Man defends self, is arrested (tales from Massachusetts)

The Outdoor Message | 12/04 | Schwarz

[RightOnline]

Muck Fassachusetts.

[Larry Lucido]

Damn, I miss that guy!

Hutz: I move for a bad court thingy.
Judge Snyder [modeled on Robert Bork]: You mean a mistrial.
Hutz: Right!! That's why you're the judge and I'm the law-talking guy.
Judge: You mean the lawyer?
Hutz: Right.

[Paleo Conservative]

He should have just shot him.

No, he should have emptied his weapon into him so he would never survive.

[Pearls Before Swine]

I have a friend, he is a good-natured person, who's marriage failed when his psychopathic, drug abusing, unfaithful wife stabbed him. He ended up needing physical therapy to learn how to walk again after the incident. Guess who the courts awarded the children to ..

Would you mind saying which state this happened in? Is it one of the usual suspects, or one you'd normally think wasn't so, well, progressive?

[joesnuffy]

Isnt that the truth...as "Social Justice" has been the raison d'etre of the US education system for the last 50 yrs...not surprsing the courts decided it is theirs as well....

As former Milwaukee cop...co-opted into theft and then not squealing on his thieving cop buddies...Mr. Reeger would say..."Spell the Straw in Raspberry"...

[metesky]

Anyonw who doubts this story didn't grow up in Boston.

About twenty years ago I was at a fund raiser for a former MassPort commissioner (now deceased) that had been organized by a known Mafia hitman (now deceased). A Mass. State Police captain was trying to convince a bunch of other cops (state and Boston city) what a great guy the killer was. True story.

[investigateworld]

Former Sheriff Floyd Tidwell, San Bernardino County, Cali, stole over five hundred (500) guns from the evidence locker. He was allowed to plead to three misdemeanors. No jail time and a fine.

[patriot_wes]

The police told Doug that in Massachusetts, no one has the right to use a gun in self defense unless they are police officers.

The frickin soviet socialist union would be proud. I would file suit under civil rights discrimination.

[Kay Ludlow]

Many who are illegally holding office in the Legislative Branch (and some Executive Branch) contrary to our Constitution mandates for the SEPERATION of POWERS!

I understand your position, and I too am appalled at the grip lawyers (today's lawyers from the leftist law schools), but for the record - many of the founders were lawyers too. I think that even then lawyers were the most heavily represented occupation...

[international american]

I remember in the early 70's Mass. passed a law which essentially stated that if someone breaks into your home, you must first try to run, and failing that, and you are cornered, you may finally use force. Talk show hosts Avi Nelson, and David Brudnoy had a field day on that one:)

Best regards,
Tim

[miskie]

Would you mind saying which state this happened in? Is it one of the usual suspects, or one you'd normally think wasn't so, well, progressive?

That would be Massachusetts..

[international american]

Thanks for the C.S. Lewis quote as well.

[Pearls Before Swine]

That would be Massachusetts..

Definitely one of the usual suspects! I know of a couple of juicy divorces in MA which went on... and on... and on, myself (fortunately not my own).

[metesky]

A MA state trooper led a raid on the S. Yarmouth, MA (Cape Cod) state police barracks and stole about 3 tons of weed that was impounded there.

How, you ask?

Pretty simple... He sent the night duty officer out for coffee and sinkers.

A captain in the Med ford, MA PD led a notorious raid on a Malden Savings Bank, leisurely looting the safe deposit boxes over Memorial Day weekend. The cop gang also sold cocaine and stole the tests for rankings in the old MDC. They ended up shooting it out with each other over drug profits. The leader wrote a book, "The Cops Are Crooks".

A bunch of Haverhill and Lawrence, MA cops ran a cocaine ring out of a health club in Bradford. One of them, the son of the Haverhill police chief was killed and the murder is, I believe, still unsolved.

Career police officers have the same psychological profile as career criminals.

[investigateworld]

Good thing I retired at 20 eh?

[Lazamataz]

Sounds like BS to me. Clearly not correct. This piece is strange, and incomplete.

I'm also getting that sense.

[metesky]

Good thing I retired at 20 eh?

He, he! From what I hear, if you're working the other side of the street you don't get to retire, if you know what I mean...

[investigateworld]

Actually, (according to my sources) most cops fall into three major "thinking patterns" 1. being very similar to the criminal profile 2. The Boy Scout (save mankind, loves the hunt) 3. Civil service space taker.
Most upper management are of type 1., Middle management (non risk taking types) are # 3's. The "cowboy/boy scouts are type #2.
So whatdaya think I am?

[Cvengr]

So, the morale of the story is that if you hold at bay with a handgun a perjured Massachusetts deputy sheriff who is trying to kill you, then you, not he, will be prosecuted.

Could've been worse, ...had he been a she and driven out of town on a date by a Mass. Senator.

[metesky]

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