Kansas City residents would soon be wise to leave their backpacks at home.
To wit . . .
AS A REACTION TO THE BOSTON MARATHON BOMBING . . . OFFICIALS THROUGHOUT KANSAS CITY PLAN TO CRACKDOWN ON PEOPLE WEARING BACKPACKS TO PUBLIC EVENTS!!!
Already we've heard about the Trolley Run telling people to leave their bags and backpacks at home.
But it doesn't stop there . . .
Expect announcements forbidding backpacks soon from
The KC Royals
The Kansas City Chiefs
Sporting KC
Upcoming Local Art Fests
And that's not even counting discussions about banning backpacks public buildings.
To wit . . .
TOP LEVEL KANSAS CITY GOVERNMENT INSIDERS ARE TELLING US THAT A MORE EXTENSIVE CRACKDOWN IS ON THE WAY AND BACKPACKS WILL BE VERBOTEN AT JUST ABOUT EVERY PUBLIC EVENT AS THE WEATHER GETS WARMER!!!
Accordingly . . .
THIS COULD BE A TRAGIC ASSAULT ON KANSAS CITY FREEDOM OR MAYBE JUST A NICE SPRING CLEANING REMINDER THAT WALKING AROUND WHILE CARRYING A BUNCH OF JUNK IS A BAD IDEA IN THESE DANGEROUS TIMES!!!
Either way, this is important news for TKC given that I'm a swarthy dude with bushy facial hair and a backpack walking into a great many public meetings - However, my backpack is only filled with writing materials . . . And straws I stole from Starbucks. I'm really hoping I don't have to write this blog from Guantanamo Bay while enduring a snack cake hunger strike.
Sooooo . . . In this town is seems like we're soon to lose the freedom to walk around like a pack mule which might not really be a bad thing.
They can have my backpack when they take it from my carpal tunnel mangled fingers.
ReplyDeleteAnd don't even think about trying to buy a pressure cooker!
ReplyDeleteIf Boston was a terruh attack then The Patriot Act and DHS are total fails so we should go ahead and get rid of both.
ReplyDeleteTime for a Man Purse.
ReplyDeleteFrankly,I was surprised that following the shoe-bomber incident they continued to allow us to wear shoes.
ReplyDeleteI remember when men made fun of ladies carrying huge purses. Now men are carrying huge ass backpacks filled with what I have no idea that are 6 times the size or more of a large woman's purse. I had to go to a library a few months back to give a bid and I saw backpacks larger than anything I have ever used when going camping.
ReplyDeleteMy kid's backpack is black nylon. I better prep him for the upcoming pat downs of 2nd graders.
ReplyDeleteOh man imagine a society where people aren't lugging their shit around in backpacks, bags, what have you constantly. Terrible!
ReplyDeleteTime to short camping gear company stocks. I love the smell of money in the morning!!
ReplyDeleteUnder the pressure of fanaticism, and with the mob complacently applauding the show, democratic law tends more and more to be grounded upon the maxim that every citizen is, by nature, a traitor, a libertine, and a scoundrel. In order to dissuade him from his evil-doing the police power is extended until it surpasses anything ever heard of in the oriental monarchies of antiquity. - HL Mencken
ReplyDeleteThe embarrassing display by so called Americans and patriots in Boston appears to have been encouraging. Thousands of dumbfounded dipshits literally flocked to the streets after their dictators called off martial law after 12 hours of looking for a teenager unsuccessfully shouting usa.. meanwhile the forefathers of this country are flipping over in their graves. Down right embarrassing.
ReplyDeleteYeah. Let's start scaring the shit out of all of the six year olds carrying a backpack to school BULLSHIT!
ReplyDeleteFucking RACIALLY PROFILE, ( yes, you heard me) these goddamn raghead motherfuckers. We know what they look like. Who gives shit if their feelings get hurt?
9:22 What's downright embarrassing are you anti-government conspiracy theorist types. Any time shit like this happens, it's Muslim extremists or anti-government extremists. Fuck you both. And this "teenager" had enough guns and bombs to start a fucking war, you dipshit, and was out to kill as many people as he could. Let me guess, you think tornado warnings are government tyranny as well? Warning people to stay inside in order to not be killed is dictatorship! Revolution!!! Fucking moron.
ReplyDeleteTeenager. Heavily armed? Hmm maybe, don't buy it. 12 hours martial law. Found only after home owner was let off martial law to inspect his own private property. Did I mention he is a teenager?! Embarrassing is a drastic under statement.
Delete9:37 Those guys looked pretty white to me. Are you suggesting we racially profile all caucasians? Stupid fucker.
ReplyDeleteLaissez-faire, nice touch T.
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ReplyDeleteIf 9:22 is actually "Toni Bones", then I agree with the nasty mudshark for once.
9:46 is clearly a sheep.
ReplyDelete7:59 FTW
ReplyDeleteAll of this cockgobblimg of police is a bit much, considering a homeowner on a smoke break found the little shitheel.
ReplyDeleteShould give that guy a key to the city.
Pretty soon it will be you can only carry your shit around in "clear" backpacks and purses so it can be seen. Then they will start making guns that look like Tampax holders and bombs that look like party size box of condoms.
ReplyDeleteJust another incremental theft of freedom in the name of securtity theater.
ReplyDeleteWhy is Tony on that guys back in the photo?
ReplyDeletePretty sure the guy that thinks it's a set up, and 12 hours of marshal law is bad, and this poor teenager albeit heavily armed... is MD ALAM. Wonder why?
ReplyDeleteI would welcome marshall law. As things are now, it isn't safe to live in this country.
ReplyDeletetoni bones said...
ReplyDeleteTeenager. Heavily armed? Hmm maybe, don't buy it.
You don't fucking buy it? So the cops are making up the two separate firefights, where the dudes used guns and bombs to kill one cop and damn near kill another one? And because he's 19, he's somehow not dangerous? Yeah, calling you an embarrassment is definitely an understatement. I'm sure the citizens of Boston would DEFINITELY take you over the cops next time there is a mass murderer on the prowl. Grow the fuck up already.
You forgot to mention your protection failed miserably at finding him.
ReplyDeleteToni Bones is one of the finest minds of today's youth.
ReplyDeleteA real beacon of intellectualism.
Only thing she's good for is some.. deep nasty ass fuckin,oh ya,she love's it.just make sure she takes an enema first or ewwwwyyy!!!!!
ReplyDeleteHow old are you?
DeleteWhy do you ask? Propositioning me?
DeleteYou like butt sex too?
How old are you?
That would be "martial" law, 2:18, and you wouldn't like it.
ReplyDeleteUh, Toni? If you thought that was "martial law," then you truly have no idea what you are talking about.
ReplyDeleteBut that's the trouble with crackpots. They have already convinced themselves that they know everything, so they aren't curious enough or intelligent enough to realize they know next to nothing.
But that doesn't stop them from shooting their mouths off at every opportunity to show to the world how little they truly know.
Your forefathers weren't spineless cowards that would have cowered in their homes because the man in a fucking tank rolling down their streets told them to. In fact, he wasn't found until it was called off. I'm not a statist but if you condone that behavior, on the anniversary of the shot heard around the world no less, then I am more of a patriot than you are. Quit glorifying the shirking of ones responsibility to be able to defend their property and families from threats, such as 19 year olds or lunatics, in general. There were ten thousand or so men with machine guns, tanks, handcuffs and well known for profitting off of caging people literally combing through thousands of yards. They were going door to door, rummaging and storming through homes with confused children cowering in the corners. Uhmerricuh! Fuck yeah, right?! Psht, shame on you. This country wasntfounded by spineless cowards who sacrificed their liberty for the illusion of safety.
ReplyDeleteYou are insane if you think my grandmother, who lives in Boston, should have to defend herself from nutjobs with bombs and an arsenal of guns. What the fuck is wrong with you? Were you dropped on your head as a child?
ReplyDeleteThank you Boston PD, FBI, and the rest for nailing these motherfuckers as fast as you did. And Toni Bonehead, patriots aren't anti-government conspiracists. Unless you think Timothy McVeigh was a patriot. Which you probably fucking do.
Don't thank the police. Thank the guy in his house while the police ransacked the area. The house arrest citizen found the kid, not your beloved police.
DeletePrivate citizen checking on private property *after* he was *allowed* to. Over a million people threatened with kidnapping, caging or violence merely for leaving their home or refusal to ignore their 4th amendment rights.
ReplyDeleteToni Bones can haz incoherent non-sentence structure?
ReplyDeleteToni, go look up the Whiskey Rebellion then come back to me about how our "forefathers" were such freedom loving folks who would never used military force against their own people.
ReplyDeleteIf you are in love with free speech, check out the Sedition Act that John Adams signed into law, making it a crime to write "false, malicious and scandalous" things about the government.
If you think Jefferson was a champion of small government, check out the broad police powers he acquired for the federal government to enforce the Embargo Act.
And once again, if you think what happened in Boston on Friday was "martial law", you don't know what martial law is. So please stop trying to look intelligent by using phrases and words you do not truly understand.
It makes you look like, well, pot-smoking trailer trash.
11:11, you idiot, the comment about "martial" law was in response to 2:18's post, which is repeated here in full:
ReplyDelete"I would welcome marshall law. As things are now, it isn't safe to live in this country."
No one said anything about the police action being martial (or marshall) law.
You are now free to find some other reason for your false righteous indignation.
Thanks for the brief history lesson. It you could reread what I pointed out and decipher the words and phrases I had such difficulty understanding, you would find that your argument is ridiculous. At no point did I suggest the men you mentioned above to be saints or that they were even that relevant to this time. In regards to the point I was dancing around, your argument of 'My idea of martial law is much worse, there for its not martial law and you are pot smoking trailer trash' is a real testament to how much more intelligent you are than all of us. You are brilliant, really. However, you seem to be uptight, perhaps you should smoke some weed? I don't partake much these days but you certainly should.
ReplyDeleteAnd I shure iz sorray if mys fonix and sentance strukshure ain't good nuff fer you. I bee tryin so hard to inpress ewes!
Really, 7:29? Somebody called Toni Bones didn't write this at 9:22 a.m. yesterday:
ReplyDelete"Thousands of dumbfounded dipshits literally flocked to the streets after their dictators called off martial law after 12 hours of looking for a teenager unsuccessfully shouting usa.. meanwhile the forefathers of this country are flipping over in their graves. Down right embarrassing."
Then followed up at 11:09 with this:
"12 hours martial law. Found only after home owner was let off martial law to inspect his own private property."
Sorry, Toni. It isn't that "my idea" of martial law conflicts with "your idea."
ReplyDeleteIt's that "your idea" of martial law conflicts with that of the rational world.
Since you didn't bother to look it up, most likely to remain willfully ingorant, George Washington raised a militia of 13,000 men to put down an insurrection in Western Pennsylvania over an excise tax imposed on distillers in order to pay off the Revolutionary War debts.
He did this under the authority of Congress which was given power under Article I, Section 8 of the constitution to "call for the militia" to "execute the laws of the union" and "suppress insurrections."
That clause was inserted into the Constitution in the wake of the Shays' Rebellion, in which Massachusetts raised a militia to put down an insurrection over taxation in the western part of that state.
Now you continue in your fantasy that the "founding fathers" were all neo-anarchists like you who like to sit around with the handful of friends they have and bloviate about all the problems of the world without getting off your butts.
But not one of the Founding Fathers were shy about using military force against citizens.
Toni, the next time two meth dealers have a shootout in the trailer park, by all means assert your constitutional rights and go out and watch. Preferably in the crossfire.
ReplyDeleteBy all means, don't "shelter in place" lest someone some tough-talking psuedo-"patriot" some 2,000 miles away think you are a cowering in a corner to the shame of our Founding Fathers.
May I suggest a dictionary and some tact. I suppose I could call names, say something hateful and resort to predictable insecure troll-like banter but I grew out of that quite some time ago. I was a lot more clever in my time, I must say. I really was a pothead back then, too, so it really isn't saying much for your originality, word placement or use of the english lexicon, in general. I'm rather disappointed, really.
ReplyDeleteI don't know if what happened in Boston was martial law or not. The Wikipedia definition of martial law follows. I doesn't sound like it would be a great system to live under:
ReplyDeleteMartial law is the imposition of military rule by military authorities over designated regions on an emergency basis.
Martial law is usually imposed on a temporary basis when the civilian government or civilian authorities fail to function effectively (e.g., maintain order and security, or provide essential services), when there are extensive riots and protests, or when the disobedience of the law becomes widespread.
In most of the cases, military forces are deployed to subdue the crowds, to secure government buildings and key or sensitive locations, and to maintain order.[1] Generally, military personnel replace civil authorities and perform some or all of their functions. In full-scale martial law, the highest-ranking military officer would take over, or be installed, as the military governor or as head of the government, thus removing all power from the previous executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government.[1]
Martial law can be used by governments to enforce their rule over the public. Such incidents may occur after a coup d'état (such as Thailand in 2006); when threatened by popular protest (China, Tiananmen Square protests of 1989); to suppress political opposition (Poland in 1981); to stabilize insurrections or perceived insurrections (Canada, The October Crisis of 1970). Martial law may be declared in cases of major natural disasters, however most countries use a different legal construct, such as a state of emergency.
Martial law has also been imposed during conflicts and in cases of occupations, where the absence of any other civil government provides for an unstable population. Examples of this form of military rule include post World War II reconstruction in Germany and Japan as well as the southern reconstruction following the U.S. Civil War.
Typically, the imposition of martial law accompanies curfews, the suspension of civil law, civil rights, habeas corpus, and the application or extension of military law or military justice to civilians. Civilians defying martial law may be subjected to military tribunal (court-martial).