Lest people think it is only government stooges who burst into rooms and spray the occupants with bullets, here's a story about bounty hunters doing the same thing. Not the first time, either. Bounty hunters usually work for bail bondsmen, seeking to produce their witnesses. What has surprised me, in some reports I've seen recently on how they work and what their legal authority to enter homes is, is that they are apparently free to enter hotel rooms and private homes at will. One legal expert opined that a homeowner who shoots at them upon their entry is committing a crime, as they are not legally a threat. (Of course, how does a homeowner know this?) Here's an excerpt from the story: --- Tuesday September 2 2:50 PM EDT Police Pursue Arizona Bounty Hunters By David Schwartz PHOENIX(Reuter) - An intense manhunt was under way Tuesday for two bounty hunters who allegedly broke into the wrong house in a commando-style raid looking for a bail-jumper and shot and killed a young couple. Police said two men were in custody and another was under police guard in a hospital after the ski-masked group broke down the front door of the house, held young children at gunpoint and exchanged fire with the couple early Sunday. The bounty hunters apparently were looking for a bail jumper who owed a bond company $25,000, police said. Killed in the shoot-out were Christopher Foote, 23, and Spring Wright, his 21-year-old girlfriend. Their bedroom was riddled with at least 29 bullet holes. -- Seems to me we need a system which executes these several folks. AP is inefficient, but might work. People call me cold-blooded, calling for the death of tyrants, stooges, narcs, and other rifraff. But how can anyone read this story and not realize such scum need to be given a very quick trial and then disposed of? (This, by the way, is one reason folks should have guns in hotel rooms. Some hotels have policies against guns, but this applies only if one is found. And it's usually not a criminal violation, if the local gun laws allow shopkeepers and homeowners/renters to have guns (a few places don't, as we all know). A hotel room is one's temporary residence, as a tent in a campground is.) --Tim May There's something wrong when I'm a felon under an increasing number of laws. Only one response to the key grabbers is warranted: "Death to Tyrants!" ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^1398269 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."