The write-up below details an incident alleged to have happened a few months back. The author notes that it involved actors from the “Souix Falls County Sheriff Department”, which makes me think they were either employed at Souix Falls Police Department or Minnehaha County Sheriff’s Office (both work from the same building).
It’s good to hear that the author has plead “not guilty” as he recognizes his actions didn’t harm anyone.
After you read his write-up just ask yourself how this situation might have gone different if the author or someone in his vehicle would have been filming.
Sioux Falls Police Department
- 605-367-7212
- 320 W. 4th St., Sioux Falls 571054
- http://www.siouxfalls.org/police.aspx
Minnehaha County Sheriff’s Office
- 605.367.4300
- 320 W. 4th St., Sioux Falls 571054
- http://minnehahacounty.org/dept/so/so.aspx
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On Friday, December 6th, 2012, I was assaulted by armed thugs of the Souix Falls County Sheriff Department, ND.
It just after midnight when I and a few friends were driving back from having a night out. I was acting as the DD that night, as a responsible person should, when I committed the egregious crime of failing to signal for a lane change. Of course, there was a cop there. Not when you actually need one of course. When you are just driving back to your apartment with pizza, cops seem to be lurking behind every stop sign.
I see the flashing light and pull over but I was on the 115. I exited and drove just three blocks to a safe location, a 7-11. Something I heard was completely legal. I did this to ensure that I and my passengers wouldn’t be hassled, or so I thought. It took just seconds for Cop #1 and Cop #2 to start in. First they said I was drunk, then they said I was trying to flee. I couldn’t even complete a sentence before they asked yet another leading, incriminiatng question. Was I armed? Why were they bottles in my back seat? Were they full or empty? Had I been drinking? Was everyone in my car over 21? I had barely put my car into park yet and the 3rd degree starts!
I had heard about filming the police and believed it was my right so I told Sam to turn on his cellphone and record this, because this was getting out of hand. Then Cop #2 ordered no one to move, he said it was for “Officer Safety.” Whatever that means. Lucky, my other passenger Lisa knows Cop #1. She went to high school with him and they dated for a short time. She said he was the typical jock, bullying everyone then, just like now. She dropped names and it seems things calmed down. I know that cops don’t like people knowing them.
So Cop #1 collects my driver’s license but I couldn’t find my insurance or registration. Not a big deal in my opinion. My car is proper, I just couldn’t find them right at that moment. While Cop #2 hovers over us, ready I’m sure to shout that someone’s reaching for a gun to shoot everyone. I know Lisa and Sam were talking about him and maybe it was childish, but they were saying stuff loud enough for him to hear.
Cop #1 runs my name, then comes back and says that I lied to him about my name. What?! You have my license. Can’t you read. Then he said that everyone has to get out. Its December. I look back at Sam and I tell him to turn on his cellphone. Again, Cop #2 said for everyone to get and not move. I think they are purposely trying to tell use what to do to stop us from filming them.
Sam and Lisa get out from the passenger side and I get out of the driver’s door. Anyone from SD knows that Decemeber it cooled down quick at this time and I slipped and fell on some ice. I landed on all fours, lucky to not have fallen flat on my face but then Cop #1 stepped to me and put his size 11′s on my hand. I screamed out. I mean wouldn’t you? Some 200 pound guy standing on your hand. I jerk back my hand and ask him what his problem was as I stand. This must have hit his roid button cause he told me to “watch my mouth, it was an accident.” I asked if he was sorry and he ignored me.
Now we all stand there, they collect Lisa and Sam’s name and then he starts asking me questions about my ID. I must think its fake or something. I told him I cut it to fit into my wallet. Then he implied that was “mutliation” of a driver’s license? What?! Are you serious? I look over and now Cop #2 is all about Lisa and what’s in her pockets. I can’t hear what they are talking about but next thing he’s got her hands up and he searching her. Sam is not happy about his at all. I couldn’t focus on what was happening over there because Cop #1 was still saying I’m a master forger and wants to see more ID. I give him my passport. Now he thinks I’m a smuggler or something. I tell him I’m a duel citizen, my family lives in Calgary. He just had a dumb look on his face.
So now, Cop #2 is done with his rectal exam of my friends and finds a single pill. Cop #1 asked me what it is. How the hell should I know what’s in someone else’s pocket? Both the Cops are now hot to search my car. Lisa shouts that the pill is some pain pill for her german shephard. It just looks different because it for a dog. Is it illegal to carry your dog’s medication with you? I wouldn’t know because I’m not the one carrying it. She said she just forgot to give it to her dog before we left for the evening. This isn’t like she’s got baggies full of meth on her.
Now, Cop #3 and Cop #4 show up. Great. They said it was contraband and are gonna arrest Lisa, who’s drunk and getting upset, for drug possession since they say its something else. I can’t believe this is happening. They think they found the mother lode or something. Sam, Lisa’s boyfriend, is now saying he’s gonna get everyone’s name and badge because this is way more then just getting a ticket. Cop #3 and #4 walk up to him and bully him. I tell Cop #1 to tell his friends to calm down, Sam was all-state in wrestling and was a noseguard in college, he’s not a pushover. Cop #1 tell me that Sam can go home, jail or the hospital tonight, he gets to pick. What the fuck is that all about?!
Now voices are raised and suddenly a cop, not sure which one, pulls a taser out. First I thought it was a gun and thought I’m gonna watch my college roommate get shot. Lisa starts crying and Sam raises his hands and said he was good and that this was all bullshit. I ask to go over and talk with my friends, of course the answer was no.
The Cops group together for a minute, probably getting their story straight. Then 3 walk away leaving me with Cop #1. He hands me 3 tickets. For the signal violation, failing to yield, and no insuracne. The total fine is $345.00. I start to ask questions and now I’m getting loud. How did I fail to yeild?! I stopped didn’t I? Cop #1 tells me to just drive away and he’ll cut me a deal later in court.
Lisa calls out, “this is bullshit Scott, you were a dick in school and you’re still a dick now.” Lisa said that the cops were gonna test the pill and if it was drugs then they would get a warrant for her arrest. She just laughed and said she wasn’t worried.
I have plead ‘not guilty’ to all charges.
“What facts do you rely to prove that law applies to me?” – Marc Stevens @ NO STATE PROJECT – go there now, please.
Another drunks story. Maybe if he didn’t act like such an idiot none of this would have happened. You have no one to blame but yourself.
If you signal that you have seen them, the cops are SUPPOSED to be OK with you driving to a safe spot to pull over. (In NJ, people wer, in fact, TOLD to do that.) Signalling, not so sure of, but hitting the 4-ways (hazards) should qualify.
The hand could’ve been an accident, dunno – the personality as explained makes it sound like, accident or no, cop was glad it happened.
ALWAYS have all the necessary documents available. ALWAYS. What’s in your glove box? Now, that can be bad if the cop is an asshole, you might get shot. OTOH, telling the mentally incompetent what you’re going to do helps them understand it a little better.
And don’t be an asshole yourself, of course.
The entire search should be illegal, I think (IANAL). Even if the pill were something illegal, it shouldn’t stick. Anything gained from an illegal search becomes inadmissable, IIRC. (However, if the pill isn’t in the original prescription bottle, there can be BS charges, keep that in mind. And they might “stick” if the DA has an axe to grind, especially if the cost of a lawyer is more than the ticket. Not many people resist on PRICIPLE these days.)
Obvious questions:
Why did you “trim” your driver’s license?
Why not present the US passport, if you have dual citizenship?
Why didn’t you signal the change correctly?
Why didn’t you ask the other people to record the incident from the beginning? ASSUME the worst, PRAY for the best. Not the other way around.
Those two alone could’ve ensured it was far less of a problem.
Next time, be ready with an IED to attach to piggy’s car as you drive away.
If they want a war, give it to them.
That is what it’s coming to. Don’t wait until they have a gun in your face to deal with the problem; if they won’t de-escalate on their own, dismember them pre-emptively. They’ll double-down, of course: force is the only language they speak. It’s straight out of V for Vendetta, but the mind you’re dealing with – is the same petty, vindictive, megalomaniacal mind. If the people on the force aren’t “paragons” of virtue, you’re better off without them: they wish to enslave you, de facto.
Gonna be a lot of pig roasts over the next decade, I think…
So you drive on without indicating that you’re going to stop. The car more than likely breaks of alcohol with empty bottles (beer I would assume) and a couple of very drunk people inside. Seperating yo from the vevehicle and the strong odor of your drunk buddies…this actually helps you…not hurts you. Why would she be carrying around a pain pill for a dog….just loose in her pocket when going out for a high of partying and drinking? Nouns like you took some bad advie…probably from some Cop Blocker somewhere and got one of your pals arrested. Good job.
These leos need to take course from the NYPD. 1st, you should travel three to a squad car with one female leo. Then when you pull a car over, the two male leos go up to the driver side and passenger side, and open the doors and start searching with the occupants still in the car. Then you can smell for alcohol/pot or any other drug that’s possible while searching the glove box and the console.
Then get the occupants out of the car so you can search them. (Dont’ record from your dash cam, turn that off). Then after you’ve searched everything thoroughly, ask the driver for his license and the passengers for their id. If someone doesn’t comply, arrest them for “something”. The constitution and RAS doesn’t mean anything anymore, just shake down as many cars as you can.
t,
You demonstrate again the difference in mentality, the AUTOMATIC SUSPICION, which puts ALL of us at greater risk.
If she has “a pill”, it MUST BE DEMON DRUGZZZ!!!!!
This is why we think you’re all @$$holes.
I have two dogs. I’ve OFTEN grabbed the pill from the container, dropped it in my pocket, went to set up to give it to the dog – and something intervenes. Too late in the morning, girl is late, woman throws a fit, whatever. Distracted, forget about pill, don’t find it until that evening when I’m cleaning out my pockets.
But to YOU, it’s evidence of an intent to break the law. Javert, we don’t WANT your kind policing us. (Les Miserable reference. Good story of an imbecile following “THE LAW” regardless of whether it’s good, bad, indifferent, even moral. Kills himself in the end because he sees how the law has been bent out of proportion to the “crime”, the words are twisted to impoverish the poor while enriching the wealthy. IE, the game – which he dedicated his life to – is fixed. Broke his mind.)
Leave the Jean Valjeans of the world alone. Go after the John Gottis, maybe. Go after the CIA operatives on US soil – they have more drug ops than you’ll find in Philadelphia. :-P (Con Air ring a bell?)
Why do you have K9 dogs? That seems like a big waste of money. Just pull the people out of the car that you stop and search it. Then get everyone from the car on the ground and search them and all their containers and their purses. Why are you leos even making a pretense of thinking that “Wait that might be against the constitution.” F that, just do your jobs and shake down as many cars as you can.
Jean: Again, look at the totality
Yes, the “totality”:
Cops plant evidence.
Cops perjure themselves.
Cops beat people to death.
Cops break the law.
In the cases there is a complaint about their conduct, they go before a “review board” following any investigation, and GET THEIR JOB BACK. Sometimes with BACK PAY. And WE CITIZENS foot the bill if there’s a legal judgement, because it’s OUR TAX MONEY.
But, based on your logic, if I get pulled over for a traffic violation, and a friend walks up and shoots the cop, that would be OK, too – it’s just my “partner” watching my back, right? He’s just protecting me from loss of property, or injury in the case of planted evidence.
You want it when the “totality” helps you. Splatter a few dirty pigs blood into the gutter, we’ll feel a little less vicious to some of these cases. But no – 3, 5, 10 YEARS after the offence, the outcome will be a page-27 story at best. Hey, ANYONE with eyes knows the press is worthless, but REALLY?
Got a dog running around, best put a leash on him, right? Best leash I know of is to shoot the dog, you seem to say.
OK, open season on pigs, too! What’s good for the goose…
While we’re at it, why don’t we have a few polite “no-knock” warrants on a cop’s house now and again, JUST to drive the point home? Maybe one or two will get shot and bleed out… From oh, a knee or ankle wound? Or would it be the 37 shots pulled out of the body, none of which were fatal, and even combined, with quick medical treatment, not fatal. But we’ll just leave, and let them bleed out.
Totality of the situation: THERE ARE BAD COPS, and there IS NO VIOLENT RESPONSE to THEM, but even acting within the law, to the best of our abilites, WE are subject to being killed. At least if you killed EACH OTHER in public executions, too – we could see some parity.
As it stands? Just another gang, like MS13, bloods, crips, triads… Not even omerte. NO honor. Sin City or Gotham, come to life.
And protected from your crimes, under the law, as well. Lunatics running the asylum indeed.
Compare this story to the one on here just recently, from DC, where a guy had a LICENSED gun, witnessed a dog attack, went and got the gun, shot the dog (and maybe the kid), and is now being charged with felonies. If he were my age, he might’ve been able to use a bat, or a kitchen knife, or an iron rod (rebar, say). IF they were at hand. And he’d probably STILL be charged with SOMETHING, because he didn’t call 911 and WAIT FOR THE RIGHT TURD TO SHOW UP… The turd who might be TOO BUSY at the donut shop, or molesting teenage girls, or hassling a minority, JUST BECAUSE. Those stories circulate too, remember.
I guess we’re all criminals, and you’re the saintly “Thin Blue Line” Keeping the savages within us at bay?
If you actually believe that BS, I have some oceanfront property to sell you, right outside Reno… Sure to appreciate 15,000% the instant the new Cali quake drops Cali into the Pacific.
So here’s the “totality of the circumstances”:
We see cops get away with things that we can’t. We even see it IN THE PAPERS sometimes. YOU want to deny it happens (at least as often as we see.) And if WE mere mundanes take action to protect ourselves – WE can go to prison.
Sounds like the guy who shot the dog made a mistake – in not shooting the cop once the dog was dead.
We learn from OTHER’S mistakes, though….
So keep pushing at us. We’re not slaves, not numbers, and eventually, you’ll meet someone who will push back. Maybe they’ll be suicidal, a la Joe Stack. Maybe they’ll be trained, a la Dorner.
But if you’re having a really bad day – they might be sane, and they might make a FAR bigger mess than those two. And if Dorner’s an indication?
“The People” (used in the communist/socialist revolutionary sense) will cheer that person on, until you finally catch & kill him.
And then…. there will be another. Or two. Or twenty.
Depends on how many more “paperboys” you shoot up.
but go ahead, keep making that bed, I won’t stop you…
This incident is a complete fabrication.
Wow, I really didn’t think it would that easy. You’ll post anything that casts a negative light against the police, without any proof or verification won’t you?
I wrote this about a week ago on my iPhone. I created an email account, added a non-existant police department and even changed a Thursday to a Friday.
Nah, they will know its all bullshit I said to my co-workers. There is no way. Zero proof. But, oddly enough, I was wrong. Then again, I did make it just believable enough didn’t I? I was sure to insert key elements. Tasers, drugs, minor violations and a ‘being hassled by the man’ type of feel.
Copblock, you have proven (again) you have no journalistic credibility and no standards for operating a website about “accountability.”
No proof. No fact checking. No names. No verification. My god, I even made up the police department.
…..fucking amazing.
Common Idiocy,
Why bother? Trying to cover the “jingoistic yellow journalism” of Davy V with fraudulent allegations?
I get it – like Dan Rather with forged documents, I understand that – but when the first line indicates there’s an error (Can’t identify the police department, as two very similar-named Depts share a building?), I think you’re on the losing end.
Then again – so was Danny boy… :-)
@ Common Sense:
So, what you’re trying to tell us is that you’re good at lying about police activity? Shocking.
Now, had they emailed me (Samuel Fisher – taken from Splinter Cell, another clue) back and asked for clarification or additional information, that would have been different. But they didn’t.
That saw it and ran with it. Just had to show how ‘bad’ the cops were on that cold evening. Even adding an opinion, links for me not to take a plea and addresses and phone numbers to two police agencies have nothing to do with this horror.
Adding another webpage to their site, all for me, all without any facts or proof. Even with clearly misleading and confusing information. But yet they are a national voice for accountability?
I wonder if I can fool them again.
Jean: Get back on your meds. Heck, take some your dogs if you have too. You are the one cling for violence, not me…never me.
There are freaky cases where outlandish things happen. But they are such a rarity as to be almost nonexistent when compared to all / everything the police do. I will again refer you to this site called “cop block.” It is a site about holding the police accountable. They frequently have story about officers that have done something wrong being arrested, sent to prison, or fired. Now the site also frequently features stories where officers behaved correctly but the person stopped, arrested or otherwise involved didnt like it. Now that person make think the officer was wrong…but that certainly doesn’t mean that the police where wrong.
This story is a great example of the police dpi g it right, and the person stopped just didn’t like it. Look at the way even he described it. They officer correctly sells rated him from the car to find out if he had been drinking. He spoke about not knowing what was going on with the passengers as he could only see some of it. The police having a numerical superiority when dealing with a carload of drunken individuals as for everyone’s safety. Even the drunks are less likely to fight if there are several officer around.
From the story, it sounds like he thought he was doing the right thing, and his intentions were good. But the police didnt do anything wrong either. They did their jobs well. Just because she got arrested doesn’t make the officer wrong. She made her free will choices…to go out drinking and “accidentally” leave a powerf pain killer in her pocket. Now without any additional information…as to why the officer ever even got her out of the car and why he searched her….the totoity that we know from what this guy tells us is that she was very drunk and had a powerful pain killer pill loose in her pocket. Now I hope you aren’t too blind or inexperienced to know that lots and lots of folks drink and use prescription pain killer in combination? It would have been nonsensical of the officer to have believed that she just forgot in her pocket….loose….when she went out drinking. Much more likely that she uses the pain killer herself. Again we have to base this just off of the limited info that the author gives.
Based on my experience I would have arrested her too. Even someone with very limited experience should. I know I would expect a new trainee to make that arrest.
Heck, if you had any foresight at all you would be on my side about drug use. The current costs of abuse….those high insurance rates you already pay, and OMG the tax dollars that will be spent on these voluntary addicts through obamacare.
See the bigger picture of it
@T
“I will again refer you to this site called “cop block.” It is a site about holding the police accountable. They frequently have story about officers that have done something wrong being arrested, sent to prison, or fired.”
Only if people bitch enough, and you’re ignoring a lot of stories about cops who acted poorly and DIDN’T get punished. Like the officers who shot at the newspaper ladies and the guy.
Or the cop who shot a woman in her own back yard because he was surprised, or the cop who shot the 18yo kid in a club, or the cop who shot a man running from an armed robber, ect.
Cops get away with a whole lot of shit, but you’re cherry picking the few loud cases where the public managed to force the cops to act. And often against their will. The only reason Harless got anything done to him at all was because of the public screaming at corrupt police and making it as public as possible.
No. You think they did something wrong. Doesn’t mean they did. Then there are all the time that you don’t know about any discipline…so you think there wasn’t. Its not me cherry picking…the math is millions upon millions of police contacts every year….and you dwell on the few. Who’s cherry picking….oh, that would be you. But keep trying.
@T
“No. You think they did something wrong. Doesn’t mean they did.”
Cops shot at innocent paperladies and a guy during the Dorner hunt. But cops will not say the officers should be charged for what they did. Why then would a cop’s view of right and wrong mean anything? And that is only one example of the rights and wrongs of cops.
Tell me why I should believe cops are disciplined when it is done in secret? With the police’s record of corruption, no I don’t believe you truly police your own. Your word has no value.
“the math is millions upon millions of police contacts every year….and you dwell on the few.”
The few still matter, except to cops who then play statistical games and ignore the fact that it is other people’s lives they are messing with.
@t: if you, collectively, actually handled “the few” properly, we wouldn’t be here, would we? This site only exists because “the few” are not only not held accountable for their actions, but are protected. You can lie to a suspect and get away with it; we can’t. You can be ignorant of the law, cause all kinds of harm, and get away with it; we can’t. You can lie to a jury and are protected; we are not. Your kind belongs in North Korea, or somewhere else where tyranny is not only tolerated, but expected. Check that: your kind belongs in a mass grave, with bullet holes in your forehead.
Why would we be here. You mean this place where the overwhelming majority hold their police daprtments in very high regard, rush their children over to meet us, try to find some sillyquestion to ask just to be around and near us, where we have engaged the evil to where they have websites ddevoted to hating us? That place? Its nice here.
@T
“Why would we be here. You mean this place where the overwhelming majority hold their police daprtments in very high regard.”
The overwhelming majority pay no more attention to what cops do than they do their elected officials. They don’t know cops burned a little girl looking for a nonexistent drug lab. They don’t know that a cop shot a woman in her own back yard. Many didn’t even know cops had shot up the newspaper ladies and the guy. I’m not impressed with their wisdom.
I too once thought cops were great.
“where we have engaged the evil to where they have websites ddevoted to hating us? ”
Oh, of course everyone who disagrees with a cop is evil. It couldn’t have anything to do with shooting innocent people, corruption, burning little girls with flashbangs, or any of a thousand other grievances. Why, disagreeing with cops should be a felony on its own. How dare we?
What you’ve just said is the mindset of a militarized police.
Your head is in a dark place today, I see.
I really think it’s time for random pig roasts.
Across the country, unconnected. Focus on the cities, that’s where the vermin usually are – on either side of the law.
Make sites like this redundant – if any 6-year-old with matches might be part of “the movement,” it’ll only GROW in popularity.
What the institutionalized mindset of police prevents, is the idea that people aren’t all evil, nor are we ALL guilty of crimes, and they just need to catch us. The difference between scofflaws and felons, for instance: We all agree on Felons, per se, with the major crimes: Theft, murder, rape, etc. But that doesn’t produce enough criminals. (And I have no illusions about the human animal.) And they’re going to be the violent ones, mostly, though one article (way back when, can’t cite) said, effectively – ask an NYPD cop the difference between the guy who answers the door, and the one who shoots through it, and it’s just which day it is. (But some extra “urban renewal” might calm that down, too.)
But we make more and more laws, more and more “crimes” (de facto, declared, victimless crimes); we make it impossible to follow Law A without breaking Law B; we elect criminals into government positions.
Ultimately, WE are responsible for creating the mess, because “its for the children,” or “the greater good” or “public welfare” or “There oughta be a law…”
So we redefine felonies. (Seriously, had one person recount a conversation with a girl at college; she had just suffered a “mini-rape” because a guy looked at her suggestively. WTF? ) Allow prosecutorial misconduct to be “tough on crime,” and the prosecutors add on charges just to taint the jury pool. Had a friend arrested for carrying a knife in his car, never threatened anyone, cops saw it when he opened the glove box for his registration and insurance. This was before dash cams; he would’ve been ebtter off killing the two shits – UNLESS…. Maybe most people aren’t WIRED to be evil that way, IN WHICH CASE pigs just wanted to flex their muscles. He was a psych student; the plea deal treated him like a felon, he had to get rid of ALL blades, pay a fine, go to some kind of counselling, all on his dime. For a traffic stop that had NO validity (no citation issued, they got their “bonus” for pulling someone over, and got a “dangerous criminal” into the system.) (East Hanover, NJ. Cops there are assholes, been told by residents. Met a few. Worthless beasts. Not donut munchers, mind, fit – but IQ probably about room temperature, and the few incidents talking with them confirmed that. Suck dick of the next rank up; deal shit to anyone below you. From all I’ve heard? Same all over. Thanks for confirming that, too, t!)
And when you hear the conversations? Like passing by the MBTA cops? Or the Transit cops? (Hell, even the NJ Transit CONDUCTORS had a tent pole up their ass.) Must be an authority thing. There’s a REASON south Park used CARTMAN….
Please explain why the police need armored hummers? Why they can carry SMGs and assault rifles, and wear tactical armor, on the street – and no one blinks? Especially since WE can’t? You don’t want someone walking around with a Ma Deuce (Browning .50), OK – I can understand that. Most people can’t CARRY that, nor can they safely FIRE it, without a tripod or vehicle mount. Pointless. So, you don’t want people walking around with an MP5 – OK… 9mm, full-auto, collapsible stock, concealable – I get that. HOW MANY ARE USED IN COMMISSION OF CRIME AGAIN? Miniscule. (google for yourself.) Uzi pistol, maybe? Ok, I didn’t find stats on that – but it IS a handgun. And GUESS what’s used in the majority of crimes? HANDGUNS.
So we’ll ban AK-47, full-auto rifles, M-16, et al. We’ll ban street sweepers, even though most people have never heard of one. (Full-auto shotgun, generic “classification” of street-sweeper, usually with a drum magazine.) We’ll go after anything that can use a magazine of more than 7 shots, or can be converted to more than 7 – or 5, in the case of long guns. The long guns that AREN’T used in crimes.
And you people saw WE watch too much TV? (likely right, but for the wrong reasons.) But if the facts aren’t there, you just IGNORE them? “I mean, WHAT does it MATTER NNOOWW?”
(Whatever you say, Ms. Clinton.)
It MATTERS because there was a SOLUTION, and everyone responsible just ignored the problem. REFUSED to correct things in advance. REFUSED to send assistance. And then REFUSED to answer questions about it.
SAME. ATTITUDE.
And still unacceptable. And piggy just keeps pushing. And politicians just keep passing bad laws (and breaking the campaign promises we elected them on, to the point it’s cliche to comment.) And WE keep paying the costs… 3 card monte.
Time to make the dealer use OUR deck, for the “Ace of Spades search.” 52 Aces – Fix the game. It’s what THEY are trying to do to us – it’s what government always does, eventually (we’re just living in that phase.) But no more allowing YOU to dictate the rules of the game.
Most people want to be left alone, to live their lives garnering what success they can. A few will want to prey on others – these need to be put down. NOT after they harm and kill 5-50 people – ASAP. By their first target, if possible. And since piggy isn’t around at that time – one of the reasons the criminally-minded choose their target, no cops around – You’re WORTHLESS for preventing the crime. You didn’t “prevent” anything by being in the area. Doesn’t work that way. Predators choose their prey, wait for the opportunity. You’re just another predator to them. Like a cat hunting a mouse, a hawk will hunt the cat… You want to think you’re the hawk – you’re not, you’re just the cat. We are the mice, but we’re learning how to shoot back – because we don’t care WHICH predator is coming for us, we just want DEAD PREDATORS. So we can go get our food, and get back to our home, with a minimum of fuss and risk.
Bad things are coming, and you are only adding to it.
And playing games – “People drink and use drugs together, ayup!” – Yeah, including cops. If you WANT a war – that’s where we’re headed. Hint: We outnumber you. Many people can outshoot you. Some of us know chemistry, some of us know blades, some of us are just crazy and want to inflict pain on others. These groups don’t all overlap (Meaning, not all the people belong to all groups.) Some have friends in gangs; some have friends in politics. Some are neutral or even pro-cop, but that changes when their friends go to jail, or are fined into oblivion, or they get abused by the courts and the court’s officers. And in red zone? Everything’s a target. Parents, children, uniforms, cars, whatever’s available.
Most people know glass container + duct tape + gasoline + road flare = molotov cocktail. Ungainly, but effective. Imagine that coming through your living room window at night. Hope they didn’t EMP your smoke alarms. (EMP device is about $20 of materials, from hardware stores and grocery, and maybe 5 minutes of RTFM for a soldering iron.)
Ever dealt with a cornered racoon? Or a badger?
you’re getting close…
Another example of our “beloved government” in action.
http://law.shu.edu/About/News_Events/releases.cfm?id=171971
Just ’cause I found it lying around.
BTW, flouride – think drinking water & toothpaste – does some similar effects: hallucinations, mental damage, etc.
You know that Romans went insane, right? They lined their aqueducts with lead. Lead poisoning creates dementia of various sorts. Megalomania, delusions, straight-up insanity. Caligula, say?
This empire is no different.
Except we aren’t ALL crazy. (Yet – the cure is worse than the disease, but some of us can’t live with the cognitive dissonance.)
Jean, in all but a few states, you can own a fully automatic weapon.
Why did you plead at all? Did you challenge jurisdiction and move to dismiss based on improper complaint and lack of evidence of a complaining party?
As always shawn, you no best. Your experiences outweigh all other and beat down real world data. So, whatever you say