"A former special agent in charge of the Dallas FBI office said he tried to fire Carlos Ortiz 18 years ago after the troubled agent was involved in a seven-hour armed standoff with SWAT team members," Jason Trahan of The Dallas Morning News informs us.
What? Wouldn't you and I be in prison for doing that, providing we survived the experience? What's this "tried to fire" business? How could the guy still be walking the streets, let alone being provided a badge and a gun?
"Ortiz, who is currently accused of plotting to kill his wife and his former boss, was deemed fit for duty by psychiatrists."
Just a little stress. He'll be fine. Besides, getting rid of him would be "a discriminatory action."
The eggheads said it, I believe it, that settles it.
And then there's this:
"Ortiz remained an FBI special agent for nearly two more decades after that, despite initiating a second armed standoff in 2004 when, authorities say, he took his own child hostage."
Aha! Got him this time, right? No?
"Again, Ortiz passed a mental evaluation and returned to duty."
The thing is, the guy who wanted to fire him says something that's flat-out insane to explain why such behavior was tolerated for so long:
"The answer is because that's what the law requires, and the law ought to be changed."
No, assuming the background history given on Mr. Ortiz is not pure, unmitigated balderdash, it's more like professional courtesy extended between "Only Ones," along with EEO gone wild. They don't seem to have a problem finding all kinds of laws to use against We the People when we do something that displeases them, and responding accordingly with overwhelming force.
New laws are the last thing we need--besides, they always seem only to apply to those of us targeted for control, with carve-out exemptions for the you-know-whos.
They don't seem to have a problem telling someone who lets his wife do his finances that he can't have a gun.
[Thanks to DC Handgun Info]
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Comments
Right on David. There are two sets of laws, the way they are written is so they can manipulate their meanings in any direction they want. And of course if you are in their gang, you arent subjected to the law like everyone else. Can you say "occupying force"?
How else do you explain politicians not going to jail for tax evasion, and then just NEVER paying them after being found out? I didn't know the laws had a "Congress Exempted" clause. Same goes with cops. Just like the story where the "off-duty officer" was at a bar carrying (which is illegal) and was able to thwart a robbery. Nothing was ever said about the fact that he wasn't allowed to have a gun there. Oh wait, he was there "fixing a bathroom door for the owner." I forgot that makes it ok... if that's even true. I guess I'll just need to fix a door or something every time I carry at the post office, just to make it legit.
Let us think of government as criminals with flags.
— ALAN TURIN
So many people read such a story and dismiss it as "one bad apple".
But it is never just one person. There are always partners and supervisors and, of course, victims who run into each of these "bad apples". Co-workers cover it up and victims are too scared to speak, or dismissed as "criminals" who are just griping sour grapes. The level of corruption is unconscienable.
This extends to the Political Class as well. David does outstanding patriotic work taking the time to mine these stories and put them out there for us.
Sam
What else is new? W ehave known for a long time that government agencies have used separate criteria when judging their own people as compared to the public. This is not about fair play but keeping someone on who probably kissed the backside of his boss and would do whatever was needed by his boss because his boss had the evidence on him. The bosses should be investigated and fired even quicker than this jerk.
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