Tag: Heroes

Hose Heroes?

Guest Post by Eric Peters

Law enforcers aren’t “heroes”  . . .  but what about firemen?

Are they Hose Heroes?

People are pressured to regard them as such. Much as they are pressured to genuflect, North Korean funeral-style, before the Presence of a law enforcer.

You are probably forced to pay for fire “services” in your community. Just as you are forced to “help” pay for law enforcement – even if you yourself feel no need for either service and would rather opt-out, if that choice were available to you.

But of course, you have no such choice.

And because you are forced to pay, there is no check on what is spent. The formerly small-scale local all-volunteer FD becomes professional – with salaried full-time firefighters who have contracts guaranteeing them large salaries and, of course, benefits.

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The “Hero” Problem

Guest Post by Eric Peters

When the state and its media bullhorns refer to armed government workers – law enforcers – as “heroes,” it’s a sign the hour is getting late.

When most people don’t draw back and spit coffee all over the keyboard at the idea, it’s minutes to midnight.

How did it become “heroic” to enforce laws?

And if it is “heroic” to enforce laws then – ipso facto –  the East German Stasi, the Soviet GRU and NKVD were “heroic” also.

Right?

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Laws Don’t Apply to Heroes

Guest Post by Eric Peters

Here’s a video documenting another case of law enforcers not enforcing the law… on law enforcers.

A man who had been issued a ticket – that is, ordered to hand over a sum of money as punishment for violating the law requiring both a front and a rear license plate – went to the local police department parking lot, where he video’d several vehicles without front license plates (and one – a Chevy Tahoe – with no license plates at all) but no tickets being handed out.

A law enforcer was present, so the man approached him to ask why he wasn’t doing anything to enforce the law which was enforced without mercy on him. As they talk, the SUV with no plates at all starts up and leaves. The law enforcer takes no action to enforce the law prohibiting the operation of a vehicle on public roads without tags. He expresses no “concern” about this “suspicious” vehicle.

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How to Handle a Hero

Guest Post by Eric Peters

In the video below, a guy is stopped for a “license check” – that is, a random and probable cause-free interrogation and inspection – which by definition is unreasonable and so ought to be unlawful but isn’t any more because of a despicable Supreme Court ruling that effectively rescinded the Fourth Amendment’s protections.

The armed government worker conducting the random interrogation and search then proceeds to violate laws still in force. The man stopped asks whether he is being detained, whether he is under arrest. The armed government worked answers no to each but when the man asks whether his is free to go, the armed government worker says no  – which is an abuse of his authority under the law:

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Recycled Heroes

Guest Post by Eric Peters

You may recall the Catholic Church’s troubles with pedophile priests. The trouble wasn’t just that some priests had an interest in little kids. It was that the Church was interested in covering it up. One way this was done, it turned out, was to send a kid-touching priest to a new parish. One where the parishioners didn’t know about his interests – or his background.kezeske

The same rat line is in place for armed government workers (aka, cops) who abuse citizens – and the law – in the “line of duty.”

They might get fired but are often re-hired.

Just someplace else.

For example, Kurt Kezeske.

He was a Milwaukee, Wisconsin Hero Cop. Until he got caught on video blatantly lying about the events leading up to a high-speed chase that resulted in a horrible accident that almost caused the deaths of several people.

He is now a cop in the small village of Eagle, WI – about 45 minutes away.

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124 Police Officers Were Killed In The U.S. Last Year

Some more facts that don’t match the hero narrative. Police deaths while on duty are on pace to be at a record low in 2016, down 60% from the peak in 1974. Gun related homicides are also trending towards the lowest levels since 1900. In 1991 there were 24,700 homicides in the U.S. Last year there were just over 16,000 homicides, down 35% while the population grew by 26%. The number of guns owned by American citizens has tripled since 1991.

Does this match the anti-gun narrative of the left and the popos? Does the government want to confiscate our guns because of crime or because they are worried we will use them against a tyrannical establishment? The militarization of police forces isn’t to protect us. It’s to protect them from us.

Infographic: 124 Police Officers Were Killed In The U.S. Last Year | Statista
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Last Thursday night, a gunman in Dallas killed five police officers and wounded eight others, the worst toll on U.S. law enforcement since 9/11. It’s a dangerous job – 124 officers lost their lives last year with 51 dying so far in 2016. Generally, the number of police fatalities has fallen considerably since it peaked at 280 in 1974.


Update on the Boston Marathon Bomb Case

Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts

Movies are used to set official stories in stone, and a movie is going to be made about the heroic capture of a badly wounded 19 year old kid, not old enough to buy a beer, who, despite being shot up and severely wounded, is alleged to have written a confession in the dark on the side of a boat under which he was hiding to escape execution. Apparently, the 10,000 troops who violated the US Constitution and searched the houses of a shutdown Boston without warrants are going to be credited for “saving America from terrorism.”  http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/regionals/south/2016/03/08/crews-preparing-southfield-for-shooting-marathon-bombing-film/iol7OIhjAJR8lvhI74AhqO/story.html?s_campaign=8315  

I find it difficult to believe that a shot-up kid, who had to be put into intensive care when he was discovered, who was hiding from execution under an upturned boat, spent what little energy and life force he had left writing a confession in the dark on the inside of a boat.  What convenient instrument to write with did he happen to have on hand?

Why would we believe assurances of such an unlikely confession from the same lying government that assured the world that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction justifying a multi-trillion dollar invasion that destroyed a county? We know for a fact that Saddam Hussein most certainly did not have weapons of mass destruction as President Bush later admitted, and even if he had, such possession is no justification for illegal US aggression that destroyed a country. Why would we believe  a government that assured the world that Assad used chemical weapons against his own people, which we know for a fact was Washington’s made up excuse for invasion?

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DOING GOOD DEEDS

This is an email I received from a TBP reader. It is actually a feel good story of the day. Doing good deeds, without the government or a religious institution involved. How is that possible? Sounds very deistic to me.

 

As a long time reader of your site I thought you might appreciate a story of people who have turned their lives around given the opportunity through the vision of a caring person. As opposed to only being recipients of our hand out government.
This is a reply that I received from a friend who is a self employed business owner.

I am proud and glad to be a fan and supporter of Brandon, Jordan and Edwin’s.

I wish I had the capacity to do more.

It means nothing to consider yourself a conservative, as I do, if you fail to actively encourage and support those who strive to raise themselves up to become a part of productive society. It is so easy to demean, to belittle and demonize.

It is very hard to reach beyond class and socioeconomic differences to promote a fair and inclusive society. Harder because it’s a one step at a time process, as opposed to the ease of condemning with a broad brush.

I think the term “hero” fits these guys perfectly.

If you google ” CNN heroes” today, you get this article. I know we are not usually fans of CNN but sometimes the do get a story right.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/17/us/cnnheroes-brandon-chrostowski-edwins-cleveland/index.html

If any one cares and wants to help out, you can see their site here ( and maybe a tax deductible contribution).
http://edwinsrestaurant.org/?gclid=CjwKEAjwq6m3BRCP7IfMq6Oo9gESJACRc0bNbcMbtwpGh-BB6v5oagrc9KZI3DfGo7ErlLYGh3iifhoCYQjw_wcB


A Hero Story….

Guest Post by Eric Peters

I know a guy, a local guy, who has an older (1980s vintage) car that he bought with tinted windows. This guy is pretty poor and makes his living driving a truck. He is in his mid-50s and just trying to get by.%22Heroes%22

I ran into him the other day and he had a story for me.

A local Hero issued him a $100 ticket that he can’t afford for the heinous god-awful crime of having tinted windows. He was at the local gas n’ go, filling up, when the Hero spied the crime and immediately took the necessary action. No friendly (if such a word can be used when describing thinly veiled threats issued by a guy with a gun and legal authority to use it to enforce his edicts) warning to de-tint the car. The Hero just handed this poor local guy who can’t afford it a $100 ticket, just because he can. As a well-paid tax-feeder, $100 is no big stuff – especially when your job is to keep those taxes (which is what we’re dealing with here) in-flowing

The Hero’s car, meanwhile, has heavily tinted windows.

It is also paid for by the same taxpayers, like my friend, who get fleeced to fund their own fleecing.

And they (the Heroes) wonder why they’re hated.

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Stucky Question of the Day: Heroes

Continuing along Buchanan’s article today; WHO IS YOUR HERO? Alternatively, is your hero today the same as it was 20 years ago? Or, perhaps you have no heroes, cuz that’s all bullshit?

I learned much English via comic books. Really. So, it’s no surprise that as I child I loved Superman. He also came from a foreign place, and was handsome and strong. Lol

During my middle years as a Christian I greatly admired Brother Lawrence, a 1600’s era monk in France. He worked most of his life in a kitchen, and then later as a shoe cobbler. I practically memorized his small book, “The Practice of the Presence of God”. He believed that everything, no matter how mundane, could be a medium of God’s love. The task mattered less than motivation behind it. He wrote, — “Nor is it needful that we should have great things to do. . . We can do little things for God; I turn the cake that is frying on the pan for love of him, and that done, if there is nothing else to call me, I prostrate myself in worship before him, who has given me grace to work; afterwards I rise happier than a king. It is enough for me to pick up but a straw from the ground for the love of God.” I wanted to be just like that.

I don’t have any heroes at the present time. Although, Thor comes close. He defeated the Ice Giants, and now we have Globull Warming.

No need to read the below thoughts on heroes … just answer the damned question!

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QUOTES OF THE DAY

“Resist much, obey little.”
―     Walt Whitman,     Leaves of Grass    

“I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It’s so fuckin’ heroic.”
―     George Carlin

“Every society needs heroes. And every society has them. The reason we don’t often see them is because we don’t bother to look.

There are two kinds of heroes. Heroes who shine in the face of great adversity, who perform an amazing feat in a difficult situation. And heroes who live among us, who do their work unceremoniously, unnoticed by many of us, but who make a difference in the lives of others.

Heroes are selfless people who perform extraordinary acts. The mark of heroes is not necessarily the result of their action, but what they are willing to do for others and for their chosen cause. Even if they fail, their determination lives on for others to follow. The glory lies not in the achievement, but in the sacrifice.”
―     Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono

“That’s what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to believe that there still exists a right and wrong, that decency will somehow triumph in the end.”
―     Lise Hand

“A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.”
―     Nathaniel Hawthorne

“The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other mens lives.”
―     Pericles

“There are only three types of citizenship: hero, villain, nobody.”
―     Toba Beta

“Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.”
―     Walt Whitman,     Leaves of Grass