Tales From Your Police State: DoD Gives Itself the Right to Use Military Force to Support Police

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civil rights, department of defense, dod instruction 3025.21, drug war, military coup, military-industrial complex, police state, terror war

In Instruction 3025.21, filed 27 February 2013, the Department of Defense decided to give itself the power to assist civilian police authorities militarily during periods of extreme emergency of civil unrest. The memo states that

Federal military commanders have the authority, in extraordinary emergency circumstances where prior authorization by the President is impossible and duly constituted local authorities are unable to control the situation, to engage temporarily in activities that are necessary…to quell large-scale, unexpected civil disturbances…

Excuse me, but if the president is indisposed, doesn’t the military have to go through the vice president, the secretary of defense, and — before all of that — doesn’t it require the authorization of the Congress, as per the 1807 Insurrection Act? (Yes…yes, it does.) Furthermore, wasn’t the military barred from military action in support of police due to massive corruption and civil rights violations during Reconstruction? (Yes…yes, it was: Posse Comitatus.)

If you can’t see how bad this is, or where this inevitably leads, you might want to look at the history of Rome, or any medieval period European country, 1660 Britain, 1917 Russia, 1920 Italy, 1930s France, Germany, Hungary, and Spain, and time during the early  20th Century China and Japan, or any of the other innumerable examples where the military decides to be the final arbiter of law, order, and power.

Contact the worthless windbags that allegedly represent you in Washington — remind them that military coups don’t just target the people, but also the worthless windbags that are in charge. If it’s their life and power on the line, they might shift their asses.

Tales From Your Police State: When the Aristocrats Don’t Like What You Say…

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2nd amendment, government corruption, gun control, new jersey, police state, progressivism

…they eject you from their meetings. This is democracy in New Jersey: do what we want, say what we want, or we’ll punish you.

And just in case you thought they were applauding his ejection…

They were continuing to turf people out after they “cut off debate” over their gun bills:

This is your police state at work. Don’t agree with what they are doing to you? They shut down debate and sic the police on you. And as far as they are concerned, “You can’t stop government…” But don’t worry there, Mr. and Mrs. Jersey Shore…I’m sure they won’t be coming for you in the future…

Can’t Take Away Guns? How About Speech?

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1st amendment, college speech codes, foundation for individual rights in education, hate speech, speech codes, university of montana

 

Democrat Politicians Turn to Bad Fictional Technology For Gun Control

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2nd amendment, gun control, hr2005, john tierney, personalize handgun safety act, skyfall, stupid people being stupid

I already remarked on this idiotic idea in a prior post, but now that Rep. John “I Watch Too Many F’ing Movies” Tierney (D-Mass.) has decided to offer up HR2005 “The Personalized Handgun Safety Act” (better known as “We Think Stuff in James Bond Movies is Real Act”) it’s time to return to this subject.

In the latest James Bond offering Skyfall, the classic anti-hero is toting a new Walther PPK/S — already showing you the filmmakers aren’t thinking beyond fan service and product placement…it’s a terrible firearm, compared to the PPS or PPQ — that is “coded to his palmprint” to prevent anyone from Bond using the jammin’est gun MI6 ever issued.

Here’s why it’s a stupid idea: 1) Fingerprint and palmprint technology is finicky even when not attached to a device is essentially a container for a controlled explosion. There’s a reason it didn’t catch on with laptops — it doesn’t recognize you half the time. You look like a new cash register jockey running the pack of gom over the laser scanner for twenty minutes.

2) One of the issues with the sensors is they are highly prone to dirt and fouling…something firearms produce in spades. The recoil of the .380 is not especially vicious, but fragile electronics run through the frame of the pistol would be prone to failure from normal usage. Imagine the effect of a 10mm 1911 running “hot” loads…. In the cold, in the heat, what would be the effect? How about if, in the middle of a tussle, the police officer armed with one of these turds dropped it and it stopped functioning?

3) The battery technology is not adequate to the task of allowing the firearm to be ready at all times. You would have to switch it on and off…and if the battery is dead, would the firearm lock down? That could be damend inconvenient if, say, you needed it suddenly. If it did work with the sensors off, then what’s the damned point; you’d just flip the switch to “off.”

That’s just the practical  issues…

The lesson here is “movies aren’t reality.”

Tales From Their Police State: At Least We Don’t Hose Down Suspects From Helicopters

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brazil, drug war, police state, police violence, rio de janeiro

…yet…

Here’s Brazil’s Rio Civil Police shooting wildly at what they thought was Marcio “The Mathematician” Pereira’s car. Note the FLIR allows you to see them engaged in “disproportionate” (according to Martha Rocha, head of the RCP) collateral damage…

Tales From Your Police State: Sanity Prevails Over Policing in Florida

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We covered the plight of Kiera Wilmont already:  a 16 year old girl who was curious what would have if a strip of aluminum was soaked in a bottle of toilet cleaner. Answer: it produced smoke and a great deal of gas, which popped the top off of the bottle.

Officials at Bartow High School decided to panic and call the police, then — despite said officials, fellow student, and even the police admitting there was no malice, criminal intent, or injury/damage caused — she was arrested and charged with felonies as an adult.

A massive backlash against the school, school district, and stupendous idiocy of the police is appears that Wilmont will be allowed to avoid criminal charges if she attends a diversionary program (the specifics undisclosed.) So a curious, and apparently intelligence, school-minded minority girl gets to go to a useless program run by the Department of Juveniles because…she was a good student who went out of her way, when she got curious and decided to experiment, to try her chemical curiosity in an outdoor location away from others.

This is the state of our nation.

Quote of the Day: Frederic Bastiat

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cronyism, Frederic bastiat, government corruption, mercantilism, taxation

Whence does [the State] draw those resources that it is urged to dispense by way of benefits to individuals? Is it not from the individuals themselves? How, then, can these resources be increased by passing through the hands of a parasitic and voracious intermediary?

Frédéric Bastiat

Stupid Celebrities Being Stupid

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angelina jolie, lauryn hill, racism, stupid celebrities being stupid, taxation

Lauryn Hill bitches she had an economic system imposed on her because of the slavery her “parents” endured.

1) What’re you 150? Slavery didn’t affect you in any way, Miss “Rich Enough to Owe a Million in Back Taxes”, so shut your facehole.

2) Join the f’ing club, sweetheart — I don’t know anyone that growing up said, “You know what? I want the system to steal a quarter of my crap so they can misuse it.

3) If any system is destroying the urban black population, it’s the welfare state that was supposed to help them, and continued by wealthy black politicians and activists who get rich off of conning their demographic into supporting policies that keep them unemployable and subservient.

Angelina Jolie is being hailed as either a heroine of Olympian proportions, or a deluded and dangerous example to the women of America, for having had a double mastectomy on the off chance she might get cancer. (It’s nice to be rich enough to do a DNA scan that can give you a percentage that you might get cancer…) Is it heroic to cut off your own tits? Sure…but maybe waiting for early detection and nipping it in the buds would have been a good idea. After all, you have a 20% of not getting breast cancer. Knowing it was an issue meant she could have monitored herself for signs much more regularly and effectively than poor folks.

But hey….they’re hers; she can do what she wants with ‘em.

Quote of the Day: Jon Stewart

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benghazi, irs, jon stewart, obama, political scandal

I wouldn’t be surprised if President Obama learned Osama bin Laden had been killed when he saw himself announce it on television.

Jon Stewart

…on how the president always seems to be the last to know what’s going on when a scandal arises.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the president purposefully keeps himself out of the loop to avoid blame.

Tales From Your Police State: Media That Carried Obama’s Water Upset They Were Spied On

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associated press, department of justice, eric holder, government corruption, police state, wiretaps

Oh, Nelly, she’s havin’ the vapors! 52 media groups protested the Department of Justice’s wide-ranging seizures of telephone records on Associated Press reporters in an effort to find the source of a leak on a counterterrorist operation. Apparently, they’re doubly worried that the DoJ didn’t inform them they were the subject of an investigation until a year later. Imagine how much freer we’d be if the media had been this interested in any of the other abuses of power that the administration has pursued these past five years.

Already, the administration is in “lying our asses off” mode, with Eric “Pinnochio” Holder claim he “doesn’t know” how many orders for data seizures he signed. That brings up a few interesting problems: 1) Incompetence — Holder wasn’t smart enough to pull the information before going out to flap his yap on the matter, 2) Arrogance — Holder didn’t feel he needed to have that information…after all, the media’s been covering up for the Chicago gang for five years, why stop now? (Answer: Because sycophants don’t like to be scorned by the object of their adulation.) or 3) HE’S LYING. Maybe because they actually did much worse and they’re trying to stave off discovery of wiretaps or other surveillance techniques used, or maybe because the administration is so used to prevarication it now comes naturally, or maybe because what they did wasn’t exactly legal…

Let’s turn to the US Attorney’s Manual 9-13.400 (News Media Subpoenas; Subpoenas for Telephone Toll Records of News Media; Interrogation, Arrest, or Criminal Charging of Members of the News Media) to see a few things you should know about subpoenaing evidence, Mr. Holder:

Section 50.10(g)(1): “should be as narrowly drawn as possible; it should be directed at relevant information regarding a limited subject matter and should cover a reasonably limited time period.”

Sections 50.10(b) and 50.10(g)(1): This requires you to take all investigative steps before a wiretap or draw of confidential records can be subpoenaed. “We couldn’t get any one to talk, judge. Can we have a wiretap?” “Well, sure, Eric — just don’t forget to invite me to the next swanky White House dinner!)

Section 50.10(d): This is the part where you are required to tell the person they are under investigation unless it would “pose a substantial threat to the integrity of the investigation.”