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So now its a quality issue. We just need better cops, than wed fare much better in this police state lmao
Its both the quantity and quality of laws, that are the problem. Where's all the gun control folk crowing to take the glocks away from the police? I won't bother crashing patricks server with all the instances of police wrongly shooting, maming, murdering innocent folk in this country,,,
There just isn't any need for this hierarchial system of subordinates and their authorities, granted false empowerment from The State.
Dan blames conservatives
Actually, I blame the cops and the state for those crimes. Although I do believe that "lock-them-up-and-throw-away-the-key" conservatives are more likely to accept police violence and crime than liberals even when that crime is perpetrated against innocent individuals. I wish I was wrong about that, but "social conservatives" really don't seem to care how many innocent people suffer in the name of punishing guilty people.
That said, I have called b.s. on any argument that states that unrestricted access to guns makes us safer from government abuse as clearly this isn't the case for the outright insane level of abuse we are already enduring. However, just because this argument is bogus doesn't mean I do not believe there are other legitimate arguments in favor of reducing restrictions on guns. I just don't buy the "militia" argument.
I agree that the anti gun control crowd is bullshit when they say we need guns to protect us from the state, because we have a shitton of guns and NOBODY with the balls to turn them on the real enemy, The State, to protect freedom from tyranny.
Exactly my point. There may be very legitimate reasons to allow civilians to have semi-automatic weapons, even fully automatic assault weapons, but protection from the state isn't one of them. That's the whole point of this thread.
The left begs for more statism at every turn.
I think both the left at the right are in favor of more government despite what both sides say. The left wants the government to be responsible for more of the economic activity in terms of both employment and services. The right wants the government to spend more on military, spying on civilians, and even law enforcement at the federal level (TSA, FBI, CIA, DHS). I think both types of spending are bad, but the later is scarier.
Being nude in public is illegal, but the state can force you to be nude and assume sexual humiliating poses. Yeah, our laws make a hell of a lot of sense.
And this police state is the stupid republicans fault! Now there's a funky knee slapper, ha ha thanks for the laugh, dan
Actually, I think most people on the left are against public nudity and prostitution while being for strip searches in jails. So the left clearly isn't liberal.
If you can make the White House and Congress secure without strip searching all the people who enter it including the president and senators, then you can make a jail secure without strip searches.
We just need better cops,
There are only two ways I see of getting good cops.
Option 1
Fire all human cops and use robocops who's software source code is public domain. This, of course, will require many years of development before it is even plausible.
Option 2
1. Video record all police at all times when they are on duty or in possession of their badges or guns.
2. The video must be open to the public without any restriction.
3. Establish a civilian court system that has full authority to prosecute police and government agents for any crime. This court system does not use government employees including judges. The court can convict and sentence police and government agents with the same authority as a government court. The civilian court system will have an appeals process, but no government court, agency, or personnel can override or interfere with the civilian court's affairs.
We need pics of the mom to better assess the situation.
Dude, if this happened to your mom, would you be so callous?
Missouri Police Taser Boy With Broken Back 19 Times
Just to give a bit more backstory about this.
Kid was walking home from a friends house. Forgot to take his diabetes meds. Leaned up against a bridge rail as his insulin crashed. Passed out, Fell off and broke his back. Laughing cops then tased him as he was in a Diabetic Daze with a Broken Back, Ass/U/Meing that he was a druggie. Even if he was a drug addict, it's torture.
Natch, when called in front of the stand, the cops claimed his groping out for help was him trying to punch them.
3. Establish a civilian court system that has full authority to prosecute police and government agents for any crime. This court system does not use government employees including judges. The court can convict and sentence police and government agents with the same authority as a government court. The civilian court system will have an appeals process, but no government court, agency, or personnel can override or interfere with the civilian court's affairs.
Cops HATE independent boards overseeing their behavior. They want to police themselves. I think we've had plenty of experience with self-regulation of industries and organizations to know it's crap.
Kid was walking home from a friends house. Forgot to take his diabetes meds. Leaned up against a bridge rail as his insulin crashed. Fell off and broke his back. Laughing cops then tased him as he was in a Diabetic Daze with a Broken Back, Ass/U/Meing that he was a druggie. Even a druggie doesn't deserve to be tortured. Scum
Damn, that's really fucked up. It would be fucked up even if the boy had been a druggie, but being a diabetic in shock and getting tortured like that. That's totally fucked up.
Cops HATE independent boards overseeing their behavior.
All criminals hate independent boards overseeing their behavior. Essentially, the cops are saying they don't want to be subject to laws just like the rest of us are.
APOCALYPSEFUCK is Shostakovich says
If those kids had Gatling guns in their backbacks, they could have defended mommy and provided a meaningful deterrent to cops trying the same thing in the future.
Exactly. And those kids would have more balls than all the gun advocates combined.
However, it is difficult to man a Gatling gun when you are four years old, as was the older of the two kids, or younger.
Look why do you guys beilieve this lady over the cops? She is probably a liar and looking for a big payday over her fictional story.
Seems reasonable to me.
We remove airline passengers' clothes using technology in spite of not having any suspicion.
Extrapolating beyond that, suspicion should merit a cavity search.
Probable cause might be enough for exploratory surgery.
Why was the dentist arrested? he was giving his patients cavity searches.
I thank you.
Dan, your argument that guns in the hands of the general public can't do anything against state dictatorships is wrong. Just by existing, the guns grant a certain amount of caution in both legislation and enforcement. If the state becomes too unpopular, people might choose to revolt.
Now this isn't an easy choice. To decide to use armed resistance against one's nation is tantamount to treason, so it's not a choice made lightly or for purely political reasons. For the average guy to say "fuck it, I've had enough, where's my shotgun?" Takes a lot of commitment. He has to make the judgement that his place in society is not worth the oppression he's facing from the government. That his life isn't worth living under these conditions.
Dan has asked why nobody used arms against the government to free Bradley Manning. Seriously? It's a life and death decision to escalate things this far. You could end up as just the next Timothy mcveigh if your revolution fails: branded domestic terrorist and jailed for life if you're not executed.
The "militia" argument is valid, but only at the extremes of government excess.
It is amazing that such inhumane behaviour for men and women has been accepted as normal . Just sad .
So, what percentage of police/civilian encounters does this abuse take place?
If we are talking thousandths of a percent (0.001%, which I suspect ), then it becomes apparent this is just the price we pay for the police structures we have setup.
There will always be bad apples in any given workforce.
When that number climbs to an unacceptable level, the 300,000,000 guns on the street will speak.
if video taping police activity is against the 2nd amendment, where are the lawsuits?
Dan, your argument that guns in the hands of the general public can't do anything against state dictatorships is wrong. Just by existing, the guns grant a certain amount of caution in both legislation and enforcement. If the state becomes too unpopular, people might choose to revolt.
So far, all gun proliferation has accomplished is to give the police an excuse to treat any citizen contact as if they are confronting a potential murderer. In other words, it has had the opposite effect than what Quigley claims above.
In countries where the police is not allowed to assume that every person could be armed, the police is MUCH more civilized and just in their behavior. In case you were not aware of this fact, observe just about any northern european country.
Is it really plausible that gun proliferation could prevent a totalitarian state? I don't think so, but what it could easily do is to create a totalitarian state by local thug-rule and feudal fascism, either in the form of a police state, or as false reaction to the police state.
I like that phrase: gun proliferation.
Cops Strip Search Mom in front of her children, Forcibly Pull Tampon Out of Her
Did slowly retract and a recording played saying...
"Reach for the sky..."
or was it
"To infinity and BEYOND!"
Just by existing, the guns grant a certain amount of caution in both legislation and enforcement.
I have yet to see any of this "caution" exercised by law enforcement. The only difference I've seen in people wielding guns and people not wielding them is that the people who have guns are shot and killed by the police even when the possession of the gun is perfectly legal.
http://news.yahoo.com/video/deputies-shoot-kill-man-knocking-163819466.html
http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=95475&page=1
If I could see just one instance of a person invoking the Stand Your Ground law after killing a cop in self-defense and the state saying that the citizen was lawful to do so, I'd buy your argument. There certainly are plenty of situations every single day where it should be lawful for a citizen to use deadly force against a police officer committing a crime.
What about that poor little boy who was tased repeatedly? Why didn't anyone with a gun stop those cops? And what would happen to anyone who tried?
So, what percentage of police/civilian encounters does this abuse take place?
If we are talking thousandths of a percent (0.001%, which I suspect )
Whereas you expect this abuse is rare, I expect that it is the norm.
But even if it were rare, our current legal structure does not allow for the prosecution of criminals with police badges. This is why we need a civilian court that does not answer to the government and can arrest, imprison, and execute state criminals including police.
So far, all gun proliferation has accomplished is to give the police an excuse to treat any citizen contact as if they are confronting a potential murderer. In other words, it has had the opposite effect than what Quigley claims above.
So very true. Unfortunate, but true.
Cops Strip Search Mom in front of her children, Forcibly Pull Tampon Out of Her
Did slowly retract and a recording played saying...
"Reach for the sky..."
or was it
"To infinity and BEYOND!"
Every time I think you've reached a new low in human decency, you pull out a shovel.
So the key to continuing this rant is to find out....."rare or commonplace"....
So, what percentage of police/civilian encounters does this abuse take place?
If we are talking thousandths of a percent (0.001%, which I suspect )
Whereas you expect this abuse is rare, I expect that it is the norm.
But even if it were rare, our current legal structure does not allow for the prosecution of criminals with police badges. This is why we need a civilian court that does not answer to the government and can arrest, imprison, and execute state criminals including police.
So the key to continuing this rant is to find out....."rare or commonplace"....
Pretty hard to do when coverups are common place.
I bet if you were in AZ and shot these cops in retaliation you'd be acquitted.
In CA however, your only right is right to abide what criminals and the unions want you to.
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Because she allegedly didn't come to a full stop at a stop sign.
http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/pulp/2012/08/cops_strip_search_mom_pull_tam.php
When the pro-gun people use their guns to bring these cops to justice, I'll buy all those arguments like this
Till then, I say it's bullshit. If raping a mother in front of her children isn't cause enough to pick up your gun and bring rouge cops to justice, then what the hell is. Arrest these cops and try them for rape in a citizen (not government) court. Otherwise, your guns do nothing to protect people from tyranny. You can't get any more tyrannical than being raped in front of your kids.