Yeah, I know this isn’t the first time a police department has dropped a bomb on somebody. But I can only think of one other time they specifically set off a bomb to kill a specific barricaded shooter, and even that was a little more ambiguous than this.
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They say that Louis XIV had the inscription Ultima Ratio Regum cast into all the cannon of the French Army. It means “The Ultimate Argument of Kings,” and that always struck me as one of the most honest and up-front things any ruler or would-be ruler ever said. “We can dress it up prettier than this, but when it comes down to the unvarnished truth this is what it’s about: You’ll do as I say or I’ll send my goons to kill you.”
I thought about that for a long time. If there’s an ultimate argument, it seems only logical that there must be an ultimate answer. For years I thought the ultimate answer must be the bullets in my rifle, but it never seemed quite right. I’ve got bullets – he’s got frigging Cannon Balls. I mean, if there were three hundred million rifles throwing bullets at him, then maybe. But we all know that’s not going to happen. So if there’s an ultimate answer to his ultimate argument, it sure as hell ain’t bullets.
It finally came to me – and that’s when I abandoned the city and most of my stuff, and gave all that was behind me a good stiff Randian Shrug.
The ultimate answer to kings is not a bullet, but a belly laugh.
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There was also 1985, when the Philadelphia PD bombed Philadelphia from a helicopter.
Look on the bright side it could have been worse. The cops could have called in an air strike…
http://www.nytimes.com/1985/05/14/us/police-drop-bomb-on-radicals-home-in-philadelphia.html?pagewanted=all
You know it’s bad in the “land of the brave and the home of the free” when countries like the Bahamas are issuing travel advisories to their black citizens about travel to the US of A.
http://mofa.gov.bs/ministry-of-foreign-affairs-and-immigration-issues-travel-advisory-for-bahamians-traveling-to-united-states-of-america/
Yeah, I had the Move bomb in mind when I wrote the post, that being the third time I know of (and the only one I know where police literally ‘dropped a bomb,’ as from an aircraft.) The Move bomb, which burned down a neighborhood, was widely acknowledged as a very bad idea.
In Dorner’s case the cops set fire to the building, probably with an incendiary bomb or three, but I don’t recall they ever came out and said so. Certainly they weren’t sending any SWAT teams in, because their first duty was to get home etc.
In this last case in Dallas, though, they actually just trundled in an expensive robot and blew it up, and made no bones about it. Brad’s point, that this is a rather ominous escalation of police violence, is an important one.
Another example of the slippery slope your government is on. It’s good that you are isolated because no matter who takes power in November I just can’t see any good coming of it. From my perspective up here in Canada I’m sad to see what was once a great nation being slowly morphed into a third world failed state. Don’t get me wrong there is a ways to go yet but the road is going to get more and more unpleasant.