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America. Fuck Yeah.
Tuesday, April 15th, 2008Our gift to the world: paramilitary police teams. You go, America.
Time has a photo essay.
Sorta’ related: A question during my speech tonight at the University of the South reminded me this YouTube video. I’ve posted it before. It looks like some overdone, overly sensationalized take on SWAT teams from someone not fond of them. Then I plugged around a bit, and discovered that the guy who made the video was actually on the SWAT team.
Anyway, I just checked the guy’s My Space page again, and it now looks like he’s the police chief in the town. This was the guy who said his love of SWAT raids stemmed form his fondness of “buyin’ dope and kickin’ down doors.”
Yes. Let’s put that guy in charge. I can’t see what could possibly go wrong.
He’s the Police Chief–but he is also a Realtor (TM).
The comedic possibilities are endless.
Let’s not forget the paramilitary hardware in the recent polygamists’ compound raid:
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=4662000
I feel so much safer knowing that guys like that are coming to save my mother-fucking day. Yeah!
Not only is he a police chief and a Realtor TM, he’s also a high school graduate.
the youtube link has “comment approval” turned on. Somehow, I doubt my comments will appear anytime soon.
I think the next part of that guy’s quote was “if you don’t like it, you can lick my butt and suck on my balls.” (That’s a quote from the Team America song people)
Hey, anything that features Thunderstruck by ACDC can’t be all bad. How do I join my local SWAT team?
I remember when I was 14 (I’m 22 now), I was playing a video game called ‘Swat 3′. At the end of every mission you would get scored. If you could negotiate your way to a peaceful surrender, that was the highest score you could get. If you couldn’t do that, then the more people that died the worse score you would have. Bear in mind, the scenarios weren’t some guy growing some pot in his back yard. There was a bank robbery with a hostage situation, terrorists planting bombs at a work site, a break in to a house where the bad guys took hostages…. Hell, if you even shot too much tear gas into a confined space you’d lose points because it would hurt people. I guess that whole ‘preserving life’ mandate is gone.
Wow, Thunderstruck by ACDC is a great song. I’m an intellectual property attorney, and I occasionally delve into copyright law. I’ve had restaurant owners harrassed by the goons at BMI about legally playing music in their establishments. Wonder if the dumbass who made the video secured permission from the copyright holder. Wonder what would happen if someone went after the makers of this video the way they go after kids downloading music from the Internet. Why hasn’t YouTube pulled this for violation of copyright? Given the length of time this video has been around, it’s quite clear that those who enforce the law are above the law.
Copywrite? It probably advised it’s a public service announcement, or they’ll get their legs broke.
Why is that tubby guy on any police force? He couldn’t catch a 3rd grader running down the aisle at the supermarket.
Leshrac,
He doesn’t need to catch the third grader. He can just taser him. Duh.