DogFacedSoldier

Any assistance is appreciated

1. Yes, he should be held accountable as he swore an oath to defend the Constitution and his community.

2. LEO is trained - now days - to go towards the driving force...whether that is screaming, shooting or visuals...if there's no driving force, you don't just go checking every classroom.

3. Comms in Uvalde was a clown show...they did not have a formal policy in place and regardless, too many diff. responding agencies showed up on scene with no previous training together re: active killer events.

4. That officer is still suffering to this day re: the lack of leadership shown by numerous individuals on that date...because of Uvalde, training is improving across the country but still is woefully inadequate.

5. Folks have no clue how bad the situation is in most communities re: future mass casualty events due to the shortage in LEOs, the dearth of qualified candidates who actually want to do the job in the light of the summer of love and burning and the budget crunches across the country where training funding is at an all time low.

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You misspelled Gulf of Tonkin

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Post of the day…good stuff…MIC doing what it can to keep the war machine churning.

Back in the day long ago, when I was still active duty but on terminal leave, I came back home to south Louisiana to go teal hunting with my buddy whose nickname was Swamp Critter…that’s a story in itself.

We limited out early on at Manchac WMA and as we pulled into boat launch, everyone was being ‘greeted’ by 2 game wardens and a biologist who did the full inspection (except we weren’t checked for having plug in guns…this matters later). I was ignorant of the federal duck stamp requirement; and received a fed misd ticket…$200 way over 20 years ago.

What sucked worse was I was in the hiring process for a law enforcement gig and knew I’d have to report the ticket. If only that was the end…

Swamp Critter invites me to go back out and I make sure I have my federal duck stamp with me. He tells me to meet him closer to where he lives in the Settlement de Francais and tells me to just park my truck at an old abandoned gas station,

We get into Manchac and limit out again early on; we saw two game wardens slip in near us at daybreak…no worries as we were legit. After we start to pack up, green jeans roll up to our boat and go through their inspection.

I’m excited because I’m on my 2nd duck hunt ever and action was fast and fun and I have my duck stamp so legal…then game warden sticks a device in my shotgun and tells me I don’t have a plug…what the frick?!

Then I remember I forgot to put my plug back in after cleaning the whole dang shotgun…it was in my guncase. I was ignorant and it cost me ANOTHER $200 federal misdemeanor ticket!

I figured I wouldn’t get a LEO job after all that so I asked the game wardens if they’d at least let me take a photo of them handing me the ticket…they said no one ever asked that before and agreed…still have it. When I told one guy I was in the military, he said I should have known better…definitely not helpful.

The boat ride out was quiet as I tried to figure out how in the heck I was going to pay $400 in fines and explain it to my recruiter at the department…these were the days when getting a LEO job was difficult.

We get back to where my truck was parked and…nope…it’s gone! We
arrived to find the gas station being torn down!! Incredulous, I asked the foreman where in the heck was my truck and said they had it towed so they get working…

Swamp Critter said don’t worry because he knew the tow company owner…so we head over there - in the LP - where it looks like something out of a horror movie. Cur dogs running around on chains, junk cars everywhere and a teenager in a diaper sitting on a tractor as we drove up.

Swamp Critter makes contact with owner reminding him how they know each other and the owner tells Swamp Critter he doesn’t care for any of his family. It didn’t take a rocket scientist to see this was going to be a bad to worse day.

The owner said it would be $100 to get my truck out, which I didnt have. During this time, Swamp Critter has returned to his truck and retrieved his shotgun and points it at the owner yelling he better give us the damn truck or else.

The owner called the LPSO and it went bad before it got better…Swamp Critter was hooked up, I was left with no ride and a 2nd federal ticket and about to have no job.

One of the deputies was former military, listened to my plight and asked the impound lot owner to give me a break…which he did and let me take it without charge.

Needless to say, I don’t go duck hunting nor associate with Swamp Critter anymore.

Read what I wrote…PRIVATE land.

Why is it trespassing when a neighbor snoops around on your PRIVATE land yet its A OK for govt agent to?

When the Constitution was written and Bill of Rights spelled out the 4th Amendment protections against unreasonable searches/seizures, it was based on an agrarian society that put great focus on property rights and protections on such property.

It wasn’t until the interpretation by the USC in Hester vs US in 1924 that OFD became a “thing”.

In 1967, in Katz vs US, USC made a 2 prong test to limit it.

OFD was based on areas public could easily see, not deep in the woods on YOUR property.

I spent 26 years as a LEO and never used info obtained by OFD observations as a stand alone for warrant PC, nor did I ever cross locked gates nor tromp through private property without a s/w.

That was my call and has always sat well in my conscience.

He isn’t even one of the top 3 lineman at EMCC…yet…we offered him and not their best lineman.

Wow…you’re right, served this country for 30 years but I’m anti USA and pro-Russian because I question why we committed troops to the war in Europe

The mental gymnastics one has to do to champion US govt policies ad hoc and without question re: past and current military action…

Why didn’t we commit ground troops to fight Japan first - the same country that actually attacked us - but instead went to a Germany first policy and wasted so much blood and treasure chasing the Nazi war machine.

I’ll bow out of this conversation as the point I was trying to make has been answered by non-answers.

I responded to the poster saying our intervention OF TROOPS ON THE GROUND kept Nazis from taking USSR…which it DID NOT

Also to the other poster re: our lend lease program with USSR; it definitely helped save the day but what in tarnation does that have to do with boots on the ground?

And to the other poster re: Nazi hegemony if we hadn’t intervened…so what? The other result was the ascension of USSR and millions more destroyer under communism…was that a better alternative?

Felt I was pretty clear on need for testing re: transmission to humans. That is what needs to be conducted across multiple sites and overseen for QC/QA by a multi-jurisdictional panel.

That’s it…if they find no OBJECTIVE data to show high-probability of transmission based on multiple monitored studies then…stop the CWD madness, stop baiting (regardless) and let it be.

How about this? Based on personal experience working in government for 30 years as military and law enforcement and watching the unfolding of the meta narrative post-Covid, I do NOT trust govt agencies nor govt funded labs blindly.

The majority of govt workers do as little as required, don’t put the needs of others above their own myopic personal desires and due to convenience, don’t raise questions nor champion the best ideas if unpopular.

I will continue to process and eat wild game until rigorous science proves I shouldn’t and despite baiting being legal in my area, I won’t do it because I know it’s not advantageous to wildlife to feed them.