Posted on 06/25/2014 3:23:38 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
After our house burned down in Wisconsin a few months ago, my husband and I packed our four young kids and all our belongings into a gold minivan and drove to my sister-in-law’s place, just outside of Atlanta. On the back windshield, we pasted six stick figures: a dad, a mom, three young girls, and one baby boy.
That minivan was sitting in the front driveway of my sister-in-law’s place the night a SWAT team broke in, looking for a small amount of drugs they thought my husband’s nephew had. Some of my kids’ toys were in the front yard, but the officers claimed they had no way of knowing children might be present. Our whole family was sleeping in the same room, one bed for us, one for the girls, and a crib.
After the SWAT team broke down the door, they threw a flashbang grenade inside. It landed in my son’s crib.
Flashbang grenades were created for soldiers to use during battle. When they explode, the noise is so loud and the flash is so bright that anyone close by is temporarily blinded and deafened. It’s been three weeks since the flashbang exploded next to my sleeping baby, and he’s still covered in burns.
There’s still a hole in his chest that exposes his ribs.
(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...
The best we can do with any undesirable behavior is keep it at a dull roar. The price of trying to stop anything absolutely is the destruction of society.
It’s not even the way it will be the one-world government that the Messiah of Israel will set up on this earth and over every nation that we see here in the world today. Even the smallest crime will be instantly punished and there will be no appeal. People will not be allowed to get away with the least little thing as judgment will be swift.
You should be glad you’re not seeing that right now, or I can imagine you would be squealing like a stuck pig! ... LOL ...
If that’s how eternity will be, I doubt I’d want be there. You should read towards the end of Isaiah to know what eternity will be like.
Angry Sky God! Lol
I think Mainstreet started out OK and has just evolved into a cop range.
Bullseye is a good gunshop I just don’t like the range. Its so dark and dingy. They have a sign that says don’t take guns out of holsters so maybe the cop was carrying a loaded weapon in his hand or something. Mr.GG2 shoots there alone sometimes. The cops are always asking him what agency he’s with. He is such a good shot they think he’s FBI or something. Its hysterical.
There is another new range called Georgia Gun Club up by Mall of Georgia that has just recently opened. We are going to try that one out also.
Apparently I never found the additional info I was waiting on (particularly the court docs) and forgot about it. I'll throw the meat of the pertinent comments below (eh...no way to cherry pick...I'll put the whole thing below. The latter part has the meat about 'informant/snitch'...the rest elaborates):
A past staunch defender of LEO, I find myself 'tripping the rift' the past few years. This recent case, posted on FR here and here, has found a Press to evolve to a horrible political bent to whitewash a Deputy's tragic death. Worse, what began as a complex case involving No-knock Warrants, Castle-doctrine, Self-defense, Death of a Law Enforcement Officer became grossly skewed. I know I'm 'sticking it out there' to get stomped, but I'm going to outline my views on this for clarity, first summarizing some of the 'propaganda'.
The case began with posting of this story on AP: Suspect in custody for Texas officer's murder. It was very, very scant on details and only mentions "team of deputies".
Some articles chose to embellish the drama by posting totally-unrelated images, such as this by Forbes
Skipping forward, perhaps the most detailed journalistic account was found here: Man Charged With Killing Burleson County Deputy No Billed by Grand Jury (Hat-tip 'Free in Texas for also finding that detailed article & posting it here). But it is still lacking in a summary of all the details.
However, the prior article was from a 'local' source in an adjacent County in Texas: KBTX.com, of Bryan College Station, TX. Here is the Associated Press-sourced article the following day: Man Charged With Killing Burleson County Deputy No Billed by Grand Jury. Notable in the 'massaging' of the story are the liberal use of the term 'Peace Officer', emphasis of the 'Statutory Limit' of "5 pounds" (“Possession of Marijuana more than 4 oz. but less than 5 lbs.”) of marijuana while omitting the fact that only "2 six-inch potted plants and seeds" were found, allegedly with 8 more 'seedlings' in a closet under grow lights. Ironically, that latter/little-noticed detail was also reported by a local source, TheEagle.com of Bryan-College Station, Texas: Grand jury declines to indict man on capital murder charge in deputy's death, and elaborated with additional detail here: Attorney: Marijuana plants seized in fatal raid were mostly seedlings
Dick DeGuerin, Magee’s attorney, said investigators found two 6-inch marijuana plants, seedlings and firearms that belonged to Magee or his family members.
Contrast that with the Texas Rangers' widely-publicized finding of "a sophisticated marijuana grow operation".
Adding "while in possession of a deadly weapon, a third-degree felony. Conviction on a third-degree felony charge is punishable by from two to 10 years in state prison" makes the case all the more ominous. Illegal, yes. But that's not the point.
Even the Daily Mail article linked here at FR omits the mention of SWAT and uses the term 'Peace Officer':
"Renken, the district attorney for Burleson County said there is not enough evidence that Mr. Magee knew that day that Peace Officers were entering his home"
The Daily Mail article also uses the oft-used phrase of late to replace the term 'SWAT':
A local grand jury declined Wednesday to indict Henry Goedrich Magee for the December death of Burleson County Sgt. Adam Sowders, who was part of a group of investigators executing a search warrant for Magee's rural home.
I would like to direct Freepers to the article for the Memorial Service for Burleson County Sgt. Adam Sowders: Burleson County Sheriff's investigator laid to rest
Embedded with that story is this photo
Exactly who is that a picture of? Why isn't the much-used media distribution used, like this
Ok. Maybe the first photo was a file photo, right? Then watch the video here and make that statement. That first photo is Sowders in full-battle-dress, as he and his team likely were the night of the raid. Not 'Peace Officers' serving a warrant: Heavily-armed SWAT Team on forced-entry takedown.
Ok. Stating the obvious for summary: 1. Sgt. Sowders led a 7-member Burleson County Sheriff's SWAT Team to serve a no-knock Warrant.
2. Sgt. Sowders is killed during the 'raid' by .308 rounds from a weapon (AR-10?) fired by Magee.
3. Texas Rangers arrived and found a .223-caliber rifle, .308-caliber semi-automatic rifle, and a shotgun belonging to the defendant, all legally-owned. A handgun found inside the trailer belonged to his Mother, also legal. A 2nd handgun was found in a truck belonging to his sister.
4. Also found were 2-6" marijuana plants, seeds, 8 seedlings (or cuttings) and growing paraphernalia.
But I must digress. The point of my post isn't just the propaganda, but the cause of this Deputy's death that's being totally missed/ignored by all that I can find...
Case in point in this quote from the KBTX.com article:
In the process of executing that search warrant, Sowders was shot and killed. The Burleson County Sheriff's Office says the search warrant was issued after an informant claimed Magee had stolen guns and illegal drugs inside his mobile home. The informant had been arrested days earlier, but said he had been in Magee's home as recently as the day of his arrest and saw the drugs.The main issue here, in my humble opinion, is the 'Informant'. Also known as a 'Snitch'.On December 13th, court documents show an informant told a Burleson County Sheriff's investigator he saw 12 to 15 marijuana plants growing inside Henry Magee's home on County Road 278 near Somerville.
According to the informant, Magee was a known dealer who had grown drugs in his home and, quote, "supplies numerous people around the Snook area with marijuana." The informant also claimed he saw rifles, along with a handgun that had "Washington County Sheriff's Office" etched on top, possibly a weapon stolen in a home burglary months earlier.
Here is a very good outline of how 'Snitches' are used in the War on Drugs: Frontline, "Drug Laws and Snitching: A Primer" (aired 1/12/1999); I highly recommend reading it if you didn't see the original story.
In fact, the Dwane Johnson movie, 'Snitch' was an apt portrayal of the abuse of these laws and perversion of the intent of getting a suspect to flip & provide valued 'information' (coersion). I tried & failed to find any web links to Court documents on Magee's case.
Besides this badly-referenced article (making the only reference to finding 10 plants, scales & packaged marijuana, plus 5 rifles and 2 handguns), interpolating news reports: 1. All weapons were legally-owned by Magee.
2. 2-6 inch plants do not a dealer make, let alone he was charged for "possession" of >4oz, not Distribution.
3. The only weapons charges are the dunce act of possessing guns with 'illegal drugs', not possession of stolen property (the alleged stolen gun).
4. Magee's Bond, initially at $1 Million, is now set at $150,000.
Result: NONE of the informant's information was accurate, save for the simplified 'pot' & 'guns'
Did anybody else catch the fact that the Rangers found 2 rifles "outside near a tree" that were logged as evidence, later found "to belong to officers on the scene"?
There’s a place called Quickshot down in the heart of Emoryville which probably drives the Emeroids insane. Kind of expensive, $16/hr but they rent fully autos and have a 50yd indoor range.
I haven’t tried the Adventure Outdoors range in Smyrna since they moved from the old store, but the store is humongous.
I read about Quick Shot. It sounded like a pretty upscale place but we have not been there.
The WoD has done nothing more than entirely corrupted law enforcement from top to bottom. It's raped the Constitution and the BoR, and destroyed all the carefully manufactured warm fuzzies created over 160 years of propaganda.
Do you actually believe that, weekly, tons of drugs can be brought in, manufactured and grown, nationwide, without the wink-and-a-nod of everyone from the White House down to the least Barney Fife night watchman in Dumpwater, Nebraska? You can go down to your local grade school, toss the teacher's lounge and come up with at least one baggie of herb. Boy howdy, that's some kind of success!
Time to snort some ammonia and wake up. Look at it like I do. If progressives want to willingly give themselves a chemical lobotomy, let's make it easy for them. It saves me a bullet.
The real question is not “Should drugs be legalized”?
The real question is “Where does the government get the right to control them?”
Suppose someone’s fairy godmother flew over this country one night and waved her magic wand and eliminated all drug laws from the books.
Suppose also you live next-door to me.
You wake up the next morning look over the fence, and discover I’ve got a massive crop of marijuana, opium poppies and coca plants growing in my back yard.
Do you attempt to make me get rid of them?
If so, under what authority?
She’s not a victim of drugs; she’s a victim of idiot parents.
“They believe they are above the law and they feel this child was simply collateral damage - despicable.”
That is the problem. We are only collateral damage. Collateral damage is fine during military operations. That is war, and war is ugly. But LE is not war. The issues that cause collateral damage are not present.
While I believe in fighting drugs, it was a serious mistake to allow police to adopt military terminology. Quite frankly, they need to drop all the military crap. Ranks, ribbons, medals, terminology, etc. They are in a civilian environment, and they need to behave like it.
Letting them play soldier, with 4 start ‘generals’ and more fruit salad than Patton is not going to get them to remember where they are.
Save your applause for the cops that throw grenades on top of children.
Ban me too?
whatever.
Does the government have a right to control child prostitution?
I’ll save my applause for the cops that throw grenades on libertarians.
When Mr. GG2 gets asked “What agency are you with?”, the proper response would be “Three-percenters”.
What does the victim mean by "a small amount of drugs"? What's the scoop on the nephew or whomever it was they were looking for?
That’s during the Millennial reign of Jesus, the Messiah of Israel, on this earth, ruling and reigning from Jerusalem.
Apparently there are others who think like you during this time, as they rise up to rebel at this one-world government. However, and they are swiftly eliminated ... :-) ...
Revelation 20:6-15
6 Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years.
7 Now when the thousand years have expired, Satan will be released from his prison
8 and will go out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle, whose number is as the sand of the sea.
9 They went up on the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city. And fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them.
10 The devil, who deceived them, was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are. And they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
11 Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. And there was found no place for them.
12 And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their works, by the things which were written in the books.
13 The sea gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them. And they were judged, each one according to his works.
14 Then Death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death.
15 And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire.
There’s a reason that there is no war and no “want” during this time and the whole world is at peace - it’s because the Messiah of Israel rules with a “rod of iron” in his one-world government.
There is absolutely no room for freedom to sin, on the smallest matter, without immediate punishment - hence the peacefulness of the globe.
But apparently, since you don’t seem to be too fond of this kind of government that is coming, I guess you’ll be among those who rebel ... :-) ...
Good luck!
Equating plants to child prostitution?
Really?
What you’re saying, then, is “I don’t have an answer to that”.
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