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Thursday, November 14, 2013

Georgia teen was stuffed with newspaper after death, family lawyer says


By Elizabeth Chuck, Staff Writer, NBC News

The mysterious death of a Georgia teen has taken a bizarre twist with the revelation that an autopsy of his exhumed remains found his internal organs missing and his body stuffed with newspaper.

The family of Kendrick Johnson, 17, of Valdosta, Ga., was "outraged" and "devastated" by the discovery and believes his death was a murder that is being covered up, a lawyer representing them said Thursday.

Johnson, a three-sport athlete, was found dead on Jan. 11 in a rolled-up wrestling mat in his high school gym. State medical examiners concluded that he accidentally suffocated while trying to retrieve a sneaker.


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Perhaps it was a state employee that committed the crime. Seems for sure the school wishes it to disappear. Not handing over video footage lets all sorts of theories arise. With respect to the removal of the young man's internal organs and the subsequent stuffing of his corpse with newspapers, I would suspect the person who performed the first autopsy, or perhaps the person who prepared the body for burial. They both would have had the opportunity to commit this sort of mutilation. There is a black market for human organs, and not all are sold for transplantation into living people.

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Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Hero Cop Takes On 2-Yr-Old In His Care


Chris | InformationLiberation


Here's another one of those "heroes in uniform" that keeps us so safe.

AL.com reports:

MOBILE, Alabama -- The Prichard police officer arrested Friday and charged with aggravated child abuse is believed to have attacked a 2-year-old girl multiple times while she stayed with him over the summer, according to the Mobile County Sheriff's Office.

Bryan Aadam Pearman, 24, has been charged with one count of aggravated child abuse in the case, a felony with a maximum sentence of 20 years.

Investigators say the 2-year-old victim sustained multiple injuries, including reported head injuries and bruising, while she was staying with Pearman over the summer, said Sgt. Joe Mahoney of MCSO.

"The injuries were consistent with really going above and beyond, you know, like a pat on the butt," Mahoney said. "I mean, what can a 2-year-old do to deserve that?"

Pearman joined the Prichard Police Department in October 2011. He graduated from the police academy in July 2012, according to posts to his social media page.

One year later, on July 30, a woman called the Child Advocacy Center to report Pearman had abused her 2-year-old daughter. The child's mother reported the suspected abuse after she and her daughter were reunited, Mahoney said.

"The investigation took a while, but the child was placed back with her mother and that gave us time to really strengthen our case," Mahoney said.

AL.com reports the officer had previously faced charges for shooting his neighbors dog with a .22 rifle as it was returning to its home after playing with some neighborhood children. AL.com notes Pearman "was set to go before a jury on March 22, 2010; however, the charge was instead dismissed with conditions."

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The fucker was incapable of being a pig when he shot the neighbors dog so who in their right minds vetted this sorry ass pile of excrement for his stint as a pos pig? It is beyond obvious that our police are scum. What entity out there can handle this? Nobody, so we are stuck with this scum until the people can decide that we are done with this. It is either that, or you will be reading reports like this for the rest of your life. choose.

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Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Idaho Cop Assaults Man for Video Recording Traffic Stop From More Than 50 Feet Away


by Carlos Miller

A Boise police sergeant stormed up to a man video recording her making a traffic stop from more than 50 feet away, accusing him of interfering with her investigation.

Sgt. Lori Sperry ordered Gavin Seim to take his hands out of his pockets and hand over his identification, which he refused to do on the basis that he was not committing a crime.

Sperry, who made more than $99,000 in 2011, became extremely unsettled by the fact that he asserted his rights, claiming it was an ?officer safety issue,? then insisting she was unable to multitask because she couldn?t focus on the driver she was ticketing as well as on Seim.

At one point, she grabbed his arm, but then backed off as if realizing she had crossed the line.

She finally relaxed when another officer named T. Green showed up to the scene, who?s demeanor was the complete opposite of his superior.

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Sherry, you are a POS that need to be dealt with Lori Sperry, you are one sick public servant that needs a mental evaluation You all are a bunch of idiots if you don't think, for a minute, that Gavin was intentionally looking to create some sort of altercation. He clearly had a speech in place for after the event. You all should be embarrassed for supporting him here. All you need to do is put your mother, sister or wife in place of this officer.

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Monday, November 11, 2013

Switzerland Decriminalizes Marijuana Possession


by Phillip Smith

As of this week, the possession of up to 10 grams of marijuana is no longer a criminal offense in Switzerland. Instead, the Swiss have decriminalized the possession of small amounts of weed, replacing possible jail time and a criminal record with a maximum fine of $110. The new law went into effect Tuesday.

The change in the Swiss drug law brings the country in line with other European countries that have either formally or effectively decriminalized pot possession. It also brings uniformity within Switzerland, where previously, some cantons had turned a blind eye to marijuana offenses while others came down hard on offenders.

The change will also relieve pressure on Swiss police and courts. The country has dealt with 30,000 or so marijuana charges each year, a number that should decline dramatically under the new law.

Cultivation and distribution of marijuana remain criminal offenses, as does possession of more than 10 grams. The new law also increases penalties for sale to minors.

The country of some eight million people is thought to have up to 500,000 marijuana users.


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Sunday, November 10, 2013

Humanitarian Wars and Their NGO Foot-Soldiers


by Daniel McAdams

In February, 2011, Soliman Bouchuiguir told a lie. It was a big one. As the head of the Libyan League for Human Rights, Bouchuiguir initiated a petition that was eventually signed by 70 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) demanding that the US, EU, and UN "mobilize the United Nations and the international community and take immediate action to halt the mass atrocities now being perpetrated by the Libyan government against its own people."

The petition invoked the "Responsibility to Protect" doctrine, a 2005 UN policy shift away from respect for national sovereignty toward green-lighting "humanitarian intervention," including with military force, anywhere human rights are suspected of being violated.

Bouchuiguir's petition was designed to tick all the necessary boxes of the R2P criteria. It reported that Libyan leader Gaddafi was deliberately killing peaceful protestors and innocent bystanders. He was using snipers to fire on Libyans at random, using helicopter gunships and fighter jets to attack, and even firing artillery shells into the crowd. The petition was where we first saw the oft-repeated line that the Gaddafi regime was employing foreign mercenaries against his own people.

Speaking in support of his petition before the UN Human Rights Council a few days later, Bouchuiguir claimed that Gaddafi had already killed 6,000 of his own people and was determined to kill many more. Based on his testimony and the petition signed by the 70 NGOs, Libya was suspended from membership in the UN Human Rights Council. On the strength of that suspension the issue was moved along rapidly to the UN Security Council, where teeth would soon be put into the campaign for military intervention.

What is behind this human rights NGO? The Libyan League for Human Rights is a member of the International Federation for Human Rights, which as an organization took up and added the weight of its large membership to Bouchuiguir's petition. It should not be much of a shock to learn that the International Federation for Human Rights relies heavily on governmental sources for funding. Governmental funding of NGOs has been an increasingly effective tool for mobilizing popular support for governmental policies. A land or resource grab is hardly as compelling to the masses as a claimed human rights crisis when a foreign intervention is planned.

Given this, it should be no surprise that the US government, through its own well-funded "democracy-promotion" NGO, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), is a major supporter of the International Federation for Human Rights. In fact, NED's long-serving president, Carl Gershman, was one of the first signatories to Bouchuiguir's Libya regime-change petition.

In the powerful film, Lies Behind the Humanitarian War in Libya," filmmaker Julien Teil asks Bouchuiguir whether it was difficult to gather 70 NGOs behind his petition. He replies, "to tell the truth it's not very difficult at all, cause all NGOs are acquainted." That is key: the NGOs are all under the umbrella of US and other government-funded organizations like the International Federation for Human Rights. The seeming diversity of 70 signatures is in fact a Potemkin Village, masking the true uniformity of opinion and sponsors.

Why is the story of Bouchuiguir's petition turning into a UN Human Rights Council action turning into a UN Security Council action turning into a NATO war on Libya so important? His claims were all lies. They were all made up, as he himself admits in the Teil documentary.

Asked months later by Teil how his claims of the number of deaths, rapes, wounded, and missing could be documented, Bouchuiguir replied, "there is no way." He added that he got the numbers he used from the Libyan rebels themselves, a fact which was never pointed out when the numbers were first cited. The UN Security Council took up his claims, passing the fateful UNSC Resolution 1973 authorizing force against Libya, without investigating them. Pressed one last time in the film for evidence of his claims, Bouchuiguir answered finally, "there is no evidence!"

For his efforts, Bouchuiguir was made Libyan ambassador to Switzerland once the NATO invasion was over and the rebel government was put in place. The international community gathered its NGOs together and moved on to the next target: Syria. Close to 99 percent of the mainstream media articles on Syria rely on a single source, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. It is a one-man operation in London run by Rami Abdulrahman, whose day job is running a small clothing shop. Once again, one man and an NGO have been able to ignite international opinion in favor of "humanitarian" intervention. It would do us well to more closely examine the role of the NGOs in promoting international conflict, particularly the governments behind them.
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McAdams is the Executive Director of the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity, at RonPaulInstitute.org. He served as Rep. Ron Paul's foreign affairs advisor for 12 years in Congress. See Daniel McAdams's article archives.


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Saturday, November 9, 2013

Use of Taser on 8-year-old girl justified, Pierre police say



The Pierre police chief is defending an officer?s use of an electroshock weapon against an 8-year-old girl who was threatening to harm herself.

Parents of the child, who was with a baby sitter at the time, want the officer disciplined for using excessive force.

Police Chief Bob Grandpre said three officers responded Friday night to a report of a suicidal 8-year-old girl who had stabbed herself in the leg. She was holding a 4 ?-inch knife to her chest when officers arrived and refused to put it down, he said.

One officer took a step toward the child but stopped when she turned the knife toward him.

?She immediately put the knife back at her chest,? the chief said.

That?s when an officer deployed his Taser, with prongs hitting her chest and stomach. Emergency medical personnel soon arrived and checked the child, he said, who was taken to a hospital and placed on a 24-hour hold. The child had no stab wounds on her leg, he said.

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Friday, November 8, 2013

Cops. Cash. Cocaine. How Sunrise police make millions selling drugs.


By Megan O'Matz and John Maines
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SUNRISE ? Police in this suburban town best known for its sprawling outlet mall have hit upon a surefire way to make millions. They sell cocaine.

Undercover detectives and their army of informants lure big-money drug buyers into the city from across the United States, and from as far north as Canada and as far south as Peru. They negotiate the sale of kilos of cocaine in popular family restaurants, then bust the buyers and seize their cash and cars.

Police confiscate millions from these deals, money that fuels huge overtime payments for the undercover officers who conduct the drug stings and cash rewards for the confidential informants who help detectives entice faraway buyers, a six-month Sun Sentinel investigation found.

Police have paid one femme fatale informant more than $800,000 over the past five years for her success in drawing drug dealers into the city, records obtained by the newspaper show.

Undercover officers tempt these distant buyers with special discounts, even offering cocaine on consignment and the keys to cars with hidden compartments for easy transport. In some deals, they?ve provided rides and directions to these strangers to Sunrise.

This being western Broward County, not South Beach, the drama doesn?t unfold against a backdrop of fast boats, thumping nightclubs or Art Deco hotels.

It?s absurdly suburban.

Many of the drug negotiations and busts have taken place at restaurants around the city?s main attraction, Sawgrass Mills mall, including such everyday dining spots as TGI Fridays, Panera Bread and the Don Pan International Bakery.

Why would police bring criminals to town?

Money.

Under long-standing state and federal forfeiture laws, police can seize and keep ill-gotten gains related to criminal activities, such as the money a buyer brings to purchase cocaine and the car driven to the deal.

Sunrise is hauling in three times as much forfeited cash as any other city in Broward and Palm Beach counties, the Sun Sentinel found. Last year, the city raked in $2 million in state and federal forfeiture funds. The year before, in 2011, the figure was twice that ? nearly $4 million.

Police generate much of their forfeiture money through reverse stings. The reverse sting, in which the police pose not as buyers, but as suppliers of cocaine, is a legitimate tool used by numerous law enforcement agencies.

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Thursday, November 7, 2013

Poll Finds Texans Ready to Legalize Marijuana


by Phillip Smith

Voters in Texas are among the latest to hop on board the marijuana legalization bandwagon, according to a poll released this week. The Public Policy Polling survey had support for marijuana legalization at 58%, support for medical marijuana at 58%, and support for decriminalizing small-time possession at 61%.

The poll was commissioned by the Marijuana Policy Project. The survey of 860 randomly selected Texas voters was conducted September 27-29 and has a margin of error of plus or minus 3.3%.

"Marijuana prohibition has been just as big a failure as alcohol prohibition," said MPP executive director Rob Kampia, a part-time Austin resident. "Most Texans agree that marijuana sales should be conducted by legitimate businesses instead of drug cartels in the underground market."

The poll's legalization question -- "Would you support or oppose changing Texas law to regulate and tax marijuana similarly to alcohol, where stores would be licensed to sell marijuana to adults 21 and older?" -- was the only question that allowed respondents to qualify their support as "strongly support" or "somewhat support." Some 41% strongly supported legalization, with another 17% somewhat supporting it.

Unusually, support for legalization was stronger among women (59%) than among men (56%). Also going against the grain, support was stronger among blacks (61%) and Latinos (60%) than Anglos (56%). In most polls across the country, men and whites are more likely to support legalization than women, blacks, or Latinos.

By political affiliation, legalization won strong majority support among Democrats (70%) and independents (57%), while even nearly half of Republicans (48%) also favored it. Legalization also won majority support across all age groups, with even those 65 and older coming in at 52%.

The poll also found that 61% of state voters support removing criminal penalties for possession of up to one ounce of marijuana and replacing them with a civil offense punishable by a fine of up to $100 with no possibility of jail time. Only 30% said they were opposed to that. Under current Texas law, it is a criminal offense for a person to possess a small amount of marijuana, and he or she can be sentenced to up to a year in jail and fined up to $2,000.

"Law enforcement officials' time would be better spent addressing violent crimes instead of adults simply possessing marijuana," Kampia said. "No adult should face potentially life-altering criminal penalties for using a product that is significantly less harmful than alcohol."

Most Texas voters (58%) support changing state law to allow seriously and terminally ill patients to use medical marijuana if their doctors recommend it. Just 31% said they are opposed.

"There is ample research demonstrating the medical benefits of marijuana in the treatment of several debilitating conditions," Kampia said. "People suffering from cancer and multiple sclerosis should not face the threat of arrest for using medical marijuana if their doctors believe it will help ease their suffering."


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Wednesday, November 6, 2013

"Pedro Offers You His Protection": The Preston PD Gets a Combat Vehicle

by William Norman Grigg

Preston, Idaho is a town of roughly 5,000 people that earned brief notoriety a decade ago as the setting for the whimsical film ?Napoleon Dynamite.? It is blessedly devoid of violent crime, and has no need for its six-officer police department.

Yet Chief Ken Geddes believes that Preston?s superficial placidity disguises the potential for apocalyptic violence. At least that?s what he?s saying to pre-empt potential criticism of his decision to acquire a combat-grade armored vehicle from the Department of Homeland Security.

The Preston Police Department is one of two in Idaho to receive a Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicle (MRAP) through the Pentagon?s Law Enforcement Support Office (LESO). Earlier this year, the Department of Homeland Security purchased more than 2,700 of the combat vehicles ? which were developed for use in Iraq and Afghanistan ? for distribution to local police departments and sheriff?s offices across the country. Most of them have very few, if any, miles on their odometers, and were scheduled to be cut up for scrap.

Through the LESO program, law enforcement agencies can receive MRAPs free of charge (apart from the initial expense to the taxpayers incurred in manufacturing them). Hundreds of police chiefs and sheriffs across the country have eagerly applied for the vehicles, urgently insisting that they meet previously unknown needs that didn?t become apparent until the Pentagon made the war-fighting vehicles available.

When I asked Chief Geddes why a police department in a town the size of Preston needs a military assault vehicle, his immediate response ? expressed in a tone of theatrical indignation -- was to invoke the Sandy Hook massacre.

?There isn?t much violent crime in Preston ? but how much does it take?? Chief Geddes responded. ?There wasn?t much crime in that little Connecticut town [Newton] before Sandy Hook ? but it would have been nice if they would have had an MRAP on the day of the school shooting.?

He also took issue with the assumption that because Preston is small and relatively tranquil, his department doesn?t need to expand its paramilitary capacity: ?Boise has a much larger population, and much larger police force, and much greater capacity than we do ? but are we to believe that the people in Boise are more valuable than the people in Preston?? This assessment of relative value omits rational calculations of risk. It also assumes that enhancing police capacity conduces to public safety, which is at very best a thoroughly questionable assumption.

Although the advertised law enforcement purpose served by MRAPs and other armored vehicles is force protection, Chief Geddes suggests that the vehicle could also be used to evacuate citizens who are threatened by an active shooter. That claim is robustly implausible: There isn?t a recorded instance in which a SWAT team responding to an active shooter made anything other than ?officer safety? is chief operational priority, and Preston isn?t likely to set a precedent ? assuming that such a situation were ever to arise in that bucolic southeastern Idaho town.

Chief Geddes points out that his department and the Franklin County Sheriff?s Office (which is headquartered in Preston) are receiving training and assistance from ?a military agency? regarding the operation and maintenance of the MRAP. This blending of functions and equipment summons concerns about law enforcement militarization that the Chief quickly and impatiently dismisses.

?I?m not at all concerned about it,? Chief Geddes insisted. ?We?re not looking in that direction in any way. But I have to say that in the event of a Hurricane Katrina-style disaster ? an earthquake, or a flood, or another large emergency ? we?d welcome their assistance.?

Public concerns about the militarization of domestic law enforcement occur because the public ?lags? behind their protectors in perceiving dangers and needs, according to Geddes. The general population simply doesn?t have the preternatural sense of incipient danger Chief Geddes acquired through years of patrolling the inhospitable streets of Preston and the danger-laden back roads of Franklin County as a sheriff?s deputy.

?Law enforcement may know things you don?t know,? he told me. ?All you think about is sunshine and happiness, but police can?t go in with their eyes shut.? Although Geddes maintains that he?s received no negative feedback from the public in Preston, he readily deploys the familiar ?uniforms that guard? trope in dealing with potential critics: ?People who resist this trend, who say that we shouldn?t be getting equipment like this, live under the protection of what the protest.?

From Chief Geddes? perspective, it?s unlikely that police can ever be too powerful, because their conspicuous presence is the only thing that prevents violent chaos from descending on society.

?How many people are saved because of law enforcement ? because of crimes that weren?t committed, or violations that didn?t occur?? he asks. ?How many people are alive because we patrol the streets and highways? How many people would have committed crimes if we weren?t there? Sometimes they didn?t do anything because they saw the force [that the police represent].?

Chief Geddes, who intended that those questions be taken as rhetorical in nature, is apparently unaware that they were answered more than four decades ago. In 1972, with financial backing and technical assistance provided by the Police Foundation, the Kansas City Police conducted a year-long study to measure the deterrent effect of police patrol. That survey concluded that police patrols had no documented impact on the crime rate.

Police patrols over plentiful opportunity for pro-active intervention to obtain revenue, or enforce regulations that do nothing to protect persons and property. This means that they are worse than useless from the perspective of those who value individual liberty more than state-imposed conformity. It?s reasonable to say that Chief Geddes resides in the other camp.

In an op-ed column he wrote for the Preston Citizen newspaper, Chief Geddes admonished the public to be ?thankful? for Pentagon?s generosity in providing the MRAP to his department: ?I appreciate our government and our military for the security they give us and for their help to increase our strength here in our schools and home.?

The problem, of course, is that once police are given access to exotic instruments of repression, they will find a reason to use them. This is illustrated by the ease and haste with which the Taser ? introduced as a substitute for firearms in situations involving deadly force ? has become an implement of pain compliance used to administer summary punishment upon Mundanes who discomfit their uniformed overlords in any way.

An even better illustration of this dreadful trend is the promiscuous use of SWAT teams: When introduced in the late 1960s, SWAT units were described as special-purpose teams to be deployed only in extraordinary circumstances, such as armed robberies and hostage situations. Now, however, there are, on average, approximately 220 SWAT-style raids each day. Won?t the acquisition of military-grade hardware to police departments simply exacerbate this tendency?

?That is a valid concern,? admitted Nampa Police Lt. Tim Randall, who represents the department?s Office of Professional Standards, when I posed that question to him. He also acknowledged that the department had received a great deal of public comment ?concerning the possibility of police militarization, which we can certainly understand.?

Nampa, a city of about 70,000 people, has a crime rate slightly above the state average, but well below the national average. Why would its police department (which last year acquired two military-issue Humvees from the National Guard) need an armored combat vehicle designed to protect soldiers from land mines and sniper fire?

?Well, first of all, it?s free,? observed Lt. Randall. ?It?s also the case that even a small agency like the Nampa PD has a big need for armored protection.? Employing the same Department of Homeland Security boilerplate language retailed in press releases from other departments around the country, the Nampa PD insists that the need for the MRAP is underscored by ?a rise in mass shootings and incidents of terrorism? nation-wide.?

That rationale is rooted in a lie: Mass shootings have not been increasing, and domestic terrorism ? a category that doesn?t include the FBI?s Homeland Security Theater operations ? is all but non-existent.

Although Lt. Randall emphasizes that he doesn?t anticipate that the Nampa Tactical Response Team would ?drive up to a house? in an MRAP on a routine warrant enforcement call, he reported that the vehicle had already been used twice in the first two weeks after the department obtained it. The first was a response to a carjacking at knife-point, the other a call involving a suicidal man. Like Chief Geddes, Lt. Randall also believes that the MRAP is valuable as a ?psychological deterrent? to public disorder.

The obvious question is: Whom, exactly, does the Nampa PD seek to ?deter?? I think the answer was embedded in Lt. Randall?s explanation of the department?s ?need? for the vehicle: ?Here in Idaho, practically everybody around here has a gun, and when we go on a call it is useful to have a vehicle that will enhance the safety of the responding officers.? He also pointed out that after the Pentagon-provided MRAP arrived, the department took its aging armored vehicle to its gun range and discovered that ?rifle fire would just go right through it. We had it for years, and didn?t know that it offered no protection against ballistic arms fire.?

This belated discovery would be considered alarming if we ignore the fact that this was the first time gunfire had ever been directed at the vehicle. So far, the Nampa TRT has suffered only one fatality ? Corporal Jed Webb, who died of a heart attack earlier this year at age 51.

It has been more than eighty years since a Nampa police officer died in the line of duty. Yet the people running that department appear to be convinced that their safety depends on their ability to ?deter? the gun-owning public.

The Pentagon has a stock of about 20,000 MRAPs, most of which will eventually find their way into local police arsenals, along with Predator-style drones and other military hardware field-tested overseas. Although an MRAP has no discernible practical value as a tool for protection of life and property, it is tremendously useful as a prop in the ongoing campaign to indoctrinate police regarding the unacceptable danger to ?officer safety? posed by an armed public -- and the need for conspicuous displays of potential force to deter potential threats.

?General Colin Powell's Doctrine of the U.S. Armed Forces is that the United States should be the `meanest dog in town' to frighten a potential enemy,? wrote career law enforcement officer --and SWAT instructor -- Edward Leach in the October 2001 issue of Police Chief magazine. ?When force is used, it should be with `overwhelming strength and no half-way measures.' In law enforcement, these principles are routinely applied in both field and tactical operations. ... Law enforcement [application] of the Powell Doctrine is clear: have overwhelming and superior resources available, primarily as a deterrent, but use them decisively when needed.?

Leach, who until a year ago was Undersheriff of Idaho?s Kootenai County, unabashedly depicted police as a military occupation force. He doubtless understands the message being sent when police in a town the size of Preston acquire a combat-grade armored vehicle. So should we.
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Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Drunk Cop Says He's 'The Authority,' Shoots Young Man In The Face [Video]


Chris | InformationLiberation

In this video out of Paraguay, an off-duty drunk police officer is seen murdering a young man in cold blood. Witnesses said the cop was shooting his gun off and said he "was the authority" before entering this liquor store and shooting the young man. The video shows the cop aim his gun at people off camera, two young men are seen cowering back in fear, then the officer pushes another young man back, the man doesn't show much fear or give into his intimidation and sits still with his hands resting in his pockets, the officer then raises his gun at him and shoots him in the face, killing him on the spot.

From LiveLeak:

A veterinary student was killed just under two weeks ago in Coronel Oviedo. The victim was identified as Atilio Recalde, Third Year student. The alleged perpetrator of the homicide is Officer Ramon Gamarra (28), who is still at bay.

Atilio Fil?rtiga Recalde (21) was shot dead in the head at 1:30 am on September 25.

The killing was recorded on the sidewalk of liguer store, which is located in the center of Coronel Oviedo. The alleged perpetrator is a police officer.

As mentioned, the victim was identified as Atilio Fil?rtiga Recalde, who lived in company Pe Island of Coronel Oviedo. And the alleged killer is Bernal Ramon Gamarra, police officer, a native of Caaraya? and serving in the police station in Potrero Guayaki, Caaguaz? district.

According to the data, the officer who was in civilian clothes and was having drinks in the enclosure when Recalde came on a motorcycle and in the company of another person.

The Lourdes Soto district attorney is investigating the case and said that according to the findings, there was no discussion between the murderer and his victim. The victim died on the spot, yet was still transferred to the regional hospital where he was pronounced dead. Witnesses said the officer was firing in the air earlier while intoxicated because he "was the authority".

The crime occurred in Bodega Bohemia, located on Avenida Mariscal Estigarribia. In this same place about four years ago and there was a crime and the alleged perpetrator at that time was also a police officer.

[WARNING: THIS VIDEO SHOWS AN EXTREMELY DISTURBING STRAIGHT FORWARD MURDER BY A TAX-FEEDER WITH A BADGE AND A GUN]

[The murder takes place exactly at the 30 second mark]

[If anyone can translate what's said in the video please post it in the comments below]

Pictured: Bernal Ramon Gamarra, alleged murderer of Atilio Recalde Fil?rtiga

La Nacion reports the officer is still a fugitive. The police response to the murder was to say they need to perform more advanced psychological tests on future recruits. Let me recommend a full proof psych test you can give to future recruits.

"Do you want to be a police officer and 'enforce the law?'"

If you answer yes, you fail. No decent human being wants to rule over others.

Update: The officer was finally caught, he's facing 30 years in prison.


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Imagine if the bystanders all pulled guns on the cop. Of course, the cop knew that would never happen, which is exactly why he did what he did.

Kings love unarmed peasants!

I was thinking the same thing. No doubt he'd be called a "cop killer" and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the whatever the thugs in power arbitrarily deem "the law."

It seems clear to me from the video Atilio not giving into his intimidation is what caused the cowardly subhuman to shoot him in the face, just so he could show how "powerful" he is.

A baboon can pull a trigger you pathetic piece of subhuman trash. I'm so sickened by this, this is the exact type of person who becomes a cop. I'm reminded of the video out of Tuscon, Arizona recently where a cowardly subhuman pulled his gun and pointed it at a store clerk to make himself feel powerful: http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=44491

How pathetic do you have to be to get off on such a thing? I'm reminded as well of the cop out of Canada who shoved a crippled woman with cerebral palsy to the ground because she timidly tried to squeeze between him and his fellow boys in blue who were taking up an entire sidewalk: http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=41505

These are the subhuman predators who rule over us, these are the types of people attracted to such a job, yet the general public genuinely believes these are the good guys and they "respect the uniform."

All people are different, and accidents do and will happen. What matters is how the state reacts to the accident. From this angle, this story shows no problem in Paraguay - they don't try to pretend that the murder was justified. While in the US the most likely outcome would be yet another "internal investigation found that the officer acted properly because he was afraid for his life". "no decent human wants to rule over others" Yes, this is the truth beyond truth. If a human wishes to control others, they are wrong, wrong, wrong and should never be in charge on anything, ever until they can rectify this desire within them. So who is gonna stop the anarchy that is sure to follow with all these cops gone?

Or are your brains not intelligent enough to realize someone has to do the job of enforcing the law or everything goes to shit.

Unless riots, rape, murder without recourse wet your panties.

You mean what will happen if we leave massa's plantation? Anarchy is freedom, the word itself means no rulers, monarchy one ruler, oligarchy a few of of them, it's a positive term. It's not lawless chaos as you've been told by massa. Lawless chaos where criminal gangs run everything is what we have now, they call themselves governments, they rape, pillage, wage war, and murder without recourse, and they wear costumes so the rubes they rule over think they're legitimate.

?If the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to permit people to be free, how is it that the tendencies of these organizers are always good? Do not the legislators and their appointed agents also belong to the human race? Or do they believe that they themselves are made of a finer clay than the rest of mankind??
? Fr?d?ric Bastiat, The Law http://mises.org/books/thelaw.pdf

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Monday, November 4, 2013

NSA's Massive Utah Datacenter Having Serious Electrical Problems: Has Already Had 10 Fiery Explosions


by Mike Masnick

It's no secret that government computing projects tend to be something of a boondoggle for government contractors. There are way too many stories of projects that are massively over-budget while never actually working. It's almost to be expected these days. Still, when it came to the NSA's infamous Utah data center they've been building over the past few years, you would have thought that maybe these guys would plan things out a little more carefully. While we can mock the NSA for the lies and misleading statements they make to the public, most people agree that they do have pretty damn good technical skills.

But, no, it appears that the Bluffdale data center is a complete mess. The data center, which was supposed to open up last month, has apparently been massively delayed due to major electrical problems -- and we're not just talking about some issues with not having enough power, but with setting stuff on fire:

According to the Wall Street Journal, the data center's electrical problems include "arc failures," a.k.a. "a flash of lightning inside a 2-foot box," which results in fiery explosions, melted metal and circuit failure. More terrifying, this has happened ten times, most recently on September 25, reports the WSJ, which reviewed project documents and reports and talked to contractors involved. The report blames the NSA "fast tracking" the Utah project and thus bypassing "regular quality controls in design and construction." Whoops.
Whoops indeed. Apparently the NSA was in such a rush to store all our data that it almost burned down its own data center. Good thing they're getting a tax break on all that electricity they're using.

Also, it appears that there's a fair bit of sniping going on, as some people claim they knew this was going to happen all along, while others say they have no idea why it's happening:

Worse, it sounds from the WSJ's reporting as if the contractors ? architectural firm KlingStubbins which designed the electrical system, along with construction companies Balfour Beatty Construction, DPR Construction and Big-D Construction Corp ? are still scrambling to figure out what's causing the problems. The Army Corps of Engineers sent its "Tiger Team" to sort things out this summer but they were unable to pinpoint exactly what's wrong.

"The problem, and we all know it, is that they put the appliances too close together," a person familiar with the database construction told FORBES, describing the arcs as creating "kill zones." "They used wiring that's not adequate to the task. We all talked about the fact that it wasn't going to work."

So, while the NSA has all sorts of code-breaking specialists, it appears that they're a bit understaffed on electrical engineers... Meanwhile, how long until peeved Iranian government officials pretend that they did this in response to the NSA creating Stuxnet to mess with their nuclear processing powers...

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Sunday, November 3, 2013

Nanny State: Mandatory Helmets For Walking


Should the government enforce the mandatory use of helmets while walking? 14 out of 20 people we asked at the University of Texas supported the draconian measure, emphasizing once again how the majority of the general public will accept almost any nanny state measure no matter how ludicrous.

The petition was entitled "Compelled Helmet Use for Misfortunate Public' (CHUMP), and called for the City of Austin to enforce mandatory helmet usage for all citizens in addition to the creation of special walking lanes where people could walk obliviously while texting on their cellphones. Most of the individuals who signed the petition had it explained to them very clearly. Some signed straight away, while others took a little convincing but happily put pen to paper. One woman was told that the petition was to "get people to wear helmets while they're walking," to which she responded "oh perfect, yeah, that's great," and immediately signed the petition. When another man indicated his willingness to sign the petition, a woman responded, "You wanna make everybody wear helmets?," to which he responded, "these dummies need to wear helmets." "It will help keep insurance costs down," another woman is told as she signs the petition. "We have socialized healthcare now, so everyone's responsible for everyone," another couple were told. After being told that schools are now banning dodgeball and other contact sports, another woman agreed to sign, remarking that enforcing helmet use, "Makes sense technically."

First they will ban your God given rights. Now the Sheeple want to make you wear a helmet while you walk --- All for your safety.

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I put him at the top of the list, but I have come to agree with Henry Kissinger that about 3/4 of the public are useless food eaters and should not be breeding. If it supports teh messiah it must be good. Workers of the world unite! To each according to his needs. This kool-aid is so cool and delicous comrade.

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Saturday, November 2, 2013

Riverside Cop Tricks Autistic Teen into Buying Pot


"We felt like our family was totally violated by the sheriff's department and the school district," says Doug and Catherine Snodgrass of Temecula, California. Last December their 17-year-old autistic high school son was arrested after twice buying marijuana for an undercover Riverside county police officer.

The undercover operation, titled "Operation Glass House," spanned a few months and included undercover officers in three area high schools: Chaparral, Temecula Valley, and Rancho Vista Continuation. The officers posed as regular high school students and would ask other students for drugs. Twenty-two students were arrested - the majority of them are reported to be special needs students like the Snodgrass' son.

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As sad as this story is, the parents while complaining about the unfairness of the system, are likely responsible for allowing their child to be vaccinated causing the autism, and further allow him to be diagnosed with erroneous diseases and poisoned with dangerous medications.

Add to that the government indoctrination center (public schools) which they also subject their son to and you arrive at the obvious conclusion that the parents are grossly misguided and in effect do not know how to love and protect their child.

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Friday, November 1, 2013

Do Taxpayers Want to Pay For Those Shut Down Government Services?


Ryan McMaken

There is a common assumption among politicians that voters want a lot of government services, but don't want to pay for them. It's certainly true that taxpayers don't like paying taxes, and this is demonstrated in the fact that the federal government runs a deficit virtually every single year. If the taxpayers didn't mind paying the full cost of government, the feds would be able to collect enough in revenue to pay the bills. As it is, the political realities of public opposition to taxation drive the feds to resort to deficit spending to cover their costs.

In addition to kicking the can down the deficit road year after year, the federal government employs a variety of other tools to mask the true cost of government as well. Tax withholding by employers often hides the true level of taxation from many taxpayers while some taxes are re-defined as non-taxes. The social security tax, for example, is often wrongly said to be not a tax at all, but merely a payment into a trust fund for one's future retirement.

All of these little tricks and strategies have been employed to help governments squeeze a few more dollars from the taxpayers in the face of what elected officials often regard as a stubborn and mean-spirited opposition to paying one's fair share.

So while it is indeed true that the voters often resent paying taxes, the claim that "voters want a lot of government services," on the other hand, is less self-evident. The current partial shutdown of some government operations helps to illustrate the dubious nature of this assertion. If the taxpayers were uniformly appalled and outraged at the thought of a government shutdown, it seems unlikely that the federal government would need to go out of its way to make a big show of what government services were being shut down.

This is a time honored strategy, of course, and even has a name: the Washington Monument Syndrome. For decades, the bureaucrats in the National Park Service have gleefully closed the parks whenever government shutdowns have occurred, and have even threatened to close parks if Congress did not provide sufficient appropriations to please the NPS. The Park Service knows that the closure of parks plays a helpful role in angering American tourists and taxpayers who find themselves traveling a thousand miles to only end up at a closed National Park. According to one blogger, the NPS has even gone so far as to station armed guards with assault rifles and body armor at the entrance to Death Valley National Park. Taxpayers who still think that there is something "public" about the public lands in the National Parks might want to think again.

The National Parks are an extreme case, though, and the federal government knows it. The question remains as to whether or not taxpayers care much about all the other government "services" that may be closed or scaled back. Just how badly do the taxpayers want to make sure that their tax dollars keep going to fund NSA spying on Americans, or the study of wildlife mating habits, or the planting of trees in the front yards of millionaires?

Supporters of government largesse will often cite polls and studies showing the taxpayers support the expansion of this or that program. "Support" for a government program is all well and good when support only requires a nod of one's head. It's another matter entirely when one is asked to shell out actual money.

Murray Rothbard knew this well, and he more than once suggested that the best way to determine just how much voters valued a certain government service was to stop taking funds by force and to allow taxpayers to voluntarily pay for government services.

Writing in the wake of the government shutdown and budget deal of 1990, through which taxes were raised following multiple predictions of doom and chaos in the face of government cutbacks, Rothbard suggested a modest proposal to determine just how badly the taxpayers actually wanted those government services that were deemed so essential:

I would like to offer a modest proposal, giving us a chance to see precisely how vital to our survival and prosperity is the Leviathan federal government, and how much we are truly willing to pay for its care and feeding. Let us try a great social experiment: for one year, one exhilarating jubilee year, we furlough, without pay, the Internal Revenue Service and the rest of the revenue-gathering functions of the Department of Treasury.

That is, for one year, suspend all federal taxes and float no public debt, either newly incurred or even for payment of existing interest or principal. And then let us see how much the American public is willing to kick into, purely voluntarily, the public till.

We make these voluntary contributions strictly anonymous, so that there will be no incentive for individuals and institutions to collect brownie-points from the feds for current voluntary giving. We allow no carryover of funds or surplus, so that any federal spending for the year -- including the piteous importuning of Americans for funds -- takes place strictly out of next year's revenue.

It will then be fascinating to see how much the American public is truly willing to pay, how much it thinks the federal government is really worth, how much it is really convinced by all the slick cons: by the spectre of roads falling apart, cancer cures aborted, by invocations of the "common good," the "public interest," the "national security," to say nothing of the favorite economists' ploys of "public goods" and "externalities."

It would be even more instructive to allow the various anonymous contributors to check off what specific services or agencies they wish to earmark for expenditure of their funds. It would be still more fun to see vicious and truthful competitive advertising between bureaus: "No, no, don't contribute to those lazy louts in the Department of Transportation (or whatever), give to us." For once, government propaganda might even prove to be instructive and enjoyable.

To a certain extent, we already know what would happen in this case. While not quite analogous to Rothbard's Modest Proposal, some taxpayers are able to vote on tax increases at the state and local level. Not surprisingly, when tax increases go to a vote, their success rate is not stellar, and when they do pass, victory requires the help of multi-million dollar advertising campaigns. (For examples, see here, here, here, and here.)

Some people are happy to vote for tax increases, of course, especially if they think someone else will foot the bill. And there is no doubt that the taxpayers are more than happy to use government lands and amenities they have no choice but to pay for. If given the choice, however, it's less clear that the taxpayers would be clamoring to pay taxes for a $100,000 outhouse in Alaska, a chance to be spied on, or for another war in another country few Americans can find on a map.
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Ryan W. McMaken is the editor of Mises Daily and The Free Market Send him mail. See Ryan McMaken's article archives.


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