So I've been hearing this a lot on Sirius (Octane) as of late.  It didn't really get it's worm on until today when I had to pass someone.  Now the dang thing won't leave my head.

Previously there was a discussion for what music would you want playing as you run out of ammunition in a fight with zombies.  This one is currently at the top of that list, for now anyway.

*For those that don't know, my music tastes cover just about everything except pop.  That crap can go die in a fire.  Rock, classical, and country all live in my MP3 player.

Watching Young Frankenstein for Halloween works quite well.

Even better is open carrying a 1911 as you hand out candy to little kids.  And of course absolutely nothing happens.

*I had to come up with something, that's 80 posts in a month** a new personal best.

**I'm an engineer, I like round numbers.

Saturday ended up considerably busier than expected.  Initially I had just planned to help with the ARES exercise, but it ended up they were making a trip up to the Kamiak radio site.  I went along to help since I hadn’t seen the radio site.

That’s the tower with the KABARA Repeater Antennas, as well as the packet system we were up there to work on.  Next to it is that tower is KWSU.

Inside the radio shack was some impressive equipment for the KABARA system, more specifically a pair of duplexers for the 6-meter repeater.

A stray-bullet victim says she was held prisoner for five days at a Brooklyn police station because detectives didn't believe her story about the shooting, the Daily News has learned.

The victim was denied an appearance before a judge. Was denied access to the facilities. As this was all going on she was berated as if she was lying about the incident with no evidence to the contrary.

She said detectives insisted she had been shot during a lovers' quarrel.

"They were trying to get me to say it was my friend who shot me," recalled Griffin, who is seeking $5 million from the city.

"He never had a gun," she said. "I told them he was gay; we had gone to a gay club the night before."

The friend offered to take a lie detector test and submit to a gunshot residue test on his hands, she said. He was released that morning; she was held.

To add further insult to injury there was an outstanding warrant for her arrest that was a clerical error. This was corrected, but not until she was finally able to see a judge.

The only problem I have with the monetary settlements like this is it's paid by the police departments insurance company. It should be taken out of the pockets of the officers involved as well as their superiors. This includes going all the way up the path to the chief.

State Sponsored Criminal Count 156: John Doe

Because despite a lack of evidence if you think someone's guilty lock them up without legal representation.  It's not as if you're going to have to pay for the deprivation of rights under color of law.

Yeah, the rich are getting richer faster than the poor are.  Anyone want to admit that it's not because of their race, or their family tree, or their political connections that they got that way?  My guess is that most of them got that way because they got up every day, worked themselves to death, and got to bed late after putting everything they had into their job or their business.

Blood is Boiling - DaddyBear

[Seriously go read the whole thing.  There were numerous parts that I wanted to use as the quote of the day, I felt this one worked the best.  The bottom line is he's right, these spoiled children think they're poor and disadvantaged, yet they have iPhones, laptops, food, and water.  These people think they're poor when in reality relative to the rest of the world they have life easy. 

My wife is working her ass off right now, and so am I.  When we're not working on our day jobs that have a solid steady pay, we're working on side work for extra income.  I am sleeping about like I did in college right now.  The reason being is I'm spending the rest of that time working on the blog or other web/software ventures, or working on products to tie to those ventures.

I haven't had a chance to work on t-shirt ideas lately since I'm working on getting the shop back up and running.  My goal is to find a way to mass produce a couple things I have designed and built for my own personal use.  I don't want anyone to hand me anything.  What I do want is for people to leave me to the results of my labor.  Saying someone should share the wealth when they are working 10 hour days, plus another 4 hours on pet projects at home is bull crap.  Why should someone who doesn't work be paid for doing nothing by the person who does?

Leave me to profit from my labors and ideas.  Stop trying to redistribute my wealth! -B]

We have another one.

A former Portland police officer who resigned in the face of being fired in August 2006 after he made his own "Girls Gone Wild" video, filming Madison High female students at a school dance, has pleaded guilty to seven felony sex offenses in Washington state.

Like the previous three examples, we have yet another predator among the sheep.  It is wonderful that these individuals got caught, but what is even more disturbing is the state paid all these predators to be there.

Portland police had discovered his misconduct when Graichen's sergeant asked to see what he thought was Graichen's copy of a professional "Girls Gone Wild" video, which typically shows women removing clothing or acting in a sexual nature. Graichen acidentally handed over his knockoff version, filmed at the school where Graichen was assigned, which included zoom-in shots of girls' "breasts and crotch areas."

Looks like Bloomberg has another loophole to close, called the NYPD loophole.

Five New York Police Department officers smuggled firearms and slot machines they thought were stolen and some even used bolt cutters to pilfer hundreds of boxes of cigarettes from tractor-trailer trucks as part of a 12-person theft ring that was under federal surveillance the entire time, authorities said Tuesday.

Since these officers were caught in a sting operation should I really count them.  The answer is an unequivocal yes.

Arresting fellow law enforcers in a corruption case "is a heartbreaking thing," Bharara added.

It should be the opposite of heartbreaking.  The reason being is that law enforcement should be leading by example and that anyone willing to violate the law should be held equally accountable.  If Officer Joe Bob, and Plumber Joe Bob should receive the exact same treatment under the law and the prosecutor should feel no pain whatsoever about holding them accountable.  If there's so many laws that officers are regularly breaking them, maybe the should be pulled off the books if they're not really there for the public good.

State Sponsored Criminal Count 149: William Masso

150:  John Doe #1

151:  John Doe #2

152:  John Doe #3

153:  John Doe #4

Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three or more times is enemy action.  Well folks, here's number three all within a week!

A former Kansas police officer and school board member has pleaded no contest in federal court to attempting to entice a minor for illicit sex.

But he was just a school board member I hear you cry, but wait there's more.

Duncan was the Lansing, Kan., department's "Officer of the Year" in 2008 and had served as a DARE officer and coordinator of the Safe Kids program. 

Yet again a predator sat in plain view of the public, put there in a professional capacity to protect them, to find his prey amongst his intended victims.  While he may be getting a severe punishment, the fact of the matter remains that the government has created these types of opportunities for predators.  

State Sponsored Criminal Count #147 - William Brian Duncan

Because predators are wolves and their goal is to not be seen by either their prey, or predators who would protect the prey.  The best option is to appear to be the predator protecting the prey who's really eating the prey.

So yesterday I got an email about an emergency exercise this weekend asking for help.  Local coordinator needs some help at Whitman County dispatch.

Unsurprisingly they wanted my information in advance to clear me into the building.  I just got an email from the coordinator.  Included in it was the response to him from the dispatch center. 

Subject:	RE: ARES Quarterly Exercise 10/29
Date:	Tue, 25 Oct 2011 18:26:49 +0000

Ok but I want to emphasize, there is absolutely no weapons allowed in or near the dispatch center. That being said, I will make sure the dispatch center knows you will be allowed into the building.

Now I know someone probably noted that I have a CPL on my background check.  Now for those of you from outside the area, here's why this is a facepalmable moment.

Police said the gunman started shooting from a parking lot across from the Latah County Courthouse shortly after 11 p.m. Saturday. A hail of more than 30 bullets ripped through the county’s emergency dispatch center, Duke said. Dispatchers were moved to a room in the jail area of the courthouse. Officers rushed out of the building.

This incident occurred in May 2007, and the whole incident took place less just over 10 miles by road from where the dispatch is.  In this incident officer Lee Newbill was killed as well as a civilian who responded to aid the officer.  During the incident Whitcom actually took over emergency communications for Latah county.

There is first hand experience for the area, even this dispatch center, that the disarmament does nothing to actually make anyone safer.  Yet instead of learning from that lesson and how ineffective it was at protecting people they continue the illusion.  Not only do they continue the illusion, but ignore the fact that the person they're admitting is statistically more likely to be law abiding than the general population.

So I will bite my tongue and leave it locked up.  I will have the most important tool still with me, I just hate leaving the most effective accessory for use with the most important tool.

*As a random thought, I doubt they saw my ATF paperwork for explosives.  I don't see why the state records would indicate it, but I can't help but laugh at what the response would have been if they had.

This one goes in the count for much the same reasons as #143.

Richland County deputies have arrested a uniformed Columbia police officer and charged him with prostitution.

How nice, he made sure to made sure to do this while he was being paid by the taxpayer.  But wait there's more!

Officers say they found a 17-year-old female in the room and charged her with prostitution. Deputies say Cornish was located a few blocks away.

Not sure what the age of consent is in the state of South Carolina, but frankly when it comes to something like this I don't really care.  Many who find themselves in that type of environment are victims in their own right.  This is like a tv telecast though because we're not done.

CPD officers say Cornish is a school resource officer at W.A. Perry Middle School and has been with the Columbia Police Department since May 2009.

How nice.  He had a thing for the young one's and his job provided him ready access as a predator.  The fact that he has been busted and already fired from his job says it's not fully what this count was designed for.  Yet at the same time his job allowed him predatory access to his prey.  For that it still qualifies.

State Sponsored Criminal Count: 146 - Mark Cornish

Because if you're a high school resource officer, the thing to do is to hit on all the young ladies since you're in a position of power... right?

Apparently ICE just couldn't keep itself out of the count. So today is going to be a double on the SSCC.

On the night of October 20, 2010, Angel Enrique and Jesus Antonio were in bed in their small, two-bedroom apartment in the Clairmont complex in Nashville. The doors and windows were all shut and locked. Suddenly there was a loud banging at the door and voices shouting "Police!" and "Policia!" When no one answered, the agents tried to force the door open. Scared, Jesus hid in a closet. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents began hitting objects against the bedroom windows, trying to break in. Without a search warrant and without consent, the ICE agents eventually knocked in the front door and shattered a window, shouting racial slurs and storming into the bedrooms, holding guns to their heads. When asked if they had a warrant, one agent reportedly said, "We don't need a warrant, we're ICE," and, gesturing to his genitals, "the warrant is coming out of my balls."

Here's what bugs me the most. There were 15 different residents affected by this raid, they detained people including a child purely because of their ethnicity.  This incident shows exactly what the Department of Homeland Security thinks of the Constitution and the law.  Just look at the VIPR program and the fact the TSA is now searching people traveling by bus as well as harassing truckers.  How long until they start stopping you on the way to work?  I would like to point out the double standard of the ALCU here.  They are more than happy to go after ICE over these incidents involving immigration, yet they sit on their hands when it comes to warrant-less searches during travel.

Tam's comments regarding the indignities of Soviet Russia from the 80's is looking like a positive compared to the down hill trend the DHS has placed us on.

State Sponsored Criminal Count: 145 - John Doe

Because a warrant is just a technicality and doesn't actually mean anything.  It saves us time and effort to skip the paperwork.  

Currently Eric Holder is screaming that the cause of guns going into Mexico was because of a "lack of gun control."  There's one problem with that though, it is totally false.  Not only is that statement blatantly false but given the evidence gun control is what allowed those guns to walk to Mexico.  While it may seem humorous and a joke, the fact is it's true.

I have largely been silent on Fast and Furious for one major reason.  There are a lot of other people covering it much better and more in depth than I possibly could.

To start off for those who may be familiar with the term, root cause analysis is something used in engineering to identify problems to come up with solutions that don’t just hide the problem.  Ultimately proper root cause analysis should trace the problem to a point where you can turn the issue on and off like a light switch.  Now we're going to trace back through the events and find the point where we can turn this issue that would turn this problem on and off.

Often we hear the anti-rights cultists tout how you should just give an attacker what they want.  We hear them claim, "Nothing is worth taking someone's life over."  While most could sympathize with that statement it ignores a couple very basic fundamental things with regard to someone attacking someone else.

It is also known that the blogosphere is one big circlejerk or a reverberation chamber.  Consider this a reverberation in F# to the tune of:

• The attacker is looking to steal only property. 
  

Property has a monetary value and you can easily make that comparison except for one serious flaw.  The attacker has ruled your life worth less than the monetary value of the object they're stealing.  You have worked a portion of your life to purchase that object and they are stealing that part of your life.  Not only are they stealing your life, but in attacking you they are willing to take the rest of your life to obtain it.  What if the attacker stealing your property also has a rule of leaving no witnesses.  

• The attacker is only seeking monetary gain for his personal benefit.

If this were true the following stories would have never occurred.

NAPLES, Fla. (AP) — Sheriff’s officials in southwest Florida say a clerk at a 24-hour food store shot and killed a man who tried to rob her and take her 1-year-old daughter.

Store owner Del Ackerman told the Naples Daily News (http://bit.ly/rnKaJe ) his granddaughter shot the man after he stormed into the store Tuesday afternoon and demanded money and grabbed the stroller that held her baby.

This woman reacted in defense of her children.  The man wanted not just something of monetary value, but the woman's child as well.  What would the anti-rights cultists suggest she do?  Let her child be kidnapped by someone of such high and impeccable moral character as a man who would rob a convenient store and steal a child?  Odds would greatly weigh against the safe recovery of the child at that point, but I guess the criminal's life is worth more than the child right!?  Just let the cops do their job and your child will be fine.

Or this story, where again the subject of the attack was nothing of monetary value but that of a woman's virtue.

A Cape Girardeau woman shot and fatally wounded Ronnie W. Preyer, 47, a registered sex offender who had broken into her home early this morning with the intention of raping her a second time, Cape Girardeau Prosecuting Attorney Morley Swingle said today.

There's the numerous methods from the antis about how a woman can defend herself against rape.  My personal favorite was telling women to vomit on themselves.  There is a much better solution and it results in a safety improvement for women everywhere.  Shoot the bastard.  A cops response averages about 88fps(60 MPH) at best from a distance measure in miles.  A .45 ACP will be there at 850fps from a distance measured in yards at most.  Guess which will reach the attacker first.  It will also make for damn sure he can never do it to another woman ever again.  Many times though the mere presence of force will cause the attacker to seek a new victim.  Attackers want easy prey that is safe for them, the are out to inflict pain on others, not to have their victim fight back.

Which brings me to my third story that seems right out of Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange.

AN 84-YEAR-OLD ex-university official savagely attacked by four young punks during a walk in Wissahickon Valley Park earlier this week theorizes that the beating he endured was a cruel game of "get the old geezer."

These kids went out and assaulted and beat an old man because they knew him to be an easy victim, unable to defend himself unarmed against people a 1/4 his age.  Their victim selection in this case was lucky because when the elderly man is armed, all the sudden the field is leveled .

All three of those cases there was nothing to give the attacker but the life of their child, their virtue, or lastly their own life.  When one attempts to execute harm to another unprovoked, the attacker has stated that their victim's worth is 0.  They have no value on your life, so why are you attempting to provide a value to theirs?  The lives of your family, your virtue, and your life should be weighted as priceless.  A person attacking you is not worth more than your own life.

These cases illustrate the absurdity of the assumptions and their complete lack of understanding.  They are attempting to take a very large complex subject and provide a black and white lens to view it through.  Not only that though they are trying to state there is no black in their world, only white.

In all three of those incidents our criminal occupational hazard reduction organizations would wish that the attacker succeeded with their attacks.  The victim has less rights than the criminal in their world view.  The problem is, a criminal has surrendered all his rights in attempting to violate the sovereignty of another human being.  A citizen has the right to defend themselves from attack using any means of force possible.  If the criminal would rather remain unventilated, I invite him to stay his ass home and leave people alone.  If he continues to prey upon the citizenry, may he one day make a victim selection failure and pay the permanent irrevocable costs for his sins and transgressions against his fellow man.

The myth that giving an attacker what they want will be safe for you is totally false as people have died doing just that.  The myth that it's not just worth killing someone over is false, your attacker feels you're worth killing for it.  So remember, when someone tells you to just give them what they want and you'll be fine, they're lying.  Not only are they lying, but the care more about the criminal than they do you.  That's a really friendly thing to do right there, side with the person who wishes you and your family harm.  

At the debate, pitting British barristers against American attorneys, lawyers for the former colonial power argued that America’s Declaration of Independence in 1776 “was not only illegal, but actually treasonable,” according to the BBC.

Thank you captain obvious, would you like to inform the world about something we didn't already know?

The lawyers representing the British team decided that the Americans had no legal grounds for secession. "[President Abraham] Lincoln made the case against secession and he was right."

The only reason Mr. Lincoln's case against succession is correct in your eye is because the Union army won.  Had the confederacy won, would you make the case that solidified the right to succession.  You're lack of a case became obvious at the following:

"The grievances listed in the Declaration were too trivial to justify secession," the British lawyers wrote. "The main one -- no taxation without representation -- was no more than a wish on the part of the colonists, to avoid paying for the expense of protecting them against the French during seven years of arduous war and conflict."

Easy for you crumpet eating tea swilling ass hats to come to America and call that no big deal when you and your ancestors were provided the representation.  Further that list of grievances is not trival and is a list of actions that grossly neglect and constitute a breach of contract between the government and the governed.  Government derives it's power from the consent of the people, the British lost the consent to the government of the American people.  Unexpectedly the British would view this action as treasonous, hence Franklin's comment:

“We must all hang together or most assuredly we will all hang separately.”

It was well known at the time the British considered that treason. A revolution like that had never happened in the history of the world.  The idea that the Declaration could be considered null and void went right out the window when Lord Conwallis surrendered at Yorktown.  At that point the Declaration was fully ratified since the British did not have the ability to try and execute us as the treasonous rats they felt us to be.

Take your ball and go home you tea swilling, self-defense hating, morons.  For more of my thoughts on the Declaration of Independence, Independence day, and the Lee Resolution, visit the links.

Those barristers are nothing but a bunch of gorramed dough-assed, bad teethed, yellow bellied, crumpet munching morons.  You're just upset cause you got your ass handed to you by a bunch of farmers with pitchforks! 

White House spokesman Jay Carney, however, told the press pool that the size of the small event dictated that the Teleprompter be left behind, not this week's theft.

Do you think I have the memory of a rock?  Because well I don't and I quite distinctly remember him speaking at a small event at an elementary school.  Guess what was there!?

So yeah, he went without the teleprompters as planned?  I will point out his discussion with the students was without a prompter, I'll give him the benefit of the doubt on the validity of that claim.  But the discussion with the media after had them front and center. It doesn't matter how small it is, he relies on them heavily, unless he's talking to children.

"It's freedom of religion, not from religion" needs to be made into a keyboard macro for this time of year.

JayG - Yes. I Know Massachusetts Sucks.

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[This is one of my annoyances that piss me off like no other.  The reason it pisses me off is because much of the complaints and issues that occur around the holidays are merely intolerance masquerading as tolerance.  I really don't give a crap what you believe and you can celebrate it however you want. 

Where I do get annoyed is when you disagree with someone's beliefs and use your disagreement to force your beliefs down someone else's throat.  I have friends who are little a atheists and they're awesome.  I have other friends who are Jewish and seriously many of my friends run the gamut of religions.  The one thing all my friends have in common is none of them bash the others for their beliefs or faith.  Just because you see a nativity during Christmas doesn't make you a Christian, just the same as seeing a menorah during Hanuka doesn't make you Jewish.  I had a roommate in college who was a capital C christian growing up who then became a capital A atheist.  That guy was the most annoying, intolerant, asshat I have ever met.  Every group has their vitrol spewing, bigoted, haters. 

Often we hear about the ACLU coming into town telling people to roll up the sidewalks and decorations because someone is offended.  Here's a suggestion, climb down off your cross, tear it down, and use the wood to build a bridge and get over yourself.  I don't care if there's X - display on city property, your neighbors property, or your property.  While I'm not a big fan of city's buying decorations, it's wasteful spending, but some times the city just allows the use of the land for a donated display.  The result of these complaints is a poo slinging fest which makes all sides look bad, most especially the one that started the complaint.  It also goes to destroy what most of the displays are done to help foster, community.

The bottom line is complaining about some display because you don't like it because it's not your faith, or absence of faith, is intolerance no matter how you cut it.  In Jay's case it appears the haters are spreading to Thanksgiving and Halloween. -B]

The actions of a South Bend police officer during an arrest 18 months ago have led to a federal lawsuit in which 27-year-old Germaine Harris alleges he was falsely arrested, wrongfully imprisoned, and the victim of excessive force.

The claims alone are despicable but what assured his inclusion in the wall of shame is the following.

The lawsuit contends that Robert used excessive force when he threw punches at a handcuffed Harris once the pair arrived at the jail.

Robert later received a 30-day unpaid suspension for striking Harris at the jail. Prosecutors later dismissed all criminal charges against Harris.

Again the local law enforcement refused to take responsibility for reigning in its out of control officer.  Prosecutors refused to punish the officer despite evidence of wrong doing.  Remember, the best way to get away with being a criminal is to be a cop.  This isn't to say that all cops are criminals, but the record shows that their punishment is much more lax, and are less likely to be held accountable for their actions.  Honestly the reverse should be true considering one leads by example.

State Sponsored Criminal Count: 137 - Theo Robert

Because an officer has every right to just enter someones home without warrant, arrest them, and then beat them while handcuffed in jail.  At least that's what the local prosecutor thinks.

Spokane police officer Karl F. Thompson Jr. responded on March 18, 2006, to an ultimately false report that Otto Zehm stole money from an ATM. After confronting Zehm in a convenience store, a struggle ensued, and Thompson beat Zehm with a baton and Tasered him repeatedly. Other officers then rushed in, tied up Zehm, placed a plastic mask over his face and sat on him until he stopped breathing, according to court documents. Zehm died a few days later.

     The Spokane County medical examiner ruled Zem's death a homicide, but local prosecutors refused to file charges against Thompson. The FBI eventually investigated the case and filed charges against Thompson for using unreasonable force and making a false statement.

No matter how you cut this, this was a despicable act that resulted in the death of an innocent person.

Zehm fell to the ground, where he was hogtied while on his stomach. A plastic mask that was not connected to an oxygen bottle was placed over his nose and mouth. Officers sat on him.

No place could that be considered reasonable force. It is doubly despicable the actions the department took to protect their officer. Including throwing out other witness testimony that was unfavorable to the officer.  There is no question that the officer is guilty of at minimum negligent homicide.  His actions were taken without a thought or care to the rights of the victim.  His actions immediately after the assault guaranteed his death.  Even if this man was guilty the actions taken after illustrate the belief he was judge jury and executioner.

While he his now facing a trial, it was brought about by a federal investigation since local law enforcement refused to act and punish him.  For that, he's still a state sponsored criminal.  

State Sponsored Criminal Count: #135 -  Karl F. Thompson

Because after assaulting someone they should be restrained in such a way as to guarantee their death.

Many of the anti-rights cultists tout how police officers are the only one's who should be anointed with the ability to carry a firearm.  They claim this comes from numerous factors including their extensive training, self-control, and their general infallibility.

The training argument will be ignored today with the exception of the following comment. 

Many civilians receive equal if not better training through their own funding.  Many civilians spend more on ammunition in a month that many officers will in their entire career.  The assumption that a police officer is some how magically more qualified by training is false.  Not to mention the fact that training has no bearing on the exercise of a Constitutionally protected inalienable right.  No one has to attend a training class before they can exercise their right of free speech.

The argument about their general infallibility has been covered quite well in the state sponsored criminal count.  This list doesn't even focus on the incidences where officers have been caught and convicted, but centers around officers getting away with illegal or being provided unfair treatment under the law.

So instead this article is going to focus on self-control.  Numerous incidents have occurred as of late illustrating that police are human and their position does not provide them a magical exemption that alters their behavior from that of the human condition.

*Note nothing in this article should be construed as my being anti-law enforcement.  There are many officers who do an upstanding job and are quite commendable.  My goal through this article is to illustrate that there should not be a duality in law to differ between someone who works as a civilian in law enforcement and a normal law abiding citizen.

Officer Andy Hester evidently missed two very crucial pieces of education regarding the handling and use of weaponry.

Police Chief Mike Hall says officer Andy Hester was at the Front Porch restaurant last week when he held up his taser to activate it.

Hall says Hester removed the cartridge, and that's when it accidently hit a restaurant employee's arm.

First don't play with it or handle it unless it is necessary.

Second, when dealing with a firearm, or firearm like weapon, keep your booger hook off the bang switch.

Had it been a civilian they would have been charged with assault, for that reason he goes on the count.  Accident or not.  While tasers are less lethal, they are still weapons and should be handled and treated as such.

In the words of Say Uncle, "Stop touching it!"

State Sponsored Criminal Count: 133 - Andy Hester

Because playing with weaponry in public where others can be injured is perfectly acceptable if you're a cop.

Back in 1998 while in scouts I did a backpacking trip through Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico.  While in the back country the only faciliites available happened to be holes dug in the ground with primitive boxes placed on top as seats.  We were instructed to carry a stick with us and beat it around the hole prior to using said boxes.  Below is a video of why.

I doubt I would eat there anymore either.  Seriously though people, carry your F'n sticks, and don't use your foot!

h/t David.

Easy, you just don't lead them so much.

HELI-HOG'N from Gary Wagner on Vimeo.

That has been thoroughly added to my bucket list.  Seriously I don't know what would make that any more fun.  Alan, if you have resources to make this happen, I will compensate you for your time!

via Ry

While some would say he didn't escape the wrath of punishment, many would say he certainly isn't getting nearly enough.

A State Police trooper has been suspended for six months without pay for using pepper spray on a suspect who was already handcuffed in the back seat of a patrol car.

The trooper, Kevin Husband, tried to cover up his actions by saying in State Police reports and again in an appeal hearing that the spraying took place outside the car during a scuffle, according to documents detailing the 2008 incident.

Nice, falsifying documents, assaulting someone while under arrest, and he's left employed.  While he may get a suspension, the fact is these types of incidents should not be tolerated under any circumstances.

The evidence indicated that the officer ultimately didn't need to use the pepper spray in any case.  The fact that he attemped to cover up his actions indicates he knew it was wrong, and the cover up is worse than the act itself.

State Sponsored Criminal Count: 132 - Kevin Husband

Because when you get bored on shift, pepper spray someone in cuffs contained in a car.  It will provide hours of laughter.

Here's one of the text messages we found between officers on their in-car computers: At 1:29am, one officer writes one officer to another, "We just got 5lb of marijuana and a ton of other crap."

Sitting in their police cars in a Kingwood parking lot, that's what Houston cops bragged to each other what they'd found. The problem for them is that when they got downtown, it's not what they turned in.

When the officers showed up at the city jail to book Hill a short time later and turn in their evidence, the five pounds of marijuana they bragged about an hour earlier somehow had become a pound and a half.

Why would officers steal the evidence?  Were they trying to turn around and sell them to make some extra side cash?

Nope they stole it for personal use to use while on the job.

Hill's lawyers found them and let us see them. At 2:44 that morning, an hour after finding five pounds of marijuana, "So H I G H!" "Good munchies" writes another officer. Reassuringly, the first writes back, "Everything should be open when we get done."

These officers arrested an individual for smoking pot and then did it themselves while the tax payer was footing the bill. The war on nouns only serves to provide a reason to further expand government and law enforcement agencies. It does nothing to protect the public in general. Actually it does quite the opposite by making the general public possible victims of an ill conceived or poorly execute no knock warrant.

The actions of these officers do nothing but to further illustrate at prove why every last war on nouns should disappear. Whether it be guns, drugs, poverty, or any other "nobel" cause.  It does nothing but make victims out of what would otherwise be victimless crimes, or perpetuate their condition.  It also creates a separate elitist class where the laws do not apply.  

The officers are under investigation. Internal Affairs is working on it. But even after we told HPD about this most recent development, their status hasn't changed. They remain out on the street on patrol.

(Emphasis Mine)Don't worry though, the poor kid who was in the apartment though will be back in court next week.

State Sponsored Criminal Count: 131 - All Doe Officers.  If you have names please leave them in the comments.

Because the snozberries taste like snozberries.

h/t Phssthpok

I'm a bit behind on this, but I haven't forgotten about it.  Beale Street in Memphis, TN decided that it is going to ban guns on the entire street after restaurant carry was passed.  So based on that, nothing should happen right?  Cause guns are banned.  Well, tell that to the 6 people injured from a shooting in none other than the Beale Street district.

Later this month, Beale Street will break out the hand-held metal detectors at the entrance points and use other security measures to keep guns out of the three-block area day and night.

Based on the fact that there are metal detectors, how did someone get through with a gun?  Honestly, the detectors are just another form of security theater.

No matter what type of safe guards are in place, if a criminal wants to do something, laws are not going to stop them.

But, but, it can't happen here, we have metal detectors to keep us safe.

H/T WizardPC

So evidently a TSA agent forgot about a firearm he was carrying.

A Transportation Safety Administration employee was taken into custody Tuesday after he unlawfully tried to bring a handgun into the secured area of Miami International Airport, police said.

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According to the police report, Valdes admitted he knew it was illegal to bring a firearm into the airport and that he just "forgot." He also said the gun was not registered and he did not have a concealed weapons permit.

(Emphasis Mine)  What is most scary though is he was hired and passed the TSA background checks, yet he didn't apply for a Florida carry license?!  It makes me wonder if he was actually eligible for possession of the firearm.

The bottom line here is it just proves the failure of screening processes and gun control. They got lucky this time they caught him carrying the firearm.  How many times had he carried into the secure areas unnoticed?  

*I am reasonably sure this isn't the first time an incident like this has occurred, however I cannot find any news record for it and I evidently didn't blog it.  If you find or know of a previous incident, where a TSA agent was caught unlawfully carrying a firearm, please post it in the comments.

The anti-rights cultists keep telling us that law abiding citizens should be allowed to carry firearms because they will assault people over simple disagreements.

A Denver police officer pleaded no contest this morning in Erie Municipal Court to disorderly conduct in connection with a June incident at the Colorado National Golf Club in which the off-duty officer was accused of punching a man in the face. 

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According to Erie police, Carlile and a friend were watching a Colorado Rockies game on TV in the clubhouse bar when two other men, both Erie residents, picked up the remote and changed the channel to a college championship baseball game. 

[Sarcasm]And that children is why only police officers should be allowed to carry firearms into bars and civilians should be disarmed.[/Sarcasm]   

The good news is though he has a 1-year deferred judgment, a $750 fine, and was suspended.  Wait, what!?  For assaulting a man over a TV channel he wasn't fired, he wasn't put in jail, but was just given a simple fine.

In this instance I'm glad this walking jock strap of a dolt left his piece at home.  This is however, a perfect example of how police are not some how rendered magically impervious to the being human.

Seriously. My dad always told me to keep my mouth shut when it involved the police.

While in shock from my accident, I talked to the police without an attorney. I barely even remember it and don't even know why I did it. I have never remembered the conversation, I just know it happened. The lesson to take home was it did nothing to benefit me. Anything said that would benefit my case is ignored, it is their job to gather evidence against you, nothing more.

Linoge is talking about a book that again provides the recommendation to keep your mouth shut.

The bottom line is this is your life we are talking about.  There is no winning a legal battle, in Washington you can currently break even if it's ruled self-defense.  But you still lose time, and the cost to you personally will be immense.

If you have a self-defense shooting, keep your mouth shut until you talk to legal representation.  Even if it falls well under castle doctrine.

After the past two days of criminals who actually got busted, but no amount of punishment will ever be enough,  we return to our regularly scheduled program.

Video surveillance from Universal Studios captured the entire incident, which contradicts officers reports, 

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Brillant wrote in a report he "felt a snap and heard a loud pop" while he directed Kavallierakis to the ground. Soon after, she was compliant and officers handcuffed her while she apologized. The handcuffs were removed and she was taken to Dr. Phillips hospital for treatment.

While it was drunken belligerence that created the initial situation, that is no excuse for the force applied to this woman.  Force was applied because the officers didn't like being berated by the drunk woman.  Last I heard, verbal insults were not a cause to use force, especially force strong enough to break bone.  In case you think that maybe the officers might still be clear:

Kavallierakis' trial on three misdemeanor charges — resisting arrest without violence, trespassing and disorderly intoxication — is scheduled to begin Thursday. If the charges are not dropped, Conan said he hopes the jury will acquit his client after watching the video.

Orlando police internal affairs records show Michaels and Brillant have been investigated in excessive force cases in the past.

(Emphasis mine) The video shows there was no reason for the use of force, but you'll be glad to know both officers are still on duty.  Protecting the public as usual.

State Sponsored Criminal Count 122:

• Officer Brillant
• Officer Michaels

Because when a drunk lady calls you a pig, you have every write to break her arm.