Tuesday, February 24, 2004

Shouldn’t He Have Let the Police Handle the Situation?

Former U.S. Ambassador Peter Secchia, who happens to be from Grand Rapids, Michigan, has recently been in the news.  According to the story, Secchia “walloped” a man who was apparently attempting to abduct his 3 year old grandchild.  I say it’s a pity Secchia wasn’t able to be more robust when dealing with this situation.

That’s not the point I want to bring to your attention though.  What I do want to bring to your attention are these comments.

“Anybody who’s read the (police) report is going ‘Yeah, go grandpa! That’s the kind of grandpa I want my granddaughter to have,’” Seattle Police Det.Christie-Lynn Bonner said.

“It was very quick thinking. He’s quite a bit older than this person, and yet managed to protect his granddaughter.”

Not a word in that statement is untrue.  Secchia did what he should have done.  Why do I ask the question posed in the title?  Because in most other incidents when individuals act to protect their life, their loved ones lives, or their property, the police always trot out the, “Yes, it worked out okay this time, but you really should have let the police handle it” statement.  Not this time.

Posted by John Venlet on 02/24 at 07:08 PM
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Not an Idle Analogy

Imagine the local police are looking for a document that is evidence of a possible crime. The Judge gives them a warrant based on probable cause. When they search the file cabinet at that address, they can’t find what they are looking for. So they corden off the entire apartment building and seize all the file cabinets containing all of the personal and business records of everyone living there. They cart those off with total disregard to the impact on lives and businesses. Then they tell everyone their file cabinets will be returned as soon as they’ve made a permanent State copy of their entire contents.

What sort of society would you say you were living in if that happened?

Dale Amon, over at Samizdata, was moved to write the above after reading this.

Posted by John Venlet on 02/24 at 10:53 AM
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The Narc Reports

Micha Ghertner and Randall McElroy attended a lecture yesterday given by, as McElroy states, “Drug Warrior Extraordinaire” Robert Stutman.  McElroy’s post is titled Lessons learned from a drug warrior and Ghertner’s post is titled Lies, Damn Lies and Drug Warrior Statistics.  Both posts are worth reading.

Posted by John Venlet on 02/24 at 10:14 AM
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The Four Idiots

Many of us have heard of the three tenors.  I could name them for you, if I Googled them up, or called my Grandma down in Cinci, but I would prefer to speak about the four idiots.  The four, are the mayors Michael R. Bloomberg, Richard M. Daley, James K. Kahn and Scott L. King.  These four members of the elite society of professional jobholders, put their collective brain cells together and still could not muster enough rational thought to put down on paper a sound analysis of responsibility in regards to firearms and their use, or misuse.  I quote.

By immunizing gun manufacturers against civil liability, the bill would remove much of their legal incentive to behave responsibly.

Another quote.

Most firearms dealers are responsible business people selling to law-abiding customers. But a small minority are not, and their unlawful actions are largely responsible for the gun violence on our cities’ streets.

And another.

...Congress proposes basically to immunize the gun industry from efforts to make it act responsibly.

Not a single word of this incoherencey acknowledges that in each and every instance in which someone is tragically killed with a gun, an individual is pointing it and pulling the trigger.

The four idiots.

Read this atrocious op-ed titled Lawyers, Guns and Mayors as published in the New York Times.

Posted by John Venlet on 02/24 at 07:50 AM
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The Victims Bones

Though we have been graced with the writings of Solzhenitsyn, the horrors of Socialism have not been crushed in our world.  The death of Socialism remains an event to be anticipated.  It may be knocked down, but it’s resurgence lies only as deep as the bones in Norilsk.  Why is this?  The end of this linked article answers the question.

The people who wouldn’t like to remember this past are still alive and still in power.

I would add that these self same people do not want the truth of the past to be revealed as being as evil and calloused as the Nazi’s attempts to eliminate the Jews.

Via Gene Expression.

Posted by John Venlet on 02/24 at 06:27 AM
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