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ARE COPS OUT OF CONTROL?
Yes, at least many people think so, and to one degree or another that alone makes it so. So then, I would be hard pressed to answer no on this; but YOU, the reader here, decide.

So then, Cops ARE out of control--federal, state, county, city, private, etc.
Murder, robbery, rape, shootings, tasers, etc. The list is endless.
(No, not all cops individually, not all organizations--I'm sure even the good cops--the majority of them--have their own problems with the present situation and policies as described here.)

AMERICA IS FED UP!

No day goes by when we are not reminded of this grave situation by reports on television, newspapers and other periodicals, the internet, etc.

The time is long overdue for WE THE PEOPLE to wake up and take America back.

Here is the gist of a recent e-mail...

"I don’t know about you, folks–but I’m sick and gd tired of hearing about COPS OUT OF CONTROL day in and day out. Ordinary citizens, shot, tasered, insulted, jailed, abused, God knows what not–just plain old poor judgment, arrogance, in-your-face bullsh!t!

At one time in the distant past, we felt that the cop on the beat was one of us, and was there as our protection--few Americans buy into that anymore. Cops are no longer just an annoyance as the local "cashiers," the ka-ching! athletes lying in wait at stoplights and stop signs, to add to the coffers of the gubmint treasury. Today our TV screen shows them attired in storm trooper-like dress and gear engaged in various local para-military operations. Big difference between now and back in our grandpap's day.

I have considered creating a separate website just to keep track of these “incidents.”

But with my numerous sites I have already, my plate is full. Something specific needs to be done on this phenomena alone."

Semper Fed Up
Dick Gaines

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I have posted to this site/wiki several articles on this topic--and I hope others do likewise, along with your comments.

In my own personal opinion, Cops Out of Control is part of an even more serious crisis--Big Government Out of Control! However, one thing at a time for here and now.
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Overwhelmed By Reports Of Taser Gunnings!!!!!

gunnyg — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 09:29:54 CST

Yes, I am overwhelmed by the number of daily reports of taser gunning.
Matter of fact, I have subscribed to Google Alerts using the keyword "taser," and they send me all the daily/recent articles on taser gunnings, etc. by police.

Just mentioning it here as some of you may wish to do the same....

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Police Taser Sleeping Man,,,

gunnyg — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 12:02:50 CST

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FBI reviewing Tasering of sleeping man; no charges file
The Associated Press, 11/03/07 12:53 PM EDT
UPDATED: 11/03/07 12:57 PM EDT

Two North Braddock police officers won't face criminal charges for Tasering a man who was asleep at home. But the FBI will review the incident for possible civil rights violations.

Allegheny County District Attorney Stephen Zappala Jr. says county police determined Officers Gerard Kraly and Lukas Laeuricia (loo-REE'-see-uh) didn't commit a crime when they Tasered Shawn Hicks, who was sleeping on his couch.

Police came to Hicks home because they were alerted by a silent security alarm at his home about 2 a.m.

Hicks says the officers Tasered him again after he woke up and showed them ID to prove he lived at the home. Hicks' attorney says he will pursue civil action.

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Do Police Have Our DNA?

gunnyg — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 15:29:04 CST

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Police retain DNA of 'petty crime suspects'

Ben Leapman
Londdon Telegraph
Sunday November 4, 2007

Suspects accused of trivial "crimes" such as picking wild flowers or defacing coins can have their DNA stored for life on a national database, police guidelines reveal.

A report by police chiefs lists more than 5,000 offences that qualify for lifelong inclusion on the database. Anyone arrested for any of the crimes will have his or her DNA taken and stored, even if charges are later dropped or the suspect is acquitted in court.

The offences show up in employment-vetting checks for years after the event. Campaigners called the guidelines a step on the road to a "surveillance society" and said the inclusion of petty offences was accelerating the growth of the database, which already holds details on four million people.

The 210-page list of crimes, drawn up by the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO), includes such minor offences as "opening an incorrectly delivered packet", an offence under the 2000 Postal Services Act; "wantonly disturbing any inhabitant by any ringing doorbell", an offence under the 1847 Town Police Clauses Act, and picking wild flowers for sale, an offence under the 1968 Theft Act.

Police have categorised the crimes into three grades of severity. If an adult is convicted of a crime in the least-serious category, group C, it will show up in employment checks for the next 10 years. If the offender admits guilt and accepts a police caution, it will show up for five years. After that period, the only potential employers who will see it are those conducting "enhanced checks" on job-seekers applying to work with children.

It also remains visible to detectives during crime investigations until the individual's 100th birthday, when the record is finally deleted.

All the crimes on the list are classed as "recordable offences", in most cases because they can lead to prison.

A row broke out earlier this year after ministers proposed that the database – already the world's biggest – should be extended to include those accused of "non-recordable" offences, which include speeding and dropping litter.

Dr Helen Wallace, of the pressure group Genewatch, said the ACPO list illustrated the "unnecessary" expansion of the database which, she said, "allows the Government to restrict rights on the basis of arrest, rather than of being convicted".

The records are kept for life so that they can be matched to DNA samples. Even suspects who turn out to have been wrongfully arrested normally stay on the database.

Nationwide, one in 15 people are included on it. Police say that keeping the details of those who have never been convicted of an offence has helped to solve serious crimes including rapes and murders.
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ANGRY OUT-OF-CONTROL COPS, STUN GUNS AND DEADLY FORCE

gunnyg — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 07:33:43 CDT

ANGRY OUT-OF-CONTROL COPS, STUN GUNS AND DEADLY FORCE
By Jon Christian Ryter November 2, 2007 NewsWithViews.com

http://www.newswithviews.com/Ryter/jon197.htm

On Sept. 17, 2007 a University of Florida student named Andrew Meyer (who was described by frequent Fox News guest Michelle Malkin as a "goofball." a celebrity-taunter, and a professional publicity hound) staged own his "assault" by University of Florida police. Malkin reported in her blog that Meyer was accompanied by a woman who was videotaping Meyer's YouTube™ moment-in-history. In hindsight, it now appears Meyer staged a situation that he reasonably had to assume would end the way it did—with him being stun-gunned by University police.

Aside from the fact that most people have already dismissed the event believing Meyer got what he asked for, I still find the incident extremely problematic. I find the incident troublesome because pulse™ technology conducted-energy weapons (stun guns) are dangerous even if used properly. No police officer anywhere knows the cardiac condition of any person they accost. In point of fact, few people with cardiac conditions who face a stun gun welding cop are even aware of their own health risk, and that their life may be jeopardy if their heart rhythm is interrupted.

And, while the cop who fired the burst, or multiple bursts, is excused because he or she followed departmental protocol in using the stun gun, the citizen they accosted for a minor violation is just as dead as if they had taken out their 9mm sidearm and shot him. What that means is that an offense as minor as swearing at a cop or not responding fast enough to an order from a police officer, could become a capital offense. The risk to citizens-at-large is too great for police officers to be allowed to use stun guns for anything less than a life-threatening situation.

Stun guns weren't developed to subdue loud-mouth students in a college forum. Nor to subdue wiseguys who respond too slowly to orders from local police officers. (Common sense suggests that smart-mouthing a cop with a stun gun is first degree stupidity. Most of the idiots who engage in that type of stupidity generally aren't smart enough to see a millisecond into the future and understand what's about to happen to them.) What I find alarming in the hours of video footage I've viewed over the past four years, is how many cops used stun guns out of anger to punish people they were forced to chase on foot—not because the perp swung at them or resisted arrest, but simply because they had to chase them on foot and got winded.

Stun guns are only slightly less dangerous than real guns. In the hands of an angry cop who thinks his "suspect" is still resisting because he's twisting in agony on the ground—and gives him another pulsating burst for good measure—a stun gun can be just as lethal as a gun.

But, many of the the police agencies that use them abuse them. Granted, that's not Taser's fault. It's the fault of the cops on the street who use the weapon to punish a perp who made them chase them ten blocks on foot—and made the cop feels like someone stuck their fist down their throat and ripped out their lungs through their nostrils. Stun guns have become the equalizer for secular progressive communities that hire under-qualified females as law enforcement officers when what they should be doing is clerical duty at the precinct. A 5'2" petite cop can't handle a 6'2" burley drunk. Sorry, ladies. That's a fact. But with the equalizer, the petite cop can bring the burley giant to his knees in short order if he doesn't move fast enough or tries to get smart with the cute cop.

Amnesty International has done extensive investigations on the 291 people (between 2001 and September, 2007) who have died after being struck by police stun guns. Most of those who went into cardiac arrest were shocked more than once. Amnesty International records indicate that 92 of those who died were subjected to from 3 to 21 bursts. One man was shocked continuously for 57 seconds. In their report on a Justice Department inquiry last year, Amnesty International said of the 291 deaths, only 25 of the deceased individuals had some form of weapon in their pocket or purse—none of which were a gun.
Amnesty International cited the Justice Department's finding that pulse weapons in drive-stun mode were, very often, used as a "pain compliance" device on individuals who were already technically in custody and therefore posed no threat to the law enforcement people. When used in that manner—solely to inflict pain through either multiple or prolonged shock—the stun gun is being used as a torture device.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement ruling that cleared the University of Florida police officers who were placed on administrative leave following the incident was wrong. They determined that because the officers followed protocol, they did nothing wrong. The problem is the protocol is wrong. Using stun guns on nonviolent, non-threatening citizens is wrong. Amnesty International is correct in its argument that it was wrong to place pulse weapons in the hands of law enforcement agencies before the medical community could weigh the medical consequences of pulse weapons on people with heart conditions, those engaged in substance abuse, or have other factors that compromise their health. The "guinea pig" research done by stun gun manufacturers found that the risk of adverse affects from stun guns on healthy adults was generally low. What that statement means on its face is that there is substantial risk to those with compromised health if there is only "minimal risk" to a healthy adult. The oldest victim of police stun gun abuse was 95. The youngest was a 6-year old truant. Neither posed a physical threat to police. Both were immobilized with an electrical charge.

Since the police can't diagnose the high risk targets at a glance, its basically a crap shoot when they opt to use their pulse weapon to subdue a citizen for whatever reason. Police claim they didn't know that 56-year old Emily Marie Delafield of Green Cove Springs, Florida was a health risk when they arrived at her home on April 24, 2006 to settle a domestic dispute. Delafield wouldn't put down the knife she was holding so cops gave her a jolt with a stun gun. She was rushed to Orange Park Medical Center where she was dead-on-arrival. The two officers who should have known better than to use a stun gun on a visibly imfirmed person, were placed on administrative leave.

On June 12, 2005, when Horace Owen—who was hallucinating while on a cocaine high—broke into the West Park, Florida home of MacArthur Hodges screaming that someone was chasing him and wanted to kill him. Hodges called the Broward County Sheriff's Department and asked for deputies to eject the hysterical man from his house. Deputies, who should have known from their training that pulse weapons can cause electro-muscular disruption in anyone high on drugs, used a stun gun to subdue Owen. He was pronounced dead an hour later at Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood, Florida. Owen received what amounted to a death sentence for housebreaking to escape a mythical murderer he thought was chasing him.

Forty-seven year old James Borden was also strung out on drugs. Monroe County, Indiana sheriff's deputies found him wandering around in a drug-stupor and arrested him. At the lockup, Borden resisted efforts by deputies to strip search him. The jailer shot Borden several times with a stun gun before the jailer noticed that Borden was no longer responsive and that his face had lost all color. He was dead. The jailer was charged with two counts of felony battery.

Fort Myers, Florida police were called to subdue a man in the parking lot of the Ruth Cooper Center for behavioral Health Care on Oct. 15, 2005. Forty-five year old Steven Cunningham was arguing with a friend in the parking lot. The friend brought Cunningham to the facility because he was suffering from cocaine toxicity. Where they could have easily subdued him with pepper spray, the Fort Myers police opted to use a stun gun. He was shocked three times. The last time was after Cunningham was shackled and could not harm anyone. He died. He suffered capital punishment for arguing with a friend who wanted him to admit himself into a detox center.

On the same night in Fort Myers 35-year old Tracy Rene Shippey walked into a Hallmark Gold Crown Store on Cleveland Avenue and asked store employees to call 911 because she had been in a fight. Shippey—like Cunningham—was suffering from cocaine toxicity. While employees told police that Shippey knocked over some displays in the store because they didn't respond fast enough, it is more likely that she simply fell into them.

When the police arrived and attempted to take her into custody on the store's complaint, she tried to leave. One officer tackled her, causing her to become agitated. She was shot with a stun gun. She was handcuffed and placed in the backseat of the squad car. When Shippey tried to kick out the back window of the cruiser and she was stunned again several times. (The police have declined to state how many times she was stunned, or for what length of time.) According to police, she began foaming at the mouth and her lips turned blue. Paramedics were called at 7:08 p.m. and arrived 15 minutes later. She was pronounced dead at the Southwest Florida Regional Medical Center shortly after 8 p.m. Her capital offense? Knocking over a store display. The coroner listed the cause of death as "excited delirium."

Excited delirium is not a medical term and does not represent a medical cause of death. She, like Cunningham died from electro-muscular disruption caused by the stun gun and the victim's drug addiction. County coroners, particularly in Florida, use the made-up phrase "excited delirium" to insulate law enforcement from allegations of excessive force and to suggest it was the medical problems of the victim and not excessive force by police that caused their deaths.

Cases like this are so commonplace that we have stopped questioning it when they happen. We need to question authorities who use stun guns because 291 deaths since 2001 suggest that law enforcement officers have literally executed American citizens for "crimes" as minor as yelling in the street. In April, 2005 a Minnesota man died after local police shot him with a stun gun because he refused to stop shouting at his neighbors. A Houston County, Texas man was stunned to death when he refused to pay a $700 fine.

Fortunately, most people who are victims of stun gun abuse don't die. A Riviera Beach, California cop shot a derelict with a stun gun for sleeping on a park bench and for not getting up fast enough when the cop asked for ID. In Palm Beach, Florida police used a stun gun on a man riding a bicycle at night without a headlight. A woman in Boyington Beach, Florida was shot with a stun gun for going 52-mph in a 35-mph zone. Police said she was stunned because when one of the officers pulled her out of her car, she tried to slap him.

Instances of police stun gun abuse are rampant. Sadly, the protocols instruct law enforcement officers how to use stun guns, but not when. Theoretically, cops supposedly understand that stun guns are dangerous weapons that can cause death or serious injury. Logic suggests stun guns, like the cop's 9mm sidearm, will be used only when the officer is threatened with bodily injury.

Under no circumstance should a pulse device be used on anyone who appears to be a good prospect for cardiac problems or appears to be stoned on drugs. Imagine for a moment that you read an article in the morning paper about a cop firing his weapon at an unarmed, fleeing robber—and killing him. You are morally outraged that such a thing could happen. Where is the moral outrage against the cop who kills a man who won't stop yelling at his neighbors? Does it not exist because the cop used a stun gun, and the death is viewed as an unfortunate accident? Is the man who was yelling any less dead because he was shot with a stun gun and not a 9mm Glock?

Cities appear to find nothing wrong with this. This contravenes the public perceived national standard of police conduct which mandates police use only that force necessary to protect themselves in the line of duty. The force used should be proportional to the threat posed. A drunk sleeping on a park bench poses no threat. Neither does an elderly man riding a bicycle at night. Or a 95-year old senior citizen—or a 6-year old child who skips school.

We need to suspend the use of stun guns until comprehensive studies—performed by medical doctors—have been completed. The medical community, not lawyers, should structure the protocols that govern how law enforcement personnel use pulse weapons. Law enforcement may argue that 291 stun gun deaths in the United States in 6 years—based on the number of people who have been shot with pulse weapons—is astronomically low. That may be. But having the cop on the street sentence an unruly citizen to death for a minor infraction of the law—or for shouting at his neighbors—violates all standards of decency. One such death is one too many.

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Legal Rules Have Changed...So Have Your Rights...

gunnyg — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 20:59:51 CDT

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Out of control Legal rules have changed, allowing federal agents, prosecutors to bypass basic rights Parts 1–10…

Out of control Legal rules have changed, allowing federal agents, prosecutors to bypass basic rights November 22, 1998
By Bill Moushey, Post-Gazette Staff Writer


	Loren Pogue had never been involved with drugs until a government informant tied him to a phony real estate deal after lying about a drug cartel link. The informant got cash for the information. Pogue, 65, got 22 years in prison, even though he’s still not sure why he was the target of an investigation to begin with. (Joe Patronite)

Loren Pogue has served eight years of a 22-year federal prison sentence on drug conspiracy and money laundering charges. Pogue, a Missouri native, never bought drugs, never sold them, never held them, never used them, never smuggled them, never even saw them.

But because federal prosecutors allowed a paid government informant to lie about Pogue’s involvement in the sale of a parcel of land to supposed drug smugglers, he was convicted. Under tough federal sentencing guidelines, a judge had no choice but to give the Air Force veteran what might effectively be a death sentence.

Pogue — father of 27 children, 15 of them adopted — is 65. He doesn’t expect to leave prison alive, and as details later in this story will show, he is baffled that the government he served for more than 30 years worked so hard to betray him.

In another case, hundreds of miles away, federal agents interrogated businessman Dale Brown for four hours at a Houston, Texas, warehouse. When he tried to leave, they stopped him. When he asked for a lawyer, they refused to get him one.

After Brown finally was charged in a government sting called Operation Lightning Strike, federal prosecutors denied that the warehouse interrogation had even happened. They said the dozen others who reported the same coercive tactics in the sting were making it up, too.

Federal sting operations are supposed to snare criminals, but in Operation Lightning Strike, federal agents spent millions of dollars entrapping innocent people who worked on the periphery of the U.S. space program. The evidence against them was contrived. The guilty pleas were coerced. Those who fought the charges won.

Brown said all it cost him was his business, his savings, his family and his health. In Florida, prisoners call the scam “jumping on the bus,” and it is as tantalizing as it is perverse. Inmates in federal prisons barter or buy information that only an insider to a crime could know — often from informants with access to confidential federal crime files.

The prisoners memorize it and get others to do the same. Then, to win sentence reductions, they testify about crimes that might have been committed while they were in prison, by people they’ve never met, in places they’ve never been. The scam succeeds only because of the tacit approval of federal law enforcement officers.

Cocaine smuggler Jose Goyriena used “jump on the bus” testimony to help federal prosecutors put three men in prison for life, and he was set to do it again for prosecutors who promised to cut his 27 year sentence by 10 years or more. Prosecutors knew Goyriena had bragged about his lies to cellmates, but the prosecutors didn’t reveal what they’d heard to any of the men Goyriena had helped condemn — violating one of the fundamental tenets of American justice. It was defense attorneys who finally caught Goyriena in the scam.


Loren Pogue, above, was caught in a government sting driven by a paid informant. When the sting failed to snare big-time drug dealers, the informant trapped someone he knew: Pogue. (Joe Patronite)

In this nation’s war on crime, something has gone terribly wrong.

A two-year investigation by the Post-Gazette found that powerful new federal laws designed to snare terrorists, drug smugglers and pornographers are being aimed at business owners, engineers and petty criminals.

Whether suspects are guilty has come to matter less than making sure they are indicted or convicted or, more likely, coerced into pleading guilty.

Promises of lenient sentences and huge government checks encourage criminals to lie on the witness stand. Prosecutors routinely withhold evidence that might help prove a defendant innocent. Some federal agents work so closely with their undercover informants that they become lawbreakers themselves.

Those who practice this misconduct are almost never penalized or disciplined. “It’s a result-oriented process today, fairness be damned,” said Robert Merkle, whom President Ronald Reagan appointed U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Florida, serving from 1982 to 1988.

“The philosophy of the past 10 to 15 years [is] that whatever works is what’s right.” The Justice Department did not respond to questions the newspaper posed in writing about concerns raised in this series. Nor would it return phone calls requesting comment.

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Are Cops Bringing Back Prohibition?

gunnyg — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 09:20:08 CDT

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Prohibition Returns! - Teetotaling do-gooders attack your right to drink
Reason ^ | 10/31/07 | David Harsanyi
Posted on 10/31/2007 9:03:00 AM EDT by SubGeniusX

On a May night in 2005, Debra Bolton, a lawyer and single mom from the Washington suburb of Alexandria, Virginia, was leaving the Café Milano in Georgetown after socializing with some friends. She had driven her SUV only a few hundred yards before she was pulled over by D.C. police for driving with the headlights off. She told the officer the parking attendant at Café Milano probably had turned off her vehicle’s automatic light feature.

Not mollified, the officer asked Bolton to step out of the car, walk in a straight line, recite the alphabet, stand on one foot, and count to 30. He checked her eyes for suspicious jerkiness and insisted on a breath test for alcohol.

The breath test revealed that Bolton’s blood alcohol content (BAC) was 0.03 percent, a level a 120-pound woman could expect after drinking one glass of wine. It was well below the 0.08 percent limit that marks a driver as legally intoxicated in D.C. It was not low enough for the arresting officer, however. This middle-aged mother of two, who hadn’t drunk to excess, who hadn’t run a red light or run a stop, was arrested, handcuffed, and fingerprinted for an innocent mistake. She sat in a jail cell for hours and was finally released at 4:30 a.m. Bolton spent four court appearances and over $2,000 fighting a $400 ticket. She then spent a month fighting to get her license back after refusing to submit to the 12-week alcohol counseling program.

The arresting officer, inaptly named Dennis Fair, insists: “If you get behind the wheel of a car with any measurable amount of alcohol, you will be dealt with in D.C. We have zero tolerance….Anything above 0.01, we can arrest.” Fair recognized that nearly everyone in D.C. was unaware of this zero tolerance policy. Still, he told The Washington Post, if “you don’t know about it, then you’re a victim of your own ignorance.”

Bolton’s arrest was not the result of a single cop’s overzealousness. In 2004 D.C. police arrested 321 people with BACs below the legal limit of 0.08 percent for driving under the influence. The year before, the number was 409. After the Bolton incident, James Klaunig, a toxicology expert at the Indiana University School of Medicine, told The Washington Post, “There’s no way possible she failed a [sobriety] test from impairment with a .03 blood alcohol level.” Fair had claimed that Bolton swayed and lost her balance when taking the sobriety test, triggering the breath test.

A BAC test, one of the main tools used by law enforcement to catch drunk drivers, determines how much alcohol is present in the bloodstream. A BAC of 0.08 percent, for instance, means 0.0008 of your blood is alcohol. At that level, though, you’re hardly slurring your words or staggering.

In 2000 President Clinton signed a federal law aimed at pressuring states to lower their BAC limits from 0.1 percent to 0.08 percent. States that didn’t go along were threatened with the loss of federal highway funds. Karolyn Nunnallee, president of Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), predicted that a nationwide 0.08 percent standard “will save nearly 600 lives every year.”

It hasn’t worked out that way. In the July 2007 issue of Contemporary Economic Policy, Sam Houston State University economist Donald Freeman examines the most recent data available and concludes “there’s no evidence that lowering the BAC limits…reduced fatality rates, either in total or in crashes likely to be alcohol related.” This is true, he found, both in states that adopted a 0.08 percent BAC standard on their own and in states that did so under federal pressure.

During the last decade, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), alcohol contributed to between 16,000 and 17,000 traffic-related fatalities a year, about two-fifths of the total such deaths. It used to be a good deal worse. Back in 1982, three-fifths of all traffic related fatalities were attributed to alcohol. Since then, ad campaigns and education have raised public awareness about the dangers of driving smashed. States have instituted stricter punishment for drunk driving, and law enforcement officials are also better prepared to ferret out drunk drivers. A lot of the credit must be given to the hard work MADD did in educating the public about the menace of drinking and driving. But the decline in alcohol-related deaths persisted only until 1997.

Since then the vehicular death toll attributed to alcohol has remained stable at around 40 percent. This stagnation in drunk driving deaths has caused considerable consternation among activists and law enforcement officials. Lately, the fight against drunk driving has shifted from serious alcohol abusers with no regard for the law toward responsible drinkers.

Neoprohibitionists aim to muddle the distinction between drunk diving and driving after drinking any amount of alcohol. Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) endorsed the idea at a Senate Environment and Public Committee hearing way back in 1997, contending that we “may wind up in this country going to zero tolerance, period.” Former MADD President Katherine Prescott concurred, in a letter to the Chicago Tribune, where she stated “there is no safe blood alcohol, and for that reason responsible drinking means no drinking and driving.”

Technically she’s correct. Driving is never completely safe, and many things drivers commonly do-including speaking on a cell phone, talking to passengers, applying lipstick, eating a sandwich, drinking coffee, adjusting the radio, reprimanding the kids in the back seat, and daydreaming about weekend plans-can make it riskier.

As states and cities have begun focusing on zero tolerance (or “driving while distracted” laws, which target the diversions laid out above) they are losing focus on the real threat, namely habitually drunk drivers.

Drinking is under attack these days in ways we haven’t seen since the failed experiment with national alcohol prohibition in the 1920s. Indeed, for many neoprohibitionists, that experiment wasn’t a failure at all, since it did cut alcohol consumption, which is all that matters. We can see that mentality today in policies that go beyond preventing drunk driving or punishing drunk drivers and aim to discourage drinking per se.

Founder’s Remorse Although alcohol nannies generally support zero tolerance, one dissenting voice doesn’t. “I thought the emphasis on .08 laws was not where the emphasis should have been placed,” Candace Lightner told the Los Angeles Times in 2002. “The majority of crashes occur with high blood-alcohol levels, the .15, .18 and .25 drinkers. Lowering the blood-alcohol concentration was not a solution to the alcohol problem.”

Lightner’s views can’t be easily dismissed by anti-alcohol activists. In 1980 her 12-year-old daughter, Cari, was killed by a hit-and-run driver on a suburban street in Southern California. When the perpetrator was apprehended, he was drunk. It turned out he had been convicted of driving while intoxicated four previous times-once just days before he killed Lightner’s daughter. Even after his fifth, fatal offense, he received just a two-year sentence and avoided prison by serving time in a work camp and a halfway house.

The light sentence her daughter’s killer received spurred Lightner to “fight to make this needless homicide count for something positive in the years ahead.” She did that by founding MADD in 1980. She changed the world for the better by raising public awareness about the serious nature of drunk driving and promoting tough legislation against the crime. Due to Lightner’s potent grassroots work, aggressive campaigning, and popularization of the concept of designated drivers, MADD grew rapidly in its first five years. By 1985 it boasted 364 chapters, 600,000 members, and a $12.5 million budget.

Lightner has moved on from MADD, and since then has protested the shift from attacking drunk driving to attacking drinking in general. “I worry that the movement I helped create has lost direction,” she told The Cleveland Plain Dealer in 1992. BAC legislation, she said, “ignores the real core of the problem….If we really want to save lives, let’s go after the most dangerous drivers on the road.” Lightner said MADD has become an organization far more “neoprohibitionist” than she had envisioned. “I didn’t start MADD to deal with alcohol,” she said. “I started MADD to deal with the issue of drunk driving.”

While it seems safe to assume that nearly every parent in the United States opposes drunk driving, the same cannot be said for MADD’s efforts to stop drinking. Neither is every politician on board. In October 2005, responding to noisy complaints from local residents and negative national publicity, the D.C. Council decided, by a 9-3 vote, to abandon the zero tolerance policy that snared Debra Bolton. “D.C. is once again open for business,” said council member Carol Schwartz. She said visitors “can come in and have a glass of wine and not be harassed or intimidated.” That’s good news. Sadly, it’s not the case everywhere. Ignition Failure More than 40 states require convicted drunk drivers to install ignition interlock devices: The driver breathes into a tube attached to the device, and if his blood alcohol concentration is measurable the vehicle won’t start. Considering the high recidivism rate among drunk drivers, the interlock system may be a reasonable preventive measure for those who have proven they pose a danger to others. But what about people who have never been arrested, perhaps never even had a ticket, or who never drink under any circumstances? Can they be trusted to start their cars without taking a breath test?

In 2004 New Mexico state Rep. Ken Martinez (D-Grants) introduced a bill that would have forced every driver in his state to install an ignition interlock device. In addition to the indignity and inconvenience of breathing into a tube every time they start their cars, this requirement would cost drivers about $1,000 each to install the device, according to estimates by the states that require them. Incredibly, the bill breezed through the state’s House of Representatives by a 45-to-22 vote. “Honestly, I put forward this bill to start some dialogue,” Martinez told Wired.com. “And it became a very thought-provoking process….We want New Mexico to be a leader at using technology to curb some societal ills.”

The New Mexico Senate, thankfully, let the bill die. But soon legislators in New York and Oklahoma were making noise about a universal interlock requirement. “If the public wants it and the data support it, it is literally possible that the epidemic of drunk driving could be solved where cars simply could not be operated by drunk drivers,” Chuck Hurley, MADD’s executive director, told USA Today in 2006. “What a great day that would be.”

Pre-emptive War on Drunk Driving Unfortunately, there is considerable precedent for such pre-emptive measures. In 2005 a Pennsylvania court rejected an appeal from a man whose driver’s license was revoked by the state after he told doctors he knocked back more than a six-pack of beer a day. State law requires doctors to report any of a patient’s physical or mental impairments if the doctors think it could compromise his ability to drive safely. Keith Emerich hadn’t gotten in any legal trouble, related to drinking, driving, or anything else, and his job attendance was as exemplary. Yet a three-judge Commonwealth Court panel said the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation was justified in taking away Emerich’s license-not because he had driven while intoxicated but because he might.

Numerous anti-DUI law enforcement tactics now taken for granted are not only unduly invasive but ineffective. Consider roadblocks, a well-intentioned preventive measure that does little more than waste time and create pollution. This form of anticipatory law enforcement intimidates social drinkers and fails to address hardcore drunks, who often simply avoid roadblocks, turning on side streets when they see the flashing sideshow ahead. It targets those who aren’t driving recklessly, haven’t had a single drink, and have places to go.

According to numerous studies and reports dating back to 1987, the chance of getting picked up at a roadblock for being intoxicated is minuscule. MADD is nonetheless an enthusiastic supporter of sobriety checkpoints. It claims roadblocks reduce fatal alcohol-related crashes by as much as 20 percent. Yet recent fluctuations in such crashes have no correlation with states that do or don’t use checkpoints.

During the Christmas season of 2003 in Fairfax County, Virginia, a suburb of Washington not far from the site of Debra Bolton’s arrest, local police took pre-emptive law enforcement to an absurd extreme, launching a sting operation that targeted 20 local bars and restaurants. The mission: apprehend “drunk” patrons before they try to drive. These drinkers were far from their cars and in some cases did not even own cars. What type of evidence did the police use to measure intoxication? According to one law enforcement official involved in the sting, the determination could be made based on unflicked cigarette ashes, an excessive number of restroom visits, noisy cursing, or a wobbly walk.

The raids involved 10 cops in SWAT-like outfits. In an interview with The Reston Times, the general manager of one targeted establishment said “they tapped one lady on the shoulder-who was on her first drink and had just eaten dinner-to take her out on the sidewalk and give her a sobriety test. They told her she fit the description of a woman they had complaints about, and that they heard she was dancing topless.”

In one raid, of the 18 drinkers tested for sobriety, nine were hauled to jail for public intoxication. When asked to explain the rationale for the raids, then-Fairfax County Police Chief J. Thomas Mange declared that you “can’t be drunk in a bar.” Where can you be drunk? “At home. Or at someone else’s home. And stay there until you’re not drunk.”

Following the logic of such operations, watching television under the influence in your own home may soon be grounds for paramilitary raids. A Super Bowl party, a wedding shower, or a bachelor party can attract dozens of guests, many of whom will be drinking. Why not target those people as well? They have cars.

It’s true that “public intoxication” is illegal. So is jaywalking. Police should use common sense, allocating their resources to protect citizens as efficiently as possible. It’s hard to believe the most pressing problem in all of Northern Virginia that night was an inebriated and allegedly topless woman. The immediate effect of hauling a few boozy bar patrons down to jail is insignificant. But the alcohol nannies are counting on the long-term impact: Once word gets out, people will be less inclined to get sloshed anywhere, anytime.

Such policies sometimes backfire. After the Fairfax County raids, the entire city council of Herndon, Virginia, criticized the practice of targeting law-abiding businesses and drinkers. “It is the unanimous opinion of the council that police overstepped their bounds and overreacted,” one member said.

Yet numerous states and municipalities are experimenting with Fairfax-style intimidation. In 2005 the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission warned that it would be conducting “Sales to Intoxicated Person Stings” in various parts of the Lone Star State. “We believe responsible adults should drink responsibly,” said Heather Hodges, a MADD victims advocate involved in planning the operation, in a MADD press release. “A bar is not intended to be a place to get fall-down drunk.” In March 2006, one of the first sting operations was conducted in a Dallas suburb where agents infiltrated 36 bars and arrested 30 people for public intoxication.

“It’s killed our business,” one Dallas bar owner told a local TV station. “People are scared to come out. I don’t even drink, and I’m scared to go out, and it’s not right. We don’t want to put drunks on the road, but we don’t want people to be afraid to do something that’s legal. If they don’t want people drinking, they should outlaw alcohol.”

Bar None MADD officials say they “strongly support” the right of alcohol-related crash victims to seek “financial recovery from establishments and servers who have irresponsibly provided alcohol to those who are intoxicated or to underage persons, or who serve past the point of intoxication individuals who then cause fatal or injurious crashes.”

I’m not sure if any MADD leaders have been to a saloon lately, but the local Cheers-style tavern where everyone knows your name is all but dead. In large cities, working at a bar can mean serving alcohol to hundreds, if not thousands, of patrons each night. Once we train servers to double as psychics, MADD’s liability principle will make sense.

Until then, we can have mandatory breath tests for patrons. Once again, the neoprohibitionists stand for seemingly sensible policies that in practice make the sale and consumption of alcohol nearly impossible.

Most states have dram shop liability laws, which generally allow lawsuits to be brought by those injured by an inebriated person against the establishment which contributed to that person’s intoxication. In Texas minors can sue a drinking establishment for their own injuries should they get their hands on enough alcohol to be intoxicated and hurt themselves. Under Illinois law, plaintiffs don’t even have to prove a bartender was aware of the consumer’s inebriation. In other states, dram shop liability extends to serving the “habitually intoxicated,” who will be a cinch to identify for all those clairvoyant bartenders.

If getting drunk in a bar is to be forbidden, it makes sense to ban happy hour. Back in 1984, the Massachusetts legislature banned the practice of offering cheaper drinks during the traditional “happy hours” of 4 p.m. and 7 p.m.-or any other time. That law kicked off a wave of happy hour restrictions around the country. From Ohio, where bars were compelled to end two-for-the-price-of-one premiums at 9 p.m., to West Virginia, where bars must have food available during happy hours, to Mississippi and Oregon, where happy hours are still allowed but cannot be advertised, happiness is being snatched from law-abiding Americans across the land.

Such laws often have unintended consequences. When a 1990 Illinois law banning “happy hours” took effect, bars came up with a creative solution, changing “happy hours” to the even better “happy days.” A “happy day” means reduced prices on drinks for the entire day, since the price of drinks cannot be legally changed during any one business day.

On its website, MADD condemns “Practices Which Encourage Excessive Alcohol Consumption,” including happy hours, ladies’ nights, and any fluctuations in prices that bring in consumers during what are usually slow hours. The group calls upon the “hospitality industry to voluntarily end all practices associated with excessive alcohol consumption.” As a backup, MADD also supports the legal prohibition of such practices in all 50 states.

Sometimes bars want the state to help stop practices consumers love. Bar crawling is common in cities like New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. Friends, typically in their 20s and 30s, get together and go from bar to bar. To attract such groups, some bars offer unlimited drinks for a fixed price. In 1999 New York Gov. George Pataki signed into law a ban of the practice, asserting that it encourages “irresponsible binge-drinking.”

Even if that’s true, adult binge drinking is none of Pataki’s business, since adults have the right to get smashed as long as they don’t hurt anyone else. But bar and nightclub owners didn’t mind when Albany prevented them from engaging in this sort of expensive price war. The pubs’ chief trade group lobbied strenuously to get the state to stop the practice.

Alcohol nannies also have targeted sporting arenas, blaming alcohol for every brawl or other instance of misconduct by fans. George Hacker, director of alcohol studies at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, suggests several solutions, including a ban on selling beer in the stands, a reduction in the size of a beer serving from 16 to 10 ounces, a 3.2 percent limit on beer alcohol content, the elimination of beer signs, and aggressive police identification of “people who are obviously intoxicated.” Although brawls occur at a tiny percentage of sporting events, alcohol nannies latch onto them as an excuse to interfere with the enjoyment of millions of fans.

Drinking may not be a prerequisite for a happy life, but it’s a ritual most Americans have enjoyed as long as the nation has existed, and harmlessly so in the overwhelming majority of cases. Although I’m not an exceptionally heavy drinker, I can’t, and don’t want to, imagine a life without alcohol. As long as I’m not endangering anyone else, I shouldn’t have to.

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Meyer Aplogizes...(Don't Taze Me, Bro!)

gunnyg — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 16:17:33 CDT

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Meyer apologizes in letter to students (Don’t Taze Me, Bro!!)

Independent Florida Alligator ^ | 10/30/07 | KIM WILMATH
Posted on 10/30/2007 4:53:43 PM EDT by mowowie

Andrew Meyer has addressed an apology letter to UF students, UF President Bernie Machen and Student Government for his “failure to act calmly” during a Sept. 17 forum with Sen. John Kerry.

In a letter released to the Alligator on Monday afternoon, Meyer wrote that he “stepped out of line” and felt he had tarnished UF’s image. “For that again, I am truly sorry,” Meyer wrote.

Meyer, a UF telecommunication senior, was tackled, Tasered and arrested by University Police Department officers during a question-and-answer session following the speech from Kerry, a Democrat who represents Massachusetts.

Meyer was charged with a third-degree felony for resisting arrest with violence and a second-degree misdemeanor for disturbing the peace. (Excerpt) Read more at alligator.org …

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(Charles Roop / Alligator Staff) Andrew Meyer sits near his attorney, Robert Griscti, at his office in Gainesville on Monday night.

By KIM WILMATH, Alligator Staff Writer Tuesday, October 30, 2007 2:23 AM EDT Andrew Meyer has addressed an apology letter to UF students, UF President Bernie Machen and Student Government for his “failure to act calmly” during a Sept. 17 forum with Sen. John Kerry. In a letter released to the Alligator on Monday afternoon, Meyer wrote that he “stepped out of line” and felt he had tarnished UF’s image. “For that again, I am truly sorry,” Meyer wrote.

Meyer, a UF telecommunication senior, was tackled, Tasered and arrested by University Police Department officers during a question-and-answer session following the speech from Kerry, a Democrat who represents Massachusetts. Meyer was charged with a third-degree felony for resisting arrest with violence and a second-degree misdemeanor for disturbing the peace.

Meyer has since withdrawn from classes, said Robert Griscti, Meyer’s attorney. He plans to return in January.

Meyer has accepted punishment from UF for violating the Student Code of Conduct, stated a news release from Patricia Telles-Irvin, UF’s vice president of student affairs.

The details of Meyer’s penalty could not be disclosed, Telles-Irvin wrote. “Students make mistakes,” she wrote. “What’s most important are the lessons learned by all of us and making things right.”

A decision from the State Attorney’s Office about Meyer’s criminal charges is due to become available today.

Spencer Mann, spokesman for the office, could not be reached for comment by press time.

Griscti said Monday he couldn’t comment on the decision. Although Meyer allowed himself to be photographed in Griscti’s office, he declined comment as well.

“This is beyond anybody’s expectations in terms of media interest,” Griscti said. “I’ve yet to find anybody who doesn’t know about this in Gainesville, Europe or elsewhere.”

The aggressive attention from other students and the media has been hard on Meyer, Griscti said, but he’s learned a lot about journalism in the process. “Given that this is his chosen field, it’s been a good educational process,” Griscti said.

He said Meyer’s apology was completely self-prompted. He started drafting it immediately after his release from jail Sept. 18.

“In society, as in life, there are consequences for not following the rules,” Meyer wrote. “In this instance, not following the rules has imposed consequences for many people other than myself, people who have seen their school, and perhaps their degree, tarnished in the eyes of others through no fault of their own.” Griscti said Meyer didn’t plan his outburst, as the UPD report might have suggested.

However, Meyer’s remark to officers in the police car, when he said they “did nothing wrong,” was accurate. Meyer had no animosity toward individual officers, Griscti said.

Meyer wrote that he attended the speech to ask Kerry about voter disenfranchisement in America and he “lost his cool.”

Griscti said he and Meyer are happy with Machen’s creation of a committee to examine UF’s policies on open forums, free speech and event security. “The creation of the panel proved once and for all that UF cares about the direction it’s going in,” Meyer wrote.

Griscti said he attended the panel’s first meeting and is willing to contribute what he can to the committee’s future discussions.

He said he would examine the Florida Department of Law Enforcement’s 300-page investigation of the officers’ Taser use.

“I just hope people stay interested,” he said. “This university could take a lead nationwide.”

UF Responds to Andrew Meyer Aplogies
Meyer’s Letter to The Alligator
Meyer’s Letter to President Machen

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Volunteer radar gunslingers nail speeders

gunnyg — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 08:45:17 CDT

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Volunteer radar gunslingers nail speeders

By Joanne Bratton
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Speeders beware. Your neighbors might have you on their radar. That's the message police departments across the country are trying to send by loaning residents radar guns and turning them into neighborhood speed watchers.Volunteers can't ticket the drivers they catch breaking the speed limit, but their reports can result in warning letters being sent by police, depending on how fast the drivers were going.

Police say the program is worth it if it can make even a few motorists obey speed limits. "It's one more element of enforcing speed," says Lt. Daniel Furseth of the DeForest Police Department in Wisconsin.

For the past year, the village has allowed residents to borrow a battery-operated radar gun for a week or two, sit on their front lawns and record the speeds of passing motorists.

Typically, a warning letter is sent when speeds are 13 mph over the limit, but it depends on the residential area, Furseth says.

The police department has sent out a couple dozen warning letters, he says. "One parent called and was glad we sent a letter," Furseth says. "But it's not always the kids (who are speeding) � it's the soccer moms, too."

Elsewhere:•Residents in Loveland, Ohio, are invited to sign up in teams of two or three to use the Stalker II, a hand-held, battery-operated radar gun.•In the Chicago suburb of Naperville, Ill., residents affiliated with homeowners associations use the radar guns. "Some people seemed surprised.

Some took notice and slowed down," says Bob Fischer, director of the Naperville Area Homeowners Confederation. "Others were angry that we were interfering with their inherent right to get to the train station � or back home � as quickly as possible." •In Shawnee, Kan., a suburb of Kansas City, police allow residents to use radar guns on residential streets that are posted 25 mph or less, police Sgt. Doug Orbin says. The volunteer must stay in his or her vehicle while using the radar gun, he says.

•This week, the police department in The Dalles, Ore., started taking names of interested citizens who want to be neighborhood speed watchers.

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UF Police Cleared In Taser Incident ("Don't tase me bro" Kerry event)

gunnyg — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:07:23 CDT

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UF Police Cleared In Taser Incident ("Don't tase me bro" Kerry event)
Local 6 (Florida) ^ | October 24, 2007

Posted on 10/24/2007 1:38:54 PM EDT by Stoat
UF Police Cleared In Taser Incident
Charges May Be Filed Against Student

POSTED: 12:19 pm EDT October 24, 2007
UPDATED: 12:48 pm EDT October 24, 2007

GAINESVILLE, Fla. -- University of Florida police have been cleared in the use of a Taser gun against a student on campus.

A report by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement said the officers were justified when they used the Taser gun on Andrew Meyer. Police have said Meyer refused to stop questioning Sen. John Kerry at a campus event last month. The videotaped altercation and Meyer's cries of "Don't Tase me, bro!" were played frequently on the Internet.

Two officers who were placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation have been reinstated.

Police charged Meyer for resisting an officer and disturbing the peace. The State Attorney's Office has not yet decided whether to file formal charges. University President Bernie Machen said his student-faculty committee to determine how existing event-management rules can be improved will continue to meet.

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Police State Rules In NJ High School

gunnyg — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:31:18 CDT

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Tuesday October 23, 2007 On the morning of Friday, October 12, 2007, Steinert High School in Hamilton Township, New Jersey, was flooded by police with five drug-sniffing dogs accompanied by a prosecutor and school officials. The whole student body was arrested by being detained in various classrooms and forced to wait while the search of their lockers verified that each student was innocent of drug possession. Every locker got searched. And every student was under technical arrest until cleared of drug possession, approaching unlawful imprisonment. The school sent us a letter home with our son saying it was a "...pre-planned search of student lockers using trained narcotics detections dogs." It continued, "As per our ongoing protocol of ensuring a safe and orderly drug-free environment...this search was a component of our program to deter illegal activity." There was no reasonable suspicion of any drug activity. It seems that this search was itself an illegal activity because it was a warrantless dragnet, pure and simple.

This incident is proof to parents that the government has little common sense when it comes to our children. They teach about human rights, the U.S. Constitution and tolerance, but do not practice what they preach. Many of the kids are saying that Steinert H.S. teachers, counselors and principal are not about education, just prosecution of the 'War on Drugs.' There are over 1,625 students and guess what percentage of them were discovered to have had drugs or marijuana in their lockers? Zero. Nada, as in not one. For this, the Hamilton Township police and school administration alienated the trust of all 1,625 students, many of whom now feel that students are automatically guilty until proven otherwise. The kids know that they would never do the same thing to their teachers' lockers, nor publicly owned offices of the U.S. Congress, the White House and all federal agencies to weed out all those who seem to be definitely on drugs.

The Hamilton School District and Police Department stand on the point that the students' lockers are public property and thus subject to search at any time. However, how far can a police agency go into warrantless searches of over a thousand people's effects without probable cause? Why must students have no expectation of privacy of their personal effects when given no choice but to use school lockers for their burdensome books, note pads, lunches, clothing and other paraphernalia? And why are other public employees storage spaces not routinely searched while teachers, office clerks and even Congressional representatives are held under lock down?

If you go to a restaurant and place your parka on a public coat rack, can a police officer search every coat on the rack, go inside your zippered pockets and indict you for any contraband that he might find? Or do you still have rights to privacy in your personal effects no matter where you set them temporarily? Whether these searches were legal or not, what kind of message are they sending to the whole student body? That they are guilty until proven innocent and that their freedoms are secondary to elites advancing their political careers by posturing themselves as effectively dealing with juvenile drug problems. There is no juvenile drug problem, just a problem in the judgment of out-of-touch-with-reality Hamilton, New Jersey, community leaders.

Unsaid is that this tactic of arresting whole student bodies and searching every locker is a pseudo-terrorist tactic designed to frighten kids into not bringing controlled substances to school. In the War on Terrorism, even local government has become a neo-terrorist operation, indulging in situational ethics where the end justifies whatever means it chooses.

In Hamilton Township, New Jersey, a drug-free environment is a rights-free environment. From the failed and embarrassing search at Steinert High School, Hamilton's "zero tolerance" proves its zero intelligence.

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The County Sheriff Stands In The Gap For Americans

gunnyg — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 09:02:04 CDT

THE COUNTY SHERIFF STANDS IN THE GAP FOR AMERICANS

By Greg Evensen October 3, 2007 NewsWithViews.com

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Three times in the past 17 years, I have been asked directly to run for County Sheriff. Once in Illinois, once in Kansas, and just in the past year I have been asked in yet another state as well. After serving as a Kansas Lawman with the Troopers and as a Marshal, I have earned the right to say, "I have the experience." As Kansas Governor Robert Bennett stated in his letter to me on Sept. 2, 1975, "It is my pleasure to present you with the Governor's Award (Medal of Honor) for exemplary service under adverse conditions resulting in saving the life of Dwayne J. Scott on July 1, 1975….." He went on to say, "It is noted that this roadside rescue, on a busy interstate highway, was complicated by the combative actions of Mr. Scott's companion, requiring restraint of one individual while administering emergency medical care to the other. "….I commend you for your humanistic demonstration of the best traditions of the Kansas State Highway Patrol and the ideals of public service."

It was a difficult fight to say the least. I had been blind-sided in a vicious attack by a drug-crazed hitchhiker, while trying to bring back his buddy with CPR from a death state. A dozen people watched from the boundary fence and literally cheered when I finally knocked the assailant out with a fist to the chin. As the Governor presented me with the citation, surrounded by television crews, I could not help but wonder, isn't this what I do? I never doubted my commitment to the people of Kansas, nor wavered in making incredibly difficult decisions on a daily basis. I wore an impressive uniform and "Smokey hat" as a symbol of protection for those who could not fight off the bad guys.

My esteemed colleagues at NWV who have served their states and jurisdictions know exactly what I mean. This is especially true for my friends retired Sheriffs Richard Mack and Jim Schweisow. What men of ultimate honor and courage. What heroes! This all came up when I was asked to run. I assured them that physical and mental determination to serve was not an issue. I have scars, broken bones and lingering health reminders that law enforcement is not for the faint-hearted or the "clean shirt types" who let others settle the matters at hand and the dirty work. Although issues like these are important, being a competent and consistent administrator of scarce public funds as a Sheriff is another troubling and difficult area to deal with.

Let me state this without reservation. You use what funds are available and be prepared to CUT BACK where you need to. If that means staff reductions, then get on the road, Sheriff. Answer the calls like the deputies, stand a shift in the corrections facility. Dispatch when someone needs to be home with a sick child. Scratch going to the state capitol for one of those "work a little then play sessions with the other county sheriffs." Serve some warrants and subpoenas on your own. The list goes on.

However, above all else, be there in spades when it comes to handling ANY confrontation with the bad guys. Those roles have changed very little since the old days. As long as man walks, crime will walk beside us. Keeping crime and criminals under the sheriff's boot is absolute. Doing so with a Sheriff's Posse is not knew, but seldom done. I support that strongly. County administrators cringe at the thought of "trained" individuals pinning on a badge and holstering a .45 pistol. It is tantamount to apoplexy for pencil pushers.

Statistics on liability, lawsuits, "avoidable" injuries and inappropriate conduct charges from lunatic district prosecutors heads the lists of things to definitely avoid for first term sheriffs. I say, rubbish. Do what works. Do what must be done! Trust the people to assist and to use good judgment. Train your people yourself and do not let ANYONE get out of line. Lead for God's sake and do your constitutional duty. The county sheriff is the ONLY official with the authority to stop federal intervention at the county line, cold--no exceptions.

It is the sheriff's solemn obligation to protect his county as a WHOLE against warrant-less intrusion by federal agents on fishing expeditions, armed invasions of the county by swarms of feds, and insuring a suspect is to be charged or taken in by the sheriff to face a local informed jury of his peers. I stand in support of these issues 100%. I have told two county sheriff committees that. They refused to assist me in my election process. Imagine that. I was not in tight enough with the elite and power brokers in the county. I believed in and was committed to "old ways" of enforcing the law and using proper procedures. I played no favorites and would not bend to their demands of special treatment. I would not get behind ridiculous taxing schemes to soak county residents for more revenue to fund pet projects of the empire building sheriffs or county commissions "funding" the sheriff's office. I stated that I would place these promises on paper and sign it.

A violation of that oath would require my immediate resignation from office. They threatened to take away road patrols and funding for school liaisons (nice, but not necessary). It was the same old tired story, jurisdiction after jurisdiction. Does it ever change? It does when the right person is elected. The local candidates promise the moon, but succumb almost immediately to the special interests who want those taxes, favors, or the status quo. After all, it worked that way in 1920, so why not now. Keep the elite happy and comfortable. Well, what about the folks that can't pay their bills and are skirting the edges of generations of laws designed to keep them out of the compliance loop set up in the state capital, but only used against the families already on the edge of existence.

The winks and special passes are reserved for the empowered. Double standards, ridiculous taxes, and regulations drive hard-pressed people to the edge. Get a sheriff like Fred Allenbrand in Olathe, Kansas, in 1970, who was out working with his deputies AND the people, and you have a sheriff who can diffuse almost any peace or life threatening problem. That was one sheriff I would have modeled myself after. Or a man of sterling character, morals and unwavering commitment to Kansas law enforcement like retired Kansas Law Enforcement Training Center Director my dear friend, Maynard Brazeal, and you have a legend in the making. Why? Because these men said they would do what they would do, and you could take it to the bank---every single time, no exceptions.

The "fly by night" killer resume' paper heroes that promote themselves with, "I'll do anything to get elected and then do what I want or what somebody tells me" sheriff makes me sick. They are a dime a dozen, and we invest our hearts, pocketbooks, and four long years of living with these creeps, as a result of their distortions, campaign lies, and ultimate failures of character and judgment. Make no mistake, I am honored to be considered, grateful that there are still many who respect and appreciate solid men of true character, proven in the field and in the hearts of their fellow county residents and who live only to hear, "thanks sheriff, we knew we could count on you."

Get behind the right people. Research and recruit those who will "stand in the gap" for you, your county, and who will insure the control of events that only a county sheriff can secure against a state or federal behemoth just over the hill. Would I run? Yes. Would I do the job? Yes. Would I fight for the philosophy of county law enforcement like I just stated? Without question.

That is why I would most likely not be elected. You want a winner. Just do not settle for what looks or sounds good. Still want someone like me? Start holding your county voters accountable for the sheriff they say they want. Recall the liars and failures before they screw you into the ground financially, with one more federal grant or voted in tax scheme that gives them the county store. Don't quit until you find what you are looking for. Time is running out before local choice with an elected sheriff becomes just a part of the legend concerning the long gone days when "our" sheriff was the real deal. © 2007 Greg Evensen

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Warrior Cops The Ominous Growth of Paramilitarism in American Police Departments

gunnyg — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 11:45:23 CDT

Warrior Cops
The Ominous Growth of Paramilitarism in
American Police Departments

by Diane Cecilia Weber
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Diane Cecilia Weber is a Virginia writer on law enforcement and criminal justice.

Executive Summary

Over the past 20 years Congress has encouraged the U.S. military to supply intelligence, equipment, and training to civilian police. That encouragement has spawned a culture of paramilitarism in American law enforcement. The 1980s and 1990s have seen marked changes in the number of state and local paramilitary units, in their mission and deployment, and in their tactical armament. According to a recent academic survey, nearly 90 percent of the police departments surveyed in cities with populations over 50,000 had paramilitary units, as did 70 percent of the departments surveyed in communities with populations under 50,000.

The Pentagon has been equipping those units with M-16s, armored personnel carriers, and grenade launchers. The police paramilitary units also conduct training exercises with active duty Army Rangers and Navy SEALs. State and local police departments are increasingly accepting the military as a model for their behavior and outlook. The sharing of training and technology is producing a shared mindset.

The problem is that the mindset of the soldier is simply not appropriate for the civilian police officer. Police officers confront not an "enemy" but individuals who are protected by the Bill of Rights. Confusing the police function with the military function can lead to dangerous and unintended consequences—such as unnecessary shootings and killings.

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YOUR PAPERS, PLEASE!

gunnyg — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 11:13:02 CDT

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The "War on Drugs" includes turning the cops into criminals in uniforms by letting them keep part of the take when they make a narcotics bust. If a small, even minute, amount of narcotics is found in a car, or in a house, the criminals in uniform can seize it, even if the owner doesn't know it is there. Yes, the victim can sue to get it back, if he can afford the lawyers after the cops have stolen his funds. You can lose your money if a dog trained to do so smells something on it, and there is almost always something on it. You've heard many such horror stories. I don't need to repeat them here.
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By now we are all used to how Washington works. The conspiracy for world government concocts and announces an emergency. It could be military. Someone "has attacked us." It could be medical. "Millions of Americans lack health care. Or there is an epidemic." It could be a natural disaster, like a hurricane. Or, maybe it is economic or cultural. "Women routinely are abused. They earn only a fraction of a man's pay. Black people are deprived. Latinos are insulted." Et cetera and so on. Then whichever marionette the conspirators have installed in the Oval Office at the time announces an emergency "solution."

This is government by emergency. Most Americans have never experienced anything else and don't know it could be done differently. They think government by emergency is "normal." So would I, had I not lived for a few years in a couple of other countries. There, emergencies were unusual events. Most of the time, people in those countries just live.

So it was that the Battleship Maine exploded from the inside out, but Washington said it was "attacked," in Havana, thereby launching the Spanish-American War. So it was that Wilson and Churchill concocted the pretense that the British warship Lusitania, loaded with military supplies, was a "passenger liner," arranged for a German U-Boat to sink it in 1915 and used the concocted outrage to trick America into the war to make the world safe for world government, World War I.

So it was that swindler, mass murderer and traitor Franklin Roosevelt deliberately arranged the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 and the murder of some 3,000 Americans, to trick the United States into World War II and then into the Communist United Nations. See, for instance, Day of Deceit, by Robert Stinnett – a staunch admirer of Roosevelt's – who says the monster had to do it for our own good, because Americans of the time were too stupid to know it.

So it was that Soviet boss Josef Stalin ordered Communist North Korea to attack the south in 1950, while his UN delegate, Jacob Malik, boycotted the Security Council in New York to protest our refusal to admit Communist-occupied China, so that when the vote came up to send UN (American) troops to Korea to "fight Communism" for years, Washington "outsmarted" Stalin, "winning" the vote because Malik "mistakenly" wasn't there to cast a veto.

So it was that the Gulf of Tonkin "incident" that launched our full-scale invasion of Vietnam never happened, according to Admiral James Stockdale, Medal of Honor, who was there at the time, and who said nothing happened. There was no "incident." As usual, the event was concocted. Our own leaders used it as the excuse to trick us into a war they did not allow us to win.

So it was that Gulf War I happened because U.S. Ambassador April Glaspie in effect told Saddam Hussein, the man we had armed to the earlobes, that there would be no problem were he to invade Kuwait. When Saddam accepted her invitation, April disappeared into the bowels of the Department of State. And so it was that Gulf War II erupted because Saddam Hussein had Weapons of Mass Destruction we gave him, or because he tortured his people, or because he was a totalitarian dictator, or because.

So it was that Mike (aka Martin Luther) King said himself, in his own magazine article (Saturday Review, April 3, 1965), that violence routinely erupted in his "non-violent" demonstrations because violence was precisely what he went into the street to get, provoking the targets to respond and pressuring Congress into passing whatever legislation he wanted.

So it was that medical costs were low and the poor could get the finest medical treatment available pro bono from doctors who considered the profession a calling, but the federal government declared an "emergency," destroyed the profession, replaced it with the medical industry and introduced ruinous inflation into the medical economy by imposing Medicare and flooding it with "dollars," with the inevitable result that medical costs shot through the roof and "millions are uninsured."

Of course these are just some of the main examples; there are many more. By now you get the idea. This is government by emergency. Millions of Americans know nothing else. Question: Where did the present destruction of the Constitution come from? Which emergency inspired the cancellation of our Bill of Rights, exemplified by such outrages as the "Patriot" Acts the Congressmen were not allowed to read and know about before they voted, the cancellation of habeas corpus, the repeal of posse comitatus, the elimination of all financial privacy, etc., and soon chips under the skin, at first voluntary, then compulsory?

It was the War in Iraq, right? El presidente Jorge W. Boosh typically is using the war as the excuse. No, Pilgrim, the war in Iraq certainly has continued and intensified the process, but that is not where the present, festering horror began. It began almost forty years ago, in 1969, when Socialist conniver Richard Nixon launched the latest version of the "War on Drugs." Remember? Most people do not.

There was an "emergency." THE CHILDREN were at risk. It is always helpful when THE CHILDREN are at risk because everybody loves THE CHILDREN. Socialist Nixon, an admirer of predatory pederast and Communist hero John Maynard Keynes, came forward with the "solution." The "War on Drugs."

Big time drug smugglers "launder" money. They get "dirty" money from their pushers and deposit it in banks and other financial institutions. When it comes out the other end, it's "clean." The only way to prevent them from doing that – we were told – was to destroy all financial privacy. The only way to prevent them from doing that was to require Americans to fill out federal forms reporting to Washington almost everything they were doing with their money.

The "War on Drugs" includes turning the cops into criminals in uniforms by letting them keep part of the take when they make a narcotics bust. If a small, even minute, amount of narcotics is found in a car, or in a house, the criminals in uniform can seize it, even if the owner doesn't know it is there. Yes, the victim can sue to get it back, if he can afford the lawyers after the cops have stolen his funds. You can lose your money if a dog trained to do so smells something on it, and there is almost always something on it. You've heard many such horror stories. I don't need to repeat them here.

Most of the people in prison for drugs are not big time drug smugglers or even little ones. They are people who were caught with something, maybe marijuana. The "War on Drugs" has totally transformed our society. There is a modern version of the French Revolution's Reign of Terror, which not surprisingly has morphed into the present "War on Terror" inspired by Washington's destruction of the World Trade Center in New York. There could be no "War on Terror" today, even after Nine Eleven, had the "War on Drugs" not laid the foundation.

But of course, the inconvenience, even the suffering, would be worth it if we protect THE CHILDREN, right? We'll do anything for THE CHILDREN. So, has the "War on Drugs" protected them? Has it kept drugs out of our country and off our streets? To answer that question, we need to compare the situation before the drug laws to the situation now, almost forty years into the "War on Drugs."

Before the "War on Drugs," before the drug laws, there were people who used drugs. There will always be such people. There were "opium dens." There always will be. There is nothing you can do to stop them, because, for whatever destructive, suicidal reason, those people are compelled to hurt themselves. Much of the time, they wound up dead or in prison for robbery to finance their "habits."

But there was no "emergency." We are talking about a few people who will "do drugs" no matter what. By the way, for the record, I have never puffed the magic dragon even once. My drug use was confined to taking an aspirin every few years, and now I don't even do that. "Hard" drugs – heroin, cocaine, etc. – are an abomination and so are the monsters who traffic them.

So, after almost forty years of the "War on Drugs," do we have more drugs or less? We have more, right? We have much more, immeasurably more. The "War" has been an utter failure. We have lost. More of THE CHILDREN are lost. In fact, it gets worse. We have so much more drug trafficking because of the "War on Drugs."

The lesson taught by Prohibition is before us. Remember? We'll ban alcohol and people will stop drinking. What a great idea! Except that Prohibition literally created the criminal gangs that still plague us, because crime oozes where opportunity beckons, where it is most lucrative. Hasn't the "War on Drugs" done the same thing? The "difference" is that today's drug gangs come from other countries. And hasn't it created a wonderful "emergency" for the Communist world government conspiracy to justify the outrages we took a quick look at?

Ron Paul – Dr. No – has proposed that we dramatically decrease drug use by dismantling the "War on Drugs." That is the constitutional position, because the Constitution nowhere says anything even close to the subject. It's certainly none of the federal government's business. And, yes, like the phony war in Iraq, it's easier to get into these things than to get out of them. We need a judicious plan.

For instance, not only do we need to end both wars quickly; in this case, dismantling the lucrative, federal drug machine must be accompanied by an end to the glamorization of cocaine use by Hollyweird celebritoids and confrontation of recent history's biggest drug smuggling country: not Afghanistan, but Communist-occupied China, which way back in Vietnam did everything it could to "hook" American military men on heroin. See Stanton Candlin, Psycho-Chemical Warfare: The Chinese Communist Drug Offensive against the West, New Rochelle, N. Y., Arlington House, 1973.

I believe Dr. No is the right man for the job. In fact he is the only candidate who would do it.

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His first book, It's Very Simple: The True Story of Civil Rights, was an instant best-seller. His first novel, The Highest Virtue, set in the Russian Revolution, won smashing reviews and five stars, top rating, from the West Coast Review of Books, which gave five stars in only one per cent of its reviews.

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More On Carol Gotbaum's Death In Police Custody

gunnyg — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:21:11 CDT

More On Carol Gotbaum's
Death In Police Custody
From Joseph Ehrlich
Sender Berl & Sons
10-16-7 Updates

Carol Gotbaum's Message to America

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.The New York Times seems to have confirmed what I always knew: "After Ms. Gotbaum was taken to the holding cell, officers tried to read her her Miranda rights as she was screaming and yelling. She was left in the holding cell. Officer Woyna told investigators that he returned three or four minutes later after she had stopped screaming, found her unconscious and immediately sought help.

Ms. Gotbaum was unchained and Officer Woyna tried chest compressions and mouth-to-mouth resuscitation - even after she vomited into his mouth." Ehrlich: My opinion is that Woyna never left the holding area and that his "heroic" efforts were to cover for the wrongdoing that took place in his dealing one on one with a woman chained in front of him who would not bow to his rule.

The airline and airport will pay dearly for Gotbaum had a reserved ticket for the flight, was there on time, and she was not only denied access to the next flight, they wouldn't even let another kindly passenger offer her his or her seat on the flight so she could travel as she thought her reservation guaranteed. The final straw is that when she has an emotional reaction the carrier platform attendants call the police who react as though she was a terrorist on the loose.

Then when she is not compliant with those no doubt trained directly or indirectly by Blackwater personnel she either submits or face dire consequences. I am sure Woyna did not intend to do her harm but I am equally sure that he had an equal emotional reaction to Gotbaum's demeanor as she had to the carrier's.

The irony is that the innocent person dies and the parties really guilty of wrongdoing live and may even receive Moabite protection. Look at the following from the 108 page report. By the way, I could not find one reference to the mouth to mouth resuscitation (however, I read through the pdf file quickly):

Ehrlich: the underscoring is in the original. What the above shows is that she was not given her rights. It also makes no reference to the "heroic" mouth to mouth effort. It also highlights that she was truly chained like an animal to support submission on her part. Ehrlich: Notice no mouth to mouth in the account below... Ehrlich: The next report backfires on the Phoenix police...it shows she was not trying to get out of the handcuffs (but it shows that she was alone which I think is a lie). I really think the truth of what happened to Gotbaum in that cell is awful and the police there are circling the wagon because they all otherwise would lose their jobs. It is inconceivable that all these reports do no highlight the mouth to mouth effort or in fact hardly mention Woyna at all.

Notice how the writer says that both the writer and officer may walked outside to help direct the fire department to the office. I guess it takes more than one police office to point. What the writer did is that himself right out of the picture. Moreover, the narratives do disclose that a male officer originally wanted to search Gotbaum but she screamed for a female police officer.

I don't know how the Phoenix police run things but I can only tell you that all these narratives do not ring true at all to me. I think that when Carol Gotbaum died she thought she first passed through hell. Ehrlich: The initial reports had seven officers in the detention area and suddenly each report shows that they were doing their jobs and not drinking coffee or having their doughnuts. Circle the wagons. ===

Here is the entire NY TIMES article Ehrlich: What can I tell you but that the article is dated October 5 2007. I never saw it and I searched for the disclosure all over the place... Report Details Series of Desperate Calls by Gotbaum's Husband October 5, 2007, 3:28 pm By Sewell Chan Noah E. Gotbaum, the husband of Carol A. Gotbaum, with an unidentified friend of the family, departing Sinai Mortuary in Phoenix after claiming his wife's body on Thursday. (Jack Kurtz/ Associated Press/The Arizona Republic) Updated, 11:20 p.m. |

A 108-page set of documents from the Phoenix Police Department includes transcripts of a series of desperate phone calls that Carol A. Gotbaum's husband, Noah, to the authorities in the airport there last Friday. (It turns out those calls came too late to help her, according to a police chronology provided later.)

The documents also included statements from 15 witnesses and five police officers who were present when Ms. Gotbaum was subdued and arrested for disorderly conduct after she missed a connecting flight to Tucson. Minutes later, she died in a police holding cell at the airport. (Mr. Gotbaum's stepmother, Betsy Gotbaum, the New York City public advocate, discussed Carol's struggles with alcoholism and other details of her life in an extensive interview for an article published this evening.)

The 108 pages [pdf] reveal new details in the case. The mysterious circumstances of the death prompted the Gotbaum family to call for an official investigation and to commission an independent autopsy. On Thursday, the Phoenix Police Department defended its handling of the case and said its officers did everything possible to try to revive Ms. Gotbaum after finding her unconscious on a bench to which her handcuffs had been shackled.

The police also released a video of the arrest, which showed Ms. Gotbaum behaving erratically as officers subdued her. The phone calls from her husband, Noah E. Gotbaum, show that he repeatedly tried to alert the police about the emotional state of his 45-year-old wife, but that his first call was not received until after she was already dead.

The police have said that they were not aware of her personal issues - including her emotional disturbances and alcohol addiction - when they detained her. In one call, shortly after she was arrested, Mr. Gotbaum told an emergency dispatcher in Phoenix that "a very close family friend," David Watson, was supposed to meet Ms. Gotbaum at the airport and assist her.

"I've said it before and I'm actually quite unhappy that I have not heard back, because the police don't really understand what they're dealing with right now and no one has called me, but he does, David understands and David will be in Terminal 4 or wherever the police are in about five minutes," Mr. Gotbaum told the dispatcher. (It is not clear if Mr. Watson, who lives in the Phoenix area, ultimately showed up at the terminal.) At another point, Mr. Gotbaum described his wife as "suicidal" and said she had abused alcohol.

"The police have to understand that they're not dealing with someone who's just been drinking on flight and acting rowdy," he said. "That's not what's going on here." Later, he said his wife needs to be handled "with very kid gloves." In another conversation, Mr. Gotbaum told dispatchers that his wife was in "a very, very fragile mental state." And Mr. Gotbaum, frustrated that the police were not telling him more details about his wife's arrest and detention, told a dispatcher, "This is a very dangerous situation we're in right now."

At the end of the call, he called the situation a "medical emergency" and pleaded, "I suggest that someone give me a call immediately!" The documents also include detailed statements from witnesses and police officers. Thomas Greenlaw, a checkpoint supervisor for the federal Transportation Security Administration, described Ms. Gotbaum as being "out of control" and "screaming and waving," according to the police narrative of the interview.

Mr. Greenlaw said Ms. Gotbaum repeatedly yelled, "I'm not a terrorist." Erik A. Iversen and Matthew Detras, other T.S.A. employees, told investigators that Ms. Gotbaum used several expletives as she was subdued. Officer Andrew Woyna, who made the arrest, told investigators that the decision was made to charge Ms. Gotbaum because she would not calm down. She was detained on the third floor of the terminal and taken to the police holding cell on the second floor. Ms. Gotbaum resisted as the officers removed her.

"She was fighting them as they tried to walk her to the elevators," an investigator wrote, based on Officer Woyna's statement. "He explained that she would try to dig/drag her feet so they could not walk her to the elevator. When they were on carpet she could resist walking, but when they were on the tile floor she had no traction and slid quickly across the floor. He said that it was because of her nylon socks and no shoes that she could not stop or resist being taken to security." After Ms. Gotbaum was taken to the holding cell, officers tried to read her her Miranda rights as she was screaming and yelling.

She was left in the holding cell. Officer Woyna told investigators that he returned three or four minutes later after she had stopped screaming, found her unconscious and immediately sought help. Ms. Gotbaum was unchained and Officer Woyna tried chest compressions and mouth-to-mouth resuscitation - even after she vomited into his mouth. Officer Woyna and another officer, Jason Toth, tried to revive Ms. Gotbaum with an automated external defibrillator. They were unsuccessful.

Emergency medical workers from the Fire Department eventually replaced the officers. They, too, could not revive Ms. Gotbaum. A third officer, Duane Rigg, stated, as did the other officers, that "they did not strike her, use chemicals or Taser to take her into custody." Two other officers, Terri Klepper and Dick Richards, also provided statements.

Ms. Gotbaum was pronounced dead at 3:29 p.m. on Sept. 28. An autopsy was conducted this week by the Maricopa County medical examiner's office. The death investigation is not complete, but the newly released documents reveal that there were finger marks and bruises on her right bicep, likely caused by the officers as they restrained her.

The medical examiner, Dr. Ann Bucholtz, found "green discoloration on the right pelvic area from natural causes following the death," which were not the result of an injury. Dr. Bucholtz did not find broken blood vessels or fractures on the body or anything obstructing Ms. Gotbaum's airway. John Eligon contributed reporting from Phoenix.
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The Shifting Ethics of Law Enforcement

gunnyg — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 05:05:42 CDT

THE SHIFTING ETHICS OF THE LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMUNITY
By Jim R. Schwiesow

October 18, 2007
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As I write this article the particulars are unfolding of the killing of six young people, and the critical wounding of another by a rampaging full-time Wisconsin deputy sheriff who also moonlighted in his off hours as a municipal police officer. To function in several law enforcement capacities is a fairly common practice among law enforcement officers. It is not my intent to indict an entire profession on a single incident of mass murder by one of its members, but it is high time that we as a nation confront that which has gotten to be most threatening and serious in regard to the increasing militancy and the us against them mentality of too many of those who make up the law enforcement community.

Recently a reader of my columns wrote to me in regard to this very problem and urged that I write a column to address the issue. She wrote in part, "we are now witnessing a further result of the unconstitutional destruction of the separation of jurisdictions between levels of enforcement authority. Local law enforcement officers are freely using brutal tactics, not to protect the citizens, but to maintain and further the corrupt, illegal, lying, and murderous status quo. The emerging youthful beardless boys of arrogant police agencies who have had no training in, and evidence no regard for, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights compound this condition.

Despite all their new equipment, massive arsenals, body armor, and federal monies, these brave new police enforcers will hide behind trees, buildings, vehicles, and obey incredible orders to stand down instead of attempting to rescue a disarmed and meek citizen or citizens being slaughtered by some crazed individual or by another freaked out 'law' agency conducting raids upon unsuspecting and often totally innocent people. Those who resist in any way these incursions are murdered wholesale and burned out.

When I see horrifying events like these, I remember the totally different attitude and valiant actions by far less equipped and far more exposed police officers actively and courageously risking their lives, trying to pull the wounded and dead victims to shelter, while a law-abiding and armed citizenry helps to pin down a sniper so the police could work their way into a building to end that tragedy as fast as possible."

This lady has very astutely identified the increasing hostility and the shift in ethics and principles of all too many in the law enforcement community. She also quite correctly identifies the corrosion of the profession and the corrupting influence of the federal government, which should have no control or ascendancy over local law enforcement agencies.

Lest one think that this is just sour-grapes by a civilian who resents the authority of law enforcement officers it is necessary that I mention the fact that I receive letters from active and retired members of the law enforcement community who echo this writers thoughts and outrage in regard to the deterioration of the law enforcement fraternity. A recently retired police officer wrote the following, "The current compliment of young officers contains too many who are arrogant, undisciplined and sadistic in the performance of their duties. They have little or no regard or respect for the rights of ordinary citizens and often deprive them of their dignity as human beings with their roughshod tactics."

Just as the volunteer and paid military personnel of today no longer resemble greatly the conscripted civilian servicemen who stormed the beaches of Normandy and slogged their way across Europe or the valiant civilian turned warriors who fought through steamy jungles and assaulted the beaches of various enemy held Pacific islands, the law enforcement officers of today bear little resemblance to their counterparts of yesteryear. These were aptly called peace officers and they served as the protectors of their fellow citizens under the most humble of circumstances in regard to pay and remunerative benefits.

The difference between those who served in the law enforcement ranks forty to fifty years ago and those who serve today is evidenced by the fact that the mindset of the officers of the past and those of the current crop, in regard to service to the public, are miles apart. It irritates me to no end to see the decals on today's patrol cars, which declare that the occupants "serve and protect". Indeed actions speak louder than words or decals on a car, and all too often today the actions of police officers are in conflict with the self-serving words displayed on their cruisers.

To be totally honest I have to point out that this changed paradigm is not just confined to the police services. It is a reflection of the great degradation of morals and personal ethics that had washed over this country and sucked the young into a malevolent maelstrom of degeneracy. If it feels good do it, if it titillates the senses do it, if it adversely affects others too bad. This has gotten to be the creed of a large number of people in this country, and we are paying a very heavy price indeed for this slide into immorality. The quality of not being in accord with proper standards of right and good conduct is pulling society down on all levels and unraveling the ethical standards of too many of our once solid professions. Nowhere is this more evident than in the law enforcement profession today.

It used to be that candidates for positions in law enforcement were simply selected for recruitment on the basis of their moral and ethical standards in the community. They were interviewed and then carefully chosen acquaintances, past employers, neighbors, former teachers and other community leaders were sought out and queried as to their observations of the individuals who were being considered for these important positions. The law enforcement administrator of the agency was the ultimate and final authority on whether or not a candidate was hired. It was a simple process that worked remarkably well as is attested by the quality of those that were hired. Once they were on board their superior officers were in a position to assess their capabilities and their suitability for the various special functions within the department. And they did not need civil service commissions to direct, dictate or assist them in the process.

Through the years the criteria for the selection of law enforcement candidates and the mandatory prerequisites for the hiring and training thereof changed drastically when state legislative bodies turned the process over to the bureaucrats. There is absolutely nothing that bureaucrats cannot screw up, and they have done a magnificent job of screwing up law enforcement.

These perpetual meddlers in all things determined that candidates should be psychologically tested before even being considered for a law enforcement position. Generally the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory test referred to as the MMPI is used to determine if a candidate is personally qualified to function as a law enforcement officer. The test consists of 567 true or false questions regarding the candidate's likes, dislikes, personal habits and predilections, which purportedly enables an evaluator to make a determination if a candidate is a nut case or is well adjusted. Some of the questions restrict a candidate's ability to provide other than one answer to a question that presents multiplex possibilities. For example candidates are asked if they like little boys better than little girls or conversely if a candidate likes little girls better than little boys. He may like little boys and little girls equally well, but he is not given that option. There are some very strange questions on the test, and I recall the absolute dismay of the sheriff of a fairly large county over the fact that his candidates were being queried as to whether their feces was light colored or black and tarry. The sheriff was in a state of apoplexy, as he furiously demanded to know what dark stools had to do with whether or not a candidate was suitable for employment. Maybe, he opined, we ought to require stool samples as a prerequisite for the hiring of new officers.

Recently in Delaware a young freshly and honorably discharged Marine, Sergeant Derek Hale, was beset by a police execution squad pursuant to an investigation of his association with a motorcycle gang, with which he had been working on a Toys for Tots project. Sergeant Hale was married and the father of two children who along with his wife witnessed his execution. The young man who had absolutely no criminal history and who had, by virtue of his unblemished history, been issued a concealed-weapons permit was minding his own business when the police goon squad screeched up. When the bewildered former Marine, who had been sitting on a front stoop, rose to his feet he was tasered and thrown to the ground. Paralyzed by the voltage he was unable to comply with an order to raise his hands so he was tasered again this time the voltage sickened him so that he vomited and further rendered him incapable of responding to the shouted commands of the storm troopers. In quick succession he was tasered a third time and when he was in a completely helpless and vulnerable state of being one of the brave members of the squad, a Lieutenant of the Wilmington Police Department moved in close and at point black range shot him three times in the chest, the .40 caliber slugs shredding his insides. May the infamy of this murderer follow him to his grave and beyond.

I can virtually assure you that this Lieutenant had been tested and found to be mentally sound and competent to perform police services. I also would venture to say that the deputy sheriff from Wisconsin discussed previously who cold bloodedly riddled the bodies of seven people with bullets had likewise been tested and found to be fit to serve his community as a certified and duly appointed law enforcement officer, so much for the fake science of psychology. If these officers are not nut cases - and their psychometric tests say that they are not - then it stands to reason they must simply be brutal and sadistic murderous thugs.

We have come to a point in this country where police death squads in coal scuttle helmets, black armor and jack-boots strike the same terror and fear into the hearts of innocent law-abiding citizens that their counterparts of the SA and SS did in Nazi Germany. All that is missing is a crooked cross upon their helmets.

How is it that the law enforcement profession has come to it present deplorable and damnable state of being? It is evident that the federal government and the bureaucratic agencies thereof have had a great and corrupting influence upon local law enforcement and that the meddling politicians on all levels of government are equally culpable. It cannot be contended that all law enforcement officers are inherent bullies and molesters of the people of their communities, but it can be declared that forces well beyond their control have molded many of them in that image.

The politicians and bureaucrats who comprise our governments on all levels have an insatiable lust for the people's money. They contrive at all times to tap into the fruits of the labors of the poor saps that have put them into the offices that they occupy. They have taxed everything that their people possess or hope to possess. Since their constituents have been taxed to the max they have turned, in their money mad intoxication, to other sources of revenues. One of these sources has been the fines and costs assessed for infractions of the millions of laws that they have put into place. Just as they have never met a tax that they didn't like they have likewise not crafted a law or administrative rule that did not meet their approval as a revenue maker. Every day the various governments haul in millions of dollars in totally unreasonable fines and costs from hapless citizens for minor infractions of one kind or another.

Law enforcement administrators will tell you, if they are honest, that they are subjected to considerable pressure from city councils and administrators, county boards and state legislatures to ensure a steady flow of monies into their treasuries through a heavy handed enforcement of misdemeanor statutes. The motor vehicle statutes are often the most abused in this regard. As a former law enforcement administrator I can attest to the truthfulness of that which I write in this regard.

Lawmakers have ingeniously built a clever innovation into the way that these spoils are dispersed and distributed. The gross take is proportionally allotted to the various government entities in the order of rank and importance much in the way that the gangsters dispersed their ill-gotten gains. I believe that the politicians and their pandering bureaucratic buddies have raised legal extortion and larceny to new levels. As I stated each government entity is allocated a percentage of the take in descending order, the state retains the lions share, as did Al Capone, and the remaining levels of government receive a cut of the balance.

Just as Al Capone and the other gangster lords had soldiers to make their collections so does the government, they are called policemen.

Most police agencies deny that they have in place a quota system, they are lying and they know that they are lying. They just use semantics to disguise or camouflage what is essentially a quota system. A state trooper explained his quota system to me thusly: "Each month I am scheduled for an evaluation as is every trooper in the organization. At the evaluation a computer printout of my monthly activity in regard to the citations that I have, or have not, written is presented. The commanding officer conducting the "evaluation" goes over every statute in the motor vehicle code and sternly draws my attention to the statutes for which I have written few or no citations. Protestations to the effect that I did not observe violations being committed in these areas hold no water with my superior. I am admonished that in future evaluations there had better be some increased activity in these areas or else. I am left to my own devices as to how to generate such activity, which in essence means that I have to either fake it or be left to face the consequences."

We have reached an execrable state of being in regard to the state of law enforcement in this nation today. When law enforcement people are forced into dishonesty and when individual officers are transformed into sadistic bullies and more, we have much to fear.

I am apolitical, but I have to close this out with the following admonition. We are on the final leg of a journey into perdition. I am thoroughly convinced that our Creator would be absolutely justified should He rain destruction upon this fallen nation, and I expect it momentarily. If there is in fact no move toward repentance we will have no one to blame for our demise other than ourselves. We need to get our house in order and we need to do it this very moment not tomorrow, not next week, not next year, it has to be done now! We must start with our own lives then we need to move to quickly clean out every last rotten and corrupt public official in this nation, from the top to the bottom. I wish that the elections were tomorrow because our time is critically short. If we elect any of the candidates other than Ron Paul we are destined for the pit. There are none on the Democratic side who are morally upright, and only several on the Republican side who are ethically fit. Ron Paul is not only morally upright and ethically fit, he is constitutionally correct and he is our last best hope in 2008, if we make it that far.

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gunnyg — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 04:13:49 CDT

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Manhunt ensues as Marshals search for alleged "hit list"

Paul Joseph Watson
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Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Armed federal agents paid a visit to blogger Michael Hampton's home on Friday, detaining everyone inside the house for 90 minutes, to ask questions about an alleged hit list of federal judges in relation to supposed revenge attacks in the aftermath of the Ed and Elaine Brown arrests.

The visit was part of a manhunt taking place in and around Manchester, New Hampshire, which also ensnared members of the Free State Project who had protested on behalf of the Browns.

"Marshal John Bolen of the U.S. Marshals Office of Protective Intelligence traveled to Manchester, N.H., to investigate threats of violence allegedly made against Steven McAuliffe, a federal judge in the district court in Concord, and other federal officials in the area. He brought along with him other marshals and agents who would only say that they were with the Treasury Department," writes Hampton in his account of the incident.

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In the following You Tube video, Dave Ridley traveled to Hampton's home in the immediate aftermath of the incident in which armed federal agents wearing body armor demanded answers about alleged plans for violent revenge attacks despite the fact that Hampton has never advocated violence in any of his blogs about the Brown case.

Feds made it clear to those detained that if any violence did later occur "it would be on their heads." Later, plain clothed Marshals arrived at a local bar to question Ivy Ancram about her roommate, Rob Jacobs, who the feds were seeking regarding the alleged plot to kill government agents. After telling the feds that she didn't know where Jacobs was, the officials warned her that she could be arrested if she was lying or withholding information and also offered her cash in return for information on Jacobs' whereabouts, according to Ancram.

Marshals told Ancram that if Jacobs did not contact them within 24 hours they would put out a warrant for his arrest. Jacobs later returned to Manchester and arranged to meet with the Marshals but they failed to show up. Hampton questioned the Feds on why they chose to visit the home of a blogger who has never advocated violence in light of a new report criticizing marshals for their failure to protect federal judges and investigate genuine threats of violence against them.

"A report (PDF) released Wednesday by the Department of Justice Inspector General found that marshals' efforts to protect federal judges had "languished," with growing backlogs of threats to be assessed and investigated, and improper assessment of threats leading to misallocation of resources," writes Hampton. "So, apparently unable or unwilling to face the people who have said they want to shoot government agents, they came to my house instead. And misallocation of resources certainly seems to describe Friday's incidents," he added. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Meanwhile, Ed Brown remains "in transit," leading many of his supporters to fear he is being mistreated or tortured. However, Steve Monier, U.S. marshal for New Hampshire, is set to disclose the location of the prison at which Brown will begin his 63 month as early as today, according to reports.

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