Category Archives: The Drug War

Cop killers

Posted on December 22, 2014 | 4 comments

For all the criticisms I have posted about killer cops, I will have no truck with cop killers. That should go without saying, but in case it doesn’t…

The problems I’m concerned about are fixable politically if the pols have the cahones to take on the police unions and police chiefs, the ersatz little generals wearing four and five stars. Who have now, after the NYC cop ambush killings, apparently encouraged police across the country to make no arrests that are not “absolutely necessary.” I would have thought that’s what they were doing already, but I guess not.

Instead of working the obvious problems, the pols are now using the NYC killings as an excuse to continue doing nothing, and some of them are trying to make it a left-right issue. And that would be a pity that might well lead to more ambushes of police officers. I hope not. It will only make them more agitated.

That the NYC killer Brinsley suicided will make no difference. Whatever he had to say wouldn’t have meant much to the issue at hand, the issue I see, of cops treating too many of us, white and black, as combatants in a war. The drug war, as the pols have dubbed it, arming the cops to the teeth with Pentagon castoffs. And then slunk back into the shadows to take no responsibility for the outcome. Damn their eyes.

I hope the killings stop—on both sides. But the way things are going I wouldn’t count on it.

UPDATE:  The legit complaints are being lumped with the radical b.s. and the usual flag wavers and cop apologists are lining up on the other side. At this rate we will never get rid of the militarized police and their armored cars and bayonets.

MORE:  There’s reason to believe things will get worse, because they already have: “There’s evidence that aggressive policing in the NYPD is intensifying, according to data from the New York City Comptroller. Police misconduct claims – including lawsuits against police for using the kind of excessive force that killed Garner – have risen 214 percent since 2000, while the amount the city paid out has risen 75 percent in the same period, to $64.4 million in fiscal year 2012, the last year for which data is available.”

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The badge gang’s crimes

Posted on December 14, 2014 | 8 comments

Good examples of why the Badge Gang needs reform:

“They can shoot unarmed men and lie about it. They can roll up and execute a child with a toy as casually as one might in Grand Theft Auto. They can bumble around opening doors with their gun hand and kill bystanders, like a character in a dark farce, with little fear of serious consequences. They can choke you to death for getting a little mouthy about selling loose cigarettes. They can shoot you because they aren’t clear on who the bad guy is, and they can shoot you because they’re terrible shots, and they can shoot you because they saw something that might be a weapon in your hand—something that can be … any fucking thing at all, including nothing.”

Fortunately, people are finally catching on to the fact that Officer Friendly ain’t.

Via The Atlantic & Fox News.

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When to lie to a cop

Posted on October 15, 2014 | 1 comment

When he asks “How much cash do you have in the car?” Most advisable answer: “None.”

Under Civil Asset Forfeiture laws, the Badge Gang is rewarded for its official theft, often getting to keep what cash and other property they seize from people who are told they are suspected of a crime while never being charged with anything.

Happens a lot in Philadelphia, Pa., apparently. Happens rarely in Texas, it seems, and that makes sense because it wouldn’t happen here for very long without retribution.

“…this is legal extortion by people with guns and the power to imprison against innocent people…” says David Post at the Volokh Conspiracy.

Comedian John Oliver gets to the heart of the matter with humor that isn’t funny for long. He shows that the excuse these police thieves usually use is the government’s failed “drug war” that’s corrupted them and so much else.

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Robbery at badgepoint

Posted on September 18, 2014 | Comments Off on Robbery at badgepoint

The Badge Gang never quits. Government-approved theft is their latest thing according to the Canadian Boadcasting Corporation which has issued a warning to Canadians not to carry any more cash into the U.S. than they’d care to lose to a cop:

“There’s a shakedown going on in the U.S., and the perps are in uniform. Across America, law enforcement officers — from federal agents to state troopers right down to sheriffs in one-street backwaters — are operating a vast, co-ordinated scheme to grab as much of the public’s cash as they can; ‘hand over fist,’ to use the words of one police trainer.”

It’s the assets confiscation racket of the drug warriors, apparently now being used in some states without charges or convictions. Texas is about average on assets confiscation abuse, but, to my knowledge, there’s no cash seizures without charges or convictions going on. If they ever do happen here, there’s going to be hell to pay.

Via Instapundit.

UPDATE:  Don’t steal, the government hates competition.

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Idiot pleads youth

Posted on August 8, 2014 | 2 comments

“I’m scared. Very scared,” [Jacob] Lavoro said. “I’m 19 years old and still have a whole life ahead of me. Take that into account.”

Uh-huh. Not to mention the stupidity of making marijuana brownies and selling them for $25. Each? Doesn’t say. Surely this youthful idiot in Georgetown, just up the road from the rancho, is not a native Texan.

Must be a recent arrival, though unless he’s from Colorado or Washington, he ought to have considered the likelihood of maximum jail time looming for drug dealers in America’s unjust but longstanding drug war.

To the extent 19 year olds consider anything but their hairstyle (notice the photo at the link of his pre-trial hipster demeanor, considerably cleaned up for his courtroom appearances). I foresee a goodly portion of your “whole life ahead” being spent in Huntsville, Jacob. You won’t be skating out of this one.

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Colorado’s weed: Only at home

Posted on July 6, 2014 | 3 comments

Now here’s a wrinkle to Colorado’s new legal marijuana culture that I wasn’t aware of and I bet most other people outside the state aren’t either.

It’s legal to buy it and legal to possess it. But it’s only legal to ingest it at home.

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Maureen Dowd, druggie

Posted on June 5, 2014 | 2 comments

I think it’s cool that they sell marijuana candy in Colorado and very funny that the NYTimes lefty propagandist Maureen Dowd stupidly ate too much of it when nothing happened immediately from a little bit.

Then she got what all goofballs do: a non-stop eight-hour high. If we can believe her. She’s never been very trustworthy.

What a genius. They should never have let Dowd out of Manhattan. She’s fairly presentable up there in the lefty booby hatch, but hopelessly outclassed anywhere else. Next time, Maureen, if there is a next time, just stay home and make it up. You know, the way you usually do.

Via Mouth of the Brazos.

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