16 April 2014 (19:45 UTC-07 Tango 15 April 2014)/15 Jumada t-Tania 1435/27 Farvardin 1393/17 Wu-Chen 4712
After 10 years, and who knows how many tax dollars, the result of Operation Ceasefire was only 130 arrests! One man was arrested simply for making a video of himself “handling” his pistol and “showing it off” to others, of course he was a former felon barred from his inalienable right to own a gun (which I always ask, if you do your time in prison why are you still punished for the rest of your life?).
The Operation involved local cops in Florida, as well as federales. The cops claim they went after gang bangers only. So after ten years of targeting only gang bangers they arrested only 130 people?
Operation Ceasefire is a country wide ongoing operation, not just in Florida.
In Sacramento, California, last week alone 15 people were arrested under Operation Ceasefire. Cops say 12 of those had suspected “gang ties” while three were charged with human trafficking. The ages of those arrested range from 18 to 54. In this case prostitution, and not guns, was the motivation for the arrests. So how does prostitution fall under the anti-gun Operation Ceasefire?
In Oakland, California, Operation Ceasefire has been described as “your last chance to exit street life”. Oh yeah? Then what happens, open season on gang bangers, the homeless and others deemed to be “street people”? It turns out that police and civilian volunteers have been using Operation Ceasefire to harass people already convicted of crimes and on probation: “There was a lot of tension in that room. I thought we were all about to go to jail.”-unnamed probationer describing the fear that dozens of people on probation felt when they got called in by Operation Ceasefire operatives
When you’re on parole your life is not yours, it belongs to police, and police love to play control freak mind games with parolees. I’ve personally witnessed a parolee in Lompoc, California, be threatened with being returned to jail for not showing to his meeting with the parole officer. The rub is that I was the one who drove the parolee to the very meeting he was accused of missing!!! And yes, I observed him meeting with the parole officer, my witness testimony save his butt from being hauled off to prison!
These immorally run programs do not make people “complaint” with laws, it make them more rebellious because they experience first hand the hypocrisy of those who enforce the laws!
But wait, now lets go to the other extreme: In Louisiana, Operation Ceasefire includes such carrots as free public Movie Night, usually crappy Disney movies.