The United States Office of Precrime strikes again!
An Oregon Department of Transportation employee gets laid off. So in his free time, he goes out and buys a couple guns. No big deal, you're thinking. Well ... that's because you actually think.
The government never bothers to think. They just react!
Police act swiftly after gun purchases
Concerns about an Oregon Department of Transportation employee who purchased several guns after being placed on leave prompted law enforcement across Southern Oregon to step in.
Negotiators and a SWAT team from Medford police safely took a man — whose name wasn't released — into protective custody Monday morning in the 500 block of Effie Street, Medford police said in a news release.
He was taken to Rogue Valley Medical Center for a mental-health evaluation.
The man recently had been placed on administrative leave from his job and was "very disgruntled," the news release said.
Oh, a "news release" said he was "very disgruntled" ... Well then, that settles it.
Does anybody in America care about freedom anymore? And if freedom's too Very Scary for you, what makes you think the government will save* you? After all, as this situation proves, the government is the most violent demographic in society.
The government doesn't follow any rules. If you believe they do, it's time to grow up. The police are now armed like the military. The police beat and kill people, often without consequence.
Everything the government does, it does by force, or the threat of force.
This man committed no crime, yet the government raided his house and threw him in a mental hospital. Not only that, they closed down his neighborhood streets and forced his neighbors out of their homes too.
A lot less started the Revolutionary War.
How much more of this crap are you willing to put up with? Seriously! What has America become?
Apparently ... a society full of wimpy, submissive nit-wits.
H/T:
Another Very Scary Man Who Never Committed a Crime Raided:
*It's time to give up the messianic belief that government will save you. It's stupid at best, and blasphemous at worse.
[...] The Classic Liberal is talking about the Police State. [...]
I wonder if he fit any criteria of the DHS report?
Rumor has it he had a Ron Paul bumper sticker on his car. Very Scary.
[...] 12, 2010 · Leave a Comment A simply unbelievable news story that Mike has at The Classic Liberal An Oregon Department of Transportation employee gets laid off. So in his free time, he goes out and [...]
In high school I wrote a report on crime and punishment in 17th century England. They had a law against owning a net that could conceivably used to poach a rabbit (pre crime). The punishment? Being drawn and quartered. There was a time in this country when an arrest for simply owning firearms would have been met with outrage.
I'm convinced Americans are afraid to be free. Submission is so much easier (I guess).
You're indignation would be a lot more interesting to a lot more people if it weren't rooted in partisan hackery. I wonder where your outrage was when it was a republican president trashing people's liberties left and right. The current blog, unsurprisingly, didn't exist until December '08 (or at least that's as far back as your archives go). Prior to that, I'm guessing you numbered among the wimpy, submissive nit-wits. Maybe I'm wrong and you actually had a backbone before Barack Obama came along -- we're all waiting for you to produce evidence of it.
There's nothing partisan in this post, buddy. You're reading into it what you wish was there. Yes, the blog started in August 2008. What does that have to do with the price of tea in China? I'm not even sure what all your indignation is about. I'm probably wasting my time responding to you.
It was probably more to the entire blog and the tea party movement in general. Stil, it is relevant to ask, "Where was your independence when things were getting so bad?" Maybe you've felt disgruntled about issues like the one in this post for years. But it matters a great deal that you and most tea partiers waited until a Democrat was headed to the white house before speaking up. You obviously have a lot of time and energy to devote to the issues you care about now -- is it pointless to ask why that time and energy was absent before Obama clinched the nomination?
If someone like Romney beats Obama in 2012 and continues Dubya's fiscal profligacy, we'll see if the "party" (and blogs like this one) can sustain the volume.
You're making a lot of assumptions, and you know what they say about that. Starting a blog wasn't the start of my activism. But what I've written about Bush is no different than what I say about Obama. If you stick around and read, the only time I refer to Democrats directly is when it's a current event/news item. Otherwise my focus is on government in general.
Romney doesn't have enough money to get my support. I could give a rat's behind about the 'R' on his lapel. So if somebody like Romney gets the nomination, I'll be voting third-party. In fact, I'll be supporting Ron Paul all the way!