Comments on: SWAT Teams and Cory Maye Again http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/21/swat-teams-and-cory-maye-again/ Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:43:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Steve LaBonne http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/21/swat-teams-and-cory-maye-again/comment-page-1/#comment-148833 Steve LaBonne Wed, 22 Mar 2006 13:43:13 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/21/swat-teams-and-cory-maye-again/#comment-148833 <blockquote>Let me know if you catch me ranting about the pussification of the western male.</blockquote> What, you don't want to follow in the footsteps of the great Hahvaad Perfesser Harvey Mansfield?
Let me know if you catch me ranting about the pussification of the western male.

What, you don’t want to follow in the footsteps of the great Hahvaad Perfesser Harvey Mansfield?

]]> By: abb1 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/21/swat-teams-and-cory-maye-again/comment-page-1/#comment-148818 abb1 Wed, 22 Mar 2006 11:51:04 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/21/swat-teams-and-cory-maye-again/#comment-148818 <i>...theory of the unputdownability of hammers</i> Do you realize that the theory of inevitability of perceiving everything as a nail when all you have is a hammer is not exactly hard science either? …theory of the unputdownability of hammers

Do you realize that the theory of inevitability of perceiving everything as a nail when all you have is a hammer is not exactly hard science either?

]]> By: des von bladet http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/21/swat-teams-and-cory-maye-again/comment-page-1/#comment-148812 des von bladet Wed, 22 Mar 2006 11:00:59 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/21/swat-teams-and-cory-maye-again/#comment-148812 You're <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammer_and_sickle" rel="nofollow">Austrian</a>? We had no idea! And Baruch's Law is in fact canonically <a href="http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bernard_Baruch" rel="nofollow">If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.</a> I am quite willing to forgive myself for thinking you were alluding, rather than coining a rival abb1 theory of the unputdownability of hammers. The other suggestion was gratuitous, and I withdraw it with apologies to all. You’re Austrian? We had no idea!

And Baruch’s Law is in fact canonically If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. I am quite willing to forgive myself for thinking you were alluding, rather than coining a rival abb1 theory of the unputdownability of hammers.

The other suggestion was gratuitous, and I withdraw it with apologies to all.

]]> By: abb1 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/21/swat-teams-and-cory-maye-again/comment-page-1/#comment-148789 abb1 Wed, 22 Mar 2006 07:21:33 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/21/swat-teams-and-cory-maye-again/#comment-148789 Good point? C'mon. Clearly "a man with a hammer" does NOT mean "a man who <i>owns</i> a hammer", it means "a man with a hammer in his hand". Buy a sickle too, des - then we'll talk! Good point? C’mon. Clearly “a man with a hammer” does NOT mean “a man who owns a hammer”, it means “a man with a hammer in his hand”.

Buy a sickle too, des – then we’ll talk!

]]> By: Barry Freed http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/21/swat-teams-and-cory-maye-again/comment-page-1/#comment-148762 Barry Freed Wed, 22 Mar 2006 00:34:06 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/21/swat-teams-and-cory-maye-again/#comment-148762 <i>abb1: He has to only have a hammer, which is an important distinction.</i> Good point, but if anyone here has ever worked in construction, replace the "hammer" with a Milwaukee Sawzall;* -- Now you're talking Raw Power! And des: Do try to refrain from abb1 baiting in wholly irrelevant threads, please. *Kieran, just doing my bit in the Great War Against The Pussification of the Western Male. abb1: He has to only have a hammer, which is an important distinction.

Good point, but if anyone here has ever worked in construction, replace the “hammer” with a Milwaukee Sawzall;*—Now you’re talking Raw Power!

And des: Do try to refrain from abb1 baiting in wholly irrelevant threads, please.

*Kieran, just doing my bit in the Great War Against The Pussification of the Western Male.

]]> By: Hogan http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/21/swat-teams-and-cory-maye-again/comment-page-1/#comment-148753 Hogan Tue, 21 Mar 2006 22:46:59 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/21/swat-teams-and-cory-maye-again/#comment-148753 <i>You realize you entered into the same stomping grounds as the far right nationalists and are argreeing with them?</i> The militarization of domestic police forces goes back at least thirty years. Far right nationalists didn't have a problem with that until militarized police started going after white people. You realize you entered into the same stomping grounds as the far right nationalists and are argreeing with them?

The militarization of domestic police forces goes back at least thirty years. Far right nationalists didn’t have a problem with that until militarized police started going after white people.

]]> By: abb1 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/21/swat-teams-and-cory-maye-again/comment-page-1/#comment-148751 abb1 Tue, 21 Mar 2006 21:43:59 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/21/swat-teams-and-cory-maye-again/#comment-148751 Btw, this reminds me - since the far right and Zionist tendencies are being discussed together here - do any of you smart freethinking professors care to mention <a href="http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n06/print/mear01_.html" rel="nofollow">this new essay</a> in your excellent online publication? Thanks. Btw, this reminds me – since the far right and Zionist tendencies are being discussed together here – do any of you smart freethinking professors care to mention this new essay in your excellent online publication?

Thanks.

]]> By: jet http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/21/swat-teams-and-cory-maye-again/comment-page-1/#comment-148749 jet Tue, 21 Mar 2006 21:19:01 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/21/swat-teams-and-cory-maye-again/#comment-148749 Abb1, Kim is about as popular as a flaming turd here at CT, so I just thought it slightly humorous that their views should overlap (although I guess about 99.999% of the blogsphere overlapped on this issue). Over at http://www.mayeisinnocent.com/ it appears that Corey is truly fukt. The state is going to kill, what probably is, an innocent man. Looks like they are asking for money to hire investigators, but the funds appear lacking. Remind me never to be born a poor minority in rural Miss. Abb1,
Kim is about as popular as a flaming turd here at CT, so I just thought it slightly humorous that their views should overlap (although I guess about 99.999% of the blogsphere overlapped on this issue).

Over at http://www.mayeisinnocent.com/ it appears that Corey is truly fukt. The state is going to kill, what probably is, an innocent man. Looks like they are asking for money to hire investigators, but the funds appear lacking. Remind me never to be born a poor minority in rural Miss.

]]> By: Kieran Healy http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/21/swat-teams-and-cory-maye-again/comment-page-1/#comment-148748 Kieran Healy Tue, 21 Mar 2006 21:18:44 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/21/swat-teams-and-cory-maye-again/#comment-148748 <i>You realize you entered into the same stomping grounds as the far right nationalists and are argreeing with them?</i> Let me know if you catch me ranting about the pussification of the western male. You realize you entered into the same stomping grounds as the far right nationalists and are argreeing with them?

Let me know if you catch me ranting about the pussification of the western male.

]]> By: abb1 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/21/swat-teams-and-cory-maye-again/comment-page-1/#comment-148746 abb1 Tue, 21 Mar 2006 21:04:39 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/21/swat-teams-and-cory-maye-again/#comment-148746 And the far right nationalists can't be right about anything, of course. They probably want more cancer too. And the far right nationalists can’t be right about anything, of course. They probably want more cancer too.

]]> By: jet http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/21/swat-teams-and-cory-maye-again/comment-page-1/#comment-148745 jet Tue, 21 Mar 2006 20:56:15 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/21/swat-teams-and-cory-maye-again/#comment-148745 Kieran Healy, You realize you entered into the same stomping grounds as the <a href="http://www.theothersideofkim.com/index.php" rel="nofollow">far right nationalists</a> and are <b>argreeing</b> with them? Kieran Healy,
You realize you entered into the same stomping grounds as the far right nationalists and are argreeing with them?

]]> By: jet http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/21/swat-teams-and-cory-maye-again/comment-page-1/#comment-148744 jet Tue, 21 Mar 2006 20:51:41 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/21/swat-teams-and-cory-maye-again/#comment-148744 When the MSM decides to give some air to right an injustice, they <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Williams#Execution" rel="nofollow">usually don't chose well</a>. Corey Maye's story was competing with "Tookies'", so no wonder it didn't make the nightly news. When the MSM decides to give some air to right an injustice, they usually don’t chose well. Corey Maye’s story was competing with “Tookies’”, so no wonder it didn’t make the nightly news.

]]> By: Brett Bellmore http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/21/swat-teams-and-cory-maye-again/comment-page-1/#comment-148742 Brett Bellmore Tue, 21 Mar 2006 20:23:47 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/21/swat-teams-and-cory-maye-again/#comment-148742 <i>"Oh, so spanner is a British-ism for wrench? Gotta say, I learn more on this blog…"</i> No, a "spanner" is a <i>particular sort</i> of wrench, though for all I know the British may refer to all wrenches as spanners. “Oh, so spanner is a British-ism for wrench? Gotta say, I learn more on this blog…”

No, a “spanner” is a particular sort of wrench, though for all I know the British may refer to all wrenches as spanners.

]]> By: Aaron Swartz http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/21/swat-teams-and-cory-maye-again/comment-page-1/#comment-148735 Aaron Swartz Tue, 21 Mar 2006 19:09:10 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/21/swat-teams-and-cory-maye-again/#comment-148735 (BTW, here's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1859843034/coolbooks02" rel="nofollow">Lockdown America on Amazon</a>.) (BTW, here’s Lockdown America on Amazon.)

]]> By: Aaron Swartz http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/21/swat-teams-and-cory-maye-again/comment-page-1/#comment-148734 Aaron Swartz Tue, 21 Mar 2006 19:05:57 +0000 http://crookedtimber.org/2006/03/21/swat-teams-and-cory-maye-again/#comment-148734 Christian Parenti's book <i>Lockdown America</i> includes a great section about SWAT teams, everything from the government programs that encouraged cities to adopt them to his first-person experience traveling with one in Fresno, California where they would regularly harass immigrants into giving up their fourth amendment rights. Christian Parenti’s book Lockdown America includes a great section about SWAT teams, everything from the government programs that encouraged cities to adopt them to his first-person experience traveling with one in Fresno, California where they would regularly harass immigrants into giving up their fourth amendment rights.

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