I am a Pod-Person.

I have to be. Otherwise I would not be so addicted to an RPG type game.

I'm a first-person-shooter goober. I like to keep it simple, running around like a thick headed tool shooting people in the face and solving more complex puzzels with a well-timed hand grenade. Ever since I can remember I've enjoyed first or third perspective simulations and shooter titles. Always have, figured I always would. Trobule is that game developers are having to broaden the capabilities of their games in order to keep them complex enough to be interesting. Nothing makes a game more complex like a crap-pot load of abilities and resource management.

When someone says to me "RPG" I think of Final Fantasy ad nauseam, endless repetative actions and random battles with turn based combat that makes me wonder why I didn't play a rowdy game of checkers instead. Boring.

Now however games like Mass Effect and most recently Fallout 3 and Fable 2 have shown me that compromise can be a very good thing. The new RPG is a mix between the excitement of a first / third person shooter coupled with the ability to manage certain character abilities and manage resources to augment game-play. This, I like.

I had pre-ordered CoD:WaW and have been playing the beta. About a week before it released I happen to find myself at the GameStop where I had pre-ordered it. I found myself there because on the way to Rugby, ND. to go hunting with a buddy, we got stalled in Minot when a winter storm closed Hwy 2 east of Minot and all otehr alternate routes were likewise fubar. Hunting weekend: Fuck-O.  Anyway, so now being ticked off and bored I suddently wanted to feed the "I want a new game now" jones and decided that WaW duidn't offer that much over CoD4. I cashed in my credit on the pre-paid title and decided to get something else. I had been really interested in Fallout 3 and because of the advertising for the game and my complete dunder-headed ignorance about the Fable series, I bought Fallout 3.

Played it for two days and I was impressed. However, my brother was playing Fable 2 as were a few of my other friends. Fable 2 has a co-op element, Fallout 3 does not. So, I went and rented Fable 2...

... 36 hours later without sleep I realized that I can no longer make fun of those WoW addicts (okay, maybe a little). It was crazy good. It helped that while I was just getting started in the first quest that my brothers icon floated into view and he gifted me two very powerful weapons. THEN another guy on my friends list (thank you Darkness Prevails) floated in and gifted me 450,000 gold pieces. THAT my friends is a good start.

I kept the love going by gifting a few things to some other friends who had just started playing the game and this capability adds a nice plus to the title.

I proceeded to play the game for a week and finished off my first character go-round. I re-rented and am now half-way through my second character go-round. This is one of the best games I have ever played and I am planning on purchasing a copy. I am also planning on buying Fable from the Arcade and playing it as well for some of the back story.

Go BUY Fable 2! If you don't you may find a pod next to your bed.

Posted by cmoth @ 6:42 am EDT | Permalink | 0 Comments

Hope, and a batch of cookies.

I watched Obama's acceptance speech last night and I have to say that I was impressed. I thought it was a great speech.

I didn't vote for Obama. It's not because he's a Democrat or the color of his skin. I didn't vote for Obama because of two very important reasons, his voting record and complete lack of any plan or platform. His voting record in Congress ddin't blow my skirt up any. All I saw were a lot of programs that cost a lot of money and a lot of legislation that screwed with my individual rights. His complete lack of a plan or platform is clear to anybody that actually listened to (or at least desperately sought for) any kind of ideas during his campaign.

Nothing. It was an idea drought. The only things he promised were "change" and a slogan. "Yes, We Can!"

I wasn't that crazy about John McCain. There are a few things in McCains voting record in Congress that rubbed me the wrong way as well. The difference is that I knew what his plan was and it was one I could live with. I would have preferred a diferent candidate but I didn't get one. I was kind of hoping Ron Paul would get the nod but, he wasn't for a larger more powerful government so naturally he was out before he got started.

I was made even more nervous when the pundits didn't even really have anything good to say when Obama was elected by electoral college. The only thing I heard any of them say was how it was a huge leap forward for civil rights and for race relations.......

... wait, WHAT!!....

What they neglected to point out in all of their discussion for the huge voter turnout (and I know I'm going to get blasted for this) was that the HUGE increase in registered voter turnout was from primarily inner-cities and metro-population centers with large minority populations.

While I didn't cast a vote based on race, THEY certainly did! How do I know? Take a look at some of the post election commentary and it's clear.

There were a few things that disturbed me about Obama's campaign. He flatly refuses to say the pledge of allegiance and he WON'T salute or recognize the flag. That was something that was drummed into him by his ellitist mother. Of course, I noticed during his acceptance party that he didn't bother to be out on stage when the pledge was spoken but he didn't mind everybody else saying the pledge and saluting the flag now that he's standing under it.

Before someone rolls there eyes and starts decrying "sour-grapes" I want to assure you that I am hoping and praying that Obama has the intentions that he seems to in the generalized sense that he has voiced them. I hope beyond all rationale that I am dead wrong about his motivations and intentions. Unfortunately for me, and for YOU by the way, his past doesn't indicate any error in my thinking.

I've already voiced in previous entries what my feelings are about the Bill of Rights and the importance they have for all of us as a cohesive document. What gives us our rock to stand on and declare ourselves Americans in the classical sense and what most other Nations and their peoples are jealous of are our freedoms declared in that document. It doesn't GRANT us those freedoms, it RECOGNIZES them as inalienable, God given. The only thing needed to have those rights bestowed is to be born. Our Declaration of Independence also states that the very rights and freedoms given to us by our creator also give us a responsibilty to maintain those rights against those that would take them from us. It is what the Founding Fathers based the revolution against the English crown on and it's the reason that the Bill of Rights includes the statements that it does, they wanted to ensure that Americans would always have the tools needed to maintain the United States as a nation of individuals with equal voices and opportunities.

A lot of people (particularly the more liberal and socialist types) would point out that they are mearly words on paper, subject to revision. Funny enough, those same people place great stock in words and give great weight to those who can speak them well.

The uneducated and illiterate tend to look upon someone with great oratory skills as someone who is superior to them in some way. If they appear to be learned then they must know something the rest of us don't and we should listen and take what they say as good information. Barack Obama said a lot of very intelligent things about nothing in particular, allowing the listener to plug in their own hopes and ideas. He basically provided fill in the blank question with himself placed as the answer to whatever equation was drafted by the onlooker.

Lots of other historical political figures were able to do the same thing. I won't mention any names so as not to make anyone nervous.

LIke I have mentioned before, not all change is good. Winning the lottery changes a persons life, so does losing your job or your house burning down. WHAT is he going to do? He never said. Who is it going to effect? All of us of course. Some will like it others won't. Once again, I look to his voting history, I probably won't like it.

I am very proud that so many pepole went out and voted, we've been wanting a bigger turn-out for elections and we got it, for better or for worse, more of us are involved in the political process. That can be a good thing as long as we aren't selfishly looking to our own interests.

Voting for someone because they are black is just as wrong as NOT voting for them because they are black. The color of the man's skin shouldn't mean anything to us. THAT'S the dream Dr. King spoke of. He didn't ask for a nation dominated by any one culture, he wanted to see a nation of mixed cultures who were able to peacably coexist without judging one another for our diferences. I think he would be very disappointed that the first African-American elected as President wasn't elected for his qualities of substance but for his race.

I've already heard of some of the plans for dealing with our nations economic issues and I am very worried. Not just Obama's projected responses (projection is all anyone's been ale to do since he hasn't said anything substantial) but the plans of the Democratic party who for the first time in decades have majorities in both houses of Congress and a man behind the executive pen signing off on their legislation.

Yet another huge economic stimulus that we can't afford (didn't the Democrats say that was a bad thing when Bush did ti?), higher taxes (they are inevitable), higher inflation (they are already talking about cranking out more currency to try and spur spending), work programs based upon FDR's Works Progress Administration (without an admission that they failed, they simply stalled the economy until WW2 showed up to rescue our industry). There are all kinds of things being discussed that they are hoping will "stimulate" the economy but historically have only raised inflation and taxes which will of course result in more money to spend on fewer things (loaf of bread costing $12 for example) and lower consumer confidence.

For the record, there isn't anything to stop what is happening to our economy. It has to happen. We've had a great run and now it's time for the slump. The higher an economy goes before the slump, the farther it will slump. There is no growth without loss.

Obama's speech was a brilliant work, but like a recipe, the words on the page are nothing without quality ingredients and the well measured execution of a talented cook.

I hope he's really good in the kitchen and that in the process of his creations our Constitution doesn't get burned.

Posted by cmoth @ 8:23 pm EDT | Permalink | 5 Comments

Quote of the day.

I can't take credit for this. I wish I could because the sentence is rich in meaning for all of us that live in a country dependent upon it's electorate to select it's leadership.

"A government big enough to give you anything you want, is strong enough to take everything from you." Thomas Jeferson.

Brilliant. And, considering that we are approaching an election year, topical.

I'm not going to tell you how to vote or who to vote for. That's a personal decision, one that shouldn't be taken lightly. The right to go, unmolested and unencumbered, to a poling place and place a ballot for the person you want to guide the nation (or any other political office) is a privelege that has been bought and paid for in blood and sacrifice. It's a gift given to us by those with the courage to do that which the majority are typically unwilling to do.

What the majority are typically willing to do is to ostrich themselves in the sands of their own version of reality. We humans have a tendency to hope for the best and by extension try and forget that the worst is also lurking. We all want good things to happen and because we don't believe that we "deserve" bad things to happen we don't prepare for them. We put on our blinders and continue to go about our days as if everything is fine.

What we also forget is that all of us have our bad sides. We can be selfish and often are, seeing our own needs and desires as paramount while the needs and desires of others are put on the backburner until they are more inline with our own. That is true of all of us and we all know it, we just don't often acknowledge it. If you don't believe me ask anyone victimized by a fellow human being. The criminal element are not some alien race from another planet, they are us. They made a decision to palce their wants and needs ahead of their victims. In an extreme manner to be sure but still that simple.

If that is true then it means that the people we place in political office are also capable of that and, as we have learned the hard way at times, do exactly that.

The Constitution sets up a blueprint for a government that is based on a "checks and balances" formula. We have three bodies of government that all have their place. The Legislative branch passes laws to do things, the Executive approve or disapprove of those laws and if needed implement them, and the Judicial challenges those laws or HOW they are implemented based on our Constitution so that those laws do not threaten our basic rights or unnecessarily interfere with our lives (that is, if anyone bitces about it). A lot of you are old enough to remember covering this material in school. Hopefully, you had parents who knew this and encouraged you to remember that.

Problem is, apparently there are a lot of people who don't realize any of this. Considering that only about 30% of us make it to a Presidential election (less than that during non-presidential elections) it appears that most would like a small group of us to make decisions for them.

I won't go into too much detail but there is a theoretical and very simplified way of looking at humanity as a whole that makes its rounds through the law enforcement and military communities. People can be broken down into three distinct groups: Sheep, Wolves and Dogs / Sheepdogs. Sheep describes the majority of the population who typically ostrich themselves, the Wolves are those who take advantage of the Sheep, and the Dogs are those of us who have chosen to try and protect the Sheep while they try to ignore the looming threat.

Most of the time when there is an immediate threat that the Sheep are aware of, the Sheep are happy as hell that the Dog has shown up to take care of the problem and scare the Wolf away (or kill it if need be). The problems arise when the Dog is barking and the Sheep don't see (or are unwilling to believe) the threat lurking in the shadows. The usual response is to tell the Dog to shut up and then go back to eating grass.

When a single person is being victimized it's easy for some to try ignore it and not do anything (they might use their cell phone but that's about it). So, when we are talking about legislation that seemingly effects only a small percentage of Americans, it's easy for the rest of us to think that it won't affect our own existence and try to tell those troubled by it to be quiet and not disturb the herd. Problem is that when one groups way of life is compromised  by legislation or by the implementation of it, it means so could the rest of us if only the pen used to write the legislation had kept writing.

We can't allow even one concept in the Bill of Rights or Constitution to be compromised because like pillars in a building, all are important to maintain the integrity of the whole.

No matter how polite, how well dressed, how well spoken, we cannot allow someone the power of office who as a platofrm would compromise any of those rights and freedoms.

Please, VOTE on November 4th. And when you vote, consider the importance of your actions and the powers that you are about to grant those chosen to lead.

More importantly, remember that there is a continuing responsibility of the population to keep careful eye on it's elected officials and to remove them if they perform counter to our freedoms or their duties. The Consitution provides the means for a persons removal from political office and THAT is the true power of the American electorate, not the election but the POWER we ALL possess to take someone out of their elected position.

Exercising that right on a National scale would be difficult in the extreme considering the shear numbers and background of the population but, politicians do not start off running for President. Politicians start off in local and regional government positions and work their way through higher and higher positions. If we were to implement our powers of impeachment at the local and State level more often we could condition into those who would seek to have power over us the we are paying attention and are willing to do what it takes to protect our freedoms.

Shots fired in revolution would not have to be taken if the will of the people were heard more loudly before it became necessary to rebel.

Of course, it's nice to have the right to speak those voices and mighty comforting to know that if they don't listen we would have the tools to make them listen.

Don't allow anyone to take away either. 

Posted by cmoth @ 8:41 pm EDT | Permalink | 3 Comments

What the FUCK!! did he just say??

That's probably what some of you might say after reading this.

I have had an epiphany. Yes, another one. And this one is a whopper.

I was responding to the second fight call in less than 20 minutes, all of them for the most moronic of reasons, when it dawned on me. Now, I've had this consideration before in little bits and pieces but it apparently decided to all come flooding to me at once in a huge cohesive steaming pile of brilliance.

It's not the gun that commits the robbery or the homocide. It isn't the genitals that commit a rape or molestation. It isn't the narcotic or other substance that causes dependence or addiction. It isn't the swung fist that beats a loved one, crushing whatever trust that should exist with the unsupported claim of love and devotion. It isn't the words themselves that are uttered that cause grief and strife.

No inanimate object or extension of ourselves causes the torrent of human misery that we commit against each other on a regular basis, not on it's own and not of it's own volition. No ladies and gentleman, the most fiendish weapon ever devised is the human brain.

For that reason I propose legislation to have the human brain declared a weapon of mass destruction. As such you would need to pass an extensive background check, an IQ test, a random quiz, and a drug screen (we don't want that weapon to be contaminated do we?) prior to allowing someone to carry one concealed in public. Of course if you do not possess said permit and are found to be carrying one, particularly if you use it (God forbid), then you could be charged with a felony and have any potential future rights taken from you. That would of course require removal of the weapon, or disabling it by means of either physical or chemical labotomy (we can quibble over details later, after all "it's for our children's safety").

I realize that the above is rediculous, nobody would consider that would they? Well, maybe. After all they heavily considered such practices including forced sterilization for the mentally handicapped to prevent them from breeding. That was in THIS country by the way in the 30's and 40's. The Third Reich weren't the only ones dabbling in eugenics (think I'm full of shit? linky: http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=qYHscsPFF-wC&dq=Eugenics&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=absRhAFpT-&sig=s8Z9WIMNaUbEIsSu93WYtGrRo20&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=6&ct=result )

What I outlined above uses undeniable reasoning: try to argue with me. Ask any scientist in any discipine and they will point out that the biggest sexual organ is the brain, the brain makes all of our decisions, the good and the really shitty, albeit with our help in most cases but sometimes without our participation such as the case with the mentally and emotionally disturbed.

Blind reasoning is bad enough but when we use such logical constructs with A PRECONCIEVED AGENDA, it's more than reasoning abscent of humanitarian concern it's conspiracy.

The biggest harm we commit against ourselves every election and throughout all legislative sessions is allowing some three-piece suited prick to convince a group or be convinced by a group to blaim yet another social ill on anything other than our humanity. Trying to pawn off our guilt onto some material or property like IT caused the incident is nothing more than a quazi-deception, a half-truth we tell ourselves to try and mitigate our responsibility.

The described thinking has resulted in legislation such as prohibition, the bull-shit "war on drugs", gun-control, forced castration, etc.

The vast majority of people who consume alcohol do NOT drive around running people over or beating their spouses, but they cause a hell of a lot more pandaleriam than your majority of pot-heads. The vast majority of firearms owners never do anything more with their weapons than lock them away and jealously guard them. In fact, if anything anti-gun legislation has only spurred public demand and a surge in the firearms industry.

I don't know about you but I've never seen anybody dragged around by their genitals, frothing at the mouth in a semi-concious trance while their willies seek out an unknowing victim.

Murderers CHOOSE to kill their victims. Rapists and Molesters CHOOSE to sexually abuse the weak. Thieves CHOOSE to rob and steal. Addicts CHOOSE to plunge in that needle handing over their sanity to a chemical substance. Drunk Drivers CHOOSE to get behind the wheel and risk those around them. Firearms accidents are NOT accidents, someone CHOOSES to ignore basic fundementals of safety and mishandle or fail to secure their weapons, setting the stage for the tragedies trucked out every year "for the children".

Every time some new statistic gets wheeled out we shouldn't be ganging up to cast our votes in support of the next empty piece of paper promising nothing more than a further reduction in our civil liberties. A major cornerstone of our Constitutional Republic (not Democracy, look it up) is that as long as we don't victimize someone else, we should have the freedom to practice our lives in any way we choose. Our country was founded on idealists looking for freedom OF religious practice not FROM it. Restricting ANYONES right to worship whatever they want, an artichoke maybe if they're in season, and in anyway they see fit, so long as someone else's rights and freedoms aren't infringed upon, is so Orwellian I don't even want to consider where we are eventually headed if it continues.

I should be able to have an anti-aircraft battery in my back yard as long as I do no harm with it. Attach it to the back of my SUV, hall it out to a suitable location and make large holes into something inanimate. Who am I harming? Nobody. Every year, enthuisiasts pack into locations in Kentucky and in the deserts to fire fully-automatic weapons, flame-throwers, grenades, cannons, and other really FUN and Hilarious items. They don't go racing around neighborhoods blasting away recklessly. People who do drive-by shootings are not enthusiasts, they're cruel and disenfranchised people who have been raised (or not raised depending on how you look at it) in a loveless environment or in such a callous mentality that they hold no value to their lives or anyone elses, they lash out to cause harm and dischord and the most theatrical way their small minds can come up with is with a gun or car-bomb.

So, what do we do to potentially lessen the harm caused? Easy. First we have to accept that we all hold responsibility in the cause of the social issues which create people capable or willing to do the kinds of harm we are afraid of. While we are doing everything we can to rectify these issues we should be creating punishments so severe that people will literally think about what they are doing and decide whether or not the risk outways the reward. And, while we are at it, growing the backbones to have the will to see that those punishments are carried out.

Everybody wants more prisons, nobody wants them built in their county. Dumbasses. The last place an escaped convict wants to hang out in is the community he's been forced to inhabit against his will for the last few years.

On that note, right now it's not unusual for someone who has robbed a bank to get 30 years in the pen. Meanwhile, some dipshit molests a schoolyard worth of children and he gets 5 years in the pen (maybe) and 10 years probation where he has to sign a list and tell his neighbors he's a peder-ass. What the FUCK is going ON?

Is money THAT much more important than everything else? Apparently it is.

This election year don't vote with your heart, vote with your head. Demand that the candidate actually identify their platforms and ideas. Challenge them at every turn, don't accept Change for the sake of change. What the fuck are they wanting to change? What part of your life are they wanting to fuck with NOW for God's own sake? Do THEY even know?

Why are we accepting as a matter of course that politicians are being bribed and coerced?

Why do we acknowledge and decry on one hand and then grudgingly surrender to the FACT that our politicians are entering office with barely a dime to their name in most cases and then leaving office wealthy? Ever do the numbers? Their annual salaries, no matter how well invested (legally that is) can add up to the net-worths after several years in office.

The responsibilty they have to us should outweigh the power they have over us. And it's OUR responsibility to swing the balance of power back into OUR hands.

Vote fuckers, and maybe read a damn book or something.

Posted by cmoth @ 10:15 pm EDT | Permalink | 1 Comments

Hells Assholes

Once again, it's been awhile. As usual, work is the culprit.

Recently part of that work was spending a week and a half in Sturgis, SD. working the Black Hills Rally. A pretty cool detail. Every year in August the city of Sturgis swells from just 6000+ to around 500,000. Not all at once, but considering that they are primarily concentrated walking around a 6 block stretch of Main Street, it makes the place pretty crowded. It also makes it a very interesting place to work as a cop.

The Sturgis PD brings in police officers from surrounding area to work the event to bolster their man-power. I've tried the past two years but something always got in the way. This year it worked out and now I'm on a list that will get recalled as long as I want the work. Sweet. The pay isn't great but it isn't shitty either, overtime piles up pretty qquick in the second week.

For the most part this years rally was peaceful with very few bumps in the carpet. Most of those bumps were caused by  the gaggle of dipshits that call themsleves Hell's Angels.

Whatever side of the "outlaw biker" community you stand on is your business. Idolize who you want. But, if you choose to idolize a bunch of cocksuckers who choose to make a business out of bullying people and being involved in organized criminal activity then I would like to make a suggestion, go drink a gallon of bleach.

I grew up in an area of Texas where another OMG called the Bandidos had a strong community presence. As a kid about the only thing i knew about them was that they every now and then had a toy-run or some kind of menial community service stunt. later, I learned that they also made a habit of informing on rival OMGs to the local law enforcement agencies in order to keep their area clear of competition.

Nobel they ain't.

I've read quite a few periodicals about OMGs and have really been too interested. like any other organized crime group they participate in smuggling, extortion, racketering, drugs, stolen property, theft, whatever makes them a dishonest buck to pay for their beer, meth and smokes.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not underestimating their resourcefullnes. The Hell's Angels specifically are very good at what they do, they've made a big business out of their organization and have very influential people from their group in a lot of different areas. It would surprise some of you to know exactly how wide spread they are. They aren't a bunch of stupid grease monkeys either. They have degreed professionals among their ranks. Attorneys, Doctors, Corporate Executives, Bankers, all kinds of highly educated people whose main focus is to secure and maintain their business. They have the intellect to make a legitimate business out of their organization which makes what they are even more distressing. They CHOOSE to be douchebags who make a living off of victimization and exploitation.

Hell, they even give Congress a run for their money in that regard.

While working the rally I got a little more exposure and insight into them and I am very dissapointed. I was kind of hoping that they would be more than a bunch of assholes that were only capable of using group tactics to intimidate and brutalize people. Unfortunately, that's about all they were. They made a habit out of cruizing into one of the bars in a little mass and pushing people around. To further advertise their intent every one of them carries a knife prominently displayed on their waste (It's legal in South Dakota). Every so often they would pick a fight or just ambush some poor hapless bastard and pound the shit out of him.

The first guy was just walking by their hangout. If you walk towards the parking lots in the outlying areas and you have to go up 3rd Street you can't really help it. This guy was walking by and one of the HA said something to the effect of, "Weren't you that guy hitting on my date?". the guy replied with something to the tune of, "Dude, I don't even fuckin' know you". He was grabbed, dragged into their parking area and beat on by three or four of the HA. This guy was on the small side too probably 5'7" or so, maybe weighed 160 or 170. We know this because a video tape was turned in by tourists who filmed the attack from a nearby vender. After beating him, one of the HA stomped on his head, bouncing it off of the concrete while he lay their unconsious. They then dragged him up the sidewalk and left him there.

They have a slogan that's on some of their t-shirts, "Strength, Honor and Loyalty". I'm surprised they can spell the words much less say them with a straight face. What they did during the rally had nothing to do with honor. More like cowardice and cruelty.

One of their victims was a barmaid at one of the other bars who had retorted to them when they were being crude towards her. Yep, that's honorable all right. They didn't just hit her either, they beat the shit out of her.

For the most part the HA were nothing more than a pack of dogs wondering around looking for an excuse to bite somebody for whatever trumped up reason they could come up with. Probably the only time they beat somebody who may have earned it was some drunk was pissing on one of their trucks. that guy would have gotten the same response from just about anybody.

Well, the air got let out of their ballon on early saturday morning on August 10th. At about 1am they wondered into the Loud American Roadhouse and were doing their usual bit of pushing people around and trying to intimidate everybody. While they were pushing around a group of women who were trying to make their way to the bathroom the HA got a bit of their own medicine. Another group called the Iron Pigs (a social motorcycle club comprised mostly of cops and firemen) apparently walked over and basically told them they could go fuck themselves. The HA outnumbered them so naturally they jumped the group. One of the Iron Pigs was getting worked over pretty good when one of the two pounding on him pulled the knife he carried. The off-duty cop pulled a handgun and shot the HA.

Their are different versions of exactly how the shooting went down depending on where the witnesses were standing. I didn't see it, I was about two blocks away on foot patrol when it happened and ran there when the shots fired call went out. Most of what I do know is information that was being freely spoken of by the people who were in the bar. The investigators with Sturgis PD are being professional about it and keeping the exact details and whatever evidence they have collected confidential for now until they are done investigating.

Initial reports are that the cop was most likely justified in drawing a weapon and firing considering the percieved threat. You pull a knife on me, I'm going to shoot you. It's that simple.

However it went down, I can't say I'm crying over it.

The HA didn't die, I'm glad he didn't. even if he is a dick head he's still a person and he most likely has family and friends who care about him. I know that the other HA that were there looked honestly concerned for him and didn't cause any more issues that night. But, you poke enough things with a stick and sooner or later something will poke back. This case it was somebody carrying a firearm who didn't feel like being cut on or stabbed. Surprise, surprise.

For the last day of the rally they were fairly quiet. The HA no longer went in groups displaying colors unless they were going to a friendlier bar. When they did go they behaved themselves. Aside from the dumbass that pissed on a truck, nobody else got screwed with.

At least we know some of them can learn.

Posted by cmoth @ 6:34 am EDT | Permalink | 0 Comments