A District of Columbia police officer has pleaded guilty to a charge of second-degree attempted burglary and is resigning from the department.
Just think, the police are the Only Ones good enough to carry guns in our nations capitol. It also appears in addition to this elite special privilege, they also moonlight as burglars! Just remember, these are the best of the best, our nations finest defending our seat of government, whose residents have been disarmed by unconstitutional edict for quite some time. Where do I sign up?
Either the Senator is incompetent and doesn’t know that it’s HIS job to to pass a budget bill, Obama SIGNS or vetoes bills passed by Congress. Or, he hopes we the voters are clueless and don’t understand the bill creation process. Either way, he is making statements that make him look a fool. For everyone’s info, below is the saturday morning cartoon time PSA we all saw as kids detailing how a bill becomes law:
Nothing to say here, just thought this might interest some folks. Metro train operator sees smoke ahead on the track and stops the train to investigate and get further instruction. She is ultimately told to use the fire extinguisher to put out the fire. If only all Metro’s troubles could be handled this quickly.
Oh my ohhhhh my. I’ve always felt that tasers, tools which emit THOUSANDS of volts of electrical energy which impair motor functions of those unlucky enough to have one used on them… should NOT be regularly used by professional police forces in any Western style democracy which claims to respect the rule of law and citizens rights. (I still support their use only in situations where a firearm would be proper to deploy) The original intent behind tazers was to offer police a tool which was supposed to be “safe” and billed as an alternative to deadly force (firing a handgun). Tasers were only to be used when deadly force was authorized. In the years since introduction, more and more officers have started carrying tasers and their scope of use has expanded so they may be justified in using these tools any time they (the officers) feel their authority is not being respected. We’ve all heard stories about drivers being tased for not complying with police instructions during traffic stops. Does anyone also feel the use of a firearm would be justified in those situations? Not hardly! So, why is it now SOP for an officer to tase a citizen for disobedience or simple resistance (not cooperating)? The use of these devices has simply gotten out of hand, and police conduct review boards see no issue with overboard cops unloading several thousand volts into disrespectful citizens. Here we have a story from Courthouse News Service where a grandmother who is old and bedridden couldn’t remember the last time she took her meds when her grandson asked the question. Not satisfied with the response the grandson called 911 and asked for an EMT to come and evaluate her.
Lonnie Tinsley claims that he called 911 after he went to check on his grandmother, whom he found in her bed, “connected to a portable oxygen concentrator with a long hose.” She is “in marginal health, [and] takes several prescribed medications daily,” and “was unable to tell him exactly when she had taken her meds,” so, Tinsley says, he called 911 “to ask for an emergency medical technician to come to her apartment to evaluate her.”
In response, “as many as ten El Reno police” officers “pushed their way through the door,” according to the complaint.
Instead several cops arrived and not surprisingly the grandmother was not happy to see armed agents of the government in her house without permission. She yelled for the police to get out of her apartment and was tased in her bed (while hooked up to highly combustible oxygen) for her act of defiance. That’s right, they tased a bedridden 87 year old woman in her bed who posed no threat to them, and they shouldn’t have been there in the first place. And how did these cowards justify their actions? They actually claimed the bedridden woman has taken an “aggressive stance” in her bed, whatever that means. Latest news shows the woman is suing the town for their assault that day.
These assaults on citizens are growing more common every day. Until we as a nation demand strict policies concerning their use we can expect rogue police officers and conduct review boards to continue approving employing them in barbaric ways when their commands are not complied with immediately. This folks is the beginning of a police state, where compliance is mandatory and passive resistance is met with painful electrical force which depending on the health of the citizen attacked can (and has) had deadly consequences.
Today I’ve sequestered myself at a Panera Bread away from my toys and TV. Just me, a laptop, and a tethered cellphone for data (Panera’s WiFi is abysmal!) so I can get a few posts up I’ve meant to commit to the interwebz. This story, courtesy of The Consumerist details how four Wal-mart employees were staring down the barrel of a loaded handgun held by a laptop swiping shoplifter.
It began when Walmart workers noticed the suspect stick a netbook under his clothes. He was met at the exit by a loss-prevention coordinator who escorted him back to the loss-prevention room at the store where three more employees joined him.
When the shoplifter pulled out the netbook, he also pulled out his handgun.
“It’s cocked, guys,” the gun-wielding fellow reportedly told the workers. “Don’t make me do this.”
This isn’t a situation they asked to be a part of but yet fate forced their hand. They intervened to save their lives by tackling the gun wielding thug and for their brave actions they were rewarded with disciplinary termination. The Wal-mart policy they violated is called “AP09″ and it states if a suspect displays a weapon, Wal-mart associates (as they are called in Walton lingo) are to disengage and withdraw. I can surely imagine they would have prefered to be anywhere else other than a back security room with a gun pointed at them, so I’m at a severe loss to understand… where should they have disengaged and withdrawn to? there is a criminal with a gun standing in-between them and the exit door. It appears Wal-mart feels they should have submitted to the criminals whims, even if that meant he takes their lives. This is UNACCEPTABLE to anyone who values their own life. Wal-mart would rather YOU, the employee DIE or get seriously wounded than defend yourselves from attack. Is Wal-mart actually this ethically challenged? Yes, “Always”.
