What if the guards started shooting at the police for tresspassing if they couldn't identify them in the first second of seeing them? Why did they have to use the helicopter?
So, there's a good reason that the way the police traditionally do things, surround a house and ask the people to come out. The US military actually generally does the same thing with insurgents in Iraq. But no police department wants to be the one that "doesn't even have a SWAT team". And once you have one, you have to use it or else how do you justify it to taxpayers?
If Kim had trigger happy guards like that, that alone would seem a little suspicious. Who was he afraid of?
For that matter, this is a pretty paranoid panic button setup:
“I was on my bed, once the banging started, I pressed an alarm button that is situated right at my bed which was installed in case of an emergency. When I press that it automatically sends a signal to all security guards including Mr [Wayne] Tempero’s room including SMSs to everybody informing them there is an alert.
Perhaps that's just standard operating procedure for a multi-millionaire.
Full story in text: http://www.3news.co.nz/VIDEO-What-really-happened-in-the-Dot...
Kim Unamerican?
Would it have been much different if instead of a button, it was an intercom system, and Dotcom queried his staff as to what the banging noise was?
In one way it does seem comically super-villain-esque, but then, i wouldn't say that Dotcom's impulses were anything more dramatic than anyone hearing unusual noises in their home. It's just, most of us don't have a staff to query, or a saferoom to evacuate to.
Having a gun for protection in NZ is unusual. That said, he's reached a station in life where some hired professional protection for himself and his family seems relatively sane.
Afraid of exactly this scenario where one early morning, heavily armed men were storming his home where his wife and kids were?
I'd have been terrified.
But while things like this happen, it seems sane if you have the money: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2184641/Waterboarded...
It is not terribly uncommon for agents of the US government to forcibly enter homes and kill the residents, often under mistaken circumstances. And as this story shows, their reach is extremely broad.
So, I certainly wouldn't classify it as paranoid, in this day and age it seems like common sense.
I'm not even sure the guards would have guns at all. I don't think they would be allowed to have pistols. They might have shotguns I guess.
src: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&obj...
It's hard to understand why they would raid his house like this.