Only a Thin Blue Line protects us from WMD-equipped assault-wheelchairs...
__________________________________________________________ "This man is Jesus, shouted one man, spilling his Guinness as Barack Obama began his inaugural address. When will he come to Kenya to save us?"
The best and first guarantor of our neutrality and our independent existence is the defensive will of the people and the proverbial marksmanship of the Swiss shooter. Each soldier a good marksman! Each shot a hit! -Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
On a more serious note, isn't most of America concerned about what these pigs consider "assault" to be!
"What? Oh, sorry, I was watching American Idol!, football spring training is coming up and I'll be kinda busy for the next few months..." -average American
__________________________________________________________ "This man is Jesus, shouted one man, spilling his Guinness as Barack Obama began his inaugural address. When will he come to Kenya to save us?"
The best and first guarantor of our neutrality and our independent existence is the defensive will of the people and the proverbial marksmanship of the Swiss shooter. Each soldier a good marksman! Each shot a hit! -Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
We have several tenants who use those type chair, and I will tell you that a paraplegic, or a quadriplegic, person is about the least threatening individual you'll ever meet.
When one is either mainly, or totally, dependent on others to get through life; one tends not to be an a-hole.
Somewhere in Kenya, a village is still missing its idiot.
Back story I read on another site said the man was drinking in public, refused to leave when ordered by the cops, and started flailing at them from his wheelchair when they informed him that he was to be arrested. He kinda brought in on himself (the arrest part after being told to move along), but the cops did not handle themselves well at all, it's a PR-nightmare for the Dee Cee cops.
__________________________________________________________ "This man is Jesus, shouted one man, spilling his Guinness as Barack Obama began his inaugural address. When will he come to Kenya to save us?"
The best and first guarantor of our neutrality and our independent existence is the defensive will of the people and the proverbial marksmanship of the Swiss shooter. Each soldier a good marksman! Each shot a hit! -Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
How long will it be before we begin to see scenes like this in America?
"The real deal is this: the royalty controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen
You must be a citizen of the United States, 21 years of age or older.
Possess a Bachelor's Degree from an accredited college or university,
Education is not waived for prior military service or prior police experience.
Possess 20/20 vision, either corrected or uncorrected in each eye. Uncorrected vision cannot exceed 20/100 in each eye, unless vision is corrected by the use of contact lenses which must be worn on duty and/or during all enforcement related activities. Must be free of dichromatic color blindness, night blindness, and any other visual deficiencies or limitations.
Possess hearing with less than a 30 decibel loss, either corrected or uncorrected in each ear. Uncorrected hearing cannot exceed a 60 decibel loss in each ear;
No felony or class A misdemeanor convictions; including deferred adjudications.
No misdemeanor convictions, including deferred adjudications, above the grade of class C within the last 10 years;
No DWI convictions within the last 10 years;
Not on court-ordered community supervision or probation for any criminal offense above the grade of class C misdemeanor;
Be of good character and have a stable school/work/driving record;
No family members working for APD;
No pending litigation-criminal or civil (including divorce).
Officers and uniformed police department personnel must conceal any tattoo(s) by use of the authorized uniform or city-authorized clothing.
Health
A. Among the conditions to be evaluated as a prerequisite to preliminary consideration are:
A general capacity to perform tasks required of peace officers, including (but not limited to) capability of unassisted (except be mechanical or stationary self-contained objects) performance of physical agility tasks reflective of peace officer duties.
These will include capacity to run, jump, turn, pivot, stoop, climb, and execute similar movements; push, lift, remove, install, and otherwise handle objects and persons weighing 50-200 pounds, and subdue resisting individuals by exercise of physical force so as to take into custody and transport them against their will.
Such tasks shall be capable of being performed with reasonable accommodation, if necessary, that does not impair a business hardship and without presenting a direct threat to the safety of the applicant or others.
B. Among the conditions to be evaluated as a prerequisite to a final job offer are:
The applicant must have vision in both eyes and possess hearing in both ears as described above under general requirements.
Capable of performing the tasks described in A
Possess satisfactory psychological and emotional health; and
Not possess a condition which poses a direct threat to the safety of the applicant or others.
__________________________________________________________ "This man is Jesus, shouted one man, spilling his Guinness as Barack Obama began his inaugural address. When will he come to Kenya to save us?"
The best and first guarantor of our neutrality and our independent existence is the defensive will of the people and the proverbial marksmanship of the Swiss shooter. Each soldier a good marksman! Each shot a hit! -Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
There was no formal psych screening back in the day. I suspect today's "evaluations" are geared more toward political correctness than mental health. The REAL PSYCH EVALUATION of a police officer didn't come in the form of an interview or a test, but rather how he (there were no hers) behaved once on the street. The beat Sargent was god; after a month he knew the pecans from the average Joe's. The tip off was made easier for him when fellow officers refused to work with the jack off. Back then the probationary period was one year, and no union rule could save the whack jobs. They were booted when identified.
"Now more than ever, we need access to the crucial authorities in the Patriot Act"
The tip off was made easier for him when fellow officers refused to work with the jack off. Back then the probationary period was one year, and no union rule could save the whack jobs. They were booted when identified.
A better time.
A much better grade of peace officers.
Somewhere in Kenya, a village is still missing its idiot.
The man interviewed has severe facial and eye damages. I have to question, though, if it's the same man because of the beard. Maybe the man in the first video just looks clean shave because the film is blurry or maybe he could grow a short beard in four days. I don't know. Just asking. If this did happen, the "Transit cops'"/mercs' claim that they had to act so forcefully because he might be armed is ludicrous and despicable.
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"They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC
The man interviewed has severe facial and eye damages. I have to question, though, if it's the same man because of the beard.
I'm not sure which video you're talking about, the only one I see is one containing the YouTube video of the takedown of the guy out of his wheelchair, along with witness interviews.
Didn't see any bearded guy in it.
"The real deal is this: the royalty controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen
I'm not sure which video you're talking about, the only one I see is one containing the YouTube video of the takedown of the guy out of his wheelchair, along with witness interviews.
Didn't see any bearded guy in it.
The video at the top of the page at the NBC Washington link that I posted for updated-news on this.
I can't tell for certain if the guy in the takedown video doesn't have a beard but am glad I'm not the only one who didn't see him as bearded then. It just looks like a different person to me in the interview at the update-link -- and not only because of the beard there -- but I suppose a swollen face could be why he looks different.
Edited to correct wording of 2nd sentence.
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"They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC
Yeah, the way they threw a helpless man to the ground is inexcusable short of the man threatening them with a gun. He was "flailing" at them so they had to throw him down on the sidewalk and bust him up like that? I hope that guy sues their dumb @$$e$--bet those two are related to GrandIsland on LP.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Lord Acton
He (Gordon Duff) also implies that forcibly removing Obama, a Constitution-hating, on-the-down-low, crackhead Communist, is an attack on America, Mom, and apple pie. I swear these military people are worse than useless. Just look around at the condition of the country and tell me if they have fulfilled their oaths to protect the nation from all enemies foreign and domestic. OsamaBinGoldstein
The only difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has it's limits. Albert Einstein
Some of these power-mad pigs are gonna ef with the wrong guy, or wrong group of guys one of these days and they'll be cryin' like a bitch!
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Lord Acton
He (Gordon Duff) also implies that forcibly removing Obama, a Constitution-hating, on-the-down-low, crackhead Communist, is an attack on America, Mom, and apple pie. I swear these military people are worse than useless. Just look around at the condition of the country and tell me if they have fulfilled their oaths to protect the nation from all enemies foreign and domestic. OsamaBinGoldstein
The only difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has it's limits. Albert Einstein
The video at the top of the page at the NBC Washington link that I posted for updated-news on this.
Uh, must have missed the video on the top, I looked at the one on the bottom.
But yep, that's the crippled guy they brutalized.
"The real deal is this: the royalty controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen
Some of these power-mad pigs are gonna ef with the wrong guy, or wrong group of guys one of these days and they'll be cryin' like a bitch!
I was thinking the same thing. It's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when.
"The real deal is this: the royalty controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen
Probably happen about the way it did on that first video where the pigs were beating up on that guy and the soccer fans went medieval on their butts. I thought that was great. Cops like that are nothing more than the bullies that we can all remember from our childhoods, the kind of people who beat up those who are weaker than they are, or who they believe to be weaker. And I speak for no one but me but I always enjoy seeing bullies getting their comeuppance.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Lord Acton
He (Gordon Duff) also implies that forcibly removing Obama, a Constitution-hating, on-the-down-low, crackhead Communist, is an attack on America, Mom, and apple pie. I swear these military people are worse than useless. Just look around at the condition of the country and tell me if they have fulfilled their oaths to protect the nation from all enemies foreign and domestic. OsamaBinGoldstein
The only difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has it's limits. Albert Einstein
"The real deal is this: the royalty controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen
6.(a) a pattern of lifetime moral issues, leading to a state of complete moral bankruptcy, is considered an asset. Psychotic breaks with reality will be considered on a par with above requirement.
Most seriously, most of Amerikan LEOs appear to be severely demented!
No doubt about it. I was just run thru the wringer by the local Sheriff's Police. They grabbed me on an expired warrant and it ended up costing me over $200 that I did not really have.
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
#51. To: Eric Stratton, FormerLurker, Jethro Tull, All (#43)
Thanks to both of you for the info.
Back when I had to stop at a checkpoint here some time ago and the policeman said he was from the next county over (i.e. out of his jurisdiction, or so I believed at the time), I thought about asking if he was lost but didn't. There had been some talk of downsizings and possible mergings in this county's area because of the economy that, afterwards, I remembered having heard about vaguely. So, I chalked it up to probably just some temporary arrangement due to needing more help than was available then for that extra work-detail, or as a joint-excercise to be thriftier and save money for both counties to gain experience and proficiency at the same time on the same 4th Amendment-violating, invasive procedures.
Then I found this REALITY BLOG article that I wanted to research because of this topic. It's about a Unified Police Force formed in Utah (Salt Lake County/Salt Lake Valley) to link all the different ones in that area together under a private corporation structure. Their elected Sheriff was appointed the CEO and the Sheriff's Department was dissolved. Now it's "called the 'Unified Police Department of Greater Salt Lake', or the 'Unified Police Department' for short." Need to study that more thoroughly but after I posted an excerpt from it in the thread, Unified Quest 2011, I remembered the checkpoint stop and vague merger talk that I hadn't thought much about since then, and it occured to me that maybe something like that has been going on here.
Now I'm thinking: Who are the people who think they can dissolve elected Sheriff's Departments and replace them with a corporate CEO if they want to? -- fragment the police into various splinter groups assigned to various Federal sectors or localized sectors and to private corporate special interest duties (like I've seen them doing regularly here with city personnel and vehicles) and then conglomerate them like their own private mosaic of security guards who are being paid by us to move against us with force and even excessive force at will -- age, gender, handicap, pregnant or still too early in the stages to look like it, no matter -- all "conveniently" filed somewhere for the more privileged under the umbrella of the DHS/"Homeland Security", I suppose is the direction they've been moved or they are moving towards "jurisdictionally".
So, if the corporateers think they can dissolve our elected Sheriff's and their departments and such to rearrange our police structures like their privatized furnishings so easily, we should declare dissolved whatever imagined authority they crazily think they have to do that.
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"They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC
You should run for sheriff there GL... You'd be running unopposed.
Strange though...does the sheriff have the authority to dissolve his own elected office?
A man can step down but the office remains even if vacant.
Thanks, titorite, for the thought but I'd have to move there, then establish residency and confidence in others that I could do the job correctly. They need a good Sheriff now, not maybe someday. Besides that, I'm not a well accomplished public speaker -- more of an advisory position, perhaps, is the range I'm in. I like to write on topics of politics but see all the edits roundabout that I typically have to make for flubs in proper wording and stuff here in my "speeches" and chit-chat? : /
Strange though...does the sheriff have the authority to dissolve his own elected office?
A man can step down but the office remains even if vacant.
No he doesn't and you are right about the vacancy by step-down remaining. The REALITY BLOG article is very long and I haven't read it all yet but it goes on to say, iirc, that a kind of mafia of mayors council were involved in the dissolvings and planned the corporatized unification for years. I can scarcely find the words to describe what in the world they are thinking of and doing, it's so far "beyond the pale" and huge by my quick survey of the situation. In short, it's an astoundingly grim-looking array of outlaw rogues wreaking havoc on America.
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"They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC
Here's the crazy part, the cops and LE Organizations will do whatever they want, including abuse and tyrannical behavior, the Feds won't say a thing because that helps them, and the judges of course will all but categorically support the pigs because they're part of the system.
That's just the way it is which is why there's probably no other outcome than some swift monstrous blowback at some point because the words restraint, control, and integrity re no longer part of the program.
On the local news here recently it was reported that they are planning to take DNA samples from everyone arrested for a felony -- not even convicted of a felony, just arrested wrongfully or not. Clearly the rogue outlaws intend to keep on keeping on as they have been and worse with their unrestrained globalized Police State tyranny blueprints and programs and their blithering Towers of Babble. There is another way besides that sort of blowback while we work through the court process to unseat the tyrants, and it's Constitutional -- indeed is written into it by our Founders a number of times: