Decay In Law Enforcement 16

Liberty In Peril

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The Llano Ledger

10-13-17

In stark contrast to Llano County Sheriff Bill Blackburn and his criminal SS jackbooted bastards in black who continue to egregiously disgrace themselves and the badge, do as they please regardless of the law and Constitution, carefully consider how an off duty officer rose to the occasion in Las Vegas. Gave his life. To protect and serve:

NBC News reports:

"Not long before the bullets came raining down, Las Vegas police officer Charleston Hartfield posted a string of photos on Instagram and Facebook. One showed a banner from the Route 91 Harvest Festival, the country music show he attended every year. Another photo showed a deep-fried Reese's Peanut Butter Cup, and another showed him with his wife at the festival — their silly selfie faces glowing beneath the neon lights of the Vegas Strip behind them. That was all before one of those bullets struck and killed Hartfield, who was off-duty. The photos became the last memories of a happy night in a life that by all accounts shone just as brightly as those lights, dimmed by an unspeakable act of gun violence."

Lost in the prime of life. A great officer.

"In life, Hartfield, 34, was an Army veteran and youth football coach known by his players and their families as "Coach Chucky." In death, he became one of 58 victims cut down in the massacre, which also injured almost 500 others at the festival in Las Vegas on Sunday night."

Senseless act of violence.

"Hartfield, who served in Iraq with the Nevada Army National Guard, was remembered as a kind man with a giving spirit who “poured out love” to those who knew him."

The following, sadly prophetic:

"Hartfield was also a budding writer, recently penning and publishing a book, “Memoirs of a Public Servant,” in which he wrote about his journey from growing up in Los Angeles to his time in the U.S. Army, to finally becoming “one police officer in the busiest and brightest city in the world, Las Vegas.” “Some calls are over in an instant,” he wrote on the back cover. “Others stick with you forever.” Those calls, the kind that stick, are a consequence of police work, a consequence officers like Hartfield, an 11-year veteran, know all too well. In 2010, Hartfield helped design a memorial wall to fallen Las Vegas officers inside the Southeast Area Command precinct where he worked. There had been a particularly deadly stretch for Vegas police, in which four officers were killed in the line of duty in 2009, which became the department’s bloodiest year. In an interview with now defunct television station KTUD that year, Hartfield put the life-and-death nature of police work in stark relief. “Each officer paid a sacrifice in their own way, whether it was a traffic fatality or they died in the line of duty," Hartfield told the station. "I just thought it was important that it was remembered."

Tragically, ironically, this fine young officer himself died in the line of duty:

"During a late-night news conference on Tuesday, Undersheriff Kevin McMahill, second in command of the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, choked back tears as he spoke of Hartfield's death and the family he leaves behind. “Even though Officer Hartfield was at the concert as a civilian, he immediately took action to save lives,” McMahill said. “In that moment, he was acting as a police officer. He ultimately gave his life protecting others.”

No greater love.

10-13-17

This latest massacre will certainly lead to changes in how police react to active-shooter situations. CBS News reports:

"As investigators in Las Vegas sort through information about the life of the man who opened fire on a crowd of concertgoers Sunday night, those who train police to respond to active shooters are thinking about how this most recent mass shooting might impact law enforcement tactics. According to Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo, it took just 10 minutes for Stephen Paddock to kill 58 people and wound 489 from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel. And while mass shootings have become a grimly frequent part of American life, Paddock's plot, which appears to have been in the works for some time, posed a dramatic challenge for police: how to control a shooter firing from above."

Seems obvious concert venues should not be located next to high-rise buildings:

"But according to Jim Bueermann, the president of the Police Foundation and a former Redlands, California police chief, police around the country began thinking anew about shooters positioned above crowds after the deaths of five officers in Dallas last year. In July 2016, Micah Johnson fired on officers at a peaceful protest from an elevated location inside a parking garage."

Then again, how can every eventuality be anticipated, guarded against?

Consider the following conundrum:

"Pete Blair, a professor of criminal justice at Texas State University who studies and trains police in active shooter scenarios, told CBS News' Crimesider that after the UT shooting, police departments around the country responded in part by organizing teams within departments - like SWAT, which stands for special weapons and tactics – that receive specialized training and equipment to handle events like active shooters. But in 1999, when two teenagers killed 13 people at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, police realized that the reliance on specialized teams had gone too far. Officers engaged Eric Harris in gunfire when he was outside the school, but once he entered the building they did not follow him. They were, says Blair, trained to "contain, control, and call SWAT." "But there was a public backlash to seeing police officers standing outside while children were being murdered inside," says Blair. "People accused them of being cowards. They weren't being cowards. They were doing what they were trained to do."

Indeed. Forced further change:

"After Columbine, Blair says police realized the pendulum had swung too far in the direction of specialized teams. "It usually takes 30 minutes to get there, and during that time a lot of damage can be caused," Blair says. Now, he says, officers are trained to "stop the killing." This means that most officers across the country are likely [to] get at least some training in active shooter scenarios, although because of the fractured nature of policing in the U.S. it is impossible to be sure what kind of training all departments provide. And indeed, that's what the patrol officers who first responded to the Las Vegas shooting did, according to Sheriff Lombardo."

Had they not done so, the catastrophe, as bad as it was, could have been worse:

"Officers, on their own, without direction of a supervisor, knew what they had to do," Lombardo told reporters Tuesday. "They came together, formed a team, made a response, and they didn't wait on SWAT...It's easy to say, we'll wait on SWAT, they're the experts on tactical intrusion. But our officers took it upon themselves to act."

Should universally be part of the training officers receive across the country. Hopefully, that's already happening, or will sooner rather than later.

"Lombardo told reporters that Paddock fired on the crowd for 10 minutes, from 10:05 to 10:15 p.m. According to the timeline Lombardo set out, the first officers arrived on the 31st floor -- one floor below where Paddock was firing -- at 10:12 p.m. Officers arrived at the 32nd floor at 10:17 p.m. One minute later, a security officer told Las Vegas police officers he was shot and gave them Paddock's exact location, Lombardo said. "Twelve minutes from the first call to being at the shooter's door – that's amazing," Bueermann said."

Indeed. Remarkable. ... If true, and this information stands.

"Police cleared rooms, searched for more injured and formulated a plan before entering his room at 11:15 p.m., where they found the suspect dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The delay was "purposeful and no shots were being heard at this point," Lombardo said. Lombardo said he did not know why Paddock stopped firing at 10:15 p.m. -- minutes before police arrived outside his door -- but said, "We have found it's better, instead of securing the perimeter and hoping the person doesn't continue to do acts of carnage associated with their actions, that even a small police response will stop the suspect's actions."

If the above is true, seems police handled the situation as well as they possibly could.

"Despite the quick response, Bueermann and Blair agree that a detailed review of how police responded to Paddock will be essential in planning for – and potentially preventing – similar attacks. For example, Bueermann asks, could a sharpshooter with a high-powered rifle and a scope actually have taken Paddock out from atop another building? What sort of collateral damage might such an attempt have risked?"

Police there seem to be asking the right questions, carefully considering tactics, possible ramifications for what all too often has been an impossible situation.

"Both men predict that when police plan security for major events, like the Route 91 festival Paddock attacked, they may now add sharpshooters in hotel rooms or atop nearby buildings. Blair also says that Paddock's use of a high-powered rifle might lead more departments to upgrade their body armor to add plates that can protect against rifle fire, as well as equip some officers with patrol rifles to more effectively stop suspects from a greater distance than a handgun could. Bueermann points out that these days police are "hyper-sensitive" to criticism they are hyper-militarized, and need to find "a sweet spot" that establishes both public trust and public safety."

Clearly, it's not the appearance of militarization that's the problem. It's the over reaction and mistakes made, worse, the deliberate killing of innocent unarmed civilians that remains the problem. Not only in SWAT active-shooter situations, but across the board in everyday policing. -- The shoot first, ask questions later mentality that runs rampant in law enforcement across the country.

Police are desperately searching for the motive leading to this latest catastrophe. The Washington Post reports:

"Lombardo said authorities hoped to figure out what may have sparked Paddock’s rage. “Anything that would indicate this individual’s trigger point and would cause him to do such harm, we haven’t understood it yet,” he said. As the sprawling investigation stretched across the country and around the world, authorities hoped that Marilou Danley, Paddock’s girlfriend, could provide some answers about his mind-set and what could have motivated him. But in a statement released after she was interviewed by the FBI in Los Angeles, Danley said she had no idea of what was about to happen. “It never occurred to me in any way whatsoever that he was planning violence against anyone,” Danley said in a statement that was read aloud by her attorney. She described Paddock as a “kind, caring, quiet man” and said he never gave any sign “that something horrible like this was going to happen.”

Making such a catastrophe extremely difficult to prevent.

"Danley was out of the country when the attack occurred, which she said was by Paddock’s design. Paddock bought her a ticket to visit family in the Philippines, she said, and then wired money that he explained was meant to buy a home for Danley’s relatives. In her statement, Danley said she thought this meant Paddock was breaking up with her. “I am devastated by the deaths and injuries that have occurred and my prayers go out to the victims and their families and all those who have been hurt by these awful events,” Danley said. “I am a mother and a grandmother, and my heart breaks for all who have lost loved ones.” Danley pledged to cooperate with authorities, noting that she “voluntarily flew back to America” to speak with them."

While the investigation is far from complete, a motive may never be discovered. If the shooter was indeed mentally deranged, a rational explanation for the irrational is not possible. Worse? What set him off may never be known.

"Police have called her a “person of interest,” viewing her as a key part of the investigation, although they have not suggested that she is considered an accomplice or involved in any way. Aaron Rouse, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Las Vegas division, declined to say whether Danley was still considered a person of interest at the briefing Wednesday night, although he said she was not in federal custody."

Hard to believe she would have voluntarily returned had she any knowledge or complicity in this monstrous crime.

"Rouse said that the investigation will take time, noting that the bureau was chasing leads “all across the United States and all across the world.” The FBI has found no evidence to suggest that the attack was terrorism, Rouse said, adding that the investigation is continuing. “We will get to the bottom of this no matter how long it takes,” he said."

That may or may not happen. Again, a rational explanation for this achingly irrational crime may not exist.

So many unanswered questions:

"As with the rest of the attack, Paddock appeared merciless and meticulous. He set up cameras in his room and the hallway to monitor police officers as they approached. At 11:20 p.m., SWAT officers breached the door and found Paddock’s body, Lombardo said. Before they arrived, he had put a gun in his mouth and pulled the trigger. It remains unclear when exactly Paddock shot himself."

The timeline is now in question. Seems Paddock shot the security guard six minutes before opening fire on the concert crowd. Remains unclear if the hotel immediately relayed this information to police as asked to do by a hotel workman who found the injured guard. The original account was that the unarmed guard had been shot after Paddock opened fire on the crowd.

Police have not yet confirmed or denied receiving this information from the hotel in a timely fashion, but did change the timeline. If the report is true, calls into question whether police arrived as quickly as they could have. Readers are reminded the carnage lasted 10 minutes. Occurred six minutes after the guard was shot and the hotel had allegedly been informed and asked to call police.

10-13-17

In stark contrast to Llano County Sheriff Bill Blackburn and his criminal SS jackbooted bastards in black who continue to egregiously disgrace themselves and the badge, do as they please regardless of the law and Constitution, carefully consider how New Jersey State Troopers magnificently rose to the occasion.

Think dogs aren't incredibly loyal not only to their human companions, but fellow canines as well? The following is heartrending. CBS News reports:

"Police in New Jersey say they had to coax a German shepherd on a busy interstate to leave a dead pit bull that it was found lying next to. New Jersey state police said that troopers responded Thursday morning to a report of two dogs on the shoulder of Interstate 280 in Newark. The troopers say the pit bull was dead when they arrived. They say the German shepherd didn't want to leave its side, but they were able to coax it into a trooper's car. "We are deeply saddened by the passing of the other dog, but we're elated that we were able to rescue the Shepherd," police said in a Facebook post."

Cowardly fail to financially and/or materially support those fighting for all civil and constitutional rights and liberties at great personal cost and risk? Get what you truly deserve.

10-13-17

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? Seventy-seven 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? Seventy-seven 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. Seventy-seven 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.

10-13-17

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?

10-13-17

Highly reminiscent of Llano County Sheriff Bill Blackburn and his criminal SS jackbooted bastards in black who continue to egregiously disgrace themselves and the badge, do as they please regardless of the law and Constitution, carefully consider the following. It's appalling. Runs against the grain of everything our formerly great country once stood for. No longer.

How would you like to be this guy? Lose a daughter, then falsely be accused of murdering your own kid. Fox News reports:

"A capital murder charge against a North Texas man in the 2015 death of his 2-year-old daughter has been dismissed after prosecutors learned her older brother admitted causing the death."

Police that inept, forensics that unreliable, medical examiners who butcher corpses that incompetent an innocent man remained jailed on a phony charge a year and a half? Give me a f--king break.

"The father, Anthony Michael Sanders, 33, was accused of smothering Ellie Mae Sanders at their home in the Fort Worth suburb of Watauga. Investigators believed Sanders held his hand over the girl's mouth out of anger for her interrupting his computer games."

A crock of shit. An innocent man, falsely accused and incarcerated on a phony charge. For a year and a half.

"Jailed since April 2016, Sanders denied responsibility. He said he found his daughter not breathing after his son, then 5, reported that she was asleep and would not wake up. But the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports prosecutors recently learned the boy, now 7, had told his mother that he had hit his sister with a pillow and the pillow was too heavy to remove from the girl's head."

The incompetence of these boobs in government is stunning.

"Sanders’ defense attorney said his client as “elated” the charges were dropped."

Sue the living shit out of every one of these incompetent pieces of human excrement.

"The Star-Telegram reported that the girl was found with some bruises and two bite marks, but Sanders’ attorney said any further charges would be up to the district attorney. “It’s my understanding that it’s over,” he told the paper. “There will be no more charges coming out of it.”

Again, ferociously pointedly, give me a f--king break. Nazi justice. In a goddamned de facto fascist police-state, soon to be the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich. Further proof positive the greatest threat to life, liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties is no foreign power, no terrorist organization, not even the criminal element. Remains all levels and branches of government and the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue who enforce its will.

Cowardly fail to financially and/or materially support those fighting for all civil and constitutional rights and liberties at great personal cost and risk? Get what you truly deserve.

10-13-17

Sexually assault someone? Anyone? Police have proof positive you committed the crime? Should never get out of prison. Not how this system works, however. Not at all. All kinds of games get played. Including the definition of what amounts to sexual assault. Worse? The innocent often get caught up in the web, courtesy of a lying spouse, partner, or someone who had regrets the morning after.

Carefully consider the following. Think justice was done? ABC News reports:

"The Michigan Supreme Court is hearing arguments in the case of a man who was placed on the sex offender registry for touching a girl's breasts, even though his case was dismissed in 1997 after successful probation and community service."

The circumstances of the crime are certainly not clear. Apparently, authorities did not believe it serious enough to warrant imprisonment. Otherwise, they would not have dismissed the case two decades ago after terms of probation and community service were met by the defendant. Yet, this guy continues to pay the price for whatever did happen decades ago:

"Boban Temelkoski wants to be erased from the registry. He says he's been punished for decades by lawmakers because his non-conviction has been treated as a conviction. His case was dismissed in Wayne County under a commonly used procedure for young offenders."

This is an ongoing problem occurring all over the nation that needs to be resolved. Either a conviction is a conviction, -- or it's not. If it's not, what is this guy doing on the sex offender registry? Where's the due process?

"The Supreme Court is hearing arguments Wednesday. Temelkoski says he's suffered. He says potential employers have no access to his old sealed court case, but they can look him up on the registry."

If a convicted sex offender is considered so dangerous to be on the registry in the first place, why the hell has he or she been released from prison? Makes no sense. Denies released offenders employment and a place to live. In the absence of employment and a place to live, how can there be any rehabilitation? A Catch-22. An impossible situation.

Worse, delusional, out of control prosecutors:

"Attorney General Bill Schuette is opposing Temelkoski. He says the registry is not criminal punishment."

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, guess what? It's a duck.

Cowardly fail to financially and/or materially support those fighting for all civil and constitutional rights and liberties at great personal cost and risk? Get what you truly deserve.

10-13-17

In stark contrast to Llano County Sheriff Bill Blackburn and his criminal SS jackbooted bastards in black who continue to egregiously disgrace themselves and the badge, do as they please regardless of the law and Constitution, carefully consider how the Salt Lake City Police Department finally rose to the occasion.

In follow up to recent editions here and elsewhere, NPR reports:

"The Salt Lake City Police Department has fired the police detective who was video recorded aggressively handcuffing a hospital nurse who refused to allow him to draw blood from an unconscious patient in July. The video, recorded by a police body camera, of the rough arrest of University Hospital nurse Alex Wubbels went viral, drawing widespread condemnation and renewing the national debate over the appropriate use of force by the police. Salt Lake Police Chief Mike Brown relieved Detective Jeff Payne of his duties and disciplined his watch commander, Lt. James Tracey, by demoting him to the rank of officer. The action comes after an internal affairs report released Sept. 13, which found that both officers were in violation of department policy. In a highly detailed "notice of decision" letter, Brown said the two officers failed in their requirement to treat all citizens "equally with courtesy, consideration and dignity." "You demonstrated extremely poor professional judgment (especially for an officer with 27 years of experience), which calls into question your ability to effectively serve the public and the department," Brown wrote."

In nazi Llano County, your SS jackbooted bastards in black do as they please not only with impunity, but your blessing, right, Sheriff?

"The incident was sparked by the case of an off-duty Idaho reserve police officer whose vehicle was struck by another motorist fleeing the police in a pickup truck. Payne came to the hospital insisting that blood be drawn from the unconscious patient. Wubbels was arrested after "repeatedly and calmly" explaining to Payne that hospital policy required a warrant or the patient's consent before blood could be drawn. Brown faulted Payne for, among other things, not seeking to de-escalate his confrontation with Wubbels by taking his demands to her supervisor. "You inappropriately acted against Ms. Wubbels," wrote Brown. Payne and Tracey have five days to appeal Chief Brown's action."

This action should have been taken immediately, not three months after the fact. Then again, takes time and patience for pressure to build. ... Right, Sheriff?

Cowardly fail to financially and/or materially support those fighting for all civil and constitutional rights and liberties at great personal cost and risk? Get what you truly deserve.

10-13-17

"A former sheriff's deputy and Missouri correctional officer who was convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend and her boyfriend in a child custody dispute was sentenced to death Friday. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Judge Kelly Wayne Parker sentenced Marvin Rice to death in the 2011 slaying of Annette Durham and to life in prison in the slaying of Steven Strotkamp."

Quite a sad, highly convoluted story:

"Prosecutors said Rice and Durham had an affair while he was a deputy. Durham, who struggled with addiction, was jailed several times and she gave birth to Rice's son in 2010 while she was in prison. Dent County prosecutor Andrew Curley said that when Durham got out of prison in 2011, Rice initially allowed her only brief supervised visits with the boy. On Dec. 10, 2011, she was allowed an unsupervised visit and decided that she wanted to keep her son overnight, Curley said."

Apparently, enraged Rice:

"Rice went to the home outside Salem where Durham and Strotkamp lived and shot the couple. He took the child and gave him to his wife before leading police on a chase that ended in a shootout in a Jefferson City hotel during a Christmas party, Curley said. Strotkamp identified Rice as his killer before he died."

Cowardly fail to financially and/or materially support those fighting for all civil and constitutional rights and liberties at great personal cost and risk? Get what you truly deserve.

10-13-17

In stark contrast to Llano County Sheriff Bill Blackburn and his criminal SS jackbooted bastards in black who continue to egregiously disgrace themselves and the badge, do as they please regardless of the law and Constitution, carefully consider how the Governor of California has at least partially stood up to the Trump nazi and his fascist henchmen.

California Gov. Jerry Brown stood partially tall. Nowhere near uncommon valor, however. Partially, stood up to Trump, the Sessions nazi, and the criminal jackbooted bastards in ICE and the Border Patrol. NPR reports:

"California Gov. Jerry Brown has signed a bill that places sharp limits on how state and local law enforcement agencies can cooperate with federal immigration authorities, placing California squarely and provocatively in conflict with President Trump and his calls to deport millions of undocumented immigrants. "These are uncertain times for undocumented Californians and their families," the governor said in a signing statement that laid out what the measure will – and will not – do. "This bill strikes a balance that will protect public safety while bringing a measure of comfort to those families who are now living in fear every day."

While the law is indeed an undue compromise with the Nazi Right and outrageously corrupt and abusive law enforcement, be interesting to see if the 'Justice' Department challenges it in court nonetheless.

"The bill, SB 54 by California Senate President pro tem Kevin de León (D-Los Angeles), takes effect on January 1st, 2018. In broad terms, it extends local "sanctuary city" protections for immigrants living in California without legal documentation. (The governor, De León and some of the bill's backers prefer not to use the term "sanctuary state" because they argue it has become politically loaded and there is confusion over its precise meaning.) Specifically, it bans state and local agencies, excluding the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, from enforcing "holds" on people in custody. It blocks the deputization of police as immigration agents and bars state and local law enforcement agencies from inquiring into an individual's immigration status."

About time. Too bad, however, the law does not go into effect until the first of next year, as well as the fact it remains an undue compromise with outrageously corrupt, abusive law enforcement and the Nazi Right.

"It also prohibits new or expanded contracts with federal agencies to use California law enforcement facilities as detention centers, although it does not force the termination of existing contracts – including Orange County's $22 million annual contract with U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE)."

A step in the right direction, however. But nowhere near enough:

"The California Values Act won't stop ICE from trolling our streets. It will not provide full sanctuary. But it will put a kink – a large kink – in Trump's perverse and inhumane deportation machine," De León said at a news conference Thursday after Governor Brown signed the bill. "California is building a wall – a wall of justice – against President Trump's xenophobic, racist and ignorant immigration policies."

More importantly, offers at least some resistance to the Trump nazi and his henchmen. Partially, does what it can to resist Trump's transformation of the goddamned de facto fascist police-state we already live in to the Fourth Reich. A step in the right direction, but nowhere near enough.

There are major problems with this legislation:

"But under a deal struck between De León and Brown, an originally wide-ranging bill was narrowed down to address law enforcement concerns."

Why? The corrupt, abusive, murderous, criminal jackbooted bastards in law enforcement remain the greatest threat to life, liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties. Bar none.

Compared to previous versions, the final measure expands the list of crimes for which law enforcement can choose to notify and transfer someone to immigration authorities. The agreement allows federal agents to interview people in custody, and state and local agencies can continue to participate in joint task forces with ICE and other federal agencies."

A major flaw, an egregious problem. In effect, they'll continue to get in bed with federal jackbooted nazi storm troopers.

Worse? Far worse? Get this:

"The final legislation also drops an earlier provision that would have banned California law enforcement from sharing their databases for immigration enforcement."

Jesus Christ. How aggressively stupid can you clueless bastards be? You're facilitating ICE and the Border Patrol to continue oppressing not only the undocumented, but innocent American citizens as well who are being harassed by these achingly abusive, outrageously corrupt, criminal sons of bitches.

You stupidly, gutlessly made a pact with the devil, compromised principle. For the sake of political expediency? To satisfy the Nazi Right? Get this:

"The bill that is in print now is significantly better than what was there," Santa Barbara County Sheriff and California State Sheriffs' Association president Bill Brown told Capital Public Radio last month after the deal with the governor was struck. But Sheriff Brown said, as a result of the new law, "People who are chronic or serial criminals that just haven't risen to a particular level of crime yet are going to go back out into the community, and people are going to be victimized."

Crock of shit. A disingenuous jackbooted nazi crying wolf. The sheriff would be better advised to rein in his jackbooted minions who present a far, far greater threat to life, liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties.

"The Trump administration also slammed the bill signing."

Any surprise?

"The State of California has now codified a commitment to returning criminal aliens back onto our streets, which undermines public safety, national security, and law enforcement," Justice Department spokesman Devin O'Malley said in a statement. "Given the multiple high-profile incidents that have occurred in California in recent years, it is especially disappointing that state leaders have made it law to limit cooperation between local jurisdictions and immigration authorities attempting to keep Californians safe."

Achingly clueless, fascist assholes in the Trump regime are caustically reminded the greatest threat to life, liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties is no foreign power, no terrorist organization, not even the criminal element. Rather, it is, and remains, all levels and branches of government. To say nothing of the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue who enforce its will. Regardless, of the law and U.S. Constitution. ... Right, Sheriff?

"SB 54 passed both chambers of the California Legislature last month on the final day of session. All but three Democrats supported the bill, while no Republican voted for it."

What nazi would, right, Sheriff?

Response from the jackbooted bastards at ICE to the California bill signing? Fox News reports:

"The nation’s top Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official said Friday that his agency had “no choice” but to arrest illegal immigrants in California’s neighborhoods and worksites despite newly signed sanctuary city legislation. Those arrested would also likely placed in out-of-state detention centers, ICE Acting Director Thomas Homan said in a statement. Homan’s comments came a day after Gov. Jerry Brown D-Calif. signed bill SB54, or sanctuary state legislation."

Anything that makes it more difficult for these jackbooted bastards to egregiously oppress is a good thing. A positive.

The race to transform the fascist police-state we already live in to the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich is well underway. NBC News reports:

"The White House is preparing to send a list of immigration proposals to Capitol Hill in the coming days, including backing for a bill that would make it easier for local police to question people they stop about their immigration status, according to four people familiar with the conversations. One source described the package as the "wish list" of Stephen Miller, senior policy adviser to President Trump and a known immigration hardliner. A senior administration official and three other sources familiar with the deliberations say the proposal includes part of the Davis-Oliver Act, which has been criticized by Democrats and some Republicans. The bill requires police to report to the Department of Homeland Security all identifying information on anyone they encounter who is suspected to be in the country illegally."

Trump's Fourth Reich.

"It's a controversial piece of a plan intended to delineate the administration's immigration priorities as Congress considers how to handle the DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) program, created by President Barack Obama to allow immigrants who were brought into the U.S. illegally as children to remain."

Nazi America.

Trump certainly has a national socialist agenda a la Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini. Think not? Wake up. Get this. NBC News reports:

Adolf and Benito? Grinning ear-to-ear on their fiery perches.

"A senior administration official and three other sources familiar with the deliberations say the proposal includes part of the Davis-Oliver Act, which has been criticized by Democrats and some Republicans. The bill requires police to report to the Department of Homeland Security all identifying information on anyone they encounter who is suspected to be in the country illegally."

A goddamned fascist police-state, soon to be the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich.

"Another potentially divisive piece of the White House plan is expected to include support for the RAISE Act, which would put new limits on the number of people who can enter the United States legally through work permits. The administration is also expected to seek more funding for more immigration agents, border patrol and judges, said the four sources."

A continuing non-issue driven by Republican nazis with an achingly fascist, national socialist agenda.

"Stephen Miller is driving the deliberations, which have been underway for several weeks. Miller, who worked for Jeff Sessions when the Attorney General was a senator from Alabama, is leading negotiations with some Republican senators to move any deal to address the legal status of Dreamers to the right, one senior Republican Senate aide said. "I don't expect what they put forth to go over very well," one of the sources said."

Think Democrats won't fight tooth and nail?

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In stark contrast to Llano County Sheriff Bill Blackburn and his criminal SS jackbooted bastards in black who continue to egregiously disgrace themselves and the badge, do as they please regardless of the law and Constitution, carefully consider how law enforcement has risen to the occasion in Las Vegas:

Horrendous massacre. Deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. NPR reports:

"A gunman holed up in a hotel room high above the Las Vegas Strip fired down upon thousands of people attending a music festival Sunday night, in a brutal attack blamed for at least 58 deaths, police say. In the mass shooting and panic that ensued, some 515 people were injured. At least one of the dead is an off-duty police officer who was attending the concert. The suspect is also dead. Police say they're still trying to learn what could have motivated such an attack. The sound of gunfire at the Route 91 Harvest festival concert was reported around 10:08 p.m. local time Sunday, Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo said at a news briefing. He identified the shooter as Stephen Paddock — a 64-year-old white male who is a resident of Nevada — and said the suspect was acting as a "lone wolf."

Imagine the terror:

"Paddock fired down at the crowd of more than 22,000 people from his room on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, according to the Las Vegas police department. A SWAT team used an explosive to breach the room, Lombardo said, and when police entered, they "found the suspect dead." Police say they believe Paddock killed himself."

The building is massive. Police claim they quickly located the shooter due to a smoke alarm that had triggered as a result of the gun smoke and dust emitted during the attack.

The Washington Post reports:

"It wasn’t the hundreds of muzzle flashes that exploded from the shooter’s rifles that gave away his position. Nor was it the panicked 911 calls from people reporting the rhythmic thundering of gunfire. It was the smoke. As the gunman, identified as Stephen Paddock, fired round after round, gun smoke filled his room on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, said Randy Sutton, a retired lieutenant with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, citing police sources. The SWAT team used the alarm triggered by the smoke to zero in on Paddock’s position in about 20 minutes — not nearly enough time for a floor-by-floor search of the hotel, which has 3,309 rooms and a 135,000-square-foot casino."

"After they located his room, the SWAT team members used explosives to get inside, the sheriff’s office said. Paddock, 64, killed himself before the officers entered, according to Las Vegas Sheriff Joe Lombardo."

In another more recent article, The Washington Post offers this explanation:

"As the noises began, scores of confused guests pressed zero on their room phones almost all at once. The first callers asked about what sounded like a sustained burst of fireworks. Others wondered: Was it something else? The hotel operators realized that for callers on some floors, the popping was louder than for guests phoning in from others. Outside the hotel entrance, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police officers were pinned down along South Las Vegas Boulevard, searching for the origin of what they knew was a barrage of gunshots. Someone had been firing into a crowd of country music fans at a venue across the street. Muzzle flashes had been visible halfway up the hotel’s north tower — a clue that then disappeared. “Haven’t seen any flashes,” an officer said over the radio at 10:22 p.m. Sunday. “There is a strobe light from one of those windows.” Steve Sisolak, chairman of the Clark County Commission, said it was clear that the shots were coming from the Mandalay Bay and that the flashes were coming from the windows facing the Strip, but that was about all: “They knew he was up there, and they didn’t know where.” Almost exactly an hour after those observations, a SWAT team burst into Stephen Paddock’s room and found the 64-year-old retired accountant dead; he had shot himself in the mouth with a handgun after spraying the concert crowd with bullets, killing 58 people and wounding more than 500. The raid ended a search that drew on the geometry of Paddock’s frantic attack and the evidence gathered by the hotel’s operators, who narrowed down his location based on the calls coming from frightened guests."

Which account is true? Not clear yet. Precisely, why it will take some time to determine precisely how this all went down. Certainly, be interesting to see if there is indeed truth to both accounts.

CBS News reports:

"Gail Davis, who was at the Las Vegas outdoor country music concert Sunday night when a gunman opened fire, witnessed the terrifying scene at which at least 58 people were killed and more than 515 others were injured."

Here is her account, courtesy of CBS:

"I looked over to my right where this girl had been standing right beside me, and she had fallen -- first, she stood there and she grabbed her stomach and she looked at her hands and her hands were all bloody, and she was wearing, like, a little crop top and, you know, blue jean shorts and cowboy boots, and she looked at her hands and her hands were bloody, and she just kind of screamed and she just fell back."

"Davis said her husband urged her to run, and the two advanced toward a concession area of tents at the venue. There she met a Metro police officer whom, she said, "I owe my life to. "[He] grabbed us, he said, 'Come here.' And we went running inside and the lights were on, and everything else was dark -- they turned the stage lights off -- and we went running in there, and he said, 'Get down.' So we got down. My husband was in front of me, and there was another two ladies behind us, and the officer actually covered up to protect me from being shot because I couldn't get out all the way, "And it was, like, you could hear the shots just, like, going back and forth and ricocheting, and then they would stop, and then we thought, 'Okay. It's over. It's over.' And then it would start again. And this happened a couple of times. And the officer stood up and I heard on his radio say, 'We have active shooters,' and I heard him say, 'Oh, God.'" David said the officer got up with his weapon out, but when gunfire resumed, he again covered her up."

Uncommon valor. Protect and serve. Epitome of policing.

"The officer led them to another tent when the gunfire ceased again as the shooter was presumably reloading. "He was like my guardian angel, he never left me," Davis said. She said the shots seemed to get closer – and then her husband was hit with shrapnel. "He goes, 'Gail, I think I got some of the …' I don't know what you call it, lead or something. 'Feel how hot it is.' And he put it on my arm." The officer told them, "We need to get you out of here. But stay low." They pushed through a door in the back and ran out. "He said, 'Stay out of the light. Just run. Just run and keep down. Keep down.' "And as were running, there's people laying everywhere. People were bleeding. One guy was holding his girlfriend or wife or woman. He was crying and saying, 'Oh God, baby, I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. It's my fault.' I think she had been shot in the head, 'cause she was covered with blood. "We ran, and there was just ambulances and police cars everywhere. It was heartbreaking. It was unreal. "I remember one lady was just screaming and going, 'I can't find my daughter, I can't find my daughter.' And I don't know if she found her or made it or anything. It was just chaos."

"When asked about how quickly the police responded to the shooting, Davis said, "Almost immediately. The Metro was there. They are always right there, you know? The Metro is such an amazing police force, and they were right there. Ambulances were coming. We had ambulances everywhere. There were police cars everywhere, and the police officers were helping, the other concert-goers were helping everybody. It was just amazing. We all came together, and everybody was helping everybody. It was wonderful to see, and I just love Metro. I'm just so proud of them." When asked about the officer who'd saved them, she said she did not know where he is. "I saw his face, and I'm going to try to go down to Metro and see if I can find him and look at his pictures, because he saved me. I know. The girl that got shot was right next to me. I wish I can find him. I'm going to try to find him and tell him thank you."

Here is yet another example of the very best in humanity under the worst of conditions. CBS News reports:

"One of the 59 confirmed deaths from Sunday night's mass shooting at a Las Vegas country music concert was 23-year-old Jordan McIldoon. His final minutes were spent in the arms of a total stranger who never left his side, reports CBS News' Adriana Diaz. "It's what you see on TV and it's never going to be you. It's never going to happen to you. And it was happening," said Heather Gooze. She was working as a bartender at the concert and escaped the gunfire. But McIldoon who, according to his Facebook page, lived in Canada and worked in construction, did not. He was among the seriously wounded Gooze held. "His fingers were kind of wrapped on my hand. His hand kind of squeezed a little bit, and then just, like, went loose," Gooze said."

Did not die alone.

"Gooze was able to call McIldoon's girlfriend who was sheltering in place nearby. "She said, 'Be honest with me, like, what's going on?' And I said 'He didn't make it.' She said to me, 'You know, he's the love of my life, like, are you sure?' I said, 'Yes.'"

There's more:

"There were dozens of stories like McIldoon's Sunday night. People with little in common except for being caught in the crosshairs of a killer. Sonny Melton of Tennessee reportedly was running with his wife to safety when he was shot and killed. Charleston Hartfield was a 34-year-old Las Vegas police officer off-duty at the time of the shooting. Angela Gomez was a cheerleader from California. Rachel Parker worked for the police department in Manhattan Beach, California. Teacher Sandy Casey was remembered by her partner as a woman who, "Lived life to the fullest and made me the happiest man in the world." "I'm connected to him now my whole life," Gooze said of McIldoon. She stayed with his body for more than four hours. "I would hope somebody would do it for me. I would hope that they wouldn't let me be alone," Gooze said. Gooze says she's not a hero – those are the people who ran in to save lives. While she may not have saved a life, she did save a family from the agony of waiting hours to find out their loved one's fate."

No greater love.

Another heart-wrenching report of uncommon valor from CBS News:

"A young new mother took a bullet for her severely injured fiancé while trying to protect him during the deadly Las Vegas shooting Sunday night. Summer Clyburn, 22, lay on top of Michael Gracia, 24, after he was shot in the head during the horrific attack, preventing further injury. "Summer, his girlfriend and mother of his child, covered him while he was hurt, which got her shot as well," Gracia's childhood friend from La Verne, California, Jesse Rivera, wrote on a GoFundMe page for the couple. "The love between those two are real and they are new parents and new parents shouldn't be going through this." Gracia serves as a police officer in Ontario, California. Ontario police Sgt. Jeff Higbee confirmed Gracia, who has been with the department for 4 years, was critically injured during the shooting in Vegas. Both Clyburn and Gracia were taken to Sunrise Hospital & Medical Center in Winchester, Nevada. "He underwent surgery this morning and is listed in critical but stable condition," Higbee said in a statement released Monday. "Gracia's fiancé was also injured during the incident, but her injuries were non-life threatening." Rivera launched a fundraising page on Monday in hopes of raising money to cover any medical expenses for the family and to help care for their 3-month-old daughter, Vayda, who was not with them during the shooting. Within a day, more than 1,400 people donated, raising more than $68,000."

"Rivera said he was in "tears" after seeing support pour in for his friends. "I'm just focusing on raising money for my best friend and his girlfriend," Rivera told CBS News, declining to comment on his friend's current condition.

"Update on my brother. He is doing extremely well. Moving around and opening his eyes. CT scan came back great. Gonna...
Posted by Stephen Gracia on Tuesday, October 3, 2017

"On Tuesday afternoon, Gracia's brother, Stephen, said his brother was doing "extremely well." "[He's] moving around and opening his eyes. The CT scan came back great. Gonna take him off the breathing machines today," Stephen wrote in a Facebook post, adding that Clyburn is also doing well. "Been by my brothers side the whole time. Thankful for her and all the prayers."

Regarding the shooting, all the above is preliminary information and seems to be true. Much could change as this story develops. Initial reports were that the shooter was a wealthy retired accountant, according to the FBI had no known criminal record, no documented history of mental illness, was a high-stakes gambler who had been in the room several days with quite a cache of weaponry. As the criminal investigation proceeds, much could change.

10-6-17

In stark contrast to Llano County Sheriff Bill Blackburn and his criminal SS jackbooted bastards in black who continue to egregiously disgrace themselves and the badge, do as they please regardless of the law and Constitution, carefully consider how law enforcement has risen to the occasion in Chicago:

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

"A Chicago police officer was reprimanded on Wednesday after he injected himself in the NFL kneeling controversy by posing with an American flag and a sign that said: “I stand for the anthem.” Officer John Catanzara posted the photo of himself on social media while he was in uniform and standing in front of a marked police SUV. “I stand for the anthem, I love the American flag,” the sign he held said. “I support my president and the 2nd Amendment.” All words in the poster are in black except “president,” which is in red. Chicago police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi told the Chicago Tribune that Catanzara was reprimanded for violating department rules that prohibit officers from participating in any partisan political campaign while on duty."

Have to admire consistency of the Department in enforcing regulations:

"Catanzara was the third Chicago police officer reprimanded this week for speaking out on the growing NFL controversy. His post came just days after two other uniformed officers from the department were under fire for sharing a photo on social media of them kneeling and raising their fists inside a police station. The activist who shared that photo, Aleta Clark, said it was to support former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who protested police treatment of minorities by refusing to stand during the national anthem last season."

Police on duty and in uniform need to remain non-political, including no religious proselytism.

"The department will remind all officers about the department's prohibiting political statements while on duty through a roll call training," the police department said in a statement Wednesday."

Amazing how hopelessly ignorant clueless nazis in the Religious Right can be. The following is appalling. NBC News reports:

"Two football players in Texas were kicked off their local six-a-side team and were told to remove their uniforms after they knelt and one raised his fist during the National Anthem before a game, the players and their coach said. The two players for the Victory & Praise Worship Center team, Larry McCullough, 18, and Cedric Ingram-Lewis, 16, told NBC affiliate KPRC of Houston that the dismissal Friday night was immediate and in front of fans. "I wasn't trying to disrespect the flag," McCullough told the station, saying he was following the example of numerous players in the National Football League. "It was really showing the injustice for black people," he said."

That's right. Not only are innocent un-armed blacks being murdered by the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue, however, but all races.

"Their coach, Ronnie Mitchem, pastor of the independent Full Gospel church in Brady, a suburb of Houston, said in a statement Saturday on Facebook that he loved McCullough and Ingram-Lewis and had sought to give them a way to protest that he "felt was fair."

You don't get to make that call, Padre. Those kids don't forfeit all civil and constitutional rights and liberties on the gridiron or in your church. Worse, you have no idea what love is. None at all. Not a clue. Your treatment of these kids is proof positive.

"I want to be clear that I don't have a problem with people protesting if it is done the right way," he wrote. "But to disrespect the flag that gives us the right to protest is the wrong way to do it."

Who the hell are you, Pastor, to define what is or is not the "right way?" Hopelessly, Aryan arrogant, aren't you, sir? Too ignorant to understand the Flag, the military, and police who do their jobs non-abusively, lawfully, constitutionally are not in any way denigrated? -- Just the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue who abuse, shake down, and murder on the job.

Take your head out of your ass, Mr. Mitchem. Time to wake up, sir. Get a clue. Forget? The Flag does not convey civil and constitutional rights and liberties. The United States Constitution does. You don't know that, Padre? A little too impressed with yourself, aren't you, sir? Equally pointedly, who the hell are you to define and impose community standards on anyone but yourself?

"In a followup statement on Sunday, Mitchem said: "We don't receive any state or government money. I started the program and have no plans on firing myself."

Jesus Christ. You're an ignorant jackass, Pastor. An embarrassment to your religion and Head Honcho. Unlike you, Pastor, those kids displayed uncommon valor. Adolf and Benito must be grinning ear-to-ear, high-fiving on their fiery perches at your aching ignorance, glaring hypocrisy, pompous self-righteousness.

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10-6-17

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? Seventy-six 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? Seventy-six 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. Seventy-six 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.

10-6-17

CBS News reports:

"An off-duty Los Angeles police officer was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence after a fiery freeway crash that killed a family of three, police said. The officer, Edgar Verduzco, was driving at a "high rate of speed" along Interstate 605 in Whittier Tuesday night when his vehicle slammed into the back of two cars, the California Highway Patrol said. One of the cars burst into flames, killing a mother, father and their teenage son, Sgt. Saul Gomez said. Two people in the third car were injured. The victims were identified as Mario, Maribel and Oscar Davila, CBS Los Angeles reports. A GoFundMe page has raised more than $4,300 for the family."

Protect and serve?

"Verduzco was booked on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs causing bodily injury and is being held on $100,000 bail. He was taken to a hospital with major injuries, including a broken nose."

Your out of control SS jackbooted bastards in black would never ever drive drunk on or off duty, would they, Sheriff?

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10-6-17

Think there's no problem vetting officers pre-employment? To say nothing of during employment? Think it's not necessary? Delusionally believe some officers are not violently insane?

Fox News reports:

"One day after a former police officer pleaded guilty to using excessive force, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department released body camera footage that shows the ex-cop slamming a woman’s face into the hood of his patrol car."

... Hey, Bill? Your personal vision of non-abusive, constitutional, professional police conduct? Your fervent perversion, those of your thugs, of 'protect and serve,' Sheriff? This, how your criminal SS jackbooted bastards in black are 'trained?' Encouraged to conduct themselves?

"Former Officer Richard Scavone pleaded guilty Thursday to using excessive force in the January 2015 case, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. He also falsified his statement relating to the case, an indictment said."

Statutes need to change to ensure officers who engage in such conduct spend the rest of their lives in prison. ... Right, Sheriff?

"In a plea deal, Scavone, 50, admitted shoving the woman to the ground, grabbing her by the neck, slapping her head with his hand, then slamming her face twice into the hood of the car, FOX5 in Las Vegas reported. He also slammed her into one of the car’s doors, the report said."

Your thugs certainly have subjected men to such treatment in Nazi Llano County, Bill. Have yet to hear of them doing the same to women. Ladies? Ever get violently treated by the Sheriff's not-so-finest? If so, contact me at libertyinperil@riseup.net.

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10-6-17

Another example of egregious police brutality resulting in death. ABC News reports:

"A Texas man who died after a struggle with police had an intellectual disability, sickle cell anemia and suffered from nerve pain that caused his legs to lock up and kick, a family member said. Stephen Gayle died Thursday night after Temple police officers who responded to a disturbance call tried to put him in handcuffs. A Temple Police Department spokeswoman said Friday that the Texas Department of Public Safety will investigate the death and that there's no indication the officers "acted outside the scope of their duties."

Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil. DPS, including the Texas Rangers, routinely rubber stamp criminal activity perpetrated by officers. Called the 'Blue Wall.'

"Temple officers responded to a disturbance complaint around 7:30 p.m. Thursday near an apartment complex. They encountered Gayle, believing he was responsible for the disturbance, and said he was uncooperative and appeared intoxicated, according to a police release. During a struggle, the officers tried to handcuff Gayle and put him inside a police car, police said."

Think they told the truth, -- or covered their ass?

"The Temple Daily Telegram reports that Gayle's family and people who witnessed the incident are questioning the account police have given. Witnesses who spoke to the newspaper said the officers, who were white, used excessive force to arrest Gayle, who was black. Some of the witnesses told the newspaper they saw an officer place a knee in the man's back and punch him in the face while he was on the ground."

... Hey, Bill? Standard procedure of your SS jackbooted bastards in black in Nazi Llano County, Sheriff?

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10-6-17

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

"The Georgia Tech campus police officer who fatally shot a 21-year-old student earlier this month was new enough to the job that as recently as 2016 his supervisor noted he was "young and is still learning laws, policies and criminal procedurals," according to a performance review obtained by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Officer Tyler Beck is under investigation for the fatal shooting of 21-year-old Scout Schultz on Sept. 16. Beck was reportedly rated as "Satisfactory" in the first-year performance review obtained by the paper, meaning he met the basic requirements of the job. He is reportedly on paid leave amid the investigation. In a cellphone video, five Georgia Tech police officers, their guns drawn, can be seen surrounding Schultz, who was carrying a a multipurpose tool that included a knife. The blade of the knife inside it was folded."

Five officers, no knife brandished. Yet, this kid was executed by these gutless jackbooted bastards. No criminal accountability. Incredibly poor training. Educational requirements? What educational requirements? Why no degree in criminal science? Why no advanced degree in the social sciences as a condition of career advancement?

"State investigators later confirmed Scout Schultz made the 911 call that instigated the deadly encounter. Scout Schultz also left behind three suicide notes. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports Beck was not required to take Crisis Intervention Training, provided by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, which trains officers to recognize signs of behavioral problems caused by mental illness or substance abuse. The Schultz family -- and their lawyer Chris Stewart -- say police should have subdued the student instead of using lethal force. "He was not running at the officers or threatening them with a knife. He had a multipurpose tool," Stewart said."

Was murdered in cold blood. Yet, the shooter remains protected, coddled. Unaccountable.

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10-6-17

In follow up to an earlier case covered in this publication and elsewhere, NPR reports:

"A hashtag can be a powerful force in corralling social movements of the digital age, #blacklivesmatter being a case in point. But a neither a hashtag nor a social movement can be sued, a federal judge in Louisiana ruled Thursday after a Baton Rouge police officer — whose name has not been made public — filed a lawsuit against Black Lives Matter and prominent activist DeRay Mckesson."

Certainly, was the epitome of outrage when this jackbooted piece of crap filed suit.

"In the suit, the officer said he was seriously injured during a protest last year that "turned into a riot," when a piece of concrete or "rock-like substance" thrown by an unidentified demonstrator hit him."

Think the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue weren't themselves out of control, egregiously violent?

"The plaintiff argued Black Lives Matter could be sued, U.S. District Judge Brian A. Jackson writes, because it is a "national unincorporated association" with Mckesson "its leader and founder," who was "in charge of the protests." But in throwing out the suit, Jackson writes,"'Black Lives Matter,' as a social movement, cannot be sued, however, in a similar way that a person cannot plausibly sue other social movements such as the Civil Rights movement, the LGBT rights movement, or the Tea Party movement."

That's right. Clearly, this jackbooted piece of crap expected special treatment from the court. Usually, a no-brainer in most courts. Not this time, however. Due to a legal technicality. LOL. Doesn't your heart bleed?

"Activists launched #blacklivesmatter online some four years ago, following the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. But the hashtag quickly spilled into the streets, morphing into a movement against police brutality, racism and injustice. "It's organized. They have meetings. They solicit money. They have national chapters," the police officer's attorney Donna Grodner said of Black Lives Matter in June, reports The Associated Press. "This shows a level of national organization." But in his decision, Jackson notes that the plaintiff, identified as John Doe, "is attempting to sue a hashtag ... For reasons that should be obvious, a hashtag — which is an expression that categorizes or classifies a person's thought — is not a 'juridical person' and therefore lacks the capacity to be sued." While a movement or a thought cannot be sued, Jackson notes that an entity associated with a movement can be sued, such as the NAACP, the Human Rights Campaign or Tea Party Patriots."

Easy to get lost in the legal weeds, but the reasoning of the judge is clear. Think the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue won't easily find a way around it in the future? Here's the bottom line in this particular case:

"As for Mckesson, Jackson writes that he was exercising his constitutional right to association and protected speech in the protest and there is no evidence that he incited violence. "It's clear that I did nothing wrong that day and that the police were the only violent people in the streets," Mckesson said after learning of the ruling, reports AP."

Which is precisely why the suit filed by the jackbooted thug added insult to injury. Regarding the case that spawned the protest:

"After a near yearlong investigation, the Justice Department decided not to prosecute the officers, saying that there was not enough evidence to prove they violated Sterling's civil rights. Sterling's children have filed a civil lawsuit against Baton Rouge seeking unspecified damages in his death. After Thursday's ruling, Mckesson told AP, "The movement began as a call to end violence and that call remains the same today."

Cowardly fail to financially and/or materially support those fighting for all civil and constitutional rights and liberties at great personal cost and risk? Get what you truly deserve.

10-6-17

Think asset forfeiture isn't legalized theft? CBS News reports:

"A Kentucky man is suing the government over a program that seizes the property of suspects of a crime. The federal government took nearly $29 billion worth of money and property between 2001 and 2014. Most of it was seized without charging anyone with a crime."

Legalized theft by the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue.

"Civil forfeiture was meant to help law enforcement break the backs of drug cartels when tying money or assets to a cartel boss can be difficult. Now, lawmakers on Capitol Hill are vowing to look into cases where property was seized from individuals for crimes they didn't commit, reports CBS News correspondent Jan Crawford."

A no-brainer. Why wasn't this done years ago?

"In 2015, rancher Gerardo Serrano drove from his home in rural Kentucky to visit his cousin in Mexico. As he crossed the border in Eagle Pass, Texas, Serrano snapped a picture, drawing the attention of agents who pulled him out of his truck and started searching his vehicle. "The next thing I know, one of the agents say, 'We got 'em!'" Serrano said. Then an agent showed him a magazine with five bullets in it, he said. "I have a conceal-and-carry license," Serrano said. "Was there a gun with them?" Crawford asked. "No," Serrano said."

Gets worse:

"Serrano, a U.S. citizen, was detained for hours before agents informed him they would be seizing his new Ford pickup, accusing him of transporting "munitions of war" across a U.S. border. The seizure was authorized under a program that empowers law enforcement to take money or property suspected of being linked to a crime. Even without a conviction, agencies often use the money, or auction off the property, and keep the proceeds."

Legalized theft in Nazi America. A fascist police-state soon to be the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich.

"The federal government's forfeiture fund increased from roughly $1 billion in 2007 to $4.5 billion in 2014, and in 26 states where records are public, more than $250 million was seized in 2012 alone."

Think this a free country? Under rule of law and the United States Constitution?

"After assuming office, President Trump vowed to roll back Obama-era restrictions on the program. In July, Attorney General Jeff Sessions followed through but promised more Justice Department oversight."

The nazi son of a bitch lied. Get this:

"I love that program," Sessions said Sept. 1 at a law enforcement conference in Alabama."

What nazi wouldn't?

"Since then, Sessions has trumpeted the program's successes. "Taking drug dealers' money and passing it out to people trying to put drug dealers in jail. What's wrong with that?" Sessions said."

Readers are caustically reminded there is no due process, no conviction required, no court order. The criminal jackbooted bastards in blue do it on their own authority. Most of those shamelessly looted, stolen from by these criminal law enforcement gangsters are innocent civilians. The Sessions nazi praises what is no more than legalized theft perpetrated by police.

"Officers like Montgomery County Police Chief Tom Manger argue the program shouldn't be eliminated because of a few bad actors. "We cannot just allow people who have earned hundreds of thousands -- millions of dollars -- through criminal activity, to keep that money," Manger said, adding, "So let's find a way to do this right."

Why are you seizing money and other assets from people who have been convicted of no crime? No court order by a judge? You bastards are no more than thieving criminals. ... Right, Sheriff?

"Twenty-five states have passed reforms in recent years to protect citizens from forfeiture abuse, but the Institute for Justice still grades most protections as below average, giving the federal government a D-."

Means squat shit, right, Bill? The criminal bastards in uniform do as they please with impunity. ... Right, Sheriff?

"Robert Johnson is a lawyer with the institute who has taken on Serrano's case pro bono. He said the current federal policy provides a big loophole. "You could still be pulled over by a state police officer who says, 'Oh, gosh. You have cash in your car. I wanna take it.' And instead of forfeiting it under state law, I'm gonna transfer it to the federal government," Johnson said."

Cleverly criminal, isn't it, Bill? Your criminal jackbooted bastards in black do the same, Sheriff? ... What's that, Bill? You'll never tell?

"While many individuals admit guilt just to get their property back, Serrano, who relies on his truck for work, has paid nearly $20,000 while waiting for his day in court. "I wanted the judge to see this. And I want them at some point to stop this policy," Serrano said."

Apparently, they won't. -- Short of an unwanted dreaded second American revolution. Certainly, not with Republican jackbooted nazis running the show. Right, Sheriff?

"Do you ever think, 'I'm an American. I'm an American citizen —'" Crawford started. "Look, if they changed my government, I wanna know," Serrano said. "I need the Bill of Rights. If we don't have my rights, what have we got?"

Currently? Shit squat. Right, Sheriff? A bastardized Constitution, including an eviscerated Bill of Rights. Right, Sheriff? ... Hey, Bill? Your criminal SS jackbooted bastards in black are egregiously out of uniform. No swastika armbands.

Cowardly fail to financially and/or materially support those fighting for all civil and constitutional rights and liberties at great personal cost and risk? Get what you truly deserve.

10-6-17

The criminal jackbooted bastards in ICE have been busy little f--kers lately. The Washington Times reports:

"Federal deportation officers swarmed sanctuary cities this week, netting nearly 500 immigrants in a series of targeted operations designed to go after people that counties and cities were shielding through their noncooperation policies. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said it netted more than 100 migrants in Los Angeles and Philadelphia each, and dozens more in Baltimore, Chicago, Denver and New York, among other jurisdictions."

Adolf and Benito would have been proud of these criminal jackbooted bastards. Likely high-fiving on their fiery perches.

“Sanctuary jurisdictions that do not honor detainers or allow us access to jails and prisons are shielding criminal aliens from immigration enforcement and creating a magnet for illegal immigration,” said Tom Homan, acting director of ICE. “As a result, ICE is forced to dedicate more resources to conduct at-large arrests in these communities.”

Good to see resistance to these jackbooted nazi storm troopers remains persistent. No foreign power, no terrorist organization, not even the criminal element present a greater threat to life, liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties than all levels and branches of government including the criminal jackbooted bastards in law enforcement who enforce their will.

"ICE specifically said that it didn’t target anyone who is currently protected by DACA, the Obama-era deportation amnesty for Dreamers."

Big of the nazi storm trooper bastards, isn't it?

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9-29-17

In stark contrast to Llano County Sheriff Bill Blackburn and his criminal SS jackbooted bastards in black who continue to egregiously disgrace themselves and the badge, do as they please regardless of the law and Constitution, carefully consider how law enforcement has risen to the occasion in Atlanta:

CNN reports:

"Five officers from the Atlanta Police Department are being hailed for their bravery after helping save the lives of two people trapped in a burning car early Wednesday. When the officers arrived on the scene near Interstate 85, they found a car that had crashed into a support pillar. Flames were coming from the car's engine compartment and were quickly spreading. The driver and passenger were seriously injured and couldn't get out, the APD said in a post on its Facebook page. Body camera footage shows the officers using fire extinguishers from their patrol cars to suppress the fire while breaking the car's windows in an attempt to pull the occupants out. They were unable to free them, but kept the fire under control until the Atlanta Fire Department arrived on the scene."

Uncommon valor. Never gave up.

"These officers saw people in need, and they reacted immediately," police spokeswoman Officer Stephanie Brown told CNN. "We are proud of the way they came together and worked to save the people in the car, " Brown said."

Hat's off to these exceptionally fine officers who risked their lives saving others. Indeed, uncommon valor.

9-29-17

In stark contrast to Llano County Sheriff Bill Blackburn and his criminal SS jackbooted bastards in black who continue to egregiously disgrace themselves and the badge, do as they please regardless of the law and Constitution, carefully consider how law enforcement has risen to the occasion in New Jersey:

Seatbelts on. CBS News reports:

"When Ethan Kranig and his mom Natalie planned a trip to the beach, they had no idea it would turn in to the trip of a lifetime. Ethan, a 9-year-old from Wisconsin, has a rare disease called ectrodactyly ectodermal dysplasia. Children born with this genetic condition can experience a variety of issues including missing fingers and toes, a cleft lip and palate, and growth problems. In Ethan's case, one of his major symptoms is the loss of most of his eyesight. His mother planned a family trip to the beach last week in Wildwood, New Jersey, to make sure he would "see the sea" in his lifetime."

Courtesy of policing at its very best. Entire community rose to the occasion. Magnificently:

"Little did they know, a New Jersey man named John Lynch had gotten wind of their story through a mutual friend. Lynch started an organization called Lunch with Lynch, which serves at-risk youth in his community. When he heard the family was making a trip to Wildwood, Lynch made it his mission to help them have the best experience possible using the connections he'd made through his foundation.

"LETS show the Kranig family some FB LOVE !!!! Meet Ethan from Prescott, Wisconsin - Super E is visiting Wildwood as he wanted to "See the Sea" as he is dealing with some serious sight and health issues! If watching this video does not make your heart melt - well nothing will .... this 9 year old boys excitement of running into the ocean for the "first time" is PRICELESS!!! Mom's reaction is awesome too ... THANK YOU - Middle PD, Wildwood, PD, Wildwood Fire Department, Wildwood Beach Patrol, Morey's, Magnolia DQ, Joe's Pizza and everyone else who made Ethan dream come true from WI to NJ!!! #PowerOfCommunity #YouInspireKindness #LunchWithLynch #nurses & #emts Rock :-)
Posted by John Lynch on Sunday, July 16, 2017"

Amazing how kindness can go such a long, long way.

"First, Ethan got to spend a day at the beach as an honorary life guard. He and his family also had a police escort through town. But when Lynch learned from Ethan's mom that his dream was to be a police officer, he organized an even bigger surprise. He called the local police chief, Robert Regalbuto, and asked if he'd meet with Ethan.

"Chief Regalbuto offered something better -- to swear Ethan in as an honorary police officer in front of the entire department.

"I think my heart has finally burst!!!! When Chief Robert Regalbuto of the Wildwood Police Department heard that Ethan wanted to be a police offer he gave me a direct order! "I want Ethan and his mom at the Wildwoods Sign at 8am on 7/17/17 sharp!" ... at 8:22am Ethan Kranig was officially sworn in as a Wildwood Police Officer. Patrolmen Kranig was invited to be a part of the departments 2017 staff photo! Congratulations to Ethan and his emergency room nurse and EMT mom Natalie Kranig !!!! Thank you Commissioner Leonetti and Chief Regalbuto! #PowerOfCommunity #YouInspireKindness #SeeTheSea Any Police Departments would like to send a Patch from your department towards Ethan's collection please do so by sending them to: The Lunch With Lynch Foundation PO Box 1322 Wildwood,NJ 08260 ... thank you - John Lynch
Posted by John Lynch on Monday, July 17, 2017"

This kid has serious medical issues. Family in dire financial straits.

"The video of Ethan's swearing in has since gone viral. For Natalie, who works as an EMT, and her family the outpouring of support comes at a moment when they need it most. Ethan has undergone 29 surgeries as a result of his disease, and the beach vacation was planned in coordination with a trip to Johns Hopkins for a follow up to his latest procedure. But her husband lost his job over a year ago, and the cost of Ethan's mounting medical bills and travel to Baltimore has caused the family home to go into foreclosure, Natalie said. They've set up an online fundraiser to help pay for Ethan's treatments. "It's a terrible situation to choose between your mortgage payment or your son's vision," Natalie said. "It's hard for me, but he's always been a happy kid. I know these are memories I can refer back to when things get tough."

9-29-17

In stark contrast to Llano County Sheriff Bill Blackburn and his criminal SS jackbooted bastards in black who continue to egregiously disgrace themselves and the badge, do as they please regardless of the law and Constitution, carefully consider how law enforcement and an exceptionally heroic teacher have risen to the occasion in Illinois:

CBS News reports:

"A teacher took down a gunman inside an Illinois high school after he opened fire in the school's cafeteria on Wednesday. Police say Angela McQueen's quick response saved lives. A 16-year-old student was shot and later released from the hospital, and the suspect, who the police said was a student, is in custody. The shooter, whose identity was being withheld since he is a minor, acted alone at Mattoon High School. As students there return for classes Thursday morning, they'll find their belongings exactly how they left them as they dropped everything when shots rang out, reports CBS News' Tony Dokoupil. More than 100 police officers raced toward the chaos at Mattoon High School just after 11:30 a.m. on Wednesday. Students and faculty running for safety reported a shooter in the school's cafeteria."

Parents worst nightmare.

"It was one of the scariest things that could happen," said Braeton Davis, one of the students in the cafeteria when another student opened fire. His knuckles were grazed in the shooting. "That's when I looked left, and I saw the person holding the gun, and then they fired three to five more shots," Davis said. A second student was struck by as many as two gunshots but survived."

Truly amazing, quite fortunate, no one hit was killed.

"If that teacher had not responded as quickly as they had, I think the situation would've been a lot different," said Mattoon police chief Jeff Branson. "He still had his finger on the trigger, and it was flying up and hitting the ceiling," said Alexis Perry, who saw the confrontation unfold. Even after overwhelming the shooter, Anna Morton watched as McQueen continued checking on others. "She was walking around and making sure everything was OK. And I went up and gave her a hug and thanked her because she could have -- that could have been a lot worse and she made it to where it wasn't," Morton said."

Uncommon valor. Hat's off to the teacher and police.

In follow up, CBS News reports:

"New details Friday morning about the high school teacher who stopped a student gunman in Illinois on Wednesday. Investigators are working through about 200 interviews to figure out the gunman's motive and how he obtained his weapon, but police are already pointing to the incident as an example of the value of preparing teachers to respond to active shooters."

Indeed. No question.

"According to witnesses, veteran math and P.E. teacher Angela McQueen grabbed the shooter's arm and subdued him after he opened fire in Mattoon High School's cafeteria. Mattoon police chief Jeff Branson said the school recently trained for active shooters. Confrontation is considered "a strategy of last resort," but if needed, it should target the shooter's ability to aim. According to witnesses, that's exactly what McQueen did."

Strategy certainly worked. Death count could have been horrific had Ms. McQueen not taken action.

"One student was wounded and later released from the hospital. The suspect, who is a minor, is charged with aggravated battery with a firearm. Jenni Hudspath and friends spent Thursday decorating Mattoon High School to comfort classmates who fled the shooting in terror and to honor the teacher now being hailed as their hero. "She saved so many lives," one student said. "We've got a little balloon that says, 'You're No. 1,'" said another."

Indeed. Uncommon valor.

"When she saw the situation and, you know, 'Okay, this kid's going to kill somebody if I don't do something,' she just took action,'" said Angela's mother, Barbara McQueen. "I don't even think she gave it a thought. Because when she saw the gun, it was just like 'oh my goodness, we're not going to have another Sandy Hook!' She just reacted instinctively," Barbara said. McQueen was a high school basketball star, a power forward who followed her parents into teaching. She's been at Mattoon High School for 17 years. "Mrs. McQueen is Chuck Norris, basically," one student said."

A credit to the teaching profession.

9-29-17

Police are often confronted with offenders exceptionally difficult to deal with. Especially, if the offender is successful eluding them jumping roof to roof. The following offers a bit of comic relief since no one other than the offender was injured, -- apparently, not seriously. Fox News reports:

"A California grandfather took matters into his own hands when a stranger jumping on rooftops caused an hours-long police standoff on Tuesday. Willard Burgess, 83, was at his La Puenta house when the suspect police were chasing stood on his roof, refusing their orders to come down for hours, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Capt. Tim Murakami wrote on Twitter. The suspect was jumping on several rooftops in the neighborhood. Burgess, fed up with the ordeal, eventually grabbed his neighbor’s ladder and told officers he was climbing onto the roof, KABC reported. “That sucker’s coming off,” he told police."

Wasn't kidding. LOL.

"The grandfather then shoved the man off his roof, ending the hours-long standoff. It’s unclear whether the unidentified man, who police say was either mentally ill or on drugs, was seriously injured. Police said he was taken to the hospital for a mental health evaluation." "You come to my house, you don't have to worry about him because I'll be all over it 'cause I'm going to load up," Burgess told KABC."

No joke. LOL.

"Burgess’ granddaughter, Ashley Wrenn, recorded cell phone video of the moment Burgess tossed the man off his roof. “My neighbor Albert got a ladder. My grandfather climbed the ladder quick. He pushed the guy to a corner of the roof and threw him off the roof,” Wrenn told San Gabriel Valley Tribune. The man was handcuffed after he fell. “It was a crazy morning,” she said. "I tell everybody: 'Just because you're old, that don't mean you got to sit down. As long as you're able to move, move,'" Burgess told the news station."

No shit. LOL. Got to love this guy. One hell of a neighbor. Can certainly count on him in the clutch, no? LOL. ... Hat's off to law enforcement for patiently dealing with the offender, not killing him in cold blood. A terrible waste of police time and resources, however. Then again as police say, the offender may have been drugged or had mental issues.

9-29-17

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? Seventy-five 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? Seventy-five 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. Seventy-five 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.

9-29-17

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

"A lawyer for the Salt Lake City Police officer who arrested a nurse for refusing a blood draw from an unconscious patient says the officer wants to apologize, reports CBS affiliate KUTV. "Jeff would love the chance to sit down and apologize for what happened here," Payne's attorney Greg Skordas told the station. "If he could do this over he would do it over differently."

Bet he would. Has quite a colorful history:

"Payne was previously reprimanded for sexually harassing a female co-worker, according to police documents released amid investigations into the arrest that became a flashpoint in the debate over police use of force. Internal affairs investigations by Salt Lake City police confirmed allegations that Payne harassed a department employee in a "severe and persistent" way in 2013. It included several incidents of unwanted physical contact and a disparaging email, the records say."

Think this guy doesn't have serious issues?

"Payne also faced a vehicle-chase complaint from the Utah Highway Patrol in 1995 that resulted in a two-week suspension without pay, according to the records. The documents didn't details the complaint but said he violated the police code of ethics on cooperation with other officers and courtesy toward other agencies."

Nurse Alex Wubbels and her attorneys have not yet filed suit. Attorney Karra Porter states they're looking into the officer's history and how authorities handled earlier incidents. Considering this guy's background, why hadn't he already been long since fired well before his latest fiasco?

Cowardly fail to financially and/or materially support those fighting for all civil and constitutional rights and liberties at great personal cost and risk? Get what you truly deserve.

9-29-17

Det. Rafael Martinez Jr. of the Camden County Police Department in New Jersey is a decorated officer. In fact, this guy was Officer of the Week. Quite a few drug and gun arrests to his credit. Also, had a much darker side.

Fox News reports:

"But he also fathered a child with a 15-year-old girl, and now Camden County Police Department Det. Rafael Martinez Jr. is facing charges for sexually assaulting a minor, according to the county prosecutor. Martinez, 32, has admitted to being the father of the baby. The 15-year-old girl, identified only as E.L., told authorities that she and Martinez had a sexual relationship from September 2016 to August 2017, according to New Jersey newspapers."

Imagine that. Sexual assault of a kid by one of the jackbooted bastards in blue. Couldn't be, could it?

... Hey, Bill? None of your SS jackbooted bastards in black would do anything like that, would they, Sheriff?

"The police officer was suspended after he was arrested on Sept. 12. He earns almost $66,000 a year, according to the Courier Post."

Why wasn't this piece of human excrement immediately fired? Especially, in light of the following:

"Martinez signed the baby’s birth certificate when it was born in mid-August, the Courier Post said. An affidavit that is part of the criminal complaint against Martinez said the teenager told authorities that the police officer was “the father of her child and that they had sex on multiple occasions at his home.”A court-ordered DNA test confirmed Martinez as the father."

A sworn officer tapping a kid. Who'd 'a 'thunk' it? ... Absolutely sure, Sheriff, none of your SS jackbooted bastards in black have their hands in the cookie jar?

Cowardly fail to financially and/or materially support those fighting for all civil and constitutional rights and liberties at great personal cost and risk? Get what you truly deserve.

9-29-17

CBS News reports:

"The American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri filed a lawsuit against the city of St. Louis on Friday over what it called "unlawful and unconstitutional action" during demonstrations that followed the acquittal of a white former police officer in the death of a black man. The suit accuses police of misconduct by using chemical weapons, interfering with video of police activity and violating due process. It seeks an order requiring police to act within the bounds of the U.S. Constitution."

Short of an unwanted dreaded revolution, the only solution to this ongoing issue is judicial action.

"Some bystanders and at least one journalist were caught up in the arrests, especially on Sunday night, when more than 120 people were arrested in downtown St. Louis - all but three of them for "failure to disperse." Those arrests came after police used a process known as "kettling" to box in demonstrators and others. "While long shifts and being the subject of the protest is understandably challenging for police, that is no excuse for violating the Constitution," Tony Rothert, legal director of the ACLU of Missouri, told CBS affiliate KMOV. Police said people were arrested only if they lingered after being ordered to disperse, but some people said they were unable to leave because police had boxed them in. Among them was Mike Faulk, a journalist for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The newspaper has demanded that charges be dropped. Neither Faulk nor the newspaper is part of the ACLU's lawsuit."

The Post also needs to sue the living shit out of police and the city. Outrageous misconduct by the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue. Direct violation of the First Amendment.

"The ACLU filed the suit on behalf of two women who took part in protests. One, Maleeha Ahmed, who was sprayed in the face with pepper spray on Sept. 15, said she was protesting for justice and peace when police confronted her. "If it hadn't been for my fellow peaceful protesters - strangers who came to my aid - I don't know how my eyesight would be today," Ahmed said. "I would have been left out in the sun, on the ground, with my face burning."

Protect and serve, right, Bill? Runs in the family? Law enforcement family? When will you finally rein in the criminal jackbooted bastards in black in Nazi Llano County, Sheriff?

Not all in St. Louis government are on board with the outrageous acquittal of the criminal jackbooted bastard in blue. Get this:

"Also Friday, St. Louis aldermen unanimously passed a resolution honoring Smith, while his mother, Annie, looked on. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that Alderman John Collins-Muhammad, who introduced the resolution, said he invited Annie Smith and that aldermen share her pain, frustration and dissatisfaction. Stockley shot Anthony Lamar Smith, who was a drug suspect, following a vehicle chase. Stockley insisted he saw Smith holding a gun, but prosecutors said the officer planted the weapon in Smith's car after the shooting."

The bastard did. Only plausible explanation for the fact the officer's DNA was found on the weapon. Not the driver's.

Protest continues. Must remain persistent but non-violent. Otherwise, the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue reserve carte blanche to murder on the job.

ABC News reports:

"An undercover St. Louis police officer and an Air Force lieutenant who lives in the neighborhood were among several people who say they were forcibly arrested last weekend in the city even though they were not participating in protests over the acquittal of a white former officer in the killing of a black suspect.

"The city's acting police chief and Gov. Eric Greitens have praised the officers for controlling the demonstrations, but there has been growing criticism of their actions as details have emerged. The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit Friday alleging that the police violated people's civil rights, and two top city officials have said some police actions were "disturbing." Police said people were arrested only if they didn't follow orders to disperse, but some people said they had nowhere to go because police had boxed them in. The undercover officer was mistaken for a suspect who was carrying chemicals that could be sprayed on officers. When the man refused to show his hands, he was knocked down and hit several times, with his hands tied behind his back and his mouth bloodied, the Post-Dispatch reported. On Friday, Mayor Lyda Krewson asked the director of public safety to investigate how the officer was treated."

Clearly, the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue were out of control. Jackbooted SS nazi stormtroopers.

"During the same protest, Air Force Lt. Alex Nelson, 27, who lives in the neighborhood with his wife, said they were trapped in the kettling, the tactic police used to box in demonstrators. He said he was kicked in the face, blinded by pepper spray and dragged away.

"I hear the police say it was their street, but it's literally my street," he said. "I have coffee on that street, and I own property on that street. We were not active protesters. We were looking into the neighborhood to observe events that were unfolding." He said the police actions were "incredibly unnecessary" because he followed every demand and officers never gave an order to disperse. He said when he told an officer he was with the military, the police officer replied, "Shut up. Stop. I don't care."

Sue the living shit out of the bastard, the department, and the city. Do all you can to bring all those responsible, including taxpayers, to their knees financially.

"A documentary filmmaker from Kansas City who was visiting with his wife said he was knocked unconscious during the sweep. Drew Burbridge, 32, said he never heard orders to disperse until officers started to advance, banging their batons and chanting, "Move back."

Criminal jackbooted SS nazi stormtroopers.

"I turned my camera off and asked if there was anywhere I could go, but I was denied the right to leave," he said. "I didn't want to be a part of this." He said after he was on the ground, officers grabbed him by both arms and dragged him away. He said he was sprayed with a chemical and eventually knocked unconscious for 10 to 30 seconds and when he came to, an officer pepper sprayed him again."

Clearly, these pieces of law enforcement excrement are doing all they can to spark an unwanted dreaded second American revolution. Sue the living shit out of them, the department, and the city. Ultimately when the taxpayers tire of the financial looting, this shit will end. Or, there will be unwanted open warfare on the streets.

Cowardly fail to financially and/or materially support those fighting for all civil and constitutional rights and liberties at great personal cost and risk? Get what you truly deserve.

9-29-17

Fox News reports:

"A 22-year police department veteran in San Antonio, Texas, has been suspended indefinitely because of a relationship with a convicted prostitute. Officer Mark H. Walaski was taken off duty in July for “consorting with persons of ill repute,” the Houston Chronicle reported, citing police records. “Officer Walaski's actions constitute a serious behavioral infraction which does not align with the ethical standards expected of every SAPD officer. As a result, he was issued an indefinite suspension,” the department said in a statement. The indefinite suspension is tantamount to being fired, LawOfficer.com reported. Walaski is appealing his latest suspension through arbitration, his attorney, Ben Sifuentes, told San Antonio’s KSAT-TV."

Doesn't your heart bleed? Think you've heard it all?

"According to the newspaper, Walaski met Tracy Helmke in July 2016, when she had an active warrant for a prostitution charge. The officer allowed Helmke to live at his home, and paid $530 to bail her out after she was arrested on prostitution charges."

Considerate of the son of a bitch, no? Gets worse:

"The officer also was involved in a disturbance with the woman, and failed to report the matter to a police supervisor, the newspaper reported. Walaski was previously suspended this year for discarding what appeared to be synthetic marijuana following a drug arrest, failing to activate his body camera during another arrest, and not completing proper reports for either incident, the newspaper reported."

Who'd 'a 'thunk' it, no? -- Same kind of shit go on here in Nazi Llano County, Sheriff? ... You'll never tell, will you, Bill?

"His suspension gave the department of some 2,100 officers a total of about 45 suspensions this year, the newspaper reported."

Nothing quite like 'professionalism' in law enforcement, is there? ... Right, Sheriff?

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9-29-17

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

"The fatal police shooting of a deaf man in Oklahoma City has sparked outrage nationwide, particularly among disability rights advocates who say his death could have been prevented. The man, Magdiel Sanchez, 35, was Tasered and shot dead on a porch Tuesday night after officers saw him holding up a metal pipe. Oklahoma City Police Capt. Bo Mathews told reporters Wednesday that the officers had ordered him to put down the pipe. When Sanchez didn't do so, they opened fire — even as neighbors yelled to police, "He can't hear you!"

Turns out this shit is a problem all across our formerly great country.

"The case is hardly the only police encounter involving people with disabilities: Sanchez is at least the fifth deaf person fatally shot by police in just the last couple of years, according to Helping Educate to Advance the Rights of the Deaf, or HEARD, a volunteer nonprofit that has tracked incidences of police brutality against deaf people going back 40 years. The group has found many other nonfatal interactions between police and the deaf. They say Sanchez's killing and the other instances of police brutality against deaf people highlight an urgent need to better educate officers."

Better education and training are certainly desperately needed. Far more than that is necessary, absolutely required, however. Police need to be held criminally accountable. Until this changes, expect more of the same. As the revolution doomsday clock strikes ever closer to midnight. Hear the rumble? An unwanted dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looming.

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9-29-17

Amazing how the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue continue to receive special treatment from the Trump nazi and his henchmen. Think not? Wake up. The Washington Times reports:

"The Trump administration renewed its defense of former Sheriff Joe Arpaio on Thursday, telling a federal judge that not only has the lawman been pardoned, but that his original conviction needs to be stripped from the record altogether."

Bullshit.

"Justice Department lawyers conceded there’s no direct precedent for a case like Mr. Arpaio’s, but they said in the cases that do come closest, circuit courts of appeals and the Supreme Court have indicated that vacating the conviction is appropriate, because his case was never completely finalized."

This is a criminal sheriff that eluded justice courtesy of the Trump nazi.

“In this case, no final judgment of conviction has been entered,” the Justice Department said. “Vacatur is appropriate given the presidential pardon.” President Trump’s pardon last month has likely freed Mr. Arpaio from the danger of jail time — though some anti-Trump activists have said Judge Susan Bolton, overseeing the case, should even ignore the pardon and still put Mr. Arpaio behind bars."

Can't do that. The president has the constitutional authority to pardon. The conviction, however, needs to remain on this nazi former sheriff's record.

"Judge Bolton hasn’t tipped her hand on those demands, but she has taken a skeptical line on Mr. Arpaio’s request that his actual conviction on a criminal contempt of court charge be tossed."

Certainly, encouraging:

“U.S. Supreme Court and Ninth Circuit case law suggest that a presidential pardon leaves intact the recipient’s underlying record of conviction,” she wrote last week, challenging the Trump administration to defend its position. She convicted Mr. Arpaio in July of contempt of court, finding he willfully ignored another judge’s order to cease a traffic-stop program that netted illegal immigrants who were then turned over to federal officers for deportation."

In a fascist police-state.

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9-29-17

Like recurrence of a hemorrhoid, former Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke is a pain in the ass that simply won't go away. LOL. Need a good laugh? The Washington Times reports:

"Former Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke reportedly dropped the F-bomb in an email exchange with a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel columnist who was working on a story about the former sheriff’s security detail. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel watchdog columnist Daniel Bice sent Mr. Clarke, an ardent President Trump supporter, a series of questions last week asking how he felt about losing his round-the-clock, taxpayer-funded security detail, which was reportedly put into place in the summer of last year after the sheriff received an onslaught of death threats. Officials last week announced that Mr. Clarke would no longer receive such protection, which reportedly cost more than $220,000 since January. “Was this a wise use of taxpayer dollars?” Mr. Bice asked, according to screenshots he shared on Twitter, The Hill reported. “‘F— you and the horse you rode in on.’ I’m David Clarke and I approve this message,” the sheriff responded from his private email address."

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9-29-17

The Statesman reports:

"Juan Coronilla-Guerrero's wife warned a federal judge this spring that her husband would be killed if the U.S. government followed through with his deportation."

Guess what? He was.

"Her prediction came true last week. Three months after the former Austin resident was taken back to central Mexico by federal authorities, his body was found on the side of a road in San Luis de la Paz, Guanajuato, near where he had been living with his wife's family."

Kicker? Get this:

"Coronilla-Guerrero's death comes six months after federal immigration agents took the rare step of entering the Travis county criminal courthouse to detain him on charges of illegal re-entry--a move that escalated fears about U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's crackdown on authorized immigrants."

Gets worse:

"I knew," said Coronilla-Guerrero's wife, who has returned to Mexico and spoke to the American-Stateman on the condition of anonymity because she fears for her family's safety. "I knew that if he came back here, they were going to kill him, and look, that's what happened." She suspects the 28-year-old was killed by the same gangs that had prompted the family's move to Austin in the first place."

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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9-29-17

CBS News reports:

"Law enforcement use of one tracking tool, the cell-site simulator, to track a suspect's phone without a warrant violates the Constitution, the D.C. Court of Appeals said Thursday in a landmark ruling for privacy and Fourth Amendment rights as they pertain to policing tactics."

Readers will recall this issue has been repeatedly covered in this publication and elsewhere.

"The ruling could have broad implications for law enforcement's use of cell-site simulators, which local police and federal agencies can use to mimic a cell phone tower to the phone connect to the device instead of its regular network."

Police do this with no probable cause, no warrant:

"In a decision that reversed the decision of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia and overturned the conviction of a robbery and sexual assault suspect, the D.C. Court of Appeals determined the use of the cell-site simulator "to locate a person through his or her cellphone invades the person's actual, legitimate and reasonable expectation of privacy in his or her location information and is a search."

No question. No probable cause. No warrant:

"The Fourth Amendment guarantees, "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."

Police do as they please, this time got caught with their hands in the cookie jar.

"A December 2016 report from the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee found U.S. taxpayers spent $95 million on 434 cell-site simulator devices between 2010 and 2014, with the price tag for a single device hovering around $500,000. "While law enforcement agencies should be able to utilize technology as a tool to help officers be safe and accomplish their missions, absent proper oversight and safeguards, the domestic use of cell-site simulators may well infringe upon the constitutional rights of citizens to be free from unreasonable searches and seizures, as well as the right to free association," the report said."

Precisely, why police must have probable cause and a warrant.

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9-29-17

NPR reports:

"When 2-month-old Isaac Enrique Sanchez was diagnosed with pyloric stenosis, a condition that causes vomiting, dehydration and weight loss in infants, his parents were told that their son's condition was curable. The problem was that no hospital in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas had a pediatric surgery team capable of performing the operation on his stomach. To make Isaac well, Oscar and Irma Sanchez would need to take their infant son to Driscoll Children's Hospital, in Corpus Christi, Texas. It was just a couple of hours up the highway, but for them it was a world away. The Sanchezes, who are undocumented, would need to pass a Border Patrol checkpoint. "The nurse told us we had to go there," Oscar says in Spanish. "We said we couldn't go."

Didn't get that far. Were betrayed:

"While they pondered their predicament in a Harlingen, Texas, hospital, a Border Patrol agent showed up in the waiting room — Oscar Sanchez suspects a nurse turned them in — and said he could arrange for officers to escort the parents through the checkpoint to Corpus. But the agent said when they arrived, they would be arrested and put into deportation proceedings. The couple agreed."

Courtesy of the Trump nazi and his equally fascist henchmen. When Republicans falsely claim they're the party of the family, guess what? They're lying. The nurse needs to be fired. Disclosed personal information to the jackbooted bastards. If hospitals can't be trusted not to turn over confidential information, need to close. Don't serve the public, only corrupt, abusive, inept law enforcement.

There was no exigent threat. No probable cause of ongoing criminal activity. How could anyone trust the hospital? Clearly, in bed with law enforcement. Are they sharing all client personal information with the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue, black, green whatever the color of uniforms they choose to sport? All, clearly out of uniform, however. No swastika armbands. ... Right, Bill?

"The events that followed at the Corpus Christi hospital are the latest developments in a national controversy over so-called sensitive locations. Under President Barack Obama, the Department of Homeland Security adopted a policy that immigration agents should avoid enforcement actions at hospitals, schools, churches and public demonstrations unless there are special circumstances."

No longer. Not in a de facto goddamned fascist police-state soon to be the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich.

"The Sanchezes' 48-hour odyssey with federal agents shows the lengths to which the Trump administration will go to round up people in the country illegally, whether they have a criminal record or not."

The Republican Party is a sham. The Democrats are no better. Continue to egregiously fail to effectively stand up to the rise of nazism in our formerly great country.

"The Border Patrol followed the ambulance, the night of May 24, as it raced to Corpus through desolate ranchland, carrying Oscar, Irma and tiny Isaac — with an IV in his arm and a tube in his stomach. Once they arrived at Driscoll Children's Hospital, the green-uniformed agents never left the undocumented couple's side. Officers followed the father to the bathroom and the cafeteria and asked the mother to leave the door open when she breast-fed Isaac."

These goons are shameless jackbooted nazi stormtroopers. Remain an exigent threat to life, liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties. ... Right, Sheriff?

"Everywhere we went in the hospital," Oscar says, "they followed us."

Imagine that. Guilty of nothing other than being undocumented. So were the forebears of these bastards who arrived in this land centuries ago, shamelessly stole it from Native Americans.

"Advocates are puzzled why the Border Patrol chose to put the Sanchezes under such intense supervision, which one would expect for higher-value targets like drug traffickers or MS-13 gang members. The couple has no criminal records. They overstayed visitors visas that were issued 12 years ago. He works construction and landscaping; she stays home with their four children, all of whom are citizens."

This is the mark of our nazi fuhrer, the Trump nazi, and his AG sidekick, the Sessions nazi. Both and their equally nazi henchmen continue to egregiously disgrace themselves, the Constitution they falsely swore to uphold, to say nothing of the American Flag.

"That's how you treat criminals that are harmful, and that's understandable for our own protection," says Ana Hinojosa, an immigrant advocate with the Mennonite Central Committee in Brownsville, who is also working on the case. "But they're a family that's just here trying to make a living, provide an education and a future for their children."

Doesn't matter in a fascist police-state. Will worsen as the fascist police-state becomes Trump's Fourth Reich.

"Advocates are concerned that immigration enforcers are chipping away at places formerly considered safe zones. Three examples: Immigration agents detained six men after they left a church homeless shelter in Virginia; they removed a woman with a brain tumor from a Texas hospital and put her back in detention; and they arrested a father after he dropped off his daughter at school in Los Angeles."

Think these jackbooted bastards won't wind up entering a church and killing someone? Falsely call it 'self-defense?'

"As with the Corpus hospital, the agency maintains none of the arrests were actually made inside a sensitive location. But several members of Congress, all Democrats, are troubled just the same. They have proposed the "Protecting Sensitive Locations Act," which would codify protected places in federal law. And it would expand them to include courthouses and bus stops. "They're pushing the envelope to the point where they're trying to find out how far they can go," says Bronx Rep. Jose Serrano, one of the bill's authors. He is outraged by what happened to the Sanchez family in South Texas. "It violates human decency," he says. "You don't interrupt medical procedures."

In a fascist police-state, the SS jackbooted nazis in black reserve carte blanche to do as they please, right, Sheriff? Constitution? What's that? Means shit squat, right, Bill?

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9-29-17

The Washington Times reports:

"A federal appeals court revived Texas’s anti-sanctuary city law Monday, allowing key parts to take effect — including a prohibition on cities and states trying to thwart cooperation with deportation officers. Police and sheriff’s departments also are required to comply with detainer requests when the federal government asks that illegal immigrants be held for pickup, under the 3-0 ruling by a panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The decision overturns an injunction by a district court judge — though the appeals court said the big arguments remain to be heard later."

Once again, nazis on this appeals court, routinely legislating their perverse ideological and religious views from the bench, once again deliberately abrogated their oaths of office to protect and defend the United States Constitution.

"Still, the decision is a watershed moment, marking the highest court to allow states to force their localities to comply with detainer requests from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The court said the anti-sanctuary law, known as SB4, was drawn inartfully, and the judges did uphold some of the injunction and also struck out some words, but said overall the law does not appear to tread on the federal government’s immigration powers."

A crock of shit. No more than national socialist 'judges' legislating from the bench, talking out both sides their ass. Why wasn't this ruling immediately appealed to the Supreme Court? Get the fascist bastards on the highest court of the land once again on the record.

“Enforcing immigration law helps prevent dangerous criminals from being released into Texas communities,” said Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, whose office defended Texas’s law."

Another crock of shit coming from our criminally indicted Texas Attorney General.

"The appeals court heard oral arguments in the case on Friday, so Monday’s ruling was delivered with extraordinary speed."

Clearly, such alacrity is indication the fix was in by this goddamned nazi court.

The Washington Post reports:

"Texas can require law enforcement to honor federal immigration requests to detain people in local jails for possible deportation under a new “sanctuary cities” law supported by the Trump administration, a federal appeals court ruled on Monday. But the unanimous ruling of a three-judge panel in New Orleans includes the caveat that not every detainer request from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement must be honored. It says local agencies must cooperate “according to existing ICE detainer practice and law.” Lawyers for opponents of the Texas law said the caveat could limit the sweep of the ruling in a way that won’t lead to a drastic change in how local authorities deal with federal agents."

"Nina Perales, an attorney for the Mexican American Defense and Legal Education Fund who is also representing the cities of San Antonio and El Paso, said the ruling appeared to leave wiggle room for interpretation. “I don’t read this decision as making all detainers mandatory,” she said. ACLU attorney Lee Gelernt also said the ruling “significantly narrowed” what is allowed to take effect for now. The decision is a temporary ruling until oral arguments that are set in front of the appeals court in November. Jose Garza, an attorney for the Mexican American Legislative Caucus, acknowledged that the state now potentially had room to pursue penalties against chiefs or sheriffs who don’t comply."

Here is one of the key issues that has not yet been resolved:

"The law’s opponents argue it violates the Fourth Amendment by requiring police to detain people suspected of illegal immigration without probable cause. They also say it illegally puts local police in the federal role of immigration enforcement officers, and is unconstitutionally vague as to exactly when a local law enforcement officer would be in violation of the law."

SB4 advances the doomsday revolution clock ever closer to midnight. As the goddamned de facto fascist police-state we already live in becomes the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich. Hear the rumble? An unwanted dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looming as our formerly great country continues to nazify.

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9-29-17

The Washington Post reports:

"Equifax traces its roots to 1899, when two Atlanta grocery store owners, Cator and Guy Woolford, started what was then known as Retail Credit Co. by going door-to-door to collect information about people in their community. Their $25 book, “The Merchant’s Guide,” noted who in the neighborhood typically paid promptly or who shouldn’t be trusted with credit."

Think anything has basically changed in all these years regarding the efficacy, accuracy, etc., of these equally jackbooted bastards in the credit reporting industry? Wake up. You've been bamboozled. Bought their crock of shit.

"Over time, credit bureaus, such as Retail Credit, would often align themselves with law enforcement, Lauer said. Some had desks set aside in their offices for the Internal Revenue Service or Federal Bureau of Investigation, he said. “There was no firewall, no protection for consumers at all.”

A continuing problem as these outrageously abusive jackbooted corporate nazis remain out of control to this very day. Remain virtually unregulated, courtesy of their bought and paid for minions in both major political parties.

"By the late 1960s, the country’s thousands of credit bureaus were under scrutiny by Congress. The public was beginning to become aware of the massive amounts of data they housed, and many questioned the accuracy of the information."

Far worse today. All these agencies have grown extremely intransigent vis a vis correction of incorrect, achingly false data.

"Retail Credit drew particular scrutiny because of its history of working with health and life insurance companies. When building reports about whether someone should be extended policies, the company would collect information from neighbors and family members about that person’s health, reputation, and sometimes note if they were homosexual, Lauer said. “Credit worthiness was tied to character,” he said."

Greatest irony of all? The corporate management suite ubiquitously has no character. None at all. By definition since bottom line remains prime directive, prime mover of all corporate activity. Lie like hell with impunity. No criminal culpability. Most egregious example covered in this publication all these years since launch in 1999? Wells Fargo.

"After a series of congressional hearings, lawmakers adopted the Fair Credit Reporting Act, giving consumers access to their reports for the first time and requiring the companies to change incorrect data."

The law has no teeth. Is not enforced. Certainly, was not when this writer was injured in a fire some 15 years ago.

"But even after the legislation, Retail Credit continued to see itself portrayed as a villain on Capitol Hill and in the media. In 1974, four former employees of the company told a Senate subcommittee that they were forced to falsify credit reports and meet unrealistic goals to keep their jobs, including ensuring there was adverse information about 6 percent to 10 percent of consumers to prove to their business customers that they were being thorough."

Think anything has changed? Wake up.

"That same year, a woman sued for invasion of privacy after her auto insurance company canceled her policy because Retail Credit reported that she was living with a man “without benefit of wedlock.” In 1975, in the wake of the controversy, the company changed its name to Equifax. The change was to “better portray a company in the ‘equitable’ distribution of facts,” according to a company statement."

No more than a crock of shit. Not just with Equifax, however, but all these goddamned corrupt, abusive, lying credit reporting agencies. Nothing has changed for the better. Gotten worse.

"More than 40 years later, Equifax is one of the world’s largest data providers. Instead of simply selling credit reports to the business community, it has branched into new markets, using artificial intelligence, machine learning and other tactics to unearth information, even sweeping up Facebook and Twitter data on consumers to help companies decide whom to lend money to."

Worse than that, it shares personal information with employers, landlords, and many, many others who do not lend money. Remains a scourge that must be reined in:

“We manage massive amounts of unique data, we have data on approaching a billion people. We have data on approaching 100 million companies around the world. The data assets are so large, so unique,” Richard Smith, the company’s longtime chief executive, said in speech at the University of Georgia business school in August. “You think about the largest library in the world ... the Library of Congress, we manage almost 1,200 times that amount of content every day, around the world.”

The Aryan arrogance of this nazi CEO remains unbridled:

"Smith “has done a lot of great things with Equifax. He took the company and made it the leader it is today,” said Snyder of CFRA Research. That has included collecting a lot more data on people. Early in his tenure, Smith made a risky bet to jump into a new market, buying Talx, which housed the world’s largest repository of employment data. “Every time an employee was paid, it creates 50 data attributes,” including how much a person earns and how much was comprised of a bonus, Smith said in an August talk. The company could combine that information with data it already had on customers to create new products, he said. Equifax looked at the billions pieces of information it was collecting and decided it could use it to make money in other ways, Snyder said. “They said, hey, we have all this great data on consumers, how else can we slice and dice it and make more money from the data we already have?”

They do this at your expense. To say nothing of your egregious loss of privacy. Galling insult to appalling injury? Get this:

"As part of its expansion — the company creates 50 to 75 products a year — Equifax also pitches itself to companies concerned about becoming the victim of a data breach, offering the services of the Equifax Data Breach Response Team. “In addition to extensive experience, Equifax has the most comprehensive set of identity theft products and customer service coverage in the market,” the company says on its website. “You’ll feel safer with Equifax.”

Having just suffered one of the most catastrophic losses of personal data to hackers in history, what does this tell you? Wake up. They lined their pockets. You got f--ked. Any questions? Still don't get it? Get this:

"Those ambitions may be derailed by the company’s handling of a massive data breach that exposed to sensitive information of millions of people. On Sept. 7, Equifax announced that hackers had gained access to the sensitive personal data — Social Security numbers, birth dates and home addresses — for up to 143 million Americans by exploiting a “website application vulnerability.”

CBS News reports:

"San Francisco on Tuesday became the first U.S. city to sue sue Equifax (EFX) over a massive data breach that exposed the personal information of about 143 million Americans. The city filed a lawsuit against the credit reporting company in a California court. It accuses Equifax of violating state law by failing to implement reasonable security measures and not providing timely notice of the breach. The suit seeks tens of millions of dollars in civil penalties and restitution for some consumers. Equifax declined to comment on the pending litigation, but says it remains focused on helping its customers."

Think so?

"The state of Massachusetts has also sued Equifax over the breach, and the company is facing scrutiny from Congress. San Francisco's lawsuit was filed on the same day that Equifax chief executive Richard Smith stepped down effective immediately."

Who'd 'a 'thunk' it?

"The executive's exit is unlikely to turn down the heat on the company, with Smith still scheduled to appear before House and Senate lawmakers next week to answer question about the breach."

You think?

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9-29-17

Unlike our Sheriff and his goons, there are some in law enforcement who remain principled. The Washington Post reports:

"Acting Drug Enforcement Administration head Chuck Rosenberg, a veteran attorney and law enforcement official who has found himself at odds with the Trump administration in recent months, told staff members Tuesday that he is planning to step down from his post in less than a week. Rosenberg, a holdover from the administration of President Barack Obama, wrote that he would leave his position as the DEA’s acting administrator on October 1. In an email to his staff, Rosenberg said he was proud to have led the “remarkable agency.”

Here's what's so remarkable about this officer:

"Rosenberg’s departure is not completely surprising; Trump was always likely to have wanted to nominate someone of his own choosing to lead the nation’s premier agency on narcotics enforcement. But the development is nonetheless important, particularly because Rosenberg, who had been running the agency in an acting capacity since 2015, had earned a reputation as someone willing to put himself at odds with his bosses in the White House and the Justice Department."

Did he ever.

"A former U.S. Attorney and senior counselor to James B. Comey when Comey was FBI director, Rosenberg garnered attention in July when he wrote an email to DEA personnel rejecting Trump’s comments suggesting criminal suspects might be treated roughly when being put into police vehicles. “We have an obligation to speak out when something is wrong,’’ Rosenberg wrote in the email, seeming to call out the president directly."

Certainly, an example of uncommon valor. Precisely, why this guy's departure will be a blow to DEA and law enforcement.

NBC News reports:

"The acting head of the Drug Enforcement Administration is resigning, he said in an email Tuesday, a few weeks after he complained that President Donald Trump appeared to have "condoned police misconduct." In the email to DEA staffers, Chuck Rosenberg, who became acting administrator in 2015, gave no reason for his departure, which takes effect on Sunday."

Here's the kicker:

"A spokesperson for the DEA confirmed Rosenberg's resignation but wouldn't comment on a report in The New York Times, which quoted law enforcement officials as saying Rosenberg had become convinced that Trump "had little respect for the law." Rosenberg, 57, was kept on by Trump, but his future with the administration came into doubt after Trump fired FBI Director James Comey — a close associate whom Rosenberg had served as chief of staff. But Rosenberg has already publicly criticized the president, saying in a memo to the agency's employees on July 29 that Trump's remarks in a speech to law enforcement officers "condoned police misconduct."

Fascinating, isn't it?

"When you see these thugs being thrown into the back of a paddy wagon — you just see them thrown in, rough," Trump said July 28 in an address in Selden, New York. "I said, 'Please don't be too nice.'" Rosenberg said in the memo: "We have an obligation to speak out when something is wrong." He listed "core values" that he said were fundamental to the agency: "Rule of Law, Respect and Compassion, Service, Devotion, Integrity, [and] Accountability." "This is how we conduct ourselves. This is how we treat those whom we encounter in our work: victims, witnesses, subjects, and defendants. This is who we are."

This man couldn't have said it better. This is what law enforcement is supposed to be. Principled, measured, non-abusive, professional, constitutional, etc.. ... Right, Sheriff?

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9-22-17

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? Seventy-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? Seventy-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. Seventy-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.

9-22-17

Seatbelts on. The following is gruesome. Proof positive law enforcement remains egregiously out of control. Hopelessly, clueless. Sans judgment. Unprincipled. Bereft of all humanity. Not the first time police obliged when someone wished to commit suicide by cop, but this time police murdered someone suicidal who posed absolutely no exigent threat to them.

NBC News reports:

"An engineering student who was also an LGBTQ activist was shot and killed by Georgia Tech campus police on Saturday night, officials said Sunday. The school identified the victim as Scout Schultz, 21, a fourth-year engineering student from Lilburn, Georgia, who police said was armed with a knife. Schultz, president of Georgia Tech's Pride Alliance, identified as non-binary and intersex and preferred to be referred to with they/them gender pronouns, according to the alliance's website. Police made contact with Schultz outside a campus parking garage after they received a 911 call at 11:17 p.m. on Saturday, according to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. The original call reported that Schultz was also carrying a gun, officials said. In a video taken by a witness, Schultz can be heard yelling "Shoot me!" at police, as they give orders to drop the knife. "Nobody wants to hurt you," an officer says in the video."

Then, why did you achingly gutless bastards open fire? This was obviously someone suicidal wishing to die by cop. Why oblige? Why? Is murdering someone despondent and/or suicidal how you gutless sons of bitches get your cookies off? Provide a 'thrill?' All of you present weren't trained how to subdue someone using a Taser or baton?

Equally pointedly, all of you present had no other unarmed way of subduing this individual short of opening fire? Unarmed United States Marines are taught to disarm someone with a knife. You aren't? Why not? Shoot first, ask questions later now the driving mantra, gutless principle of law enforcement? Prime Directive? This, your idea of how best to protect and serve the public? Think so?

"But as Schultz continued to ignore the officers' commands and stepped forward with the knife, a single shot rang out, and Schultz's screams could be heard. The young engineering student died later at Grady Memorial Hospital. The officer who pulled the trigger wasn't named, and it was unclear whether any disciplinary action would be taken."

Doesn't the public have a right to know the identity of its murderous oppressors? Each one of you gutless bastards present should have been quickly identified. So the public could go out of its way to avoid murderous officers. What are you so afraid of? Conveniently forget? You murder with impunity. Not held criminally accountable for these murders. Protected, coddled. Still fear identification. Why? That hopelessly gutless?

"Our son, Scout Schultz, was killed last night by the Georgia Tech police," Schultz's father, William Schultz, wrote on Facebook. "He had a tiny knife. They didn't have to shoot him in the heart, but that's what they did. Antifa activists beware!"

As demonstrated in case after case after case ad nauseum, police indeed have been granted carte blanche to murder on the job with impunity. All across our formerly great country. Even here in Nazi Llano County where five highly questionable examples remain within the last decade or so. ... Right, Bill?

Much more on this latest officer-perpetrated killing in Georgia as the story develops.

Certainly, quite a convoluted case. In follow up, ABC News reports:

"In a story Sept. 17 about the death of Georgia Tech student Scout Schultz, The Associated Press incorrectly quoted Schultz's mother as saying her oldest child had twice attempted suicide. Lynne Schultz told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that Schultz had attempted suicide two years ago."

Not the worst of it.

"Campus police shot and killed a Georgia Tech student who they say was advancing on officers with a knife. Scout Schultz, 21, refused to put down a knife and kept moving toward the officers early Sunday outside a dormitory, according to a statement from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, using the given name, Scott. WSB-TV reported that the item, still on the ground when the station arrived, appeared to be a half-open multi-tool without any tools extended. Officers tried repeatedly to get Schultz to drop the knife, but he refused to do so, according to the GBI. Two students shared video of the incident with the station. Officers can be heard repeatedly shouting, "Drop the knife!" Aaron Thurston told the station, "He was yelling like, 'Hey, shoot me!'"

Fascinating, isn't it? What 'knife?'

"He took a couple more steps forward — it wasn't a lunge; it was a couple more steps forward. And then the officer fired," Thurston said."

Appears a gutless jackbooted bastard in blue may have 'choked.' Unbridled fear.

"Lynne Schultz told the newspaper that her oldest child was a brilliant student despite numerous medical issues including depression, and had attempted suicide two years ago. Attorney L. Chris Stewart told the newspaper that he thinks Schultz "was having a mental breakdown and didn't know what to do." He said he doesn't think Schultz was attempting "suicide by police," and officers should have used nonlethal force. "The area was secured. There was no one around at risk," Stewart said. Most of Scout's stress was related to school, his mother said."

NBC News reports:

"At a news conference Monday, Schultz's family's attorney said the student was experiencing a "mental breakdown" on the night of the shooting. "What was Scout doing that day?" said the attorney, L. Chris Stewart. "Standing there disoriented, having a mental breakdown and was shot from 20 feet away." Stewart said that Schultz was holding a multipurpose tool, which contained pliers, a screwdriver and a "tiny, little knife." He added that the knife was never exposed during the altercation."

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9-22-17

Seatbelts on. The following is equally gruesome to the case just covered above. Proof positive law enforcement remains egregiously out of control. Hopelessly, clueless. Sans judgment. Unprincipled. Bereft of all humanity.

NBC News reports:

"A deaf man carrying a metal pipe was fatally shot by Oklahoma City police on Tuesday night as neighbors frantically tried to tell officers that he couldn't hear their commands. Magdiel Sanchez, 35, was shot and Tasered on a porch on Tuesday around 8:15 p.m. after he allegedly advanced toward officers following a hit-and-run involving his father, Police Capt. Bo Mathews said Wednesday."

It's not what you think. Carefully, read on.

"The encounter unfolded after witnesses called police to report the hit-and-run, and said the driver, Sanchez's father, had fled the scene and driven to the residence. Mathews did not know if anyone was injured in the crash, but said the car hadn't struck anyone. Sanchez was not in the car at the time of the hit-and-run and had no criminal history, officials said."

Gets worse:

"Upon arriving at the house to investigate the accident, Lt. Matthew Lindsey saw Sanchez on the porch, holding a 2-foot-long metal pipe "wrapped in some type of material" with a small leather loop on the end of it, Mathews said. A neighbor, Jolie Guebara, later told The Associated Press that Sanchez often carried the pipe to fend off stray dogs when he went for walks at night. The lieutenant perceived the pipe as a weapon and called for backup. Sgt. Chris Barnes arrived."

Far worse:

"When the other unit arrived, verbal commands were being given to this individual to drop the weapon and get on the ground," Mathews said. Instead of doing that, Sanchez kept moving toward officers, Mathews said. Lindsey and Barnes ordered him to "drop the weapon and get on the ground." That's when witnesses started yelling "he can't hear you," according to Mathews. "The witnesses were yelling that this person, Mr. Sanchez, was deaf, and could not hear," he said. "The officers did not know this at the time." Mathews did not know whether the officers heard the witnesses' screams."

If this son of a bitch did not have complete information as to what went down, how it went down, why is he talking to media? Reeks to high heaven. Sounds like the bastard is trying to cover the ass of his achingly gutless officers. Think not? Get this:

"He said Lindsey then deployed his Taser and Barnes fired a gun when Sanchez had got about 15 feet away from them."

Read the above quote a second time carefully:

"He said Lindsey then deployed his Taser and Barnes fired a gun when Sanchez had got about 15 feet away from them."

A pipe, not a gun. Ferociously pointedly, 15 goddamned feet away from these cowards.

"Both struck him. Sanchez was pronounced dead at the scene."

Clearly, the problem in law enforcement is systemic. Top down. Bottom up. These gutless pieces of shit are trained to shoot first, ask questions later. Wake up. This is highly indicative of the massive failure within the ranks of law enforcement. If this is not fixed, hear the rumble? An unwanted dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looming.

"Sanchez's father, who was not named, confirmed to police that his son was deaf. Barnes is being put on paid administrative leave. It wasn't known how many shots he fired, but it was "more than one," Mathews said, adding that the case was being investigated as a homicide. The officers who shot and Tasered Sanchez did not have body cameras on — the department is in the process of getting them — and Mathews said he did not know why they didn't respond to neighbors' warnings that Sanchez was deaf."

This is precisely why law enforcement cannot be trusted. As repeatedly stated ad nauseum, the greatest threat to life, liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties is no foreign power, no terrorist organization, not even the criminal element. It remains all levels and branches of government and the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue who enforce its will.

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9-22-17

Never ends. Neither do the lawsuits. NBC News reports:

"The family of a man shot dead by police in June plans to file a $20 million lawsuit against the Washington state sheriff’s office they say is responsible. Jeffrey Campiche, an attorney representing the family of Tommy Le told NBC News that Le’s family does not believe there was reason to use deadly force on the night Le, who was 20, was killed. At around midnight on June 13, the King County Sheriff's Office received multiple 911 calls about gunfire and a man lunging “with a knife” in the city of Burien, a suburb of Seattle, according to a Sheriff’s Office statement."

Far more complicated than that, however. Worse? Achingly, convoluted as well.

"After deputies arrived on the scene, a witness identified Le as the suspect and pointed him out walking toward the deputies while making stabbing motions, according to police. Two officers told Le to drop what he was holding, but he allegedly continued advancing. The deputies then unsuccessfully used their Tasers to try and stop him before Deputy Caesar Molina then shot multiple times, hitting Le, according to the release."

A 20-year-old kid. Multiple officers present. Think these achingly gutless jackbooted bastards in blue are not taught how to use a Taser or baton to defend themselves, subdue someone? Instead, they chose to execute a kid. Become judge, jury, and executioner. In a supposedly democratic republic. A kid who turned out to be innocent, had no weapon.

"Le was pronounced dead at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle on June 14, the same day he was supposed to graduate from a high school completion program at South Seattle Community College, according to his family."

Not to be in a de facto goddamned fascist police-state, soon to be the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich.

Here's where it gets achingly, nauseatingly, hopelessly f--ked up:

"More than a week after the incident, the sheriff's office said that Le was holding a pen in his hand at the time of the shooting."

As the late great Mr. Rogers would say to his young viewers, "Can-you-say-murder?"

"Le's autopsy, which was released by his family, said Le was shot twice in the back and once in the wrist, disputing the Sheriff’s Office’s account, according to Campiche, who said the autopsy suggested Le was shot from behind. “So if he was attacking somebody else and they shot him in the back, the deputy would have hit or killed the people that Tommy was allegedly attacking,” Campiche said."

You think?

"The family is seeking $10 million in compensatory damages and another $10 million in punitive damages. “They believe he probably would not have been shot if he was white, and they want to try to change the practice and the policies of the King County Sheriff’s Office to comply with the United States Constitution,” Campiche said."

Good luck. Won't happen. Until offending officers, their departments, and their cities are brought to their knees financially, nothing will change. ... Short of an unwanted dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looming.

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9-22-17

In follow up to an earlier report of egregious sexual hazing perpetrated by the Border Patrol in New Jersey against their own officers, -- covered here and elsewhere, CBS News reports:

"Three U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers are accused of using a "rape table" to haze two of their colleagues at Newark Liberty International Airport. Federal prosecutors say the officers were arrested Wednesday and are due to make their initial court appearances later in the day. All three officers are charged with forcibly assaulting, impeding, intimidating and interfering with the two victims. It's not known if they've retained lawyers. They were expected to make court appearances later Wednesday."

As reported earlier, this is exceptionally outrageous criminal hazing activity involving sexual assault perpetrated by these officers against their own colleagues:

"Officials have said senior officers would allegedly take newer officers into a secure room, throw them on a table and grind against their genital areas. Officers who have reported being hazing victims say the abuse happened for years. The allegations surfaced after an investigation by WNBC in New York."

How could these victims remain silent for years? Not report this outrageous criminal activity? They've sworn to uphold the law, haven't they?

"The officers arrested include 38-year-old Tito Catota, of Newark; 40-year-old Parmenio Perez, of Paterson, and 32-year-old Michael Papagni, of West Orange. According to a federal complaint, the defendants were assigned to the Passenger Enforcement Rover Team, a unit responsible for identifying passengers who might be carrying contraband or associated with terrorist activities."

The following is horrendous:

"The U.S. Attorney's Office says the first victim was assigned to the unit in October 2016, and within the first two weeks Papagni told him the PERT office table was known as the "rape table" and threatened that he would get the victim on it. Federal prosecutors describe an alleged incident on Jan. 10 when Papagni allegedly told the victim he had five minutes to get out of the PERT office or Papagni would teach him "what this team is about." Moments later, another officer shut off the lights in the office and Papagni, Catota, and another officer allegedly grabbed the victim's arms and legs and threw him on top of the office table. While Papagni, Catota and a third officer held the victim down, prosecutors say, Perez allegedly got on top of the victim's mid-section and grinded his body against his genitals "in a motion simulating a sex act."

Called sexual assault.

"Federal prosecutors describe another alleged incident on Nov. 30, 2016 when a second victim who was assigned to the Port Director staff when to the PERT office and saw an officer lock one of the doors. Catota, Papagni, and Perez then grabbed the victim and threw him on his side on the PERT office table. Two of the defendants allegedly held the victim down while a third "moved his genitals up and down on Victim Two's left in simulation of a sex act," prosecutors say. The victim struggled to get free until the three defendants eventually released him, prosecutors say."

New norm in policing? In the de facto fascist police-state we now live in, soon to be the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich.

ABC New reports:

"The three officers appeared in Newark federal court Wednesday and did not enter pleas. They will be released on $100,000 bail. If convicted, they could face eight years in prison for each count."

Not enough. Nowhere near.

"CBP said it welcomed the indictments."

Think so? Believe the following?

“We do not tolerate misconduct in our ranks and are committed to a safe workplace environment free of harassment or intimidation,” spokesman Anthony Bucci said. The agency first became aware of the alleged misconduct in January. At the time, 11 Newark employees, including three supervisors, were put on administrative duty and stripped of their access to guns, badges and sensitive information. The three supervisors have since been fired."

Why did it take this long to arrest these men? Had it been Joe Blow up the block, think his sorry ass wouldn't have been immediately hauled to jail? Rightfully, so.

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9-22-17

There is no justice in a fascist police-state soon to be the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich. Certainly not, when the jury pool supports the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue no matter what they do. CBS News reports:

"It took jurors less than 30 minutes to find a Baltimore County police officer not guilty of assault after a camera captured him kicking a suspect, reports CBS affiliate WJZ. Christopher Spivey, 29, faced four counts of second degree assault after an incident on January 25. The case was built around 17 seconds of infrared helicopter video, showing him kicking a suspected car thief."

Apparently, standard procedure in a fascist police-state where police get to be judge, jury, all too frequently, executioner.

"Throughout the trial, the state argued that after Farrar surrendered, the kicks and blows that followed were excessive force."

Didn't matter to nazis on the jury:

"The jury did not agree. They not only acquitted Spivey on day three of the trial, they waited around to thank him for his service outside the courthouse."

Galling. Jackbooted nazi. To be expected in a fascist police-state, soon to be the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich.

"I take my responsibility to police the police very seriously," said Baltimore County State's Attorney Scott Shellenberger. "I watched that video dozens of times before we made the decision to go forward. My decision will always be made based on the facts and the law."

As well, it should be. Should, however, have stood tall, resigned in protest. While the victim of this egregious police brutality was indeed convicted, his guilt or innocence was, and is, irrelevant to criminal assault perpetrated by the equally criminal jackbooted bastards in blue. When criminal officers are not held accountable for their crimes, the revolution doomsday clock strikes ever closer to midnight. Hear the rumble? An unwanted dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looming.

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9-22-17

ABC News reports:

"A Columbus police officer has been "relieved from duty" after he allegedly made comments threatening to choke a suspect, Columbus Division of Police Chief Kim Jacobs announced Wednesday. In the video, Bogard can be heard telling Davis that he is going to "arm-bar" him "into the ground." "And when that still doesn't work, I'm going to choke the life out of you," Bogard said. "And then when you're drooling on yourself, I'll handcuff you." When he is later asked on the video why he choked Davis, Bogard replies, "'Cause it was better than shooting him and going to f------ jail."

Precisely, the kind of shit that goes on in Nazi Llano County all the time, right, Bill?

"In other parts of the video, Bogard is heard asking another officer, "What did we tase him for? Why didn't we just choke the f------ life out of him?"

"Jacobs said she had not been made aware of the bodycam footage until Tuesday and that she has initiated an internal affairs investigation. "This kind of language is totally inappropriate and unprofessional and does not reflect the core values of the Division of Police," she said."

You think? ... At least the Chief's willing to rein in her henchmen, right, Bill? -- Certainly, ferociously pointedly, most unlike you, right, Sheriff?

"Bogard's badge and gun have been taken away from him "until we know whether or not those comments reflect the type of behavior that he exhibits out there on the street toward our citizens," the police chief said."

Apparently, at the very least, the Chief is willing to investigate her jackbooted bastards, not coddle and defend them. Again, most unlike you, right, Sheriff? Where nearly anything goes in this jackbooted nazi County.

"In a statement on Wednesday, Columbus Mayor Andrew Ginther praised the police chief's decision to suspend Bogard. "I applaud the chief's action to take away this officer's weapon and badge," he said."

Since when has a Llano County Judge ever made a similar statement? Under any circumstances no matter how gruesome?

In follow up to this case, CBS News reports:

"Columbus police continue to use excessive force against residents and, in particular, black residents nearly 20 years after the government sued over similar allegations, according to a federal lawsuit filed against the city. The department also fails to properly train, supervise, monitor and discipline officers who use excessive force, said the civil rights complaint filed Sunday on behalf of defendant Davis. At issue is the Sept. 1 arrest of Davis inside a Columbus convenience store where officers tried to arrest him on a warrant alleging he assaulted an officer last year."

This is indeed quite a convoluted case.

"In the Ohio case, cellphone video of the arrest showed officers struggling to subdue Davis and eventually punching and kicking him. Afterward, police spokesman Sgt. Dean Worthington said use of force depends on a suspect's behavior and police policy does allow for punching and kicking."

Is that right? Kicking?

Here's what the suit's claiming:

"Officers at the scene shielded fellow officers attacking Davis to keep witnesses from seeing and tried to cover up what happened by falsely claiming Davis put them in harm, the lawsuit said."

Fascinating, isn't it?

"Davis' mother, Valerie Davis Johnson, told CBS Columbus affiliate WBNS-TV her son suffered kidney damage from the incident. "I was totally, totally shocked. I totally got sick. I was sickened...very sickened," said Johnson. "We're not out for revenge. But we are out for justice. That I want done."

Forget? There is none. Not in a fascist police-state soon to be the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich.

"Last week, police chief Kimberly Jacobs said an officer was pulled from patrol duties over comments he made during Davis' arrest. "I'm going to choke the life out of you," the officer said at one point, referring to how he would have handled the arrest. Jacobs said she was appalled by the inappropriate and unprofessional comments made by the officer."

As it turns out, certainly, the least of it.

"WCMH-TV reported last week that Davis has twice refused to attend a post-arrest court hearing, saying he needs a wheelchair which hasn't been provided. The Franklin County Sheriff's Office says a wheelchair isn't medically necessary."

If that's the case, certainly surprising the jackbooted bastards simply didn't shackle and drag him into court. The American Way, isn't it?

"Davis, 31, faces a preliminary charge of resisting arrest. Seventeen years after the Justice Department sued Columbus, "the unconstitutional conduct of the City of Columbus Police Department towards civilians, particularly African-Americans, has not changed," the lawsuit said. Sunday's lawsuit seeks unspecified financial damages and an end to alleged excessive force use."

That's not going to happen until the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue are arrested, jailed, charged, prosecuted, convicted, and sentenced to long prison terms in a non-white-collar 'country club,' and/or executed. Only alternative other than an unwanted revolution: The taxpayers, ultimately responsible for the criminal behavior of officers, are brought to their knees financially.

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9-22-17

Have no problem with a motel routinely sharing your personal information with the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue? Consider the following. CBS News reports:

"A Motel 6 in Arizona shared its guest lists with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, tipping off federal authorities to customers who may have been in the country illegally."

Think your personal information should be handed over to police without a warrant? In absence of any exigent circumstances, probable cause a crime has indeed been committed?

"CBS affiliate KPHO-TV in Phoenix reports that Jose Renteria Alvarado faces deportation after federal authorities detained him while he was staying at a Motel 6 in June. His attorney, Robert McWhirter, says he believes the motel shared its guest list with the agents. "I imagine what went on here is they probably took a look at the names on the guest registry and compared that to a database of people that have been deported," McWhirter told the station."

In absence of any exigent circumstances, evidence of criminal activity, since when does a motel become an agent of the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue? Further indication, proof positive, we now live in a de facto fascist police-state, soon to be the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich.

"After coming under fire from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and others, Motel 6 appeared to confirm the Phoenix location was sharing information with authorities, saying the policy was "implemented at the local level without the knowledge of senior management."

Think so?

"In a statement to KPHO, Motel 6 spokeswoman Raiza Rehkoff said the company is investigating how long the Phoenix location was sharing guest information with immigration authorities."

How could top management not been aware this was going on? Not credible.

"The Phoenix New Times reports that ICE agents made at least 20 arrests at two Motel 6 locations in Phoenix between February and August in this year, citing court records. Both locations are in areas with large Latino populations, the paper reports."

Racial profiling.

"The ACLU of Arizona criticized Motel 6 for failing to inform customers their personal information might be shared with law enforcement. "It's important that businesses like Motel 6, in the climate we're in now where ICE has been unleashed, that they make very clear how they will be interacting with ICE and law enforcement," spokesman Steve Kilar said."

No question, the Bill of Rights has been eviscerated:

"Kilar acknowledged that Motel 6 has the right to share information about guests with ICE, but said such disclosures should "preferably be done in very limited circumstances and pursuant to a warrant."

This son of a bitch appears to be talking out both sides his ass. Believe in all civil and constitutional rights and liberties? Until this matter is resolved, why would anyone stay at this motel chain?

"Virginia Kice, a spokeswoman for ICE, told KPHO that "the agency receives viable enforcement tips from a host of sources." While not confirming the agency received guest lists, Kice said that "hotels and motels, including those in the Phoenix area, have frequently been exploited by criminal organizations engaged in highly dangerous illegal enterprises."

If there is indeed probable cause of criminal activity, any business should be free to report it to police. To routinely hand over personal information to the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue without probable cause of criminal activity, however, is an egregious violation of constitutional rights and liberties.

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9-22-17

There is no justice in our formerly great country for officers who abuse, shake down, and murder on the job. Protest, however, must remain peaceful. Always. No matter what. If not, you grant the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue carte blanche to murder on the job. The Washington Post reports:

"Demonstrators clashed with police officers Friday night in St. Louis after the acquittal of a white former police officer who was charged with murder last year for fatally shooting a black driver after a car chase."

No matter this egregious nazi injustice, does not justify the following:

"In a video tweeted after midnight Saturday, St. Louis police Chief Lawrence O'Toole said at least 23 people had been arrested as of 6 p.m., and 10 police officers had suffered injuries, including a broken jaw and a dislocated shoulder."

When protesters engage in such violence, become no better than the outrageously criminal jackbooted bastards in blue.

"Many of the demonstrators were peaceful. However, after dark, many agitators began to destroy property and assault police officers," O'Toole said in a joint video statement with Mayor Lyda Krewson (D). O'Toole said the protesters assaulted police with bricks and bottles, and officers responded by using tear gas and firing pepper-spray balls as a "less lethal option."

Not yet known whether or not the Chief is telling the truth. If he indeed is, no excuse for the violent behavior of protesters.

"Roughly 1,000 protesters descended on the mayor's home, throwing rocks and breaking windows, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. They were met by about 200 police in riot gear who tried to disperse them with tear gas. The mayor did not appear to be home."

Again and if true, this is outrageous criminal behavior.

"The night of violence began with peaceful demonstrations earlier in the day after a judge acquitted former St. Louis police officer Jason Stockley for killing Anthony Lamar Smith in December 2011."

Stockley chose not to be judged by jury, but by the 'judge,' knowing full well the bastard would likely protect and coddle the criminal jackbooted bastards in law enforcement. Guess what? He did. The 'judge' ignored the fact the jackbooted bastard planted the gun in the victim's vehicle. Think not? Wake up. Only the officer's DNA was found on the weapon. Not the driver's. Imagine that. A 'throwaway" planted by a murderous criminal jackbooted bastard in blue who successfully escaped justice.

Worse? Carefully consider the following. CBS News reports:

"Assistant Circuit Attorney Robert Steele emphasized during the trial last month that police dashcam video of the chase captured Stockley saying he was "going to kill this (expletive)[Motherfucker], don't you know it. Less than a minute later, the officer shot Smith five times."

No problem with that? None at all? Acceptable in a goddamned fascist police-state soon to be the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich? ... You Llano County Republican nazis truly believe the SS jackbooted bastards in black remain incapable of doing the same to you? Only the 'unwashed?'

This case dates back to 2011, well before Ferguson. Kangaroo justice in a fascist police-state, soon to be the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich. Protest must remain persistent and peaceful. Violence, egregiously counterproductive.

NPR reports:

"The AP reports that some officers in riot gear were chanting "Whose street? Our street!"— something commonly heard from protesters."

If true, jackbooted nazi. Unbecoming the SS criminal jackbooted bastards in black. What are these hopelessly ignorant sons of bitches trying to do? Spark a revolution? 'Can fix ignorant, can't fix stupid,' right, Sheriff?

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9-22-17

The Trump nazi and his AG sidekick, the Sessions nazi are deliberately exacerbating the exigent criminal jackbooted bastards in blue problem in our formerly great country. Don't think so? Wake up. The Washington Times reports:

"The Justice Department will no longer use a program meant to improve police-community relations to address concerns raised by local departments about officer use of force, instead focusing the initiative on efforts to reduce violent crime."

The Sessions nazi insanely believes the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue do no wrong.

"The DOJ announced the changes Friday to the collaborative reform program run by its Office of Community Oriented Policing Services. Under the collaborative reform process, local law enforcement agencies were able to request assistance from the COPS office in order to make organizational and policy reforms that could improve trust between departments and the communities they serve. During the Obama administration, at least nine departments that engaged in the reform process sought to address use-of-force concerns."

We already live in a goddamned fascist police-state the Sessions nazi is determined to transform into the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich.

"Among them were the North Charleston Police Department in South Carolina, where city officials requested a review after officer Michael Slager was videotaped fatally shooting a black man, Walter Scott, in the back as he ran away from the officer. The St. Louis County Police Department also underwent a review that included use of force issues after its community relationships were strained following the riots that broke out in Ferguson, Missouri in 2014."

The Sessions nazi and his fuhrer, the Trump nazi have no concern for innocent unarmed victims murdered by the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue.

"The departments that examined use of force issues also concurrently used the program to address other matters like improving hiring practices and reducing racial bias in policing."

The racist Sessions nazi and his fuhrer, the Trump nazi couldn't care less. In fact, in effect, lobby for more.

Here is further proof positive both remain achingly insane, insufferably delusional:

"The changes come after the attorney general announced a review of all DOJ activities in order to ensure they are promoting “officer safety, officer morale, and public respect for their work” and that the federal government is not hindering local control and oversight. The department said the changes “return control to the public safety personnel sworn to protect their communities and focus on providing real-time technical assistance to best address the identified needs of requesting agencies to reduce violent crime.”

Why would the public have any respect for the out of control criminal jackbooted bastards in blue who abuse, shake down, and murder on the job? Sessions has no clue the problem is out of control criminal law enforcement. Not out of control, supposedly rampant crime perpetrated by the criminal element. Quite the opposite.

As repeatedly stated in this publication ad nauseum, the true threat to life, liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties is no foreign power, no terrorist organization, not even the criminal element. Rather, it is egregiously out of control government. All levels and branches, including the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue who enforce its will.

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9-22-17

Apple's new facial recognition system raises additional privacy concerns. CBS News reports:

"For those concerned about what happens if law enforcement uses your biometric data to unlock your phone, according to a Supreme Court ruling, they cannot go through it without a search warrant."

The hell they can't or won't. Do as they please, right, Sheriff? The Constitution means shit squat to the SS criminal jackbooted bastards in black, right, Bill? All devices must remain password protected, better yet, highly encrypted.

"If you're still nervous, you always have the option of switching off the facial recognition and simply punching in a security code."

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9-15-17

The sixteenth anniversary of the 9/11 attack brings back sad, heartrendingly poignant memories of the catastrophe. Worse, gallingly, remains a haunting reminder of all civil and constitutional rights and liberties forfeited, lost, intentionally, determinedly, concertedly abrogated by the gutless, sniveling bastards of both major political parties.

Readers are reminded the Bush "The Tush" and "Slick Dick" Cheney Administration egregiously failed to do full background checks on the 9/11 hijackers. Worse, failed to heed warnings by the flight schools the terrorist bastards wished only to learn how to fly straight and level, not take off and land. Not one head rolled. Not one. No one held accountable for this egregious failure to act.

Instead, both Democrats and Republicans chose to abrogate all civil and constitutional rights and liberties in a phony effort to 'protect' the American public. Homeland 'Security' Act, USA 'Patriot' Act, 'Real' ID Act, etc.. Sadly, the list can go on and on. The terrorists won that day. The American public lost constitutional protections and guaranties wisely intended by the Founders. All falsely, in the name of 'security.'

As Franklin shrewdly opined well over 200 years ago, anyone willing to trade liberty for security deserves and winds up with neither. Precisely, what happened after 9/11 at the hands of the traitorous bastards in Congress. Both parties. Now, egregiously exacerbated by election and inauguration of an unfit, unqualified, national socialist narcissist to the highest office of the land, the Presidency, now occupied by the Trump nazi.

As this clueless, insane, fascist bastard continues to reek havoc, our formerly great country continues to deteriorate, transform from the de facto fascist police-state we already live in to the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich. This man and his henchmen present an exigent threat to life, liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties.

Again, as repeatedly stated in this publication ad nauseum, no foreign power, no terrorist organization, not even the criminal element present a greater threat to our way of life, life itself, liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties than all levels and branches of government including their criminal jackbooted bastards in blue. The revolution doomsday clock indeed strikes ever closer to midnight, -- as our formerly great country continues to nazify. An unwanted dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looming.

While there are indeed some who believe the government would win due to overwhelming military superiority and weapons systems, it would be a colossal mistake to underestimate the determination of a well-armed citizenry who would never accept the imposition of nazism in this country. The unwanted war would be extremely bloody, costly, long-term, and employ guerilla tactics to level the playing field.

Precisely, why this ongoing issue must be resolved before too late. Well before the point of no return. Few countries make it two hundred years before a revolution. Ours came dangerously close during the Vietnam debacle fifty years ago. Our country remains far more divided today. Precisely, why the status quo remains unsustainable. There must be change. The alternative? Unwanted. Dreaded.

NBC News reports:

"President Donald Trump observed the 16th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks Monday, his first presidential remembrance of the attack that killed nearly 3,000 Americans. The president, joined by the First Lady, called the occasion "extraordinary." "Our values will endure. Our people will thrive," Trump said, speaking at the Pentagon paying tribute to those who perished there on 9/11. "Our nation will prevail and the memory of our loved ones will never, ever die."

The problem remains, "our values" clearly have not. Been perverted, lost to systemic cowardice, rise of the Nazi Right.

"The terrorists who attacked us thought they could incite fear and weaken our spirit but America cannot be intimidated," Trump said. "And those who try will soon join the long list of vanquished enemies who dared to test our mettle."

False bravado. Achingly, empty rhetoric. Forget? The cowardly leadership of our formerly great country deliberately succumbed to the 9/11 terrorists by abrogating all civil and constitutional rights and liberties in response to the catastrophe. Both parties. USA 'Patriot' Act, Homeland 'Security' Act, 'Real' ID Act, etc.. List can go on and on.

Sadly, these traitorous gutless bastards in government to this day fail to acknowledge their abject cowardice, the fact they deliberately caved in to the enemy vis a vis this determined evisceration of constitutional principles heretofore held inviolable. No longer in a de facto fascist police-state, soon to be the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich.

Again and ad nauseum, as Franklin wisely opined well over two hundred years ago, anyone willing to trade liberty for security deserves and winds up with neither. Current unsustainable status quo remains proof positive. Founders? Spinning in their graves. Adolf and Benito? Wildly cheering on their fiery perches. Doomsday clock striking ever closer to midnight. Hear the rumble? An unwanted dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looming.

The following remains symptomatic of what has gone so terribly wrong in our formerly great country. NPR StoryCorps reports:

"Salman Hamdani was a 23-year-old Muslim-American on Sept. 11, 2001. He was an emergency medical technician and police cadet, and that morning as terrorists attacked the World Trade Center in New York City, he rushed to the scene to help."

Heroically. Uncommon valor.

"Talat Hamdani says her son Salman, pictured here in 1983, was so proud to be an American. Salman died responding to the Sept. 11 attacks in New York City. Like thousands of others, Salman never came home that night. "We went searching for him in different hospitals and his name was not there," says his mother, Talat Hamdani."

Here's what's so terribly un-American, -- gallingly, outrageously, bigoted nazi in nature vis a vis the untimely loss of this truly selfless hero:

"In the weeks after Sept. 11, Salman was wrongfully linked as an accomplice to the attacks. "I remember there was a flyer circulating about Salman," Talat recalls. "It said 'Wanted by Terrorist Task Force.' Reporters printed his picture and published an article that said 'Missing or Hiding?'"

Think this heroic patriot deserved this? Because of the color of his skin? His name?

"Talat says her son was proud to be an American all his life."

Died for his country.

"She also says her son was caring from a young age. "He was just a different soul," Talat says. "I remember there was this sparrow and its wing was damaged or something, so we tried to nurse it. Then he went to school and when he came back he asked me 'What happened to the bird?' I said, 'The bird died. I threw it in the trash bin.' "Talat says her son was upset by this, so he went to the backyard and buried the bird. "That was him — helpful, loving," she says. "He probably saw the towers burning and then ran to help that day." Salman's remains were found near the North Tower. "They gave us a bag, with his jeans and his belt," Talat says. "They said his body parts were in 34 pieces." A couple weeks after Salman's remains were found, he finally had a hero's burial in April 2002. His casket was draped in an American flag and hundreds of people attended his funeral, including the city commissioner and then-New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. "There's a vacuum in life when you lose a child," Talat says. "It's a sense of incompleteness and you always feel it. He gave me the joys of motherhood and the pains of motherhood."

Time to wake up.

9-15-17

No wifi access in the Kingsland Public Library 9-11-17, 9-12-17. Both routers remained down for hours at the very least. On 9/13, there was no wifi access at all. The librarians, deafeningly mum, have no explanation. Imagine that. Apparently, remain under enormous pressure. Patrons on library machines complained data flow was at a snail's pace.

This bullshit has been going on so long hard to believe it's not intentional. Especially, after the County Judge was informed nearly a month and a half ago. Looted taxpayers are clearly not receiving what they paid for. Be interesting to see how long this fiasco continues, how long the County continues to hold looted taxpayers hostage. Stay tuned.

9-15-17

In stark contrast to Llano County Sheriff Bill Blackburn and his criminal SS jackbooted bastards in black who continue to egregiously disgrace themselves and the badge, consider how law enforcement has risen to the occasion in Florida:

A natural catastrophe can bring out the very best, -- and worst. Fox News reports:

"Authorities in Florida warned residents that "going to prison over a pair of sneakers is a fairly bad life choice" following a series of burglary arrests as Hurricane Irma was slamming the state with heavy rains and winds.

"#FLPD Can't say we didn't warn you...28 YOs Ryan Cook & Max Saintvil each face 6 counts of burglary from overnight #HurricaneIrma pic.twitter.com/GyPhAeMAVZ
— Fort Lauderdale PD (@FLPD411) September 10, 2017"

What could these people possibly been thinking? Especially, in light of the fact this is a 24/7/365 news cycle we live in:

"Police in Fort Lauderdale said nine were arrested in connection to a sportswear store burglary. The group, which was filmed by a local news station, allegedly stole sneakers.

"More looting in Ft Lauderdale during #IRMA. Watch as these ppl steal shoes from the Foot Locker on Sunrise Blvd. #pathetic @WPLGLocal10 pic.twitter.com/WmUbLli2KR
— Sanela Sabovic (@SabovicSanela) September 10, 2017"

Looting is akin to grave robbing. Especially, after a catastrophe.

"Police Chief Rick Maglione warned people in the statement that “Going to prison over a pair of sneakers is a fairly bad life choice” and residents should instead “Stay home and look after your loved ones and be thankful they are all safe.”

Great advice. Fair warning.

"The Miami-Dade Police Department also said on Twitter that there were 28 arrests for looting."

Sad, isn't it? Especially, during a catastrophe when law enforcement has far greater issues to deal with. ... Such as saving life.

Law enforcement certainly made great effort to get the word out ahead of time:

"Police departments across the state warned residents for days ahead of Hurricane Irma's landfall not to loot. Similar warnings were issued by other police departments across the state. “Any looters who come to Pembroke Pines will be greeted by our officers. Choose wisely and stay home,” wrote the Pembroke Pines Police Department. The Broward County Sheriff’s Office, meanwhile, wrote: “ATTENTION LOOTERS; Every incident will be investigated. Evidence collected will be used to pursue charges after the fact.”

"Looting during the storm will not be tolerated. Looters will be identified, investigated, and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. pic.twitter.com/EXBo16gv55
— Broward Sheriff (@browardsheriff) September 10, 2017"

As well, they should.

"The warning came hours after a Broward deputy shot a 17-year-old burglary suspect in Weston, Fla. The out-of-town homeowners spotted a burglary in progress on their home security cameras and called the Broward Sheriff’s Office, authorities said. Dylan Lemon of Weston was shot outside the home about 3 a.m. Sunday. He went to the hospital with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound. His alleged accomplice Jean Coello, 17, also of Weston, was arrested."

Both are lucky to be alive. Where were, and are their parents?

CBS News had the following take on the looting:

"Police in Florida have arrested nine people who were caught on TV cameras looting sneakers and other goods from a sporting goods store and a pawn shop during Hurricane Irma. Fort Lauderdale Police Chief Rick Maglione said the group was arrested Sunday as the storm roared across South Florida. Maglione called the idea of stealing sneakers during a hurricane "a fairly bad life choice." CBS Miami's Hank Tester drove by Simon's Sportswear in Fort Lauderdale where he actually witnessed one of several looters running out of the store through a smashed in window while holding stolen merchandise. Tester yelled out at the looter, "Hey, What are you doing?" But the thief kept running."

9-15-17

In stark contrast to Llano County Sheriff Bill Blackburn and his criminal SS jackbooted bastards in black who continue to egregiously disgrace themselves and the badge, again consider how law enforcement has risen to the occasion in Florida:

Sadly, an officer and a corrections officer lost their lives in Florida during the catastrophe. Fox News reports:

"A Florida deputy who was helping at a Hurricane Irma evacuation center and a corrections officer heading to start his shift were killed in a head-on crash Sunday morning. Hardee County Deputy Julie Bridges died during the crash in southeast Tampa, WFLA reported. The Florida Department of Corrections said Sgt. Joseph Ossman, who was heading to start his shift at the Hardee Correctional Institution, also died."

9-15-17

Fox News reports:

"Florida deputies rescued two people who attempted to brave out Hurricane Irma in their anchored boat on Sunday, entering treacherous waters as Irma was set to make landfall in minutes. Martin County Sheriff’s Marine and Strike teams rescued the two people just off Jensen Beach, the Atlantic Coast north of Palm Beach, Sunday morning. It’s unclear why the pair were still out on their boat. “MCSO Marine Rescue complete. Everyone is safe. Good job everyone,” the sheriff’s office wrote on Twitter with a video of the man and woman walking off the boat. A video showed the two boats bobbing in choppy water as the deputies were helping the couple onto their boat.

"MCSO Marine Units attempting to recuse [rescue] two people who remained on their vessel. pic.twitter.com/fWrc2KriSv
— MartinCountySheriff (@MartinFLSheriff) September 10, 2017

"The couple’s names were not released and they were not injured."

Hat's off to these heroes who placed their lives in great danger during this raging catastrophe. What the hell was the couple doing in an anchored boat during a hurricane?

9-15-17

CBS News reports:

"Police say eight people, including the suspect, were shot to death at a home in Plano, Texas, Sunday evening, CBS Dallas / Fort Worth reports. Police say the incident happened at a home in a neighborhood on West Spring Creek Parkway. Plano Police PIO David Tilley says officers responded to the residence just after 8 p.m. local time after gunshots were reportedly heard. According to police, an officer also fatally shot the suspect in the deadly shooting."

What makes this extraordinary and particularly courageous is the fact this was apparently not a SWAT team:

"He actually heard gunshots and that's when he made entry into the house. That's when he observed several victims inside then engaged the suspect. And that's when he shot him," said Officer Tilley. CBS Dallas / Fort Worth reporter Steve Pickett tweeted what appears to be the police response to the incident:

"#breaking #Plano police say 8 deaths. All shooting victims. 1700 W Spring Creek Parkway pic.twitter.com/egXe2WbIap
— STEVE PICKETT (@STEVEPICK11) September 11, 2017"

There were additional casualties beside the dead:

"Two others were also found wounded from the shooting. They were rushed to the hospital for medical treatment. Officer Tilley says all the victims are adults. No officers were injured."

If this account is as it appears to be, hat's off to the officers.

9-15-17

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? Seventy-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? Seventy-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. Seventy-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.

9-15-17

Think law enforcement shouldn't better vet personnel? Both before and during employment? ABC News reports:

"A judge sentenced a former New Jersey police officer on Thursday to 20 years in prison for firebombing his supervisor's home, and said his time on the force "was a complete fraud."

How does this happen? How could no one have known? No full pre-employment background check including talking to friends, neighbors, family members, employers, etc.?

"Under terms of a plea agreement, Michael Dotro, 40, of Manalapan, must serve 17 years before he'll become eligible for parole."

Think that sufficient? Won't remain an exigent threat to the community after release?

"The reality is that this person took his position as a police officer and turned it into a nightmarish story line," Superior Court Judge Pedro Jimenez said. Dotro did not speak during Thursday's sentencing. He had been an Edison police officer for 10 years. He previously pleaded guilty to attempted murder and arson. He admitted setting fire to Edison police Capt. Mark Anderko's home in Monroe Township in May 2013. Anderko's wife, two children and mother were in the house at the time, but weren't injured."

This guy should never get out. How could he ever be trusted? Not considered a threat to the community?

"Authorities have said Dotro was angry about a recent transfer and a forced psychological evaluation."

All the more reason he should have been permanently removed from society. If not in prison, than certainly a facility for the deranged.

"Sneaking up on a home in the early morning hours while everyone was asleep and knowing that other people were in the home, that's depraved, there's no doubt," the judge said."

Precisely, why it's hard to believe he won't present an ongoing, exigent threat to the community after release.

9-15-17

To protect and serve? Think so? Fox News reports:

"A former Ohio police officer pleaded guilty Monday to sexually abusing two women with a sex toy during an illegal traffic stop earlier this year, police said."

Think this shit doesn't go on all over the country, usually remaining unreported?

"Kenneth Bolton Jr., 49, pleaded guilty to felony gross sexual imposition and misdemeanor interfering with civil rights, Cleveland.com reported. Prosecutors dropped a kidnapping charge."

Is this the new normal in policing as the country continues to deteriorate?

"Bolton, who was a 16-year veteran of the Cleveland Police Department, lost his license to be a police officer due to his guilty plea to a felony charge. He'll also have to register as a sex offender. The former cop illegally stopped two women, ages 22 and 23, in February when he spotted their car in Cleveland. Bolton had heard over a police radio that the women were previously cited about a half hour before he stopped them."

This son of a bitch is a goddamned predator.

"Bolton then sexually assaulted the women by using a sex toy he spotted in their vehicle, prosecutors said. He was fired two weeks after the traffic stop when an internal investigation was conducted. Bolton’s sentencing is scheduled for Oct. 16."

9-15-17

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

"Prosecutors have asked the FBI to join an investigation into the rough arrest of a Utah nurse after video of her being dragged screaming from a hospital drew widespread condemnation, authorities said Thursday. Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill is overseeing a criminal investigation into officers involved in the handcuffing of nurse Alex Wubbels. He is asking for FBI help in part because his office can't prosecute possible civil rights violations like wrongful arrest, Gill said."

Why weren't the officer and his supervisor fired, arrested, charged? Had it been a civilian, his or her sorry ass wouldn't have been coddled and protected.

"This is a very important issue, and it's of great concern in our community," he said. A federal probe could also look for any larger systematic problems that contributed to the arrest, Gill said."

Hopefully, it will not be simply a whitewash, colossal waste of time. Forget? We already live in a goddamned fascist police-state, soon to be the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich. No question, Trump's sidekick in the 'Justice' Department, the Sessions nazi, ludicrously, insanely believes police do no wrong.

"The FBI opened its own civil rights review after the video surfaced last week and has agreed to assist the county investigation, FBI spokeswoman Sandra Yi Barker said."

Symbolism over substance? No more than a ruse?

"Salt Lake City police detective Jeff Payne insisted on drawing the blood, maintaining in his report that he wanted the sample to protect the man rather than prosecute him. He was supported by his supervisor, Lt. James Tracy, who said the nurse could be arrested if she didn't agree."

Apparently, a second officer was involved in the incident who still has not been identified. Why not?

"Payne, who has worked for the department for over 20 years, was put on paid leave by Salt Lake City police after the video emerged. A second officer also put on leave has not been identified, but police have said Tracy's actions are also under review."

In update to the above, police are indeed changing their story. Get this. NBC News reports:

"A Utah police officer whose rough arrest of a hospital nurse has drawn condemnation put the woman in handcuffs even after investigators told him not to worry about getting a blood sample he was seeking from a patient, the chief whose department asked for it said Friday."

Fascinating, isn't it? Why did it take this long to amend the record? Appears the department is attempting damage control at the expense of justice.

"Officers initially wanted the sample as a routine part of a car crash investigation, said Logan Police Chief Gary Jensen. But after Salt Lake City Police detective Jeff Payne was told he'd need a warrant or formal consent to get it, colleagues told him that they would pursue another strategy. "He simply said, 'Don't worry about it. We'll go another way,'" Jensen said."

Is that right? Why wasn't this immediately disclosed to the public?

"Payne nevertheless insisted. When nurse Alex Wubbels held her ground based on the University of Utah hospital's policy, Payne dragged her screaming from the hospital in handcuffs. Salt Lake City police apologized and put Payne on paid leave after dramatic video of the July 26 arrest surfaced. Police spokeswoman Christina Judd said an internal review will look at the directions Payne received and how he responded."

Think these bastards aren't 'winging' it as they go? Desperate to explain the inexplicable? Worse and inexcusable? Get this:

"Payne was supported by his supervisor, Lt. James Tracy, who is shown on the body-camera video continuing to insist that police have the right to get the blood after Wubbels was handcuffed in a police car. Tracy's lawyer told the Deseret News that he's been the target of multiple online threats and had to shut down his social media pages since the video was released. Attorney Ed Brass said Tracy has served Salt Lake City for nearly 30 years, and judgment should be withheld until a full investigation is complete. Tracy has also been placed on paid leave."

While this bastard's judgment remains highly in question, any threats to this man online or elsewhere are inexcusable, criminal. Counterproductive. Police need to quickly get to the bottom of what happened in that emergency room, why it happened, take appropriate action to ensure it never happens again. Prosecute the officer for criminal assault of the nurse as well as false arrest.

9-15-17

Think we don't live in a goddamned fascist police-state? Wake up. The Washington Times reports:

"The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit in federal court Wednesday challenging the government’s policy permitting searching cellphones of travelers entering the U.S., calling it a violation of privacy rights."

No probable cause. No warrant.

"The ACLU filed on behalf of 11 people who had their electronic devices searched without probable cause. In four cases, the government kept the plaintiffs’ cellphones for weeks or even months, the lawsuit says."

No probable cause. No warrant. A goddamned fascist police-state.

"The lawsuit comes at a time when Homeland Security is stepping up border searches, but has struggled to explain exactly what officers are looking for. Only a tiny fraction of travelers — less than a hundredth of one percent — actually face a search, but the numbers have been growing, reaching a rate of 82 searches a day as of earlier this year — more than three times the rate in 2015."

These goddamned criminal jackbooted bastards are on an egregiously unconstitutional fishing trip.

"Customs and Border Protection officials say they’re trying to “enforce the nation’s laws in this digital age,” and say they’ve found information on potential terrorist plots, child pornography, visa fraud and violations of export laws."

No probable cause. No warrant. No more than goddamned jackbooted liars.

"But CBP has been unable to say how many terrorist plots have been disrupted by the searches."

Because they're liars. Have absolutely no regard for all civil and constitutional rights and liberties. Remain in the mold of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini.

"The ACLU, in the new lawsuit, said the searches mark a major breach of faith with privacy protections."

Egregious violation of the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments at the very least.

“The volume and detail of personal data contained on these devices provides a comprehensive picture of travelers’ private lives, making mobile electronic devices unlike luggage or other items that travelers bring across the border,” the lawsuit said."

Doesn't matter to jackbooted nazi government.

"CBP and another immigration agency, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) — both part of Homeland Security — have policies allowing border searches of electronic devices without first needing to obtain a warrant or demonstrate probable cause."

Outrageously unconstitutional breech by Congress that supposedly allows this bullshit by statute.

"In most cases the search is instantaneous, but sometimes officers will hold the device — which can be a smart phone, laptop, tablet or other electronic storage medium — to do a more thorough check."

No probable cause. No warrant. Nazi America. A fascist police-state soon to be the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich. As repeatedly stated in this publication, no foreign power, no terrorist organization, not even the criminal element present a greater threat to life, liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties than this government, all levels and branches, -- and its criminal jackbooted bastards in blue.

9-15-17

'Can fix ignorant, can't fix stupid.' Think not? Consider the following. CBS/AP reports:

"People with active warrants in one Florida county might want to think twice about heading to a shelter for Hurricane Irma."

Think the following won't also discourage the undocumented from seeking shelter?

"Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd posted on his official Twitter account Wednesday that deputies will be checking identification at the county's shelters, and anyone with a warrant will be arrested and taken to "the safe and secure shelter called the Polk County Jail."

"If you go to a shelter for #Irma and you have a warrant, we'll gladly escort you to the safe and secure shelter called the Polk County Jail https://t.co/Qj5GX9XQBi
— Polk County Sheriff (@PolkCoSheriff) September 6, 2017"

What probable cause does this jackbooted piece of shit have to demand identification from anyone entering a shelter? Simply seeking shelter, help, aid, assistance, etc., is now considered probable cause a crime has been committed? Goddamned bullshit. Direct violation of a deliberately, concertedly bastardized United States Constitution, particularly, the Bill of Rights.

"Sheriff's spokeswoman Carrie Horstman says they're trying to educate the public before the storm hits this weekend. She says they're hoping people with warrants will turn themselves and use the next few days to deal with their legal issues."

Again, what probable cause a crime has been committed do these jackbooted assholes have to ask for identification and run a warrants check at a shelter? Why should an innocent, law-abiding citizen have to put up with this goddamned bullshit? What probable cause do these jackbooted pieces of shit have that a crime has indeed been committed? This is akin to police running roadblocks to conduct 'routine checks.'

"Horstman told the newspaper that sheriff's deputies who conduct identity checks at shelters won't know what an outstanding warrant is for, leaving open the possibility that people wanted for misdemeanor offenses could be arrested as the checks are conducted. "Officers are legally obligated to take a person into custody if they have a warrant," she told the Sentinel."

What we have here is an egregiously unconstitutional Catch-22. This asshole and his goons are abusing power. Doing so because the cowardly community tolerates this bullshit.

"The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida told the Sentinel that most people with outstanding warrants in the state are wanted on minor charges, and the group urged Sheriff Judd to, "focus on preparing for Irma, not burnishing your Joe Arpaio-style 'tough cop' credentials with irresponsible tweets."

Even ICE and the Border Patrol have smartened up. NBC News reports:

"President Donald Trump's Department of Homeland Security had planned nationwide raids to target 8,400 undocumented immigrants later this month, according to three law enforcement officials and an internal document that described the plan as "the largest operation of its kind in the history of ICE," an acronym for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. But after NBC News reported the plans late Thursday, the agency issued a statement saying it had cancelled nationwide enforcement actions due to Hurricane Irma and the damage caused by Hurricane Harvey."

Imagine that. More amazing? Get this:

"While we generally do not comment on future potential law enforcement actions, operational plans are subject to change based on a variety of factors," ICE spokesman Sarah Rodriguez said in a statement. "Due to the current weather situation in Florida and other potentially impacted areas, along with the ongoing recovery in Texas, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had already reviewed all upcoming operations and has adjusted accordingly. There is currently no coordinated nationwide operation planned at this time. The priority in the affected areas should remain focused on life-saving and life-sustaining activities."

You think? How many people will die as a result of not seeking shelter afraid of arrest due to outstanding warrants or being undocumented? The Polk County Sheriff's head figuratively remains securely lodged up his jackbooted ass.

If you can't get people with outstanding warrants into the shelters voluntarily so you can haul their sorry asses to jail, never, ever, never give up. Miami has remarkably come up with a most clever solution. Give them no choice. The following is yet another example of the nazi nanny state. CBS/AP reports:

"On what is likely the last clear day in Florida before Hurricane Irma's monster wind and rain, social workers and police officers are giving Miami's estimated 1,100 homeless people a stark choice: Come willingly to a storm shelter, or be held against their will for a mental health evaluation."

Isn't that precisely what the Soviets did to anyone refusing to tow the mark? To say nothing of what went on in Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy. Liberty? What's that? The freedom to do what you're told? What ever happened to the right to be left the hell alone? To independently live and die as one pleases, provided it does no physical damage to, or inflicts violence on others.

Since no one survives a hurricane unsheltered and no first responders attempt rescues when the storm rages, who's at risk other than the victim who chose not to shelter? Think suicide is never a rational decision? Never, ever? Under any circumstances? Tell that to someone at the end of life in excruciating pain that can't be adequately controlled. How about when quality of life no longer exists, cannot be remedied? Think there's no need for a living will? Or, for physician assistance vis a vis prescription of medications to be consumed by the terminally ill to end one's life as one sees fit?

"With the outer edge of the storm approaching Friday, these officials -- backed by a psychiatrist and observed by an Associated Press team -- rolled through chillingly empty downtown streets as dawn broke over Biscayne Bay, searching for reluctant stragglers sleeping in waterfront parks. "We're going out and every single homeless person who is unwilling to come off the street, we are likely going to involuntarily Baker Act them," said Ron Book, chairman of the Miami-Dade Homeless Trust."

The nazi nanny-state. Government thinks it owns our ass womb to tomb.

"Invoking the "Baker Act" -- a law that enables authorities to institutionalize patients who present a danger to themselves or others - is not something law enforcement does lightly, but officers detained at least six people by Friday afternoon. Under the law, they can be held up to 72 hours before the state would have to go to court to prolong their detention. By then, Irma's howling winds and terrifying storm surge should be somewhere north of the city. The Miami Herald reported Thursday that officials planned to use the Baker Act."

Gets worse:

"No one's ever tried this before," Book told the newspaper. "But I'm not going to be the mayor of Houston. I'm not going to tell people to take a Sharpie and write their names on their arm."

It's none of your goddamned business. Not your body. Not your life.

"I am not going to sign suicide notes for people who are homeless in my community. I am just not going to do it," Book told the AP. "That's why you have a Baker Act. It's there to protect those who can't otherwise protect themselves."

You goddamned hypocrite. Where's your sorry ass when there is no pending dangerous killer storm? What are you doing for the homeless when the sun shines, you grandstanding pompous jackass? Lining your pockets off the taxpayer tit?

These bastards, in effect, are re-writing the Constitution, cleverly bastardizing the law as well:

"Book's group was working closely with police, who acknowledged that the effort is unusual: Officials said it is the first time Miami has invoked the law for hurricane preparedness. About 70 people willingly climbed into white vans and police squad cars Friday, joining others who already arrived at shelters. About 600 others were thought to remain outside somewhere, exposed to the storm, despite mandatory evacuation orders for more than 660,000 people in areas that include downtown Miami and coastal areas throughout the county."

Again, remain and don't evacuate? Despite being in full possession of all your mental faculties? Determinedly wish to die in the storm? It's none of government's goddamned business. What ever happened to liberty? Why is it that government conducts an autopsy when someone dies in a storm or elsewhere, and there is no probable cause a crime has indeed been committed? Certainly, exponentially increases the cost of disposing the medical examiner-butchered body. Unnecessarily loots taxpayers for an autopsy that should never have been performed.

Carefully consider the following, particularly the lack of due process:

"One older man pushing his belongings in an empty wheelchair in Bayfront Park tried to wave them off.

"I don't want nothing," he said, insulting a social worker.

"So you are cool with dying in the streets?" he asked.

"Get out of my goddamn face," he responded.

"What's your name?" asked Dr. Mohammad Nisar, a psychiatrist who was looking for evidence of mental illness, a necessary factor for a Baker Act detention.

"None of your damn business!"

"Police officer James Bernat intervened.

"We are here to help you. Listen to me. You are being very aggressive. We are trying to help you," Bernat said. "It's very dangerous out here."

"You are trying to make me go somewhere I don't want to go," he insisted.

"Finally, the man was handcuffed without a struggle and taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital for a 72-hour psychiatric evaluation."

Outrageously, unconstitutional. These nazi bastards disingenuously knew it would never stand up in court as well. All a ruse. Think not? Wake up:

"A person who has a history of mental illness and who is staying in harm's way, and doesn't have a logical cohesion of what is right or what is wrong at that point, is a harm to himself, and at that point we can Baker Act them for his own protection," Nisar explained later."

The operant phrase in the above quote is "A person who has a history of mental illness." Think there weren't many out there who had no history of mental illness and yet were unconstitutionally detained? Against their will? The fix was in. Get this:

"Friday's encounters alone weren't enough to justify their involuntary detention. Nisar said social workers and officers on the team already know these men and can testify to prior signs of mental illness to support each case. Also, the law requires a court order to keep them detained against their will after 72 hours, and public defenders have pushed back against such requests, citing court rulings that the Baker Act can lead to unconstitutional curtailments of individual liberty. But those hearings won't happen until Monday at least -- and by then, Irma's wrath will have moved on from Miami."

It's not being argued here the officials did not have the best interests and well-being of the homeless in mind. Clearly, they did. Doesn't mean, however, they didn't act outrageously unconstitutionally. While this might seem a minor point to many or all readers, remains a slippery slope. What's next? Who's next? Give government an inch, they take a light-year.

9-15-17

In follow up to the last edition, remains amazing how Aryan arrogant law enforcement remains. Get this. NBC News reports:

"The president of a Las Vegas police union is disputing claims by a Seattle Seahawks football player that he was racially profiled when he was handcuffed and detained following an active shooter report last month. "Our officers did not detain Bennett because he was 'a black man in the wrong place at the wrong time,'" Las Vegas Police Protective Association President Steve Grammas said in a letter to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell Thursday."

Day is night, night is day, and shit smells perversely sweet in the outrageously convoluted world of 'law enforcement.'

"Michael Bennett, a defensive end and a two-time Pro Bowler, said on Twitter Wednesday that an officer "warned me that if I moved he would 'blow my f---ing head off'" and that he was racially profiled when he was handcuffed and detained following a report of an active shooter at the Cromwell Hotel and Casino."

Turns out, there was no active shooter. How about that? Didn't, however, prevent the jackbooted president of the police union from continuing to make a jackass of himself:

"The union called for Goodell to investigate the "obvious false allegations." NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said there is no basis for such a probe. "There is no allegation of a violation of the league's personal conduct policy and therefore there is no basis for an NFL investigation," he said in an email Thursday."

You think?

"There were no shots fired, and the report of an active shooter turned out to be unfounded, police said. The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department has said an internal investigation is underway."

If in fact Bennett's allegations are true, when will the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue involved be fired, arrested, and charged in this case? When? Or, are they being protected? Consider the following:

"Police department Undersheriff Kevin McMahill played body camera video at a news conference Wednesday he said showed the chaotic scene as officers responded to the shooter report early Aug. 27, which occurred around three hours after the Mayweather-McGregor boxing match. According to McMahill, Bennett was arrested because officers who were sweeping an area near a nightclub found a person crouched behind a gaming machine. The person, later identified as Bennett, ran out of the south doors and jumped over a wall onto Flamingo Road, causing officers to believe he may have been involved, McMahill said."

That right? Justify a cop holding a gun to his head and, -- "warned me that if I moved he would 'blow my f---ing head off'"? Think so?

Think Bennett is lying? ... Or, the police?

"The football player was handcuffed and held for 10 minutes and then released, he said. McMahil said Wednesday that he has seen no evidence race played a factor in the incident."

Believe it doesn't matter? Think the department is simply doing no more than protecting its officers, especially since a lawsuit may be pending? Attempting to unduly influence the jury pool? Public opinion of the criminal, abusive, inept jackbooted bastards in blue?

"The president of the Las Vegas Police Protective Association said in the letter to Goodell that any claims of racism are false. It said both the officers involved in Bennett’s detention are minorities. McMahill said both officers involved are of Hispanic origin. He did not name the officers Wednesday."

Why haven't the officers been identified? Why do police quickly release the names of those arrested, 'persons of interest,' etc., but not the identities of officers involved? Think minority officers aren't trained to engage in racial profiling? Isn't part of the job? That is, go along to get along?

"Our officers responded to one of the most dangerous calls a law enforcement officer can be assigned — an active shooter firing rounds in a crowded casino," Grammas wrote in the letter. He said that Bennett’s actions, specifically running from the casino and jumping over a barrier wall, caused officers to focus on him as a potential suspect."

Disingenuous bullshit, and certainly no excuse for consequently what happened to this guy. None at all. While it's always stupid to run from the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue, fear makes people do incredibly stupid things. Especially, when the jackbooted thugs order people to run and then do what they apparently did to this guy. Readers should carefully consider the following:

"Police video shown by McMahill Wednesday showed several people running from the casino as police arrived, and officers telling people to move."

Precisely, why McMahill's comments appear to be self-serving, unduly protective of the officers. Especially, since the investigation is ongoing, and there are numerous ongoing, unresolved questions regarding officer conduct.

"In video of the Bennett’s arrest posted online by TMZ Sports Wednesday, Bennett is heard saying he didn’t do anything wrong. "I was here with my friends. They told us to get out — everybody ran," he said. Both officers involved in the arrest had their handguns drawn, McMahill said. McMahill said that there are at least least 126 videos associated with body and other cameras police have to review, and urged the public to turn in any video they may have recorded. He said if any policies or training were violated the officers would be held accountable."

That's hard to believe. Think the fix may not be in? Especially, in view of the following:

"Investigators will look at why the arresting officer did not have a body camera activated, McMahill said."

If you don't yet have an answer as to why this piece of shit did not have his body camera on, why the hell did you even hold a goddamned press conference? To bamboozle the public? Influence the jury pool? Unduly sway public opinion? Law enforcement has no credibility, yet remains achingly clueless.

9-15-17

People are idiots. In juxtaposition to the above, consider the following. ABC News reports:

"Amid a devastating hurricane in Florida, police there are having to warn people not to shoot at the storm after a Facebook event, "Shoot At Hurricane Irma" garnered 54,000 replies of interest."

Hard to believe people could be such idiots.

"To clarify, DO NOT shoot weapons @ #Irma. You won't make it turn around & it will have very dangerous side effects," warns the sheriff in Pasco County, which is north of Tampa along Florida's west coast.

"To clarify, DO NOT shoot weapons @ #Irma. You won't make it turn around & it will have very dangerous side effectshttps://t.co/CV4Y9OJknv
— Pasco Sheriff (@PascoSheriff) September 10, 2017"

With the calamity now faced in Florida, the last thing law enforcement needs is this insanity.

"A description of the "Shoot At Hurricane Irma" event calls the deadly storm "goofy" and declares, "Let's show Irma we shoot first."

What could these idiots possibly be thinking?

"BBC news reported that Ryon Edwards, 22, launched the virtual "event" in response to a "combination of stress and boredom" he felt prior to the storm's arrival and that he "never envisioned this event becoming some kind of crazy idea larger" than himself."

Say what?

9-15-17

At the same time, there are others selflessly trying to do the right thing. Fox News reports:

"Actress Kristen Bell has helped another family find shelter in the face of Hurricane Irma. The "Frozen" star, who is waiting out the storm in Orlando, Florida while she films her upcoming movie "The Feather," helped secure shelter for fellow actress Jennifer Carpenter's grandmother and aunt. Carpenter, best known for her role on "Dexter," tweeted a picture of her family members thanking Bell for "finding them a way out." "Gma&aunt were ready2 wear helmets N closet under eye of #HurricanIrma til @IMKristenBell found them a way out," Carpenter shared on Twitter on Saturday."

Bell wasn't done, however:

"Bell also managed to secure a hotel room for actor Josh Gad's family after they were "stranded in Florida." Gad thanked Bell on Instagram for getting his parents, brothers sister-in-law and niece and nephew a room at the Orlando hotel Bell is staying at. "So @kristenanniebell literally saved my parents and my entire family tonight from #hurricaneirma," Gad wrote on Instagram Saturday. "When they were stranded in Florida, she got them a hotel room at her hotel in Orlando and saved them...they don't make them like this girl. Thank you Kristin. You are truly an angel sent from above."

Fortunately, calamity seems, for the most part, to bring out the best in society lately:

"Bell told "Good Morning Sacramento" it's "sad that it takes a natural disaster to bring out the best in people" but she's thrilled to see everyone pitch in.

"People decided to bunk up together," she told the morning show which her father is the news director of. "We did a little room switching...we got, I think, 13 [Gad] family members come here last night and I have other friends from LA that did the same thing this morning...we're all sleeping together and it's going to be a giant slumber party."

"When Bell wasn't busy rescuing her friends' families, she visited an Orlando middle school which was being used as a shelter. The 36-year-old actress shared videos of herself singing for those waiting out the storm."

9-15-17

In follow up to the last edition, The Washington Times reports:

"As part of a broader effort to connect with their community, Cleveland’s players also will run onto the field before their season opener against the Pittsburgh Steelers with emergency workers and military personnel. The groups will then stand together for the national anthem. After some Browns were criticized for kneeling in prayer during the national anthem before a recent exhibition game, several players felt their display was misinterpreted and wanted to do something more to reach out to the community. They first met with owners Dee and Jimmy Haslam and later with Cleveland Police Chief Calvin Williams and other officers to develop a “neighborhood plan.” Team spokesman Peter Jean-Baptiste said that may include players riding along with police on patrol and attending area meetings to help strengthen the relationship between police and citizens. On Thursday, Browns players Christian Kirksey, Ibraheim Campbell, Seth DeValve, Randall Telfer, Jamie Collins and Ricardo Louis, shared ideas and discussed some plans with Williams."

This, indeed, appears to be a positive development. Offers some hope of resolution to an ongoing problem. ... Maybe.

"Browns coach Hue Jackson applauded his players’ initiative. “That is great,” he said. “I would think that just knowing our organization, obviously, we love our country, we love our flag, we love the police department and what they do for us. They have done so much for us here, and I think that is super that we are coming together and working together for the right cause and looking forward to watching that happen on Sunday.”

Hopefully, this isn't simply symbolism over substance. Until criminal officers who murder innocent unarmed civilians are held legally accountable in the system of justice, nothing will change. Nothing at all. Furthermore, this issue has nothing to do with love of country, Flag, or lack of support for police who do their jobs lawfully, constitutionally, non-abusively, professionally, etc.. Rather, it has to do with criminal, abusive officers who shake down, abuse, criminally assault and murder innocent unarmed civilians.

"There was some backlash, however, as patrolmen’s association president Steve Loomis said members of his union would not hold the U.S. flag at Cleveland’s home opener. The Browns have traditionally unfurled a large flag held by police and others. Loomis on Friday said he has accepted the Browns‘ invitation to participate in Sunday’s show of unity and will detail 20 officers to take part. He was encouraged by the players’ meeting with Williams “where tough issues were respectfully discussed and viewpoints exchanged.” “Once again Cleveland has risen above the fray and has demonstrated that respectful communication is the key to solving any problem,” Loomis said. “We can always accomplish much more good by standing, communicating and working together than we ever will by standing apart.”

Again, this may be nothing more than achingly meaningless window dressing. Sparked more by concern for impact to franchise bottom line than any real change in corrupt, abusive, inept, murderous behavior perpetrated by the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue. We'll see.

Everyone is entitled to an opinion, including a Hall of Fame coach. The Washington Times reports:

"NFL Hall of Famer Mike Ditka has a name for the pro-football players who choose to protest the national anthem: “malcontents.” The former Chicago Bears coach, who has spoken out against the protests in the past, told TMZ that’s we’re currently living in a “different generation” where some people “think a lot of things don’t apply to them.” “You can’t stop everybody. There’s always going to be some malcontents,” he said. “So let them be malcontents, let them do their thing. They’ll move on. Nobody will think about it, nobody will remember who they were. “They have a right to do that, they have a right to do anything they want to do. I just disagree with it,” he added."

Coach Ditka brings back not-so-fond memories of the late, not-so-great, disgraced former sidekick to President Nixon, Vice President Spiro Agnew. ... Who like his fuhrer, was forced to resign in disgrace. Unlike his unprosecuted fuhrer pardoned by his successor Gerald Ford, Agnew was a goddamned convicted criminal who as a condition of his criminal plea bargain was forced to resign in disgrace. ... Who before his forced resignation, shamelessly, hypocritically excoriated the young who protested the Vietnam War. Had it not been for these young people some fifty years ago, we still would have been fighting in that goddamned hell hole. -- To line the pockets of the war profiteering corporate management suite.

9-15-17

Finally, some justice. Sadly, no criminal prosecution. CBS News reports:

"A white officer who fatally shot a black man in the back during a traffic stop will be fired, Philadelphia's police commissioner said Thursday."

Why wasn't he arrested, charged, and tried for murder?

"Commissioner Richard Ross said Officer Ryan Pownall has been suspended and will lose his job next month because the 12-year police veteran used poor judgment when he fired on 30-year-old David Jones on June 8, CBS Philadelphia reports."

Worse than 'poor judgment.'

"As a leader, it's always difficult to take someone's livelihood," Ross said. "In this case, there were serious policy violations committed on video. I saw it, the shooting investigators saw it. That's where it starts and stops."

What about the needless death of a man who should never have been murdered by one of your gutless thugs, Commissioner?

"Surveillance video shows Jones running away as he's shot. He was stopped for riding a dirt bike on city streets and police say he reached for a weapon during a scuffle."

Did he?

"According to CBS Philadelphia, police said a struggle ensued as Pownall felt a gun in Jones' waistband, then Jones reportedly resisted and started running."

Is that how it went down? Or, did the officer lie to cover his sorry ass?

"Ross said Pownall's first attempt to shoot at Jones was justified under department policy, because it happened right after the struggle with a weapon."

Did it? Or, are you protecting the son of a bitch from criminal prosecution?

"Pownall's gun jammed, and as he fixed it, Jones dropped his gun and fled. He was at least 10 feet away and had his back turned to Pownall when he was shot, Ross said."

Wake up, Commissioner. That's called murder. Had it not been a cop pulling the trigger, his sorry ass would have been immediately arrested, charged, and prosecuted.

"Because Jones never looked back at Pownall and had nothing in his hands, he posed no imminent threat to Pownall," Ross said, though acknowledging the officer believed Jones was still armed. "Jones also used poor judgment as well when he carried a gun illegally, rode a motorcycle that is illegal to operate on a city street and refused to comply with Pownall's orders."

Sounds like you're excusing a murder perpetrated by the criminal jackbooted bastard in blue, blaming the victim for the crime. Achingly, gutless, Commissioner. Then again, expected in the goddamned de facto fascist police-state we now live in, soon to be the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich.

Readers will recall this case was previously reported here and elsewhere. Things never seem to change. Hear the rumble? An unwanted dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looming. ... As the doomsday clock strikes ever closer to midnight.

"The shooting led to protests, including a Black Lives Matter protest outside Pownall's home, and activists calling for Pownall's firing and arrest."

No arrest. No criminal accountability for a murderous, criminal jackbooted bastard in blue. The son of a bitch is protected and coddled.

"What is our city coming to? We're allowing officers that are supposed to protect us, hurt us," said Doretha Crosby, the victim's mother. "[It's been] a living nightmare. I wake up every morning missing my child. I can't get him back. He was a good young man. All he tried to do was get his life right. He worked, just bought a house, just got married."

Doesn't matter in a fascist police-state. Not at all.

"We want the officer charged with murder and we want him convicted and thrown in jail. What you're seeing is a cold-blooded murder and a man who should never have been on the force ever and someone who should've been fired the first time he shot a black man in the back," added Asa Khalif of Black Lives Matter."

You read that right. Indeed, the second time this jackbooted piece of shit gutlessly shot someone in the back. Equally pointedly? Not only minorities are being murdered by these evil bastards.

"The city's police union president John McNesby came under fire for labeling the protesters outside the officer's home a "pack of rabid animals" in remarks last week at a rally in support of police officers."

What is Mr. McNesby trying to do? Spark an unwanted dreaded revolution?

"Mayor Jim Kenney said this week the heated rhetoric doesn't help. "Referring to black people as animals has a long, painful history in this country. Fighting divisive words with divisive words gets us nowhere," he told Philadelphia Magazine. McNesby responded that he never referred to black people in his remarks, and had no idea if protesters were black, white or Asian."

Sounds like a disingenuous, lying, criminal jackbooted bastard in blue, doesn't he? His "divisive" words don't mean squat. It's the fact the jackbooted bastard is justifying a murder committed by a police officer that's of significance.

Coup de grace? Get this:

"This was not the first time Pownall has shot a civilian. In 2010, he shot a man who was also running away at the time, according to the police department. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports Pownall and other officers fired at Carnell Williams-Carney, who ran from police after being stopped with an illegal gun. Williams-Carney was struck in the back by a bullet that Pownall later said he fired. Williams-Carney was paralyzed from his injuries. Pownall and the other officers remained on the job. In a federal civil suit filed by Williams-Carney, a jury ruled in 2013 that the officers were justified in opening fire."

No justice. Certainly, not in 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?' Mr. Attorney General?

9-15-17

The following is precisely why drug addiction is a health issue that cannot be solved or ameliorated through law enforcement. Sadly, in fact, quite the opposite. Yuki Noguchi reports on NPR:

"I meet Roger and Katiena Johnson on their front lawn, strewn with kids' toys — evidence they've been thrust back into parenting their two grandkids. Their 26-year-old daughter, Destini, went to jail on drug charges — but they describe her as a once hard-working teenager who previously had a job at the same company as her father."

Think jail and the criminal justice system solved the problem? Are a solution?

"She's worked with me twice, when she was 16 years old and going to school," says Roger Johnson. "So, I mean, once this drug gets hold of you, it brings you down."

Called addiction. Becomes lord and master.

Think it doesn't affect and involve the entire family?

"Katiena Johnson says she missed work days driving Destini to rehab and doctors, and that dealing with opioid addiction interrupted her own plans."

How many parents, grandparents, other family members aren't similarly dealing with this ongoing crisis?

"Once you raise your kids, you want to be able to retire or something," she says. "We weren't able to; we went ahead and took on our grandkids," she says, before being interrupted by someone yelling, "Hey," in front of the house. It's Destini Johnson, released unexpectedly early because, she tells her parents, the jail was overcrowded. Her mother, who works the overnight shift at a local children's home, wears an expression that is both happy and worried because Destini wasn't given a shot to control her opioid cravings. And once again, Katiena Johnson is rethinking her work schedule."

Her daughter comes first. Yet, these parents wisely know better than to enable her:

"Kind of makes me want to stay home tonight, just to make sure she doesn't use," she says, adding that she'll lean on other family members if necessary. Destini Johnson surveys the doghouse where she slept when her parents evicted her for using in the house. She points to the side entrance of her parents' home, which is blocked by bags of her old clothes and other items she used to drag around when she was strung out and homeless."

This is the price of addiction. Although jail was a wake up call, law enforcement can't ultimately solve this problem. Only the addict can, -- with treatment and follow up:

"She says sobriety in jail made her realize she wants a good job, but that in the past, addiction meant she was also hooked on making the quick buck. "I'd rather go and trick," she says, looking at me. "I don't know if you know what that is, but you know, have sex for money to get my drugs, because it was a lot faster and easier," she explains. "You have to wait a whole week for a paycheck — no addict wants to wait that long to get their drugs."

If we, as society, don't change our approach to this scourge, this problem will never be solved. Addiction bends not to reason, stigma, or punishment. Only treatment and follow up.

"Katiena Johnson urges her daughter to take it slowly — to focus on recovery before worrying about applying for jobs. Rejection, she worries, might make her resort to using once again."

To say nothing of the craving, physical illness that comes with withdrawal. What webs we weave.

At the same time, should people who desperately need pain killers be denied simply due to the risk of addiction? Consider the following. NPR reports:

"The U.S. is in the midst of an opioid crisis. Millions of Americans are addicted to the powerful prescription painkillers, and tens of thousands are dying each year from overdoses. A new report out Thursday offers a bit of hope: Doctors are prescribing opioids less often, and the average dose they're giving patients has dropped, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."

At expense of pain management? Fear of loss of medical license? Due to jackbooted enforcement of drug laws? Interference in doctor-client relationships? Does government supposedly know better than medical personnel?

"However, the number of patients getting opioids is still too high, and doctors are giving their patients prescriptions that last longer, according to the report in the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report."

Who the hell are they to make that judgment? Interfere in doctor-client relationships? No more than expansion of the nazi nanny-state. To say nothing of the failed Republican War On Drugs going on for the last nearly half-century beginning during the reign of the criminal Nixon nazi.

"The bottom line is that too many [people] are still getting too much for too long," says Anne Schuchat, the CDC's acting director. "And that is driving our problem with drug overdoses and drug overdose deaths in the country."

Is it? Or, is it failure of government and its corporate masters in the pharmaceutical industry to develop non-addictive, non-opioid pain medications? Due to bottomless greed. That's not to minimize the scourge of addiction to opioids. Just to suggest our approach to this problem needs to be thoroughly re-examined, then changed.

9-15-17

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

"Police and emergency workers filed suit on Thursday against French chemicals company Arkema SA, claiming they were injured after it failed to take adequate steps to avoid a fire at its Crosby, Texas, plant after Hurricane Harvey. Seven police, fire and emergency medical technicians sued Arkema in Harris County District Court for at least $1 million, alleging negligence by the company and executives led flammable organic peroxides stored at the site to ignite after the plant lost power during the storm."

Indeed, time to hold the corporate management suite accountable for its failure to be adequately prepared for such natural disasters:

"The seven emergency workers claim they received "serious bodily injuries" after breathing smoke released by the fire while manning an evacuation perimeter a mile and a half from the plant. The chemicals are used in the manufacture of plastics."

9-15-17

The following ongoing debacle indeed has its roots in the egregious failure of law enforcement to properly do its job. NPR reports:

"The Department of Education will change its approach to campus sexual misconduct and begin a public notice and comment process to issue new regulations, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos announced today. In a speech at George Mason University's Antonin Scalia Law School, DeVos decried "a system run amok," "kangaroo courts" and repeatedly emphasized the plight of the accused. "One rape is one too many ... one person denied due process is one too many," she said. Outside, protesters yelled, "Stop protecting rapists!"

If law enforcement properly investigated and treated sexual assault victims compassionately, none of the above would be an issue. Instead, officers across this country have a history of not believing sexual assault victims, questioning their credibility, not following through with analysis of rape kits, etc..

"Title IX, a federal law passed in 1972, prohibits sex discrimination in education. It has been best known for driving the expansion of girls' and women's sports. The Office of Civil Rights, or OCR, under President Obama took the position that Title IX protects girls and women from the threat of sexual assault, harassment or a hostile environment while pursuing their educations. In letters and official guidance, OCR told colleges and K-12 schools to investigate complaints more aggressively. Some of the consequences have been controversial across the political spectrum. They were told to adopt a "preponderance of the evidence" standard, a lower burden of proof than is typically required in a court of law. And, OCR stepped up its own investigations of campuses over Title IX complaints. If colleges didn't comply, they stood to lose access to federal student aid, which almost no school can afford to do."

Apparently, Obama imposed this since law enforcement was failing to properly do its job. Sexual assault investigation and prosecution should remain the province of law enforcement, prosecutors, and the judiciary. Not the schools. Precisely, for the reasons cited in the above quote.

While DeVos indeed has a point, she's egregiously, gutlessly failed to stand up. Place blame where it truly belongs. On police, prosecutors, and the courts. Won't do so likely due to the fact she's a member of an administration that is desperately trying to transform the goddamned fascist police-state we already live in to the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich.

Here is the take of The Washington Times:

"Education Secretary Betsy DeVos announced Thursday an initiative to overhaul the Obama administration’s campus sexual-assault guidelines, accusing the “shameful” system of failing both the accused and accuser by creating what have been decried as “kangaroo courts.”

Sadly, there is great truth to that. Also, to the fact sexual assault victims are being denied justice. A double-edged sword.

"She said she would issue a public notice aimed at reforming the regulatory framework created by the department’s Office for Civil Rights in its 2011 Title IX guidance, which compelled universities to take a harder line on campus sexual assault or face a federal civil rights investigation."

At the same time, she concertedly ignores the failure of law enforcement, prosecutors, and the courts to do their job.

“This unraveling of justice is shameful, it is wholly un-American, and it is anathema to the system of self-governance to which our Founders pledged their lives over 240 years ago,” Ms. DeVos said in a speech at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School. “There must be a better way forward.”

There is. Hold the feet of law enforcement proverbially to the fire. Hold the failed justice system accountable for that failure. Instead of gutlessly ignoring that failure. Nor courageously, publicly criticizing the Trump nazi, and his sidekick, the AG Sessions nazi for that failure.

"She said the Obama administration “weaponized the Office for Civil Rights to work against schools and against students,” producing a system in which “unelected and unaccountable political appointees” have ruled from their desks by sending letters to universities. “The era of ‘rule by letter’ is over,” she said. “Through intimidation and coercion, the failed system has clearly pushed schools to overreach.”

That's no more than hyperbolic, egregiously partisan bullshit promulgated by a shamelessly national socialist Education Secretary who remains achingly, determinedly clueless.

The Washington Post reports:

"DeVos spoke to about 100 invited guests at George Mason University, where protesters had gathered outside, worried that she would announce changes to the way sexual violence cases are handled on campuses across the country. “One rape is one too many,” DeVos said firmly, and “not one more survivor will be silenced. We will not abandon anyone.” As a mother, she said she has sympathy for parents whose children are victims of sexual misconduct. “I cannot imagine receiving that call.”

DeVos has no credibility. None. If truly concerned with sexual assault, she would have held the failed system of justice accountable. Failed to do so for achingly partisan reasons. Precisely, why she has no credibility.

"Outside, protesters shouted, “Stop supporting rapists!” and “Shame on you! Not on us!” Fatima Goss Graves, president and CEO of the National Women’s Law Center called the speech “a blunt attack on survivors of sexual assault. . . . It sends a frightening message to all students: your government does not have your back if your rights are violated.”

There's great truth to that, but not for the reasons implied, that is, abrogation of Obama's Title 9 interpretation by the Trump nazi and his henchmen. Rather, directly due to the ongoing failure of the system of justice in our formerly great country, now exacerbated by the Trump nazi and his AG sidekick, the Sessions nazi.

The following is particularly outrageous. Especially, coming from an attorney who should indeed know better. Worse, egregiously counterproductive. The Washington Times reports:

"A lawyer in Texas who disagrees with the Trump administration’s plan to reform how accusations of of sexual assault are adjudicated on campus said he would “be ok” if Education Secretary Betsy DeVos were sexually assaulted."

Sadly, this lawyer's head figuratively remains securely lodged up his ass.

"Rob Ranco, a partner at the Carlson Law Firm, suggested Mrs. DeVos does not fully grasp how serious of a crime rape is, and that she might come to a different policy conclusion if she did."

DeVos has a severe problem with aching, determined ignorance. To say nothing of deaf, dumb, and blind partisanship. Mr. Ranco, yours is severe lack of judgment.

“I’m not wishing for it… but I’d be ok if #BetsyDevos was sexually assaulted,” Mr. Ranco said in a tweet on Friday evening."

As an officer of the court, having sworn to uphold the law and Constitution, how can you possibly make such a statement?

“Perhaps Betsy doesn’t understand how horrible rape is,” Mr. Ranco said in another tweet. “She’s made the world more dangerous for my daughters. I need her to understand.”

That's disingenuous, condescending, patronizing bullshit, worse, misses the point. The failure of the system of justice is the issue here. An issue, as an attorney, you're certainly painfully aware of.

“Make the world more dangerous for my daughters — intentionally — and your well being is not my concern,” he continued. “Full stop.”

You've disgraced yourself, sir. Demonstrated profound ignorance, aggressive stupidity. Worse? Haven't a clue.

In follow up, KVUE.com reports:

"KVUE's Jenni Lee has confirmed that Robert Ranco resigned after his tweet from Friday about Betsy DeVos received significant backlash.

Carlson Law Firm released the following statement to KVUE after Ranco's resignation:

For those of you who are wondering why this took so long, let me start by saying that this firm is a family and believe it's up to me to show the same loyalty that I ask of my people. I wasn't going to make a rash decision about a member of this family just to appease people on social media.

That said, I considered the health of everyone in our organization, promised my partners and my employees that we would act according to the values of our firm, and sat down to speak with Mr. Ranco.

In the end, we came to the same two conclusions:

With over 150 employees - 75% or whom are women - anyone in our company advocating or even expressing apathy towards sexual assault is affront to all victims and a line that simply cannot be uncrossed.

This has been an enormous distraction that has taken us away from the mission of our firm, which is to care for and help people. Understanding and accepting this, Rob is taking full responsibility and choosing to resign.

As a man of faith, believer in forgiveness, and longtime friend, it is my sincere hope that Rob with learn from this experience and go on to have a very successful career."

9-8-17

"Houston's police chief says the homes of 400 of his officers were destroyed or damaged by Harvey, but they stayed on duty during the storm. One officer, Bert Ramon, helped to save more than 1,000 people, even though he was fighting stage 4 colon cancer. When Ramon posed for a picture, he was sending a signal to his wife, Cindy, reports CBS News' David Begnaud . "That's me giving a thumbs up that I'm OK. Don't let everybody worry about me," Ramon said."

Stood tall. Uncommon valor under horrific circumstances.

"The 24-year police veteran became one of the heroes of Hurricane Harvey, helping rescue nearly 1,500 people. Many were children – all were desperate. "This is one where we unloaded all the seniors from an assisted living facility center in Kingwood," Ramon recalled. For four days, it was treacherous. One police boat capsized and Sergeant Steve Perez drowned in his patrol car. Ramon, who worked both Hurricanes Alison and Rita, said Harvey was "like apocalypse -- it was just unreal."

Amazing how tall these officers stood, -- certainly in comparison to the jackbooted predators who falsely believe they run and own Nazi Llano County. ... Right, Sheriff?

"And it was dangerous for Ramon, who has stage 4 cancer. It has spread from his colon to his liver and lungs. "I just said he does know his platelet counts are low? So he can bump, bruise, bleed easily? She says I know but it's what he wants to do," said Diana Reed, Ramon's case manager. That's what Cindy's wife told Reed. "There's no way I can tell him you can't go. He looks at me and say you crazy. He says 'I'm going.' 'I'm going in,'" Cindy said."

Policing at its very best.

"Ramon just finished his latest round of chemotherapy Sunday. He spoke to CBS News about faith and finding his purpose. "God answered my prayer. It came out of this flood. I hope I can inspire other cancer patients that you know don't let this hold you back. If you feel strong, don't let it take over your life at all," Ramon said. For his health, had been stuck on desk duty. When Houston started to flood, Ramon couldn't get to his police station, so he went to the next closest one: the Lake Patrol division. His colleagues were worried about him. "I said, 'hey, I'm fine.' I said, 'don't hold me back. I'll go wherever I need to be,'" he recounted. Asked if he ever thought it might be a bad idea, Ramon said, "No it never crossed my mind at all – never." He put his health concerns on hold, for the city he swore to serve."

Unlike the jackbooted pieces of shit here in Nazi Llano County, right, Bill? -- Who only line their pockets and those of the bastards who falsely believe they run and own this goddamned hell hole County.

"As long as I feel good, I feel healthy, I'm going to go out there and work you know. And it hasn't slowed me down yet. Thank God."

Indeed.

9-8-17

The following is an example of uncommon valor displayed by a nurse who courageously stood up to an out of control, criminal jackbooted bastard in blue. The Washington Post reports:

"By all accounts, the head nurse at the University of Utah Hospital’s burn unit was professional and restrained when she told a Salt Lake City police detective he wasn’t allowed to draw blood from a badly injured patient. The detective didn’t have a warrant, first off. And the patient wasn’t conscious, so he couldn’t give consent. Without that, the detective was barred from collecting blood samples — not just by hospital policy, but by basic constitutional law. Still, Detective Jeff Payne insisted that he be let in to take the blood, saying the nurse would be arrested and charged if she refused."

No probable cause. No warrant signed by a judge.

"Nurse Alex Wubbels politely stood her ground. She got her supervisor on the phone so Payne could hear the decision loud and clear. “Sir,” said the supervisor, “you’re making a huge mistake because you’re threatening a nurse.” Payne snapped. He seized hold of the nurse, shoved her out of the building and cuffed her hands behind her back. A bewildered Wubbels screamed “help me” and “you’re assaulting me” as the detective forced her into an unmarked car and accused her of interfering with an investigation."

Unfit for duty. No better than a goddamned common criminal.

"The explosive July 26 encounter was captured on officers’ body cameras and is now the subject of an internal investigation by the police department, as the Salt Lake Tribune reported Thursday. The videos were released by the Tribune, the Deseret News and other local media. On top of that, Wubbels was right. The U.S. Supreme Court has explicitly ruled that blood can only be drawn from drivers for probable cause, with a warrant. Wubbels, who was not criminally charged, played the footage at a news conference Thursday with her attorney. They called on police to rethink their treatment of hospital workers and said they had not ruled out legal action."

Need to sue. Equally pointedly, the jackbooted bastard needs to be fired, arrested, criminally charged. Of equal importance, any arrest, anywhere in this country that does not lead to prosecution and conviction needs, by statute, to be dropped from one's record. Should not follow anyone the rest of his or her life. Outrageous, unconstitutional bullshit that continues all over our formerly great country.

"Salt Lake police spokesman Sgt. Brandon Shearer told local media that Payne had been suspended from the department’s blood draw unit but remained on active duty. Shearer said Salt Lake City Police Chief Mike Brown had seen the video and called it “very alarming,” according to the Deseret News."

The bastards are protecting and coddling one of their own.

"It all started when a suspect speeding away from police in a pickup truck on a local highway smashed head-on into a truck driver, as local media reported. Medics sedated the truck driver, who was severely burned, and took him to the University of Utah Hospital. He arrived in a comatose state, according to the Deseret News. The suspect died in the crash. A neighboring police department sent Payne, a trained police phlebotomist, to collect blood from the patient and check for illicit substances, as the Tribune reported. The goal was reportedly to protect the trucker, who was not suspected of a crime. His lieutenant ordered him to arrest Wubbels if she refused to let him draw a sample, according to the Tribune."

Both the lieutenant and Payne need to be fired, arrested, charged, and prosecuted. Not likely to happen in the goddamned de facto fascist police-state we now live in, soon to be the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich.

"In Thursday’s news conference, Wubbels’s attorney Karra Porter said that Payne believed he was authorized to collect the blood under “implied consent,” according to the Tribune. But Porter said “implied consent” law changed in Utah a decade ago. And in 2016, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that warrantless blood tests were illegal. Porter called Wubbels’s arrest unlawful. “The law is well-established. And it’s not what we were hearing in the video,” she said. “I don’t know what was driving this situation.”

Called criminal jackbooted bastard in blue insanity. Sue the living shit out of both officers, the department, and Salt Lake City. Do all you can to legally bring them to their knees.

Insult to injury? NBC News reports:

"Other officers from the University of Utah and the Department of Public Safety, which provide security for the hospital, did not intervene during the arrest, The Salt Lake Tribune reported."

Gutless pieces of shit who failed to do their duty. Need to be sued as well.

"The incident was condemned as "outrageous" by National Nurses United, the country's largest nursing union. "As the videos and news accounts make clear, there is no excuse for this assault, or her arrest, which sends a chilling message about the safety of nurses and the rights of patients," said Jean Ross, the group's co-president."

Sue. No foreign power, no terrorist organization, not even the criminal element present a greater threat to life, liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties than all levels and branches of government and their criminal jackbooted bastards in blue.

More fallout. NPR reports:

"The Salt Lake City hospital where a police officer roughly arrested a nurse who was protecting her patient's rights in July will no longer allow law enforcement agents inside its patient care areas. They'll now have to check in, rather than enter through the emergency room. "Law enforcement who come to the hospital for any reason involving patients will be required to check in to the front desk of the hospital," said chief nursing officer Margaret Pearce of the University of Utah Hospital. "There, a hospital house supervisor will meet the officers to work through each request."

Outrageously sad it's come down to the point police have to be screened before allowed to enter.

"Our hospital continues to offer our full support to Alex," said Gordon Crabtree, the hospital system's CEO. "I think many of you know she is an Olympian and to us she's truly an Olympic-size hero. We extend our appreciation for her dedication and service."

"Our team was advocating for the immediate release of Alex and was ultimately successful in getting her released from the handcuffs and the car," Crabtree, CEO, University of Utah Hospitals and Clinics said on Monday. "Alex was never charged and will not have a record."

Hopefully, that means she'll have no arrest record.

"Other hospitals will likely want to adopt similar policies to prevent police overreach, Crabtree said."

Sad, it's come down to this.

More fallout. CBS News reports:

"A Utah police officer seen on video roughly arresting a nurse who refused a blood draw for an unconscious patient was fired Tuesday from his part-time paramedic job. Salt Lake City Detective Jeff Payne's termination came after he said on the video that he'd bring transient patients to the hospital and take the "good patients" elsewhere to retaliate against nurse Alex Wubbels. Those remarks were concerning for Gold Cross Ambulance President Mike Moffitt, who said he'd heard them for the first time when the video was released last week. "That's not the way we conduct our business, that's not the way we treat people in our city," Moffitt said."

Remaining question. When will the officer and his supervisor be fired from the police department? When?

9-8-17

Amazing how achingly failing law enforcement still isn't smartening up. Fox News reports:

"Seattle Seahawks star Michael Bennett claimed Las Vegas police officers targeted and threatened him last month as he was walking to his hotel room following the boxing match between Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather. Bennett said he heard a sound resembling gunshots as he was walking to his hotel room after the fight. Bennett said he and “several hundred people” fled the area before officers stopped him and “pointed their guns at me for doing nothing more than simply being a black man in the wrong place at the wrong time,” Bennett wrote. Bennett wrote an officer demanded him to lay on the ground and not move or he would “blow my f------ head off.” Bennett claimed another officer “jammed his knee into my back making it difficult for me to breathe.” Bennett was handcuffed and placed in the back of a police cruiser."

Why? What for? Still not clear:

"Bennett said he asked the cops “what did I do?” but he was ignored until officers ran his information and confirmed his identity. The officers released him. “The officers’ excessive use of force was unbearable,” the defensive end wrote. “I felt helpless as I lay there on the ground handcuffed facing the real-life threat of being killed. All I could think was ‘I’m going to die for no other reason than I am black and my skin color is somehow a threat.’” Bennett said his “life flashed before his eyes” and he worried that he would not be able to see his wife or children again."

How many others have had to put up with this abusive shit? Not just people of color, however.

"Bennett concluded the “system failed me” and confirmed he hired a civil rights attorney to investigate the situation and was considering all legal options including a civil rights lawsuit for violating his constitutional rights."

Needs to happen every time this shit happens. No matter race, color. Bring the bastards to their knees financially. Sue the living shit out of the officers, department, government. Every goddamned time. Why aren't these criminal pieces of shit in blue prosecuted at the very least for making a terrorist threat during such encounters?

9-8-17

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? Seventy-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? Seventy-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. Seventy-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.

9-8-17

The following remains utterly inexplicable. CBS News reports:

"A small Ohio news organization says one of its employees has been shot by a sheriff's deputy who the news outlet says apparently mistook his camera for a weapon. The New Carlisle News reports photographer Andy Grimm had left the office Monday night to take pictures of lightning when he saw a Clark County sheriff's deputy performing a traffic stop in New Carlisle, north of Dayton. Grimm tells the news organization that he decided to take pictures of the traffic stop. He says he got out of his Jeep and started setting up his tripod and camera when he was shot in the side. Grimm was taken to a hospital, where he underwent surgery. He's expected to recover."

Lucky he wasn't killed. Get this:

"Grimm told the news outlet he didn't hear any warning before the shots were fired. He said he doesn't want the deputy to lose his job over the incident."

Apparently, everybody knows everybody in this community, making what happened achingly inexplicable.

"The outlet's Facebook post also asked readers not to "mean mouth" the deputy. The case has been turned over to the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation. CBS Dayton affiliate WHIO-TV reports that official sources wouldn't comment on the incident and said any statement on it would be coming from state Attorney General Mike DeWine's office."

What's going on here? A shoot first, ask questions later police mentality? No matter what, this officer remains an exigent threat to life, liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties.

9-8-17

The following is appalling. Certainly, indicative of how detached law enforcement has become from reality. CBS News reports:

"A Georgia police lieutenant will retire after he was seen on video during a traffic stop telling a motorist, "We only kill black people." Dashcam video from July 2016 shows a woman in a car telling Cobb County police Lt. Greg Abbott she was scared to move her hands in order to get her cellphone. According to the video first obtained by television station WSB-TV, Abbott, who is also white, interrupts her and says, "But you're not black. Remember, we only shoot black people. Yeah. We only kill black people, right?"

What could this turd possibly been thinking?

"Police Chief Mike Register told reporters Thursday that he had started the process to terminate Abbott's employment. Friday, Abbott's lawyer announced he would retire, reports CBS affiliate WGCL. Register said the comments were inappropriate regardless of the context in which they were uttered."I don't know what's in his heart, but I certainly know what came out of his mouth," Register said. "It's inexcusable, and we have to take appropriate action."

You think?

9-8-17

Carefully consider the following. Fox News reports:

"The head of Cleveland, Ohio's police union and its Emergency Medical Services union said they won't participate in Colors before upcoming Browns football games after about a dozen starters knelt for the National Anthem last week. Several Cleveland Browns were pictured kneeling during the Star-Spangled Banner, while a smattering of other starters remained standing. According to the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Browns tight end Seth DeValve, running back Isaiah Crowell, safety Jabrill Peppers, wide receiver Kenny Britt, as well as Duke Johnson, Christian Kirksey, Jamie Collins, Ricardo Louis and Jamar Taylor knelt in a huddle near the team bench."

Clearly, the jackbooted bastards in blue do not believe in the First Amendment, that is, the right to protest. Forget? What these players were protesting was the racism and bigotry practiced by police against people of color. That is, all the murders perpetrated by police against unarmed civilians with impunity. All races, all colors.

"Detective Steve Loomis, president of the police union, said they weren't protesting the players personally, or their right to freedom of speech."

The detective is a bold faced liar. It's precisely what police are doing.

"We're not going to participate in something with the Cleveland Browns when the management and NFL [front office] condones this behavior."

What behavior? The constitutionally protected right to protest the murderous behavior of the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue? Didn't you personally swear to protect and defend the United States Constitution, Detective?

"Loomis blasted Cleveland Police Chief Calvin Williams, who he said accepted the players' decision to kneel."

Called the First Amendment, you jackbooted nazi jackass.

"Williams said the decision to boycott gametime festivities was "simply not the viewpoint of all of our officers."

Clearly, not all law enforcement officers are criminal jackbooted nazis. Fortunately, so.

"Calvin Williams is not in touch with reality," Loomis said. "They're absolutely with us."

The detective is unfit for duty. A disgrace to the badge.

"EMS Union chief Dan Nemeth said the players' decision was "deeply disturbing," and added that as athletes that children look up to, those particular Browns should "set the example for our youth."

The players did exactly that. Set the proper example for all. When will you? You remain out of uniform, Mr. Nemeth. Where is your swastika armband, you nazi son of a bitch?

9-8-17

Consider the following. CBS News reports:

"A Florida state attorney who refused to seek the death penalty lost her court fight Thursday with the Republican governor who reassigned her murder cases to another prosecutor. The state Supreme Court ruled that Gov. Rick Scott had the power to reassign cases from Orlando-area State Attorney Aramis Ayala. The ruling ends a power struggle between Scott and Ayala that began in March when she said she wouldn't consider seeking the death penalty in any homicide case. Her decision outraged Scott and others because execution wouldn't be an option if Markeith Loyd was convicted in the slayings of an Orlando police lieutenant and Loyd's pregnant ex-girlfriend."

The question unanswered in all this remains the same. When will Republican and Democratic governors in states that impose capital punishment demand change in state statutes to mandate execution for all convicted police officers who murder innocent citizens while on duty, that is, equal justice?

9-8-17

The Sessions nazi is unfit to be U.S. Attorney General. CBS News reports:

"Attorney General Jeff Sessions welcomed the restoration of the practice of asset forfeiture Friday in a speech at a law enforcement conference in Alabama. "I love that program," Sessions said. "We had so much fun doing that, taking drug dealers' money and passing it out to people trying to put drug dealers in jail. What's wrong with that?"

This is one sick, clueless nazi son of a bitch. Three quick reasons in answer to this piece of shit. First, the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue do not get to be judge, jury, and executioner in a democratic republic. Second, remains outrageously unconstitutional to seize property without due process of law. Third, it is legalized theft to seize assets from someone not convicted, but allegedly suspected of a crime.

Here is precisely why it is legalized theft. Grants the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue carte blanche to steal with impunity:

"Sessions, reviewing some of the steps the DOJ has taken recently under his watch, went off script from his prepared remarks to express his excitement about the restoration of the controversial practice. Asset forfeiture allows law enforcement to seize property suspected to be connected to a crime, even without an indictment. During former President Barack Obama's administration, then-Attorney General Eric Holder restricted the ability of the federal government to share in the assets local authorities seized. But Sessions in July brought the program back in full swing, allowing police to seize assets, even in states that have outlawed asset forfeiture, if they give some of the proceeds to the federal government. That practice of "adoption" has been used to seize $1 billion in assets over the last decade."

The profound ignorance of this clueless racist jackbooted nazi is appalling:

"Sessions' decision to reinstate the program triggered bipartisan backlash, but his mention of the program's return to law enforcement personnel Friday elicited applause. Sessions recognized that some critics don't like the program, although he said he didn't understand why."

What racist nazi in the mold of Adolf Hitler would?

"Well, they don't like it. I'm amazed, these people don't get it. We had a reform in early 2001," Sessions said, mentioning he reached a legislative deal for some reforms to the program with Sen. Chuck Schumer when he was also a senator."

It's the Sessions nazi who fails to understand he falsely swore an oath to uphold the Constitution he now takes a raucous hard dump on.

"That legislation, "made some things that tightened it up, relieved some of the concerns from our libertarians, I thought," Sessions added. "But here they're back again, and actually curtailed this program for the last several years, but we're going to keep it out there and as long as we can, we will be doing it."

The Sessions nazi remains a delusional congenital liar. This needs to be ferociously challenged in courts across the country. Galling coup de grace?

"And I know you'll do it in an honorable and effective way and not abuse the system," Sessions added. "But taking ill-gotten gains from drug dealers is the right thing, as far as I'm concerned, and we're going to emphasize that in every way that's appropriate."

The direct opposite is, and has been, the truth for years. Sessions is a liar. The jackbooted bastards in blue are thieves:

"Asset forfeiture has long been criticized by civil liberties advocates on constitutional grounds. The program is also criticized because people who have their homes, cars or cash seized wrongly have a difficult time getting those assets back. The DOJ's own watchdog also recently found that many local police departments depend on the funding from seized assets."

There is no due process. Intentionally. Forget? It's legalized theft. Hear the rumble? An unwanted dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looming.

9-8-17

In follow up to the last edition, NPR reports:

"Chief U.S. District Judge Orlando Garcia ruled late Wednesday that Texas officials may not implement Senate Bill 4, a controversial measure designed to crack down on so-called "sanctuary cities" in that state. The law, set to go into effect on September 1, would have given local law enforcement the authority to ask about a person's immigration status during routine interactions such as a traffic stop. It also required local officials to comply with requests from federal immigration authorities to detain anyone suspected of being in the country illegally. Local law enforcement officials could be fined and removed from office if they did not cooperate with federal immigration authorities."

Here is the problem with this nazi law:

"Critics of the law said it would encourage racial profiling and violate the First and Fourth Amendments. The cities of San Antonio, Houston, Dallas and Austin had joined a lawsuit brought by the city of El Cenizo against SB 4, arguing that the law would undermine any cooperation between local police and immigrant communities in dealing with crime. In his 94-page ruling, the judge said that there is overwhelming evidence from local officials, including local law enforcement, that SB 4 would "erode public trust and many communities less safe."

No question, certainly true.

"Gov. Greg Abbott promised to appeal the ruling. Attorney General Ken Paxton echoed that call in a statement."

What nazi wouldn't?

9-8-17

Apparently, ICE succumbed to recent pressure vis a vis Hurricane Harvey storm survivors. NBC News reports:

"Immigration agents have not arrested any non-criminal immigrants in the Houston area in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, an agency spokesman told NBC News. The suspension of arrests is a step beyond the promise made by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) ahead of the storm. On Friday, the agency said "routine non-criminal immigration enforcement operations will not be conducted at evacuation sites, or assistance centers such as shelters or food banks."

Hard to believe they've apparently honored their word. Hopefully, they have.

"Asked if there had been any arrests of non-criminal migrants recovering from the storm anywhere in the Houston area, spokesman Gregory Palmore said: "None by ICE." "Our priority in the hurricane-stricken areas is saving lives," ICE said in a statement. "While we’re not conducting immigration enforcement in affected areas, we will not allow criminal enterprises to take advantage of the situation, and ICE personnel will remain vigilant toward such activities."

9-1-17

Despite far more to be posted on LCSO in due course, proper order vis a vis the latest fiasco, think the outrageously corrupt, abusive, achingly inept, criminal Sheriff and his SS jackbooted bastards in black the only County targets worthy of exposure, ferocious derision in this publication? Think so? Wake up. Read this publication a bit more thoroughly. -- Don't get lost in the weeds, however. LOL. ... As intended, never a dull moment, is there?

... Usually, in all honesty and candor, though, the latter indeed is quite often the case, -- with exception of course. :-) ... Especially, lately. Not always, however. LOL. ... Always a caveat, isn't there? To finally get to the point, spare readers any additional banter, carefully consider the following benign recent (7-28-17) email exchange with the County Judge that amusingly accomplished shit squat:

IT Issue At Kingsland Library

From libertyinperil@riseup.netAdd contact
To LlanoCountyJudge@co.llano.tx.usAdd contact
Date Today 15:57

Dear Judge:

Been brought to my attention by Kingsland residents Internet access at
the library has remained at a snail's pace for much of the last six to
eight weeks. Sometimes better, sometimes worse. Has been a problem
even when the library is nearly empty.

The Meeting Room 1 router has not been operational for quite some time
despite having been rebooted. The librarians are great, true
professionals. The problem appears to be in the network as well as with
the ISP. IT staff needs to troubleshoot the issue.

Could you kindly look into the matter? The County is apparently paying
for services from the ISP it is not receiving. Thanks in advance for
your time and attention to this.

Sincerely.

Tim Chorney, Publisher
Liberty In Peril
formerly,
The Llano Ledger
libertyinperil.com

********************

RE: IT Issue At Kingsland Library

From Mary Cunningham <llanocountyjudge@co.llano.tx.us>Add contact
To libertyinperil@riseup.netAdd contact
Date Today 21:27

I will have them look at it ASAP. Thanks for the information. This is the
first time I have heard about a recent problem.

Mary Cunningham

-----Original Message-----
From: libertyinperil@riseup.net [mailto:libertyinperil@riseup.net]
Sent: Friday, July 28, 2017 10:57 AM
To: LlanoCountyJudge@co.llano.tx.us
Subject: IT Issue At Kingsland Library

Dear Judge:

Been brought to my attention by Kingsland residents Internet access at the
library has remained at a snail's pace for much of the last six to eight
weeks. Sometimes better, sometimes worse. Has been a problem even when the
library is nearly empty.

The Meeting Room 1 router has not been operational for quite some time
despite having been rebooted. The librarians are great, true professionals.
The problem appears to be in the network as well as with the ISP. IT staff
needs to troubleshoot the issue.

Could you kindly look into the matter? The County is apparently paying for
services from the ISP it is not receiving. Thanks in advance for your time
and attention to this.

Sincerely.

Tim Chorney, Publisher
Liberty In Peril
formerly,
The Llano Ledger
libertyinperil.com

Readers are advised this issue has not yet been resolved. While Internet access improved somewhat for library patrons since the kids went back to school, Meeting Room 1 router still remains down as of 8/30, not been serviced. Connectivity is frequently interrupted during download on Meeting Room 2 router. Nowhere near as quick and reliable as it was back in the middle of June and earlier.

Taxpayers remain looted for services they're simply not receiving from the ISP. Not yet clear this is a result of pending Net Neutrality abrogation by Trump and his cronies in the FCC, or simply failure of the County to ensure taxpayers are getting what they paid for. This publication continues to receive complaints regarding this ongoing, unresolved connectivity issue. Patrons have indeed walked out the library in frustration.

9-1-17

Think cops get to be judge, jury, and executioner in a supposedly democratic republic? Not always. NPR reports:

"In an extremely rare verdict, a federal jury in Chicago on Monday convicted a city police officer of violating civil rights by using excessive force in a Dec. 22, 2013, shooting that wounded two teenagers. Marco Proano is the first Chicago police officer in at least 15 years to face federal criminal charges for a shooting while on duty. Proano fired 16 shots into a stolen car full of black teens as the car reversed away from police who had stopped them for speeding. Proano and his partner were backing up officers who had stopped the car. Dashcam video shows Proano drawing his weapon immediately after getting out of his car, holding the gun sideways and pointing it at the car. He starts firing as the car goes into reverse to try to get away from the officers, and he keeps shooting even after the car hits a light pole, until he empties his magazine."

Think this appropriate behavior? Sanctioned in a supposedly democratic republic?

"One of the car's occupants was injured in the hip and heel and the other in the shoulder. A federal jury deliberated for about four hours Monday before finding Proano guilty of two counts of using excessive force in violation of the victims' civil rights. Chicago acting U.S. Attorney Joel Levin says, "Police have a very difficult job to do and the overwhelming majority of police officers are doing it right. And they are respecting the constitutional rights of citizens. But when an officer violates those rights, we, federal prosecutors take it seriously, we will investigate it and we will prosecute it to the full extent of the law." Proano faces up to 10 years in prison for each count. He will be sentenced in November."

Amazing, no one got killed, isn't it?

9-1-17

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? Seventy-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? Seventy-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. Seventy-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.

9-1-17

Consider the following from Nashville, TN. Think law enforcement will ever wake up? WSMV Channel 4 reports:

"The former sheriff of Fentress County has been sentenced to over two years in prison after pleading guilty to federal charges."

Think it sufficient considering the following?

"Charles "Chucky" Cravens, 47, was accused of having sex with inmates and committing civil rights violations during his time in office. He pleaded guilty to three counts of honest services fraud and one count of deprivation of rights under color of law. On Wednesday, Cravens was sentenced to 33 months in prison, along with two years of supervised release. Cravens was in charge of operations at the Fentress County Jail in Jamestown, TN. An inmate claims she had unprotected sex with the sheriff in his office in July 2016. According to federal investigators, Cravens talked with two female inmates about having sex with them and leaving the jail together. Cravens reportedly drove the inmates to a trailer, which is where they had unprotected sex. Investigators say Cravens maintained relationships with these inmates until they were released in February 2017."

Think there aren't profound systemic problems within the law enforcement community?

"Cravens was also accused of driving a third female inmate outside of the county to visit a relative. The inmate claims she had unprotected sex with Cravens during that trip. Federal officials say Cravens used his position to deliver "additional benefits" to the inmates he was involved in sexual relationships with, including being allowed outside to smoke and leaving the jail to visit relatives. Cravens is also accused of kicking a male inmate and putting him in a headlock while he was being handcuffed. The inmate claims Cravens hit him in the back of the head twice while he was handcuffed."

No problem with any of the above? Think they got what they deserved?

9-1-17

Another case of outrageous police brutality. This time perpetrated against an elderly man. WREG Channel 3 News reports:

"People living in a South Memphis neighborhood are raising questions after their 91-year-old neighbor was handcuffed and cited while walking down the street. Cellphone footage shows Otha Thurmond being led away in handcuffs on the 2100 block of Swift Street Thursday afternoon, but it doesn't show what happened before. In the misdemeanor citation for disorderly conduct Thurmond received, police write Thurmond waved and pointed a stick at them and interfered in their ability to keep the peace. WREG later learned the officers were on scene investigating an unrelated assault case. But three witnesses WREG spoke to claim one officer got aggressive with Thurmond and slammed him into a police car."

This guy is 91 years old.

"They asked him what is he doing with a stick. He said, 'I'm old, I need this stick.' He showed it to them, they grabbed him, they slammed him on the car, put his arm all the way up here to the back of his back," said witness Niesha Lowe. Thurmond told WREG he uses the stick to fend off dogs and never threatened the officers. "He never raised his stick up in a threatening manner. They roughed him up, they threw him on the car as if he was some young thug," said witness Carl Randolph. "They had an old man like this up against a car right over here," added Barbara Denton."

Gutless criminal jackbooted bastards in blue.

"None of what witnesses are claiming appears in the citation Thurmond was issued, which a WREG crew saw officers commanding Thurmond to sign around 4 p.m. "I've never been in jail in my life. In jail! I never paid a traffic ticket in my life," said Thurmond. WREG checked and Thurmond has no criminal history in Shelby County, making his arrest and alleged treatment all the harder for his neighbors to wrap their heads around."

Needs to sue the living shit out of these goddamned jackbooted sons of bitches. Hopefully, he'll live long enough to see some justice.

9-1-17

Fox News reports:

"Authorities say a Florida police SWAT team shot and killed an armed woman who had been threatening suicide. The Broward County Sheriff's Office says a Sunrise Police SWAT team went to an apartment Friday where an armed woman had barricaded herself inside and was threatening to kill herself."

SWAT decided to be of assistance, made her final death wish come true:

"Sheriff's spokeswoman Veda Coleman-Wright said in a press release Saturday the woman stopped communicating with officers, so the SWAT team entered the apartment. She says the officers encountered the woman and shots were fired. She died at the scene. No officers were hurt. The woman's name has not been released. The Sunrise Police and Broward Sheriff's Office did not immediately respond to phone and email requests for immediate comment."

Why would they? They answer to no one. No more than legalized murder. Forget? We live in a goddamned de facto fascist police-state, soon to be the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich.

9-1-17

Think the following doesn't reek to high heaven? Fox News reports:

"Xavier McMullen, 17, of Akron died of a gunshot wound to the head after he allegedly shot himself, according to Fox8.com. The Akron Police Detective Bureau has launched an investigation into the incident. Police officials said that the incident began when two women who were sitting in their van on 10th street when they were robbed at gunpoint by three males around 10 p.m. Friday. The suspects fled from the scene. Police later went to a home on 7th street and arrested all three suspects. They were all placed in separate patrol cars. Soon after, a shot was heard by officers at the scene from one of the vehicles. They rushed to the car to find McMullen “mortally wounded” with a gun next to him, according to a news release from police officials. Police haven't said how the gun ended up inside the cruiser."

How does something like this occur? How? Wasn't this kid searched for weapons at time of arrest? Did a cop stupidly leave a gun in the cruiser? Insult to injury? Get this:

"The Akron Police Detective Bureau, Office of Professional Standards and Summit County Medical Examiner's Office are investigating the incident."

Fox guarding the chicken coop.

9-1-17

Yet another atrocity committed by Trump and his henchmen. Apparently, the Sessions nazi and his master, the Trump nazi, are preparing for a revolution. Why else would they resume shipment of surplus military weaponry to the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue? CBS News reports:

"Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced new measures the Trump administration is taking to support the nation's police force by eliminating Obama-era restrictions on law enforcement's ability to acquire excess military equipment from federal programs."

Not just talking about bullet resistant body armor or helmets, dear readers. No, not at all.

"These restrictions went too far, we will not put superficial concerns above public safety, we will do our best to get you what you need," said Sessions at the National Fraternal Order of Police conference in Nashville, Tennessee on Monday."

Think police need .50 cal. machine guns? Grenade launchers? Bayonets? Think so?

"After the Ferguson, Missouri rioting in 2014, police were criticized for the use of military equipment like armored cars and large-caliber weapons on the streets. Obama ultimately signed an executive order halting many of the military surplus transfers. The executive action, which Sessions says Mr. Trump will sign sometime on Monday, will in effect reverse that."

Proof positive the Trump nazi and his henchmen are transforming the de facto goddamned fascist police-state we already live in to the Fourth Reich.

"He said by Mr. Trump taking executive action, the administration is making it "easier to protect yourself and your community" something he says will "always be a priority of President Trump," whom he referred to as the "law and order president."

How is this nazi son of a bitch in the Oval Office a "law and order president" when he pardoned the convicted, criminal, former Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, AZ before this goddamned criminal was even sentenced for his crimes? How???

"Sessions also used the morning speech as a moment to condemn "slander" against police, saying rising crime rates should come as no surprise amid "divisive rhetoric" against the police, which "treats police officers like they're the problem."

The criminal jackbooted bastards in blue are the problem, you clueless, racist, nazi son of a bitch. Wantonly murder on the job with impunity. Shake down the innocent to line government coffers. Legally, gutlessly steal from their easy prey targets through asset forfeiture. Do so despite the fact their looted victims have been convicted of no crime.

No foreign power, no terrorist organization, not even the criminal element present a greater threat to life, liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties than our government, all levels and branches, and their criminal jackbooted bastards in blue. The Sessions nazi has his head figuratively lodged so far up his ass his eyeballs are turning inside out.

"This president stands with you, not just rhetorically, but in thought, word and deed," Sessions added. "I am proud to stand with you and the DOJ is proud to stand with you -- we have your back, we back the blue."

You shamelessly back the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue who victimize, murder, shake down the innocent, Mr. Attorney General. Have disgraced themselves, deliberately, intentionally, determinedly abrogated their falsely sworn oaths of office to protect and defend the United States Constitution. You're out of uniform, Mr. Sessions. Where is your swastika armband, you nazi son of a bitch?

NPR reports:

"The Trump administration is lifting limits on the transfer of some surplus military hardware, including grenade launchers, bayonets and large-caliber weapons, to police departments. Attorney General Jeff Sessions made the announcement in a speech on Monday to the Fraternal Order of Police conference in Nashville, Tenn. He said President Trump will issue an executive order that would restore in full a program that provides the military gear to local law enforcement."

Are you achingly clueless Republican fascists here in Nazi Llano County cheering the bastard on?

"During the unrest that followed the shooting, images of armored vehicles and police in riot gear toting assault rifles touched off a national debate about the militarization of law enforcement and relations between police and the communities they serve. "We've seen how militarized gear can sometimes give people a feeling like they're an occupying force," Obama said when he announced restrictions on the program that governs the equipment transfers. On Monday, Sessions said those limits "went too far," and, in a jab at the previous administration, said "we will not put superficial concerns above public safety."

"Superficial concerns" regarding the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue who wantonly, shamelessly shake down and murder the innocent on the job? Do so with impunity in a de facto goddamned fascist police-state, soon to be the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich.

The Sessions nazi is a psychotic congenital liar. Has nothing to do with public safety. Quite the opposite. This weaponry and equipment has been used against the public legally exercising its First Amendment right to peacefully protest.

What is the Sessions nazi and his equally convoluted nazi master in the Oval Office attempting to do? Provoke an unwanted dreaded second American revolution already catastrophically looming? Hear the rumble? Doomsday clock striking ever closer to midnight.

"In his speech, Sessions zeroed in on items like helmets, bullet-proof vests, and first-responder and rescue equipment. But other hardware that police will once again have access to is more controversial: grenade launchers, high-caliber weapons, bayonets and even armed aircraft."

The former is not the issue. The latter is.

"And while Sessions' remarks received applause from the crowd at the police conference, civil rights groups slammed the decision to lift the restrictions. "We have an epidemic in the United States of police using excessive force, particularly against people of color, with injuries and deaths mounting," said Kanya Bennett of the American Civil Liberties Union. "It defies logic to arm the police with weapons of war — grenade launchers, high-caliber assault weapons, and more — but that's precisely what President Trump and Attorney General Sessions have decided to do."

That's exactly right. The revolution doomsday clock indeed strikes ever closer to midnight.

Tim Chorney, Publisher
Liberty In Peril

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