2dogs
August 29, 2003, 11:52 AM
A bit over the top, but you get the point.
http://www.sierratimes.com/03/08/29/c_joyce.htm
It's ABird! No, It's A Plane...
By Cornet Joyce II
No, actually it is Clancy, your neighborhood policeman. He is no longer the smiling friendly cop, walking down the street, teasing the neighborhood kids. He is grim, and he is storming your home accompanied by the local SWAT/STORM team. He may even be accompanied by the latest in armored vehicles being purchased by several police forces. Quite often he wears a black suit, and black ski mask, or a helmet right out of Star Wars.
You see, Clancy, our new "Superman," doesn't really need the phone booth to get into his super-clothes. We older folks figured Superman was all washed up because there aren't the plethoras of phone booths all about Gotham City, or your city, where super folks can don their marvelous costumes. Suddenly we find ourselves in shock as we learn that our new superheroes don their bulletproof costumes at the police station. Then they come, quite possibly warrant-less, to storm our houses because we are too noisy a Constitutionalist for them to further bear? Perhaps our neighbor turned us in?
Let me rehearse a few salient points for your edification. If you have been watching the Iraq "war," you will notice that we were mowing down those Iraqi who stood their ground much like the armored knights of the Occident slaughtered their way through militarily naked foot-soldiers. Rarely has there been such a disparity between forces.
Check, if you will, and you will note that Walter Reed hospital is dealing primarily with orthopedic injuries. Now why would that be? It is simple:
"BULLETS BOUNCE OFF OUR SOLDIERS AND MARINES!"
"But," you sputter, "you were just talking about soldiers and Marines." Ah, but I must point out something terrible to you. Our police forces are now being trained a LOT like soldiers and Marines.
1) Our police forces are availing themselves of the same state of the art armor that was used to stifle the Iraqi military:
May I quote:
"Acknowledged worldwide #1 brand of technologically advanced body armor systems and unprecedented design development for the U.S. Military, AS WELL AS FEDERAL, STATE, AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES."
Please pay SPECIAL attention to the pictures displayed on this web page, if you will. You will actually see Clancy, in his bulletproof clothes, descending on some suburban target.
2) I assert that our national forces are still training to fight Americans in America. I also assert that the police, by way of a plethora of legislation and doctrines such as the "Military Cooperation with Law Enforcement Officials Act" passed by Congress in 1981, will be part and parcel of that force. The only thing separating the two forces is the difference between, proper application of, and blurring of "deadly force/rules of engagement" (Military) and "use-of-force" (police) policies.
"Homeland Security Buys N.M. Town for Training"
Oh, does the article refer to the training of Marines? Yes, it does. Of course the Homeland Security Department is going to train Marines. Of course the Marines have no Urban Warfare places of their own (I jest). Of course the FBI has long since been training police. Of course the FBI can train police in this newly acquired AMERICAN town.
So what does that have to do with you and me? The point is simple. We had always expected that our homes were sacrosanct, and if we were therein accosted over matters of Constitutional rights, we would take up arms and defend our homes. Now we are faced with the same outcome as Iraqis defending their homes. Sudden, instant destruction, as our carefully hoarded munitions bounce off Clancy's and the military’s new Super-dooper handy-dandy armor.
You and I have pontificated, "they will have to pry my gun from my dead hand." Might I remind you that our under supported troops in Iraq have turned to the Ak-47's of the Iraqi dead, having quite possibly pried them from their very dead, probably loosely attached hands.
Again, what does that have to do with us? Simple. We must re-think the way we will handle the dreaded confrontation of Constitutionalists and Statists. My suggestion is very simple. Keep a sacrificial lamb in your house to be grabbed up and destroyed; or no lamb (if you want to avoid incarceration). Meanwhile, scout out an area "out there," and make a cache of your arms and supplies to which you can retreat when the time comes.
Right now, thanks to the inevitability of Moore's Law, the sophistication of weaponry available to Clancy is exponentially growing. When you watch movies like Star-Trooper, where the action figures have fancy rifles with launchers, consider these upcoming additions to Super-Clancy's arsenal:
The U.S. military will soon adopt a new basic rifle to replace the M-16. This device will have two barrels: first one will be similar to what the M-16 can do; second one will throw a 20 mm proximity fuse air burst grenade like projectile, including the ability to set whether to fire on impact, after impact, or at a specified distance. It also includes a video jack for connecting to the new helmet with video display, so you don't even have to expose yourself to fire it -- you just hold above the trench, and sight it through your heads-up display.
NOW picture yourself hunkered down in your house, with your 30-30, against this thing, should you want a sample of the sensation felt by Aztecs and other aboriginal folk.
Do you seriously think the police won't avail themselves of this device?
Space, plus the availability of extrapolations of this technology to the "web surfer," limits me in this essay. Let us conclude with three salient points:
1) Bullets now bounce off our police.
2) The police are no longer our "friends."
3) If we don't do something soon, we will soon find ourselves facing a technology where, as one writer recently said, "Welcome to the brave new world of weaponry, in which he who shoots first wins, because almost no one misses."
So, dear reader, are you able to face Superman? Face him, you will. You will then either kneel before him, or lie before him. There is no alternative.
It is almost dark.
http://www.sierratimes.com/03/08/29/c_joyce.htm
It's ABird! No, It's A Plane...
By Cornet Joyce II
No, actually it is Clancy, your neighborhood policeman. He is no longer the smiling friendly cop, walking down the street, teasing the neighborhood kids. He is grim, and he is storming your home accompanied by the local SWAT/STORM team. He may even be accompanied by the latest in armored vehicles being purchased by several police forces. Quite often he wears a black suit, and black ski mask, or a helmet right out of Star Wars.
You see, Clancy, our new "Superman," doesn't really need the phone booth to get into his super-clothes. We older folks figured Superman was all washed up because there aren't the plethoras of phone booths all about Gotham City, or your city, where super folks can don their marvelous costumes. Suddenly we find ourselves in shock as we learn that our new superheroes don their bulletproof costumes at the police station. Then they come, quite possibly warrant-less, to storm our houses because we are too noisy a Constitutionalist for them to further bear? Perhaps our neighbor turned us in?
Let me rehearse a few salient points for your edification. If you have been watching the Iraq "war," you will notice that we were mowing down those Iraqi who stood their ground much like the armored knights of the Occident slaughtered their way through militarily naked foot-soldiers. Rarely has there been such a disparity between forces.
Check, if you will, and you will note that Walter Reed hospital is dealing primarily with orthopedic injuries. Now why would that be? It is simple:
"BULLETS BOUNCE OFF OUR SOLDIERS AND MARINES!"
"But," you sputter, "you were just talking about soldiers and Marines." Ah, but I must point out something terrible to you. Our police forces are now being trained a LOT like soldiers and Marines.
1) Our police forces are availing themselves of the same state of the art armor that was used to stifle the Iraqi military:
May I quote:
"Acknowledged worldwide #1 brand of technologically advanced body armor systems and unprecedented design development for the U.S. Military, AS WELL AS FEDERAL, STATE, AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES."
Please pay SPECIAL attention to the pictures displayed on this web page, if you will. You will actually see Clancy, in his bulletproof clothes, descending on some suburban target.
2) I assert that our national forces are still training to fight Americans in America. I also assert that the police, by way of a plethora of legislation and doctrines such as the "Military Cooperation with Law Enforcement Officials Act" passed by Congress in 1981, will be part and parcel of that force. The only thing separating the two forces is the difference between, proper application of, and blurring of "deadly force/rules of engagement" (Military) and "use-of-force" (police) policies.
"Homeland Security Buys N.M. Town for Training"
Oh, does the article refer to the training of Marines? Yes, it does. Of course the Homeland Security Department is going to train Marines. Of course the Marines have no Urban Warfare places of their own (I jest). Of course the FBI has long since been training police. Of course the FBI can train police in this newly acquired AMERICAN town.
So what does that have to do with you and me? The point is simple. We had always expected that our homes were sacrosanct, and if we were therein accosted over matters of Constitutional rights, we would take up arms and defend our homes. Now we are faced with the same outcome as Iraqis defending their homes. Sudden, instant destruction, as our carefully hoarded munitions bounce off Clancy's and the military’s new Super-dooper handy-dandy armor.
You and I have pontificated, "they will have to pry my gun from my dead hand." Might I remind you that our under supported troops in Iraq have turned to the Ak-47's of the Iraqi dead, having quite possibly pried them from their very dead, probably loosely attached hands.
Again, what does that have to do with us? Simple. We must re-think the way we will handle the dreaded confrontation of Constitutionalists and Statists. My suggestion is very simple. Keep a sacrificial lamb in your house to be grabbed up and destroyed; or no lamb (if you want to avoid incarceration). Meanwhile, scout out an area "out there," and make a cache of your arms and supplies to which you can retreat when the time comes.
Right now, thanks to the inevitability of Moore's Law, the sophistication of weaponry available to Clancy is exponentially growing. When you watch movies like Star-Trooper, where the action figures have fancy rifles with launchers, consider these upcoming additions to Super-Clancy's arsenal:
The U.S. military will soon adopt a new basic rifle to replace the M-16. This device will have two barrels: first one will be similar to what the M-16 can do; second one will throw a 20 mm proximity fuse air burst grenade like projectile, including the ability to set whether to fire on impact, after impact, or at a specified distance. It also includes a video jack for connecting to the new helmet with video display, so you don't even have to expose yourself to fire it -- you just hold above the trench, and sight it through your heads-up display.
NOW picture yourself hunkered down in your house, with your 30-30, against this thing, should you want a sample of the sensation felt by Aztecs and other aboriginal folk.
Do you seriously think the police won't avail themselves of this device?
Space, plus the availability of extrapolations of this technology to the "web surfer," limits me in this essay. Let us conclude with three salient points:
1) Bullets now bounce off our police.
2) The police are no longer our "friends."
3) If we don't do something soon, we will soon find ourselves facing a technology where, as one writer recently said, "Welcome to the brave new world of weaponry, in which he who shoots first wins, because almost no one misses."
So, dear reader, are you able to face Superman? Face him, you will. You will then either kneel before him, or lie before him. There is no alternative.
It is almost dark.