Notes from the Resistance...
Their mission is to protect and to serve, but lately some Durham officers are accused of bending the rules they're supposed to follow. [More]Bending the rules?
Councilman Eugene Brown says he sees a cause for concern especially considering the recent scandals - overtime abuse that cost an officer and a deputy chief their jobs, another charged with DWI, because his blood alcohol level was twice the legal limit. And just last week, a federal indictment against an officer accused of selling drugs out of his squad car...What, it's not just an isolated bad apple...?
A Tennessee sheriff's deputy arrested on a drunken driving charge wound up in a dog house before he was taken to the big house...Samuel Monroe Bledsoe was kicking the windows of a trooper's cruiser on his way to a hospital for a blood test.The report says Bledsoe was then locked inside the cruiser's K-9 cage for his safety. [More]An "Only One" behaving like a vicious dog?
Just putting this on their "Hate Watch" page accomplishes their agenda--to put a stigma on good and decent Americans by equating them with racists, Klansmen, Nazis, terrorists...and this isn't the first time we've seen them resort to such smears and innuendo. [More]Here's this morning's third Gun Rights Examiner column. Hopefully it'll be the last one until tomorrow.
While it's true that Edwards hasn't been convicted of anything, his gun-grabbing Democrat pals are trying to not let that stop them--in fact, Frank Lautenberg is at it again, proposing that people merely suspected by the government be barred from buying guns via a "terror watch list." [More]Today's second Gun Rights Examiner column asks why anti-gunners don't apply the same standards to themselves that they impose on the rest of us.
Forget the accusation that citizens intent on claiming their rights are trying to be "superheroes"--that's just childish noise coming from people who have no other argument, and so rely on the tried and true Brady practice of insulting the character of those they hate as they desperately try to gin up fear. [More]Today's first Gun Rights Examiner column looks at some desperate people who ougtht to settle down and have a cup of coffee.
On February 5th of 1778, South Carolina became the first state to ratify the Articles of Confederation, which would eventually become the first governing document of the United States. [More]
Forgive me if I can't help but focus on these words:APD's stonewalling on an information request called for a second Gun Rights Examiner column today.
"[T]he department wishes to withhold some of the requested information and has asked for a decision from the Attorney General about whether the information is within an exception to public disclosure."
Why? [More]
In response, John Thomas, the lobbyist for the Arizona Association of Chiefs of Police, said, "SB 1102, if enacted into law, will take Arizona back to the Wild West carry, with no consideration of officer safety.''You can tell John to go **** himself here.
A former Shelby County narcotics detective has been sentenced to six months in federal prison for stealing money confiscated from drug dealers. [More]What, you mean that's not considered armed robbery?
Some four dozen area law enforcement officers from six agencies have been named in corruption cases in the past six years, often with cash-laden drug dealers as their targets.Gee, you'd think such draconian punishments would discourage this sort of thing.
Police were told Denny drove the woman to San Diego International Airport, where he flashed his fake badge to get through security. [More]See, have the amulet and you have the power to cloud men's minds--although in the case of TSA, the clouds are already pretty dark and fluffy.
This all goes to the heart of the gun controller's dream--prior restraint on your rights because of what you might be capable of doing. Take that line far enough and off go our hands, potential stranglers that we are. Next up, all you proto-rapists... [More]Today's Gun Rights Examiner column notes dogs aren't the only offsprings of bitches.
On February 4, 1778, Pulaski proposed a plan for the formation of a training division of hussars. In a letter to Washington Pulaski wrote:
"There is an officer now in this Country whose name is Kovach. I know him to have served with reputation in the Prussian service and assure Your Excellency that he is in every way equal to his undertaking." [More]
Brooklyn's 81st Precinct probed by NYPD for fudging stats [More]That means "lying." Officially.
