The Smallest Minority

It raises an interesting question. Is "being right" an affirmative defense for anything except libel?

I'm daydreaming about how this would've happened in the du Toit household. I'm picturing Son&Heir with a Swedish Mauser trained on the front door, Kim doing the same with his AK, and the women covering their 4 and 8 o'clock positions. SWAT team arrives and are mowed down, pushy paramedics shit themselves, and, being Texas, any and all charges are dropped within 24 hours of being filed.

Well, I guess this is one point in Britain's favor. In a country where the system is so overburdened that patients are expected to administer their own care, it's hard to imagine the coppers busting down a door to drag someone to the hospital.

I visualize a country where all the authorities responsible of that inqualificable act will be kicked out of office, tarred & feathered and driven out of town on a rail.

Just a sign of things to come in the Socialist Fantasyland of "Universal Health Care."

This would be a justified lawsuit. Where's Edwards when you need him.

/big helping of snark

(kicking self for not stocking up when 7.62x39 was going for $125 a case)

Come now. Charges dropped? In Texas? Don't you mean they would be isolated, gassed and then burned to death?

And then slandered, of course, and any survivors jailed.

Anyone seen a line in the sand around here anywhere???

Come now. Charges dropped? In Texas? Don't you mean they would be isolated, gassed and then burned to death?

Oh, no, Robert. This was strictly local jurisdiction. No Feds involved at all!

trailer park? ten kids? now why in the world would anybody think the kids might need to be checked on?

"trailer park? ten kids? now why in the world would anybody think the kids might need to be checked on?"

What are you trying to say billfry?

You begin first with unliked fringed elements - religious elements if possible. You set the precidence and eventually you can do to anyone as you please.

You and the police begin to frighten me far more than the religious fanatics in this country.

It is a *hoot* reading the comments on the Post Independent site (other than the pathetic design of the site itself).

You can tell EXACTLY when the story hit the leftist websites.

P.

I hope that Mr. Shiflett becomes one of Colorados new millionares!

Everytime I read these comedic yet tragic type of stories in the US, I am sooo happy I am in Japan. Yes, it gets crazy here with all the rules all the time, but there is an underlying common sense among the public that seems to evade American society. The longer I am here the more absurd and embarrassed I am to be an American. I want to love my country warts and all and I am a veteran of the Army reserve and U.S. Navy but shit has just gotten too far out of hand. If it isn't political correctness and affirmative action, it is weird and bizarre things like a SWAT team evac of a kid. Do you all realize that foreigners read sites like this and then approach me and ask me why? I am sick of defending absurdity!

Japan has its own problems with police abuse, especially against foreigners. You just don't hear about them in the Japanese media much.

The difference between Japan and the U.S. is more a matter of perception than reality. Our press is far more likely to print stories showing our warts than theirs is.