From Fox News:
Images Show Police Well Armed for Raid on Polygamist Retreat
Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot, Over?!?!?!
The police need an armored personnel carrier and automatic weapons to serve a search warrant now? Because as we all know, Mormons are among the most violent of religious people…
And like Colonel Cooper said, good and decent men have no need to wear masks. That thigh holster carrying that TACTICAL and ee-leet Glock sure is cool though.
Just exactly who is the brave, masked man below going to snipe with an M-16 and a 20-round magazine? Not exactly the weapon of choice for long-range shooting, but then you would have to actually know the nomenclature and capabilities of your weapons to realize that.
His center of mass is also framed quite nicely between those two boulders…a nice dark target between two white bookends should somebody actually decide to return fire. However, if you are just doing this for shits and giggles, and because it makes you feel macho, then its all for show anyway.
Look at these clowns. Any excuse to get their toys out and play with them.
Seriously folks, this picture is unbelievable! Look at it again! Four goons riding around in an APC! There is no longer any distinction between the county sheriff’s department and a “Standing Army.”
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again…If you guys want to play Marine, go join the Marines. they will give you an opportunity to play with all these neat toys and to actually be in a situation where you might, you know, need them.
Oh, and the other side might really shoot back. Assholes.
From the report: “Sect members took the photos and video during the first few days of a seven-day raid that involved police agencies from six counties, the Texas Rangers, the state highway patrol and wildlife officers.”
It took NINE! police agencies SEVEN days to round up a bunch of girls and old men? Just exactly how incompetent are these guys that they needed NINE police agencies (including wildlife officers!?!? – WTF, were they apprehending goats and chickens too?) to do their job?
FLDS members carefully documented the raid in notes, video and still pictures of police and child protection workers talking with families, but much of that material was seized when police executed one of two search warrants on the ranch, Parker said.
Sure - can’t have any evidence of what these dumbasses actually did on that property. Like they always say to us, if you have nothing to hide, then you shouldn’t be worried, right? Seems to me that honorable men who were proud of their work would welcome cameras and eye-witnesses so that the FLDS members couldn’t accuse them of something they didn’t do.
Don’t get me wrong, if there is probable cause to suspect widespread abuse (and one phone call from an anonymous girl is not that) then go in with a warrant and ascertain the situation, and arrest your suspects. But since there was no reason to believe these people were heavily armed, or even would resist search or arrest, couldn’t they just, you know, drive up and knock on the door? this mentality that every single citizen is hostile to the police is what leads to this military mentality.
Didn’t they learn anything from Waco? Sheesh.
Update: As usual, Tam beat me to it, and did a better job…So did Marko. Damn.
April 16, 2008 at 9:25 am |
That’s the money quote, right there.
April 17, 2008 at 1:17 am |
Interesting hobby. I want want one of these tanks