There should be repercussions for this kind of action against innocent civilians...
Posted on 05/09/2007 12:00:34 PM PDT by dashing doofus
There should be repercussions for this kind of action against innocent civilians...
Well, OK, but remember that if you vote you can't complain... because you're saying that at least one of the candidates was 'good enough'.
“Might have something to do with not giving every potential armed criminal on the premises the chance to train their weapons on the front door!”
Tell us that again when they come for you.
Tell that to the otherwise innocent people currently sitting on death row after shooting cops during no-knock raids. This whole thing stinks.
And in the mind of a JBT everybody not a cop is a "potential armed criminal" and should be treated accordingly.
We used to have Peace Officers. Now we have Law ENFORCERS.
Subtle change, perhaps, but a terrible one.
They’re not even law enforcers — they’re often law breakers. Mostly, though, they’re mere revenue generators.
The jobs of peace officer and rev'nooer used to be separate, and I think both were better for it.
Thanks for that sage advice.
Being more of a libertarian at heart than even a conservative, I’m starting to rethink my position on the war on drugs. I hate drugs and currently support the drug war. However, is it really worth it to be trampling our civil liberties? I’ve always felt that the libertarians position on this was crazy. Now I’m not so sure...
Hey, the same thing happened to me!
Excessive police power is always more dangerous than the crimes it was intended to prevent - but that can be hard to understand when people constantly see the effects of the crimes in their neghborhoods and the dangers of a future police state seem abstract. The 70's/80's War on Crime was well-intentioned, but it broke a 200 year continuum of citizen responsibility for local crime control that is going to be very hard to restore.
“but it broke a 200 year continuum of citizen responsibility for local crime control that is going to be very hard to restore.”
Especially with politicians like Bloomberg, Menino and Giuliani polluting the environment.
The fact that these raids endanger the lives of citizens who are given all the clues they need to believe they are being attacked by a gang of home invaders concerns the authorities not at all. It is only seen as ‘regrettable” if it leads to inconvenient lawsuits.
Recent history shows that to occasionally be the case but dead homeowner or citizen tenant is more often the case. And where the cop is killed self defense is normally prosecuted as a capital crime.
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Rudy is anathema to social conservatives AND libertarians, I have been saying that for a looong time. The Wilsonians, country-clubbers, authoritarians (police and nanny staters), and various deludeds/mistakens (followers of personality cults in particular) love him. He has no concept of the Constitution, no concept of liberty (especially not the two most important liberties - right to LIFE and RKBA, which Are not ONLY social conservative values!), and a blighted concept of morality (his moral code is one of Hillary-village authoritarian order-through-force that is entirely repellent).
Is this event there?
If not, it should be.
I would rather see Hitlery get elected than Rewwwwwdy.
When I worked in NYC, virtually everyone in my office was a real lefty except me, and many of them liked Rudy, though some thought he was conservative.
I think his political opportunism over 9/11 is shameful, but he is far from the only pol (in both parties), guilty of that, IMO.
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