Dog Brothers Public Forum

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/2011_1105hub_to_occupy_shape_up_or_ship_out/srvc=home&position=2

City officials are vowing to keep the heat on derelict protest-crashers at Occupy Boston, while some demonstrators are calling for drug dealers and lawbreakers to hit the road.
 
“We are looking to get our act together,” said Mike Ippolito, an Occupier who has lived in the makeshift camp since its first day. “Actions are being taken to tighten up. ... I believe weapons, drugs and alcohol have no place here.”
 
Just this week, cops have made two drug busts, including one yesterday in which three men were nabbed for allegedly peddling crack cocaine.

 

Undercover cops probing reports of drug dealing in the tent city busted Atu Austin, 31, of Roxbury and Lamont Daughtery, 21, and Thomas McLaughlin, 29, both of Hyde Park, on charges of selling crack. The alleged drug deal began in the encampment and culminated near the Pine Street Inn homeless shelter, authorities said.
 
“As is evident by our recent drug arrests, we continue to send a very clear message to those individuals that drug distribution will not be tolerated,” Boston police spokeswoman Elaine Driscoll said.
 
In addition to the drug busts, several unruly homeless people have been removed from the site, including one who allegedly menaced Occupiers with a knife. Police are also probing Occupy-related vandalism downtown and expect arrests soon, Driscoll said.

http://hotair.com/archives/2011/11/05/good-news-ows-sets-up-women-only-tent-to-help-cut-down-on-rapes/

Good news: OWS sets up women-only tent to help cut down on rapes
 
posted at 4:16 pm on November 5, 2011 by Allahpundit

Grim perfection from Glenn Reynolds: “I guess they really are taking Tahrir Square as their model.”
 
Let it sink in: Their protests now need rape shelters. This is actually happening. And New York City lets it go on.
 

Zuccotti Park has become so overrun by sexual predators attacking women in the night that organizers felt compelled to set up a female-only sleeping tent yesterday to keep the sickos away.
 
The large, metal-framed “safety tent” — which will be guarded by an all-female patrol — can accommodate as many as 18 people and will be used during the day for women-only meetings, said Occupy Wall Street organizers.
 
“This is all about safety in numbers,” said Becky Wartell, 24, a protester from Portland, Maine…
 
Some of the male OWS protesters remained in denial over the growing number of sex attacks.
 
“Sexual harassment gets called rape, and it’s not,” one scoffed when told of the women’s tent.
 
This can’t be repeated enough: With a few exceptions, foremost among them the New York Post, the coverage of OWS protests compared to the coverage of tea-party protests is the worst media double standard in recent history. Nothing compares, because nothing else involves this much distortion on both ends of the coverage. It’s not just that most press outlets (like the protesters themselves) look the other way at depravity happening inside Obamaville, it’s that for years they treated the tea-party movement as some sort of feral mob that was forever on the brink of rampaging through the streets — like, say, Occupy Oakland just did. If you missed it when I posted it last week, go watch the ad the DNC ran in August 2009 when tea partiers first started showing up to town halls on ObamaCare. That set the tone. We began the year with tea-party pols being smeared as killers over a shooting they had nothing to do with and we end it with actual rapes being shrugged off by the press because they’re bad PR for a movement they support. Disgrace.
 
Via the Daily Caller, watch the not-at-all feral or mobbish revolutionary heroes of Occupy D.C. do their thing last night outside AFP. The video doesn’t capture the extent of the menace, either. For that, read R.S. McCain’s interview with D.C. reporter Michelle Fields, who at one point found herself surrounded by a group of men screaming “F*** Michelle Fields.” No wonder she doesn’t want to go back. Tahrir Square indeed.

http://www.punditpress.com/2011/11/fear-of-violence-spreading-to-occupy.html

Saturday, November 5, 2011
Fear of Violence Spreading to Occupy Seattle

Posted by Thomas Ferdousi at 4:15 PM

With violence breaking out among members of Occupy Oakland and Denver, there is a growing concern that the movement may break out into mob storms. With the protesters losing members and even positive press coverage, there is a further concern of outright attacks beginning.

This brings us to Seattle, where these is a very real atmosphere of tensions building in the city. In 1999 the city, known for its hippy and hipster populations, saw violent protests against the World Trade Organization.

Now, it has gotten so tense that parents are even cordoning the Occupy protesters from their children. The occupiers had even squatted on a playground, creating an unsafe environment:


“He likes going out in the sandbox and playing and he can’t do that anymore,” Crawford says.

Crawford says he walked around the area near the playground and saw empty beer cans and smelled marijuana.

Just as in Oakland, tensions between the police and the protesters are increasing, so much so that violence may begin in the Northwest city.


Reports of Occupy Seattle's protestors animosity towards police has been noted in confrontations since they took up encampment in Seattle's Westlake Park.

Just several weeks ago came arrests in the city as the protesters refused to move. They were met with arrests:


Those who refused are being arrested and their tents are being moved.

KOMO Radio reports there have been a half-dozen arrests for obstruction.

The costs of all of these protests for Seattle? Over $100k so far. And that's not even counting lost business and possibly lost jobs. With those factors included, the number could be much, much higher.

Please bookmark!

http://www.coloradoan.com/article/20111105/NEWS01/111050345/Old-Town-arson-suspect-addressed-Fort-Collins-City-Council-support-Occupy-protest?odyssey=mod_sectionstories

Benjamin David Gilmore, who has been arrested on suspicion of arson in the Oct. 24 Old Town fire, appeared before the Fort Collins City Council on Tuesday during the public comment portion of the meeting.

In his comments, Gilmore asked that the city find a way to accommodate the Occupy Fort Collins movement and allow it to stay where protesters have been gathering the past few weeks. He compared it to a special event that could be permitted by the city.

"Please, we are asking: let us continue, let us be free," he said.

Gilmore also criticized the country's banking system and the two-party political system during his remarks, comparing them to playing a game with a 5-year-old who changes the rules in order to win.

"Normally, I am very reserved and very quiet, but tonight I feel compelled that I need to address you," Gilmore told the council.

I know that the cops and the public know that the OWS are violent scum, busy raping and stealing when they aren't rioting or committing other felonies.

2) I have an official Dog Brothers Keychain. The first day, perhaps it was hectic in the morning, I was allowed to keep it. When I came back from lunch, one of the officers noticed it was a Kubotan and held onto it. I was given a receipt and told to pick it up before I left for the day. I'm thinking the officers confiscated the keychain, and yet, jurors were allowed in with canes! Truly an example of the Walking Cane being the last of the legal self-defense implements. Wonder if I showed up with a Cold Steel City Stick and effected a limp... would the cane be held? LOL



Not a Kubotan!    

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15480741

I hazard the guess that our GM will not approve of the tone here

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-jail-force-20111030,0,1292189.story

Oh no, I'm sure LA's jail are full of wonderful, if a bit impish inmates and any violence that takes place is always the fault of the horrible deputies.

I wish the ACLU and similar groups would form non-profit companies that would provide contract detention/correctional facilities for counties and states. Then they could have real world examples of how to run such places. Funny how they haven't done this yet.

**Ok, let's now unleash the ignorant assclowns to discuss how the poor felon shouldn't have died based on biased media reporting. Oh wait, the shooter wasn't a cop.


Nevermind.


http://hotair.com/archives/2011/10/29/hennepin-county-makes-the-right-choice-in-good-samaritan-shooting/

Hennepin County makes the right choice in Good Samaritan shooting

posted at 1:15 pm on October 29, 2011 by Ed Morrissey

 
Give some credit to Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman, even if the outcome of the Evanovich case was nothing more than common sense. Darren Evanovich and his sister participated in an armed robbery outside of a grocery store in Minneapolis last week, which they concluded by pistol-whipping the middle-aged woman they robbed. A Good Samaritan chased after Evanovich, but Evanovich pulled the gun when he turned the corner. Unfortunately for Evanovich, the Good Samaritan had a carry permit and a handgun of his own — which he drew and fired after Evanovich drew first. Evanovich died almost immediately, and the question became whether the police and/or the DA would charge him with homicide.
 
Not only did Freeman decline to press charges, he commended the Good Samaritan for responding to “his fellow citizen in need”:


No charges will be filed against the “Good Samaritan” who shot and killed a robber two weeks ago in the parking lot of a Cub Foods store in Minneapolis.
 
That word today from the Hennepin County Attorney’s Office….
 
According to witnesses, the man drove up to the spot where he saw Evanovich going through the victim’s purse and asked him if he wanted to give the purse back.
 
Witnesses say that’s when it started to turn ugly–Evanovich pointed his gun at the “Good Samaritan,” and moved towards him.
 
The man in the vehicle pulled out his handgun and shot Evanovich.
 
Authorities say after they reviewed the circumstances, they determined that the man “acted in self-defense.”
 
Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman said today in a press release, “While this man is to be commended for helping his fellow citizen in need, a note of caution is appropriate. We prefer that armed citizens do not chase after criminals. Too much can go wrong with deadly consequences.”
 
That’s actually good advice. As the late Joel Rosenberg wrote and taught, a carry permit is not a Junior G-Man badge. In those circumstances, people would be better advised to call 911 and let the police deal with the situation rather than confronting an assailant known to be armed. However, it was clear from the beginning that the Good Samaritan didn’t initiate the deadly threat, and that the perp was a dangerous person.

If all you knew about this case came from the local media, however, you’d never know that. My radio partner and carry-permit activist Mitch Berg has followed this case closely at Shot in the Dark, and has blasted the coverage this case received from local print and TV. That includes KSTP, which produced today’s much more balanced report, and WCCO, which gave Evanovich’s mother a sympathetic interview that made the claim that Evanovich was the victim. The Star Tribune printed a lengthy article that focused on Evanovich’s dedication to his community, which unsurprisingly left out a few details about Evanovich’s last few moments of life, and made it sound as if the Good Samaritan had just hunted Evanovich down like a dog.

In fact, here’s a great look at Matt McKinney’s “reporting” on this story:
 

The investigation ensnared Evanovich’s sister, Octavia Marberry, this week when she was jailed on allegations of fraud and aggravated robbery. She had been with Evanovich the night he died, and according to their mother, held him in her arms as he took his last breath.
 
She was “with Evanovich the night he died,” all right — she was an accomplice in the crime:
 

Authorities say they believe 20-year-old Octavia Marberry of Minneapolis has possibly been involved as an accomplice in this and two other store parking lot robberies.
 
According to the criminal complaint, on Thursday, October 20th, a 53-year-old woman was robbed just before 10:00 p.m. outside the Cub Foods on 26th Avenue and struck in the head by a gun held by the robber, 23-year-old Darren Evanovich.
 
Minneapolis Police say their investigation showed that at least two other people were with him and one of them was Marberry.

In fact, in the new KSTP report above, it sounds as though Octavia Marberry may have been the ringleader of this gang. The investigation didn’t “ensnare” her, as the Strib tries to frame it — Marberry was always at the center of it.

Given the kind of pressure that the local media tried to put on Freeman, his decision to do the right thing is all the more remarkable. Kudos to him, and jeers to the local media that tried to turn a victim into a criminal and the criminals into victims. They should be ashamed of themselves. They won’t be, but they should.
 
You can bet that Mitch and I will be discussing this on today’s NARN, so be sure to tune in.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCSxQXY406g&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCSxQXY406g&feature=player_embedded

Shotguns have a great role in defending fixed positions at close ranges. Even birdshot from a 12 gauge is devistating within 15 feet or so. Most anyone can afford a shotgun and some training/range time with it.

If you live in a place with shall issue CCW laws, it's a serious mistake not to have one.

Doug,

I'd point out states with "Make my day" laws, like Colorado have low rates of home invasions/occupied dwelling burglary calls.

Solid, secured doors and a plan to repel assaulters can make the difference.

http://www.policeone.com/police-jobs/articles/4540102-Justice-Dept-12k-cops-out-of-work-by-years-end/

Justice Dept: 12k cops out of work by year's end

Reductions will put law enforcement on pace for its first job decline in 25 years

By Kevin Johnson
USA TODAY

WASHINGTON — By year's end, nearly 12,000 police officers will have lost their jobs, and 30,000 positions in county and municipal departments will go unfilled, both direct consequences of a faltering economy that has forced deep cuts in local government budgets.

The sweeping reductions, outlined in a Justice Department review to be delivered today to the nation's police chiefs meeting in Chicago, put law enforcement on pace for its first job decline in 25 years.

"The effects of the economic downturn on law enforcement agencies may be felt for the next five to 10 years, or worse, permanently,'' the report concluded, adding that the days when local governments allocated up to 50% of their budgets for public safety are "no longer a fiscal possibility.''

Woof,
 Shooting some plates and how to change a mag, in a hurry. And yes, that's me doing the shooting.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNPjabBk5CA&feature=BFa&list

                by P.C.

Good hits on the plates.

We could rename the thread "Crafty's Treehouse of Horror"!



Just saying.....   

A couple points:

In any threat situation, one must survive the immediate threat before worrying about longer term issues. Once you have escaped/evaded the immidiate threat, one must worry about protection from the elements, then water and lastly food. The bunny and cat might be tasty a few weeks into such a scenario.

Woof Guide Dog...
     I wish I lived closer, for I would finally be able to answer that burning question that was asked of me by a student a few years ago after his second lesson.  He didn't come back after I couldn't assure him that FMA was the best system for surviving the ZA.  I wish I was joking.  Good luck, and have fun!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombieland

The rules
 
A running gag, and a central theme throughout the film, is the list of rules Columbus comes up with for surviving in the zombie-infested world. By the end of the film, his list has thirty-three rules; only some of them are mentioned. A series of promotional videos starring Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg expanded on the list presented in the film.[6]
 1."Cardio"[7]
 2."Double tap"[8] ("Ziploc bags" in a deleted scene)[7]
 3."Beware of bathrooms"[7][9]
 4."Wear seatbelts"[7]
 6."Cast iron skillet"
 7."Travel light"
 8."Get a kickass partner"
 12."Bounty paper towels"
 15."Bowling Ball"
 17."Don't be a hero"[10]
 18."Limber up"
 21."Avoid strip clubs"
 22."When in doubt, know your way out"
 29."The buddy system"
 31."Check the back seat"[11]
 32."Enjoy the little things"[12]
 33."Swiss army knife"
 34."Clean socks"
 48."Hygiene"
 49."Always have backup"
 
In a deleted scene on the DVD, Columbus presents an alternate rule number 2 titled "Ziploc Bags".[13]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOrNdBpGMv8&NR=1[/youtube]


Can't wait!

Great line from Tony Stark.

Some guys just can't help but set themselves up... reminds me of a story one of my NCOs told me about a guy who appeared in one of the first commercials touting the Army's new "Army of One" campaign, which was to replace the old "Be all you can be" slogan.  This particular commercial was the one with a soldier running in the desert by himself with a ruck on his back and his dog tags hanging out (big no no).  Anyway, turns out that my NCO was in the same SF selection series as this guy.  Word passed around quickly that this soldier was "the guy in the commercial."  According to my NCO, the selection cadre freaking DOGGED him mercilessly for this; when he quit, somewhere a loudspeaker blared out, "Now that the Army of One has quit, the rest of you can go back to being all you can be!!!" 

I love this story.

I feel bad for that soldier. I assume he was chosen for the commercial and didn't seek it out. If he did, that's different.

I'm torn between mocking him or thinking that he's doing something good.

http://www.exciteddelirium.org/indexForLawEnforcement.html

Watch the videos.

So, did the shower scene in "American History X" bring back happy or sad memories for you?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkNeQdLg6Nc[/youtube]

I want a cool theme song too!

Thanks for derailing a discussion on law enforcement because of your inability to distiguish fantasy from reality or subordinate your need for attention and approval as a compensitory mechanism for your inadiquate personality.

"I've been tased GM. I'll admit, I didn't know he died while in custody. Shoot me."

Well, If you'd bothered to read what was posted in the thread earlier, you'd know. But that would interfere with your internet chest-thumping/Walter Mitty-esque attention-seeking, which I think is your real agenda here.