Posted on 03/05/2002 9:38:26 PM PST by SharpEye
Edited on 09/03/2002 4:50:01 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
The "secret police" policy most likely.
No.
We need for every responsible citizen to start packing heat, and quite blatantly so. And if one of these thugs gets out of line, he gets made an example of.
I've got no qualms over seeing a corrupt "law enforcement officer" bleeding to death in the street, if it saves one innocent life.
Anyone have a problem with this?
The girl's Father was in a position to get her story accurately and I have no doubt that what he said is exactly right. If so, then the agents should be prosecuted and convicted. This is in addition to whatever charges should be brought regarding shooting an innocent kid.
Perhaps you can set up some sort of relief fund for him (or her)
But, the courts have repeatedly failed to try corrupt government officials for their crimes, including murder. For example, none of the agents who murdered Vicki Weaver and her son, and then blatantly lied about it in court, went to jail. Charges against Lon Horiuchi were reduced, then dropped. Evidence has also come out that FBI agents and informants participated in murders during the 60's, again without sanction. No agents spent a day in jail for any part of the Waco massacre. In fact, the sham Burton Commission gave the government a 100% clean bill of health in that case.
In this case, the agency doesn't even have the decency to release the name of a attempted murderer, because it's one of their own. It is quite clear the FBI is acting well above the law, even to the extent that laws that apply to us apply to it at all. (For example, the agent's weapon would be a multiple felony in civilian hands, but evidently not in an FBI agent's hand.) Can you imagine what charges would be filed if a civilian did that to another civilian, or worse, if a civilian did that to an FBI agent?
Let us suppose that this agent is not tried for any crime, and that the next agent who does likewise is also not tried, and the next, and the next, and the next. This would certainly be consistent with historical precedent. What course of action would be appropriate, if it were demonstrably true that agents are quite simply above the law? What would you do? At them moment, we can't even get the agent's name, let alone be assured that charges will be filed. Needless to say, if a suspect fails to identify himself officer is also criminal in some cases - but again, the agent and his agency is above this law too.
[yawns]
Oh, I'm sorry. My bad. Did you say something?
Mark W.
Sad.
In a sane world, this FBI agent's identity would be announced for all to hear. In a saner world he would have been shot too... as a warning to the others.
You speak of "the law". Where does "the law" come from... the government? No sir... it comes from God, and in America God didn't set up a "Caesar": He gave responsibility of upholding the law to ALL of us, not just a select few that have the audacity to believe they can lord it over us.
We are free by the grace of God, not the grace of other men.
And if other men refused to believe this by wisdom, they must be made to believe it... by force.
There is nothing wrong whatsoever with injuring/killing another person if doing so prevents injury/death to you or your loved ones. That goes for those who would abuse a badge, too.
It doesn't matter if the guy was guilty or innocent. Medical help should have been called for immediately.
Thanks, I was hoping somebody else would mention that. That the FBI agents assumed the man was guilty is that they thought their victims less than human. Considering their gross errors, what does that make the FBI agents? I bet neither agent has reached out to the victims personally with any kind of apology or showing of remorse.
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