Canada To Change Airport Procedures After Taser Death

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The border authorities say they will change procedures to assist arrivals of foreign nationals but there is scant mention, in fact there is no mention of their taser policy.

How many more have to die before it is accepted that tasers are lethal?

Canada's Border Services Agency says it will change its operation at Vancouver airport following the death of an immigrant stunned with a police Taser.

Robert Dziekanski's final moments were captured on video by another traveller and the recording sparked outrage when it was broadcast two weeks ago.

Mr Dziekanski, 40, was Polish and spoke no English. He was declared dead at the scene by an emergency medical team.

It is the first time the agency has spoken about the 14 October incident.more

Then there is this fine piece of kit, just how indiscriminate does it get, and the IQ of the bugger that would pull the trigger doesn't bear thinking about.
Don't let your dear old Ma go on any peace protests.

With the push of a button, Shockwave deploys multiple TASER Cartridges oriented across an area arc to provide full coverage to simultaneously incapacitate multiple personnel standing within that region. The baseline Shockwave unit is a command activated, 6-shot device that covers a 20 degree arc with the 25ft XP TASER Cartridges. When activated,......more and watch the promo video while you're there.

But the multi shot pales in comparison to this piece of 1984/scifi weaponry being developed in France.

French reveal Plans For Taser Flying Saucer

A French businessman tells AFPhis company is working on putting TASER stun guns on a flying saucer that would zap protesters, evil-doers, and anybody else that authorities there don't like. Antoine di Zazzo, identified by AFP as "one of the biggest Taser representatives" outside the United States, said his company is "developing a mini-flying saucer like drone which could also fire Taser stun rounds on criminal suspects or rioting crowds. He expects it to be launched next year and to be sold internationally by Taser."more There are numerous taser related links from this site.

Officer Not So Friendly: Taser Tales

I actually stopped covering Taser stories years ago. To keep up with all the tales of Taser abuse, not only would you need a dedicated blog, you would need your own server.

Police Taser Brutality: Blind Woman Tasered In Her Own Home

I’ve been a bit quiet on the subject of Taser torture, Taser murder and police brutality of late. It’s because it makes me so mad when I see ordinary people abused by ignorant out-of-control cops that I fear my already too high blood pressure may blow a gasket.

But in replying to a comment from somebody who is either one such described above or a self deluded supporter of same low-life, I got to research the subject again. Now I am not suggesting that all cops are ignorant, sadistic low-life. But the more I research, the more I read and almost every time I come into contact with cops (yes, here in England too) even to ask directions I have to conclude that a good cop is an exception.

By researching a reply to this comment from ‘Holbrookite’, I came across the following video of an innocent, unarmed, disabled and BLIND woman who apparently was a threat to the cops who knocked at her door. Lying sadists! More The Duckshhoot




Police Taser Brutality: Cowardly Cop Tasered 81-Year-Old Disabled Man Three Times

Stockton, Calfornia. Eighty One year-old Victor Schiaffini a disabled man who has suffered six strokes was forced to the ground and Tasered three times. The incident happened on July 29, 2009.

Mr Schiaffini has lost the use of his left arm due to the strokes and walks with the aid of a cane. He also takes several prescription drugs every day and yet this cowardly cop from the California Highway Patrol (CHP) chose to use a Taser to “subdue him”.

The CHP claims he attacked an officer with a deadly weapon, namely his walking cane. They arrested him and took him to San Joaquin County Jail where he remained for three days.

Victor Schiaffini who pleaded guilty to an infraction (probably just to get out of jail) is now considering filing an excessive use of force complaint. More The Duckshhoot

Taser The Citizens Not

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A big article with lots of good links.

Hardly a week goes by without our being inundated with shocking reports of police using tasers to subdue citizens. Taser guns shoot darts that apply a violent electric shock in excess of 50,000 volts when the needles from tasers penetrate the skin of victims. I have watched a number of taser incidents....more

London's Met Issued With Tasers

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Just read the spin.

From Monday, the Metropolitan Police will issue Taser stun guns to previously unarmed officers, becoming the tenth force to join the Home Office pilot. To demonstrate the benefits, the Met opened its training centre to the media last week.

How do you stop a man with adrenaline surging through his veins and a knife in his hand?

If you've already bent his wrist to breaking point, hit him with an iron bar and piled every man you've got on top of him, what is left?

That's the dilemma the police face every day and that's why they say they need Taser stun guns.more

Then read the reality, OK I grant you these are mainly US examples, plod would never abuse taser use I'm sure.

Cops Love Tasers: Not Half as Much as They Love Power

Although there is a Taser tag on this blog, I stopped reporting cases of Taser abuse years ago. The alternative, if one was to report Taser abuse properly, was to run the risk of ending up with a single issue blog.

Without even going to the trouble of searching a Google result, I know such dedicated blogs exist, But on this one occasion I shall run with this story, it being bad enough in its own right to warrant attention, but it is for another reason that I run with it.

Sat one above the other on an email alert for today, was the story in question, and another story that I really liked the look of. That I don't possess an iphone myself, my lifestyle these days hardly warranting one, is academic, nevertheless I did like the sound of this particular app. Read about it here, or as a dedicated post above.

To this day I regret not bookmarking the story, and no amount of subsequent searching has ever brought the story to light, although it spoke much about the misuse of Tasers, it spoke volumes about the quality of person to whom these deadly pieces of kit are issued, vis: those possessed of an authoritarian attitude combined with the intellect of a falling rock; the cops.

The story then, so little in its telling, but worthy of much reflection.

Man dies sitting in his car, cop comes along and Tasers him.

And I ask you please, just take a moment and run the scenario through your mind.

Cops Just Love Those Tasers
by Kevin Koeninger
June 30, 2011

Dayton police "mistook" a mentally handicapped teenager's speech impediment for "disrespect," so they Tasered, pepper-sprayed and beat him and called for backup from "upward of 20 police officers" after the boy rode his bicycle home to ask his mother for help, the boy's mom says.

Pamela Ford says her "mentally challenged/handicapped" son Jesse Kersey, 17, was riding his bike near his Dayton home when Officer Willie Hooper stopped him and tried to talk to him.

The mom says that "Prior to the incident described below, defendant Hooper knew Jesse and was aware that Jesse was mentally challenged/handicapped and a minor child."

Nonetheless, Ford says, Hooper "apparently took Jesse's speech impediment for disrespect ... [and] began yelling at Jesse and after Jesse attempted to communicate with him[.] Jesse, being a minor and mentally challenged/handicapped, turned and rode his bike back to his home in an attempt to ask his mother, Ford, to help him communicate with defendant Cooper," according to the complaint in Montgomery County Court. On the way, the mom says, "A neighbor attempted to communicate with Officer Hooper about Jesse's disabilities and was told to go back into his home, or he would be arrested."

As Ford opened her front door, she says, Hooper and co-defendant Officer John Howard, "fired their Tasers, striking Jesse in the back with both probes."

"Once inside the house, defendant Hooper and defendant Howard began to struggle with Jesse, who was standing against the back door with his hands up in front of his face, saying 'Please quit, please quit.' "On numerous occasions, Ford and a family friend, Christopher Peyton, informed Officer Hooper that Jesse was mentally challenged/handicapped, and that Jesse did not understand what was happening," the complaint states. But the mom says the cops continued their assault: "Officer Howard utilized his Cap-Stun pepper spray and sprayed Jesse ... [and] struck Jesse with a closed fist in the upper chest area.

"Officer Howard utilized his ASP and repeatedly struck Jesse in the upper left side of his left thigh.

"Back-up units were requested to Jesse's house, wherein upward of 20 police officers from different jurisdictions were present.

"At no point, even after being advised of Jesse's mental challenge/handicap by Jesse's family and numerous bystanders, did defendant Hooper, defendant Howard, or any other police officer present, attempt to communicate with Jesse or explain in terms he could understand as to why Jesse was being chased.

"Jesse was handcuffed and hogtied before being placed in the back of a police cruiser.

"Jesse was charged with assault on a peace officer, resisting arrest, and obstructing official business."

However, "Jesse was declared incompetent by the Montgomery County Juvenile Court and the charges against Jesse were dismissed."

Jesse and his mom seek damages from the city and the two lead officers, for false imprisonment, false arrest, malicious prosecution, assault, battery, excessive use of force, infliction of emotional distress and civil conspiracy.

They are represented by Richard Boucher ICH

Cops Taser Unarmed Innocent Man In The Head

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No point in having power and not abusing it I guess.

Police fired a 50,000-volt Taser into the head of a 45-year-old company director who later proved to be unarmed and innocent. Daniel Sylvester, the owner of an east London security firm employing 65 staff to guard council offices, pubs and nightclubs, was driving home on October 20 when he was stopped by armed police because of "firearms related intelligence".

According to Sylvester, he got out of his car and was surrounded by officers, at least two of whom were carrying automatic weapons. Without warning, one officer fired a Taser into the back of his head which made him drop to his knees, he said. A second shock caused him to fall on his face, breaking a front tooth. A further six shocks made him wet himself and left him lying in the road in pain while the officers and sniffer dogs searched the car and found nothing.

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The Independent Police Complaints Commission has started an investigation....more

Taser The Little Children Not

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Nice.

Last week's use of a Taser stun gun on a handcuffed 14-year-old trick or treater is within Gwinnett County police policy, which has no age provision, police said.
The only protection in the policy is for pregnant women because it could induce labor.

So what about a 5- or 6 year old?

That's OK, according to Gwinnett police policy.

"People who are handcuffed are still a threat no matter what age," said Cpl. Illana Spellman, a Gwinnett County Police Department spokeswoman.more

Tasers R Safe. Tell It To The Deacesed

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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., Oct. 8 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists examining the safety of Tasers used by some law enforcement officers have found the devices are safe, causing few serious injuries.......

Two other subjects died after being shot by a Taser, but autopsy reports indicated neither death was related to the use of a Taser.!!!!!!!more

Americans Are Not Safe Anywhere From Police.

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America’s Police Brutality Pandemic
By Paul Craig Roberts



Roberts is a man after my own heart, he's usually right on the money, never more so than with this article and furnished with some good links.


How easily the situation ends up as it is today, the perfect breeding ground for such excesses is a nation divided. When organisations such as the ACLU are demonised by the right wing, the law and order crowd, the rednecks and others who haven't got the collective brains to realise that the ACLU is fighting for all Americans, and is in fact probably the most American institute in the country.

America’s Police Brutality Pandemic
By Paul Craig Roberts

Self-righteous Americans justify these monstrous crimes as necessary to ensure their own safety from terrorist attack. Yet, Americans are in far greater danger from their own police forces than they are from foreign terrorists. Ironically, Bush’s “war on terror” has made Americans less safe at home by diminishing US civil liberty and turning an epidemic of US police brutality into a pandemic.

The only terrorist most Americans will ever encounter is a policeman with a badge, nightstick, mace and Taser. A Google search for “police brutality videos” turns up........

Police forces have always attracted bullies with authoritative personalities who desire to beat senseless anyone who does not quake in their presence. (and correctional officers. me) In the past police could get away with brutalizing blacks but not whites. Today white citizens are as likely as racial minorities to be victims of police brutality.



Who is a terrorist? If the police and the US government have the mentality of airport security, they cannot tell a terrorist from an 86-year old Marine general on his way to give a speech at West Point. Retired Marine Corps General Joseph J. Foss was delayed and nearly had his Medal of Honor confiscated. Airport security regarded the pin on the metal as a weapon that the 86-year old Marine general and former governor of South Dakota could use to hijack an airliner and commit a terrorist deed.......more

Have Volts Will Taser

Home Of The Brave Land Of The Taser

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I would dearly like to know what kind of psychological assessment, if any, these inadequates go through before they are let loose with a firearm and a taser.

Jared Massey, 28, posted the nearly 10-minute long clip on YouTube two months after the confrontation with police took place along a rural stretch on a state road two hours east of Salt Lake City.

In it, John Gardner, the officer, is shown on his own dashboard camera as he approaches Massey's SUV and tells him that he pulled him over for speeding in a 40 mph zone.

Massey and the officer have a brief dispute over speed limit signage before Gardner returns to his cruiser to write the ticket. He then approaches Massey and the two again engage in a dispute, with Massey claiming Gardner stopped him "blind" -- without a radar gun -- and that he had not yet passed a sign where the speed limit on the road dips to 40 miles per hour.more or video

Taser Death At Vancouver Airport : Video

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I reported on this tragedy a short while ago.
How Sad

The chap was a Polish immigrant without English, had taken his first ever flight that day and spent the next ten hours wandering round the secure baggage area after a snafu with the arrangements for him to be met. Understandably he was a tad frustrated.

Video footage has been released in Canada showing the last moments of an immigrant who died after being stunned with a Taser by police.

Robert Dziekanski, 40, of Pieszyce, Poland, was restrained by police after becoming agitated at Vancouver International Airport on 14 October.

Mr Dziekanski, who spoke no English, was declared dead at the scene by an emergency medical team. more

FBI Investigating Ohio Taser Cop

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I posted on this story featuring one of Ohio's finest stormtroopers tasering a handcuffed woman back in September, (story video and links, you really need to go there) well it would appear the fat son of a bitch has declined to testify against the woman he tasered for fear of implicating himself in an ongoing FBI investigation probing his behaviour.

I hope the Feebies nail the cocksucker to a fucking cross, and you might agree with me once you have viewed the video.

Charges were dismissed today against a northeast Ohio woman who was handcuffed and tasered by a patrolman whose actions were recorded by police dashboard video.

The Warren officer who arrested 38-year-old Heidi Gill outside a bar has been fired for lying to investigators in an unrelated traffic stop.


Richard Kovach had refused to testify against the tasered woman on the advice of his attorney. The FBI is currently investigating the matter, and Kovach himself may face federal charges.

A video made from a cruiser shows Kovach using a Taser on the woman as she screams and tries to kick out a rear window of the patrol car.

The officer got a two-month suspension in the stun gun case. more

A Fistful Of Dollars. That'll Do Nicely Says Bent Senoia Cop

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Oh my! no doughnut for you, hand in your taser.

A Senoia police officer who apparently targeted Hispanic drivers and robbed them during traffic stops was arrested Wednesday morning after he was caught stealing hundreds of dollars from an undercover GBI agent the night before, authorities said.

The officer, Charles Patrick Morgan, 40, was being held in Coweta County Jail. He has been charged with three counts of robbery and one count of violation of oath by a public officer.more

Have Volts Will Taser

Nice.

Officer on leave after Tasering woman

The police department in Warren, Ohio has placed an officer on administrative leave after he was accused of using a stun gun on a handcuffed woman. (AP/Sept. 20) video. You will have search "Officer on leave after tasering woman" I can't get a direct link to open.

Update

Might I suggest y'all have a read of this, both those that are suitable outraged by the above story and those that are eager to call the rest of us "sissy" and rush to the defence of their "Daddies" in blue.
How easily you give up your fundamental rights so your Daddies can protect you.

And you call us sissy.

There are links to tasering in the latter part of this previous post.

Places I Wouldn't Want To Live And People I dont Want To Meet: Utah And Cops

And here an unrelated short video.

The Militarization of Our Police

How Sad

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Taser death at Vancouver Airport

Akezys says: "Recently police at the Vancouver airport were attempting to question a recent immigrant that could not speak English. They tasered him after 24 seconds of speaking with him. The man had spent 10 hours stuck in the airport with no-one helping him."


The 40-year-old construction worker, who had never left Poland before, was immigrating to Canada to join his mother, 61, who lives in Kamloops, about a five-hour drive from Vancouver.

They had arranged to meet at the baggage carousel in the international terminal at YVR....

Mr. Dziekanski arrived at about 3 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 14.

"He made his way to primary customs in the ordinary fashion … he went through there in the normal time frame … he then proceeded through and was directed to secondary customs, which is normal for someone who doesn't speak English and is immigrating to the country," Mr. Kosteckyj said. His papers were in order and he proceeded without difficulty....more

"Schmidt, 25, has been relieved of his police powers"

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Kind of makes one wonder how he became empowered with any in the first place.

Must have passed the entrance exam I guess.

Cop in bar brawl Tasered

It took a Taser to subdue a Chicago Police officer who attacked two Forest Park cops Saturday night, authorities said.

Richard Schmidt, on the force two years and assigned to the Englewood District, faces felony aggravated battery charges for allegedly striking two Forest Park officers as well as a paramedic. Judge Gregory Ginex set Schmidt's bond at $10,000 on Monday.

"He wouldn't stop fighting," said Deputy Chief Thomas Aftanas of the Forest Park Police.more

Tyranny In The Heartland. Amerika's Stormtrooper Police

My focus on this article begins at the While Hilary was enjoying her rant. If you watch the video, you might ask yourselves, just what on earth were the cops trying to achieve? Other than throwing their weight about; because they could.

Then follows another article about Jose Guerena, who survived two combat tours of Iraq only to be shot to death by in his home by an invading swat team.

China: The New Bin Laden
By Paul Craig Roberts
May 11, 2011

George Orwell, the pen name by which Eric Blair is known, had the gift of prophecy, or else blind luck. In 1949 in his novel, 1984, he described the Amerika of today and, I fear, also his native Great Britain, which is no longer great and follows Washington, licking the jackboot and submitting to Washington’s hegemony over England and Europe and exhausting itself financially and morally in order to support Amerikan hegemony over the rest of the world.

In Orwell’s prophecy, Big Brother’s government rules over unquestioning people, incapable of independent thought, who are constantly spied upon. In 1949 there was no Internet, Facebook, twitter, GPS, etc. Big Brother’s spying was done through cameras and microphones in public areas, as in England today, and through television equipped with surveillance devices in homes. As everyone thought what the government intended for them to think, it was easy to identify the few who had suspicions.

Fear and war were used to keep everyone in line, but not even Orwell anticipated Homeland Security feeling up the genitals of air travelers and shopping center customers. Every day in people’s lives, there came over the TV the Two Minutes of Hate. An image of Emmanuel Goldstein, a propaganda creation of the Ministry of Truth, who is designated as Oceania’s Number One Enemy, appeared on the screen. Goldstein was the non-existent “enemy of the state” whose non-existent organization, “The Brotherhood,” was Oceania’s terrorist enemy. The Goldstein Threat justified the “Homeland Security” that violated all known Rights of Englishmen and kept Oceania’s subjects “safe.”

Since 9/11, with some diversions into Sheik Mohammed and Mohamed Atta, the two rivals to bin Laden as the “Mastermind of 9/11,” Osama bin Laden has played the 21st century roll of Emmanuel Goldstein. Now that the Obama Regime has announced the murder of the modern-day Goldstein, a new demon must be constructed before Oceania’s wars run out of justifications.

Hillary Clinton, the low-grade moron who is US Secretary of State, is busy at work making China the new enemy of Oceania. China is Amerika’s largest creditor, but this did not inhibit the idiot Hilary from, this week in front of high Chinese officials, denouncing China for “human rights violations” and for the absence of democracy.

While Hilary was enjoying her rant and displaying unspeakable Amerkan hypocrisy, Homeland Security thugs had organized local police and sheriffs in a small town that is the home of Western Illinois University and set upon peaceful students who were enjoying their annual street party. There was no rioting, no property damage, but the riot police or Homeland Security SWAT teams showed up with sound cannons, gassed the students and beat them.

Indeed, if anyone pays any attention to what is happening in Amerika today, a militarized police and Homeland Security are destroying constitutional rights of peaceful assembly, protest, and free speech.

For practical purposes, the U.S. Constitution no longer exists. The police can beat, taser, abuse, and falsely arrest American citizens and experience no adverse consequences.

The executive branch of the federal government, to whom we used to look to protect us from abuses at the state and local level, acquired the right under the Bush regime to ignore both US and international law, along with the US Constitution and the constitutional powers of Congress and the judiciary. As long as there is a “state of war,” such as the open-ended “war on terror,” the executive branch is higher than the law and is unaccountable to law. Amerika is not a democracy, but a country ruled by an executive branch Caesar.

Hillary, of course, like the rest of the U.S. Government, is scared by the recent International Monetary Fund (IMF) report that China will be the most powerful economy in five years.

Just as the military/security complex pressured President John F. Kennedy to start a war with the Soviet Union over the Cuban missile crisis while the US still had the nuclear advantage, Hillary is now moving China into the role of Emmanuel Goldstein. Hate has to be mobilized, before Washington can move the ignorant patriotic masses to war.

How can Oceania continue if the declared enemy, Osama bin Laden, is dead. Big Brother must immediately invent another “enemy of the people.”

But Hillary, being a total idiot, has chosen a country that has other than military weapons. While the Amerikans support “dissidents” in China, who are sufficiently stupid to believe that democracy exists in Amerika, the insulted Chinese government sits on $2 trillion in US dollar-denominated assets that can be dumped, thus destroying the US dollar’s exchange value and the dollar as reserve currency, the main source of US power.

Hillary, in an unprecedented act of hypocrisy, denounced China for “human rights violations.” This from a country that has violated the human rights of millions of victims in our own time in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Libya, Somalia, Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, secret CIA prisons dotted all over the planet, in US courts of law, and in the arrests and seizure of documents of American war protestors. There is no worst violator of human rights on the planet than the US government, and the world knows it.

The hubris and arrogance of US policymakers, and the lies that they inculcate in the American public, have exposed Washington to war with the most populous country on earth, a country that has a military alliance with Russia, which has sufficient nuclear weapons to wipe out all life on earth. The scared idiots in Washington are desperate to set up China as the new Osama bin Laden, the figure of two minutes of hate every news hour, so that the World’s Only Superpower can take out the Chinese before they surpass the US as the Number One Power.

No country on earth has a less responsible government and a less accountable government than the Americans. However, Americans will defend their own oppression, and that of the world, to the bitter end. ICH

Americans Are Living In 1984 by Paul Craig Roberts

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He Served the Empire Abroad; The Regime Killed Him in His Home
William Grigg
May 11 2011

Jose Guerena survived two combat tours of Iraq, only to become a casualty of the Regime’s longest war — the one waged against its domestic subjects in the name of drug prohibition. The former Marine was slaughtered by a SWAT team during a May 5 assault on his home in Arizona.

Guerena’s wife, Vanessa, heard a noise outside the couple’s home near Tucson at about 9 a.m. Jose, who had just gone to bed after pulling a 12-hour shift at the Asarco Mine, suspected — correctly, as it turned out — that his family was threatened by an armed criminal gang. Grabbing his AR-15, Guerena instructed his wife and four-year-old son to hide in the closet while he confronted the intruders. According to Mrs. Guerena, the stormtroopers from the Pima County Regional SWAT team never identified themselves as police; they simply stormed into the home and started shooting.

“I saw this guy pointing me at the window, Vanessa recalled in a television interview. “So, I got scared. And, I got like, ‘Please don’t shoot, I have a baby.’ I put my baby [down]. [And I] put bag in window. And, I yell ‘Jose! Jose! Wake up!’”

“A deputy’s bullet struck the side of the doorway, causing chips of wood to fall on his shield,” recounts the Arizona Daily Star, paraphrasing an account provided by Pima County Sheriff’s Office (PCSO) functionary Michael O’Connor. “That prompted some members of the team to think the deputy had been shot.” Guerna never fired a shot; the marauders who invaded his home fired no fewer than seventy-one. As is standard procedure in such events, the invaders claimed that Guerna had fired on the officers, as he had every moral and legal right to.

Neither Jose nor his wife had a criminal history of any kind. The attack on their home was described as a narcotics enforcement operation, but there are no reports that narcotics were found at the residence – - even though the invaders reportedly “seized” (that is, stole) something that belonged to the victim.

“Tucson is notorious for home invasions and we didn’t want it to look like that,” insisted PCSO spokesman O’Connor, exhibiting the dull-witted refusal to acknowledge the obvious that typifies tax-feeders of his station. He also maintained that the death squad “went lights and sirens and we absolutely did not do a `no-knock’ warrant,” a claim refuted by the only surviving witness, Vanessa Guerena. Such details are morally inconsequential, since there was no reason — apart from the institutional vanity of the PCSO and the indecent eagerness of the armored adolescents who compose its SWAT team — to conduct a paramilitary raid to serve a routine search warrant.

“I never imagined I would lose him like that, he was badly injured but I never thought he could be killed by police after he served his country,” lamented the wife of the murdered ex-Marine, who died on his feet, a rifle in his hand, and his face to an unexpected enemy. The grim but unavoidable truth is this: We shouldn’t be at all surprised that a Regime capable of sending Americans abroad to terrorize Iraqis in their homes would employ the same state terrorism against Americans here at home. LRC

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Gasbag Hillary Blasts China on "Human Rights"
By Mike Whitney
May 11, 2011

Is there anything more irritating than listening to US officials blabber about "human rights"?

I mean, really, doesn't it drive you crazy? Here's Hillary Clinton bashing China for their "deplorable" human rights record, and meanwhile Bradley Manning sits naked and freezing in a 6' by 8' cinderblock cell in some far-flung American gulag waiting to get fingernails yanked out. Can you see the hypocrisy?

And that's just for starters. What about Gitmo, Abu Ghraib, Bagram and the myriad other dungeons, concentration camps and black sites the US has scattered across the planet. Seriously, the United States is the biggest human rights abuser in the world today. No one else even comes close. Clinton's in no position to be giving other people lectures. more

And The Moon Is Made Of Green Cheese. Death of Carol Ann Gotbaum

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And yet another example of the power of the storm troopers run amok, handcuffs around the victims neck! stop please.



I guess the Taser marks or what ever else they did to kill the woman will show up with the autopsy.

She was late for a plane. She started yelling. She was taken into police custody.

She was handcuffed. She was put in a cell.

And then she was dead.

Yes, there is an explanation for what happened, but it’s a shocker given the fact that she was the mother of three young children, from a prominent New York City family, and she’s said to have died in a way that will raise some eyebrows until the autopsy is done — or perhaps if the matter winds up in court as part of a lawsuit: more,

CNN asks the question we all would, "How is it possible to get handcuffs around your neck?"video

Places I Wouldn't Want To Live And People I dont Want To Meet: Utah And Cops

Not wanting to meet cops is hardly a new thing and not wanting to live in Utah is only relatively new.
There are in fact a whole lot more places on the "Don't want to" list than are on the "Do," but ain't that true of everybody.
Why then Utah? probably because they are all so fucking Jesusy, and batshit crazy Jesusy at that, let's face it the LDS's run Scientologists a close second.



But doesn't the same apply to a couple of dozen other states you might ask? it surely do but Utah is the setting for this story so Utah it is. But that said the story is actually about cops.

Cops, I don't honestly believe that is a true description these days, paramilitaries is a far more befitting title to endow on these stormtroopers of the establishment.

I was in a bit of a quandary as to what heading to run with for this article, so I will run with the first alternative as a sub header.
Stop Complaining, At Least You Didn't Get Tasered.



Here then is the lead story of a fine example of the "Protect and Serve" pissed (drunk) with power state sponsored terrorists.



An Orem police officer is on paid leave after he handcuffed, fingerprinted and booked into jail a 70-year-old woman in a squabble over her lawn......... When she said she couldn't afford to water her lawn at 1568 S. 800 East the officer started to write her a ticket.......... Perry said the officer struck her in the face with the cuffs while he was restraining her. "He's just trying to cover his tracks,"..........more

The last two sentences of the article say it all, mission accomplished, get the citizenry living in fear.

That's the answer to these pigs, get 'em all running scared, even if it's a Seven year old boy and running scared this first grader is, as his momma explains in this second report.


"Now he's scared," said Lakisa Dinkins, Gerard's mother. "Now he's telling me, 'Ma, don't talk smart to White people, 'cause I [will] go back to jail."



Nice hey! why do I get the feeling that young kid is going to grow up an angry antisocial young black male who's destiny has now been writ.

But cuffing and fingerprinting little kids isn't the solely reserved for boys, you have to hand it to the pigs they are equal opportunity abusers of power as they demonstrate so clearly in the arrest of this felonious Six year old girl.



Could it be just a coincidence that both these kids are black? it would have been interesting to see how much shit would have hit the fan if the kids had been the little darlings of a white soccer mom.



So let us move on to Tasering, I shall only mention two cases, after all it would be impossible to bring to the fore the thousands of cases of abuse and at least One Hundred and Fifty deaths brought about by these ubiquitous pieces of kit. long list here

There is this case of a Six year old boy getting zapped to stop him "harming himself" say no more.

But pride of place in this catalogue of abuse must go to this little gem, the pigs wasting a Fifty Six year old woman sat in a wheelchair!



Ten shocks from a police Taser were enough to kill a wheelchair-bound Green Cove Springs woman whose death in a confrontation with two officers in April has been ruled a homicide but, according to prosecutors, justified....

Of course.

Homeland Born and Bred by Manuel Valenzuela

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As a blogger I have to sift through an awful lot of dross, but every now and then, if you will excuse mixed metaphors, a pearl turns up.

This pearl then in the form of one mighty piece of writing, the first of a promised three instalments, just a glimpse then from what is writ below. Bring on the rest.

Crisscross the land of the free and the home of the brave to see those who serve and protect abuse the people they serve. Tour Taser Nation, a land where authorities routinely inflict electroshock torture on the People, pulling the trigger first, asking questions later, as always enjoying inflicting pain and suffering on both innocent and guilty. Students, suspects, the infirm, the handicapped, pregnant women, motorists, the elderly, those asking questions, those protecting their rights and yes, now even children, all can be electroshocked into submission in a legalized form of torture that seems to grow by the day...........



It is here, in these rotting machinations of rusted iron, metal bars and decrepit institutionalization, of fetid squalor and sadistic reality, where America’s brigade of automatons makes its problems disappear, creating an entire state and privatized prison-industrial complex dependent on crime, guilt, sentencing and prisoners. It is inside these penal institutions that America’s sadists and authoritarian personalities work, brutalizing and torturing inmates, oppressing and exploiting individuals, fomenting racism and hatred.

It is here where America trains her torturers and her malevolent warriors, her “bad apples” and her fascist enablers,.............


Enter, if you will, the land of Christian soldiers and born-again leaders, a terrain belonging to the army of Jesus and to the vengeful, disastrous deity of Old Testament belief, marching off to victory with a cross in one-hand and an M-16 in the other; a nation of bible camps, bible conventions, bible thumpers and Bible Belts; of mega-churches, mega- proselytizers and mega-hypocrisy; of fanaticism and fundamentalism;more