SWATting in Fairfax

Tomato 7 has more on the death squad that deployed because a doctor was allegedly involved in sports gambling.

Any bets the executioner is never punished? I'll lay 10-to-1 odds it never happens.

Oops. I didn't just solicit illegal gambling, did I?

Hold on--I think there's somebody at the do...

With Friends Like These...

Just two days after winning the Democratic nomination for the 2006 general election, Blagojevich called on the General Assembly to approve an assault weapons ban over the objections of the National Rifle Association...

The rifle association held a counterpoint press conference Thursday hoping to blunt the governor's message and keep the assault weapons ban off the table.

"The solution is simple: Enforce the laws on the books," ISRA President Richard Pearson said.

Thanks, Richard. But just for the record, when you call for enforcing the laws on the books, do you mean like this...?


Or like this...?



You're right, though, Richard. Those are pretty simple solutions.

The Definition of Insanity

Maryland U.S. Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein announced yesterday the start of a joint federal-local initiative designed to crack down on gun crimes in Prince George's County, where the vast majority of last year's record number of homicides were committed with firearms.

At a news conference at the U.S. District Courthouse in Greenbelt, Rosenstein said that under the program -- Prince George's EXILE -- federal and Prince George's law enforcement officials will collaborate more closely to identify and investigate violent offenders who use firearms, to crack down on illegal gun traffickers and to use the threat of tough federal sentencing laws to pressure defendants to plead guilty to gun crimes in state court...

The initiative went into effect this month, Rosenstein said. He said it was too early to measure the results.

Oh come on, Rod. The results will be predictable.

Admit it. This is all about expanding your power, prestige and influence with federal grant money.

We're the Only Ones Acting Properly Enough...

An unidentified elderly Horn Lake couple were hospitalized Thursday after police burst into their home thinking it housed a methamphetamine laboratory...

A man and a woman _ both in their 80s _ were injured as TACT team members secured the house although no drugs were found. There were children in the house also, but they were not awakened, Beshears said.

Beshears said the woman received a dislocated shoulder and the man received bruised ribs. Both were taken to Baptist Memorial Hospital-DeSoto, but both asked police not to identify them...

Police Chief Darryl Whaley said...he believes his officers acted correctly and followed procedures when they entered the first home.

"Obviously, a mistake was made and it was regrettable," he said. "But, I stand by my officers. I think they acted properly."

I wonder what would have happened had the occupants of the invaded home "acted properly"?