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Pima County Gets Its Wrist Slapped

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May 5, 2011 the Pima County (Arizona) Sheriff’s Office SWAT team put on their battle-rattle, climbed into their armored personnel carrier, and did an early morning raid on a suspected drug distributor’s home.  Said suspect was José Guerena, a combat veteran of the Iraq war who worked  third shift at a local mine. Seeing armed men in their front yard, Guerena’s wife apparently woke him. He put his wife and 4-year-old son in a closet, retrieved his AR-15 rifle, and prepared to confront what he thought were home invaders.

When the Sheriff’s deputies broke open his front door, they saw him in the hallway, armed, and opened fire. Seventy rounds were expended, 22 of them striking Guerena. He never received medical attention. It is believed that he lived for approximately an hour after being shot.

Here’s helmet-cam footage of the incident. Check the “professionalism” of the PCSD SWAT team:

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Three months after the raid, in which no drugs were found in the Guerena home and no evidence of wrongdoing on his part, no one had been charged with any crime. Guerena’s family sued for $20 million. They have been awarded $3.4 million.

José Guerena’s crime, for which he paid with his life? Having relatives involved in the drug trade.

Had they wanted to, the Sheriff’s department could have arrested him at work and then searched his home at their leisure.  Instead, they suited up and did a “raid.”  And an innocent man is dead because of it.

And as Radley Balko documents, this is not an exceptional case, except possibly for the settlement.

More Democrat Flee-Bagging

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Reader Grumpy Old Fart left a link in a comment to this story:

During the second portion of a House Oversight and Government Reform hearing about Benghazi Thursday on Capitol Hill, the majority of Democrats on the Committee left the room and refused to listen to the testimony of Patricia Smith and Charles Woods. Ms. Smith is the mother of Sean Smith, an information management officer killed in the 9/11 Benghazi attack. Charles Woods is the father of Navy SEAL Tyrone Woods, who was also killed.

Here’s the picture:

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The far side of the room, shown empty in the photo, belongs to the Democrats. The only Democrats who stayed were Ranking Member Elijah Cummings and Rep. Jackie Speier.

Had enough yet?

No Shame

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Obama in July, 2008:

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Obama in September, 2013:

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Raising the debt ceiling, which has been done over a hundred times,
does not increase our debt.

Then why do we need to raise the ceiling? Aren’t we again “taking out a credit card from the Bank of China in the name of our children” and “driving up the national debt”? What’s different now?

The difference is, now he’s the President, and under his administration, the national debt has increased from $10.5 trillion in November of 2008 to over $16.9 trillion today, some $200 billion over the current “ceiling,” – but through accounting sleight-of-hand by the Treasury, it’s been “officially” stuck at $16,699,396,000,000 since mid-May,  an interesting tidbit the MSM hasn’t found interesting enough to comment on.

It’s like they’re protecting him or something.

Quote of the Day – No Right to Feel Safe Edition

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Police…released all the names of the dead — many of them workers whose offices were behind high walls and armed guards, seemingly in one of the safest corners of federal Washington.

They were not safe. The dead were found in the building’s lobby, police said, and on the third and fourth floors.

If someone is willing to die in order to kill you, there is no place that is safe. There is no “right to feel safe,” it’s an illusion, just as “gun free zones” are an illusion.

So, Let’s Review What We Know, Think, Believe About Aaron Alexis

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I love modern media and the 24-hour news cycle.

There were three, two, was only one shooter at the Navy Yard.  It was a mid-fifties white male in fatigues, 34 year-old black male – excuse me, “Texan.”  He had a rifle, pistol, and shotgun an AR-15 a shotgun.  He entered a secure base using someone else’s ID his own ID.  He had a past history of violent behavior, but passed not one, but two background checks very recently to get a “Secret” security clearance.

In other words, we don’t know SHIT.

Give it 24-48 hours.

And please, don’t judge all Buddhists by the acts of one man.

But feel free to judge all gun owners by the acts of one man!

Had Enough Yet?

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Republican conservative columnist George Will was recently interviewed by Reason TV.  In that interview, Will says:

Whatever confidence and optimism I felt towards the central government when I got here on January 1, 1970 has pretty much dissipated at the hands of the government.

I have another example –  Jesse Jackson Jr.:

Although disgraced Illinois Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. suddenly developed a “mood disorder” as the feds were about to indict him, he qualifies for generous government disability payments because it’s considered a debilitating mental illness.

Of interesting note is that Jackson Jr., sentenced this week to 2½ years in prison for corruption, never showed any symptoms of a “mood disorder” during his 17 years as a federal lawmaker. The mental illness surfaced abruptly last summer as the congressman, a member of Judicial Watch’s Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians list, was about to get criminally charged.

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The late onset of what we now knows is a debilitating mental illness makes Junior eligible to get $8,700 per month in government disability pay, according to a news report that also says the slammer-bound politician can get a partial federal pension of $45,000 despite his transgressions.

That’s $149,400 per year. Until, of course, he achieves the “full recovery” promised by his doctors.

Yeah. Right.

Glenn Reynolds uses the phrase “Tar.  Feathers.” a lot at Instapundit.  I’ve reached the conclusion that it needs to stop being rhetorical and start being literal.