tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post3930359866323396862..comments2024-03-28T20:53:49.167-04:00Comments on The Adventures of Roberta X: Gabe Suarez Embraces The IngSoc EstheticRoberta Xhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09956807794520627885noreply@blogger.comBlogger33125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-38975610567851573742012-06-29T18:19:29.105-04:002012-06-29T18:19:29.105-04:00I'm willing to bet as long as you mention the ...I'm willing to bet as long as you mention the name Gabe Suarez he doesn't care what you say before or after it. I checked the number of members and guests of his forum and I must say it is impressive.<br /><br />JeepersAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-24142607585793662932012-06-27T21:55:06.765-04:002012-06-27T21:55:06.765-04:00Except lacking the badge. He is who he is; he'...Except lacking the badge. He is who he is; he's picked his side. If push comes to shove, will they pick him?Roberta Xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09956807794520627885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-25687869615116386152012-06-27T21:02:56.377-04:002012-06-27T21:02:56.377-04:00Mr. Suarez sounds like a thug with a badge.
MikeMr. Suarez sounds like a thug with a badge.<br /><br />MikeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-26460989137809361462012-06-26T22:50:15.103-04:002012-06-26T22:50:15.103-04:00Mike James - At some point, maybe it ought to be t...<b>Mike James</b> - <i>At some point, maybe it ought to be</i> their <i>turn figure out how to avoid </i>our<i> notice.</i><br /><br />I agree. When I read here and on Tam's blog about the (ahem) antics of the IMPD, I have to shake my head and wonder who hired - who continues to employ - those yahoos. They are a disgrace to the American law enforcement community and should be drummed out forthwith.<br /><br />But, if our cops are rotten, if they are thugs, if they go to far, then whose fault is it if they get away with it?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-54314405775577850862012-06-26T22:08:18.089-04:002012-06-26T22:08:18.089-04:00I really do understand the "stay off the rada...I really do understand the "stay off the radar of the law" thing -- and, at least by Indiana standards, I am a model of probity.* But <i>day-um,</i> that radar has been set to alarm on a lot of things, and more every day.<br /><br /> Law enforcement is a hammer -- and it gets used on many things that are not nails.<br />___________________<br />* My firearms and how they are carried and kept would make me a criminal in many U.S. States and most countries. Oh, well.Roberta Xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09956807794520627885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-6005936549690097252012-06-26T22:03:08.496-04:002012-06-26T22:03:08.496-04:00Anyone citing anything written by Suarez as being ...Anyone citing anything written by Suarez as being level-headed tactics for a law-abiding gun owner should think about what they gain with fellow gun owners and RKBA supporters by doing so. <br /><br />Any cop who wonders why the public is turning against LEO's need do little else other than read the thuggish rants of Suarez.<br /><br />Suarez could have gone down for multiple felonies, but had a good lawyer. His wife was also charged, BTW. That doesn't happen very often in bad-cop investigations, but it happend in the Suarez case.<br /><br />Now, with all of what has happened to him, you'd expect a rational, reasonable man to drop the thug attitude. After all, he's learned what it's like when the ADA decides to screw you to the wall, right? He's learned what it's like to be the target of unjust prosecution, right?<br /><br />Nope. Instead, he doubles down on the "Me cop, you shit under my boots" attitude.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-25729160549745980552012-06-26T21:52:59.699-04:002012-06-26T21:52:59.699-04:00"...it's not such a bad idea to figure ou...<i>"...it's not such a bad idea to figure out a way to avoid his notice."</i><br /><br />Docjim, here's a goody:<br /><br /><b>"We have four boxes used to guarantee our liberty: The soap box, the ballot box, the jury box and the cartridge box". -- Ambrose Bierce (1887)"</b><br /><br />I first ran across that one on Kim du Toit's old blog.<br /><br />At some point, maybe it ought to be <i>their</i> turn figure out how to avoid <i>our</i> notice.<br /><br />Mike JamesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-31316707690629127002012-06-26T21:50:50.729-04:002012-06-26T21:50:50.729-04:00Docjim: Okay, point taken.
All: Remember, not ev...Docjim: Okay, point taken. <br /><br />All: Remember, not every mistaken entry is necessarily an illegal entry. The main reason for the Indiana law is to take care of those times when Officer Friendly suspects J. Random Basher of badness, decides to check out his lodgings without any of the normal formalities and ol' Joe slugs him to prevent his so doing. Our black-robed geniuses had decided that Joe had no right to even ask the officer to stop, let alone act to actually stop him. The Legislature disagreed and took action of their own.Roberta Xhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09956807794520627885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-297575344111322932012-06-26T20:43:26.502-04:002012-06-26T20:43:26.502-04:00What do drugs have to do with it?
http://www.cour...What do drugs have to do with it?<br /> http://www.courierpress.com/news/2012/jun/22/swat-team-enters-home-people-inside-arent/<br />In that case intel led the police to believe the people inside the home were saying bad things about the local PD. They invited the local media to film the raid. And the likely cause was someone piggybacking on their internet connection. Imagine being shot over what some dumbstick posted on a social media website.JD Rushhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02565824360743868119noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-79451970486799656472012-06-26T20:13:39.318-04:002012-06-26T20:13:39.318-04:00RobertaX - [P]lease point to that part of the Cons...<b>RobertaX</b> - <i>[P]lease point to that part of the Constitution -- Federal or State -- that allows for the regulation of pot. Then have a look at the book </i>Three Felonies A Day<i>: every day of your life, you probably commit at least one crime as dire as the nitwit with a baggie of ditchweed. Do you deserve to have your door kicked in -- and if it is, shall we shrug it off as a lamentable but inevitable excess?</i><br /><br />First, we are in accord regarding drug laws: not only can I not (as you say) undertake to lay my finger on that part of the Constitution that gives Uncle Sugar any authority in this area, I think that it's wrong in general to tell people what they may eat, drink, smoke, sniff, snort, or otherwise ingest: it's their lives and they should be at liberty to live them (or not) as they see fit.<br /><br />However, the law is what it is, not what I wish it to be, and selling weed is illegal. This attracts the attention of the police. Unfortunately, along with criminalizing any number of mundane, pedestrian, and otherwise common actions, we've also set about not only GIVING the police lots of ability to use lots of force, we've practically DEMANDED that they do so:<br /><br />"WHAT! That dirty drug pusher got away because he flushed the drugs before the police could get inside to grab them??? It's an outrage! Something must be done! We need to give our boys in blue more weapons and equipment to get those lousy b*stards!"<br /><br />And so forth...<br /><br />I can see why people are critical of Suarez in this regard; Americans shouldn't have to cower before authority. Unfortunately, when Authority comes with a bunch of M-4-toting, heavily armored, trigger-happy friends, it's not such a bad idea to figure out a way to avoid his notice.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-5004561810263647502012-06-26T19:52:28.966-04:002012-06-26T19:52:28.966-04:00Hell, law enforcement seems to be adopting a "...<i>Hell, law enforcement seems to be adopting a "shoot all dogs on sight" policy already, why not go whole hog and just start napalming houses instead of doing SWAT raids? </i><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOVE#1985_bombing" rel="nofollow">MOVE, 1985.</a>Dranghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08082177597135236652noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-21605177022153696782012-06-26T18:47:22.632-04:002012-06-26T18:47:22.632-04:00Riiiiiight.
As for the earlier anonmyous, if mere...Riiiiiight.<br /><br />As for the <i>earlier</i> anonmyous, if merely being indicted for a felony is so dire as to stick in public memory even after the accused has pled down to a misdemeanor, how much worse is an unlawful or improperly-warrented LEO entry to one's home? --Or does it only matter if it's your ox getting gored?<br /><br /> In re the charges against Mr. Suarez, as I understand it, they were nothing violent. Just a bit of fast footwork along the general lines of collecting disability from one job while working another; this might be regarded as skeezy or even morally reprehensible but being <i>charged</i> is not the same as being found guilty. He may be happy assuming (for others) that where there is smoke, there must be fire but as for me, I will do no more than note he is a mere misdemeanant, as so many of us are, and retains his full measure of civil rights.Roberta X remotelynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-53416979408879978432012-06-26T18:37:58.872-04:002012-06-26T18:37:58.872-04:00It seems some of you have found out about the trut...It seems some of you have found out about the truth. Civilian law enforcement has been under the control of the Chairman of the Joint-Chiefs of Staff (the military) since the Emergency War Powers Act of 1941. Secretly we take our orders from the U.N. which is why you can find the color blue in most every police uniform even if just enamel on the shield.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-17915049344958871502012-06-26T17:43:34.185-04:002012-06-26T17:43:34.185-04:00So "anonymous", if that IS your real nam...So "anonymous", if that IS your real name, are you saying that accusations are not enough to pillory Mr. Suarez? Yet you seem to agree with him that the innocent getting stomped or shot based on an accusation acted upon erroneously is ok. I feel a discordance in the force.David Neylonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03440053244435091067noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-78072398816448619342012-06-26T17:08:43.346-04:002012-06-26T17:08:43.346-04:00How convenient you remember what he was charged wi...How convenient you remember what he was charged with, but can't recall what was plead to. Old news that Mr Suarez has answered for and also about. Find new material.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-46070917109582350072012-06-26T14:31:25.168-04:002012-06-26T14:31:25.168-04:00Robert, Linoge: I'll see your Jose Guerena and...Robert, Linoge: I'll see your Jose Guerena and raise you a Kathryn Johnston.perlhaqrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01920117742664645165noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-8085677939880337172012-06-26T12:38:33.023-04:002012-06-26T12:38:33.023-04:00I would remind everyone that Mr. Gabe Suarez left ...I would remind everyone that Mr. Gabe Suarez left his law enforcement employer in disgrace and plead guilty in a plea agreement to a number of crimes related to his dismissal. <br /><br />I don't remember if he plead to 'felonies' or not, but I do remember he was initially charged with multiple felonies.<br /><br />I don't know about you but I'm not much of one for letting convicted criminals tell me what the 'po-leese' should and should NOT be doing....<br /><br />All The Best,<br />Frank W. JamesFrank W. Jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07589579734134153159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-31974178107551873802012-06-26T11:30:37.666-04:002012-06-26T11:30:37.666-04:00Given the present attitudes, it's just a matte...Given the present attitudes, it's just a matter of time before we repeat the history of Ruby Ridge, and or Waco.Panamarednoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-9471575690699679612012-06-26T10:17:17.231-04:002012-06-26T10:17:17.231-04:00Synchronicity apparently is still a force in the w...Synchronicity apparently is still a force in the world. I ran into this article this morning--this is what we're supposed to get used to, I guess.<br /><br />http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/06/cops-military-gear/<br /><br />Explain to me why a town with 20 or 30,000 people needs its own armored vehicle. Because I'm just not seeing it, unless the point isn't law enforcement, but something far more frightening.The Freeholderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09989697995675652792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-35535247474005215402012-06-26T10:17:10.808-04:002012-06-26T10:17:10.808-04:00Synchronicity apparently is still a force in the w...Synchronicity apparently is still a force in the world. I ran into this article this morning--this is what we're supposed to get used to, I guess.<br /><br />http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/06/cops-military-gear/<br /><br />Explain to me why a town with 20 or 30,000 people needs its own armored vehicle. Because I'm just not seeing it, unless the point isn't law enforcement, but something far more frightening.The Freeholderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09989697995675652792noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-33491306725262250012012-06-26T09:32:40.571-04:002012-06-26T09:32:40.571-04:00I note Mr. Suarez has closed comments on the post ...I note Mr. Suarez has closed comments on the post in question, which prevents me leaving something intemperate and uncharitable. Prob'ly for the best.Kenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04780425923108876647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-72371458624999459132012-06-26T09:32:21.824-04:002012-06-26T09:32:21.824-04:00I live in a very nice house in a very nice area. T...I live in a very nice house in a very nice area. The house was first owned by a person who is a guest of Club Fed for drug trafficing. So much for moving to avoid problems.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-26758675586266840042012-06-26T03:33:12.793-04:002012-06-26T03:33:12.793-04:00I don't much care for the tone of the article....I don't much care for the tone of the article...no where does it place responsibility on the police to do things right. I feel the author is basically saying "I'm the jackboot and your neck is under it...get used to it."<br /><br />Roberta: I agree with what you say. However, what we now have is a LEGAL system, not a justice system. It is a system far more oriented towards bureaucracy then anything else...one of my greatest fears is being arrested (for any reason) and incarcerated, because without money or connections you are cooked. (I am pro-police and pro-law and order, by the way. And I don't get involved in illegal activities, even recreational ones)Josephnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-12518194107775309162012-06-26T01:15:13.179-04:002012-06-26T01:15:13.179-04:00Accidentally getting the wrong address is easy.
W...Accidentally getting the wrong address is <i>easy</i>.<br /><br />We lived, not too long ago, in a duplex. One fine day, the po-po came knocking on our door TWICE, looking for our neighbors. Just in general, folks knocking on our door instead of theirs happened once a month, minimum.<br /><br />"Just move" is the sort of economic snobbery that makes me want to punch someone.Sabrahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13746486966764162127noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5837660608809488753.post-36458840368478970062012-06-25T22:40:07.762-04:002012-06-25T22:40:07.762-04:00Robert Fowler beat me to it. Two words completely...Robert Fowler beat me to it. Two words completely demolish any argument Gabe Suarez was trying to make: <br /><br />Jose Guerena. <br /><br />The police had next-to-no reason to go in there guns blazing, gunning down Jose where he stood, and yet this appealing-to-authority dickless Wonder Dog would have us believe that shootings such as that one are simply the way it is, and we had better just roll over and take it? <br /><br />I will say what you probably cannot bring yourself to say, Roberta, and you are probably the better person for it: fuck him. <br /><br />Yes, the "militarization of the police" <strong>is</strong> the gorramed problem (or, at least, one of them), and until that gets addressed, situations such as these are just going to spiral out of control until we <em>do</em> have a Shootout at Joe Schmo's House, and it sure as hell does not help that SWAT teams have given criminals another believable vector to impersonate. Given that, "rolling over and taking it" is only the advisable course of action if you are personally profiting from the conflict, or too much of a damned coward to do something about it. <br /><br />In Gabe's case, it is likely both.Linogehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02934002223141355235noreply@blogger.com