police had reason to believe a gun was in the residence, which was why they did not knock
PGP: Let me see…the police *think* you might be armed (gun registration what could possibly go wrong?), so they kick in your door, detain everyone forcibly, and shoot your dog because they’re looking for someone who doesn’t even live there.
Another case against registration.
Another confidential informant? They invaded his son’s home too. No arrests.
February 6th, 2009 at 2:02 pm
Markie Marxist sez: “Yeah, it’s sad that we still have to send people in when we suspect that there’s a gun in the residence. In the future, once we get the insurrection provoked, we’ll be able to just call down a five-hundred pounder on it and sift through the wreckage.”
“Hey Bob, this gun safe over here is still in one piece!”
“Cool! Maybe we’ll get some goodies out of it. I got a pair of reissue Colts, the World War I and World II model 1911’s, both of them, out of the last gun safe we found after a bomb strike! Not a scratch on them either! Nothing like working for the government! Can’t beat the benefits! Heh! Heh!”
February 6th, 2009 at 2:46 pm
Y’know, I’m just an old guy, and I have both guns and dogs. I don’t harbor drugs in my house, nor do I use any illegal drugs. I do receive regular parcels at my front door on a frequent basis, and I live alongside a fairly busy thoroughfare near an apartment complex that has a lot of traffic.
If some entry team mistakenly decided they need to come in and look through my place and shoots one, or all- of my dogs in the process, my Scot/Viking roots are gonna pop out like the very tentacles of Cthulu and I guarantee I’ll have plenty of bearers with me for Valhalla.
No, I don’t consider myself a III’er, but I certainly can see their point.
Regards,
Rabbit.
February 6th, 2009 at 3:21 pm
Funny, when they KNOW there’s a gun they have standoffs, when they THINK there’s a gun they go in shooting.
“confidential informants” and snitches. Time to make them illegal. Demand the 6th be respected.
Treason requires TWO witnesses. These raids often happen on one informant’s word, usually someone with something to gain from rolling over. We need to start requiring at least 2 folks sworn statements that can be verified and that carry a sentence of appropriate nature if they lie. Say someone innocent gets killed in the process of a raid. They should be charged with murder if they lied.
Same thing goes for the cops. They need to INVESTIGATE before they go breaking and entering and shooting pets just for being there. They get the wrong house they go to jail. They shoot someone in the wrong house premeditated murder with full sentence.
If the state thinks it has the right to do these kinds of things then they have the responsibility to make damn sure they’re correct before doing it.
February 6th, 2009 at 4:50 pm
What Tom said.
February 6th, 2009 at 5:05 pm
I was actually the beneficiary of cops not too lazy to do the work. Years ago, someone had told the cops drugs were being dealt out of my apartment. (I know who it was, she was a mental defective, so much so that she once reported an 8 year old boy, who merely said “hi” to her as he passed, for attempted rape.)
Anyway, it turns out my place was under surveillance for almost two months. Well, as bad fortune would have it a mother attacked her teenage daughter outside my door and was in the process of trying to break her neck on the stair rail when I got to her and stopped her.
She then tried to take me on, mistake. However, I didn’t hurt her very much because the daughter was begging me not to, even though she was lucky to be alive. My wife called the sheriff, something I would never do, and they arrived almost before she hung up the phone. Seems they were just across the lot and had seen the whole thing. The mother tried to say I attacked her with no reason, but the deputy didn’t buy and told her he had witnessed it. I kept asking the deputy questions until he let it slip that they had been watching our place on a tip thst we were dealing drugs.
He did tell me that they were certain by that time that the tip was false. I asked him why they didn’t charge the tipster with a false police report, whereupon he let it slip who it was and that they had no chance of a conviction because she was crazy.
I must applaud these particular deputies for actually “doing the work”. Because if they had not and had visited me in the fashion that is now current I would have been obligated to hunt them down and exact retribution. I am so glad that did not become necessary.
In our time today, we see cops too lazy and corrupt to do the work, mostly because they know they can rely on getting a pass and suffer no consequences, no matter how egregious their error or unjustly inflicted harm they cause.
February 7th, 2009 at 5:32 pm
I am glad we don’t more of these “cops kill dog” stories down here in Al. Seems like they all happen up north or elsewhere.