Police State

The Colorado Batman shooter sent a notebook with his plans for the shooting to his psychiatrist at Colorado University a week before the shooting. The notebook reported was never delivered. It sat unopened in a post office room. That's convenient. I'm skeptical.

Originally the news reported that a shooter in New York City randomly targeted bystanders. Now we know that NYPD cops shot the bystanders, not the original shooter.

"Questions have been raised over the New York police department's handling of a shooting near the Empire State Building after armed officers injured nine passers-by as they pursued a gunman who had just shot dead his former boss.

One of those injured by police told the Guardian that officers appeared to fire "randomly" as they confronted Jeffrey Johnson, 58, minutes after a workplace dispute escalated into a chaotic shootout in one of the busiest parts of Manhattan.

Reports suggest that while Johnson drew his gun when he was confronted by officers, he did not fire; all those injured appear to have been shot by police."

Do you think victims cared whether they were shot by the original shooter or cops, or do you think they only care about the consequences? This is nothing new. Every time we hear about cops shooting people in wheelchairs, they shot 50 or so bullets, but only several hit, killing the poor unarmed victim.

"The New York police commissioner, Raymond Kelly, said officers had no choice but to act as they did: police discharged 14 rounds and the gunman died at the scene."

Baloney. Of course they had a choice. They could have chosen to carefully target the original shooter or hold their fire if they were unable to do so. Supposedly cops are highly trained, but apparently these cops, and all the other cops we read about missing their target, which is pretty much all of them, are poorly trained.

Double standard of cops shooting others. This points how private individuals, because they are subject to liability, are encouraged to act responsibly and not shoot bystanders, while cops, because they face no real liability for shooting bystanders, are encouraged to fire bullets seemingly randomly into crowds. This is a double-standard in the law that should be erased. It is inconsistent with the philosophy of the rule of law.

Microsoft is collecting your information with Windows 8. It claims to be benevolent. No thank you.

Will Grigg rips the state over killing Vicky Weaver in a way that American should do the same. We should commemorate her murder by government agents every year.

As much as I love reading Will Grigg, I don't believe I've given him the publicity he deserves. I consume his articles, but I don't often re-blog them. In this case...

"The negotiator, being a police officer, performed as he was trained to – that is to say, he lied."

If you pay enough attention to Grigg, you realize this is the norm. And he tells us this is the norm. And he proves it every day with a new example. Grigg shows us the disgusting reality of law enforcement all around the country, and my personal experiences in court room back his descriptions up. But I hate to acknowledge that reality, but only a fool would ignore it.