Posted on 02/26/2018 9:55:15 AM PST by DollyCali
Interesting, this is exactly the opposite of what Vachel, Wictor, Stealth Jeff & a few others are thinking.
Like Wesley Mouch, the bumbling central planner in 'Atlas Shrugged,' Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel keeps messing up then demanding wider powers.
The shooting in Parkland, Florida, was supposed to be yet another morality tale about the evils of private gun ownership, showing us why we need to surrender our weapons to the state. It has ended up being a massive story about government incompetence and indifference, centering around Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel. It just goes to show you. The moment I write something nice about the office of sheriff, a sheriff has to go and bring discredit to that office.
But here’s the aspect of the aspect of the story that stands out for me. It’s not just that Israel’s record of incompetence keeps piling up. It’s that he responds to the resulting disaster by asking for more power.
Literally, those are his exact words. In his first press conference after the shooting, he called for more police authority to put people in jail over “disturbing” social media posts, declaring, “We need to have the power.” He also asked for more money for sheriff’s departments.
As more information has come out, we have discovered that both local and national law enforcement received abundant tips about the shooter and failed to follow up on them or effectively use any of the power they already have. Yet they say they still they need more. At that notorious CNN town hall last week, Israel doubled down on that.
The Broward Sheriff’s Office, we received tips, numerous tips on this killer. We—some we answered by phone, some were out of state, some we went out there. Our command staffer is actually looking into some of these tips to make sure we did everything right. If we made a mistake, I’ll act accordingly and deal with it. The person responsible is the agent or the detective, or the person who received the tip and didn’t exercise their due diligence and took it where they needed to be. All that being said, what I’m asking the lawmakers to give police all over this country is more power. He reiterated the point later on, insisting that “the power of police is not as great as it should be.”
You know who Israel reminds me of? He reminds me of Wesley Mouch, one of the villains in Ayn Rand’s novel “Atlas Shrugged,” the classic dissection of the big government mindset. Mouch is a DC hanger-on who fails upward into the position of chief economic planner, and every time his blundering interventions lead to disaster, he has the same response: “I need wider powers.” It’s his signature line.
In other news, I occasionally get people who tell me that Rand’s novels are not realistic. So why do people in real life keep auditioning for roles in it? I’m going to start calling Israel “Sheriff Wesley Mouch.”
The Parkland shooting was a failure of government at every level. The FBI received a tip that the shooter was photographing himself clothed in the garb of an ISIS fighter—and failed to follow up. The shooter was well known to local police to be mentally unstable and repeatedly threatening to kill people, and they pretty much ignored the problem. And that was all before the actual attack occurred and sheriff’s deputies waited outside rather than confronting the shooter.
But wait, it gets worse. Sarah Rumpf just did some invaluable reporting on Broward County’s slipshod approach to law enforcement in the schools. What she found is a scheme Israel pushed to reduce juvenile crime statistics in Broward County through the simple expedient of not arresting juveniles when they commit crimes. The theory is that going easy on minor and non-violent offenses would pull kids out of the “school-to-prison pipeline” and keep them from being permanently held back by youthful indiscretions.
In practice, it functions like broken windows policing in reverse. The idea behind the broken windows approach is that if you crack down on minor crimes, criminals are deterred from committing bigger ones. They are not emboldened by the “broken windows” of a neighborhood that has been abandoned by the police. Sheriff Wesley Mouch’s approach in Broward sent the opposite message, both to juvenile delinquents and to his own deputies, that anything goes because the police don’t really want to enforce the law.
This is the context in which the Parkland shooter repeatedly came into contact with the police and was simply bounced around inside the school system. As Rumpf sums it up:
Sheriff Israel said that he instructed BSO deputies to issue juvenile civil citations, not arrests; The BCSD’s own written policy encouraged handling even criminal activity ‘outside the criminal justice system’; The BCSD’s own written policy did not actually require arrests, even for felonies and serious threats to school safety; Cruz’s behavior included repeated disruptive behavior, violent outbursts, threats, and physical assaults on other students; and Cruz was never expelled or apparently arrested for this behavior. During Israel’s tenure in office, she calculates, juvenile arrests have decreased by nearly half—but there is no evidence that actual violent crimes by juveniles have decreased. They’re just not being arrested for it. So Israel needs “wider powers”—and, of course, more money from the government—so he can ignore more young criminals.
The power of government is limited partly because it should be limited to protect our freedom, and partly because government cannot centrally plan evil and insanity any more than it can centrally plan the economy. The FBI receives more than a million tips a year and isn’t always going to be able to winnow through them to determine which are real threats. A lot of people are constant troublemakers but never quite do anything for which they can be locked up or deprived of their civil rights.
Uses of force are complex and confusing events, and even armed and trained police can be paralyzed by fear or befuddled by the fog of war. All of that is true before we take into account the levels of incompetence and corruption that are normal for government employees with powerful unions and untouchable pensions.
All of this makes the case for why we need private ownership of firearms so we can defend ourselves. Because we sure don’t want to have to depend for our safety entirely on Sheriff Wesley Mouch.
Ping for later viewing.
Yes, I saw it and was very discouraged that Jeff Sessions will be doing anything.
Its very eye-opening. Be prepare for the information because its really upsetting and more than we (me) could ever imagine. Sadly, it explains so much.
Tonight, 3-2-18, Hannity said he is going to have Senator Nunes on for the whole hour. I am looking forward to watching that.
Early in the campaign Granklin was being interviewed about Sumaritans Purse. He said he had a couple of wealthy benefactors who had trucks with early needs on the road to any national disaster. All he had to do was call and tell them which church would be the base. THe trucks arrived within hours
With that in mind do you remember when Trump and Pence met the semis in Louisiana? TRump is one of the benefactors!
Long time relationship Ben Carson and the Palins are also involved with the mission.
That’s interesting. Hannity asked Levin last night who he was having on this Sunday and Levin said he was having Nunes for the whole hour. Hannity didn’t say anything about Nunes coming onto HIS show. This makes me think that Hannity went out and got Nunes after getting the idea from Levin. It would not surprise me.
After listening to all these CIA whistleblowers (3 so far)
There may have been a need to get the information out earlier. It does provide some protection!
That’s right on.
I am very confused & conflicted on Sessions. Sara Carter, Jarrett & Hannity as well as Jim Jordan and others all say he is out of touch & out of his league. To me, it would seem these guys' sources would be pretty good. Vachel & the other twitters seem to think he is the sly old fox playing Good Cop/Bad Cop with Trump. I don't know about their sources. It will be interesting to see who is correct on this. Maybe Sessions is doing a great job of working behind the scenes & keeping quiet. I hope his silence is not due to him doing nothing. I wish, if he was doing something, he would at least say "I'm working on it" without getting into specifics.
What gets me, is there seem to be other areas that he has not recused himself of, and that he could be working on, that he also does not seem to be working on. Could be more behind the scenes work, I guess. We shall see.
I followed on PBS online as the Samaritan Purse site was breaking too much for me. They did an excellent job with the service, just let it run without commentary. They are still on waiting for the Interment and playing music. Beautiful service and family.
Twenty minute interview from CIA
Whistleblower two. A little hope with this one.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AAPctjCi7og
Thanks, I’ll listen later. Almost ready to leave for Seymour. It will help take my mind off of all this information for a while.
Whistleblower 3. Telling what she knows and what she suspects.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lnn-jn_cvLo
I’m listening to this guy now, and he has a three-part series I will listen to tonight. It’s just mind boggling.
Thanks, again. We have to see this as very Good News. They have to think there’s hope and not feel like its time to throw in the towel...they are coming out now. I pray they can stay safe and hopefully the Good Guys...can change this atmosphere of EVIL.
Another ping for later viewing.
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