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Pennsylvania police spent $11 million on ambush suspect manhunt: report

Posted: November 15, 2014 by gamegetterII in Eric Frein, Police state USSA
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(Reuters) – Pennsylvania State Police spent roughly $11 million on the weeks-long manhunt in the Pocono Mountains to capture a survivalist charged with shooting two state troopers and murdering one, local media reported on Friday.

The funds went mostly toward paying overtime and benefits for troopers hunting Eric Matthew Frein over the 48 days of the search, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported, citing a police spokeswoman.

The tally excludes expenses paid by other law enforcement agencies, such as the FBI and the U.S. Marshals Service, in the weeks leading up to Frein’s capture on Oct. 30, the newspaper said.

http://news.yahoo.com/pennsylvania-police-spent-11-million-ambush-suspect-manhunt-052618672.html

Note that the nearly quarter million PER DAY spent by the PSP “went mostly to paying overtime and benefits for troopers”

The PSP pissed away 11 million during the course of the manhunt-that total doesn’t count all the $$$ pissed away by the FBI,U.S. Marshalls service,BATFE,and whatever other A-Z .gov inc. agencies took part in the search.

What the PSP should be spending millions on next is defending themselves from civil rights lawsuits for their unconstitutional lockdown of the area,their preventing residents from going into their own homes,traveling down the street their homes are on,searching homes without warrants,setting up roadblocks,searching cars,often searching the same cars over and over.

The PSP stopped the same guy over a dozen times because he has a slight resemblance to Frein.

Then,there’s the PSP refusing to allow Mr. Frein’s attorney to speak to him,the U.S. Marshall’s Service getting a few good shots in on Frein during the arrest-including what appeared to be a broken nose-when, by their own admission,he did not resist.

The PSP spent 48 days and 11 MILLION dollars looking for ONE GUY.

Had it been me,and an employee,or you and an employee,or you and your boss who were shot while returning to yours or my pole barn at 10pm or so-the state police wouldn’t have spent 11 HUNDRED dollars looking for the shooter,there would have been zero unconstitutional house to house searches,no roadblocks,no cars being searched.

Since it was a gestapo agent-money is no object-they’ll just seize some extra $$$ from citizens on the interstates and local 2 lane U.S. Routes, without charging them with a crime,and raise taxes on the few $$$ you and I see of each paycheck after .gov inc. gets their cut.

We will know soon enough  what the next fabrication released by .gov inc is concerning Mr. Frein…

Colorado: Lead Ammunition Ban Defeated

Posted: November 15, 2014 by gamegetterII in anti-gun asshattery
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Today, during the scheduled Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission meeting, the Commission members voted against a proposal that would have banned the use of lead ammunition for your sporting purposes.  This misguided proposal was offered due to an emotional reaction, not one based on sound science and biological data.

We thank all NRA members across Colorado who respectfully contacted Commission members and expressed their opposition to such an unfounded and unnecessary action.

http://www.nraila.org/legislation/state-legislation/2014/11/colorado-ammunition-ban-defeated.aspx

Killings by cops apparently going up; killings of cops going down

Posted: November 14, 2014 by gamegetterII in police state, Police state USSA
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The number of felony suspects fatally shot by police last year — 461— was the most in two decades, according to a new FBI report.

The justifiable homicide count, contained in the FBI’s annual Uniform Crime Report, has become increasingly scrutinized in recent months as questions continue to be raised about the use of lethal force by law enforcement.

It’s the third straight year we’ve seen an increase. If you’ve been reading The Watch regularly, you’ll know that we hit that figure in the same year that killings of police officers reached a 50-year low. Last year also saw a drop in violent crime. There are about eight to nine killings by cops for every killing of a cop. (The FBI reported 48 felonious deaths of police officers in 2012, the last year for which data were available.)

The article also mentions another problem we’ve discussed here: It’s difficult to say just how much the figure is rising because police departments are historically bad at actually reporting this data.

University of Nebraska criminologist Samuel Walker said the incomplete nature of the data renders the recent spike in such deaths even more difficult to explain.

Bottom line: We should want cops killing people less often. Instead, they seem to be killing people more, even as the threat to cops is diminishing, and society itself is getting safer. And it’s simply unacceptable that we get precise data about cops killed on the job, but only sloppy, incomplete data about who, when and how many cops kill.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/11/13/killings-by-cops-apparently-going-up-killings-of-cops-going-down/

A reality check for the anti-GMO, anti-vaccine folks

Posted: November 14, 2014 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized
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Despite our culture’s reflexive reverence for things that are “natural,” we should all be mindful that just because something is “natural” does not necessarily mean that it is good.

The word “natural” has deep cultural and psychological cachet, and the association of nature with goodness has been a recurring idea throughout human history — especially during times of rapid scientific and technological change: at the height of the Hellenistic period in classic Greece, for example, Aristotle and his disciples were parsing the pros and cons of “appeals to nature”; as the Industrial Revolution took root in the 19th century, leading thinkers like Henry David Thoreau rejected industrialism by founding the back-to-nature Transcendentalist movement.

Meanwhile, in our supermarkets, “natural” foods are a more than $40-billion-a-year industry, despite the word “natural” having literally no meaning in this context. Consumers often opt for “natural” medicines, which they believe will have fewer side effects, even though those drugs are under-regulated. And whether or not shoppers know what “GMO” stands for, they are nonetheless inclined to avoid eating “genetically modified organisms” — which makes a certain kind of sense, except that humans have been genetically manipulating our food supply from the dawn of civilization; our methods have just gotten more sophisticated. Agriculture itself is an unnatural innovation.

Now we are facing a public health crisis in Southern California because well-meaning parents are electing to not vaccinate their children. There are numerous socio-cultural reasons why parents make this choice, but it usually comes down to concern about the safety of the vaccines and a preference for more “natural” health solutions. These parents are not wrong in their assessment that vaccines are, in some ways, unnatural: no amount of scientific research or reassurance can change the reality that vaccines are complex chemical cocktails that combine natural and synthetic elements that are then injected directly into children’s bodies.

Unfortunately, the natural result of avoiding vaccines and other unnatural advances in public health is the outbreak of preventable diseases. With whooping cough and measles making a comeback, it’s worth remembering that in the recent past, the average American only lived till what we now consider middle age, and parents in industrialized Western countries could expect to lose 1 in 5 children by the child’s first birthday. Is that really something we should aspire to?

And yes, it is true that vaccination isn’t the only cause for our country’s dramatically improved health, but it is the only cornerstone that remains controversial. After all, one of the 20th century’s other great public health advances was the proliferation of clean water and sanitation — but nobody seems to have a problem with the unnaturalness of indoor plumbing.

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/opinion-la/la-ol-vaccine-gmo-natural-20141113-story.html?track=lat-email-latimesopinion#page=1

Bloomberg ‘background check’ expansion to Nevada part of warned-against plan

Posted: November 14, 2014 by gamegetterII in anti-gun asshattery
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Nevadans for Background Checks submitted a ballot measure petition with over 246,000 signatures as the next step emulating a successful effort in Washington State, Dave Workman noted Thursday, citing a KTNV News report. That move, Workman recalled, had been predictable, along with expected efforts in other states.

The Nevada effort was warned against in this column last August, in its revelation that, far from being a group springing up from the grassroots, Nevadans for Background Checks is a front group backed by Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown for Gun Safety organization. The corporation name was reserved with the Nevada Secretary of State by the same New York law firm that represented Everytown’s trademark registration. The Political Action Committee was headed by the Everytown treasurer, who also directed the I-594 Action Fund in Washington State.

That was all part of a well-planned and funded effort to expand “action group” efforts to the states reported in this column, initially in July of 2013, and warned of again in December of last year because no one else seemed to be noticing. It’s hard to organize against developing threats if the existence of where they are and how they’re structured is unknown.

Significantly, the KTNV “legitimate news media / real reporter” story mentioned none of this. I guess letting Nevadans know outside special interests are trying to buy an election isn’t newsworthy and/or doesn’t help advance the agenda.

http://www.examiner.com/article/bloomberg-background-check-expansion-to-nevada-part-of-warned-against-plan?CID=examiner_alerts_article

Ex-NBA Player Who Made $11 Million Allegedly Caught With Grenade Launcher At Heroin Dealer’s House

Posted: November 14, 2014 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized
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Former Seattle Sonics and Oklahoma City Thunder player Robert Swift was charged with unlawful possession of a short-barreled shotgun after police raided the house where he was living, SeattlePI.com reports.

According to police, Swift had a grenade launcher and a sawed-off shotgun in his room at the home of Trygve Bjorkstam, a 54-year-old alleged heroin dealer.

Swift told law enforcement that he was a heroin user but not a dealer, police say. Bjorkstam allegedly told police Swift was not helping him sell drugs.

The house is 100 yards from an elementary school, reports SeattlePI.

From the report:

Known to police as ‘Trigg,’ Bjorkstam admitted to dealing heroin and meth, and to building a gun range in a bunker he dug under his home to house a marijuana grow, a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agent said in court papers. Police describe Bjorkstam, 54, as dejected and contrite following his arrest.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/ex-nba-player-made-11-150716139.html

Washington Gun Owners Plan Mass Defiance of New Background Check Law: 13 December/1100 PST/State Capitol/Olympia WA

Posted: November 14, 2014 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized
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Similar protests should be set up for NY,CO,Conn,DC,and Nevada-where Bloomberg’s minions are going to attempt the same thing.

Another WTF Moment: Being a Good Citizen Indoctrination via DOCDLB

Posted: November 14, 2014 by gamegetterII in Uncategorized
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The indoctrination of our children by the left continues,creating sheep for them to use as future voters in their quest to finish destroying this once great country.
Anyone who has school-age kids needs to homeschool-or your children will be turned into mindless leftist drones…

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Sniper shot Pennsylvania troopers to ‘wake people up’: police

Posted: November 14, 2014 by gamegetterII in Eric Frein
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EAST STROUDSBURG Pa. (Reuters) – A survivalist charged with shooting two Pennsylvania state troopers, one of them fatally, who then eluded a 48-day manhunt by hiding in the woods told police after his capture that he ambushed the men because he “wanted to make a change” in government and “wake people up.”

The court papers also contain references to a letter that prosecutors say was written by Frein, 31, to his parents that lays out his views on the United States.

“Our nation is far from what it was and what it should be,” the letter states, according to the court papers. “There is so much wrong and on so many levels only passing through the crucible of another revolution can get us back the liberties we once had.”

http://news.yahoo.com/sniper-shot-pennsylvania-troopers-wake-people-police-235433489.html

Concealed gun ruling stands: Foes can’t fight loosening of California permit standards

Posted: November 14, 2014 by gamegetterII in gun rights
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A court ruling that dramatically loosened California’s restrictions on concealed firearms came closer to taking effect Wednesday, as an appeals court quashed legal maneuvering that might have staved it off.

As a result, sheriffs all over California — including the Bay Area, where many are reluctant to grant concealed-carry permits — could soon have to hand them out based on nothing more than the applicant’s stated wish to carry a gun for self-defense.

Currently, some sheriffs require applicants to prove a specific threat to their safety requires a concealed weapon while other sheriffs don’t. Those in most urban counties hand out permits by the dozens; those in many less-populated rural counties hand them out by the thousands. The court ruling involved a San Diego sheriff’s restrictions.

The state is one step closer to removing the concealed weapons permit decision from police chiefs and sheriffs, said Sam Paredes, executive director of Gun Owners of California. “We’re starting to smell the hint of freedom in the air, and it smells good,” he said.

http://www.mercurynews.com/california/ci_26923154/concealed-gun-ruling

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