Isn’t it wonderful to see such an entrepreneurial federal agent. The discovered that her position allowed her to receive kickbacks to ignore things going on. Even more than that, she then figured out how she could get people to pay protection money with her position.
State Sponsored Criminal Count: 47
Because the TSA is just like the ATF, they need to allow criminals to break the law to help create new ones.
The individual in question was charged as follows:
David Williams, 37, West Point, KY Lewd Exhibition and Solicitation
Initially I was figuring this to be an honorable mention since there is no direct evidence of him having committed the crime while on duty. That said, his position of authority and trust allowed him the opportunity to exploit it at his wish. It was mostly by luck that he was caught prior to him exploiting that power. See my original post and note the following from the rules:
The person committed the crime while on duty, or his job provided access to commit the crime under color of law (see the pedophile above).
This is a bit more difficult since the pedophile could use his job to touch children without legal recourse by the definition of his job as defined by the state. The officer however does have a position of trust and authority that he can use to manipulate children. While his department certainly wouldn’t protect his actions like the TSA would, we have seen elsewhere that departments will protect their officers until there is public backlash. So with that I’ll let it stand as a member of the count. It is borderline and if you feel differently, feel free to explain your reasoning in the comments.
State Sponsored Criminal Count: 29
Because what else would an official from the state do to someone who has been told to unquestionably follow their orders.
Via Joe
While on duty he made an arrest. Then he proceeded to use his position over the woman to satisfy his own urges. Ignore the statement that he is a “former” officer because he resigned as opposed to actually being dismissed by the OSP as punishment. This is by no means the first issue with OSP either, not even the first of a sexual nature.
A cop having relations with a minor, at least in this case the OSP actually fired him. Not to mention he was also tagged with violating a protection order and embezzlement. The most famous incident of late though happens to be the following:
This incident though from 2009 shows the depth of the problem considering the officer at question was reinstated shortly there after. There is a history of the OSP looking the other way when it’s officers step out of line.
State Sponsored Criminal Count: 26 (All three officers committed these crimes while on duty)
Because since the girl was drunk it’s all her fault since the officer was on duty, right?
Because pedophiles could never possibly work for the government, and most definitely wouldn’t use their authority to abuse their victims, right?
Because the cop and his authoritah is considerably more important than the woman having a heart attack in the back of the ambulance.
Now it seems that TSA agents have found a more subtle score: stealing $100 that was a gift to a 16-year-old honor student from his grandmother. The boy’s mother tells the Post that the theft was "disgusting and a violation of my son’s trust."
The TSA has not terminated this individual involved as it is still under investigation. Despite the claims of zero tolerance, I doubt anything is going to come from this as how can they prove he swiped 100 bucks. It’s not as if he swiped 20 grand worth of jewelry and pawned it.
A Security Theater has proven worthless and nothing more than a den for thieves and perverts.
State Sponsored Criminal Count: 13
Because nothing says free like representatives of the state stealing a kids lunch money gift from his grandmother. I mean where else have we ever seen this kind bullying before?
Joe, Ry, and I headed out to the Boomershoot site today to do some testing with Chalk Dispenser V3.0. We had previously tested the chalk dispenser and it did quite well. The main problems we found weren’t with the design, but with the material being dispensed. This time we were going to try glitter, Mylar confetti. At the last second we also added non-dairy creamer and match light charcoal.
In hindsight reviewing the pictures we should have taken a couple from up on the hill because up close it just doesn’t look the same. From the previous testing though it looked as though we had bruised the hillside.
As we got into the middle of the colored area, we noticed more evidence of the chalk problem we saw previously. It had obviously clumped into small balls.
First we tested small charges of 50 grams. While it did work, they were difficult to load requiring special preparation.
That is 50 grams of the most fun intoxicant this side of the Rio Grande. It is so little that it’s hard to place it in such a way to fill the hole to complete a visible target, but it still packs a punch.
Joe forgot the glitter, however we did have the confetti to try as well as the newly added charcoal. First up was the non diary creamer. We had already done the one 50 gram test when this picture was taken.
The results were lacking in significant difference, it looked the same as without the creamer.
Second up was the confetti.
We packed it in there. The results though were less than pleasing. Do you see the confetti, we didn’t as it happened.
Next was the charcoal after that dismal failure. We were actually hoping to get the charcoal dust to ignite, however these results were still fantastic.
It wasn’t good just once though. It was repeatable!
And I caught the brass in the air on both of those pictures, how awesome is that! We attempted another test that I didn’t get pictures of since I was shooting. I some how got the Boomerite to start burning, with the charcoal above it. I let Ry finish it off since it was his gun and I was frustrated to say the least. Still no fireball though. We wanted to get this thing to toss a fireball, how could we get it to toss a fireball. We then started going through Joe’s truck looking for things that could be used. We found a spray can of window deicer. We put that on 100 grams of Boomerite with and we pulled the Boomerite through to make sure we would hit the Boomerite first, not the can. We also had attached road flares to help with ignition.
Still no luck. However we later had a discussion about the road flares and wondering what causes them to be extinguished. The assumption was that the concussion would result in removing the heat and liquid material preventing the flare from continuing the burn. It’s only the gases that burn, the burning melts the solid, which will then turn to gas, and burn. We though maybe the concussion blew off the liquid and gasses killing the flare. Both this picture and the following one would beg to differ though.
This brought an abrupt end to our testing. We had done something very stupid without realizing it. We placed a piece of metal between us and the explosive. The pressures from the explosive split the welds along the top.
So what is a guy to do when you still have Boomerite left, and no target to test it in?
The answer is quite simple, put 4 pounds in the non dairy creamer bottle, put the target on top and launch it in the air.
The target can be repaired, but I would say it looks no where near like when we got it. Joe already has video of the stuff that really matters. I’ll work on editing the video tonight and tomorrow and see if I got anything worth while. For now, enjoy the story board and pictures.
Update:Video is here.
The Patriot Act should have never been created to begin with.
It was made while we were all still very emotional, many of us, including myself though have hated it from the start. It appears that the congress is going to be adding another year onto the Patriot Act.
Remember who the DHS considers terrorists. Time to write your congress critters. This renewal needs to be at least debated, preferably fully derailed.
[Thankfully this is true. I was very young when the original assault weapon ban occurred. I had the benefit of growing up around firearms. I got my first firearm when I was 8, first time I shot a firearm though I was three and a half, my dad said I grinned from ear to ear. I remember coming home from school and my dad writing letters to congressman, because every time he turned around there was a new attack. As I got older I began to see what was going on, especially when I fully learned about Ruby Ridge. I was fully introduced to that incident when I was the same age as his son. It was at that moment my whole view of the world changed. I realized this wasn’t really about guns, it was about power and control. Junior year of high school I discovered a book on one of the book shelves(we had lots of books). The cover though caught my attention.
Amazingly it was unread even by my father, he did read it immediately after me in a 3 day binge. I started reading it immediately. In the begging while setting up the plot there were a few events that even I couldn’t believe that he was using to set the tone. Sadly Google broke my heart and educated me to the actual gravity of the situation. In another instance though I was provided hope. I read that whole book in about a week, reading it even through my classes.
After reading Unintended Consequences I realized there was even more at stake than just power and control. There’s a whole culture under attack. Those outside of it don’t understand, but if you ever go to a major shooting event it becomes obvious, it’s a culture.
Thankfully the events at the end of that book have not come to pass yet. Many throughout our culture have stepped up to educate and inform those on the outside. Because of this the response has been considerably more constrained than it would have been even 7 years ago.
While the war certainly hasn’t been won, these events show us how far we’ve come. Even more importantly it didn’t go down like the beginning of Enemies Foreign and Domestic.
If you haven’t read Unintended Consequences, I highly suggest you do.
-B
]
As I posted earlier an attempt is being made to change the suppressor laws in Washington again.
This morning I got an email from Rep. Joe Schmick regarding it’s status. The part of the email we all care about is:
The bill did have a hearing and already was voted out of the House Judiciary Committee yesterday. It passed 12-0 out of committee.
It’s nice to see it made it out of the Judiciary Committee unanimously, hopefully it will move easily through the rest of the process.
Update(1/17/2011):It has been passed to the rules committee to decide on a second reading.
Here’s a list of the Rules Committee:
Update (1/30/2011): Found an article in the Kitsap Sun.
What I really liked seeing though was (emphasis mine):
Update (2/7/2011):The bill just passed the house.
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