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We Win Again

The state of Missouri has pulled its MIAC report wherein these "brilliant" state police bureaucrats had identified Ron Paul, Bob Barr, or Chuck Baldwin supporters and voters as potential Terriers™. This incident totally embarrassed the Guv: Jay Nixon, who defended this bullshit report without having apparantly read the damn thing. Missouri Scraps MIAC Report.

Missouri Lieutenant Governor Peter Kinder called on Governor Jay Nixon (who had previously stood by and defended the MIAC report) to place Department of Public Safety Director John Britt on administrative leave pending an investigation into the report. In addition, several Missouri State legislators said they would introduce an amendment to the Department of Public Safety's budget barring the agency from using "state or federal funds for political profiling."

On March 23, DPS Director John Britt sent an apology letter to Ron Paul, Bob Barr, and me stating, "I have ordered that the offending report be edited so as to excise all reference to Ron Paul, Bob Barr or Chuck Baldwin and to any third-party political organizations." [...]

Then, on Wednesday, March 25, the head of the Missouri State Highway Patrol, Col. James F. Keathley, ordered the Missouri Information Analysis Center (MIAC) to "permanently cease distribution" of this abysmal report. Keathley said that neither he nor Britt had read the report before it was distributed.

Note: Emphasis Mine

Now, you don't suppose that that these two dipshits will be fired, do you? Get a minimum wage job tending the counter at the corner 7 - 11, come up a few bucks short on the register, and what happens? You get canned like a tuna right then and there! Incompetence is not tolerated. However, get yourself a gov't gig, and it does not matter how badly you fuck up. You can be sure that these fucksticks, Keathley and Britt, won't be doing what they should be doing: making minimum wages tending counter at the local 7 - 11. I wish I had a "job" like that, get paid $Six Figures for pencil-whipping reports without bothering to read them, being utterly irresponsible and not caring how I did, while doing what I really want to do: design and work on audio amps. I betcha I could even move the whole darn lab right into the office and no one would say a damn thing about that. If worst came to worst, I could just fake a contrite "apology".

There is yet another chilling question that must be answered: by saying Missouri State Police will "review" how MIAC distributes intelligence reports to police officers, does Col. Keathley mean that the State of Missouri's law enforcement agencies will continue to promote similar reports, but simply make them "Classified"? In other words, will they (and other State police agencies around the country) simply employ greater secrecy when issuing such reports, but do nothing to change the content of future reports? Hopefully not, but we shall see.

I definitely think this is one of those occasions where you should apply Heinlein's Razor: "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity".

These leftie dipshits are not invincible. We can beat them.

Yes, we can!