Saturday, April 28, 2007

Cops plant marijuana at 92-year old woman's house after shooting her to death

"We're from the government--We're here to help."

From MPP.org and a better-written version at alternet.org:
The charges followed a Nov. 21 "no-knock" drug raid on the home of Kathryn Johnston, 92. An informant [Who later admitted that he lied about this to get the police to leave him alone. --jml] had described buying drugs from a dealer there, police said. When the officers burst in without warning, Johnston fired at them, and they fired back, killing her.

Fulton County prosecutor Peter Johnson said that the officers involved in Johnston's death fired 39 shots, striking her five or six times, including a fatal blow to the chest.

He said Johnston fired only once through her door and didn't hit any of the officers. That means the officers who were wounded likely were hit by their own colleagues, he said.

Unbelievable.

No, wait--it's not. It's probably very, very typical--these guys just got caught.

Friday, April 20, 2007

WMDs in Iraq; now in Syria

Government screws up again.

From The Spectator.co.uk:
Between March and July 2003, he says, he was taken to four sites in southern Iraq — two within Nasariyah, one 20 miles south and one near Basra — which, he was told by numerous Iraqi sources, contained biological and chemical weapons, material for a nuclear programme and UN-proscribed missiles. He was, he says, in no doubt whatever that this was true.

This was, in the first place, because of the massive size of these sites and the extreme lengths to which the Iraqis had gone to conceal them. Three of them were bunkers buried 20 to 30 feet beneath the Euphrates. They had been constructed through building dams which were removed after the huge subterranean vaults had been excavated so that these were concealed beneath the river bed. The bunker walls were made of reinforced concrete five feet thick.


Very interesting: WMDs are found in Iraq, but Dems and Repubs are equally reluctant to publicize it.
(Found on Geek with a .45)