Read this article and then pay special attention to the comments - Police Get The Wrong House In Galveston, Allegedly Assault 12-Year-Old Girl. It seems people are growing ever more tired of this nonesense.
This is of course not a new sort of story - there have been far too may, some heavily reported others not. The fact is our local police have become something of a clear and present threat to us, the regular people.
I am always amazed watching "cop" shows, Youtube videos and basically any other footage of cops reacting to someone they perceive has a gun. I recall seeing a Youtube video not long ago of an old woman that the New Orleans police had broken into her home to check on her "safety". She proceeded to show the 15 cops in her home all her food and explain the fact that her house had never been under water and had no structural damage. When they were unconvinced she showed one of them her unloaded pistol. She was gang tackled. An old woman in her home, not breaking any law - tackled, subdued and bruised by a gang of thugs in the name of "law and order"...in America.
No matter what you think of US Soldiers and Marines in the Middle East I can assure you they demonstrate a lot less fear and over reaction to the presence of a weapon in most cases. Everyone is armed, they are guaranteed a right to keep a gun. Much as I thought Americans were. Just pay attention the next time you see cops on video talking to someone, all is relatively calm, the cops outnumber the citizen but the second these fools think there is a gun present that is not on their hip - well just watch.
Do not give me any nonsense about the job being dangerous and they needing to protect themselves. I have done dangerous work, I know what it is all about. They are supposed to keep the peace, not rough people up in the name of protecting themselves.
Read these cases of folks using self-defense against cops out of control and walking away free. Perhaps more people ought to exercise the basic right to self-defense when assaulted by government thugs.
Runyan v. State, 57 Ind. 80; Miller v. State, 74 Ind. 1
Jones v. State, 26 Tex. App. I; Beaverts v. State, 4 Tex. App. 1 75; Skidmore v. State, 43 Tex. 93, 903
State v. Robinson, 145 ME. 77, 72 ATL. 260
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The various authors of this blog are probably familiar with William S. Lind and his take on the nation-state's "crisis of legitimacy."
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If you have already read him: well, this is a perfect example of one of the small crises. Thousands of crises like this happen every day throughout the USA.
Johnny and I are big fans of Lind
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