By Joel Thurtell
A little question for the FBI.
What legal people call a “hypothetical.”
What if the FBI were raiding a warehouse with dozens of agents.
What if some of the agents were human beings.
And what if some of the agents were dogs.
Two of the agents get shot.
One of the wounded agents is a human being.
The other wounded agent is a dog.
A medical helicopter arrives to render immediate aid and transport to the hospital.
But the chopper has room for only one agent.
Which agent gets treated, the human or the dog?
I’ll bet I know the answer: The human, of course! What moron would give medical treatment to a dog before treating a human being?
Even if they thought the human agent was dead, I’ll bet the fibbies would ship the human agent’s cadaver for help before they’d airlift a dog.
Now let’s switch to a real situation. Thanks to reporter Niraj Warikoo and the Detroit Free Press, we know that in a real — not hypothetical — raid on a warehouse in Dearborn, the FBI decided to send a dog off in a medical helicopter while leaving a shot Muslim man — target of the raid and supposedly dead — lying on the ground.
It’s hard to believe much of what the FBI has said about this case, beacuse they obstructed Dearborn police for months, shuffling videos and other evidence and postponing for six months Dearborn police interviews with agents who did the shooting.
But there is no question the dog got the chopper and the man got the chop.
Dearborn police at the scene were upset by the way the feds helicoptered the dog. According to the Free Press:
On one recording from a Dearborn police car, an officer can be heard saying, with expletives, “They’re going to … Medevac the … dog. Unbelievable…. It seems extreme.”
But the FBI records make clear that the evacuation and medical care were according to its policy. In such incidents, FBI agents, including dogs, are to get special treatment from on-site emergency personnel working for the FBI, while any suspects who are injured or killed are to be treated by local EMS workers.
“We generally transport our own,” (FBI Special Agent Sandra) Berchtold said….
In our hypothetical, I assumed the FBI would take care of the human being first. They’d be pretty hard-hearted — not to mention imbecilic — to treat a dog before a human, even if the dog was an agent.
Yet that is what they did.
My first reaction was to see their behavior as anti-Muslim.
After reading Agent Berchtold’s defense, I realized it’s not just Muslims the FBI is against.
By making the choice against the human and for the dog, the FBI sees people it investigates as sub-human.
Muslim, Christian, Jew, atheist, it makes no difference.
FBI targets get treated worse than dogs.
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Of course, if the guy hadn’t shot the dog, we wouldn’t be discussing any of this. So maybe this is one of those “Teachable Moments.”
Don’t shoot at FBI agents or their dogs. Then again, if you need to be told something like this, maybe the teachable moment has been wasted.
You are wrong, it does make a difference. For example, if you need a dust-off, forget it. It would be a hard call between you and a terrorist . .I’d go for the dog every time.