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SSCC #329 – Milwaukee

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Remember the Wisconsin police chief Ed Flynn who said this?

“My message to my troops is if you see anybody carrying a gun on the
streets of Milwaukee, we’ll put them on the ground, take the gun away
and then decide whether you have a right to carry it.”

Well, it has become apparent how he feels the law applies to him and his department.  It’s no wonder he didn’t want the law abiding victims carrying weapons, they might fight back.

Nevertheless, the Milwaukee Police Department is under “the most
sweeping investigation… in at least a decade”
according to the Milwaukee Sentinel Journal, which
also notes 13 former Milwaukee cops have been convicted of federal
crimes in the last 7 years. At least seven officers (suspended, not
fired) are under currently under investigation for potential sexual
assault and civil rights violations
stemming from illegal cavity searches. At least one defendant
subject to an illegal search has
already been released.

See, this is unsurprising from this department.  When your chief is making statements like previously seen about how his department should treat law abiding citizens can any of this be surprising.

State Sponsored Criminal Count #329: Ed Flynn

Because police officers can do whatever they want to whoever they want and the law is merely to prevent victims from fighting back.

Via The Agitator

In Which I Apologize

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If you have used the Contact Me page to try and get a hold of me since January 1st.  I apologize.  I didn’t realize that was sending email to another domain.  That domain was not a part of the migration in January and will be done later this summer.

Because of that email sent to that address has not been forwarded properly, why I am not exactly sure.  I just discovered the forwarding was still broken recently and went and checked the form.  Yup, it’s the bad address.

So if you attempted to contact me using the form since the first of this year, please feel free to hit me again.  I didn’t get that memo.  I tested the form this afternoon and it is in fact functioning correctly.

Again, I’m sorry if you sent me something and I didn’t respond.  It’s not because I hate you*, it’s because it never appeared in my inbox.

*Well I might depending on why you contacted me, but I just can’t be sure since I don’t know that anyone sent me hate mail.

SSCC #328 – Nashville

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Before the traffic stop was over, the officer would take $22,000 cash
that the man had been planning to use to buy a car — without charging
him with a crime.

I’m willing to bet dollars to doughnuts that money also is already working it’s way out of the evidence lockup.  As there is no crime tied to the “evidence” there is no reason for it to be retained in inventory.

This is an officer being a dick because he can.  The man committed no crime and he had his property confiscated for it.  Why not make people prove they’re not utilizing their car for illegitimate purposes.  I have no duty to provide you a withdrawal slip from my bank without a warrant.  Hell I have a box at home I toss spare cash and change in.  Over time that’s going to grow into a larger value of cash.  Fuck banks, they did nothing but tack on fee after fee while I was with them.  I’ve since gone to credit unions but I still don’t trust them.

Why am I being forced by an officer of the law to engage in commerce?  My response to that dick, “Fuck you I don’t have to.”  May you and your boss end up in prison for deprivation of property without cause under color of law.  My only hope is that you’re found by someone you put in prison and your transgressions paid for.

State Sponsored Criminal Count #328: Officer John Doe

Because an officer of the law is judge and jury rolled in to one and is free to confiscate property as he sees fit without regard to due process and the law.

via Uncle.

Ear Worm Wednesday–05/09/2012

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Missed last week.  I intended to make a whole post but I’m waiting for some pictures back from Boomershoot first.  So in the mean time, I give you this:

Disturbed – Asylum

*One of the comments for the video:

this is how i feel like on school o.o

I can sympathize.  Swallow our bullshit or we’ll feed you to the dogs.  It became an art to regurgitate their bullshit while also bucking the system in public school.  Now with how out of hand zero tolerance has become, they’ll hang you for just barely bucking.

The Dumb Is Strong With This One

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Yeah, here’s your laugh for the day.

Police, however, say the 18-year-old walked into the Wilmer Police
Department Saturday evening with a white towel covering his hands.

Police Chief Victor Kemp described the incident saying, “Yeah well, a
young man walked into the lobby and approached the dispatch window
there and told our Communications Officer ‘give me all your money.’”

Son, you just tried to rob a police station.  Where in your mind did you think that was a “good idea”.  You then turned around and said it was a joke.  In what world did that seem like a “good idea” as a joke, which I don’t believe you by the way.

Thankfully no one was hurt, though I do feel like Darwin was prevented from properly cleaning the gene pool.

On a more serious note folks your average criminal isn’t that bright.  Now this one I certainly would think ranks below average, but if they were smarter the would have a job and not be stealing stuff.  The risk reward matrix on a job is considerably better than being a criminal.  Frankly I prefer to continue to tilt the scales on making crime more risky.  Sadly though our government has decided to take these high school drop outs and make them TSA agents to legitimize their criminal behavior.

There’s just no winning for us is there?

Quote of the Day – Larry Correia (5/9/2012)

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I find it highly ironic that the side that wants to grow a government
enormous enough to take care of everything, control everything, regulate
everything, provide everything, and crush everything thinks of
themselves as freedom fighters, while they say the side that wants to
make government smaller and less capable are dangerous statists… But I
suppose that’s why people came up the term “useful idiot.”

Larry Correia – Hate mail time!

May 7th, 2012

[That right there is QFMFT.  He rips apart another idiot here.  This idiocy of these folks is down right impressive.  It certainly has to be some sort of record.

Honestly I don’t know how we are going to solve this problem.  We have a large group of people who think they are entitled to other peoples property.  They want the state to steal that property for them.  I happen to agree with Heinlein that freedom is found on the frontier.  Because you can uproot and leave when those seeking entitlements start showing up.

I do not understand how people think they are slaves while wanting the state to basically absorb them as property.  My brain goes into an unhandled exception trying to understand that.  I fear that no matter what there will be blood because they’re going to use force to take what they perceive as theirs.  I spent part of my life earning what I have, and you are not going to take my life.  Even the poorest in this country have it better than anyplace else in the world.  For some reason luxuries have become “rights”, what the hell?

I’m going to stop because I feel myself wanting to rant.  All I will say is this.  Where the fuck is Galt’s Gulch?  If you find it, let me know because I want to get away from these parasites.  -B]

Update:  Apparently I’m not alone.

SSCC #325-#327 – Dickson & Fort Lauderdale

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Via WizardPC we get two separate but similar incidents.

He not only avoided criminal charges because of this tape, but the tape
has also led to the arrest of an off-duty deputy and one police
department to change its policies.

But remember, the police don’t want you to video tape them while doing their job.  Heaven forbid they be held accountable for their actions.  As Wizard points out it’s not as if there’s a pattern of abuse here… Oh wait.

But a video of their confrontation bore so little resemblance to that
description that prosecutors dropped the case against Baldeo and
decided instead to file charges against Wimberley and Swadkins.

A
jury on Friday found Wimberley guilty of two misdemeanors for falsifying
his reports. A married father with five years of service as a Broward
deputy, Wimberley faces a jail term of nearly two years when he is
sentenced June 15. Until then, Broward Circuit Judge Ilona Holmes
allowed him to remain free.

Yup, pattern.  I know not all officers do things like that.  What I do not understand though is why there are “good” officers who so abhorrently dislike the public documenting their behavior.  If you’re doing a good job and doing everything right, why would you care?  Yeah, I understand how it can be edited to look bad, just the same it can save your ass.  Also if you have your own video of the incident that helps protect you.  Think about that for a second.  I have my copy of the record and you have your copy of the record.

Personally I would prefer extra documentation of my interactions with the public.  Over time it can paint a clear picture of my attitude and behavior.  That can further protect me when someone creates a statement that is completely out of character.

State Sponsored Criminal Count #325: Scott Hull

#326: David Wimberley

#327: Brian Swadkins

Because it’s perfectly OK to frame someone if you’re an officer of the law.  Even more than that, you’re free to prevent people from documenting the evidence.

Never Listen to the High School Dropout

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This made me all sorts of angry:

Savannah Barry is mad and on a mission. She wants travelers to be warned
before they walk through TSA security. “They need to get with the
program and have some education across the board for TSA.” After
participating in a DECA conference in Salt Lake City with several
classmates last week, Savannah, who is a type one diabetic and wears an
insulin pump 24 hours a day, says she ran into TSA agents who were not
prepared to deal with her medical situation. “I went up to the lady and I
said, I am a type one diabetic. I wear an insulin pump. I showed her
the pump. I said, what do you want me to do? I usually do a pat down –
what would you recommend?”

Savannah then showed agents a doctor’s
note explaining that the sensitive insulin pump should not go through
the body scanner. She says she was told to go through it anyway. “When
someone in a position of authority tells you it is – you think that its
right. So, I said, Are you sure I can go through with the pump? It’s not
going to hurt the pump? And she said no, no you’re fine.”

I won’t fault the girl here.  She has probably been told over and over to trust the government and do what you’re told.  She has been drilled to the point where she ignored what her doctor said and did what a high school drop out that was too stupid to get a job anyplace else said.

Unsurprisingly it destroyed her insulin pump.  Walking into one of those things with electronic equipment is down right dangerous.  Ionizing radiation can cause single event upsets in the control systems of the medical equipment.  Non-ionizing radiation can have the effect of an EMP causing excessive voltages in circuits.  If the device is improperly shielded it will destroy components.  Memory devices can also suffer a single event upset.

I don’t know which of these incidents occurred, my suspicion is the second.  I will say this girl is very lucky she is not dead or hospitalized as a SEU could have resulted in an excess or incorrect dosage being administered.  Usually devices can survive one safely, however multiple failures were probably induced simultaneously

This is an expensive lesson and one that everyone needs to heed.  Those who work for the TSA are the lowest common denominator of our society.  That’s why it’s full of child molesters, sexual deviants, and thieves.  One should not do what they say blindly or without forethought.  Remember these people do not care about you or what happens to you.  If they could they’d just treat you like cattle more than they already do.

As I’ve said before, make their lives hell.  Sure some will be too stupid to understand but eventually you’ll wear them down.  On that same note, as you see those responsible for bringing this plague upon us, make their lives hell as well.  They are elected representatives and obviously they failed at their job. 

Burning effigies should work nicely.