Government Thugs

[Picture above: Canadian magazine [April 98] shows cover with police officer holding a prohibited weapon used in home raids involving domestic disputes, customs searches, suicide threats, and even drunk driving.]

With the public all but disarmed in their own homes, what purpose would a police officer have in taking a FULLY automatic machine gun into a domestic violence or drunk driving situation?

With new legislation coming out, giving the Police virtually unlimited power to enter homes, [Anti-Terrorism (Hate Crimes) Act] it is certain that more deaths of morally innocent Canadians will occur.

The magazine, which published their article well before the new Anti-Pot laws or Terrorism Act came out, highlight just a handful of the violence these special secret police are known for. It is merely the tip of an ever growing iceberg as we are slowly but surely turned into a police state.

Tactical officers have been accused of violating the "basic police rule" on use of force, by firing on suspects who weren’t endangering anyone. Judges have criticized their methods. Coroners’ inquests have chronicled their mistakes. To their critics, the mix of SWAT’S paramilitary mindset, tactics, and arsenals, together with their increasingly frequent deployment, is a recipe for disaster. Those critics point to a growing list of incidents to back up their concerns:

• In April, 1997, OPP tactical officer Sgt. Kenneth Deane was found guilty of criminal negligence causing death. Deane had shot and killed an unarmed native, Dudley George, during a 1995 protest at Ipperwash Provincial Park. Deane, who fired seven shots, claimed George had a gun. But the judge determined that wasn’t the case, and that officers had lied about the events.

• On February 19, 1996, an OPP tactical team used a bartering ram to smash down the front door of a house near Hamilton. They were looking for marijuana growers and guns. They found fifty-seven-year-old John Goddard his wife, Jean, forced them at gunpoint to lie on the floor, and slapped them in handcuffs as the house was searched. Nothing was found. It turned out that an informant had given police the wrong information.

• On February 17, 1996, an OPP tactical team launched a predawn raid on a house near Orangeville. Officers, looking for a murder suspect, smashed in the front and back doors and hauled a couple out of bed at gunpoint. The homeowner’s seventy-year-old father was also dragged from his bed and handcuffed. The couple had absolutely no connection to the real suspect, who was captured later that day in Miami.

• A Surrey, B.C., couple were asleep in their bed when heavily armed masked men burst into their house in January; 1996. The couple thought they were the victims of a home invasion but the intruders were members of an RCMP tactical team. Looking for cocaine and guns, they also kicked in the door to a bedroom where the woman’s ninety-three-year-old mother was sleeping. The suspected drug dealers the police thought lived there had moved out six months earlier.

• During the 1995 standoff between police and native protesters at Gustafsen Lake, B.C., an RCMP tactical-team sniper was given permission to shoot to kill [assassinate] an Indian demonstrator. Although the man was carrying a gun, he was in an agreed-upon safe area. He was simply getting some water from a nearby lake. The sniper fired three bullets. Fortunately, he missed.

• In September, 1995, a SWAT team without a warrant kicked down the door of a Montreal apartment. Searching for drugs, police instead found a terrified woman and her baby.

• Two members of a Quebec Provincial Police tactical unit were charged with uttering threats, forcible confinement, torture, and assault in February; 1992, after police armed with machine-guns burst into the house of a man and his son.

• Also in February, 1992, members of Vancouver’s tactical ream were caught on videotape beating a man they had dragged out of an apartment house. The unit had gone to the wrong address during a drug raid. The man they hauled from the dwelling was a newly arrived Chinese immigrant who couldn’t speak English.

• After laying siege to a motel during the search for a murder suspect in December, 1991, Calgary’s SWAT ream took into custody a Newfoundland man and his friends. The man was reportedly grabbed by the hair, thrown on the ground, and kicked several times. A newspaper photo showed two terrified children, who belonged to one of his friends, being grabbed by SWAT members armed with sub-machine-guns. One of the children, thinking the men were kidnappers, grabbed onto a handrail and had to be pried off Again, it was a case of mistaken identity; The man was a house painter who had just arrived in Calgary to look for work.

• On July 3,1991, a Montreal SWAT officer shot a twenty-four-year-old man, Marcellus Francois, through the head with an M-16 assault rifle, killing him. The police had mistaken him for a suspect in an attempted murder.

• On October 7, 1984, a member of the London OPP tactical team accidentally killed a fellow officer during a night-time confrontation with a gunman.

Despite all this, there is no official country-wide tally of how many times tactical squads have wounded or killed people. Nor, for that matter, is there any acknowledgment from police leadership that a problem exists. The Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police has no stated position on the matter, and the Canadian Police Association says it has no concerns at all.

To police, the tactical squads simply represent "the reality of law enforcement in Canada".

Sannich Police SWAT hope 'sorry' is enough, after terrorizing family with automatic weapons.

Alleged 'criminologist' makes excuses for police state tactics... Says its normal part of "police work".

Bad police raids happen: criminologist - Tom McMillan, Times Colonist, May 24, 2008
Incidents like the search that shocked innocent family inevitable, expert says

A mistaken drug raid that left a family traumatized and police empty-handed is an unfortunate but inevitable part of police work, a B.C. criminologist says.

"Police have to conduct investigations, and they can't be 100 per cent certain every time," said David MacAlister, co-director of the Institute for Studies in Criminal Justice Policy at Simon Fraser University. "Mistakes will happen." [full story]

These mistakes happen due to a LACK of proper investigation, a rush to judgement, and a failure to obey due process, such as 'innocent till proven guilty', and 'reasonable grounds' to search a property.... Breaking into a house is NOT an investigation, it is an assault and trespass. One would think a criminologist would know the difference.. People have died from this aggressive and unlawful behaviour, and much of it based on confiscation and theft of herbs, grown by consenting adults.

Jury defends our unalienable right to use guns for self defence in cop shooting.

How would you be able to identify these terrorists if they came to shoot you, or take you away?

What recourse do you have when the courts have consistently ruled in favour of unlimited police powers?

Police Forces Dressing In Black To "Instill Fear" In Citizens - April 28/08
Recent news that police in Massachusetts are to switch to black,
military-style uniforms in an effort to appear more authoritative and
aggressive highlights a more general move to militarize police in America
and affect a "post 9/11" psychology of fear

gun confiscation - they know it won't be as much fun shooting at a "prey" that

[Picture at right shows close-up of human figures placed on police vehicle in celebration of "civilian kills"...]

Seems the police have all kinds of silly reasons to use SWAT teams these days: domestic

type of herbs, homeless people trying to spark government empathy [see more below],

See if you can spot any SWAT team members in the photos taken of all the police

easily enough; They are the ones who hide behind black ski masks, carry FULLY

automatic military assault rifles, grenade launchers, and 50 or so pounds of body

Canadian Press photo of police leaving the scene of Dawson College, after gunman shot nearly two dozen students... No SWAT members were dispatched to the area, and nobody seems to be asking why?

Isn't it this sort of exceedingly rare occurrence that SWAT was specifically designed to handle?

Well, maybe they were just camera shy? Lets look at the school video camera shots to see if we can spot any SWAT team members bravely crashing the doors to rescue the [disarmed by force of government] students.

and the same with those that actually pulled the wounded from the College. Well

One of our fans was kind enough to send us this lovely picture of a motorcycle cop, and

ambulance crew...... Still no SWAT members, however..... Perhaps they didn't want to get shot....?

Well its been several months, and still no pics proving any SWAT presence existed at

the Dawson College shooting. This really raises serious questions of the intent of SWAT,

given their lack of deployment in what is arguably their only useful function.

We did just find another example of what the police and government feel IS one of their

functions: Getting rid of UNARMED homeless squatters from abandoned buildings

They also use them to scare high school students, on both sides of the border...

Armed Men Terrorize School
Michigan raid part of unfolding agenda to mould schools into prisons and students into

Check out this below link to see just how aggressive this program is.... You are the target!!

Yet another recent example of the scenarios whereby heavily armed SWAT teams

are deployed against the public. This time, the police felt a 79-year-old man protecting

his property, with a pellet gun, was too much for uniformed officers to handle.

Police emergency response team personnel blocked off a Brentwood Bay street yesterday after a feisty senior wanting to protect a maple tree threatened to meet a B.C. Hydro tree-cutting crew with a gun.

Ron Brackenridge, 79, was upset the crew was going to cut down the tree growing up into power lines in his yard on Lydia Place.

Brackenridge had heard on Wednesday from B.C. Hydro arborist Mike Ciccotelli that the tree had to come down. He said he asked Ciccotelli yesterday morning to wait a few days while he checked on Hydro's authority to remove the tree, but was refused.

"I said to him, 'If you're going to be cutting it down I'm going to be standing underneath that damn tree with my gun, and anybody comes onto my property to cut that tree down is going to get it," Brackenridge said in an interview with the Times Colonist before the tree-removal crew showed up. "This is an idle threat, of course. I'm not going to shoot nobody. But it will be enough to make him think a bit."

Brackenridge said the tree provided privacy from Wallace Drive and was nice to look at. He couldn't understand why it had to be removed instead of just being topped.

Ciccotelli, however, wasn't aware of Brackenridge's plans to protect the tree until he was contacted by the Times Colonist. When told Brackenridge had mentioned a gun, he alerted the police to ask for an escort onto the property.

When the crew showed up at Brackenridge's house they saw the senior at the door with what appeared to be a gun or a gun case, Ciccotelli said. They arrived about the same time as did the Central Saanich police, who were backed up by the Emergency Response Team.

"As we were parked on the road waiting for the [police] to arrive, the tree-trimming crew identified a weapon being raised above Mr. Brackenridge's head," Ciccotelli said.

After police arrived, Brackenridge came out of the house on his own and gave himself up.

Ciccotelli said the situation was unfortunate. Given Brackenridge was so upset, Ciccotelli said he had planned just to top the tree yesterday and then negotiate its removal through the courts.

"When somebody talks about using a firearm in today's day and age we have to respond," said Deputy Chief Clayton Pecknold of Central Saanich police. "If you don't mention 'gun' it's a whole different ball game."

[Yes, lets not consider the difference between a pellet gun, which is not considered a "firearm" (because it shoots less than 500 fps) and the ones all police officers carry.

Oh, and what does "today's day and age" have to do with using SWAT against seniors exercising their right to defend their property with pellet guns?

Can you see yet that the police are protecting GOVERNMENT legislation, NOT the rights of the public?]

Oh but wait till you read what our "impartial" protectors of judicial competence

and the "rights of the people" have to say about all this. Not only does this "judge"

acknowledge that the current pack of unconstitutional government statutes, which

reaction is not to advocate for greater public freedom and liberty, but a build-up of

government forces in what he describes, somewhat curiously, as a criminal arms

Even more curious is his special focus on the deaths of two police officers to

Interesting, isn't it, that the more the government restricts our inherent and

around with grenade launchers, black ski masks, and fully automatic weapons,

while they claim YOU are the criminal if you so much as carry a gun for your own

Now for the capper..... the courts are recommending the mindless government robocops receive

more weapons, at the same time they maliciously infringe our right to use them for lawful defence.

WILSONVILLE, Ore. - A bizarre standoff in Wilsonville took place between police and a

Around 2 p.m. Saturday, Newberg police tried to stop Christopher Wayne Larson, who

was wanted for failing to appear in court on a charge of being a felon in possession of

a gun. Larson attempted to escape and took his friend's wife along for the ride.

The chase headed east on Wilsonville Road until Larson drove his red pickup truck into

After his car became stuck in the mud, Larson barricaded himself in his car for several

hours and would not cooperate with police negotiators. Using the sun to their advantage,

Larson's rap sheet is filled with crimes involving theft, guns and drugs. His mother told

negotiators his drug use causes severe paranoia. Negotiators didn't know if he was in

possession of any weapons. It turns out he didn't. He was taken to the hospital for stun

gun wounds. After his release Larson will be turned over to Newberg-Dundee police.

ATLANTA — Two police officers pleaded guilty Thursday to manslaughter in the shooting death

of a 92-year-old woman during a botched drug raid last fall. A third officer still faces charges.

Officer J.R. Smith told a state judge Thursday that he regretted what had happened.

"I'm sorry," the 35-year-old said, his voice barely audible. He pleaded guilty to manslaughter,

violation of oath, criminal solicitation, making false statements and perjury, which was based on

claims in a warrant.

Former Officer Gregg Junnier, 40, who retired from the Atlanta police in January, pleaded guilty to

manslaughter, violation of oath, criminal solicitation and making false statements. Both men are

expected to face more than 10 years in prison.

In a hearing later in federal court, both pleaded guilty to a single charge of conspiracy to violate a

person's civil rights, resulting in death. Their state and federal sentences would run concurrently.

The charges followed a Nov. 21 "no-knock" drug raid on the home of Kathryn Johnston, 92. An

informant 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

Well folks, have you heard about the "Virginia Tech Massacre" ? Then you know what

Is it not strange that SWAT teams are routinely called out to random "person with a gun"

at Dawson) means they don't show up for several hours, and then don't take action till the

shooter has taken his life? Are these the guys you really want to trust your life to? They

didn't even try to save any students in this case, and in Columbine, they actually shot

Are you starting to get the impression that the real purpose of SWAT teams is not so much

protection of the public, but intimidation of the public and enforcement of police state

legislation, often which includes the confiscation (read theft) of private property?

Also noteworthy is the fact that it is now apparent that 'gun control' laws, which almost

always only affect law abiding responsible gun owners, were in fact the reason that these

students died in such large numbers. None of them had any way of adequately defending

themselves from a lone gunman, thanks to the Virginia Tech officials decision two years

prior, to disarm these responsible students who had lawful conceal carry permits.

Some people question whether the university has the authority to ban the carrying of firearms.

A gun ban recently enforced by Virginia Tech campus prevented over thirty victims

of today's mass shooting from defending themselves against the killer, and yet gun

control advocates are already politicizing this morning's tragic events to pull the l

Virginia is a concealed carry state and yet Virginia Tech campus recently enforced

a policy [see above story] prohibiting "unauthorized possession, storage or control"

coup against the Second Amendment, and yet it was the stripping of that right to

bear arms that ensured today's death toll represents the deadliest mass shooting

"Advocates of wider gun controls said the availability of guns in the United States

and colleges," reports Reuters, with no mention of the fact that had the victims

police, who locked down the school and sat back as the killer was able to carefully

pretty outraged and I'll say on the record I'm pretty outraged that someone died

in a shooting in a dorm at 7 o'clock in the morning and the first e-mail about

He added: "That's pretty ridiculous and meanwhile, while they're sending out that

"As civil rulers, not having their duty to the people duly before them, may attempt to tyrannize, and as the military forces which must be occasionally raised to defend our country, might pervert their power to the injury of their fellow citizens, the people are confirmed by the article in their right to keep and bear their private arms." -Tench Coxe, Remarks on the First Part of the Amendments to the Federal Constitution, under the pseudonym "A Pennsylvanian" in the Philadelphia Federal Gazette, June 18, 1989 at col. 1.

law conditioning, authorities prevent people from re-entering their homes.

Shocking footage [see below] out of Cedar Rapids Iowa shows cops and government

employee "strike teams" breaking into houses of flood victims and threatening anyone
who questions their actions in complete violation of the 4th amendment right
that protects against unlawful search and seizure. [full report]

To enforce tyranny, governments must rely on Special Forces, SSG, SWAT and Special Operations Groups. SSG stands for Surveillance Specialist Group—that’s spy talk for a "surveillance team". SWAT stands for Special Weapons And Tactics (i.e. a paramilitary death-squad). Special Forces, Special Operations Groups, SWAT and Special Activities Staff are all military squads that participate in a more advanced training for fighting in unusual urban environments. They all have a common component, although each of them have features peculiar to themselves. A major distinguishing factor is the ability to fight in close-quarters with a small group to achieve the goal of suppression.

They go by a lot of different names around the world, but a goon by any name is still a goon.

Up to now, the lethal combination of SSG and SWAT has proven disastrous for underground activists and their movements in the USA and Canada.

Is SWAT effective? Yes.

Does it get results? Absolutely.

Is SWAT invincible? No.

Despite their massive firepower and use of brute force, SWAT teams have weakness that can be exploited.

A typical SWAT element is composed of five people—a Team Leader, a Scout, a Backup, and two Assaulters.

The Team Leader is the most experienced of the five. He is the nerve center and tactical command of the team. The Team Leader is in direct voice-contact with the other four members of the SWAT element, who each wear a hands-free UHF transponder with an earpiece and a throat-vibration microphone.

The Scout performs on-scene reconnaissance. The Backup carries a 12-guage riot shotgun. He provides security for the Scout. The two Assaulters each carry Heckler & Koch 9mm MP-5 submachine guns. All members of the SWAT element usually carry handguns, often a .45 or 9mm semi-automatic pistol.

SWAT members often wear balaclavas for the purpose of intimidating suspects and bystanders. The balaclava also keeps them anonymous—this is done because they reside in the same communities whose citizens they execute, and also makes legal recourse and identification next to impossible.

SWAT members wear military helmets and bullet-resistant body-armour. These guys are goons and cowards in the truest sense of the word. They’ll kill you and go for lunch five minutes later. It’s nothing to them ; because of their myopic training, they figure the solution to every problem is massive application of force, preferably lethal.

Once it’s arrived on the scene, SWAT never withdraws.

In a typical call-out, the SWAT element is reinforced by duty police officers who form a containment perimeter at a distance from the suspect’s location. Police snipers may also be present. More than one SWAT element may be on the scene. A Crisis Negotiation Team (CNT) is often mustered.

CNT is somewhat of a misnomer, because their actual role is to obtain intelligence for an assault by SWAT—and to fatally distract the suspect in the moments preceding the assault. Ambulance and Fire personnel are also usually deployed mainly for the welfare of SWAT and Police.

Weakness: Lack of Knowledge of the Terrain. SWAT teams plan for many different environments, but can never know the terrain that they will be going into EXACTLY. You are on the ground there first, do your homework. Scout the building or area completely, and know it like the back of your hand. Find areas of weakness or exposure for incoming SOG teams. Try to lure them into those areas and then act swiftly.

Weakness: Training. They think of it as an advantage, and it is. Training is the only way to know how you and your team-mate will react in any certain situation. However, this advantage can be turned to weakness. The SOG teams have a response for every situation, and that response is PREDICTABLE. Take time to study SOG training, and you will see that they perform standard manoeuvres in situations. Apply this knowledge to your local environment, and you will be able to map out a SOG team’s reaction everywhere in your location. If you are in a building, study widely available SOG manuals for the manoeuvres, such as:

WEAKNESS - Intelligence: SWAT and Special Forces teams rely on intelligence to find and identify targets, which usually (in the case of Special Forces) means paid informants in a city or other locale. They pass their information on to the Joint Operations Command, which has coordinates Special Forces activities, and then the JOC passes the intelligence on to the commanders of the units.

TACTICAL RESPONSE - Confusion is the worst enemy of Special Forces. Interrupt the intelligence chain with conflicting reports. Use double agents as the paid informants for the JOC. Broadcast erroneous information.

SWAT WEAKNESS—LACK OF MOBILITY. Their combat gear prevents them from sprinting long distances in pursuit of a suspect fleeing on foot.

A number of suspects have escaped in exactly this scenario. This is the reason behind the containment perimeter. The regular cops pin you inside the “holding pen” while the SWAT goons methodically stalk you and then dispatch you, preferably from behind.

TACTICAL RESPONSE—If you know the terrain, you’ll often be able to beat the containment ring. The cops on the perimeter cover the main escape routes and checkpoints. The ring has gaps you can exploit. The cops seldom cover hidden routes that the only the local residents know about. Do your homework. Gather accurate intelligence. And rehearse, rehearse, rehearse.

SWAT WEAKNESS—THEY DON’T THINK. Their training has ingrained them with the mindset that the solution to every situation is force. SWAT is not motivated or inclined to negotiate or compromise. And they never withdraw.

TACTICAL RESPONSE—Plan your operation so that political considerations and/or public relations are more attractive to the authorities than a lethal resolution of the crisis by SWAT.

SWAT WEAKNESS --- OVERHEATING. Their balaclavas, gloves, shooting goggles, helmets, and combat fatigues mean that they can easily overheat in urban situations. It doesn’t take much activity to get them sweating. Literally.

TACTICAL RESPONSE—Plan an operation(s) that will require lots of physical movement by the SWAT members. Give them lots to crawl over, through, and around. Even big tough guys don’t have much stamina when they start to overheat.

SWAT WEAKNESS—PERIMETER OVER-RELIANCE. They always set up perimeter control. They have become dependent on the “holding pen” strategy.

In “Blackhawk Down” Mark Bowden notes that while the Delta Force “operators” are highly skilled, battle-tested veterans capable of almost anything, their support and perimeter control team, the U.S. Army Rangers, are generally young, inexperienced, overconfident, and unready for the ugly realities of real combat. [Likewise, regular duty cops]

TACTICAL RESPONSE—Post an accomplice (ie sniper) outside their perimeter and SWAT becomes vulnerable to a flanking attack.

SWAT WEAKNESS—ONE TRICK PONY. They are trained to attack fixed targets. They are befuddled and confounded by a moving target. Especially a target they are continually losing contact with.

TACTICAL RESPONSE—Hit and run. Hit and run. Hit and run. Then disappear. Your key to tactical success consists of carefully planned escape routes, accomplice drivers, and prearranged support (ie hiding) from the local population. This was used to great effect in Mogadishu, Somalia, by local warlord forces. After the ambush, U.S. troops were withdrawn, leaving local forces in control. SWAT WEAKNESS—LACK OF INDIVIDUAL INITIATIVE. Without their body-rig communication sets, SWAT members are lost. UHF frequency range is often less than a mile. Range deteriorates in locations with reinforced concrete and metal debris.

TACTICAL RESPONSE—Forcing or duping a SWAT member to transmit bogus messages over his transponder is an effective tactic for disorienting the entire team. Seizing a transponder and issuing your own messages is effective psychological warfare. Your voice is right inside their heads—and these guys aren’t exactly the brightest specimens our species has produced. Selecting a location that interferes with UHF transmission is a sound tactic.

3 GOLDEN RULES FOR BEATING SWAT:

RULE #1 -- Surround the SWAT element, including its perimeter force.

RULE #2 -- Fight scattered, never in a compact body.

RULE #3 -- When attacked, never stand and fight. Retreat, then counterattack.

Some resistance movements hold the view that if surrounded, you should immediately pick the weakest point, focus on it, and make a determined effort to break out. The resulting break in the enemy’s line will produce two exposed flanks which you can counterattack, possibly more. Savvy readers and students of American history will recognize these tactics as the same as those used by the natives to maul the British Regular Army in the 1600s and 1700s in colonial America.

All things considered, however, your greatest single asset is your ability to choose the location. This means planning ahead. It means being a moving target. It means not sleeping where SWAT can find you. Heed the warning in the training manual of the Provisional IRA—“Get your defense before you get your offense.” And remember that this website does not endorse, condone, or encourage illegal activity.

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The proper order for room clearing is corners, open areas, behind objects, and finally in closets.

"I carry a handgun, because a cop is too heavy and too slow" - unknown author.

Bernard Bastien was killed in his front yard by a SWAT team with the wrong address.

They were looking for his suicidal neighbour. They shot him too. Tactical squads are doing routine police work now, and the victims are piling up.