Everybody knows that it makes no sense that you send a kid to the emergency room for a treatable illness like asthma, they end up taking up a hospital bed, it costs, when, if you, they just gave, you gave them treatment early and they got some treatment, and a breathalyzer, or inhalator, not a breathalyzer. I haven’t had much sleep in the last 48 hours.” –Barack Obama, 9 October 2008
Wonderful news from the environmental do-gooders in Washington: the Obama administration is poised to ban over-the-counter breathalyzers, I mean inhalators, I mean inhalers in order to save the ozone layer.
Further:
Remember how Obama recently waived new ozone regulations at the EPA because they were too costly? Well, it seems that the Obama administration would rather make people with Asthma cough up money than let them make a surely inconsequential contribution to depleting the ozone layer:
Asthma patients who rely on over-the-counter inhalers will need to switch to prescription-only alternatives as part of the federal government’s latest attempt to protect the Earth’s atmosphere.
The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday patients who use the epinephrine inhalers to treat mild asthma will need to switch by Dec. 31 to other types that do not contain chlorofluorocarbons, an aerosol substance once found in a variety of spray products.
The action is part of an agreement signed by the U.S. and other nations to stop using substances that deplete the ozone layer, a region in the atmosphere that helps block harmful ultraviolet rays from the Sun.
But the switch to a greener inhaler will cost consumers more. Epinephrine inhalers are available via online retailers for around $20, whereas the alternatives, which contain the drug albuterol, range from $30 to $60.
Ladies and gentlemen, how wonderful is that?
Because, clearly, men, women and children need to be sacrificed on the Altar of ObakaKare in order to bring the point across.
Let the hoarding of inhalers commence!
I swoon at their intuition, insight and intelligence!
Severely edited videos permeated the MSM and internet for weeks regarding this incident involving OWS people at the UCD campus in Davis, Fornicalia. Please watch the entire video first:
Fornicalia Penal Code section 409 states:
Every person remaining present at the place of any riot, rout, or unlawful assembly, after the same has been lawfully warned to disperse, except public officers and persons assisting them in attempting to disperse the same, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
All Fornicalia officers also know that prior to enacting this penal code section, training indicates you provide at least two verbal warnings — some agencies provide more.
PC section 404.6:
(a) Every person who with the intent to cause a riot does an act or engages in conduct that urges a riot, or urges others to commit acts of force or violence, or the burning or destroying of property, and at a time and place and under circumstances that produce a clear and present and immediate danger of acts of force or violence or the burning or destroying of property, is guilty of incitement to riot. (b) Incitement to riot is punishable by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding one year, or by both that fine and imprisonment.
405a PC:
The taking by means of a riot of any person from the lawful custody of any peace officer is a lynching.
405b PC:
Every person who participates in any lynching is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison for two, three or four years.
Meaning that section 405a PC is a felony, as opposed to a misdemeanor.
Then there is section 410 PC, which should answer the question: “why were the police there at all?”
If a magistrate or officer, having notice of an unlawful or riotous assembly, mentioned in this Chapter, neglects to proceed to the place of assembly, or as near thereto as he can with safety, and to exercise the authority with which he is invested for suppressing the same and arresting the offenders, he is guilty of a misdemeanor.
Section 416 PC:
(a) If two or more persons assemble for the purpose of disturbing the public peace, or committing any unlawful act, and do not disperse on being desired or commanded so to do by a public officer, the persons so offending are severally guilty of a misdemeanor. (b) Any person who, as a result of violating subdivision (a), personally causes damage to real or personal property, which is either publicly or privately owned, shall make restitution for the damage he or she caused, including, but not limited to, the costs of cleaning up, repairing, replacing, or restoring the property. Any restitution required to be paid pursuant to this subdivision shall be paid directly to the victim. If the court determines that the defendant is unable to pay restitution, the court shall order the defendant to perform community service, as the court deems appropriate, in lieu of the direct restitution payment.
404 PC:
(a) Any use of force or violence, disturbing the public peace, or any threat to use force or violence, if accompanied by immediate power of execution, by two or more persons acting together, and without authority of law, is a riot.
404.6 PC:
a) Every person who with the intent to cause a riot does an act or engages in conduct that urges a riot, or urges others to commit acts of force or violence, or the burning or destroying of property, and at a time and place and under circumstances that produce a clear and present and immediate danger of acts of force or violence or the burning or destroying of property, is guilty of incitement to riot.
407 PC:
Whenever two or more persons assemble together to do an unlawful act, or do a lawful act in a violent, boisterous, or tumultuous manner, such assembly is an unlawful assembly.
408 PC:
Every person who participates in any rout or unlawful assembly is guilty of a misdemeanor.
Armed with those penal code sections, and having watched the video, now yourself being one of the officers present, what might you conclude?
Yet, did you see this story or these penal code sections or reasons portrayed, examined or even remotely referred-to in any of the DEM/MSM?
Of course not.
Please weigh in.
BZ
P.S. I hope you noted that the same officer who sprayed the protesters is the same officer who, at 7:50, went down the line and explained to them — again — what would occur if they didn’t get up and leave. Also note: this isn’t just a line level officer; this is a lieutenant — who took on the ultimate responsibility and action himself.
Megyn Kelly and Bill O’Reilly opine:
And now I opine: Megyn Kelly is correct. OC, otherwise known as Oleoresin Capsicum, is derived from a plant that occurs in nature: pepper.
Further, any law enforcement officer knows that a crowd can easily go sideways in a matter of moments, from allegedly peaceful to violent. Had that been myself in charge, I would not have forced my officers to physically pick up and move protesters. I would have had my officers either utilize the riot-sized OC spray (which the lieutenant possessed) and/or place pain/compliance holds on the protesters depending on officers’ level of familiarization with same. My job, as supervisor in this situation, is not to get my officers hurt whilst still enforcing the law.
I’ve personally been Maced and OC’d before, numerous times. Purposely, in the academy’s Gas House, and inadvertently by any multiple utilizations of Mace or OC by my fellow officers. I lived. So did all the students.
In just the past week there have been three tragic incidents where the lives of law enforcement officers were taken, with the suspects subsequently shooting themselves dead.
The incident with the most media play because of the April 16th, 2007 massacre where 32 people were killed and 26 were wounded:
Virginia State Police said Ross Truett Ashley, a 22-year-old part-time business student at Radford University, about 10 miles from the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, walked up to officer Deriek W. Crouse after noon on Thursday and shot him to death as the patrolman sat in his unmarked cruiser during a traffic stop. Ashley was not involved in the stop and did not know the driver, who is cooperating with police, they said.
Authorities said Ashley then took off for the campus greenhouses, ditching his pullover, wool cap and backpack as police quickly sent out a campus-wide alert that a gunman was on the loose. Officials said the alert system put in place after the nation’s worst mass slaying in recent memory worked well, but it nevertheless rattled a community still coping with that tragedy.
A deputy sheriff on patrol noticed a man acting suspiciously in a parking lot about a half-mile from the shooting. The deputy drove up and down the rows of the sprawling Cage parking lot and lost sight of the man for a moment, then found Ashley shot to death on the pavement, a handgun nearby. No one saw him take his life and he wasn’t carrying any ID.
State police spokeswoman Corinne Geller said Ashley appears to have acted alone and didn’t know the slain officer: “At this time we have no connection between the two of them, that they knew one another or had encountered one another prior to the shooting,” she said.
An Atchison Police Officer was killed during a late Friday afternoon shooting near 12th and Division streets.
Authorities confirmed that Officer David Enzbrenner, 46, died Friday evening from a gunshot wound.
It has also been confirmed that Skyler Barbee, 25, was the alleged shooter in the incident. Officials report that while Officer Enzbrenner was on duty serving a nuisance order at the home of Jerome Bratton, Mr. Barbee appeared out of nowhere and shot the officer in the head. The assailant then turned the weapon on himself and shot himself. He died at the scene.
“The officer didn’t have time to react,” Atchison County Sheriff John Calhoon said of Officer Enzbrenner, a husband and father of three girls. Barbee had at least one prior arrest involving an assault on an officer.
On Aug. 2, he was picked up for vehicle burglary, battery on a law enforcement officer and obstruction of the legal process.
VASS, N.C. — A North Carolina deputy sheriff was shot and killed Wednesday as he tried to arrest an Iraq war veteran with an outstanding arrest warrant for not paying child support, authorities said. The suspect then took his own life.
Moore County Sheriff Lane Carter said that Deputy Richard Rhyne had spoken to the suspect around noon and determined he had an outstanding arrest warrant.
Carter said the suspect, Martin Poynter, pulled out a gun and fatally shot Rhyne outside an abandoned home near Vass, which is 60 miles southwest of Raleigh.
Poynter then turned the same gun on himself and also died, the sheriff said.
The sheriff said the 58-year-old Rhyne went to the home after deputies received a trespassing complaint. The deputy found the 33-year-old Poynter and his brother and had time to check their names before he was killed.
Rhyne had been in law enforcement for 37 years and a Moore County deputy since 2007.
The constants in these three incidents?
Officers working solo;
Assaulted by solo suspects with handguns;
Purposely targeted and/or ambushed;
Two of the three were shot to the head;
With a subsequent suicide by the perpetrator
I submit that these times are every bit as dangerous for today’s law enforcement officer as it was for officers working during the societal anarchy of the late 60s and early 70s — a time I am familiar with: because I worked then. And now. In law enforcement.
Not because stats indicate that crime is necessarily soaring.
Instead, I submit it is because many individuals encountered by law enforcement officers have been raised on entitlements, a welfare mindset, an inflated sense of esteem and ego, narcissism, lack of respect for authority or others, an indifference to the immediate utilization of violence and lack of discipline.
God bless the officers who gave their lives — and God bless their families.
Repeal of sodomy, bestiality ban sparks fight on Defense bill
By Jeremy Herb – 12/09/11 01:53 PM ET
As the final Defense authorization bill gets hammered out in conference committee, one surprising issue is riling both social conservatives and animal rights activists: the repeal of a ban on sodomy and bestiality.
The Senate bill, which was passed last week, removed an article from the Uniform Code of Military Justice stating “unnatural carnal copulation with another person of the same or opposite sex or with an animal is guilty of sodomy.”
There are moments when I can do nothing more than shake my head in wonder.
