Goodies from Ol' Remus

Ol' Remus 

1930. New York City, Leonard Street., unemployed

Boston Bombing and the Keystone Kops

"There should have been protocols in place that night and the analogy is a fire. Firefighters and firetrucks are not going to just show up and start spraying each other," says criminologist Geoff Alpert. That's what happened in the Boston Bombing, cops shot anything that moved, including each other, say Schone, Blankstein and Winter in this investigative report, Too Many Guns: How Shootout With Bombing Suspects Spiraled into Chaos, at NBC News. Some excerpts:

The suspects ended up at the center of a ring of cops on Laurel Street between Dexter and School streets during the 20-minute firefight, and the bullets that were fired at them often hit near the officers on the other side... on Laurel Street, rounds flew into parked cars and police vehicles and chewed up fences and trees... More than a dozen officers suffered minor injuries during the mayhem, but none was believed to have been wounded by the suspects... After a mistaken police radio report that Tsarnaev had stolen a state police SUV, however, multiple rounds were fired at a state police vehicle that was leaving the scene.

 The liberty movement does not care what the Federal government deems “legal” or “illegal.” Our only interest is what is Constitutional and what is moral. The dispute was never about the “legality” of Bundy’s use of the land ... Statists and bureaucrats like Reid continually attempt to argue this issue from the standpoint of Federal legality, obviously because the Federal government has the legislative and bureaucratic power to make any despicable action legal if it wishes. However, the liberty movement has no interest whatsoever in Federal interpretations of legal precedence. We are only concerned with what is right.
Brandon Smith at alt-market.com 

 The BLM has sort of backed down, but in all this you have to ask a few questions: Why does the BLM have guys with rifles and mechanized infantry? The whole militarization of the federal government is disturbing. These guys don't swear allegiance to the US Constitution, they don't come from a culture of patriotism like most military volunteers do. They aren't barred by US law from being active on American soil. Its like an end run around the military by the executive department, who apparently wants its own private army it can use against Americans.
Christopher Taylor at wordaroundthe.net 

Income tax - When the Sixteenth Amendment was being debated on the floor of the Senate, one of its opponents rose to ask the body what it could say to reassure the American public that this tax would not rise to seize some unconscionable fraction of their earnings—perhaps as much as ten percent! A pro-income-tax senator rose and replied that the country need never fear such a development: "The people would never allow it!"

GM is terminal - And now, the fallout. GM is not going to survive it. Because the company has become a joke. The Government Motors thing stuck in a lot of people’s craws – rightly so. But at least the cars were getting pretty good again, right? ... It is not a stretch to state that probably millions of people now believe that GM is capable of almost any form of skullduggery. Such people will never buy a GM car – no matter how rave the reviews... when people associate you – or your brand – with serial and deliberate assholeness, it’s a bridge burned that can’t be rebuilt... GM itself is terminal. There’s no coming back from this one.
Eric Peters at ericpetersautos.com 

Ukraine and CIA - The CIA director was sent to Kiev to launch a military suppression of the Russian separatists in the eastern and southern portions of Ukraine, former Russian territories for the most part that were foolishly attached to the Ukraine in the early years of Soviet rule... In my opinion, Washington does not want the Ukraine matters settled in a diplomatic and reasonable way.
Paul Roberts at paulcraigroberts.org