Posted on 08/17/2013 6:33:23 AM PDT by phormer phrog phlyer
Are any of you freepers noting any increased police enforcement in your area?
Ditto.
Pot harvest season.
Police in East Texas area went in to a big food retailer, pulled a store employee out in parking lot to talk to him. Asked him if photo on I-phone was his (it was -- because police had photographed his car). Asked if he had been involved in an altercation on the road leading to the store and had he aggressively approached someone who had been driving erratically (he had not). The policeman didn't think to ask him if he had loaned the car to someone else (he had not - the top-notch criminal attorney he contacted for advice on how to handle this matter asked him that).
Case of mistaken identity. Police said he would refer everything to the District Attorney. The particular individual interrogated does not have an aggressive bone in his body (personal knowledge).
It's not so much what you don't know that will get you in trouble, it's what you know that ain't so. Wonder what's going to happen next?
Same thing in South Central Texas area...
Yes. Definitely. Local cops and state troopers from Nashville to Dover and back. They were everywhere. Lots of traffic cops on motorcycles pulling cars over and one road block. Trooper cars everywhere. It was highly unusual.
Yep. Driving up I-15 out of San Diego yesterday, there were CHP and Sheriff all over the place pulling people over.
Figured it was one of those “maximum enforcement” days they do, although that is typically on holiday weekends. Maybe they just need more cash for the pension fund.
Your sheriff is a political person. What his belief of the 2nd is in relation to confiscation is something most of them wear with pride. A call to his office and a blunt question, “Sir, what is your opinion of firearm confiscation ever occurring in this County?” will get you an answer that will be real close to the truth.
If he says it won’t happen as long as I’m the sheriff, then be sure to put up a sign for him during the next election. You can ask about food confiscation and I’ll bet the answer will be the same as the 2nd. If he believes in private property, you don’t have any problems.
There was an armed stand-off at the house behind the house across from me. I was underwhelmed at the response. Yeah, there was a helicopter with a loudspeaker, but the patrol car at our end of the street was from the local school district! Another car came from the local transportation company. In front of the house were two sheriff’s cars. The guy came out eventually, and it didn’t even make the local paper.
Mostly I’ve noticed a lot of “drills,” in L.A. and San Bernardino. A DHS drill in San Diego featured zombies. Yes, I’m serious. People stand around watching these things like they are at Universal Studios. I shudder to think what people would do if it were the real thing.
“Houston is target #1 to cripple our nation.
What would happen if they took out half our national refining capability. I’d call that an almost lethal crippling.”
They don’t need to directly take out the refining of oil in the Houston Ship channel leading to Texas City where most of it is done. There is a body of fresh water (not salt water) that feeds that whole complex of refining from Houston down through Texas City and without that body of water, they would have to shut down.
I won’t identify that body of water but there is a dam there and immediately after 9-11 happened, there were military helicopters staying over and around that dam to make sure it stayed safe. I lived in that county, not the one I’m in now, and until that happened, I didn’t know that particular water was vital to those plants.
It’s a matter of the foot bone connected to the ankle bone connected to the leg bone connected to the thigh bone, etc.. Take out any part and the whole won’t work.
I used to work at a college in Texas City where the majority of our refining is done. If an emergency happened, like a fire or explosion, or other disaster to release bad chemicals in the air, certain sirens went off. That happened one time when I worked there, and that building cleared out pronto to get out of the area. I did the same, heading north to where I lived, well out of that area. I would not live there.
I heard they are going back in forth to naval war college in Monterey.
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