[TheForge] Patriotic rant....

[Demon Buddha]

Jeff Harding wrote:
> 
> DNA;
> 
>    This all sounds so mundane as if it's an accepted progression...
> one problem.  Courts have already ruled that the police have no
> obligation to protect YOU... They may well protect the people in
> charge and the public property, but you are expendable.
> 
>    By what stretch of the imagination is it ok for police to serve
> warrants dressed in black, with no identification, kicking someone's
> door in, screaming and flashing full auto weapons around?  I can buy
> black clothes and print POLICE on them with white shoe polish and kick
> your door in... what you gonna do?  Better decide now.

	Heh... dunno if you recall, but about 10 years ago there
	was this old fart in Malibu.  He had a nice spread, very 
	$$ and all that.  LA county sheriffs bust in a la drug 
	raid.  His wife screams, he emerges with his pistol and
	they shoot either him, his wife, or both, stone dead on
	the spot.  It was a "drug raid".  Only thing, and this
	really blew my mind, is that it wasn't a drug raid. 
	About a year later, LA county prosecutor discovered a
	tax book in the possession of one of the sheriffs that
	had been on the raid.  It had copious notes on which of
	the pricey properties the sheriff's department wanted
	and how they would seize them a la civil forfeiture.
	Now comes the mind blowing part: the DA, with evidence
	of premeditated murder sitting there in his hot little
	hands stated to the press that his office would decline
	to bring charges against the sheriff's office.  !!!!!!!

	If this had not been seen by myownself on the news, I would
	never have believed it.

	This is partly what America has become.  Mind boggling.