Posted on 08/08/2008 9:20:58 AM PDT by DCBryan1
Glad to see you posting again. Are you still doing this on a city owned computer? Or are you really just a TROLL.
I suspect Liz already has your number and is planning to use you as an example in one of her over the top essays.
In the meantime, you keep right on doing what you do. We all enjoy reading your posts.
Semper Fi
An Old Man,p>
Except that this is just another story in a long line of stories that truly shed some not-so good light on the idea of no-nock warrants.
As has been posted, these sorts of raids should be EXTREMELY rare - and under EXTREME circumstances. Law enforcement has chosen to use such raids more and more often, and far too often for relatively small crimes or investigations, and often with tragic or painful results (and even on the WRONG HOME).
How does this relate to the story at hand? Some people might hear a door getting kicked in and react by grabbing their trusty firearm and start blasting -but MIGHT think twice if they hear something indicating a police/FBI/ATF raid.
No, we need to ban no-knock raids because the criminals CAN shout "FBI". Even if you don't care about citizen's rights or lives, think about the officers' lives a ban may save. The fact that a homeowner can't possibly know if a person shouting "FBI" is actually FBI or acting within the law if he is remains a danger to the officers on the raid. Besides, it's not like the police are really good at this sort of thing.
If no knock warrants are banned, anyone busting down the door is a black hat and well within the ROE. Of course, IMHO, that’s true, anyway.
Here's hoping you and your family don't become collateral damage some early morning. lol
1) Correct address.
2) No dogs were injured.
It would stop it for one reason. Anyone breaking into a home shouting police when no knock warrants were not allowed, as the constitution forbids them, then no one would be fooled and would shoot a lot sooner. The victims wouldn’t wait until it was to late and criminals would know that. If you can’t see that, then I feel sorry for you.
"They've said they've done nothing wrong," (Mayor)Calvo said. "I didn't sign up for this fight, but I think what we have to do now is make changes to how Prince George's County police and Prince George's County sheriff's department operate."
Calvo said authorities entered his home without knocking and refused to show him a warrant when he requested one...
When you can't tell the difference between the cops and the bad guys, and the so-called 'good guys' don't recognize a screwed up raid, it's time to end the practice.
Oh wait! Oh wait! Oh wait! I get it now. You’re saying if the cops stopped acting like the criminals, we would be able to more easily tell the difference between the two?
(What did I win?) :-)
Yup, I've got an agenda. There's no excuse for the macho pig BS of a no-knock raid. Ninja suits, masked faces, screaming obscenities, shooting dogs, REGULARLY busting into the wrong house - this kind of stuff belongs in a police state, not the United States.
My agenda is that it will stop, and police officers will act like police officers again. I respect police officers and I hate macho pigs.
So you’re for an ever-expanding police state, where no-knock warrants for a late payment on a refridgerator become the norm?
Your papers, prole
Highly unlikely I won’t have a chance to do anything.
And... I kind of expect it to be a “blaze of glory” lol
Handcuff? Hardly. Police have plenty of other avenues to get their work done w/o killing the family dog and ruining front doors. I say that if no knocks continue in use then the police shouldnt whine when they get shot doing it. There are no means for the home owner to ID the intruder. As such anyone coming thru the front door in the middle of the night of fair game. The safety of the home owner trumps that of the police.
And even killing the homeowners, as well. All with complete impunity...
the infowarrior
That’s my point pretty much. There’s not a reason in the world the FBI or any other agency is going to be kicking my door in. Nothing. Nada.
My door gets kicked in, I’m going to be shooting.
I’m thinking that when I build a house it’s going to be fortified to the point that nobody will be knocking the door down without the aid of a D10 Cat.
Dog shot, beers all around afterwards............
Big BUMP.
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