- Ha! Here’s a dude who decided to rob the wrong young woman.
- Five parenting situations that require alcohol. And not the rubbing kind.
- A loaded gun. A round in the chamber. And guess where this dumb tweaker broad decided to stash her firearm?
- Great advice for LEOs (and the person who sent me this link spent his career in that category): how to avoid being killed or being a killer of the innocent.
- Eight things that might get you on the infamous no-fly list. And note how few of them have anything to do with being dangerous. (H/T PT)
- The crazy reason it costs $14,000 to treat a snakebite with $14 medicine.
(Big H/T to MJR!)
I suspect most LEOs will never see that advice. Too bad. It seems sensible to me.
“Greasing the palm” is not new in the field of medicine, whether hospitals, drugs, or medical supplies. An optician friend once told me that prescription lenses cost only pennies to make, yet opticians everywhere tell the customer that the lens is the most expensive part of a pair of glasses (which can cost several hundred dollars). And I’ve had supply and drug salesmen tell me that nearly every item sold is processed in the same way. It’s now becoming more widely recognized through research, whistleblowers, and the internet.
Criminals’ bodies were once sold for research, their innards studied for learning, their bones and other parts processed for “treatment” of one illness or another. Medicine has been suspect since Hippocrates – it’s why he railed against it – and in one way or another, it’s always been a racket.
Medicine has come a long way, and does much good, but the “body politic” (no pun intended) of medicine has always lurked at its foundation.
Reading that advice to cops just made me hate them even more. The arrogance and sense of entitlement that makes such advice necessary is staggering. Vermin.
Some good advice to cops regarding how to avoid killing and being killed. For me, though, the parting shot was particularly revealing. The point seemed to be that Darren Goforth was killed because he, or others, had declared war on the American people, and he had suffered the American people’s proper response.
Darren Goforth was killed by a coward, a thug, probably a punk, who did not have the balls to do it face to face. He was ambushed, shot in the back, and shot several times as he lay on the ground. There was no known reason for this murder except that he wore the uniform. He did not deserve to be killed. And he has a name. He is not an opening in a police department somewhere.
We blog incessantly whenever a case can be made for a cop being at fault, but let several cops get killed in as many days and the best we can do is give cops advice on how not to get killed. We even point out that being a cop is not all that dangerous – certainly not as dangerous as working in construction, for example. But not a word about the scum sucking coward who ambushes a cop and shoots him in the back. We seem to be giving tacit approval.
I have had interaction with cops many times, both pleasant and unpleasant. There is no time I can remember when their behavior was less than professional. Of course, I didn’t always enjoy the encounter, but I didn’t run, and I didn’t fight, and I didn’t try to kill them, so I guess I didn’t give them any reason to shoot me. Maybe if I had, I too would hate them. Maybe I would even refer to them as “vermin”, though I doubt it.
Those darn S&W’s have loose slide-rail tolerances. The rattle probably gave her away like a bass-fishing plug.
This is NOT satire, this is the state of things in England. http://countercurrentnews.com/2014/11/british-police-calling-for-knife-ban/#
Wow… if they’d only banned knives before Jack the Ripper! Think of the anguish saved. (BTW, which knife is not a “pointy” knife?)
Interesting way to fame, being caught with a gun in your pussy. Did you catch the bullshit charge? “methamphetamine possession in a drug free zone”
I thought the advice for cops was pretty reasonable, if one believes that there should be cops at all. I don’t, though.
I found the linked article even more interesting:
[Those in departments that have excused the actions of their officers and made significant peaceful reform impossible, have now set the stage for their officers to be shot while sitting at traffic lights. Only 61% of murders are solved in the United States. Imagine how hard it will be to solve an officer’s murder that is completely random and lacks a direct connection to the shooter. Without a clear motive, there is no place to even start investigating.]
http://thefifthcolumnnews.com/2015/09/cycle-of-insurgency-cops-are-being-targeted-whats-next/
Maybe cops will disappear after all – not because Americans generally come to the conclusion that cops are a “cure worse that the disease”, but because nobody wants to be going around all day with a target on his back. While the means is not something admirable, the end might turn out all right after all.
I am a bit surprised at the 61% figure for murders (although maybe they should say “solved” with the quotes, since it is not unheard of to pin murders on the innocent). The percentage “solved”, where the victim did not know the murderer, must be very low.
Any time I get annoyed with American “culture”, I just stop to imagine what it would be like to be British. Then I feel much better. 😉
Hey Paul I could not agree more about not needing cops. Having spent the better part of three decades working in corporate security and having to deal with police has left a real bad taste. The kind of thing that made me want to wash my hands after each encounter. That whole “There are only two types of people, the criminals we have caught and the ones we haven’t” attitude from the younger cops is pure BS.
Believe it or not one of the things I can’t wait for is the advent of the driver-less vehicles. Not because of the convenience or safety but because of what it will do to the police forces around the globe. No more traffic or parking tickets means a severe revenue loss and the need for less police. Somehow I think the cops will find a way to justify there existence but one can always hope.
Oh, I don’t think the self driving cars would present much of a problem to the cops, MJR. Just imagine… the people in those cars would be perfectly free to engage in all sorts of naughty, PROHIBITED things. I don’t suppose many of the traffic stops today have much to do with actually dangerous or “illegal” driver behavior. That’s been an excuse to go fishing for everything else for a long time. Control and revenue, with the prohibitions as their reason for being. That’s the key, and not apt to change much with automatic cars.
Get rid of the prohibitions, confiscation of property, and “qualified immunity… then watch the police forces around the country shrink and blubber – maybe even vanishing.
“There is no time I can remember when their behavior was less than professional.”
I’ve never doubted they are “professional”. I’m sure gas chamber operators are “professional”, too. But if your very “job” is evil, then being “professional” about it isn’t a positive thing.
I have never had any really negative encounter with cops. I certainly don’t go around poking at them. However, one doesn’t have to be raped to acknowledge rapists as vermin. Same with cops. I find it disturbing when people are so incredibly self-centered that they must wait until they or a loved one has been victimized to recognize the evil they fell victim to.