Reference this link: https://www.everythinglubbock.com/news/ector-county-swat-team-raids-local-bar-for-protesting-to-reopen/
A SWAT raid for having an open business? REALLY?! This could easily have escalated to a massive gunfight and it would have been ALL the COPS FAULT.
The same effect could be achieved with plainclothes officers/detectives serving simple paperwork. Easy, non-confrontational. So WHY did they choose the SWAT route? Do you think that maybe they WANTED to PROVOKE A GUNFIGHT??
Our Country has truly lost it's mind. It is obvious to any thinking person that there are other agendas behind this chinavirus charade. What they are is of no consequence. What is important is that those in power are trying to crush our way of life. We as Americans cannot let that happen.
If the Patriots at the bar had been a little more organized, the cops would have had their wish. The Lexington moment would have arrived, and today our Nation would be at war with itself. LAW ENFORCEMENT, PLEASE! Repeat your oath to the Constitution and live up to the letter, and intent, of that oath before it is too late for all of us.
some of law enforcement does stand for the people but then you have those states where the government is so crooked that they can hardly stand up. stand up true Americans and take back our Country.
I have current and retired LEO's as family and friends. To a man, they've expressed their commitment to not follow directives that would place them between law abiding, peaceful protests, or even civil disobedience where executive actions placed peaceful people on the wrong side of a mandate. That said, all of them have said they know or work with those that would willingly support any order, no matter how ambiguous or unconstitutional. They've told me they're the exception and not the rule, but tensions have been running high for quite some time and all over social media there is open talk about the coming boogaloo, or armed revolt. Sadly, many of those advocating that irreversible coarse of action are under the false impression that should things go pear shaped that LEO's and military Personnel would not participate in armed conflict with their fellow Americans. This could not be further from the truth. There will always be those that will convince themselves they're on the side of Right when and if the SHTF. It's going to be an interesting summer.
Steve - agree 100%. There will always be 10% (or more) willing to arrest, imprison, or kill their friends and neighbors as part of their "job". We have seen it in Arizona and all across the Nation (not killing directly, yet).
History has shown that people are willing to do almost anything to others to save themselves. Our own "citizens" have been all to willing to "snitch" on their neighbors, and for what? A little revenge - because they were told to - because it makes them feel superior? Or maybe because the think it will put them in good with the man?
To paraphrase: When they came for my neighbor who would not wear a mask I did nothing because I wore one. When they came for my friends who would not stay 6 feet away from everyone I did nothing because I didn't go out much. When they came to take blood from everyone and implant a chip I said nothing because anyone who did was taken away. When they came for me because I went out without authorization there was no one to help because everyone was already gone.
Stand the F up and fight back America. Gov. Dork in California now says they won't reopen until there is a vaccine...for a VIRUS. Never happening so he get's to be Herr Dictator forever. There are several effective treatments already, and this is NOT a "deadly pandemic". It's hardly even a flu. It is a global coup attempt at total power.
california does not deserve any monies from the taxayers so let them fall off in the ocean, good bye
The entire purpose of using swat is so that the people in power can study the response to see what they can get away with next. Guaranteed, if Swat walked in on an army waiting for them and it escalated into an armed confrontation, all of this crap would be taking a completely different route. A lot of it would cease. Look at the case of Shelley Luther in Texas.. She stood up, said she would not apologize to public officials, told the judge that she disagreed that wanting to feed her children and her employees was selfish, and said she would not close her business no matter his decision. The Asshole Judge sentenced her to jail and handed her a bunch of fines. In less than a day, the Governor, and his AG, made a press release calling for her immediate release from jail. (It was the Governor's order she was violating, but the city of Dallas that enforced the order.) Did he pass orders thinking they would not be enforced? Or, did he pass orders not thinking? There has been a lot of that going on. Bet the Dallas PD doesn't enforce anymore of that Governor's orders, but on the same side, that Governor, now seeing how stupid his orders are can step forward and rescind the unlawful orders. This whole thing was a measurement for something bigger coming. People have to wake up and see it for what it is and respond in kind. It is going to take sacrifice. Shelley did it. That SWAT team should have been faced with an army of armed civilians. IT IS THAT TIME to stand up against the oppressors.
I pretty much offered the same thing on a Kurt Schlichter article from Townhall.com. I suggested a numerically superior group of citizens should confront any of these LEO's, remind them of their oaths and ask simply if the want to be "that guy", the Redcoat that kicked off "the shot heard round the world". Schlichter's piece suggested the Police, police themselves, but if that were enough we wouldn't see mothers and fathers being arrested for letting their children play in parks, or tattoo artists or hair salon owners arrested and jailed for having the temerity to want to feed their kids and pay their bills, or even SWAT members in Bearcats accosting bat patrons and owners. The Bill of Rights is not a Bill of Suggestions. We need to remind them of that.
We stand. We STAND TOGETHER NOW. Or we LIE IN INFAMY FOREVER!!! So what say, or more importantly, WHAT DO YOU?! As for myself, I stand PROUDLY AS AN AMERICAN IN THE USA TODAY FREELY!!! GIVE ME LIBERTY, jail, or DEATH! Stand TOGETHER NOW, or lay forever IN INFAMY- IN CHAINS; YOU CHOOSE, for now.....
It would also be interesting if those armed patriots went out and relieved that sheriff's department that brought the Swat team of their command.
this is not a laughing matter, it may very well occur in this mixed up world!
This is insane women business owners in Texas going to jail over trying to feed their families because they refuse to depend on a undependable government that has failed the American people. But this to use an entire Swat team on a peaceful protest basically tells me the sway was sent to intimidate and to incite violence there is no other reason you send in a swat team on a peaceful protest. They need to be careful the American people are rising up we want our country back we do not want anything to do with their socialist agenda.
That is disgusting every power-mad pos will keep doing this shit. They have to be stopped.
SWAT TEAMS? My God.
Guys, we can't just talk about this. There must be action. call your so-called representatives and talk about RECALLING THEM. Please think - how do we get through? I feel like there's a brick wall between us and them.
SWAT will continue to do this until they are physically stopped. So too our politicians, until We the People step up and remove them.
Just like the British at Lexington-Concord, we have to make it too costly for them to abuse us. The Brits lost 300 of 1500 in that battle, 20% casualties. That's twice the decimation rate. They never went on such a raid again.
Of course you can't win an extended battle with SWAT - they can always bring more resources to the fight than you can. But until we stand up and make it too costly to abuse We the People, the abuse will continue.