The undercover officer, a retired policeman, ran out of the Hollywood church, aimed his weapon and shouted: "Get out of your car, get down."
He then handcuffed the photographer and accused him of trying to run over a traffic policeman before eventually releasing him.
So it was church security and not Britney's personal bodyguard?
My favorite line from the story:
This is a church, not a concert.
I find this whole episode particularly hypocritical, because it occurred at the Bel Air Presbyterian Church.
Why?
Because of this:
The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has a thirty year history of support for gun control legislation.
And yet another reason I'm glad I left the Presbyterian church so many years ago.
ReplyDeleteThis is a church, not a concert.
ReplyDeleteSure it wasn't a meeting of Brown Shirts? And just how the Hell did that retired sonofabitch get the right to carry in church? Oh yeah.
Well it looks like photogs will need to use squad tactics. You know, try for your picture but have your flanks and rear covered by marksmen that will drop any sonofabitch that kidnaps you off a city street, for possession of a camera.
Could this man not have been killed in self defense? If not, why not? As a private citizen he pulled a gun on a private citizen who had committed no crime and was no danger to anyone.
ReplyDeleteWhereas Mr. Igot Balls was a threat of death or serious injury to an ordinary citizen going about his business. So, it seems to me, if someone had shot him dead, he should have been paid for, with no more price due, predicated on his assault with a deadly weapon on another.
Why do I think the active thugs would have wanted to avenge the retired thug?
Especially hypocritical when the following is considered;
ReplyDelete"...In short it is manifest that from the Begining Britain has pursued a purpose of making the People of America Submit to her absolute Dominion, and regardless of Right, Justice and humanity, has employed means the most destructive and Calamitous.
"On the other Hand America has Supplicated with the most humble Voice and manner of Complaint, have prayed with most Submissive humility for Peace, Liberty and Safety, but in vain, and at length when forced to take Arms for self-preservation She raised them with reluctance against Britain even in Defence of her own Bosom, and at length unwillingly seperated altho she plainly saw that any further Connection must involve her in Circumstances worse than utter Perdition.
"To maintain this Seperation is to maintain the Religion, Liberty and Property of ourselves and our Posterity, to renounce it is to Sink into the lowest meanness and Slavery.
"May God remove every such thought from every American Breast! Welcome first the Life of the most uncivilized Savages ! Welcome Death itself and everlasting Oblivion to our race! ..."
"...May the all bountiful, Merciful, and Gracious God enable us to Conclude the War in a short time, and with as little Misery to Mankind as possible, and so may he prosper our Endeavours as he knows our Intentions are void of ambition, and of every Motive but that of Securing those Blessings which we derive from him as the Great and bountiful Father of Mankind. We hope Fellow Citizens that your Virtue and Piety will always merit his Divine Protection, and we humbly beseech him to make you the Care of his All righteous Providence...."
- Friends and fellow Citizens, Library of Congress, Letters of Delegates to Congress: Volume 7.[ante May 29, 1777].
My questions weren't rhetorical. Anybody have a response?
ReplyDeleteSA, if he'd have pointed it at me or my loved ones, I'd have felt justified shooting first. And yeah, I think "professional courtesy" would have made the assumption that a retired "Only One" is "better" than a mere uppity herd member.
ReplyDeleteDoes that answer your questions?