Beginning to think the world is going crazy. With so much war going on and so many veterans coming home to take law enforcement jobs, rational thought and respect for human life seem to have gone out the window.
Did you see today's national news? Two plain clothes Georgia state policemen fired numerous shots into a 28 year old preacher in a small Georgia mountain town. He was not a suspect in any crime, but had just dropped off a lady, who was supected of being a drug user and small time dealer. The law officers claimed that they wante to question the young preacher.
The offical version put out by the state says that he tried to ram the non-uniforned officers with his car, so they pumped 12 9mm bullets into him as they stood beside his car. They were driving an unmarked black SUV - the favorite vehicle of the Mafia in these parts.
A video camera at the nearby convenience store tells a different story. The officers shot him at point blank while he was seated in his car and they were standing beside it. Of course, he was unarmed, and was terrified as two strangers rushed his car, He backed away from them AFTER receiving several fatal wounds. He last words in the hospital were, "Who shot me?"
It would have been quite easy, and certainly more professional for the officiers merely to look up the preacher's phone number on their computer, then
call him at home or at the church. That didn't happen.
Well, I have a feeling that many folks have not believed me when I wrote blogs about some state law enforcement officers in Georgia being out of touch with reality.- and the Constitution.
However, that won't bring back a dedicated young preacher and father-to-be.
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ragtopcookie
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Sep 4 @ 9:02PM
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Scary stuff for scary times......if people end up taking to the streets to protest the way things are......will law enforcement shoot on its own people on the order of the few?.......will the national guard.......the armed forces.........time will tell......cookie
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wstang69
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Sep 4 @ 9:20PM
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sounds like those officers should be tried for murder, then
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AmericaFirst
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Sep 4 @ 10:02PM
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Etowah: With so much war going on and so many veterans coming home to take law enforcement jobs, rational thought and respect for human life seem to have gone out the window.
You lost me when you insinuated combat veteran men and women of the United States Armed Forces are psychotic and should be screened out of law enforcement because of their disrespect of human life. Pull your liberal head out of your ***. Please show me statistics that corroborate your fictitious opinion. Do you know for a fact that these police officers are combat veterans of Iraq or Afghanistan? You would have ACORN, SEIU, NEW BLACK PANTHERS, AMERICORPS run law enforcement.
Here is the raw footage VIDEO
The Atlanta Journal Constitution article
"GBI spokesman John Bankhead said witnesses heard the two men identify themselves as law enforcement officers.
The sheriff also told reporters the agents “yelled, ‘Police. Stop.’ ”
Stephens County Sheriff Randy Shirley said the shooting came after Ayers hit one of the agents with his car as he backed up. The second one shot Ayers because the 29-year-old minister had maneuvered his car toward him in a “threatening manner,” Shirley said."
Also to note: Police followed Ayers (the preacher) because he was with a woman who twice sold drugs to the officers. Ayers pulled money from an ATM and gave it to the woman. And why did Ayers ask a bizarre question, "Who shot me"??? Sounds like he was trying to find an excuse out of his predicament. If I was shot, I wouldn't be asking who shot me. I would be praying to God for help and telling family I loved them.
Watch the video and read the article. I'm sure there are other newspaper and blog articles which will shed more light on what happened. The investigation is still pending.
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Etowah
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Sep 5 @ 12:04AM
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A new video has emerged tonight that is being held by the local newspaper in Toccoa, which refutes the state's official version of events which was printed in this morning's AJC.
It doesn't matter. What does shooting an unarmed civilian have to do with patriotism? Was he "a socialist" therefore he deserved to die?
As I said, Have many Americans gone insane? Even if the man had rammed their car first, it gave no reason for him to be killed. He wasn't just shot once to immobilize him.
The preacher had committed no crime, period. He was rushed by strangers not wearing uniforms and pointing pistols at him. How would you feel if immediately after you dropped a friend off, two strangers rushed you with guns? You would be terrified wouldn't you?
Have you ever been shot at? I have. Twice bullets fired by neo-Nazi's have come so close to my head that I felt the rush of wind. A third time, someone fired a high-powered rifle at my windshield while I was driving down I-75 in north Metro Atlanta. It is not a pleasant experience. Fortunatly, my Explorer was one of the few American cars made with bullet proof windshields.
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Etowah
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Sep 5 @ 12:28AM
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Oh jeez! I forgot about the main times I was shot at. I formerly owned a federally licensed goat cheese creamery and sheep farm in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. IN the year before Desert Storm some mad scientists and insane warriors at Fort Detrick, Maryland decided to experiment on my livestock with their new hybrid germ warfare bugs. After each night time attack, a colonel and major in combat fatigues would pull into my farm driveway with their gold Jeep Cherokee and discuss the results of the previous night's attack.
The primary bug infected into my critters was a lab created mycoplasm, mycoplasma meloides, which a year later would show up in the blood of over 100,000 Desert Storm veterans. It was first identified and labeled from the necropsies of my livestock - six months before Desert Storm. Yep, I know for an absolute fact that that disease was developed at Fort Detrick, and intentionally given to our troops. Why? I don't know.
I was shot at several times by M-16's when I ran out to the barn with my 22 to see what the night time ruckus was. Both my goats and I were also severely cut up by booby traps the soldiers put out in the pasture - explosives inside of beer bottles with trip wires.
When I went to the FBI for protection, the rogue officers at Fort Detrick decided to teach me a lesson. I know this because I had locked on to the frequency of their walkie talkies so I heard the officers commands just as the brave goat killers recieved them. The last battle on was on a cold winter's night. Two feet of snow was on the ground and it was about 12 degrees.
Inspired by the movie, "Jerimiah Johnson" I wrapped myself up in quilts and a tarp then burrowed under the snow at the back corner of the 55 acre farm where the a squad of Army Rangers were planning to come through that night. I got the bastards good. They froze in fright when I rose out of the snow . They fired their M-16's at ghosts in the woods - perhaps of soldiers who died there in a Civil War battle on October 9, 1864.. Two of the wounded Rangers left their berets behind. They never came back. Guess the risks were not worth the pay.
So who was the patriot? The American citizen protecting his farm from terrorists, or the professional soldier killing sweet-natured livestock to pick up a few extra bucks?
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RebelleJen
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Sep 5 @ 10:28AM
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This is a sad story indeed. I didn't read the other comments, so this is just my opinion on the matter, undiluted. I do agree that law enforcement "officials" are becoming more and more out of touch with "reality" as the days and years pass... but reality is also out of touch with itself. It is a cruel, hard world that we live in, and unfortunately, happy events are rarely, if ever, reported on your evening news. While there is still a great amount of reason, kindness, and sincerity left, the harsh truth is that we live in a society where you either must conform or be destroyed. The current state of affairs is that we are slowly transforming into a police state here in the United States. There's very little that a person can do or have without officials of some variety coming to govern it.
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CrackerJackPat
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Sep 5 @ 12:23PM
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National Guard???? How long do you suppose there will be funds for a National Guard???? Scary times indeed!!! God help us all!!!
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SweetNapaGuy
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Sep 5 @ 1:05PM
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If I was shot, I wouldn't be asking who shot me.
"If I was in (insert a situation), I would (insert self-aggrandizing plan of action)..."
Armchair quarterbacks. Ugh. 
How do you KNOW what you would do? There in the comfort of your study, it's so easy, so simple, to say you'd act in such-and-such a way. But if and when you're caught in any particular situation, who knows how you'd REALLY react?
If I were hit with a dozen shots, the only thing I'm SURE of is that, with the massive trauma, I'd be in a state of shock. Aside from that? I'm not conceited enough to claim all sorts of clarity of thought to do anything else. I MIGHT do more, but I'm not arrogant enough to pat myself on the back about what I MIGHT do in a completely THEORETICAL situation.
Heck. If I'm ever in the situation where 200 alien ninjas parachute down around me, I'd TOTALLY use my instinctive kung-fu and acrobatic skills to kick their asses. Because I'm that much of a badass!   
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