It’s Saturday night and I need a throwaway post so I can get back to what I was trying to do before I was rudely reminded that I am neglecting the blog.
So…. how about a throwaway post on our thrown away freedom? The latest incident involves what has become almost standard police practice: shooting dogs and menacing grandmothers:
JEFFERSON IA – Matthew Spaulding says he and his family were terrorized at their own home by police who slammed his grandmother to the ground and shot his dogs– missing his head by less than an inch. “Told us to get on the ground. I got on the ground they put me in handcuffs,” Spaulding recalls, “Then they threw my dad to the ground and my dog Sadie was right here sniffing my head. She was next to me. They shot her. The blood got on my face and then she took off running behind me and they shot her like three more times.”Tuesday morning, Greene County Sheriffs Deputies and Perry Police officers arrived at Spaulding’s Jefferson farmhouse to deliver a search warrant. The Spauldings say they were immediately ordered to the ground.. even Matthew Spauldings’ disabled father, Chris. “My son hit the ground I hit the ground but I didn’t make it too fast so (the officer) jumped on the middle of my back, shoved his knee in and held a gun to the back of my head and handcuffed me. After they shot my first dog my mom come out”
“They had taken me to the ground,” Chris Spauldings’ mother Susan Mace says, “So I was laying with my face in the ground. And I asked them why they shot the dog because the dogs weren’t close to them”
The Spauldings say after the first dog was killed, a second dog running away from the shots — and away from police— was also shot. “They weren’t barking. They weren’t attacking nobody.” Matthew Spaulding says, “They didn’t even give us a chance to put them in the kennel. We have a big kennel outside our house we could have put them in but they wouldn’t give us a chance.”
Naturally, the police found nothing they claimed they were looking for (drugs and a stolen X-box), they won’t turn over their paperwork. This is just the way they “investigate” these days.
Remember, this is the United States. I used to say that with shock. Now I say it with resignation, for this is what we have become. A place where police behave in ways we used to associate with other countries, but which I now must unfortunately associate with the United States. Not only would they shoot your dogs if given a chance, they want to.
I would say it’s un-American, but I would be wrong, wouldn’t I?
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I thought this was adopted as standard procedure for more than a decade. (at least for the BATF)
Step 1. Surreptitiously surround the residence* with superior force(*to be referred to as a “compound” if the property exceeds 1.5 acres).
Step 2. Execute coordinated armed entry of the compound or residence.
Step 3. Shoot the dog(s)
Step 4. Serve the warrant
I guess the kids who grew up watching anti-Nazi movies on TV have passed on. Or decided to remain silent. So as to avoid attracting attention.
Bastards all. I will see them in HELL. And I will be cracking the whip.
Unfortunately we the law abiding citizen have become the enemy, the police know the criminals and respect them because
they both use the same tactics, overpower and control by any means.
This is advertising progg style. Hear any bitchin’ from the progg left or right? I haven’t.
There’s only two ways to survive these days. Be like Buffett-big and pay them off, or stay so small you don’t count.
Dog bites man?
This has been escalating for 30 years now, when “dynamic entry” began to be adopted by LEO’s all over the country and the notion that a “man’s home is his castle” was thrown aside by our moral “betters”.
Simon covered this some time back elsewhere. Some three-plus decades back, the powers-that-be decided that getting hold of drug evidence was more important than the safety and well being of suspects, innocent bystanders, LEO’s and certainly dogs. Thus “dynamic entry” was born and spread all over the country.
This is terrorism and tyranny carried out by state actors, nothing more, nothing less.