American politics explained.
Posted on 12/28/2013 9:03:20 AM PST by Oldpuppymax
On December 19th, a sheriff’s deputy was shot and killed during an attempt to serve a “no knock” warrant near Sommerville, Texas. Just before 6:00 A.M. an 8 member SWAT team broke through the door of Henry Goedrich Magee to serve a warrant which would permit the team to search the mobile home in which Magee and his pregnant girlfriend were living. Reacting to the pre-dawn, forced entry Magee grabbed a rifle propped against a bedroom door frame and fired at the unidentified intruders, killing 31 year old sheriff’s deputy Adam Sowders. No one else was injured and Magee was taken into custody. He is being held on $1 million bail and has been charged with capital murder, punishable in Texas by life in prison without possibility of parole or death by lethal injection.
These are the broad facts of the case as first reported by a number of print, radio and TV sources. The following additional information has been made public during the past few days:
1.) The “no-knock” warrant was issued at the request of...
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Either that, or we have become "enemies" of the government. Which is the "domestic enemy" -- us, or them?
I say that when cops are prepared to kill suspects who resist arrest, whether it's in a high-speed chase with some nutcase (like the Corvette driver gunned down by LA cops a few days ago, or the 19-year-old kid who "stole" his dad's work truck in a family tiff and, after his dad called the cops to report the truck stolen in order to help teach his son a lesson, the cops chased him at maniacally high speeds, cornered him, rammed him, all on dash cam -- I watched -- and then shot him) ... when cops are prepared to KILL even minor offenders for defying their orders and authority ...
... that's when cops become Domestic Enemies. Cities don't hire cops to kill drivers who flee from a pursuing cop car or who grow a few pot plants in their homes -- cities hire cops to serve citizens in enforcement of crime laws and to protect them from violent crime. In too many cases lately, the COPS are the ones engaging in the wanton violence and murder.
Oh my! Not everyone went home safely that night!
Some people take one for the team.
Ain't a damned thing vague about it.
.... a long time ago.
Cleverer than my first thought at what is I assume is a photo (though it's not identified in Dek's post #113) of the officer who got killed!
If that's the guy -- I swear, Hollywood politically-correct casting couldn't have come up with a better stereotype -- white, male, fat, and stooopid.
Art imitates life. Or something like that.
Not very Christian. But ... spot on! {^) The photo is of a positively porky overgrown juvenile pink pig. Live by the sword, die by the sword.
I would too. I hope he beats the murder rap.
how about you kiss my ***
Me too
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
Yes, that is Henry Goedrich Magee, and Deputy Adam Sowders at #113. Photos available here. . .
True.
My only real point is they need to be aware that’s what they are doing. Not shoot under the delusion that you’ll be able to walk away from the incident.
That's where you're wrong — the Constitution puts a flat prohibition on such.
IOW, to admit that there are extenuating circumstances which invalidate the 4th is to render the 4th into a arbitrarily-applied selective law.
Ha! The First amendment is also dead; it's been dying since at least 1919 (Schenec).
(One could also argue the Alien & Sedition acts in John Adam's presidency.)
Good choice.
Worse, the laws kill the innocent.
Argument can be made that the drug-users are guilty, for in the end their OD is the result of their own actions… a wrong address
is guilty of nothing.
Don't worry, the EPA will just make owning a septic-tank illegal.
Maybe they'll have a licensing-scheme for exceptions; after all, it used to be perfectly fine to have a gas-tank/pump installed in your own garage (before the EPA).
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