Really? That's what I always said, let's arm the public and say, 'The hell with the government.' Didn't you?
Teabaggers Bring Guns To Cohen Health Care Event (click here)
By: Jane Hamsher Saturday August 8, 2009 4:00 pm
According to accounts from the Steve Cohen health care event in Memphis Tennessee, the teabaggers are showing up armed:
Steve Steffens at Left Wing Cracker: "Randy Wade is to be complimented as well; he arranged for security. There were actually idiots who brought guns (legally, it seems they had carry permits, but why did they feel they needed them?). Yes, you read that right, and Randy made them all check in with the Sheriff’s Deputies on hand....
I am sure this exhibition of munition prowess has to do with child raising somewhere, but, darn if I can figure it out. Must have to do with pitbulls and lipstick.
Philippines: No more 'special' gun permits for civilians (click here)
Philippine National Police chief Director General Jesus Verzosa has asked the military and other law enforcement agencies to stop issuing permits for civilians to carry firearms outside their homes. The action is being pursued under the National Firearms Control Program to regulate the proliferation of guns, he added.
A soldier keeps watch over a military checkpoint in Ampatuan, in the southern Philippine province of Maguindanao, last week. Philippine authorities, under intense public pressure to deal with the country's worst election massacre ever, have arrested a member of a powerful political family and two of his militiamen. (Aaron Favila/Associated Press)
Philippine officials have relieved from duty more than a thousand police officers in a southern province where 57 people were massacred last week in the worst example of election-related violence in the country's history.
The entire police force of the province of Maguindanao, consisting of 1,092 officers, has been removed and will be replaced by personnel from other regions to ensure an impartial investigation of the killings, Interior Secretary Ronaldo Puno said Wednesday.
"We are replacing those that have been there for a long time and may be perceived to be partial to one side or the other," Puno told reporters.
A handful of police officers, as well as a member of a powerful family in the region, have been linked to the Nov. 23 massacre, whose victims included the wife, family and supporters of Ismael Mangudadatu, vice-mayor of the province's Buluan township.
