Ninth Stage

Stop using swat teams on civilians. That’s a reasonable request. One that will go unheeded of course.
There’s an old saying, if you don’t use it you lose it. That is the primary reason that SWAT teams being used for routine search warrants will not go away.
Another reason is that being on a [...]

People like these are the only ones. The only ones that should be subject to the death penalty; government agents involved in violating citizens.
Via Two-Four.

Anti-freedom Clark Garen proposes on his website here that we:
1. Create a one year period for the United States of America to purchase at fair market value all guns and firearms, including hand guns, rifles, and even antique guns and rifles from domestic private ownership.
2. Prohibit and criminalize the domestic sale of guns and firearms, [...]

Murderous cops go unpunished as a matter of course in Chicago. Best excuse:”Come on. This is Chicago.”
On the street, when a shooting is inappropriate, autopsies can help reveal the contradictions in a police officer’s version of how it occurred. But it’s up to police and OPS investigators to make that connection and follow up.
Edmund [...]

Enraging:
In 2005, Oklahomans in Action launched a campaign to put a Taxpayer Bill of Rights (TABOR) measure on the November 2006 ballot. The measure would have put a cap on state spending increases, giving voters and taxpayers—instead of politicians—the power to override the cap.
Paul Jacob, as an advisor to the campaign, helped Oklahomans In Action [...]

Even their dogs are better than you.
“A police dog is a police officer. There is no difference under the law,” [the judge] tells KDKA. “They are not pets and they are trained in the purposes of law enforcement and anyone who would taunt a police officer can be considered a threat to the community.”
Via Balko.

Stolen shamelessly from Radley Balko.

One:
If a politician isn’t perfectly comfortable with the idea of his average constituent, any man, woman, or responsible child, walking into a hardware store and paying cash — for any rifle, shotgun, handgun, machinegun, anything — without producing ID or signing one scrap of paper, he isn’t your friend no matter what he tells you.
Two:
Try [...]

During the aftermath of Katrina, we’ll call that period “the outrage”, not only were there gun confiscations, evacuations forced at gunpoint, there was, a suit now alleges, sport killings of the domestic animals forcibly separated from their owners. “[T]hey overheard one deputy claim that ‘once everybody’s gone, we’re going to have target practice tonight.’”
Say [...]

The Justice Department effectively said “hey man, nice shot” to that negligent cop, Deval Bullock, who accidentally pulled the trigger and killed Dr. Salvatore Culosi. This was the last opportunity for justice for Sal and is a sickening example of the government protecting it’s own. That tin shield works real good don’t it? [...]