“Democracy means that if the doorbell rings in the early hours, it is likely to be the milkman.”—Winston Churchill
It’s 3 a.m. You’ve been asleep for hours when suddenly you hear a loud “Crash! Bang! Boom!” Based on the yelling, shouting and mayhem, it sounds as if someone—or several someones—are breaking through your front door. With your heart racing and your stomach churning, all you can think about is keeping your family safe from the intruders who have invaded your home. You have mere seconds before the intruders make their way to your bedroom. Desperate to protect your loved ones, you scramble to lay hold of something—anything—that you might use in self-defense. It might be a flashlight, your son’s baseball bat, or that still unloaded gun you thought you’d never need. In a matter of seconds, the intruders are at your bedroom door. You brace for the confrontation, a shaky grip on your weapon. In the moments before you go down for the count, shot multiple times by the strangers who have invaded your home, you get a good look at your accosters. It’s the police.
Before I go any further, let me start by saying this: the problem is not that all police are bad. The problem, as I point out in my book A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State, is that increasing numbers of police officers are badly trained, illiterate when it comes to the Constitution, especially the Fourth Amendment, and, in some cases, willfully ignorant about the fact that they are supposed to be peacekeepers working for us, the taxpayer.
Unfortunately, with every passing week, we are hearing more and more horror stories in which homeowners are injured or killed simply because they mistook a SWAT team raid by police for a home invasion by criminals. Never mind that the unsuspecting homeowner, woken from sleep by the sounds of a violent entry, has no way of distinguishing between a home invasion by a criminal as opposed to a government agent. Too often, the destruction of life and property wrought by the police is no less horrifying than that carried out by criminal invaders.
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If someone kicks in my door, they're getting shot. I don't care who it is.
ReplyDeleteexactly poster 1:11 PM because now people are going around wearing FBI and ATF and all shirts breaking into homes to rob them...
ReplyDeletePlus if it is a real cop, and you take some out, its less cops able to do it again... or teach their kids to do it too...
Hitler is long gone, but his Gesrapo seems to have had a rebirth.
ReplyDeleteI'll use the same motto they use. Shoot first and ask questions later. and whatever happened to our judges, to allow this crap to happen .
ReplyDeleteyeah, gotta watch out for the gesrapo.
ReplyDeletePoster 1:57 PM they are getting raises, money such as kickbacks or they are being threatened with the taking of their life...
ReplyDeleteI think it is the latter however, I could be wrong...
I just know that if everyone had the understanding that YOU OWE ONE DEATH NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS OR HOW YOU GO the mere fact that you will should open peoples eyes enough to just live their live no in fear of losing their life because one day you will regardless...
People want to be and feel scared or else they wouldn't... Terror only exists when you allow yourself to be terrorized...
You all could die tomorrow, in your sleep, walking down the hall even fall off the front step... Could be a car crash, plane crash, or a bomb.... Today I say you have a better chance of dying from a stray bullet from cops than by terrorist or anything else...
You are the only person with enough guts to ask. What happened to the cop who shot the unarmed man on the head killing him in Somerset last year?
ReplyDelete2:51 classed as justifiable homicide.
ReplyDeleteThe trooper is working the highways right now with one kill to his credit in the war against citizens.
At that point, I probably have gotten to my gun and turned on the laser, but may not have gotten my glasses on. Have to go for the head shot here, because our military dressed cops have body armor. Keep that in mind. The first shots count for all. There's no second shot.
ReplyDeleteJust think; If you would stop selling drugs you stop the threat of Jack-booted thugs breaking down your door.
ReplyDeleteJust think -- if the cops actually verified the address, or had some REAL probable cause, the jackbooted thugs would be killing fewer citizens. Like the 80 year old man killed a few days ago. Big drug dealer. Meth lab operator, according to the warrant. Ooops. My bad. Neither one. Cops still killed him. Whats your answer to THAT one, cop at 4:12??? Sign your name, too, you sissy.
ReplyDeleteI've never seen some many paranoid people posting on a website. Sad you people live under a rock and have no clue about police officers.
ReplyDeleteOctober 24, 2013 at 4:12 AM
ReplyDeletewhen are the cops going to stop selling drugs? they raid one drug dealer and that their stash to THEIR boys and let them sell it while acting as a lookout and protecting them from arrest.
Stop the holier than thou bs, you guys are worse than the dealers.
When are the police going to be allowed to defend themselves from violent citizens????
ReplyDeleteI am considering a gas dispensing system for my home. Something I can activate remotely after most of them have gone in.
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ReplyDeleteKilling innocents and their family and family pets isn't enough for you?
7:00 PM
All you need is a trip wire. They usually go in en masse, and it will take a certain amount of time for gas to build up depending on size of building.
Maybe unclaimed will save us! What say you 10:38?
ReplyDeleteI've never seen some many paranoid people posting on a website. Sad you people live under a rock and have no clue about police officers.
ReplyDeleteOctober 27, 2013 at 10:12 AM
I was wondering when this little gem was going to pop up. No body knows anything about cops. No body knows what it takes to be a cop. No body knows what a cop goes through.
Are you trying to say it's a secret society with dark codes and secrets, with secret handshakes and all that?
Not to worry, I got my decoder ring from a box of cereal a long time ago. I can be your trooper duty helper. :)
Being a cop isn't a top skill job. If it was it would pay more, you would need more college, (if you're in one of the agencies that require college).
All it takes is a warm body, ability to follow orders without question, cover your fellow cop at all cost, intimidate, bully and harass people into compliance. Know how to stand, walk, talk and place your hands on your belt in an authoritative manner.
You, emt's, and fire fighters think God gave you a gift that no one has ever had before. You are CHOSEN. lol
You sick puppies can't even get along with each other, how do you expect to get along with the public? The problem is not the public, is not the patient and not ALWAYS the problem of the accused.
When you have problems on all sides of you, the problem is YOU. You have your little cliques, your drinking buddies, and boy can you guys drink.
You underestimate the very ones you are SUPPOSED to serve, and that's your downfall.
You look at yourselves as Egyptian masters with a whip in your hands, and we are Jewish slaves.
Well, the time is coming when a few Moses' are going to rise up and slay a few more Egyptian masters.
And it will be righteous.
Never actually met a cop, firefighter or EMT that thinks they are God's gift to anything. Nice false stereotype. It's not ok for police to stereotype but it is for the general public? What's the difference?
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