Posted on 06/14/2011 4:17:25 AM PDT by marktwain
Why did this ever develop in the the first place? My sense of things is that there is a trajectory we have been on for decades (at least) leading to exactly the loss of American Constitutional government.
The question remains, how, or why, did we start along this trajectory? I suggest it is a tendency in evidence by things like Colonel House’s “Edmund Drew” at a very early date. Maybe even earlier, but not so thought out as a developed worldview.
Now they just shove women to the ground, terrorize the kids, shoot the pet dogs and stomp on the kittens.
It's beginning to look like one needs to have IEDs at one's entrances and the willingness to shoot first to take some with you when they wrongly break down your door to start your punishment, deserved or not.
Both the Sheriff and the local City Police have SWAT teams.
The solution to a sheriff that doesn’t understand or fulfill his duty
is to elect another sheriff.
End the War on Drugs and you end 90% of the justification for these unspeakable savages. I know they'll come up with other reasons (like unpaid student loans), but taking away the War on Drugs will go a long way towards pulling the carpet out from under their feet.
A classic case of throwing the baby out with the bath water.
Reading Ann Coulter's latest book regarding the "mob", the para-military units that have overrun our police and fire departments (yes, Austin FD has a "Regional Strike Force" and a "Special Operations Battalion") in my opinion, are yet another manifestation of the liberals trying to destroy the system so that We The People no longer trust, rather now detest and are repulsed by government law enforcement.
I wonder how long it will be before we hear of IEDs used routinely as perimeter defense against such offensive police action.
I have no reason to expect such a raid on my home, yet in the event of having to relocate, it is now a security decision to not only know the neighborhood, but also the history of the existing property. For example, say I was to look at some property owned by what appears to be a well compensated executive, if his child was black-sheep or if he himself managed to irritate an OIG over some pittance, even though he has long sold the house and is living in another part of the country, we know that government can't be bothered with any level of recon or simply confirming the address. Do I now have to sleep in clothes suitable for being hog-tied in while out on the front lawn for half the day as thugs ransack the home looking for the previous occupant?
It would seem that architects would have a new specialty to offer, and that is designs of a home that would stymie the thugs efforts to get to the owners and their children quickly, affording the owner time to call for legal representation (since obviously the criminals engaged in the lethal violence against you are on the other end of 911)
Now we can design labyrinth entryways with water features. Master bedrooms as strong rooms. Window designs intended to withstand teargas rounds fired at them, fence work and landscaping designed to injure the fast moving intruder coming at night. Will we need to string up piano wire in our hallways as a inexpensive last resort to protect us from being beaten into a coma, gunned down, or at the least thrown out in the front lawn in something we would never be seen in public?
Your neighbors voted for this demonic crap, now we have to live like Jews in Nazi Germany or Christians in present day Nigeria, or white farmers in Zimbabwe. Its Mogadishu because our politicians hate us and know we hate them, and now have a military guard to protect them and harass us.
The Chief of Police in a City is typically appointed. It’d be better if the City did not have a SWAT team.
I certainly agree there.
The CoP has to be appointed by an elected person, though.
And I understand, some cities are so ‘rat infested that there’s no way to get a non-corrupt mayor or sheriff elected.
In that case, I’d suggest moving, perhaps to the northwest, away from the concentrated blue cesspools.
Yep, they use use them like the US Army SF uses a 'force multiplier'. A six man SF 'A Team' can get a MIKE Force (force multiplier) battle ready in a 'relatively' short time (the Hmong were eager 'students').
But the thing is everyone with a TV and a brain knows how SWAT makes 'an entry'. And one person with a shotgun and alternating loads can hold them at bay -- given a few seconds notice.
First comes the verbal 'warrant warning' of entry (open up), 10 seconds later comes the battering ram, then the Flash-Bang. A few seconds later SWAT enters to 'clear the room'.I'm not advising this or any violence against Police. I'm very Pro Police and Law and Order. I'm 'just sayin'.The 'target' only needs to be ready, and first avert his eyes of the flash from the grenade, then open up with a Buckshot round or two aimed low (legs), then Slug Rounds that'll go through any 'body armor'. Then SWAT will have to retreat. Even a 20ga would do, 12ga not required.
Waco was a prime example of an entry gone bad.
The Davidians knew what the ATF SWAT Team would do, and they lost two officers in the process.
From appearances, most are bullies trapped in perpetual adolescence trying to hide their manly inadequacies by playing Rambo against unarmed enemies at taxpayer expense. Police work attracts a number of different types of people. One type becoming more prevalent are the control freaks who get their jollies telling people what to do and showing you their ‘power’. They are the ‘respect my authority’ types. These kinds of people are especially attracted to SWAT and other special units.
Self ping for later.
Ok, I have to add this. Around the turn of the century (19th to 20th) racism and anti-foreign prejudice (ie: anyone not of English heritage) peaked. I mean that in the US, England, as well in Germany racism was a dominant motif in the culture.
Here in the US, the “wasp” oligarchy saw the need to do something to “protect” their world. That was seminal to the worldview that lead to things like the abortive League of Nations, and now the UN. This worldview also accounts for the way western powers began surrendering their colonial possessions after WWII. It also accounts for our policy towards helping China develop - all part of bringing “them” into the “civilized family of nations”.
Essentially it was a racist worldview seeking to accommodate emerging realities beyond their power to suppress. I suppose that by today it has transmogrified into what we now see the first glimmerings of: a world police state.
Voila, Maybury RFD now has Barney running the SWAT untits.
Conspiratorial eh? But racism has a pretty big footprint in the world. Its true history hasn't been told yet.
This article barely scratches the surface of the problem...
Our militarized “law enforcement” agencies are the “standing army” the Founders feared.
Yup. Looks like I may have to start keeping my AK loaded and near me instead of my 9mm.
Note: I do not keep the safety on when it is in my hand.
I am not a criminal. I mind my own business. Work hard and DO NOT trample on anyones rights. My home is MY castle.
“Give me LIBERTY or give me DEATH.”
Remember, we were all GPSed according to voting preferences!!!!
Hitler’s Schutzstaffel (SS) started out as a small paramilitary organization and blossomed into a killing machine.
Whether it is Hitler, Stalin, et al, the Left loves to terrorize its own citizenry into quiet submission with paramilitary force. They see their citizenry as the enemy and treat them as such.
As America descends into third world status I expect to see the SWAT teams become more and more like the death squads heard about in third world countries like Central and South America. Guerena and others are just the beginning of the deathfest for our blackshirts.
I’d certainly love to hear from any law enforcement who thinks this is a good trend with the Nazification of our law enforcement organizations.
what all of this is “begging for” is a unified National Swat Team Agency...NSTA...coming to you shortly...courtesy of FEMA/NSA/CIA/FBI.....
The Overdue Library Book Swat Team!
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