We're the Only Ones Maintaining the Highest Integrity Enough

“We want to maintain the highest integrity within these specialized units,” Spears said...

Prosecutors say the officers stole cash and marijuana from drug dealers and resold the drugs through an Eastside music store.

Bill Owensby, president of the local Fraternal Order of Police chapter, said the union opposes polygraphs...

Yeah, the same FOP that supports all kinds of citizen disarmament--presumably so we won't be able to lift a finger when (alleged!) thugs like this union goon represents fix their predatory attention on us.

[Via M.R. Jarrell]

UPDATE: Armed & Christian shares some thoughts.

We're the Only Ones Treasonous Enough

[W]hen a cop tips off a terrorism suspect of an impending FBI raid, giving him time to destroy evidence, he isn't actually hanged. Nope, in our enlightened times he's allowed to remain on the force- and get paid no less- while Internal Affairs conduct an investigation. An investigation into matters which he has already admitted to and been found guilty of.

Cryptic Subterranean gives us yet more reasons why "Only Ones" are more trustworthy than the rest of us.

A Different Angle

From Brian F:

The image you posted doesn’t really show how ridiculous this only one is acting. Take a look at this one from a different angle. If the driver is so menacing, why does the only one in the background look like he is ready to fall asleep?

Maybe he's walking over, but you're right--he certainly doesn't look prepared to be in an area where such a police reaction is justified. The thing is, it's not the first time we've run into the phenomenon of threatening citizens with lethal force while others stand around with their thumbs up their...uh...their hands in their pockets.

Seeming Silly at the Beloit Daily News

Seem silly? So does concealed carry.

What's next? Duels?

When all they've got left is the tired old "Wild West" argument, you know they've reached the bottom of both their idea well and the Vagisil tube.

[Via Less]

Denver Prepares to Welcome Democrats

Denver police are stocking up on guns that fire a pepper spray-like substance instead of bullets - a less-lethal weapon used to disperse crowds - in advance of the Democratic National Convention.

Which gives me the semblance of an excuse to segue into this:

That's the old pepper, boy!

Maybe we'll get a chance to watch the left eat its own.

Pass the jalapeños.

[Via Dave Licht]

The Elephant Mystery in Memphis

Janikowski merged his computer map of crime patterns with Betts’s map of Section8 rentals.... the match was near-perfect. On the merged map, dense violent-crime areas are shaded dark blue, and Section8 addresses are represented by little red dots. All of the dark-blue areas are covered in little red dots, like bursts of gunfire. The rest of the city has almost no dots.

Earlier this year, Betts presented her findings to city leaders, including Robert Lipscomb, the head of the Memphis Housing Authority. From what Lipscomb said to me, he’s still not moved. “You’ve already marginalized people and told them they have to move out,” he told me irritably, just as he’s told Betts. “Now you’re saying they moved somewhere else and created all these problems? That’s a really, really unfair assessment. You’re putting a big burden on people who have been too burdened already, and to me that’s, quote-unquote, criminal.”

Huh. Who could have imagined this was so, or that the truth would have too many unsettling implications for most people to even listen to, let alone accept?

I guess it's better for our "leaders" to just keep the gravy train rolling. They can always blame a lack of "common sense gun laws" for the problem--it's not like the "Authorized Journalists" won't give 'em all the cover they need.

[Via ryanmguard]

Decisive

Abigail Adam's astute analysis of the significance of Bunker Hill, referenced in today's "This Day in History" offering, provides the springboard for Mike Vanderboegh's latest, "Decisive."

Trouble is, it's posted at Mindful Musings and Western Rifle Shooters Association, and I can't decide which one to link to--so I just did both.

This Day in History: June 18

The Day; perhaps the decisive Day is come on which the fate of America depends.

For the Record(s)

Cleveland Police, along with federal Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) agents, served a search warrant on a Cleveland business last Friday.

That's Cleveland GA, by the way.

They took his records but left his guns?

He's allowed to keep and sell them, but not replace them?

I don't know what's going on yet, but am trying to find out.

If you can shed any light, please do.

Oh, and snazzy BATFU logo, isn't it? It'd look great on an armband.

'How Can a Pen Fight a Gun?'

Indeed.

Something "Authorized Journalists" would do well to recognize.

Get Smart

"We are serious about the lives of children," said Reverend Edward Smart. "If a child is allowed to run rampant in the streets and is allowed to use community guns, the question is does a community really care?"

Well, Rev, if you really want to get smart about it you'll do two things:
End socialism and end citizen disarmament.

Because the seeming paradox is, that type of Control results in Chaos.

We're the Only Ones There for Our Friends Enough

Miami-Dade County police continue to investigate whether a man fatally shot himself while in a car with an off-duty police officer who was his friend.

It's just a good thing he got the gun from an "Only One," and not off the street or through the "gun show loophole."

Courting the Press

A radio reporter for KDKA was arrested yesterday morning and accused of trying to take a loaded handgun into the Allegheny County Courthouse.

I wonder how many "Authorized Journalists" working for gunbashing media companies have learned to carry in the field? I wonder how many gunbashing AJ's change their tune and carry guns when it's their precious rear ends on the line?

We're the Only Ones Protecting You Enough

Even if we have to kill you to do it.

We got an interesting perspective from a resident on the ground the other day:

They keep calling the inspection crews "strike teams" as well, and I am getting sick of it. Almost all of the work done was not by government but ordinary people who just showed up to fill or throw sandbags. People showed up with water before the red cross (lower case intentional). Volunteers, both from the communities at risk and from other states, saw the need and pitched in.

These same people who showed they didn't need "their leaders" to tell them to fight the river are now refused entry into their own homes. They are told to wait until the homes are deemed safe and treated like little children who couldn't have survived the last few days without their "leadership". Homeowners were required to give up the keys to their homes to people they now don't trust in order to have them inspected. One community got fed up and stormed the checkpoints and sent the police running. That, btw, is not being reported.

I just saw the home I grew up in surrounded by water Saturday because of a levee failure. A levee that the corps of engineers (again, lower case intentional) refused to allow to be improved, thus showing their "leadership."

Yeah, I'd trust any of them the keys to my property.

[Via Dave Licht, Plug Nickel Times and Stephen S]

We're the Only Ones Suited to a "T" Enough

"Death Dealer."

"Thug Hunter."

By "Only Ones" for "Only Ones."

But the thought of "average" citizens carrying frightens people.

[Via Plug Nickel Times from Psychopolitik/The Agitator]

Hello, Mr. Chips

A Rhode Island school district has announced a pilot program to monitor student movements by means of radio frequency identification (RFID) chips implanted in their schoolbags.

It's nice to see the human assets being taught inventory control at such an early age.

I wonder at what point the planners will introduce First In, First Out?

[Via Cigar Rollers]

The Bystander Effect

A man parked his truck on a country road outside Turlock on Saturday night, removed a baby boy from a car seat and then beat the child to death in the street, fighting off passers-by who tried to stop him, until he was gunned down by a police officer whose helicopter landed in a nearby pasture, police said Sunday...

"One (person) tried to intervene, and the suspect pushed him off and continued assaulting the baby," Singh said.

One person? And being pushed was all it took to dissuade him?

...almost a dozen people had witnessed some part of the incident, with at least two trying to physically stop the suspect...

They evidently didn't try very hard.

It's called the bystander effect. The Eloi stand frozen as Morlocks drag one of their number into the darkness.

That's the way those who would have us defenseless and conditioned to relying on "The Only Ones" would have it. It's the way they need it to be.

[Via Andre D]

This Day in History: June 17

Government enforcers learn that people who are sick and tired of abuse will only be pushed so far.

Accomplishment

This really does say all you need to know about Obama's supporters and followers.

Kirk Watson, your phoniness is showing...

Shakedown Al

Anheuser-Busch gave him six figures, Colgate-Palmolive shelled out $50,000 and Macy's and Pfizer have contributed thousands to the Rev. Al Sharpton's charity.

Cowards.

I wonder what would happen if he pulled this crap on Ronnie Barrett?