Reply #158: Iverglas....

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Executive law enforcement agencies have a long, disgraceful history of engaging in extrajudicial punishment in this country. During the 1960's, the FBI had what were called "BAM" squads...."BAM" standing for "By Any Means". They ROUTINELY engaged in violating the civil rights of people, if the people were deemed "undesirable". There were programs like COINTELPRO, et cetera. Since, for the most part, the people whose rights were violated tended to be either KKK folks or fringe leftists, nobody really gave a crap.

"Three letter agencies" have now basically come to the realization that they can put on their ninja suits and stage raids, and there are generally two likely scenarios that will occur. Either everything will go perfectly, there will be no resistance, and no officers will screw up, or it will not. If anything goes wrong, the predilection is to open fire, and pump the area full of incendiary devices, on the safe bet that fire will destroy any evidence of wrongdoing on the part of the 3 letter folks, or exculpatory evidence of the innocence of their victims. There is, of course, a trickle down effect to state and municipal officers.

I recall a case not too long ago down in Texas where there was a complaint was filed because a man set fire to his own sofa. The SWAT team was called out, a firefight ensued, hundreds of rounds were fired, one officer was killed, and the suspect was wounded. He was lucky enough to survive. They charged him with capital murder for shooting the officer who died. Later, it came out that the man passed a nitrate test performed immediately after he was taken into custody. Yup.....hundreds of rounds fired, a dead cop, and the suspect hadn't fired a single shot. The police couldn't even show that he had a gun.

If the government wants you dead, you're dead. If they want you convicted, barring incompetence on their part, you're convicted. And if they want you raped and killed in prison, that can be arranged too. This isn't the way it's supposed to be, but there it is.