Decay In Law Enforcement 13

Liberty In Peril

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The Llano Ledger

5-5-17

Eleven years ago a great cop saved the life of a choking baby. Fox11News reports:

"In a frame, on a table, inside the Kaukauna Police Department [Wisconsin], sits a newspaper article about an officer who saved the life of a choking baby. That officer was Charlie Vosters, and the baby was 10-month-old Zeke Tomlin. "I got the call for an infant choking. I arrived on scene to mom coming out of the door, kind of in a panic. I ran up to her and she basically threw her child at me, almost, and told me he's choking," said Charlie Vosters."

Desperation. A parent's worst nightmare.

"Vosters' instincts kicked in. "I held my forearm out, flipped him over onto my forearm, gave him a few back blows and after that, Holly -- mom -- ended up saying, 'Wait, I see something,' and pulled out a pink Barbie shoe," Vosters said."

Amazing, isn't it?

"Tomlin was too young at the time to remember what happened, but his parents made sure he knew the story. "Especially my mom. She told it to me a lot over and over and I found out that I was in the newspaper and I thought it was pretty cool when I was little. I still do think it's cool," said Zeke Tomlin."

Has to be one of the most satisfying days in the life of this fine officer.

"Fast-forward 11 years and one of Tomlin's assignments for music class was to write a story about a hero. "I chose Officer Vosters," Tomlin said. He read his story during his music concert Thursday night. Vosters also attended the concert. "That moment got me. It was one of those where I started to tear up a little bit along with a lot of other people," Vosters said."

The parents must be given great credit to have made certain this kid knew what happened all those years before and how critical this officer was at the time of such a near tragedy.

"He hugged Tomlin and they even took a photo, to remember the new moment. "First word I said was thank you," Tomlin said."

Think this kid doesn't have a great future ahead? Certainly, at such a tender age, has an appreciation for what is truly important that many of his elders lack.

"It was one of those moments where, 'Wow, I really did make an impact on somebody's life and no matter how young they are, the word will get passed along and it'll come around full circle,"' Vosters said."

Exactly. Moreover, goes to show one never knows the true extent at the time of just how much impact actions can have. Hat's off, Officer.

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Wake up, Sheriff. Again, where is dashcam video of the killing of Jeffrey Gray Wise, 52, of Austin by DPS and the Llano County Sheriff's Office? Fifty-four weeks, now. A goddamned disgrace. Why are you still sitting on this information? What are you hiding, Sheriff? What is the identity of the officers who killed Wise? Too gutless to release this information to the public that pays your salary and that of your goons? Reportedly, there were three officers involved in the shooting.

Who are they, Sheriff? Their past history? An ongoing investigation remains a lame bullshit excuse. How can you and your goons be trusted when you refuse to disclose information? Fifty-four weeks. Especially, your egregious failure to disclose the identity of the officers who pulled the trigger. To cover your sorry ass, Sheriff? Those of your thugs? The people have a right to know what happened, how it went down. You don't understand that, Sheriff? Sadly, clearly, you answer to no one. Including taxpayers. Especially, taxpayers.

Until you and your goons come clean, doubt will remain this was indeed a good shoot. The longer you drag your feet, the greater the doubt. Think not? Wake up. Your credibility has tanked. Isn't getting any better as this bullshit continues unabated. Fifty-four weeks. Still no identification of the officers involved ... Can't get your stories straight? In line? Discrepancy between LCSO and DPS? Wake up, Sheriff. The public no longer buys the bullshit. No longer trusts you. On this and many, many other issues. You have no credibility. Absolutely, none.

Readers, this is but one of about four other highly questionable killings by law enforcement in Llano County in the last decade or so. There was one within the City of Llano, another in a field near Fuzzy's Corner, Buchanan Dam, yet another in Point Tella, Buchanan Dam, still another in Tow. If there are any others I may have neglected to mention, kindly email.

It's time the public be fully informed. -- Know what we're dealing with here and how 'law' 'enforcement' operates in this hell hole County. If these jackbooted bastards are not reined in, the life lost could be yours courtesy of a law enforcement system that is no longer accountable to anyone. ... Right, Sheriff? TL? "Sonny Boy?" Madam County Attorney?

The Sheriff seems to have no clue the people who pay him and his goons are entitled to know whom is killing whom and why. This shit always seems to be swept under the carpet. Ignored. The attitude of these jackbooted sons of bitches is trust us. They can't be. They've lied too many times. Refuse to be accountable to anyone. We live in a goddamned fascist police-state where law enforcement does as it pleases. Usually, with impunity. That has to change.

The Texas Rangers have become rubber stamp to atrocities committed by law enforcement. This also has to change. No one is holding law enforcement accountable any longer. No one. No one in state or federal government. This is precisely why Ferguson triggered such an uproar. There was no justice there. None here. None anywhere. Officers are abusive, corrupt, inept.

Falsely ticket and arrest the innocent to line County coffers. Court fees charged continue to be horrendous. -- Aren't taxpayers already looted to pay these costs? Aren't you boys not only double f--king those falsely accused, but taxpayers also hellaciously looted to pay the very same costs? Yet, the criminal bastards in power in Llano continue to pile on the fees. This is nothing more than goddamned bullshit. This money finds its way into the pockets of the corrupt, abusive bastards who falsely believe they run and own this hell hole.

Would you believe the last time the Sheriff's Office happened to be 'audited' during the Garrett regime, reportedly, auditors couldn't figure out what went where and why? Yet, surprise, surprise. Nothing was done. There has to be transparency. There is none. Why would these thieving bastards want any? ... Right, Sheriff? TL? How else could they so easily steal and loot with virtual impunity? Worse, this reinforces jackbooted power in this goddamned, godforsaken hell hole County.

The public has a right to know the histories of the Sheriff's goons. Clearly, the Sheriff doesn't think so. That is, where they came from. Why they left where they were. What is happening here is the Sheriff is using 'personnel matters' as a convenient excuse to deny the public access to the history of outrageously corrupt, abusive, inept officers who are no more than criminals themselves.

He's protecting his outrageously corrupt, abusive, inept jackbooted bastards. Worse, the standards imposed by sheriff's offices statewide with the exception of metropolitan counties are well below those of DPS and city police departments. Why? So the corruption, abuse, ineptness, and outright stealing can continue unabated? This has to change. ... Can't have that, can we? Sheriff? TL?

The public should understand Llano County authorities have it all sewn up. Did you know the Texas Attorney General does not have the authority to investigate and prosecute County authorities on his own? The District Attorney has to call for an investigation by the Texas Rangers. Then, the State can prosecute if it so chooses.

Consequently? Guess what? Nothing will happen. Nothing ever does. The goddamned corruption continues unabated until you, the public, pressure authorities. Precisely, why we all enjoy the 'best' government money can buy. Literally. Without question, the corrupt, abusive, inept sons of bitches are all bought and paid for. Firmly clamped to the taxpayer tit. Dependent on money looted from innocent citizens caught in their web. Phony fines and court costs cleverly designed to f--k the innocent and enrich the pieces of shit who falsely believe they run and own Llano County. Right, Sheriff? TL? "Sonny Boy?" Madam County Attorney?

Interestingly, the former Sheriff and District Attorney were reportedly forced to retire after an outrageous scandal involving a drunk driving police officer from out of town. Including special treatment of the drunken son of a bitch that no other citizen caught doing the same would have been afforded. An honest, honorable Llano County Deputy suffered the consequences. Forget? Great officers do not last in this hell hole County. ... Right, Sheriff? TL? "Sonny Boy?" Madam County Attorney?

With all ongoing abuse in this goddamned County, one thing remains for damned sure. We're just getting started, Sheriff. You will continue to be exposed for whom and what you and your corrupt, abusive, inept jackbooted bastards have become, truly are, not what you phonies purport to be, that is, how you continue to f--k over a public you've falsely sworn to protect and defend. -- Exposure, the only way short of an unwanted dreaded revolution to force desperately needed change in a goddamned fascist police-state. The Fourth Reich.

Have your jackbooted thugs been tested for steroids, Sheriff? If you've nothing to hide, Bill, release the results of all drug testing. 'Personnel matters?' Bullshit. Looted taxpayers have the right to know. They're footing the bill for all this goddamned corruption, abuse, ineptness. When will you and the boys end the shakedowns? Looting of the innocent to line County coffers? No honor at all?

Where are your swastika armbands, you fascist son of a bitch? You and your thugs remain out of uniform. Once again, Sheriff, and ad nauseum, did you and/or your goons pressure Schilling to exit the race? Did you steal the election? If so, an aggressively stupid, achingly gutless public gets what it truly deserves. One of the most corrupt, abusive, inept 'law' 'enforcement' agencies in our formerly great country.

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Have any information, knowledge of, experience with a purportedly non-profit volunteer clean-up group called Looking Forward In Llano County affiliated with the Llano County Attorney's Office? Email this publication at libertyinperil@openmailbox.org to provide information and/or arrange a meeting to discuss this matter. If requested, your identity will be protected. The question is quite simple. Is this group what it claims to be and on the level?

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In follow up to an earlier edition, Fox News reports:

"One of two Georgia police officers captured on video kicking and hitting a man during a traffic stop turned himself in Thursday as officials gave the other just a few more hours to surrender."

Why not treat these officers as any other citizen would have been treated under similar circumstances? Why weren't they arrested at home, or wherever else they could have been found, including on the street? These two jackbooted thugs are accused of felonies yet receive special treatment? Allowed to get their affairs in order? Goddamned bullshit. Forget? The ordinary peasant receives no accommodation at all. Gets his ass hauled to jail.

"Sgt. Mike Bongiovanni walked into the Gwinnett County Jail Thursday morning on charges of battery and violation of oath of office – a felony – alongside his wife and lawyer, local media reported."

Incredible, isn't it? Had it been anyone else, they would have been violently taken down by police. Not so, these two pieces of shit. Afforded 'professional courtesy?'

"Gwinnett County Solicitor-General Rosanna Szabo, whose office prosecutes misdemeanor and traffic offenses in the county, on April 14 dismissed 89 cases in which either McDonald or Bongiovanni was the main officer or a necessary witness. "The actions of these officers completely undermine their credibility and they cannot be relied upon as witnesses in any pending prosecution," Szabo said in a news release."

Be interesting to see where this goes, -- if anywhere.

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Another example of an officer abusing authority. CBS News reports:

"A Miami Police officer is under arrest, accused of using the power of the badge to take advantage of a 19-year-old woman who was walking home. CBS Miami reports that on Thursday, Miami Police Chief Rodolfo Llanes issued a statement on the arrest of Officer Alexi Figueroa. They said Figueroa's arrest came after a joint investigation between Miami-Dade Police and the Miami-Dade State Attorney's Office."

Weren't we as kids always taught to trust the man in blue?

"Miami-Dade Police arrested Officer Figueroa on charges of false imprisonment and simple battery after the 27-year-old surrendered to police on Wednesday. He has since been released on a $22,000 bond."

Why was he released at all? Presents an exigent threat to the public.

Kicker? Get this:

"The charges stemmed from an incident from about a year before in North Miami-Dade County while the officer was in uniform, in his police cruiser and off duty."

Takes a year to bring this criminal jackbooted bastard in blue to justice? Think any other citizen would have been afforded similar consideration?

This is quite horrendous shit he's accused of. Imagine being 19 and a woman. Having to put up with the following:

"According to court filings, back in January 2016, the 19-year-old woman was walking home from a store when she noticed a marked police car making a U-turn and start heading towards her near NW 7th Avenue and NW 80th Street. "The victim stated that the police car stopped near her and the officer driving the police car called out to her….He asked for her name, and for her telephone number. The victim gave the defendant her name, and told him she did not have a phone," according to the arrest warrant."

Think any other such predator would have had a year to get his affairs in order?

"That's when investigators said she continued walking towards her home and had a second run-in with the same officer when the marked police car stopped in front of her on NW 7th Avenue. The victim stated that the officer (who was alone in the police car) told her to get in the car. The victim stated she felt compelled to do what he told her, since he was a police officer in a marked police car in a police uniform," the arrest warrant states."

An outrageous betrayal of public trust by a son of a bitch who has no business wearing a badge, sporting a gun, with a virtual license to kill with impunity. --In the goddamned fascist police-state we now live in.

Gets worse:

"While she was in the car, the girl says the officer started "talking to her inappropriately as if he was interested in some type of sexual encounter with her." Moments later, she says he asked if she wanted to be "friends with benefits" and later proceeded to lean over and kiss her on the mouth and reach his hand down her shirt to touch her breast."

This, now the best policing has to offer? Seems the bastards were more interested in protecting and coddling one of their own than prosecuting the son of a bitch:

"The investigation started with Miami Police's Internal Affairs unit. Something then made them decide to ask the Miami-Dade Police Department to investigate. The officer was relieved of duty with pay back in February 2016 and will remain relieved of duty until the conclusion of the court case and an internal investigation."

Goes back over a year. A paid vacation. Think the pieces of shit in blue aren't stonewalling?

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Never ends. Yet another murder by the jackbooted bastards in blue of a young kid. This time, the bastards couldn't even get their story straight the first time around. NPR reports:

"Jordan Edwards, a high school freshman, was leaving a house party in a Dallas suburb late Saturday night with several friends when police officers arrived outside. The officers were investigating a complaint about noisy teenagers in the neighborhood, and they had heard gunshots in the area as they approached. Within minutes, the black 15-year-old passenger had been killed — shot in the head by an officer through the front passenger window and pronounced dead at the hospital shortly afterward."

Gets worse. More convoluted:

"The next day, Balch Springs police Chief Jonathan Haber apologized to Edwards' family at a news conference, explaining the situation by saying the vehicle was backing toward officers "in an aggressive manner." By Monday afternoon, however, Haber had retracted that account."

How is it the chief makes any comment, any statement at all until he's sure of the facts? How does that happen? Especially, in a case where a young kid gets shot in the head and killed?

"NPR's Wade Goodwyn explains the discrepancies as Haber laid them out:

"In fact, the car with five teenagers inside was moving forward, not backward, and away from the officers, not toward them. There was no altercation, known or otherwise.

"Nevertheless one of officers fired a rifle multiple times into the passenger window, killing young Jordan Edwards. None of the teens were carrying weapons, nor were they drunk.

"Chief Haber said his review of the officer's body camera video indicated the shooting may not meet his department's standards."

You think? If the above is indeed true, it's called murder.

"The officer, who remains unnamed, has been placed on administrative leave. Both the Dallas County Sheriff's Department and the Dallas County district attorney's public integrity unit are investigating the shooting."

Why hasn't the officer been identified? Why wasn't this done immediately? Had it been the other way around, not only would the perpetrator had been immediately identified, his ass would have been hauled to jail. Not so, when a criminal jackbooted bastard in blue murders on the job. He's routinely protected, coddled. Why?

"We offer our sincere condolences to Jordan's family and will continue to keep them in our thoughts and prayers as we move forward expeditiously, with a commitment to justice and transparency," District Attorney Faith Johnson's office said in a statement Monday."

Her words ring hollow. Remain less than meaningless. Until she gets up off her ass, arrests, jails, charges, and then successfully prosecutes the son of a bitch, nothing will change. Never does. Precisely, why this shit never ends. Why the doomsday clock strikes ever closer to midnight. Hear the rumble? An unwanted dreaded second American revolution already catastrophically looming on the horizon. The status quo remains unsustainable.

Subsequent to writing the above, NBC News reports:

"An older teen who was in the car when his 15-year-old brother was fatally shot by a Texas officer was himself then handcuffed and hauled off to a jail cell overnight — "for no apparent reason," an attorney who represents the boys' family said on Tuesday. The 16-year-old brother of high school freshman Jordan Edwards was sitting in the same car with him the night a Balch Springs police officer fired multiple rifle rounds at their vehicle. One of the bullets hit Jordan in the head and he later died from the injury."

Gets worse:

"After seeing his brother get shot, Jordan's older brother was handcuffed and taken by police for no particular reason," said Lee Merritt, the family's lawyer. He was not a suspect and there were no charges against him, he said. Although police later said they took the brother and kept him in order to question him as a witness, none of the other teens in the car were taken, he said. The teen spent the night in jail and was released the next morning — and it was only then that he found out about his brother's death, he said. "Not only have Jordan's brothers lost their best friend; they witnessed firsthand his violent, senseless, murder," the family said in a statement on Tuesday. "Their young lives will be forever altered," said the statement."

The American Way. A fascist police-state. Soon to be the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich.

Gets even worse:

"But it wasn't just Edward's brother, Balch Springs Police officers also wanted to hold Edwards's father when he arrived at the station asking about his sons, Merritt said. "Balch Springs PD called the Dallas County Sheriff's office and asked if they could restrain Jordan's father because of his "hostile" behavior," he said. Law enforcement subsequently held Edwards' father at a Dallas County Building, he said."

Nazi America. A fascist police-state. Law enforcement remains not only an exigent threat to all civil and constitutional rights and liberties, but to life itself. Murderously, out of control. No foreign power, terrorist organization, or the criminal element now present any greater threat than our government itself. All levels and branches.

In follow up to the above, NBC News reports:

"The Texas police officer who fatally shot 15-year-old Jordan Edwards as he was leaving a party was fired Tuesday, police said. The officer, identified as Roy Oliver, a six-year veteran of the Balch Springs Police Department in suburban Dallas, "violated several departmental policies," the department said. Police Chief Jonathon Haber told reporters he couldn't specify what policies were violated because Oliver can appeal his firing."

Convenient Catch-22, no? Equally pointedly, why hasn't the murderous criminal jackbooted son of a bitch been immediately placed under arrest? As any other perpetrator?

ABC News reports:

"Balch Springs Police Department Chief Jonathan Haber released the officer's identity at a press conference Tuesday night while announcing that Oliver had been fired from his post. Oliver had been a member of the department for nearly six years.

"Haber added, "After reviewing the video, I don’t believe that [the officer's conduct] met our core values." The video footage will not be released to the public, Haber said."

Why not? The public has a right to see the video. To see precisely how the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue conduct themselves.

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In follow up to an earlier edition of this publication, vis a vis a particularly grisly murder committed by a criminal jackbooted bastard in blue, The Washington Post reports:

"The former South Carolina police officer caught on video opening fire into the back of a black man who was running away is expected to plead guilty Tuesday to a federal civil rights charge, according to the officer’s lawyer and people familiar with the case."

An achingly gutless piece of shit.

"Michael Slager, who worked for the North Charleston Police Department, had faced both federal civil rights and state murder charges in connection with the April 2015 shooting of Walter Scott, a 50-year-old unarmed motorist who fled after a traffic stop. Slager will plead guilty to a single federal civil rights charge — which his lawyer described as “using excessive force” — as part of a deal to resolve both cases, people familiar with the case said."

What a crock of shit. A cop commits murder. Shoots someone in the back. This is how it's finally adjudicated? Had it been the other way around, the shooter would have been quickly arrested for capital murder, jailed, charged, successfully prosecuted. After appeals? Executed. Why not the same for a murderous cop? Why not? Why no equal treatment under the law?

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Human rights violations in penal facilities remain an egregious problem in this country. CBS News reports:

"The body of an inmate who hanged himself at a St. Louis halfway house remained undiscovered for hours while corrections employees streamed Netflix movies on state computers and skipped security checks, according to records obtained by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch."

This is precisely how cheap human life has become in our formerly great country.

"The Post-Dispatch reports that it obtained an abridged portion of an inspector general’s report into the October death of 41-year-old David Garceau through an open records request. More than 50 hours of surveillance video that was reviewed as part of the investigation showed that movement in Garceau’s cell ceased at 7:29 p.m. on Oct. 23. But paramedics didn’t pronounce him dead for 10 hours."

Think this shit only goes on in Third World countries? Wake up.

"Garceau died at the 550-bed St. Louis Community Release Center, which is run by the Division of Probation and Parole and serves as a halfway house for offenders who don’t have a home plan after prison release, the paper reports."

Sad, isn't it? Then, some way, somehow, we expect them not to re-offend? Branded with a felony conviction, no job prospects? Nowhere to live? Then, we're surprised when they return to what they know best?

"The surveillance video also showed workers weren’t checking on Garceau even while filling out a log claiming they had. Garceau had been caught with suspected synthetic marijuana, though it’s unclear if that’s why he was being housed alone in Administrative Segregation."

Imagine that. Where have we heard this before?

"Missouri Department of Corrections Director Anne Precythe declined through a spokesman to comment. But she said earlier this year in a news release that she was “concerned about the circumstances” and vowed to take action “swiftly against responsible staff.”

Same old, same old.

"Several people have been fired or resigned, including the guard who was on duty in the area when Garceau hanged himself. A review of computer usage during her eight-hour shift found 418 pages of detailed internet access, including use of Twitter, Amazon, Facebook, LinkedIn and streaming media for almost five hours."

No one prosecuted?

Coup de grace?

"Garceau was released from prison for an arson and burglary conviction in September and stayed with his father near the Lake of the Ozarks until he cut himself. After being sent to a hospital to be treated for mental illness, he went to the St. Louis release center on Oct. 18. According to the investigative report, Garceau was prescribed eight medications. There was no record that he received his medications Oct. 20, 21 or 22. The report — which cited broader problems with protocols related to medicine — said Garceau was given medication Oct. 23 at 8:15 a.m., 2 p.m. and 7 p.m., right before he hanged himself."

A country that treats its citizens as such cannot survive.

... Think this isn't a cover up? Get this:

"St. Louis police also investigated. No criminal charges were filed, and the case is inactive."

How about that? Nazi justice in a fascist police-state. Soon to be the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich.

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Never ends. In follow up to an earlier edition, KCRA Sacramento reports:

"A lawyer for a Sacramento man who was hurled to the ground and punched repeatedly in the face by a police officer filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the city and county of Sacramento. The lawsuit alleges that Nandi Cain Jr. was abused in jail after his arrest,"forcefully stripped naked and forced to the ground while multiple officers continued to abuse and degrade the defenseless man."

As American as mom and apple pie. Think they had anything on the poor son of a bitch? Wake up:

"All charges were dropped against Cain."

Imagine that. Couldn't be, could it?

"After Cain was released he came home "to learn that his battery and public humiliation had gone viral, including footage of Mr. Cain crying in the back of the police car," according to the lawsuit. "I'm here to get justice and to make sure justice is served and to make sure that this doesn't happen to anyone else," Cain said Monday, alongside his attorney John Burris, at a news conference in Del Paso Heights. "Racism is still alive. And you wouldn't think that in 2017 -- that it would die. But it still exists."

Indeed, it does. His alleged 'crime?' Jaywalking.

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In follow up to an earlier edition, the insanity regarding weaponizing drones for use by police grows. NBC News reports:

"The way some lawmakers in Connecticut see it, weaponized drones represent a future for policing — and could be a necessary option in moments when lives are at stake. That's why a bill making its way through the state legislature would be the first in the nation to explicitly allow police to add lethal weapons to drones."

What's next? F-16s and 2,000 pound bombs dropped on 'suspects?'

"The bill, H.B. 7260, moved overwhelmingly out of the Judiciary Committee last month and must pass the state's House and Senate before the session ends in early June. It's unclear whether this incarnation will go as far as the governor's desk, lawmakers say, after previous legislation on the topic failed to gain traction in recent years. Civil liberties groups are urging caution on the measure, citing concerns over privacy and when force would be used."

Lawmakers have clearly lost their minds. Aren't enough innocent, unarmed people already murdered by the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue?

"Regardless, the growing prominence of drone technology means ground rules need to be in place sooner rather than later for whether they can be weaponized and to what extent, said state Sen. John Kissel, a Republican co-chair of the Judiciary Committee who supports weaponizing drones. Lawmakers are continuing to discuss the bill."

Republican 'law and order' fascists have clearly lost their minds. Here is one GOP nazi's 'justification for this growing insanity:

"Kissel said he recognizes that civil liberties groups believe Connecticut could be setting a dangerous precedent, but if civilians are already outfitting their drones with weapons — as what happened in Connecticut in 2015 with a teen's "flying gun" experiment that went viral — then law enforcement has to be given the same advantage."

Say what? This clueless piece of psychotic shit is indeed quite serious. Match insanity with more of the same? Never ends.

Gets worse:

"We have to be able to fight fire with fire," Kissel said. "The use of weaponized drones isn't going to go away because we don't like it, so we have to do something now."

... Hey, jackass? What do you and other pieces of clueless, achingly fascist GOP 'law and order' trash propose to protect innocent unarmed citizens murdered by the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue on an ongoing basis, -- sans use of weaponized drones?

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Republican nazis in Arkansas scored their fourth pound of flesh. NPR reports:

"Arkansas has put to death convicted murderer Kenneth Williams. His was the last of a series of executions accelerated because the state's lethal-injection drugs were about to expire. ... State officials initially scheduled eight condemned inmates to die over 11 days — the fastest pace of executions in decades. Some executions were blocked by the courts."

Half of them were blocked, frustrating the nazi GOP Governor and his henchmen.

"Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson pressed for the fast pace of executions and said that they are a way to bring justice for the families of the victims. In a statement issued shortly after officials announced Williams' execution had been carried out, Hutchinson said: "The long path of justice ended tonight and Arkansans can reflect on the last two weeks with confidence that our system of laws in this state has worked. Carrying out the penalty of the jury in the Kenneth Williams case was necessary. There has never been a question of guilt."

Governor? When will you press for legislation updating the criminal code to mandate execution of criminal jackbooted bastards in blue who murder innocent unarmed citizens on the job? Where is the 'justice' for their victims and families? Where?

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Here is the take of a 'judge' on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. CBS News reports:

"Ninth Circuit Appeals Court Judge Alex Kozinski holds provocative views on the death penalty. In an interview with Lesley Stahl this week, he advocates for the firing squad — even the guillotine."

When will you call for such execution of the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue who murder innocent unarmed citizens, 'Judge?' When?

“It’s 100 percent effective, and it leaves no doubt that what we are doing is a violent thing,” he tells Stahl on the broadcast."

Indeed, it does. Propose imposing the same on murderous officers?

"But look past the shocking sentiment and French Revolution imagery and see Judge Kozinski’s broader notion: killing a person — no matter how it’s carried out and how legally justified courts deem it — is vicious."

Indeed, it is. Forget? The American Way. As American as mom and apple pie. The Nazi Right believes it's justice, not revenge.

“If we’re going to take human life, if we’re going to execute people, if the state is going to snuff out a human being,” he says, “we should not fool ourselves into thinking that it’s anything but a violent, brutal act.”

Think supporters remain that clueless, 'Judge?' They not only want their pound of flesh, but demand it. Why are murderous officers exempt? Why? Why aren't they subject to the very same 'justice' as the rest of us? No question, they're murdering innocent unarmed people while on duty. All over our formerly great country. Yet, remain protected, coddled, afforded special treatment. Why?

"He first spoke to 60 Minutes about his perspective in 2015, in a story about the execution of Joseph Wood. Wood’s July 2014 execution in Arizona was supposed to take about 10 minutes. But after executioners injected Wood with an experimental new combination of drugs, it took almost two hours for him to die, making it the longest execution in U.S. history."

The Republican Nazi Right cheered. Thought it justice.

“The death penalty is barbaric,” he told correspondent Bill Whitaker at the time, “and I think we as a society need to come face-to-face with that. If we’re not willing to face up to the cruelty, we ought not to be doing it."

Is that right, 'Judge?' Think so? You're talking out both sides your ass:

"Kozinski is not anti-capital punishment; he told Stahl that sometimes the death penalty is “deserved.” But as an appellate judge, he has had reservations about how several cases were handled by the prosecutors involved."

This remains a problem all across our formerly great nation. Precisely why innocent people have been executed. Exactly why the falsely accused on occasion get freed from death row decades after the fact through DNA and/or other newly discovered exculpatory evidence, and/or when police/prosecutorial/judicial malfeasance comes to light. -- While Republican nazis myopically demand quick execution, curtailment of appeals.

Ferociously pointedly, if this 'judge' considers capital punishment barbaric, why does he support it under any circumstances? Forget? When imposed, the state, representing the citizenry, becomes more barbaric than the prisoner being executed. Why? Simple. The state hypocritically, gallingly sends the message, "Don't do as I do, do as I say." Goddamned bullshit. Aryan arrogance. Promoted by achingly ignorant 'law and order' fascists. To no avail, however.

Deters no one from committing capital crimes. Forget? They don't think they'll get caught. Precisely, why death row continues to be re-populated. Worse? Exactly, why all civil and constitutional rights and liberties have been bastardized over the last two centuries, particularly since the McCarthy era sixty-five years ago. Worse? Then summarily eviscerated after 9/11. In the asinine effort to trade liberty for security. Both goddamned political parties were guilty of this.

'We The People' have only ourselves to blame. Gutlessly traded liberty for security only to wind up with neither as wisely forewarned by Franklin at the birth of our formerly great country. Ferociously pointedly, why we were so gutlessly, stupidly ready to buy the GOP nazi 'law and order' mentality. ... Right, TL? TB?

The nazi element? Worse, far worse? Too damned stupid to realize they failed to resolve the crime issue, moreover, exacerbated it. Kicker? Forfeiting all civil and constitutional rights and liberties in the process. Aggressive stupidity at its worst. Wise old adage? -- 'Can fix ignorant, can't fix stupid.'

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The following is every parent's worst nightmare. The parent, this time, happens to be a police-officer. The perpetrator, a former officer. ABC News reports:

"A Florida sheriff's deputy was sleeping when his 11-year-old daughter called and asked him to pick her up at her school bus stop. Seconds later, his daughter screamed into the phone. "Dad, help me, help me!"

Imagine being awoken, sound asleep, and having to deal with the following:

"Polk County Sheriff's Deputy Jonathan "JJ" Quintana told reporters at a news conference Friday that he assumed the worst as he jumped out of bed Thursday afternoon and ran barefoot to the bus stop. He found his daughter safe, but immediately saw the carnage left when a suspected drunken driver hit five of her fellow Dundee Ridge Middle Academy students as they walked home from the stop. One student later died of his injuries."

Gets worse:

"Quintana, 30, ran back home for his patrol car, yelled for his wife to toss him his keys and some shoes and drove back to the scene to assist the injured children. By then, two nurses had stopped to help the injured students. The deputy — still limping and visibly shaken Friday — said a witness at the scene pointed out the car that had allegedly just crashed into the children."

The drunk wasn't done wreaking carnage, however:

"Quintana saw the black vehicle had hit another car about 4,000 feet (1,219.2 meters) down the road. The driver then stumbled out of the vehicle. A woman who was four months pregnant was injured in that crash, according to authorities. They didn't release her name."

Think law enforcement adequately vets and continues to vet officers? Doesn't continue to pass problem officers on to other communities? Think again:

"Quintana arrested John Camfield, 48, of nearby Davenport, a former law enforcement officer who worked for more than 10 different agencies in Mississippi — including Yalobusha County Sheriff's Office, Tunica County Sheriff's Office and the Oxford Police Department — before moving to Florida in 2012."

Consequences of the carnage? Horrendous:

"Officials said Jahiem Robertson, 13, died of his injuries Friday morning in an Orlando hospital. Another child, John Mena, also 13, remains in intensive care with orbital fractures. Three other children — Jonte Robinson, 15; Jasmine Robertson, 14; and Rylan Pryce, 12 — suffered minor injuries. It was unclear whether they were related."

Arrogance of the drunk? Get this:

"Speaking at the press conference Friday, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said Camfield refused to take a breath test after his arrest and was "critiquing" the deputies who were processing his case. "He was critiquing the steps they were taking and complimenting them," Judd told reporters on Friday. "He said, 'You guys know what you are doing around here.' "

Amazing, isn't it?

"In fact, Judd added, Camfield was being somewhat lighthearted until a lieutenant advised him that two of the children he hit were in critical condition. "He said, if that's the case, put me under the jail," Judd said. At that point, he agreed to take a breath test and a blood draw. "Seven hours after the crash, he still read a .14," nearly twice Florida legal limit."

Saddest of all?

"Judd said the bus had driven away just before the crash. He added that the students were not in the road when the car hit them. "They weren't misbehaving in any way. They were just being middle school children on their way home," Judd said. "This drunk man in a car drove off the road and ran through those children, scattering them like a bowling ball through bowling pins."

Kicker? Crux of the matter? Failure of the perpetrator as well as the system?

"Judd said a sheriff in Mississippi who Camfield once worked for described him as "one of the very best detectives we've ever had, but he had a problem — alcohol, the bottle."

There it is. Bottom line. We have to find a better, far more effective way of dealing with alcoholism. His colleagues in law enforcement, all the departments he worked for knew he had a problem. The issue should have been forced. Not passed on to yet another department, another community. Only to wind up with death of an innocent kid. Likely lifetime health issues for the survivors. ... If police don't police their own, who will?

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Yet another example of inadequate vetting. Severe problems within law enforcement. ABC News reports:

"Police in Texas believe that Coleman Martin, an officer with the Austin Police Department, staged his death and is alive in Mexico, officials said Friday. The 29-year-old is now facing a Class A misdemeanor charge of "false report," according to a police department statement. And to add intrigue to the bizarre story, a woman with whom the married man had a close relationship, is also part of the investigation."

Interesting, isn't it? A most unusual case this time. Most of APD's problems are normally about outrageous abuse of power, police brutality, and the murder of innocent unarmed civilians by these jackbooted bastards in blue. Gone on for decades. This time, however, seems the officer had severe emotional issues:

"According to Friday's statement from the Austin Police Department, "evidence was uncovered to lead investigators to believe that the missing officer took means to stage his own death. It is believed at this time he is not deceased and has fled to Mexico." When Martin initially went missing, police described him as an officer in "emotional distress," based on interview with his wife."

Gets worse:

"According to a police affidavit released Friday, Martin's wife called police on Tuesday, April 25, and reported that he was suicidal. She told officers that he left their residence around 10 a.m., saying he needed time [to] "clear his head." Then around 10:15 a.m., she said, he texted her a photo of a handwritten note that said he was going to commit suicide and drown himself in a lake near the Mexican border."

Would any officer in his right mind truly believe he could get away with this? Get this:

"Police discovered that that Martin withdrew $300 from the couple's joint bank account around 11 a.m. that morning and purchased gas 15 minutes later. He then bought a raft at a sporting goods store in Austin, got $50 cash back then got food at a Wendy's at 3:50 p.m. A transaction showed that he also purchased rope and concrete clocks from a Home Depot store, according to the affidavit."

Withdraws money from a joint account and thinks he's covered his tracks? Sound rational? The story gets more convoluted. The guy winds up getting stopped by a state trooper whom he informs he's on his way to a vacation in Mexico. Police wind up subsequently finding his vehicle later near a lake in Amistad National Recreation Area. Discover it's all a ruse:

"Investigators soon discovered that Martin had a close relationship with a woman other than his wife. On April 27, they interviewed the woman and she gave evidence that Martin was indeed alive and the entire incident was an attempt to fake his death. In fact, the woman showed investigators an email that Martin sent her after the alleged suicide."

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Think privacy isn't under direct assault by the jackbooted bastards in blue? Wake up. NPR reports:

"If you're one of the many who text, read email or view Facebook on your phone while driving, be warned: Police in your community may soon have a tool for catching you red-handed."

If you engage in the above while driving, you're achingly stupid. A danger to yourself, more importantly, to others on the road. The answer, however, is not abrogation of privacy by the jackbooted bastards in blue:

"The new "textalyzer" technology is modeled after the Breathalyzer, and would determine if you had been using your phone illegally on the road."

This technology is an egregious invasion of privacy that will certainly wind up being used by police in other situations not involving driving. Called 'mission creep.' If you give the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue an inch, they always wind up taking a light year.

"Lawmakers in New York and a handful of other cities and states are considering allowing police to use the device to crack into phones because, they say, too many people get away with texting and driving and causing crashes."

Bullshit. Non-sequitur. How do they get away with causing a crash? They don't. Police may not know the crash was indeed caused by use of a cell phone, but they do know who was responsible for the crash. Weave out of your lane into oncoming traffic? Think police don't know? Run into the back of another vehicle in front of you? Think police don't know who's responsible? We already have laws on the books vis a vis reckless, careless driving, vehicular manslaughter, etc..

"Phone records — as I found out the hard way — they're tough to get [and] it's an agonizing process," says Ben Lieberman of New Castle, N.Y., whose 19-year-old son was killed in a car crash in the Hudson Valley, north of New York City, in 2011."

As well it should be. Called privacy. The Fourth Amendment. Police need to have probable cause. A search warrant signed by a judge. The 'price' of liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties. Forget? The Bill of Rights.

"The driver of the car his son Evan was in drifted over the center line and hit another vehicle head-on. Evan, who was sitting in the back seat with his seat belt on, suffered massive internal injuries and died a month later. The driver initially told police he dozed off while driving, but in reality he had been texting behind the wheel. It took Lieberman six months to figure that out."

What difference did it make in this example as to why the carnage occurred? Especially, since drugs, alcohol were not involved. The fact that the carnage did occur is what matters. Nail the driver for the offense. Reckless driving. Careless driving, manslaughter, etc.. Don't needlessly invade the privacy of innocent drivers by giving the jackbooted bastards in blue additional power they will certainly abuse under other circumstances.

"Astonishingly, the phone was in the car, wrecked in the car, and it was at a tow yard," he says. "It was there for weeks — it was just sitting there."

Doesn't that directly speak to the carelessness of police? Now, you wish to entrust them with additional power they will most certainly abuse?

Here is the issue, bottom line:

"Lieberman says police couldn't check the driver's phone to see if he was lying because they needed probable cause to get a warrant."

Indeed, they do. Called the Fourth Amendment. To protect the innocent against being f--ked over, abused, harassed, etc. by the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue. Have a problem with that? Tough shit. -- So stupid you couldn't care less until you get f--ked over by these criminally abusive bastards? Usually, on no more than a goddamned fishing expedition?

"We often hear, 'just get a warrant' or 'just get the phone records.' ... The implication is that the warrant is like filling out some minor form," he says. "It's not. In New York, it involves a D.A. and a judge. Imagine getting a D.A. and a judge involved in every breathalyzer that's administered, every sobriety test that's administered."

Tough shit. Exactly, what needs to happen. To protect innocent citizens against overzealous, abusive officers, often on fishing expeditions. Further evidence of precisely how bastardized, how eviscerated the Constitution has indeed become. To increase Executive power at the expense of all civil and constitutional rights and liberties. To create the fascist police-state we already live in. Soon to be the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich.

As Franklin wisely opined well over two hundred years ago, anyone willing to trade liberty for security deserves and winds up with neither. Here is the problem, most important issue:

"Distracted driving is a serious concern, but this bill gives police power to take and search our phones after almost every fender-bender," says Rashida Richardson, legislative counsel for the New York Civil Liberties Union. "This is a concern because our phones have some of our most personal and private information — so we're certain that if this law is enforced as it is proposed, it will not only violate people's privacy rights, but also civil liberties."

Precisely, why manufacturers need to increase security on all phones, all computers. Make it extremely difficult for authorities to access data with or without a search warrant. To protect privacy of innocent citizens from the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue on fishing expeditions. Should take years of effort with a super computer to crack encryption, get into a computer, cell phone, tablet, etc.. To protect the innocent against the increasingly vicious jackbooted bastards in blue.

... While certainly sympathetic of a grieving father suffering the horrendous loss of his son, there is far, far more at stake.

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In follow up to an earlier edition of this publication, The Washington Post reports:

"Baton Rouge Acting U.S. Attorney Corey Amundson announced Wednesday that federal prosecutors will not bring charges against the police officers involved in the fatal shooting of Alton Sterling, asserting that all the prosecutors and agents who investigated the matter found “insufficient evidence” to proceed with a prosecution."

Convenient, isn't it? As expected, they protected and coddled the bastards. Expect far more of the same as the Sessions nazi determinedly ignores egregious criminal activity perpetrated by the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue. Resistance must remain ferocious, but peaceful. Otherwise, you grant the bastards carte blanche to murder on the job.

“There are no winners here, and there are no victories for anybody,” Amundson said. “A man has died, a father, a nephew has died. My heart goes out to the family.”

Go f--k yourself, Counselor. You've disgraced yourself and the oath you falsely took to protect and defend the Constitution.

"A video of the July 5 shooting shows Sterling, 37, lying on his back with two officers on top of him. One of the officers appears to yell, “He’s got a gun!” and then shots ring out."

A ruse, the fascist bastards in the Trump nazi's 'Justice' Department gutlessly rubber stamped. No justice in a fascist police-state. Soon to be the Fourth Reich. Hear the rumble? An unwanted dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looming on the horizon. As the doomsday clock strikes ever closer to midnight.

NPR reports:

"Relatives of Alton Sterling say they're frustrated and saddened by news that the Justice Department won't prosecute two Baton Rouge, La., police officers who were involved in the man's shooting death last summer. Video footage of the killing showed the officers holding Sterling on the ground when he was shot multiple times, prompting protests and a federal inquiry."

No justice. A goddamned fascist police-state. Soon to be the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich. A raucous, boot clicking, goose stepping, treasonous, treacherous, traitorous Sieg Heil!, Mr. 'President?' You're out of uniform, sir. Where is your swastika armband?

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The following is indicative of precisely how sick, convoluted, and perverse the achingly fascist criminal jackbooted bastards in blue have become. How they present an exigent threat to all civil and constitutional rights and liberties. The Washington Times reports:

"Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. on Friday issued criticism that spanned the political spectrum, telling gun-rights activists that “rat bastards on the left” never give up while also saying some of the misadventures of the GOP-led Congress can be “very painful” to watch."

What is truly painful to watch is nazis like 'Sheriff' Clarke make absolute jackasses of themselves, yet psychotically, ludicrously consider themselves to be good law enforcement officers who supposedly embrace civil and constitutional rights and liberties while doing the exact opposite. Readers will recall this piece of shit has been featured before in this publication. People who 'think' like him present an exigent threat to all civil and constitutional rights and liberties.

“We won a huge battle last November, but we did not win the war,” Sheriff Clarke said at the NRA lobbying arm’s 2017 Leadership Forum. “You see, our fight for freedom continues in earnest.” “You see, these rat bastards on the left never give up,” he said. “No, I didn’t misspeak."

You wouldn't know freedom if it bit you hard on the ass, you fascist son of a bitch. What you clearly don't understand, miss in your nazi zeal is the fact those of us in the Center and Left are fighting your goddamned attempt to force expansion of the fascist police-state we already live in to the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich. Over half this country will never, ever accept the blatant nazification of our formerly great country by nazis like you, 'Sheriff.'

Psychotically, believe all in the Center and Left eschew gun rights? Think so? Like you nazis on the Right, we're well aware the Founders intended the Second Amendment as the last best defense against outrageously corrupt, abusive government. Precisely, why we'll never give up those rights. Never. Especially, at a time when our formerly great country continues to nazify. As the Trump nazi desperately attempts to extend the goddamned fascist police-state we already live in to the Fourth Reich.

Insult to injury?

“You see, for them defeat is never final. Election defeats don’t matter,” he said. “It’s simply a time to regroup and continue their assault on our Constitution, the rule of law, liberty, and American exceptionalism."

You mean like Republican nazis did to Obama for eight years, 'Sheriff?' Obstructing every step of the way? Wake up, 'Sheriff.' The election was stolen. With help from the Russians. Possibly as well from collusion by the Trump nazi and his henchmen with the Russians. To say nothing of the FBI Director desperately trying to throw the election just days before.

-- Not that Hillary, however, was any better choice than the Trump nazi. The assault on the Constitution comes from you "rat bastards" on the Nazi Right. Forget? You haughtily dictate to a woman what she can and cannot do with her uterus. Not yours, you fascist son of a bitch. To concertedly, determinedly force GOP achingly perverse ideological and religious views on all by statute.

In direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, church-state separation, that is freedom from religion. You nazi bastards have deliberately overloaded the courts with GOP fascists more than willing to legislate their equally perverse ideological and religious views from the bench. To say nothing of gerrymandering election districts to ensure Republican nazis attain and retain office.

Your fellow criminal jackbooted bastards in blue, prosecutors, and the courts have eviscerated all civil and constitutional rights and liberties. To consolidate Executive power, establish a goddamned fascist police-state. What rule of law? The law clearly doesn't apply to you goddamned jackbooted bastards in blue. You bastards murder innocent unarmed civilians with impunity.

When was the last time a murderous jackbooted bastard in blue was executed? When? When will the rule of law apply to all in our formerly great country, you fascist son of a bitch? Where is your swastika armband, 'Sheriff?' You're out of uniform. Worse? Out of your league. What 'American exceptionalism' Where?

Talking about every undeclared war since 1950 not-so-cleverly designed to line the pockets of the war profiteering corporate management suite? Even the war in Afghanistan could have been avoided had the State Department conducted full background checks on the 9/11 terrorists. Heeded warnings from flight schools that the terrorists only wished to learn to fly straight and level, not take off and land. Instead, "rat bastards" in both the GOP and Democratic Party gutlessly sold us out. Eviscerated all civil and constitutional rights and liberties.

Wake up, you achingly ignorant, fascist son of a bitch. Ferociously pointedly, take your head out of your ass. Butt hole stinks. Clouds your vision. Perverts judgment. So much so, this piece of crap gutlessly cherry picks fringe bullshit, makes insane statements with no basis in fact:

“Now, why would I call them rat bastards?” he said. “First of all, because I can. Second, as you know I call ‘em as I see ‘em. But third and more importantly, just listen to Saul Alinsky, a socialist professor who admired Lucifer, for heaven’s sake. And Alinsky’s admired by the left.”

That all you got, 'Sheriff?' No more than a narcissist like your goddamned fuhrer, the Trump nazi? Cherry pick nonsense from someone on the lunatic fringe of the Left to match your equally psychotic rhetoric coming from the Nazi Right? A pox on both your houses, you fascist son of a bitch.

“As you know, I worked hard to help Donald Trump get elected president of the United States, and I will fight even harder to help him make American great again,” he said."

Like the Trump nazi, 'Sheriff,' you're an unhinged wing nut. Unfit for office. Ferociously pointedly? How is the Trump nazi making America great again by extending the goddamned fascist police-state we already live in to the Fourth Reich? You, and others who 'think' like you, dangerously present an exigent threat to all civil and constitutional rights and liberties. A threat far greater than any foreign power, terrorist organization, or the criminal element.

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Readers will recall the recent senseless shooting of an elderly man in Ohio. Horrific, horrendous murder. Police in Philadelphia certainly stepped up, stood tall, in tribute. CBS News reports:

"Police officers having a hard time finding the right words to comfort the family of 74-year-old Robert Godwin, Sr., who was killed last week in an apparently random shooting that was video-recorded and posted on Facebook, have found another way to honor the man — with art."

Certainly, did. Magnificently:

"Philadelphia Police Department forensic graphic artist Jonny Castro created a digital painting of the Cleveland, Ohio, victim on Tuesday. The department shared the portrait of a smiling Godwin on its Facebook page, along with an eye-opening message."

The art, stunning, message as well:

“This digital painting of Cleveland, Ohio homicide victim Robert Godwin, Sr. is being shared in order to get an extremely important message out there,” the Philly police department wrote in a post that has been shared more than 8,500 times. “YOU – the public – are the best weapon we have in the fight against crime. Sure, that’s a cliche – but some cliches become cliches for a reason. FACT: Mr. Godwin’s killer is no longer a threat because a citizen picked up a phone and called police.”

That's true:

"The department is referring to the McDonald’s employees in Erie, Pennsylvania, who recognized the 37-year-old murder suspect, Steve Stephens, at a drive-thru Tuesday and attempted to stall him as they contacted police. Within “30 seconds,” Tom Ducharme Jr., who owns the McDonald’s, told CBS affiliate WSEE Pennsylvania State Police had responded and were on Stephens’ tail. Stephens killed himself after a brief chase about two miles from the restaurant, ending a nearly 48-hour multistate manhunt."

Hat's off to the artist, all police involved, as well as the McDonald's employees.

“At 74 years old, his life was taken during a single act of senseless violence,” Castro said in a Facebook page created to showcase his artwork. “He was a peaceful man, who enjoyed fishing and helping his community in Cleveland.” Debbie Godwin, the victim’s daughter, told Cleveland.com her father had retired after years as foundry worker. He frequently fished in Lake Erie and collected aluminum cans as “just something to do.” She said her father was “a great man, a sweet man.” “All my life, all I’ve ever known for my dad to be a provider,” she said."

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Another example of uncommon valor. This time from a Con Edison supervisor in New York several weeks ago. CBS News reports:

"A Con Edison supervisor jumped onto New York City subway tracks to save a man just before a train pulled into the station Saturday, CBS New York reports."

How many people would risk their lives doing the same? Remarkable courage.

"Jonathan Kulig, 29, was standing on a platform of the subway’s L train on his way to work when he saw the man fall onto the tracks. Kulig jumped into the tracks and lifted the man out of a watery space between the rails. He hoisted him onto the subway platform and climbed out. One minute and nine seconds later, the train rolled into the station."

Hat's off, Mr. Kulig.

“The one thing I can completely say, that I’m completely confident about, is that if I didn’t pick him up, that train would’ve gotten him,” Kulig said. “Cause there weren’t really anybody else that was jumping down to do anything. He probably wouldn’t be around.” Kulig said he knew exactly where to stand in the tracks to avoid the third rail because he’s an electrical engineer."

May be one of the reasons others failed to rise to the occasion. Another may be it's difficult to get back up on the platform. Need to be able-bodied to do so. The man he saved had some undisclosed medical issues.

4-28-17

Another story of uncommon valor. American POW nurses 75 years ago. Fox News reports:

"One of World War II’s greatest untold stories began on April 8, 1942 when Lt. Gen. Jonathan Wainwright, the commander of the U.S. Army in the Philippines, ordered the evacuation of military and civilian nurses to the island of Corregidor. A month later, Corregidor fell and 77 American nurses were captured by the Japanese, becoming the largest group of female prisoners of war."

These women stood tall.

"Known as the “Angels of Bataan and Corregidor,” the group continues to hold the distinction of not losing a single member during their three years in the Santo Tomas Internment camp. “It is not that they were some of the first women POWs that made them special, but that they were average Americans from average towns and they survived in a horrific environment while never losing their commitment to serving their patients,” says Bernice Fischer, granddaughter of U.S. Army nurse Mary Bernice Brown-Menzie."

Younger readers are reminded it is an egregious understatement to say the Japanese were vicious to prisoners of war.

"Fischer tells Fox News her grandmother entered the prison camp in 1942 weighing 130 pounds but had dropped to 75 pounds when she was liberated in February 1945."

Think this exceptional woman wasn't tough? Determined?

"Many of the women sought assignment in the Philippines prior to December 1941 when the Pacific was relatively peaceful and where they enjoyed dances and other luxuries."

Not for long:

"But that changed after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and then launched an invasion of the Philippines. For months the nurses faced constant attack by Japanese planes, deteriorating conditions and dwindling rations."

Stood tall. Did their jobs. Persevered under incredible hardship:

“There were 77 American women who became POWs and there were 77 who walked out in 1945. This is unprecedented, particularly for women who had no formal survival training,” says Elizabeth M. Norman, who chronicled the nurses in the book, “We Band of Angels: The Untold Story of American Nurses Trapped on Bataan.”

Best of the best.

"According to Norman, under the informal leadership of World War I veteran nurse Capt. Maude Davison, the women always kept to strict schedules waking every day and dressing in uniforms they fashioned themselves. The discipline combined with a singular dedication to care for their patients, some of whom had been among the 75,000 American and Filipino soldiers captured on April 9, 1942 and forced on a 68-mile “death march” in 100-degree temperatures without food or water."

Younger readers are reminded American and Filipino POWs on this march who couldn't keep up were bayoneted by the Japanese.

"The nurses cared for the men, known as “The Battling Bastards of Bataan,” despite suffering from starvation and other diseases themselves. Fischer tells Fox News her grandmother and the other nurses never thought of themselves as heroic because they saw their patients as the real heroes."

Younger readers are reminded Congressional Medal of Honor winners, most of whom receive this highest military award posthumously, don't consider themselves heroes either. Defer to those who died on the battlefield. Duty, Honor, Country.

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Human trafficking remains an egregious problem. CNN reports courtesy of the Missouri Attorney General:

"More than 150 years after Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, slavery is illegal almost everywhere. But it is still not abolished -- not even here, in the land of the free. On the contrary, there is a cancer of violence, a modern-day slavery growing in America by the day, in the very places where we live and work. It's called human trafficking. The time has come for a new abolitionist movement to confront this oppression and turn it back."

Sadly, we have a long, long way to go:

"Each year, thousands of people, usually women and girls, are deceived, threatened or simply forced into commercial sexual exploitation. That is, they are forced to provide sex for money. Don't be misled, this isn't a crime confined to exotic locales. It happens all the time, even in a neighborhood near you. Sex trafficking occurs when a young woman is forced into prostitution at a truck stop; when a sexual predator lures a teen on the internet; when a family member makes a child sell sex for cash."

Josh Hawley, Missouri Attorney General, is determined to do something about it:

"Today I am issuing new regulations, which my office understands to be the first of their kind in the nation, that will deploy Missouri's consumer protection laws to target traffickers. It's a bold new approach designed to open a new front in the fight against trafficking.

"... Here is how the new regulations will work: If traffickers attempt to use a business in Missouri to mask their criminal enterprise, we will find them out. We will shut them down. And using our consumer protection statutes, we will hold them liable, with both civil and criminal penalties. That goes for anyone involved in the traffickers' enterprise.

"Today I am also issuing new regulations to make debt bondage a violation of Missouri's consumer protection statutes. This new rule takes direct aim at another favorite tactic of traffickers: they lend money or give something of value to their victims, but then use that debt to coerce victims into commercial sex or forced labor.

"Not anymore in Missouri. From today forward, it is illegal in this state to force any person to engage in commercial sex -- or to sell themselves in any way -- in order to pay off a debt or loan. In addition, I am issuing rules that target those who induce victims to come to Missouri based on the false promise that a good job awaits, only to force them into commercial sex or slave labor.

"To enforce these regulations, I have created a new unit of prosecutors and law enforcement in the Attorney General's Office ready to work with local law enforcement and prosecutors to take the fight to the traffickers all across the state. And I am creating a state-wide anti-trafficking task force, not only to coordinate law enforcement and victim-relief efforts in Missouri, but to work with other states and leaders in the non-governmental sector to forge a national coalition to eradicate these networks of violence."

Be interesting to see how well this works. Should certainly be considered elsewhere throughout the country.

4-28-17

Wake up, Sheriff. Again, where is dashcam video of the killing of Jeffrey Gray Wise, 52, of Austin by DPS and the Llano County Sheriff's Office? Fifty-three weeks, now. A goddamned disgrace. Why are you still sitting on this information? What are you hiding, Sheriff? What is the identity of the officers who killed Wise? Too gutless to release this information to the public that pays your salary and that of your goons? Reportedly, there were three officers involved in the shooting.

Who are they, Sheriff? Their past history? An ongoing investigation remains a lame bullshit excuse. How can you and your goons be trusted when you refuse to disclose information? Fifty-three weeks. Especially, your egregious failure to disclose the identity of the officers who pulled the trigger. To cover your sorry ass, Sheriff? Those of your thugs? The people have a right to know what happened, how it went down. You don't understand that, Sheriff? Sadly, clearly, you answer to no one. Including taxpayers. Especially, taxpayers.

Until you and your goons come clean, doubt will remain this was indeed a good shoot. The longer you drag your feet, the greater the doubt. Think not? Wake up. Your credibility has tanked. Isn't getting any better as this bullshit continues unabated. Fifty-three weeks. Still no identification of the officers involved ... Can't get your stories straight? In line? Discrepancy between LCSO and DPS? Wake up, Sheriff. The public no longer buys the bullshit. No longer trusts you. On this and many, many other issues. You have no credibility. Absolutely, none.

4-28-17

The State of Virginia, like all others, believes it owns your body womb to tomb. To say nothing of the federal government. Liberty? What's that? No longer exists in the fascist police-state we now live in. In follow up to an earlier edition of this publication and elsewhere, The Washington Post reports:

"The police brought cadaver dogs to search the small redbrick rancher in this suburban community south of Richmond. On that March day more than a year ago, they were seeking “any evidence associated with the delivery and death of a newborn child whether alive or deceased,” according to the affidavit for the search warrant. What they found buried in the back yard — the skeletal remains of a fetus — led to the indictment last month of a 43-year-old woman who lived there. Michelle Frances Roberts is accused of self-aborting in the third trimester of her pregnancy. She was arrested March 29 this year on felony charges of “producing abortion or miscarriage.” The rarely invoked law, written in 1950, prohibits giving a pregnant woman a drug or taking any action “with intent to destroy her unborn child.”

What the hell business is it of our goddamned nazi government to dictate what a woman can and cannot do with her uterus?

"Roberts, who remains in jail in Chesterfield, has denied the charges. According to the police, she told investigators she gave birth to a baby boy in the house, but he died afterward, and she buried him in the back yard. Police and prosecutors have revealed little about the evidence that led to the unusual charge against Roberts, who court records show has a history of drug use."

Where is the evidence against this woman? Why are the jackbooted bastards in blue sitting on it? Could it be they indeed have shit squat? Get this:

"Commonwealth Assistant Attorney Shawn Gobble refused to comment on the case. Roberts’ defense attorney, H. Pratt Cook III, also declined to talk about the charge his client is facing. She is scheduled to appear in court Monday for a status hearing on the case, which has alarmed women’s rights advocates in Virginia."

As well it should. Women no longer have the right to do with their uterus as they damn well please all over this country. Republican nazis in state legislatures have determinedly infringed on the constitutional right to abort. Done so to impose their goddamned perverse ideological and religious views on all by statute. In direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, church-state separation, that is, freedom from religion.

“It is unclear from the questionable, selective release of information by the Chesterfield police exactly what happened here,” said Gail Deady, the Secular Society Women’s Rights legal fellow for the Virginia ACLU. “But it appears that this is another example of overreach and targeting of a pregnant woman in an attempt to shame and punish her for her circumstances.”

Appears to be egregious abuse of power by the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue and prosecutors. Forensic examination of the corpse should have determined whether or not it was stillborn, died of natural causes after birth, or was murdered. Why are the assholes in government sitting on this information?

"But a neighbor who saw the police cars arrive on their street said the discovery of the remains near a big tree in the back yard sent chills through her body: “It wasn’t right. She should have gone to a doctor. If you don’t want the baby, you go to the doctor.”

It's her uterus, her body, not yours. Not that of this goddamned overbearing government. Who the hell are you to judge her? Moreover, is this goddamned government effectively accusing her of practicing medicine on her body without a license? Is that what this is about? If so, then why wasn't she so charged? Liberty? What's that? The 'freedom' to do what you're told?

"The law has been used at least once before by Virginia authorities to charge a woman with harming her unborn child, according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch. In 2005, a Suffolk woman was prosecuted for shooting herself in the abdomen on her due date and then blaming her injury on a man. But a circuit court judge dismissed the charge, saying the law was not intended to punish expectant mothers. It was aimed at the actions of others."

Wouldn't want to confuse the Nazi Right with the truth, would we?

"Repeated efforts by state legislators to pass a law making it a crime for a pregnant woman to self-abort were unsuccessful."

As well they should have been. Our bodies do not belong to this goddamned nazi government. Why shouldn't we be able to self-treat? Practicing medicine without a license on another person is indeed quite a different matter. Certainly, the woman would have been well advised to have sought professional medical care. Not the point, however. It's her body. Does not belong to the goddamned Republican Nazi Right.

"Deady said she is concerned about the repercussions of the Roberts prosecution. “It could mean anyone who has a miscarriage could be subjected to an investigation by police and thrown in jail,” she argued."

Exactly, precisely, the problem with this outrageous, egregious governmental overreach. Be interesting to see how this case is resolved. No more than concerted, determined, pernicious abrogation of all civil and constitutional rights and liberties by GOP 'law and order' national socialists, fascists, nazis determined to impose their achingly perverse religious and ideological views on all by statute. In direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, church-state separation, that is freedom from religion.

4-28-17

This goddamned government, all levels, truly believes it owns us womb to tomb. Think not? Wake up. NBC News reports:

"An autopsy of "Happy Days" star Erin Moran showed that she probably died of late-stage cancer, authorities said Monday."

Why was her body butchered by a medical examiner? What probable cause was there that a crime had indeed occurred? Authorities stated she had fourth stage cancer but refused to disclose what type cancer. If no crime was committed, what business did they have conducting an autopsy? None of their goddamned business, -- or anyone else's for that matter, other than family. Outrageous governmental overreach. A fascist police-state. The Fourth Reich.

Subsequent to writing the above, her husband stated she had skin cancer.

4-28-17

Another egregious example of injustice rubber stamped by a nazi U.S. Supreme Court. NBC News reports:

"The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to hear the appeal of a Houston man who was paralyzed when a policeman shot him in the back during a traffic stop."

Nazi justice in the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich.

"Lower federal courts ruled for the officer without a trial, even though the policeman and the victim had different accounts of what happened."

No goddamned justice in a fascist police-state. The criminal jackbooted bastards in blue, 'prosecutors, and 'judges?' All bought and paid for. ... Right, TL? Sheriff? "Sonny Boy?" Madam County Attorney?

"Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in a strongly worded dissent Monday, said the Supreme Court should have taken the case. "We have not hesitated," they said, when the courts reversed rulings that denied police officers immunity from lawsuits. "But we rarely intervene where courts wrongly afford officers the benefit of qualified immunity in these same cases."

Called nazi justice in a goddamned fascist police-state. Courtesy of Republican nazis on the court who legislate their outrageously perverse ideological and religious views from the bench.

"Failing to let victims sue "imposes no less harm on society as a whole" than allowing lawsuits against police officers to go forward."

Clearly, doesn't matter to the Republican nazis warming their seats on the Supreme Court. Hear the rumble? An unwanted dreaded second American revolution already catastrophically looming on the horizon.

"Salazar-Limon suffered a spinal court injury, paralyzing his lower body. He sued the city, but the lower courts granted summary judgment to the officer — meaning a ruling in the city's favor with no jury trial. In the dissent, Justice Sotomayor, writing for herself and Justice Ginsburg, said summary judgment is appropriate only when there is no genuine dispute about what happened. "The courts below failed to heed that mandate," she wrote."

Kangaroo justice in a fascist police-state. The nazi Supreme Court protected, coddled the officer. Forget? The achingly gutless, criminal jackbooted bastard in blue shot Salazar-Limon in the back. Wake up. This is nazi justice.

4-28-17

The following is yet another example of egregious police, prosecutorial, and judicial malfeasance, blatant misconduct. NPR reports:

"Massachusetts formally dropped more than 21,000 tainted drug convictions Thursday that were linked to a disgraced state chemist who in 2013 admitted to faking test results. It's the largest single dismissal of convictions in U.S. history, according to the American Civil Liberties Union. Thursday's dismissals by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court had been expected after several district attorneys on Tuesday submitted lists of 21,587 cases they said they would be unwilling or unable to prosecute, The Associated Press reports."

How can this have gone on as long as it did? No one noticed? Had no clue? Give me a break.

"Innocent persons were incarcerated," Justice Carol S. Ball of Suffolk County Superior Court wrote in her 2013 sentencing decision. "Guilty persons have been released to further endanger the public, millions and millions of public dollars are being expended to deal with the chaos Ms. Dookhan created, and the integrity of the criminal justice system has been shaken to the core."

Not just the responsibility of one person, however:

"But the ACLU says it's not just a single person who is to blame for that chaos. Kade Crockford of the ACLU writes that the scandal stemmed from a system that is set up to facilitate convictions. Crockford continues, "It was that system that enabled her abuse, covered it up, and then fought to preserve the convictions that stemmed from it."

Clear indication the entire system is in desperate need of total revamp. Precisely, why so little faith and trust remain in law enforcement, prosecutors, and the courts.

4-28-17

While NYPD criminal jackbooted bastards in blue have a well-earned reputation for shitting on all civil and constitutional rights and liberties, they don't seem capable of properly vetting and continuing to vet their own during the course of employment. CBS News reports:

"An off-duty NYPD officer is accused of driving drunk and causing a crash that left two sisters in critical condition and another passenger injured, CBS New York reports. Sources confirmed that 32-year-old Neville Smith rear-ended a Honda as he merged onto the Van Wyck Expressway shortly after 4 a.m. Sunday. Investigators said Smith was driving while intoxicated."

Jackbooted bastards in blue wouldn't drive drunk, would they?

“It is very sad that a person of authority, a person who’s sworn to protect the people, was intoxicated and got himself involved in a situation like that,” said Ravi Rattan, the priest for the victims’ family."

Worse than that? It's goddamned criminal.

"Vanessa Raghubar, 22, was driving the car, while her sister, Maria, and Maria’s boyfriend, Justin Harricharran, were in the backseat. Family members said Vanessa suffered the most severe injuries and is on life support at a hospital. Maria is in critical condition with broken bones in her arms and pelvic area and severe injuries to her kidneys and intestines. Harricharran suffered bumps and bruises and is expected to fully recover."

Don't think this jackbooted son of a bitch in blue should spend the rest of his life in prison?

"Smith was charged with assault, vehicular assault, driving while intoxicated and refusing to take a breath test. He has been a police officer for nearly six years and was assigned to the New York City Police Department’s 48th Precinct detective squad in the Bronx. He has been suspended for 30 days without pay."

Not good enough. Nowhere near. Why wasn't this piece of shit immediately fired? Why not?

Think New York's 'Finest' are truly that? CBS News reports:

"A former New York City police lieutenant, two former police officers and a lawyer who once worked as a prosecutor were arrested in a federal gun licensing probe Tuesday as authorities described a scam in which police employees traded speedy handling of gun permits for paid vacations, jewelry, catered parties, cash and visits to strip clubs."

This shit goes on as long as it does and no one knows? No one within the Department reports it?

"According to court papers, the trading of gun licenses for bribes stretched from at least 2010 to 2016. Authorities said members of the NYPD License Division solicited and accepted bribes from individuals who charged customers fees to secure gun licenses."

Again, how does this go on as long as it did and no one knows? Cares?

“The alleged corruption pervaded the license division up to its senior level,” acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Joon Kim said Tuesday."

No one had the guts to blow the whistle?

"Among those charged was Paul Dean, a police lieutenant and the second-highest ranking member of the License Division when he retired in January 2016. He supervised about 40 uniformed police employees and had ultimate authority to approve or reject licenses and upgrade requests, authorities said. A criminal complaint filed in Manhattan federal court said the former officers charged accepted bribes from “gun license expediters,” and in exchange would “issue gun licenses to whoever the expediters brought them without question,” Kim said. A criminal complaint says Dean and another former officer, Robert Espinel, in 2015 “solicited and accepted food, alcohol, parties, dancers and prostitutes” from a gun license “expediter.”

Since Republican 'law and order' nazis firmly believe in capital punishment, why not extend such statutes to include officers who not only murder on the job but those who engage in any corruption whatsoever?

4-28-17

Texas Public Radio reports from Texas Standard:

"Many have expressed concern and outrage over the way police treat citizens, especially African-Americans and other minorities. The Black Lives Matter movement began in response to the deaths of African-Americans in police custody, including Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., and the arrest of Sandra Bland, who was later found dead in a Waller County jail, an apparent suicide."

Never ends. Consider the following:

"The Austin American-Statesman has been investigating a different kind of fatal police encounter that has often been overlooked. Eric Dexheimer, a reporter with the Statesman says a surprising number of deaths in police custody were not the result of gunshots. The newspaper investigated deaths that occurred while an individual was under police restraint. He says more than 250 people died in Texas under these circumstances between 2005 and 2016."

Precisely, why there is desperate need for the Department of 'Justice' to investigate each and every one of these cases to determine if in fact the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue murdered these people on the job. Won't happen under the Sessions nazi, who apparently believes the jackbooted bastards in blue do no wrong.

4-28-17

Texas Standard reports:

"Texas will not be allowed to import an execution drug from overseas, the Food and Drug administration ruled yesterday. Two years ago the state tried to import 1,000 vials of the drug sodium thiopental for lethal injections. That shipment was seized at a Houston airport by the FDA, who said the drug was not approved for use in the U.S. The state says it has used the drug before and obtained a license from the Drug Enforcement Agency to import the shipment."

Interesting, isn't it? Someone's lying, distorting reality, not following the will of the Sessions nazi. All three?

4-28-17

Arkansas got its pound of flesh. NPR reports:

"Arkansas has carried out its first execution since 2005, just minutes before the expiration of the inmate's death warrant. Ledell Lee was executed by lethal injection minutes before midnight Friday Central time in Grady, Ark. at the Cummins Unit facility, shortly before the warrant was set to expire."

When will statutes change across this country ensuring criminal jackbooted bastards in blue who murder on the job receive the same?

Outrageously fascist Republican savages in Arkansas got two more pounds of flesh. NPR reports:

"Arkansas executed two inmates on Monday night, the first double execution in the U.S. since 2000. The second inmate put to death was Marcel Williams. He and the prisoner executed just before him, Jack Jones Jr. — both convicted murderers — had filed last-minute appeals that were rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court."

Soon, at least one more to come as the nazis in Arkansas get their cookies off hurriedly 'doing unto others as they would have them do unto them.' ... Before expiration of the drugs used to murder the condemned. Again, the question to be asked is when the hell will we start executing the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue who murder on the job? When will these criminal sons of bitches receive equal treatment by statute? Instead of being protected and coddled by the goddamned Nazi Right?

The newly-installed Gorsuch nazi once again displayed his true colors. Indeed, successfully legislated his outrageously perverse ideological and religious views from the bench. ... Hey, Neil? You're out of uniform. Where is your swastika armband, you fascist son of a bitch? Fitting right in with the other four GOP nazis on the bench, are you?

4-28-17

Misogyny remains alive and well in Nazi America. Think not? CBS News reports:

"A defense lawyer is being criticized for telling a Tennessee jury that women are “especially good” at lying “because they’re the weaker sex.”

Brings back the 'good old days,' doesn't it? Circa 1957. ... Think this shyster f--ker isn't an idiot?

"The Memphis Commercial Appeal reports attorney Steve Farese made the comments during closing arguments of the trial of Mark Giannini, a wealthy businessman accused of raping a woman who came to his house for a job interview. Farese maintains that the sex was consensual and has questioned the woman’s credibility."

Almost forgot. Anything goes when representing a member of the top 1%.

"Memphis Area Women’s Council executive director Deborah Clubb calls Farese’s comments “absolutely despicable.” Farese tells the newspaper that his job “is not to care if anybody gets offended” and “smart people will see it for what it is.”

Exactly. Bullshit coming from a goddamned misogynist shyster.

4-21-17

Whenever a cop does something heroic, and/or of exceptional benefit to the community, it leads. Always. CBS News reports:

"A police officer is being hailed as a hero for helping rescue a 38-year-old Illinois man whose vehicle plunged into a lake Thursday morning, CBS Chicago reports. Dashcam video captured the moment Round Lake Park Police Officer Christopher Valle arrives and sees a van submerged in the water. “Once I arrived I took all my gear off. I knew I needed to go inside that car,” he told the station. Without hesitating, Valle jumped into the water and swam to help the driver."

Has to be one of the most satisfying aspects of policing. Saving a life. Especially when doing so under survival conditions at great risk to the officer's life.

“The water was by his chest -- you could only see his face,” the officer said. “I was able to keep his head up and put it on headrest in order for him to keep breathing. He was a little bit dazed. He was conscious.”

Hat's off, Officer Valle. Great job. Uncommon valor. -- Must be remembered the water at this time of the year up there is cold. Extremely cold.

"Minutes later, members of the Round Lake Fire Protection district arrived at the scene. “Our water rescue team entered the water in exposure suits,” Deputy Chief Joe Krueger said. “It was critical because the vehicle was filling up with water and sinking at the same time.”

The above makes the action of Officer Valle even more impressive. Certainly, the best in policing.

"It turns out, the driver had a medical emergency while his vehicle was parked in a lot. The vehicle slowly moved down a boat ramp and made it into the water. The 38-year-old was pulled out of the water to safety."

Indeed, the conditions at the scene make this officer's action particularly courageous, an example of uncommon valor:

“I tell you what: It took a lot of guts to jump in the water,” Krueger said of the officer. “You don’t think about it sometimes,” said Valle, who’s only been on the job for one year. “You go in right away and do the best you can because you know that person needs your help.”

Luckily, no one died:

"The driver remains hospitalized but is in stable condition."

4-21-17

Think dogs and cats are the only animals capable of alerting and saving human life? KAIT Jonesboro, AR reports:

"When a Weiner 10-year-old got a goat as an early birthday present, she didn’t know she was getting a lifesaver. In fact, some would say the timing of the goat’s arrival was perfect. “We got the goat Thursday,” said Nick Bruce, Abigail’s father. “I personally, did not like it. I didn’t want anything to do with the goat, but after this weekend, I guess he came right on time.”

He did. Had it not been for the goat, the family likely would have perished:

"On Saturday night, when the Bruce family went to bed in their home in the 600-block of North Prairie Street, Abigail was awakened by Speedy the goat. “It was after one o’clock when the goat was waking me up and whenever I woke up, it was bouncing on me and screaming.” Abigail said she immediately began to see smoke in the room. “I heard the windows bursting and then I saw fire outside,” said Abigail. That’s when she got up and ran to her father’s room."

Nightmare come true. Imagine the terror:

“She said it was smoky and she could hardly breathe,” said Nick. “She said she thought it was hailing outside but when I got up to check, it was the fire that was coming around the outside window.” “I'm glad we got it before the fire happened or we wouldn't be here,” said Abigail. Now, Nick thinks differently of Speedy. “We are good now,” said Nick. “He is not going anywhere!”

You think?

"More than anything, Nick said he is very appreciative of the Weiner Fire Department. “They were great,” said Nick. “They got there immediately and assisted my family until the end. They even continued to call and check on us so I am very appreciative of them.”

The family is receiving material support from the community as well.

4-21-17

This country needs to rethink priorities. Fox News reports:

"A heartbroken mother has shared an emotional Facebook post addressed to her son Nolan, two months after he died of cancer. Ruth Scully, from Maryland, revealed the pain of watching her child suffer, and the final miracle before she lost him. Nolan was diagnosed with Rhabdomyosarcoma, a rare soft tissue cancer, in November 2015 and passed away in February this year, aged four. His mum says she had long wanted to write about his last days and “how he was made of nothing but pure love.”

The scourge of cancer should have long since been eradicated.

"When she took Nolan to the hospital for the last time, after he had battled cancer for more than a year, he had not eaten or drunk anything in days and was continually vomiting. On February 1, the oncologist sat them down to hear the terrible truth. The four-year-old’s cancer had spread and large tumours were compressing his bronchial tubes and heart just four weeks after open chest surgery. The cancer was no longer treatable."

Gets worse. Seatbelts on:

"The anguished mother walked into her son’s room, where he was watching YouTube.

Me: Poot, it hurts to breathe doesn’t it?

Nolan: Weeeelll.... yeah.

Me: You’re in a lot of pain aren’t you baby?

Nolan: (looking down) Yeah.

Me: Poot, this Cancer stuff sucks. You don’t have to fight anymore.

Nolan: (Pure Happiness) I DONT??!! But I will for you Mommy!!

Me: No Poot!! Is that what you have been doing?? Fighting for Mommy??

Nolan: Well DUH!!

Me: Nolan Ray, what is Mommy’s job?

Nolan: To keep me SAFE! (With a big grin)

Me: Honey ... I can’t do that anymore here. The only way I can keep you safe is in Heaven. (My heart shattering)

Nolan: Sooooo I’ll just go to Heaven and play until you get there! You’ll come right?

Me: Absolutely!! You can’t get rid of Mommy that easy!!

Nolan: Thank you Mommy!!! I’ll go play with Hunter and Brylee and Henry!!"

This kid at 4 continued to place the needs of his mother first, before his own:

"Nolan slept for most of the next few days. His mother made sure things were in order. “I cannot explain to you what signing an Emergency Responder ‘Do Not Resuscitate’ order for your angelic son feels like,” she wrote. When he woke up, Ruth had his things ready to go home for one more night together. But her son was still putting others first. “He gently put his hand on mine and said ‘Mommy, it’s OK. Let’s just stay here OK?’ My 4 year old Hero was trying to make sure things were easy for me ..."

Imagine having to live through the following:

“So in between sleeping for the next 36 hours, we played, watched YouTube, shot Nerf Gun after Nerf Gun and smiled as many times as we could. An hour or so before he passed he even filled out a ‘Will’! We laid in bed together and he sketched out how he wanted his funeral, picked his pall bearers, what he wanted people to wear, wrote down what he was leaving each of us, and even wrote down what he wanted to be remembered as ... which of course was a Policeman.”

His mother went to take a shower. When she came out of the bathroom was confronted by the following:

“When I opened the bathroom door, his Team was surrounding his bed and every head turned and looked at me with tears in their eyes. They said ‘Ruth, he’s in a deep sleep. He can’t feel anything’. His respirations were extremely laboured, his right lung had collapsed and his oxygen dropped. “I ran and jumped into bed with him and put my hand on the right side of his face. Then a miracle that I will never forget happened.... “My angel took a breath, opened his eyes, smiled at me and said ‘I Love You Mommy’, turned his head towards me and at 11:54pm Sgt. Rollin Nolan Scully passed away as I was singing ‘You are My Sunshine’ in his ear.”

The quotes above are courtesy of a most gifted, insightful writer, Emma Reynolds.

The point of all this is simple. Achingly, simple. Our priorities desperately need reexamination. At a time of record corporate profits and cash reserves, money is not spent where it truly needs to be spent. On improving the human condition. Curing diseases that should have long since been cured. The Trump nazi and his henchmen are doing all they can at the moment to provoke the North Korean dictator into initiating hostilities.

Worse, the Trump nazi falsely claims the U.S. military is depleted, needs to be rebuilt. Abject bullshit. An insane lie. Our military is, and remains, the most powerful on earth. We spend on defense as much as the next seven countries combined. Yet, the Trump nazi wants more. Intends to cut domestic programs to pay for it. To line the pockets of his war profiteer corporate buddies.

-- At a time when this country is now divided more than at any other time in history. We now live in what has become in effect a fascist police-state. Soon to be the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich. Hear the rumble? An unwanted dreaded second American revolution already catastrophically looming on the horizon. Yet, the Trump nazi, his henchmen remain oblivious. So does half the nation.

Meanwhile, the homeless remain homeless, the hungry, -- hungry, the sick and dying needlessly suffering as the mother and son in the above story. We've lost ourselves. The route we're on is not sustainable. The greatest threat to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is no foreign power, no terrorist organization, not even the criminal element. It is, and remains, our own government, all branches and levels.

The Trump nazi remains incapable of telling the truth. On April 8, 2017, an announcement was made that an aircraft carrier task force was on its way to the Korean Peninsula. Seems this wasn't true. The Washington Post reports:

"A photograph released by the Navy showed the aircraft carrier sailing through the calm waters of Sunda Strait between the Indonesian islands of Sumatra and Java on Saturday, April 15. By later in the day, it was in the Indian Ocean, according to Navy photographs. In other words, on the same day that the world nervously watched North Korea stage a massive military parade to celebrate the birthday of the nation’s founder, Kim Il Sung, and the press speculated about a preemptive U.S. strike, the U.S. Navy put the Carl Vinson, together with its escort of two guided-missile destroyers and a cruiser, more than 3,000 miles southwest of the Korean Peninsula — and more than 500 miles southeast of Singapore."

Indeed, a most dangerous game played by the Trump nazi and his henchmen. Any miscalculation, any at all can result in dire consequences for the region. Including U.S. military personnel stationed in South Korea, Japan, and elsewhere in the area. Meanwhile, deprivation here at home goes unaddressed. Infrastructure continues to deteriorate. This country continues to nazify from effectively a fascist police-state to the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich.

Trump and his henchmen have no grasp on reality. Remain clueless to the reason for exponentially increasing dissent, protest. The Washington Times reports:

"Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly told the host of critics to “shut up” and let his agents do their jobs, pushing back against the overwhelming wave of criticism from advocacy groups who have complained that immigration enforcement has grown too strict under the Trump administration."

This achingly delusional nazi at Homeland 'Security' insanely has his panties in a wad. Tough shit. There is no way at least half this population will remain gutlessly silent as our formerly great country proceeds from what is already a fascist police-state to Trump's Fourth Reich. Over half the public believes the following:

“This administration is purposefully targeting formerly ‘low priority’ undocumented immigrants who are deeply rooted in American families and American communities,” Frank Sharry, executive director of America’s Voice, a leading advocacy, said earlier this week. “The American people want undocumented immigrants who are low-priority to be put on a path to legal status and citizenship, not on a path to detention, deportation and family separation.”

The imposition of nazism will not be tolerated. It is currently tearing our formerly great country apart. Top to bottom. Bottom to top. Across the seams, the fabric of what used to be a great country.

The insanity of GOP nazis is well-illustrated by Texas Sen. Ted "Screws Loose" Cruz. The Washington Times reports:

“President Trump is sending very serious signals, and signals that they should listen to, that there are consequences for threatening and waging war against the United States,” Mr. Cruz said."

Abject bullshit. Simply, untrue. In fact, Trump's delusionally, ludicrously sending quite the opposite message. The Syrian airbase was operational the day after the cruise missile attack. The 'mother' of all bombs dropped in Afghanistan did no more than strengthen enemy resolve. What is the Senator talking about? The North Korean dictator made it clear he will launch a pre-emptive nuclear attack if threatened. Again, Senator, what the hell are you talking about?

“There’s no doubt that a return of American strength is critical.”

More achingly delusional bullshit from this insane Republican. What this goddamned nazi and others in the GOP are calling for in reality is a return to the days of U.S. imperialism, -- to line the pockets of GOP war profiteers in the corporate management suite. That's not going to happen. Won't be tolerated here at home.

4-21-17

Yet another case of uncommon valor. ... Initially, by a most exceptional woman fifty years ago. -- Repeated by the very same woman under radically different circumstances at the very same event fifty years later. An amazing story of determination, uncompromising, ferocious will. NBC News reports:

"In 1967, 20-year-old Kathrine Switzer made history when she defiantly became the first woman to officially run in the Boston Marathon — even as race officials tried to physically stop her."

Imagine that. No women allowed. Couldn't be, could it?

"Fifty years later, she finished the race again, donning the same number: 261. "I just ran the fastest marathon I've run in 46 years," she told NBC News after crossing the finish line Monday."

Hat's off, Ms. Switzer. Hell of an accomplishment.

"It's an impressive feat for someone whose coach once told her, "No dame ain't ever run no marathon."

Imagine that. Consider the obstacles fifty years ago:

"The first time around, as a Syracuse University student, she registered for the marathon as K.V. Switzer, and no one seemed to notice she was a woman until two miles into the race. That's when Jack Semple, a race official, jumped off the press bus and ran after her. "He grabbed me ... threw me back and he said, 'Get the hell out of my race and give me those numbers,'" Switzer recalled. "And he tried to pull my bib numbers off."

Had back up:

"Her boyfriend at the time intervened, pushing Semple away while Switzer continued doing what she was doing — running."

Injustice, at the time? Straight out of the cave:

"It was all captured in an iconic photograph that galvanized the women's movement and helped change the game for female athletes. "It changed everything," she said. "It changed my life and it changed millions of women's lives." Switzer was, however, disqualified from the race and there was more backlash to come: Switzer said aggressive journalists approached her at the finish line, yelling, "Real women don't run."

Really? The hell they don't.

"She was then expelled from the Athletic Federation, which meant she wasn't allowed to run. So she started her own club, and they ran in Canada, "just like draft dodgers," Switzer said."

While some things indeed have changed in the last half century, much hasn't. Have a long, long way to go to full equality.

"The club started putting on events, and eventually she got sponsored. Switzer then went on to create a global series of races in 27 countries with millions of women. "It grew, grew, grew," she explained. "We could take the data and statistics from all of these events, took it to the International Olympic Committee, and we got the women's marathon included in the Olympic games."

Didn't stop there:

"Her success has continued through to present day. She's run 39 marathons, and when she made her return to the Boston Marathon on Monday, she was an honored guest whose original number, 261, was retired after she crossed the finish line."

At 70. Quite an accomplishment.

"My message to young girls is that you can do much more than you ever can imagine," Switzer said. "The only way you can imagine it is to do it. To take the first step. And if you take the first step, you can then take three steps. And then you can take 10. And someday maybe you can run a marathon. And if you can run a marathon, you can do anything."

Indeed. Quotes above, courtesy of two great, insightful writers, Sarah Amer and Kristen Dahlgren.

4-21-17

Wake up, Sheriff. Again, where is dashcam video of the killing of Jeffrey Gray Wise, 52, of Austin by DPS and the Llano County Sheriff's Office? Fifty-two weeks, now. A goddamned disgrace. Why are you still sitting on this information? What are you hiding, Sheriff? What is the identity of the officers who killed Wise? Too gutless to release this information to the public that pays your salary and that of your goons? Reportedly, there were three officers involved in the shooting.

Who are they, Sheriff? Their past history? An ongoing investigation remains a lame bullshit excuse. How can you and your goons be trusted when you refuse to disclose information? Fifty-two weeks. Especially, your egregious failure to disclose the identity of the officers who pulled the trigger. To cover your sorry ass, Sheriff? Those of your thugs? The people have a right to know what happened, how it went down. You don't understand that, Sheriff? Sadly, clearly, you answer to no one. Including taxpayers. Especially, taxpayers.

Until you and your goons come clean, doubt will remain this was indeed a good shoot. The longer you drag your feet, the greater the doubt. Think not? Wake up. Your credibility has tanked. Isn't getting any better as this bullshit continues unabated. Fifty-two weeks. Still no identification of the officers involved ... Can't get your stories straight? In line? Discrepancy between LCSO and DPS? Wake up, Sheriff. The public no longer buys the bullshit. No longer trusts you. On this and many, many other issues. You have no credibility. Absolutely, none.

4-21-17

Never ends. More of the same. CNN reports:

"Two police officers in Georgia were fired Thursday, less than 24 hours after cell phone videos surfaced of them punching and kicking a motorist in handcuffs. No charges have been filed, but the Gwinnett County Police Department said it's moving forward with a criminal investigation into the incident in the suburban Atlanta county."

An ongoing problem in a fascist police-state. Officers get fired, but no immediate arrest? Why the hell not? Why the double standard? What's good for the public is certainly good for police when these jackbooted bastards in blue criminally assault.

More than enough probable cause:

"In a cell phone video shot by a witness that emerged Wednesday night, Officer Robert McDonald, who was responding to assist Bongiovanni, emerges from off-screen and kicks Hollins while he is on the ground."

"During the investigation, a second video surfaced, shot from a different angle by another witness. In this video, Bongiovanni can be seen approaching Hollins, who is still inside the car. As Hollins exits the vehicle with his hands up, the officer punches him in the face."

This, the best law enforcement has to offer? Precisely, why it is up to the public to continue to video such encounters, -- if safe to do so. The only way this shit will end short of the unthinkable. An unwanted dreaded second American revolution already catastrophically looming on the horizon.

Here is the take of ABC News:

"A Georgia police department has launched a criminal investigation in response to a “disturbing” video that allegedly shows the officer kicking a handcuffed man in the head as he lays in the middle of a major roadway during a traffic stop. The Gwinnett County Police Department in Lawrenceville has fired the officer in question, identified as Robert McDonald, who was hired in August 2013.

No probable cause to immediately arrest the criminal jackbooted son of a bitch? Get this:

"We have also launched a criminal investigation that will ultimately be sent to the District Attorney’s Office," the Gwinnett Police Department said in a press release Thursday afternoon. "What happened yesterday was clearly outside of state law and department policy. We do not tolerate actions that are not consistent with our core values or state law."

Then, why the hell didn't you immediately arrest the son of a bitch? You bastards wouldn't have hesitated to arrest a civilian who had done such. Why the goddamned double standard? Why special treatment for a criminal jackbooted bastard in blue?

"The shift commander initiated an “immediate investigation into the incident” after the arrest, the police department said. McDonald was subsequently placed on administrative leave and his department-issued firearm was taken. The police department later said the officer had been terminated from the agency.“The cellphone video is very disturbing and it speaks for itself,” the Gwinnett County Police Department said in a statement Thursday. “The video was very crucial to the investigation and it confirmed that the force used was unnecessary and excessive."

Again, why wasn't the son of a bitch immediately arrested? Nothing in the above ABC article, however, about the other fired son of a bitch, Bongiovanni.

CBS News reports:

"Two Georgia police officers were fired Thursday, a day after authorities say one punched a man who had his hands up and the other kicked the man in the head once he was handcuffed on the ground."

Goddamned unbelievable this shit still goes on, considering the climate of unrest triggered by this ongoing malfeasance.

"The Gwinnett County Police Department said Thursday afternoon that Master Police Officer Robert McDonald violated department policy and the law. Video showed McDonald assaulting the handcuffed man, identified as Demetrius Bryan Hollins, while assisting a supervisor who had called for backup during a traffic stop about 4 p.m. Wednesday, police said."

What the hell could these former officers have possibly been thinking? Their lack of professionalism, stunning. ... Or, is it Aryan arrogance?

"Several hours later, police said that supervisor, Sgt. Michael Bongiovanni, had also been fired after a second video surfaced of him punching Hollins in the face as Hollins put his hands in the air. “We acknowledge that the actions of these two officers have implications that will be felt for some time,” a police department statement says. “However, we also believe that our decisive action in terminating both officers speaks volumes about what is expected of each officer that wears a Gwinnett County Police badge.”

Then, why weren't both men immediately arrested? Why special treatment not afforded the public?

“I’m literally sick about it,” County Police Chief Butch Ayers said at a news conference reported by CBS Atlanta affiliate WGCL-TV. “Literally sick.”

Then, why didn't you personally place both under arrest? Why special treatment not afforded the public? Here is the problem, the ongoing issue, the double standard, precisely why there is no longer any faith or trust in law enforcement:

"The department also has opened criminal investigations into the behavior of the two officers. The results will be turned over to the county district attorney, who will decide whether to prosecute them."

This has to change. Why? Wake up. Almost never do they ultimately decide to prosecute. When they do? Jury gets stacked. No justice.

The Washington Post reports:

"Two Georgia police officers have been fired after videos surfaced on social media showing them punching and then kicking a man in the head, authorities said. Gwinnett County police said late Thursday that Sgt. Michael Bongiovanni was fired after authorities discovered a video showing Bongiovanni punching the man in the face as the man stepped from a vehicle with his hands up. Earlier, authorities had fired Officer Robert McDonald, who was captured in a different video kicking the man in the head as he lay handcuffed on the ground."

The Washington Times reports:

"A Georgia police officer has been fired after a now-viral video showed him stomping a handcuffed suspect’s head during a traffic stop Wednesday afternoon. The Gwinnett County Police Department said in a statement Thursday that Master Police Officer Robert McDonald, a three-year veteran, had “stepped outside the guiding principles of our agency” and was fired in “less than 24 hours after the incident occurred.”

Wasted no time, did they? Why no immediate arrest?

"Video of the incident, which was captured by a witness and posted by Black Lives Matter of Greater Atlanta, showed one officer handcuffing the man as he laid facedown on the pavement. Another officer then comes running around the corner and delivers a forceful stomp to the face of the man before assisting the other officer in the arrest."

No excessive force?

"The two officers are white and the handcuffed man, identified as Demetrius Bryan Hollins, appears to be black, police Cpl. Michele Pihera told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution."

Who'd 'a 'thunk' it?

ABC News followed up:

"Two Georgia police officers fired after they were caught on video kicking and punching a man during a traffic stop had arrested the same person eight months earlier during another traffic stop, police records show."

Interesting, isn't it? A pattern of abuse. Records need to be kept by DOJ regarding such patterns of abuse within law enforcement. Otherwise, the public will continue to believe this shit does not go on all over the country. Just as passengers on board the United Flight couldn't believe the criminal assault perpetrated by officers on that aircraft is not ubiquitous across the nation.

Commenting on how quickly the officers were fired, CNN followed up:

"What you're seeing is police administrators across the country who are saying, 'This is not the conduct of every man and woman in our police department. This is the conduct of one or two individuals and we're going to deal with them appropriately,'" he says."

They're not. When there is incontrovertible video evidence of malfeasance, yes, officers should be immediately fired. But that's not good enough. They need to be treated as any other citizen. That is, immediately arrested. They're not.

4-21-17

In fairness to law enforcement, officers are often forced to deal with societal problems they have no ability to fix. The following is an interesting case in point. NPR reports:

"Michael Treadwell sat at the back of a courtroom in New Hampshire. He wore a windbreaker and khaki pants and leaned over his work boots with his elbows on his knees. At first it looked like he was chewing gum — a bold choice in a courtroom. But when he spoke it was clear: He wasn't chewing gum, he was chewing his own gums. Michael doesn't have any teeth. Taxpayers in Hillsborough County, N.H., have spent $63,000 over the last six years keeping Treadwell in jail for little more than trespassing. For years now, his life has looked like this: Trespass in an apartment building, spend 30 days in jail; bother restaurant customers, spend 42 days in jail; panhandle aggressively, spend 30 days in jail."

Never ends. Has to be a pain in the ass not only for Treadwell, but the officers as well. Chicken shit violations. This vicious cycle needs to end. Does not.

Somehow, some way, society needs to do something about the following:

"When you live in a town like Nashua, there's not a lot of homelessness there, and it kinda like focuses, puts you in the spotlight," Treadwell says. "Especially if you drink alcohol and stuff."

An alcohol problem demands treatment. Certainly, to solve the problem long-term.

"His charges all come from some combination of being homeless and getting drunk. Still, he says, jail is no worse than the streets."

It isn't. Offenders claim this all the time. At least, get fed in jail. Have some minimal protection against being assaulted. Unlike on the streets. Homelessness, substance abuse remain long-term issues that desperately need resolution. Certainly, far cheaper in the long run to provide care and a way out. Instead of saddling taxpayers with the cost of repeated incarceration. But, We The People, can't seem to think that far ahead. Worse? Simply don't care.

"People kill homeless people, violence and everything else," Treadwell says. "It can be a very dangerous life to live in. I don't suggest jail as an alternative. Ain't no kinda life."

You Nazi Llano County Republican fascists continue to think he, and others like him, get what they deserve? Too goddamned aggressively stupid to understand taxpayers are ultimately looted to pay for this ongoing problem? Ultimately, at far greater cost than rightfully solving the problem in the first place.

He's suffering liver problems from the alcoholism. Think taxpayers won't get hellaciously looted for his medical care? Especially, should he not, 'most conveniently,' die quickly? To say nothing of the human cost. This, your idea of 'Christianity,' you GOP nazi bastards? Enlightened self-interest is called for here. GOP fascists are too damned aggressively stupid, hopelessly ignorant. ... Right, TL? TB?

4-21-17

In follow up to the last edition, NBC News reports:

"The bruised and bloodied passenger who was forcibly removed this week from an United Airlines flight lost two front teeth and suffered a broken nose and "significant concussion" in the ordeal, his lawyers said Thursday. Dr. David Dao, who fled war-torn Saigon before immigrating to America in 1975, was released from the hospital Wednesday, but will need reconstructive surgery and remains "shaken" by the experience, attorney Thomas Demetrio told reporters in Chicago."

The lawsuit to come is nothing compared to the damage to public relations suffered by the airline.

" A lawsuit has not been filed yet, but Demetrio says one is coming down the pike. Dao, 69, signaled Wednesday that he's gearing up for a legal fight by filing an emergency "bill of discovery" against the carrier in Illinois State Court in order to preserve evidence in the case, including all surveillance videos and cockpit voice recordings."

Way to go. -- Only thing they understand. ... Hit them hard in the pocket book.

"United Airlines CEO Oscar Munoz has apologized for the incident repeatedly and said the company was conducting an internal investigation. But he has drawn public scorn — and calls for a boycott — after initially saying the crew was merely trying to "re-accommodate" Dao and then blamed him for his "disruptive and belligerent" behavior."

Not what other passengers claim. Guess who's lying?

The airline reiterated in a statement Thursday that it will no longer allow officers to pull booked and seated passengers from flights and will review how it incentivizes oversold flights. "This horrible situation has provided a harsh learning experience from which we will take immediate, concrete action," United Airlines said."

Too little, too late. Will certainly cost the airline dearly.

"Meanwhile, all three officers involved in the incident have been placed on administrative leave."

Think they won't skate?

Ramifications? Stacking up. The Washington Post reports:

"The incident sparked outrage and protests, including one held at O’Hare Thursday featuring the Rev. Jesse Jackson. The airline’s stock price dropped, and there have been calls for boycotts from as far away as China, where the story has stirred outrage because Dao is Asian. Dao’s daughter said Thursday that her father is a Vietnamese immigrant."

The airline figuratively, stupidly, shot itself in the ass:

"After initially appearing to place blame on Dao for being “belligerent” and refusing to give up his seat, Munoz appeared on national television Wednesday and said he felt “shame” when he saw the video. When asked if Dao was at fault for the actions that led to his removal from the plane as it sat on the runway Sunday at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, Munoz said, simply: “No, he cannot be. He was a paying passenger sitting in his seat on our aircraft. No one should be treated that way.”

No question. Time for change. Drastic change.

"Munoz, who said there will be a full investigation into the incident, and signaled that there will be changes in the relationship between the airline and local law enforcement officers who are called to handle passenger issues on flights. He said results of the investigation will be released by the end of the month."

Can't wait.

United pilots are not happy campers. CBS News reports:

"United Airlines pilots want it known that they had nothing to do with the incident in which a passenger was violently dragged off a United Express plane in Chicago. In a statement, the pilots union says that the forcible removal of Dr. David Dao by O’Hare International Airport security officials happened Sunday night on a United Express carrier that is “separately owned and operated by Republic Airline.”

Can certainly understand their chagrin.

"The union says United pilots were not flying the jet and that the four who were given the seats of Dao and three other passengers who were ordered off the plane work for Republic, not United. They say they are “infuriated” by what happened and blamed the debacle on the “grossly inappropriate” actions of the security officers. “This violent incident should never have happened and was a result of gross excessive force by Chicago Department of Aviation personnel,” the union said."

Indeed. No question.

In follow up to the above, the CEO has announced no one will be fired over the incident. Imagine that. Who'd 'a 'thunk' it?

4-21-17

In follow up to the last edition, CBS News reports:

"A man who was slammed to the ground by a police officer is now telling his side of the story. “I thought I was going to be like the next Trayvon Martin,” 24-year-old Nandi Cain Jr. told CBS Sacramento, referring to the African-American teenager who was shot and killed in Florida in 2012."

Amazing, police have yet to smarten up. Continue to criminally assault.

"Video shot by Naomi Montaie captured the moment the officer slammed Cain to the ground. Footage from the dashcam in the officer’s police cruiser showed the officer repeatedly punching Cain after tackling him. The officer has since been placed on administrative leave."

Why wasn't the criminal jackbooted son of a bitch immediately arrested? Granted special treatment not accorded the public?

"Cain told CBS Sacramento that he feared for his life during the encounter. He was said he was only walking home from work and did nothing wrong."

Doesn't matter in a fascist police-state. Particularly, if you happen to be of color.

“I thought as soon as they got me on the ground and start, you know, putting my arms in different positions, I felt like they were going to draw a gun out and shoot me in my back,” Cain said."

Has happened before. As repeatedly reported in this publication and elsewhere.

Bottom line to date?

"Sacramento police released a statement saying the actions of the officer were disturbing, and do not appear to be reasonable based on the circumstances. An investigation into his actions is ongoing. As for Cain, he was cleared of any charges and given a court date for an outstanding warrant in Fresno, California, according to police."

If he was indeed combative as claimed by the jackbooted bastards in blue, why wasn't he charged? Someone's lying. Guess who?

4-21-17

Amazing how slow the wheels of justice seem to move. Had almost forgotten about the following case covered earlier in this publication and elsewhere. NPR reports:

"North Miami police Officer Jonathan Aledda is facing charges of attempted manslaughter and negligence for shooting a behavioral therapist who had been trying to help a patient with autism return to a group home last summer, prosecutors say. The daytime shooting took place last July, when therapist Charles Kinsey was working to bring a 27-year-old man in his care back to the group home for mentally disabled adults. Video from the scene showed Kinsey lying on the ground next to his patient, his hands in the air, shortly before he was shot."

Remember this case? Pitiful, taken this long to charge the criminal son of a bitch. The officer appears to have been protected, coddled. The story is unbelievably convoluted:

"Following the shooting, a police union official said Aledda had fired at Soto out of concern for Kinsey's life — "And he missed, and accidentally struck Mr. Kinsey."

Give me a break. The officer was either poorly trained, stupid, hopelessly ignorant. All three?

"In an interview from his hospital bed, Kinsey said he was handcuffed and was left face down on the ground, bleeding from a wound to his leg, for around 20 minutes."

Certainly, backs up earlier reports of the incident. Kinsey is the therapist, Soto the autistic patient.

"Kinsey said he was surprised to have been shot: "I'm saying, 'Sir, why did you shoot me?' and his words to me, he said, 'I don't know.' "

Give me a break.

"In addition to the felony charge of second-degree attempted manslaughter, Aledda faces a misdemeanor charge of culpable negligence over the injuries to Kinsey."

How can it possibly take this long to indict?

ABC News reports:

"A North Miami police officer who shot the caretaker of a man with autism last summer has been charged with attempted manslaughter, according to officials. On Wednesday, the Florida State Attorney's Office announced charges for North Miami Police Officer Jonathan Aledda for the July 18, 2016, shooting of behavioral therapist Charles Kinsey, who was unarmed."

Comedy of errors? Give me a break. Luckily, no one killed.

"Initial 911 calls described a "possibly suicidal" man with a "silver weapon in his hand," and officers with the North Miami Police Department were dispatched to the scene, according to a press release from the state attorney's office."

Here's what's so terribly sad about this case:

"The man described in the call was a resident of the Miami Achievement Center for the Developmentally Disabled, according to the release. After the resident left the center, Kinsey closely followed him in "an attempt to return him from the street back into the facility," the release reads. The man was holding a silver toy tanker truck in his hand, according to the release."

Here's what's achingly inexcusable:

"Aledda fired three shots, one of which struck Kinsey. At 152 feet away, Aledda was "not in the position to correctly assess the situation or in a position to accurately fire," the release states. Two other police officers "were within 20 feet of the situation" when he fired."

What could this officer have been possibly thinking?

4-21-17

Criminal defendants in New Orleans are denied their constitutional right to counsel. CBS News reports:

"Past and current attorneys of the New Orleans Public Defenders Office tell Anderson Cooper they believe innocent clients have gone to jail because they lacked the time and resources to defend them properly. The system is so overburdened that in 2016 New Orleans Chief Public Defender Derwyn Bunton began ordering his staff to refuse to take on clients facing the most serious felonies."

This is what sparks revolutions. Deliberate abrogation of civil and constitutional rights. Further proof we already live in a fascist police-state. Soon to be the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich.

The following is stunning:

"All nine of the attorneys agreed when asked by Cooper if they believed an innocent client went to jail because they didn’t have enough time to spend on their case."

How can this be in a supposedly democratic republic, based on the United States Constitution, the bedrock of this country? Precisely, what the Founders forewarned, were so terribly concerned we would be able to keep.

"When 52 attorneys are responsible for 20,000 criminal cases a year, as in New Orleans, they do their best says Bunton. But often, indigent defendants will not get the quality defense they are entitled to. “You can’t provide the kind of representation that the Constitution, our code of ethics and professional standards would have you provide,” says Bunton. Asked if it’s not better to have a busy lawyer than no lawyer, Bunton does not hesitate, “No. A lawyer poorly resourced can cause irreparable harm to a client.”

A stunning admission, even in what has become a fascist police-state.

"At the time, Lindsay Samuel represented nearly a hundred clients facing a life in prison. She felt she was “Always coming up short. The first thousand clients you feel terrible. The second thousand clients, you feel awful,” she recalls. “Every day my clients are going away for a decade and I just move along to the next client,” says Samuel."

If this is in fact ubiquitous across the country, our nation, at least as we knew it, is gone:

"Bunton shows Cooper a warehouse full of the nearly half million cases handled by his office in the past decade. He says 90 to 95 percent of the defendants in those cases pled guilty, many because they lacked confidence in an overburdened public defender being able to provide them with an adequate defense. The justice system in New Orleans has become a criminal processing system says Bunton, “A conveyor belt that starts when you are arrested and then there’s hands that touch you on your way to prison,” he tells Cooper. “It’s not about figuring out...your innocence...and that’s what we are fighting to change,” says Bunton."

Think things won't worsen under the Sessions nazi? Think this clueless son of a bitch isn't warped? Get this. The Washington Times reports:

"Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Tuesday said he’s “surprised” Americans aren’t overwhelmingly embracing his widely reported stance against marijuana, all the while recent polling reveals a majority of voters do in fact support legal pot."

Wouldn't want to confuse the nazi with the truth, would we? ... This bastard, -- that out to lunch? No more than an anachronism? Certainly, regarding his misogynist, racist, fascist views, no doubt.

"Mr. Sessions briefly weighed in on marijuana legalization during a wide-ranging discussion held Tuesday at Luke Air Force Base in Nogales, Arizona, near the Mexican border, AZCentral reported. “When they nominated me for attorney general, you would have thought the biggest issue in America was when I said, ‘I don’t think America’s going to be a better place if they sell marijuana at every corner grocery store,’ ” Mr. Sessions told attendees. “(People) didn’t like that; I’m surprised they didn’t like that,” he added."

You think? The public? Achingly, ahead of this clueless, fascist son of a bitch. No longer buys the 'Reefer Madness' ruse embraced by this hopelessly ignorant piece of crap.

"Indeed, 57 percent Americans favor legalizing marijuana, according to results of a government-sponsored opinion poll published last month, establishing a historic high point with respect to public support for pot."

Doesn't, however, include those who support medical marijuana. -- This fascist son of a bitch, clearly out of touch with the public he allegedly serves.

"And while Mr. Sessions infamously voiced anti-legalizing views prior to being confirmed as President Trump’s attorney general — at one point declaring “Good people don’t smoke marijuana...”

Wake up, 'Counselor.' Good people don't embrace national socialism, fascism, nazism, racism, misogyny, and the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue. What does that make you, you clueless son of a bitch?

Think the following isn't insanity?

“I think medical marijuana has been hyped, maybe too much,” Mr. Sessions continued, at one point saying pot is “only slightly less awful” than heroin."

No one's ever died of an overdose of pot. No one has ever become physically addicted to it. Who the hell is this clueless son of a bitch kidding? 'Justifies' continued criminalization of a drug less harmful than alcohol? What planet does he live on? Prohibition of alcohol led to the rise of the Mafia. People certainly drank despite the fact it was illegal at the time.

Sadly, the same is true of other drugs. This is not a law enforcement problem. Remains a societal issue. A problem police cannot resolve or solve. Worse? Sadly, every law enforcement agency in the country, to at least some extent, has been corrupted by criminalization of drugs. Despite draconian penalties, loss of all future employment prospects, has not stopped the public from using them.

The citizenry would be better served if all law enforcement effort was placed against sale of, and use by minors. Let natural selection take care of those, who as adults, remain stupid enough to imbibe. Laws against DWI, public intoxication, disorderly conduct, etc. remain on the books to handle the ancillary effects of drug use.

Substance legalization would certainly reduce the number of break-ins, burglaries, thefts, etc. caused by the artificially high prices caused by prohibition. Moreover, legalization would cut off the near endless flow of cash into government coffers. Precisely, why prohibition remains in place. ... Right, Sheriff? TL? "Sonny Boy?" Madam County Attorney?

4-21-17

There are a few great judges out there still willing to stand up to the insanity of the Nazi Right. NPR reports:

"A federal judge in Arkansas has halted the execution of seven men beginning Monday night, throwing another wrench into the state's plans to carry out the executions before its lethal injection drugs expire. U.S. District Judge Kristine Baker ordered the preliminary injunction early Saturday, reports the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. This ruling came less than 24 hours after the state's supreme court stayed one execution, and a county court delayed the rest."

4-21-17

-- Further encroachment on the First Amendment Establishment Clause, church-state separation, that is, freedom from religion. Law enforcement, to date, remains a function of government. May not be much longer, however. Get this. NPR reports:

"A large church in Alabama is one step closer to creating its own police force, a move that seems to be without precedent in the U.S. The state's Senate has approved legislation that would give church police officers the same powers other law enforcement officers have in Alabama. After being approved by Alabama's Senate on a 24-4 vote, the bill now heads to the state House of Representatives, where an identical bill was sent to the Public Safety and Homeland Security committee in February. Both chambers' legislation specifically names Briarwood Presbyterian Church, a Birmingham megachurch that "says it needs its own police officers to keep its school as well as its more than 4,000 person congregation safe," Alabama Public Radio reports."

Give me a break.

4-14-17

As always, when a cop does something heroic, and/or of exceptional benefit to the community, it leads. Always. CBS News reports:

"For Indiana University Police Officer John O’Rourke, March 28 will not only be memorable as his wedding anniversary — it will also mark the day he saved a little girl’s life."

Hat's off, officer. ... His wife certainly won't ever have to worry about him forgetting their anniversary.

"The officer, who traveled to Sanford, Florida, for his wedding ceremony last week, stopped by a Donuts to Go to grab some breakfast before the big “I do” when he noticed a commotion in the dining area. A room full of customers were hovering around a 3-year-old girl who was having a seizure."

Certainly, rose to the occasion. Saved a life:

"So the Indiana cop rushed to the little girl’s side, instructing bystanders to call 911. After speaking to the 911 operator, O’Rourke began performing mouth-to-mouth resuscitation combined with chest compressions. After a few minutes, he managed to bring the girl back to consciousness. As she began to wake up, paramedics arrived on the scene to take over her care."

Gets no better than that, does it?

“I just sat in my car, for about 20 minutes, processing everything,” O’Rourke said in a statement posted online."

Bet he did. A lot to take in.

"The rescue mission was certainly unexpected, but as a police officer, O’Rourke knows he always has to be prepared for situations like these."

Indeed.

In an amusing aside:

"When the crisis was over, restaurant staff thanked the officer with a box of doughnuts on the house."

Certainly, humor in all things:

“It had to be a donut shop,” he joked. “You can’t make this up.”

His day wasn't over, though:

"Hours later, O’Rourke married his bride, Virginia, and at the reception, he had quite a tale to tell."

4-14-17

Wake up, Sheriff. Again, where is dashcam video of the killing of Jeffrey Gray Wise, 52, of Austin by DPS and the Llano County Sheriff's Office? Fifty-one weeks, now. A goddamned disgrace. Why are you still sitting on this information? What are you hiding, Sheriff? What is the identity of the officers who killed Wise? Too gutless to release this information to the public that pays your salary and that of your goons? Reportedly, there were three officers involved in the shooting.

Who are they, Sheriff? Their past history? An ongoing investigation remains a lame bullshit excuse. How can you and your goons be trusted when you refuse to disclose information? Fifty-one weeks. Especially, your egregious failure to disclose the identity of the officers who pulled the trigger. To cover your sorry ass, Sheriff? Those of your thugs? The people have a right to know what happened, how it went down. You don't understand that, Sheriff? Sadly, clearly, you answer to no one. Including taxpayers. Especially, taxpayers.

Until you and your goons come clean, doubt will remain this was indeed a good shoot. The longer you drag your feet, the greater the doubt. Think not? Wake up. Your credibility has tanked. Isn't getting any better as this bullshit continues unabated. Fifty-one weeks. Still no identification of the officers involved ... Can't get your stories straight? In line? Discrepancy between LCSO and DPS? Wake up, Sheriff. The public no longer buys the bullshit. No longer trusts you. On this and many, many other issues. You have no credibility. Absolutely, none.

4-14-17

Amazing, how corrupt, abusive, murderous officers seem to be protected, coddled. The Washington Post reports:

"Jose Charles was dazed, bleeding from his head and surrounded by police after an incident that would leave him accused of fighting, resisting arrest and spitting a mouthful of blood into a police officer’s face."

Gets worse:

"His mother had gone to take one of the 15-year-old’s siblings to the bathroom at a Fourth of July celebration in Greensboro, N.C. — and returned to find an officer’s hand around Jose’s neck. On the ground, she saw “blood, lots of it.” What happened in the interim depends on whom you ask. Police charged Jose with four crimes, including attacking an officer. The teenager and his mother say police slammed and choked him without provocation. In a month, the court’s interpretation of the incident could determine Jose’s fate."

Wouldn't you think a body cam video could quickly resolve the issue one way or the other? ... Certainly would, -- if it were made available. Guess what? It's not:

"Meanwhile, an unbiased account — body camera footage from several officers who were at the scene of the encounter — is sitting on a server in the cloud, where almost no one can see it. Standing in the way of clarity and transparency, critics say, is a new North Carolina law that makes it more difficult than ever to view recordings of controversial interactions between police and members of the public."

The criminal jackbooted bastards in blue are protected and coddled by law. In Nazi America. A goddamned fascist police-state. The Fourth Reich. Hear the rumble? An unwanted dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looming on the horizon.

"Activists say the teenager’s case is another example of police brutality from a police department that has had two officers resign amid an investigation of excessive force involving a black person. The new law has layered frustration on top of the critics’ fury. On Tuesday night, several activists aired their concerns at a city council meeting in Greensboro, asking elected officials to try to delay Jose’s case or have the charges dropped altogether — and to force the release of the video."

Hear the rumble?

“What possible harm to the case or to the community could there be if they release the footage?” Lewis Pitts, a retired lawyer who has spoken to city council members about the case, told The Washington Post. “The only harm is it creates liability and embarrassment for the police department. That’s the only thing driving this police secrecy.”

The criminal jackbooted pieces of shit demand to be taken at their word. Evidence? What's that? When will these goddamned criminals in blue be held legally accountable for their crimes? When?

"The law requires anyone who wants to see police body camera footage to pay a fee and plead their case to a Superior Court judge."

That's goddamned unconstitutional bullshit. A fascist police-state.

"State Rep. John Faircloth, a former police chief-turned-legislator who sponsored the bill, conceded that the law gives an inordinate amount of power to prosecutors, who have the most information about whether releasing body-cam footage would jeopardize a person’s right to a fair trial."

This unfit nazi son of a bitch is talking out both sides his ass.

"A judge already has blocked the release of the video to Figueroa, after the district attorney filed a motion saying she probably would release it to the public, Pitts told The Washington Post."

The 'judge,' as well, isn't fit for office. Needs to be impeached, convicted, and removed from the bench. The defense has the right to view this video. So does the public. If the kid is guilty, so be it. If the officers criminally assaulted him, need to be removed from the force and prosecuted. What is the 'judge' trying to do? Spark an unwanted dreaded second American revolution?

4-14-17

Believe there is no desperate need for federal oversight of law enforcement? Wake up. Get this. NBC New reports:

"The ACLU filed a lawsuit Friday against the city of Maplewood, Missouri, over a policy that allegedly evicts domestic violence victims and banishes them from the St. Louis suburb if they call police for help more than twice in six months."

Ever hear of anything achingly more f--ked up? Perversely blaming the victim for the crime.

"Friday's lawsuit was brought on behalf of Rosetta Watson, who suffered a series of domestic violence attacks at the hands of her then-boyfriend Robert Hennings throughout 2011 and 2012. According to the lawsuit, Watson's ex repeatedly showed up at her home to punch, shove, and choke her. She called the police four times, and Hennings was arrested and charged with assault three times."

Why the hell wasn't his sorry ass in jail after the first offense? Incredibly, outrageously clueless assholes in government then turned the tables on her:

"Despite the pattern of arrests, Watson was punished under Maplewood's nuisance policy, which bans "more than two instances within a 180-day period of incidents of peace disturbance or domestic violence resulting in calls to the police."

What the f--k is the victim supposed to do? Endure a beating to keep from getting evicted? Give me a break. For you Llano County 'law and order' GOP fascists here in Nazi Llano County, this your idea of justice?

Apparently a problem across the country:

"These laws are very prevalent. We've worked on this issue in at least 14 states and we know they exist in over 30 states," said Sandra Park, senior staff attorney at the ACLU's Women's Rights Project. "Many municipalities don't put their codes online, but we think it's safe to say there are thousands of laws like this around the country."

Where's the Sessions nazi on this? Where's his achingly racist, misogynist, fascist, pitifully sorry ass? Out to lunch?

"Watson was forced to move to nearby St. Louis, according to the ACLU. There, her abuser tracked her down, kicked in the door to her apartment, and stabbed her. Too afraid to call the police, the lawsuit states, she went by herself to the hospital."

Jesus Christ. Goddamned outrageous. Where's the Sessions nazi? Where's the desperately needed consent decree from the 'Justice' Department? Where?

"I thought calling 911 would help stop the domestic violence, but instead Maplewood punished me," Watson said in a statement. "I lost my home, my community, and my faith in police to provide protection. I want to make sure that other women in Maplewood do not suffer the way I did."

Where's the Sessions nazi? Where's the Trump nazi? Where are all the 'law and order' fascists in the Republican Party? Why haven't they gotten off their financially portly asses and done something? ... Not even a peep, TL?

"It's the second lawsuit filed against the city in a month over the nuisance ordinance. On March 14, the Metropolitan St. Louis Equal Housing and Opportunity Council sued Maplewood over allegations that the ordinance was used to target African-American residents, with especially harmful effects on women and disabled residents who may have a higher need for police assistance."

No racism left in Nazi America, is there, Mr. Sessions? TL? Where's your swastika armband, you fascist son of a bitch? All the above is precisely why there must be federal oversight.

4-14-17

This is how the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue now operate in airports. CBS News reports:

"A man traveling on United Airlines flight 3411 from Chicago to Louisville was forcibly removed when the flight was oversold Sunday night, CBS DFW reports. According to reports, the Chicago to Louisville flight was oversold and several passengers were chosen at random to be bumped from the flight, including the man and his wife."

Passengers were bumped from the flight so that airline personnel, other than the flight crew, could fly to their destination.

"Passenger Jayse Anspach, who tweeted video of the incident, said that security pulled the man, who says he’s a doctor, from his chair after he refused to leave the aircraft. “The doctor needed to work at the hospital the next day, so he refused to ‘volunteer,’ United decided to use force on doctor,” said Anspach.

"@United overbook #flight3411 and decided to force random passengers off the plane. Here's how they did it: pic.twitter.com/QfefM8X2cW
— Jayse D. Anspach (@JayseDavid) April 10, 2017"

Get worse:

"As security pulled the man from his seat, Anspach said, “the doctor’s face was slammed against an arm rest, causing serious bleeding from his mouth.” The security detail then dragged the man off the aircraft."

They knocked him unconscious and dragged him off the plane unconscious. Can you say criminal nazi j-a-c-k-b-o-o-t-e-d b-a-s-t-a-r-d-s?

"Oscar Munoz, CEO of United Airlines, said it was “an upsetting event to all of us here at United.” “I apologize for having to re-accommodate these customers,” he said. “Our team is moving with a sense of urgency to work with the authorities and conduct our own detailed review of what happened. We are also reaching out to this passenger to talk directly to him and further address and resolve this situation.”

The passenger needs to sue the airline, the jackbooted bastards involved in the assault, the agency itself, and the government entity that oversees it.

Here is the take of NPR:

"Passengers on a United flight from Chicago to Louisville, Ky., were horrified when a man was forcibly removed — violently wrenched from his seat and physically dragged down the aisle — to clear a seat for airline staff."

"Multiple videos and photos were posted on social media, and other passengers described the incident online — at first upset about the delay, and then horrified by the violent turn of events."

This is what happens in a fascist police-state where the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue are granted carte blanche to do as they please.

"Both Bridges and Anspach posted videos of three law enforcement officers, who appear to be wearing the uniforms of Chicago aviation police, wrenching the man out of his seat, prompting wails. His face appeared to strike an armrest. Then they dragged his limp body down the aisle.

"@WHAS11 It looked like he was knocked out, because he went limp and quiet and they dragged him out of the plane like a rag doll.
— Jayse D. Anspach (@JayseDavid) April 10, 2017

"Footage shows the man was bleeding from the mouth as they dragged him away. His glasses were askew and his shirt was riding up over his belly."

We're well on our way to the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich. This, what you 'law and order' GOP fascists here in Nazi Llano County consider good policing?

"@united has everyone on this flight fully distressed and fearful!!" @JohnK tweeted. He later sent out an update: "Just asked to leave plane so they can clean up blood from passenger."

"After the cleanup, the passengers were allowed to reboard and fly to Louisville."

The greatest threat to life, well-being, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties is no foreign government, no terrorist organization, not even the criminal element. It is our own out of control government, all levels and branches that protect and coddle the criminal jackbooted bastards in law enforcement. Precisely, why an unwanted dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looms on the horizon. Hear the rumble?

4-14-17

Here is another case of abject police brutality. CBS Denver reports:

"Video of a male police officer taking a female Colorado State University student to the ground went viral on social media over the weekend. The video, which was taken outside Bondi Beach Bar in Old Town, shows 22-year-old Michaela Surat being thrown to the ground by a Fort Collins Police Services officer."

She was thrown face first on to the sidewalk. Could have been killed by the jackbooted bastard in blue. Since when do police get to be judge, jury, and executioner? Coup de grace? This is now standard police procedure:

"Police said the technique used to take Surat down was “standard arrest control.”

Readers? Understand what this means? It is standard police procedure to throw an arrestee face first to concrete. If they die from the injury or suffer brain damage? Clearly, no problem in a fascist police-state.

4-14-17

Here is what happens when you jay walk in Sacramento. CBS News reports:

"A Sacramento police officer has been placed on administrative leave after throwing a pedestrian to the ground and striking him in the face multiple times in an incident captured on video, CBS San Francisco reports. In a press release, the department said, “the videos of this incident portray actions and behavior that we would consider unacceptable conduct by a Sacramento police officer. As a result, the Department’s Internal Affairs Division is investigating the event.”

Think they had anything on the victim? Wake up:

"According to police, the beating victim was held in the Sacramento Main Jail and released Tuesday morning due to “insufficient grounds to file a complaint.”

A false arrest. Has the jackbooted bastard in blue been arrested? Hell, no. On paid leave.

"Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg told the Sacramento Bee Tuesday that he found the actions of the officer “extremely disturbing and not representative of the training nor the expectations we have for our police department.”

Then, why wasn't the son of a bitch in blue arrested for criminal assault?

"Meantime, the video posted on Facebook was viewed more than half a million times and shared by more than 14,000 users by Wednesday morning."

Way to go. Best thing to do. Expose the criminal jackbooted bastard in blue for precisely whom and what he is.

4-14-17

Finally, some sanity in Arizona. CNN reports:

"Tent City, the infamous outdoor jail in Arizona where inmates wore pink underwear and shuffled around in chain gangs, will close, officials announced Tuesday. Joe Arpaio, the former top cop in Phoenix's Maricopa County, established the jail in 1993. But he was voted out of office last year. Soon, Tent City will also be gone."

Abominable human rights violations, -- finally coming to an end.

"Arpaio promoted the desert camp, burnishing his reputation and touting himself as "America's toughest sheriff." But his successor, who defeated Arpaio in November's election, said there was no evidence that Tent City deterred crime. "This facility became more of a circus atmosphere for the general public," said Maricopa County Sheriff Paul Penzone. "Starting today, that circus ends and these tents come down." The new sheriff in town is reversing many of Arpaio's controversial policies."

4-14-17

In follow up to an earlier edition, NPR reports:

"The state attorney for Orange and Osceola counties has sued Gov. Rick Scott, alleging that he acted unconstitutionally when he removed her from 23 homicide cases. Scott had reassigned Aramis Ayala's cases to another state attorney by executive order because Ayala had declared her refusal to pursue the death penalty. "The Governor did not take this drastic step because of any misconduct on Ayala's part, but simply because he disagreed with her reasoned prosecutorial determination not to seek the death penalty under current circumstances," Ayala's attorney, Roy Austin, writes in her filing."

The nazi Governor of Florida has his head severely lodged up his national socialist, achingly fascist ass. Won't be confused with the truth.

"The complaint also lists the prosecutor chosen to replace her, State Attorney Brad King, as a defendant. "The people of Orange and Osceola Counties overwhelmingly elected State Attorney Aramis Ayala to serve as their prosecutor — not Governor Scott or State Attorney King," Austin explained in a statement. The Republican Scott, for his part, has said he went around Ayala, a Democrat, in the "interest of justice."

Goddamned bullshit. A lie. Yet, this very same nazi son of a bitch won't prosecute the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue who murder innocent, unarmed citizens on the job. The hypocrisy? Reeks. Then again, what else would one expect from a goddamned Republican nazi? ... Right, TL? TB?

4-14-17

Amazingly, U.S. Secret Service agents have a remarkable problem keeping it in their pants. Especially, when overseas as reported in earlier editions of this publication and elsewhere. This time, however, in this country. The Washington Times reports:

"A Secret Service agent tasked with protecting Vice President Mike Pence has been suspended from the force and stripped of their security clearance after being allegedly caught with a prostitute last week at a Maryland hotel."

Couldn't be, could it? What's his problem? 'Thinks' with the head of his dick rather than the brain in his head?

"Police took an unidentified member of Mr. Pence’s security detail into custody late last week after responding to reports of suspicious activity taking place within a Montgomery County hotel room, multiple outlets reported Wednesday, citing law enforcement sources familiar with the incident."

How did they know? Fly on the wall? LOL.

"The unidentified officer was arrested at the scene for soliciting prostitution and self-reported the incident afterwards to the Secret Service, CNN first reported. They were subsequently ordered to hand over all agent equipment, deprived of their security clearance and placed on administrative leave pending a full investigation, according to the network."

What webs we weave. ... To say nothing of having to sleep in one's bed after having made it, -- so to speak.

4-14-17

In follow up to the last edition of this publication, NPR reports:

"A federal judge has approved a court-enforceable consent decree to institute reforms in Baltimore's troubled police department, over the objections of the Trump administration."

Tough shit. Was certainly the right thing to do. That is, rein in the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue:

"The decree was negotiated in the final weeks of former President Barack Obama's administration. As we reported this January, it "calls for an independent federal monitor to observe the department, as well as a community oversight task force," and "instructs police to use de-escalation tactics before resorting to violence and calls for police to be instructed on implicit bias and victim-centered practices for handling sexual assault cases," among other things."

Only a hopelessly nazi newly-appointed and confirmed U.S. Attorney General would object:

"Attorney General Jeff Sessions had expressed "grave concerns" that some provisions would "reduce the lawful powers of the police department."

Abject bullshit. A lie.

"This decree was negotiated during a rushed process by the previous administration and signed only days before they left office," he said. The Department of Justice sought more time to review the agreement."

More bullshit. A goddamned lie. Egregious distortion of reality. This agreement was in the pipeline for quite some time. Had been agreed upon by the principals.

"U.S. District Judge James Bredar denied that request. He called the agreement "comprehensive, detailed and precise," and said the problems that it addresses are "urgent."

Indeed, they are. If not implemented, would lead to more violence on the streets of Baltimore. Open insurrection.

Think the Sessions Nazi didn't lie? Wake up:

"The decree was negotiated after a long civil rights investigation into Baltimore police conduct, following the 2015 death of Freddie Gray. The Department of Justice, under Obama, issued a report describing excessive force, routine violations of citizens' constitutional rights and pervasive racial bias. "Time is of the essence," Bredar said, as he announced he had approved the decree over the objections of the new Department of Justice."

The judge did the right thing. At least some sanity remains in this court, unlike the 'Justice' Department that has gone nazi with Sessions as U.S. Attorney General.

Further great news?

"The Associated Press reports:

"The Justice Department can appeal the judge's decision, but it would have to show the judge made an error or abused his discretion.

"That would be difficult to prove, said Jonathan Smith, a civil rights attorney in the Obama Justice Department who oversaw negotiations with troubled police departments.

"Justice Department lawyers also could try to modify the consent decree, but the burden is high, requiring them to show there has been a substantial change in the facts or the law, Smith said."

Here, here. Indeed, a good day for all civil and constitutional rights and liberties.

The Sessions nazi is not a happy camper. CBS News reports:

"Sessions released a statement complaining that the consent decree “will require the court and a highly-paid monitor to govern every detail of how the Baltimore Police Department functions for the foreseeable future.”

More bullshit. An abject lie by our hopelessly fascist U.S. Attorney General.

“I have grave concerns that some provisions of this decree will reduce the lawful powers of the police department and result in a less safe city,” Sessions wrote."

More abject bullshit. Disingenuous bullshit. Baltimore police have not been stripped of any power to enforce the law. What they have been reined in for is criminal abuse of this power. The City will be far safer since police will be far less likely to murder, shake down, abuse, etc. on the job. Precisely, what the Sessions nazi remains so opposed to. That is, the hopelessly clueless fascist bastard wants police to retain carte blanche to do as they please. Egregiously unacceptable in what is supposed to be a democratic republic, not a goddamned fascist police-state. Soon to be Trump's Fourth Reich.

"The attorney general also said that in the decree, “there are clear departures from many proven principles of good policing that we fear will result in more crime.”

More bullshit. An abject lie to 'justify' criminal policing.

"U.S. District Judge James Bredar, however, held a different view of the agreement, calling it “comprehensive, detailed and precise,” and wrote in his order that it “is in the public interest” to approve it. He signed it on Friday, one day after a public hearing to solicit comments from city residents."

This needs to happen all over the country. Nazism must be reined in. Think this bullshit? Wake up:

"Baltimore residents overwhelmingly voiced support for a proposed overhaul. Many shared harrowing stories of police abuse to make clear how necessary such reforms are. Multiple mothers whose sons were killed by police testified about their pain."

Wouldn't want to confuse GOP nazis with the truth, would we? ... Right, TL?

The Mayor certainly didn't buy the Sessions nazi's bullshit. Fox News reports:

"Mayor Catherine Pugh disputed the notion the decree will hurt the fight against crime. "I believe that it makes Baltimore safer," she said. "I think by building and training our police officers in ways to de-escalate violence, to work with our communities, to have cultural diversity training and have the right kind of tools they need to know what they can do in certain areas of our community ... I think it's improved policing."

What it does is rein in the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue. ... Provided the bastards honor the decree.

4-7-17

The following, indeed, is quite a heartwarming story of not only good parenting, but policing as well. CBS News reports:

"Sgt. Steven Dearth was taking a quick dinner break when he spotted a little girl in a booth with her family in Panera Bread staring at him. The 3-year-old girl named Lillian was sitting in her dad’s lap when she started waving to the police officer, who works with the Hingham Police Department in Massachusetts. The officer, waiting in line to pick up his order, flashed a smile and nodded."

Gets better:

“You can talk to him,” the girl’s dad encouraged, as they got up from the table and walked toward Dearth. Smiling, the officer asked the little girl her name and how old she is, while handing her one of the junior police officer stickers he always carries in his pocket. They chatted for a few minutes, and when Dearth got his food, they said their goodbyes."

Wasn't the end of it:

"A few minutes later, she noticed the officer was eating dinner all alone. “I sat down and you know, as all police officers do, faced the exit so I could see who’s coming and going,” Dearth told CBS News. “I was sitting by myself. I didn’t really think anything of it. Then all of the sudden she walks up.” Lillian left her mom, dad and 1-year-old baby brother behind to offer Dearth some company, which he happily accepted."

Good for the kid. Good for the officer. Good for the community. Good for police-community relations. Certainly, a welcome break from all the crap going on across the country.

“She was a little shy at first,” Dearth explained. But it didn’t take Lillian long to warm up to the officer, proudly telling him that she wanted to be an officer herself someday. “At 3 years old,” Dearth laughed. “I wanted to be one since I was 5, so she had me beat.”

How about that?

"After Dearth finished his meal he walked Lillian back to her family. She begged to get a peek at his patrol car, and with her father’s permission, he agreed. The girl and her family walked Dearth outside. He pulled up to the front door and let them take a look inside, offering to give them a tour of the police station any time. Of course, Lillian was excited about the offer, and he plans to show her family around the “office” this week."

Although just three and things may change, wouldn't it be something else if she pursues a career in law enforcement?

“I hope this reminds kids and their parents that we’re there to help,” Dearth said. “We’re the good guys and girls. We don’t want people to be afraid of us.”

If only that was true of all law enforcement. ... As it once was, for the most part, decades ago. Hat's off to the officer, Lillian, and her father.

4-7-17

Think all kids are selfish with prized possessions? Aren't capable of profound insight and compassion at a tender age? CNN reports:

"Most kids struggle when they're asked to share their toys. Not 7-year-old Brady Duke. Brady loves reading, throwing around the football and -- most of all -- playing with his Nintendo Wii. But after learning that the nearby Everest Metropolitan Police Department in Wisconsin lost one of its own when Detective Jason Weiland was killed last week in the line of duty, Brady donated his most prized possession to the Wausau Police Department."

Think this kid hasn't one hell of a future ahead of him? Certainly, has more on the ball than some decades older than him.

"I knew I had to do something because their police brother died," Brady told CNN affiliate WSAW. In a letter posted by the department to Facebook, Brady thanks the officers for their service and for protecting his family."

Good for the kid. Good for his family. Good for the community. Good for policing. Good for police-community relations.

"Brady's big gesture also had its perks. His new friends in blue surprised him with an Xbox 360 so he can keep on gaming. "Brady's example is one we can all follow," Wausau police said in a Facebook post. "Thank you Brady for your love and compassion and thank you for setting the example for others in our community at a young age of 7."

4-7-17

Another fine cop doing a great job in Chicago. CNN reports:

"Jennifer Maddox is no stranger to the violence in the city of Chicago. For more than two decades, as a member of the Chicago Police Department, she's observed the growing plight facing residents—particularly young people on the South Side. "We are in a state of emergency here," Maddox said. "The shooting, the killing. Five-, six-, seven-year-olds—they're losing people that they love and care about." "A lot of our young people are fearful to even come outside," Maddox said."

Sad, isn't it? Not only is she doing something about it as an officer, she's taken matters a step further:

"Her nonprofit, Future Ties, offers an afterschool program and escape for children living in the turbulent Parkway Gardens Homes. This low-income apartment complex that once housed the likes of Michelle Obama is today a neighborhood rife with challenges. "Parkway used to be a beat I covered on my patrol," said Maddox, 45. "I saw lack of opportunity, lack of resources, lack of community spaces for young people, and it sparked something inside of me." Today, Maddox and her group provide a free, safe space for more than 100 children in grades K-5 to learn, grow and succeed. Her ultimate goal is to reach all 1,200 children that live in the complex."

Remarkable, isn't it? More amazing? Get this:

"Maddox works a second job to support these efforts."

Hat's off, Officer.

4-7-17

Wake up, Sheriff. Again, where is dashcam video of the killing of Jeffrey Gray Wise, 52, of Austin by DPS and the Llano County Sheriff's Office? Fifty weeks, now. A goddamned disgrace. Why are you still sitting on this information? What are you hiding, Sheriff? What is the identity of the officers who killed Wise? Too gutless to release this information to the public that pays your salary and that of your goons? Reportedly, there were three officers involved in the shooting.

Who are they, Sheriff? Their past history? An ongoing investigation remains a lame bullshit excuse. How can you and your goons be trusted when you refuse to disclose information? Fifty weeks. Especially, your egregious failure to disclose the identity of the officers who pulled the trigger. To cover your sorry ass, Sheriff? Those of your thugs? The people have a right to know what happened, how it went down. You don't understand that, Sheriff? Sadly, clearly, you answer to no one. Including taxpayers. Especially, taxpayers.

Until you and your goons come clean, doubt will remain this was indeed a good shoot. The longer you drag your feet, the greater the doubt. Think not? Wake up. Your credibility has tanked. Isn't getting any better as this bullshit continues unabated. Fifty weeks. Still no identification of the officers involved ... Can't get your stories straight? In line? Discrepancy between LCSO and DPS? Wake up, Sheriff. The public no longer buys the bullshit. No longer trusts you. On this and many, many other issues. You have no credibility. Absolutely, none.

4-7-17

Police are certainly militarizing across our formerly great country. Now, the jackbooted bastards are considering arming drones. ABC News reports:

"Connecticut lawmakers are considering whether the state should become the first in the country to allow police to use drones outfitted with deadly weapons, a proposal immediately met with concern by civil rights and liberties advocates."

Jackbooted bastards in blue already represent an exigent threat to innocent life, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties. Now, they want an air force? What's next? F-16s and 2,000 lb. bombs?

"The bill would ban the use of weaponized drones, but exempt police. Details on how law enforcement could use drones with weapons would be spelled out in new rules to be developed by the state Police Officer Standards and Training Council. Officers also would have to receive training before being allowed to use drones with weapons."

Hear the rumble? An unwanted dreaded second American revolution already catastrophically looming on the horizon.

4-7-17

Another innocent man released from prison. CBS News reports:

"Twenty years after he walked into prison -- convicted of a crime he didn’t commit -- Marco Contreras walked out of a courtroom Tuesday a free man, CBS Los Angeles reports. Contreras, now 41 years old, spent two decades in jail for an attempted murder and robbery. On Tuesday, at a Los Angeles court hearing, he was declared factually innocent."

Find an attorney. Sue the living shit out of the bastards. Sovereign immunity statutes desperately need to be revisited, updated, changed to allow criminal accountability of those perpetrating such egregious injustice.

4-7-17

Murderous officers have grown so arrogant, haughty, delusionally cocksure of themselves and of exoneration, they're now willing to give an interview before going to trial. In follow up to an earlier edition of this publication, CBS News reports:

"The Tulsa police officer charged with manslaughter for killing an unarmed black man tells Bill Whitaker race had nothing to do with her decision to pull the trigger. Officer Betty Shelby says Terence Crutcher caused his own death through his actions and his failure to heed her commands. Crutcher’s twin sister says video of the incident proves her brother was wrongfully killed. Shelby, who is expected to be criminally tried in May, speaks in her first interview about the incident on the next edition of 60 Minutes Sunday, April 2 at 7 p.m. ET/PT."

Clearly, this sad sack of human excrement is desperately trying to influence the jury pool. Otherwise, why would she grant an interview pre-trial? More pointedly, where the hell is the gag order? How can the prosecution ensure her victim's family receives justice when this piece of crap is allowed to influence potential jurors?

"The police dash-cam and helicopter videotapes show Crutcher walking back to his vehicle while, Shelby says, she was ordering him to stop. She says she suspected he was intoxicated because of his “zombie like” demeanor. An autopsy found the drug PCP in his system. A vial of the drug was found in the door pocket of his car. The video shows Crutcher had his hands up for much of the encounter, but Shelby fired at him, she says, when he reached into his car. “What I based everything on was his actions, his behaviors. Race had nothing to do with my decision making,” she says."

Didn't? Is that right? Couldn't be the 'police mentality' nearly all you murderous pieces of jackbooted shit in blue are infected with? That is, the aggressive 'us against them' psychotic mentality you and fellow officers embrace? Desperate to influence the jury pool before trial? He was walking away from you. Couldn't have used a stun gun? Couldn't have waited for back up? Especially, since you believed he was intoxicated? What exigent threat did he present to you walking away?

“I’m feeling that his intent is to do me harm and I keep thinking, ‘Don’t do this. Please don’t do this. Don’t make this happen,’” says Shelby."

This criminal jackbooted piece of crap is achingly delusional. Justifies the unjustifiable to protect her sorry gluteus maximi. To influence the jury pool judging her guilt or innocence. Psychotically, holding the victim of her murderous action responsible for his murder. Day is night, night is day, and shit smells perversely sweet in the increasingly pernicious, psychotic world of law enforcement.

Gets worse:

"Shelby tells Whitaker Crutcher kept reaching into his pocket suggesting to her, based on her experience, that he had a gun. When he got to the car window, Shelby remembers the moment he reached in. “And it’s fast. Just that would tell any officer that that man’s going for a weapon…I say with a louder, more intense voice, ‘Stop. Stop! Stop!’ and he didn’t. And that’s when I took aim.”

You psychotic, achingly delusional piece of human excrement. You murdered him. Don't want to be held criminally accountable. Desperate to influence potential jurors. Where was his weapon, you clueless piece of jackbooted crap?

"Six days after the shooting and before the police investigation was concluded, the Tulsa district attorney charged Shelby with manslaughter, alleging she overreacted. Asked if she thought the authorities had charged her quickly to prevent civil unrest, Shelby replies, “I believe that’s what they thought.” After her name was made public she says she began to receive death threats."

Any excuse, any excuse at all to avoid criminal responsibility for murdering on the job.

Coup de grace? Get this:

"Tiffany Crutcher is Terence Crutcher’s twin sister. “Of course, she’s saying everything that she’s supposed to say to defend herself. What we saw on that video is what my dad always taught my brothers, taught us to do if we were pulled over by a police officer,” says Crutcher. “Put your hands in the air and put your hands on the car. And my brother did what my father taught us. “We need our men and women in blue. But at the end of the day, they’re not warriors. They’re supposed to be our guardians,” Crutcher tells Whitaker."

How can there be a fair trial when the officer accused of manslaughter is allowed to influence the jury pool just prior to trial? Law enforcement remains determinedly out of control. Hear the rumble? An unwanted dreaded second American revolution already catastrophically looming on the horizon.

4-7-17

Once in awhile, there is, indeed, justice when it comes to a murderous jackbooted bastard in blue. In follow up to an earlier edition of this publication, NBC News reports:

"The Louisiana law enforcement officer found guilty of manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a 6-year-old boy with autism has been sentenced to 40 years in prison. Derrick Stafford, 33, was sentenced to 40 years without parole for manslaughter in the death of Jeremy Mardis and 15 years for the attempted manslaughter of Christopher Few. The sentences will run concurrently."

4-7-17

As reported previously in this publication, Austin has a problem with on duty officers blocking video of their malfeasance. Fox News reports:

"Austin police have suspended two police officers who blocked an activist from recording video of a traffic stop."

Should have fired the jackbooted bastards. Goddamned turds in blue know better.

"James Maufrais and Jesse Lane were seen on video in November obstructing and pointing a flashlight at activist Phillip Turner, who has filmed police in various Texas cities and sued at least three police departments in the state after being confronted over videotaping."

Way to go. Sue the living shit out of the bastards.

"Maufrais received a 20-day suspension without pay, and Lane was suspended for 10 days."

Not good enough. Nowhere near. Should have been fired. Only quick way to stop this shit. Send a message to the jackbooted bastards in blue.

"Maufrais' attorney on Friday told KXAN-TV that he was caught off guard by someone videotaping him and had returned less than a year earlier from Afghanistan."

Goddamned excuse.

"Texas law generally allows videotaping of police officers in a public space without permission."

It does. Only way to provide the public with proof positive of police malfeasance on the job.

4-7-17

ICE has blood on its hands. ABC News reports:

"Authorities say a Nicaraguan man hanged himself in his cell after spending about three months in custody at a Southern California immigrant detention facility."

How can this happen? No supervision? No one on duty?

"Immigration and Customs Enforcement says 32-year-old Osmar Epifanio Gonzalez-Gadba was taken to the hospital March 22 after he had hanged himself at a detention center in Adelanto. He died six days later on Tuesday."

Sad, isn't it? Just wanted a better life. You GOP fascists here in Nazi Llano County think this guy got what he deserved?

"ICE spokeswoman Virginia Kice told The Washington Post ( http://wapo.st/2oke9JI ) Gonzalez-Gadba used a bedsheet tied around his neck to hang himself. Gonzalez-Gadba was placed in immigration detention in December after he was arrested by border agents. He was deported to Nicaragua last April."

Just looking for a better life.

"Kice says Nicaraguan consular representatives in Los Angeles told the agency they've been in contact with Gonzalez-Gadba's family in Nicaragua. Gonzalez-Gadba is the fifth detainee to die in immigration custody since October."

Needs to be an independent investigation. Then again, this is Nazi America, forget? The Trump nazi's Fourth Reich.

4-7-17

The Sessions nazi continues to support the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue no matter what they do. ABC News reports:

"Ferguson, Missouri, has become "an emblem of the tense relationship" between law enforcement and those it serves, especially minority communities, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Friday during a visit to St. Louis."

Ever occur to this goddamned racist, misogynist, fascist why?

"Sessions, speaking to a gathering of law enforcement leaders at the federal courthouse that sits roughly 12 miles from Ferguson, said the Justice Department will work with them to battle the rising tide of violent crime in America. He said he supports "proactive, up-close policing — when officers get out of their squad cars and interact with everyone on their beat — that builds trust, prevents violent crime, saves lives and creates a good atmosphere."

The Sessions nazi remains achingly delusional. Out of touch with reality. First, there is no "rising tide of violent crime in America." Goddamned bullshit. Factually, incorrect. ... Other, than increased criminal activity perpetrated by the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue themselves. "Proactive, up-close policing" is not what this nazi defines it to be.

Quite the opposite. Is no more than egregious perversion of the 'no broken windows' philosophy of policing where the jackbooted bastards in blue engage in chicken shit law enforcement. That is, harassing their victims vis a vis exceptionally minor offenses, -- like spitting on the street. Chicken shit harassment does no more than alienate police from the public they supposedly serve.

The Sessions nazi suffers a warped sense of reality. Worse? No clue as to what is truly going on in the streets. What fascist does? The fact he remains a racist and misogynist certainly compounds his insanity. Won't enforce civil and constitutional rights and liberties. Determinedly, turns a blind eye. When confronted with reality, looks the other way. A clueless, ignorant, achingly stupid national socialist.

"But Sessions said that sort of police work has become increasingly difficult in what he called "an age of viral videos and targeted killings of police."

More achingly delusional bullshit. First, videos of police malfeasance expose the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue for whom and what they are. Second, "targeted killings of police" are fortunately incredibly rare. Not so, murders perpetrated by the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue against an increasing number of their innocent unarmed victims.

Yet, the Trump nazi, the Sessions nazi, prosecutors, and the courts are staunchly unwilling to hold these criminal bastards in blue legally accountable for their crimes. Instead, protect and coddle them.

"Unfortunately, in recent years law enforcement as a whole has been unfairly maligned and blamed for the crime and unacceptable deeds of a few in their ranks," Sessions said."

That's bullshit. An abject lie by the achingly clueless Sessions nazi. Criminal activity perpetrated by police is ubiquitous across our formerly great country. Examples week after week after month after year in this publication and throughout the rest of media scream otherwise. Sadly, only a fraction of this criminal activity perpetrated by officers even makes it to media. Remains covered up by law enforcement. As well as their victims who remain too gutless to step forward. Fear retribution. ... Right, Sheriff? TL?

"Amid this intense public scrutiny and criticism, morale has gone down, while the number in their ranks killed in the line of duty has gone up."

More bullshit. Non sequitur. There is "intense public scrutiny and criticism" because the criminal activity of police remains ubiquitous and is rising. Usually, remains determinedly ignored. Goes unprosecuted. Morale is down because corrupt officers expect carte blanche to do as they please. With impunity. ... While the number of innocent unarmed citizens murdered by police skyrockets. The Sessions nazi has it determinedly ass backwards.

"Ferguson, he said, has become "an emblem of the tense relationship between law enforcement and the communities we serve, especially our minority communities."

That's so because there was no justice in Ferguson, no justice elsewhere. With extreme exception. Will certainly get worse as our formerly great country continues to nazify. Becomes The Fourth Reich under the Trump nazi and his henchmen. Apparently, the Sessions nazi cluelessly believes police "serve" the community when they murder unarmed innocent citizens. Do so with virtual impunity.

"Denise Lieberman, a St. Louis lawyer with the civil rights group Advancement Project, said Sessions' approach is concerning at a time when allegations of violence by police are at an all-time high. "We also know that the role of the Department of Justice is absolutely critical to ensuring that policing agencies are complying with the law, and they are a crucial step in bringing accountability to policing," Lieberman said. "We see that right here in Ferguson."

All that changed under the Trump nazi, as well as his racist, misogynist, fascist stooge at the Department of 'Justice,' the Sessions nazi.

In a step backwards, the Sessions nazi is changing the way the game is played. DOJ oversight of the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue, will for all practical purposes, effectively end. NPR reports:

"The leader of the U.S. Justice Department has ordered federal authorities to emphasize building partnerships with local law enforcement over hard-nosed investigations of them, asking a federal judge in Baltimore to delay a hearing this week on a deal to overhaul the city's troubled police force and casting a cloud over a host of other federal consent decrees that target unconstitutional law enforcement practices."

Nazism at its worst, most dangerous. Hear the rumble? An unwanted dreaded second American revolution already catastrophically looming on the horizon. Sadly, this will likely bring massive protests to the streets after fully implemented. All protest needs to remain non-violent. If not, grants the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue carte blanche to murder on the job. This is, apparently, what the Sessions nazi and his fuhrer, the Trump nazi, want. Don't oblige. Remain peaceful.

"The new directive by Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the bid to reconsider an agreement in Baltimore are the strongest signs yet that the Trump administration not only plans to scale back the number of new investigations it launches into unconstitutional policing, excessive force and other law enforcement misconduct allegations but also the likelihood it will seek to reopen agreements the Obama civil rights unit had already negotiated."

Aggressive stupidity our formerly great country can ill afford. This could very well trigger the unthinkable as police take it as renewed carte blanche to murder, criminally assault, shake down, abuse on the job.

"Local control and local accountability are necessary for effective local policing," Sessions wrote in a memo to department officials and U.S. Attorneys late Monday. "It is not the responsibility of the federal government to manage non-federal law enforcement agencies."

That's unbridled delusion on the part of the Sessions nazi. The federal government has never in the last 50 years attempted to dictate to law enforcement how to conduct its business. Far from it. Quite the contrary. Conveniently, gutlessly forget? Short of an unwanted revolution, federal oversight of the Bill of Rights is the only way to ensure police are not abrogating these most precious rights.

Since 9/11, this country has become for all practical purposes, in effect, a fascist police-state. Obama made minimal effort to reverse this. Now, the Trump nazi, through his stooge, the Sessions nazi, seeks to reverse this. Are these two clueless, psychotic fascists deliberately, stupidly trying to provoke a revolution?

"In the two-page memo, Sessions urged federal authorities under his command to do more to promote officer safety and morale. He also directed the deputy attorney general and the associate attorney general to review "all department activities—including collaborative investigations and prosecutions" to ensure they follow his lead. "The misdeeds of individual bad actors should not impugn or undermine the honorable work that law enforcement officers and agencies perform in keeping American communities safe," he added."

The above is proof positive the Sessions nazi ignores ubiquitous police malfeasance across our formerly great country including murder of innocent unarmed citizens:

"But police reform advocates and former Justice Department investigators said the extraordinary change of course by the Trump administration is missing the point. Most of the two dozen police investigations the Obama administration pursued under a law passed after the brutal beating of Rodney King in Los Angeles uncovered patterns of brutality and racial discrimination, problems the DOJ attributed to sweeping, systemic problems in local law enforcement agencies, not a few bad apples on the force."

The above is the truth. The Trump nazi and his stooge, the Sessions nazi, cannot, will not be confused with the truth. Nor will nazis in the Republican Party. ... Right, TL?

"The request for a delay is alarming and signals a retreat from the Justice Department's commitment to civil rights and public safety in Baltimore," said Vanita Gupta, who ran the civil rights division under President Obama until January. Gupta added that the Baltimore agreement had been the product of extensive input from the city, residents, the police department and a law enforcement union "in order to address serious constitutional violations that had undermined public trust and public safety in the city."

What we're dangerously seeing here is the Trump nazi extending the goddamned fascist police-state we already live in to The Fourth Reich. The public will never accept this. The doomsday clock dangerously strikes ever closer to midnight.

The following is the take of The Washington Times:

"The Trump administration’s Justice Department is taking steps to review court-stipulated agreements meant to reform local police departments, a move officials say is meant to improve public safety by repairing relationships with local agencies. But civil rights advocates, who have pushed for department reforms after discovery of systematic abuses including racial profiling and excessive use of force, say the review is the first step in the DOJ abdicating its responsibility to ensure police follow the law."

This could very well spark an unwanted dreaded second American revolution.

"But police reform advocates call the move a betrayal, and said it’s the Justice Department’s duty to provide oversight of local law enforcement agencies with documented history of abuses."

Indeed. Sadly, the truth.

"Speaking about the Baltimore case, the president of the NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund, Sherrilyn Ifill, said DOJ’s request to postpone the hearing “is nothing more than a blatant attempt by the Justice Department to abandon its obligations under federal civil rights law and the U.S. Constitution to ensure that police departments are serving residents in a nondiscriminatory and constitutional manner.”

That's precisely what the Trump nazi and his stooge, the Sessions nazi, desperately want. The mark of a fascist. A nazi police-state. The Fourth Reich.

"David Rocah, a senior attorney for the ACLU of Maryland, said the Justice Department’s announcement is “a clear sign that the Trump administration is seeking to undo, and walk away from, the consent decree that is a critical part of reforming Baltimore’s police department.”

Sadly, true.

“Such an action by the DOJ would be literally unprecedented in our nation’s history, and would be a gross abdication of the DOJ’s responsibility to ensure that police in Baltimore, and around the country, act within the bounds of law,” Mr. Rocah said. “Even more disturbing, the DOJ filing suggests that there is some fundamental incompatibility between addressing longstanding patterns of police misconduct and public safety. This view is not only wrong but dangerous.”

Not only dangerous to the innocent public that suffers at the hands of the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue, but the much larger danger such a change in policy poses: Hear the rumble? An unwanted dreaded second American revolution already catastrophically looming on the horizon. With a well-armed citizenry, a revolution the government could not ultimately win. The damage, blood spilt, lives lost, however, would be horrendous. All sides.

"The DOJ’s blistering report on Baltimore police, undertaken after the 2015 death of Freddie Gray, found that officers unconstitutionally stopped and searched residents, disproportionately targeted black residents and frequently resorted to physical force during interactions that didn’t warrant it."

Clearly, the Trump nazi, and his stooge, the Sessions nazi, apparently support such police malfeasance and want it to continue.

"The review, released in August, found the Baltimore Police Department engaged in a pattern of conduct that violated city residents’ constitutional and federal rights, noting that black residents accounted for 84 percent of stops while they represent 63 percent of the city’s population, and for 95 percent of the 410 people stopped at least 10 times over a 5-year period. It also raised serious concern about how the department responds to and investigates reports of sexual assault."

Concerted, determined, calculated ignorance of such malfeasance is precisely how revolutions get their start.

The quotes above are courtesy of a most gifted, insightful writer, Andrea Noble.

Subsequent to writing the above, the Sessions nazi lost his bid to delay a Baltimore court hearing scheduled for April 6. CBS News reports:

"A federal judge in Baltimore has denied the Justice Department’s request to delay a public hearing scheduled for Thursday on a pending agreement to reform the Baltimore Police Department, CBS News justice reporter Paula Reid reports. The Justice Department filed a motion earlier this week to push back the hearing until June. The department said it wanted time to review the plan and determine whether the proposal would hinder efforts to fight violent crime."

Finally, an honest judge who did not buy the Sessions nazi's bullshit.

"U.S. District Judge James Bredar rejected the request Wednesday, saying in his order that pushing back the hearing “at the eleventh hour” would be a “burden and inconvenience to the court, other parties, and most importantly, the public.” He says the hearing had been jointly requested by the Justice Department and the city. The agreement, known as a consent decree, was reached in January and mandated significant reforms to the Baltimore police force. It was the result of months of negotiations between the Justice Department and Baltimore authorities and is meant to address systemic violations of constitutional rights identified in a scathing report released last year."

The courts need to stand up across the country:

"On Monday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions ordered a review of all Justice Department involvement with local law enforcement and requested the delay. The order signaled a major shift in the department’s emphasis on brokering consent decrees to reform police departments, most notably in Baltimore, Chicago and Ferguson, Missouri."

3-31-17

As always when a cop does something heroic, and/or of exceptional benefit to the community, it leads. Always. The following is an example of uncommon valor. Not on the job as a police officer, however, just getting through training. Seatbelts on. CBS News reports:

"Making it through seven months of police training is a big achievement for anyone. But for one recruit at the Suffolk County police academy on Long Island, New York, the accomplishment borders on the miraculous."

It does. Remarkable intestinal fortitude, determination. Then again, would anyone expect anything less from a United States Marine?

“I just got chills. I hear the pipe band play drums and this beat going through my body. Have this pride going through you. You completed this dream that you didn’t know you could complete,” said Matias Ferreira after graduating Friday."

Hat's off, Officer.

"The 28-year-old used to be a Marine and served in Afghanistan."

Once a Marine, always a Marine.

"In 2011, he stepped on an improvised explosive device and lost both legs from the knee down. It was a nightmare, and the end of a childhood dream."

Certainly, a nightmare, an end to a childhood dream, but the beginning of another.

"Matias immigrated to America from Uruguay at the age of six. Not long after, he saw a Marine in dress blues. “That’s what I want to be when I grow up,” he thought, right then and there. The plan was to stay a Marine for life -- until he lost his legs and had to come up with a new plan to serve."

Remarkable, isn't it?

“So I started looking at the police department to see if they would take me with the situation of the prosthetics,” he said. “I just kept Googling ‘prosthetics,’ ‘officer with prosthetics,’ and nothing came up. I couldn’t find anything.” Because nobody had done it. “I was going in blind. I don’t know what’s going to happen,” Matias said. As best anyone could tell, there had never been a full-time, active duty, double amputee police officer. But that didn’t stop Matias."

Certainly, didn't. Then again, would anyone expect less from a Marine?

"He applied like everyone else. Really the only special accommodation he wanted was that he not get any special accommodations. “If I can do it myself, I earned it. If someone else helped me, I wouldn’t have wanted it. It wouldn’t have been fair to me or the officers behind me,” he said. So he went through the same exact training. Some in the department were curious -- if he fell trying to apprehend a subject, could he even get up? And he answered that, too."

Indeed. He did.

"Which brings us here. On Friday, Matias not only graduated, he graduated class president, with a wife and daughter who were clearly proud. After losing his legs, Matias said he knew if he worked hard, another door would open. And here he is, on the glorious other side of that threshold."

Again, hat's off to Officer Matias. Extraordinary courage. Uncommon valor. Determination beyond compare.

The quotes above are courtesy of a most gifted, highly insightful, exceptional writer, Steve Hartman.

3-31-17

Think dogs don't think? Aren't capable of doing extraordinary things? Don't somehow, someway sense when their human friends desperately need help? Aren't capable of saving human life? CBS News reports:

"A year ago, a 2-year-old dog with broken legs, ribs and a belly full of carpet was fortunate enough to be saved by an animal shelter and adopted into a loving home. Now, a year later, the dog’s the one doing the rescuing."

This is quite a story. Seatbelts on:

"The medium-sized mixed-breed named Peanut suddenly started barking uncontrollably while inside her home in Escanaba, Michigan, Friday morning. The behavior was certainly unusual for the ordinarily shy pup. She ran up and down the stairs, barking and yelping until her owner finally let her outside. Once the door opened, the dog barreled into an open field behind the house — her confused owner following close behind. Eventually, the dog stopped in front of a ditch, and looked back at her owner."

How could this dog have known? Sensed the following from inside the house? Get this:

"At first, the man pulled on the dog’s collar to turn back, but then he took a closer look and saw a naked little girl curled up into a ball, shivering uncontrollably in the freezing temperatures. Quickly, he hopped into the ditch and wrapped her in his shirt, running back home with Peanut on his heels. The family called 911 as they covered the girl in blankets to warm her up. “By the time the ambulance and police arrived, the little girl could only say one thing — ‘doggie,’” the dog’s owner explained in a letter to the Delta Animal Shelter, where they adopted the dog last April. “Thanks to Peanut, a little girl’s life was saved.”

Indeed. ... Talk about a sixth sense.

"Michigan’s Delta County Sheriff’s Office confirmed the family’s story in a news statement on Monday, crediting the canine for alerting her owner to the child’s presence."

Had it not been for the dog, that kid could have died:

"The little girl was not injured and was transported to a nearby hospital for tests, while deputies went door to door in an attempt to find her parents, authorities said. The parents were eventually located at a house nearby. “Further investigation unveiled unsafe and unsanitary living conditions at the residence,” the sheriff’s office reported. “Child Protective Services was contacted and the found girl along with another young female were eventually removed from the residence.” Police said the case has been sent to the Delta County Prosecutor’s Office for review."

Not only did that dog save one life, but likely a second one as well. Hat's off to Peanut, her owner, and police for a job well done.

3-31-17

Think police officers, themselves, don't suffer profiling, racism, religious discrimination, etc. from their fellow officers? Fox32Chicago reports:

"A Muslim officer who was fired by the North Chicago Police Department last month is suing for religious discrimination, claiming he was fired after complaining about harassment. “I risked my life so someone could sleep better. And this is not right. This is not right what they did to me,” said Ramtin Sabet. Sabet started working for the North Chicago police in 2007, and the Iranian born officer said the harassment started a few years later."

Nothing ever truly changes, does it? The police mentality remains the police mentality. No matter the number of lawsuits. No matter the public uproar.

“They started calling me names, they said I was a terrorist, I didn't belong to the country, I should go back to Iran. They said Iran should be nuked,” Sabet said. According to the lawsuit, fellow officers asked Sabet if he road his camel to work, and at the firing range they said he was good at shooting because he had been teaching at Al-Qaeda camps in Iran. And the harassment didn’t’ stop there, he said. “I would show up to calls, they'd say, oh Mr. Taliban pulled up here, I would call in lunch breaks on the radio traffic asking dispatch for permission, they said oh, Mr. Taliban wants to eat falafel and hummus.”

This bullshit runs rampant throughout the country. The above is just one example. Cops who do this are unfit for the job. Remain an exigent threat to all civil and constitutional rights and liberties. The following is how law enforcement brass excuse this crap, gutlessly lay the blame on the victim:

"North Chicago Police Chief Richard Wilson declined to go on camera, but said Sabet was fired for violating department rules and regulations. Sabet was accused of making racial comments about Jews and then lying about it when questioned by investigators."

Why did this gutless piece of shit decline to go on camera? If what he's claiming is true, why not courageously go on camera and truthfully answer reporters' questions? What are you so afraid of, Chief? The truth?

“I filed a complaint, I wanted the harassment to stop, they turned it all the way around on me and they terminated me. They accused me of untruthfulness,” Sabet said."

The achingly gutless American Way. Can't dazzle 'em with brilliance, baffle 'em with bullshit. If that doesn't work, lay the blame on the victim, then fire him. Would have thought enlightened self interest would have motivated police to have seen the value in this officer. As an eminently useful conduit to the Muslim community. Someone Muslims could turn to for police assistance. Instead, bigotry reins supreme. As does aggressive stupidity.

3-31-17

Wake up, Sheriff. Again, where is dashcam video of the killing of Jeffrey Gray Wise, 52, of Austin by DPS and the Llano County Sheriff's Office? Forty-nine weeks, now. A goddamned disgrace. Why are you still sitting on this information? What are you hiding, Sheriff? What is the identity of the officers who killed Wise? Too gutless to release this information to the public that pays your salary and that of your goons? Reportedly, there were three officers involved in the shooting.

Who are they, Sheriff? Their past history? An ongoing investigation remains a lame bullshit excuse. How can you and your goons be trusted when you refuse to disclose information? Forty-nine weeks. Especially, your egregious failure to disclose the identity of the officers who pulled the trigger. To cover your sorry ass, Sheriff? Those of your thugs? The people have a right to know what happened, how it went down. You don't understand that, Sheriff? Sadly, clearly, you answer to no one. Including taxpayers. Especially, taxpayers.

Until you and your goons come clean, doubt will remain this was indeed a good shoot. The longer you drag your feet, the greater the doubt. Think not? Wake up. Your credibility has tanked. Isn't getting any better as this bullshit continues unabated. Forty-nine weeks. Still no identification of the officers involved ... Can't get your stories straight? In line? Discrepancy between LCSO and DPS? Wake up, Sheriff. The public no longer buys the bullshit. No longer trusts you. On this and many, many other issues. You have no credibility. Absolutely, none.

3-31-17

Clearly, vetting of officers both before and during employment leaves much to be desired. CBS News reports:

"The police chief of an eastern Texas town was arrested Wednesday following a standoff with sheriff’s deputies at his home, reports CBS affiliate KBTX."

Imagine that. A chief of police. Goddamned disgrace.

"Charles Herford, the chief of the Normangee Police Department, was booked into the Leon County Jail on charges of deadly conduct and evading in a motor vehicle."

Had it been anyone other than an officer, think the bastard wouldn't have wound up dead at the hands of police, -- or at least severely beaten?

"Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper Jimmy Morgan told the station that just before 2:00 a.m., deputies received a 911 call from Herford’s wife, who was crying. During the initial conversation officials lost contact. A dispatcher called back, Herford’s wife answered, and the dispatcher soon heard what sounded like a gunshot."

An out of control, criminal jackbooted bastard in blue.

"As sheriff’s deputies responded to the scene, they noticed Herford’s police unit driving through town and attempted to stop him. Trooper Morgan says Herford eluded law enforcement, but officers continued to search for him."

How could he manage to elude? Especially, in a police unit? When an ordinary citizen stupidly attempts to elude police, the jackbooted bastards in blue swarm like flies on shit. Come out of nowhere. Not this time, however:

"For nearly three hours, law enforcement continued searching for Herford and, according to Trooper Morgan, there were “conversations” via radio between Herford and the sheriff’s office. Around 5:30 a.m., law enforcement was informed that Herford had returned to his home. State troopers, deputies, local police officers and the Texas Rangers all descended upon the home. Around 7 a.m., Herford surrendered."

Had it been a non-officer, bet the perpetrator wouldn't have been killed? ... Certainly, however, not when the perpetrator is himself an officer:

"No one was hurt during the five hour incident, Morgan said."

3-31-17

In follow up to a much earlier edition of this publication, Fox News reports:

"A grand jury added 16 counts of aggravated battery with a firearm to the first-degree murder charges against a white Chicago police officer accused in the fatal shooting of a black 17-year-old. A special prosecutor and attorneys for former Officer Jason Van Dyke didn't discuss the new indictment announced during a Thursday hearing. Van Dyke shot 17-year-old Laquan McDonald 16 times in October 2014."

Remember this case? An extremely brutal murder perpetrated by a criminal jackbooted bastard in blue:

"The new indictment brings to 23 the number of felony counts against Van Dyke. He faces six counts of first-degree murder, one count of official misconduct and now 16 aggravated battery counts."

How is it this case lingers on and on and on, -- the last two and a half years? Hasn't even gone to trial. The bastard wasn't even charged until 2015. ... Only then, after a judge ordered a video of the murder released to the public. We live in an exceptionally sick culture when a criminal jackbooted bastard in blue murders on the job, yet gets coddled, protected. Only charged when a judge orders release of evidence indicative of a crime having been committed by the officer. Egregious dereliction of duty by the chief and top police brass. To say nothing of prosecutors.

3-31-17

SWAT officers are murdering on the job. Remain an exigent threat to all civil and constitutional rights and liberties. The Washington Post reports:

"Since 2010, At least 20 SWAT raids involving suspected marijuana dealers have turned deadly, according to data compiled by the New York Times. The list of fatalities includes small-time dealers and people who sold the occasional joint to a friend, as well as people suspected of dealing in more serious drugs like crack or meth, but who were found to be in possession of only marijuana after the fact. It also includes four police officers who were killed during the raids, intentionally or otherwise."

These criminal jackbooted bastards in blue execute no-knock warrants. Know what that means? They militarily assault their targets without announcing they're police with a search warrant. Guess what? Gets some of these bastards killed by innocent homeowners in self defense who don't know who the hell they are or what they want.

Usually, however, it's the other way around. An innocent homeowner gets murdered by these jackbooted bastards in military attire with assault weapons busting down the door. -- The stupid, murderous bastards sometimes break into the wrong address. SWAT jackbooted thugs were originally intended to be used in terrorist cases. Came into existence after the deadly UT Tower sniper killed and maimed many back in 1966. Now, these jackbooted bastards in SWAT are used mainly for execution of drug search warrants:

"The modern-day SWAT team originated in Los Angeles in the late 1960s as a way to deal with gunmen targeting police officers or civilians. But today SWAT teams are mostly used to handle routine warrant work, especially drug warrants. A 2014 ACLU study found that nearly 80 percent of SWAT deployments were to serve search warrants. Just 7 percent of SWAT deployments involved "hostage, barricade, or active shooter scenarios."

Called 'mission creep.' Bastardization of legitimate policing into a military-style 'us-against them' ferociously violent assault against the public they supposedly serve.

Here is a small sample of their murderous malfeasance:

"29-year-old Jason Westcott of Tampa, who was shot and killed by police who stormed his home and observed him with a firearm. Westcott never fired his gun. The police uncovered a total of .2 grams of marijuana at Westcott's residence, not enough to fill a typical joint. Trevon Cole of Las Vegas, who was targeted for a raid after undercover officers purchased 1.8 ounces of the drug from him. Cole was unarmed, and was shot and killed by an officer as he was trying to flush marijuana down a toilet. His family eventually received a $1.7 million settlement from police. Levonia Riggins, also of Tampa, who became the subject of a raid after undercover agents purchased marijuana from him on three occasions. Riggins was in bed at the time of the raid. He didn't respond to officers' demands, and when the officers moved toward him Riggins made a quick movement. He was shot and killed. The raid turned out no firearms and a small amount of marijuana."

Kicker? Coup de grace?

"The deadly raids are a reminder that an activity that's legal and celebrated in some states -- selling weed -- can get you killed in others. Marijuana itself is not a deadly substance. "No death from overdose of marijuana has been reported," according to the DEA. But the deadly raids on suspected marijuana dealers underscore how drug enforcement can become a greater threat to life and safety than drug use itself."

Sadly, it's how these criminal jackbooted bastards in blue get their cookies off. Abusing power. Murdering on the job. No foreign power, no terrorist organization, not even the criminal element pose a greater threat to liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties, than the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue.

"The Times' data shows that drugs are the primary driver of SWAT raids that turn deadly. Among the 85 fatal raids that have occurred since 2010, 61 of them -- or 70 percent -- were initiated on suspicion of drugs."

The drug war, started by President "Tricky Dick" Nixon back in 1969, has been an abysmal failure. Has corrupted most, if not all law enforcement. Has turned drug users into criminals with a record making it next to impossible to find employment paying a livable wage. Precisely, why the drug user sells drugs to survive. Re-offends.

Instead of allowing Darwin's natural selection process to quickly run its course vis a vis hard drug usage, we lock up drug users at horrendous taxpayer expense, offer them no treatment, eventually release them to re-offend and/or die on the streets. Some of this thinking is beginning to change, but change, sadly, remains at a snail's pace.

Since drug enforcement continues to remain a massive failure, why aren't we concentrating solely on keeping drugs from minors? There are laws already on the books regarding the negative ancillary effects of alcohol and/or other drug intoxication, such as DWI, public intoxication, theft, burglary, assault, disorderly conduct, etc..

Why not simply let nature take its course, weed out through natural selection, survival of the fittest those stupid enough to indulge in drugs? Other than minors, of course. We won't consider doing this because drug enforcement has become cash cow for government. A convenient means of looting offenders. Lining government coffers. A way for corrupt, abusive law enforcement to not only get its cookies off abusing power, but selling such contraband itself. Think not? Wake up.

Years ago, meth dealers assured this publication the Narcotics Enforcement Team (NET) was ring leading the meth operation in this area. Managing all the 'cooks.' Indeed, a multi-million dollar operation. Quantities seized by these jackbooted bastards were always small. Interesting, isn't it? Every now and then a cook was made an example of. These law enforcement assholes were quite a scourge at the time. Were themselves using drugs.

"Defenders of the use of [SWAT] tactics in drug search warrants say they're necessary to protect officer safety. "These are dangerous people we’re dealing with," an Arkansas SWAT commander told the New York Times. "If you have a dope house next door there’s probably nothing the police can do that would be overreacting."

That's bullshit. The SWAT commander is talking out his ass. His goons are the exigent threat to the neighborhood when executing a military raid. Rather than protecting officers, they endanger them. This is a well-armed citizenry. Most of whom are law-abiding, but more than willing to defend themselves when unannounced, unidentified criminal jackbooted thugs in combat dress break down their door.

These bastards get a rush out of engaging what they consider a combat mission. Why don't you jackbooted sons of bitches join or rejoin the military? Instead of, in effect, launching a military attack against the citizenry you allegedly serve. Many of whom are innocent of any crime. Others, who posed no exigent threat to you jackbooted bastards. Yet, you gutlessly murdered them.

"But selling drugs is not, in and of itself, a violent crime. And with certain drugs, marijuana in particular, the risk to public health of using the drug is minimal. Over half of U.S. states have legalized the drug for medical use, and eight states plus DC have legalized it for recreational use as well."

Wouldn't want to confuse these jackbooted 'law and order' nazi storm troopers with the truth, would we?

"But while nobody's overdosing on marijuana, police are still killing people for it -- and occasionally being killed themselves. In 2013, a SWAT team in rural Texas conducted a pre-dawn raid on the home of Henry Magee, who an informant said was growing 12 marijuana plants in his house. Groggy and disoriented by the commotion, Magee grabbed a semi-automatic rifle and began firing in the direction of the door that the officers had just battered down. His live-in girlfriend, four months pregnant at the time, thought they were being robbed."

Under such circumstances, whether or not guilty of anything, what would you do? When police don't announce themselves, bust through a door without identifying themselves, it is no more than a home invasion. Then, the clueless bastards wonder why someone opens fire on them?

"When Magee and his girlfriend heard the police announce themselves, they immediately surrendered. By then, police investigator Frederich Sowders lay dead on the floor. They later recovered 10 marijuana plants and 4 ounces of dried marijuana from his home."

The jackbooted bastards were stupid. Aggressively, stupid. What did they expect? The officer died for nothing. A terrible loss. Yet, he was killed because the occupant of the house didn't know who he was. Assumed he was a criminal breaking in.

"It took a grand jury 12 hours to acquit Magee of a capital murder charge. "All of us felt that if I were in bed and heard anything that made me get up and get a gun, and all of a sudden my door explodes in, I’m shooting," one of the jurors told the New York Times. "Why in the world would you do a full-out assault on a guy growing pot?"

It's outrageous he was charged at all for killing the jackbooted son of a bitch in what he believed was self-defense. The last question above is a simple one to answer. The criminal jackbooted bastards in blue do a full-out assault because it's how they get their achingly perverse cookies off. Most of the time, they wantonly kill. Seldom does one of the thugs suffer the same fate.

The quotes above are courtesy of a most gifted, insightful writer, Christopher Ingraham.

Here is another example of the brutality of SWAT jackbooted bastards in blue. This time in Chicago. ABC7Chicago reports:

"A Chicago family says they were terrified when police broke through their doors in an early-morning raid carried out at the wrong home. Ashanti Franklin's two doors bear testament to the ferociousness of the 6 a.m. police raid. Chicago police said they were looking for a suspect named Gregory King and raiding this three-flat - but they started upstairs, in the wrong apartment."

Aggressively stupid jackbooted bastards. An exigent threat to innocent life. Criminals in uniform.

"When Franklin told officers they had the wrong house, they said "you need to open your door or we are going to kick the door in."

Out of control jackbooted pieces of shit who pose an exigent threat far greater than any foreign power, terrorist group, or the criminal element. Domestic terrorists with assault weapons, a badge, and a license to murder on the job. Traitors to their oaths of office to protect and defend the United States Constitution. Gutless human excrement, a goddamned disgrace to everything our formerly great country used to, but no longer stands for.

"I said, 'Do you have a search warrant?' 'Yeah, we have a search warrant.' 'Well, show me the search warrant,'" Franklin said. Again, she said officers responded: "Open the door or we are going to kick the door in."

The gutless pieces of shit wouldn't even produce a goddamned warrant. Nazi storm troopers ala the Nazi SS, Gestapo.

"Chicago police said officers realized their mistake, then headed downstairs."

Mistake? Bullshit. Egregious bullshit. Criminal assault. By gutless assholes sworn to protect and defend the public.

"It was just disrespectful. The whole thing was out of order and they don't know how to talk to people. Everybody is not your average criminal or street guy, that is not it," said Romeo Franklin Sr. "You gotta show respect. I am a man, just like they are men."

No, you're not. You're owned by these goddamned out of control government pieces of jackbooted trash. Or, at least, that's what these delusional pieces of shit in blue psychotically believe. They have no respect for anything other than a goddamned lawsuit. Gutlessly fear the unwanted dreaded second American revolution already catastrophically looming on the horizon. The criminal bastards hear the rumble.

"In a statement, the Chicago Police Department said it is "... actively working with the affected family, as well as the city of Chicago, to repair a door that was damaged during the incident."

Why weren't these pieces of shit arrested for breaking and entering? Terrorizing an innocent family. These jackbooted bastards are no more than home-grown terrorists.

"They came in, they pointed the guns at me, my husband, my daughter, my 12-year-old son was sleeping in the back room. They went into the room where he was with the guns over him," Franklin said."

They are criminals. Had anyone other than these goddamned officers committed such a crime, their sorry asses would have rightfully been hauled to jail.

"We are violated. We don't know if we should feel safe anymore, we have our kids here, emotional distress, anxiety, all type of things," Franklin said."

Indeed, you were violated. By the very same criminal bastards who not only falsely swore an oath to uphold the Constitution, but to protect and defend the public. They've deliberately, egregiously broken that oath. They remain an exigent threat to the public. Find a lawyer. Sue the living shit out of the bastards, their handlers, the department, and the government entity ultimately responsible. Do all you can to bankrupt these pieces of shit. Yet, the Trump nazi and his henchmen, including the Sessions nazi, intend to support and defend the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue. No matter what they do. Hear the rumble?

3-31-17

Black celebrities are subject to racial profiling by the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue. ABC News reports:

"Rapper and businessman Wyclef Jean today requested a "formal investigation into racial profiling" after slamming police this morning for detaining him in West Hollywood, California, an incident that the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department described as “unfortunate.”

Goddamned racial profiling by the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue.

"Jean, 47, initially posted a short video this morning to Twitter and Instagram, where he wrote, "LAPD another case of mistaken identity. Black man with red bandana robbed a gas station as I was in the studio working but im in handcuffs?"

Forget? This is Nazi America. A goddamned fascist police-state now run and owned by criminal jackbooted bastards in blue. ... Or, so the bastards perversely believe.

"The officers handcuffed him in the overnight incident and took off his Haitian bandanna, he says in the clip, while a colleague shoots the video. "[They] have me in cuffs for absolutely nothing," he says."

The American Way.

"After a second tweet from Jean this morning, his representative issued a full statement later today asking police and Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti to follow up in the incident. "After the vehicle he was being liveried in was pulled over and from which he was brutally removed from the vehicle and subject to police brutality, racial profiling, police bias and the ongoing discriminatory practices of law enforcement officials which remain rampant throughout the United States and for which the LA Sheriff's office is deeming a case of mistaken identity," his rep said in the statement. "As such, Mr. Jean is requesting a formal investigation into racial profiling by Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, LAPD chief Charlie Beck and the LA Sheriff's Department while calling upon the ACLU and Black Lives Matter to join him in defense of civil liberties and racial bias."

That's right. Sue the living shit out of the bastards.

"Garcetti's office has yet to respond to this request, but the County Sheriff’s officials did seek to set the record straight in a response, first correcting the artist that it was their department, not the LAPD, that was involved in the incident."

That wasn't all.

"Jean was handcuffed "due to the violent nature of the call (armed robbery), the similarity of the suspect vehicle ... the time of day of the unfolding detention and Mr. Jean’s furtive movements and demeanor," police added."

Is that right? Why shouldn't he be pissed off at being racially profiled, cuffed, f--ked with when the jackbooted bastards in blue had nothing but hearsay to go on? This happens all the time. Not only to blacks, but people of all races, color, and ethnicity. It's this goddamned needlessly aggressive bullshit people are growing tired of.

"After an initial statement from police, Jean took to Twitter a second time this morning to write, "I was asked by the police to Put my hands up. Then I was told do not move. I was instantly hand cuffed before being asked to identify myself. Nor was I told why I was being cuffed. In the process I said my name and told them they have wrong person. They proceeded to ignore me and I was treated like a criminal until other police showed up and pointed out they had wrong person." The artist added that, "As some one who has law enforcers in my family, I was appalled by this behavior of the [police]."

The jackbooted bastards don't get it. Remain achingly clueless:

"Police concluded with a statement, saying, "It is unfortunate that Mr. Jean was detained for six minutes during this investigation, as he had no involvement whatsoever in this violent crime ... The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department is apologetic for any inconvenience this process caused Mr. Jean. We are grateful we were able to apprehend the robbery suspects and that no one was seriously injured."

"Inconvenience?" You cuffed him. Had no probable cause to do so. Did it on the basis of hearsay. Cuffed him before even talking to him. Asking him for his identity. Short of an unwanted dreaded revolution, the only way this bullshit will end is to sue.

3-31-17

In follow up to a recent edition of this publication, CBS News reports:

"A Louisiana law enforcement officer was convicted Friday on a lesser charge of manslaughter in a shooting that killed a 6-year-old autistic boy, a gruesome encounter captured on tape by another officer’s body camera. Jurors found Derrick Stafford guilty of manslaughter and attempted manslaughter charges, multiple news outlets reported. He had faced charges of second-degree murder and attempted second-degree murder in the case. A manslaughter conviction in Louisiana carries a sentence of 15 to 40 years in prison, CBS affiliate WAFB reports."

No equal justice. Kill an officer even in self defense? Guess what? You almost always wind up convicted of capital murder and executed in most states. Not so, if you are a jackbooted bastard in blue who murders on the job. An outrageous double standard.

3-31-17

There is racial and gender inequality in how the stand your ground law is enforced in Florida. Readers will recall the George Zimmerman murder of Trayvon Martin, -- who walked due to this law. If you're black and a woman, guess what? You don't receive equal treatment. NBC News reports:

"When Marissa Alexander went to prison in 2012, she became a symbol of the shortcomings of Florida's stand your ground gun law. Now that she's free, she's pushing to make it easier to use. Alexander is a black mother who was a licensed gun owner when she shot at her estranged husband in 2010, saying she feared he'd hurt her. The bullet never even grazed the man but she was initially sentenced to up to 20 years in jail — making headlines just as George Zimmerman was famously walked free for fatally shooting young Trayvon Martin in the same state."

Zimmerman got away with murder. This case is different in that no one got killed.

"That perspective put her at the intersection of national debates on race, sentencing guidelines, and expanding stand-your-ground laws, which protect people who defend themselves against attackers. Alexander, a self-described introvert whose conviction turned her into an advocate for criminal justice reform, has since sided with Florida Republicans who want to shift the burden of proof away from defendants when it comes to stand-your-ground defenses."

It's amazing how a problem with racism and misogyny can lead to such wildly different outcomes in these two cases. One a murder, the other self-defense. Especially, since no one died in the self-defense example.

"They're pushing through a bill that would make prosecutors have to prove that the protections shouldn't apply. The measure, backed by defense lawyers and opposed by prosecutors, passed the state Senate last week. It will be discussed by a state House of Representatives committee Thursday morning."

Think this change in the law will end the racism and misogyny resulting in her conviction? Or, simply lead to more murderers like Zimmerman who skated?

"Just last week, a judge rejected a retired Tampa police officer's stand your ground claim in a 2014 fatal movie theater shooting."

Readers will recall the above was covered recently in this publication. The problem with stand your ground laws is the fact they're dependent on a judge acting in good faith. When they impose their biases on the bench, however, doesn't matter if you shift the burden of proof to the prosecution. The judge will find a way to impose his or her bias. A defendant such as Ms. Alexander will still get the shaft.

3-31-17

Amazing how police can murder on the job, yet no successful criminal prosecution. CNN reports:

"A New York police officer who fatally shot unarmed teen Ramarley Graham during a 2012 chase, resigned Sunday after an internal disciplinary trial on Friday. According to an NYPD statement, police officer Richard Haste quit after the NYPD trial commissioner "found him guilty on all counts and recommended his employment be terminated." NYPD Police Commissioner James O'Neill has "fully concurred with the findings and recommendations of the Trial Commissioner," the statement reads."

Going on five years, and this criminal jackbooted son of a bitch in blue was still on the force?

This piece of shit skated on state criminal charges:

"In 2013, Haste pleaded not guilty to charges of first- and second-degree manslaughter for the February 2, 2012 shooting of 18-year-old Graham. A Bronx Supreme Court Judge later dismissed the manslaughter indictment against Haste. The judge had thrown out the case based on instructions given by the prosecution to the grand jury regarding communications among officers before the shooting."

Convenient, isn't it? Justice? What's that?

"Federal prosecutors closed their investigation in March 2016, saying there was insufficient evidence for a criminal civil rights case against Haste for the shooting."

No justice. Certainly, not in a goddamned fascist police-state.

"In 2015, the Graham family received a $3.9 million settlement in a wrongful death lawsuit against the city, Jeffrey Emdin, a lawyer representing the Graham family told CNN."

Nowhere near enough.

3-31-17

Continues to be a concerted effort of law enforcement to deny protesters their First Amendment right to protest. A problem across our formerly great country. ABC News reports:

"Law enforcement officials in Louisiana's capital face another federal lawsuit accusing them of violating the rights of protesters arrested after a black man's fatal shooting by police. Attorneys from the Roderick & Solange MacArthur Justice Center in New Orleans filed Thursday's lawsuit on behalf of several Baton Rouge residents who were arrested after the July 2016 shooting death of Alton Sterling during an altercation with two police officers. The suit - at least the third to accuse police in Baton Rouge of violating protesters' civil rights - claims the arrests were part of a pattern of "racist law enforcement" in the city."

Citizens have the right to peacefully protest. When that right is abrogated by the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue, sue the living shit out of the bastards, the department, and the governmental entity having jurisdiction. Short of an unwanted dreaded revolution already catastrophically looming on the horizon, a lawsuit is the only thing these vicious bastards understand. Only after taxpayers get tired of being soaked for police malfeasance, will this goddamned bullshit end.

3-31-17

While cities won't rein in their criminal jackbooted bastards in blue, they're more than willing to engage in gender discrimination by statute. In an amusing aside, ABC News reports:

"A Colorado city plans to appeal a federal judge's decision to temporarily halt enforcement of its ban on women going topless."

Would you believe a municipality is willing to spend tax money on this?

"The Coloradoan reports (http://noconow.co/2nKBsj0) attorneys for the city of Fort Collins notified a federal appeals court Tuesday of their intent to challenge a preliminary injunction blocking a section of the city's public nudity law."

Why? Who cares? Doesn't everyone come into this world bare-assed naked? Amusingly, don't these people understand everyone knows what everyone else has or doesn't? LOL.

"In granting the injunction last month, the judge said he would likely find the city ordinance that makes it a crime for women but not men to show their nipples unconstitutional."

Hell, what's good for the gander is good for the goose, isn't it? LOL.

"The Fort Collins City Council voted to keep the law in 2015, rejecting a growing movement to remove gender-specific indecency codes. Two women then sued to challenge the law."

Imagine that. Who'd 'a 'thunk' it, no? LOL.

"The city has argued the ordinance is needed to maintain public order and protect children."

What a crock of shit. Public order is more than maintained on clothing optional beaches, nudist camps, etc. Protect children from what? The female body? Conveniently, forget? Many kids are breast-fed as infants. Were they somehow, someway harmed by the naked female breast? What we have here is a city wishing to force its perverse ideological and religious views on others by statute. In direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, church-state separation, that is, freedom from religion.

3-31-17

Think this ends it? NBC News reports:

"The last of two federal judges has approved a revised settlement in lawsuits that accused the New York Police Department (NYPD) of illegally surveilling Muslims in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Judge Pamela K. Chen of New York's Eastern District signed off on the agreement Monday, which puts measures in place to protect Muslims and others from NYPD investigations into political or religious activity."

3-31-17

Once in awhile, the Supreme Court gets it right. ABC News reports:

"The Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with a Texas death row inmate who claims he should not be executed because he is intellectually disabled. The justices, by a 5-3 vote, reversed a Texas appeals court ruling that said inmate Bobby James Moore was not intellectually disabled."

Imagine that. Couldn't be, could it?

"Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said in her majority opinion that Texas' top criminal appeals court ignored current medical standards and required use of outdated criteria when it decided Moore isn't mentally disabled. That ruling removed a legal hurdle to Moore's execution for the shotgun slaying of a Houston grocery store clerk in 1980. "Texas cannot satisfactorily explain why it applies current medical standards for diagnosing intellectual disability in other contexts, yet clings to superseded standards when an individual's life is at stake," Ginsburg said."

To get its pound of flesh. Yet, when a criminal jackbooted bastard in blue murders on the job, Texas does squat shit. Coddles, protects the murderer in blue.

"The decision was the second this term in which the high court has ruled for a Texas death row inmate. In February, the justices said race improperly tainted inmate Duane Buck's death sentence."

Forget? Racism remains ubiquitous in Texas. ... Right, TL?

3-24-17

Any time law enforcement does something courageous, and/or of exceptional benefit to the community, it leads. Always. The following is an inspiring story about the heroic combined effort of citizens and police to save the life of a heart attack victim. WGN-TV reports:

"Michael and Vivian Aronson were at Shallot’s in Skokie last month. “The food was just about to be delivered, and I was about to say something and everything went black,” Michael said. 71-year-old Michael passed out. The couple happened to be out with their friend Karen Vogel who is a medical doctor. She quickly began performing CPR. 911 was also called."

What happened next is quite extraordinary. A team effort to desperately save a life:

“Then people started lining up and offering to assist Karen in the CPR,” Vivian said. When the Skokie police arrived, they took over. Someone ran to the Anytime Fitness next door and broke in to get a defibrillator. By this time there were nine Skokie police officers at the scene. “One of the policemen said give me the defibrillator and shocked Michael twice and brought him around,” Vivian said. “Because he was for all practical purposes dead.'"

A team effort that indeed saved a life:

"Michael later woke up at the hospital. Doctors said he had suffered a heart attack. Vivian says, “The most important thing we want to see people being trained in CPR, in the use of a defibrillator. I saw on a personal note how this can save a life and as it says in scriptures, ‘If you save a life, it`s as if you save the world.'”

Michael's take?

"Michael says he feels lucky, like he`s been given a second chance. He says he wants to go visit the officers who helped save his life - once he feels a little better."

Hat's off to all. Great job.

3-24-17

Heroes come from all walks of life. All age groups. Even the young and inexperienced. WSVN 7 News Miami reports:

"A McDonald’s employee came to the rescue of an off-duty police officer, Tuesday morning, when she suffered a medical emergency while sitting in her car at the restaurant’s drive-thru. After the Miami-Dade Police officer suffered the medical emergency, her car started rolling slowly away from the drive-thru line and hit a median, surveillance footage shows. That’s when the employee, 22-year-old Pedro Viloria, jumped out of the drive-thru window and pulled the officer out of her vehicle. “I never panicked. I never panicked at all. My brain was on hero mode, totally,” Viloria said. “I thought immediately something’s going on with that woman right now and I gotta do something.”

Equally important?

"The officer’s kids were in the car with her. “Her kids were screaming like, ‘Mother, mother, stop it, mother. What are you doing?'” Viloria said. A Miami-Dade Fire Rescue paramedic inside the McDonald’s realized what was happening and went outside to help."

Quickly rose to the occasion.

“I thought if these kids lose their mother today, that’s gonna be tragic,” Viloria said. “It is what a hero does, if I would’ve need to die to save that woman, I would’ve done it.”

Nothing quite like the exuberance of youth, is there?

"Rescue units arrived and transported the officer to Kendall Regional Hospital, where she was listed in critical condition."

Hat's off to both Mr. Viloria and the paramedic. Hopefully, the officer will fully recover.

3-24-17

Wake up, Sheriff. Again, where is dashcam video of the killing of Jeffrey Gray Wise, 52, of Austin by DPS and the Llano County Sheriff's Office? Forty-eight weeks, now. A goddamned disgrace. Why are you still sitting on this information? What are you hiding, Sheriff? What is the identity of the officers who killed Wise? Too gutless to release this information to the public that pays your salary and that of your goons? Reportedly, there were three officers involved in the shooting.

Who are they, Sheriff? Their past history? An ongoing investigation remains a lame bullshit excuse. How can you and your goons be trusted when you refuse to disclose information? Forty-eight weeks. Especially, your egregious failure to disclose the identity of the officers who pulled the trigger. To cover your sorry ass, Sheriff? Those of your thugs? The people have a right to know what happened, how it went down. You don't understand that, Sheriff? Sadly, clearly, you answer to no one. Including taxpayers. Especially, taxpayers.

Until you and your goons come clean, doubt will remain this was indeed a good shoot. The longer you drag your feet, the greater the doubt. Think not? Wake up. Your credibility has tanked. Isn't getting any better as this bullshit continues unabated. Forty-eight weeks. Still no identification of the officers involved ... Can't get your stories straight? In line? Discrepancy between LCSO and DPS? Wake up, Sheriff. The public no longer buys the bullshit. No longer trusts you. On this and many, many other issues. You have no credibility. Absolutely, none.

3-24-17

In follow up to a much earlier edition of this publication vis a vis the killing of Tamir Rice, NBC News reports:

"A 911 dispatcher who took a call that led to a white police officer's fatal shooting of a 12-year-old black boy outside a recreation center has been suspended for eight days. Police Chief Calvin Williams found in a disciplinary letter dated March 10 that Constance Hollinger violated protocol the day of the shooting of Tamir Rice, who had been playing with a pellet gun. Tamir was shot within seconds of a police cruiser skidding to a stop just a few feet away from him in November 2014 outside the Cleveland rec center. The city's internal disciplinary charges accused Hollinger of failing to tell the dispatcher who sent the officers to the rec center that the man who called 911 about "a guy" pointing a gun at people also said it could be a juvenile and the gun might be a "fake."

Apparently, the dispatcher was conveniently made a scapegoat. Both officers involved in the murder of Rice wound up skating:

"Loehmann and Garmback, who weren't criminally charged, face possible discipline by McGrath that could result in them being dismissed from the Cleveland police department."

These two pieces of human excrement not only were not charged, but still haven't faced disciplinary action for the murder of this kid.

"The city agreed last April to pay Tamir's family $6 million to settle a federal civil rights lawsuit."

Big shit. Doesn't bring back the kid. Nowhere near enough in 'compensation.' Certainly, doesn't bankrupt the two criminal jackbooted bastards in blue, the department, or the city.

3-24-17

Here is one of the stupidest examples of police behavior seen in quite some time. The jackbooted bastards in blue killed a man to 'save' him. Seatbelts on. Get this. ABC News reports:

"California police shot and killed a shirtless, knife-wielding man whom they had forced out of his locked minivan with a firehose after witnessing him pouring gasoline on a rag and lighting a cigarette, authorities said."

You read it right the first time. That's indeed correct. They killed him to 'save' his life. This is now the convoluted 'thinking' of the jackbooted bastards in blue:

"We felt this guy was going to light himself on fire or blow the car up," Orange police Lt. Fred Lopez said Monday, the day after officers fatally shot 33-year-old Michael Anthony Perez."

So they killed him. To 'save' him.

"Parts of the strange-then-violent standoff were captured on close-up, professionally shot video aired by KABC-TV, though Perez is partially blocked from view by another vehicle. The video shows the water spraying as police use batons to break the van's windows then shows Perez climbing out head-first through the driver's side window. He then struggled with officers. No weapon is seen but a voice is heard yelling "knife" moments before two shots rang out. A non-lethal round of rubber projectiles was ineffective so officers used lethal force, Lopez said."

Jesus Christ. Give me a f--king break. This, the best law enforcement has to offer? What has happened to law enforcement? No more than Keystone Kops?

"Perez was hit by a single bullet and pronounced dead at a hospital, police said."

Exactly, what he wanted. To die.

"We try to use less lethal rounds, but it is not always possible," Lopez said."

You clueless piece of jackbooted shit. Couldn't have simply backed off? You had the vehicle surrounded, didn't you? He had no gun. You bastards couldn't have subdued him with your batons?

"Police said Perez had a criminal record that included weapons and drugs violations. Online court listings show convictions for charges including drug possession and possession of drug paraphernalia."

Justifies you jackbooted pieces of shit becoming judge, jury, and executioner? You're gutless cowards.

"Thorsen said an active warrant was out in connection with the minivan. The man was pulled over for a broken tail light and the incident played out over a 20- to 30-minute span near a 24-hour laundry and other businesses in a surrounding strip mall, police said."

That little time from traffic stop to murder? No patience?

"I had never seen anything like that," said Fabian Huerta, who watched with surprise as police started spraying water into the van. "I thought he was going to surrender."

The victim was suicidal. The cops either had no patience or lacked sufficient training. Too easy for these bastards to murder on the job. Do so with impunity.

"Huerta, who works cleaning businesses at the strip mall, said in Spanish that he saw an officer grab the suspect by the hand before he heard gunshots."

They had him buy the hand? Couldn't subdue him? Sounds like one of the bastards panicked. A single deadly shot, hitting its target.

"The shooting was being investigated by the Orange County district attorney's office."

Likely, be a whitewash. We'll see.

3-24-17

Prosecutors who refuse to seek the death penalty in Florida quickly get the boot. CBS News reports:

"Just hours after Florida State Attorney Aramis Ayala announced Thursday that she will not seek the death penalty in any case under her administration, including the case of a man accused of killing his pregnant ex-girlfriend and a police officer, the state’s governor asked her to recuse herself from the Markeith Loyd case, reports CBS affiliate WKMG. When Ayala refused, Governor Rick Scott removed her."

Can't have that in a goddamned fascist police-state, can we? Kicker? Get this:

“I completely disagree with State Attorney Ayala’s decision and comments,” Scott said. “She has made it abundantly clear that she will not fight for justice for Lt. Debra Clayton and our law enforcement officers who put their lives on the line every day.”

Coup de grace? The nazi Governor of Florida equates justice with the death penalty. Imagine that. Especially, if it involves an officer killed in the line of duty. Fascinating, isn't it? Hypocrisy? Reeks. Conveniently, forget? Police murder innocent, unarmed citizens on the job. With impunity. Rarely, disciplined. Less rarely? Fired. Less rarely than that? Charged. Less rarely even than that? Convicted of anything. The bastards nearly always skate.

Most ferociously? When was the last jackbooted bastard in blue executed for murdering on the job? When? The criminal jackbooted bastards in blue remain coddled. Protected. Granted carte blanche. ... In the goddamned fascist police-state we now live in. The Fourth Reich. Justice? What's that? No longer exists in Nazi America.

"Ayala is the State Attorney for Orange and Osceola counties. Ayala cited time, resources and cost to taxpayers in her decision to not pursue the death penalty for Loyd or any other accused criminal. Loyd, 41, is accused of shooting and killing his pregnant ex-girlfriend, Sade Dixon, 24, on Dec. 13 at her home in Pine Hills. Orlando police Lt. Debra Clayton was shot four times outside an Orlando Walmart in January after she received a tip that Loyd was at the store."

Why is it nazis on the Right seem to think justice resides in the death penalty? Especially, when they won't inflict that penalty on murderous law enforcement officers. The double standard stinks. Outrageously, unconstitutional.

“By choosing to seek life sentences over death, we can assure that violent offenders will never be released. They will never continue to drain resources from this state with decades of appeals,” Ayala said."

She's right. The Nazi Right, particularly those in the Republican Party, won't under any circumstances be confused with the truth.

"Law enforcement leaders in central Florida were also disheartened by the decision and urged Ayala to reconsider."

Tough shit.

“I have seen the video of Markeith Loyd executing Lt. Debra Clayton while she lay defenseless on the ground. She was given no chance to live. A cop killer -- who also killed his pregnant girlfriend -- should not be given that chance,” Orlando police Chief John Mina said in a statement posted to Twitter. “The heinous crimes that he committed in our community are the very reason we have the death penalty as an option under the law.”

Sadly, Chief, you're full of shit. How many times have you seen the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue murder innocent, unarmed citizens all across our formerly great country? Yet, you gutlessly remain silent, Chief? Your hypocrisy? Stunning. Un-American. Nazi. Adolf and Benito must be grinning ear to ear on their fiery perches.

"In making her announcement, Ayala referenced a bill passed Tuesday that will require a unanimous jury recommendation before the death penalty can be imposed."

Not already the law in Nazi Florida?

“I have determined doing so is not in the best interest of this community or in the best interest of justice,” Ayala said. “By choosing to seek life sentences over death, we can assure that violent offenders will never be released. They will never continue to drain resources from this state with decades of appeals.”

Again, wouldn't want to confuse the helplessly ignorant with the truth, would we? Never satisfied until they get their pound of flesh. Yet, won't subject the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue to the very same.

3-24-17

Any idea what it must be like to spend 32 years in prison for a murder you did not commit? Even care? Republican nazis certainly don't. ... Right, TL? Especially, if the prisoner's black. Got what he deserved, right, TL? ABC News reports:

"Andrew Leander Wilson, a broad smile on his face and no bitterness in his heart, clasped hands with his family on his first day of freedom after spending 32 years in prison for a murder he denied committing. Wilson, 62, was released from the Los Angeles County Men's Central Jail downtown into a sea of cameras and cheers and applause from university law students who worked to free him."

At least, there are a few freedom fighters left, -- still willing to stand tall. Legally, challenge nazi justice in a goddamned fascist police-state. Soon to be, Trump's Fourth Reich.

"This is unbelievable. This is unbelievable," Wilson said Thursday. Wilson maintained his innocence since his arrest in 1984 for the stabbing death of Christopher Hanson, 21, in Los Angeles. A day earlier, Superior Court Judge Laura Priver ordered Wilson released after prosecutors conceded he did not get a fair trial."

Took 32 goddamned years to determine that? Give me a f--king break.

"Loyola Law School's Project for the Innocent, which fought for Wilson's release, pointed to numerous due-process violations."

Ubiquitous across the United States. Prime reason for this? Sovereign immunity rubber stamps not only the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue, their handlers, and government, but the goddamned corrupt, abusive, inept, far from impartial nazi bastards who sit on the bench. Legislate their goddamned achingly perverse religious and ideological views. In direct violation of their oaths of office. Forget? Nazi America. A goddamned fascist police-state, -- soon to be Trump's Fourth Reich. ... Don't like the tone of the rhetoric? Leave the country. Now. Russia, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Egypt may be far more to your liking, personal taste.

"It's been a nightmare but I survived and got to the end of the road," Wilson said. Wearing a red Loyola shirt, Wilson held hands with his sister and daughter. His 15-year-old granddaughter was by their sides. Wilson said he holds no bitterness because that would be "a waste of time."

Indeed, it would be. Doesn't, however, absolve you of the responsibility of suing the living shit out of the bastards, sir. If not for you, then all the others rotting in prison for crimes they did not commit.

"Paula Mitchell, Wilson's lawyer, said before the hearing that numerous due-process violations recently came to light that showed Wilson did not receive a fair trial. She pointed particularly to a weekslong delay before police began canvassing for suspects with Hanson's girlfriend, Saladena Bishop, who was 17 at the time. Bishop was the prosecution's only eyewitness. Among missteps by the prosecution was the suppression of evidence that Bishop previously filed a false police report accusing another man of rape, according to court papers filed by Mitchell and other attorneys with Loyola Law School's Project for the Innocent. The district attorney's office said it would not retry Wilson. Another hearing was set for May 3 to begin the process to determine whether he is factually innocent, which could lead to compensation claims."

Can't ever adequately compensate a man wrongly robbed of three decades of life for a crime he did not commit. The settlement needs to be so goddamned high, however, it discourages the nazi bastards in government from repeatedly doing the same. More importantly? Sovereign immunity laws need to be reexamined.

When a criminal jackbooted son of a bitch in blue lies on the stand, there needs to be effective criminal redress. There's not. Far from it. The same is true for corrupt, abusive, inept prosecutors. As well as for the goddamned nazis sitting on the bench. There's virtually no effective accountability in the legal system. Quite the opposite. This needs to change. Now. Alternative? An unwanted dreaded second American revolution already catastrophically looming on the horizon. Hear the rumble?

3-24-17

Seatbelts on. The following is horrendous. Appalling. The Washington Post reports:

"Darren Rainey, an inmate at the Dade Correctional Institution in South Florida, was serving a prison sentence for cocaine possession in June 2012, when guards took him out of his cell, forced him into a shower stall and locked the door."

Not only did this inmate have drug issues, he was psychotic. A schizophrenic. Gets worse:

"From the outside, they turned the water on scalding hot, possibly as high as 180 degrees, then walked away. As the narrow room filled with steam, Rainey, a 50-year-old with schizophrenia, could be heard screaming, “I can’t take it anymore,” a fellow inmate would later say."

Even worse:

"After nearly two hours, the guards went in to check on him. Rainey lay dead on his back in three inches of water. His skin had reddened and begun to peel off, flecks of it floating next to him, as the Miami Herald reported."

For you goddamned 'law and order' Republican fascists here in Nazi Llano County, think he got what he deserved? That your idea of 'Christian' 'charity?'

"Rainey’s death prompted a sweeping investigation by the Miami Herald, which reported that Dade corrections officers had rigged the shower to punish inmates who misbehaved. The paper also reported that Dade guards would douse inmates with chemicals, starve them and force them to fight. A New Yorker story called Rainey’s treatment “torture.”

This is the end result of the nazi 'law and order' mentality fervently embraced by GOP national socialists. ... Right, TL?

That achingly f--ked up mentality led, of course, to the following:

"But a two-year probe of the incident by law enforcement officials has uncovered no evidence of wrongdoing."

Surprise, surprise. Imagine that: nazi justice in a goddamned fascist police-state. -- The Trump nazi's Fourth Reich.

"On Friday, more than four years after Rainey died, Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle released a 101-page report calling Rainey’s death an accident and clearing the four guards involved."

Hear the rumble?

"According to the report, nothing turned up in the investigation that met the requirements for filing criminal charges against Sgt. John Fan Fan, or officers Cornelius Thompson, Ronald Clarke and Edwina Williams. “The evidence fails to show that any correctional officer acted in reckless disregard of Rainey’s life,” prosecutors wrote in the report."

A whitewash. In a fascist police-state. The Fourth Reich. Coup de grace? Get this:

"Rainey, the report said, died of a combination of factors, including complications from his schizophrenia, an undiagnosed heart disease and “confinement in a shower.”

3-24-17

Another egregious example of police malfeasance. NBC News reports:

"Two New York Police Department (NYPD) detectives were acquitted Thursday on charges of beating a postal worker who unknowingly gave directions to the man who ambushed and killed Officers Wenjian Liu and Rafael Ramos in 2014. Queens Supreme Court Justice Michael Aloise found Detectives Angelo J. Pampena, 32, and Robert A. Carbone, 30, not guilty of all charges in a five-count indictment that included second- and third-degree assault. The men chose to be tried by judge rather than jury."

The criminal jackbooted bastards in blue knew they'd be protected and coddled by their goddamned stooge on the bench.

"The pair was accused of kicking and punching Karim Baker, 27, and then dragging him from his parked car onto the sidewalk in October 2015, Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown said in a statement in April following their indictment. Baker suffered bruises to his face, tears to ligaments in his knee, and injuries to his spine, according to his lawyer."

No justice in a fascist police-state. Coup de grace?

"The two defendants were acquitted and the case is now sealed and we cannot comment," a spokesperson for the Queens DA's office told NBC News on Friday."

Convenient, isn't it? As our formerly great country continues to nazify. Forget? The Fourth Reich.

3-24-17

In follow up to an earlier edition of this publication, ABC News reports:

"A trial for a Louisiana law enforcement officer charged with murder in a 6-year-old autistic boy's shooting opened Monday with jurors hearing vastly different portrayals of the child's father and his role in the deadly confrontation. A prosecutor told jurors that Derrick Stafford and another deputy city marshal weren't in any danger when they fired a barrage of bullets at a car, killing Jeremy Mardis and critically wounding his father in Marksville on the night of Nov. 3, 2015."

They weren't.

"But one of Stafford's lawyers said Jeremy's father, Christopher Few, led officers on a dangerous, high-speed chase and rammed into a deputy's vehicle before the shooting. The defense attorney, Jonathan Goins, called Few "the author of that child's fate." "Innocent people do not run from the police. Innocent people stop their vehicles, surrender to the police," Goins said during the trial's opening statements."

The hell the innocent don't flee. Happens all the time. Especially, if the victim is black. The prosecutor is a liar. People need to realize it's always best to stop, surrender. If not, you grant the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue carte blanche to murder on the job. Seldom are these pieces of human excrement ever prosecuted. Usually, they're protected, coddled. Despite murdering on the job.

"Prosecutors say none of the father's actions that night can justify the deadly response. Few didn't stop for the officers because he feared that he would lose custody of his son if he was arrested, said Assistant Attorney General Matthew Derbes."

Be interesting to see how this case turns out. ... Care to bet the criminal jackbooted bastards will skate?

3-24-17

In follow up to a much earlier edition, ABC News reports:

"Jurors will see a key piece of video evidence in the upcoming trial of a white ex-South Carolina police officer in the shooting death of a black motorist, despite the defense's request that it be tossed out."

What is the defense so afraid of? The truth? That an officer murdered on the job?

"During a hearing lasting more than an hour Friday, U.S. District Judge David Norton denied a motion by attorneys for Michael Slager to exclude the shooting video from his trial. He dismissed objections that the video only shows part of the altercation between the two men and doesn't include the officer's perspective. The video has been the centerpiece of the case against Slager, 35, who was an officer with the North Charleston Police Department in April 2015 when he shot Walter Scott. The 50-year-old unarmed motorist was running from Slager following a traffic stop when the two men struggled over Slager's Taser before the officer shot at Scott eight times, hitting him with five bullets in the back."

Another example of a gutless officer murdering on the job.

"A bystander captured the shooting on cellphone video, which was shown around the world. Attorneys defending Slager on federal civil rights charges argued Friday the video is prejudicial because it doesn't show the Taser struggle "The relevant perspective is the officer's perspective," defense attorney Donald McCune told the judge. "The video is incomplete." Assistant U.S. Attorney Jared Fishman argued the video is relevant not only because it shows the crucial moment in which Slager used deadly force but also because it doesn't show Scott threatening Slager with the Taser as he was killed. "The video unambiguously shows the defendant shooting a man as he ran away," he said. "It allows the jury to see clearly Scott did not have a Taser in his hand at the moment he was shot."

Can't have the truth, can we? Certainly, when a murderous officer is on trial.

"Slager's civil rights trial is scheduled for May. In August, he faces a retrial on murder charges in state court, where his first trial ended in a hung jury. Also Friday, Norton ruled Slager's attorneys should refrain in their opening statements from suggesting to jurors the trial is an opportunity to debate the treatment of police."

Had it been the other way around, a cop killer would have already been on death row. Not so, a cop who murders on the job.

"In his first state trial, Slager's defense attorneys told jurors they had an opportunity to send a message to the world on the handling of police shootings, but the judge agreed with prosecutors that opening statements aren't a place to make such claims. He suggested instead that defense attorneys might bring up the issue in their closing arguments."

Why should they be allowed to bring this bullshit up at any time during the trial. It is exceptionally prejudicial. Forget? The public already has bought the bullshit police can do no wrong. Should be granted carte blanche to do as they please. With impunity. Precisely, why this shit continues nearly unabated.

3-24-17

Hard to believe cops aren't far better, more intensively vetted both before and during employment. The following is an exceptionally sad example of this egregious failure. CBS News reports:

"A former New York City police sergeant convicted of raping and sexually abusing his then-girlfriend’s 13-year-old daughter will serve three years in prison, reports The New York Times."

Three years for rape of a child. Unbelievable, isn't it? Think it justice? Believe so? Had it been anyone other than a cop think they would have been so conveniently coddled?

"Prosecutors said Vladimir Krull’s abuse of the girl started in September 2013, when he kissed her on the mouth. A jury determined he had sexual intercourse with her on two separate occasions in the following months, and in a third incident in June 2014, “directed the teen to perform oral sex on him in his vehicle after a Father/Daughter breakfast for her eighth grade class,” according to a statement released by Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark."

Pitiful, isn't it? Think this son of a bitch hasn't done lifelong damage to this kid?

“The defendant horrifically abused the trust of this family and engaged in sexual acts with a child,” Clark said in the statement. Krull was convicted in January. The jury deliberated for five days after a four-week trial. Krull was fired from the police force."

Think justice was done? Truly, believe that? How about the fact it took the jury five days to convict the son of a bitch?

Coup de grace? Get this:

"Bronx Supreme Court justice Lester Adler sentenced Krull to serve four three-year sentences and four one-year sentences, to be served concurrently, followed by five years of supervised release, according to the Times. Adler admonished Krull during the hearing. “Mr. Krull, what in the world were you thinking?” the judge said. “Even if these acts were consensual, they can only be the product of a demented mind.”

Justice? Wake up.

3-24-17

We're overpoliced. Egregiously, so. Has become cash cow for government as unneeded officers continue to loot, shake down, abuse, falsely arrest and charge the innocent. To line government coffers. Get their cookies off abusing power. The chickens appear to be finally coming home to roost. NBC News reports:

"Numerous police departments around the country are desperately losing manpower with decreasing numbers of officers and recruits. Law enforcement is becoming less of a desirable career choice due to diminishing pay, high risk, and of course a recent bad rap — a trend that could put public safety at risk, say policing experts."

Unadulterated bullshit. Courtesy of police brass desperate to protect an unsustainable status quo.

"Departments are struggling to find not only interested, but interested and qualified, candidates to join the force," said Jim Burch, vice president of the Police Foundation. "With everything happening around policing from salary to criticism, the question many people are asking is 'is it worth it?'"

Police are not professional. Far from it. Certainly, not here in Nazi Llano County. Vetting stinks. Educational requirements? Nearly non-existent. Training? Appalling. Time to universally mandate all officers have an undergraduate degree in police science. A graduate degree in one of the social sciences. Or, vice versa.

Salaries need to start at $100K. Well-paid, well-educated, well-trained professionals mean only a fraction of officers currently employed across the country would be necessary. Better policing, targeting serious crime is what's called for. Not all the chicken shit we now endure to line County coffers. Better yet, officers would not be viewed as goddamned predators only out to f--k the public.

3-24-17

Debtors prisons? In Nazi America? Think not? Wake up. NBC News reports:

"A small Alabama town has agreed to dole out $680,000 among nearly 200 poor people it had jailed for failure to pay court fines, settling a case that embodied a national movement to fight what reformers call the criminalization of poverty. The lawsuit, filed in September 2015 by the Southern Poverty Law Center, alleged that Alexander City ran "a modern-day debtors prison" in which indigent defendants people had to pay off fines by serving time in the municipal jail at a rate of $20 a day."

It's how the bastards line their pockets. ... Right, Sheriff? TL? "Sonny Boy?" Madam County Attorney?

"The rise of fee-based jailings drove stories of lives ruined - lost jobs, crippling debt, spiraling poverty. That, in turn, led to legal challenges that claimed courts were violating people's constitutional rights of due process and equal protection."

Precisely, what's needed right here in Nazi Llano County. Sue the living shit out of the corrupt, abusive, thieving jackbooted bastards.

"The backlash fueled lawsuits by civil rights groups in more than a dozen states, mostly in the South, targeting court systems small and large. The reformers' legal victories have slowly piled up, backed by the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, which became focused on the issue during its investigation of Ferguson, Missouri where it found a court system that emphasized revenue over justice."

We have exactly the same problem right here, right now in Nazi Llano County. ... Right, Sheriff? TL? "Sonny Boy?" Madam County Attorney?

Texas is one of a growing number of states being sued for this goddamned legalization of what amounts to outright theft throughout the country. Will certainly grow exponentially worse as our formerly great nation continues to nazify under the Trump nazi and his henchmen. Should this shit continue, think there won't come a time when the looted refuse to pay, overload the jail, and tell the bastards what they can go do to themselves?

3-24-17

The military certainly has its share of criminal behavior. The Washington Post reports:

"The Justice Department unsealed a fresh indictment Tuesday charging eight current and former Navy officials — including an admiral — with corruption and other crimes in the “Fat Leonard” bribery case, escalating an epic scandal that has dogged the Navy for the past four years. Among those charged were Rear Adm. Bruce Loveless, a senior Navy intelligence officer based at the Pentagon, as well as several Navy captains and a retired colonel from the Marine Corps. The charges cover a period of eight years, from 2006 through 2014."

Duty? Honor? Country?

"The Navy personnel are accused of taking bribes in the form of lavish gifts, prostitutes and luxury hotel stays courtesy of Leonard Glenn Francis, a Singapore-based defense contractor who has already pleaded guilty to defrauding the Navy of tens of millions of dollars. The indictment lists page after page of bribes allegedly provided to the defendants — seven senior officers and one enlisted sailor — including $25,000 watches, $2,000 boxes of Cohiba cigars, $2,000 bottles of cognac and $600-per-night hotel rooms."

How about that? Gets worse. More convoluted:

"According to the charging documents, Francis also frequently sponsored wild sex parties for many officers on the USS Blue Ridge, the flagship of the Navy’s 7th Fleet, and other warships. During a port visit by the Blue Ridge to Manila in May 2008, for example, five of the Navy officers attended a “raging multi-day party, with a rotating carousel of prostitutes,” at the Shangri-La Hotel, according to the indictment. The group allegedly drank the hotel’s entire supply of Dom Perignon champagne and rang up expenses exceeding $50,000, which Francis covered in full."

Imagine that. Couldn't be, could it?

"On another port visit by the Blue Ridge to Manila in February 2007, Francis allegedly hosted another sex party for officers in the MacArthur Suite of the Manila hotel. During the party, “historical memorabilia related to General Douglas MacArthur were used by the participants in sexual acts,” according to the indictment."

How about that? ... Think the ole boy is still spinning in his grave?

"In exchange, according to federal prosecutors, the officials provided Francis with classified or inside information that enabled his firm, Glenn Marine Defense Asia, to gouge the Navy out of tens of millions of dollars."

Isn't that treason?

"In addition to Loveless, others charged in the indictment are three retired captains: David Lausman, Donald Hornbeck and David Newland; an active-duty captain, James Dolan; a retired Marine colonel, Enrico de Guzman; an active-duty commander, Stephen F. Shedd; and Robert Gorsuch, a retired chief warrant officer. None could immediately be reached for comment. All were charged with offenses stemming from deployments to Asia while they were assigned to the 7th Fleet, based in Japan. The indictment brings the total number of people charged with crimes in the Fat Leonard investigation to 27. Prosecutors say the case is still unfolding and that more than 200 people have come under scrutiny."

Duty, Honor, Country. What's that? The quotes above are courtesy of a gifted, insightful writer, Craig Whitlock.

3-24-17

Seems ICE is lying. About how it's operating. Worse? Has retaliated against Austin. Texas Standard reports:

"Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids in Austin this February caught national attention. Many raised questions of whether or not the area was specifically targeted for Travis County’s refusal to fully cooperate with ICE enforcement. ICE officials later denied these allegations in a meeting with a group of federal judges in Austin but new evidence suggests otherwise."

Clearly, the jackbooted bastards lied.

"Tony Plohetski, investigative reporter for the Austin American-Statesman and KVUE-TV, reports that evidence is mounting that the raids targeted Austin in retaliation against Travis County Sheriff Sally Hernandez’s limited cooperation with ICE. Plohetski reports that a magistrate judge said that, prior to the raid, not only were a group of judges warned by ICE officials about the operation and a possible uptick of defendants, but they were also specifically told that the reason for the raid was Hernandez’s lack of cooperation."

Amazing how the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue are granted carte blanche by the judiciary to lie. Yet, do the same to the bastards, guess what? Your sorry ass winds up in jail. A goddamned double standard. Tell them the truth? And it's not what they want to hear? Guess what? They twist it, convolute it, turn it into something it's not, then charge the victim with lying. Problem. How do you know when they're lying? Simple. When their lips move.

"Aside from the judge’s claim that ICE officials specifically stated this reason for the raid, the manner in which the raid was conducted – in addition to the type of people who were apprehended – departed from how ICE has normally operated in Austin in the past."

That's right. They stuck it not only to the Travis County Sheriff, but the City of Austin as well. Retaliation. Yet, do the same to someone who's f--ked you over? Guess what? You get charged. Your sorry ass winds up in jail. Not so, the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue. Double standard.

“ICE said early on, ‘We are going after the most dangerous criminals who are here illegally in our communities.’ But then we got these statistics showing that’s not exactly what they did,” Plohetski says. “Federal documents showed of the 51 [arrested], 28 were deemed non-criminals by ICE. That means that they had no criminal record.”

These jackbooted bastards are congenital liars. Like the Trump nazi, say one thing, do another.

“What was so alarming to so many people in the community was that what we saw in this instance was ICE actually going onto the streets of Austin, pulling people over, knocking on the doors of their homes, going to their businesses,” Plohetski says. “And in one highly controversial and highly publicized case, arresting a defendant who showed up for a criminal hearing at the Travis County courthouse.”

Surprised? Why? No more than history repeating itself. Highly reminiscent of Hitler's Gestapo, SS.

3-24-17

The Border Patrol is no better. Don't think so? Wake up. The Washington Post reports:

"Cruz Velazquez Acevedo began convulsing shortly after he drank the liquid methamphetamine he’d brought with him from Tijuana, Mexico."

Think this story has a happy ending?

"The 16-year-old had just crossed the U.S.-Mexico border to San Diego and was going through the San Ysidro Port of Entry. He was carrying two bottles of liquid that he claimed was apple juice. U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers told him to drink it to prove he wasn’t lying, court records say."

What were the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue possibly thinking?

"The teen took four sips."

Guess what?

"Then, he began sweating profusely. He screamed and clenched his fists. In a matter of minutes, his temperature soared to 105 degrees, his family’s attorney said. His pulse reached an alarming rate of 220 beats per minute — more than twice the normal rate for adults. “Mi corazón! Mi corazón!” Acevedo screamed, according to court records — “My heart! My heart!”

Know where this is going?

"He was dead about two hours later."

You Republican 'law and order' fascists here in Nazi Llano County believe he got what he deserved? Think so? A 16-year-old kid? Likely trying to feed his family? Clearly, had no experience with the substance. Otherwise, wouldn't have taken the sips. You bastards don't know that? Couldn't care less?

"Now, more than three years after his death, the United States has agreed to pay Acevedo’s family $1 million in a wrongful-death lawsuit brought against two border officers and the U.S. government."

Did this kid break the law? Indeed. Should he have been charged? Certainly. Would the penalty have been death? Give me a f--king break.

"The two Border Protection officers, Adrian Perallon and Valerie Baird, believed the teen was carrying a deadly controlled substance, but they “coerced and intimidated” him into drinking the liquid, according to a complaint. The boy was taken to a hospital almost an hour after he had sipped the methamphetamine. He was pronounced dead just before 9 p.m. Iredale called the officers’ treatment of Acevedo “the most inhuman kind of cruelty.”

Think they were charged? Wake up. Think they were disciplined? Wake up. Think these two jackbooted thugs fit for duty? Wake up.

3-24-17

The criminal jackbooted bastards in blue at the airports are growing increasingly repressive. NBC News reports:

"When Buffalo, New York couple Akram Shibly and Kelly McCormick returned to the U.S. from a trip to Toronto on Jan. 1, 2017, U.S. Customs & Border Protection officers held them for two hours, took their cellphones and demanded their passwords. "It just felt like a gross violation of our rights," said Shibly, a 23-year-old filmmaker born and raised in New York. But he and McCormick complied, and their phones were searched."

Why gutlessly turn over a password? Should have told the bastards to go f--k themselves. Let them spend the money, time, effort to hack into the phones. Only to find nothing. When you cave into the jackbooted bastards, you enable them to take matters much further:

"Three days later, they returned from another trip to Canada and were stopped again by CBP. "One of the officers calls out to me and says, 'Hey, give me your phone,'" recalled Shibly. "And I said, 'No, because I already went through this.'" The officer asked a second time.. Within seconds, he was surrounded: one man held his legs, another squeezed his throat from behind. A third reached into his pocket, pulling out his phone. McCormick watched her boyfriend's face turn red as the officer's chokehold tightened."

A goddamned fascist police-state. The Fourth Reich under the Trump nazi and his asshole jackbooted henchmen.

"Then they asked McCormick for her phone. "I was not about to get tackled," she said. She handed it over."

Did you gutlessly give them the password?

"Shibly and McCormick's experience is not unique. In 25 cases examined by NBC News, American citizens said that CBP officers at airports and border crossings demanded that they hand over their phones and their passwords, or unlock them."

While you have little choice but to hand over a cellphone when surrounded by these goddamned jackbooted criminals, why give them the password? Why unlock the phone? Why? That gutless?

"The travelers came from across the nation, and were both naturalized citizens and people born and raised on American soil. They traveled by plane and by car at different times through different states. Businessmen, couples, senior citizens, and families with young kids, questioned, searched, and detained for hours when they tried to enter or leave the U.S. None were on terror watchlists. One had a speeding ticket. Some were asked about their religion and their ethnic origins, and had the validity of their U.S. citizenship questioned."

Why cooperate? Fifth Amendment right to silence. Sixth Amendment right to counsel. Most importantly? Assure the bastards you will sue.

"What most of them have in common — 23 of the 25 — is that they are Muslim, like Shibly, whose parents are from Syria."

Racial profiling.

"Data provided by the Department of Homeland Security shows that searches of cellphones by border agents has exploded, growing fivefold in just one year, from fewer than 5,000 in 2015 to nearly 25,000 in 2016. According to DHS officials, 2017 will be a blockbuster year. Five-thousand devices were searched in February alone, more than in all of 2015."

This is no more than the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich. Why travel? Why subject yourself to this goddamned bullshit? Have no choice? Then sue the living shit out of the bastards when so harassed and/or physically assaulted, falsely imprisoned. All the more reason as well, manufacturers need to ramp up encryption and other security on these phones to ensure it takes years for the bastards to gain access. These pieces of law enforcement excrement are in direct violation of the Fourth Amendment. No probable cause. No signed warrant.

"That's shocking," said Mary Ellen Callahan, former chief privacy officer at the Department of Homeland Security. She wrote the rules and restrictions on how CBP should conduct electronic searches back in 2009. "That [increase] was clearly a conscious strategy, that's not happenstance." "This really puts at risk both the security and liberty of the American people," said Senator Ron Wyden, D-Oregon. "Law abiding Americans are being caught up in this digital dragnet."

If you must travel, why carry a digital device? Smarten up. You can certainly live without one short-term. Didn't we all years ago? If you have to make calls, use a throwaway such as a Tracfone. If you have no phone or other digital device on your person when leaving or re-entering the country, there's nothing containing personal information for the jackbooted bastards to search. A business traveler? You're out of luck, -- unless your company provides a properly secured device.

Resistance must be ferocious, but peaceful. If not, you grant the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue carte blanche to murder on the job. As our formerly great country continues to nazify, the doomsday clock strikes ever closer to midnight. An unwanted dreaded second American revolution already catastrophically looming on the horizon. Hear the rumble?

"This is just going to grow and grow and grow," said Senator Wyden. "There's tremendous potential for abuse here."

We're already there, Senator. When are you going to get off your ass and do something legislatively about this scourge?

"What CBP agents call "detaining" cellphones didn't start after Donald Trump's election. The practice began a decade ago, late in the George W. Bush administration, but was highly focused on specific individuals."

In direct violation of the Fourth Amendment. No probable cause. No signed search warrant.

"The more aggressive tactics of the past two years, two senior intelligence officials told NBC News, were sparked by a string of domestic incidents in 2015 and 2016 in which the watch list system and the FBI failed to stop American citizens from conducting attacks. The searches also reflect new abilities to extract contact lists, travel patterns and other data from phones very quickly."

All the more reason not to carry a digital device when traveling out of the country. All the more reason to pressure manufacturers to produce devices highly secure. Effectively resistant to these out of control jackbooted criminal bastards.

"DHS has published more than two dozen reports detailing its extensive technological capability to forensically extract data from mobile devices, regardless of password protection on most Apple and Android phones. The reports document its proven ability to access deleted call logs, videos, photos, and emails to name a few, in addition to the Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram apps."

The real threat to the American public is no terrorist, no foreign power or government, none of the criminal element. It is now U.S. government at all levels and branches of government. These bastards present an ever increasing exigent threat to all civil and constitutional rights and liberties. As Franklin wisely opined well over two hundred years ago, anyone willing to trade liberty for security deserves and winds up with neither. That's precisely where we are, now, in Nazi America. Our 'protectors' have become the true threat.

"But the officials caution that rhetoric about a Muslim registry and ban during the presidential campaign also seems to have emboldened federal agents to act more forcefully. "The shackles are off," said Hugh Handeyside, a staff attorney with the ACLU's National Security Project. "We see individual officers and perhaps supervisors as well pushing those limits, exceeding their authority and violating people's rights."

Precisely, why it is absolutely necessary to sue the living shit out of the jackbooted nazi bastards in blue.

Here is the problem:

"And multiple sources told NBC News that law enforcement and the Intelligence Community are exploiting a loophole to collect intelligence. Under the Fourth Amendment, law enforcement needs at least reasonable suspicion if they want to search people or their possessions within the United States. But not at border crossings, and not at airport terminals. "The Fourth Amendment, even for U.S. citizens, doesn't apply at the border," said Callahan. "That's under case law that goes back 150 years."

That law is egregiously unconstitutional. The Founders? Spinning in their graves. Adolf? Benito? Grinning ear to ear on their fiery perches. Nazi America. The Fourth Reich. Hear the rumble?

"The ACLU's Handeyside noted that while the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement doesn't apply at the border, its "general reasonableness" requirement still does, and is supposed to protect against unreasonable searches and seizures. "That may seem nuanced, but it's a critical distinction, said Handeyside. "We don't surrender our constitutional rights at the border."

This law needs to be re-examined. Challenged in court. Let's see if the nazis on the U.S. Supreme court rule it constitutional.

"Customs and Border officers can search travelers without any level of suspicion. They have the legal authority to go through any object crossing the border within 100 miles, including smartphones and laptops. They have the right to take devices away from travelers for five days without providing justification. In the absence of probable cause, however, they have to give the devices back."

All the more reason to remain nowhere near the border. If you need to be near the border, carry no digital devices.

"CBP also searches people on behalf of other federal law enforcement agencies, sending its findings back to partners in the DEA, FBI, Treasury and the National Counterterrorism Center, among others."

Think the CBP jackbooted bastards aren't helping these other agencies to avoid having to get a warrant? Forget? We're living in a nazi country. A fascist police-state. The Fourth Reich. A democratic republic? Believe so?

"Callahan thinks that CBP's spike in searches means it is exploiting the loophole "in order to get information they otherwise might not have been able to."

Indeed. Remember the following covered in an earlier edition of this publication?

"On January 31, an engineer from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory was pulled into additional screening upon his return to the U.S. after a two-week vacation in Chile. Despite being cleared by the Global Entry program, Sidd Bikkannavar received an "X" on his customs form. He is not Muslim, and he is not from any of the seven countries named in President Trump's original "travel ban" executive order. Half his family comes from India but he was born and raised in California."

Didn't matter to the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue. Why would it? Forget? We live in a goddamned fascist police-state. The Fourth Reich.

"Bikkannavar was brought into a closed room and told to hand over his phone and passcode. He paid particular notice to the form CBP handed him which explained it had the right to copy the contents of the phone, and that the penalty for refusal was "detention." "I didn't know if that meant detention of the phone or me and I didn't want to find out," said Bikkannavar. He tried to refuse but the officer repeatedly demanded the PIN. Eventually he acquiesced."

He's a goddamned gutless coward. Why cooperate? Why give the bastards a PIN or password? Let these pieces of jackbooted shit spend the time, effort, money to crack into the digital device. If you cowardly capitulate, the bastards are reinforced. Take it as carte blanche to do it to others.

"Once they had that, they had everything," Bikkannavar said. That access allowed CBP officers to review the backend of his social media accounts, work emails, call and text history, photos and other apps. He had expected security might physically search any travelers for potential weapons but accessing his digital data felt different. "Your whole digital life is on your phone."

That's precisely why it is achingly stupid to own such a phone. -- Until manufacturers exponentially improve security. Make sure the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue have to spend years trying to access it.

"CBP also regularly searches people leaving the country. On February 9, Haisam Elsharkawi was stopped by security while trying to board his flight out of Los Angeles International Airport. He said that six Customs officers told him he was randomly selected. They demanded access to his phone and when he refused, Elsharkawi said they handcuffed him, locked him in the airport's lower level and asked questions including how he became a citizen. Elsharkawi thought he knew his rights and demanded access to legal counsel."

Should have told them to go f--k themselves. Fifth Amendment right to silence. Sixth Amendment right to legal counsel. You do have those rights.

"They said if I need a lawyer, then I must be guilty of something," said Elsharkawi, and Egyptian-born Muslim and naturalized U.S. citizen. After four hours of questioning in detention, he unlocked his smartphone and, after a search, was eventually released. Elsharkawi said he intends to sue the Department of Homeland Security."

Gutless coward. Should have remained silent. Given the bastards nothing. Silver lining, however? Intends to sue. -- Short of an unwanted dreaded revolution, the only thing the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue, their handlers, and this goddamned nazi government understand.

"The current policy has not been updated since 2009. Jayson Ahern, who served in CBP under both Bush and Obama, signed off on the current policy. He said the electronic searches are supposed to be based on specific, articulable facts that raise security concerns. They are not meant to be random or routine or applied liberally to border crossers. "That's reckless and that's how you would lose the authority, never mind the policy."

The judiciary is the problem. Won't enforce the Constitution, including the Bill of Rights. Have certainly allowed all civil and constitutional rights and liberties to be bastardized, eviscerated over the years. Precisely, what the Founders were so afraid would happen. It has. Wake up.

"The Customs & Border Patrol policy manual says that electronic devices fall under the same extended search doctrine that allows them to scan bags in the typical security line."

Bullshit. Unadulterated bullshit. They've arbitrarily exponentially extended their power unconstitutionally. One thing to search for a bomb or weapon. Another to access the contents of a digital device. The Fourth Amendment remains abundantly clear. These criminal jackbooted bastards in blue have clearly unconstitutionally stepped over the line. Way over the line. They are the threat to national security, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties.

"Since the policy was written in 2009, legal advocates argue, several court cases have set new precedents that could make some CBP electronic searches illegal. Several former DHS officials pointed to a 2014 Supreme Court ruling in Riley v California that determined law enforcement needed a warrant to search electronic devices when a person is being arrested. The court ruled unanimously, and Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the opinion."

Indeed and to his credit, this normally outrageously fascist bastard did just that:

"Modern cellphones are not just another technological convenience. With all they contain and all they may reveal, they hold for many Americans 'the privacies of life,'" wrote Roberts. "The fact that technology now allows an individual to carry such information in his hand does not make the information any less worthy of the protection for which the Founders fought."

CBP had an outrageously bogus answer:

"Because that case happened outside of the border context, however, CBP lawyers have repeatedly asserted in court that the ruling does not apply to border searches."

Why hasn't this outrageously unconstitutional law not been recently challenged in court? Why not? Who cares about the case history? Litigate. Challenge it.

"For now a Department of Justice internal bulletin has instructed that, unless border officers have a search warrant, they need to take protective measures to limit intrusions, and make sure their searches do not access travelers' digital cloud data. The 'cloud' is all content not directly stored on a device, which includes anything requiring internet to access, like email and social media."

Not good enough. Nowhere f--king near. The constitutionality of the law needs to be challenged in court.

"On February 20, Sen. Wyden wrote to DHS Secretary John Kelly demanding details on electronic search-practices used on U.S. citizens, and referred to the extent of electronic searches as government "overreach". As of publication, he had yet to receive an answer."

The fascist bastard is clearly stonewalling.

"Now Sen. Wyden says that as early as next week he plans to propose a bill that would require CBP to at least obtain a warrant to search electronics of U.S. citizens, and explicitly prevent officers from demanding passwords. "The old rules ... seem to be on the way to being tossed in the garbage can," said Senator Wyden. "I think it is time to update the law."

Time to follow the Constitution. Challenge the constitutionality of the old law. The criminal jackbooted bastards are out of uniform. Where are their swastika armbands?

"Asked about the Shibly case, a CBP spokesperson declined to comment, but said the Homeland Security Inspector General is investigating. The spokesperson said the agency can't comment on open investigations or particular travelers, but that it "firmly denies any accusations of racially profiling travelers based on nationality, race, sex, religion, faith, or spiritual beliefs."

The fascist son of a bitch is lying.

"Explaining the sharp increase in electronic searches, a department spokesperson told NBC News: "CBP has adapted and adjusted to align with current threat information, which is based on intelligence."

The hell it is. The first priority of any government agency is not 'security.' It's adhering to the United States Constitution. If not, that's when these abuses commence.

"A spokesman also noted that searches of citizens leaving the U.S. protect against the theft of American industrial and national security secrets."

A direct violation of the Fourth Amendment. That is, the requirement of probable cause and a signed search warrant. The ends don't justify the means. Clearly, this nazi asshole has no clue.

"The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) also has filed two dozen complaints against CBP this year for issues profiling Muslim Americans. CAIR and the Electronic Frontier Foundation are considering legal action against the government for what they consider to be unconstitutional searches at the border."

Sue the living shit out of the bastards. Draw as much attention as possible. This scourge, if uncorrected, will lead to the unthinkable. An unwanted dreaded second American revolution already catastrophically looming on the horizon. Hear the rumble?

The quotes above are courtesy of the following most gifted, insightful writers: Cynthia McFadden, E.D. Cauchi, William M. Arkin, and Kevin Monahan.

3-24-17

The level of aggressive stupidity seems to be exponentially rising. In follow up to an earlier edition vis a vis an osteopathic physician sexually abusing young gymnasts, NBC News reports:

"One afternoon this past autumn, Michigan State University gymnastics coach Kathie Klages asked her young athletes to sign a card to the team doctor, Larry Nassar. Nassar wasn't recuperating from an illness or celebrating a milestone. Instead, he had been publicly accused of molesting former patients and was the target of a fast-growing police investigation."

What could this woman possibly been thinking? Achingly, delusional.

"She said, 'You don't have to sign this if you don't want to, but it's for Larry and it would be appreciated if we could let him know that we're thinking about him,'" said gymnast Lindsey Lemke, 21, who recalls that some team members did sign."

Incredible, isn't it?

"In the coming months, more than 80 girls and women would accuse Nassar of sexually abusing them — including Lemke, who estimates she was molested hundreds of times during three years of treatment and is suing the osteopathic physician and the university. MSU, the ninth largest college in the nation and a sports powerhouse, is now at the center of a scandal that reaches all the way to the Olympics because Nassar was also the longtime team physician for USA Gymnastics."

Amazing how an abusive pedophile can continue sexually assaulting over quite a long time period of time. With impunity. Yet, no one questions. No one puts an immediate end to it.

"Interviews and documents obtained by NBC News provide new details about how the university handled the allegations that Nassar digitally penetrated young patients without gloves or parental consent under the guise of invasive pelvic treatments: At a hastily called team meeting the day the news broke in September 2016, Athletic Department communications director Jamie Baldwin told the girls they should not speak to the media or post on their social accounts, according to three people present."

Sounds like an effort to cover up criminal activity.

"Klages, who had been coach for 27 years, wept as she passionately defended Nassar, telling the team she would trust her own grandkids with him, the sources said."

She's nuts.

"I know as a team we felt like if we were to say anything about it, we felt like there would be consequences against us," said Lemke, who is a junior at MSU."

Who was looking out for these kids? Certainly, not their parents, coaches, other adults in the facility, etc.. Gets worse. More delusional:

"Lemke's mother says that in December 2015 — after dozens of women had filed charges and Nassar had been hit with child pornography charges and fired from MSU — Klages told her Lindsey had misinterpreted the treatments and questioned whether the doctor had really downloaded tens of thousands of pornographic images allegedly found on his computers. "She goes, 'Well, you know, that could have been planted,'" Christy Lemke-Akeo, Lindsey's mom, recalled. "And I said, 'Planted? Who would plant something like that?' She goes, 'Well, somebody that's suing him could have planted it."

Sounds like delusional Republican fascists in the Texas State Legislature, doesn't it?

"For nearly five months after the scandal broke in September, MSU did not directly encourage gymnasts to report suspected abuse by Nassar to police, Lemke and two others said. The lack of communication was so frustrating that the team went to the administration in February to complain."

Amazing, isn't it? The son of a bitch commits sexual assault and no one knows what to do? How to handle criminal sexual assault? Who to contact?

"In fact, as recently as this month, some members of the campus community were still unsure how they could provide information about Nassar, the university said, so MSU finally sent a letter with details to all female student-athletes."

Did it ever occur to them to report such criminal activity to law enforcement? The supposed function of police. Instead of all the corruption, abuse, ineptness, harassment, shakedowns, violence, murders, etc. perpetrated by the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue themselves while on and off duty.

Here is another story of a woman who came forward with a complaint against the son of a bitch quack:

"The woman who filed the 2014 complaint, who asked to be identified only by her first name of Amanda, was first treated by Nassar as a high-school cheerleader in East Lansing; she said nothing out of the ordinary happened then. But in March 2014 — as she was preparing to take pre-med courses at MSU, where she had graduated two years earlier — she made another appointment for a flareup for hip and back pain. "I didn't know if he would actually see me because he was a big deal," Amanda, who is now 27, told NBC News. "You got into his office and there's just pictures of gymnasts everywhere, of him and Olympic gymnasts." Amanda said that early in the exam, she felt uncomfortable about how Nassar was handling her, but there was a female resident in the room, so she wasn't alarmed. But after he sent the resident elsewhere, Amanda said, he began manipulating her breast and "made an off-hand comment about how my boyfriend needed to give me better massages."

Imagine that. Sound professional? Appropriate?

"He asked her to lie face-down on a table and "he pulled the sweatpants down and started massaging around my butt and then slipped his finger in between my legs," she said. "I was paralyzed with fear and frozen." When he started to insert his fingers into her vagina, Amanda said, she pushed him off and told him to stop. She said he was clearly aroused and rushed to a corner and stood with his back to her. "I knew that what he was doing to me was sexual," she said. "I wanted to get out of the room as fast as I could."

3-24-17

At least, the judiciary is beginning to stand up to the jackbooted nazi bastards in ICE. CNN reports:

"California's chief justice is "deeply concerned" after reports that "immigration agents appear to be stalking undocumented immigrants in our courthouses to make arrests." The chief justice of California's Supreme Court, Tani Gorre Cantil-Sakauye, requested that federal agents stop conducting actions in the state's courthouses. "Courthouses should not be used as bait in the necessary enforcement of our country's immigration laws," she wrote Thursday to Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly. "Enforcement policies that include stalking courthouses and arresting undocumented immigrants, the vast majority of whom pose no risk to public safety, are neither safe nor fair," she added."

They are the mark of a dictator. A fascist dictator. In a fascist police-state. The Trump nazi's Fourth Reich.

Tim Chorney, Publisher
Liberty In Peril

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