9-1-1 Is Just Dial-a-Prayer -- Face It, We're On Our Own

Two of the human scum with whom we share the planet rape a woman and an 11-year-old girl, and murder them and another girl in the course of a home invasion robbery in Connecticut.

This took place a year ago inside a police perimeter around the home. Law enforcement authorities are refusing to provide details about the incident, their conduct, or the 9-1-1 call that brought them to the scene. They took no action to prevent the travesty while it was taking place inside the home and seek to justify their inaction by maintaining that they followed applicable protocols and procedures. Although continuing to claim "to protect and to serve," law enforcement obviously has not reconsidered those protocols and procedures since they proved at Columbine High School in Colorado to be mindlessly wrong-headed and useless while a massacre was taking place inside police lines.

Additional details of the gruesome Connecticut tragedy are available in a newspaper account that can be viewed at:

http://www.courant.com/community/news/mr/hc-petit0702.artjul02,0,590086.story

Several important facts and lessons are clear from this incident and the many similar ones that preceded it:

First, none of the eminent and honorable poohbahs who enabled the animals to commit their multiple crimes will be held responsible for, or even compelled to account for their actions -- not the judges or the parole board members who loosed the monsters on their victims and certainly not the authorities who formulated and maintained the protocols and procedures that precluded any effort by the police to interrupt the atrocities while they were in progress.

Second, all of these protected officials can be armed or have armed guards for their protection but they are unalterably opposed to ordinary citizens taking any actions to protect themselves or having the means to do so. They want people to be dependent on government even though that dependency makes them easy prey.

Third, ordinary citizens are on their own. Working police officers -- though not those at the political command level -- refer to 9-1-1 as "dial-a-prayer," recognizing their inability to respond in a timely and effective manner to prevent a crime while it is occurring.

Fourth, finally, and most importantly, prudent individuals -- irrespective of the wishes of those in positions of authority and the rules enacted by them for others -- will arm themselves with the mindset, skills, and tools necessary to defend themselves and their loved ones. They will keep all of these current, on hand, and readily usable and accessible by them at all times -- on their persons in their vehicles, and at strategic locations in their workplaces and homes.