I'm especially with Rich on this one. Don't be there.
But more importantly, don't be the ones they storm in on.
MOST of the guys that were the targets of these wildly-publicized SWAT-assaults were actually guilty of
something. [NO FLAMES, PLEASE!!! I'm on your side!!!] Did the guys you're about to defend to me (and I
know you're about to!
) deserve to have guns pointed at them and their families, and be arrested at 3:00 am and have thier lives ruined? Usually not, if you're thinking of the cases I'm thinking about.
But Randy Weaver
was actively engaged in criminal activity. (yes, probably as a result of entrapment, but that's another issue, and besides the fact.) The Davidians
were engaged in some illegal stuff, no matter how feather-legged. And on and on. At risk of sounding like the Man, here... If you don't want that "knock" at your door, don't invite it with stupid criminal activity, no matter how low-profile.
Provide for getaway, but have your attorney's number in your wallet (better to memorize it). Remember that fleeing is against the law, and can be used against you, too. The funny thing is, most of the people that survived those standoffs are free today.
Live to fight another day!
Use the revolving door against them!! Get booked in, walk right out.
Fight legally, don't be a criminal, and don't be there if you are one, in their eyes.
I don't shoot at police officers. I shoot at criminals. If an officer is actually committing a crime against me that is so bad I cannot for another second endure it nor its danger, he may well be relassified, but, in the long run, you lose. Right or wrong, you shoot a cop, you're wrong.
We're the good guys.
Don't be the bad guy.
I'm not kidding.
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Will you, too, be one who stands in the gap?