We're the Only Ones "Not Obliged" Enough

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Cryptic Subterranean follows up on the Thames Valley Police, who neglected to respond to an elderly woman being attacked with a hammer, and then lied and said they didn't respond because they had to prioritize their calls.

When I asked them what the greater priority was, and proved there were no area police emergencies reported in the news in that time period, they told me they wouldn't respond because I was "not involved." Now they tell Jay.Mac they won't respond because they don't have to. He tells me this came from Malcolm Hopgood, "Freedom of Information Officer." Talk about an Orwellian title.

I expect nothing less than this kind of CYA from "The Only Ones." I wish I could say I didn't expect it from the "authorized journalists," but in truth, that's why I've established that category here at WarOnGuns. Bloggers are treated with disdain, but too often "official" news outlets refuse to investigate stories, and taint what they do with bias, omission and lies.

Great follow-up, Jay.Mac. I'm going to see what I can do about getting this some wider exposure in the magazine...

We're the Only Ones Never Disciplined Enough

He told the Chicago Tribune that his client had completed a substance abuse treatment program and had never been disciplined since joining the police department in 1994.

We discussed this "Only One" yesterday as we watched him manfully beat a woman less than half his size into the floor, as other disarmed Chicago men manfully stayed out of it and let it happen.

Now we find this:

Authorities are investigating whether anyone tried to bribe or threaten a bartender to dissuade her from pressing charges against an off-duty police officer accused of beating her in an attack caught on camera, police said Thursday...

The state's attorney's office and internal police investigators are looking into claims that Abbate and at least one other person threatened Obrycka, as well as the owner of the bar, Bond said.

The threats included telling the bar owner that illegal drugs could be planted on the premises and that Jesse's Short Stop customers would be harassed, according to Obrycka's attorney, Terry Ekl.

One can only wonder why the "authorized journalists" are evidently content to let the "authorities" do the investigating.
After all, these are the same authorities who evidently didn't cuff the animal when they took him into custody. Professional courtesy, you know.

And as for never being disciplined, that's hard to do when you give the guy a pass on a DUI. Oh, and then there's this gem. It appears this animal was "named in a federal lawsuit for beating a man under arrest in 1999. The man later died."

But he was never disciplined.

Does anybody really think he would have been "disciplined" this time if there hadn't been a camera on the premises?

When are idiot Chicagoans who provide the fuel for the tyrannical Daley machine going to wake up? And when are Illinois gun owners going to send a line in the sand message to Springfield, telling them in no uncertain terms that Chicago disarmament will not be tolerated outside of Cook county?

We're the Only Ones Pushy Enough

A police officer shoved a skateboarder into the bushes...and it was caught on tape.

There's also a link to the video. Nice marks the kid got on his back from the unprovoked assault.

What a vicious, ignorant, lowlife.

You'll note "The Only One's" identity hasn't been ferreted out by our watchdog "authorized journalists." Here's another account where the mayor shifts the blame to skateboarders, and another where a "councilman says the officer handled the situation 'professionally'."

I guess--if you're a professional thug.

And here's yet a fourth account--still giving anonymity to the head case with the badge and the gun, that says "As of now, the officer in the video is still working as normal."

Hard to argue with that last part.

And no, I'm not arguing that anyone should be able to skate anywhere that is not there property and cause damage to structures. But there are sure as hell better ways to handle that than attacking them without warning. She could have broken his neck, and had any of us done the same thing, we would rightfully be charged with assault and battery.

[Via Wm H]

This Day in History: March 23

During a speech before the second Virginia Convention, Patrick Henry responds to the increasingly oppressive British rule over the American colonies by declaring, "I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!" Following the signing of the American Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, Patrick Henry was appointed governor of Virginia by the Continental Congress.

A Matter of Time

Gun purchases would be limited to one per month and anyone selling a gun would have to get a background check on the prospective buyer under gun control plans an Illinois House committee endorsed Wednesday.

If one gun a month is good, wouldn't one gun a year be better?

Just asking, because if you buy into the "logic"...

Common Tyranny

Standing next to a combat rifle that is 5 feet long, weighs 35 pounds and can blow holes through armor a mile-and-a-half away, Gurnee Police Chief Robert Jones wonders why civilians still can legally buy this weapon in Illinois.

Ah, it's our old friend Burt Constable.

Yeah, chief, letting Illinois cops be "The Only Ones" who can deploy such a weapon sounds like a great idea.

And "Reverend" Oldershaw: Don't you have more important things to worry about that will better contribute to "the common good"?

More Gun Shops Cave In to Bloomberg

"It was going to cost $50,000 in attorney's fees," said Rick Morketter, manager of Dick's Pawn, of North Myrtle Beach. "We wanted to take the path of least resistance."

Unless the gun shops take it on themselves to organize and amass a legal war chest to ward off these kinds of attacks, they will continue.

I understand the stores are caught between a rock and a hard place. That said, I refuse to buy a gun where an appointee for that tyrant is going to "monitor" the transaction.

And just for the record, guys, when you settle with Bloomberg, you're admitting to the world that you're "the worst of the worst...immoral...irresponsible...[and] bad apples."

One other thing: Bloomberg would not be able to do this were he not aided and abetted by Judas privateers, in this case, the law firm of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman and the James Mintz Group.

The "Only Ones" Fever

It looks like Cryptic Subterranean's caught it. Good. We need an incontrovertible body of evidence to throw the argument that "police are The Only Ones who should have guns" back in the face of any who use it.

Here's another twofer courtesy of Jay.Mac:

• We're the Only Ones Vacant Enough

and

• We're the Only Ones in the Mood for Love Enough

We're the Only Ones Two-Fisted Drinking Enough

This wasn't any barfight caught on tape. An angry man pummels a much smaller female bartender. As it turns out, he's a Chicago police officer and late Tuesday night he was taken into custory [sic].

Chicago--isn't that where "The Only Ones" will arrest a citizen who they find with a handgun?

[Via Cryptic Subterranean. I've also gotten links to other reports on this story from Paul G, and got this one from 45superman.]

Pokey Get Your Gun

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When my daughter is 10 and 11, and especially in the teenage years, I want to be there with a gun.

Gee, Pokey Poke, I thought you'd given up your violent ways. Most of us manage to raise children without threatening their friends and dates with weapons, which is a crime, by the way.

Just out of curiosity, how is it you're not prohibited from buying one?

[Via Cryptic Subterranean]

This Day in History: March 22

Hoping to raise sufficient funds to defend the vast new American territories won from the French in the Seven Years’ War, the British government passes the notorious Stamp Act on this day in 1765. The legislation levied a direct tax on all materials printed for commercial and legal use in the colonies, including everything from broadsides and insurance policies to playing cards and dice.

And if course, now that we have "representation," we elect people to do this to us.

Up to the Challenge

I defy anyone to “read” into the Amendment that a citizen has the right to carry arms, except to show up as a member of a “well regulated militia.”

Done, you fool.

We're the Only Ones Gone Wild Enough

A nude appearance in an "Girls Gone Wild"-style adult video sold on the Internet has cost a veteran police officer her job — again.

I know there's an "Only Twos" joke in here somewhere.

[Via Stan]

New York Times Logic

But many of the officers who help keep New York’s streets safe are in fact volunteers — unarmed, unpaid and, we learned this week, in some cases tragically and unnecessarily vulnerable.

Let's see, unarmed...vulnerable, unarmed...vulnerable.

I'm sure there's a connection here somewhere.

I know: Let's pass more gun control laws!

Me, a Pessimist?

I've seen a few posts around where people think I'm overly pessimistic in my assessment of the cops and guns poll.

Sorry, fellas, but your rosier outlook notwithstanding, I actually think the "2/3 wouldn't confiscate guns" belief is, well...naive. If ordered and threatened with termination and loss of benefits and pensions if they didn't obey confiscation orders, I doubt you'd see much adherence to theoretical principles volunteered to a magazine poll. And if we were talking about a martial law situation, where actual punishment would be administered for refusing to obey, I'm betting compliance would be just about complete.

So you're also overly generous to me in your assessment that I'm a "half empty" type. I think it's much worse than that.

It could be that I'm just cynical and negative. Perhaps.

Then again, perhaps not .

As the fundraising slogan goes, "Remember New Orleans."

Pokey Poke Does Front Sight

You have to endure a stupid commercial first, but here's a video where Pokey Poke says he got sniper training for his new movie Shooter" at Front Sight--he says he hit a target 2,000 yards away and that he's "a good shot."

He'd even be interested in doing a sequel.

So why is it a picture of Wayne Fincher in the paper is enough to spur BATFU into takedown mode?

I've got no beef against Front Sight--I have long admired Dr. Piazza's work and past support of RKBA. I do wonder how Pokey passed the criminal background check it is my understanding training applicants must undergo.

Remember, from my KABA article:

Marky, who had violated the terms of his earlier judgment, pled guilty to two counts of criminal contempt, each count carrying "a maximum penalty of ten years in a house of correction or ten thousand dollars or both." The Commonwealth's Sentencing Memorandum supported "the recommendation that the Defendant be sentenced to two years at the Deer Island House of Corrections, ninety days committed, with the balance suspended for two years."

And remember, at the time, the representative from the Suffolk County Clerk's Office for Criminal Business told me the Pokester was tried as an adult and his record has not been expunged.

[Via Red Dot]

Duncan Hunter on 2A

"The right to keep and bear arms is an absolute right of Americans to protect their families and their communities and their nation with firearms. In this age of post-911, Americans, I believe are comforted by the fact that our ability to resist terrorism is not limited to law enforcement or defense agencies but is also within the ability of all gun-owning Americans."

A Keyboard and a .45 saw a candidate's website lacking in information about his stand on RKBA, so he took it on himself to get things stated on the record.

Great job, JR, great leadership. This really illustrates how one man taking the initiative can get things done. It also demonstrates how blogger activism can bypass the information blackout we encounter when relying on "authorized journalists" to actually do something original and act like government watchdogs.

And in case you're wondering, GOA rates Hunter an "A."

This Day in History: March 21

On March 21, 1778, just three days after British Loyalists and Hessian mercenary forces assault the local New Jersey militia at Quinton’s Bridge, three miles from Salem, New Jersey, the same contingent surprises the colonial militia at Hancock’s Bridge, five miles from Salem. During the battle, the Loyalists not only kill several members of the Salem militia, but also two known Loyalists.

33⅓

About one-third of the people living in the national's [sic] capital are functionally illiterate...

Along with AP "authorized journalists," it would seem. These are no doubt the same people who support continuing the DC gun ban...

Gee, I wonder what they'd say if you asked them what their political affiliation is?

Aside from "What's that?"

On the bright side, they can always get a job over at the DEA...

We're the Only Ones Groping and Biting Enough

AN UNDERCOVER officer who bragged about being “like 007” grabbed a barmaid’s boobs at a strip club.

Boozed-up agent Dominic Headley, 32, also sank his teeth into an off-duty cop’s chest.

Cryptic Subterranean has the gripping, hard bitten details.

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