Break your probation for a non-violent financial crime and no-one does anything but fill out paperwork.
Break your probation for a non-violent financial crime, have no-one do anything for a while, and then do something that is used as an excuse for people to riot and murder, thereby making the administration look like a bunch of fools? Well, then your probation officer and the local police are going to haul you in for a hearing and put your butt behind bars again.
The guy’s not as pure as the driven snow by any means. He’s a convicted felon who by all accounts was indeed violating his probation rules. But the fact that no-one did anything about it until his actions brought embarrassment on the Obama administration is troubling.
Let’s say you have a C&R FFL, which means that you have to keep a bound book. Or maybe you live in a state that requires a license to own a firearm, such as Massachusetts. Then you do something that makes the president look bad, and all of a sudden the ATF or local sheriff is on your front door wanting to see your documents and guns, and they proceed to go through your life with a flashlight and a pair of tweezers. Is that just?
When the power of the government is used to silence a citizen or punish him for making waves, that is tyranny.
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TinCan Assassin
/ September 28, 2012Like TJIC?
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daddybear71
/ September 28, 2012Pretty much, except instead of a two-bit local Barney Fife getting his knickers in a knot, we have the President condemning him on live TV.
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Jake
/ September 28, 2012Just to play devil’s advocate: I wonder if no one realized he had broken his probation until they started trying to find out who made the video? He was doing it all under at least one false identity, after all. And the judge does have a point about him being a flight risk – if I were in his position I’d be thinking very hard about disappearing, too, especially if I thought not disappearing meant getting locked up in a publicly known location with a bunch of crooks while I had a price on my head.
I’m certainly concerned about the timing and heavy-handedness involved in this, but there are legitimate reasons for at least some of what people are making a big deal of.
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daddybear71
/ September 28, 2012I guess my point is that no-one did much more than write a sternly written report before that trailer was the excuse used by thousands of people to lose their shit.
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