AuH20
08-14-2013, 06:31 PM
Read this in it's entirety.
http://maxvelocitytactical.blogspot.com/2013/08/response-to-comment-on-hit-article.html
I'm going to relate a simple incident that although it did not wake me up at the time, it started the alarm in my mind about the attitude of the police. During the period where I was being 'Mr. Mom' I took my son, a few months old, down to the beach. This was in California. He was sleeping on a rug on the sand. A dog was running loose on the beach (I don't have a problem with that, I'm a dog owner myself) but it ran over and pounced on my baby. I instinctively dived and swatted the dogs muzzle away. The owner was a guy and started getting belligerent with me. I told him he could try his luck. He called the cops. A police officer showed up on the beach and started aggressively questioning me. I explained what had transpired. He asked me if I was drinking. No. At one point he squared up to me and told me, I don't quite recall the preceding conversation, but that: "this was about to go down." I looked at him and realized that, with my baby sleeping at my feet, this guy was about to attack me. I answered his questions and in the end he was satisfied that I had not been cruel to the dog, but was just instinctively defending my child. I was new in the States, ignorant and wide eyed. I think my response would be different now. How easy it is to find yourself tasered and pepper sprayed, an arrest record, even when innocently taking your baby down to the beach!
More recently, when we moved into our House in Virginia, we became the target of harassment by the local Homeowners association. Mainly for transgressions that we were fixing from the previous owners, that took money and time to make good, but these Stasi wannabees waste no opportunity to bully and harass. Oh how I hate these petty fascist types. Well, they got push back, and now I don't hear a peep out of them. All bullies are cowards, remember.
These guys were harassing me, so I sent them a series of factual emails. Remember, we pay the HOA to work for us right? Did they respond in a civil and helpful way? No, they called the cops. I got a phone call at work, from a cop, who was on my front lawn, telling me that he had received a complaint of harassment from the HOA. There was no single threat in any of my emails, but I would not have been surprised if he had mentioned 'terroristic threats'! The HOA wanted to get a warrant on me for some sort of electronic harassment, for sending them a couple of emails. This cop was playing the part of the helpful adviser, and told me not to email the HOA. Well, I pay the HOA to work for me (although they would not agree with that) so I wrote to them directly and complained. I'm not one to be shy. Stand up for what is right.
So, next I get another phone call from this same cop, screaming at me that I had not done what he told me and that he was now going to assist the HOA in getting a warrant. Well, this asshole got similar treatment back down the phone. I jumped in my car, drove home and straight round to the local government headquarters, straight into Internal Affairs. Sat down and made my complaint about this officer. Never heard about it again.
It's wrong, but if you let it continue, it will. Those cops who are reading this blog, I encourage you to wake up and make a difference. We need good cops. We need actual effective SWAT teams, for when such a response is required. What we don't need is Law Enforcement as a brutal arm of political control, suppressing dissent and liberty.
Who is Max Velocity?
http://www.maxvelocitytactical.com/about-the-author.html
Max velocity is a tactical self-defense trainer and author, a lifelong soldier with extensive military experience. He has served in both the British and US Armies. He served with British Special Operations Forces, with the Parachute Regiment which is Britain’s elite quick reaction force and which also provides support to the UK Tier 1 Special Forces, the Special Air Service. The author served on six operational deployments, including to Afghanistan immediately post-9/11, and also a tour training and selecting recruits for the Regiment. In explaining what the Parachute Regiment is, it is easiest to compare it in role to the 75th Ranger Regiment, although it is of course its own unique and elite force. The author passed both Parachute Regiment selection and also UK Special Forces Aptitude Selection during his career. He retired from the British Army in 2003.
Following retirement, the author spent five years serving as a security contractor in both Iraq and Afghanistan. This included working on contract for the US Government in Iraq, a year of which was based out of Fallujah, the rest variously based out of Baghdad and country-wide, and also two years working for the British Government in Helmand Province and Kabul, Afghanistan. These roles were operational security roles that included exposure to multiple different training methods and operational schools of thought, as well as both high profile and low profile mobile operations across Iraq and Afghanistan. The author then joined the U.S. Army and trained as a Combat Medic and Civil Affairs Specialist, he is a U.S. Citizen and lives in the United States.
http://maxvelocitytactical.blogspot.com/2013/08/response-to-comment-on-hit-article.html
I'm going to relate a simple incident that although it did not wake me up at the time, it started the alarm in my mind about the attitude of the police. During the period where I was being 'Mr. Mom' I took my son, a few months old, down to the beach. This was in California. He was sleeping on a rug on the sand. A dog was running loose on the beach (I don't have a problem with that, I'm a dog owner myself) but it ran over and pounced on my baby. I instinctively dived and swatted the dogs muzzle away. The owner was a guy and started getting belligerent with me. I told him he could try his luck. He called the cops. A police officer showed up on the beach and started aggressively questioning me. I explained what had transpired. He asked me if I was drinking. No. At one point he squared up to me and told me, I don't quite recall the preceding conversation, but that: "this was about to go down." I looked at him and realized that, with my baby sleeping at my feet, this guy was about to attack me. I answered his questions and in the end he was satisfied that I had not been cruel to the dog, but was just instinctively defending my child. I was new in the States, ignorant and wide eyed. I think my response would be different now. How easy it is to find yourself tasered and pepper sprayed, an arrest record, even when innocently taking your baby down to the beach!
More recently, when we moved into our House in Virginia, we became the target of harassment by the local Homeowners association. Mainly for transgressions that we were fixing from the previous owners, that took money and time to make good, but these Stasi wannabees waste no opportunity to bully and harass. Oh how I hate these petty fascist types. Well, they got push back, and now I don't hear a peep out of them. All bullies are cowards, remember.
These guys were harassing me, so I sent them a series of factual emails. Remember, we pay the HOA to work for us right? Did they respond in a civil and helpful way? No, they called the cops. I got a phone call at work, from a cop, who was on my front lawn, telling me that he had received a complaint of harassment from the HOA. There was no single threat in any of my emails, but I would not have been surprised if he had mentioned 'terroristic threats'! The HOA wanted to get a warrant on me for some sort of electronic harassment, for sending them a couple of emails. This cop was playing the part of the helpful adviser, and told me not to email the HOA. Well, I pay the HOA to work for me (although they would not agree with that) so I wrote to them directly and complained. I'm not one to be shy. Stand up for what is right.
So, next I get another phone call from this same cop, screaming at me that I had not done what he told me and that he was now going to assist the HOA in getting a warrant. Well, this asshole got similar treatment back down the phone. I jumped in my car, drove home and straight round to the local government headquarters, straight into Internal Affairs. Sat down and made my complaint about this officer. Never heard about it again.
It's wrong, but if you let it continue, it will. Those cops who are reading this blog, I encourage you to wake up and make a difference. We need good cops. We need actual effective SWAT teams, for when such a response is required. What we don't need is Law Enforcement as a brutal arm of political control, suppressing dissent and liberty.
Who is Max Velocity?
http://www.maxvelocitytactical.com/about-the-author.html
Max velocity is a tactical self-defense trainer and author, a lifelong soldier with extensive military experience. He has served in both the British and US Armies. He served with British Special Operations Forces, with the Parachute Regiment which is Britain’s elite quick reaction force and which also provides support to the UK Tier 1 Special Forces, the Special Air Service. The author served on six operational deployments, including to Afghanistan immediately post-9/11, and also a tour training and selecting recruits for the Regiment. In explaining what the Parachute Regiment is, it is easiest to compare it in role to the 75th Ranger Regiment, although it is of course its own unique and elite force. The author passed both Parachute Regiment selection and also UK Special Forces Aptitude Selection during his career. He retired from the British Army in 2003.
Following retirement, the author spent five years serving as a security contractor in both Iraq and Afghanistan. This included working on contract for the US Government in Iraq, a year of which was based out of Fallujah, the rest variously based out of Baghdad and country-wide, and also two years working for the British Government in Helmand Province and Kabul, Afghanistan. These roles were operational security roles that included exposure to multiple different training methods and operational schools of thought, as well as both high profile and low profile mobile operations across Iraq and Afghanistan. The author then joined the U.S. Army and trained as a Combat Medic and Civil Affairs Specialist, he is a U.S. Citizen and lives in the United States.