Notes from the Resistance...
A State Highway Patrol officer who was named his post's Trooper of the Year in 2008 was arrested Sunday during the game at Browns Stadium after he was accused of throwing peanuts at two deputies and vandalizing a jail cell. [More]"Trooper of the Year"?
San Leandro police Monday were investigating an incident with a K-9 unit dog that was involved in a deadly attack on another dog over the holidays. [More]Good thing this happened in Brentwood.
Regular readers will recall how the criminal enterprise started by rogue Mexican special forces operatives has expanded its influence—first as enforcers for the Gulf Cartel and now as a rival power. That they’ve established themselves in neighboring Guatemala is hardly surprising, and would appear to circumstantially dovetail with another development being reported by Tim Johnson, Mexico Bureau Chief for McClatchy Newspapers...[More]This Gun Rights Examiner column notes that ours isn't the only border with Mexico.
The American prisoners, finding themselves confined, employed considerable Yankee ingenuity attempting to escape. On January 5, 1779 alone, 100 escaped from Old Mill Prison. "Some went over the wall, some tunneled under the wall, others bribed guards, some walked out dressed as officials, another tried to get into a coffin as a replacement for one of their number who had died, while several less scrupulous connived with members of the local populace who helped them escape and then brought them back to collect the five pounds reward, which they afterwards shared." Splitting the reward was a good way for the prisoners to raise money. Once they escaped they needed money to purchase their passage to France. [More]
"The single purpose of society, indeed, is to protect the individual, and to give him the strength of the public arm, in defence of his just and natural right." – John Witherspoon, The Druid, Article II, The Works of John Witherspoon, pg. 156 [Read]It's not about guns, it's about freedom.
The president of Fraternal Order of Police Union Lodge 126 says he believes the men who called in sick Friday were actually sick and not participating in a work stoppage as a letter hand delivered to most of the officers said.Yeah, just a coincidence, I'm sure.
Nearly all of the scheduled police officers on the 3 to 11 p.m. shift called off sick one hour before they were scheduled to report to work. [More]
After receiving the tip...[More]Oh, they mean Internal Affairs, not the 24-year-old backseat babe...
City Manager Tom George said that he had moved up Chief Brian Tooley's planned retirement date to Monday. [More]Because of Chip here. Nice to see the evil little punk getting his comeuppance, too.
Listen to him. [Read]The Human Target, who is NOT anti-gun (just ask ABC!), agrees wholeheartedly with Monsieur LaPierre that:
We believe in absolutely gun-free, zero-tolerance, totally safe schools. That means no guns in America's schools, period ... with the rare exception of law enforcement officers or trained security personnel.
