Comments on Pro Libertate: Joseph Weekley: Self-Pitying Stormtrooper

Well said.

2014-06-09T11:50:45.312-06:00

Well said.

First of all, SRT, like other tactical teams, does...

2014-02-15T17:05:18.941-07:00

First of all, SRT, like other tactical teams, does not exchange fire with suspects who can shoot back. They give such people a generous berth, while specializing in no-knock raids of the kind that resulted in the murder of Aiyana Stanley-Jones.

Secondly, the suspect was living in a separate dwelling from the one in which the murder of Aiyana took place.

Third, apart from the fact that SRT wanted to pose and preen for television cameras, there was no reason to carry out a midnight no-knock raid. They could, and should, have set up a perimeter and then arrested the suspect outside the house with minimal chance of injury or death to innocent people. That approach isn't optional; it's mandatory.

Fourth, are we to assume that Weekley's supposed humanitarianism prior to murdering Aiyana in some way mitigates his criminal act in killing that child? Do police have punch cards of some kind tabulating charitable acts -- and that, once they're filled, give them an entitlement to kill a small black child of their choice?

Fifth, there is no evidence that the grandmother was "fighting" with the police, but if she did, God bless her. Armed strangers who fire grenades into your home and invade it without warning aren't peace officers and shouldn't be treated as such.

Sixth, Weekley is a police officer, which is among the safest occupations in society. If he were a long-haul trucker, a farmer, a commercial fisherman, or a logger, he would actually face significant job-related risks. If you're content to retail Spelling/Goldberg-worthy melodramatic dreck about the dangers of police "work," you have nothing of value to contribute to this discussion. Then again, that much was obvious from your sub-adolescent diction and immediate resort to vulgarity.

Lol.. Wow.. Majority of you sound like dumb fucks....

2014-02-15T16:12:47.176-07:00

Lol.. Wow.. Majority of you sound like dumb fucks.. One person says if this cop went up against worthy armed adversary?? Guy does it all the time.. He's srt. Raiding dope houses n serving murder warrents.. None of you mention jerean Blake , the young black kid killed by aiyana Jones uncle chauncy who got gun and was driven to murder Blake from aiyanas father, oh yeah, both convicted last week of murder.. Grandmother changed her story THREE times.. This cop leaves in morning, kisses his kids goodbye, not knowing if he will see them again, as he hunts down the worse of the worse for nothing.. Shitty pay.. Trying to just make a difference.. Check out all this cop has done for the cities youth prior to this incident, he just always wanted to help.. Unfortunately Detroit shitty as hell.. Why these murderers in house with lil girl?? Why grandma allowing it and why she disobeying n fighting with police ??? You people need to know the facts and get a clue!! Dude killed child and has to live with it, I'd be sobbing too if I killed a child. But wouldn't think twice or care if it were one of you big talking internet tough gangster bitches!!
Tony D
(Detroit)

worthy should prosecute Martila Jones and the rest...

2013-09-11T21:24:22.848-06:00

worthy should prosecute Martila Jones and the rest of that messed up family , who are nothing more then a gang a street criminals. that family of trash harbored a wanted criminal and allowed criminal activity in the house. they put that child in harms way and they are to blame not the police. they are all liars and only care about the 6 million dollar suit. it is sad the child is dead but blame the family that was supposed to protect her well being.

Queue those enlightened citizens who seem to belie...

2013-07-03T08:06:10.754-06:00

Queue those enlightened citizens who seem to believe that there is no depth of depraved behavior our badge emblazoned heroes engage in that is not justified because their victims MUST have been doing something wrong or SHOULD have known better than to disobey ... even to gunning down family pets in the streets. Even though the LA police spokeshero stated that the true intent in the dog murder was to protect the owner from his own pet.

They think we are stupid because ... 1 - many of us are .... and 2 - we do NOTHING. Baaaaahhh

Today marks two weeks that I buried a friend who w...

2013-06-24T06:59:18.314-06:00

Today marks two weeks that I buried a friend who was at the age of 31 years old. He did 4 tours of combat that haunted him where he was very scared to go to sleep at night because he was going to dream. He took his own life, on Veterans Day in the evening. He left behind, three young sons that he loved. The pain that he suffered was torture that made it impossible for him to move forward. Sleeping and having the past come back in dream form is costing 22 Vets so much pain they take their own lives every day in America.
All being said, I can't help wondering if the police are having any kind of problems with what they do and having nightmares over their own personal conduct. Just a thought of wondering.

I'm so sick of the "wrong address" t...

2013-06-22T15:17:04.828-06:00

I'm so sick of the "wrong address" thing. This murder, and all the jack booted actions like it, should be no more tolerable if done at the "right" address, regardless of the real or imagined "crime" involved.

There is simply no excuse for any armed invasion, much less with fingers on the triggers.

Just for info git, who comments above; has spent...

2013-06-22T05:42:16.460-06:00

Just for info
git, who comments above;

has spent the past several years, working hard to come up with twisted and confused trolling, on Mises daily, and apparently on Cafe Hayek too.

In those years, despite being offered numerous leads for background reading, it has singularly failed to advance its knowledge or understanding of libertarian ideas or of human action, to any discernible degree.

Please do not waste either time or bandwidth arguing with it, its entire purpose appears to be to cause aggravation and annoyance.

In many ways it reminds me of a self destructive child which attended the same school as I did.

It would purposely aggravate those most likely to bully it, and any who attempted to be nice to it were rewarded by it smashing up their stuff when their backs were turned.

It was small, very skinny band with a disproportionately big head. following being expelled from school - it's legal guardians (its grandparents) couldn't cope and the character ended up in Edinburgh - small, gay, very self destructive and into drugs - at the time that Edinburgh was the AIDS capital of Europe.

I suspect that it became another one of the 1980s AIDS statistics.

Git's commenting behaviour reminds me of it.

By Libertarian reckoning, the jury failed the vict...

2013-06-21T00:33:11.656-06:00

By Libertarian reckoning, the jury failed the victims not the State per se since the officer was charged. The hatred Libertarians feel should be towards the jurors who held out because they thought it was an accident.

Poor, poor, Joseph Weekley says he will 'never...

2013-06-20T21:33:00.171-06:00

Poor, poor, Joseph Weekley says he will 'never be the same'. I hope it grates on him for the rest of his miserable life, until, one day he finally finds the courage he never had, puts his service weapon in his mouth, and pulls the trigger.

The main difference between the Waffen SS and puss...

2013-06-20T13:10:42.609-06:00

The main difference between the Waffen SS and pussies like this blubbering coward is that they weren't hypocrites about they did.
The Waffen SS were indeed murderers, but when the chips were down they actually had the cojones to engage a worthy opponent. This weeping douchebag doesn't have the warrior spirit to engage anything more dangerous than a child hiding under a pile of laundry and her grandmother. He would undoubtedly experience projectile diahrrea upon engaging a competent and well armed adversary. Oh, well, as long as his duties don't encompass anything more dangerous than murdering small children while blaming her grandmother and blasting peoples' dogs as they raid the wrong addresses he will continue to have a long and distinguished career. Heinrich would be proud of him.
_revjen45

Grigg, why don't you write this to Josef Weakl...

2013-06-20T12:08:51.395-06:00

Grigg, why don't you write this to Josef Weakly?

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LAVA
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Ol' Heinrich threw up at the machine gun ditch...

2013-06-20T09:22:06.350-06:00

Ol' Heinrich threw up at the machine gun ditch so they worked on the mobile gas vans using the mentally ill or disabled and softened up the general population with weekly newsreels depicting the killings as humane. The blackshirts over here won't have any reservations and will probably have notches on their weapon stocks. I thought the po leece were all super duper masters of firearms? Even a scrub beginner knows finger out of the triggerguard until it is time to shoot. An obscure SS tidbit regarding their army the Waffen-SS, when the Götz von Berlichingen division was accused of cowardice in 1945 and asked to turn in their unit armbands the commander sent back a severed arm from a dead soldier in a bucket.

the 'jurors' are like the 'citizens...

2013-06-20T08:19:51.404-06:00

the 'jurors' are like the 'citizens' which seem to be in the majority today...accept anything/everything the state says/does/wants.

the state in which we find ourselves is because we accept the unacceptable. as is always the case, accepting the unacceptable only serves to accentuate and increase the unacceptable.

it is beyond time to separate this nation into two entities, one as is presently constructed for those who worship at the altar of power, the other for those of us who will not bow.

Judges who turn these dogs loose on sleeping famil...

2013-06-20T07:42:25.789-06:00

Judges who turn these dogs loose on sleeping families are equally
to blame for the atrocities that inevitably ensue.

Growing up watching Westerns I was taught that only savages
executed night-time sneak attacks. This excluded the Comanche
and was reserved only for Nazis.

"Shock-and-Awe" is a total-war battlefield tactic, not a domestic
police tactic. Are we at war with the Police? In the last moments
of her sweet young life, I'm sure Aiyana thought so.

He's 5'3" - what a short little thug!...

2013-06-20T06:46:57.255-06:00

He's 5'3" - what a short little thug!