So Providence in an effort to take care of some of their budget woes is looking at dismissing all of their teachers at the end of this school year. As a result the teachers union is up in arms and is trying to win support by using this wonderful statement.
How does the dismissal of the teachers compare to an act of war that resulted in the deaths of 2350 people? How does this even relate? Chaos and anxiety, war is controlled chaos, and why would the State Department be anxious?
To those who still haven’t figured out what the core issue is yet, the output is greater than the input and has created a budget crisis. This deficit has been created by the inflated wages that public employees are paid. These inflated wages have been created by the unions and their control over public services. These wages are also considerably higher than they should considering the extensiveresources now available for educating your children. It doesn’t fit the bill that many people want for the educational system, baby sitter, but a good education requires the participation of the parents. Education is full time, not just the hours while they’re at school. Honestly I probably learned more at home than I ever did in school.
So there wont be public schools anymore to indoctrinate your kids into socialist thinking. Instead private enterprise will create schools that far excel the current public standard. Mr. Smith, the real reason you’re upset is because the American public are seeing you for what you are, a leech sucking on the wallet of the American tax payer.
So as mentioned previously my wife sent a pretty direct letter to our federal representatives. Patty Murray responded today.
Dear Mrs. TMW:
Thank you for contacting me regarding your thoughts on new gun control legislation. I appreciate having the benefit of your views on this matter.
The views of Washingtonians are very important to my work. I will keep your thoughts in mind, and I encourage you to stay in touch. If you would like to know more about my work in the Senate, please feel free to sign up for my weekly updates at http://murray.senate.gov/updates. Again, thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts with me.
Sincerely,
Patty Murray
United States Senator
TMW’s comment to me when forwarding it was a perfect descriptor:
She answered with a non answer. Way to talk around the issue.
Thank you for writing me regarding the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. It was good to hear from you.
As a mother, grandmother, and former preschool teacher I was shocked by the tragedy that unfolded in Newtown. My thoughts and prayers go out to the families and loved ones of the victims whose loss is difficult to comprehend.
Unfortunately, this horrific tragedy was another in a long line of gun violence episodes that have ranged from places like Columbine, Virginia Tech, and Aurora to coffee shops in Lakewood to the corner of South Byron Street and McClintock Ave South in Seattle. These episodes have plagued our cities, our schools, and our shared sense of security. This cannot go on. As a society we need to come together to begin a real conversation on all the factors contributing to those horrific instances of gun violence, but we also need to take specific action to bolster our current gun safety laws.
There is no question that we can and should limit access to the assault style weapons of war that are on our streets and that are too often being used to kill innocent people indiscriminately. I have repeatedly voted for an assault weapons ban and will do so again as soon as we can get a bill to the Senate floor.
But preventing tragedies like the one in Newtown will take more than just common-sense gun policies and enforcement. It will also take a renewed commitment to understanding and dealing with the root causes that lead isolated individuals to carry out these atrocities. At this moment, everything needs to be on the table for scrutiny.
Our nation is at a crossroads moment, and we must take the path that protects future generations from re-living these gun violence tragedies over and over again. It will take the courage of people with opposing views but a common purpose sitting down with one another and agreeing that the status quo is unacceptable.
Please be assured I will keep your views in mind as I work with my colleagues and please feel free to share with me your ideas on how to address this crisis. If you would like to know more about my work in the Senate, please feel free to sign up for my updates at http://murrav.senate.gov/updates. Thank you for contacting me, and please do not hesitate to contact me again.
Sincerely,
Patty Murray
United States Senator
We haven’t gotten a response from Cantwell regarding her specific letter though here is her response to my letter:
Dear Mr. TMW,
Thank you for contacting me regarding the tragic shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. I appreciate hearing from you on this important issue.
All Washingtonians – and all Americans – offer our deepest condolences to the families of the 20 children and six school staff members who were killed in this senseless attack. Our thoughts and prayers are with the community of Newtown, as its residents heal from this incomprehensible tragedy.
This horrific attack highlights several issues that must be addressed promptly in order to better protect against such inexplicable violence. We need to get powerful assault weapons off our streets. And we need to strengthen services for the mentally ill and their families.
In the past, I supported the original Assault Weapons Ban and the Brady Bill, as well as the Youth Handgun Safety Act of 1993, which prohibits juveniles from possessing or receiving handguns. I look forward to work with my colleagues in the Senate to strengthen responsible legislation to rein in gun violence. We need to work to close the loopholes in existing laws that allow criminals and children to gain access to firearms contrary to the law’s intention. One example is the well-known “gun-show loophole” which allows people to purchase firearms at gun-shows without undergoing the background check required when guns are bought from licensed dealers. Lastly, I believe we must support increased gun-safety and gun-use education.
I support the Second Amendment and the rights of law-abiding Washingtonians who own guns. I also remain focused on addressing the deeply troubling violence in this country and making our state and our country as safe as possible for all people, including our most vulnerable citizens, our children. I believe both of these goals are important and can be simultaneously accomplished through common-sense gun laws and stricter enforcement of existing laws.
Along with addressing gun violence, making services for the mentally ill and their families more accessible will encourage those suffering from mental illness to seek needed care and support. Mental health care is a critical component of our healthcare system and an individual’s overall health status. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, approximately one in 17 Americans suffers from a seriously debilitating mental illness. I care deeply about mental health care and understand the important role behavioral health services play in the lives of both those who suffer from mental illness and their family and loved ones.
Thank you again for contacting me to share your thoughts on this matter. Please do not hesitate to contact me in the future if I can be of further assistance.
Sincerely,
Maria Cantwell
United States Senator
If you live in the state of Washington. Light up their phones and crank up the heat. I am liking the idea Robb had, especially since the local gun shows draw from both Idaho and Washington so we’d get a decent set of calls into multiple districts. Combine that with methods for people to send letters to congress critters it could be quite effective. Especially if you had people there who could help them personalize them instead of form letters.
As you will notice on the right hand side, I’ve added a Join the NRA link. I know somearen’t too happy with the NRA, I’m one of them. As Sebastian said though, we have the NRA we’re going into this fight with, it’s not going to change and you’re not going to wish up an alternative. Do what you can, voice your opinion to the NRA, they have a better record of listening than congress, and get active. If all you do is bitch in the corner about how they don’t represent you, of course they won’t. You haven’t lifted a finger to guide them in representing you.
I’ve also added a quick box to aid people in contacting their legislators. Do it if you haven’t already. There is nothing to loose by doing so and you have everything to gain. As you can see folks, this is going to be an up hill battle and this is one we can not loose. A quote worth remembering of which I was reminded of it by a friend of mine:
“Never give in, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never Yield to a force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.”
― Winston S. Churchill
We must stand and fight. We must not waiver, we must not flinch. We must come out on top, our very culture depends on it.
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Over the past couple days I have received word from different friends regarding people I knew and graduated from high school with.
I was informed by a friend that Kris Irving and Tanner Mounts, both in my graduating class, have passed away. Kris died in a car accident and Tanner died from a drug overdose.
Now for the people I have more information on…
First is Jackie Loffer. She and I had a few classes together our senior year, and had known my wife since elementary school. She was a sweet and caring person with a love for music. She sadly passed away on the anniversary of her mother’s death from an aggressive cancer at the age of 24.
Lastly is the person that actually kicked off this blog entry, David Clark. He was shot and killed April 26, 2008 in a police standoff. Clark died from a gunshot wound to the back. He had previous incidents with law enforcement over threats, displaying a weapon in public, as well as following a Whatcom County Sheriff’s detective. All of these incidents ended up with his right to own a firearm being suspended. It disturbs me that this occurred without his appearance in court; however in this case I can NOT say that it was unjustified.
Police eventually were called to his house after a call for disorderly conduct. Three other individuals that were present left without incident. Clark instead of acting like the three other individuals brandished a weapon, resulting in SWAT being called in. During the standoff officers ordered him to exit his house, this by no means was unreasonable. When he did exit his house he was again brandishing the weapon at which time officers instructed him to put the weapon down, again not unreasonable. Evidently he eventually attempted to charge police with the weapon, at which time they shot him with bean bags attempting to immobilize him, this by no means exceeded the level of force shown by Clark, and actually they were remaining below it. Evidence from the medical examiner also showed that Clark had been tased by police twice, again evidence of the attempted use of non-lethal force. While I will most certainly debate that tasers are not 100% non-lethal, they are certainly less lethal than a firearm. In the commotion two other officers discharged their weapons.
What has many people outraged currently is that his weapon ended up being a pellet gun. While it is saddening that he died over a pellet gun, we must remember hindsight is always 20/20. The pellet gun in question:
was manufactured to appear as an authentic Desert Eagle.
“The design, heft and size of the weapon appeared authentic and deadly, even when it was actually handled by the investigators,” Bellingham police said in a prepared statement.
Those of us who have been raised around firearms and weapons are raised to know and understand that the assumption by anyone is that weapon is loaded at all times. This weapon was manufactured to look real, and as such was presumed to be real as well as loaded. As a civilian on the street if someone pointed it at you, it would presumed to be locked, cocked, and ready to rock. As can be seen by the hammer being back, safety off, and nothing else about this weapon indicates that it is merely a pellet gun. I can say that if a man approached me on the street and I saw that in his hand, I would draw my weapon immediately and place it at the ready to my side and attempt withdraw myself from the situation. While I would not point it at the individual, he is presenting himself as a threat, if it was holstered, who cares, however it is in his hand implying intent to immediately use it if necessary. My weapon being concealed this raised the question of why I am a threat. Should he raise that weapon towards me, I would consider him hostile just like any other thug and engage just the same. The weapon is designed to look real, and as such when handling it, you must expect that those around you will treat it as such.
I found a blog containing more information mainly just complaining that the police didn’t do enough. The main point of this article is the claim that David Clark was mentally unstable. While from what I remember this is most likely the case I have a few problems with some of her statements. Most specifically with this one:
He was sick and needed help. He struggled to maintain his hold on reality and we (friends and family) gave as much support as we could.
With the number of things he had done recently a trip to the court house was most certainly in order to get him professional help whether he felt he needed it or not. Brandishing weapons in public presents a safety issue to himself as well as the public. I am a very big concealed and open carry supporter. However brandishing weapons does nothing but cause larger more dangerous problems. Another comment she makes is regarding the fact that he was shot in the back. Actually from the ME’s report he was shot in the lower right back, and that the bullet impacted his liver and the lower lobe of his lung. They didn’t just wait until he was running square away and take a clean shot. What occurred from my reading of the evidence I have been able to find is that when non lethal force did not stop David, two officers responded with lethal force to protect the people he was charging at. With the level of force that David was presenting against the officers, the two officers who shot were perfectly justified.
While it is extremely sad to have lost a friend I knew from high school, I in NO way blame the police officers involved. From what I have seen their efforts to end the situation peacefully could be fully commended. While we always hope for a better outcome, it doesn’t always occur. Even more importantly than that, both parties must desire that outcome for a 100% chance of success.
I actually began writing this a year ago as some other issues illustrated at the beginning were seen. It was my hope that it would never actually have to go up. Meaning if you’re reading this, well shit happens. I started writing this up as I became more and more disgruntled at my place of employment. As stated in the disclaimer, I will not name names. Suffice it to say I was passed up for promotion when I really shouldn’t have been, didn’t get a clear-cut answer as why, all the while I had volunteered into an interesting project that I thought would give me some awesome opportunity. Which at this point I now realize I was suckered in.
It was an awesome opportunity, I learned a lot, and I was basically doing the job of a Lead Software Engineer while only being an Associate Software Engineer. When I shifted from one group to another I expected at my next review to be promoted. When it didn’t come I was very upset and honestly I probably wasn’t as confrontational as I should have been. There were many reasons for that, the biggest was that at the time I neededmy job. The wife was unemployed and I just said screw it, deal with it unless you really luck into something or you really get burned. My former boss expressed his concern to me as he was also a mentor for an internal development program as he expected me to advance. The goal I was given to advance was to complete said development program. Here’s where things get confusing. On more than one occasion I had to cancel training at my managers request to continue spending time on the project. Remember, lone wolf engineer trying to understand a product designed by a larger group. As time went on I got some awesome fire support from people quite familiar with the project. To them I am thankful, but it still took a massive amount of time between design, modeling, specifications, working with support on other parts of the architecture, and then I was the guy stitching it all together.
So, when I got passed up this time around, things became, well quite personalWhen I first wrote the beginning of this post a writing this post I didn’t get passed up for promotion and I thought this post was just going to die. Back in May (2012 my mentor (former boss) started talking about promotion again. It was at that time I started also thinking about “plan b”. What am I going to do if I get burned again. I had the option of switching to a different group within the company but that would have landed a new problem. Odds are I would still miss promotion because the new boss wouldn’t be familiar with my skill set and abilities. This happened to a buddy of mine when he moved down the hill before. Even then an internal switch isn’t a full option because I was one of the few people they could get to work on this project. They could just keep me on this project until it’s completed. Why would I work on this project at all? Well Bob Lee Swagger said it like this:
I’m still enough of a sucker,you press that patriot button, I’ll sit up in my chair and say,”Which way you want me to go, boss?”
They came to me with the perfect storm of a project. I did learn a lot, and over all I think it was beneficial in a lot of ways. At the same time though for the year and a half prior with my previous boss, he and another coworker gave me a awesome set of precision tools. The tools for the most part were useless on this project since it was a modification to an existing platform that started while I was in high school. At this point I feel like that particular tool set has become quite dull from not really being able to be extensively used. I tried to work on pet projects when I could to keep it sharp but that only goes so far.
After I started writing this post they did finally promote me and I got a decent raise. Then about 4 weeks ago (at the time of my updating this part of the post) I was involved in an email exchange. The email exchange left a very sour taste in my mouth. Ask me about it in person some time, I’m not going to quote it on the blog. I had already started a pretty good cynical streak as I noticed things weren’t exactly adding up and attitudes internally were much like this. That’s the root of that email chain.
After the email exchange I went to chat with a family friend for advice. That discussion basically clued me in that my run with the previous employer was coming to an end and it honestly probably isn’t salvageable.
Again, chat with me in person some time. I love the people I work with, even my immediate manager. Moving up the chain though and seeing what was happening in other groups it was obvious that the company values had become lost.
I spent a lot of time at that point starting to job hunt, talking with the wife, and trying to find options. Why did I want options? I needed a plan because I was starting to apply pressure and at 40 lbs, something like this was going to happen and I knew it.
Even though I wasn’t in an aircraft, things were going to go into a radical shift. No matter what, the odds were we were going to have to move if I pulled down the curtain. We bought our house, planning on being here at least 8 years for full vesting. No plan survives first contact with the enemy and well things are going south.
I’m loosing altitude and airspeed and I’m running out of options. The last thing I really want to do is fully auger in and I know I could continue to limp it along almost indefinitely but that wouldn’t be enjoyable for me. I needed to have a plan on how to minimize the trauma before I ejected. I needed to ensure the following:
If it was just me, I probably would have ejected a while ago. The thing is, my wife was going to be involved in this ejection. My choices would affect her employment, her happiness if I started working away from home, she is in the cockpit with me and that matters. Delaying ejection however is bad, especially since it can continue to affect my career into the future.
It has become clear for example that I should have ejected a year ago as the first clues appeared. My delay in doing so has increased a gap. Let me explain:
For the past two years I’ve been on a project whose design, software, and principal hardware dates back to when I was in high school. To be clear, that’s when the product was released, I was in middle school when many of the design decisions were made. 14 years folks, how much has changed in the tech industry in 14 years?
Yeah, I did not gain any skills with modern tools, methods, or solutions working on this project. Then to make matters worse, I haven’t touched a single line of code (for my employer, I’ve been coding on my own) for over 8 months. Instead I’ve been writing policies, work instructions, and procedures. As I was working on these items for the project it became obvious that whoever was in this position, my self or someone else, would be doing nothing more than paperwork and traffic management for the next 3 years on this project.
Can you say a great way to kill your career?
Overall it has left me feeling unappreciated like that also means I’m probably underpaid. Being underpaid accumulates and actually is bad. May work great for the company to “save money” but kills morale and ultimately just pisses people off. In hindsight I have delayed in ejection for a lot longer than I should have, I think mainly because of the raise they gave me a year ago with my promotion. It wasn’t enough to cover the pay gap at that time, and actually at this point the gap has gotten worse because of how far behind I was before they gave me the raise.
So if you’re reading this, it means I’ve finally decided to pull down the face curtain and hold on for the ride. I’ve adjusted my ejection vector to give me the best chance of coming out on top as quickly as possible. Pulling the face curtain means I’m saying goodbye to the Palouse and on to a new pasture. It makes me sad because I do love it up here, I have a lot of friends and a solid network of people I can ask for help.
I don’t know what’s going to happen in the upcoming months, I’m not entirely sure how rough the landing is going to be. We will survive, life may be rough, but in the long run I think we will come out on top. I am working to get in with another local company and ultimately my goal over the next couple years is to fire up a start-up for a project idea I have. I’m going to execute as much as I can on the side so hopefully I can get the start-ups running without a lot of pain.
*I would kick off a start-up now and make it all happen but I do not have the capital to do so. Further while I’m confident and feel that the reward will be high, there is always risk and given my family I can’t just jump in both feet first. (Oh how I wish I could. As my dad would say, family is nothing more than a hostage. You may love them to death, but they’re the biggest factor that often will restrain people from taking risk.
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Bernie Sanders tweets, “At the end of the day, providing a path to go to college is a helluva lot cheaper than putting people on a path to jail.”
I wonder sometimes, if the best way to question the increasingly dangerous idea that a college education is the best path for the most people, is to stop fighting the sentiment directly, and simply shine a light on the knuckleheads who continue to perpetuate this nonsense. This latest tweet from Bernie Sanders is a prime example. In less than 140 characters, he’s managed to imply that a path to prison is the most likely alternative to a path to college. Pardon my acronym, but…WTF!?
[Oh the commentary and hate in response to Mike’s post would be hilarious if it wasn’t for the reminder these people are so attached they believe it. Mike points out, and rightfully so, that the idea if you don’t go to college your other choice is prison is bullshit.
You have a large number of people who have become emotionally invested in their political candidate and they take it personally. Quite like if someone made fun of their sports ball team. Because if a political candidate says something that sounds good, it must be accurate and true.
Look, college isn’t for everyone. The prices are inflated due to the federal loan programs so the answer is to offer more? Look it wasn’t 80 grand spent over two bachelors of science degrees that landed my wife a job. It was a 500 dollar vocational course for a CNA that finally got my wife work. I’ve gone into detailed depth before about the economics, and it’s only gotten worse since I wrote it.
Education is an investment and people are investing poorly. I do not want to be forced at the point of a gun to keep supporting this bullshit system.
But TMM, you went to college! Yes I did and lets actually evaluate what it got me other than 80-100K out of my pocket. Most every material piece of information I gained via college I could get freely with a trip to my public library, or now with the advent of Google and the Open Courseware initiative sitting at home in front of a computer. While I admit not all have the drive to do this solo, the fact is if you actually are in it for the education you don’t need to spend thousands of dollars on something you can get for a couple bucks. Now the problem is, how do you prove you’ve absorbed the material, this is changing as well. MIT is offering credits if you complete some of their Open Classes, additionally it’s making a space for certification companies.
You have Cisco certification regarding network design, architecture, and administration. Why not something like that for software or other industries? The point is the mode of education is outdated. Most of what I had to do for my degree was “rounding” and that was all politically correct indoctrination. Don’t try and sell me it wasn’t because “disabilities and society” was bull shit, doubly so as someone who lived in wheel chair for a while. My wife hated the class as much as I did and she’s got nerve damage. We were graded down because we didn’t agree with the professors. It was a game of repeat the bullshit, even if our argument was valid and supported. If you cut out the bullshit like that, I could have done my degree in half the time at a more reasonable course load. What do I mean by a more reasonable load, I averaged 5 to 6 classes a semester, where most averaged 3 to 4. Are some classes required for rounding, sure, history, literature. But the volume of “rounding” was over the top and didn’t even directly correlate to things that do round someone, they were classes in political correctness.
For example I graduated with 152 credits, minimum for EE is 145, for the school it is 120. They actually derated core classes related to my degree in credit value because they had so much extra garbage I had to take. Most other degrees were between 120-130 credits. So I had a full extra year of school by the time I graduated, most was for “rounding”.
But TMM, what about networking. You met all those people and that was a big help. I met a decent number of people and it was a help, except I can tell you exactly who my biggest network source while I was in college and I didn’t have to goto college to meet him. I knew him since I was a child when he and my dad worked together. First job was working for him and it was him that brought me to other opportunities. He was my mentor, and while I did end up taking classes from him, I learned way more working for him as an intern. I made way more in terms of professional contacts and networking working for him as an intern and the jobs that followed along later.
You know what college really got me? A sheet of paper that says I learned something about some subject. That’s it. I’ve worked with plenty of people, even in the software industry, who didn’t have a college degree. They were just as capable, if not more so than me. The degree didn’t magically make them who they are or enable them to accomplish their goals. As a matter of fact, one of my coworkers is a highly respected and known game programmer who didn’t graduate from College and if he had stayed it probably would have destroyed him. It was NOT the environment for him. Yet he isn’t in prison. No instead he gets royalties off of Age of Empires and tons of other games I spent my childhood playing and has worked for heavy hitters such as Valve.
I have friends who are also in blue-collar work making the same if not more than what I do. They work their ass off and they get paid for it, they didn’t goto college and didn’t need to. Seriously, who’s smarter, the guy who spent 80-100k to make 90K a year after school, or the guy who spent nothing and got trained vocationally by his company and is making 150k a year?
Now after years of experience that college grad may match the vocational employee, however at the same time the vocational employee will also increase his value. The point is, different strokes for different folks. And if you think making college free is going to solve the educational system problems, I have some ocean front property for sale in Arizona. It’s a basic economics problem and well making it free isn’t going to stop price inflation, it’s just going to pass the bill to someone else and they get to suffer for the poor investments instead of the person who made the poor choice.
Lastly don’t try to sell me a pile of bullshit under a false dichotomy. -B]
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So the level of brainwashing that has been inflicted upon our youth has been quite apparent over the past few weeks of reading the Washington State University news paper. The first article is an effort to bring a little bit of Brittan right here to the heartland of America.
(Emphasis mine.) They readily admit that the cameras will not deter crime. The school continues to prohibit the ability for students to lawfully carry on campus and the paper is more than supportive against allowing lawful carry. Yet they are more than willing to argue that students throw away their privacy for semblance of security. It is a public place after all so really how much privacy should you have. Well the editorial board obviously doesn’t care considering the following piece I saw in yesterdays paper.
About 5 years ago while I was a student there was a court case involving unnecessary access by police to the residence halls. The judge ruled that the police were not allowed access to the dorms except in an emergency. The reasoning is that dorms were a residence much like an apartment building. Evidently the editorial board is acting like their brethren the Brady Campaign in ignoring the reasoning behind the case. The editors would prefer to ignore this much like CSGV disregards Heller and McDonald.
Further the comparison they use to a hotel fails their litmus test, not to mention their other excuses as well. The police are not allowed to meander around the halls of a hotel without cause or warrant. Their statements smack of a belief that the police exist to operate as an RA for the school.
The job of the RA is not to enforce the law, but to ensure the dorm rules are followed and mediate disputes. If the law is broken it is the job of the police to investigate after the fact. It is not the job of the police to prevent crime, that is the job of the populace at large. In other words, fellow residents should be acting in a manner to aid in preventing crime. The police have no duty to protect and it is the responsibility of the citizen to protect themselves and their property.
The Daily Evergreen Editorial Board is doing no good by attempting to destroy the rights of their fellow students. Many fought long and hard to secure their right from the police unlawfully entering their place of residence. While living in the dorms, many leave their doors open not out of want or an open door policy, but because it is so damn hot they need the air flow. An officer walking up and down the hall would now be able to see into the room by incidental viewing. He could also achieve this as they occupant gains entrance into their room and close the door behind them. With so many laws and rules on the books now, why are you attempting to surrender one of your defenses from their abuse?
While many college campuses swing a bit to the left, this over reliance on the state and belief that the police are the solution to all their problems is very disconcerting. Doubly so when you consider the fact that they have not bothered to look into the context of why the push was made to throw officers out of the dorms. The universities own rules as well as the expectation of privacy created the reasons the police were illegal within the dorms. The Daily Evergreen Editorial board should examine its view on personal liberty and freedom and explain why they believe that college students should surrender it because they are attending school. Because some students are criminals doesn’t make them all criminals and the law exists to protect the innocent, not catch the criminal. That is not a bug, it’s a feature.
I heard about this a while back but hadn’t heard anything about it since. Well there was an update today. Given the gravity of it, today’s a double SSCC.
A federal judge in Detroit has dismissed a lawsuit against the U.S. government over the wreck of a $750,000 Ferrari driven by an FBI agent.
Judge Avern Cohn said in his recent decision that the crash of the 1995 F50 sports car was “certainly unfortunate,” but cited a law making the government immune to lawsuits when property is in custody of law enforcement.
Never mind the fact that it was the FBI driving the vehicle. What if that car had wrapped its self around a school bus? The bottom line is there is this thing called responsibility and this immunity crap is making sure no one can be held responsible for poor decisions.
The car had been stolen and given the fact that insurance had paid the owner for the loss of the car it belonged to the insurance company. Said agent then took it for a test drive and wrapped it around a tree, destroying property that was not his.
Remember, the government exists to protect their employees when they break the law.
State Sponsored Criminal Count: 136 – FBI Special Agent John Doe
Because if you have the ability to take a joy ride in an F50 you take it. While on that joy ride you are not responsible for any damages that may occur to said automobile.
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