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50 Shots
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Nov 30, 2006 23:37 PST
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50 Shots
by A.D Lelong
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig7/lelong1.html
This past weekend 5 NYPD officers emptied 50 shots into a car with
unarmed men inside. One officer, by himself, emptied 31 shots......
that's two clips worth. We had the situation 7 years ago of Amadou
Diallo killed with 41 rounds. Last year 10 L.A. cops fired 120 rounds
into a car within 18 seconds. And now we have NY Mayor Mike Bloomberg
who (as Sir William S Gilbert said in PINAFORE .."... can not tell at
sight a Mauser rifle from a javelin") is "disturbed" by this latest
mêlée, and doesn't see how 50 shots were needed. He said that the force
was excessive.
Once again our government has set up the components for an inevitable
situation. And then when the totally foreseeable event occurs, they
refuse to question the premise that brought it about in the first place,
because that would crimp the government agenda. The agenda is to use
cops as initiators of force under the excuse of "crime prevention."
We have a thing in Anglo-Saxon law of being innocent until proved
guilty. This in incompatible with the concept of "crime prevention."
Crime prevention, which is politically popular under democratic
mob-moron rule, requires law enforcement to go after criminals before
they have committed a crime. Which means innocent people will always be
the target of law enforcement. Going after the guilty means one has to
wait until after there has been a crime. Politicians, always pandering
to the unthinking masses, are always quick to tout "crime prevention"
because it sounds like it protects people.
The origin of cops goes back to the Middle Ages when a volunteer was
elected to stay awake to guard against nocturnal invaders/criminals
etc., and to sound an alarm to wake up the rest of the people. This has
morphed into the professional constable, a peace officer such as the
formerly unarmed Bobbies in London; but in recent years the cops have
become totally militarised, presumably because the criminals have more
guns etc. They have also become militarised because the government,
again for reasons of political pandering, has launched various wars on
____________ (booze/drugs/harlotry/crime/terrorism – or any politically
unpopular vice). This past year Mayor Bloomberg has been waging a war on
guns, which is another excuse for militarisation.
Cops have been turning into SS/Gestapo Officers. Unlike the old days,
when cops broke up bar fights or kicked bums off park benches and
patrolled around the neighbourhood visibly armed in crisp blue uniforms
with shiny brass buttons, or directed traffic, or hung out with the
corner druggist smoking and eating free donuts, cops are now
infiltrating the citizenry as undercover agents with military weapons.
Often they are agents provocateurs.
In the recent Queens incident, the officers were "undercover" in a strip
club, and then misunderstood a presumably boisterous situation, causing
them to become involved in a conflict which ended up with the cops
firing 50 rounds at a car killing one, wounding another, and putting 11
shots into another, who is now in hospital in critical condition.
In the first place, the NYPD sends these guys into a sleazy strip club
to look for trouble, which, in this case means guns and prostitution.
They pretend they are not cops, which means acting like typical strip
bar patrons – which means ordering alcohol (BTW there was no breath test
after the incident) and acting like frat boys. Then when they find
something that "appears" to be trouble, they jump in, and the episode
reaches critical mass. Because they were undercover, they were not
recognisable to other cops, or to patrons who thought the agents might
be criminals. Indeed the victims in the Queens case freaked out when a
cop pulled his weapon out on the street. The driver hit the gas grazing
the cop which prompted the first shots. The cop said he identified
himself, but the driver was too busy worrying about the gun.
In the second place, cops all carry semi-automatic Glock or Beretta hand
guns. When I was a kid, cops carried 6 shot revolvers, and 12 extra
bullets in bullet loops on their belts. Anyone familiar with revolvers
knows how cumbersome this can be to reload. Today they carry 5 or 10
extra magazines on their belts, each magazine carrying 15 or 16 rounds.
The old double action revolvers had a fairly hard trigger pull, unlike
the new autos. If you used them as single action, you had to cock the
hammer back first. In both cases you had to think about each shot. A
number of retired cops I have talked to said that was a factor in the
Diallo case.
NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly said that cops are taught to fire three
bursts, then examine the situation before firing again. In reality, a
cop pumped up with fear, rage, and adrenalin won't do this. I also
question whether they really are trained to do this. I saw a clip on the
news from a cop training film. The objective was to train officers how
to empty a clip onto a target as fast as possible whilst keeping his
hand steady. It almost sounded like full auto. Then the officer changed
his clip with lightning speed and popped off another clip. The objective
is to fire a lot of rounds quickly into a small target pattern.
So we have the PD recruiting bouncer types. They tell them that they are
needed by society and that they are heroes. Then they drop them into a
hyper macho culture fostered by a close-knit tradition and the cop
unions. Then the PD and the unions tell them how dangerous their job is,
and they might not see their family again. They say that they need to be
over-gunned to be safe. The PD then gives them high-capacity firearms
with easy trigger pulls. They tell them they are fighting a "war." They
then tell them to go "in country" after telling them that the criminals
may be armed, and to be careful. In other words they propagandise them
with Marine Corps cant.
Then Bloomie wonders how there are 50 shots.
December 1, 2006
A.D Lelong works in radio in New York City.
Copyright © 2006 www.LewRockwell.com
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