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
