— the Secret Service
— the Bureau of Prisons
— Department of Agriculture
— the Tennessee Valley Authority
— the Railroad Retirement Board
— the Office of Personnel Management
— the Consumer Product Safety Commission
— Chatham Copfuks
Really, I suppose when cost controls are non-extant, WGAF? What a joke!
The funny thing is, not over-looking the fact over half the people you meet are below average intelligence, who are they hiring? Vets who would dare fire on the their own citizens?That’s target practice.
Yeah, it might come down to us or them. Out-manned and out-gunned, they’re still kids, and they haven’t fought a army of men capable of defending themselves.
I like the citizen’s chances over the oligarchy every time I add it up. Who needs their fiat, and that’s all they have.
Hmm, if WW3 is going to fought with sticks and stones, I’m going to go sharpen some sticks and practice throwing stones. I don’t live in a glass house, but by the law of the grace of God.
Hmm, no one wants to stand up to the lion of judah. Anybody? Well, then, I’ll guess call it a night and see you comrades in the AM.
Bruce
September 6, 2014 11:13 pm
Don’t forget almost every police force in the nation has a swat team or ten and that many now appear to have their very own Armored Assault Units as well. All this and they still can’t protect you from the utes that infest the urban neighborhoods all over the nation.
When the SHTF folks in the big cities especially will be beaten and brutalized by the utes and then assaulted, swatted, and corralled by the multitudes of law enforcers. It’s when the utes and the enforcers move out into the vast countryside they will meet there own special type of Russian Winter that will last year round until everyone is dead.
We are all doomed. And all because we will never get it together enough to just to kill the bankers cutting off the head of this big nasty snake.
Mr. Chen the Unpaid Bullshit Monitor
September 6, 2014 11:48 pm
“The funny thing is, not over-looking the fact over half the people you meet are below average intelligence, who are they hiring?”
Just because “statistics says” that on average a penny will turn up heads or tails 50% of the time, does not mean every other flip will be heads.
Just because Nonanon and I chance to meet, does not automatically make me a genius or him a dufus.
George Carlin was a comedian, not a fucking prophet.
Last week, it was my privilege to attend the first graduation ceremony at the BC academy in 30 years.
The LA Times – The training center reopened Wednesday nearly 30 years after its last class graduated. The department moved its academy to the Stars Center in Whittier in 1984 after the hilltop Biscailuz Center, named for 27th L.A. County Sheriff Eugene Biscailuz, became too small. More than 7,000 recruits went through the facility before it closed.
Recruits at the facility learned survival tactics, the penal code, firearms training, physical training and department procedures.
Interim Sheriff John Scott sees a newly reopened Los Angeles County Sheriff’s training academy, the renovated Biscailuz Center, a 36,000 square-foot training academy off Eastern Avenue, as a return to the embroiled agency’s roots.The training will have many of the same standards and traditions that recruits experienced during the nearly 30 years Biscailuz was open.
The training center’s renovations began in 2011 under Sheriff Lee Baca. The county spent $22 million expanding the parking lot, refurbishing six buildings, and building a new parade deck and stage.
Sheriff candidate Jim McDonnell, who won last week’s primary by a landslide, described Biscailuz as hollowed ground for sheriff’s deputies. The training academy sets the standards for the organization and creates pride and a sense of purpose among its graduates. The way deputies are taught affects the department’s ability to restore public trust, he said.
“There is a need to instill discipline here,” Scott said Wednesday. “I think there’s been a lack of overall discipline.”
“Attending the academy is the fundamental step in every single person’s career who dons the badge and gun,” Scott said. “It is the place where the core values of this great organization are instilled into a recruit.”
Reforms are needed to restore not only the public’s opinion, but the opinions of the department’s employees. Favoritism and promotions given for reasons other than merit have damaged morale, McDonnell said.
My wife and I witnessed the graduation and swearing in of 46 new Sheriff Deputies. Eleven of them are family members of other Deputies. Two are ex military. A large number are Hispanic or White, a small number Black or Asian.
The Keynote speaker, Chief of Police of Santa M— began by comparing the class to newly hatched sea turtles. He said, some lose way in the sand and die. Another few fall to predators and die. The bare curved wall behind me will have names of fallen deputies, he said. Not to paint a sombre picture, he added, the majority make it out to sea and complete their career.
He asked where does the Department get its authority? That’s right, we derive our authority from the people. The courts use the Declaration of independence to interpret the Constitution. It says something we are all familiar with; We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. But there is a second part that isn’t so well known— That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed…
The people may institute government to secure their safety and property. Don’t forget it is your job to protect and serve the people. This is a duty you have dedicated your life to performing. While people run away from danger, you have to run towards it.
Concerning the talk of the Militarization of law enforcement, I say it is not technology or equipment that is more important but it is brains: thinking and problem solving. You will use these skills in the service of the people.
Now it has been said that most men lead lives of quiet desperation, but you have chosen a field that gives you so much, you have employment, security and purpose. That badge you wear looks so pretty and shiny. Use it to do good, to serve, not to govern. Don’t do anything to tarnish the badge, to bring dishonor to the Sheriff Dept.
WWIII?
I’ve already written the book.
NASA? WTF?
They left out;
— the Secret Service
— the Bureau of Prisons
— Department of Agriculture
— the Tennessee Valley Authority
— the Railroad Retirement Board
— the Office of Personnel Management
— the Consumer Product Safety Commission
— Chatham Copfuks
and probably others
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/376053/united-states-swat-john-fund
Really, I suppose when cost controls are non-extant, WGAF? What a joke!
The funny thing is, not over-looking the fact over half the people you meet are below average intelligence, who are they hiring? Vets who would dare fire on the their own citizens?That’s target practice.
Yeah, it might come down to us or them. Out-manned and out-gunned, they’re still kids, and they haven’t fought a army of men capable of defending themselves.
I like the citizen’s chances over the oligarchy every time I add it up. Who needs their fiat, and that’s all they have.
Hmm, if WW3 is going to fought with sticks and stones, I’m going to go sharpen some sticks and practice throwing stones. I don’t live in a glass house, but by the law of the grace of God.
Hmm, no one wants to stand up to the lion of judah. Anybody? Well, then, I’ll guess call it a night and see you comrades in the AM.
Don’t forget almost every police force in the nation has a swat team or ten and that many now appear to have their very own Armored Assault Units as well. All this and they still can’t protect you from the utes that infest the urban neighborhoods all over the nation.
When the SHTF folks in the big cities especially will be beaten and brutalized by the utes and then assaulted, swatted, and corralled by the multitudes of law enforcers. It’s when the utes and the enforcers move out into the vast countryside they will meet there own special type of Russian Winter that will last year round until everyone is dead.
We are all doomed. And all because we will never get it together enough to just to kill the bankers cutting off the head of this big nasty snake.
“The funny thing is, not over-looking the fact over half the people you meet are below average intelligence, who are they hiring?”
Just because “statistics says” that on average a penny will turn up heads or tails 50% of the time, does not mean every other flip will be heads.
Just because Nonanon and I chance to meet, does not automatically make me a genius or him a dufus.
George Carlin was a comedian, not a fucking prophet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=VC787WbVuBg&list=RDVC787WbVuBg
Last week, it was my privilege to attend the first graduation ceremony at the BC academy in 30 years.
The LA Times – The training center reopened Wednesday nearly 30 years after its last class graduated. The department moved its academy to the Stars Center in Whittier in 1984 after the hilltop Biscailuz Center, named for 27th L.A. County Sheriff Eugene Biscailuz, became too small. More than 7,000 recruits went through the facility before it closed.
Recruits at the facility learned survival tactics, the penal code, firearms training, physical training and department procedures.
Interim Sheriff John Scott sees a newly reopened Los Angeles County Sheriff’s training academy, the renovated Biscailuz Center, a 36,000 square-foot training academy off Eastern Avenue, as a return to the embroiled agency’s roots.The training will have many of the same standards and traditions that recruits experienced during the nearly 30 years Biscailuz was open.
The training center’s renovations began in 2011 under Sheriff Lee Baca. The county spent $22 million expanding the parking lot, refurbishing six buildings, and building a new parade deck and stage.
Sheriff candidate Jim McDonnell, who won last week’s primary by a landslide, described Biscailuz as hollowed ground for sheriff’s deputies. The training academy sets the standards for the organization and creates pride and a sense of purpose among its graduates. The way deputies are taught affects the department’s ability to restore public trust, he said.
“There is a need to instill discipline here,” Scott said Wednesday. “I think there’s been a lack of overall discipline.”
“Attending the academy is the fundamental step in every single person’s career who dons the badge and gun,” Scott said. “It is the place where the core values of this great organization are instilled into a recruit.”
Reforms are needed to restore not only the public’s opinion, but the opinions of the department’s employees. Favoritism and promotions given for reasons other than merit have damaged morale, McDonnell said.
My wife and I witnessed the graduation and swearing in of 46 new Sheriff Deputies. Eleven of them are family members of other Deputies. Two are ex military. A large number are Hispanic or White, a small number Black or Asian.
The Keynote speaker, Chief of Police of Santa M— began by comparing the class to newly hatched sea turtles. He said, some lose way in the sand and die. Another few fall to predators and die. The bare curved wall behind me will have names of fallen deputies, he said. Not to paint a sombre picture, he added, the majority make it out to sea and complete their career.
He asked where does the Department get its authority? That’s right, we derive our authority from the people. The courts use the Declaration of independence to interpret the Constitution. It says something we are all familiar with; We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. But there is a second part that isn’t so well known— That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed…
The people may institute government to secure their safety and property. Don’t forget it is your job to protect and serve the people. This is a duty you have dedicated your life to performing. While people run away from danger, you have to run towards it.
Concerning the talk of the Militarization of law enforcement, I say it is not technology or equipment that is more important but it is brains: thinking and problem solving. You will use these skills in the service of the people.
Now it has been said that most men lead lives of quiet desperation, but you have chosen a field that gives you so much, you have employment, security and purpose. That badge you wear looks so pretty and shiny. Use it to do good, to serve, not to govern. Don’t do anything to tarnish the badge, to bring dishonor to the Sheriff Dept.