Maybe this is why the government is so insistent on disarming the people.
Manhunt highlights enforcement weaknesses against determined resistance
The ongoing manhunt for murder suspect and former Los Angeles police officer Christopher Jordan Dorner is revealing systemic weaknesses and flaws reminiscent of the Beltway sniper attacks of over a decade ago. Not only has the presumed armed and dangerous suspect successfully eluded a massive dragnet involving police from all over Southern California, to the ski resort community of Big Bear, and now potentially “across three state and into Mexico,” but a panicked reaction in multiple incidents reveals police in the process of protecting their own posing a real danger to the public.
The shooting of two newspaper delivery women illustrates just how jittery the searchers are, and how desperate, when it’s obvious the “shoot first”-mentality officers did not see a suspect they could identify and yet opened fire anyway. The hail of bullets left the truck riddled with holes and opens the question of who else was endangered by bullets that missed it or went through it. And this wasn’t just a one-time mistake: Trigger-happy Torrance cops reportedly did the same thing to another citizen in different part of town.
Another incident, this time in San Diego, involved another innocent citizen having his life endangered in what was initially described as a barricade situation, but turned out to be a case of mistaken identity.
One man has done this, and people are noticing. Aside from an attitude among panicky enforcers that appears to regard public safety as an expendable inconvenience when they perceive a real or imagined threat to themselves, people are noticing how much illusion and presumptions have to do with state power. For many, it is a “Behold, a god who bleeds” moment.
Those noting it include true enemies, foreign and domestic, who see vulnerabilities and fears to exploit.
It’s also noted by those of us who understand what is fundamentally necessary for the security of a free State, and who view coerced confiscations such as have been proposed in the past andin recent weeks as an ultimatum to surrender our very freedoms or suffer the consequences at the hands of enforcers who are appearing less and less omnipotent. That is unacceptable to people who do not want trouble but have no intention of disarming, and who would view any attempt to force that as an intolerable act to be defied, and ultimately, to be resisted.
The deterrent effect of an armed citizenry as a last resort appeal against tyranny is often derided by those who don’t have a clue about what such individuals could accomplish in defense of their liberties. It’s derided even more strongly, and tellingly, more desperately, by those who do, and who see and are shaken to their cores by the vulnerabilities just one armed former police officer/citizen disarmament zealot has exposed.
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Stigmation says:
I suppose it is unfortunate that lives are being lost. However, I find this very ironic. Probably most, not all, but most police take great satisfaction in terrorizing the population. Acting like jack booted thugs and such. Now that the tables have been turned, look at how they act. Shooting at cars that resemble the shooters.
They seem very jumpy and cowardly in their actions. Like most bullies, they do not enjoy having the tables turned on them. I think this is a very powerful lesson for both the police and the population that supports liberty. They are not nearly as powerful as they think they are and we are not nearly as weak as we may think we are.
I certainly pray that the rule of law will be restored through our electoral process. However, if not, it is comforting that perhaps all is not lost.
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10th February 2013 at 11:28 am
BUCKHED says:
Stig….the rule of law is gone. Corzine going free,HSBC officials getting off and no one being proscecuted for Fast and Furious in the DOJ are prime examples of
the rulers being exempt from the laws the peasants must adhere to. Rules will be restored when the ruling class is replaced.
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10th February 2013 at 12:23 pm
Novista says:
“when the ruling class is replaced”
when the ruling class is decorating lampposts
fixed that for ya!
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10th February 2013 at 10:43 pm
Thunderbird says:
One of their own turned against them? This is certainly bringing out the true nature of our police state. There is no conscience in law enforcement personal. The civilian population has to endure this rampage of police after one of their own.
It is plain to see that the idea of the mission of the police to “protect and to serve the people” is not true. How many people have been wronged by the police since this rampage began?
What is evident for all to see is the blatant disregard for public safety being played out by the LAPD in it’s pursuit of a killer on the loose. In this case the killer is hunting them. What a turn of destiny for a police force known for it’s brutality against the public.
It seems they have to find this guy and eliminate him before he kills more of them, because as the death toll rises in their ranks, it could cause more people who have been wronged by the LA police to jump on the band wagon of revenge against them. What a predicament. I sense this is not going to turn out well for the police or the public.
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10th February 2013 at 11:58 am
tbone says:
this AM Police have identified suspect as “terrorist” unilaterally. thank God they don’t have the drones in the air yet otherwise the unfornuate newpaper delivery folks would of been vaporized….but you probally would not hear that anyway.
who is really running things?
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10th February 2013 at 12:38 pm
Thunderbird says:
With the LA police on the rampage, putting the population in terror with their trigger happy assault on anyone looking like this guy, killing innocent people and knocking in doors without warrants, could this start a backlash leading to civil war in LA? Would this not lead to a takeover of the LAPD by homeland security to keep the peace?
It costs lots of money to keep up what the LAPD is doing… money not in the operating budget. If this continues to go on without the police finding their man it is only going to irritate the public who are in the middle of this war between the LA police and one of their own.
This seems like a black swan for law enforcement.
And how is it that a man with a bone to pick with his own includes his political views in his manifesto? What is the connection? Would someone clue me in?
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10th February 2013 at 1:02 pm
ragman says:
This is only one man and the LAPD doesn’t know whether to shit or go blind! The PTB should consider just how insignificant their “power” really is. Imagine if a million of us or 10 million say “fuck you” and refuse to register guns or play any of their stupid games. This whole scenario has to be one of their worst nightmares.
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10th February 2013 at 2:12 pm
TPC says:
This feels like the plot to a summer blockbuster movie.
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10th February 2013 at 2:14 pm
Thunderbird says:
One other consideration. If this man is really walking his talk then he is still in the LA area hunting his prey. This would give every policeman in the area reason to be edgy. In other words this man is not on the run; but rather laying low and waiting for his next opportunity to strike.
Now we have Charlie Sheen of all people wanting to be contacted by this man. Why is this? Once this man makes contact with Charlie Sheen then he is dead meat. But then again why did this man mention Charlie Sheen in his manifesto along with other people not connected with his beef against the LAPD? Things just don’t add up.
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10th February 2013 at 2:23 pm
Stigmation says:
ragman says:
This is only one man and the LAPD doesn’t know whether to shit or go blind! The PTB should consider just how insignificant their “power” really is. Imagine if a million of us or 10 million say “fuck you” and refuse to register guns or play any of their stupid games. This whole scenario has to be one of their worst nightmares.
It becomes all to clear why there is such a big push to get the guns now. I think they really don’t want to ban the guns this time. Just register them. When the next “convenient mass shooting” happens, then they will simply make the lists and collect the weapons. If you claim to not have the weapons, no problem. The prison industrial complex is hungry for new souls to feed its ever growing profit centers and it will be of to the pen…
This whole scenario is truly sickening to behold. How in the world did it ever get this bad.
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10th February 2013 at 5:46 am