Update: Thanks to Glenn Reynolds for the Instalink.
New visitors might want to check out my BLOCKBUSTER saga where a convicted terrorist and perjurer sought to obtain my true name and address by subpoenaing Google and Comcast. You might want to start with the filing I sent to the court, here. It has been described by another blogger as “one of the most epic pantsings I have ever seen performed anywhere” so you might enjoy it. You can also use this link to keep abreast of the whole saga.
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A eighteen year old single mother in Oklahoma faced her worst nightmare recently. Her husband had died on Christmas day and a pair of (alleged) burglars apparently thought she was an easy target (allegedly), trying to break into her home on New Years Eve. But instead she went into “Momma-Bear” mode and the intruders paid the price. ABC has the video:
New visitors might want to check out my BLOCKBUSTER saga where a convicted terrorist and perjurer sought to obtain my true name and address by subpoenaing Google and Comcast. You might want to start with the filing I sent to the court, here. It has been described by another blogger as “one of the most epic pantsings I have ever seen performed anywhere” so you might enjoy it. You can also use this link to keep abreast of the whole saga.
The original post follows.
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A eighteen year old single mother in Oklahoma faced her worst nightmare recently. Her husband had died on Christmas day and a pair of (alleged) burglars apparently thought she was an easy target (allegedly), trying to break into her home on New Years Eve. But instead she went into “Momma-Bear” mode and the intruders paid the price. ABC has the video:
The sad thing is that she was worried enough that she might get in trouble that she felt the need to ask 911 for advice. And frankly they should have known the law enough to have told her that she would be just fine.
A while back I ruminated on the way that guns allowed disabled people to achieve a certain equality in a way that was quintessentially human:
