- In case you’ve wondered how a jury could watch a video of a cop executing a man in cold blood and still vote to acquit, it’s because authoritarian mind-warping is so very effective. Lisa Mearkle. Remember the name. Lisa Mearkle.
- Idaho deputies ask rancher to put down an injured bull. Before he can, they put down the rancher. The family tell their story. I wonder what the “official” story will be.
- In all the news about local cops getting away with murder, Jim Bovard reminds us that their federal brothers and sisters are still doing their share — and still untouchable.
- Speaking of touching, root for Jim to win that Bastiat Award at the Reason Media Awards tomorrow. (If you click on his image, you’ll see what I mean about “touching.”)
- Sorry for so much brutal linkage today. Want a little good news? Cannabis and “hippie beer” are helping small business startups to rise again after 30 years of decline. (Weird, though, that the WaPost writer thinks insufficient regulation is a threat to them.)
- And Maryland — hysterically anti-gun Maryland — scraps its ballistic fingerprinting database. After 15 years. Five million dollars. And not a single crime solved by it.
Now for a few minutes forget it all and have some funny dogs:
The solution for Maryland’s failed ballistic database is to fix it. I am sure it can be done right by a different contractor, or with more money or by adding some other useless stringent requirements. Gun control is like communism, when it fails it is because it wasn’t being done right or hard enough, or long enough etc.
Ha! Hidden in the article about Maryland’s failed fingerprinting scheme is this admission:
“That’s because, on average, most guns used in crimes were bought nearly 15 years prior, according to the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. By the time they end up on the street, they’ve often been stolen and resold illegally.”
There should be a protest in Idaho. You know, marching and what not down that lonely stretch of rural highway, maybe even some mailbox-looting. I’m sure that’ll get some attention.
#Rancher’sLivesMatter
On Mearkle’s case: ““We wanted intelligent, rule followers…
Well… which is it? You can have one or the other, but not both.
It’s just a way to tamper with the jury to avoid justice.
On the Idaho rancher killing: When it happened I noticed the dead rancher’s name was made widely public, but not the names of the deputies who killed him. I made the cop-hating, extremist comment that the rancher’s name had been released; his killers’ names also needed to be released, and that this demonstrates why it is a bad idea to let the cop gang control release of information. The hatred I received was very telling indeed. Yes, I intentionally used some “inflammatory terminology” just to stir up the coproaches and copsuckers. But anyone who doesn’t recognize cops as a gang is seriously lacking in observational skills.
Cops keep giving us more and more reasons for us to go to war.
A dog lover may enjoy this.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_HONOR_AND_DUTY_NCOL-?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-11-07-13-16-42
Very moving story, Jim B., but it seemed to me more about the destructiveness of government and that man’s own stubbornly abnormal psychology than anything that poor good dog ever tried to do.
Thanks for the funny dogs. I needed that this morning. 🙂 Almost let my bread rise too long!!!
Thanks a bunch, Claire! Per my email, I’ll try not to ruin my record in the Big Apple.
The government’s abuses were part of the story, I only posted this for it heartbreaking story, especially as it related to the dog’s relationship.
Embiggenate.
Lol.