Divemedic

Authoritah

So a cop that I know posted this video to Facebook:

With this comment attached:

I think this cop didn’t know what to do because he spit out some legal crap.

Here are the replies from the posters fellow officers:

1:  I agree..he had probable cause for the stop….the 911 call for a man with a gun…duh….

2:  And he wouldn’t have gotten that gun back till he proved he could legally carry it…for ya know…public safety. ..lol…

3:  your walking around with a gun….. we are going to stop you dumbass get used to it. smh

4:  Time to cuff and stuff!

5:  some stick time and a ride will solve that problem 

6: The cop should have arrested him for disturbing the peace

7: Stupid law students 

Not one cop posted in favor of the gun owner.



Let’s start out with probable cause. The term probable cause means that the officer has reason to believe that more likely that not, the person is guilty of a crime. A 911 call that a man has a gun is not probable cause to believe that a man has committed a crime, if it is not a crime to have a gun.

Taking a person’s property without a legal reason to do so is a crime. The only problem is that the cops (in many cases, correctly) believe that they are above the law.

The obvious disregard for people’s rights and the law makes me fear the cops more than the criminals. They are just a legalized street gang. It is things like this that make me begin to think that anarchy could not be much worse.

By Divemedic, ago

Cheats

While we were busy watching the long, drawn out debates on Obamacare, the economy, and gun control, we all missed that Congress legalized insider trading for themselves. It was easy to do, though. They only debated and voted on the bill for 30 seconds.When Obama signed the new law, the announcement was only one sentence long.
So now a Congressman can legally profit from upcoming legislation. No conflict of interest there.

By Divemedic, ago

Communications

A proper survival plan includes things like water, food, and light. One important thing that should be a part of your plan is communications. During the recent events in Boston, cellular communications were inoperable for hours. There is some question as to whether they were turned off by authorities, or if the heavy traffic overloaded the system, but the end result was the same: no phone communications were happening throughout most of the Boston area.
I have portable, handheld radios in the 2 meter band. There are 9 repeaters that are within 40 miles of my house, and each of these can be reached by the radios that I have on hand. This allows me to communicate across the majority of Central Florida with a large level of redundancy. In the event that all of those repeaters are non functional, we can go direct radio to radio on any one of hundreds of frequencies. These radios can be had for as little as $40.
If hundreds of available frequencies isn’t enough, you can get a dual band radio that also works in the 70 cm band. That band is less crowded than the 2m band, and adds thousands of available channels to the possibilities.
Set up a communications plan: “If anything happens, we will contact each other on the 146.22MHz repeater at the top of the hour, and on the 145.52MHz repeater at the bottom of the hour. If both repeaters are down, we will try 433.62 MHz., additionally, we will monitor 146.52 MHz.”

 The HAM license costs just $15, and no morse code test is required. Then you don’t have to worry about the cell phone repeaters.

By Divemedic, ago

It isn’t the guns

A homeless man sets another man on fire in California by throwing a Molotov cocktail into the victim’s car. We have a problem in this country, and it isn’t guns. We are in the middle of what Heinlein called “the crazy years.”
Making gasoline illegal, restricting high octane gasoline, restricting container size, or requiring a background check in order to buy gasoline, wouldn’t fix this any more than the same restriction on guns will fix spree shooting.
It used to be that insane asylums and jails were for keeping dangerous people away from the rest of society. Now we use the jails to lock up people for owning the wrong plant, and we abolished the asylums.

By Divemedic, ago

Found in a parking lot

Here is a food receipt recently found in a parking lot by a friend, and emailed to me:

5 cases of diet Mountain Dew, 8 lobster tails, 2 Porterhouse Steaks, total grocery bill of $142. All paid with an EBT card.

About 100 million people in the United States are receiving some sort of government money. At the beginning of this year, only four of the 80-plus federal welfare
programs had work requirements; the Obama Administration has now
suspended the work requirements in two of these. After the Obama
Administration suspended the work requirement from the food stamp
program in 2009, the number of people on food stamps doubled. In fact, if you take the trillion dollars spent on welfare programs and divide it by the number of people receiving them (100 million), it comes to $100,000 spent for each person receiving aid.

Welfare pays more than an $8 an hour job in 40 out of the 50 states, and this figure doesn’t include food stamps and Medicaid. The government spends an average of $168 for each person on welfare.

Welfare now surpasses the government’s biggest traditional money pit, the Pentagon. “By 2022, there will be $2.33 in federal and state welfare spending for every $1 spent on national defense.” Our National debt, as listed by the treasury, is $6.5 trillion higher than it was when Obama took office.Our debt has been doubling about every 8-10 years for every president except Clinton. Clinton added 140% to the debt.

It gets even worse: Much of the spending and borrowing is being paid for by monetizing the debt. The Federal Reserve is busy buying US treasuries. This is called monetizing the debt.This will eventually begin to hurt the value of the dollar. The only reason that this hasn’t already begun is that so many commodities (like oil) are pegged to the dollar, because the dollar is the reserve currency. One that changes (and it will) the days of runaway inflation will arrive.

By Divemedic, ago

It takes a village

In June 2012, a man named Joshua Hakken was arrested for possession of marijuana. Joshua and SharynHakken, who media outlets continue to describe as
“anti-government” due to their anarchist/libertarian postings on
firearm and homeschooling forums, had their parental rights terminated by a judge. At the time, according to investigators, the couple lost custody of the twoboys after attending an anti-government rally in Louisiana.Investigators now deny that charge.

One of the things he allegedly wrote was this:
 

“My name is Joshua Hakken,” he wrote. “I am a father, a
registered professional mechanical engineer and a veteran of the
USAF. I am absolutely devoted to life, liberty, the rights of the
individual and the Constitution of the United States of America.
“
After saying that he had noticed that “things here in Florida
have not added up for quite some time,” he concluded, “in these
crazy times, maintaining open communication lines for ideas,
observations and news is absolutely crucial if the ‘good guys’ are
to be successful in surviving to maintain the fight of ideas.”

Not worse than what even mainstream people like Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck are saying.

The police also claim that Joshua also showed up at a Louisiana state run foster facility with a gun and tried to gain access, and when unsuccessful, left. I find this hard to believe. If this were indeed the case, why wasn’t an arrest warrant issued then? 

So Joshua and Sharyn began to activate a daring plan to recover their children. They bought a 25 foot sailboat and were
seen loading supplies onto the boat in the John’s Pass marina, located
in the Tampa area.

In the early morning hours of April 3, Joshua and Sharyn entered the home of Sharyn’s mother armed with at least one handgun, tied up Sharyn’s mother, and took the kids. 

. The Hakken children were listed as the “victims” and their parents were listed as the “suspects” in an abduction. On April 4, acting on a tip, Hillsboro County Deputies found the Hakkens’ SUV in a parking garage near the John’s Pass Marina.On April 5, a witness came forward and said he spotted the boat passing under a bridge near the John’s Pass Marina, and heading out to sea. The search expanded. Police tried to locate their cell phones, but they had been turned off. Police then expanded the search to the sea, and to four states.

Rumors circulated that the family had fled to Cuba. It was then confirmed on April 9 that the Hakkens were in fact, in Havana, Cuba. At least one Florida attorney believes that the children will not be extradited. I say good for them. Taking someone’s kids for a marijuana arrest? MY hat is off to him for protecting his kids.

This is what it means when authorities say that your children are the property of the state. It takes a village…

By Divemedic, ago