Today's post about the Palm Beach Butt Crack Patrol reminded me of something my oldest son and I caught yesterday while flipping channels during Twilight Zone marathon commercials: another "To Catch a Predator" with Chris Hansen.
My concerns about the blurring between "Only Ones" and "Authorized Journalists" notwithstanding, we do generally find the show good for a few laughs at the loser idiot scumbags, and yesterday was no exception. But they've started doing something I don't remember from earlier shows: Now, in addition to the bellowing horde of weapons-ready tacklers, they've started having some guy in a ghillie suit emerge from the bushes to make first contact.
For some reason, it struck us as really funny, maybe because we weren't expecting it, and our first reaction was to wonder why Chewbacca was making a cameo on Dateline NBC. Then we started laughing and extrapolating fantasy scenarios about other ways to scare the hell out of people, for instance, jumping out of the bushes roaring like a monster while wearing a team mascot costume, or as the Mugato from Star Trek...
But that was just stupid boys having stupid fun, and the larger point was not lost: Here's Chris Hansen confronting these guys alone but for a hidden camera crew that emerges at the finale, possibly unwisely for being unarmed, and then the amount of force present to make the arrest just really stands out starkly against that.
Maybe I'm the one overreacting here, but I remember a time when these kinds of deployments were reserved for murderers, bank robbers, desperados...
Ah well. It's all just entertainment anyway, right?
You know, I was wondering why they took them down so hard in Florida, then Chris told us why:
ReplyDelete"Here in Florida, it's really easy to get a concealed weapons permit..."
Which begs a question, would a pedophile go through the trouble of getting a concealed weapons permit? I just don't get it. And then, add in the ghillie suit. It goes too far. Why not just call in the SWAT team?
They go to states that don't have Shall Issue and they hit them the same in those states. For that smirking scum bucket Hansen to claim that LAW ABIDING CITIZENS are the reason for escalated cop violence he needs to be called on the carpet.
ReplyDeleteThe reason the cops hit guys who already know that it's coming is because they WANT to do that.
Anything else is mere justification for escalating violence that they would arrest you for.
I don't know how many times in the last decade I've heard this comment, but I've seen enough for me to wonder whether or not it has a strong basis in fact:
ReplyDelete"It's so much easier to arrest those guys than go after armed gangbangers, drug cartels, bank robbers, or [insert your favorite violent criminals here], who actually shoot back."
Maybe an experienced police officer who reads this blog can correct my misperception, but why are SWAT teams being used daily all over the USA for non-violent arrests? Especially since our jails and prisons in this country are running about a 140% occupancy rate, and these poor, hapless slobs whose crime, mostly, is mistaking their genitalia for their brains, get out of custody immediately anyway?
"Maybe an experienced police officer who reads this blog can correct my misperception, but why are SWAT teams being used daily all over the USA for non-violent arrests?"
ReplyDeleteBecause they are basically chickenshit. They are like the early growth fat kid you knew in middle school (Junior High when I went), no guts,but figured they had an unbeatable advantage, therefore they reveled in bullying everybody. Right up until they really had to be tough. Then they caved and had to call all their kinfolks in to help take care of the one guy who wouldn't kiss his ass.
Unlike the big fat kid who bullied everybody, these particular chickenshits don't wait until they meet resistance to their bullying and bring all their brothers at the outset. They are like the white stuff on the top of chickenshit. Still chickenshit, but of less substance and therefore thinner. Cream isn't the only thing that rises to the top, so does dross. And really watery chickenshit.
Does that answer your question, Hyunchback?
If not I will tell you about the epiphany that caused me to disregard LEO's as full humans. Despite the fact that at one time, I had ambitions to be a cop, right up until I realized I was too much man to surrender that much of my manhood to join a club of weak sisters pretending to be something more.
Straightarrow -
ReplyDeleteI, for one, would like to hear your epiphany story. Either here or maybe a link where it was typed out before on the web?