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Thursday, August 22, 2013

Every now and then, we win one.

Bellingham man wins $15,000 settlement after city cop stops him for carrying gun in park

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SWIFT said...: Why would it be necessary for all officers and dispatchers to be trained on open carry? That should have happened BEFORE they hit the streets. Do they live and work in a cocoon? Two ordinary citizens approach the cop and have to tell him the law? Are PD's only hiring candidates at the lower end of the bell curve? $15,000 settlement after some idiot points a gun at your chest? Seems to me the figure is missing another zero or two. I know what would happen around here if the same shit took place. It's called Hard Ball.; August 22, 2013 at 6:36 AM
Earl Flanigan said...: Only way it could have been better is if the cash award came out of the little thug's own pocket!; August 22, 2013 at 6:52 AM
Anonymous said...: You have to understand that their oath of office ends where their "legal advisers" begin, ordinarily the county or district attorney.

If you do not obey their edicts, you will be disciplined and you will be fired eventually. You MUST comply because you will not receive any redress from the courts, they are after all part of the system that set these actions in motion, and protect it from change.

The system is broken. The constitution and bill or rights are broken. They were broken deliberately, by those who now smile at you and say to you "So... What are YOU going to do about it?"; August 22, 2013 at 8:27 AM
Anonymous said...: Only $15K....bullshit. TPTB won't learn anything from such a small payout unfortunately.

I agree with Earl...unless the $15K came out of the cop's pocket. That would be a SERIOUS deterrent to infringing rights.; August 22, 2013 at 11:03 AM
Ed said...: "Ignorance of the law is no excuse" works both ways.; August 22, 2013 at 11:43 PM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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