- Trust him or not? That’s a good question. Me, I think Stephen Glass has more than earned a “trust, but verify” status. But not honest enough to be a lawyer???. Please tell me you’re joking.
- Well That was predictable. A black market in Cheetos.
- I nearly tossed my Christmas cookies yesterday when, at the local general store, I ran across tree ornaments that said, “Police officers: Angels on earth.” Among other things, I had no idea angels were prone to this kind of blatant cronyism. (Of course, I’m sure those little tags, just like these, will be used only for honest, civic-minded purposes.)
- Haven’t seen too many angels doing this, either. Or this. But of course, if the “angels” were only better trained and supervised everything would be heavenly. Tell me, do you routinely beat people up just because no government official has “trained or supervised” you not to? Hm. Didn’t think so.
- the DEA? What??? Did the so-called journalists even question any of this?
- There’s some good news, though. Any MafiaaFire users hereabouts? If so, care to give a report?
RE: LEO ProCards- As a former peace officer (_not_ “LEO”, dammit) I took on West Palm Beach Detective Gellin and his cops-get-out-of-jail-free cards as a personal cause. The WPB PD claimed he had once been disciplined for selling them. But he kept selling them. Then people started making formal complaints about Gellin to state Attorneys General, FDLE, and the WPB PD. So WPB PD claimed he was being investigated… again. And he took his site down. Temporarily.
No investigation. No announcements. No apologies. My blog has had visitors from WPB since before I started covering Gellin. I asked if anyone _there_ actually gave a damn. No response. So I announced that I was giving up on it.
Within hours of posting my announcement, Gellin had LEO ProCards back on line. That was all he and his department were waiting for.
And still no one in West Palm Beach cares that “their” wonderful officers are conspiring to violate the very laws they inflict/enforce on everyone else. So… Yeah. “Angels”. Exactly the kind of angels people seem to want.
If I had magical abilities I’d be glad to help them all transcend their earthly bonds. Earth would be better off without their “help”.
The DEA counter-“terror” raid makes sense. As the system implodes the innumerable massively armed government paramilitaries, from your state game & Fish Department to heavyweights like DEA and DHS, are inevitably going to clash over rapidly-diminishing resources. And I don’t mean by writing each other nasty emails.
Seems likely the DEA was trying to grab off all that juicy asset-forfeiture loot before its rivals, yes?
They’re going to start shooting at each other, folks. There’s no love or mutual loyalty among these groups, no matter what the copsucking propaganda proclaims. The CIA and FBI have hated each other furiously since the CIA became a thing. (But then, everybody in oligarchy enforcement hates the FBI.)
There’s ample precedent for armed formations nominally on the same team shooting each other. The bloody decades-long war between the Soviet KGB/NKVD and GRU is somewhat well known. The Nazi Gestapo/Abwehr war is less so. Yet both were fought for keeps, on a global scale.
The only real question isn’t so much when the US enforcers will start killing each other in a war of all against all. It’s whether they have already begun, and it’s been successfully blacked-out.
I’m all for them shooting each other, Victor. The only question is how to stay out of the way.