Friday, January 13, 2006

We're the Only Ones Accountable Enough...

The Long Beach Police Department is missing more than a fourth of its shotguns and an unknown number of revolvers, officials said Thursday.
See, that's why we need to register your and my guns--to keep stuff like this from happening.

If ever manufacturers deserved to get sued for irresponsible distribution...

Truth Laid Low

Most bloggers want to have a link on popular sites. I want off of one.

You'll note WarOnGuns perpetually hovering near the bottom of the list of the Gunbloggers page, but if you click on the details link, you'll see it's not found. Plus, my site updates never appear there.

I know the initial cause was my fault--I didn't know what I was doing when I set things up after noticing my blog appear there.

I've approached NZ numerous times about this over the past several months, even filling out work orders--and finally asked to just be removed from his site. I can't even get the decency of a reply.

Bottom line--I know there are many more popular blogs than this, but I also don't think the efforts I put into this site deserve to be under-represented this way. I know the guy is busy--news flash--we all are. I'll match demands on my time to just about anyone. Ignoring repeated polite requests is just plain rude.

I want off Truth Laid Bear. It is a proven unreliable resource, and the attention to correcting things sucks. I don't want to have anything to do with them and just want them to forget I exist.

Just take me off the site, NZ, and I won't bother you any more. I promise.

We're the Only Ones Nurturing and Protective Enough...

An Oklahoma police chief has been charged with second-degree rape of a 15-year-old girl, reportedly spending nights with the teenager before taking her home and then giving her mom, the city's librarian, a lift to work.
Two questions come to mind:

1. What the hell was her mother doing? and

2. When he took his date out to dinner, did she prefer Happy or Big Kids Meals?

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Police Say Prisoner Kills Himself With Concealed Gun

Durrett patted White down before he placed him in the patrol car, Sheriff Mike Cleveland said. The sheriff said he didn't think White was handcuffed.
If this is what happened, that's damned sloppy police work, deputy. You're lucky it wasn't you who got shot.

Then all the blooddancers could have made you a martyr, blamed the gun, and called for more "common sense gun laws."

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Marvel at My Power!


Ravenwood has noticed my awesome prescience.

Actually, looking around various sites after the Marion Barry story broke, I noticed the speculation that he was probably trying to score was pretty widespread. How could you know anything about the guy and not suspect that?

The only times my abilities as an oracle prove infallible are when I know I'm going to get in trouble for something. It's spooky how right I am about that.

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The Nice Policeman is Your Friend

Police arrested a 27-year-old man after he allegedly reported his gun stolen, but then found it in his car.
Now what did we all learn from this?

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What Have They Got to Hide?

Correspondent Mike Battaglia writes:
I was reading a story about Cory Maye.

You might remember it. A young black man in Mississippi with no criminal record and an 18 month old daughter has cops invade his home during the middle of the night. It hasn't been determined whether or not they identified themselves, but Corey thought them to be intruders and fired at them. He ended up killing the Sheriff's son. Turns out they'd raided the wrong duplex. They were looking for marijuana, they didn't find any in his duplex. In any case, I had an epiphany. Let me explain.

Cops have nothing to hide, right? The government and political pundits tells us we shouldn't worry about surveillance if we have nothing to hide.

So, therefore, I propose making law enforcement officers wear cameras that can record audio and video while on duty. This would cut down on them screwing around, possible corruption, excessive force, etc. There'd be penalties if they deliberately tampered with it. At the end of each day they have to turn in the cameras. If there's any complaints against them, the video is reviewed by a civilian panel on that particular day on the incident that a complaint was received about.

I mean, cops are supposed to be the most upstanding and law-abiding of us all, right? Therefore, they shouldn't have anything to hide. Cameras are so small these days they could fit one on 'em just fine without any problems. It would avoid these type of situations and create accountability. They don't have anything to hide...do they?
I like it. Of course, the mandate would need to be done at the state level, since there's no delegated Constitutional authority for the fedgov to involve themselves in this. But it's an interesting speculation, if for no other reason than to throw the police statist's arguments back in their faces.

Here's a nice fantasy: Perhaps some day, We the People will reassert authority over our servants and force this to happen...

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