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Saturday, February 7, 2015

Police: Entitled Bullies, Specially Protected 'Victims'

William Norman Grigg

The advertised purpose of the Support Your Local Police Committee (or SYLP) is to keep "local" police departments independent of federal control. Will SYLP oppose efforts by the Fraternal Order of Police to define police officers as part of a "special protected" category under federal "hate crime" laws?

Citing the high-profile murders of six police officers in 2014, Chuck Canterbury, National President of the Fraternal Order of Police, demands that Congress "expand Federal hate crime laws to protect law enforcement officers and punish those who target these dedicated public servants."

"All these officers died because of the uniforms they were wearing," insists Canterbury. "They were killed because their murderers had one purpose -- to kill a cop. Enough is enough! We demand Congress act."

Several years ago, following the attempted murder of Arizona Democratic Representative Gabrielle Giffords, the FOP lobbied for federal legislation that would expand the use of the death penalty by "adding the murder or attempted murder of a law enforcement officer at any level of government" as an aggravating factor "when considering a capital charge," points out a press release from the union.

To its credit, the SYLP Committee's literature (some of which I helped write many years ago) describes criminal law as a local, rather than federal, concern. Its statement of principles urges citizens to "Oppose any and all efforts to subsidize, regionalize, or federalize our local police, since any loss of their independence from outside controls will inevitably lead to a loss of our protection and safety as well" (emphasis added).

Will the organization condemn police union's self-serving efforts to expand federal hate crimes statutes, or would doing so contradict the categorical imperative (also mentioned in the group's statement of principles) to make police "proud and secure in their vital profession, and to offer them our support in word and deed wherever possible"?

It should be remembered that the NYPD has already pioneered the use of "hate crimes" statutes to criminalize anti-police sentiments: Last summer, a graffiti artist named Rosella Best was charged with "criminal mischief as a hate crime" for tagging police vehicles and a public school with slogans condemning the department. The relevant statute, significantly, didn't mention occupation as a "protected category." The FOP's proposed federal legislation would do so -- but the police would be the only beneficiaries.

Even with a slight increase in the number of on-duty fatalities last year, law enforcement remains a much safer occupation than many worthier jobs in the productive sector. The violent death of a police officer is somewhat similar to a plane crash: It is an infrequent occurrence that attracts intensive media coverage, thereby distorting public perceptions of risk. Plane crashes are rare; highway fatalities happen every day. A similar comparison could be made between the murder of police officers and police killings of citizens.

Police already constitute a specially protected class. Cops who injure or kill people without cause are protected from individual accountability by the doctrine of "qualified immunity." Thanks to statutes that define resisting arrest (a common law right) as a crime, police are privileged aggressors who can inflict summary punishment, including the death penalty, on victims who refuse to cooperate -- or even on those who readily submit.

A measure being promoted by police unions in the New York legislature would destroy "civilian" oversight of police disciplinary procedures. E.J. McMahon of the Manhattan Institute points out that the bill "would allow unions representing police "? to insist on collective bargaining of disciplinary procedures affecting their members." This bill is intended to codify a provision in the union's proposed contract that would require internal affairs investigators to wait at least 48 hours "before questioning police officers accused of misconduct."

McMahon describes this bill as an effort by unaccountable police unions to usurp local control of police by elected municipal officials. The "L" in SYLP stands for "Local." Will the "Support Your Local Police Committee" condemn the praetorian ambitions of police unions, or be their silent accomplices?

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Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Police Use Battering Ram, Tasers During Raid On 'Young Looking People With Beer'

A birthday party turns into a nightmare when beverage cops violently show up to a private residence.

DAMASCUS, MD ? Police performed a violent raid on a birthday party based on a suspicion of ?young looking people with beer,? then dubiously confiscated guests? cell phones when they were used to record the police.

The incident occurred on January 4th,? 2014, at the home of George and Cathy Magas.? The couple?s son, Nicholas, was turning twenty-one years old, and he was allowed to invite a number of his friends to the home for a party.? Both his parents were present.

During the party, the crowd opted to order pizza.? Things went downhill when the delivery driver took it upon himself to pass a tip about the party to a friend ? Officer Finch of the Montgomery County Police Department.

?Hey man not sure if you're working but if you're not busy there I just delivered a pizza to a party at 9*** Damascus rd and saw some young looking people with beer,? the pizza-delivering snitch wrote in a text message.

Officer Finch then relayed the information to members of the county?s ?Alcohol Initiatives Section? to investigate.? Subsequently, MCPD Officer Jeremy Smalley and Montgomery County Sheriff?s Deputy John Durham arrived together to scope out the party.

Having no other information besides the text message tip, the two beverage cops drove past the residence and ?observed numerous vehicles? and could ?hear the sounds of a party,? according to charging documents.? They claimed to witness some males urinate behind a detached garage.? Having no evidence to stand on, the officers assumed that the party contained underage drinking and called for reinforcements.

THE PROBLEM WITH ASSUMING

The investigation was flimsy from the start.? Officer Smalley and Deputy Durham made multiple unsubstantiated assumptions and fabrications of fact.? Just by observing individuals carrying ?red Solo style cups,? they surmised that the party-goers (1) were consuming alcohol and (2) ?appeared to be under the age of 21.?

These assumptions were used as probable cause that a crime was being committed ? underage consumption of alcohol.

An excerpt of the police report from the investigation of George and Cathy Magas in Damascus, Maryland.

The police were challenged on their remarkable ability to verify the ages of the guests just by looking at them.? This was not an insignificant detail, because anyone above the age of 21 would not have been breaking any laws.

When asked how he could tell the difference between a 20-year-old and a 21-year-old, Deputy Durham later testified, ?The loudness, just the way they presented themselves, was consistent with being under 21? They kind of exaggerate their movements, like ?hey look at me?"? rather than adults standing around drinking.?? Durham conceded that ?It's not 100 percent.?

DISPERSING THE PARTY

Filled with assumptions, Officer Smalley and Deputy Durham approached the basement stairwell and were met by one of the younger residents of the home, Marc Magas.? According to the police report, Marc was ?very cooperative? and inclined to grant them access to the inside of the home.? However, that idea was nixed when his mother, Cathy Magas, allegedly said, ?We have dealt with you guys before, and I don?t want you coming in the house.?

At that point, police were close enough to see cases of beer and a keg.? Despite having no verified proof of anyone?s age, police entered and began to pick up cases of beer and haul them to the top of the steps outside the home.? This confiscation of property was met with angry shouts from homeowner George Magas.? Backup units had arrived and helped to seize the beverages.

According to the police report, 21-year-old Nicholas Magas exited the basement door and attempted to retrieve his property by picking up a case of beer.? The report says that Officer Smalley grabbed him, but Nicholas ?attempted to pull away.?

The events that followed were chaotic and have been described through conflicting reports.

Police reported that Officer Smalley was ?pulled? into the doorway and residents slammed his arms in the door.? A struggle ensued, and police alleged that homeowner George Magas assaulted three officers, and that he even tried to take Deputy Durham?s weapon from its holster.? Eric Magas became involved, and police claimed that he too assaulted an officer.

?Deputy Durham then struck Eric Magas in an attempt to change his behavior,? the report states.? Eric was tased by police on the steps.? Cathy Magas attempted to render aid to her son, and in doing so, police claimed she elbowed a deputy.

Meanwhile, George Magas was outside being forcefully subdued by police with tasers, as his guests filmed with their cell phone cameras.

The footage ?shows police dragging the homeowner out of his house, handcuffing him and repeatedly tasing him while he offers little to no resistance,? according to Montgomery County Sentinel editorialist Brian Karem, who was allowed to see the video.

George, Cathy, Nicholas, and Eric Magas were arrested.? George and Eric had to be transported to the hospital for their injuries.

BATTERING RAM

Some time after the Magas family was arrested, there were reportedly a number of guests still inside the house, which the ?Alcohol Initiatives Section? intended to search and arrest.

Police deployed a battering ram and broke down the basement door, then rounded up the remaining terrified guests, ranging in age from 18 to 21.

Records showed that the police did obtain a search warrant to enter the home. However, it was not obtained until 5 hours after the initial contact with the Magas family, and did not bear any mention to the multiple assaults that the police officers had supposedly sustained in the course of the initial arrests.

According to the officers, their stated goal this dramatic use of force was to ?stop the party and make sure everyone gets home safely.?

AFTERMATH

The four family members were nailed with a multitude of charges which could have resulted prison time for each of them.
George Magas, 55, was charged with attempting to remove a firearm from the possession of a deputy sheriff, attempting to incite a riot, three counts of second degree assault, obstructing and hindering a police officer, and 22 counts of furnishing alcohol to a minor.Cathy Magas was charged with second degree assault, obstructing and hindering a police officer and 22 counts of furnishing alcohol to a minor.Nicholas Magas, 21, was charged with attempting to incite a riot, obstructing and hindering a police officer, and 22 counts of furnishing alcohol to a minor.Eric Magas, 18, was charged with second degree assault, attempting to incite a riot, obstructing and hindering a police officer, 22 counts of furnishing alcohol a minor, possession of a fake ID, possessing more than one driver's license, knowingly and fraudulently obtaining a license by misrepresentation, and three counts of possessing a fictitious license.An additional twenty-two adults were cited for underage consumption of alcohol, despite evidence that some of those cited did not even have anything to drink. Several guests had their cell phones confiscated after videoing the police getting physical with members of the Magas family.

?I don't know why the police acted in the manner in which they did, including taking the phones of those who were in the home,? family attorney Rene Sandler told The Montgomery County Sentinel.

After having their family name dragged through the mud and forced to hire attorneys to defend themselves, the Magas family caught a break when their case came before Montgomery County Circuit Court Judge Steven Salant.? The Magas family contested that their Fourth Amendment rights had been violated, and that police had no lawful justification to be on their curtilage, snooping around in the rear of the house.?? The judge agreed.

?I do find an unlawful invasion of the defendants? property? the defendants were entitled to an expectation of privacy in the area officers went in the back of the house,? Judge Salant said following a suppression hearing. He cast doubts on the officers? probable cause statement and called some of the police testimony ?not true.?

Judge Salant was incredulous that the raid was performed legally.? The search warrant wasn?t obtained until five hours after police arrived on scene, and left out key details which the police later used as the basis of criminal charges against the family. Critics have doubted that the warrant was obtained prior to entering the home.

In November 2014, Judge Salant threw out most of the prosecution?s evidence obtained during the raid ? including several guests? cell phones ? and said the police had violated the Magus's civil rights.

FOLLOW-UP:

As of late 2014, the state was still considering ?a myriad of options, including appeal,? according to Maryland state?s attorney's office spokesperson Ramon Korionoff.

Officer Jeremy Smalley, nor Deputy John Durham, nor any other officer who participated in the sloppy investigation and dubious search have received any form of public discipline or legal consequences as of this writing.

A truly free society would never tolerate this form of harassment on private citizens for drinking beverages of their choice. Americans need to stir up a demand for repealing draconian alcohol laws and pressure law enforcers to stop wasting tax resources on such oppressive endeavors.

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Saturday, January 31, 2015

Fraternal Order Of Police Lobbies For New Federal Hate Crime Law

Nation's biggest police union boasts that it has spent years lobbying for more federalization of crime and punishment.

The 300,000-member Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) is demanding that the U.S. Congress and President Barack Obama ?act now? to expand the federal hate crimes statute and add police officers as a protected class.

In a recent press release, the police union boasts that it has spent years lobbying for more federalization of crime and punishment. The presser cites a handful of recent incidents, nationally, in which police officers were attacked while on the job.

?Enough is enough! It's time for Congress to do something to protect the men and women who protect us,? said union president Chuck Canterbury.

The federal government?s 1969 hate crime law has been expanded several times and already criminalizes [attempted] bodily injury against anyone based on race, religion, ethnicity, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, and disability. Penalties for committing a ?hate crime? extend to up to 10 years in federal prison.

The FOP proposal would add the basis of ?uniform? to the current list.

There are two main principled reasons to oppose all federal hate crime legislation. First, is the basic legal tenet that all people should be treated equally in the eyes of the law. The judicial process should not be dependent upon the demographics of the victim or defendant. This is the reason that ?Lady Justice? wears a blindfold while holding the Scales of Justice. Violence against anyone ? regardless of the identities or beliefs of those involved ? should be prohibited equally and impartially in a fair and just system.

Secondly, the federal government has no legitimate authority to create such laws. The U.S. Constitution ? specifically Article 1, Section 8 ? offers no mention of the federal government having the ability to prohibit crimes of violence between citizens for any reason. Crimes such as assault and murder are properly prohibited at the state-level and are enforced by state or local agencies ? not the FBI. To broaden the scope of federal law enforcers is a mistake and a move toward more centralized authoritarianism.

Readers are advised to oppose the Fraternal Order of Police?s agenda to nationalize crime statutes and create legally protected classes of citizens.

there is nothing worse is a FOP WHOPP copulator

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Friday, January 30, 2015

Rise of the Nanny Police State: Town Governments Across the US Ban Sledding

By John Vibes

Dubuque, Iowa ? Local politicians in cities and towns across America have implemented laws that will ban children from sledding.

Town officials in Dubuque, Iowa for example, have banned sledding in 48 of its 50 parks because they fear that children will get hurt and that their parents could sue the city.

?We have all kinds of parks that have hills on them. We can?t manage the risk at all of those places,? Marie Ware, Dubuque?s leisure services manager told reporters.

"Everybody likes sledding, OK? Everyone wants to promote outdoor activities, and we want people to be active. But everyone knows sledding is a risky activity, we want to manage that risk," she added.

In other cities such as Des Moines, Iowa; Montville, New Jersey; Lincoln, Nebraska; and Columbia City, Indiana, the local governments have not entirely banned sledding, but instead posted signs warning people that they are sledding at their own risk. This approach gives some level of legal protection to the city if someone happens to get hurt, without enacting an all out ban.

In places where these bans have been put into place, many children and family?s have ignored the laws and engaged in civil disobedience. Town officials said that fines are expected for repeat offenders.

It is only a matter of time before the first arrests are made of those ?rebel children? who dare to have fun outdoors.

The natural tendency of the state to control every aspect of our lives is constantly on the rise.?The message from the state is clear, either you keep your kids locked up in the house or you very well may be the one locked up.

Children's book author, Kari Anne Roy, received an unexpected visit from Child Protective Services (CPS) and the Austin Police Department last year. She was being investigated for allowing her son Isaac, 6, to play outside unsupervised.

In June of last year,?Jeffrey Williamson?s 8-year-old son skipped church to play in the neighborhood. Williamson was subsequently arrested for child endangerment after a neighbor called the police to report an unsupervised child on the loose.

Also last year, there was the case of?5-year-old Eric Lopez, who was charged with sexual misconduct after he decided to drop his pants on the playground.

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John Vibes is an author, researcher and investigative journalist who takes a special interest in the counter culture and the drug war. In addition to his writing and activist work he is also the owner of a successful music promotion company. In 2013, he became one of the organizers of the Free Your Mind Conference, which features top caliber speakers and whistle-blowers from all over the world. You can contact him and stay connected to his work at his Facebook page. You can find his 65 chapter Book entitled "Alchemy of the Timeless Renaissance" at bookpatch.com.

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I'm not sure it's the government bureaucracy to blame.

"Town officials in Dubuque, Iowa for example, have banned sledding in 48 of its 50 parks because they fear that children will get hurt and that their parents could sue the city."

It's quite likely that this step was made not out of blue, but exactly because there were parents who did sue the city.

Same as when there's yet another incident of an overboard zero-tolerance at yet another school, it may also very well be in response to the paranoia expressed by the parents, and this zero tolerance is exactly what they demanded. Quite likely the same mother who today is crying that her angel was arrested for even mentioning a gun, is the one who only yesterday adamantly demanded exactly that, to "protect" said angel.

I don't need to reach very far for examples - my own spouse is an exhibit #1.

This has nothing to do with 'Nanny-State', it is full-blown fascism .
Sadly, it is what often happens when you give 'The Little Man' any power -
He abuses it to impose whatever twisted idea he may have on people he should have no power ever in the first place . Having grown up in Iowa, I can tell you that there's not much else for kids to do in the winter. They say Dubuque has 50 parks, but I would wager that maybe 5 of them have hills big enough for sledding. I guess there's always Meth..... LOL! No doubt there is plenty of meth! :D Allegheny County, PA had a place called "Sunny Slopes" in South Park. It was a big half-funnel with hay bales at the bottom. Teen agers and some adults would go there at night, get a fire in a tash barrel or two and then we'd ride sleds and inner tubes to the bottom. Great fun for most of the night. They closed Sunny Slopes to sledding about thirty years ago.
Pass any play area and look for "see-saws." They aren't there anymore. Yet the road signs advising of a play area show a see-saw. What irony.
WE are gong to immobilize our selves in this country. Whew, Just had Crazed Suits and Tie Mob gnawing at my Cars Tires coming home from purchasing Bird Food. Must have been Local Politicians. Crikey, Cigs but no Lighter. Dayum am afraid to go back out.

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Wednesday, January 14, 2015

New York Family Left Homeless After Police Rip Down Walls to Serve DWI Warrant

"She really has lost all the stability in her life in one fell swoop," a local pastor explained of the widow.

DANBY, NY ? A family has been left homeless after law enforcement agencies destroyed their entire house in the process of serving a warrant for a man for driving while intoxicated.

The home of David and Melissa Cady was condemned after armored police vehicles plowed through several walls while attempting to get 36-year-old Mr. Cady to surrender. A bench warrant had been issued after Mr. Cady missed a court appearance August 26, 2014, regarding his DWI conviction. On December 30th, 2014, a SWAT team moved in to make the arrest.

With the home at 127 Hornbrook Road surrounded, Melissa and the two children peacefully exited upon request. But David Cady did not, and police spent extensive resources to perform a lengthy standoff, resulting in his death.

?I?ve known him for like 12 years,? said friend and neighbor Dave McCarthy to the Ithaca Journal. ?He?s been a good neighbor, he?s got a wife, two nice kids, a dog.?

Police cordoned off roughly 20 other homes while besieging the Cady residence. Neighbors were not allowed to return after leaving their homes on the 1.7-mile stretch of restricted roadway.

Police suspected Mr. Cady was armed. On the evening of December 30th, police say that a single shot was fired. It was the only shot of the entire standoff.

After this shot, Mr. Cady stopped communicating with police. Police proceeded to break down the walls to with armored vehicles to ?restrict his movement,? and shot teargas into the house until 61 hours had passed, when they finally realized their suspect had died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Soon after, Danby Code Enforcement declared the home to be unlivable and condemned the property.

Resident Kory Watkins uploaded a video of the the Cady?s former house, which now features gaping holes and mounds of debris scattered across the yard.

Watkins captioned the video: ?All for a warrant. A violation of Probation for a D.W.I. and it took over 150 officers from over 18 agencies and military vehicles with more than 50 bombs of tear gas to end this like this?UNNECESSARY!?

The stunning turn of events left Mrs. Cady and her two children with no father and no home.

?She [Mrs. Cady] really has lost all the stability in her life in one fell swoop,? explained Pastor Ed Enstine of Danby Federated Church. ?She's basically lived her own life and worked and doesn't take handouts very easily, but in this case she's basically back to square 1 ? square 0, at this point.?

In a showing of charity, Pastor Enstine is organizing a fundraiser to help get the Cady family back on their feet. See details below.

The Ithaca Journal reported that over a dozen agencies were involved with the standoff, including Ithaca Police Department, Cornell University Police, Ithaca College Public Safety, Ithaca Fire Department, New York State Police, New York State Park Police, Cayuga County Sheriff?s Office, Pennsylvania State Police, Syracuse Police Department, Elmira Police Department, Broome County Sheriff?s Office, Onondaga County Sheriff?s Office, and Tompkins County Office of Emergency Management.

HELP THE CADY FAMILY

A relief fund has been established by Pastor Ed Enstine at the Danby Federated Church. Checks should be made payable to Danby Federated Church. Write in the memo section: ?Cady Relief Fund.?

Danby Federated Church
1859 Danby Road
Ithaca, NY 14850
(607) 272-1687

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The straw that broke the camel's back. I bet they all went for a drink after. They got zooted before going on that MISSION, then destroyed a familys life.they will talk and laugh about the destruction for days. The camel's back has been broken for years, they just repair it with lies upon more lies Looks like a great way to "use or lose" those military assault vehicles. I hope that all "peace" officers that do these things in the name of law, without conscience or regard to peoples safety or property learn a hard lesson some time soon...and that is "live by the gun, die by the gun". May they and their families feel the pain and uncertainty brought on by the realization that they aren't protected from anyone in time of need and the complete and utter helplessness that they should feel as they have done unto others will be the only justice those that have felt the same done unto them will have.

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Monday, January 12, 2015

Police in the US Kill Citizens at Over 70 Times the Rate of Other First-World Nations

By Matt Agorist

In case you?ve been under a rock lately, it is becoming quite clear that police in the US can and will kill people, even unarmed people, even on video, and do so with impunity.

The tallying methods, or rather lack thereof, used by both the FBI and individual police departments to count the amount of people killed by police, have been shown to be staggeringly inaccurate.?

However, this inability of the government to count the number of people it kills, has been met with multiple alternative means of calculating just how deadly the state actually is.

One of these citizen run databases, is?the website www.killedbypolice.com. The site is?basically a spreadsheet that lists every person killed by cops in the years 2013 and 2014. In addition to naming those killed, it also provides a link to media reports for each of the killings, age, sex and race if available.

The tally for 2014? 1,100 people killed by those sworn to protect.?That is an average of three people a day.

Do not mistake this as saying that those who were killed were innocent. However, when we look at violent crime in this country, we can see that it is at an all time low.

While violence among citizens has dropped, violence against citizens carried out by police has been rising sharply.

When we look at citizens killed by police over the last two years, deaths have increased 44 percent in this short time;?763 people were killing by police in 2013.

As a comparison, the total number of US troops killed in Afghanistan and Iraq, in 2014?was?58.

Fewer soldiers were killed in war than citizens back home in ?the land of the free? in 2014, by a large margin.

So why is that?

Is this some natural tendency of police?in ?free societies? to kill their citizens more, in an effort to maintain this freedom? Hardly, and hardly is the US a free country.

According to the 2014 Legatum Prosperity Index?released in November, in the measure of personal freedom, the United States has fallen from 9th place in 2010 to 21st worldwide--behind such countries as Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, Uruguay and Costa Rica.

Other such rankings systems show the US as low as 46.

Let?s look at our immediate neighbors to the north, Canada. The total number of citizens killed by law enforcement officers in the year 2014, was 14; that is 78 times less people than the US.

If we look at the United Kingdom, 1 person was killed by police in 2014 and 0 in 2013.?English police reportedly fired guns a total of three times in all of 2013, with zero reported fatalities.

From 2010 through 2014, there were four fatal police shootings in England, which has a population of about 52 million. By contrast, Albuquerque, N.M., with a population 1 percent the size of England's, had 26 fatal police shootings in that same time period.

China, whose population is 4 and 1/2 times the size of the United States, recorded 12 killings by law enforcement officers in 2014.

Let that sink in. Law enforcement in the US killed 92 times more people than a country with nearly 1.4 billion people.?

It doesn?t stop there.

From 2013-2014, German police killed absolutely no one.?

In the entire history of Iceland police, they have only killed 1 person ever. After exhausting all non-lethal methods to detain an armed man barricaded in his house who actually shot 2 police officers, police were forced to take the 59-year-old man?s life.?The country of Iceland grieved for weeks after having to resort to violence.

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Monday, July 14, 2014

New Emails Show That Feds Instructed Police To Lie About Using Stingray Mobile Phone Snooping

by Mike Masnick

We've been covering the increasingly widespread use of Stingray or similar mobile phone tower spoofing equipment by law enforcement. The stories have been getting increasingly bizarre lately, starting with the news that police were claiming that non-disclosure agreements prevented them from getting a warrant to use the technology. And then, there was the recent news that the federal government was regularly stepping in to claim ownership of documents related to the technology (even when it's used by local police) in order to block them from being obtained under Freedom of Information laws. Just this morning, we wrote about some new evidence that police are claiming they need these devices to stop "weapons of mass destruction," though they then just use them to spy on people suspected of everyday crimes instead.

Late last night, the ACLU came out with perhaps the most explosive information so far: a set of internal police emails showing that the US Marshals have been instructing police to lie to courts about the use of such devices. Specifically, rather than revealing the use of the tool, they're told to just tell the court they got the information from a "confidential source." While affidavits may initially note the use of such a device, the police are told to submit a new affidavit after the fact without mentioning the Stingray, and seal the old one, so that it never becomes public. The key parts of the email are highlighted below:

This is highly questionable. Just to repeat: this is the federal government loaning out equipment to spoof mobile phone towers to spy on people and then instructing (practically demanding) that the police hide or suppress this information by claiming that it came from a "confidential source" and by sealing any affidavits that accidentally mention the use of the equipment. As the ACLU notes this practice "deprives defendants of their right to challenge unconstitutional surveillance ." It also seems like a fairly straightforward due process violation. This even goes beyond "parallel construction" in which illegal surveillance is concealed by "recreating" it in other ways. In this case, you have illegally obtained evidence... and then police are just told to lie to the court about it.

This is stunningly bad.

As some legal experts are quick to note, this seems like an astoundingly stupid move by both the US Marshals and the local police who took them up on their request. That link, includes quotes from a number of legal experts interviewed by Cyrus Farivar at Ars Technica, some of whom are actually supportive of the use of Stingrays, but who note that this effort could very well be fraud on the court.

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Sunday, July 13, 2014

The Utter Uselessness of Police: Two Recent Examples from Idaho

William Norman Grigg

Two recent incidents in Idaho illustrated the value of armed self-defense, and the uselessness of government law enforcement, as a means of defending personal property.

On Sunday morning (June 22), Kuna resident Tricia Gillaspy and her husband awoke to find a naked stranger in their bedroom. After the intruder fled into the bathroom, Mr. Gillaspy grabbed a gun and ordered him from the home while his wife dialed 911. Although the intoxicated man -- by this time clad in shorts -- left the house, he continued to loiter on the couple's property. While waiting for the police to arrive, the couple took inventory of the damage done by the uninvited visitor, a 25-year-old man identified as Matthew Coomes, who had flooded their kitchen and defecated on the living room carpet before redecorating their walls in the same medium.

When the cops arrived, they gave Coomes two citations and gave him a ride home.

"What are you doing?" exclaimed Mrs. Gillaspy in astonishment and disgust. "This guy deserves to go to jail!"

Of course, putting him in jail would merely have compelled others to pay for his upkeep. In a reasonably free society, Coomes would have been required to make restitution for the damage he had inflicted on the Gillaspy family's property. The officers weren't there to help the victims of the property crime receive restitution, but to monetize that crime for the benefit of the municipal corporation that employs them. If Coomes fails to pay the citation, this act -- unlike his invasion of the Gillaspy home and the damage he did to it -- will be treated as a criminal offense.

Ada County prosecutors are considering a charge of felonious injury to property, since the damage is estimated to be well in excess of $1,000. If Coomes is convicted of that offense, the beneficiary, once again, would be the local political class, rather than the people who suffered the actual injury.

As if to italicize the utter uselessness of police in dealing with crimes against property, a sergeant from the Kuna PD called Mrs. Gillaspy shortly after the incident to say that in order for the officers to take Coomes into custody, it would have been necessary for the couple to make a citizen's arrest. If the couple had done so, it's likely the police would have arrested them on some invented charge to cover their true offense, which would have been undermining the department's claimed monopoly on force.

A few days earlier, a resident of Coeur d'Alene was approached by a man who drew a knife and demanded money. The would-be robbery victim, who was with his 2-year-old daughter, drew a gun, prompting the assailant to flee to a van. The father briefly gave pursuit in his own vehicle. The Kootenai County Sheriff's Office received a report on the incident, but the deputies were too occupied with more important tasks, such as harassing young men whose public mention of the schlock-rock band Nickelback was construed as evidence of marijuana possession.

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Monday, July 7, 2014

Drug War Blowback: Vegas Murderers Were Police Informants

William Norman Grigg

Jerad and Amanda Miller, who were banished from Bunkerville by supporters of Cliven Bundy, had worked as informants for Nevada law enforcement agencies. After the Millers murdered three people ? Las Vegas Metro Officers Alyn Beck and Igor Soldo, and Joseph Wilcox, an armed citizen who heroically tried to stop their rampage ? their former handlers claimed that they were unaware of the couple?s ?anti-police sentiments.? That claim is difficult to credit, given that Jerad Miller had a lengthy criminal record, and the fact that the couple had made itself very prominent in protests associated with the Occupy Wall Street movement.

Jerad Miller, who was mired in the probation system because of narcotics convictions, was precisely the kind of person whose vulnerabilities make him valuable as an informant and provocateur.

The Millers were among many hundreds of people who traveled to Bunkerville, Nevada to support rancher Cliven Bundy in his confrontation with the BLM. They may well have been the only volunteers who were asked to leave because of concerns regarding what was described as their "aggressive nature and volatility." During their brief visit, however, Jerad was interviewed by the local NBC affiliate, which meant that he was depicted as representative of the people who had rallied to the Bundy family's cause.

Predictably, following the couple?s subsequent killing spree critics of Cliven Bundy claimed that the rancher, his supporters, and the entire ?insurrectionist right? shared collective responsibility for that crime. Honest people who aren?t imprisoned in collectivist ideology would recognize that rather than being radicalized by so-called anti-government extremists, Jerad Miller is more properly seen as a living example of "blowback" in the government's war on drugs.

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That they were police informants is truly fascinating, that they were publicly interviewed regarding the ranch situation is intriguing. Is there any court documents of their testimony?

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Thursday, June 12, 2014

Police Execute Dog Outside 5-Year-Old's Bedroom Window

Department stands by trooper who shot family dog before raiding wrong home
Mikael Thalen

A Pennsylvania man is accusing a state trooper of excessive force after his dog was shot and killed outside his grandson?s bedroom window late last week.

Jeff Blitz, who let his dog Ace out early Thursday morning, detailed the moment he heard gun shots while sitting inside his garage.

?They shot the dog and then came to the garage. The dog came around to me and he (the trooper) said ?you better calm down,?? Blitz told ABC 27. ?I said, ?calm down? You just killed my dog.??

Blitz?s neighbor, William Maynes, who heard the entire altercation from his home across the street, gave even greater insight into the trooper?s actions.

?There was a lady running down the road saying ?don?t shoot the dog, don?t shoot the dog,?? Maynes recalled. ?? So I got up, looked out the window and all the sudden I heard bang, bang, bang??

According to police, several local and federal law enforcement agencies were attempting to issue an arrest warrant for Blitz?s daughter when the dog was shot. When researching for the arrest, the agencies failed to discover that Blitz?s daughter had long since moved from the residence.

Even worse, Blitz?s 5-year-old grandson Dane was only feet away inside his room as the trooper wildly shot twice into the lawn before hitting the dog.

?They walked away when I pointed it out, I said ?you already took one part of my family and there?s a second one in there watching TV,?? Blitz said. ?He could of got it too.?

Despite Ace being shot in the side, which leads Blitz to believe his dog was not being a threat to officers, Pennsylvania State Police spokesperson Rob Hicks defended the shooting, arguing that the offending trooper was likely keeping people safe.

?Every once in a while we get thrown into a situation where we have to protect either ourselves or somebody else and this is one of those situations,? Hicks said.

Blitz says the hardest part has been explaining the situation to his grandson, who watched Ace get buried in the backyard as police stood around in the front.

?He was just out there sitting talking to him a while ago,? Blitz explained. ?He asked me, ?Pappy, can I go talk to Ace?.??

Although an investigation has been opened into the matter, few expect the trooper to be held accountable for shooting a dog outside the wrong home.

?The investigation is going to look at the whole picture, but the biggest point of the investigation is to be looking at whether the use of force was warranted in this situation,? Hicks added.

Unfortunately, even when a dog is unjustly killed on film, law enforcement officers rarely face ramifications.

Last February, an officer in Idaho was cleared after killing a man?s service dog outside a 9-year-old?s birthday party. Dash cam footage of the incident showed the officer antagonizing the dog by kicking it several times before the fatal shots were fired.

In 2012, a police officer in Austin, Texas fatally shot a man's dog after responding to a domestic disturbance call at the wrong home. Despite the man openly playing Frisbee with his dog on his own front lawn, the officer opened fire at point blank range.

That same year, a Texas cop shot a dog on a family?s front porch, causing the bullet to enter the home. After killing the dog in the front of the house, the officer proceeded to kill a second dog that was tied up in the backyard.

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Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Police 'Sorry' They Raided Wrong Home & Terrorized Innocent Children

Chris | InformationLiberation

From MyFOXBoston:

A Framingham family was awakened Thursday by police breaking down their front door and forcing everyone to the ground at gunpoint after they conducted a drug raid at the wrong house.
Framingham and State Police were conducting a multi-jurisdictional drug investigation when the mistake occurred around 6 a.m. Thursday.
"They had me down on the hallway upstairs, my daughter was coming out of the shower, she didn't have [any] clothes on, they make her get down, my kids are on the floor," said Michelle McClain, whose apartment was raided.
She has five kids between four and 18 years old. Some, she says, have behavioral problems, making it hard for them to understand what happened.
"They were asking me 'why are they here, why are they doing this, what did we do?'", said McClain.
After police acknowledged their mistake they proceeded to raid the next door apartment and make an arrest. A Sergeant later returned to McClain to apologize. The town manager did as well.
"We acknowledge the mistake, we feel remorse and we offered an apology," said Town Manager Bob Halpin.

Framingham police killed an innocent grandfather in a similar raid three years ago.

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Wednesday, June 4, 2014

Police Chief Who Ordered Cops to Abuse Forfeiture Laws Sentenced To Prison For Extortion, Bribery & Theft

By Warren Kulo

JACKSON, Mississippi - 50-year-old Bruce Barlow was sentenced to five years in federal prison for conspiracy to commit extortion, bribery and theft while he was Chief of Police for the City of Mendenhall.

U.S. Attorney Gregory K. Davis and FBI Special Agent in Charge Daniel McMullen announced the sentence Tuesday afternoon. Barlow will also spend three years on post-release supervision and will pay restitution in an amount to be determined at a July 10 hearing.

According to investigators, from January 2010 through July 2010, Barlow instructed Mendenhall police officers to pull over motorists and find ways to gain access into and search their vehicles. He also instructed his officers to seize cash at every arrest, including arrests for misdemeanor charges.

When Barlow was interviewed by FBI agents on March 7, 2013, he admitted to stealing money and property and allowing others to take property seized by the Mendenhall Police Department from the victims after an arrest or detention.

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Sunday, June 1, 2014

Hammond, Indiana Cop Filmed Abusing K-9 Police Dog

Chris | InformationLiberation

A viral video posted to Youtube showed a Hammond police officer abusing his K-9 by choking it and whipping it. The video sparked widespread outrage and Hammond Mayor Thomas McDermott Jr. responded by ordering the police officer be immediately suspended:

Anybody who loves dogs as much as I do is always saddened and shocked anytime you hear of a dog's abuse. When you find out it happened with an employee of yours, it makes it that much more shocking and disturbing. Please know that the Hammond PD does not condone that type of behavior of any of it's officers, nor is it tolerated in this administration.
The officer in question is being placed on Administrative Leave immediately, pending a further investigation. He will have his canine removed from his control during this leave while the PD further investigates this matter.

Kudos to the Mayor for not making any excuses and claiming it's part of "training."

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Chris, what is it that 'makes' you love dogs so much?
While I disagree with the abuse of any animal on this planet (note: I typed "animal"), I can't help wonder why, people readily give animals human emotions, where logic suggests - there shouldn't be any......

Am I shocked that the pig beat the dog? Not-what-so-ever. Dogs must be reminded from time-to-time, of their rank and file.

Off the record... history is repetitive. Humans, throughout history, have sacrificed dogs for their own protection. Yet, the ignorant dogs continue to protect the pigs; at the expense of their own lives..... (?)

"Affliction - contradiction," in my view." In other words: "Nuremberg Trials."

Basic human instinct to protect the weak. Bet it was foreplay.lucky the dog got saved
before it got raped again

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Friday, May 23, 2014

NEVER Let Your Kids Talk to the Police

William Norman Grigg

Pictured: Don Joughin comforts his eleven-month-old son after the infant was doused in pepper spray by one of Portland?s ?Finest.?

?When they put the handcuffs on I thought, `Wait a minute, this has got to be a joke,?? recalled Latoya Harris, describing the arrest of her 9-year-old daughter last May. ?The look on my daughter?s face went from humiliation and fear, to a look of sheer panic.?

At the time, the girl was wearing a bathing suit and a towel, still damp from running through a neighborhood sprinkler. She was taken away in handcuffs by officers David McCarthy and Matthew Huspek, fingerprinted, photographed, but never charged with a crime. She was held at police headquarters for an hour before her frantic mother ? who didn?t have a car ? could retrieve the girl from her captors.

The stated purpose of the visit was to investigate a playground fight that had taken place a few days earlier. The actual purpose of the arrest was probably to serve some depraved impulse on the part of the officers to assert their supposed authority over an intimidated but uncooperative child.

According to the Oregonian newspaper, Officer McCarthy ? who, like others in his disreputable profession, fancies himself a mentalist of sorts ? believed that the child wasn?t telling the truth in her account of the scuffle. His report characterized her statements as ?vague,? and recalled that he observed her ?breathing speed up,? an entirely appropriate response to the unwelcome presence of an armed and bellicose stranger.

?They repeatedly asked her, `Why don?t you tell me what really happened?? recalls the mother. The officers hauled her away on suspicion of fourth-degree assault. They refused to allow the mother to accompany the daughter in the back of the police car.

?In my opinion, they were trying to scare and humiliate her,? Harris said in testimony before the independent Citizens Review Committee. ?All they had to do was give her a talking to. We?re talking about two grown men in uniform with guns.?

This act of gratuitous official sadism was ? let?s recite it together ? done in accordance with policy, according to department spokesman Sgt. Pete Simpson. Handcuffing a nine-year-old is ?justified? as a ?safeguard,? Simpson asserted.

The Portland PD, which is under scrutiny by the Justice Department (for whatever good that would do), is notable for the tender solicitude its officers display toward vulnerable children. During a presidential visit by George W. Bush in 2002, police assigned to keep protesters caged in ?free speech zones? unleashed a pepper spray fusillade against demonstrators who wandered beyond their pens. Among the victims was Don Joughin, who had brought his wife and three children to the event.

After the Jackboots had subjected the protesters to a caustic shower, Joughin turned to a Portland PD officer obstructing an exit and asked how he and his family could leave.

?He pointed and said to exit to the [northeast], into the spraying police opposite him,? Joughin recalled. Trapped between a panicked crowd and pepper spray-wielding assailants, Joughin pleaded with the officer to allow his family to pass.

?He looked at me, and drew out his can from his hip and sprayed directly at me,? testifies Joughin. His three-year-old son caught most of the blast. The Berserker then turned on Joughin?s wife and newborn son ?and doused both of their heads entirely from a distance of less than three feet,? he recounts.

Reeling from the fumes and frantic to get help for his screaming child, Joughin tried to leave ? only to find his family?s escape blocked at every turn by armored bullies who closed ranks and cut them off. The victims weren?t allowed to leave until someone in ?authority? issued an order.

As Joughin and his family fled, one of the cops hurled a ?Collateral Murder?-style taunt at their back: ?That?s why you shouldn?t bring kids to protests.?

Actually, that episode, like the vicious abduction of Latoya Harris?s daughter, demonstrates why parents should cultivate within their children an incurable distrust of the state?s Punitive Priesthood ? and must never, under any circumstances, allow such people to have access to their children.

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Friday, May 16, 2014

Police Batons, Like Tasers, Are Only "Non-Lethal" When Used to Kill Mundanes

William Norman Grigg

"My message to my troops is if you see anybody carrying a gun on the streets of Milwaukee, we'll put them on the ground, take the gun away, and then decide whether you have a right to carry it," promised Milwaukee Police Chief Ed Flynn several years ago after Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen issued a statement recognizing that residents of the state have a right to carry firearms openly.

One of Chief Flynn's "troops" shot and killed a man yesterday (April 30) after beating the victim with a baton for refusing a pat-down. The victim, who appears to have been homeless, was already on the ground when the emissary of the Milwaukee PD arrived. Bear in mind that Flynn?s department is among the most corrupt and abusive in the country, and that other "troops" under Flynn's command have conducted "pat-down" searches that escalated to strip-searches and digital invasions of intimate anatomy by the officers. Any resident of Milwaukee who encounters a cop has a rational fear of sexual assault, which makes resisting a pat-down an act of reasonable self-defense.

When the victim of yesterday's shooting refused to be battered by the armed stranger, the assailant withdrew a baton called an "asp" -- which is regarded as a "non-lethal" impact weapon when wielded by a member of the state's punitive priesthood -- and began to beat the homeless man. In describing this act of unwarranted violence, Flynn said that his subordinate was "defending himself."

The impudent Mundane, not understanding that he has an unqualified obligation to accept whatever violence his uniformed overseer chooses to inflict on him, confiscated the weapon and used it to ward of the attacker. The officer pulled his gun and "fired several shots at the individual, striking him numerous times and ultimately causing his death," Flynn recounted. The Chief engaged in a tortured circumlocution in order to avoid using the phrase, "The officer killed the man."

Like tasers, police batons are imbued with curious properties that make them "non-lethal" instruments when used by cops to electrocute or beat a helpless person to death -- but that transform them into "lethal weapons" when they wind up in the unconsecrated hands of Mundanes.

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submit, comply and obey,, or die. that is the "constitutionalists" creed, if your not with us, your against us said dubya after the false flag op called 9-11 and it has lead us once again down a terrible path of genocide and tyranny supported by the belief a piece of paper signed 238 years ago by dead conspirators somehow can protect us from the cannibalism made possible by unrepentant bastards that compromise our morality.
The CON is powerful and greed driven to make racketeering somehow legitimate if backed by pen and paper and backed by force of imprisonment, summary executions and covert cannibalism.

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Monday, February 3, 2014

For Police, Murder is a Time-Saving Device

William Norman Grigg

"We don't have time for this!" exclaimed a police officer as he shot and killed a psychologically troubled, 90-pound teenage boy who had already been tasered and was pinned down beneath two other officers. The victim, 18-year-old Keith Vidal, was "armed" with a screwdriver at the time of his death.

Vidal's father, Mark Wilsey, had called the police for help when the boy suffered what was described as a psychotic episode on the afternoon of January 5. When the police arrived at the family's home in Boiling Spring Lakes, North Carolina, they rendered the kind of "help" for which they have become so notorious -- repeatedly tasering the troubled young man until one of them simply shot him as a time-saving measure.

"There was no reason to shoot this kid," Wilsey told the local NBC affiliate. "We called for help and they killed my son." During a press conference today (January 6), Wilsey recalled that he was helping the police try to calm down his son when one of the officers fired the fatal gunshot. In addition to killing Vidal, the officer imperiled the lives of several other people -- including two of his comrades at risk. He later pointed his gun at Wilsey when the father reacted with predictable pain and outrage over the murder of his son.

There was "no reason" for deadly force, Wilsey points out. "They had Tasers on them, and they didn't have to even tase him, they could have just talked to him, talked to him another ten minutes."

Speaking during the press conference, Vidal's mother urged parents of emotionally troubled children not to place the lives of their loved ones at risk by inviting the intervention of armed strangers clothed in the supposed authority to kill: "Do not call the police department for help -- because your son will probably be killed, like mine was."

This is not the first documented instance in which a police officer has murdered somebody simply because he was in a hurry. During a 2009 incident in a restaurant parking lot, Everett, Washington Police Officer Troy Meade shot and killed Niles Meservey, an intoxicated man whose Corvette had been boxed in by three cars and a chain-link fence.

For about a half-hour, Meade attempted to get Meservey to leave the car. After a taser was used on the 51-year-old man, the driver started his car, which lurched forward into the fence. Although Meservey was able to inflict property damage, he was no threat to anyone. But his intractable non-compliance infuriated Meade to the point of murderous rage.

"Time to end this -- enough is enough!" bellowed Meade as he pulled the trigger seven times. Those words were heard by a fellow officer, Steve Klocker, who repeated them in sworn courtroom testimony. Klocker's defiance of the "Blue Wall of Silence" prompted the political clique afflicting Everett to attempt undermining Klocker's reliability as a witness -- something it wouldn't have done if the officer had been testifying against a Mundane.

Meade was indicted for second-degree murderer and first-degree manslaughter. The jury that heard the case dismissed the officer's self-defense claim, which means that the killing was unlawful. Despite the fact that there was no significant material dispute regarding the details of the incident, the jury also acquitted the killer on both counts, owing to the fact that at the time of the killing he was swaddled in a costume that confers the right to kill, and immunizes its wearer against legal liability for criminal actions. Meade was set free to resume his career as a dispenser of violence on behalf of the State.

The murder of Niles Meservey, like that of Keith Vidal, began with a helpful phone call from someone concerned about a person not fully in control of his faculties, either because of intoxication or an emotional disturbance. If you believe the best way to help people in such a condition is to kill them, by all means, call the police.

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> "Vidal's father, Mark Wilsey, had called the police for help when the boy suffered what was described as a psychotic episode on the afternoon of January 5 and was "armed" with a screwdriver at the time of his death.

I wonder, exactly what "help" did he envisioned when calling the cops on his own son.

(...continuing...)

" .. could have just talked to him, talked to him another ten minutes."

Couldn't the father himself have talked to him?

Man...don't make it worse blaming the father. Any number of things, including him feeling threatened by his own son would prompt someone to call. Some people don't realize it is a crapshoot if you get actual peace officers or nutjobs like that third officer. I other reports the first two police responding did their job, holding him down, trying to calm him. The third maniac came on the scene and tased, the shot the young man. The insanity that is who the police have become is the problem. Don't you realize how much this father is going to be (wrongly, it wasn't his fault) blaming himself for his sons death! Any IDEA of the agony he is going through right now? He doesn't need the likes of you telling him it was somehow his fault. Wo did you think he COULD even call? If he had tried an ambulance they would have asked him or come on the scene and still called the cops because they aren't equipped to restrain someone, it would be seen as dangerous.

This father that is in total hell right now could possibly read things Ike this, making it worse when again, it was NOT his fault, it was the fault of the police department allowing a psycho cop remain on the force. You can bet that cop was no model , compassionate, well meaning cop and just snapped. Guaranteed he's exhibited unstability and brutality before.

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Friday, January 31, 2014

Florida Police Now Ready For Minefields

by Tim Lynch

From the New York Daily News:

?If you see my SWAT team roll up in this thing ? it?s over, so just give up,? said Chief R. Sean Baldwin in a release?.
The police department was able to purchase the armored vehicle through the 1997 National Defense Authorization Act, which passes excess military supplies to U.S. law enforcement.
More than $4.2 billion worth of property has been transferred to law enforcement since the program?s inception.

One wonders if these guys shout ?Yippee Ki-Ya!? as they drive down neighborhood streets.

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So mother fuckers in your mind you honestly think we will just roll over? whot the fuck do you think you clowns are, super human type heros beleive me when I say you do not want to die in that vehicle when that pos catches fire, You will cook beyond anything recognizable as a human so, really do you think its over when you roll up on that wheeled death trap? With fewer and fewer countries left to invade and bomb, the US war industry is now focusing on building a domestic military capable of waging full-scale war on regional and demographic American targets. Rather than starve to death, millions of the unemployed will have little choice but to join and start killing their fellow countrymen.

Hey, nothing personal - it's just business - and it's for your protection.

the very small micro chip from Motorola that is being test marketed in China at this time that will be used on americans in the US and all other nations at an undisclosed future date. It is a rice sized chip that will be injected into the right hand on the backside, this chip will store everything about you, where you work, how much money you have, your home address etc and will have your bank account info etc. You will scan your hand at the grocery store, Airports etc. The chip will track your every movement via satellite anywhere in the world. We are seeing the beginning of this in the new credit cards with a small chip enclosed in the plastic that does not need to be swiped through a card reader, it only needs to be flashed by a computer reader. These chips are storing far more data than the user is aware of, like banking and employment info that is sensitive to the user.

FYI: IF YOU HAD ONE OF THESE CHIPS AND TRY TO REMOVE IT CHIP, IT WILL INJECT A POISON INTO YOUR SYSTEM AND KILL YOU.

NOW IS THAT SOMETHING YOU WANT IN YOUR RIGHT HAND. I KNOW I DON'T.
This chip could get hit by something or just malfunction as all computers do and decide to inject the poison at any time, or the controllers of this chip could decide they want to have some fun and just kill of some people one day.

I ASK YOU TO DECIDE WHAT IS BEST FOR YOU.

YOU COULD ALLOW THINGS LIKE THE ABOVE....... OR YOU COULD TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF AND TAKE YOUR POWER BACK AS IT WAS MEANT TO BE BY THE ALL THAT IS THAT CREATED YOU.

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Sunday, January 26, 2014

Internal Affairs Divisions Dismissing 99% Of Misconduct Cases Against New Jersey Police Officers

by Tim Cushing

Not all cops are bad, but the insulation from accountability begins with the departments themselves, which often go out of their way to defend the actions of abusive officers. In some cases, pressure from police unions has kept unruly officers on the job despite the departments' efforts to remove them. Other times, the insulating force is also the first line of officer accountability: Internal Affairs. Often depicted as a hated entity within the force, the Internal Affairs division is supposed to be the public's first line of defense against cops who abuse their power. As documents obtained by the Courier News and Home News Tribune show, dozens of complaints against central New Jersey police officers are dismissed every year without ever making it past these departments' internal review mechanisms.

From 2008 to 2012, citizens filed hundreds of complaints alleging brutality, bias and civil rights violations by officers in more than seven dozen police departments in Central Jersey?
Just 1 percent of all excessive force complaints were sustained by internal affairs units in Central Jersey, the review found. That?s less than the national average of 8 percent, according to a federal Bureau of Justice Statistics report released in 2007.
Elizabeth, for example, processed 203 such complaints in the five-year period and not once sided with a complainant. Woodbridge had 84 complaints, New Brunswick had 81, Perth Amboy had 50 and Linden had 33. In all those cases, these agencies either ?exonerated? the officers, dismissed the complaints as frivolous, determined that they did not have sufficient evidence or simply never closed the investigations.

Nationwide numbers aren't all that encouraging, with only 8% of complaints being sustained, but the New Jersey police departments are pitching near shutouts. These numbers can be taken to mean that either these departments only staff exemplary officers -- or that many cases boil down to not much more than the complainant's word against the officer's, something that rarely goes the complainant's way.

On a positive note, the journalists were able to compile the numbers thanks to New Jersey's Open Public Records Act which requires police departments to tally and track complaints, including how each case is disposed. On the downside, almost all information related to the officers involved is redacted.

Except in race cases, complaints against officers and how officers were disciplined ? which can range from spoken or written reprimands to suspensions or termination ? are kept confidential.
The tallies of complaints and how they were disposed are public records, as are use of force reports, which officers are required to file whenever they use bodily force or weapons to subdue a suspect. The public also has the right to read synopses of all complaints where a fine or suspension of at least 10 days was assessed. But the identities of officers, as well as the complainants, have to be redacted from these documents.

As Sergio Bachao of My Central Jersey points out, this provides public officers with more protection than it does private citizens. Complaints and disciplinary rulings against licensed professionals in the private sector are posted by the state using these citizens' full names. Obviously, doing so makes these professionals more accountable and provides other members of the public with info they can use to avoid potential scams, etc.

The redactions work the opposite way in these public records, protecting those who have been accused of wrongdoing. It's often not until a case has finally made its way to the courtroom that these officers' "rap sheets" are exposed. And in most cases, officers accused of deploying excessive force or abusing their power will be serial violators -- something that would have been noticed earlier if not for these redactions.

In the wake of the Deloatch investigation, then-Sgt. Richard Rowe was charged with mishandling 81 internal affairs in New Brunswick from 2003 to 2007. He was sentenced in August to two years of probation. The Home News Tribune also reported that Berdel had been investigated at least seven times by internal affairs, including once for an excessive force complaint. The complaints either were not sustained or never resolved.

One NJ assemblyman thinks he has a solution.

Assemblyman Peter Barnes III, D-Middlesex, said that all internal affairs investigations should be handled by county prosecutors or the state Attorney General?s Office.
?It?s long since past the day where you can say with a straight face that it?s OK to have officers investigate their own. It just isn?t a good system,? Barnes said.

Barnes has a bit too much confidence that prosecutors and state AGs will be a more "neutral" force than Internal Affairs. These entities operate in concert with police officers to prosecute accused wrongdoers. The close relationships with police departments are often hard to disentangle when an officer is facing potential criminal charges. It's not unheard of for misconduct cases to finally reach the AG level only to find the AG unwilling to pursue charges.

AGs and prosecutors often believe they're in the business of "fighting crime" (some even run for election using a "tough on crime" platform) when in reality they're only part of a system aimed at providing justice. Because of this misconception, prosecutors and AGs consider police officers to be allies in the war on crime and tend to be rather lenient when charged with prosecuting officer misconduct.

There's probably no perfect solution for this problem but some extra steps could mitigate a lot of these concerns. To be sure, there are a large number of complaints that fall into the "frivolous" category, meaning the percentage of misconduct cases that result in any sort of disciplinary action will still remain rather low. But requiring some sort of independent oversight would be a start. As it stands now, an internal division reviews these cases and, should it believe criminal charges might be in order, it forwards them to state AGs and prosecutors -- who are often as reluctant to pursue charges as the department itself.

Another suggestion would be the use of body cameras by police officers. Although officers and police departments still retain some control over the footage collected, early use has indicated that they tend to reduce complaints of misconduct or excessive force. Citizens are less likely to file frivolous complaints knowing there's footage of the incident, and officers are less likely to deploy excessive force for the same reason.

At this point though, with only 1% of complaints being sustained, citizens have very little reason to believe the system will hold bad cops accountable. Likewise, bad cops can look to the 99% "clearance rate" as an indicator that their bad behavior will go unpunished, if not unnoticed.

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Nothing is going to get better when it comes to this criminal entity known as the police force. These sociopaths must froth at the mouth knowing that nearly 100% of complaints filed against them get thrown out. Prosecutors and Judges are part of the sociopathic club.

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Sunday, January 12, 2014

Police Shoot Man Assembling Toy Gun While Sitting In His Own Car

Chris | InformationLiberation

From the Yakima Herald:

Department spokesman Capt. Rod Light said Casey Gilette, 29, was on a routine patrol about 3 a.m. when he noticed a vehicle had been parked at Classic Auto Wash, 907 E. Nob Hill Blvd., for more than an hour. Light said that based on a preliminary investigation, Gilette approached the vehicle and opened the passenger-side door. He saw a man in the driver?s seat with what appeared to be a handgun and his finger on the trigger. He then fired, Light said.
?Once investigators got on the scene, it was later determined that the handgun was a replica of an actual firearm,? Light said. ?It?s what I would refer to as an Airsoft gun, but they appear very real.?
Airsoft is a trademark name for replica firearms that fire plastic pellets. They are designed to be nonlethal and often come in realistic replicas. Such devices typically have an orange tip at the end of the barrel intended to indicate it is not a real firearm.
?I believe this particular handgun had an orange tip. But based on our investigation I don?t want to go into particulars and details of the position of the gun and where the officer was. It was 3 a.m., it was dark and again we haven?t interviewed this officer yet and we don?t want to speculate,? Light said.
Gilette had another person with him while on patrol, Chief Dominic Rizzi Jr. said Monday afternoon.
?Yes, he did have a ride-along with him, and there?s nothing inappropriate about that,? said Rizzi, who declined to identify the person.
Police have yet to interview Gilette. Under the police union contract with the city, an officer involved in a shooting is not required to give a statement until 48 hours after the incident, although officers may waive that waiting period if they choose to.
Although the investigation is in the preliminary stages, Rizzi said Monday morning that he believes that Gilette acted appropriately.
?Based on the preliminary investigation, I absolutely stand behind the officer and his actions in the shooting that occurred,? Rizzi said.
Light said the investigators believe that Arias was attempting to assemble pieces of the pellet gun, because they found discarded packaging for accessories in the vehicle.

Having a real gun in Washington is not a crime, nor is it grounds for summary execution. This was a toy gun, which the man was said to be assembling within his own car. The officer approached him, opened his door, then executed him. No doubt he'll claim "self-defense" and say he "feared for his life."

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Opening the car door is a violation of this man's rights. Hopefully the family will sue for a couple million. Summary execution sums it up well. Police are being "knighted" via FPO/FFO malingering every cop that does this knowing full well they are backed to kill whom ever they like w/o accountability to the victim. Mirrors Inquisition. It's a mistake to let him get away w/this, but people are in some kind of a ha-ha-hapee-ness stupor and just are NOT getting the big picture, my opinion. The fact that someone removes comments no matter what they are is unamerican. Do not suppress or you are part of the problem.

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