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ATF rids Univ. of ninja threat (University of Georgia)
Red and Black ^ | 4-12-2006 | CAROLINE ERVIN

Posted on 04/12/2006 1:02:51 PM PDT by Cagey

ATF agents are always on alert for anything suspicious — including ninjas.

Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearm agents, on campus Tuesday for Project Safe Neighborhoods training, detained a “suspicious individual” near the Georgia Center, University Police Chief Jimmy Williamson said.

Jeremiah Ransom, a sophomore from Macon, was leaving a Wesley Foundation pirate vs. ninja event when he was detained.

After being held in investigative detention, he was found to have violated no criminal laws and was not arrested.

“It was surreal,” Ransom said. “I was jogging from Wesley to Snelling when I heard someone yell ‘freeze.’”

Ransom said he thought a friend was playing a joke before he realized officers had guns drawn and pointed at him.

ATF agents had noticed Ransom’s suspicious behavior and clothing and gave chase, apprehending him, Williamson said.

“Agents noticed someone wearing a bandanna across the face and acting in a somewhat suspicious manner, peeping around the corner,” said ATF special agent in charge Vanessa McLemore.

Ransom was wearing black sweatpants and an athletic T-shirt with one red bandanna covering the bottom half of his face and another covering the top of his head, Williamson said.

“Seeing someone with something across the face, from a federal standpoint — that’s not right,” McLemore said, explaining why agents believed something to be amiss.

Agents noticed Ransom peering around a corner and said when police sirens sounded, he took off running.

After chasing Ransom and identifying themselves, ATF agents detained him, turning him over once University Police arrived, McLemore said.

Ransom said Williamson told him the incident should not have been handled in such a manner and he would file a complaint with the ATF.

“I was in shock, to say the least,” Ransom said.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: academialist; atf; banglist; donutwatch; educationlist; highereducation; jackbootedthugs; jbt; jbts; libertarians; students; uga
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To: Cagey

Those ATF guys couldn't have caught him if he kept running, but then they would have taken him out with a bazooka or something like that. What a bunch of losers those dudes are....I smell a lawsuit coming, holding a cuffed "prisoner" with a knee to the neck...what jerks!


61 posted on 04/12/2006 1:36:10 PM PDT by geezerwheezer (get up boys, we're burnin' daylight!!!)
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To: Cagey
The picture should be sufficient to prosecute the asshole for excessive force and battery.
62 posted on 04/12/2006 1:37:06 PM PDT by Myrddin
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To: flying Elvis
And why were no pirates arrested?

Clearly there is a double standard for their fellow worshippers of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

63 posted on 04/12/2006 1:37:54 PM PDT by Sloth (Archaeologists test for intelligent design all the time.)
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To: flying Elvis
And why were no pirates arrested?

After looking at their offensive production, it was determined that they are not a serious threat.


64 posted on 04/12/2006 1:38:23 PM PDT by Ditto
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To: Cagey

Every agent in that picture should go to Federal P.M.I.T.A. Prison for at least a couple of years.


65 posted on 04/12/2006 1:39:47 PM PDT by Sloth (Archaeologists test for intelligent design all the time.)
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To: Cagey
"The Wesley Foundation Would Like To Announce It's Inaugural "Ninja vs BATF: Loser Get's His Neck Snapped" event.
66 posted on 04/12/2006 1:42:46 PM PDT by Daus
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To: Cagey
Gee, too bad we can't have this hyper-vigilant, quasi-military federal law enforcement heroism DOWN AT THE BORDER!

I hope this kid's lawyer puts a real hurt on the F-troop.

67 posted on 04/12/2006 1:45:03 PM PDT by AngryJawa ({NRA}{IDPA})
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To: TalonDJ

Clearly, this guy wasn't much of a ninja or he wouldn't have got his butt kicked by the feds.


68 posted on 04/12/2006 1:49:37 PM PDT by JenB
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To: USNBandit
“Seeing someone with something across the face, from a federal standpoint — that’s not right,”

Unless of course your are an illegal alien......

Or a BATFE agent.

Then you can even mask your badge number.

BTW, notice any badges on those "ATF agents?" in the photo in post 2? How was the guy supposed to know they weren't a couple of thugs, er criminal thugs, out to do him harm. Oh I forgot, schools are generally gun free zones, so anyone pointing a gun at you at a school must be assumed to be law enforcement or a state or federal agent.

69 posted on 04/12/2006 1:53:36 PM PDT by El Gato
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To: Sloth
Every agent in that picture should go to Federal P.M.I.T.A. Prison for at least a couple of years.

These agents WILL be commended and promoted for this if history is any measure.

70 posted on 04/12/2006 1:57:07 PM PDT by AngryJawa ({NRA}{IDPA})
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To: Cagey
Equal time for pirates! Image hosting by Photobucket
71 posted on 04/12/2006 1:59:03 PM PDT by dynachrome ("Where am I? Where am I going? Why am I in a handbasket?")
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To: AngryJawa
Gee, too bad we can't have this hyper-vigilant, quasi-military federal law enforcement heroism DOWN AT THE BORDER!

Oh no they might get hurt. The federales and Mexican Army types in the pay of the coyotes and drug gangs may shoot back, in fact they usually shoot first.

72 posted on 04/12/2006 1:59:49 PM PDT by El Gato
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To: a_different_conservative
Apparently no federal agents anywhere have seen any of the illegal immigrant protests. Do the live on Mars?

No but if you keep saying stuff like that, they will make an inspection tour of Uranus.

73 posted on 04/12/2006 2:02:01 PM PDT by El Gato
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To: Cagey
Nice to see the BATFags doing such a wonderful job.

Salute to F Troop.

74 posted on 04/12/2006 2:04:05 PM PDT by Centurion2000 (Every man must be tempted, sometimes,to hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.)
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To: Cagey

As I suspect, the Wesley Foundation is a Christian organization:

http://www.ugawesley.org/


75 posted on 04/12/2006 2:05:52 PM PDT by montanus
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To: Ditto

Ouch...


76 posted on 04/12/2006 2:07:33 PM PDT by Glenn (There is a looming Tupperware shortage. Plan appropriately.)
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To: Cagey

Violent crime in America is down by 60% per capita since the Republicans came into office. People try to claim its because of a demographic shift but because of demographics we should be seeing more, not less crime with the baby boomer's sons becoming young men.

As a result the government police forces are desperate to find new 'crimes' and uses for themselves. New crime - dressing up as a ninja.


77 posted on 04/12/2006 2:08:18 PM PDT by ran15
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To: Cagey
“Seeing someone with something across the face, from a federal standpoint — that’s not right,” McLemore said...

I see... I suppose we have to start living our lives by whatever the Great Federal Government deems right or wrong.

78 posted on 04/12/2006 2:10:54 PM PDT by Junior (Identical fecal matter, alternate diurnal period)
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To: Cagey
And notice that in the photo they have the kid handcuffed yet they still have to have the obligatory knee smashing the fact into the concrete maneuver.

If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
-- George Orwell, 1984

79 posted on 04/12/2006 2:11:30 PM PDT by Wormwood (Iä! Iä! Cthulhu fhtagn!)
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To: ran15
As a result the government police forces are desperate to find new 'crimes' and uses for themselves. New crime - dressing up as a ninja.

It is one of the basic problems with a "standing army." The troops get bored and start harrassing the innocent.

We had a Revolution because of this kid of stuff.
80 posted on 04/12/2006 2:16:15 PM PDT by montanus
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