Aug 7, 2010

Crime Fighting (Oregon Style)

The health cops and their elected bosses are on the ball in Portland where they found a seven-year-old girl assaulting the public health with an unlicensed lemonade stand.  An inspector tried to close her down.  Some nearby citizens reacted antisocially. The germ-fighting Dick Tracy had to get on his wrist radio and call for backup.

Much later, one of Portland's  elected scum detected a certain popular discontent with the idiocy. He  apologized to the little girl and her mother, but he was careful to defend his Microbian Knights for just "following the rule book."

I wonder how much open carry might do to encourage our masters' little minions to get their goddam noses out of the rule books and exercise a little common sense; to think  before opening their  noxious, gaping, tax-fed, mouths to harass seven-year-old girls who will  contribute  more to the world  before they are old  enough to vote than the bureaucrats will in a long lifetime of  tax-trough slurping.

The rule book needs a little help  itself, a good man or woman with a gross of blue pencils.

(Try to simply read through the sophomoric, fatal,  search for the cute in the AP piece.)

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

"Common Sense" has been crucified on the cross of "Zero Tolerance." JAGSC

TJP said...

If their noses were actually buried in the rule books, they might have noticed that there are such things as the "civil suit" and a "court of law", and therefore recourse for someone who suffered as a consequence of a visit to a roadside purveyor of beverages.

Court's witnesses and microbiologists did in fact exist before the creation of the Department of Paranoia, both of which may be available during proceedings. The thought that something outside the state could test for botulism, for example, represents a feat of cognitive gymnastics prone to cause injury when attempted by worshipers of the state--who envy the parasitic nature and enjoy a similar reasoning capacity with the Clostridium botulinum bacterium.

To those of us who do not suffer White Man's Disorder, the tele-connection is not visible, so we must therefore come to the conclusion that the various departments of public (sector) safety exist in order to justify the collection of taxes necessary for them to exist.

Joel said...

I wonder how much open carry might do to encourage our masters' little minions to get their goddam noses out of the rule books and exercise a little common sense...

Last summer a cop came onto our property on an ATV. It was a "friendly" visit - they were chasing some B&E guy around the desert. When he prepared to leave one of my big dogs lunged out from under a juniper and bit him on the boot. No damage done, I called the dog off, but the cop reacted badly at first. Then he seemed to re-think it, possibly because he was surrounded by people openly armed at least as well as he was. Oddly, nothing bad came of it.