Posted on 03/28/2015 9:02:39 PM PDT by jonatron
Yes, more and more people are realizing that all we bought with five decades of “reparations” was hatred, resentment, and rampant crime.
Even liberals thought this would be addressed by aborting the “golden ticket welfare bastards”; they didn’t realize that as long as there is financial incentive to breed then these people would never be aborting the moneymakers. Teen pregnancies in urban areas aren’t accidents; they are the expected outcome when someone is nearing the end of high school (the last “free” schooling) with no job skills (not even passable English) and they want to be set up in their own apartment. They receive free rent, food, cash, cellphones, etc.
I wouldn’t call it an unprovoked attack ,, six cops pulled this thug over, they knew who he was and they knew they had no real traffic infraction to hang the stop on they just wanted to harass this known drug felon.. There’s a reason people get upset at the cops , they ignore peoples rights ... this guy had enough and the police had telegraphed that they were going to continue harassing him and violating his 4th amendment rights until they jailed him, maybe the Boston police will learn to not harass people from this.
Being a cop would be a lot safer for us AND them if the police obeyed the law.
Oh, so “The Man” was conspirin’ to “keep the brutha down” and a convicted felon obtaining an illegal gun and shooting a cop in the head was “reasonable and righteous”?/sarc
Did not see in the news but the cop was also a Army Ranger veteran of the Iraq war.
So THE PIGS shot the poor motorist because his gun accidentally went off at the wrong time and pointing the wrong way.
But we all know THE TRUTH. They shot him only because HE WAS BLACK. If he were white, he’d still be with us, eagerly trying to choose which medical school to enroll in.
Sincerely, Eric Holder, Jesse, Obama, and the usual others.
(a bit of overkill here, but reality is getting closer to the above)
Im sure it did.
Too high a price to get a lowlife off the streets... the loser wasn’t worth the powder it took to blow him away. Prayers for the family of the young police officer.
What are these tools and how would they be used to eliminate the illegal drug trade?
Electronic surveillance with the use of drones over their neighborhoods, cell phone monitoring, on street wireless cameras, tracking the drugs through chemical footprints from their source to their destination, network construction software that map the entire network, the planting of micro bugs in suspect vehicles, the tracking of ammunition sales with surveillance from point of sales to final destination and the monitoring of selected kingpin vectors for the purpose of tracking down the entire network. Of course, the above techniques would never be revealed to protect the method of detection. Then, the quick crackdown, including the politicians, until all is pulled out by its roots.
The money gets in the way of the application. We now have the capability to catch people electronically red handed. The will to do it has to be the money.
The money is currently over $40 billion a year - how many taxpayer dollars would you like to see spent?
$40 billion is lots of money. I question what they are doing with it. I know if a $billion worth of crack cocaine were suddenly confiscated in a crackdown, that would cause a quite an economic strike in the industry. Each time it happens, the prices go up to recoup their losses. There has to be a tipping point where the industry workforce is behind bars and the cost is sky high.
I’m not so sure it is a pipe dream. I am saying the new technology makes a new paradigm in how illegal drugs can be controlled. I just read a good examination of the drug prohibition problem given at the link below.
I am now thinking about legalization, but in a modified form. I would have a hands off on the user. Their part in this maintains the market component. It is the supply component that technology can control. By limiting the supply you drive up the cost to the consumer. You don’t want to eliminate the market (including the street pushers) by incarceration, because you would reduce demand—the customers would be in jail. You want the market demand to drive up the cost when the supply falls. You want the price so high that it dries up the market.
I’m not so sure it is a pipe dream. I am saying the new technology makes a new paradigm in how illegal drugs can be controlled. I just read a good examination of the drug prohibition problem given at the link below.
I am now thinking about legalization, but in a modified form. I would have a hands off on the user. Their part in this maintains the market component. It is the supply component that technology can control. By limiting the supply you drive up the cost to the consumer. You don’t want to eliminate the market (including the street pushers) by incarceration, because you would reduce demand—the customers would be in jail. You want the market demand to drive up the cost when the supply falls. You want the price so high that it dries up the market.
Just saying I and many others are tired of these fishing expeditions “pretense stops” where the police disregard peoples rights and pull them over and detain them , search their vehicles without warrants and so on (they’ll just lie and say they had permission to search)... well they caught a barracuda this time instead of a guppy who wasn’t going to take it... I don’t want to see cops killed but they must learn to obey the law... I wouldn’t have ANY problem with a cop being beat to a cherry red pulp in NYC if he was doing the blatantly illegal “stop and frisk” with no probable cause on someone .. They all know they’re violating the laws and the rights of the people to be secure in their persons... They don’t care and neither do I.
Show me where in any account of this shooting that any mention of a valid traffic stop FOR LEGAL REASONS was the initiator... They cannot and didn’t ever state why they were pulling him over ,, no infraction cited at any time ,, he was out in public , vulnerable , outnumbered by Gang Blue and they decided to illegally roust him.
It was wrong to kill that cop , the response to the gang blue pretense stop was a wee bit overboard. This victim gave his life to buy back just a little bit of our liberty. When are you going to do something to reverse the assault on our liberty? Do you even see what’s happening or do you live in Kansas.
The so called "victim that gave his life for a little bit of our liberty" was nothing of the sort. He was a violent predator that was a parasite on society. He had recently gotten out of prison after shooting at cops before.
The car was supposedly stopped because it was possibly just involved in another shooting. Just do a search of some other news outlets.
I've found it's not good to rely on a single story.
Much to my dismay the stop and frisk policy in NYC has been found to be Constitutional
I don't live in Kansas but I do live in the country. you couldn't pay me to live in the city. you have fewer interactions with police in the country. And yes I do agree that some LEOs are out of control and trample on citizens rights, especially state and federal.
I do what I can to reverse the assault on our liberty, more than most , not as much as many others.
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