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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
As a reader of your thread, I have been all but completely unsatisfied with what you have written thusfar. There are clear lapses of logic and subject matter that you have yet to address. I suggest you do so before you run this thread into the ground. There are already threads here that discuss gun rights. I was interested in this new thread of yours because it sounded like you might be willing to discuss the wider issues.
I will reiterate: This is not about guns and gun rights alone. This is about law, authority, and power. dksuddeth, what are your thoughts on these within the context of this thread? Do you think corruption is widespread? If so, what do you propose we do about it? Clearly there is more to be done than being sure you're packing heat.
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I never intended this to be about gun rights. My intention in the original post was to hopefully show people that their law enforcment and judicial branches of their governments are not being held accountable for either their serious lapses in judgement, nor are they being held accountable for illegalities in their positions of authority.......except for the most egregious incidents which happened to garner enough public scrutiny as to warrant punitive actions in an effort to save political face.
Take, for example, the comparison of two cases that i've posted on.
1) The 'accidental death' of Dr. Sal Culosi. An eye doctor who happened to be running a sports betting ring of amateurish proportions. A police officer happened to shoot Dr. Culosi in the chest while the SWAT team served a warrant....about gambling, of which the undercover officer who had infiltrated this gambling operation KNEW and INFORMED his superiors that Culosi was non-violent and had no weapons in his possession.
the final outcome of the 'internal investigation'? The offending officer was 'tired' and would not be held responsible for his actions.
2) An 82 year old Georgia woman was killed after a brief shootout with 3 Atlanta PD officers, serving a no-knock warrant on the ladies home, of which they TORE down the doors and the lady fired back thinking her house was being broken in to.
The result? The officers pleaded guilty to some lesser charges and given somewhat light sentences when they SHOULD have been charged with murder because they LIED to the judge in order to get the warrant, then falsified evidence in an attempt to justify their violent assault on this womans home and intimidated an informant to make false statements to cover up the lies they told the judge to get the warrant.
Compare this with the numerous other incidents i've posted about and been heavily reprimanded by most of the posters on this board about how I should give LEOs a break because they deal with the worst of society and the judges and politicians who usually clear said officers of all wrongdoing unless it's politically detrimental and I find myself actually supremely happy that none of you are my neighbors, friends, or family because I don't think I could depend upon a single one of you if I ever found myself on the prosecutorial end of a government that only serves its self interests instead of the interests they were originally intended for.
People 'pooh pooh' the notion that we are headed for a police state when I make the claim, followed up by the facts of the actual incident, and I find myself almost ashamed in thinking that YOU people actually just need to personally experience the issue first hand. I almost hate you for that.