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David Wolosik's avatar

I restaked this post asking the question: does anyone remember when they started putting SWAT police shows on TV to condition us for an overbearing military style of "We the Peop!e"?

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Courageous Lion's avatar

Based on the 1975 series of the same name, ‘https://thecinemaholic.com/swat-cast/‘ does not hold back on the action as the team goes in gun ablaze, to save the day. The CBS show focuses on Sergeant Daniel “Hondo” Harrelson, a Los Angeles local, who was formerly a Marine. Hondo is tasked with leading a new Special Weapons and Tactics unit.

and believe it or not one place says this:

S.W.A.T. teams are elite police units that respond to high-risk situations. They’re called in when a situation is too dangerous for regular police officers.

I’d say that they stay home if the situation is that high of a risk. Blue Flu. What a joke this is. So we are supposed to believe that the vaunted police actually have 80,000 high risk situations a year in the US they have to send a SWAT team to. Yeah, right. It is OBVIOUS to even the dumbest boot licker that the raid on Bryan could have been avoided as well as the raid on the Branch Davidians.

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David Wolosik's avatar

YOU'RE THINKING TOO MUCH!

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Courageous Lion's avatar

I know. We aren't allowed to do that. I suspect they are opening FEMA camps for people who critically think. See you there, David!

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Doug Youngman's avatar

No mention of Lavoy Finicum - same assassnation plot/story. Police don't become psychopaths but psychopaths do become police. The most dangerous people on the Earth today is an order follower - someone who doesn't use critical thinking skills because they don't have to. That's what happens in totalitarian realms - just like the USA today. America warehouses one-quarter (25%) of the world's prison population and only has 4% of the total world pop - THIS IS WHAT A POLICE STATE LOOKS LIKE. BACK THE BLUE UNTIL IT HAPPENS TO YOU!

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Courageous Lion's avatar

Write me up a short paragraph about Lavoy and I’ll add it with a link to you.

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Doug Youngman's avatar

Here's a video about Lavoy - Ron Vrooman (Oregon Statewide Jural Assembly) says a few words about Lavoy - at the end of the video there is drone or perhaps helicoptor video of the assasination of Lavoy - by the state police not the ATF. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlW8k9NYmOQ&t=94s&pp=2AFekAIB

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Doug Youngman's avatar

Those who have turned their backs on the priceless principles of freedom/liberty have chosen their path... we would still be British if our Founders were like them. The Dunning Kruger Effect/Syndrome is a cognitive bias in which people with limited competence in a particular domain overestimate their abilities. Most LEOs are selected for their low I.Q. and natural "order following Institutionalized compliant/conforming nature" of rank and file people pyramid hierarchies. The main reason government wants everyone disarmed is because governments are going to do something worth shooting them for. Ayn Rand explained, "To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world, that's what everybody does everyday of their life. If I asked you to keep your soul would you understand why that's much harder?" I've been boot-stomped and put in torcher-cuffs twice by goons with badges in costumes. Once in 2010 I was holding a sign in Portland, Oregon that read "Taxation is Theft" - I was crossing the street as a Homeland Security SUV nearly ran me over - I sneered at them and they piled out chased me down tackled me in the street - broke my glasses - put my ankle on my ear hogtied me for "Resisting Arrest" and stuffed me into their SUV (kidnapped me essentially) "hot-boxed" for a half-hour in the heat with no ventilation.... riflled through my pockets - stole my wallet and cell phone (4th/5th Amendment violations) probably wanted to see if I was carrying a gun - in THEIR "No Gun Zone". The second time the Thin Blue Line boot-stomped me was when I was in Lincoln City, Oregon (2013) staying at a small hotel - there was suddenly a pounding on the door - I opened the door (which was my first mistake) and a State Trooper was asking to show my I.D. - I asked what the hell this was about - and said NO I was not giving him my I.D. - so he grabbed my arm pulled me out of the room and threw me down in a mud-puddle in the rain on my face in my only set of decent clothes... oopsie - aparantly they were responding to a domestic squabble in another room and they thought I was the bad guy they were hunting. This shit happens all the time now - qualified immunity gives the totalitarians cart blanch control over their fellow Americans... yes this IS what a police state looks like. Power corrupts and ultimate power ultimately corrupts.

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Doug Youngman's avatar

.... yeah you're right - I fill my head with too many of these quotes we hear - sometimes recalling them they get twisted/screwed-up. I used to quote Jefferson on his seemingly sensible quote: "Governments rule by the consent of the governed..." and thought that sounded right, until recently I read Lysander Spooner's rebuttle to Jefferson, "Government is in reality established by the few and these few assume the consent of all the rest without any such consent being actually givern." We never stop learning do we?... thanks for keeping me in check!... and your sympathy. ;-)

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Edwin's avatar

They've taken out most of the 2cnd Amendment with their 2500 illegal gun laws.

That has prevented my granddaughters from adequately being able to defend themselves, per the law. None have reached the age of 21 yet.

How many SWAT Teams do you have in your immediate area?

Do you have any idea.

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Courageous Lion's avatar

Well, unfortunately we have to say that we have a lot since many can be Federal. They even have a SWAT team for the Social Security administration. So locally, one police department and one sheriff department which most likely both have them. In total? When you figure in the feds and the amount of bureaucracies there are, maybe 432? FBI, ATF, IRS, FAA, CIA, FCC, FDA, SSA, NEA, or as the lyrics in this song say...

BATF... IRS

CIA and FBI

FDA and FCC

ADL and KGB

Now I know my ABC'S

All of which spell tyranny

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAQMyDDDJMU

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Edwin's avatar

Hey, you left out the Post Office. The fucking Post Office, no wonder they can't get my mail right, they are spending too much on everything else, besides the mail.

But hey, those forever stamps were a good idea, with the rate of inflation, I figure I'm breaking even on them, or close to it anyway. I think I bought the roll in 2007, but I'm not sure. I would figure it up, but I'd probably be disappointed.

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janet kessler's avatar

Just saw a documentary on this very subject - what it was when it began and what it's become since. Excessive force; shoot first/ask questions later; and while eliminating AK's from the general public, nothing's being said about eliminating this weapon of mass destruction - from the paramilitary or military - merely the 'common man.' Now THAT makes me worry. Decades ago, read of a situation involving a mentally ill woman brandishing a knife. Seems the only way those big muscle guys armed to the teeth could do as a reaction was to shoot her dead. Few bad experiences w/cops myself - lesson learned? Stay away from them whenever possible. Far, far away...

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Ernie Boxall's avatar

Sir, Steven Crowder has just interviewed General Mike Kelly and what the General said is even more frightening. He talks obviously about incidents like the raid on the President (as opposed to Oats for Brains) and how much of the bureaucracy was communist going back to the 1930s (which ties in with the work of Ayn Rand) and how these raids were not "cock ups" but planned to destabilise America.

He says that had President Trump not defeated Killery we would already have the Union of Socialist States of America.

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Courageous Lion's avatar

Ernie, check this out and let me know if I'm wrong...https://www.courageouslion.us/p/communism-american-style

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Boflys's avatar

How TF these assholes sleep at night is beyond comprehension. I pray there is a reckoning one day for the likes of these Gestapo shit bags. Like the West Point grad FBI sniper who killed civilians in Ruby Ridge and Waco. Nothing done to him. Real tough guy. Nothing to savage can happen to these thugs and their families. End their bloodlines.

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DE's avatar

Yup.

such psychos never sleepwalk

but they should perp walk into a smelter

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jean's avatar

As a child I did not play "cops and robbers". As an adult I most certainly do not want to . So who has not grown up?

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David Poe's avatar

Theodore Roosevelt wanted the Boy Scouts to be mandatory. It would have helped create a nation of riflemen. No wonder it had to be destroyed with the gay scout leader gambit.

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Doug Youngman's avatar

... very perceptive. Rugged Independence isn't a priority advocated in the public fool system - nor should it be. As far as mandatory boy scouts - think Brownshirts.

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David Wolosik's avatar

Do you remember Obama's "civilian force equal to the military"? Or Obama's " brownshirts"?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GwXGNcbe30s

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Courageous Lion's avatar

Yes, I do. It was a WTF? moment.

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Doug Youngman's avatar

... the Red Guards.

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David Poe's avatar

All swords are double edged.

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Courageous Lion's avatar

The day may come where we will have SWAT swatters pop up.

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David Poe's avatar

Would the Boy Scouts have become a force

Centrally controlled, brown shirts, or good training for militias? I was thinking the latter, a whole nation who are not easily coerced, but there always powerful people who will try to take control. Everything comes down to moral issues such as do you just follow orders.

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Courageous Lion's avatar

If you look at the bylaws of the NRA there is a section where it explains that the reason for it was to train Militia members. That went by the wayside because a MILITIA threatens the psychopaths in control.

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Luna Jane Parker's avatar

people are so addicted to the poison, they are willing to pay even the inflationary increase. Now that is what is mind-boggling. McD’s.

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DE's avatar

What angels, the yankee occupation force.

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Lorrie Esker's avatar

Absolutely agree with you and love this article. You nailed it. I watched the documentary on Ruby Ridge and I was extremely disgusted. This family just wanted to be left alone. The recent shooting of the airport executive blows my mind. Absolutely no warning to the man. He was not a criminal and had not been charged, WTF! We are headed to a tyrannical government! Actually we are already there, but I see it getting much worse! The question is how do we stop it? Civil war?

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Joseph L. Wiess's avatar

All of these three-letter agencies are extralegal in origin. The Constitution does not allow the government to set up or arm government agencies for police work. The only exceptions are the Secret Service and the IRS, which are under the auspices of the Treasury Department.

So the FBI, ATF, etc, are illegal organizations. All of which have SWAT teams.

The FBI and other three letter agencies have become the new American Stasi.

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Courageous Lion's avatar

Except when it comes to the IRS…https://www.courageouslion.us/p/meet-bill-benson

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DE's avatar

One can obtain the ventilation plans for their bullet proof buildings where all the fake named agents serve our royals that claim you are guilty until proven innocent. Of course, no one is really innocent.

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Courageous Lion's avatar

What is that?

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WTF? WOW! I'll look into it...

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Courageous Lion's avatar

Seems from what I've found out, it was a group that should have packed up and moved to Africa instead of Philly. They even changed their last names to Africa in honor of their "ancient homelands". Seems to me that they literally had confrontation after confrontation for 10 years with neighbors, the police and the city officials themselves. They rioted, they where a major PITA to the local residents who also became victims to the not well thought out dropping of two bombs on them and obviously with no effort to remove the children from the area. 11 people is a far cry from the over 80 that died at Waco over what we do not know to this day. It was an ATF raid that went bad, where the MOVE issue was an ongoing feud for a long time. Yes, the end result was disastrous, but I do have to say that I'd place some of the blame on the MOVE members who seemed to continually commit acts of violence during so called peaceful protests. Who was damaged by any so called crimes at Waco?

Have you looked into the group itself? A bunch of black racists apparently. Black nationalism...blah blah. Too bad groups like that don't happily go back to their "homeland". It would have saved some lives and property if they had done so.

Overkill...yes. Who to blame, both sides. Waco? Overkill yes...who to blame. The federal government. People defending themselves from an unlawful attack are not the problem.

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