Sipsey Street Irregulars: ‘Gun death’ at hands of police demonstrates public’s need for relevant data.

Sunday, February 22, 2015

‘Gun death’ at hands of police demonstrates public’s need for relevant data.

A woman has been shot dead by police in Gastonia, N.C. Betty Sexton had called 911 to have unwelcome guests removed from her home, and was in the process of obeying orders to put down an old musket she was protecting herself with when Officer LaDoniqua Neely shot her in the chest, WCCB Charlotte reported Tuesday, quoting the dead woman’s sister.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...: The pigs are so afraid of the people they're supposed to serve,that this crap happens. That or the "I'm God, obey me" syndrome.; February 22, 2015 at 6:25 AM
Anonymous said...: What is it with Gastonia cops and shooting innocent people this year? Cops are responsible for all of the hatred and distrust they receive. Every action like this just turns more of the public against them and leads to more of the violent fringe elements to seek retribution.

Remember: There is no situation on Earth that can't be made immediately worse by the addition of cops.; February 22, 2015 at 6:50 AM
Anonymous said...: This event will have a dramatically different course than Ferguson. There will be no Attorney General flying in.; February 22, 2015 at 8:11 AM
Paul X said...: Silly her, for calling the cops. Well, she paid the price. At least others may learn the lesson...; February 22, 2015 at 11:11 AM
Informed42 said...: Any bets that Betty Sexton was white and LaDoniqua Neely is black ?; February 22, 2015 at 11:34 AM
Anonymous said...: It's unfortunate that so many people have to learn things "the hard way". Tons of us try to tell folks what's going on out there and they don't believe you until something like this happens, and then it's too late; February 22, 2015 at 12:22 PM
Jimmy the Saint said...: "The pigs are so afraid of the people they're supposed to serve"

Probably not - they may plead fear in public to help up their budgets and to get the public to identify them, but this stuff happens because they hold the public in absolute contempt. Whether we live or die is of no more consequence to them than is the life of an ant on the sidewalk when we're out walking - if we step on it, we don't care, because it is of no import.; February 22, 2015 at 1:08 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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