Comments on: Saturday Morning Links: Millennials, Drugs, and Defecation

By: croaker

croaker — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 22:52:22 +0000

@20 According to the interview he gave, he suspects that the fake SEAL he kicked out of his survivalist group in MS was a Gestapo informant, and the appearance on the no-fly list was retaliatory.

Caveat lector.

http://www.infowars.com/prepper-put-on-no-fly-list-speaks-out/

By: marie

marie — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 15:11:36 +0000

I think it is planned in advance. Assuming narcs and SWAT are doing any intel gathering in advance–and they apparently aren’t in some cases–they should be taking extra precautions if dogs are present, since dogs will predictably get excited if you invade their territory. But it appears the plan going in IS to eliminate the dogs.

Do you think? Of COURSE it is planned in advance. The same way they plan to execute search warrants when children are at home. Creating chaos gives them ALL the advantages. Shooting the dog, aiming at the children…who can think clearly in that situation? Well, law enforcement, naturally, since they own the chaos.

By: marco73

marco73 — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 13:14:32 +0000

re:Detroit
Have to agree with #9 Helmut.
The cops in drug raids WANT to shoot off their guns, to cause maximum intimidation and confusion. Shooting off their guns into the air, or without a clear target, would invite unwanted scrutiny.
But having “aggressive” dogs available, why that’s just too convenient. Shooting the dogs is a strategy to soften up their human targets to talk.
I’m sure it’s in the SWAT playbook, right after that chapter on how to throw flash grenades into a child’s bedroom for maximum damage.

By: John222

John222 — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 00:30:04 +0000

Wait a minute, a British cop brought down a huge marijuana grow operation by himself, by knocking on the front door? No swat team? No tanks or flash bang grenades? Must be a typo.

By: JLS

JLS — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 21:44:35 +0000

#15 croaker, Wade Hicks Jr.???? That name doesn’t sound Arabic. What in the world could have gotten him on the no fly list?

By: Graham Shevlin

Graham Shevlin — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 14:52:42 +0000

When lived in the UK, the Daily Mail was regarded by most of the people I socialized with as suitable only for lining the bottoms of bird cages and cat litter trays. It is a typical populist authoritarian rabble-rousing publication.

By: divadab

divadab — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 14:09:32 +0000

@ #6 Hugh Aikston – The Daily Mail is a right-wing tabloid aimed at lower-middle class working people. It’s therefore pro-prohibition, anti-immigration, pro-police state, etc.

No surprise that it is in favor of throwing these very nice people, harming no one and operating a nice independent business providing people with something they gladly pay for, in jail. No surprise also that the comments are overwhelmingly in favor of these people and against the government, at least until the Mail shut down comments. They are not in the business of free expression and freedom, but rather in the business of advancing an authoritarian agenda.

By: Linda

Linda — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 02:11:55 +0000

I was in no way prepared for the “Headline of the Day”. I nearly choked on my morning coffee.
Triple Puppycide/……I am not even sure what to say or how to even word it.

By: PeeDub

PeeDub — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 01:02:37 +0000

Obviously that guy had shake in his booty.

By: croaker

croaker — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 22:28:50 +0000

Stranded in Hawaii by the US Gestapo.

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/334957

By: C.E.

C.E. — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 21:37:35 +0000

C.S.P.:

Sadly, I have seen Border Patrol officers testifying about their dogs’ 100% success rate. “If the dog alerted, there were drugs there. And we know there were drugs there because the dog alerted. Therefore, there’s no such thing as a false alert.” The judge’s response: “seems legit.”

By: C. S. P. Schofield

C. S. P. Schofield — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 20:31:42 +0000

C.E.

I guess it’s too much to hope that the Judge will respond by telling the handler to blow it out his ass…….

By: C.E.

C.E. — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 19:10:08 +0000

The drug dog handler will testify, under oath, that the dog did not give a false alert–obviously the guy had drugs stuff in his “anal cavity” at some previous time, so the dog was alerting to drugs that used to be there. His dog still has a 100% success rate!

By: AlgerHiss

AlgerHiss — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 18:58:57 +0000

CATO’s National Police Misconduct Reporting Project would seem the perfect place to assemble all of these puppycide cases.

http://www.policemisconduct.net/

By: Helmut O' Hooligan

Helmut O' Hooligan — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 18:23:53 +0000

Oops. #7 should say hysterical drug war propaganda, not hysterical anti-war propaganda.

By: Helmut O' Hooligan

Helmut O' Hooligan — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 18:20:36 +0000

RE: Detroit …
If this account is accurate, it lends more support to my theory that picking off dogs at raids is a deliberate strategy intended to terrorize the humans into submission. Otherwise, why would cops be shooting dogs that are running FROM them? I don’t think it’s just a matter of a few cops getting jumpy or not understanding canine behavior. I think it is planned in advance. Assuming narcs and SWAT are doing any intel gathering in advance–and they apparently aren’t in some cases–they should be taking extra precautions if dogs are present, since dogs will predictably get excited if you invade their territory. But it appears the plan going in IS to eliminate the dogs.

Really Radley, you should compile these stories and put them into a study like “Overkill.” I think if people were to see documentation of how common this is, it could make a big difference.

By: Helmut O' Hooligan

Helmut O' Hooligan — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 18:01:46 +0000

Since Chris Christie likes to speculate about people’s motives so much, let’s try this one:
Chris Christie- Cold, calculating murderer

By: Helmut O' Hooligan

Helmut O' Hooligan — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 17:55:18 +0000

RE: Michael Phelps

Ha Ha Ha! Bet the Office of National Drug Policy won’t touch that one with a ten foot pole. Kind of hard to turn that one into hysterical anti–war propaganda.

By: Hugh Akston

Hugh Akston — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 17:38:15 +0000

The tone of that Kenya piece is incredible. Everyone jumps at the chance to say what terrible things Foster and Cooper did, even if they were helping literally save lives in Kenya. It’s odd that the Daily Mail couldn’t find one person, not even their defense attorney, to say “they were just selling pot, I don’t see the big deal.”

Is that the state of the drug debate in the UK, or is the Daily Mail just wearing inexplicable blinders?

By: Fred Mangels

Fred Mangels — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 16:44:15 +0000

Looks like The Nation is a pay site now. I don’t go there near often enough to pay for it.