I saw a white man with a gun. I heard a policeman saying, "Place the weapon down on the ground, ple

It's puzzling. According to something I posted earlier, there's a law that tells the police to keep track of exactly that, but somehow it's a "law" that is non-binding. The police departments are free to do it or not, and the overwhelming majority of them are not. Wtf.

In the past eight years, the Pentagon program has loaned local law enforcement some 200,000 ammunition magazines, 94,000 machine guns, and thousands of armored vehicles, rifles, aircraft, land mine detectors, silencers, and grenade launchers—all at the request of the local agencies themselves.

So apparently the U.S. tax payers and your bleeding heart liberal politicians don't seem to think there needs to be a national repository.

In the past eight years, the Pentagon program has loaned local law enforcement some 200,000 ammunition magazines, 94,000 machine guns, and thousands of armored vehicles, rifles, aircraft, land mine detectors, silencers, and grenade launchers—all at the request of the local agencies themselves. ......Who is this stuff supposed to used on?

Just trying to think who was running your country in 2001. Hmmm, no, don't tell me, it's on the tip of my tongue...

Oh and BTW when I used the phrase "bleeding heart liberal" I never specified one party or another.

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Oh and BTW when I used the phrase "bleeding heart liberal" I never specified one party or another.


Are you really that dumb?

I was asked today what the definition of a "bleeding heart liberal" is. I have heard this term referenced thousands of times in political commentary and conversation. The term can generally understood to mean someone with extreme empathy. It is often used by right-wing political pundits as a disparaging descriptor for a person with unrealistic liberal ideals. But I have never stopped to ponder the etymology of the term.

Do you know what "often used by right-wing political pundits means?"

A political left-winger who tends to be subjective in their political views.

That's hilarious. You know someone who's objective in their political views? You're dreaming. [/quote


Uh...I guess you didnt read the rest of the statement huh?

Political subjectiveness is ok to some degree, but some people tend to get carried away or be unrealistic. These types are somewhat of sore to American society.

These types are somewhat of sore to American society.

WHITE PAPER
Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids in America

By Radley Balko
July 17, 2006
Executive Summary

Americans have long maintained that a man’s home is his castle and that he has the right to defend it from unlawful intruders. Unfortunately, that right may be disappearing. Over the last 25 years, America has seen a disturbing militarization of its civilian law enforcement, along with a dramatic and unsettling rise in the use of paramilitary police units (most commonly called Special Weapons and Tactics, or SWAT) for routine police work. The most common use of SWAT teams today is to serve narcotics warrants, usually with forced, unannounced entry into the home.

These increasingly frequent raids, 40,000 per year by one estimate, are needlessly subjecting nonviolent drug offenders, bystanders, and wrongly targeted civilians to the terror of having their homes invaded while they’re sleeping, usually by teams of heavily armed paramilitary units dressed not as police officers but as soldiers. These raids bring unnecessary violence and provocation to nonviolent drug offenders, many of whom were guilty of only misdemeanors. The raids terrorize innocents when police mistakenly target the wrong residence. And they have resulted in dozens of needless deaths and injuries, not only of drug offenders, but also of police officers, children, bystanders, and innocent suspects.

This paper presents a history and overview of the issue of paramilitary drug raids, provides an extensive catalogue of abuses and mistaken raids, and offers recommendations for reform.

Botched Paramilitary Police Raids: An Interactive Map

Political subjectiveness is ok to some degree, but some people tend to get carried away or be unrealistic. These types are somewhat of sore to American society.