Sometimes that spider just has to die.
“We had to destroy the village in order to save it.”
Some things never change.
I agree with this decision. Ie means, of course, that any of us can blow up anybody’s home and not owe them anything, as long as our reasons were pure.
The movie Brazil...
This won't end well.
Thank you for your cooperation citizen.
P.S. don’t be late with your property taxes.
IB4TG
This is the stupidest thing I’ve heard today. I say today because something stupid is always getting reported.
Yesirree, that’s what my ancestors in the Revolution fought for: unlimited police power to destroy at will
A monolithic police state with no accountability to the peons, er, “citizens”
Surround it and wait him out or break down the front door like so many other police departments do with impunity.
Stupid cops!
"How could the perp have been a danger to the public when he had barricaded himself in a manner that was specifically away from the public?"
I'll hang up and listen... thanks.
Yes, because maintaining order is so important, it should be done even when the public is harmed in so doing. Uh, we’re the people you’re supposed to be maintaining order FOR.
Someone should torch the judge’s house - acting to preserve the safety of the public of course.
Judges have no problem making this type of ruling as long as it’s not their own property. I bet if the police had blown up this judge’s house there would be hell to pay.
Same for sanctuary cities. As long as the judges don’t have to live near these people who cares.
Hope he had insurance.
Isn’t there a ‘crime victims compensation board”?
This guy was the victim of a crime.
wow, do you want killdozer? Because this is how you get killdozer
Not sure I disagree with the ruling offhand. Not like they hit the wrong house or something, there was an actual violent perpetrator therein and, presuming otherwise proper reasoning (i.e.: they would have done the same had it been the perp’s house) they did what they needed to get the guy.
If our social contract includes handing over some degree of our defensive rights to the police, then that includes the power to reasonably destroy property to stop/apprehend a perp to protect the public at large. Otherwise, nobody has a right/power to apprehend a perp on someone else’s property without immediately asking permission. (Probably expressed this poorly, but hope ya get the point.)
It’s one reason to have home insurance: criminal damages, including consequence of police taking said criminal down.
Upshot: it’s not the police’s fault the home was damaged, it’s the criminal’s. If you want a police force, you have to assign their damage to the criminal. (Now, had police hit the wrong house, or did it for fun, certainly their responsibility.)
This is how they do things in Red China. Should be sufficient for America too. [/sarc]
Sometimes that spider just has to die.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury.