Is this East Germany, or Northern Idaho? Yes.

William Norman Grigg

Two young men from Coeur d?Alene, Idaho had just ended their shifts working in the productive sector when they were accosted and harassed by two costumed tax-feeders. One of the bored but ambitious officers claimed to have overheard one of their gainfully employed betters make a comment about a ?nickel bag? ? which would be a reference to the dreaded devil weed, marijuana.

When confronted by the aggressive and dim-witted armed stranger, the young man patiently explained that he had actually referred to the Canadian band Nickelback, which has inflicted immeasurably greater damage to society (especially to innocent music consumers burdened with good taste) than marijuana or most other proscribed substances. The officer pretended that his misunderstanding constituted ?reasonable suspicion? and continued to interrogate and harass the young men, which eventually resulted in one of them being shackled after he ?violently? (the officer?s word) reached into the back seat of his vehicle.

This ?isn?t an arrest,? one of the deputies insisted, claiming that the degrading assault and public humiliation of the innocent man was necessary for the ?safety? of the officers and the victims ? the latter comment an implicit acknowledgment that the officers considered themselves entitled to injure, mutilate, or murder either or both of the victims if given an excuse to do so.

Unfortunately, the victims in this clip were far too accommodating in dealing with the cops, answering their impertinent questions and even inviting a search of the vehicle. Never indulge, for as much as a picosecond, the idea that a police officer is a reasonable individual who will give you the benefit of the doubt: They are seeking to cage you, not clear you, and they don?t care if you?ve done nothing wrong.

The behavior of the officers, who appeared to be with the Kootenai County Sheriff?s Office, is quite similar to that of prison guards, which is quite appropriate. Prisoners are subject to physical search, interrogation, and summary punishment at the whim of their uniformed overseers. A very similar state of affairs exists outside of prison walls in the US(S)A, as well.

At the title of this video recognizes, there is no sense in which behavior of this kind ? which is utterly typical of police in northern Idaho and throughout the soyuz ? can be construed as ?serving? or ?protecting? the public. Lurking beneath the superficial politeness and supposed professionalism of these two armed functionaries is a cultivated reflex for predatory authoritarianism suitable for service in an undisguised police state.

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I had a lovely trip through their jail once...bastards. I don't even eat potatoes from there anymore. 9 of the 11 females in my pod were from washington state. They will stop and arrest you for nnothing especially if you have washington plates. I hate idaho and all things idahoan In Utah, California and Colorado plates are targeted. The drug-nazis know that time is short. They are in a last-chance feeding frenzy. How empty their souls and wallets will be when the Golden-Years of Drug-War-Piracy finally come to a close. Think retribution. Drug-War retribution. Keep track of them. After the collapse they should be interned re-education camps. Their homes sold at auction with the proceeds given back to those that were stolen from or wronged. East Germany was freedomland compared to what we got.

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The Utter Uselessness of Police: Two Recent Examples from Idaho

William Norman Grigg

Two recent incidents in Idaho illustrated the value of armed self-defense, and the uselessness of government law enforcement, as a means of defending personal property.

On Sunday morning (June 22), Kuna resident Tricia Gillaspy and her husband awoke to find a naked stranger in their bedroom. After the intruder fled into the bathroom, Mr. Gillaspy grabbed a gun and ordered him from the home while his wife dialed 911. Although the intoxicated man -- by this time clad in shorts -- left the house, he continued to loiter on the couple's property. While waiting for the police to arrive, the couple took inventory of the damage done by the uninvited visitor, a 25-year-old man identified as Matthew Coomes, who had flooded their kitchen and defecated on the living room carpet before redecorating their walls in the same medium.

When the cops arrived, they gave Coomes two citations and gave him a ride home.

"What are you doing?" exclaimed Mrs. Gillaspy in astonishment and disgust. "This guy deserves to go to jail!"

Of course, putting him in jail would merely have compelled others to pay for his upkeep. In a reasonably free society, Coomes would have been required to make restitution for the damage he had inflicted on the Gillaspy family's property. The officers weren't there to help the victims of the property crime receive restitution, but to monetize that crime for the benefit of the municipal corporation that employs them. If Coomes fails to pay the citation, this act -- unlike his invasion of the Gillaspy home and the damage he did to it -- will be treated as a criminal offense.

Ada County prosecutors are considering a charge of felonious injury to property, since the damage is estimated to be well in excess of $1,000. If Coomes is convicted of that offense, the beneficiary, once again, would be the local political class, rather than the people who suffered the actual injury.

As if to italicize the utter uselessness of police in dealing with crimes against property, a sergeant from the Kuna PD called Mrs. Gillaspy shortly after the incident to say that in order for the officers to take Coomes into custody, it would have been necessary for the couple to make a citizen's arrest. If the couple had done so, it's likely the police would have arrested them on some invented charge to cover their true offense, which would have been undermining the department's claimed monopoly on force.

A few days earlier, a resident of Coeur d'Alene was approached by a man who drew a knife and demanded money. The would-be robbery victim, who was with his 2-year-old daughter, drew a gun, prompting the assailant to flee to a van. The father briefly gave pursuit in his own vehicle. The Kootenai County Sheriff's Office received a report on the incident, but the deputies were too occupied with more important tasks, such as harassing young men whose public mention of the schlock-rock band Nickelback was construed as evidence of marijuana possession.

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Idaho Cop Assaults Man for Video Recording Traffic Stop From More Than 50 Feet Away

by Carlos Miller

A Boise police sergeant stormed up to a man video recording her making a traffic stop from more than 50 feet away, accusing him of interfering with her investigation.

Sgt. Lori Sperry ordered Gavin Seim to take his hands out of his pockets and hand over his identification, which he refused to do on the basis that he was not committing a crime.

Sperry, who made more than $99,000 in 2011, became extremely unsettled by the fact that he asserted his rights, claiming it was an ?officer safety issue,? then insisting she was unable to multitask because she couldn?t focus on the driver she was ticketing as well as on Seim.

At one point, she grabbed his arm, but then backed off as if realizing she had crossed the line.

She finally relaxed when another officer named T. Green showed up to the scene, who?s demeanor was the complete opposite of his superior.

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Sherry, you are a POS that need to be dealt with Lori Sperry, you are one sick public servant that needs a mental evaluation You all are a bunch of idiots if you don't think, for a minute, that Gavin was intentionally looking to create some sort of altercation. He clearly had a speech in place for after the event. You all should be embarrassed for supporting him here. All you need to do is put your mother, sister or wife in place of this officer.

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Gary Raney: The Slave-Catching Sheriff of Ada County, Idaho

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If Idaho had been part of the Union in 1850, and Ada County Sheriff Gary Raney had occupied that office at the time, he would have dutifully arrested any black man or woman identified as an escaped slave. Oh, sure, Raney may have expressed agonized reluctance as he did so -- but that reluctance would have been rhetorical window-dressing for his pious invocation of the sacred responsibility he had to submit to the "law of the land."

This is the inescapable logic of the position Raney has taken in an op-ed column published this morning in the Idaho Statesman.

"I have been asked many times in the past couple of weeks whether I will uphold my oath to defend the Constitution and proclaim an intolerance of federal action against the Second Amendment," Raney writes. Many others have indulged that pressure and now we see Oregon sheriffs, Wyoming legislators and others making hollow promises to protect you from the intrusions of the federal government."

"I did not swear to uphold just part of the Constitution," Raney continues, before tacitly promising to do that very thing. You see, the Constitution, on Raney's construction, "includes the right to keep and bear arms, but it also includes the `supremacy clause' that says that every state shall abide by the laws passed by our Congress."

Actually, that right is not included in the Constitution; it exists independent of that document or any other government charter, and no government has the moral right or delegated authority to take it away. What Raney asserts here is the idea that the existence of that right is contingent on government approval, and thus can be nullified by government. From this perspective, the only part of the Constitution that matters is the supremacy clause, at least as people like Raney pretend to understand it.

"So, despite the fact that I personally oppose some of the gun control measures currently under consideration, my oath requires me to uphold the laws that are passed by our federal and state representatives," summarizes Raney. The same would have been true, of course, of the Fugitive Slave Act -- which was properly enacted and enforced as the "law of the land" despite the heroic efforts of people in some cities and states to nullify enforcement of that abominable measure.

Give Raney whatever credit is due to him for his candor: Like the other sheriffs who have pledged not to carry out unconstitutional federal gun confiscation measures, Raney receives federal subsidies -- but unlike his pro-Second Amendment colleagues, Raney is forthright about the fact that he is merely a servile tool of the federal leviathan state. He will confiscate firearms from innocent people if ordered to, but at least he won't have to walk back any promises he had made to protect their rights.

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he Sheriff is either lying or ignorant. The ?supremacy clause? he refers to does NOT stipulate that federal law trumps state law. In fact, it means quite the opposite. The Supremacy Clause (Article VI, Section 2) stipulates the following:

the U.S. Constitution-not the federal government-is supreme; that the U.S. Constitution and all laws made in harmony with it ?shall be the supreme Law of the Land; and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby??.

TRANSLATE: every State not only MUST obey the U.S. Constitution but also enforce it against any federal conspirator in Congress, who by defrauding those that he pretends to represent, also violates it.

"The right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall NOT be infringed."
~2nd Amendment

In other words, it's illegal to pass a law that restricts gun ownership. That is what the "shall not be infringed" part means. Congress MUST pass an amendment that revokes the Second Amendment in order to restrict ANY guns. They CANNOT muster the support for such an amendment. Therefore, they are attempting to do what is illegal, passing laws which infringe on the right to bear arms.
Fact is, the CCW laws are illegal.
The laws which restrict convicted felons from possessing guns are illegal.
The laws which restrict persons convicted of domestic violence from possessing guns are illegal.

ALL of these laws ARE ILLEGAL.

Get it?

It is the Sheriff that is breaking the law. Not We the People.

Sheriff Raney is a disgrace to the founders and the citizens of Ada County.

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