Damn people, don’t be a cop. And if you’re related to law enforcement, you’d better watch out for yourself or trust your law enforcement family and friends (read: mafia) because there aren’t many other people who will care.

Happy to, CSP.

Fuck the police.

Have a nice day.

I concur with asg (#13) on this aspect of the story. It’s about time someone in law enforcement acknowledged that whole phenomenon.

Gary Johnson wins the LP nomination for president. This is a good thing for the LP. Best thing in years, in fact.

You mean another “the banks did not break the law tool” won the LP nomination.

There was also the Tung Choi St market in Monkok, the “ladies market” which is perpetual and occupies several blocks of alleyways. It’s famous for buyers being able to haggle with vendors. There are also several lingerie vendors there. Part of it actually burned down while I was there. I was also in Hong Kong during 1997 handover to China. Not much has really changed before or after. The flag changed and the queen disappeared from the currency but the capitalism is still there. You can get 1000MBit Internet and cable TV for $30/month. $10 for a Bolex from the guy on the street corner or walk into an authorized Rolex store around the corner and drop $30k on a Pave-diamond-studded Presidential. Not everything is dirt cheap. Genuine stuff costs genuine money and you don’t save anything from buying it in Hong Kong.

In fact, I would say the wealth in Hong Kong has grown with all the wealthy mainland Chinese businessmen flocking the city to spend their spoils. People from China would pull out big fat rolls equivalent to $100 bills to pay a $5 taxi fare. There weren’t that many Lamborghinis, Ferraris, Maseratis, and Rolls Royces last time I was back. You start seeing them the moment you drive through the airport parking garage.

Here are some photos. Trinkets and Mao gear at the Men’s Market at night: https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7012/6464139101_2a9f12dd36_o.jpg

Ladies buying ladies stuff at the Ladies Market: https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7017/6464005297_f1e605bfb0_o.jpg

You can still smoke while fondling merchandise in public, if you want! https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7027/6464053823_5b13c23281_o.jpg

http://www.infowars.com/exclusive-why-judge-andrew-napolitano-was-fired/

You won’t often hear me say this, but this needs to be forwarded far and wide while we still can.

Pace learned in 2006 that he had been crowned the world record-holder in the category of unwanted cranial ammunition acquisition

“The incident was reviewed by the Sheriff’s Office, which is protocol and no wrongdoing was found. But Normand said he became ‘overwhelmingly concerned’ after watching video of the incident because he believes Hoobler used the Taser three more times than was warranted… Normand said he did not hear any racial slurs on the video, but he saw Hoobler issuing unnecessary warnings to stop resisting before firing the weapon…
The sheriff said he believes Hoobler ordered those commands in an attempt to justify the tasing. Normand said he will conduct an internal investigation into why Hoobler’s actions were cleared of wrongdoing despite evidence there were problems.”

So why was the Sheriff reviewing the tape independently after the review was over? Why would he spend the time on that? And come to a completely opposite conclusion from the prior review? And make these unprecedented claims that (a) the “stop resisting” order was bogus, and (b) the officer was using improper force, and (c) was immediately fired, and (d) criminal charges are pending? Something doesn’t add up here.

My suspicion is that somehow the officer crossed the Sheriff in some other private disagreement, and this is a convenient excuse to kick him to the curb.

Hazard a guess: the “internal investigation” on why he was cleared of wrongdoing the first time will come up empty.

But I’m sticking to my (non)guns on the general case: if we want to see more of this behavior, we’d better figure out a way to make police executives feel like it’s in their self-interest to defend constitutional fidelity and restraint. Waiting for them to voluntarily sign up with Oath Keepers is not much of a plan.

Croaker #20 – So your idea is to “make their families suffer the consequences”, because hey…what could possibly be wrong with punishing some people for the actions of others? That’ll definitely move us closer to a world of freedom and sanity.

“One wonders what exactly the British and Chinese governments found so ‘intolerable’ about the continued existence of Kowloon. Somehow I suspect payments from real estate developers were involved. Though mere controlfreakery is also possible, I suppose.”

Really? Did you look at the pictures of the place? I have no trouble believing any modern thinking government would have found the existence of Kowloon to be nothing more than an absolute embarrassment.

Incompetent CVS pharmacist and Dallas gestapo drag crippled woman to jail for trying to refill a pain prescription.

Fuck you, drug warriors. May someone in your family get chronic, debilitating pain, and get an Advil and told to suck it up.

I suppose one could look at it that way, but as regular readers of this blog know a Sheriff who even gives THAT much of a damn is rare. That he’s talking about going to the FBI if local prosecutors won’t do their job inclines me to believe that he’s genuinely outraged; if he were a typical “of course they’re guilty, we arrested them” type, the last thing on earth he’d want would be doing is attracting the attention of the FBI.

Normand said he did not hear any racial slurs on the video, but he saw Hoobler issuing unnecessary warnings to stop resisting before firing the weapon.

The sheriff said he believes Hoobler ordered those commands in an attempt to justify the tasing.

My jaw hit the floor. A LEO in a supervisory role describing warnings to stop resisting as “unnecessary” because the subject was not actually resisting, and going on to say straight up that the warnings were pretextual? Is hell freezing over?