"The sky is falling! The sky is falling!"
Posted on 04/03/2005 1:56:16 PM PDT by DocH
Boston police raided and shut down an Uphams Corner convenience store Friday that had been selling students knives and replica pellet pistols, officials said.
They said the replicas looked so much like real guns that police feared they could fuel neighborhood violence.
Captain James Hasson said that police learned about the store's activities from the principal of the New Boston Pilot Middle School in Grove Hall. Three students were expelled for bringing the pellet guns to school, Hasson said.
It is legal to sell the guns, Hasson said...
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
Meanwhile, we can guess, the REAL criminals are able to do their usual, violent thing with relative impunity.
AMAZING.
But then again, what can you expect from a police department (jack-booted thugs ordered around by sadistic, Himmler-like bureaucrats) whose uniforms look surprisingly similar to WWII NAZI uniforms?
Besides, if they go after REAL criminals with REAL guns, they might get shot.
This article is being totally unfair to the Boston Police. They are NOT concerned about being shot by "real criminals." They are rightly worried that if they arrest the real criminals then they will no longer recieve their bribes from them.
You don't think that they are paid by the taxpayers, do you? Of course, not. That would mean that they would be interested in protecting the public, which they clearly are not.
Seriously, I've known lots of good cops and my share of bad cops. Most of the bad ones were in Boston and New York. Even the "bad ones" in SF (20 years ago) were "bad" in that they cared more about stopping the bad guys than being sticklers for little things like due process. The ones in Boston/New York were simply bad guys in a uniform.
My nephew is LAPD and it appears that a really big percentage of the street cops are good guys, but that the vast majority of the civil service types (clerks, dispatchers, etc.) are made up of relatives of gang bangers who are looking out for their relatives, not their fellow officers.
Meanwhile, we can guess, the REAL criminals are able to do their usual, violent thing with relative impunity.
AMAZING.
Unbelievable isn't it? - And American's just sit by and watch and let it happen (and this just isn't happening in the Boston's of America - it is happening all over) - Police are simply out of control -
*Ka-Bump!
Next they'll be raiding stores that sell photographs of real guns and knives.
Read that over carefully. "Raided." Sending a C&D letter, followed up by a summons, is not enough? You have to put on ninja gear and "raid" the place?
This is showboating.
When that store owner's lawyer gets done with the jack booted thugs, it won't be a case of "showboating" - more likely a case of "show me the money" as the judgement is collected.
'Tis a pity the out of control clowns who authorized this assinine action can't be personally held liable for the damages.
There is a distinct possibility that a press hungry prosecutor (or presecutrix) authorized this to get a bit of press coverage. In that case, the cops aren't even the real guilty party.
You Know if people would have bothered to read the article they might have noticed this sentence:
"When police raided the store, they discovered pornographic tapes that had been pirated, a code violation that allowed city inspectors to close the store."
"Just following orders"....seem to have heard that one before.
Gee that makes a FREAKIN RAID worthwhile. Every cornershop in an ethnic nighborhood going to get the SWAT treatment now?
"The sky is falling! The sky is falling!"
And what was the probable cause for the raid? Was there a warrant? Did it describe the things being searched for? If it did, did that include pornographic tapes?
We have a Constitution, all officers of the several states are sworn to support and defend it. The 14th amendment extends these protections to the states (under BOTH privileges and immunities and due process clauses)
But hey, busting guys selling legal products that look like guns, albeit with orange barrel extensions, is more important than the old rag left over from the 1780s.
The warrant for the raid at Waco was based in part on the observations by "undercover" BATF agents, that the Davidians had copies of that subversive publication, Shotgun News
The warrant for the raid at Waco was based in part on the observations by "undercover" BATF agents, that the Davidians had copies of that subversive publication, Shotgun News.
Not long after 9-11, an elderly gentleman, in his 80's, boarding a plane at O'Hare was taken out of the boarding line and detained because he had a copy of "Field and Stream" magazine with a picture of a 30-30 rifle on it.
As dumbed down as America has become, it's scary we have people that stupid who are so-called "security agents".
I think those boys in Arizona have the right idea.
Ahhh, now you have put your finger right on it: We fetishize security because it makes us comfortable.
Never mind that Osama has no interest at all in 99.999% of places with "post 9/11" security. Never mind that we have ZERO security for lots of important infrastruture. We are bankrupting outselves hiring morons to stand next to metal detectors in places even foaming-at-the-mouth kill-all-infidels terrorists would find much too boring to blow up.
"Security" has become a gravy train that actively harms our actual safety.
Not to mention our borders. But I think those boys in Arizona have the right idea.
Yes they do.
Best case, they make a substantial dent in the problem.
Worst case, they provide better data so we can estimate the size of the problem.
And they will highlight the fact that, without border security, all those morons with wands are teats-on-a-boar useless.
My theory about why I drive past enourmous empty office buildings while real estate prices keep shooting upward is that illegals are taking up all the slack at the low end of the market, preventing any price declines, even if middle class people are ever more squeezed into daunting mortgages to afford a decent house.
Heck, Framingham would be empty if everyone when back to Brazil.
I agree with you. There are many good STREET cops, where the "rubber meets the road". The main problem is, the politically motivated, corrupt leadership and the civil service bureaucrats you mention. It's the same kind of mentality present in many inner-city police forces, such as the Fulton County Sheriff's office and Atlanta P.D., where their, in this case, afro-centric mindset(at the expense of REAL proficiency and security), cost people their very LIVES recently.
The main problem, I believe, is the little geek bastards who got bullied in school, and are now upper level inner-city bureaucrats, or PO-lice chiefs put in place by those bureaucrats, that are the real problem.
Instead of shooting up their high schools, they are abusing their powers now to pay back all of us in society for their sad little lives. Hitler and Himmler, and many others were part of that equation. The supervisor for the FBI, that re-wrote the rules of engagement on the way to Ruby Ridge, was probably cut from the same cloth. And it is probably the case for the Peoples Republic of Boston bureaucrats and PO-lice department. How long before they "accidentally" kill someone on such an assinine, ill-advised, and seemingly un-constitutional raid?
Like G. Gordan Liddy said once, and I paraphrase greatly, when raided by ninjas in black (aka, "jack-booted thugs") that come in the wee-hours and don't properly announce themselves, double-tap the bastards in the head and groin area (to counter the body armor).
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