QuietDan

  The cruiser cam is the cam in the Rutherford County Sheriff's Office deputy's cruiser. His body mic and radio are recorded in the video, from the very beginning of the stop, even though he's out of frame in the beginning.   The Tennessee Highway Patrol owned the DUI Checkpoint, but Law Enforcement Officers from other jurisdictions also work the various checkpoints.   I imagine, since the Tennessee Highway Patrol owned this particular checkpoint, that they had to be consulted as a release authority for the cruiser cam video, and that the Rutherford County Sheriff had to coordinate on the release of the video as it was from a Rutherford County Sheriff's Deputy's car, Since this was multijurisdictional, I imagine it took a little time to evaluate the stop and coordinate the release of the video.   I don't think we're dealing with a "grumpy cop" as one poster described him. The checkpoint stop started friendly and courteously enough, until the child-adult starting showing his ass. The Deputy then uses his "COMMAND VOICE", one of the first levels of police force, demanding and compelling compliance at the first sign of non-compliance from the delicate-flower child-adult. (It might have been the first time in his short pampered life that anyone every raised their voice at him.)   It's not like the Deputy grabbed the child-adult by the collar and shook him, and it's not like the Deputy un-holstered his sidearm and pistol-whipped him. He, OMG! Raised. His. Voice! Shudder! It was raining and we can't tell for sure if he wet his pants.

Now living in much calmer Smyrna, but prior to moving back here actively worked neighborhood watch in San Antonio. They also had a curfew for youth under 21. Youth in dark hoodies late at night, especially wandering around aimlessly or off the sidewalk in people's yards, IS suspicious behaviour. We called the nonemergency number for the police all the time. If they were cutting through backyards, YES we would try to keep them in sight, if they attempted to engage or confront us, it would become a 911 call in a heartbeat, and we would certainly take steps to defend ourselves.   A youth in a dark hoodie after dark, with face covered, with lower observability because of the dark clothes, is very nearly "possession of burglary tools." The police in San Antonio looked very unfavorably on such conduct and would always come and check after a call.

  The very first use of this software in a state's driver's license database should be to run the software against the database itself, looking for duplicates, and therefore duplicate VOTER REGISTRATIONS. Make that a primary requirement and see how many politicians suddenly get less interested in the technology.

  A percentage of weed smokers get PARANOID, which would be a problem. . . .

Here's an interesting Facebook post out in the world for everybody to see from Axl David, at https://www.facebook.com/ohheyitsaxl   (you must be logged into facebook to get to his page)  who's allegedly the Tennessee Libertarian Party communications director that apparently planned the whole check point challeng despite protestation on-line to the contrary, at:   http://www.dnj.com/article/20130706/NEWS/307060032   and on Facebook, where he writes:   ". . .This was not a set-up initiated by me. Chris and several others read a copy of my Guest Column, as well as media reports of the checkpoints, and acted independently to film their interactions, should they be stopped at a checkpoint."   This stance is apparently at odds with his other statements and other media reports.   Apparently, he has several acolytes that are/were preparing to participate, one of which is the author of the viral video, identified by the media as Chris Kalbaugh, (at https://www.facebook.com/chris.kalbaugh.5     (and again, you must be logged into Facebook to see his page)     I wonder if the Libertarians are planning on running a Rutherford County Sheriff's candidate in the next election, or if they are merely in collusion with Democrats who plan on running a Rutherford County Sheriff's candidate?     (From Axl E. David's facebook page):   9 hours ago If you're in Murfreesboro and want to help Timothy and I crash the checkpoint party tonight, let me know. We're meeting at 9:45 to plan everything. Top of Form 3Share 23 people like this.   Joe Liggett VIDEO up! 19 hours ago · 3   Bill Rohling I get off at 11 19 hours ago via mobile · 1   Axl E. David We got that covered, Joe. 19 hours ago · 2   Joe Liggett Would love to go! Just too late for me. I can not wait! 19 hours ago · 1   Chris Kalbaugh Absolutely beautiful 19 hours ago · 2   Steve Lane I would gladly be involved but that's a little bit too short of notice for my comfort. I think more planning is required. I've challenged officers at a checkpoint and it's not for the faint of heart. Were it not for some quick thinking on my feet I would have been beaten and jailed for certain. Make certain cameras are everywhere and I would even suggest finding some way to video externally in case you stumble across a crooked LEO who attempts to destroy your recording device, plant drugs in your vehicle, or worse. 19 hours ago · 2   David Criswell I've got a "flip" 19 hours ago · 1   Timothy Meredith Steve Lane, With my mobile management software I would be impressed if they deleted anything. In addition to that it would log any attempts of tampering on my remote server, could likely even set it up to stream to my server. 19 hours ago · 3   Steve Lane Ok, good. Can we get a live feed somehow or have I seen to many movies? 19 hours ago · 3   Axl E. David You can but it's too much trouble. If you have time to sit at your computer and watch it live, you have time do participate or help in person. 19 hours ago · 2   Timothy Meredith I'd say you can but that would be if I had verizon and not sprint who fails lol 19 hours ago · 1   Joe Liggett Timothy Meredith if you need tech help call Gary. 19 hours ago · 1   Steve Lane No, I have wife and kids and don't like doing things half assed since they depend on me being able to be at work 19 hours ago · 2   Axl E. David >assuming we're going to half-ass it 19 hours ago · 2   Steve Lane If you need bail money call me. You have my number, right? 19 hours ago · 1   Joe Liggett 2 halves = a whole ass 19 hours ago · 1   Axl E. David I'm not going to need bail money because I'm not doing anything against the law. 19 hours ago · 2   Steve Lane It's just a bit rushed is all. I'm just suggesting you not take poking at a hornet's nest, especially one where the hornets have guns, badges, and sovereign immunity under the law, lightly. I've done it before and have a willingness to do it again but it's a very scary thing. I promise you will be scared though not as much as the LEOs. At least that was my experiences. 19 hours ago   Steve Lane You don't have to break the law to get beat up and end up in jail 19 hours ago · 1   Axl E. David I pray that they beat me up and take me to jail. 19 hours ago · 2   Steve Lane Gotta go...I have a date. I'm not trying to discourage you. I just don't want you taking this lightly. Have fun! I so want to go! 19 hours ago   Timothy Meredith I understand it can be scary. I've done prison work in 10-15 different TN prisons for phone systems and have had encounters with police in Murfreesboro. Murfreesboro police treat anyone my age as a mindless atomiton. It's certainly not something that should be treated lightly but I promise you we will be doing this squeeky clean 19 hours ago · 2   Steve Lane I still say get like 10 people in a row to do this 19 hours ago · 1   Steve Lane Also, save the drinking for after the checkpoint challenge 18 hours ago via mobile   Eric Benge This is going to be good. I salute you for your efforts. I anxiously await the video. Keep up the good fight! 18 hours ago via mobile · 2   Franklin Fürter I will be watching for updates 18 hours ago via mobile · 1   Lars Hall where's the checkpoint? 18 hours ago · 1   Brian Robertson I'd love to help out, but with my record poking the hornets nest would definitely get me a mat in 940. 18 hours ago via mobile · 3   Axl E. David Lars: It says "Bradley Creek" tonight. But it's a refusal-allowed checkpoint, lol. 18 hours ago · 1   Matthew Novak Make sure you have a qik video app 15 hours ago via mobile · 3   Russ Johnson Yup, Qik is especially good because it uploads as it records. 10 hours ago via mobile · 1 Bottom of Form   This is definitely one of those Things that make you go . . . . hmmmmmmm.   I'm wondering if Mr Axl E. David intended to make this a public post on Facebook, or if he will delete it when it becomes clear to him that a lot of folks can see it. .    

As in "not?" They can call two of their lawyer buddies who'll be perfectly willing to take the other side!! . . . For the small sum of $150,000!!

  . . . and for the small sum of $150,000 they'll prove it in court.

  And you've cherry-picked out the line you don't like. I remind you that I also acknowledged his rights and offered to pay him $1, subject to a single condition, for the violation of his rights in this instance.

He hasn't hardly had his "Rights" trampled on. He's sat at the side of the road for an additional 15 minutes for showing his ass off.   He's a whiny little baby going "don't touch me!," "don't touch me!"   It's the cry of "my rights! my rights!" of a spoiled little child who has done NOTHING to deserve rights. He's a punk and a child.   Yeah! He has RIGHTS all right. And they've been violated.   And I hold him in complete and utter contempt for whining about it.   His threshold of pain is altogether too delicate. I doubt seriously that an individual such as this would expend one ounce of effort or regard to defend anyone else's rights at this threshold or any other threshold.   He's a silly little boy. Period.   Again, I'd give him $1 for the Rights he's lost in this case, a tightly rolled dollar bill I would encourage him to jam up his ass.

I am interested in knowing if this little #### has ever done anything for anybody of any value in this world.   I am interested in knowing if this little #### has ever taken responsibility for anything during his brief little self-indulgent life.   I am pretty sure he is not a Veteran back from the mountains of Afghanistan where he's laid it all out on the line. If he ever made that sacrifice or one of similar scope, I would cut him total slack. But, he hasn't. It just is not possible. Vets are used to putting up with real bull#### while actively fighting for everyone else's rights. And, for the most part, they just shrug the little stuff off, because this is little stuff. There are a hell of a lot of other issues to die in a ditch over.   I hope the young man spends $150,000 of his daddy's money, and spends four years of his life, in and out of courtrooms while proving he was right.   I hope the young man's daddy stops paying his university tuition for the next four years to save money for legal expenses in the quest to demonstrate his ever-living rightness.   I hope his daddy sells the BMW he's loaned him, and cuts him out of the family trust while simultaneously admitting his snot-nosed brat is . . . right.   I hope his girlfriend, if he has ever had one, leaves him for being a stupid dumbass . . . while being ever-so-right.    I hope a judge, after hearing three weeks of testimony from $150,000 worth of attorneys -- declares in court that he was right all along, and awards him $1 in damages.   I hope he takes said $1, rolls it up tightly, and jams it up his ass, and thereby gains ultimate pleasure in being right.   I hope he comes to me or one of my associates, in all his glorious rightness, and asks for a job or some other favor, so that I can exercise my rights by laughing in his face.

Did it originate with Hornady?   I'd sure like to get the word directly from them.   http://www.hornady.com/support/availability

Springfield Armory makes a micro-compact (3 inch barrel) .45 that looks a lot like the EMP

The weakness of the prosecution's case, IMO, demonstrates that the concocted second degree charges and this whole trial was a political move to tamp down outrage in a segment of the community and give them a trial that they all demanded. IMO, it is a weak and laughable case; the prosecution is stepping through the motions with the best evidence they have, knowing in advance that "not guilty" is a foregone conclusion, barring some rookie error on the part of the defense. Part of this is obvious from the affect of the prosecutors. They don't have "fire in the belly," and the prosecutor appointed by the governor has hardly shown her face.   Another political result of this political trial, IMO, as either a by-product or as the main intent, is to demonstrate that shooting thugs is a difficult and time consuming process, thereby making other citizens extremely reluctant to shoot an attacking thug, even if the thug is threatening you with robbery or theft, with actual physical violence or the real fear of death or bodily harm.   If all the thugs out there that perpetrated violence on others were shot by their victims, we would decimate a segment of the population. There are segments of the political element that would consider that a bad thing, either because it would be a waste of sure votes, or because it riles up a segment of the population and makes it harder to control. It is a cheap pandering to a segment of the population and allows the political element and other elements to continue to ignore & avoid and fail to correct the true problem and an obvious truth, that so many of the youth of today are thugs and ought to be shot.

What exactly is "squirrel jumping" and does it involve the transfer of bodily fluids???

You all will not be one bit sorry.   Very, very nice!

I don't know which is more cool, the flashlight or the watch . . . or the face paint.   :usa: :usa: :usa: :usa: :usa: :usa: :usa: :usa: :usa: :usa: :usa: :usa: :usa: :usa:

Smyrna is a good town with a sensible government. A lot of towns would be thrilled to have a slightly bored police force. That's what happens when you stay on top of the threat. Many cities have the police chasing their tails 'cause there's so much trouble.

    I'm waiting for defense attorney O'Mara to ask: "What are the names of the individuals and the organizations, the 'outside sources,' that were pressuring you?"   I want to hear the answer to that question or questions. And then, I want the judge to bring the trial to a quick "not guilty" conclusion.

This is the type of conversation that I believe ought to be reduced to writing and shared with the Chief of Police and the Mayor of the jurisdiction in question, as well as the U.S. Congressman for your location. Stick to the facts. It certainly cannot help the officer in his career.   Whether or not that's a complete waste of time depends on the jurisdiction. Whether or not it would trigger retribution is also a question. However, a written document is radioactive and has a half-life of 50,000 years. A document cannot be ignored.

Handy-dandy when cabled to the car for times when you have to go into a government office and you need to leave the pistol secure in the car. It won't last long in a determined assault, but it would slow down a smash and grab car thief.   Also, it's great for the night-stand ready-weapon in a house with children.   I have one strapped down in each of the family cars. Don't need one for the nightstand right now, probably will in a couple of years after the first granddaughter is born and develops roving curious fingers.

If you bring an umbrella to work, it does not rain that day. Forewarned is fore-armed.   If a guy is standing on my front lawn with a torch, and I'm standing on my front porch with a shotgun, the guy with the torch can go elsewhere and no one dies at my hand.   My neighbors for the most part feel the same way about their homes in our neighborhood.

SA EMP 9mm is my carry weapon, aluminum alloy receiver, steel slide, cross-cannons cocobolo grips. Mine is named "Sting." Small, tight, reliable, accurate & form-follows-function beautiful. So watch-like tight when new it needs about 200 rounds through it to loosen it up. If you don't do that and send it to the factory, they polish the feed-ramp, give it a kiss and promptly send it back to you all good-to-go. Did I mention it's beautiful?

  Do you ever pass through Smyrna? And how much are you asking . . . still the $20 a box??

With concealed carry permits somewhere between five and ten percent of the population (and remember that the concealed carry permit might be Dad's protecting Mom and the kids) and with other legitimate gun ownership by business owners and home owners, there's a whole lot of armed people who can make burglary and robbery a very dangerous occupation. When burglary & robbery is a low-risk crime of opportunity, there are a lot of them. When burglary & robbery becomes a high risk crime, fewer criminals will burglarize and rob. Partly because a lot of them will be dead or at least seriously wounded.

  Wait till the EBT switch gets turned off, as a political choice or because the funds have run out.