License-to-Kill Policing to Get a Trial Run in Rio de Janeiro

Via Drudge ^ | December 22 2018 | David Biller

[sailor76]

Teams of marksmen next year will patrol swaths of Rio de Janeiro with high-powered weapons and a license to kill, said a security adviser to Governor-elect Wilson Witzel.

As many as 120 sharpshooters will accompany police incursions into the slums of Brazil’s postcard city to exterminate gun-toting criminals, according to Flavio Pacca, a longtime associate of Witzel who the governor-elect’s press office said will join the administration. The shooters will work in pairs -- one to pull the trigger, one to monitor conditions and videotape deaths.

“The protocol will be to immediately neutralize, slaughter anyone who has a rifle,” Witzel, a federal judge and former Brazilian marine, told reporters in Brasilia on Dec. 12. “Whoever has a rifle isn’t worried about other people’s lives, they’re ready to eliminate anyone who crosses their path. This is a grave problem, not just in Rio de Janeiro, but also in other states.”

Rio has long exemplified Brazil’s charm and its chaos, and what happens there echoes at home and abroad. Like President-elect Jair Bolsonaro, Witzel cruised to victory in October promising a brutal crackdown on criminals who make daily life a harrowing ordeal. Rio will be a proving ground for Bolsonaro’s philosophy of maximum force -- and whether law enforcement devolves into a storm of extrajudicial killings.

[Windflier]

China USA
Active personnel: 2,300,000 1,281,900

China? USA?

Which is it? You're not posting these numbers in a format that is understandable.

[Carriage Hill]

My cut & paste doesn’t work on FR. Nevermind.

[rawcatslyentist]

are ya using the GTpreLT html tag? It is supposed to support cut and paste operations. If you’re cutting from a web page try pasting (then copy again) from a notepad before posting.

[GraceG]

[ Brazil probably needs this.

Mexico absolutely needs this.

But Mexico is incapable of any such cleansing. It is a corrupt leadership wrapped inside a corrupt populace.

Probably Mexico should sub it out to another country.

French Foreign Legionnaires already know the territory. ]

At this point it is sadly like chopping off an arm or leg that has cancerous growths... not a pretty solution.

I don’t like this strategy, but I understand it may be the only way to restore order areas especially heavy with gangland type violence.

This is what happens when guns have been taken away from the citizenry and gang proliferation is at maximum.

[exnavy]

No matter the number of democrat politicians, they cannot change the constitution.

[exnavy]

We the people will not allow this.

[bmwcyle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBrYYSAAieU&t=2565s The killing has started.

[Carriage Hill]

Heck, I’ve been doing HTML since ‘96, and I never heard of the “GTpreLT html tag”. Thx; I’ll try it.

[rawcatslyentist]

I forgot how to post the greater than less than tags.

The "pre" command is supposed to show it how it is returns and all. Thus the copying "errors" off of web pages, and the need to reformat with a notepad.

[rawcatslyentist]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3242857/posts

The pre command is just a couple of scroll lines down.

the ampersand only works on the lower case lt gt < > I was holding down the shift key and it didn't work too well.

[familyop]

"No matter the number of democrat politicians, they cannot change the constitution."

I hope that you'll study and reconsider that statement with regards to the Second Amendment.

[familyop]

"No matter the number of democrat politicians, they cannot change the constitution."

The Second Amendment could be repealed by politicians. Furthermore, both Democrats and Republicans in the judiciary have successfully skirted the original intent of the Second Amendment to enforce laws against it. For now, there are only two Supreme Court justices who will decide against the precedents that I'm referring to. That's not enough.

In sum, more men need to begin to study civics. Men need to engage in more political participation without pay (including learning to write). Men should spend less time on sedentary entertainment presented by media companies and less time on girlish local socializing.

And on top of that, a guerrilla revolt doesn't have a chance without large numbers of men submitting themselves in humility and without vanity to the more intelligent men among prior enlisted, combat-trained instructors and going through the kind of humbling combat training that only about 5% or fewer of the men in our military forces have been through. Neighborhood guys and the exceptional few morons among prior servicemen need not apply to be instructors or leaders in the beginning--even those with civilian certificates or previous training that was not mostly focused on light ground combat.

The point is that our rights don't defend themselves when attacked. Men must sacrifice their comforts and vanities to defend those rights intellectually in easy times. If they give up those rights by neglecting their intellectual duty, they must sacrifice their comforts and give up their baseless pride and their lives in order to physically defend those rights.

[Western Phil]

“I’m rooting for the people with rifles.”

In Brazil, the only people with rifles are the criminals. The citizens have been disarmed.

[exnavy]

please, i do not deal with drama queens.

[PGalt]

Thanks for the link, which leads to other interesting links.

[chris37]

Hmmm.

Maybe I’m not rooting for those guys then.

[Drew68]

Sure, if we're only talking about one house. How would the government go about disarming a whole block? A whole neighborhood? A whole city? A whole state?

They're just going to come to your house.

Here's how it's going to go down.

First thing that's going to happen will be a gun ban. It'll happen by popular referendum. Put an assault weapon ban on the ballot and every minivan-driving soccer mom will vote for it.

It'll go through the courts. Better hope RBG has been replaced because Roberts has already demonstrated that he doesn't believe SCOTUS should save voters from themselves. An assault weapons ban is ruled constitutional by a 5-4 majority.

Now what to do about them? The government isn't stupid. They're not going to start kicking down doors. Yet.

They'll have a buyback followed by an amnesty, followed by draconian penalties for non-compliance. Get caught with an illegal firearm and you'll go to prison. You'll never hold a job. You'll never be able to borrow money. You'll never get any professional license. Have kids? The state will take them away. Give them to a gay or tranny family.

So SWAT shows up at your door. How did they know you weren't in compliance? There was a tip line. Earn $1000 bucks. Someone tipped them off. They kick in your door.

Do you think your neighbors are going to come running out, guns blazing, "Molon Labe!!! Molon Labe!!!"

Probably not.

They've made an example of you.

There will be another amnesty. And repeat.

[familyop]

You just made my point with that projection.

[sailor76]

Do you think your neighbors are going to come running out, guns blazing, "Molon Labe!!! Molon Labe!!!"
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The way things are going nobody will be able to speak English let alone Greek.

PS IMO you're right about the snitches.

[familyop]

It’s also noticeable, that your reply in comment #74 was all in lower case without capitalization: a habit of many female academics in English, social programs and the fine arts.