I keep thinking of running for office when I retire in a couple of years but I need more money. If and when I run for office, I will hire private dicks to build files on all the other elected folks and on me. That way I’ll have what I need to get things done.

The cop in NC is a gutless murderer. God WILL deal with him.

Just the other day, I had to sit my younger niece down and explain to her that the police are NOT always her friends, and that it’s always best to try to work out problems that don’t involve violence or sex crimes with anyone other than the police, since they tend to make any situation much worse. That’s what strong families are for, and no more prescient a time for this lesson than before she enters the Hitler Youth…I mean DARE…

The police don’t care who you are, as long as you’re not one of them. It takes a thoroughly sick individual to murder a damned Labrador Retriever, widely known as the friendliest dog on the face of the earth. I’d hate to be a police officer when America finally wakes up, if it ever does.

Another thing, my good friend growing up, the one who used to do massive amounts of coke and rob people to get money, is now a on the sheriff’s SWAT team. The last time I talked to him, he told me about all the n****rs he had to deal with. God, I wish I would have had a tape recorder. I really, truly felt sorry for him. Yeahhh… THOSE are the kind of folks who police us. We’re in deep dog-doo! What would Andy Griffith think of all this? Thanks to Radley for keeping us up to date on these increasingly common transgressions.

Appeals based on raw emotion are powerful weapons.
Appeals based upon demonizing “others” are powerful weapons. Appeals based upon “won’t someone think of the children” are powerful weapons.

Appeals based upon the fear of “others” and what they might do to the children are the equivalent of an Anti-matter Bomb the size of New York.

Politicians keep running ads that do the trifecta because this country has yet to prove them wrong. Given a choice between the Constitution and “protecting US” the American voter has shown they’ll take protecting us everytime even though the protecting us thing usually makes us less safe.

Then you’re in the same position that these people in SWAT invasions are in. You have a cop brandishing a deadly weapon on your property. If you shoot him, you go up the river (see Ryan Frederick or Corey Maye). But if he sees you with a gun, and shoots you, nothing at all will happen to him. “He was advancing on me with a loaded shotgun. I was afraid for my life, so I shot him.”

And your right, no politician seems to have the guts to stand up and say “these police are WRONG. We need to stop this escalation of violence, and stop these instances of innocent citizens being injured or killed on their own property by the police. Immediately!” Mayor Calvo seems to have gotten that message, but it took the cops shooting *his* dogs and terrorizing him and his mother-in-law for hours.

Why can’t some of these other “lawmakers” step up, read these stories, and stop this idiocy?

You’re right. Instability was probably not the right word. Lacking in impulse control is probably more what I meant.

Intellectually, I don’t think it’s right to take a human life for killing a dog. But when people are angry or upset, they can lose some measure of self-control.

Imagine this scenario:

Your dog, doing her job, barks when someone enters your backyard. You grab the pump shotty you use for home protection and burst out the back door. At that moment you see an officer pump his shotgun and aim at your beloved dog. Would you let him murder your dog?

Could you resist pumping your own? Raising it? Firing on another human being?

These dog-killing policies seem to create situations where people might end up shooting and even killing each other. In fact, I believe it will happen someday. And that’s what sucks most about the puppycide policies: no one (other than Radley, Cato and the victims) really seems to talk much about it. And no politician is likely to have the courage to do anything about it. So it will continue until one of the victims is not a canine.

The lid is off of the proverbial ‘cookie jar’ with the state’s hand right smack dab in the bottom. Time to fess up boys and DO THE RIGHT THING and that is to RE-OPEN and RE-TRY every case HAYNE performed…nothing less is acceptable.

Why keep putting off the INEVITABLE?

The mental illness is the cause. People in general should realize that although we throw around the word “depressed” or “depression” a lot in colloquial settings to describe, say, our favorite sports team losing a big game, mental illnes is when the chemicals inside your brain are not clicking or firing properly, and “depression” (often as part of bi-polar disorder) is one type of mental illness.

A person in good mental health might be messy, and a person suffering from clinical depression might feel even more depressed knowing their home is a mess, but severe squalor is almost always caused by severe mental illness.

This is my learning thread.

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More on the dog thing. Sure, some may consider dogs or cats to be members of the family, but more importantly, they are property.

Truth be told, property rights far exceed and trump any civil rights you believe you may possess. You come on my property you do not have the freedom of speech, nor the right to carry a gun, nor the right to be free of me searching your person, property or papers. My property, my rules.

On the flipside, if my dog gets loose and wanders into your yard you have every right to shoot, shovel and shut up or just throw his carcass in front of my driveway. I don’t have a complaint as my property trespassed on yours. Whole different story if you come on to my property and destroy my dog.

As far as the cop goes, the dog appears to not have been posing a threat but the complainant didn’t request how she wanted the situation handled. Perhaps she’ll keep her yap shut next time and deal directly with her neighbors. Lesson learned? Unlikely as the sheep keep turning to the wolves for protection and service.

These kinds of behaviors are why people are so against and so afraid of cops today.

You cannot trust any cops today. They will “get” anyone they please. These are not honorable people.

Cops are NOT there to help people. Cops are NOT your friend.

The only person you can rely on is yourself.

I’m guessing the cop has no idea what a dog’s submissive grin is.

Dogs can also become aggressive due to fear. Two men approaching a dog with the intent of killing it would likely induce fear. Humans are taller, so they appear very large to a dog. Staring at a dog is an aggressive form of behavior that most dogs will respond negatively to. All in all, a very poor and incompetent job by the cops. Nothing new really.

I have to imagine puppycide may trigger revenge someday. I’m not advocating it, I just think that those who set these policies should think of the unintended consequences.

I completely agree. I have two dogs, a pit bull and a rottweiler. I imagine if police entered my backyard without permission they’d shoot the rottweiler for defending its territory (which it is supposed to do by the way) then shoot the pit bull just because. The first action I can sort of see some justification (although the stupid fuck shouldn’t be in my backyard to begin with), but the second…the second ever happens and that cop had better spend the rest of his life looking over his shoulder, because the day he doesn’t I will be there. The reason is that my pit bull is completely and totally not human aggressive at all. She is animal aggressive (except for my rottweiler), but people she would never hurt a human. This is the case with most pit bulls. The ones you read about in the newspapers are often mistreated or mongrels mixed with other breeds to increase their size, size of the head, or just to make them mean and vicious to both animals and humans. The last thing one wants with a fighting dog is human aggression since handlers and the referee would be in danger around such a dog. And the American Pit Bull Terrier is one of the strongest dogs of its size in the world.

I have seen a few places like that apartment. Mental illness, usually severe depression, is the culprit. I have a family member who suffers and that person’s place always tends to end up like that.

I think you have a point, but which is the cause and which is the effect?

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I worked a veterinary conference this weekend and learned some interesting things. Did you know that workers in veterinary medicine tend to make less money than workers in human medicine? Why do you suppose?

Human society barely values human life. Mr. Balko’s blog is chock full of “man’s inhumanity to man” stories. In fact, Radley has an infinite supply of these stories — he will NEVER run out.

Unless and until humans start valuing each other’s lives, and I’m not holding my breath, the lives of animals will run an incomprehensibly distant second.

Sorry doggies, your owners have no idea what to do to protect you. Maybe they’ll start giving it SERIOUS thought.