Police State

Gonna Have to Wear Masks

You need to remember that your average cop is a bully who likes throwing their weight around and roughing up people who can’t fight back: old ladies, children, unarmed people, and soccer moms in traffic stops. Maybe they were bullied themselves, maybe they are drunk with power, or maybe they are just pussies. I don’t know.

That is why they call SWAT for every real criminal, and why they shoot everyone with a full mag dump who even looks at them funny. Why? They are TERRIFIED- scared that the people they are bullying are one day going to have had enough. You see it all of the time-

Don’t get me wrong. They aren’t ALL pussies, just the average cop. Some of them are upstanding guys who run to the sound of the guns, but I would say that most cops are not the brave defenders that they claim to be.

So when the governor of New Mexico issues an executive order that no one in Albuquerque is permitted to have a firearm, and a large group of gun owners show up armed in protest, the cops do- nothing. No, the cops didn’t back off because they believe in 2A, because whether they do or not, they will follow orders in order to keep their jobs and pensions. No, it’s because they are not about to get in a running firefight with a large group of armed, pissed off gun owners.

The kinds of guys who, after what happened on J6, show up to a rally like that are some pissed off guys, and some of them are just waiting for an excuse to get their shootyness on. The cops either know this, or are afraid that it is true. How many shooters would be willing to smoke some cops in a crowd of 200 armed protesters? What would the body count be?

They don’t want to find out, which is why they didn’t fuck around. No, if anything is going to be done, it will be handled just like J6 was. They will wait for a few months, then show up in force to each protester’s house with a short platoon of SWAT to arrest the protesters one at a time.

Then the only way to win will be to adopt the same tactics- visit the cops while they are alone and without reinforcements nearby.

By Divemedic, ago

Reminder

Police are used to victimizing unarmed people. That’s why they call SWAT when there is the least chance of facing armed opponents. I want to remind you of this incident, point out that the cops in New Mexico will chase anyone who runs from them instead of allowing themselves to be searched for firearms, and then ask again:

What could a four man fire support element do if they were in an overwatch position 100 yards or so away and this was a planned ambush? How hard would it be to lure police into a kill box and then overwhelm them with large amounts of fire before disengaging and disappearing before the cops can organize an effective counter ambush?

By Divemedic, ago

Liberty Safes & Backdoors

From the Liberty Safe FAQ page.

what happens if you forget your Liberty safe’s lock combination code or misplace its key? Depending on the type of lock that came with your Liberty Safe, you have a few options.

Contact the FBI. They have the codes to your safe. If they won’t give it to you, just trespass in the Capitol while registered as a Republican. They will come over and open it for you. Maybe you will get lucky and the jail cell they lock you in for 22 years will have a digital lock made by Liberty.

Liberty Safe’s policy isn’t to give out combinations or keys to safes that have not been registered.

We all know that isn’t true. There are those who are claiming that the FBI had a warrant, so Liberty gave them the code. There are two problems with that:

  • The FBI had a warrant to search the guy’s house. That warrant is in no way binding upon Liberty safe, who is an unrelated party in this. In fact, if the FBI wanted the access codes, they would have to serve Liberty safe with a subpoena. Subpoenas are for records, warrants are not.
  • The fact that a backdoor exists at all is problematic. With all of the data breaches in the news, the mere existence of a backdoor is a significant liability. This calls all sorts of electronic devices into question. Nothing you have is secure from government access. Remember that we are now living in a one-party police state with the full cooperation of big business. Conduct your business accordingly.

There are some lessons here:

  • You should have backup weapons and cache them somewhere away from your property that they will not be found.
  • If you were one of the J6 protesters, you are looking at spending the rest of your life in the Gulag. Pay your bail and don’t look back.

EDITED TO ADD: Here are my thoughts on this:

By Divemedic, ago

Cops Investigate Themselves

The cops in Fort Collins want to give this guy an appearance ticket for trespassing. He refuses to sign it. They tell him that it doesn’t matter if he signs, if he doesn’t show up to court, he will be arrested. You would think that would be the end of it.

Instead, a cop gets angry and tries to stuff the ticket into the accused’s pocket. I’m not sure that “If the guy won’t sign, stuff the ticket in his pocket” is proper police procedure. If it isn’t, then this is battery. Anyhow, that’s when things went south. The guy backed away from the cop, and the cop uses that as his excuse to say he is “resisting.” While the guy is on the ground, they hold a pepper spray container within 3 inches of his eyes and spray him in the eyes. This caused permanent damage to his eyes. He is suing the cops.

Kulas’ attorneys say police officers are trained not to deploy pepper spray from less than 3 feet because of the risk of permanent damage to the person’s eyes. Fort Collins Police Department’s policy does not specifically mention a safe or minimum distance of pepper spray, but does say “pepper projectiles and OC spray should not, however, be used against individuals or groups who merely fail to disperse or do not reasonably appear to be present a risk to the safety of officers or the public.” In other words, pepper spray isn’t to be used to force someone to comply with your orders.

The police investigated themselves and determined that they should be cleared of all wrongdoing. See for yourself:

The man was charged with obstructing a peace officer and resisting arrest in addition to the original petty trespass charge. All three charges were dismissed.

Don’t talk to the police. Tell them that you don’t want to make a statement. Then shut up. If they want to arrest you or write you a ticket, then let them. You won’t beat them in the street. Let your lawyer beat them later. Most cops are moronic meatheads who enjoy beating people up in order to gain a sense of power. Don’t give them an excuse.

By Divemedic, ago

The story

I heard screams coming from the other end of the emergency room. I went to investigate. In all, there were three nurses and a paramedic who walked into the patient’s room. The patient in that room was the source of the screaming, and he was a prisoner who was shackled to the bed by cuffs on all four limbs: his hands were cuffed to the bed, his feet were cuffed together, and a fifth cuff attached his left ankle to the bed. He was naked, except for the suicide vest that the cop had put on him. The smock looked like this:

The cop that was in the room with him was pulling on the prisoner/patient’s wrist so hard that he had pulled him into a sitting position, and the cuff had cut into the patient’s arm and was causing bleeding. The cop looked dead at me and yelled, “He’s trying to escape! He’s wriggling his hands to get out of the cuffs!” The prisoner was yelling back, “No, they are just too tight! I’m just trying to get comfortable.”

The cop drew his Taser, pulled off the cartridge, and pressed it into the patient’s back to use in drive stun mode. All of the medical personnel in the room cried out for him to stop.

We all filed written complaints. The cop outweighed the guy by at least 100 pounds, he was handcuffed, and wasn’t going anywhere. When they came to do the investigation, we were called together and told:

I am recording this conversation so that there is a record of it. You people here don’t know this guy. We do. He isn’t a nice guy. You don’t know police procedures, and you don’t know what happened. The prisoner was trying to escape. I spoke with the officer, and he says that he never drew his taser. You all must have misunderstood what you saw.”

I walked away at that point. Should it matter whether or not the prisoner was a nice guy? Doesn’t he have rights? Including the right to not be tortured? Mean guy or not, isn’t he presumed innocent?

If the officer really felt that force was needed to prevent an escape, then why did he lie and say that he didn’t use his Taser? Why not own it? If the cop had to lie, that tells me that he was wrong and he knows it. The only guys that I saw not being nice in this incident were the cops.

Since he lied, I will never trust that cop’s word again. Since his fellow officers lied to cover his ass, I will never trust another cop from that agency again. One lies, and the others swear to it.

I watched a police officer torture a prisoner who was in his custody, then I watched him lie about it. With my own two eyes. I know what I saw, and I know what my fellow nurses saw.

and it was disgraceful.

Oh, and I looked the guy up. He has a clean record- not even a traffic ticket in his past. His drug and alcohol screens were negative. Sounds to me like the guy pissed off a cop, and the cop decided to give him a bit of “stick time.” The charges in this case? I can’t mention them without giving away details, but he was ridiculously overcharged. He wound up pleading out to a misdemeanor and got time served. I have seen people try to escape, and I have seen people resisting. This was neither. Wriggling your hand while all 4 of your limbs are cuffed is not an escape attempt, and certainly doesn’t justify being hit with a Taser.

By Divemedic, ago

My Opinion

Getting a ticket for violating a law that the officer can’t quote. She is making shit up as she goes. “Ignorance of the law that I just made up on the spot is no excuse.”

I would add that she is incorrect in her interpretation of the law. The ordnance she quoted doesn’t say any of what she says it does. The issue here is what it will cost you to show up with an attorney to fight this.

By Divemedic, ago

Unimpeachable

From commenter D, we get this comment:

The state sees cops as “unimpeachable witnesses” meaning whatever they say is gospel unless you can prove otherwise.

For this reason, I will always side with my fellow citizen and give him or her the benefit of the doubt.

When I was in the Navy, we had a commanding officer who was incredibly authoritarian, Captain Macke. He was a douche, but retired after getting his fourth star. More on that in a minute. Why was he a douche? He would hold Article 15 (Captain’s Mast) like this:

They would put all of the accused on an aircraft elevator at the hanger deck level, maybe 20 or 30 of them, and the Captain would be standing behind a lectern on the flight deck. They would raise the elevator to the flight deck, and the Captain would say: “You all must be guilty, or your officers wouldn’t have sent you here. I find you guilty as charged. You are hereby reduced in rank one paygrade, fined one half pay for two months, restricted to the ship for 45 days, and 2 hours of extra duty every day for 45 days, to be served under the duty master at arms. Dismissed.” (This is the maximum punishment he can give without a courts martial)

The reason that this is important is that Macke believed that officers were absolutely unimpeachable. One of the things he used to say was, “If I have 100 enlisted men with 100 video cameras that show me 100 videos of something taking place, and I have one officer who tells me that isn’t how it happened, I will believe the officer every time.”

Of course, it’s also telling that he retired after being investigated by the Defense Department inspector general for allegations that he used military aircraft for personal trips and improperly fraternized with female subordinates while he was CINCPAC. They dropped him two paygrades for that. His new civilian job appeared to be using his military contacts and influence to arrange funding and lucrative government contracts. So much for unimpeachable officers. The best thing that I can say about the hypocritical sunovabitch is that he died last year.

So you’ll excuse me if I don’t buy into the “unimpeachable officer” trope.

By Divemedic, ago

Remote Control

The EU has a law that takes effect next year- it would mandate that cars made after June 2024 have installed in their innards a device that allows the government to remotely limit when, where, and at what speeds the car can be driven.

The State of New York is proposing similar legislation, calling it a “safety measure.” New York City is also proposing that the devices be added to the vehicles of people with older cars who are caught speeding.

The limiting device, once installed, would bar vehicles from traveling no more than 5 mph above the posted speed limit. The devices would have to be installed in cars caught six or more times by an automated speed camera.

Now go back and refer to my post about updates to electronic devices being updated and changed without your permission before you proceed with this post.

This isn’t about speeding. New York makes far too much money from speed cameras each year. $100 million each year, in fact. There is no way that they are getting rid of this income stream. No, this is not intended to stop speeding. It’s obviously for another reason.

How long do you think it will take before this device has been expanded to limit or stop people from driving to a political protest? Or from preventing anyone who doesn’t vote for Democrats from driving? Or even disable the cars of Republicans on election day? This is a way for the government to remotely control the people.

By Divemedic, ago