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• Mike Adams posted at 6:54 pm on Tue, Jul 17, 2012.

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  Robert, Thanks for the offer, but I already have had the FBI flying over my house 20 hours a day a couple of summers back. The FBI doesn't use black suburbans. They literally use totally average every day cars. A mini-van, some normal everyday sedans and coupes. They are easy to spot though. Just look for 1 person in a car parked in the shade for hours and hours. That's the FBI.

  It's amazing. You let one terrorist live in the neighborhood, and everybody pays.
  DDDdddddRRRRrrrrrrrOOOOooooNNNNNnnnnnEEEEEeeeee..... (that's the sound the two planes make...so annoying!) It gets to be as nerve wracking as someone running a router all day long, over and over.

  The "hunt" was some time back...several decades ago now. A different era. The sheriff was pretty laid back way back when. If you had to pop someone (and had good reason, like attempted murder) you were pretty safe. Even if you were arrested and charged, you could depend on a jury to see things your way..."hmmmmm,,, says here you gunned down someone who was threatening an old lady with an axe. Well that could have been any of us, and you did save the tax payers from a attempted murder trial, and the imprisionment, and.. well it was a good deal all around except for poor attempted axe murderer buried up the road in the "indigent" section....NOT GUILTY"

  Would you want to be a DA taking that case before a jury of mostly retired people?

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• Robert Chapman posted at 7:51 pm on Sun, Jul 15, 2012.

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  Mike, I am sure the elderly lady was glad you and others intervened on her behalf. But, watch out. The fact that you put in print you used a firearm for a crime deterrent automatically qualifies you to be on the radar. Let me know if you see any UAV's circling your neighborhood or any blacked out Suburbans parked for hours on your street.[ohmy]

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• Darrell Baumbach posted at 3:35 pm on Sun, Jul 15, 2012.

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  Mike, you are very mistaken.

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• K Lee posted at 2:20 pm on Sun, Jul 15, 2012.

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  As usual, Mike Adams, you'r right. Well said.

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• Mike Adams posted at 7:37 am on Sun, Jul 15, 2012.

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  I remember quite well Jerome's letter criticizing the victim of repeated break ins of her home. Although I don't remember the specific points he made, the whole tenor of the letter was about all the things she should have done and how if she had just done those things, she would not be a repeat victim.

  We see now from another writer, that even if you take steps to additional steps to avoid becoming a victim again, that these steps do nothing to prevent it. As I wrote earlier on another topic, I had a neighbor (an elderly woman) who was the victim of repeated break ins. On his final attempt, he tried to kill her with an axe. It wasn't alarms and inscribing her CDL on her belongings that stopped these burglaries, it was the clear and ready intention of those who came to her aid that last day with firearms and our willingness to put this matter (and the criminal to) rest for all eternity.

  Regardless of how Mr. Kinderman says this turned out, he has a habit of blaming victims. I have been the victim of burglaries as well (several times over several decades) and what I have learned is that the victim has only limited control over crime prevention. We've had dogs and alarms and neighborhood watches and drive by's by STARS and suspended mail and newspaper deliveries. We've had lights and radios on timers and neighbors parking in our driveway to make it look like someone was home. If a person wants to break into your home, he will find a way to do it. Blaming the victim does absolutely nothing to prevent from being victimized again. Almost all burglars get away.

  I'm sorry to hear that his home was burglarized. Perhaps if the burglars came back until there was almost nothing left to steal he might have a different point of view. I do know that with the economy and the number of homeless people swelling daily, this is a problem that will only increase. With the flushing of convicts convicted of low level crimes such as burglary to our county jails and the subsequent release from county custody of those convicted or awaiting trial for property crimes will reinforce the notion that criminals can get away with anything (and this will). There really is nothing that can be done to prevent rise in property crimes if even arrest does nothing.

  Just as long as they don't attack elderly women in my neighborhood.

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• Darrell Baumbach posted at 8:50 am on Sat, Jul 14, 2012.

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  oh...I think Ms Darcy knows quality when she sees it.

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• K Lee posted at 1:54 am on Sat, Jul 14, 2012.

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  Oh, this is unfortunate.

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