi John,

Just the other day, I had a cop whiz by me on a section of road that has recently had its speed limit knocked down from 45 to 35. He was running between 45 and 50. He was not on a call. I know this because I discreetly followed him for 20-plus miles. He was just headed home, like me.

The thing is this: You and I know this whole “speeding” thing is a farce. A vicious farce. I don’t fault the cop for driving at a perfectly reasonable speed. I fault him – and the system – for applying a double standard that says he can “speed” but I cannot. The standard ought to be: Is the individual driving competently? Velocity, as such, is only one of many factors – as you know. A skilled, attentive driver doing say 75 MPH is much less of a threat to himself or others than a distracted/addled, half-blind person doing the speed limit. Right? But the system fixates on velocity – and dumbed-down velocity. Why? Because it’s easy. You and I both know the system is about revenue more than “safety.” What we have is a system of for-profit law enforcement – and that’s what rubs people like me the wrong way.

If you were a peace officer and spent your time going after the rapists, child molesters, burglars, gang bangers, murderers, etc. that you mention, I’d be fully in your corner. But you know as well as I do that a great deal of “law enforcement” involves victimless crimes – from “buckle-up” laws to enforcement of “speeding” and many other things besides.

You mention that you support Ron Paul and consider yourself a Libertarian. Yet you have chosen a profession that requires you to arrest (or harass/fine) people for non-crimes. For doing things that may be “illegal” – but involve no harm to others. And it’s a pretty basic Libertarian tenet that a “crime,” properly speaking, must involve an actual victim. Does this bother you? I personally could not spend my days handing out tickets for failing to “buckle up,” or subjecting my fellow citizens to probable cause-free dragnet-style “safety” checks. Let alone throwing people in jail for possessing an arbitrarily illegal “drug.” Etc.

I’d like you to think about why it is that a growing number of not-the-problem Americans (people who are not criminals, who are responsible, just trying to get through their day) don’t like or even respect cops. Why we fear you.

And resent you.

Hi John,

A reader sent me this:

In the St. Louis area, an Illinois state trooper (who was not responding to an emergency call) was driving over 100 miles an hour, was sending e-mails, and making personal calls right before he struck a car head-on and killed two teenage sisters.
The SOB even had the balls to try to collect workers comp.
Ultimately, the state paid the family a settlement of $8 million but it took four years and even then Illinois was dragging its feet because it is broke and is months behind paying its bills.

link to an article, you can search for more on the St Louis Post Dispatch website

http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/court-awards-million-for-teens-deaths-attributed-to-illinois-trooper/article_5bbc30c5-201c-563b-a193-619b5b55fe9b.html

Cops rarely obey the speed limit around here. Also, I’ve heard this ‘on a call excuse’ many times before. All I have to say on that is that these ‘no code’ calls must almost always get canceled. Because I usually catch back up to the cops or find them parked at the doughnut shop or in their favorite spot running radar.

A couple-three years ago I encountered a rather aggressively driving cook county mounty. He was tailgating, speeding, etc. Showing poor advanced planning typical of that sort of driving style. Without breaking the speed limit I successfully passed him. Eventually he got ‘loose’ came on hard about 20 over until he was riding my ass. Then as I finish my pass of a line of drivers before the road goes from 4 lanes to two this cop nearly clips the right rear corner of my car going around me. I look at him. He then stops in the merge. Waves me by and then lights me up. Yep… this cop who is driving like ass, whom I would normally be told is on one of these ‘no code’ calls has time to pull me over and exercise his authoritah because he didn’t like how I looked at him.

On another occasion a suburban cop nearly sucks the door off my car on an empty arterial late at night. I speed up, still slower than him a block behind and losing agound.. another cop pulls me over for ‘drafting’ the first cop. Gives me the he’s ‘on a call, no code’ BS. Tells me where the call is… I find that odd. Why tell me? Shouldn’t tell me if it is real. I get a verbal warning and I decide I’ll stop at this bar where the call is. Just a block or two down the road. (I didn’t see the first cop turn in there either) No way it could be sorted out that quickly. No cops there to be found. BS.

I’m not saying it doesn’t happen, but I still haven’t seen these ‘you mundanes don’t understand, it’s a no code call’ turn out that way. Where it looks like they are just speeding, they are just speeding. Around here anyway. We mundanes aren’t all stupid. We can see the difference.

Better you should let go your delusions of being a hero and a part of civil society and seek instead to minimize your predations and distortions of peaceful cooperation and commerce.

Above all else, the rise of the Praetorian state and mindset has eviscerated property rights. In my younger days, the United States authorities and citizens, for the most part, respected property. Respect for property instills an empathy and ingrained ethos: most of us want to own property, and we want others to respect the property we own. In turn, we respect our neighbor’s property. That’s 90% of law and order right there. If you have that, a squad of local volunteer policeman could provide the missing 10%.

Through a crooked system, much of the saved value of our country has been siphoned off. Superceding even our credit score, we all have been assigned a perp score. The higher this neo-slavery score goes, the more property rights are violated. The funding of all the squad cars, computers, weapons, jails, precincts, pensions, and everything else is itself the largest theft that has ever occurred in the history of crime. It is cops, lawyers, judges, and the like who are the real bad guys, rapists, child molesters, burglars, gang bangers, murderers, etc. Their violation of the public trust makes them the most dangerous and notorious criminals of all.

If you truly want to aid in the return to our previous relative harmony, start working for the power of the police to be minimized, and for the importance of property rights to be maximized.

Next time I won’t hurry to your residence when you need help.

I don’t ever and won’t ever need the kind of “help” people like you provide. You are a criminal in a clown suit, nothing more.

It’s pretty pathetic you calling yourself a “libertarian”. Real libertarians don’t become cops.

Okay what a bunch of garbage. I’m not risking my career for some dirtbag I will catch later legally. I don’t know what academy thinks they can teach that, but that’s ridiculous.

You need to go on a ride-along sir..

There is no need for anything to get the dog to alert. The courts have ruled that the dog alert is a mystical horse whisperer thing that only the cop dog handler can understand. The cop is the sole interpreter for the dog. Only he can say if the dog alerted or not.

However this is often rarely needed as the handler can also get the dog to make a visible to layman ‘alert’ because the dog wants to please the handler. There are youtube videos showing this. It’s considered improper by those who train dogs to detect substances but the cops can use it and without a good lawyer and paying expert witnesses it will likely stand in court.

Thus, the dog is simply a prop. If the cop really wants to search the dog will always alert for him.

The use of this dog prop satisfies the ignorant and trusting masses that these powers will only be used on ‘bad people’. So long as these search anyone techniques aren’t used to hassle soccer moms and corporate management types everything will go along smoothly.

And apparently no charges were filed against any of the criminals with badges. This is where an Informed Grand Jury should have investigated and issued Presentments ordering that indictments be drawn.

Wake up folks, elections alone ain’t gonna fix America.

Tinsley Grey Sammons (1936 –)

Carl,

You’re retired. I imagine you had a fulfilling career and have much wisdom to share. However, being that you stuck around the 20+ years to earn that retirement I doubt you were witness to the types of disgust, or anything else bloggers here refer to, that innocent people experience to truly give objective feedback.
With that said, people shouldn’t generalize based on a few bad experiences, however, there are not only a “few” bad reports on the fuzz. Of course your fellow officers will not present to you as they do to civilians (especially clovers) as we live in the grey; not the black/ white area that disillusioned people reside.
It would be hard to determine what you, Carl, mean when your referring to IQ. Can most officers perform rithmatic, reading, and riting? Sure. The intelligence needed to be an Social Control Agent is in complete opposite of what George is writing about. To be an officer, and keep ones sanity, ignorance is bliss. Officers must practice prejudice, discrimination, and possess a grandiose sense of self.
They must regularly pre – judge (prejudice) people to stay safe and to conduct a respectable investigation, discrimination is effective but to make an omlette you have to crack a few eggs (in the process you treat people unjustly) and finally if you did not see yourself as a savior, or someone special why would you care about the job? We all know that pay isn’t great.
Not a knock on you. If I get robbed and beaten im dialing those three numbers. But like everything in this life – not everything is as it seems and no one is perfect. So, enough of you, police, do the “right thing” so that the overwhelming majority can get away with their illegal liberties. Don’t make excuses for officers (their not all getting cancelled calls when they run that red light). An excuse is the skin of a lie and bullshit.
So, don’t pass the buck onto the feds for hiring biased fuzz. Oh and Affirmative Action? Really? Where the heck did that come from? Black Saunders?
Do you really think either of those officers in the movie “Crash” learned their lesson? No, they didn’t.

Hey Carl. I tried to skip the high scrabble value words, but my prose is still a bit thick. Nothing a little knuckling & enhanced editing techniques wouldn’t help though, I’m sure.

IMHO, outside their propaganda bubble, cops know that they never get the girl or have a real person as a friend. Because they never act like a detached value providing adult. The best they can hope for is a farce of affection from a litany of gold digging hookers and glad handing hang arounds plotting to shiv and run at the first opportunity. Hopefully hookers and takers too stupid to realize, the silver plating on your old badge has all worn away to betray nothing but tin underneath.

At a micro level, cops spend most of their day as a heavily armed child, indulging their every whim, unleashing lethal black & blue tantrums whenever they don’t get their way. The rest of their time they spend as an overbearing abusive parent, abusing their power to overstep into everyone’s life, desperately maintaining their facade of goodness and delusions of grandeur as “society’s parent.”

At a macro level, the problem with cops is they are a point on the spear ensuring the world public swallows the welfare/warfare shit sandwich and supplicates on demand while chanting “work makes you free.” & “government makes us good.”

With all due disrespect, statistically speaking, you are a retired petty taxslave ship-captain and fair-fight-adverse bouncer for the evil supervillians of the status-quo. A blue doorag bandit fake servant, holding the true heads of households captive in their own estates and forcing them to turn over the fruits of their labors to your unseen masters.

While you proudly marched in step, America won the space race. Unfortunately, the race was never about extraterrestial living but rather the installation of a SKYNET system that covers the prisonified earth in virtual barbed wire, HQ video surveillance, and remote robotic assassin/wardens always on patrol.

No one sees American Authorities such as yourself as you claim to be, a hive of organized productivity and collective stability. They see only a drone in a plague swarm of Africanized Bees and infected pests to be gassed on sight, lest their bizarre colony collapse disorder should infect the entire world.

Hi Carl,

The basic problem, as I see it, is we’ve got a system that’s no longer based on peace-keeping. Instead, we have a system of law enforcement – with many of those laws involving actions that have no victim. Just: Thou shall not. Technical foul “infractions.” Victimless “crimes.”

I would have no issue with a cop driving faster than the posted limit (because the posted speed limit is usually absurd) except for the fact that he’ll ticket me for doing the same thing! That’s what annoys us Mundanes. The speed limit regime is ridiculous – and we all know it, including the police. It’s no great mystery why cops ignore the speed limit. Everyone does! But cops don’t get ticketed and lectured about “safe driving” when they do it!

This gins up a lot of resentment.

We’re also fearful – because we are no longer secure in our persons and effects from unreasonable searches. Cops used to have to have probable cause to stop a driver and demand his papers, etc. Not anymore. We can be stopped and searched for no reason – other than that we happen to be on that particular road at that particular time and they are conducting “safety” checks. Etc. It’s outrageous.

It did not used to be this way.

I hope it will not always be this way.

Thanks, by the way, for posting. This is one of the few places left where us Mundanes can have an honest back-and-forth with a cop without risking a wood shampoo!

It’s my understanding that sovereign immunity ends when one’s actions exceed the scope of one’s official duty. Once they cross that line, they CAN be held liable for their actions. It’s a wonder to me that more insurance comapnies don’t use this in defense of complaints against “public servants.”

Many, if not most, lawyers are lazy and don’t want to REALLY fight for their clients. That’s why they tell you there’s nothing they can do for you. Fighting city hall isn’t easy, it’s not cheap, and there’s no guarantee they’ll find any real justice in the court system.

They also know that theyre going to have to live in that town and appear in those courts again. They’re afraid of retaliation AND they have no trust in the system of which they’re part.

A sunset clause would be perfect given that laws outlive their practicality. Lawmakers would have more to busy themselves rather than thinking up new laws. The fact that laws are continually pushed through each year is alarming considering the finite freedoms we are already left with. On a long enough time scale we are sure to be remanded to a matrix like existence.

For Sheriff Mack

A PHILOSOPHICAL LITMUS TEST

Where do you stand on Drug Prohibition?
This simple, straightforward question quickly eliminates the half-hearted, the hopelessly ill-informed, and the Stealth Statists. Simple is best, so keep it simple by insisting upon an across the board repeal of de facto Drug Prohibition.

Interfering with an adult’s efforts to relieve his personal suffering is morally equivalent to inflicting the suffering. Deliberately inflicting suffering is intrinsically criminal. The insane and intrinsically criminal Drug War has brought dreadful suffering to millions. The Drug War is a Power Precedent that has been instrumental in the legislative and judicial nullifying of the Bill of Rights.

Without Bill of Rights protection for the Individual, the United States is simply another totalitarian nation that systematically inflicts Draconian punishment for legislated offenses that are not real crimes. Nothing endangers the American Ideal* more than whimsical lawmaking and judicial ukase that bypasses Bill of Rights restraint. No foreign enemy could ever have damaged America as deeply as our own lawmakers and judges have succeeded in doing.

*The American Ideal is expressed with incomparable eloquence in the non-amendable Unanimous Declaration approved by Congress in July 1776.

The Nuremberg Precedent, which brought crimes against humanity to humankind’s administration of Justice, is morally applicable to the War on Drugs and/or any other government sponsored crime.

Sadly, the Amoricon sheepletard majority is so thoroughly brainwashed in the cops-as-heroes-in-blue bullshit that their attitudes will never change. The only possibility of a perception change is if the pork brigade runs out of “poodles” {“people ‘we’ don’t like”) to bully and persecute and starts turning on white, upper middle class people in large numbers. Only then, maybe, will the facade crumble.

there was a sale at Dunkin Donuts.

When I was a bit younger and stupider than I am now I used to fall in right behind any cop I caught speeding without the light bar on and follow him at the same speed. They really don’t like this; usually they’d just flash the lights on and off a couple times to warn me off.

One time though I was driving over Snoqualmie Pass following a sheriff’s deputy about 150 miles out of his jurisdiction going 85+, marveling at the nerve it took for this guy to do this, when he abruptly changed lanes, slammed on the brakes, shot in behind me and I mean right on my ass, and got on the radio. He didn’t get the excuse he was looking for to pull me over, heard “concealed carry holder” and decided to let it go, who knows, but he drove off and I decided I’d had enough fun for one day.

I’ve read enough Will Grigg since those days that I don’t do that sort of thing anymore.

Oh God this pisses me off. I call it “the dam” because nothing flows through. Sometimes feel like I’m the only person in the world that will pass a cop on the highway. Never been pulled over for it once, and it’s nice to get out of the pack and watch it fade into the distance.

Less than one wrong answer away! One wrong look, gesture, etc…

When I was seven years old I wanted to see what would happen if I cocked my Daisy Red Ryder and left the lever down when I pulled the trigger. Naturally I was instantly held painfully ACCOUNTABLE for my foolish experiment and therefore it was never necessary to repeat the lesson.

Excellent point, Merry – it’s another example of our system of presumptive guilt. We are treated like criminals on the theory that we might commit a crime (e.g., random “safety” checks, TSA). And if we object, then we have merely confirmed our “criminal” status in their minds. It’s the very essence of Sovietism.

But in a few weeks, most Americans will celebrate “their freedoms”…

Oh, heck no!

That would impair “officer safety” or some such.

Nah, I guess there’s not a politician gutsy enough to support this in the whole USSA, is there?

Of course not. Given that cops serve as the bodyguards/enforcement muscle of the reigning class and the reigning class depends on them for protection from us, the Mundanes that the politicians fuck over, there is NO WAY IN HELL that the politicians are going to put constraints on them.

This particular event seems to be occurring pretty often, if the news stories I’ve been reading (and receiving) are any reflection.

“Officer safety” amounts to a license to kill.

The worst criminals are the office holders responsible for making and ratifying bad laws. A tactical war will not fix America, it will take a strategic war to do that.

Elections alone – a tactical war – will never salvage respect for the American Ideal. If Justice Fellowships and Informed Grand Juries cannot do the job then revolution is the only recourse. If there must be bloodshed and death then it’s up to the People to make certain that the right people bleed and die. One could not ask for a better paper trail to help in identifying them.

So far it has been innocents who have done the bleeding and dying and their numbers grow.

WE hold these Truths…

tgsam

And when they aren’t gangsters they are prison guards.

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/113274.html

That’s how people are treated in prisons, detention camps, and government schools.

Yep, that’s the typical attitude of the regular posters at swine websites and forums. They don’t even try to mask their contempt of us mere mundanes or the laws they’re supposed to be upholding.

Officer.com (a.k.a. doubledigitiq.com) is a typical slop trough where you see this stuff all the time.

“Since the good people of Denver can only vote for the Mayor and hope that he’ll crack down on bad cops there’s not much can be done.”

There are other forms of “voting”.

“law enforcement based on the elected Sheriff model could help fix a bad situation.”
Tell that to the long suffering voters of Maricopa County Arizona, whose ELECTED sheriff, one Joe Arpiao, is one of the biggest douche-bags in the history of law enforcement
http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/search/results/keyword:Joe+Arpaio/type:all/
There are 341 PAGES of references to his administration’s fuck-ups, including the murders of several inmates in his jails.
One case which sticks in my mind is the story of a woman who was diabetic, and was taken into custody by sheriff Joe’s boys.She was taken to jail for failing to pay a traffic ticket. While there, she was denied her insulin. she went into shock and DIED in their custody. Over a fucking speeding ticket.
The problem is not the methodology of selecting a mafioso. It’s the existence of the Mafia itself.

I live in an area that has an elected Sheriff. The local sheriff’s office is just as bad as the one in Denver.

In local elections, just as in state and federal elections, the scum always rises to the top.

Tinsley, may the right side of your timeline (1936 – ) not be filled in for many years to come. I agree with you completely.

I agree Tinsley. I can live with the young entrepreneurs that work the inner cities sidewalks. If one of them catches me, injures me, or impoverishes me, its my own fault for not defending myself or avoiding harms way.
I can even live with parasites living at my expense, so long as they don’t stop me from doing what I want to do with whatever is left over for me.
When caught in the Praetors’ box, wagon, or pit; you’re in a time machine. Suddenly you’re transported 500-50000 years back in the past. Its either you or him in a grunting Quest For Fire prehistoric death match or Bubonic London knockaround.

“the genuine Law of the Land”

My fault…it was 19 cars and 40 adults…apologies offered

only it wasn’t Denver PD, it was another town’s finest. Can’t rememver which, bit not Denver.

Here in Washington, the WSP have a bad habit of tailgating.. I mean, one to two lenghts behind, for miles.. at freeway speeds. I called on a guy once, his duty sargeant called me back a few days later, tried to blow me off as a crank. A few minutes’ conversation, some about myself (commercial license for thirty five yars, no tickets for twenty five, no accidents ever), and he changed his tune. Said he’d “talk to the officer” in question. Didn’t do much good, they still do it all the time. I’m waiting for one of them to pull that on me.. I’ll flash my brakelights, he’ll likely light me up, but I’ll be doing precisely the posted limit with plenty of following distance in front… “well, I thought it prudent to add sufficient distance for YOU, since you don’t have any”. He;ll likely get crusty, maybe even go off on me when he learns I am lawfully carrying. I don’t care…. HE will have put ME in danger. Stupid people need to abide by the same rules we mundanes do.

Am I the only one who think it’d be funny to buy one of those billboards that say “buzzed driving/drunk driving/buzzed driving is drunk driving” and, leaving the photos of a mangled person unchanged, change the caption to read “cop beating/thug beating/cop beating is thug beating”?

Cops are the biggest hypocrites on the planet. Right now there is a case going on where a Toronto cop arrested an off duty Halton Region cop who was drivig drunk. The arresting officer is being treated like a rat by his colleagues. Another cop acutally followed him from the station after processing the drunken cop and gave him a made up ticket for a traffic offense. The ticket was thrown out and the writing officer disciplined, but not fired for his abuse of power. Makes you sick, doesn’t it, how we are treated differently than their own?

I once watched two Halton cops driving down Hwy 25 in Milton, Ontario, put on their lights, race through a red light and then pull into the local Tim Hortons doughnut shop. Lying, thieving, cheating bastards.

Give me a Break! I took mu son’s Crown Victoria to Charleston, West Virginia behind my 2000 GMC Sierra. At at about 65, I turned off the radio, put both hands on the wheel, and paid attention to my knitting. About 6 months later, The GMC had been replaced by a Ford Explorer, ordered with the heavy duty tow package. Wife got tired of being “Mother trucker”, so the clean truck had to go. I had to take my son’s Crown Victoria from Virginia Beach, to Joplin, Mo., where I turned it over to people who would take it to California for him. I thought that loosing 1,500 lbs, of tow vehicle weight, 18 inches of wheelbase, and 80 cubic inches of engine would be a problem. HAHA! Back in Virginia Beach, I had noted that getting on the freeway was no problem, just pick a spot, and stand up on the gas. It accelerated UP HILL with the trailer in tow! Running across I-64, I stayed in the right lane. Just comfortable puttin’ along, radio and air conditioning going, one hand draped over the top of the wheel, riding the rocking chair between 2 semis, when some guy went by us in a real hurry. I looked down at the speedometer, and noted that I WAS RUNNING JUST SHORT OF 90, IN THE RIGHT LANE!! Other than the view of grill in the interior mirror, the trailer just may not have been there. I didn’t kill the cruise control, because the semi behind me only showed the left headlight and part of the grill in my mirror.
Eric, you live in an area where there are too many cops you don’t know. Maybe it simply that you live where there are too many cops, period!

“willful disregard for the disregard for the safety of persons or property is guilty of reckless driving” Someone that willfully endangers others I believe should get at least 90 days in jail. I believe such people should not be on the roadway ever.