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Standing aboard a sheriff's harbor patrol boat just off the Seal Beach coast, Mike Hillmann, Orange County's newest assistant sheriff, stares at an offshore oil rig nicknamed Esther and lets his fears run wild.
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Imagine how law abiding citizens around him feel while he's carrying tactical weapons. When you get senile with age, fears tend to run wild. Should that man have a gun?
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"This is what keeps me up at night," he said.
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I thought law abiding armed citizens did.
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Hillmann, 63, retired from the LAPD last year as a deputy chief...
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...There's a reason he retired...and should have stayed so, along with Sandy Sue...
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He is passionate about preparing for big threats
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...like unarmed students with backpacks and their unarmed girlfriends. Big tough guy. I wonder if he'd be so tough without a gun and a badge...
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"I don't like to get caught off guard," he said.
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Neither do the rest of us citizens. But sissyb*tch Hillman has a gun and a badge, and he *will* use them.
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"I basically took out a gun and shot myself in the foot," Hillmann said. "Shame on me."[/b]
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And mind you, he's still allowed by idiotic Sandy Sue to carry one.
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Hillmann argues that his experience is needed here as Orange County becomes more urban.
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And I argue that his experience would best be used at Leisure World or Laguna Woods. Get the hint...
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But in the meantime, he has e-mailed a letter of apology to county supervisors.
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Besides asinine, puerile blackberry messages and grammatically questionable and untrue police reports, can anyone vouch for his ability to write? Can he spell? Has anyone seen this piece of literary might? Did I miss it?
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Known by colleagues as "a cop's cop,"
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I'd love to see the survey
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Hillmann is intense, and claims to sleep only four hours a night.
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He's not intense - he's an overaged bureaucrat in the wrong slot. Did you see him at the hearings? Besides typing on his blackberry, his lack of sleep was amply evident - I thought he'd snore behind the podium. The only thing that kept him was gossiping with his FBI girlfriend on his county paid blackberry likely bragging about is Viagra induced prowess.
And we get to pay for his lack of sleep.
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He certainly doesn't have a problem mixing it up with protestors.
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...or unarmed citizens and political activists
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He earned the nickname "Iron Mike" for a photograph of him with one hand wrapped around a bullhorn and the other around the throat of an anti-war protester at the 2003 Academy Awards.
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Isn't he the toughest?
He's *so* cute!
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Hillmann joined the LAPD in 1966
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Imagine. He's been allowed to screw around with a badge since before I was born, and hasn't stopped. The amount of corruption and duration of it baffles my mind.
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"I was always fascinated with gaining control of dynamic instances," Hillmann said, "bringing calm to chaos."
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A clinical narcissist or a sociopath, either with control issues? You decide.
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Hillmann said he begins each morning by taking out a polishing cloth and shining his badge.
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That's more arrogance than public service, if true at all. It makes for a cute movie scene.
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Hillmann said he didn't recall the scuffle
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I did say senility...
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Hillmann says he's the first one to work toward a peaceful protest.
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By choking the unarmed? Yeahsure.
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If he's wrong, Hillmann will admit it, she said.
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Yeah? Where's the letter of apology to the harassed citizens? Wait- that would be a criminal violation.
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Since he arrived, Hillmann has been manic about reviewing homeland security planning and training.
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Manic and Senile. With a gun and a badge. Great combo. Good job, Sandy Sue...
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"They look at me and shake their heads," said Hillmann, acknowledging his new moniker.
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It's not in admiration, moron. Is he *really* that utterly stupid?
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Hillmann has forced deputies to show up in full dress for annual inspections
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So it's not only the citizens he forces to do things. Check. Inspections as a mechanism of perpetuating his self importance. Got it.
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But deputies complain about the overtime it's costing. Some have lost uniforms; Hillmann said others have shown up in wingtip shoes.
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Yeah! Let's save money by having inspections! Wait...
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He was surprised by the kind of heavy duty shoulder armaments being handed out to deputies without sufficient tactical training.
"An AR15, an M4 an MP5?" Hillmann said. "When you give someone that weapon, I ask why?"
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They're cops, you moron. Remember the North Hollywood Siege? Wait - you just like talking tough, not mixing it up in the real deal.
It's interesting that it isn't only the citizens Hillman is trying to disarm, but his own deputies. Class Act.
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"If we had multiple jurisdictional incidents happen here, you could bring law enforcement to its knees pretty quickly," Hillmann said.
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If you stuck a pig on the nose end of a bazooka, the pig may fly too, but it doesn't mean it's a good idea...and neither is a full time swat team just to have Mike's ego boosted by his own personal little army of minions to do his bidding with only 3 incidents the previous year. Paranoid freak...this isn't LA.
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Much of what Hillmann came to do has been blocked by budget cuts.
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Thank God! Can you imagine what he'd use the money for???
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"Once again the gears in Hillmann's head started spinning, recalling the Missouri gunman who opened fire at a council meeting, the shooting deaths of Mayor George Moscone and County Supervisor Harvey Milk in San Francisco.
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Are you sure it wasn't hamsters spinning in his head?
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Hillmann said the prospects of activists carrying unloaded guns mixed with laid-off county workers had the potential for a "perfect" storm of violence.
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The creep lives for the perfect storm. He's looking for a moment of glory that in 40 years hasn't come. The man is looking to be a hero. At the expense of thousands of citizens. How sad.
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"There's a settling-in period here. I have to get to know the climate, the people."
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Yup - and make sure you change your voter registration to say you're a Republican like Sandy Sue did just so you could pretend you're one of us.
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"When the chips are down, Michael Hillmann is the man you want in charge," said Fullerton Police Chief Pat McKinley, who was his supervisor at the LAPD.
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How did Fullerton get so unlucky to have such an idiot with piss poor judgment for a Chief?
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"No one should give Michael a BlackBerry."
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But we should trust him with a gun?