tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-328691652017-04-13T04:47:24.324-06:00Pro LibertateObservations and commentary from a Christian libertarian perspective, written by a freedom-obsessed father of six children and husband to one exquisitely lovely wife.William N. Grigghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14368220509514750246noreply@blogger.comBlogger889125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-56322288596274813012017-03-12T21:43:00.001-06:002017-03-21T13:01:21.208-06:00A "Deal" to Protect the Guilty: Bonneville County's Indecent Proposal to Chris Tapp (IMPORTANT UPDATE, 3/21) <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings></xml><![endif]--><br /><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> 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src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-rpFe-P9s9t4/WMYNEWROXKI/AAAAAAAANJc/nWVTbecUm0kFMOEud65qa6Ifp1dZ-z-rgCLcB/s400/Inquisitor.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Danny Clark's 14th Century antecedent administers "justice." </span></b></i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"><br /><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">See the update below</span></i><br /><br />Idaho Falls resident <a data-mce-href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=5&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiw05nUqsfSAhVH32MKHcC0A0wQFggxMAQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.idahostatesman.com%2Fnews%2Fstate%2Fidaho%2Farticle57291558.html&usg=AFQjCNEIhE42zsgrvscjGdIpy6Zqntp6SQ&sig2=3kKIkvCEgMd6li0g86gc1Q" href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=5&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiw05nUqsfSAhVH32MKHcC0A0wQFggxMAQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.idahostatesman.com%2Fnews%2Fstate%2Fidaho%2Farticle57291558.html&usg=AFQjCNEIhE42zsgrvscjGdIpy6Zqntp6SQ&sig2=3kKIkvCEgMd6li0g86gc1Q">Christopher Tapp</a> has spent more than two decades behind bars for a murder he did not commit. He was convicted on the basis of a confession extracted from him through psychological torture -- a fact that even the Bonneville County Prosecutor's Office has now <a data-mce-href="https://www.scribd.com/document/323404608/Redacted-Investigation-Report-by-Stuart-Robinson#from_embed" href="https://www.scribd.com/document/323404608/Redacted-Investigation-Report-by-Stuart-Robinson#from_embed">grudgingly conceded</a>. Now Bonneville County Prosecutor Danny Clark is <a data-mce-href="https://www.scribd.com/document/341295128/Judges-for-Justice-Letter-to-Tapp" href="https://www.scribd.com/document/341295128/Judges-for-Justice-Letter-to-Tapp">reportedly</a>seeking a face-saving plea bargain on the eve of a judicial hearing that would exonerate Tapp.</span><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">No physical evidence or eyewitness testimony connected Tapp to the scene of the June 1996 murder of 18-year-old Angie Dodge. Idaho Falls Police Sergeant <a data-mce-href="http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2016/09/make-this-right-jared-help-free-chris.html" href="http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2016/09/make-this-right-jared-help-free-chris.html">Jared Fuhriman</a>, who was lead investigator, initially sought to bully Tapp into implicating a friend -- either Jeremy Sargis, whose family had the means to arrange for legal representation, or Ben Hobbs, who had been arrested in Nevada for rape. All three of these young men were excluded as suspects by DNA evidence.</span><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-R01VM_Wbd-I/WMYQ5pzP3iI/AAAAAAAANJs/8Vwqh0u0yk0DOQz4Jk6x-XJnQDK2AOsCwCLcB/s1600/Carol.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="248" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-R01VM_Wbd-I/WMYQ5pzP3iI/AAAAAAAANJs/8Vwqh0u0yk0DOQz4Jk6x-XJnQDK2AOsCwCLcB/s320/Carol.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A grieving heroine:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Carol Dodge. </span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Rather than following the evidence to a plausible suspect, Fuhriman and his comrades at the IFPD made do with the suspect that they had, isolating the 20-year-old from his family, and arresting him after his mother tried to contact an attorney. <br /><br />Polygraph examiner Steven Finn, systematically lying to the victim, convinced Tapp that he was being "untruthful" in denying involvement in the murder, and that unless he offered a "truthful" confession he would face the death penalty. Only by admitting to a "limited" role in a crime committed by others, Tapp was told, could he save his own life.</span><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Following a May 1998 trial replete with perjured testimony by Fuhriman and his colleagues, Tapp was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. At the time, Angie Dodge's mother Carol believed firmly in Tapp's guilt. Several years later, she examined the videotaped interrogations -- and has now become the <a data-mce-href="http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2016/09/do-you-know-who-killed-my-baby.html" href="http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2016/09/do-you-know-who-killed-my-baby.html">most passionate advocate</a> for Tapp's exoneration.</span><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"><br />There are <a data-mce-href="http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2016/11/justice-has-no-expiration-date.html" href="http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2016/11/justice-has-no-expiration-date.html">two separate appeals</a> underway on Tapp's behalf, both of which will be considered on April 25. The legal advocacy group Judges for Justice, which consists of retired judges, FBI investigators, and legal specialists, is preparing to present a detailed and overwhelming case for Tapp's innocence. In doing so, they will place before the court, and the public, an equally voluminous case for decades of criminal misconduct by Fuhriman (who was subsequently elected Mayor of Idaho Falls), his associates in the Idaho Falls Police Department, and the Bonneville County Prosecutor's Office.</span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2X_I0INvw6M/WMYRH9yi4rI/AAAAAAAANJw/2yt6zvG2aX4NybC5_7etF5ez98JaQSpLQCLcB/s1600/christopher-c-tap.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="168" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2X_I0INvw6M/WMYRH9yi4rI/AAAAAAAANJw/2yt6zvG2aX4NybC5_7etF5ez98JaQSpLQCLcB/s320/christopher-c-tap.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Tapp has been relocated to the Bonneville County Jail in Idaho Falls in anticipation of next month's hearing -- which means that Prosecutor Danny Clark and his minions will have more than a month to manipulate him into a plea bargain, which would be a bookend to compliment the process through which he was seduced into a false confession in January 1997.</span><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"><br />Twenty years ago, Fuhriman and his comrades wanted to close a murder case to avoid an institutional embarrassment. Now, they want to wring the last full measure of usefulness from their victim by having him accept a deal that will protect them at the cost of his exoneration.</span><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"><br />In a<a data-mce-href="https://www.scribd.com/document/341295128/Judges-for-Justice-Letter-to-Tapp" href="https://www.scribd.com/document/341295128/Judges-for-Justice-Letter-to-Tapp">letter </a>to Tapp, Judge Michael Heavey advises him that deal that would likely involve an Alford Plea – under which he would assert his innocence while admitting that the prosecutor could prove his guilt in court. This would allow Tapp to be sentenced to the time he has already served, and perhaps a brief term of probation.</span><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">“If you accept an Alford deal, then you spent 20+ years in prison for nothing,” Judge Heavey explained. "Fuhriman wins, [former Bonneville DA Kip] Manwaring wins, [assistant prosecutor John] Shindurling wins, Finn wins.... Chris Tapp loses 20 years."</span><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-smMWfeB5B34/WMYRQ-krkeI/AAAAAAAANJ0/-otxLIGEEm0qeL2sGvR1A5iFNEqZiSp2wCLcB/s1600/Fuhriman.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-smMWfeB5B34/WMYRQ-krkeI/AAAAAAAANJ0/-otxLIGEEm0qeL2sGvR1A5iFNEqZiSp2wCLcB/s320/Fuhriman.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">No better than a child molester: </span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Fuhriman.</span><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></b></i></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Anything short of complete exoneration “is a big loss for you,” Heavey advised him. “The prosecutor’s office has done everything they can to keep you in prison for the rest of your life, they are not honorable people. They have the leverage, for about one more month…. Don’t give in, you are an innocent man.”</span><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">The wrongful conviction of Christopher Tapp is just one of several cases -- such as the equally bogus double-murder <a data-mce-href="http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2016/10/lets-convict-him-and-get-it-over-with.html" href="http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2016/10/lets-convict-him-and-get-it-over-with.html">conviction</a>of Lanny Smith, and the utterly bizarre rape <a data-mce-href="http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2017/01/the-slow-motion-state-murder-of-michael.html" href="http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2017/01/the-slow-motion-state-murder-of-michael.html">conviction</a>of Michael Whiteley -- demonstrating the deeply dysfunctional nature of Bonneville County's criminal "justice" system. The Tapp case, however, poses the most acute risk to the county's political class: It has received national publicity, the victim is still a young man, he has influential advocates (including the murder victim's mother), and his exoneration would lead to a civil rights suit he would easily win.</span><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">This explains why the County is desperate to have Tapp sign a deal and seal up the matter before next month's hearing. In the fashion of the inquisitor presiding over William Wallace's torture at the climax of Braveheart, Prosecutor Danny Clark -- like his colleagues, a conservative and pious man -- are urging their victim to acknowledge their divine authority as a condition of being released from his agony.<br /><br />At one point during the lengthy (and, thankfully, video-recorded) process of manipulating Tapp into a false confession, Sergeant Fuhriman told the victim to look carefully at a religious icon the interrogator displayed as a tie-pin -- a figure of the Angel Moroni, who is revered as a divine messenger in the Mormon faith. Fuhriman explained to Tapp that he was a Mormon Bishop (a position broadly congruent with that of a parish priest) and assured his victim that he would act as his"guardian angel" -- while warning that he was also his "last hope."<br /><br />Fuhriman new that the DNA evidence at the murder scene had excluded Tapp. The police sergeant was also aware that Tapp's utter lack of familiarity with the specifics of that crime, or the scene where it occurred, meant that he was being maneuvered into a false confession. <br /><br />None of this mattered to Fuhriman, who -- with his comrades Steven Finn and Ken Brown -- preyed on the vulnerabilities of their captive, weaknesses that Furhiman had come to know when he was prowling the halls of the junior high school Tapp had attended several years earlier. <br /><br />Assistant prosecutor John Shindurling, who tried the case in May 1998, was present for an interrogation session during which Tapp's captors systematically fed him details of a crime with which he had nothing to do. Shindurling would later assure the jury that only through direct involvement in that crime could Tapp have known those details. Fuhriman himself would directly perjure himself on the witness stand by making the same claim. <br /><br />If Danny Clark were any part of a man, he would move to vacate Tapp's conviction, and seek appropriate punishment for Fuhriman and his accomplices in this monumental crime. <br /><br />In 1880, as her dispossessed people were being starved through the instrumentality of a corrupt Indian agent named James Wilbur, the heroic Sarah Winnemucca confronted that pious fraud. Wilbur, who was given to <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">religious</span> posturing, had accused Winnemucca of "putting the Devil" into the heads of the Paiutes by explaining how the agent had been making himself wealthy by embezzling money and supplies that had been promised to the desperate people over whom he had been given control.<br /><br />"Mr. Wilbur, you forget that you are a Christian when you can talk so to me," she told him in tones of well-earned, and tightly controlled, contempt. "You are starving my people here.... Everybody in Yakima City knows what you are doing, and hell is full of just such Christians as you are!" <br /><br />Danny Clark, Jared Fuhriman, and their co-conspirators have implicated themselves in one of the most egregious criminal injustices in the history of Idaho. Everybody who has studied the case knows what they have done, and are doing now -- and hell is full of such sanctimonious frauds as they are. <br /><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> <b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Update: The Bastards of Bonneville County Have Won</span></b></span></span><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />"A deal has been reached in the Christopher Tapp case," <a data-mce-href="http://www.postregister.com/articles/chris-tapp-coverage-featured-news/2017/03/20/lawyers-tapp-gets-deal-will-go-free" href="http://www.postregister.com/articles/chris-tapp-coverage-featured-news/2017/03/20/lawyers-tapp-gets-deal-will-go-free">reports </a>today's Idaho Falls Post-Register. Appellate attorney John Thomas, who will discuss the details of the arrangement today with prosecutor Danny Clark and Judge Alan Stephens in anticipation of a hearing tomorrow, says that Tapp will not admit guilt as part of the deal -- which means, most likely, that the innocent man will take an Alford plea. This would mean immediate release from prison -- but not from the underlying conviction. It would also protect Fuhriman and his accomplices in the kidnapping, torture, and theft of twenty years from Tapp.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />The rape conviction will be vacated; the murder charge will remain, and Tapp will still be required to pay "restitution" </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">for a crime he didn't commit. This means that rather than being compensate</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">d by Bonneville County for the theft of his life, Tapp -- a convicted felon with dismal employment prospects -- will probably spend the rest of his life as an indentured servant, </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">subject to wage garnishment and incarceration if he can't make the extortion payments required of him.</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Chris</span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">spent 20 years of his life convicted on a lie, and now he's being released to live the rest of his life as a lie because people who have power can justify this," <a href="http://www.postregister.com/articles/chris-tapp-coverage-news-daily-email-todays-headlines/2017/03/21/tapp-be-freed-after-20">observes</a> Angie's long-suffering mother, </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Carol Dodge. "They could care less what happens to Chris. All they cared about was having no liability." <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">There must be, and will be, accountability for the crimes committed by Fuhriman and his comrades. <br /><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><br /><i><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This week's Freedom Zealot Podcast also examines the most recent developments regarding Chris Tapp's wrongful imprisonment: </span></b></i><br /><br /><iframe frameborder="0" height="360" scrolling="no" src="http://app.stitcher.com/splayer/f/84897?el=1&refid=stpr" style="border: 0; height: 360px; overflow: hidden; width: 500px;" width="500"></iframe><br /><br /><i><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.libertarianinstitute.org/">Be sure to visit the Libertarian Institute</a> -- which will be publishing my forthcoming book on the Christopher Tapp case. </span></b></i></span><br /><form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" target="_top"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"><input name="cmd" type="hidden" value="_s-xclick" /><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"><input name="hosted_button_id" type="hidden" value="44Q65KW7R8CD6" /><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"><input alt="PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!" border="0" name="submit" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_donateCC_LG.gif" type="image" /><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" /></span></form><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"><br /><i><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Dum spiro, pugno! </span></span></b></i></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>William N. 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src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/--asd8ISVE4A/WL91iW-zRcI/AAAAAAAANIw/_DekL_SGWi4Rj_Eo-7BoVnL3JqtLFtNuwCLcB/s320/Christiana%2BHistory%2BMarker.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Actually, it was a righteous rebellion, not a mere "riot." </span></b></i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /><br />Given the rarity of the surname, it is likely that Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch is related to deputy federal marshal </span><a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjT--annMHSAhVN32MKHWNTATEQFggjMAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmsa.maryland.gov%2Fmegafile%2Fmsa%2Fspeccol%2Fsc5400%2Fsc5496%2F007000%2F007018%2Fhtml%2F007018bio.html&usg=AFQjCNGOmPJ-Uz43WTyYdNI7HWnT3-bBYg&sig2=Huu91DyLloh5mP-lJRXfAw"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Edward Gorsuch</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">, who was killed an in violent episode that left the nation shocked and terrified, and was an </span><a href="http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2001-09-11/news/0109110101_1_christiana-riot-edward-gorsuch-reconciliation"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">overture</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> to a long and bloody military conflict. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Deputy Marshal Gorsuch was 57 years old at the time he received his commission, and was </span><a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjYofa0nMHSAhVH32MKHcC0A0wQFggaMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.odmp.org%2Fofficer%2F20305-posseman-edward-gorsuch&usg=AFQjCNGXzDQ6VBWu9OOGW9CIpjOC7zd8SQ&sig2=UPweEzyLGw5b3EgKEBqLsw&bvm=bv.148747831,d.cGc"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">killed</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> on the second day of his service. The US Marshals Service deputized him on September 10, 1851 to enforce a warrant issued under the </span><a href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/FugitiveSlaveAct.html"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Fugitive Slave Law</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> to recover two human beings Gorsuch claimed as his property. He and Marshal Henry H. Kline, along with several other deputies, had the “law” on their side when they traveled to </span><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/02/the-freedmans-story/308793/"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Christiana, Pennsylvania</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">, bearing a warrant that authorized them to abduct four men who had freed themselves – and to conscript any white citizen they encountered to serve as accomplices in that act. <br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JloFjbBHto8/WL939H54dVI/AAAAAAAANI4/rxQd3Ys5MuIIl_ynekD6wvEUEmXmzwGuACLcB/s1600/Parker.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JloFjbBHto8/WL939H54dVI/AAAAAAAANI4/rxQd3Ys5MuIIl_ynekD6wvEUEmXmzwGuACLcB/s1600/Parker.gif" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">William Parker </span></b></i></td></tr></tbody></table></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Late in the evening of September 10, the kidnappers, who included at least two of Gorsuch’s sons, surrounded a two-story fieldstone home owned by </span><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1pM9dwq_AP0zfduYJ5UxFdxlI304&hl=en_US"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">William Parker</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">, a 29-year-old farmer and militia organizer who had escaped from slavery nine years earlier. Operatives of the Underground Railroad had warned Parker of the impending raid. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Gorsuch imperiously demanded the surrender of his former captives. When no answer came from inside the home, the marshals invaded the domicile – and were promptly driven out by the occupants, one of whom wielded a pitchfork. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Standing in the front yard of the home, the marshals read the warrants to Parker, who looked down on them contemptuously from a second-floor window.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“I don’t care about your warrant, your demands, or your government,” Parker replied. “You can burn us, but you can’t take us. Before I give up, you will see my ashes scattered on the earth.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“I want my property, and I shall have it,” bellowed Gorsuch, pretending as if words scribbled by a functionary on a piece of paper gave him title of ownership over other human beings. Realizing that such a claim would avail nothing with Parker, Gorsuch appealed to biblical passages enjoining servants to obey their masters. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Parker, who apparently knew the Bible better than Gorsuch, replied by citing </span><a href="https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Philemon"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">New Testament</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> verses teaching the </span><a href="http://biblehub.com/galatians/3-28.htm"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">equality</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> of all human beings before God. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Where do you see it in Scripture that a man should traffic in his brother’s blood?” Parker demanded of the deputy marshal. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Do you call a n*gger my brother?” Gorsuch exclaimed.<br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Yes, I do,” Parker defiantly replied. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The situation congealed into a standoff that lasted until daybreak. Shortly after dawn, Parker’s wife used a horn to summon help from Parker’s militia, who arrived bearing whatever weapons they could muster. The alarm also brought two local Quakers named Elijah Lewis, a shopkeeper, and </span><a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=7&ved=0ahUKEwj73ajdncHSAhUUSWMKHbXECdwQFghAMAY&url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn.loc.gov%2Fservice%2Fll%2Fllst%2F017%2F017.pdf&usg=AFQjCNFapBCqcEhiVdgb5ffwWT8lkJ6cHA&sig2=PbcDoinAodd9Da5n4wmBpw&cad=rja"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Castner Hanway</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">, a local miller. Both of these white men were well-known for their sympathies toward escaped slaves. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Relieved by the arrival of two white men, Marshal Kline waved his warrant in their face and told them that they were required to assist in the recovery of Gorsuch’s “property.” Once again, this demand was in harmony with what the federal government called the “law” – and when Lewis and Hanway replied that they would have no part in an abduction they were told that they were committing a federal “crime.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Surrounded, outnumbered, hungry, and humiliated, Deputy Marshal Gorsuch lost what remained of his composure.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“I have come a long way and I want my breakfast,” he snarled at Parker. “I’ll have my property, or I’ll breakfast in hell.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5wePimEW1w8/WL94K22pfdI/AAAAAAAANI8/xSS4IhMHgrEKcdOqEpXITE21yHsTXU0gACLcB/s1600/Dickinson%2BGorsuch.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5wePimEW1w8/WL94K22pfdI/AAAAAAAANI8/xSS4IhMHgrEKcdOqEpXITE21yHsTXU0gACLcB/s1600/Dickinson%2BGorsuch.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Dickinson Gorsuch</span></b></i> </td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Go back to Maryland, old man,” one of the black militiamen taunted Gorsuch.<br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Father, will you take all this from a n*gger?” asked his twenty-year-old son, Dickinson, who was part of the posse. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Parker snapped at Dickinson to keep a civil tongue, or he’d knock his teeth down his throat. Dickinson’s reply to Parker was issued by way of his revolver, inspiring a rejoinder delivered from a shotgun wielded by one of Parker’s associates. Dickinson fell, but he would survive. <br /><br />The posse opened fire on the home, but was very quickly swarmed by the militia. Gorsuch’s other son, Joshua, was beaten bloody, but escaped, along with the rest of their raiding party-- save one. The Deputy Marshal himself proved to be the only fatality. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It’s quite likely that several of Gorsuch’s accomplices in the attempted abduction would also have been killed, if not for the intervention of Lewis and Hanway, the two abolitionists they had threatened with arrest. Adamantly opposed to slavery but determined to save lives where possible, the two Quarters, at some substantial personal risk, dragged several wounded men to safety. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Within hours, tidings of the “</span><a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=15&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwj6idv4nMHSAhVX3GMKHf68BbcQFghkMA4&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.umbc.edu%2Fche%2Ftahlessons%2Fpdf%2FSlavery_and_Civil_Disobedience_Christiana_Riot_of_1851(PrinterFriendly).pdf&usg=AFQjCNEJTTvicr-M_vfABhkz826mZMJqgQ&sig2=vf-9Sdp1nAHo4zx2suYDHQ"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Christiana Riot</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">” had been dispatched throughout the country by way of telegraph, and a militarized task force composed of constables, federal marshals, and U.S. marines was deployed to comb the countryside in search of alleged co-conspirators. <br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XrMWmVrqRvU/WL94ZBVx0-I/AAAAAAAANJA/6Bc3xV4l0PY4eVFV45aIyNFQY6ybb0zkwCLcB/s1600/Tragedy%2Bat%2BChristiana.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="166" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XrMWmVrqRvU/WL94ZBVx0-I/AAAAAAAANJA/6Bc3xV4l0PY4eVFV45aIyNFQY6ybb0zkwCLcB/s320/Tragedy%2Bat%2BChristiana.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Tragedy at Christiana": Yes, it was called a "tragedy."</span></b></i> </td></tr></tbody></table></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“They spread out across the autumn countryside, forcing their way into the homes of blacks and whites alike, threatening anyone who was thought to have anything to do with the Underground Railroad, arresting scores of men on suspicion, with little concern for constitutional niceties,” recalls Fergus M. Bordewich in his book </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Bound-Canaan-Underground-Railroad-Americas/dp/0060524316"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Bound for Canaan</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">. “As one eyewitness put it, `blacks were hunted like partridges.’” </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Parker, knowing that he and his friends faced summary execution if the joint federal-state task force found them, gathered the fugitive slaves in his protection and took them, by way of the underground, to Rochester, New York, and he eventually emigrated to Canada. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In the U.S., where the Fugitive Slave Act had effectively nationalized the practice of chattel slavery, Parker was wanted for murder and “treason” for defending the right to self-ownership. In Canada, he and other black refugees could vote, own property, and enjoy due process protections on equal terms with Canadians of any other ethnic background. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Acting on the assumption that the blacks who repelled Gorsuch and his posse at Christiana were acting under the pernicious influence of white seditionists, the administration of Millard Fillmore </span><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=_ueWiEBrTq4C&pg=PA122&lpg=PA122&dq=Millard+Fillmore+Ashmead&source=bl&ots=ZR3tdJ-DKm&sig=fgKztslgY5P1WcQyNEMXCxYbP1I&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwihk8WSm73SAhXHzlQKHQBGAmwQ6AEINDAI#v=onepage&q=Millard%20Fillmore%20Ashmead&f=false"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">arranged</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> the indictment of 38 people for “levying war against the United States.” </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This would have been the largest </span><a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=5&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjEvI6jnsHSAhVN3WMKHRfhCW8QFggzMAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fstream%2Fchristianariot00hens%2Fchristianariot00hens_djvu.txt&usg=AFQjCNHzMjnMtHEjpUdzkQpmjdu6R8vVQw&sig2=8FcLpIL5ZLqqdXgl3sGKXw"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">treason trial</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> in American history, and the prosecution intended that it would put down the growing rebellion against the Fugitive Slave Law.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Resistance to that act was widespread in the northern states, several of which enacted “</span><a href="http://tenthamendmentcenter.com/2013/03/06/personal-liberty-laws-a-nullification-history-lesson/"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">personal liberty laws</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">” that nullified enforcement of the federal measure within their respective jurisdictions. This development prompted southern defenders of slavery – who just a few years later would invoke the heritage of 1776 to justify secession – to condemn as traitors those who undermined the sacred and imperishable Union. They had an ally in arch-unionist Massachusetts Senator Daniel Webster. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ArEbvEJyMHY/WL94p7jF1KI/AAAAAAAANJE/l404dyis6RgBGvdKt7S58QEbhjPNDNQkgCLcB/s1600/Seditionist.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="245" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ArEbvEJyMHY/WL94p7jF1KI/AAAAAAAANJE/l404dyis6RgBGvdKt7S58QEbhjPNDNQkgCLcB/s320/Seditionist.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“If men get together and combine, and resolve that they will oppose a law of the government, not in any one case, but in all cases; if they resolve to resist the law, whoever may be attempted to be made subject of it, and carry that purpose into effect, by refusing the application of the law in any one case, either by force of arms or force of numbers – that, sir, is treason,” bloviated Webster in a speech shortly before the trial. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The indictment against the Christiana defendants asserted that they “did traitorously assemble and combine against the United States” for the purpose of preventing “by means of intimidation and violence the execution of the said laws of the United States.” </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In December 1851, Hanway became the first to stand trial. His role in the events at Christiana was peripheral, but “the federal government felt that it had to convict a white man to avenge Gorsuch’s death in the eyes of Southerners,” explains Bordewich. That ambition was thwarted when the jury took all of fifteen minutes to acquit the pacifistic miller of all charges. The Fillmore administration made a desultory effort to prosecute other defendants during its final year. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">After Franklin Pierce assumed office in March 1853, he dismissed the case – but not the effort to enforce the Fugitive Slave Law. In 1854, Pierce deployed 1,600 troops to Boston in order to take into custody a man named Anthony Burns, who had escaped bondage in Virginia. Local abolitionists had liberated Burns from the custody of Deputy US Marshal James Batchelder, who was killed in the line of duty by citizens acting in the righteous defense of the life of an innocent man.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The names of both James Batchelder and Edward Gorsuch are </span><a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=5&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjYofa0nMHSAhVH32MKHcC0A0wQFggyMAQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Freason.com%2Fblog%2F2013%2F07%2F29%2Fdepartment-of-justice-honors-slave-catch&usg=AFQjCNEVOOMZUlzBoMkEMUeA_-hg1fe2Xw&sig2=HgdCkBa01A20KUfHlh8XXQ&bvm=bv.148747831,d.cGc"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">inscribed</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> on the honor (if that word applies) roll of US law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On September 11, 2015, Gorsuch received a heartfelt tribute from a fellow law enforcement officer. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-t-9XomMSoSA/WL940SzG25I/AAAAAAAANJI/1akrahc0WBsW7HICu7SF2OdObgRyLUnAACLcB/s1600/Tribute%2Bto%2BGorsuch%2Bfrom%2BBorder%2BPatrol%2BOfficer.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="136" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-t-9XomMSoSA/WL940SzG25I/AAAAAAAANJI/1akrahc0WBsW7HICu7SF2OdObgRyLUnAACLcB/s320/Tribute%2Bto%2BGorsuch%2Bfrom%2BBorder%2BPatrol%2BOfficer.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Sir, on today[,] the 164<sup>th</sup> anniversary of your death[,] I would just like to say thank you for your service and sacrifice to our Country,” wrote an anonymous member of the US Border Patrol in the “reflections” section of the Officer Down Memorial Page, which is devoted to “Remembering All of Law Enforcement’s Heroes.” </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">All law enforcement officers, we are insistently told, are “heroes,” even when enforcing government edicts that are morally unsupportable. Members of that fraternity of state-licensed violence regard the detestable likes of Batchelder and Gorsuch as their kin, as well they should. <br /><br /><i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This week's Freedom Zealot Podcast also examines the Christiana Rebellion: </span></b></i><br /><br /><iframe frameborder="0" height="360" scrolling="no" src="http://app.stitcher.com/splayer/f/84897?el=1&refid=stpr" style="border: 0; height: 360px; overflow: hidden; width: 500px;" width="500"></iframe><br /><br /><br /><i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Be sure to visit the <a href="https://www.libertarianinstitute.org/">Libertarian Institute</a>. <br /><br /><form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" target="_top"><br /><input name="cmd" type="hidden" value="_s-xclick" /><br /><input name="hosted_button_id" type="hidden" value="HV39Z2UELVKAJ" /><br /><input alt="PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!" border="0" name="submit" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_donateCC_LG.gif" type="image" /><br /><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" /></form><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Dum spiro, pugno! </span></span></span></b></i><br /><br /></span>William N. 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mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} </style><![endif]--> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1iNUq4TMp9I/WLZfnPFH2-I/AAAAAAAANH8/NOMttR7xoJU1TeUISMkwPMZ_5vieqorfACLcB/s1600/Shackled%2Bkid.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1iNUq4TMp9I/WLZfnPFH2-I/AAAAAAAANH8/NOMttR7xoJU1TeUISMkwPMZ_5vieqorfACLcB/s400/Shackled%2Bkid.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Somebody who would do this to a child should be horsewhipped, at the very least. </span></b></i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />Integral to the American concept of liberty is the right to hold the state at bay, which is why children are never too young to be taught to regard government employees with suspicion and defensive hostility. Some conscientious parents in Northampton, Massachusetts acted on that principle by demanding an end to a program intended to habituate public school inmates to the presence of police officers. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The local police department, acting on </span><a href="http://www.gazettenet.com/Cancelled-High-Five-program-at-Northampton-elementary-schools-causes-social-media-stir-8196705"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">an initiative</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> that originated with the International Association of Chiefs of Police, had dispatched officers to the local elementary school each week for an event called “High-Five Friday,” in which officers would exchange friendly greetings with cops who in practically any other context would treat such physical contact as a felonious assault on an officer. Police Chief Jody Kasper explains that she thought “it was a great way to start building relationships with young kids.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">That program was “paused” following complaints from a handful of parents who believe that it is the better part of wisdom to teach their children to avoid contact with the police, rather than seeking it out. In announcing the decision on his Facebook page, the department mentioned that “children of color, undocumented immigrant children or other children who may have had negative encounters with law enforcement” had expressed concerns about the program, which cued up the predictable reactions from the punitive populist faction. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Why don’t you toughen up out there in Northampton, all right?” </span><a href="http://www.gazettenet.com/-High-Five-Friday-snowballs-into-national-media-story-8283027"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">eructated</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Bill O’Reilly, offering the jocular suggestion – at least, I think he was kidding – that the principal and the school board should be arrested. Minor-league talk radio personality Charlie Brennan insisted that “this is why Donald Trump’s gonna get re-elected – stories like this.” </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A contributor to The New American magazine who serves as that publication’s liaison to the white nationalist subculture </span><a href="https://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/education/item/25464-police-kicked-out-of-school-because-illegals-might-fear-them"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">snarked</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> that “there’s no more `safe space’ for law-abiding citizens than when the police occupy part of it,” and insisted that no true American could possibly object to having an armed, costumed stranger clothed in “qualified immunity” breathing down his neck. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OgFAqcSBRe4/WLZgy_zVMVI/AAAAAAAANIE/92M6aHJovaEqg3Su3kA0OYh1fBG91obHwCLcB/s1600/Handcuffed%2Bkid.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="280" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OgFAqcSBRe4/WLZgy_zVMVI/AAAAAAAANIE/92M6aHJovaEqg3Su3kA0OYh1fBG91obHwCLcB/s320/Handcuffed%2Bkid.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“It’s entirely understandable, for instance, that a child hailing from a Third World nation with corrupt police may feel apprehension at the sight of the men in blue,” he patriot-splained. “But not that long ago people would have understood the proper response: You take the student aside and gently explain that the police visiting his school are there as friends.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Some might also wonder about the parenting evident here,” he continued in the style of a Soviet commissar tutoring parents about their duty to raise children in the fear and admonition of the state and its human emissaries. “If your child has some irrational cop phobia, do you try and educate and change his mind? Or should you moan and groan and change all of society to accommodate irrationality?” </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The “Caucasian leftists” and “minority” parents who complained about the police outreach program embody the “snowflake spirit of the age,” concludes the TNA contributor, whose otherwise barren rhetorical pantry is well-stocked with clichés. To be fair, this story does expose a rather shocking failure on the part of parents in the community – that is, those who accepted the program with bovine docility, rather than expressing skepticism about it. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">If it is “irrational” for parents to teach their children to be leery of police officers, why do police officers and prosecutors cultivate that attitude within their own children? </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Every parent whose children have been sentenced to attend the Regime’s mind-laundry should review the advice offered by Professor James Duane of Regent University Law School in his slender and indispensable book, </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/You-Have-Right-Remain-Innocent/dp/1503933393"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">You Have the Right to Remain Innocent</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Over the past several years, Professor Duane has made hundreds of presentations, each of which begins with an invitation to any audience members whose parents were police officers or prosecutors to ask what advice they had been given by their parents. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Every time this happens, without exception, [I’ve been told] the same thing: `Years ago, my parents explained to me that if I were ever approached by a law enforcement officer, I was to call them immediately, and they made sure that I would never agree to talk to the police.’ Not once have I ever met the child of a member of law enforcement who had been told anything different.” </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Several news accounts mention the fact that among those who objected to the Northampton police outreach program included “children who may have had negative encounters with law enforcement.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Wow, only in grammar school, and they already have a sour relationship with police,” sneers the above-quoted commentator. “Their futures are bright.” </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It is surpassingly easy for children to find themselves detained, shackled, or otherwise abused by police as a result of entirely trivial misconduct. Witness the case of Michael Davis, a five-year-old from California who </span><a href="http://www.recordnet.com/article/20111209/A_NEWS/112090325"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">was arrested</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">, cuffed, and hauled away to jail for “battery on an officer” after he pushed away the hand of an officer who had touched him without consent and </span><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/8914514/Californian-5-year-old-handcuffed-and-charged-with-battery.html"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">kicked</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> the assailant in his knee in an act of righteous self-defense. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This was a case involving a delicate snowflake who filed a </span><a href="http://blogs.esanjoaquin.com/stockton-education/files/2011/12/1220-GORDO-COMPLAINT.pdf"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">complaint</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> after his feelings were hurt– none other than Lt. Frank Gordo, who lodged a complaint against the mother of his victim, accusing her of “discriminating” against him by taking the story to the media. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Incidents of this kind are becoming commonplace. Two years ago </span><a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=12&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiagNTgma3SAhVHxVQKHT0UCYMQFghUMAs&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mrctv.org%2Fblog%2F4-year-old-handcuffed-and-shackled-after-acting-out-class&usg=AFQjCNFcS1xJ5WQKdpXQ8eAxr97CKHBzTw&sig2=H89cM8j0bq2zCAB4RcydmA"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">a misbehaving third-grader</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> in Covington, Kentucky had his arms shackled behind his back at the elbows for fifteen minutes by a sheriff’s deputy. The eight-year-old supposedly attempted to elbow the deputy after going to the bathroom. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“You don’t get to swing at me like that,” the heroic tax-feeder lectured his captive. “You can do what we’ve asked you to do, or you can suffer the consequences.” </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.nbc29.com/story/27665553/4-year-old-student-handcuffed-rutherford-and-greene-sheriff-react"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In 2014</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">, deputies in Greene County, Virginia handcuffed a four-year-old who had been disruptive in class and briefly detained him at the sheriff’s office. The sheriff insists that the deputy “did what he had to do” and claims that the mother was “appreciative of the way he handled the situation,” which if true would be utterly horrifying.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Until recently, school resource officers in Texas would </span><a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2013/08/29/class-disruption-cases-head-principals-office-not-/"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">routinely</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> treat student misbehavior as misdemeanor criminal offenses, issuing citations that could lead to fines and jail time. School officials in Syracuse, Utah have </span><a href="http://www.libertynewsdaily.com/blog-3526-Should-High-Schoolers-Be-Prosecuted-for-Skipping-Religious-Instruction?"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">warned</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> that students who are found at the high school during release-time religious instruction would be issued trespassing citations that, once again, can lead to fines and even jail time. The amalgamation of public education and law enforcement has created countless variations on the theme of criminalizing what had once been treated as minor disciplinary matters.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">While police can cause problems for students who misbehave, their presence in schools can be even more dangerous to youngsters who are obedient and conscientious. Professor Duane urges parents to teach their school-age children that “you cannot listen to your conscience when faced by a police officer and think <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">I have nothing to hide</i>.” </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Police are trained to lie as an investigative tactic, and rewarded when their lies prove to be instrumental in obtaining convictions. Innocent and well-intentioned children who somehow find themselves on the receiving end of police attention are “sometimes the most likely to be unfairly influenced by deceptive police interrogation tactics, because they tragically assume that, somehow, `truth and justice will prevail’ later even if they falsely admit their guilt,” Duane emphasizes. “You cannot safely trust a single thing police officers say when they are trying to get you to answer their questions…. Even if you are innocent, the police will do whatever it takes to get you to talk if they think you might be guilty.” </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">No better illustration of that reality can be found than the case of Idaho Falls resident Chris Tapp, who has spent twenty years in prison for a </span><a href="http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2016/09/do-you-know-who-killed-my-baby.html"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">murder</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> he did not commit. The only evidence against Tapp was a </span><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/323404608/Redacted-Investigation-Report-by-Stuart-Robinson#from_embed"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">patently false confession</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> extracted from him through the efforts of IFPD Sergeant (and future Idaho Falls mayor) Jared Fuhriman. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Fuhriman had been a DARE instructor and resource officer at Tapp’s junior high school. Desperate to clear the case, and left without any good leads after DNA evidence had cleared the three young men considered suspects – including Tapp – Fuhriman used his supposed friendship with his victim to lure him into lengthy interrogation sessions that mutated into something akin to psychological torture. Eventually Fuhriman convinced Tapp that unless he confessed to some role in the murder, he would inevitably be sent to the electric chair. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-N0i_O6OCI_Y/WLZhBEyA19I/AAAAAAAANII/DRpLp5wl-CM7YgQESWlBaOcmhfCV0WEMgCLcB/s1600/Kiddie%2BCuffs.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="216" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-N0i_O6OCI_Y/WLZhBEyA19I/AAAAAAAANII/DRpLp5wl-CM7YgQESWlBaOcmhfCV0WEMgCLcB/s320/Kiddie%2BCuffs.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Christopher would just keep saying, `Fuhriman is my friend, mom – he wouldn’t put my life in jeopardy, he wouldn’t lead me astray,” his mother, Vera Tapp, </span><a href="https://soundcloud.com/pro-libertate/jared-would-not-lead-me-astray"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">told</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> me in a telephone interview. “He was just such a `good old boy’ with Christopher…. You can see it in the videos – `Oh, Christopher, we’re friends, we’re buddies,’ you know, laughing and joking around. And that’s just what he did when [Tapp] was in junior high. He [was] learning people’s trust and how to manipulate people. And that’s what he did – he manipulated Christopher.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It is a screaming pity that Christopher Tapp wasn’t given the advice that police and prosecutors offer to their own children: Do not, under any circumstances, talk to a law enforcement officer, beyond demanding access to your parents and, if possible, an attorney. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Given that police and prosecutors tell their own children <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">not</i> to trust law enforcement officers, why shouldn’t parents employed in the productive sector do likewise? <br /><br /><b><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, acting on an invitation from the late Justice Scalia, insists that the Second Amendment doesn't protect the right of Mundanes to possess "weapons of war." If it didn't, that amendment would be worse than useless, as I explain in this week's Freedom Zealot Podcast: </span></i></b><br /><br /><iframe frameborder="0" height="360" scrolling="no" src="http://app.stitcher.com/splayer/f/84897?el=1&refid=stpr" style="border: 0; height: 360px; overflow: hidden; width: 500px;" width="500"></iframe><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><b><a href="https://www.libertarianinstitute.org/">Be sure to check out the Libertarian Institute</a> -- and share it with your liberty-minded friends.</b></i> </span><br /><br /><br /><form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" target="_top"><br /><input name="cmd" type="hidden" value="_s-xclick" /><br /><input name="hosted_button_id" type="hidden" value="YAABE8PYAXD78" /><br /><input alt="PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!" border="0" name="submit" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_donateCC_LG.gif" type="image" /><br /><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" /></form><br /><i><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Dum spiro, pugno! </span></span></b></i><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>William N. Grigghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14368220509514750246noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-65340914389366880292017-02-22T23:39:00.000-07:002017-02-22T23:39:08.649-07:00Sheik Omar: The Death of a Deep State Asset <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings></xml><![endif]--><br /><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> 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mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} </style><![endif]--> <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xPpjiNNQmQE/WK6Ahq6R8wI/AAAAAAAANHE/AT6fKI-3Lk0lNU8NmmM7UtFohC2OWGkeACLcB/s1600/wtc.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="232" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xPpjiNNQmQE/WK6Ahq6R8wI/AAAAAAAANHE/AT6fKI-3Lk0lNU8NmmM7UtFohC2OWGkeACLcB/s400/wtc.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /><br />It is one of nature’s ironic mercies that the same disease responsible for disfiguring Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman’s face left him blind, thereby sparing him the sight of his Gorgon-like features. The sheik died from complications of that disease – diabetes – at age 78 in a federal prison cell in North Carolina, a peaceful end to a long life largely devoted to terrorist violence. He had lived at taxpayer expense for roughly one-third of that life. For the better part of a decade prior to his June 1993 arrest, Sheik Omar had covertly been on the federal payroll as a CIA asset.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-foAvzE1RUTo/WK6BToHtPSI/AAAAAAAANHQ/yUFB3MGzuIQYJ3WMMe3Q1nMYE6AJii6cQCLcB/s1600/wtc07.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="205" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-foAvzE1RUTo/WK6BToHtPSI/AAAAAAAANHQ/yUFB3MGzuIQYJ3WMMe3Q1nMYE6AJii6cQCLcB/s320/wtc07.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Abdel-Rahman was the “spiritual leader” of the terrorist cell that carried out the February 26, 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center in New York City. Six people were killed in that attack, which inflicted $500 million in damage and would have been apocalyptic in scope if the bomb-laden Ryder truck used in the plot had been placed in the proper section of the basement parking garage. The </span><a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-1993-world-trade-center-bombers-where-are-they-now/"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">plan</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> was to send one of the towers toppling into the other. <br /></span></div><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">A native Egyptian, Sheik Omar boasted of his involvement in the assassination of President Anwar Sadat in 1981. Six years later the U.S. State Department placed Sheik Omar's name on its "watch list" of non-Americans believed to be involved in terrorism. That did not prevent the CIA from enlisting Sheik Omar as a "valuable asset" in covert operations involving the Afghan mujahideen during the 1980s.<br /></span><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Between 1980 and 1989, the CIA pumped more than $3 billion in aid into the Islamic resistance to the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Following more than a decade and a half of combat in that country, Americans have come to understand how tenaciously Afghans fight to expel foreign occupiers – and the fact that the country’s tribal culture is an impenetrable mare’s nest. It should also be clear by now that the CIA has an uncanny instinct for supporting the worst of the contending factions in any country upon which its gaze descends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Author Kurt Lohbeck </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Holy-War-Unholy-Victory-Afghanistan/dp/0895264994"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">documented</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"> in his study <em><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Holy War, Unholy Victory: Eyewitness to the CIA's Secret War in Afghanistan</span></em> that during the mid-1980s the CIA invested most of its aid in the least combat-worthy and most anti-American factions of the mujahideen. Among the CIA's dubious beneficiaries was Sheik Omar.<br /></span><br /> <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1996/05/blowback/376583/"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Writing</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"> in the May 1996 issue of <em><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">The Atlantic Monthly</span></em>, foreign correspondent Mary Anne Weaver recalled that it was in Peshawar, Pakistan, that Sheik Omar "became involved with U.S. and Pakistani intelligence officials who were orchestrating the war" against the Soviets, and that the "sixty or so CIA and Special Forces officers based there considered him a 'valuable asset' ... and overlooked his anti-Western message and incitement to holy war because they wanted him to help unify the mujahideen groups."<br /></span><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Sheik Omar and his associates created an institution in Peshawar, Pakistan, called the Service Office, which recruited Muslims from around the world as volunteers to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan. Branches of the Service Office were created throughout Europe and the United States, thereby providing a ready slush fund for terrorists and anti-Western agitators. While the Service Office sluiced money into the coffers of terrorists, Sheik Omar preached his gospel of jihad in Pakistan, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia, and in Islamic population centers in Turkey, Germany, England, and even the United States — despite his listing on the State Department's "watch list." </span><br /><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Sheik Omar's status as a “valuable asset” to the CIA didn’t end after the Red Army vacated Afghanistan in early 1989. <br /></span><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">On May 10, 1990, Sheik Omar was </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1990/12/16/nyregion/islamic-leader-on-us-terrorist-list-is-in-brooklyn.html"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">granted</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"> a one-year visa from a CIA agent posing as an official at the U.S. Consulate in Khartoum, Sudan, and he arrived in New York in July 1990. In November of the same year Sheik Omar's visa was revoked, and the State Department advised the Immigration and Naturalization Service to be on the lookout for him. So attentive was the INS to this advisory that it granted Sheik Omar a green card just five months later.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">This wasn’t a failure of the vetting procedure. It was the peculiar kind of “success” that often facilitates the arrival of </span><a href="https://www.libertarianinstitute.org/2017/02/extreme-vetting-homeland-security-theater-case-bowling-green-attack/"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">capable practitioners of violence</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"> who are useful for the Deep State’s domestic operations. <br /></span><br /> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xGQXd1-HDTE/WK6BcpHEDxI/AAAAAAAANHU/GoahhHVkEZM0FfGtHr46IgSfuvBQ5l9vwCLcB/s1600/Kahane.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="148" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-xGQXd1-HDTE/WK6BcpHEDxI/AAAAAAAANHU/GoahhHVkEZM0FfGtHr46IgSfuvBQ5l9vwCLcB/s320/Kahane.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The killing of Kahane: </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Clues found -- and hidden -- by the FBI</span></i>. </td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">The American-based radicals who sponsored Sheik Omar's 1990 trip to the U.S. included Mahmud Abouhalima, a CIA-supported veteran of the Afghan campaign. Also helping to make arrangements for the sheik's visit was Mustafa Shalabi, the Brooklyn-based director of Alkifah, a support fund for mujahideen fighters. Another leader of Sheik Omar's American network was </span><a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/great-reads/la-na-first-terrorist-20130516-dto-htmlstory.html"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">El Sayyid Nosair</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">, an Egyptian expatriate who went on to murder Jewish nationalist Rabbi Meir Kahane.<br /></span><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Abouhalima and Nosair were eventually among those convicted of conspiring with Sheik Omar to wage urban warfare in the United States, and in that campaign they made use of skills imparted to them by the CIA and the U.S. military. <br /><br />During the 1995 conspiracy trial, attorneys for Sheik Omar and his disciples introduced a file documenting that in 1989, the U.S. Army had sent Special Forces Sergeant </span><a href="http://www.investigativeproject.org/187/osama-bin-ladens-special-operations-man"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Ali A. Mohammed</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"> – who had been cashiered from the Egyptian Army several years earlier -- to Jersey City to provide training for mujahideen recruits, including Abouhalima and Nosair. Although Omar was regarded as the cabal’s spiritual leader, and Nosair was said to be the signal-caller, US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald </span><a href="http://intelfiles.egoplex.com/ali-mohamed-coleman-affidavit.pdf"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">believed</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"> that Mohammed was the chief architect of “al-Qaeda’s terrorist infrastructure in the U.S.”<br /></span><br /> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SGVZB-XqzeE/WK6BxxbxlmI/AAAAAAAANHY/ChmBwgyehvIy_wODkrSEZ-B4GeFhlSU1gCLcB/s1600/Ali-M.-mugshot1.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SGVZB-XqzeE/WK6BxxbxlmI/AAAAAAAANHY/ChmBwgyehvIy_wODkrSEZ-B4GeFhlSU1gCLcB/s1600/Ali-M.-mugshot1.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Catch and release: </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mohammed.</span></i> </td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">In March 2001 – a few months before the immeasurably bloodier encore at the World Trade Center – Mohammed pleaded guilty to charges arising from the 1998 bombings of US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, in which 258 people were murdered. He was then allowed to flee the jurisdiction without being sentenced. <br /></span><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Mohammed’s main role in the 1993 plot was to train and supervise the others. According to </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Two-Seconds-Under-World-America/dp/0517597675"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Two Seconds Under the World</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">, a book on the 1993 WTC bombing co-written by Newsday’s Pulitzer-winning investigative team, all of this was done under constant FBI surveillance. The Bureau had ample advance notice of what Sheik Omar’s disciples intended to do. <br /></span><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Following the </span><a href="http://peterlance.com/wordpress/?p=106"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">murder of Rabbi Kahane</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"> in November 1990, the FBI seized and impounded 49 boxes of documents from Nosair's New Jersey apartment; the cache included bomb-making instructions, a hit list of public figures (including Kahane), paramilitary training materials, detailed pictures of famous buildings (including the World Trade Center), and sermons by Sheik Omar urging his followers to "destroy the edifices of capitalism."<br /></span><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Owing to incompetence or (more likely) something much worse, the FBI made none of the evidence available to New York City Assistant District Attorney William Greenbaum, who prosecuted the case. In fact, the FBI made no investigative use of the material until <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">after</i> the Trade Center bombing in 1993. <br /></span><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Hamstrung by the FBI's decision to withhold the evidence collected at Nosair's apartment, Greenbaum was unable to secure a murder conviction in the killing of Kahane. After being convicted on firearms-related charges Nosair began a seven-year term in Attica prison, where he continued to direct the affairs of Sheik Omar's terrorist network.<br /></span><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">By March 1991, Sheik Omar and his associates had seized control of the Alkifah fund, which had by then swollen to an estimated $2 million. The CIA-originated fund helped finance Nosair's trial defense. It was also used to procure many of the bomb components that were assembled under the expert supervision of Afghan terrorist Ramzi Yousef, who was imported by the Sheik Omar network in late 1992.<br /></span><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Yousef was convicted on September 8, 1996 of </span><a href="http://www.globalsecurity.org/security/profiles/project_bojinka.htm"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">plotting</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"> a 48-hour campaign of bombings against American commercial flights over the Pacific Ocean. The campaign would have targeted a total of 12 jetliners and as many as 4,000 passengers. Yousef met Abouhalima in Afghanistan in 1988, and it was Abouhalima who brought the Afghan terrorist to the United States in September 1992 on behalf of Sheik Omar's network.<br /></span><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Shortly after Yousef's arrival, the FBI subpoenaed two dozen of Sheik Omar's followers and questioned them about the sheik, Nosair, and Abouhalima. However, no arrests were made, no grand jury investigation was launched, and the FBI chose to downgrade its scrutiny of Omar's network — just as plans were being finalized for the Trade Center bombing. This curious decision is even more peculiar in light of the fact that the FBI had obtained intelligence on the network's capabilities and intentions from Emad A. Salem, a former Egyptian Army officer and FBI informant who served as Omar's security guard.<br /></span><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Salem's relationship with the FBI was turbulent, and there were suggestions of impropriety in his personal contacts with FBI handler Nancy Floyd. However, he had repeatedly warned the FBI that Nosair was running a terrorist ring out of his prison cell, and he had supplied detailed descriptions of the Sheik Omar network's plans. But the FBI, professing doubts about Salem's reliability, severed contacts with him seven months before the bombing.<br /></span><br /> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lA2ycPqHd1Q/WK6B-ELCavI/AAAAAAAANHg/Otqo4qGZWn8GdNwHYSCIlRuDPJsAC8HKgCLcB/s1600/blind%252Bsheik.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lA2ycPqHd1Q/WK6B-ELCavI/AAAAAAAANHg/Otqo4qGZWn8GdNwHYSCIlRuDPJsAC8HKgCLcB/s320/blind%252Bsheik.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Appendages of the same beast: </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">CIA asset Omar with FBI informant Salem.</span></i> </td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">In the aftermath of the 1993 Trade Center bombing, the FBI renewed its association with Salem, paying him a reported $1 million to infiltrate Sheik Omar's group once again. Salem was many things, some of them unsavory, but he was not a fool; this is why he secretly </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1993/10/28/nyregion/tapes-depict-proposal-to-thwart-bomb-used-in-trade-center-blast.html?pagewanted=all"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">recorded</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"> many of his </span><a href="http://articles.latimes.com/1993-08-06/news/mn-20958_1_bomb-plot"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">conversations</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"> with law enforcement agents, including exchanges in which it was revealed that the FBI had detailed prior knowledge of the Trade Center bomb plot. <br /></span><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">According to Salem, the FBI had planned to sabotage the Trade Center bomb by replacing the explosive components with an inert powder. The October 28, 1993 New York Times reported that in one conversation Salem recalled assurances from an FBI supervisor that the agency's plan called for "building the bomb with a phony powder and grabbing the people who [were] involved in [the plot]." However, the supervisor, in Salem's words, "messed it up."<br /></span><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Salem recalled that when he expressed a desire to lodge a protest with FBI headquarters, he was told by special agent John Anticev that "the New York people [wouldn't] like the things out of the New York office to go to Washington, DC." Unsatisfied, Salem rebuked Anticev: "You saw this bomb went off and you ... know that we could avoid that.... You get paid, guys, to prevent problems like this from happening."<br /></span><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Perhaps the most remarkable illustration of the depth of the FBI's knowledge of the Sheik Omar network came after the World Trade Center bombing, when the Bureau employed Salem's services as an informant once again. As the <em><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Wall Street Journal</span></em> subsequently reported, from March to June 1993 Salem "helped organize the 'battle plan' that the government alleged included plots to bomb the United Nations and FBI buildings in New York, and the Holland and Lincoln tunnels beneath the Hudson River…. Mr. Salem recruited seven local Muslims to scout targets, plan tactics and obtain chemicals and electrical parts for bombs." <br /></span><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">By the time the FBI closed in on the plotters on June 23, it had literally hours of videotapes documenting the conspiracy in intimate detail — including footage of conspirators mixing fertilizer and diesel fuel to build a bomb. <br /></span><br /> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Sheik Omar is presented by the Regime and its heralds as the incarnation of what we are told is the implacable, all-encompassing menace of radical Islam. However, his career actually demonstrates that the large-scale evils not directly created by the Deep State are generally co-opted by it. Omar embodied Frederic Bastiat’s maxim that government enriches its power by creating the poison and the antidote in the same laboratory. <br /><br /><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />My apologies: An accident involving an icy parking lot and gravity's cruel demands -- and a knee suddenly wrenched in a direction contrary to its design specifications -- left me immobilized for a while, and the resulting backlog explains the unusually long hiatus at this page. 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"Georgia","serif";"><br /><br /><br />Adams Lin literally fainted as he read a court order authorizing federal marshals to confiscate his property. The officers <a data-mce-href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiJ3tOk0obSAhVRImMKHTkJB0IQFggiMAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sun-sentinel.com%2Flocal%2Fpalm-beach%2Ffl-adams-lin-property-seizure-20170111-story.html&usg=AFQjCNHxB4eFDCURSkAlSpu2TxizI7J_5w&sig2=vZrWVko38jQZfFysvRVMsw" href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiJ3tOk0obSAhVRImMKHTkJB0IQFggiMAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sun-sentinel.com%2Flocal%2Fpalm-beach%2Ffl-adams-lin-property-seizure-20170111-story.html&usg=AFQjCNHxB4eFDCURSkAlSpu2TxizI7J_5w&sig2=vZrWVko38jQZfFysvRVMsw">seized</a>his car, his designer clothes, a flat-screen television, golf clubs, computer, and even his treasured Samurai sword.</span><br /><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Unlike countless other Americans who have been pillaged by federal law enforcement officials, Lin was not a victim of the officially sanctioned plunder called civil asset forfeiture. His property was confiscated after Lin’s boss failed to make a $200,000 payment toward the $22.4 million civil damage award granted to a man who was left paralyzed <a data-mce-href="https://photographyisnotacrime.com/2017/01/11/federal-marshals-seize-florida-deputys-personal-assets-after-sheriff-refuses-to-pay-settlement-for-man-left-paralyzed-in-wrongful-shooting/" href="https://photographyisnotacrime.com/2017/01/11/federal-marshals-seize-florida-deputys-personal-assets-after-sheriff-refuses-to-pay-settlement-for-man-left-paralyzed-in-wrongful-shooting/">through Lin’s occupational misconduct</a>.</span><br /><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Lin’s boss is Palm Beach County, Florida Sheriff Ric Bradshaw, and he has adamantly refused to make payments to Dontrell Stephens, who was shot by Lin after the panicking deputy mistook the 19-year-old’s cell phone for a gun.</span><br /><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">“There’s nothing in the rules of engagement that says we have to put our lives in jeopardy to wait and find out what this is and get killed,” whined Sheriff Bradshaw on the day of the shooting. His department quickly exonerated Lin and promoted him – before the public release of video that proved that the victim had never posed a threat to the deputy.</span><br /><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Rather than complying with the court order, Bradshaw filed an appeal. After the award was upheld last May, Bradshaw appealed again – which triggered an injunction leading to the seizure of property from the deputy who was directly responsible for the unlawful shooting of an innocent teenager. Owing to his service as an asset of the state’s punitive apparatus, Lin was able to get his confiscated property <a data-mce-href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiJ3tOk0obSAhVRImMKHTkJB0IQFgguMAM&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.palmbeachpost.com%2Fnews%2Fcrime--law%2Fmagistrate-give-pbso-sgt-adams-lin-his-seized-goods-back%2FBIMaKYJ88j1D9O1X2eZ22N%2F&usg=AFQjCNF34gQgG1tATGPrDd-n637r-mUSug&sig2=OWSVUrtRMKnU9xxiKz3lLQ" href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiJ3tOk0obSAhVRImMKHTkJB0IQFgguMAM&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.palmbeachpost.com%2Fnews%2Fcrime--law%2Fmagistrate-give-pbso-sgt-adams-lin-his-seized-goods-back%2FBIMaKYJ88j1D9O1X2eZ22N%2F&usg=AFQjCNF34gQgG1tATGPrDd-n637r-mUSug&sig2=OWSVUrtRMKnU9xxiKz3lLQ">back</a>. His victim, of course, remains paralyzed.</span><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Lin continues to be held in high regard by Bradshaw, which is why the sheriff selected him to be one of seven sergeants from his department <a data-mce-href="http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/ent-columns-blogs/jose-lambiet/article131484824.html" href="http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/ent-columns-blogs/jose-lambiet/article131484824.html">assigned</a>to the presidential security detail at the Palm Beach Airport during the president’s recent visit.</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Wq0CEy7Wsjk/WKJLHgGCHeI/AAAAAAAANGc/ppEm6KZ2g3cevcMRXTPXZwlG__UON7b-gCLcB/s1600/Lin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Wq0CEy7Wsjk/WKJLHgGCHeI/AAAAAAAANGc/ppEm6KZ2g3cevcMRXTPXZwlG__UON7b-gCLcB/s200/Lin.jpg" width="173" /></a></div><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">This obviously wasn’t a reward for Lin’s exceptional valor. The deputy’s pants-wetting meltdown that led to the near-murder of Stephens, and his fainting spell triggered by enforcement of the court order, demonstrate that he’s hardly <a data-mce-href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwi-vYr3tYbSAhVE0WMKHaMZB5gQFggfMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bartleby.com%2F360%2F7%2F158.html&usg=AFQjCNHsdJDQiFVbYs1A0MbjEt8Vb5nXvA&sig2=JhTl_37miDKb2o1w1g3jYQ" href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwi-vYr3tYbSAhVE0WMKHaMZB5gQFggfMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bartleby.com%2F360%2F7%2F158.html&usg=AFQjCNHsdJDQiFVbYs1A0MbjEt8Vb5nXvA&sig2=JhTl_37miDKb2o1w1g3jYQ">Horatius</a>at the bridge in dealing with adversity. It was a gesture of calculated contempt toward those who believe that police officers should be held accountable for personal misconduct, and an assertion of the institutional sense of entitlement that characterizes law enforcement – and that has been reinvigorated by the current occupant of the Oval Office.</span><br /><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Donald Trump has repeatedly <a data-mce-href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiOr6iytobSAhVXwGMKHc1hB2kQFggmMAI&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.msnbc.com%2Fmsnbc%2Fwatch%2Ftrump-police-are-mistreated-misunderstood-617933379521&usg=AFQjCNHMDsyxRshnCgbo3XgFgJ7jS5GTkw&sig2=Bak8v2kJXjTJHe_Xn5WPog&bvm=bv.146496531,d.cGc" href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiOr6iytobSAhVXwGMKHc1hB2kQFggmMAI&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.msnbc.com%2Fmsnbc%2Fwatch%2Ftrump-police-are-mistreated-misunderstood-617933379521&usg=AFQjCNHMDsyxRshnCgbo3XgFgJ7jS5GTkw&sig2=Bak8v2kJXjTJHe_Xn5WPog&bvm=bv.146496531,d.cGc">described</a>the privileged personalities who constitute the state’s punitive caste as “the most mistreated people” in society. In a recent exercise in self-pity <a data-mce-href="http://lawofficer.com/leadership/the-new-discrimination/" href="http://lawofficer.com/leadership/the-new-discrimination/">published</a>by the cyber-journal Law Officer, Major Travis Yates of the Tulsa Police Department embellishes Trump’s claim, complaining that law enforcement officers are the victims of what he calls “The New Discrimination in America.”</span><br /><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">“We see police officers being assaulted,” insisted Yates. “We see police officers being murdered. And much of it, is just because they wear a uniform.”</span><br /><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Police officers are occasionally assaulted, and on austerely rare occasions murdered on-duty – much less frequently, as it happens, than they were under the reign of the last self-described law-and-order president, Ronald Reagan. Those who lend credence to Yates’s jeremiad, however, would believe that the desecrated bodies of police officers can be found dangling from hanging trees throughout the length and breadth of this hate-intoxicated, ungrateful land.</span><br /><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">“From slavery to the KKK to Jim Crow laws, nothing much has changed in this country,” he intones. “We continue to hate and we continue to kill and the only difference now is we are doing it to those in uniform.”</span><br /><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">This ambient violence sometimes leads people to shun police officers in restaurants, or call them “vile and hateful names.” A similarly grievous illustration of what he invites the reader to pretend is unconscionable anti-cop bigotry was an executive order by Barack Obama placing modest limits on the transfer of war-fighting materiel from the Pentagon to local police agencies.</span><br /><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Like many others in the self-described Blue Lives Matter movement, Major Yates confuses a chosen <em><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">occupation</span></em> – one involving the state-sanctioned exercise of aggressive violence -- with an innate <em><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">characteristic</span></em>. He also ignores the critical distinctions between hateful and spiteful verbal abuse -- on one hand -- and the forceful criticism of officials who are, or at least should be, accountable to the public they claim to serve.</span><br /><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Yates does understand the essential nature of the occupation he has chosen. In a previous essay, he complained that citizens who are urging police to rediscover the lost skill of de-escalation in encounters with citizens are demanding that “police stop being police.”<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Xn36raGvL7E/WKJLRlUlsAI/AAAAAAAANGg/4hKpftZPPv4CkRAnp9jY2L48a1mosRhGwCLcB/s1600/SWAT%2Braid%2Bin%2BOntario.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="199" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Xn36raGvL7E/WKJLRlUlsAI/AAAAAAAANGg/4hKpftZPPv4CkRAnp9jY2L48a1mosRhGwCLcB/s320/SWAT%2Braid%2Bin%2BOntario.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Yeah, they're</span></b></i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> just </span></b><i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">like victims of Jim Crow. </span></b></i></td></tr></tbody></table></span><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">“Follow the commands of a police officer, or risk dying,” Yates snarled, expressing the discretionary power to kill that was not enjoyed or exercised by slaves or those subject to Jim Crow laws. From his perspective, only aberrant bigotry could motivate those who take issue with the fact that police consider themselves invested with that power, or criticize them when its exercise is manifestly indefensible.</span><br /><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Once clad in the habiliments of the state’s punitive priesthood, police expect and demand deference from Mundanes. <a data-mce-href="https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-02-police-uniform-brain-info.html" href="https://medicalxpress.com/news/2017-02-police-uniform-brain-info.html">Recent studies</a> conducted by a team of cognitive neuroscientists at McMaster University suggest that the mere act of donning the official costume alters the way those thus attired – in this case, students, rather than police officers – view people who are regarded as socially marginal or otherwise “problematic.”</span><br /><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">It is incontestable that once an individual swaddles himself in police attire he begins to assess everyone who surrounds him in terms of potential threats to “officer safety.” It is likewise clear that the relatively modest occupational risks of police officers are amplified by the requirement that they enforce measures that are innately illegitimate.</span><br /><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Missouri State Trooper Beau Ryun, to cite a perfectly suitable recent <a data-mce-href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiWuMPNvYbSAhVG3mMKHQFqC0IQFggaMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffox4kc.com%2F2017%2F02%2F08%2Fgood-samaritan-comes-to-missouri-highway-patrol-troopers-aid-as-suspect-fought-with-him-on-i-70%2F&usg=AFQjCNGCTaSpgBiblMcjjPQvyxbTvLbbUQ&sig2=UO1_lhpXfcGxSGz2rxS3PQ" href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiWuMPNvYbSAhVG3mMKHQFqC0IQFggaMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffox4kc.com%2F2017%2F02%2F08%2Fgood-samaritan-comes-to-missouri-highway-patrol-troopers-aid-as-suspect-fought-with-him-on-i-70%2F&usg=AFQjCNGCTaSpgBiblMcjjPQvyxbTvLbbUQ&sig2=UO1_lhpXfcGxSGz2rxS3PQ">example</a>, was “assaulted” by 22-year-old <a data-mce-href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiWuMPNvYbSAhVG3mMKHQFqC0IQFggaMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffox4kc.com%2F2017%2F02%2F08%2Fgood-samaritan-comes-to-missouri-highway-patrol-troopers-aid-as-suspect-fought-with-him-on-i-70%2F&usg=AFQjCNGCTaSpgBiblMcjjPQvyxbTvLbbUQ&sig2=UO1_lhpXfcGxSGz2rxS3PQ&bvm=bv.146496531,d.cGc" href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiWuMPNvYbSAhVG3mMKHQFqC0IQFggaMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffox4kc.com%2F2017%2F02%2F08%2Fgood-samaritan-comes-to-missouri-highway-patrol-troopers-aid-as-suspect-fought-with-him-on-i-70%2F&usg=AFQjCNGCTaSpgBiblMcjjPQvyxbTvLbbUQ&sig2=UO1_lhpXfcGxSGz2rxS3PQ&bvm=bv.146496531,d.cGc">Jonathan Timmons</a> during a recent traffic stop, and was rescued by the intervention of a motorist named Charles Barney and a 74-year-old woman identified only as “Sandra.” That’s as far as the story will be recounted in most re-tellings: A heroic paladin of public order was viciously attacked, and was rescued by two “civilians,” who have been nominated for “honorary trooper awards.”</span><br /><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Little if any attention will be paid to the prelude of this altercation.</span><br /><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Timmons, a resident of New York State, was not suspected of an actual crime against person or property. He was stopped by Trooper Ryun because of a “lane violation.” If the vehicle had not displayed out-of-state license plates, it’s quite possible that Ryun would have ignored this trivial transgression. Owing to the perverted priorities of prohibition, however, traffic infractions of this kind are coveted, because they provide opportunities for drug arrests and asset forfeiture.</span><br /><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Timmons, unfortunately, was far too cooperative following Ryun’s pretext stop, agreeing to sit in the patrol vehicle while the trooper conducted a consent search. When Ryun reached for the handcuffs, Timmons decided to fight back. His offense was morally indistinguishable from that of an <a data-mce-href="http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-death-of-slave-catcher.html" href="http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-death-of-slave-catcher.html">escaped slave</a> who “assaulted” an officer enforcing the 1850 <a data-mce-href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/FugitiveSlaveAct.html" href="http://www.nationalcenter.org/FugitiveSlaveAct.html">Fugitive Slave Law</a> – Deputy U.S. Marshal James Batchelder, to cite one example.</span><br /><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Batchelder was killed by an abolitionist posse seeking to liberate a man named Anthony Burns, who had been “lawfully” arrested by the marshal for rendition to the Virginia man who claimed to “own” him. Yes, Burns violated the “law” by escaping from involuntary servitude. In similar fashion, Timmons broke the “law” by being in possession of marijuana, and by resisting state-sanctioned abduction by an armed stranger.</span><br /><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Deputy Marshal Batchelder’s name is inscribed on the honor roll of law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty. Those who compile such rosters do not inquire into the legitimacy of the statutes whose enforcement led to the deaths thus tabulated, or consider whether killing or dying to enforce them is justifiable.</span><br /><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Timmons faces six criminal charges, including felonious assault on a “special victim.” Yes, Missouri is among the <a data-mce-href="http://basementgeographer.com/soviet-socialist-republics-that-didnt-survive/" href="http://basementgeographer.com/soviet-socialist-republics-that-didnt-survive/">SSRs</a>within the American <em><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">soyuz </span></em>that formally designate police as a “specially protected class.” Over the past two years, law and order conservatives who otherwise abhor the concept of “hate crimes” have proposed, and sometimes enacted, hate crimes statutes that enhance penalties for crimes against police officers.</span><br /><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">In Louisiana, for example, citizens can now be charged with a “hate crime” under that state’s Blue Lives Matter statute, which was signed into law last year. Two bills being reconciled in the Mississippi State Legislature would have the same impact.</span><br /><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><a data-mce-href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=newssearch&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwis7-n--IPSAhXLgFQKHVYoAjcQqQIIGigAMAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.policeone.com%2FOfficer-Safety%2Farticles%2F288870006-Miss-House-passes-Back-the-Badge-bill%2F&usg=AFQjCNHKpx4BCO8uYRakPHCySprAMuSr_A&sig2=gZ-WmwdCkiiHFO2cWVhcQA&bvm=bv.146496531,d.cGw" href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=newssearch&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwis7-n--IPSAhXLgFQKHVYoAjcQqQIIGigAMAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.policeone.com%2FOfficer-Safety%2Farticles%2F288870006-Miss-House-passes-Back-the-Badge-bill%2F&usg=AFQjCNHKpx4BCO8uYRakPHCySprAMuSr_A&sig2=gZ-WmwdCkiiHFO2cWVhcQA&bvm=bv.146496531,d.cGw">House Bill 645</a>, titled the “Back the Badge Act of 2017,” would triple the penalties for committing an act of violence against law enforcement officers or other first responders (who are included in the bill in order to expand its constituency, not because of an outbreak of violence against firefighters or EMTs). A similar measure, Senate Bill 2469, the “Blue, Red, and Med Lives Matter Act,” has passed that chamber of the state Legislature. That bill designates police and other first responders as a specially protected class for the purpose of hate crimes prosecution. Mississippi state law currently doubles penalties for crimes targeting people belonging to specially protected classes.</span><br /><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-f_XImEMZ2pI/WKJLkX83EvI/AAAAAAAANGo/NSdssBSjlWIdTkeY2755Pamw4XrvpUnbQCLcB/s1600/Fuhrerprinzip.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="231" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-f_XImEMZ2pI/WKJLkX83EvI/AAAAAAAANGo/NSdssBSjlWIdTkeY2755Pamw4XrvpUnbQCLcB/s400/Fuhrerprinzip.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Caesar keeps the Praetorians happy. </span></b></i></td></tr></tbody></table></span><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">The <a data-mce-href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=10&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiPss7E04bSAhUM92MKHdFeDmkQFghLMAk&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dc-fop.org%2FPDFs%2FDJT_FOP1-2.pdf&usg=AFQjCNGLsxH-KlOhBzgJkHRKKs2EFmQDuQ&sig2=SLet2iEMbORbRGgG5mb-Ww" href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=10&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiPss7E04bSAhUM92MKHdFeDmkQFghLMAk&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dc-fop.org%2FPDFs%2FDJT_FOP1-2.pdf&usg=AFQjCNGLsxH-KlOhBzgJkHRKKs2EFmQDuQ&sig2=SLet2iEMbORbRGgG5mb-Ww">Fraternal Order of Police</a> and other police unions have been agitating for federal “hate crimes” legislation for the benefit of law enforcement, and Donald Trump is eager to oblige them. His <a data-mce-href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=6&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwj9pqeU04bSAhUP8mMKHZdPDBEQFggyMAU&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitehouse.gov%2Fthe-press-office%2F2017%2F02%2F09%2Fpresidential-executive-order-preventing-violence-against-federal-state&usg=AFQjCNHLVOuxLH4S-e8BjC9hAzL3t4ffcQ&sig2=yVKKs1XMQFFbFJPNGpyXUg" href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=6&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwj9pqeU04bSAhUP8mMKHZdPDBEQFggyMAU&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.whitehouse.gov%2Fthe-press-office%2F2017%2F02%2F09%2Fpresidential-executive-order-preventing-violence-against-federal-state&usg=AFQjCNHLVOuxLH4S-e8BjC9hAzL3t4ffcQ&sig2=yVKKs1XMQFFbFJPNGpyXUg">recent executive order</a> instructs newly installed <a data-mce-href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=5&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiDmL-F1IbSAhUJ9WMKHVuhAUsQFggyMAQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fencyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com%2FProcurator%27s%2BOffice%2Bof%2Bthe%2BUSSR&usg=AFQjCNHOu4pWJ7oi_TUJ9CIBmvnLuUeXWg&sig2=T3aFuMpjbmebom_1VWamcg" href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=5&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiDmL-F1IbSAhUJ9WMKHVuhAUsQFggyMAQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fencyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com%2FProcurator%27s%2BOffice%2Bof%2Bthe%2BUSSR&usg=AFQjCNHOu4pWJ7oi_TUJ9CIBmvnLuUeXWg&sig2=T3aFuMpjbmebom_1VWamcg">Procurator General</a> Jeff Sessions to “pursue appropriate legislation … that will define new Federal crimes, and increase penalties for existing Federal crimes, in order to prevent violence against Federal, State, tribal and local law enforcement officers.”</span><br /><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">With three exceptions – piracy, counterfeiting, and treason – “federal crimes” do not exist under the constitutional framework, which likewise does not authorize the federal government to investigate and punish violations of state laws. Self-described constitutionalists once regarded such considerations as important.</span><br /><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Just months ago, the “law and order” constituency was denouncing the President of the United States for seeking to “federalize” law enforcement. Now that same cohort is offering full-throated approval of the president’s eagerness to expand federal involvement in local law enforcement – and to federalize prosecution of people accused of criminal offenses resulting from encounters like the one involving Jonathan Timmons and Trooper Ryun.</span><br /><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">After spending Barack Obama’s reign denouncing his regime as the distillate of despotism, right-collectivists are eagerly applauding the enhancement of state power under a president with whom they can identify.</span><br /><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Statists of all varieties remain committed to Lenin’s formula, under which the fundamental political question is “who does what to whom.” The “what” in that equation – the exercise of essentially illimitable state power – remains intact; the “who” and “whom” have simply exchanged places. Somewhere in hell, Lenin is <a data-mce-href="http://www.dictionary.com/browse/kvelling" href="http://www.dictionary.com/browse/kvelling">kvelling</a>.<br /><br /><br /><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The same Regime that promises border security has been known to vet refugees for the purpose of recruiting terrorists -- but what should we expect from a system based on demographic central planning? This week's Freedom Zealot Podcast: </span></i></span><br /> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><br /><iframe frameborder="0" height="360" scrolling="no" src="http://app.stitcher.com/splayer/f/84897?el=1&refid=stpr" style="border: 0; height: 360px; overflow: hidden; width: 500px;" width="500"></iframe><br /><br /><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.libertarianinstitute.org/">Please be sure to check out the Libertarian Institute</a>. <br /><br /><form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" target="_top"><br /><input name="cmd" type="hidden" value="_s-xclick" /><br /><input name="hosted_button_id" type="hidden" value="DQ2ZECGVXURAY" /><br /><input alt="PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!" border="0" name="submit" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_donateCC_LG.gif" type="image" /><br /><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" /></form><br /><br /><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Dum spiro, pugno! <br /></span></span></i></span></b><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></div>William N. Grigghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14368220509514750246noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-37922097960840308732017-02-04T23:25:00.000-07:002017-02-04T23:25:06.480-07:00Strangle the Bastard Child of Prohibition: Abolish the ATF! <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings></xml><![endif]--><br /><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> 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src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-p5KGZ4D0rMc/WJbDS0JaYyI/AAAAAAAANF4/enDXFExVn58aD6y5Oc2uf_xSEUbqNAE5wCLcB/s1600/atf.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><b>Whatever</b></i><b> would</b><i><b> we do without helpful people like this goon?</b></i></span> </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><br />Acting on its unerring instinct for expanding its own power while exacerbating the suffering of its subjects, the federal government, at the request of Mayor Rahm Emanuel and with the approval of President Trump, is <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2017/02/04/atf-considers-sending-more-agents-help-chicagos-violent-crime/97485104/">planning</a>to deploy a contingent from the <a data-mce-href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwi4ssuVwsnRAhUjwFQKHYB0AHoQFggsMAI&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.atf.gov%2Four-history%2Fprohibition-reorganization&usg=AFQjCNEfUPLtn_b-iygeStSV3PoajcgGFg&sig2=q1AYVNYjgZ_16MWcpcpzeg" href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwi4ssuVwsnRAhUjwFQKHYB0AHoQFggsMAI&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.atf.gov%2Four-history%2Fprohibition-reorganization&usg=AFQjCNEfUPLtn_b-iygeStSV3PoajcgGFg&sig2=q1AYVNYjgZ_16MWcpcpzeg">entity</a>known as the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (commonly called the ATF) to Chicago. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br /><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">This will do nothing to abate the problem of violent crime in the Second City, but will provide the agency with continued rationale for its misbegotten existence – which, as it happens, began in that same city decades ago.<br /><br />The ATF was born as the Bureau of Prohibition – a brief experiment in federal behavior control that was made possible by the 18<sup>th</sup> Amendment to the US Constitution. Chicago native Elliot Ness, an inveterate self-promoter, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/eliot-ness-and-al-capone-the-men-the-myths-and-the-bad-man-in-the-dark/2014/02/18/8223c47a-95aa-11e3-afce-3e7c922ef31e_story.html?utm_term=.f1410579168d">headed</a>much-celebrated bootlegging task force that spent six months raiding Al Capone’s breweries, which was in effect a price-support program for one of the gangster’s few morally sound enterprises. <br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_HNw5h3Hpe4/WJbDpu-rhcI/AAAAAAAANF8/4gyHc_TFHFQcKJjjlBCOeXni22JWq9rwwCLcB/s1600/Eliot_Ness_Legend-0746a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_HNw5h3Hpe4/WJbDpu-rhcI/AAAAAAAANF8/4gyHc_TFHFQcKJjjlBCOeXni22JWq9rwwCLcB/s320/Eliot_Ness_Legend-0746a.jpg" width="248" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Self-mythologizing fraud Elliot Ness.</span></b></i> </td></tr></tbody></table></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Ness and his underlings eventually compiled a 5,000-count bootlegging indictment against Capone, which the US Attorney politely ignored as he filed tax-evasion charges that eventually brought about the gangster’s imprisonment – and enhanced the power of the immeasurably deadlier criminal syndicate called the IRS. </span><br /><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">When the 18<sup>th</sup> Amendment was repealed, the Prohibition Bureau lost any rationale for its lawful existence – yet rather than being abolished, it was rechristened and given an even more expansive mandate.</span><br /><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Over the past 25 years, the ATF has been consistently mired in misconduct, often of a murderous nature. The April 1993 slaughter of the Branch Davidians in their sanctuary outside Waco, Texas began with an unnecessary ATF armed raid called “Operation Showtime” – which was staged to deflect attention from an internal corruption scandal. More recently the agency was involved in the “Operation Fast and Furious” imbroglio, in which it pressured federally licensed gun dealers to sell weapons to agents of Mexican cartels in a supposed sting operation.</span><br /><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">In ways both grand and petty, the ATF has plagued and persecuted its betters. In one telling but long-forgotten <a data-mce-href="http://waronguns.blogspot.com/2006/04/not-right-from-federal-standpoint.html" href="http://waronguns.blogspot.com/2006/04/not-right-from-federal-standpoint.html">episode</a>more than a decade ago, a college student in Georgia found himself surrounded by a thugscrum of ATF chair-moisteners – one of whom planted his knee upon the victim’s neck, placing the full measure of his tax-enhanced girth behind it – because he was seen wearing a ninja costume as part of a campus event. Unfortunately for the victim, that campus was temporarily infested by ATF hirelings who – no doubt between visits to the local brothels – were undergoing “Safe Streets Training.”</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oWKmTIvAl7I/WJbD4MyG0qI/AAAAAAAANGE/yIHI06uyfUs2PBD8PiYao-H4QrWfQUCIgCLcB/s1600/BATFU.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oWKmTIvAl7I/WJbD4MyG0qI/AAAAAAAANGE/yIHI06uyfUs2PBD8PiYao-H4QrWfQUCIgCLcB/s1600/BATFU.jpg" /></a></div><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">The ATF is an appendage of the Leviathan that exists without so much of an echo of a whisper of a hint of constitutional legitimacy, for the sole purpose of providing secure, albeit socially useless, employment for reprobates, criminals, and degenerates. No provision of the US Constitution authorizes any agency of the federal government to regulate alcohol, tobacco, or explosives, and the Second Amendment explicitly forecloses federal infringement of the right to own and carry firearms. This means that the ATF is literally a bastard agency carrying out an illegitimate mission.</span><br /><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">The only useful activity for federal legislators consists of repealing existing statutes and abolishing federal agencies. Wisconsin Republican Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner, in defiance of all rational expectations for denizens of the political class, has made himself modestly useful by <a data-mce-href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/sensenbrenner-close-up-the-atf/article/2611993?custom_click=rss" href="http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/sensenbrenner-close-up-the-atf/article/2611993?custom_click=rss">proposing</a>a bill called the ATF Elimination Act that would impose an immediate hiring freeze at the agency and order its administrators to prepare a report on transferring its existing functions to the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and other departments.</span><br /><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">“The ATF is a scandal-ridden, largely duplicative agency that has been branded by failure and lacks a clear mission,” declares Representative Sensenbrenner. Abolishing the ATF would be “a logical place to begin draining the swamp and acting in the best interest of the American Taxpayer.”</span><br /><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Regrettably, Sensenbrenner’s bill would merely channel the institutional feculence of the ATF into two other federal agencies that are badly in need of abolition. 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Grigghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14368220509514750246noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-71990957978399209412017-01-28T10:01:00.002-07:002017-01-28T10:01:36.149-07:00Don't Trigger Sheriff Snowflake -- Or He May Have You Killed <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings></xml><![endif]--><br /><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> 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class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /><br />Sheriff David Clarke of Wisconsin’s Milwaukee County is the most fragile of </span><a href="http://fox6now.com/2017/01/18/completely-unprofessional-milwaukee-man-claims-sheriff-clarke-harassed-him-on-flight/"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">precious snowflakes</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">, and one of the most self-enraptured petty tyrants in recent American history. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">While settling in for a January 15 flight from Dallas to Milwaukee, Clarke – attired in Dallas Cowboys fan regalia – was asked by fellow passenger Dan Black if he was, indeed, the sheriff. When Clarke grunted in the affirmative, Black shook his head in well-earned disgust and proceeded to his seat. From behind, Black heard the truculent tax-feeder ask if he had a “problem,” to which the puzzled man shook his head in reply.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">When Black disembarked at Milwaukee’s Mitchell International Airport, he was surrounded by a thugscrum of Clarke’s deputies, who detained and questioned him regarding his views of their boss. Black remained in custody until he was escorted from the airport. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">After Black </span><a href="http://county.milwaukee.gov/ImageLibrary/Groups/cntySheriff/images/2016-photos/formal_complaint.pdf"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">filed a complaint</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> with the county commission, Clarke published the document on his department’s Facebook page – supplementing it with a threat to assault any other Mundane who gives him a dirty look. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Next time he or anyone else pulls this stunt on a plane they may get knocked out,” </span><a href="http://fox6now.com/2017/01/19/milwaukee-coalition-against-trump-demands-sheriff-clarke-apologize-after-abuse-of-power-claim/"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">advised</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> the sheriff’s office. “The sheriff said he does not have to wait for some goof to assault him. He reserves the reasonable right to pre-empt a possible assault.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A non-verbal gesture of disapproval is sufficient to trigger Sheriff Snowflake, who will summon his armed employees to enforce his safe space. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_bhSp74Pov0/WIzM4dQCh0I/AAAAAAAANFc/VIUyCJxZ3VIydGVW0S7JTbbRqO-za7d0ACLcB/s1600/Sheriff%2BSnowflake.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-_bhSp74Pov0/WIzM4dQCh0I/AAAAAAAANFc/VIUyCJxZ3VIydGVW0S7JTbbRqO-za7d0ACLcB/s320/Sheriff%2BSnowflake.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Threats of violence like the one made on Clarke’s behalf by his department </span><a href="http://www.uscourts.gov/educational-resources/educational-activities/facts-and-case-summary-elonis-v-us"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">have been prosecuted</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> under 18 USC 875[c], which makes it a federal felony to threaten to injure someone if that threat is transmitted in “interstate commerce.” </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Since Black is a witness in an active investigation that could lead to criminal charges, threatening him could also be construed as witness intimidation. (Idaho resident Matthew Townsend faced a patently spurious witness intimidation charge for </span><a href="http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2015/03/to-crush-cop-watcher-prosecutorial.html"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">publishing a Facebook post</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> urging a police officer who had arrested him without justification to testify truthfully in a pre-trial hearing.)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Surrendering himself unconditionally to his irrepressible adolescent impulses, the sexagenarian sheriff compounded his felonious behavior with an overt threat to murder his victim. Clarke instructed his subordinates to create a meme of Black containing the caption: “Cheer up, snowflake – if Sheriff Clarke were to really harass you, you wouldn’t be around to whine about it.” </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Milwaukee County Commission’s ethics board is investigating Black’s complaint – and Clarke, behaving like a generalissimo in a third world junta, has ordered his deputies to obstruct the investigation, claiming that the commission doesn’t have the authority to investigate his office. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“In an act of political grandstanding, the political witch hunt continues by Democrat politicians and operatives,” pouted Clarke. “This is nothing more than an attempt to harass and bully Sheriff Clarke. This is fake news.” </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Like too many others in his disreputable occupation, Clarke has mastered the art of simultaneously swaggering and simpering. He displays a similarly contradictory nature regarding his concept of “authority” – whence it came, and in whom it resides. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In chapter nine of his forthcoming ghostwritten book </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Cop-Under-Fire-Hashtags-Politics/dp/1617958573"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Cop Under Fire,”</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Clarke answers a question nobody of consequence ever asked: “Why do I salute the audience when I speak?”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“I’m old school,” Clarke’s ghostwriter says on his behalf. “In our representative democracy, elected officials are not sovereign. You the people are sovereign. In keeping with military custom, it is incumbent on the subordinate officer to salute and render that salute first, to the superior officer. I consider myself the subordinate officer. That’s why I salute my audience, because they are in charge” – at least when that gesture serves the purpose of political stagecraft. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In every other context, Clarke clearly regards “civilians” as subordinate to the supposed authority of the state’s enforcement caste. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">On page 241 of his book, the sheriff protests that elected officials “who have not been a cop one day in their life” have no right to demand reforms of internal disciplinary procedures. Police officers accused of abusing citizens – even when such abuse results in the clearly unlawful death of a Mundane – can only be sanctioned by superiors within their caste, Clarke insists. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As for Mundanes themselves, in any encounter with a member of the state’s punitive priesthood, they are to consider themselves the property of the officer until and unless he condescends to release them.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“When a law enforcement officer gives you a lawful command, obey it even if you disagree,” Clarke lectures his readers without explaining how a “subordinate” can “lawfully” give commands to a “superior.” “Though cops don’t have the final say, they have the final say <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">in the moment</i> within the law.” </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Those who challenge that arrangement face potentially fatal consequences, he advises, referring to several cases illustrating that point, such as the </span><a href="http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2015/12/the-real-ferguson-effect-increased.html"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">murder</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> of 12-year-old Tamir Rice by </span><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/28/us/tamir-rice-shooting/"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Cleveland Police Officer Timothy Loehmann</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">, an individual whose timorousness and ineptitude made him unsuitable for any occupation involving the use of firearms. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Rice, who was carrying a pellet gun in a state where open carry of actual firearms is legal, was slaughtered by Loehmann two seconds after the officer and his partner pulled up to him in a public park. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Clarke insists that Rice – who, unlike Loehmann, was “within the law” -- was to blame for his own death because he “didn’t think he had to obey the cops when they yelled, `Put your hands up.’” He ignores the fact that Rice didn’t have time to comply, because he simply cannot concede that an officer can ever be at fault in a deadly force incident. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xIvQVU_pmBg" width="560"></iframe></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Clarke is among the most shameless of Donald Trump’s jock-riders, and he blatantly campaigned to be appointed Commissar for Homeland Security prior to the selection of General John Kelly for the post. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cQGfkTkFwUI/WIzNCyfloXI/AAAAAAAANFg/--12bfkDpBkfLeUu-uk9rowHbNv9uUAfQCLcB/s1600/Davey%2BParticipation%2BTrophy.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="214" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cQGfkTkFwUI/WIzNCyfloXI/AAAAAAAANFg/--12bfkDpBkfLeUu-uk9rowHbNv9uUAfQCLcB/s320/Davey%2BParticipation%2BTrophy.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Like Trump, Clarke – who styles himself “The People’s Sheriff” -- appears to embrace an idiot child’s version of </span><a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwibt9TcreDRAhUIqlQKHUj8BvEQFggmMAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.earlymoderntexts.com%2Fassets%2Fpdfs%2Frousseau1762.pdf&usg=AFQjCNHqc83Yia4QYE85gOZ3W7GmaDcvuA&sig2=Wvfy9t3jIK_Uya66j9C4UA&bvm=bv.145063293,d.cGw"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Rousseau’s “social contract</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">” concept: He sees himself as the embodiment of the “will of the people,” empowered to act in the name of the collective and accountable only to his own infallible insights regarding the collective will. Thus when it appeared last fall that Trump might lose the election, Clarke </span><a href="http://www.inquisitr.com/3600155/sheriff-david-clarkes-pitchforks-and-torches-tweet-goes-viral/"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">overtly called</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> for insurrectionary violence – and after his </span><a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/the-administration/316103-sheriff-david-clarke-liberals-own-the-american-carnage"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">god-emperor prevailed</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">, Clarke has repeatedly called to </span><a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiP1qDesuDRAhWHrlQKHZe2BvAQFgggMAE&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.libertarianinstitute.org%2Farticles%2Fsheriff-david-clarke-the-warlord-of-milwaukee-county%2F&usg=AFQjCNEsixlmyThMR9feXPFptXtbIV2rEw&sig2=wvYEjnWrZdbttW-oNSxjeQ"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">crush</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> all who oppose his reign – as well as </span><a href="https://soundcloud.com/peoplessheriff/it-is-time-to-suspend-habeas-corpus-the-peoples-sheriff-122615"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">indefinitely detaining</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> up to one million people in Gitmo as suspected terrorists.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In both intellect and temperament, Clarke differs little from millions of other men of a certain age who enjoy juvenile dick-measuring displays and find partisan political conflict more effective than Viagra. What distinguishes him from the wretched likes of Bill O’Reilly or Sean Hannity (who is busily working his crayons to scribble out a foreword to Clarke’s book) is that Clarke has acknowledged his willingness to murder someone who offends him – and he has the means to make good on such threats. <br /><br /><i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Listen to this week's Freedom Zealot Podcast for more on the misadventures of Sheriff Snowflake:</span></b></i><br /><iframe frameborder="0" scrolling="no" src="http://app.stitcher.com/splayer/f/84897" style="border: 0; height: 180px; overflow: hidden; width: 300px;"></iframe><br /><br /><br /><i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Please check out the <a href="https://www.libertarianinstitute.org/">Libertarian Institute</a> -- and be sure to tell your friends.<br /></span></b></i><form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" target="_top"><br /><input name="cmd" type="hidden" value="_s-xclick" /><br /><input name="hosted_button_id" type="hidden" value="6DBVXALXH4E42" /><br /><input alt="PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!" border="0" name="submit" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_donateCC_LG.gif" type="image" /><br /><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" /></form></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><i><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Dum Spiro, pugno! <br /></span></span></b></i><br /><br /></span></div>William N. Grigghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14368220509514750246noreply@blogger.com15tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-90561849023680466372017-01-20T22:43:00.000-07:002017-01-24T09:38:15.286-07:00The Slow-Motion State Murder of Michael Whiteley <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings></xml><![endif]--><br /><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> 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mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} </style><![endif]--> <br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-J97sxz55e6Y/WILxXk9HNoI/AAAAAAAANEQ/1-CVE9OWERAHa6SFmPmyaDhuw80KNVQ-wCLcB/s1600/She%2527s%2Ba%2Bmaneater.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-J97sxz55e6Y/WILxXk9HNoI/AAAAAAAANEQ/1-CVE9OWERAHa6SFmPmyaDhuw80KNVQ-wCLcB/s320/She%2527s%2Ba%2Bmaneater.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The "Black Widow of Bonneville County": </span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Silvia Canido, seen here in Bolivia.</span></i> </td></tr></tbody></table></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /><br />Facing the prospect of life in prison – and the plausible </span><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/336906034/First-Mention-of-Death-Penalty"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">threat</span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> of </span><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/336906161/Judge-Smith-Mentions-Death-Penalty"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">execution</span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> – Idaho Falls resident Michael Whiteley had every conceivable reason to plead guilty to a charge of second-degree kidnapping, save one: He didn’t commit the crime. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“I have to plead not guilty, Your Honor,” </span><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/336906259/Michael-Pleads-Not-Guilty"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Whiteley told</span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Bonneville County District Judge Marvin Smith just minutes after being </span><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/336906480/Plea-Bargain-Part-One"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">offered</span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> a plea </span><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/336906559/Plea-Bargain-Part-Two"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">bargain</span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">through which he would have avoided prison altogether. “I had originally intended to plead the other way, but now that I sit here and run it through my heart and my mind, I don’t feel, your honor, that it is right to lie.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">A few weeks earlier, Whiteley had been charged with first-degree kidnapping and rape, and heard a Bonneville County deputy prosecutor </span><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/336906034/First-Mention-of-Death-Penalty"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">inform</span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> the judge that “although we are not seeking the death penalty in this case, kidnapping is also punishable by death – first degree kidnapping.” Judge Smith himself had </span><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/336906161/Judge-Smith-Mentions-Death-Penalty"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">agreed</span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> that “This is potentially a death penalty case,” owing to the allegation that Whiteley had committed serious harm to the supposed victim – his ex-wife, known at the time as Silvia Canido. <br /><br /><span style="color: black;">In the lead-up to Michael's May 1991 trial, the Bonneville County Prosecutor's Office </span></span><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/336906764/Bonneville-County-Prosecutor-Disqualified"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">was disqualified</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> from the case because of the misconduct of the assigned prosecutor, John Stosich. Deputy Idaho Attorney General Jack Haycock, who was given the case, offered Michael a </span><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/336906480/Plea-Bargain-Part-One"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">deal</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> in which he would plead guilty to one count of second-degree kidnapping, and the court would retain jurisdiction while he spent four months undergoing rehabilitation at the </span><a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwj98c-i-c7RAhVmHGMKHcgPBIsQFgg7MAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.drug-rehabs.org%2FIdaho-Cottonwood-drug-rehab-treatment.htm&usg=AFQjCNHJuk68O-XbdnKoT_1SpZ2dObZinA&sig2=eCOBhkLTsLgrCenM1qv6Yg"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Cottonwood</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> drug and alcohol treatment facility. </span><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yixU0dAr_Nw/WILxqA7P-RI/AAAAAAAANEU/gOvfZ1n_rzUxfUHc3wNBvHZ1cgvwdRz2wCLcB/s1600/Silvia%2Band%2BMichael%2BWedding%2BPhoto.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-yixU0dAr_Nw/WILxqA7P-RI/AAAAAAAANEU/gOvfZ1n_rzUxfUHc3wNBvHZ1cgvwdRz2wCLcB/s320/Silvia%2Band%2BMichael%2BWedding%2BPhoto.JPG" width="264" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Composite <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">p</span></span>ortrait<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> of Silvia and Michael.</span></span></b></i> </td></tr></tbody></table></span><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">If Whiteley had been burdened with the guilty knowledge that he had committed the hideous crimes of which he stood accused, he would have eagerly accepted that deal. The most urgent priority for a guilty man in such circumstances, after all, is to avoid punishment – which he could have done by accepting the plea bargain. For a wrongfully accused man in the same situation, the most urgent task is to clear his name. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">In a case that depended entirely on an assessment of the relative credibility of the accuser and the defendant, Whiteley’s choice to confront the charges, rather than avoid them on absurdly generous terms, should have been dispositive evidence of his innocence. Similarly compelling corroboration is offered by the fact that the Idaho AG’s office was willing to offer that deal: If Deputy AG Haycock sincerely believed that Whiteley had kidnapped and raped a woman, and that he had the evidence to prove those accusations, he acted with culpable irresponsibility in making that offer. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">The </span><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/336963817/Judge-Smith-Close-Case-Came-Down-to-Contending-Credibility"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">only</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> direct “evidence” against Whiteley consisted of the uncorroborated, and self-contradictory, </span><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/336963817/Judge-Smith-Close-Case-Came-Down-to-Contending-Credibility"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">story told by the accuser</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">. Canido refused to submit to a medical examination, which means that no physical evidence of rape was ever produced. </span><br /><br /><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Where is the evidence?</span></b></div><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">The report filed by Idaho Falls Police Officer who interviewed Canido following Whiteley’s January 16, 1991 arrest, </span><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/336963382/Fuhriman-Made-No-Mention-of-Rape-in-His-Report"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">did not</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> contain any mention of a rape accusation: “Don’t ask me,” the officer exclaimed when queried about that astonishing oversight during cross-examination. The officer also </span><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/336963475/Fuhriman-Supposedly-Saw-a-Bruise-but-Did-Not-Document-It"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">claimed</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> to have seen a large bruise on Canido’s inner thigh, but </span><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/336963475/Fuhriman-Supposedly-Saw-a-Bruise-but-Did-Not-Document-It"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">did not</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> photograph the alleged wound – and when asked about it by defense counsel Stevan Thompson </span><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/336963526/Fuhriman-Could-Not-Say-Which-Thigh-Was-Bruised"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">could not recall</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> which thigh displayed the alleged lesion. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">At the time of Whiteley’s arrest, he was visiting Canido’s home after returning with her from a trip to southern Utah. He had just endured a severe beating at the hands of Raquel Gonzalez, Canido’s mother, who had attacked him with a baseball bat. When the police arrived, Whiteley was arrested for supposedly violating a protective order that Canido had obtained the previous November – and had </span><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/336963752/Canido-Notarized-Request-to-Drop-CPO"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">asked to be rescinded</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> shortly thereafter.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">As a result of either simple incompetence or a very peculiar sense of humor, that protective order specified that it would expire on </span><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/336963036/CPO-Set-to-Expire-on-February-6-1990"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">February 6, 1990</span></i></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">– nearly a year before Whiteley was arrested for violating it. Thus the arrest was invalid. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Once he had Whiteley in custody, the arresting officer – using the familiar </span><a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiRnbuE-s7RAhUS1mMKHT_rAYwQtwIIITAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D-FENubmZGj8&usg=AFQjCNFFt7XLGb-0oKjCt0MIPVSlUaP-pQ&sig2=eqMJ-QMLtSxjn6KrwZJyJw"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">tactics</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> of his disreputable </span><a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&cad=rja&uact=8&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwiHqfGR-s7RAhUN52MKHXTSCoQQFggpMAM&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FPolice-Generate-False-Confessions-Interrogation%2Fdp%2F144224464X&usg=AFQjCNHHkukB1aO7g5sZqFguvKxJnxXeCw&sig2=aSR2ZpP7fmC3P1fuzNEdBA&bvm=bv.144224172,d.cGc"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">trade</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> – tried to elicit Whiteley’s “cooperation” to “clear up” the matter, without telling him that he was trying to build a case to send him to prison. The officer </span><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/336964018/Fuhriman-Denied-Whiteley-Access-to-Counsel"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">parried Whiteley’s demand for an attorney</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> by saying that it was “too early” to get one, and that if the hostage (meaning Whiteley, not Silvia<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">) </span>were cooperat<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">e</span> things would work out much better. He extracted Whiteley’s signature on a Miranda waiver form, and then produced what was called a “voluntary” statement from <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Whiteley.</span> </span><br /><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Whiteley </span><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/336963341/Whiteley-Did-Not-Consent-to-Fuhriman-Signature-on-Statement"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">refused</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> to sign that statement. So the officer forged the signature of his hostage – and then </span><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/336963885/Fuhriman-Perjury-1"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">lied</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> about the matter in a pre-trial hearing. Despite being </span><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/336963183/Fuhriman-Busted-for-Lying-About-Signature"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">caught</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> in an act of deliberate perjury, and </span><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/336963120/Fuhriman-Changes-His-Testimony"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">changing</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> his insistent initial testimony after he was confronted with the original document, the officer’s version of events was accepted by Judge Smith, who </span><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/336963243/Judge-Smith-Praises-Demeanor-and-Credibility-of-Fuhriman"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">commended</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> him for his “demeanor” and “</span><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/336963308/Judge-Smith-Finds-Fuhriman-a-Credible-Witness"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">credibility</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">.”</span><br /><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">The officer who headed the Whiteley investigation was the now-notorious IFPD Sergeant </span><a href="http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2016/09/make-this-right-jared-help-free-chris.html"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Jared Fuhriman</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">, who used the case to test many of the same tactics that he would later use to engineer the </span><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/323404608/Redacted-Investigation-Report-by-Stuart-Robinson#from_embed"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">false confession</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">, and wrongful murder conviction, of Christopher Tapp. </span><br /><br /><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">A bizarre relationship</span></b></div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"></span><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"></span><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"></span><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"></span><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Whiteley and Canido had met the previous August when the vivacious 33-year-old Bolivian immigrant answered his ad for help in cleaning a house. Whiteley had moved to Idaho Falls from Las Vegas amid the break-up of his marriage to his wife of 17 years, Dineen. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Canido claimed to have fled an abusive husband named Carlos Almanza, to whom she was still legally married. That fact didn’t prevent her from initiating a relationship with Whiteley, talking her way into accompanying him on a trip to visit his foster parents in Salmon, Idaho. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Her overt displays of physical affection toward Whiteley made his hosts uncomfortable. At one point during the return trip to Idaho Falls, Candido – who was driving – reached over to kiss Whiteley, and while doing so caused a nearly fatal accident. </span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xaW6dhuLeSc/WILx7_HC1AI/AAAAAAAANEY/476w3uUU6HYEsTKsOvcSKuznomT-JOsWgCLcB/s1600/Silvia%2Blove%2Bnote%2Bto%2BMichael.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="238" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-xaW6dhuLeSc/WILx7_HC1AI/AAAAAAAANEY/476w3uUU6HYEsTKsOvcSKuznomT-JOsWgCLcB/s320/Silvia%2Blove%2Bnote%2Bto%2BMichael.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Although Canido appeared besotted with Whiteley (“Te amo, Te amo, Te amo, Te amo, Te amo, Te amo, Te amo, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Te amo, Te amo, Te amo, Te amo, Te amo, Te amo, Te amo mucho!” she wrote in a birthday card shortly after the accident), her mother despised him and repeatedly </span><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/337011819/Pastor-Stoneman-Affidavit-Page-Two"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">threatened Canido</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> with deportation and the loss of her children unless she broke off the relationship. Under pressure from both her mother and members of the local Mormon congregation she was attending, Canido filed several protective orders against Whiteley – which she violated by persistently calling him and driving past his home. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">On October 20, 1990, Whiteley and Canido were married in Elko, Nevada by Justice of the Peace Jack B. Ames. Canido had filed for dissolution of her marriage from Carlos Almanza, but was still legally married to him. When they returned to Idaho Falls, Michael and Silvia began attending the Idaho Falls Calvary Baptist Church. Given that he had just ended a long marriage, and she had committed what Idaho considered a felony by contracting a bigamous marriage, they were in need of spiritual advice, which Pastor Herb Stoneman was anxious to provide. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">During the course of several conversations, Stoneman </span><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/337011127/Pastor-Stoneman-Affidavit-Page-One"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">testified</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">, Canido “told me … that she was </span><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/337011819/Pastor-Stoneman-Affidavit-Page-Two"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">under pressure</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> from her mother and her [Mormon] Bishop to end her relationship with Mike Whiteley…. [She] told me that she was personally beginning to move away from her mother and the LDS Church which had been [dominating] her life…. [S]he was having difficulty handling the pressure from her mother and her Bishop.” </span><br /><br /><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">“Sundown Bail”</span></b></div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">The marriage of Michael Whiteley and Silvia Canido lasted twenty-six days. Two days after the November 15 dissolution decree, Canido filed a complaint claiming that she was receiving harassing phone calls from Whiteley’s 14-year-old son, Jay. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">At the time, Whiteley was out of town on a truck driving gig, so he wasn’t around when Canido, in the company of Idaho Falls Police Officer Rick Hansen, visited Jay, pulled a knife, and threatened to <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">attack </span>him. Despite </span><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/337012638/Officer-Rick-Hansen-Report-on-Silvia-Assaulting-Jay-Whiteley-With-a-Knife"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">witnessing a violent felony</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">, Officer Hansen didn’t arrest the assailant. Instead he blithely suggested that Whiteley and his mother could take up the matter with the prosecutor’s office. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Officer Hansen, </span><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/337012999/Silvia-Recantation-Letter-September-1999"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Canido would later claim</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">, exploited the leverage he gained by declining to file charges against her by manipulating her into having sex with him – which would constitute both kidnapping and rape. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">That Hansen was less that zealous in protecting citizens from violent crime is documented in his own report. The fact that Canido became pregnant sometime in mid-November suggests that her claim to have had sex with him is plausible, but there was at least one other candidate – Keith McCabe, a younger man with whom she had already begun a relationship while she was still married to Whiteley. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">The only evidence that Hansen extorted sex from Canido is the accusation she made in a September 1999 </span><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/337012999/Silvia-Recantation-Letter-September-1999"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">letter</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> in which she also recanted her accusations against Whiteley – who by that time had been in prison for more than eight years. If her unsubstantiated accusations against Whiteley were sufficient to win a conviction – and, if the prosecution had sought it, the death penalty – wouldn’t the same be true of now-retired Idaho Falls Police Officer Rick Hansen? </span><br /><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">When Whiteley returned to Idaho Falls in November 1990, he soon found himself in jail for violating protective orders filed on Canido’s behalf. He was also charged with aggravated assault after Canido – who had just threatened his son with a knife in the presence of a police officer – filed a criminal complaint claiming that she had been the victim in an identical alleged incident to which there were no witnesses. </span><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OM_ihq7I9mc/WILyMxUC2vI/AAAAAAAANEc/LHcSYK21gp4t0sBhn99EWusmwOGfw5e2gCLcB/s1600/Kimball%2BMason.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-OM_ihq7I9mc/WILyMxUC2vI/AAAAAAAANEc/LHcSYK21gp4t0sBhn99EWusmwOGfw5e2gCLcB/s1600/Kimball%2BMason.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ex-prosecutor, and ex-con, Mason</span></b></i>. </td></tr></tbody></table></span><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Shortly before Christmas, he was summoned to the office of Bonneville County Prosecutor Kimball Mason (who would later </span><a href="http://www.ag.idaho.gov/media/newsReleases/2007/nr_03052007.html"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">serve a prison term</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> for trafficking in stolen firearms) and presented with an ultimatum: He could avoid criminal prosecution only if he left Idaho forever. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">This arrangement, which Kimball called “</span><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/337014117/Sundown-Bail"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">sundown bail</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">,” was never the subject of a court order; it was an extra-judicial act of prosecutorial presumption. Nonetheless, after Whiteley was arrested in January, deputy prosecutor </span><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/337014652/Stosich-Lies-About-Supposed-Sundown-Bail-Court-Order"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">John Stosich lied</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> during a bail hearing by describing it as a court order, trying to get Whiteley to admit to violating a previous court order in an effort to deny him bail. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">When Whiteley’s defense attorney </span><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/337014764/Stosich-Attempts-to-Elicit-Self-Injuring-Perujry-From-Whiteley-Part-One"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">pointed out the deception</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> to the judge, Stosich – displaying high-viscosity dishonesty remarkable even for a prosecutor – </span><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/337014901/Stosich-Perjury-Solicitation-Part-Two"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">claimed</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> that because he and his boss had deceived Whiteley into thinking “sundown bail” was granted by a judge he should be punished for violating a non-existent court order. Judge Smith was receptive to that argument. He also dismissed defense protests that Whiteley’s January 16, 1991 arrest was unlawful because the protective order had expired: What mattered in that case, Smith insisted, was that Officer Furhiman <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">believed </i>that the order was valid, or at least that he claimed to. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Whiteley was strongly motivated to leave Idaho Falls, and he made arrangements to move back to Nevada. This included a job offer from a bail enforcement firm that had previously employed him. (This is why he was in possession of an inoperable stun gun, which would eventually play an important role in the fanciful narrative concocted by the prosecution during his subsequent trial.) Knowing that it was risky to do so, he returned to Idaho Falls to begin preparations to move his children back to Nevada. This meant that he once again came in contact with Canido – who announced that she was pregnant and demanded that he take her to Salt Lake City for an abortion.</span><br /><br /><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Three trips and a criminal charge</span></b></div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Canido’s initial story was that Whiteley was the child’s father, a claim that doesn’t match up with the timeline. Whiteley would later say that she confided to him that Officer Hansen had impregnated her. Acting in a way that defies rational explanation, Whiteley consented to take her to Utah. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">The couple wound up making three trips in January 1991. The first two were made to procure the death of Canido’s unborn child; she balked the first time, then went through with the procedure on the second. By this time, Canido had convinced Whiteley <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">to<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> </span></span>take her to Las Vegas in the hope of meeting friends of his who could lend her money. That trip ended in Cedar City, Utah, because of inclement weather. Both of them were seen by several people, including a former high school principal who had known Whiteley several years earlier. Several other witnesses saw an unaccompanied Canido while Whiteley was getting gas or tending to other matters, was seen. None of them saw any evidence that she was his prisoner, or that she was desperate to escape a depraved rapist. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">In the couple’s absence, Canido’s mother and several members of the Mormon ward she had attended contacted the police – which led to the arrest on January 16. At some point while Whiteley was in custody for allegedly violating the expired civil protection order, Officer Fuhriman and the Bonneville County Prosecutor’s Office decided to charge him with rape and kidnapping. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">While Whiteley was in jail, Canido made several attempts to contact him. On the morning following his arrest, Whiteley called Canido – unaware that deputy prosecutor Stositch was in her living room with a tape recorder, and was prompting her to ask questions intended to solicit self-incriminating responses. </span><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yA8pAaue8yw/WILyZLIEoPI/AAAAAAAANEk/U0w6oqknW6075nXPNjruqlrk7yslcI9nwCLcB/s1600/Smith%252C%2BMarvin%2BM.jpg_150.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yA8pAaue8yw/WILyZLIEoPI/AAAAAAAANEk/U0w6oqknW6075nXPNjruqlrk7yslcI9nwCLcB/s1600/Smith%252C%2BMarvin%2BM.jpg_150.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Judge Smith</span></b></i>. </td></tr></tbody></table></span><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">All Whiteley heard on his end were repeated demands for an apology – which he was willing to give if Canido dropped the charges and left him alone. What he didn’t hear was </span><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/337021695/Stosich-Ventriloquism-Routine"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Stosich whispering to her</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">, “Ask him if he apologizes for the rape.”</span><br /><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">By this time, Stosich and his boss </span><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/337022055/Whiteley-Had-Counsel-at-Time-of-Silvia-Call"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">had been notified</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> that Whiteley was represented by a public defender, which meant that they were breaking the law by using Canido as an interrogator. Despite his habitual deference to the prosecution, Judge Smith </span><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/337021636/Judge-Agrees-Silvia-Was-State-Agent"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">ruled</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> that Sotisch had recruited Canido as a “state agent” through his ventriloquist routine, and excluded the tape recording containing the fabricated pseudo-confession. He also </span><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/336906764/Bonneville-County-Prosecutor-Disqualified"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">disqualified</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> the Bonneville County Prosecutor’s Office for its misconduct. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Without corroborating testimony from eyewitnesses, physical evidence from a rape kit, or a </span><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/337021929/Whiteley-Did-Not-Admit-to-Rape"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">confession</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> from Whiteley, the prosecution’s case rested entirely on Canido’s accusations – which she expanded and redefined with practically every sentence she uttered. At one point she startled the prosecutor, Idaho deputy Attorney General Haycock, by claiming that Whiteley had “forced” her to marry him, and had raped her several times between August and December of the previous year.</span><br /><br /><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">A verdict without deliberation</span></b></div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">The jury was sent out on a Friday evening after being </span><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/336907087/Trust-Your-Inner-Feelings-Jury-Instruction"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">instructed by Judge Smith</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> that reasonable doubt could be overcome if what he called “an inner feeling that directs your understanding” indicated the defendant’s guilt. That facially unreasonable jury instruction was tailored to fit the prejudices of a Mormon jury dealing with a non-Mormon defendant: In the Mormon faith, key truth claims </span><a href="https://www.lds.org/new-era/2014/06/what-if-i-dont-feel-a-burning-in-the-bosom?lang=eng"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">are confirmed through an “inner feeling”</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> that is described as the workings of the Holy Spirit. </span><br /><br /><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Hungry, tired, and eager to dispose of the unpleasant business before it ruined their weekend, the jury “deliberated” for less than two hours before convicting Whiteley. </span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">When contacted later by private investigator Mel Daniels, several jurors explained that they weren’t fully persuaded by the prosecution’s case, but that they thought Whiteley looked “mean.” </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">“It didn’t help his cause any by looking so mean and staring at the jury,” complained Gwynn Miller, who was appointed as foreperson despite the fact that she attended the same Mormon ward as the supposed victim – a fact that was made known to Judge Smith during the trial. “I felt that we were all intimidated by him.” </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">What Miller and the other jurors saw was not malice, but the righteous fury of an innocent man. Despite the fact that they were unconvinced of his guilt, the jury apparently believed a brief prison term would be suitable punishment for his visible lack of docility. They were astonished when Smith, insisting that Whiteley was incorrigible, </span><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/337024460/Judge-Smith-Inflicts-Maximum-Sentence"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">imposed</span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"> what amounted to a life sentence. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Bear in mind that just three days earlier Smith had been willing to accept a plea bargain that would have kept Whiteley out of prison entirely. As is so often the case, Smith’s sentence reflected the “trial tax” inflicted by such functionaries on citizens who insist on defending themselves in court. </span><br /><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Five years after being sent to prison, Whiteley persuaded Seventh District Judge Brent Moss to convene a post-conviction hearing in which he and appellate counsel John R<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">a</span>din presented much of the evidence that had been neglected during the trial. This included Pastor Stoneman and other witnesses who had seen a happy, apparently loving couple during several incidents in which Canido was supposedly Whiteley’s hostage. Moss also accepted into evidence the translated transcription of a tape recorded October 1990 phone call in which Canido defiantly told her mother that she intended to marry Whiteley. The mother responded by accusing Whiteley of being a rapist, and threated to arrange the seizure of Canido’s children and her deportation to Bolivia. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Called to testify in the post-conviction hearing, Canido was asked simply to repeat her original trial testimony. Rather than doing so, she </span><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/337028685/Whiteley-Offered-New-Evidence-Silvia-Rebutted-by-Taking-Fifth-Seventy-Times"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">invoked the Fifth Amendment</span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> seventy times. She did so at the explicit urging of her attorney, who was concerned about a potential perjury charge. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WVFoZ6I-vAg/WILy2YJo7uI/AAAAAAAANEw/RhmPWLHZYEAvpIXUKhi14LiHdtjkLA6AwCLcB/s1600/Moss.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WVFoZ6I-vAg/WILy2YJo7uI/AAAAAAAANEw/RhmPWLHZYEAvpIXUKhi14LiHdtjkLA6AwCLcB/s200/Moss.jpg" width="168" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Judge Moss </span></b></i></td></tr></tbody></table></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">On January 7, 1997, Judge Moss issued an </span><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/337025342/Judge-Moss-Order-for-New-Trial"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">order</span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">setting aside Whiteley’s conviction and ordering a new trial. Asked about that development, Sergeant Jared Furhiman paused from his effort to frame Christopher Tapp to express outrage that one of his previous victims would be given an opportunity for exoneration. Fuhriman was doubtless consoled – and relieved – by the Idaho Supreme Court ruling that overturned Judge Moss’s order. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: black;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The decision to grant a new trial, Moss </span><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/337025871/Judge-Brent-Moss-Says-Justice-Was-Not-Done-to-Whiteley"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">explained</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> in a letter to the Idaho State Judicial Council, was made necessary by “Ms. Canido’s evasiveness in answering questions during the post-conviction hearing. Although Ms. Canido did not recant her trial testimony I was left with the uneasy feeling that justice was not served by the original verdict and that a new trial was appropriate. I am still of that same opinion.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Yes, she recanted</span></b></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Moss wrote that letter nearly six years ago. Since that time, new evidence has emerged verifying that Canido <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">did</i> recant her accusations in two letters she wrote in September 1999 – the same letters in which she accused former IFPD Officer Rick Hansen of abducting and raping her. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Canido, who had committed bigamy by marrying Michael Whiteley in October 1990, married Keith McCabe after Whiteley was arrested. She remained married to McCabe until 2005, when she met a wealthy, elderly widower named John Commander, whom she married in 2006. That marriage was annulled within weeks after Commander’s adult children showed him that Canido was leeching him dry. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ghgays0DloA/WILzB0RyBNI/AAAAAAAANE0/R-AwCv3OrUYOW5CI-PXPw901WsKNm-quACLcB/s1600/Still%2Bon%2Bthe%2Bmake.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ghgays0DloA/WILzB0RyBNI/AAAAAAAANE0/R-AwCv3OrUYOW5CI-PXPw901WsKNm-quACLcB/s320/Still%2Bon%2Bthe%2Bmake.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Still on the make: </span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Canido in Bolivia. </span></i></td></tr></tbody></table></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">During a May 8, 2007 deposition in the annulment proceedings, Canido was asked about the September 1999 letters of recantation. She adamantly refused to answer any questions about those letters, or the Whiteley conviction – until just before the deposition ended at about five o’clock that evening. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Did you sign them?” asked Commander’s attorney, Jeffrey W. Banks.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“The guy made me sign and I am not going to answer any more,” </span><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/337027328/Silvia-Admits-Under-Oath-That-She-Signed-the-Recantation-Letter"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Canido angrily replied</span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">, thereby authenticating the recantation letters even as she pretended that the long-imprisoned Whiteley had somehow “made” her sign them. A few months later, she fled back to Bolivia, where she remains. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Michael Whiteley is scheduled for a parole hearing on January 25. Even if he were granted parole – which will not happen unless he ratifies his wrongful conviction by acknowledging guilt – he cannot recover the decades that were stolen from him.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In 1991, the State of Idaho threatened to murder Whiteley unless he confessed to a crime he didn’t commit. Twenty-six years later, it is making good on that threat, albeit in sadistically incremental fashion. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> This week's Freedom Zealot Podcast</span></b></span><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></span></b><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">If Kenneth Lee Drew had been a cop enforcing state edicts, rather than a repo man defending property rights, he would have gotten a commendation following a pursuit in which a thief killed herself. 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/></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /><br />Pleasant Grove, Utah resident Ashleigh Holloway Best killed herself in the early hours of May 17, 2016 when she lost control of the stolen 2002 Lincoln Navigator she was driving and plowed it into a tree. The man who was pursuing the thief, </span><a href="https://www.ksl.com/index.php?sid=42380176&nid=148"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Kenneth Lee Drew</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">,</span></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> was the authorized representative of the vehicle’s lawful owner. On January 11, Drew was sentenced to prisonbecause the thief foolishly killed herself. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">If Drew had been a government-employed law enforcement officer, rather than a private </span><a href="https://www.lewrockwell.com/2006/07/lew-rockwell/all-hail-the-repo-man/"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">repossession agent</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">, he would likely have received a hazardous duty commendation following Best’s admittedly tragic death. After all, police officers in Utah and elsewhere routinely use lethal force in dealing with citizens who seek to avoid being physically “repossessed” by agents of the state that supposedly owns them. Most of those cases don’t involve people being pursued for actual crimes, such as automobile theft. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Like too many families, the </span><a href="http://www.good4utah.com/news/local-news/young-mother-killed-tow-truck-driver-jailed-in-repossession-gone-wrong/460294600"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Bests</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> had been overwhelmed by financial reverses and had fallen behind in their car payments. They reportedly were helping care for ailing relatives, and had only one family vehicle. The desperation that gave rise to Ashleigh’s self-destructive decision is as understandable as her actions were inexcusable. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">By giving pursuit once Best fled with a car she no longer lawfully owned, Drew acted imprudently. It has never been proven that he deliberately forced Best off the road at the end of the chase, which would have been both criminally irresponsible and self-defeating. In addition to the fact that it is perverse to risk killing someone to recover a stolen car, ramming a vehicle one is seeking to repossess makes no economic sense. It’s likely that Drew’s regrettable decision was a product of frustration, rather than malice.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XNhWvvdf4WE/WHumIGQBsAI/AAAAAAAAND4/aQznjYYgYCIQo-0ovP_wxE1rcMzYuvOgQCLcB/s1600/Ashleigh.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="245" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XNhWvvdf4WE/WHumIGQBsAI/AAAAAAAAND4/aQznjYYgYCIQo-0ovP_wxE1rcMzYuvOgQCLcB/s320/Ashleigh.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Foolish choice, tragic death: </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ashleigh Best. </span></i></td></tr></tbody></table></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">If he had called the police to report an auto theft, the outcome for Best might well have been identical – but the state operative whose actions led to the fatal crash would be protected by the pernicious legal fiction called “qualified immunity.” That privilege enjoyed by state-licensed plunderers is not extended to private property recovery agents, whose jobs are both unpleasant and frequently </span><a href="http://www.wsmv.com/story/28014627/police-say-man-fired-shots-at-repo-agents"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">dangerous</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“There was [sic] lots of mistakes made that night,” insisted Brennan Best, Ashleigh’s widower, after Drew was sentenced. “I don’t think what was done [to Ashleigh] was done on purpose. But I do believe we all need to be accountable for our own actions.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Drew made a horrible, perhaps unforgivable, mistake. Brennan and Ashleigh Best conspired to commit a crime – theft through fraud.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">According to the investigative summary in Drew’s </span><a href="https://www.scribd.com/doc/313737020/Kenneth-Drew-charging-documents"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">indictment</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">, when he arrived at about midnight to reclaim property for which the Bests were no longer making contractually required payments, Brennan interfered with the repossession and demanded an opportunity to make a new arrangement with the creditor. Drew agreed with that proposal, and began processing the necessary forms. While the repo agent was thus preoccupied, Best covertly instructed his wife to take the automobile to a relative’s home. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">At that point, Mr. Best became an accomplice in grand larceny: At that point, pending completion of a new payment plan, the automobile was the property of the creditor. If Best had been sincere in his offer to Drew, there was no need to abscond with the vehicle. (In fact, if the couple had filed for </span><a href="http://www.hendersonlaw.org/practical-bankruptcy-stopping-a-vehicle-repossession-with-chapter-7/"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Chapter 7</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">bankruptcy, they could have avoided repossession of the Navigator.) </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">After Ashleigh climbed into the car and sped off, Brennan, abetted the theft by “trying to place himself in front” of Drew’s tow truck “to prevent it from following the Navigator,” according to the police account. Ashleigh’s conduct suggests that her husband had instructed her to “drive it like you stole it” – which, in fact, was precisely what she had done. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">If her excursion had been innocent, the guilty-minded driver would not have endangered the lives of others by careening through residential streets at speeds of up to seventy miles an hour. Drew acted with culpable recklessness as well – but Brennan Best is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">criminally</i>liable in the death of his wife, whether or not state functionaries will admit as much. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Unlike police officers in similar situations, Drew – a private peace officer enforcing a legitimate property rights claim – was not offered “<a href="http://www.njlawman.com/Garrity.htm">Garrity</a>” protections, which would have meant that his initial statement to police could only be used for disciplinary action, rather than criminal prosecution. Nor was he allowed the luxury of reviewing video records of the incident prior to speaking with investigators, another perk extended to police in Utah and elsewhere. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Because of this, Drew’s grief-stricken, guilt-ridden disclosures were critically scrutinized by police eager to build a criminal case. If he had been a fellow member of the Punitive Priesthood, Drew’s equivocations and self-contradictions would have been seen as evidence of trauma, rather than proof of criminal intent. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“I’ve never seen a repo agent be this aggressive,” </span><a href="http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865654423/Pleasant-Grove-woman-dies-in-crash-while-fleeing-repo-man-police-say.html"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">insisted</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Pleasant Grove Police Lt. Britt Smith shortly after Drew’s arrest. This is only true to the extent that Smith fails to perceive his costumed comrades as “repo agents” of a sort – because lethally aggressive tactics of the kind Drew allegedly used are quite commonplace. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MA0J5pOSTGs/WHumWx7D-gI/AAAAAAAAND8/XJH67qoATTkNqIcSreTD2wVzdaa1wPYdwCLcB/s1600/AerialCrashScene.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MA0J5pOSTGs/WHumWx7D-gI/AAAAAAAAND8/XJH67qoATTkNqIcSreTD2wVzdaa1wPYdwCLcB/s1600/AerialCrashScene.jpg" /></a></div><br /> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Investigators claimed, but have not proved, that Drew forced Best off the road using a variation of a PIT (Precision Immobilization Technique) maneuver. A PIT maneuver is to be used only in situations where deadly force is </span><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/154635565/Jared-Nichols-Testimony"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">justified</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">. Yet hyper-aggressive police in Utah employ that tactic frequently; one </span><a href="http://gephardtdaily.com/local/high-speed-chase-on-snowy-i-15-ends-with-pit-maneuver-2-arrested/"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">recent</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">incident of that kind involved a driver suspected of driving while intoxicated. Another episode, interestingly, involved recovery of a </span><a href="http://fox13now.com/2016/12/06/man-jailed-after-police-chase-in-saratoga-springs/"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">stolen car</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Almost six years to the day before the avoidable, largely self-inflicted death of Ashleigh Best, South Jordan Police Officer Jared Nichols used a PIT maneuver in an effort to trap an SUV driven by </span><a href="http://archive.sltrib.com/story.php?ref=/sltrib/home/50649450-76/police-jordan-pennington-south.html.csp"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Wade Pennington</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> in a cul-de-sac. Pennington, who was on probation and had a court hearing scheduled a few days later, was being pursued without cause by Officers Nichols and Brett Lopez. The official story was that they suspected him of theft, but their supervisor, Sgt. Allen Crist, found no evidence to support that suspicion. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Crist explicitly ordered Nichols <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">not</i> to pursue Pennington, but that order was ignored. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“I’m going to take him out,” </span><a href="http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2013/07/im-going-to-take-him-out.html"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Nichols said</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">just a few minutes before trapping Pennington. He and Lopez went “gun-up” to make a felony stop, despite the fact that their target was not suspected of a felony. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">After Nichols t-boned Pennington’s SUV, Lopez emerged with a drawn gun and screamed at the driver to “get on the ground – stay where I can see you.” At roughly the same time, Nichols unloaded on Pennington at point-blank range. Immediately after shooting the victim, Nichols snarled, “Freeze, Wade! I’m going to shoot you. Get down on the f***ing ground!”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Pennington was murdered – no other word is adequate – because he was trying to comply with Lopez’s demands. The officer who murdered him spat out two contradictory commands <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">after</i>firing the deadly shots. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The last words Pennington heard were a sadistic taunt hurled at him by Lopez: “You’re dead, mother****r!”<br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/d5HJJIIc1xk" width="560"></iframe></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Nichols and Lopez were cleared by their department within 72 hours. Despite having the opportunity to refresh their memories by watching dashcam video of the chase and subsequent killing, the officers told stories that were self-contradictory, and contradicted each other. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Lopez was eventually </span><a href="http://archive.sltrib.com/story.php?ref=/sltrib/news/57506577-78/perez-court-officer-pennington.html.csp"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">fired</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> for violating the department’s high-speed chase policy, but never faced criminal prosecution. As a matter of equity, the same punishment would have been appropriate for Kenneth Drew, who violated his company’s policy by pursuing a vehicle he had been sent to repossess. The only other morally suitable option would have been for Lopez and Nichols to serve the same sentence imposed on Drew. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hctbQkGgsxQ/WHumfN4WeCI/AAAAAAAANEA/QNrUNaJjJ-AGcqDDw-OXOW9kprWR9wIcQCLcB/s1600/Drew.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-hctbQkGgsxQ/WHumfN4WeCI/AAAAAAAANEA/QNrUNaJjJ-AGcqDDw-OXOW9kprWR9wIcQCLcB/s320/Drew.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Officer Nichols not only avoided prosecution, he was promoted. The murder of Wade Pennington was the second time Nichols had slaughtered an unarmed man after immobilizing his vehicle in a parking lot: He had followed almost exactly the same procedure in </span><a href="http://archive.sltrib.com/story.php?ref=/news/ci_6379794"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">executing</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> Darren Neil Greuber, who like Pennington was a parolee, in 2007. The investigating officer who had cleared Nichols in the Greuber killing, West Jordan PD Sergeant Michael S. Leary, performed the same right of absolution after Nicholas gunned down Pennington two years later. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As someone not invested with Blue Privilege and buoyed by the financial support of a police union, Drew was maneuvered into pleading guilty to manslaughter as part of a plea bargain in which prosecutors asked for a suspended prison sentence. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Utah Fourth District Judge </span><a href="https://www.utah.gov/governor/news_media/article.html?article=20161021-1"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Robert Lunnen</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">, a callow, vindictive jurist who had been on the bench for less than a month, discarded that plea agreement, </span><a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjWx9ijtb7RAhUrsFQKHaL4C6EQqOcBCBwwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sltrib.com%2Fnews%2F4802724-155%2Fin-surprise-move-judge-gives-utah&usg=AFQjCNGmKveffnrJsUH5TgICzrazzXQ-gg&sig2=_-1-8HaoNBmx1G3hlOOGIQ"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">imposing</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> a sentence of one to fifteen years in prison. The obscenely severe sentence, I suspect, reflects the hostility of tax-fattened functionaries toward those who challenge the State’s monopoly on “justice.”<br /><br /><b><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This week's Freedom Zealot Podcast examines the death of Ashleigh Best, the murder of Wade Pennington, and other examples official privilege:<br /><br /><iframe frameborder="0" height="360" scrolling="no" src="http://app.stitcher.com/splayer/f/84897?el=1&refid=stpr" style="border: 0; height: 360px; overflow: hidden; width: 500px;" width="500"></iframe><br /><br />Please be sure to visit the <a href="https://www.libertarianinstitute.org/">Libertarian Institute</a>, and share the site with your friends.<br /><br /><form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" target="_top"><br /><input name="cmd" type="hidden" value="_s-xclick" /><br /><input name="hosted_button_id" type="hidden" value="L4MPLRQR4CB26" /><br /><input alt="PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!" border="0" name="submit" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_donateCC_LG.gif" type="image" /><br /><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" /></form><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Dum spiro, pugno! </span></span><br /><br /></span></i></b><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>William N. Grigghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14368220509514750246noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-52245582146766975882017-01-11T07:42:00.000-07:002017-01-11T07:42:05.955-07:00The Perverse Ingenuity, and Routine Lawlessness, of Law Enforcers <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings></xml><![endif]--><br /><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> 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mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} </style><![endif]--> <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qslKwFib7Gs/WHZArwr1qhI/AAAAAAAANDQ/Edtx15Fq9d8-VHmue3la0P1GYQKigO4YACLcB/s1600/GOOD-Cops-Main.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="250" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qslKwFib7Gs/WHZArwr1qhI/AAAAAAAANDQ/Edtx15Fq9d8-VHmue3la0P1GYQKigO4YACLcB/s400/GOOD-Cops-Main.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><br /><br />Enforcers of drug prohibition can be perversely ingenious in devising methods to subvert due process guarantees. One tactic widely employed by police officers looking for a way to circumvent the Fourth Amendment is to intimidate a subject into giving the officers permission to invade the rights of others – such as residents of an apartment building, or passengers in an automobile. That ruse has been rebuffed in two recent state Supreme Court rulings.</span><br /><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Police officers in Berlin, Connecticut who conducted a </span><a href="https://jud.ct.gov/external/supapp/Summaries/Docket/19613.htm"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">warrantless</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"> search of an apartment complex using a drug-detecting dog violated the Fourth Amendment, acknowledged a December 22<sup>nd</sup></span><a href="http://jud.ct.gov/external/supapp/Cases/AROcr/CR324/324CR104.pdf"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">ruling</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"> from that state’s highest appellate court.<br /></span><br /> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cuwKxEqBYtI/WHZCGcVhe1I/AAAAAAAANDc/HDoRt-_EmcIrnVlE0ytkcsWYczK-zds9ACLcB/s1600/Blue%2BPrivilege%2BK9%2BDivision.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-cuwKxEqBYtI/WHZCGcVhe1I/AAAAAAAANDc/HDoRt-_EmcIrnVlE0ytkcsWYczK-zds9ACLcB/s320/Blue%2BPrivilege%2BK9%2BDivision.JPG" width="247" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">...but they can murder </span></b></i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">our </span></b><i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">dogs with impunity, natch. </span></b></i></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">In May 2012, acting on an anonymous tip, police obtained permission from the owners and managers of an apartment complex to carry out what was called a “canine examination of the common areas of the building.” A drug-detecting dog named Zeusz was deployed in the hallway of each floor of the complex, and allowed to sniff at the bottom of each door. Zeusz displayed what is called a “passive alert” at unit 204, which prompted the officers to obtain a search warrant. This led to the discovery of several marijuana plants.<br /></span><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">The Fourth Amendment’s definition of a reasonable search refers to a particular description of “the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized”; this language was designed to forbid the kind of general warrants that were commonly used by British military and customs officials in the years immediately prior to the colonial rebellion. By getting the owners of the apartment complex to authorize a warrantless search – waiving the rights of dozens of people to be secure in their individual domiciles -- the Berlin Police behaved less like their British forebears than their antecedents in Communist East Germany.<br /></span><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">The trial court threw out the evidence seized in that search as the product of a Fourth Amendment violation. The State of Connecticut appealed the case to the state Supreme Court, which </span><a href="http://ct.findacase.com/research/wfrmDocViewer.aspx/xq/fac.20141118_0002895.CT.htm/qx"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">upheld</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"> the trial court’s decision. The ruling cited a long string of federal judicial precedents – including a recent ruling in a very similar case from Florida – describing the use of warrantless “canine sniffs” as a violation of common law property rights and the un-enumerated right to personal privacy.</span><br /><br /> <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/02/17/shedding-light-on-the-use-of-swat-teams/"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Given</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"> that dozens or scores of SWAT raids occur, on average, every day in the American Soyuz, it’s clear that Americans cannot look upon their homes as a refuge from government abuse. They are at even greater risk when exercising their freedom of movement, given the predatory conduct of opportunistic police agencies empowered to seize cash and other property in the name of drug prohibition.<br /></span><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Gerald Cleverly was a passenger in a pickup truck driven by his friend Chris Jones when El Dorado, Kansas Police officer Brent Michael Buckley stopped them for not wearing seat belts. Buckley would later admit that he had executed a pretext stop for the purpose of arranging a “consensual” search of the vehicle and its occupants. Both Jones and Cleverly submitted to a pat-down search – which they were not legally required to do – and nothing was found.<br /></span><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ySkZQCWdwVs/WHZCu4BzVVI/AAAAAAAANDg/SNIjnzwTP_0CijYgD3b31rHweqSzccplgCLcB/s1600/Snow.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ySkZQCWdwVs/WHZCu4BzVVI/AAAAAAAANDg/SNIjnzwTP_0CijYgD3b31rHweqSzccplgCLcB/s1600/Snow.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Buckley issued the citation, and then – employing a </span><a href="http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2015/06/road-pirates-assemble-desert-snow-is.html"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">deceptive tactic</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"> taught by police training programs such as </span><a href="https://desertsnow.com/conferences"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Desert Snow</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">– he told the motorist that although he was free to go, the officer wanted to ask “a few more questions” and requested permission to search the truck.<br /></span><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">The purpose of what Desert Snow operatives call the “Roadside Conversation” tactic is to elicit potentially incriminating details from drivers who are ignorant of the fact that they have no legal responsibility to tell the officer anything. This also extends the traffic stop beyond its constitutionally permissible limit, allowing the officer to devise an “articulable suspicion” of criminal activity that will supposedly justify a “drug sweep” by a conveniently available K-9 handler. This charade inevitably ends with the dog “alerting” on something “suspicious,” which provides an excuse for a hands-on search of the vehicle.<br /></span><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">This script was followed by El Dorado PD officers Buckley and Sam Huming, with the minor adaptation that a K-9 unit wasn’t necessary.<br /></span><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">A search of the interior of Jones’s vehicle turned up no evidence of contraband. Since the driver had “consented” on behalf of his passenger, Cleverly was ordered out of the car and subjected to a second pat-down search. He was told that he was not free to leave and forbidden to use his cell phone, which means that he was in police custody, despite the officers’ subsequent claims to the contrary. A search of a cigarette package found a small amount of methamphetamine.<br /></span><br /> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4vlSdgfQQBc/WHZC1IikJ6I/AAAAAAAANDk/VDf37-fBxyUokyLQJ23B3he_17UXqtt7QCLcB/s1600/KlitchPulloverScreenShot.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4vlSdgfQQBc/WHZC1IikJ6I/AAAAAAAANDk/VDf37-fBxyUokyLQJ23B3he_17UXqtt7QCLcB/s1600/KlitchPulloverScreenShot.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Idaho State Police Road Pirate Justin Klitch in action.</span></b></i> </td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Cleverly was arrested and later found guilty of drug possession and sentenced to eighteen months of probation. The court dismissed a motion to suppress the drug evidence on the grounds that it was produced through a consensual search. The Kansas Supreme Court has now reversed Cleverly’s conviction.<br /></span><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">The rights protected by the Fourth Amendment and its state equivalent, </span><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/335169518/Kansas-State-Supreme-Court-State-v-Cleverly-Ruling"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">wrote the court’s majority</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">, belong to the individual and are “not merely inconvenient technicalities designed to irritate government agents.” Furthermore, “A driver of a vehicle subjected to a traffic stop does not have the authority, as a matter of law, to waive the Fourth Amendment rights of passengers in the stopped vehicle.”<br /></span><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Judicial rulings of this kind, while welcome, have little practical impact on the conduct of police and the prosecutors who eagerly exploit routine police lawlessness. In her June, 2011 UC-Davis Law Review </span><a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1676423"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">essay</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"> “The Police Gamesmanship Dilemma in Criminal Procedure,” Professor Mary D. Fan of the University of Washington School of Law points out that police departments are adept at finding ways to “slide around the rules” and can always develop “tactics that undermine the purpose of rules” established by the judiciary.<br /></span><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">It is for this reason that most of the criminal misconduct that occurs on America’s thoroughfares is committed by people engaged in what Fan calls the “competitive enterprise of ferreting out crime” – where “crime” is described as violations of government edicts that have nothing to do with the protection of persons and property.<br /><br /><b><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This week's Freedom Zealot Podcast: Debtor's prisons are illegal, yet ubiquitous in the American soyuz </span></i></b>-- <br /><br /><iframe frameborder="0" scrolling="no" src="http://app.stitcher.com/splayer/f/84897" style="border: 0; height: 180px; overflow: hidden; width: 300px;"></iframe><br /><br /><i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Please be sure to visit the <a href="https://www.libertarianinstitute.org/">Libertarian Institute</a> -- and tell your friends about it. <br /><br /></span></b></i><form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" target="_top"><br /><input name="cmd" type="hidden" value="_s-xclick" /><br /><input name="hosted_button_id" type="hidden" value="SF57M4T7DMM5W" /><br /><input alt="PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!" border="0" name="submit" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_donateCC_LG.gif" type="image" /><br /><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" /></form></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><i><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Dum spiro, pugno! </span></span></b></i><br /><br /><br /></span><br /> <br /> <div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>William N. Grigghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14368220509514750246noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-13872652514413721782017-01-06T18:54:00.000-07:002017-01-07T17:56:57.461-07:00Sheriffs as Slavemasters: Will Inmate Labor Be Used to Build Trump's Wall? <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings></xml><![endif]--><br /><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> 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"serif";"><br /><br />“Liberty, if I understand it at all, is a general principle, and the clear right of the subjects within the realm, or of none,” <a data-mce-href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=52&ved=0ahUKEwijvrLJn6zRAhVms1QKHYQsBwI4MhAWCBwwAQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffs2.american.edu%2Fdfagel%2Fwww%2FPhilosophers%2FBurke%2FSpeechToTheElectorsofBristol.pdf&usg=AFQjCNGZJDlEX3wMBj3Cowfn_qUx_o8rMw&sig2=A_H1FnqS2JAM3VWsTUUTow&cad=rja" href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=52&ved=0ahUKEwijvrLJn6zRAhVms1QKHYQsBwI4MhAWCBwwAQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffs2.american.edu%2Fdfagel%2Fwww%2FPhilosophers%2FBurke%2FSpeechToTheElectorsofBristol.pdf&usg=AFQjCNGZJDlEX3wMBj3Cowfn_qUx_o8rMw&sig2=A_H1FnqS2JAM3VWsTUUTow&cad=rja">declared</a>British statesman Edmund Burke in an April 3, 1777 message to the Sheriffs of Bristol. “Partial freedom seems to me a most invidious mode of slavery. But, unfortunately, it is the kind of slavery the most easily admitted in times of civil discord: for parties are but too apt to forget their own future safety in their desire of sacrificing their enemies.”</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">The tyrannical measures that had provoked the American rebellion, wrote Burke, threatened liberty throughout Britain’s dominions. Once imposed in a time of crisis, he explained, they “may be advanced further and further at pleasure, on the same argument of mere expediency.”</span><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Thomas Hodgson is a sheriff of Bristol -- in this case, Bristol County, Massachusetts -- and a very different kind of "public servant" from those to whom Burke sent his message. Indeed, he seems to embody the preference for authoritarian expediency that Burke condemned, as demonstrated by his <a data-mce-href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-inmates-idUSKBN14P1N7?feedType=RSS&feedName=politicsNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Reuters%2FPoliticsNews+%28Reuters+Politics+News%29" href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-inmates-idUSKBN14P1N7?feedType=RSS&feedName=politicsNews&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Reuters%2FPoliticsNews+%28Reuters+Politics+News%29">suggestion</a>that the federal government should conscript prison labor to build Donald Trump’s proposed border wall.</span><br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zclAKlehiHQ/WHBHdARQhyI/AAAAAAAANCw/CGYXPaKQWxEdzARGaFIjdyin79FRpUC0gCLcB/s1600/14hodgson%2B.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="227" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-zclAKlehiHQ/WHBHdARQhyI/AAAAAAAANCw/CGYXPaKQWxEdzARGaFIjdyin79FRpUC0gCLcB/s320/14hodgson%2B.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Punitive poseur: </span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sheriff Hodgson</span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">“I can think of no other project that would have such a positive impact on our inmates and our country than building this wall,” insisted <a data-mce-href="http://www.bostonherald.com/news/local_coverage/2017/01/bristol_sheriff_hodgson_offers_inmates_to_build_donald_trump_s_wall" href="http://www.bostonherald.com/news/local_coverage/2017/01/bristol_sheriff_hodgson_offers_inmates_to_build_donald_trump_s_wall">Hodgson</a>during the swearing-in ceremony for his fourth term. “Aside from learning and perfecting construction skills, the symbolism of these inmates building a wall to prevent crime in their communities around the country, and to preserve jobs and work opportunities for them and other Americans upon release, can be very powerful.”</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Hodgson <a data-mce-href="http://www.telegram.com/news/20170105/bristol-sheriff-offers-to-send-inmates-to-build-trumps-border-wall" href="http://www.telegram.com/news/20170105/bristol-sheriff-offers-to-send-inmates-to-build-trumps-border-wall">used</a>his inaugural speech to announce an initiative he calls Project N.I.C.E. – National Inmates’ Community Endeavors – through which prison convicts and inmates of county jails would provide what he calls “volunteer” labor for disaster relief and other government public works projects.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">“We need to turn this country around and put law and order back in place,” insisted Hodgson. “That’s why today, I am making a formal offer to President-elect Trump that inmates from Bristol County and others from across the nation through Project N.I.C.E. will help build the wall.”</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Hodgson’s call for a nation-wide <a data-mce-href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/levee-en-masse" href="https://www.britannica.com/topic/levee-en-masse">levee en masse</a>of prison labor assumes a steady supply of convicts – and the State <a data-mce-href="https://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp/1594035229" href="https://www.amazon.com/Three-Felonies-Day-Target-Innocent/dp/1594035229">excels</a>at making innocent people into criminal offenders.</span><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Contrary to what Trump and his most eager acolytes would have us believe, there is no paucity of “law and order” in American society. The level of violent crime remains at or near an historic <a data-mce-href="http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Flawenforcementleaders.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2016%2F09%2FLEL-Statement-on-2016-Crime-Analysis.pdf&h=vAQGk1oKG&s=1" href="http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Flawenforcementleaders.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2016%2F09%2FLEL-Statement-on-2016-Crime-Analysis.pdf&h=vAQGk1oKG&s=1">low</a>, even as the prison population continues to expand.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Analyzing the available data from the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports, New York Daily News reporter David J. Krajicek <a data-mce-href="http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/what-you-wont-hear-gop-convention-crime-was-far-more-prevalent-under-reagan-obama?akid=14454.246789.EIiaY2&rd=1&src=newsletter1060519&t=4" href="http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/what-you-wont-hear-gop-convention-crime-was-far-more-prevalent-under-reagan-obama?akid=14454.246789.EIiaY2&rd=1&src=newsletter1060519&t=4">contrasted</a>national crime statistics from 2014 – the last year for which they are available – and 1987. His survey found that the overall crime rate at that point in Reagan’s presidency was 612 instances of violence for every 100,000 people; in 2014; it was 365 per 100,000, a 40 percent decline. There were roughly 320,000 fewer violent crimes in 2014 than in 1987; one notable comparison is offered by the fact that there were 20,096 murder cases in 1987, and 14,249 in 2014.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Adjusted for our larger population, there was a fifty percent decline in robbery during the same period, and an overall 48 percent decline in property crime generally.</span><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Similar trends are seen in the number of on-duty police officer deaths: During the Reagan era, the average annual rate of officer fatalities was 189, compared to 135 during the Obama presidency. Last year, there were 140 on-duty <a data-mce-href="https://www.odmp.org/search/year?year=2016" href="https://www.odmp.org/search/year?year=2016">fatalities</a>, a little more than half of which (77) were homicides.</span><br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1nzds6M3yeE/WHBH0QZaC8I/AAAAAAAANC0/k_nxGJiMAaoIrP524zv4frPWvj41fqY9QCLcB/s1600/The%2BPoseur%2Band%2Bhis%2BPosse.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="290" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1nzds6M3yeE/WHBH0QZaC8I/AAAAAAAANC0/k_nxGJiMAaoIrP524zv4frPWvj41fqY9QCLcB/s320/The%2BPoseur%2Band%2Bhis%2BPosse.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">He beat the Clintons, but he won't rein in the police state.</span></b></i> </td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">With the decline in crimes against both property and person, the State has turned to prohibition as a way of feeding its carceral apparatus. In 2015, arrests for marijuana possession <a data-mce-href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/13/us/marijuana-arrests.html?_r=0" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/13/us/marijuana-arrests.html?_r=0">outnumbered</a>arrests for all violent crimes. This may be seen as either the final throes of a dying institution – or the beginning of its revival, under anti-marijuana obscurantist <a data-mce-href="http://kiwi6.com/artists/FreedomZealot/freedom-zealot-podcast-december-10-2016" href="http://kiwi6.com/artists/FreedomZealot/freedom-zealot-podcast-december-10-2016">Jeff Sessions</a>.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">The population from which Hodgson would collect his slave labor force would be – overwhelmingly, if not exclusively -- non-violent offenders. Most of those conscripted from county jails would be hapless, economically marginal people incarcerated for petty violations of useless municipal ordinances, including those whose “offense” consisted of such things as failing to <a data-mce-href="http://kiwi6.com/artists/FreedomZealot/freedom-zealot-podcast-december-3-2016" href="http://kiwi6.com/artists/FreedomZealot/freedom-zealot-podcast-december-3-2016">manicure</a>their yards to the satisfaction of code enforcement officers.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Indeed, the reason such statutes were enacted to begin with was to provide a steady stream of fine-generated revenue, and a self-sustaining supply of inmate labor. This is documented in Douglas A. Blackmon's <a data-mce-href="http://www.amazon.com/Slavery-Another-Name-Re-Enslavement-Americans/dp/0385722702/ref=pd_sim_b_1" href="http://www.amazon.com/Slavery-Another-Name-Re-Enslavement-Americans/dp/0385722702/ref=pd_sim_b_1">book</a><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Slavery by Another Name</span></i>. Blackmon's research led him to conclude that municipal ordinances in the post-Emancipation South were designed and enforced with the purpose of producing large pools of inmate labor to be leased to large corporate interests. Other versions of this analysis had been advanced earlier in criminologist Thorsten Sellin's <a data-mce-href="http://www.amazon.com/Slavery-penal-system-Thorsten-Sellin/dp/B001KJUKIC" href="http://www.amazon.com/Slavery-penal-system-Thorsten-Sellin/dp/B001KJUKIC">study</a><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Slavery and the Penal System</span></i>, and David Oshinsky's <a data-mce-href="http://www.amazon.com/Worse-than-Slavery-Parchman-Justice/dp/0684830957" href="http://www.amazon.com/Worse-than-Slavery-Parchman-Justice/dp/0684830957">book</a><i><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Worse Than Slavery</span></i>.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Blackmon's account begins with the story of 22-year-old Green Cottenham, who was arrested for "vagrancy" by the sheriff of Shelby County, Alabama. "Vagrancy" was the stickiest of catch-all charges used to round up anyone unable "to prove at a given moment that he or she [was] employed."</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">At the time and place of Cottenham's arrest, the charge was most frequently used to justify the arrest of young black men, many of whom were itinerant workers seeking gainful employment. Cottenham was quickly convicted following a burlesque of a trial and sentenced to thirty days of hard labor.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">In a fashion instantly <a data-mce-href="http://www.detroitnews.com/story/opinion/editorials/2016/12/28/jail-rent/95931128/" href="http://www.detroitnews.com/story/opinion/editorials/2016/12/28/jail-rent/95931128/">familiar</a>to most people incarcerated today, Cottenham was unable to pay an array of "fees" that accompanied his spurious incarceration. So the thirty-day sentence was quickly expanded to a full year. Immediately thereafter, Cottenham was "leased" -- or, as his parents, both of whom former slaves, would put it, sold -- to the Tennessee Coal, Iron, and Railroad Company, a subsidiary of U.S. Steel.</span><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-I4gUjBvp0DM/WHBIHKIiYgI/AAAAAAAANC8/G5qjCIBY_k0LHTlk-soNz11izxb6_-E3QCEw/s1600/Collaborators.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="232" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-I4gUjBvp0DM/WHBIHKIiYgI/AAAAAAAANC8/G5qjCIBY_k0LHTlk-soNz11izxb6_-E3QCEw/s320/Collaborators.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Another tragic case of SYLP syndrome. </span></b></i></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">One of thousands of black men vended by sheriffs across Alabama, Cottenham was dispatched to work in Slope No. 12, a coal shaft that formed part of the Pratt Mines near Birmingham.<br /><br />"Imprisoned in what was then the most advanced city of the South, guarded by whipping bosses employed by the most iconic example of the modern corporation emerging in the gilded North, [Cottenham and his co-workers] were slaves in all but name," observes Blackmon.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Thousands perished from disease, overwork, and accidents, their mortal remains interred in shallow graves not far from where they expired. All of this is seen as an indictment of a barbarous past we have supposedly transcended. But the system described by Blackmon -- opportunistic law enforcement feeding non-violent offenders into a penal system hard-welded to government-favored corporations – still <a data-mce-href="http://digitaljournal.com/article/199622" href="http://digitaljournal.com/article/199622">exists</a>.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">Like Communist China, the American Soyuz has a <a data-mce-href="http://www.laogai.org/" href="http://www.laogai.org/">Laogai</a> (“reform through labor) <a data-mce-href="https://theintercept.com/2016/12/28/california-blames-incarcerated-workers-for-unsafe-conditions-and-amputations/" href="https://theintercept.com/2016/12/28/california-blames-incarcerated-workers-for-unsafe-conditions-and-amputations/">prison</a>manufacturing system. Working through <a data-mce-href="http://www.unicor.gov/about/organization/history/birth_of_fpi.cfm" href="http://www.unicor.gov/about/organization/history/birth_of_fpi.cfm">Unicor</a>, a public-private partnership created during the Great Depression to create "factories with fences," corporations employ prisoners to manufacture products from designer jeans to computer circuit boards.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">The entities that profit from the American Laogai would be eager to participate in Donald Trump’s border wall project, which would be among the largest corporatist undertakings since the New Deal. <a data-mce-href="http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2014/12/law-and-order-leninism.html" href="http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2014/12/law-and-order-leninism.html">Law and Order Leninists</a> would be thrilled by the spectacle envisioned by Sheriff Hodgson – until they learn, in the most unpleasant way imaginable, how easily the State can turn harmless people into slaves.<br /><b><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br />This week's Freedom Zealot Podcast<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">: <span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Debtor's prisons are illegal -- and ubiquitous in the American Soyuz -- <br /><br /><iframe frameborder="0" height="360" scrolling="no" src="http://app.stitcher.com/splayer/f/84897?el=1&refid=stpr" style="border: 0; height: 360px; overflow: hidden; width: 500px;" width="500"></iframe></span></span></span></i></b></span><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"><b><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span></span></span></i></b><br /><br /><i><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Help free minds from government cages: Visit the <a href="https://www.libertarianinstitute.org/">Libertarian Institute, and share it with your friends.</a></span></b></i></span><br /><form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" target="_top"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"><i><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></b></i></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"><i><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><input name="cmd" type="hidden" value="_s-xclick" /><br /></span></b></i></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"><i><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><input name="hosted_button_id" type="hidden" value="4UXK9LKBQ54X8" /><br /></span></b></i></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"><i><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><input alt="PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!" border="0" name="submit" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_donateCC_LG.gif" type="image" /><br /></span></b></i></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"><i><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" /></span></b></i></span></form><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";"><i><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Dum spiro, pugno! </span></span></span></b></i> </span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>William N. 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style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /><br /><br />A retired member of the exalted Brotherhood of State-Sanctified Coercion recently rebuked a heretic:<br /><br /><br /><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I take umbrage with <a href="http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2016/12/snouts-in-trough-hooves-in-till-why-you.html">your article</a> for <a href="https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/12/william-norman-grigg/donate-cop-charity/">Lew Rockwell</a>. While certainly I agree with your premise that one should not give to police charities and thereby expect special privileges, you cubby-hole police officers with your example in Idaho. How utterly disgusting that you berate this officer and his wife for exercising their <a href="http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2016/02/the-regimes-relentless-persecution-of.html">Constitutional Right to file bankruptcy</a>! You DO NOT KNOW their circumstances—they may have had extreme medical expenses with themselves or one of their children.</span></i></span></div><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></i><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></i><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I, Sir, served four years in the incomparable Marine Corps, six years in the active reserve and 20+ years as a police officer in two+ major metropolitan arenas, and, I became disabled while ‘on-duty’. Contrary to your <a href="http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2014/10/either-praise-police-or-shut-up.html">woeful disrespect for the police</a> and <a href="http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2015/09/your-duty-to-protect-and-serve-police.html">your efforts to transport those ideas to the public</a>, I would like you to know that we do not hate the public, we do not sit in donut shops and often, as you are well aware, <a href="http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2011/01/about-that-war-on-cops.html">we give our lives</a> (Dallas, George, California, New York, Pennsylvania, et al) for <a href="http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2014/09/call-anti-police-ending-states-security.html">the safety of our community</a> just as a soldier in Iraq. Are you going to write to the wives, mothers, fathers and children of these police officers who gave their ultimate gift of life and berate their husbands, sons and fathers for being a member of the thin blue line? Greater love has no man than he lay down his life for his friends.</span></span></i></div><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></i><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></i><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> We care about people’s lives, we care about the safety of the citizens of our nation and we love our country; and Sir, we don’t become, by and large, police officers and deputy sheriffs to bully the public and to make life miserable just because we are able. Police die early deaths from suicide, cancer, strokes and heart attacks because of the stress of being a law enforcement officer. The mean life expectancy of a retired law enforcement officer is 18 months. Because I was serving the citizens of my community, I am 100% permanently and totally disabled and suffer a lifetime of various levels of pain; and here, I have a miscreant (you) with disgusting disrespect narrative condemning the police and one in particular for filing bankruptcy. You Sir, are disgusting human and miscreant. The next time someone breaks into your home or assaults you, call your friends and whine to them, I am sure they will reimburse your losses and they will become a posse and hunt for the scum who violated you and your home/family, and don’t use the facilities that were there to protect you and catch the culprits who violated your home and/or body.</span></span></i></div><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></i><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></i><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">May your wife have 10 more children—all different nationalities. I don’t, generally forget a face or missive, but in your case I’ll make an acceptation. </span></span></i></div><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></i><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></i><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></i><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">With disdain and contempt,</span></span></i></div><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></i><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></i><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></i><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/sean-mac-an-airchinnigh-b361b279">Seán Mac an Airchinnigh</a></span></span></i></div><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></i><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/sean-mac-an-airchinnigh-b361b279">Retired Deputy Sheriff and Police Officer</a></span></span><span style="color: black; font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></i></div><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></i><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Proud to be an American, God Bless the USA!!</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /><span style="font-size: small;">The impenitent blasphemer replied:</span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">I'm not surprised by the reminder that <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/story?id=95836">reading comprehension isn't among the skills tested through POST certification</a>. Law enforcement is an occupation that selects for people who tend to <a href="http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2013/02/no-hesitation.html">communicate through non-verbal means, after all</a>. <br /><br /><a href="http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2016/12/snouts-in-trough-hooves-in-till-why-you.html">Nowhere in my essay</a> did I suggest that people donate to police charities in the hope of receiving "special privileges"; my point is that the people who administer those funds are protected by <a href="http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2015/04/does-fantasy-cop-package-include.html">the legal fiction</a> called "<a href="http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2013/10/qualified-immunity-license-to-commit.html">qualified immunity</a>," which gives them an unearned sense of privilege and makes them untrustworthy. This is abundantly demonstrated by the pervasive pilferage from FOP coffers. The recent case in Idaho is merely one of hundreds that have happened nation-wide. You would be wise to call for a forensic audit of your own <a href="http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2009/11/brotherhood-of-plunder-snapshots-of.html">union kitty</a>; alas, your note suggests that you are a stranger in the house of wisdom. <br /><br />Mark and Sara Furniss aren't liable to criticism for seeking to discharge their debts through bankruptcy. If you had paid attention to the details -- or had them explained to you by someone who can understand them -- you would have noticed that they tried to use bankruptcy to consummate their embezzlement by listing their victims at the FOP as "creditors" and then heading north to Alaska to escape apprehension. This is <b>attempted bankruptcy fraud. <br /><br /></b>Were I to credit official claims regarding the abilities of law enforcement officers, I would express disappointed surprise at your inability to recognize the elements of that offense. Since I've studied law enforcement for more than a quarter-century, your performance is precisely what I expected. <br /><br />Why aren't you incandescent with rage over crimes committed <i>by</i> police, <i>against</i>police -- and the public at large -- when they steal from funds supposedly dedicated to providing for wounded officers, and the families of officers who have died on-duty? I am mortally disgusted by such behavior, and that reaction ripens into rage when I see how <a href="http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2014/11/darren-wilson-and-reality-of-blue.html">"blue privilege"</a> continues to <a href="http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2015/12/blue-privilege-and-felony-murder-rule.html">protect</a>such offenders, who are routinely given lenient sentences and sometimes allowed to keep their subsidized pensions. It's odd that this is apparent to a purported miscreant like myself, while being ignored by an upstanding paragon of civic righteousness such as yourself.<br /><br />You are doubtless aware.... <br /><br />No, strike that; going on the evidence [above] I would be unwise to entertain a generous estimate of your awareness. <br /><br />A long line of judicial precedents documents that police officers have no enforceable duty to protect any individual citizen from criminal violence. This is even true when one is literally being hacked to death just a few feet away while apprehending an armed psychopath who had eluded the police. Take a second and Google "Joe Lozito" for the details of that case. <a href="http://nypost.com/2013/01/27/city-says-cops-had-no-duty-to-protect-subway-hero-who-subdued-killer/">Lozito subdued a knife-wielding serial killer while a member of your bold fraternity of badge-wearing badasses cowered behind a subway door just a few feet away</a>. While Lozito was recuperating in the hospital, the cowardly officer was being feted as a "hero" -- and the city dismissed Lozito's legal claim by invoking the well-settled doctrine that the police have no particularized duty to protect the public. <br /><br />Slogans about the <a href="http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2014/08/why-good-cops-stay-silent-persecution.html">selfless service of law enforcement</a> don't find traction <a href="http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2012/04/officer-regina-tasca-goes-rogue.html">among people</a> who have studied the issue to any depth.<br /><br />Since <a href="http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2012/03/uniformed-sexual-predator-deterrence.html">police and rapists are the only violent predators who expect their victims to submit without resistance</a>, it is appropriate that the coda of your puerile note obliquely expresses the hope that my wife will become the victim of serial rape. I am constrained to point out, however, that the word "acceptation" is not a synonym for the word you must have intended to use, which is "exception."<br /><br />Have a nice Christmas, if possible.</span><br /> <br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Will Grigg </span><br /> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /><br /><iframe frameborder="0" height="360" scrolling="no" src="http://app.stitcher.com/splayer/f/84897?el=1&refid=stpr" style="border: 0; height: 360px; overflow: hidden; width: 500px;" width="500"></iframe><br /><br /><a href="https://www.libertarianinstitute.org/">Be sure to visit the Libertarian Institute.</a><br /><br /><br /><form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" target="_top"><br /><input name="cmd" type="hidden" value="_s-xclick" /><br /><input name="hosted_button_id" type="hidden" value="KGGCANXX3UMAS" /><br /><input alt="PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!" border="0" name="submit" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_donateCC_LG.gif" type="image" /><br /><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" /></form><br /><i><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Dum spiro, pugno! </span></span></b></i></span></div>William N. 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src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cmwJPTOCsVE/WGRCRCkI1TI/AAAAAAAANBo/lNpqWvI_1KsXcQwr1W5SheTUBGxIG_roACLcB/s400/Former-PD.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Gone, but not missed: </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The former Bunker Hill, Indiana Police Department</span><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">.</span></b></i> </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.city-data.com/city/Bunker-Hill-Indiana.html"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /><br />Bunker Hill</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">, Indiana, is a village of 900 people. It has not been consumed by the maelstrom of criminal violence that – we are told – would descend on any community even briefly deprived of the divine protection offered by a police department. The village obviously didn’t need the department it had until December 12, when the Town Marshal and his four reserve deputies walked off the job to </span><a href="http://fox59.com/2016/12/13/indiana-town-without-a-police-department-after-every-bunker-hill-officer-quits/"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">protest</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">decisions by the town board. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“We have had issues with the town board, and there are some activities there where I felt like they were serving their own agenda,” former Marshal Michael Thomison explained. Most of his complaints had to do with proposed budget cut-backs, and a refusal on the part of the council to purchase body armor for all five members of the department. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“I did not want to send someone out there with bad body armor,” grouses Thomison. “I told them we have to provide this…. They were just not receptive to having a police department.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It’s just no fun to play dress-up and swagger around the village unless the kids get the full costume and all of the accessories. The historical resonance of the village’s name notwithstanding, Thomison and his buddies were not under siege by heavily armed adversaries, nor was there any realistic expectation that they ever would be.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Crime is practically non-existent in Bunker Hill – the most recent </span><a href="https://www.neighborhoodscout.com/in/bunker-hill/crime/"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">report</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> lists one violent and ten property crimes – and the village is fifteen minutes away from the Miami County Sheriff’s Office in the county seat of Peru (a deranged cartographer was apparently responsible for assigning city and county names). It’s therefore reasonable to consider the police department as an unnecessary expense, and a potential source of avoidable trouble. That latter consideration, ironically, was underscored by the disgruntled officers themselves, who have accused town councilors of asking them to conduct unlawful background checks on each other. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The municipal officials </span><a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/indiana-town-s-entire-police-force-quits-protest-immoral-things-n696386"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">stoutly deny</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">ever making such requests. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">What is the purpose of inflicting a police department on a minuscule settlement where crimes against persons and property are practically unknown? The obvious answer is that while such towns might be welcome havens from private criminal violence, there can be no sanctuary from revenue collection – and this is the core function of government law enforcement agencies, as Sheriff Eddie Soileau of Louisiana’s Evangeline Parish has recently reminded us.<br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PRnDV33rk7Q/WGRCn9halII/AAAAAAAANBs/3WzBtyUkJ2MpuhV7cp4S8wpeuMouB3DXQCLcB/s1600/DLK2_sheriff_eddie.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PRnDV33rk7Q/WGRCn9halII/AAAAAAAANBs/3WzBtyUkJ2MpuhV7cp4S8wpeuMouB3DXQCLcB/s320/DLK2_sheriff_eddie.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"I swear to be a diligent tax collector"</span></b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">: Sheriff Soileau takes the oath.</span></i> </td></tr></tbody></table></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Soileau’s office is dealing with budget cuts, layoffs, and a Justice Department civil rights investigation, and is thus determined to pare operations down to the basics. To that end, he asked for, and received, an </span><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/335154819/Louisiana-AG-Opinion-Regarding-Duties-of-a-Sheriff"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">advisory opinion</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> from the state’s Attorney General regarding the following question: Can he legally operate “without having law enforcement duties,” and simply carrying out the role of a tax collector?</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Louisiana State Constitution, </span><a href="http://www.theadvocate.com/acadiana/news/article_89175c8a-c255-11e6-a587-ab59d033bd61.html"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">replied</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> the Attorney General’s office, specifies that he is to be “the collector of state and parish ad valorem taxes and such other taxes and license fees as provided by law.” Where law enforcement is concerned, the sheriff’s duties are a matter of discretion. He is required to “keep the peace and make arrests,” but is not required to appoint a specific number of deputies to carry out that function. “Should a sheriff choose not to appoint deputies to assist in his law enforcement role, we could cite no statute that would forbid such a choice,” concluded the AG’s opinion. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-29f43gDanrw/WGRC5QKhvcI/AAAAAAAANB0/90sa3hP3B_UtZw2g61YULxMrc9PwNiRUwCLcB/s1600/More%2Bscenes%2Bfrom%2Boccupied%2BAnaheim.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="165" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-29f43gDanrw/WGRC5QKhvcI/AAAAAAAANB0/90sa3hP3B_UtZw2g61YULxMrc9PwNiRUwCLcB/s320/More%2Bscenes%2Bfrom%2Boccupied%2BAnaheim.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Odd as this might seem to people who were suckled on resilient myths about sheriffs and police officers as valiant defenders of the public and protectors of private property, Sheriff Soileau’s arrangement actually restores his office to its primordial purpose. <br /><br /></span><a href="http://www.voluntaryist.com/backissues/123.pdf"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Following</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> the Norman conquest of England, the existing kinship-based system for defense of property and settlement of disputes was supplanted by a feudal order enforced through royal appointees called shire-reeves or shire-riffs – antecedents of the modern sheriff. Their duty was to maintain the “king’s peace” by collecting taxes and preventing private efforts at restitution for injuries. It was impermissible for subjects to settle disputes among themselves, since this would deprive the royal treasury of the fees imposed through the embryonic state’s “justice” system.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This is the disreputable origin of the venerable office of the local sheriff, the only lawman whose occupation is even remotely compatible with the American constitutional tradition. A spare handful of contemporary sheriffs, at most, see their role as protecting property rights, rather than serving the privileged elite that preys on the public, and they can expect to be </span><a href="http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2016/03/sheriff-glenn-palmer-and-scouring-of.html"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">harassed</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> and driven from office. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Everything the State says is a lie, everything it claims to own it has stolen, and every act undertaken to enforce state edicts is a crime. The disappearance of a law enforcement agency enhances the personal security of those residing in any community where such a blessed development occurs. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /><i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This week's Freedom Zealot Podcast examines the wrongful rape and kidnapping conviction of Idaho Falls resident Michael Whiteley:</span></b></i><br /><br /><iframe frameborder="0" height="360" scrolling="no" src="http://app.stitcher.com/splayer/f/84897?el=1&refid=stpr" style="border: 0; height: 360px; overflow: hidden; width: 500px;" width="500"></iframe><br /><br /><i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.libertarianinstitute.org/">Please be sure to visit the Libertarian Institute.</a> </span></b></i><br /><br /><br /><i><b><form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" target="_top"><br /><input name="cmd" type="hidden" value="_s-xclick" /><br /><input name="hosted_button_id" type="hidden" value="D4VURUUVVDM44" /><br /><input alt="PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!" border="0" name="submit" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_donateCC_LG.gif" type="image" /><br /><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" /></form><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Dum spiro, pugno! </span></span></b></i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></span></div>William N. 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class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><br /><br />Ever and always alert to new and inventive ways to turn innocent people into fodder for the State’s carceral apparatus, the Missouri state legislature <a href="http://www.moga.mo.gov/mostatutes/stathtml/56500000541.html">enacted a measure</a> that will treat teenage altercations as felonies if they occur either on school grounds or between public school inmates in transit to or from their local mind laundry. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The Hazelwood School District, in a <a href="http://www.hazelwoodschools.org/site/default.aspx?PageType=3&DomainID=4&ModuleInstanceID=43&ViewID=6446EE88-D30C-497E-9316-3F8874B3E108&RenderLoc=0&FlexDataID=8231&PageID=1">dispatch</a>to the parents who surrender their children into their daily custody, explained that “if two students are fighting and one child is injured, the student who caused the injury may be charged with a felony. Student(s) who are caught fighting in school, bus, or on school grounds may be charged with a felony (<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">no matter what the age or grade level</i>).” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Emphasis added.) </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Yes, even grade school students or kindergartners will face the prospect of being detained, handcuffed, and charged with an offense that could lead to a prison term of up to seven years. Rational people would never inflict such grotesque punishments, of course, but as Springfield resident <a href="http://www.maxpreps.com/high-schools/parkview-vikings-%28springfield,mo%29/football/videos.htm?videoid=055b1c83-9797-4c24-95fd-a9f1b79b9f41">Gavin Devic</a> can attest, rational people are not at the helm of the Show-Me State’s educational soviet.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kbLTV7GHlms/WGNXm7bhipI/AAAAAAAANBU/5vYsa8XUlGg9aV4SDhD9FbCJYzq4NPcaACLcB/s1600/Gavin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kbLTV7GHlms/WGNXm7bhipI/AAAAAAAANBU/5vYsa8XUlGg9aV4SDhD9FbCJYzq4NPcaACLcB/s320/Gavin.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Devic wasn't shunted through the school-to-prison pipeline, but the local drug prohibition apparat will probably succeed in derailing the disciplined, accomplished young man's academic and <a href="http://www.maxpreps.com/high-schools/parkview-vikings-%28springfield,mo%29/football/videos.htm?videoid=055b1c83-9797-4c24-95fd-a9f1b79b9f41"><span style="color: blue;">athletic </span></a>goals. Just as some people claim that it is possible to experience a "contact high" through exposure to marijuana smoke, adherents of the prohibition cult believe that it is possible for people to experience "contact culpability" in similar circumstances.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Gavin has maintained a GPA very close to 4.0 while working two part-time jobs and compiling an enviable record of 75 wins in wrestling, an achievement that had earned him multiple scholarship offers. On December 2, faced with the unfamiliar prospect of some free time, Devic allowed himself the indulgence of a short nap that was interrupted when a friend showed up to invite him to go to a dance at Parkview High. As Devic got into his friend's car it became clear that the other young man had been consuming the Satanic Communist Demon Weed Marijuana.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Since Gavin had not partaken of the substance that <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsDyc38MstQ"><span style="color: blue;">makes incoming Attorney General Jeff Sessions lose bladder control</span></a>, he assumed that he wouldn't get into trouble. Like too many other people he underestimated the sadistic resourcefulness of those who act on behalf of the evil fiction called the "State."</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Shortly after he arrived at the dance, Gavin was pulled aside by <a href="http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2011/06/you-can-no-longer-think-of-yourselves.html"><span style="color: blue;">one of the "resource officers" who prowl the school's hallways in search of young lives to ruin</span></a>. In compliance with his training and professional expectations, the officer lied to Gavin by claiming that he displayed all of the indicia of marijuana use, including the fact that his "eyes were low" -- something that could be explained by the student's half-Asian ancestry.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://www.news-leader.com/story/news/education/2016/12/18/parkview-high-teen-fights-suspension-loss-scholarship/95197434/"><span style="color: blue;">As search of the friend's car</span></a> turned up a small quantity of the prohibited plant and related accessories. Under questioning, and doubtless seeking to mitigate his own punishment, the friend initially said that the pot and paraphernalia were jointly owned (as it were) by the two of them. This was an obviously self-serving claim on his part, but it was sufficient to "prove" Gavin's guilt in the eyes of people predisposed to punish, rather than investigate.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PzFcbXcnASs/WGNXvPxnr9I/AAAAAAAANBY/uPmr3RAlne8MktVy5BoghSu4_lYJK9ZtgCLcB/s1600/school-to-prison-pipeline.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="205" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-PzFcbXcnASs/WGNXvPxnr9I/AAAAAAAANBY/uPmr3RAlne8MktVy5BoghSu4_lYJK9ZtgCLcB/s320/school-to-prison-pipeline.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The perfidious friend later recanted his story and provided a statement exculpating Gavin. At his own expense, Gavin obtained a drug test proving that there was no THC in his system. An incident report filed by the school resource officers grudgingly admitted that “nothing illegal or prohibited” was found on Devic’s person. All of this mattered not to the local prohibitionist priesthood, which cannot look upon pot use with even the least degree of allowance, and will sternly punish even the appearance of "evil."</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Gavin was suspended from school for ten days, barred from athletic competition for a month, and lost his A+ scholarship eligibility, which would have covered the first two years of in-state tuition at numerous colleges. The "citizenship" component of that scholarship was ruined by the suspension.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"I am losing all the options I was setting up for myself," Gavin laments. This is entirely in harmony with the purpose of the state-run school system, which is to indoctrinate inmates in the idea that their lives belong to the state, not to themselves -- and that those lives can be ruined, in an instant, at the whim of those who presume to rule the rest of us.<br /><br /><br /></span><b><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This week's Freedom Zealot Podcast examines the bizarre and infuriating case of Idaho Falls resident Michael Whiteley, wrongfully convicted of kidnapping and raping his ex-wife -- a woman who twice recanted her accusations, and provided evidence that Whiteley was framed to cover up a rape committed by a police officer: </span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /><br /><iframe frameborder="0" height="360" scrolling="no" src="http://app.stitcher.com/splayer/f/84897?el=1&refid=stpr" style="border: 0; height: 360px; overflow: hidden; width: 500px;" width="500"></iframe><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://www.libertarianinstitute.org/"><i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Please be sure to check out the Libertarian Institute</span></b></i></a>. <br /><br /><br /><br /><form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" target="_top"><br /><input name="cmd" type="hidden" value="_s-xclick" /><br /><input name="hosted_button_id" type="hidden" value="N88DZEZT4KXPN" /><br /><input alt="PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!" border="0" name="submit" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_donateCC_LG.gif" type="image" /><br /><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" /></form><br /><i><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Dum spiro, pugno! </span></span></b></i></span></div>William N. Grigghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14368220509514750246noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-8142984628060144412016-12-11T21:34:00.003-07:002016-12-11T21:34:46.994-07:00Snouts in the Trough, Hooves in the Till: Why You Shouldn't Donate to a Police Charity <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:RelyOnVML/> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings></xml><![endif]--><br /><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> 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src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oCBSJVMM8to/WE4l0K2AUNI/AAAAAAAANAc/HLRVYKooBBA66ZKnXhFyr9GMKrMfiTMDACLcB/s400/Furnisses.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Tax-subsidized embezzlers: </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mark and Sara Furniss </span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />To understand why the public cannot confide in government-employed police to protect private property, it is useful to consider how frequently police steal from each other – and members of the public who ingenuously donate to police-operated charities. This isn’t because police officers are under-paid; it is because their occupation cultivates a sense of privilege and contempt for other people’s property. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The median annual household <a href="http://www.deptofnumbers.com/income/idaho/boise-city/">income</a> in Idaho is roughly $49,000. <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwix-t2P6OPQAhVB2mMKHRf9AE0QFggdMAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ktvb.com%2Fnews%2Fcrime%2Fformer-bpd-officer-and-wife-charged-with-theft%2F356135268&usg=AFQjCNEZd7lxt6lOp-x0b97s7HBNRKZYHQ&sig2=ebg0f1mJuIzifb9qD4JmRg&bvm=bv.140915558,d.cGc">Mark Furniss</a>, 46, was making almost $20,000 a year in excess of that figure when he resigned from his job as a Boise Police Officer on October 20, the same day that he and his wife Sara filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy. At the time, Sara was employed as a “safe schools assistant” in the recently created West Ada School District. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Together, Mark and Sara Furniss easily cleared $100,000 a year in salary and benefits, which is more than enough for their family of four to enjoy a very comfortable lifestyle in Boise. Yet Mark and Sara allegedly used their positions as president and office manager, respectively, with Treasure Valley Lodge #11 of the Fraternal Order of Police to <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=13&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwix-t2P6OPQAhVB2mMKHRf9AE0QFghNMAw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.localnews8.com%2Fnews%2Fcrime-tracker%2Fformer-boise-police-officer-accused-of-theft%2F189612311&usg=AFQjCNELPHSfRtoVmgL3PI5x9kI2Lhe5Hw&sig2=BRoU6FXOflF9fc8b0KZKug&bvm=bv.140915558,d.cGc">embezzle</a>$73,000 over a five-year period. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The couple’s pilferage from the FOP’s accounts was noticed no later than February, which is when he was confronted by the organization’s president over his use of a union credit card to buy tickets to a Pittsburgh Pirates game and make more than $500 in personal purchases at a department store. A forensic audit was conducted, which quickly discovered that Mrs. Furniss had been systematically overpaying herself (she drew a salary from the FOP), misusing a lodge credit card, and had caused hundreds of dollars in overdraft fees. She later disclosed to investigators that she had set up an automatic withdrawal from an FOP account to pay the family’s cable television bill.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Detective Gary Marang of the Nampa Police Department, which has investigated the matter to avoid a conflict of interest, recalled in an affidavit that the couple also used FOP funds to make a $2,700 down payment on a travel trailer. They most likely intended to make use of that trailer to flee the jurisdiction: After filing for bankruptcy on October 20 (listing the FOP as among the “creditors” who would be stiffed by them), Mr. and Mrs. Furniss reportedly planned to head north to Alaska in search of a “fresh start.” </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Like countless others, the Mark and Sara rode the housing bubble and fell hard in 2008 when it burst. Their financial disclosure form lists a total of $572,992 in assets, including a Meridian home valued at $230,000. Their estimated liabilities are $384,095, which includes “more than a dozen credit cards and five charge accounts,” observes the <a href="http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/crime/article119295493.html">Idaho Statesman</a>. They had also purchased two expensive late-model SUVs. Despite the fact that they both drew very generous tax-subsidized salaries, they listed their monthly income at $869, with $5,742 in monthly expenses. Perhaps the most shocking line item in the form was the disclosure that the total value of the family’s checking accounts was $864. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In the two weeks prior to the couple’s November 25 arrest, their FOP chapter had collected more than $73,000 through a GoFundMe account to raise money for three officers – two humans and a “K9 officer” – who were wounded in a shootout with a fugitive. It would have been useful for the public to know that the people in charge of the lodge’s finances had embezzled nearly an identical amount.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-91Cgdj3dzo0/WE4mIYuD3zI/AAAAAAAANAg/5LOScLYe-4oYZlyS3Yk73q4gS-BP0MRhgCLcB/s1600/Pink%2BTie%2BBitch.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-91Cgdj3dzo0/WE4mIYuD3zI/AAAAAAAANAg/5LOScLYe-4oYZlyS3Yk73q4gS-BP0MRhgCLcB/s320/Pink%2BTie%2BBitch.jpg" width="230" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Nice tie, Mike. </span></b></i></td></tr></tbody></table></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Mark and Sara have two very young children, a fact that will be taken into account when they are given the customary Blue Privilege discount at sentencing time. Former Richfield, Ohio police officer Michael Simmons benefited from official leniency when his own longstanding embezzlement from the local FOP was discovered. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Simmons has confessed to stealing more than $26,000 the FOP’s “Shop with a Cop” program, which is used to buy Christmas gifts for poor children. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">One might expect to see exemplary punishment imposed on someone who committed a Dickensian offense of that kind. One would be wrong to do so, when the offender is a member of the state’s enforcement caste. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As was the case with Mark and Sara Furniss, Simmons <a href="http://fox8.com/2016/05/16/warrant-issued-for-richfield-officer-in-shop-with-a-cop-fraud/">squandered</a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>money raised for charitable purposes on personal expenses and luxuries, including electronics, clothing, tools, and tickets to sporting events. Rather than being sent to prison for <a href="http://www.cleveland.com/akron/index.ssf/2016/05/richfield_police_officer_accus.html">felony theft</a>, the 42-year-old Simmons was given an 18-month suspended jail sentence, two years of probation, and 500 hours of community service. He will also be required to pay back only $15,000 of the money he stole, so full restitution – which is the only legitimate punishment for a crime against property – will not be required. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">According to Richfield, Ohio Police Chief Keith Morgan, one reason Simmons won’t be required to pay back the full amount is because “the program’s lax bookkeeping made it difficult to pin down exactly how much was stolen and how much went to legitimate purchases,” <a href="http://www.ohio.com/news/local/former-richfield-officer-michael-simmons-sentenced-to-probation-ordered-to-repay-15-000-to-shop-with-a-cop-1.730794">reports</a>the Akron Beacon Journal. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Simmons’s attorney, Mark Guidetti, says that the judge’s very generous terms will allow Simmons to move on with his life and get another job. Now that he is tagged with a fourth-degree felony, it’s likely that he won’t find another gig involving a gun, badge, and qualified immunity. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-UClmfAevnZg/WE4nc1Xy5VI/AAAAAAAANA4/9WmmsB7xFkwH26pTjQ_LVW6c2tF2KKNEwCLcB/s1600/fopa_logo.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="210" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-UClmfAevnZg/WE4nc1Xy5VI/AAAAAAAANA4/9WmmsB7xFkwH26pTjQ_LVW6c2tF2KKNEwCLcB/s320/fopa_logo.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Embezzlement from FOP lodges is stunningly commonplace. One would expect that law enforcement officers, zealous for the honor of their coercive fraternity, would inflict exemplary punishment on those within their ranks who steal from their comrades in the brotherhood. As with so many other offenses, however, “professional courtesy” applies even to those who can’t keep their snouts out of the FOP’s trough. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.tampabay.com/news/courts/criminal/ex-hernando-deputy-gets-probation-must-make-restitution-in-fraud-theft/2196338">Former Hernando County, Florida Sheriff’s Deputy Michael Glatfelter</a> was given five years’ probation after siphoning away $14,000 from the local FOP lodge – and <a href="http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/two-hernando-sheriffs-officers-resign-after-being-charged-with-theft-of/2158683">more than $1,000 from a special fund established to benefit the family of a colleague</a> who had died in an on-duty traffic accident. <a href="http://www.vindy.com/news/2007/apr/24/struthers-policeman-thomas-granchie-resigns/?newswatch">Struthers, Ohio Patrolman Thomas Granchie</a> was allowed to resign without facing administrative charges after he admitted to stealing nearly $5,000 from his FOP lodge in 2007.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Judge William Kobelak <a href="http://www.vindy.com/news/2007/may/30/former-officer-sentenced-for-stealing-cop-union-fu/">spoke sympathetically of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Granchie as he sentenced the thirty-year veteran officer to 90 days house arrest</a> for what should – and would – have been felony theft if committed by a Mundane.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“I want to look at him as a person with both good and bad things in his life;” Judge Kobelak said, apparently treating Granchie’s decades of service to the murderous abstraction called the “State” as extenuation for his self-serving felonious conduct. “This black cloud hanging over his head is always going to be there.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Actually, that black cloud dissipated very rapidly. It was Granchie’s tax victim-provided police pension that proved to be permanent; this was made possible when the court dismissed the felony count and allowed the thief to plead guilty to a single charge of misdemeanor theft. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Such conduct is to be expected wherever large pools of money are entrusted to people who are clothed in “qualified immunity.” </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The state-allied pharmaceutical industry, it is partners in the prison-industrial complex, constitute the real "drug cartel" -- this week's Freedom Zealot Podcast:<br /><br /><iframe frameborder="0" height="360" scrolling="no" src="http://app.stitcher.com/splayer/f/84897?el=1&refid=stpr" style="border: 0; height: 360px; overflow: hidden; width: 500px;" width="500"></iframe></span></b></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span></b></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /><br /><a href="https://www.libertarianinstitute.org/">Be sure to visit the Libertarian Institute.</a><br /></span></b></i><br /> <form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" target="_top"><br /><input name="cmd" type="hidden" value="_s-xclick" /><br /><input name="hosted_button_id" type="hidden" value="WGAKB9HAETPS2" /><br /><input alt="PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!" border="0" name="submit" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_donateCC_LG.gif" type="image" /><br /><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" /></form><br /><i><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Dum spiro, pugno! </span></span></b></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>William N. 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src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-l7v3nGwelT0/WEOsew9fTcI/AAAAAAAAM_8/36QPzD5c9tovr9iIo0QZTHIxr5VP4uVkQCLcB/s400/Kelly%2BThomas.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The late Kelly Thomas, following his fatal encounter with the slave overseers of the Fullerton PD. </span></b></i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2015/04/michael-thomas-slager-vocational.html"><br /><br /><br />Michael Slager</a>, the former North Charleston, South Carolina police officer killed an unarmed man and then attempted to frame the victim, will not be <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-courts/jury-says-it-s-deadlocked-trial-officer-who-shot-walter-n691291">convicted</a>of murder. Nor is he likely to be <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ayoy4ASz9w">convicted</a> of the lesser charge of manslaughter. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Slager’s jury deadlocked because <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiwh7fo1dnQAhUH2mMKHXDGDKUQFggpMAM&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbsnews.com%2Fnews%2Fmichael-slager-trial-jury-deadlock-walter-scott-case%2F&usg=AFQjCNHXUB30X2T4CQiYo1XvfHNwTh7OPA&sig2=K0oaXexgagkQVuyYonOHIg">a single member of the panel</a> insisted that he could not “in good conscience” vote to convict Slager of criminal homicide. This is not because the facts of the case are in dispute. Slager was captured on video fatally shooting unarmed, 50-year-old Walter Scott in the back as he fled a traffic stop, and then placing a Taser next to his fatally traumatized body.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The critical issue for that juror, apparently, was whether Slager’s state of mind as he committed these acts transmuted them from criminal homicide and obstruction of justice into an exercise of state-conferred authority protected by “<a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjmgI7o1tnQAhUK5WMKHV7HA5YQFggbMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffreedominourtime.blogspot.com%2F2014%2F12%2Fwithout-qualified-immunity-would-cops.html&usg=AFQjCNFwd_aruIv2z0Awt7rQ04ILefW3pw&sig2=rTKXPKlFZmdPYI2QxMhZVw&bvm=bv.139782543,d.cGc">qualified immunity</a>.” Specifically: Was the officer acting out of “total fear,” as he claimed, following what he said was a struggle in which Scott attempted to grab his Taser? Or was Slager acting out of “passion” – in this case, anger and outrage over Scott’s refusal to submit?</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-a_JnVVTYvxw/WEOtDl2Ix0I/AAAAAAAANAA/pMHlMGLgRjEwOjL3PWkN5prj_rwsPb77QCLcB/s1600/Slager.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-a_JnVVTYvxw/WEOtDl2Ix0I/AAAAAAAANAA/pMHlMGLgRjEwOjL3PWkN5prj_rwsPb77QCLcB/s1600/Slager.jpg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">If Slager weren’t a member of the state’s punitive priesthood, these questions wouldn’t matter. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a police officer, however, Slager enjoys precisely the same privileged status in the exercise of discretionary violence that was once afforded to <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=18&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiPg6vr19nQAhVR-GMKHXrlBJc4ChAWCEkwBw&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.loc.gov%2Fteachers%2Fclassroommaterials%2Fconnections%2Fslaves-court%2Fhistory3.html&usg=AFQjCNHyX1gwHID_AJrvz2iJ0VfM5kVQhw&sig2=OShFXUVfNazXBh7j2Rganw">slave owners</a> and overseers in the antebellum South. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Under what we are required to pretend is the “law,” Slager – like any other police officer – is authorized to detain any citizen who provokes his suspicion, and to obtain that citizen’s submission using whatever increment of force he deems reasonable. From the point of such a seizure, the officer exercises a proprietary claim over the detainee until or unless he decides to release him – and any assertion of self-ownership on the part of the detainee can potentially be punished through summary execution. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6nWcUYdp0m8/WEOtWMCMa1I/AAAAAAAANAI/Tl_rglry0D0_7qQa-S3DlSyAZMLHf-GgACLcB/s1600/Garner.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-6nWcUYdp0m8/WEOtWMCMa1I/AAAAAAAANAI/Tl_rglry0D0_7qQa-S3DlSyAZMLHf-GgACLcB/s1600/Garner.jpg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In “<a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/333146560/The-Constitution-of-Police-Violence">The Constitution of Police Violence</a>,” a soon-to-be published article for the UCLA Law Review, Dr. Alice Ristroph of the Seton Hall Law School describes case law regarding law enforcement encounters with citizens as “a blueprint for police violence. It invites officers to interrupt civilians, sometimes with minimal suspicion and sometimes with no suspicion at all. Once interrupted, the citizen must comply with the officer’s requests [which are more accurately described as `demands’] or risk expanding the officer’s authority. Actual or perceived non-compliance rapidly ratchets up the officer’s authorization to use force, and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">any non-compliance perceived to be dangerous empowers the officer to kill.</i>” (Emphasis added.) </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />Every police agency in the country teaches its officers a “use of force <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjM-f_H4dnQAhVS-GMKHbrtBHoQFggrMAM&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nij.gov%2Ftopics%2Flaw-enforcement%2Fofficer-safety%2Fuse-of-force%2Fpages%2Fcontinuum.aspx&usg=AFQjCNGimu1ReyZelUQV1JipY8SZLLGKfA&sig2=4O5yqfg9Y9b0d_shH1ZnTg">continuum</a>” that “sets the expectation of escalation,” continues Dr. Ristroph; “after the first resistance, force will escalate until the suspect is subdued or dead.” The resistance in question can be a purely verbal assertion of self-ownership – as in Eric Garner’s exasperated protest about the unwarranted harassment he had experienced, coupled with the <a href="http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2014/07/it-stops-today.html">declaration</a>, “It stops today!” </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />As Ristroph observes, defiance of this variety constitutes “the uncodified but very real offense called `<a href="http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2009/09/contempt-of-cop.html">contempt of cop</a>.’” A Mundane who refuses to acknowledge the proprietary claim made by the officer who detains him can expect summary punishment of the same kind once visited on slaves by their overseers, and for exactly the same reason. It was exceedingly uncommon for abusive slave “owners” or overseers to be punished. In similar fashion, only in exceptionally egregious cases will a police officer face prosecution for brutalizing a citizen. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />One useful illustration of the scope of permissible police violence is seen in the fact that none of the eight Fullerton, California police officers who beat to death an unarmed, helpless, mentally ill man named Kelly Thomas five years ago was ever convicted of a criminal offense. That case also usefully underscores the fact that the slave overseer mindset of police is not a function of racial bias. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />Only two of the assailants – Officers Manuel Ramos and Jay Cincinelli – were prosecuted, and they were </span><a href="http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2014/01/dr-raskolnikov-i-presume.html"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">acquitted</span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">. Dr. Steven Karch, an “expert witness” routinely deployed to defend criminal behavior by police, gave a credulous jury an excuse to pretend that the 160-pound Thomas somehow posed a threat to eight police officers, and that rather than being killed by the officers who beat, kicked, tasered, and suffocated him, Kelly just happened to die from the long-deferred consequences of methamphetamine use several years earlier. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />As an overture to the beating, Officer Ramos theatrically snapped on latex gloves while taunting the victim: “See these fists? There’re getting ready to f*ck you up.” Cincinelli, who repeatedly clubbed the victim’s face with the butt of his Taser, later gloated that he had “just smashed his face to hell.” </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />Photographs taken of Kelly while he was in an irreversible coma attest to the thoroughness with which Cincinelli and his comrades carried out their mandate to obtain submission through criminal violence. I suspect that if photography had been available in 1839, similar pictures would exist of a slave woman named Mira who was beaten and scourged to death by a North Carolina resident named Hoover who presumed to claim her as his property.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vLYoVYqsE3g/WEOtdZDBmQI/AAAAAAAANAM/z8PukCeyaJUfRDrovw1D1f-Cw4qiPadJQCLcB/s1600/Thomas%2BRuffin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vLYoVYqsE3g/WEOtdZDBmQI/AAAAAAAANAM/z8PukCeyaJUfRDrovw1D1f-Cw4qiPadJQCLcB/s320/Thomas%2BRuffin.jpg" width="224" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />So grotesque was the disfigurement of Mira’s mortal remains that Hoover was indicted for murder and then convicted of that offense by a jury culled from a population that was inured to the routine barbarism typical of chattel slavery. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />In the ruling </span><a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjTl9XmytjQAhUSHGMKHeJwCS4QFggzMAM&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmoglen.law.columbia.edu%2Ftwiki%2Fpub%2FAmLegalHist%2FTedProject%2FMann.pdf&usg=AFQjCNEj0KK75R_LZlYi7wFh1INRMNCSHg&sig2=MUm1jxMEU0bZodGHjLKhyQ"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">State v. John Mann</span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> ten years earlier, North Carolina Supreme Court Justice </span><a href="http://ncpedia.org/state-v-john-mann"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Thomas Ruffin</span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> wrote that “The power of the master must be absolute, to render the submission of the slave perfect.” </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />A slave is “one doomed in his own person, and his posterity, to live without knowledge, and without the capacity to make anything his own, and to toil that another may reap the fruits,” Ruffin explained, and the slave would accept this only if the master exercised “uncontrolled authority over his body” – without that authority being subject to judicial review. In that 1829 case, a man who had leased a slave named Lydia had shot and wounded her when she tried to escape. The only salient issue for Ruffin was whether someone who had leased the labor of a human claimed as the property of another enjoyed the same legal immunities as the “owner” himself.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />Ruffin dealt with similar questions a decade later in North Carolina v. Hoover. The appellant insisted that he had been required to exercise the “rights” explained by Ruffin’s earlier decision with great severity, because Mira “had attempted to burn his barn, and was disobedient and impudent to her mistress.” Hoover also claimed that Mira had attempted to poison his family. The “evidence” for those accusations was a confession extracted from the helpless woman through torture. At the time she was killed, Mira had just delivered a child and was too weak to work. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />The trial judge had explained to the jury that they could acquit Hoover, or find him guilty of the lesser charge of manslaughter, if they determined that the victim’s conduct provided “legal provocation” to the killer – which would have included disobeying “the orders of her master.” They could likewise find extenuation on Hoover’s behalf if the killing followed such a provocation so quickly that “his passion had not a reasonable time to cool and subside”; in those circumstances the offense would be manslaughter, rather than murder.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />Slave “owners” and overseers, like contemporary cops, were expected to follow a “use of force continuum” in the exercise of power no human being can rightfully wield against another – and on those vanishingly rare occasions that resulted in prosecution, the courts were expected to prioritize leniency. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />Ruffin’s ruling in North Carolina v Hoover was unalloyed barbarism lacquered with genteel language. He offered an extravagant apology to the killer as he explained that he could not find sufficient grounds for overturning the conviction – and not for want of effort.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“A master may lawfully punish his slave,” Ruffin declared, “and the degree must, in general, be left to his own judgment and humanity, and cannot be judicially questioned. But the master’s authority is not altogether unlimited. He must not kill. There is, at the least, this restriction upon his power; he must stop short of taking a life.” </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />The slave’s is a lesser life than that of the person claiming to own him, to be sure, and wherever possible, means will be found to justify the lethal exercise of a slave master’s discretion: “If death unhappily ensue from the master’s chastisement of the slave, inflicted apparently with a good intent, for reformation or example, and with no purpose to take a life, or to put in in jeopardy, the law would doubtless tenderly regard every circumstances, which, judging from the conduct generally of masters toward slaves, might reasonably be supposed to have hurried the party into excess.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />Buried beneath that avalanche of adverbs is a principle now known as “qualified immunity,” which is now invoked to justify the criminal violence of police officers like Michael Slager. <br /><br /><i><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"You can't fight City Hall!" we are told. 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src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kPp1Ab2TV-8/WDvQr61U_9I/AAAAAAAAM_U/kr2LfQzB5ZQ8uE0_53YBKvooT6diyXIoACLcB/s400/Tapp%2BHearing.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Scenes from the Tapp hearing: Bonneville County DA Clark (left), ADA Dewey, Public Defender Thomas. </span></b></i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /><br />There were about twenty people gathered in an Idaho Falls courtroom on November 22 for </span><a href="http://www.postregister.com/articles/chris-tapp-coverage-featured-news-daily-email/2016/11/22/tapp-appeal-balance"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">a hearing about Christopher Tapp’s appeal for post-conviction relief.</span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> That <a href="http://judgesforjustice.org/media/Tapp_PostRegister_20160129.pdf">Tapp is serving a life sentence for a murder he didn’t commit</a> was known by everyone in that room. Two of them, Bonneville County Prosecuting Attorney Daniel Clark and deputy Prosecutor John Dewey, were there in an attempt to convince Judge Alan Stephens that the truth didn’t matter, and that justice must be subordinated to “process.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Judge Stephens’s proper role, Dewey argued, was to act as a “gatekeeper,” rather than to permit <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiM8f650srQAhXhjFQKHd-VDx0QFggjMAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.oregonlive.com%2Fbreakingnews%2F2007%2F11%2Fidaho_man_convicted_in_1996_sl.html&usg=AFQjCNHfepmsCKJKnFCipnq45z7NTxUCMw&sig2=AQ3pt27njmMzFQ_5-MJc5Q">a critical examination of a conviction</a> that <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/323404608/Redacted-Investigation-Report-by-Stuart-Robinson#from_embed">an official report</a> commissioned <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HU4_eiLfdfY">by the prosecutor’s office</a>has now acknowledged is entirely the product of a spurious confession. Nationally <a href="http://judgesforjustice.org/media/Report-on-Police-Interrogations-of-Chris-Tapp-Drizin-Oct-2014.pdf">accredited experts</a> on <a href="http://judgesforjustice.org/media/Steve-Moore-Report-on-Chris-Tapp-October-7-2014.pdf">police interrogation</a> have likewise concluded that Tapp’s confession was achieved through tactics that were <a href="http://judgesforjustice.org/media/HontsReportTappPolygraphs.pdf">tantamount to psychological torture.</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A few weeks ago, <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjymPi_4MrQAhXDiFQKHT_GC8QQFggxMAM&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.idahostatesman.com%2Fnews%2Fstate%2Fidaho%2Farticle105281931.html&usg=AFQjCNEq8LKz22KucgRnyL2fWQ_7NlOHVQ&sig2=dIUUMHdHz94Y1pgV5ELLDQ">Judge Stephens ruled that Tapp’s appeal could proceed</a> because of evidence that the prosecution had withheld videotaped polygraph examinations in which IFPD Detective Stephen Finn manipulated Tapp into a false confession. Finn had convinced Tapp that the polygraph machine was something akin to a comprehensive archive of objective facts about the July 1996 murder of 18-year-old Angie Dodge. Those “facts” comported with whatever theory of the case was in favor with the IFPD at any given time. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The initial theory was that a friend of Tapp’s, a young man named Ben Hobbs who had been arrested in Ely, Nevada for rape, was the murderer. Tapp and another friend named Jeremy Sargis were identified as potential witnesses. Along with Hobbs, each of them gave DNA samples to the police. Sargis was the son of a wealthy and influential family who could afford competent legal representation – which is why he resolutely refused to speak with the police after his DNA sample cleared him as a suspect.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vUg8xW4fjzk/WDvRBCDhlLI/AAAAAAAAM_Y/YqexlRjWDXckdjL-kdvbWgJipEOD5qTSwCLcB/s1600/Verna%2Band%2BChris.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-vUg8xW4fjzk/WDvRBCDhlLI/AAAAAAAAM_Y/YqexlRjWDXckdjL-kdvbWgJipEOD5qTSwCLcB/s1600/Verna%2Band%2BChris.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Chris and Verna Tapp.</span></b></i> </td></tr></tbody></table></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Tapp, a high school dropout, was more pliant. He was interrogated by former IFPD Sergeant Jared Fuhriman, who had become acquainted with Tapp while serving as a school resource officer and DARE instructor. With the calculated, sociopathic opportunism of a child molester, Fuhriman groomed Tapp and relentlessly exploited him, playing on the 20-year-old’s ingenuous trust and assuring him that all the police really wanted was his cooperation in identifying the man who had killed one of his friends. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The original IFPD plan was to set the three friends off against each other. That scheme collapsed after Sargis and Hobbs were both ruled out as suspects by the genetic evidence. Tapp was also cleared. However, because he was willing to talk to the police – a mistake nobody should ever make – he was the one left without a chair when the music stopped. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Because he had regurgitated lies told to him by his police captors, Tapp lost his immunity agreement. His mother, Verna, became alarmed over what was happening and told Chris that he was not to submit to any further interrogation without an attorney being present. When it became known to Fuhriman that the victim of his mental molestation was seeking help from a trusted adult, he arrested Chris on a contrived charge of “harboring a fugitive” – a charge that presumes the existence of a murderer <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">other </i>than Chris. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Tapp was not the suspect that Angie Dodge or her traumatized family deserved, but he was the one the IFPD and the Bonneville Prosecutor’s Office needed. Rather than trying to solve the case by finding the murderer, the police and then-County Attorney Kip Manwaring decided to clear the case with the suspect that they had in custody. Fuhriman and his comrades fed Tapp critical details about the crime, at one point taking him to the crime scene in a visit that was not recorded or memorialized in any way. Then they used the details they had fed to their victim to incriminate him in a crime of which he had no independent knowledge. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The role played by polygraph specialist Finn was critical. Tapp was told that his denials registered deception – which was a lie – and that his self-incriminating statements were truthful – another deliberate lie. Over the course of several coercive polygraph “examinations,” Finn told Tapp that even if he had participated in the assault on Dodge, he could avoid the death penalty if he made a confession. Acting purely out of fear for his life, Tapp provided the IFPD with that confession. In doing so he presented a story that still didn’t comport with the evidence: He didn’t accurately describe the clothing worn by the victim, or the nature of her wounds. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“The appellate public defender had the files of Tapp’s trial attorney, <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiM8f650srQAhXhjFQKHd-VDx0QFggjMAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.oregonlive.com%2Fbreakingnews%2F2007%2F11%2Fidaho_man_convicted_in_1996_sl.html&usg=AFQjCNHfepmsCKJKnFCipnq45z7NTxUCMw&sig2=AQ3pt27njmMzFQ_5-MJc5Q">Robert Booker</a>,” Tapp’s current attorney <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/332505351/Chris-Tapp-s-Reply-to-State-s-Motion-to-Reconsider">John Thomas recalls in a motion presented on November 22. </a><sup><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></sup>“In those files were found two video cassette boxes that contained four (4) Tapp polygraph videos. These four polygraph videos had not been previously identified as being produced.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Three of the videos documented sessions that were clearly “coercive” in nature. One of them, according to Finn’s sworn testimony, did not exist. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">While the videotapes were in the trial attorney’s files, “they had not been `disclosed’” by the prosecution, <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/332505351/Chris-Tapp-s-Reply-to-State-s-Motion-to-Reconsider">Thomas contends</a>. “In effect, they were hidden. By negligence or design, their existence was kept secret from the defense.” One of the most damaging of the coercive interrogations, as Thomas demonstrated to me from records he shared during a brief interview in his office, had been artfully mislabeled in order to minimize its importance. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GWTSYowKIgY/WDvRL1EcLyI/AAAAAAAAM_c/R3TMMNolDjEsZlCvY8pN-bU1wVmwWkvhwCLcB/s1600/Stephens.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GWTSYowKIgY/WDvRL1EcLyI/AAAAAAAAM_c/R3TMMNolDjEsZlCvY8pN-bU1wVmwWkvhwCLcB/s320/Stephens.jpg" width="268" /></a></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It was after Judge Stephens’s recent ruling in September that Tapp’s appellate attorney, John Thomas, found that videotape in the discovery file. He immediately alerted deputy prosecutor John Dewey regarding what he had found, and cleared time in his schedule so that the two of them could watch it together. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">If Thomas had acted with the same ethical indifference that has been displayed by the Bonneville Prosecutor’s Office, he would have concealed his discovery from the prosecution, rather than making a full disclosure of what he had found. In keeping with the abysmal standards of the office that employs him, Dewey capitalized on Thomas’s good faith by accusing him, during the November 22 hearing, of seeking to perpetrate a “fraud on the court” and demanding that Tapp’s appeal be dismissed.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Thomas allowed carefully modulated yet well-earned outrage to color his presentation to Judge Stephens. Addressing the prosecution’s claim that Tapp’s appeal was barred by time limitations, Thomas declared that “Justice does not have an expiration date.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“An innocent man is sitting in prison,” while the prosecution continues its relentless obstructionism. If the Bonneville County justice system – such as it is – forecloses the possibility that Tapp will receive long-deferred due process, “That will be the day I turn my bar card in, because this court would not deserve my representation,” Thomas defiantly declared. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Sitting next to me during Thomas’s argument was <a href="http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2016/09/do-you-know-who-killed-my-baby.html">Carol Dodge, the victim’s mother, who has spent the last twenty years diligently investigating that crime</a>. She has become Christopher Tapp’s most effective and impassioned advocate, and a close friend of his long-suffering mother, Verna. In the hallway outside the courtroom prior to the November 22 hearing, Carol and Verna embraced each other as if they were sisters, which, in a sense, they have become: They belong to sorority of mothers whose children have been taken from them through criminal violence – Angie through murder, Christopher through state-licensed kidnapping. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/--vbPRDZFsi4/WDvRSbtdhAI/AAAAAAAAM_g/XQfSNOxohGwSRVu0rzLyV37g8BDJiR7igCLcB/s1600/Carol.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/--vbPRDZFsi4/WDvRSbtdhAI/AAAAAAAAM_g/XQfSNOxohGwSRVu0rzLyV37g8BDJiR7igCLcB/s1600/Carol.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“The prosecution has all the advantages,” Carol whispered to me during Thomas’s presentation, her voice heavy with bitter frustration. “If they have the power to hold an innocent man in prison, do they have the power to breathe life back into my daughter?” she continued, sobbing the final syllables of that anguished inquiry. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Judge Stephens announced that he would be submitting a written ruling at some unspecified time in the future. Meanwhile, Tapp remains a prisoner of the Bonneville County Prosecutor’s arrogant intransigence.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As County Prosecutor Clark departed the courtroom, I noticed that his right arm was in a sling. Gesturing to his injured appendage, I asked Clark if “this happened while you were wrestling with your conscience – and winning.” </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Clark’s shoulders slumped, and after an awkward moment he replied that he had hurt himself in a dirt bike accident. 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src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-irYRQehbxO8/WDKUmv8KBEI/AAAAAAAAM-w/YVid_A9P-qIMt9k6OwOJe-114Xcz7FIzQCLcB/s400/negan-191797.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The eyes of a fictional psychopath.... </span></b></i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><br />President-elect Donald Trump has thousands of executive branch positions to fill, including the spot in the Office of Legal Counsel <a href="https://www.law.berkeley.edu/our-faculty/faculty-profiles/john-yoo/">once occupied by the detestable war criminal John C. Yoo</a>. <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/09/01/west-point-law-professor-resigns-after-advocating-attacks-on-u-s-legal-scholars-sympathetic-to-islamist-aims/"><span style="color: blue;">William C. Bradford, an obscure, disgraced ex-West Point instructor and unabashed advocate of genocide and military rule</span></a>, might assume Yoo’s station as chief legal apologist for presidential war crimes.<br /><br /><br />The OLC’s stated function is to advise the president regarding the constraints imposed upon his powers by the Constitution and laws made pursuant to it. Yoo specialized in devising intricate rationales for presidential lawlessness. His most famous work is the so-called <a href="http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20050114.html">Bybee Memorandum</a>, one of several <a href="http://gulcfac.typepad.com/georgetown_university_law/files/march.14.memo.part1.pdf">documents</a>in which Yoo defended the claim that the president can essentially order the abuse, torture, and <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/apr/02/georgebush.usa1?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews">mutilation</a>of detainees, and the military or intelligence operatives who carry out such orders are legally unaccountable. Yoo has publicly stated that the president has the legal authority to order the sexual torture and mutilation of a child if he can contrive a “national security” rationale for such an atrocity.<br /><br />Translating that claim into pop culture terms, Yoo would see nothing wrong in a President Negan torturing Carl in order to break Rick’s spirit – if this is done in the name of “national security.”<br /><br />After promoting an American version of <a href="https://dp-history.wikispaces.com/The+Fuhrerprinzip"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">fuhrerprinzip</i></a> as an advisor to George W. Bush, Yoo found Donald Trump unsuitable to the task of exercising the power to imprison, torture, and assassinate people of his choosing. This isn’t because Yoo takes issue with Trump’s authoritarian disposition, but rather because <a href="http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-yoo-rabkin-trump-supreme-court-20160815-snap-story.html">he is concerned that Trump is not ideologically reliable</a>. Thus it’s doubtful that Yoo will be asked to rejoin the executive branch under Trump. The transition team is looking to re-cast the role Yoo had played as legal enabler to the worst presidential impulses – and <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/09/01/west-point-law-professor-resigns-after-advocating-attacks-on-u-s-legal-scholars-sympathetic-to-islamist-aims/">disgraced former West Point instructor William C. Bradford</a> is all but wetting his pants in his incontinent eagerness to fill the post.<br /><br />Over the past year, Bradford, an attorney and quondam law professor, has promoted the idea that academic dissenters from the “Global War on Terrorism,” and attorneys who represent terrorism suspects, <a href="https://www.nslj.org/wp-content/uploads/3_NatlSecLJ_278-461_Bradford1.pdf">should be treated as enemy combatants</a>. Thus branded, <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/08/west-point-william-bradford/403009/">attorneys and scholars would be eligible for the full menu of punitive options, including extra-judicial arrest and indefinite detention, trial by military tribunals, torture, and even summary execution.</a><br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bRwGws7Mmug/WDKU4NxSbbI/AAAAAAAAM-0/2A0xXiXl_nk7z8i18jwb8J_oFWf-TqV9gCLcB/s1600/Neegan%2Bis%2Bthat%2Byou.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="168" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bRwGws7Mmug/WDKU4NxSbbI/AAAAAAAAM-0/2A0xXiXl_nk7z8i18jwb8J_oFWf-TqV9gCLcB/s320/Neegan%2Bis%2Bthat%2Byou.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">....the eyes of a real-life psychopath: Bradford. </span></b></i></td></tr></tbody></table>“The West must shatter Islamists' political will and eradicate those who do not renounce Islamism,” insists Bradford in a 185-page diatribe entitled <a href="https://www.nslj.org/wp-content/uploads/3_NatlSecLJ_278-461_Bradford1.pdf">“Trahsion des Professeurs: The Critical Law of Armed Conflict Academy as an Islamist Fifth Column,” which was published in the Spring/Summer 2015 issue of the George Mason University National Security Law Journal.</a> “All instruments of national power – including conventional and nuclear force and PSYOPs [psychological warfare operations] – must be harnessed … to capture the hearts and minds of Islamic peoples, break their will to fight for Islamism, and leave them prepared to coexist with the West or be utterly eradicated....”<br /><br />In confronting an existential crisis, Bradford asserts, “survival is its own justification.” There is no room for “legal fetishists” who are skeptical of decisions by the executive or military leadership: “Americans are entitled not only to political leaders who employ and all necessary measures but to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the strong presumption such measures are legal</i>, and to the salutary effects of this presumption upon their belief in the virtue of their cause and their will to fight for it.”<br /><br /><a href="http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch8s41.html">Jefferson pointedly taught that patriots are to be irrepressibly suspicious of the exercise of government power</a>. Bradford, who would find Jefferson’s wisdom lacking and his patriotism questionable, treats such skepticism as sedition, rather than civic virtue.<br /><br />To wage “total war” against a tenacious and all-but-omnipresent enemy, all restrictions on government power must be supplanted by what he calls the Law of Armed Conflict (LOAC). In this way, the executive is emancipated from checks and balances, and the constitutional subordination of the military to civilian control is reversed: “[I]t is the military upon whom the constitutional duty to defend Americans is incumbent, and in whom Americans repose trust.”<br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-V0BS3OfEiAU/WDKVNVGs3sI/AAAAAAAAM-4/KH-Kqb0GK804XUSEaM4AVC37qMzTl8PYwCLcB/s1600/Bradford%2BLies%2BAbout%2Bhis%2BRecord.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="132" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-V0BS3OfEiAU/WDKVNVGs3sI/AAAAAAAAM-4/KH-Kqb0GK804XUSEaM4AVC37qMzTl8PYwCLcB/s320/Bradford%2BLies%2BAbout%2Bhis%2BRecord.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">No, "Brute," you </span></b></i><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">resigned</span></b><i><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> after getting busted for lying about your credentials.</span></b></i> </td></tr></tbody></table>Madison, another Founder whom Bradford would consign to a detention camp, <a href="http://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-15-02-0423">warned that armies – rather than being worthy of public trust – are, along with public debts and taxes, “the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few.”</a><br /><br />Bradford refers to scholarly critics of Washington's open-ended war against Islamism as the Critical Law of Armed Conflict Academy, an artlessly contrived expression intended to justify the pungently dismissive acronym CLOACA. While admitting that “no membership roll exists” of that intellectual cohort, and declining to name specific examples (most likely out of a desire to avoid civil liability), Bradford insists that scholars who fit within that amorphous category constitute an “Islamist Fifth Column,” even when no evidence of conscious collaboration exists.<br /><br />Scholarship that challenges the “autonomy” of the Pentagon, or “dismiss[es] military wisdom” by questioning the legality, constitutionality, or morality of foreign wars, indefinite detention of terrorism suspects, or the use of torture as an interrogation technique are not mere academic exercises, according to Bradford. Instead, they are a form of advocacy that “attenuates U.S. arms and undermines American will, [and] are PSYOPs. Which are combatant acts,” Bradford maintains.<br /><br />As “propaganda inciting others to war crimes, such acts are prosecutable.... CLOACA members are thus combatants who, like all other combatants, can be targeted at any time and place and captured and detained until termination of hostilities” – without judicial recourse. Assuming that “CLOACA members” would be treated in the same fashion as their supposed Islamist comrades, they would be subject to “judicial execution post-interrogation” if this were considered justifiable as a matter of military necessity.<br /><br />The threshold for such treatment is astonishingly low. Academic dissenters who publicly describe the U.S. government as “an `aggressor' or employer of illegal methods and means, or [cast] aspersions on U.S. motives” for carrying out military operations display “an intent to betray the United States” or to give aid and comfort to the enemy, Bradford contends. Those thus identified would be subject to what Bradford calls a “counterattack” involving a range of options drawn from a continuum of “increasing coercion” – including mandatory loyalty oaths, termination from employment, formal criminal charges for “material support of terrorism” or even “treason” – a capital offense.<br /><br />Ominously, in the wake of <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/10/how-team-obama-justifies-the-killing-of-a-16-year-old-american/264028/">the summary execution, via drone strikes, of U.S. citizen Anwar al-Awlaki and his American-born, 16-year-old son Abdulrahman</a>, Bradford asserts that scholarly critics of Washington's terror war who “commit treason, or otherwise engage in unlawful combatancy … must answer for their delicts just as any others do. The perversity inherent in countenancing intellectual elitism as a basis for a defense against prosecution and <i>a grant of immunity from targeting in war is astonishing.”</i> (Emphasis added.)<br /><br />Elsewhere in the essay, Bradford observes that “enemy combatants may be targeted and killed wherever and whenever they can be found” and that “UAVs [that is, missile-bearing drones], as with other weapons systems, do not require that targets of targeting killing be afforded a warning or judicial process before use.”<br /><br />The coercive “counterattack” against so-called “CLOACA members” would not be limited to lawyers or scholars who express critical views:<br /><br />“[The] infrastructure used to create and disseminate CLOACA propaganda – law school facilities, scholars' home offices, and media outlets where they give interviews – are also lawful targets given the causal connection between the content disseminated and the Islamist crimes incited. Shocking and extreme as this option might seem, CLOACA scholars, and the law schools that employ them, are – at least in theory – targetable so long as attacks are proportional, distinguish noncombatants from combatants, employ non-prohibited weapons, and contribute to the defeat of Islamism.”<br /><br />Bradford would not confine the potential targets to supposedly treasonous professors and lawyers. Private citizens who are insufficiently submissive to the military junta would likewise be regarded as fair game. <br /><br />“Fighting total war demands a mental reconfiguration” on the part of the public by resolving “arguments over how to balance security and liberty in favor of security,” Bradford insists, and “acculturating the necessary fighting spirit” in the population through mass propaganda and, where possible, conspicuous punishment of dissidents.<br /><br /><b><span style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Spartanization of the West will require the deepening of the concept of citizenship to include duties as well as rights,” writes Bradford, regurgitating a well-chewed collectivist nostrum “Rights are attended by corresponding duties, and the state may obligate citizens – even academics – to contribute to to the struggle in those ways they are able.”</span></b><br /><br />Refusal “to acknowledge the Islamist threat as an existential challenge to Western Civilization, and to … unite to defeat that threat, would be the greatest dereliction of duty in history,” he declares.<br /><br />Anticipating responses from critics, Bradford acknowledges that some might complain that his overwrought essay “incites authoritarianism insofar as it counsels militarization, withdraws debates over the enemy from the political arena, vilifies those who fail to acknowledge a grave threat, punishes disloyalty, and takes up law as sword and shield to defend and destroy political will.” Rather than explaining how that critique is inaccurate, Bradford parries such objections by insisting that “mobilization on all fronts is as necessary as a response to the current threat condition as it was during World War II.”<br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jgPLuTSyXd4/WDKV1pwzMJI/AAAAAAAAM_A/yRfzus2VVzEA643ey3wJTCPSFrnbhwtZACLcB/s1600/Blue%2BFascism.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-jgPLuTSyXd4/WDKV1pwzMJI/AAAAAAAAM_A/yRfzus2VVzEA643ey3wJTCPSFrnbhwtZACLcB/s320/Blue%2BFascism.jpg" width="313" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Actually, they embody privileged violence, not the rule of law.</span></b></i> </td></tr></tbody></table><br />Bradford's disdain for dissent, due process, and the rule of law do summon comparisons to a World War II-era legal revolution. In his study <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Hitlers-Justice-Courts-introduction-Detlev/dp/067440419X"><i>Hitler's Justice: The Courts of the Third Reich</i></a>, Ingo Mueller describes how the Nazified German legal system was founded on the assumption that “the `national aim'” was the central organizing principle of society, and all guarantees of rights and limitations of state power yielded before the doctrine of “national emergency.”<br /><br />Citing the rulings of the German Supreme Court and the writings of influential Party-aligned jurists, Mueller writes that the Nazi-era equivalent of Bradford's Law of Armed Conflict dictated that “objectivity finds its limits … when the national security is placed in doubt.” Every judge and lawyer was required to be “a son of his country” who would “place the vital interests of the nation unconditionally above what is formally the law.”<br /><br />Bradford spent several years teaching law to West Point cadets before <a href="http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/sep/1/william-bradford-west-point-law-professor-resigns-/">being forced to resign in August 2015.</a> Significantly, he wasn't terminated for his advocacy of a genocidal foreign policy or a totalitarian campaign to suppress domestic dissent, but rather chose to resign rather than manning up and facing disciplinary action for<a href="http://www.indystar.com/story/news/2015/09/01/former-iu-law-professor-inflated-resume-resigns-west-point/71504616/">inflating his military resume and falsely claiming to have received a Silver Star for combat duty in Desert Storm.</a> In defiance of <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwj6gPSHqrjQAhWhgFQKHeoVCB8QFggrMAM&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.usma.edu%2Fscpme%2Fsitepages%2Fhonor.aspx&usg=AFQjCNEj91pRNDUQhTUerzfVQ2WOPXZV2g&sig2=_-hWF59G6ltoZwwe7oLS4g">West Point’s honor code</a> (“A cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do”), Bradford routinely lies about the circumstances of his ouster, claiming that Barack Obama had him cashiered for being politically incorrect.<br /><br />There is a very good chance that the Trump administration will find a place for Bradford. Had the election turned out differently, it’s quite likely Bradford would now be quietly networking with like-minded militarists to overthrow a Hillary Clinton administration.<br /><br />After publishing his blueprint for “Spartanizing” the United States, Bradford privately circulated a draft of an unpublished law review article entitled “<a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjmt9u3q7jQAhUIllQKHe42D1oQFggdMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlantic.com%2Fpolitics%2Farchive%2F2015%2F08%2Fwest-point-william-bradford%2F403009%2F&usg=AFQjCNHw35JKGBblX8T41bh2rHL3UZb-bw&sig2=SsCFuuMF2YqoA-8m9dGXDw">Alea Iacta Est: The U.S. Coup of 2017</a>.” An abstract of that essay posted to Bradford's LinkedIn page adumbrated a scenario in which a U.S. president becomes an undisguised “tyrant” who must be replaced by a military junta. A “tyrant,” by Bradford’s definition, would be one who wields unaccountable power in a way he and others who share his prejudices would find unacceptable.<br /><br />“What if the American people were to elect a president who want[s] to destroy the nation and works to create division among the people, encourage a culture of ridicule for basic morality and the principles that made and sustained the country, undermine the financial stability of the nation, and weaken and destroy the military?” Bradford writes. “What remedies, if any, did the Framers commend to us in the event a tyrant should ever assume the presidency? Do the people have the right to resist a tyrant, and does that really hold any prospect of success without the support of the military? <i>Does the U.S. military have the right or even the duty to intervene in the domestic politics of the United States as constitutional and political savior when the times require it, and who makes that determination?... Is such a duty incumbent upon the U.S. Armed Forces at present?”</i>(Emphasis added.)<br /><br />The title of Bradford's essay might be an allusion to a previous treatment of a similar theme:<br /><a href="http://strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/parameters/Articles/1992/1992%20dunlap.pdf">Brig. Gen. Charles J. Dunlap's essay "The Origins of the American Military Coup of 2012," which was published in the Winter 1992—93 issue of the U.S. Army War College journal Parameters</a>. Where Bradford appears to believe that a coup might be a “duty” incumbent on the military, Gen. Dunlap – writing from a constitutionalist, rather than praetorian, perspective – was clearly alarmed by what he saw as an entirely plausible scenario.<br /><br />Dunlap used the literary device of a smuggled prison letter composed by "Prisoner 222305759," condemned to death for "treason" by military ruler Gen. E.T. Brutus. Following a series of military disasters overseas and domestic crises at home, Brutus, acting on concerns very similar to those spelled out by Bradford (or, for that matter, described in Robert Heinlein's premonitory novel <a href="https://www.hrw.org/news/2015/06/08/egypt-year-abuses-under-al-sisi"><i>Starship Troopers</i></a>), staged a coup in the name of protecting "public order" from the corruption of the political class.<br /><br />In the decades leading up to the putsch, the unnamed Prisoner recalled, "The one institution of government in which people retained faith was the military." Even as the public lamented the corruption and profligacy of Big Government, they had nothing but bottomless respect for the Regime's chief instrument of death and property destruction. The military retained its prestige in spite of the fact that its structural defects -- made painfully visible by a long, bloody, and futile war in the Gulf -- left it "unfit to engage an authentic military opponent."<br /><br />While the military was no longer well-suited to fight and win wars, its subtle integration into every element of domestic life made it perfectly suited to carry out a coup:<br /><br />"Eventually, people became acclimated to seeing uniformed military personnel patrolling their neighborhood. Now [meaning 2012 in the essay's timeline] troops are an adjunct to almost all police forces in the country. In many of the areas where much of our burgeoning population of elderly Americans live — Brutus calls them 'National Security Zones' — the military is often the only law enforcement agency. Consequently, the military was ideally positioned in thousands of communities to support the coup."<br /><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LMnBZ0uR3fQ/WDKVjnlBaII/AAAAAAAAM-8/4DXE9A9JeM4jrDNlKCwCQZEfkXmLWC3hgCLcB/s1600/Trump%2Breply.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="62" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LMnBZ0uR3fQ/WDKVjnlBaII/AAAAAAAAM-8/4DXE9A9JeM4jrDNlKCwCQZEfkXmLWC3hgCLcB/s320/Trump%2Breply.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table>Although 2012 passed without an overt military takeover, Dunlap's projection of trends – especially the disastrous long-term military entanglement in the Middle East, the expanding role of the Pentagon in routine domestic law enforcement, and the pervasive cultural presence of the military in everyday American life -- has proven to be uncannily prescient. The same is true of the apparently inexhaustible respect and public deference enjoyed by the military, despite widespread and deepening disillusionment with nearly every other branch of government.<br /><br />For most of this year, Bradford has been updating his recommendations, <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwj6weu2rrjQAhWCwVQKHW3OCQEQFggiMAE&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.commdiginews.com%2Fpolitics-2%2Fon-trump-radical-islam-and-killing-women-and-children-60224%2F&usg=AFQjCNHclwOZpwkBfNKZ62alA-yClAJIWg&sig2=N2zsnZ4qz7Eg3qeKgfUV1A&bvm=bv.139250283,d.cGw">loudly defending Donald Trump’s proposal to target civilian families of suspected terrorists</a> and <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwj6weu2rrjQAhWCwVQKHW3OCQEQFggbMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.commdiginews.com%2Fpolitics-2%2Fa-strategy-to-kill-radical-islam-56029%2F&usg=AFQjCNGkJOeMtqQx75da86xgg3XaGADOpQ&sig2=Vd76hioJgOlnNek9Hq2Zrg&bvm=bv.139250283,d.cGw">demanding a return to conscription</a>. His proprietary blend of militancy and sycophancy may be rewarded with a plunder-funded position in which he could help devise legal justifications for military rule. Stephen Bannon, chosen to be Trump’s chief White House strategist, is an unabashed proponent of the view that the United States is involved in a global war against radical Islam. Bradford would find suitable company among the bellicose officials with whom Trump is stocking the national security apparatus. <br /><br /><br /><i><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Is the citizen property of the state that claims him? 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Grigghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14368220509514750246noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-83086521843711632662016-11-14T08:46:00.002-07:002016-11-14T08:46:42.449-07:00Why Would Anyone Want a President? <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings></xml><![endif]--><br /><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> 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src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HSHPpLfazhE/WCnaVPgJ2OI/AAAAAAAAM-Q/14ZKXwpaW5sEvNuNCkPCB4qBpEvw1BPLQCLcB/s320/trump-angry-3-0.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">No, he isn't -- unless you consent to be ruled. I don't know why anyone would.</span></b></i> </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /><br />“How small, of all that human hearts endure, that part which laws or kings can cause or cure.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">When Samuel Johnson wrote those measured words of welcome consolation, kings generally behaved with more restraint than presidents do now. The essential wisdom of his observation remains intact even our era of world-bestriding chief executives who have access to power not imagined by sages such as Johnson, the Framers who created the office, or even, for that matter, unalloyed despots like Lenin and Hitler, each of whom murdered millions but couldn’t vaporize people on a whim. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Though he presides over a vast apparatus of coercion and punitive violence, the U.S. president falls well short of the divine status often imputed to him. Most importantly, he has no constitutional authority to “rule” anybody, and is the “leader” only of those who choose to follow him. And, may God be praised for it, the president does not “run” the country. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It is difficult for me to comprehend a life so sterile that it becomes meaningless unless it finds validation through the election of a presidential candidate, yet lives of that kind are quite commonplace. This is proven by the flood-tide of pathos resulting from the nation-wide meltdown of campus-dwelling leftist snowflakes – and by the triumphalist gloating from collectivists of a different flavor who believe that the “greatness” of the United States is defined by the identity of the federal government’s executive figurehead. Their continent-spanning conniption fit demonstrates that at a level below sentience they understand the essential function of the state they worship – destruction of property, disruption of productive lives, and violence against the innocent. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Frank Herbert’s </span><a href="http://www.dunenovels.com/"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">literary masterpiece</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> was an elaboration on the following insight: “Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.” For all of its substantial flaws the U.S. Constitution does embody, however imperfectly, the insight that corruptible human beings cannot be entrusted with power, especially in an executive capacity. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-trVVAOs6fCo/WCnaoV2_VVI/AAAAAAAAM-U/WOr3Z5WVzEkfRbxACQ-DO59RrluKEsHVACLcB/s1600/The%2BRubicund%2BShitgibbon.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-trVVAOs6fCo/WCnaoV2_VVI/AAAAAAAAM-U/WOr3Z5WVzEkfRbxACQ-DO59RrluKEsHVACLcB/s320/The%2BRubicund%2BShitgibbon.png" width="264" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">How Trump's Alt-Right adherents see him....</span></b></i></td></tr></tbody></table></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The presidency, as originally conceived, was custom-designed to be occupied by Washington, who was seen by many Americans as worthy of becoming a hereditary monarch. The Framers, acting on </span><a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjplPOx8KDQAhVLlFQKHXYhDhcQFgg0MAM&url=http%3A%2F%2Fanarcho-capitalist.org%2Fwp-content%2Fpdfs%2FLocke%2520(John)%2520-%2520Second%2520Treatise%2520Of%2520Government.pdf&usg=AFQjCNHi_ciqOFXnWuSH1Nrt27Egf0fZdA&sig2=PO0k1mlECNm9XRRhRDwBxA"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">John Locke’s</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">insight that “the reigns of good princes have been always the most dangerous to the liberties of the people,” deprived that office of most of the attributes that would entice those who lusted for power. The president, once again, was to be a servant, not a ruler. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Many believed that Washington was well-suited to the exercise of power, but the Framers understood that there is no such thing as a genuinely benevolent ruler. As Locke warned, the acts of such men become inimical to liberty “when their successors, managing the government with different thoughts, would draw the actions of those good rulers into precedent and make them the standard of their prerogative – as if what had been done only for the good of the people was a right in them to do for the harm of the people, if they so pleased….”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This point was made more recently by commentator Jimmy Dore of the progressive news site The Young Turks. During the Democratic primary, Dore – like many of his colleagues -- was an outspoken critic of Hillary Clinton. After the nominees were selected, Dore consistently warned that Clinton was not going to prevail against the populist tide that was propelling Trump’s campaign. As a more doctrinaire progressive, Dore preferred Bernie Sanders – but as someone who remembered, and took seriously, his High School civics classes, Dore was more concerned about the dangerously distended powers of the presidency itself. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqkYSaQfh1g"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Speaking in the immediate aftermath of Trump’s victory</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">, Dore emphasized that a Trump administration would inherit from Barack Obama a fully operational police state, with all-encompassing warrantless surveillance and a legal mechanism allowing the indefinite detention of U.S. citizens who are suspected of being “unlawful combatants.” </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“We’ve allowed our government to get rid of habeas corpus,” Dore lamented. “We’ve allowed our government to have a complete 24-hour surveillance system. That’s the opposite of liberty. That’s the opposite of freedom.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“People were warned when they did this,” he continues, but liberals and progressives insisted that “it’s OK, because everybody likes Barack Obama right now. But what happens if there’s a next president – and nobody predicted Trump then, but now here we are.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Dore and his fellow panelists also noted that by declining to seek the prosecution of officials who committed acts of torture during the Bush administration, Obama effectively decriminalized the practice – which his successor has promised to implement and expand. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Of course, the same lamentation would be offered by conservatives in the election aftermath had Obama’s police state been inherited by Hillary Clinton. In a political environment increasingly defined by Lenin’s maxim that the only relevant question is “Who does what to whom?” neither of those factions is terribly concerned about the “what” in that equation – and the Bill of Rights is supposed to define the “what” in terms of things the government cannot do to the individual, no matter who presides over the executive branch. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The greatness of America is inversely proportionate to the role government plays in the daily lives of its citizens. Hillary Clinton embodied the conceit that no facet of life anywhere on the planet should be a refuge from the totalitarian impulse to “improve” human conduct through the application of state-licensed violence. <br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dwaB4PJ-7BE/WCna1uddplI/AAAAAAAAM-Y/B5Pxer1wR2ciw1gG6Bd6G-OpdNve2DOiQCLcB/s1600/Trump%2Bwith%2BLGBT%2BFlag.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-dwaB4PJ-7BE/WCna1uddplI/AAAAAAAAM-Y/B5Pxer1wR2ciw1gG6Bd6G-OpdNve2DOiQCLcB/s320/Trump%2Bwith%2BLGBT%2BFlag.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">...but he's just a bit more complicated. </span></b></i></td></tr></tbody></table></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Donald Trump’s ambitions aren’t as vast, and he acts out of impulse rather than ideology – specifically, the impulse to punish others. His campaign was devoted to recovering “greatness,” rather than restoring “liberty.” <br /><br />One of his most persistent refrains was “We have no choice” – a phrase that would serve as a coda to a proposal involving </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUQCS6mgEDE"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">torture</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">, or </span><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/11/politics/donald-trump-deportation-force-debate-immigration/"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">mass deportation</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">, or </span><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-closing-mosques-2015-11"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">invasive surveillance</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> of a </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/21/us/politics/donald-trump-sets-off-a-furor-with-call-to-register-muslims-in-the-us.html"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">religious minority</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">, or some other expansion of state power at the expense of the individual. His consistent critique of Obama – who currently presides over a half-dozen foreign military conflicts and has ordered the summary execution of US citizens by drone strikes – is that he is too “weak” in exercising the powers of his office, when he has actually been far from diffident in that regard. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A constitutionalist would describe Obama’s weakness as an inability to restrain himself in the exercise of power. Those who understand the state to be a malignant fiction recognize that the exercise of power is itself an unqualified evil. No honest observer will discern in Donald Trump, an individual whose life has been a constant hymn of self-celebration, the smallest hint of a capacity for self-restraint. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Since the Republicans control both houses of Congress, Trump won’t face the external restraints afforded by partisan gridlock. His ignorance of the Constitution being comprehensive, Trump doesn’t understand the legal restraints on the office he will hold. The </span><a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwibjtb47KDQAhXijFQKHXSbBtwQFggdMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.usatoday.com%2Fstory%2Fnews%2Fpolitics%2Felections%2F2016%2F06%2F01%2Fdonald-trump-lawsuits-legal-battles%2F84995854%2F&usg=AFQjCNExIY05ur4_uT-FsARSWszqq2ZJpA&sig2=EYBTfhBHigDm8LPny3_0mg"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">insouciant disregard for contractual commitments he routinely displayed in his business career</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> indicates that he wouldn’t consider himself bound by those restraints if he did understand them. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fOSjVSTshJA/WCnbIgphUFI/AAAAAAAAM-c/HM-_BHJuuOkZ0M8y9av577o0JszpzYSiwCLcB/s1600/1402672468726-notmyprez.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fOSjVSTshJA/WCnbIgphUFI/AAAAAAAAM-c/HM-_BHJuuOkZ0M8y9av577o0JszpzYSiwCLcB/s1600/1402672468726-notmyprez.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">He's not mine, either. </span></b></i></td></tr></tbody></table></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Trump’s victory on November 8 shocked people who take opinion polls seriously, but it didn’t surprise those who followed the </span><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=presidential+futures%27&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8#q=prediction+markets+presidential+election"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">political prediction markets</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">. Given the superior predictive ability of investment markets, there is ominous significance in the fact that </span><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-09/private-prison-stocks-are-surging-after-trump-s-win"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Trump’s victory sent prison stocks skyward</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> in anticipation of a dramatic expansion of what is already the world’s largest carceral system. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The throngs who gleefully chanted “Lock her up!” at Trump rallies are the kind of people who think our country is under-policed and our prisons are under-populated. Hopefully, their fever will eventually break, and they will recover their capacity for reflection. At that point they should consider </span><a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=HOgihSLRELIC&pg=PT48&lpg=PT48&dq=Armando+Valladares+someone+will+fill+them+up&source=bl&ots=QKbFwyRfYv&sig=4FxFWbuE9V2GLlrDDrXUEmeOe3E&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi67MvC7qDQAhUnw1QKHUC0CmQQ6AEIKTAD"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">a parable found in Armando Valladares’s memoir <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Against All Hope</i></span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">, which describes his decades of captivity in Fidel Castro’s gulag.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">For most of his 22 years of incarceration as a political prisoner, Valladares was confined in the “Model Prison” on the Isla de Pinos. It was constructed under the reign of Cuban military dictator Gerardo Machado in the 1930s, and at the time it was regarded as ridiculously outsized, given that Cuba wasn’t overrun by violent criminals.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">When his advisors asked why he would order construction of such an unnecessarily large prison, General Machado blithely replied: “Don’t you worry. Somebody will come along who’ll manage to fill it up.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“That somebody,” Valladares grimly wrote, “was Fidel Castro.”<br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It has been said that every ruler builds a house another will inherit. A better way of expressing that insight is that every ruler expands the architecture of oppression, thereby fortifying the prison in which his subjects – and their children – will live. This is true even – no, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">especially</i> -- of rulers who supposedly have a democratic mandate to exercise violence on behalf of the collective. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Seven years ago, at the beginning of Obama’s reign, attendants at Tea Party rallies often displayed signs advertising that the occupant of the White House was “Not My President.” Obama’s partisans denounced that sentiment as seditious. The same slogan has now been adopted by participants in anti-Trump tantrums – and the underlying sentiment is now being denounced by people who had once seen that phrase as a form of patriotic poetry.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Apart from employees of the executive branch, or active-duty members of the military who have been called into service by Congress, no American really has a “president.” The office was intended to be peripheral to the daily concerns of Americans, rather than the central focus of their existence. What a wonderful thing it would be if Americans of all persuasions adopted the motto “Not My President” – and then learned to regard the state itself with the proper mixture of hostility and contempt. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> This week's Freedom Zealot Podcast: What Obama built, Donald Trump now inherits --</span></b></i><br /><iframe frameborder="0" height="180" scrolling="no" src="http://app.stitcher.com/splayer/f/84897/48231599?el=0&refid=stpr" style="border: 0; height: 180px; overflow: hidden; width: 500px;" width="500"></iframe><br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i>Please check out the new Libertarian Institute, featuring contributions from such indispensable thinkers as Scott Horton, Sheldon Richman, and many other luminaries of liberty!<br /><br /><form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" target="_top"><br /><input name="cmd" type="hidden" value="_s-xclick" /><br /><input name="hosted_button_id" type="hidden" value="PBYMRGTRXV3QY" /><br /><input alt="PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!" border="0" name="submit" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_donateCC_LG.gif" type="image" /><br /><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" /></form><br /><br /><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Dum spiro, pugno!</span></span></b></i></span><br /><br /></span></div>William N. 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src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-E9oA9-EDDgQ/WB4HKJx6umI/AAAAAAAAM9s/08BPP5PGDrA0jez0GM9nw-UJ5_O6ipoOwCLcB/s320/Cardassian_Court_TV.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"A salutary experience": </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Residents of Cardassia give audience to a show trial.</span><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></b></i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><br /><br />Cardassia is a fictional planet in the Star Trek universe </span><a href="http://www.chakoteya.net/DS9/445.htm"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">ruled by a totalitarian state with a court system quite similar to our own</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">. Trials on Cardassia do not to examine the charges against the accused, since a guilty verdict is foreordained. The defendant is assigned an attorney called a “public conservator” whose role is not to represent the interests of his client, but rather to assure “the productive functioning of our courts.”</span><br /><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">“I’m here to help you concede the wisdom of the state, to prepare you to accept the inevitable with equanimity,” one conservator explained to a bemused client unfamiliar with the system. “Whatever you’ve done, whatever the charges against you, none of that really matters in the long run…. This trial is to demonstrate the futility of behavior contrary to good order. Everyone will find it most uplifting.”</span><br /><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">The federal conspiracy trial of Ammon and Ryan Bundy and five of their associates was supposed to follow the Cardassian script – but the prosecutors lost the plot when they encountered defendants they couldn’t bluff or bully, defense attorneys who conscientiously represented their clients, and a jury that demanded actual proof of the charges being considered. </span><br /><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-71MLeh-h-i8/WB4HkZUm54I/AAAAAAAAM9w/A_q-IwnLKmM1EvTaeIR5RanDloyR9hxrwCLcB/s1600/Billy%2Bthe%2Bloser.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-71MLeh-h-i8/WB4HkZUm54I/AAAAAAAAM9w/A_q-IwnLKmM1EvTaeIR5RanDloyR9hxrwCLcB/s320/Billy%2Bthe%2Bloser.jpg" width="205" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><b>Wallow in your failure, you smug loser. </b></i></span></td></tr></tbody></table></span><br /> <a href="http://www.wweek.com/news/2016/11/02/the-bundy-acquittal-isnt-just-shocking-its-part-of-a-pattern-of-arrogant-bungling-by-the-u-s-attorney-for-oregon/"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">After spending $12 million plundered from tax victims, US Attorney for Oregon Billy Williams had to wallow in his own failure</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"> when the jury </span><a href="https://www.rt.com/usa/364484-refuge-occupiers-bundy-brothers-not-guilty/"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">acquitted the defendants of all charges but one</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"> (it deadlocked on a theft of government property charge against Ryan Bundy). This was not jury nullification – the act of refusing to apply an unjust law, or setting aside a legitimate law because of exceptional circumstances. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Had the prosecution sought a conviction on trespassing charges, it would have won – but Williams and his minions arrogantly assumed that it wouldn’t be necessary to prove every element of its case. They mistakenly believed that they were putting on a show trial, but the jury wasn’t on the same page. </span><br /><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">In search of consolation the armored geldings from the US Marshals Service assaulted and briefly detained defense attorney Marcus Mumford when he impudently reminded trial Judge Anna Brown that in the absence of the proper warrant all of the defendants were free to leave. </span><br /><br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I said `if the marshals have something to say about it let’s see what orders they have, let’s see what papers they have to take [them] into custody again,’” </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bj75IkYXJj0" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mumford told the media following the assault</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. “Next thing I know they took a hold of me and [were] talking about how I was resisting arrest. They were twisting my legs and put me to the ground and then they tased me.”</span></div><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">One of Mumford’s putative colleagues in the criminal defense bar apparently believes that he deserved a beating.</span><br /><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">“It’s a good result from the defense lawyer viewpoint,” </span><a href="http://media.oregonlive.com/oregon-standoff/other/2016/10/31/Reid%20email.pdf"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">sneered attorney Bob Reid in an email to Mumford and his colleagues following the not-guilty verdicts</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">. “You all stood up to the overly arrogant prosecution and outplayed them, which is your job, and you did that very well.”</span><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">“But don’t drink the Kool-Aid which the defendants have been drinking,” Reid continued. These defendants “are not `good guys’…. Take your victory and feel great – you deserve it – but remember what it is, and what it isn’t.”</span><br /><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">It is profoundly doubtful that Reid has ever written a snotty note of that kind to a defense attorney who obtained an acquittal for a defendant accused of an actual crime of violence – such as robbery, rape, or murder. The source of Reid’s revulsion is not the idea that a tangible crime against an individual victim remains unavenged, but rather that political offenders escaped punishment for “behavior contrary to good order.”<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UCJfsrWcBWk/WB4Hz7StU1I/AAAAAAAAM90/LbS0Kg0ZjjETRLI4nhqUnvnKCHobR8ACQCLcB/s1600/Mumford%2Bpress.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UCJfsrWcBWk/WB4Hz7StU1I/AAAAAAAAM90/LbS0Kg0ZjjETRLI4nhqUnvnKCHobR8ACQCLcB/s320/Mumford%2Bpress.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mumford after being assaulted by marshals. </span></b></i></td></tr></tbody></table></span><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">The protest occupation of vacant administrative buildings in the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge was a political act, not a crime of violence. It was a gesture defying the supposed authority of the federal government to put certain questions off-limits, such as this: By what supposed right does Washington claim to own most of the land in the western states, and to regulate most of the productive land that remains? <br /><br />Mumford’s demand to see a warrant before surrendering his acquitted clients into federal custody was a manifestation of exactly the same commendable defiance, which is why he was on the receiving end of an immediate reprisal by tax-fed purveyors of officially sanctioned criminal violence. </span><br /><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">For reasons that should be obvious to the unprejudiced mind, the jurors who dared to subject the federal case to critical scrutiny are also concerned about potential reprisals. Their not-guilty verdicts place the jurors in incredibly rarefied company. By becoming a prosecution-driven enterprise, the federal criminal “justice” system has effectively abolished trial by jury. More than ninety percent of federal cases end with a plea bargain, and of the remainder a comparable percentage end in conviction – not because of the strength of the federal case, but because of the Regime’s insuperable material advantages. </span><br /><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"> </span><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Decades ago, at the depth of Stalin-era tyranny, </span><a href="http://universalium.academic.ru/245554/Soviet_law"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Soviet procurators were admonished to pursue a one hundred percent conviction rate</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">. Despite the advantages attendant to a one-party state, that goal evaded those who operated the Soviet “justice” system. Given that roughly one in 212 defendants in federal trials wins acquittal, it’s clear that the contemporary US system has come much closer to achieving Stalin’s ambition that its Soviet antecedent ever did. </span><br /><br /> <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=6&ved=0ahUKEwjjx8KD84jQAhUEQSYKHa_bBbUQFghAMAU&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdigitalcommons.law.seattleu.edu%2Fcgi%2Fviewcontent.cgi%3Farticle%3D1752%26context%3Dsulr&usg=AFQjCNFW4rdJOy9OJPH8oDur7f0xr7G0YQ&sig2=igBWHH6AXtTyRHOz0Quscw&cad=rja"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">In his Seattle University Law Review essay “Reflections on Russia’s Revival of Trial by Jury,”</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"> John C. Coughenour, the Chief United States District Judge for the Western District of Washington, describes how Russia embraced the western model of trial by jury in the late 19<sup>th</sup>Century, witnessed its destruction by the Soviets in 1917, and then saw its revival – however unlikely this may seem – under the rule of Vladimir Putin, who in December 2001 signed legislation mandating jury trials in all of Russia’s eighty-nine regions. </span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-S1E7QXFzOug/WB4IAovcwoI/AAAAAAAAM94/hx1xb-1Nm84y783JkO9n9SGGeviABvWgACLcB/s1600/Soviet%2Btrial.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="159" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-S1E7QXFzOug/WB4IAovcwoI/AAAAAAAAM94/hx1xb-1Nm84y783JkO9n9SGGeviABvWgACLcB/s320/Soviet%2Btrial.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Immediately after seizing power in 1917, the Soviets “abolished the professional bar and trial by jury,” Coughenour recalls. Just sixteen years earlier, Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin praised the jury system as the “court of the street.” That was when he and his faction were the “whom,” rather than the “who.” When those roles reversed, Lenin had no compunction about disposing of the jury. </span><br /><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">In its place the Soviets imposed an inquisitorial system of “people’s courts” consisting of one judge and six “assessors” who were locally elected after being screened by the Party apparatus. Although supposedly analogous to a jury, the assessors “became known as `nodders’ for simply nodding in agreement with the judge,” who “answered to telephonic instructions from Party officials,” Coughenour observes. </span><br /><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Where evidence was insufficient to achieve a conviction even under those circumstances, a judge “would usually return the case for `supplemental investigation,’ thus providing the prosecutor multiple bites at the apple,” continues Coughenour’s account. In our quasi-totalitarian system, this advantage is built into nearly every federal criminal case, in which US Attorneys front-load multiple charges, each containing draconian prison sentences, in the indictment. </span><br /><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Eleven of the original defendants in the Portland case succumbed to this familiar form of prosecutorial intimidation – but one of them, Ryan Payne, was emboldened by disclosures in the trial to </span><a href="http://media.oregonlive.com/oregon-standoff/other/2016/10/12/paynewithdraw.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">file a motion</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"> to withdraw his guilty plea. Payne, who like Ammon and Ryan Bundy faces a separate trial in Nevada on </span><a href="http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2016/06/the-peacemaker-and-psychopath.html"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">charges arising from the April 2014 standoff in Bunkerville</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">, entered a guilty plea as part of what is called a “global offer” dealing with both prosecutions. His federal public defender, Rich Federico, points out that the Feds did not fulfill their part of the bargain by making a plea offer on the Oregon charges.</span><br /><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">When Payne signed the Oregon plea agreement, the Nevada plea offer was still “only in a draft format,” the motion recalls. “Notably, the entire `statement of facts’ section of the Nevada plea offer had been left blank.” It wasn’t until after Payne had signed the deal that he was told the stipulated facts to which he would be agreeing – and then given only a day to accept the deal or face a possible mandatory minimum seven-year sentence.<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mWkQdh55w68/WB4IIRv62tI/AAAAAAAAM98/O4FTSgUKD1IbL30JnJGNXjg9O_GHTPNWQCLcB/s1600/Verdict%2BCelebration.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-mWkQdh55w68/WB4IIRv62tI/AAAAAAAAM98/O4FTSgUKD1IbL30JnJGNXjg9O_GHTPNWQCLcB/s320/Verdict%2BCelebration.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Political dissidents celebrate court victory over the Regime</span></b></i>. </td></tr></tbody></table></span><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">This arrangement, once again, brings to mind the unctuous assurances of the Cardassian “conservator” as he explains the rules of a show trial to his doomed defendant: “Whatever you’ve done, whatever the charges against you, none of that really matters in the long run.” All that mattered in that fictional dystopia was the need to vindicate the “authority” of the state. The same is true in the police states, both historic and contemporary, that inspired that science fiction allegory. </span><br /><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Unlike the Anglo-American adversarial system, “the Soviet inquisitorial criminal justice system neither prioritized nor emphasized the rights of individual defendants, but instead paid homage to the interests of the state,” concludes Judge Coughenour. </span><br /><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">The same can, and should, be said of the system that routinely coughs up </span><a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-or/meet-us-attorney"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">viscous specimens of statist arrogance like Billy Williams</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">. To them, the most troubling aspect of the Portland acquittals is not merely the missed opportunity to demonstrate “the futility of behavior contrary to good order,” but the possibility that the “nodders” have awakened and are starting to think for themselves. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"> <b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> This week's Freedom Zealot Podcast</span></b><br /><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The FBI are the Regime's political police -- yet some self-described patriots see the Bureau as an ally because a faction within it seeks to bring down Hillary Clinton. They're forgetting that we should focus on the tyranny, not on an individual tyrant:</span></i><br /><iframe frameborder="0" height="180" scrolling="no" src="http://app.stitcher.com/splayer/f/84897/48154405?el=0&refid=stpr" style="border: 0; height: 180px; overflow: hidden; width: 400px;" width="400"></iframe><br /><br /><b><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.libertarianinstitute.org/">Please join me -- as well as Scott Horton, Sheldon Richman, and many other liberty-obsessed people -- at the new homepage of the Libertarian Institute</a>. </span></i></b><br /><br /><br /><form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" target="_top"><br /><input name="cmd" type="hidden" value="_s-xclick" /><br /><input name="hosted_button_id" type="hidden" value="QKQB5RLA732AA" /><br /><input alt="PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!" border="0" name="submit" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_donateCC_LG.gif" type="image" /><br /><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" /></form><br /><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Dum spiro, pugno! </span></span></i></span><br /> William N. 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src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MJHXEo7nHJo/WBEb6ItX28I/AAAAAAAAM9M/Ple32v8xG6ACpVOH5CzNR7rH_Z2K5pasACLcB/s320/580ea8089c0b9.image.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Victims of the Prohibitionist Cartel: </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Kelsey with her abducted childre</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">n</span><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">.</span></b></i> </td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /><br />If 23-year-old Gooding, Idaho resident Kelsey Osborne is sent to prison for using medicinal cannabis to treat her daughter’s seizures, Governor Butch Otter should immediately grant her a pardon. If he fails to do so, he should be dragged into a public square in Boise and horsewhipped. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><a href="http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/state/idaho/article110272062.html"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-themecolor: hyperlink;">Madyson Osborne</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, Kelsey’s young daughter, has suffered from seizure-like symptoms since she was 18 months old. Doctors prescribed Risperidone for the child’s condition, despite its serious potential side effects. On October 4, Madyson suffered an unusually severe fit that involved vomiting and disruptive behavior her mother had not previously seen. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Desperate to obtain relief for her child, and understandably concerned about the cumulative effect of the dangerous antipsychotic drug she had been taking, Kelsey made the girl a smoothie with marijuana butter – which immediately calmed her down and helped her get to sleep. During a medical appointment the following day, Madyson tested positive for marijuana. At this point, the doctor – acting as an agent of the state, rather than a physician bound by Hippocratic ethics to protect his patients – contacted the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, which seized Kelsey’s children. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The mother now faces a charge of inflicting “injury on a child” by substituting a healthy but officially banned treatment for a toxic pharmaceutical product that has been approved by the state. Since this happened in Idaho, a felony drug charge will almost certainly be imposed as well. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-maGoGrq1ns0/WBEcije0NFI/AAAAAAAAM9Q/dGMMwjhTv5w-vuCyfxQwSLHvVINZz5Q2ACLcB/s1600/Butch.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-maGoGrq1ns0/WBEcije0NFI/AAAAAAAAM9Q/dGMMwjhTv5w-vuCyfxQwSLHvVINZz5Q2ACLcB/s1600/Butch.jpg" /></a></div><br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Last year, acting on behalf of the pharmaceutical cartel, Idaho’s Republican Governor </span><a href="http://www.kboi2.com/news/local/Otter-vetoes-cannabis-oil-bill-300208081.html"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Butch Otter vetoed a measure</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">that would <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">not</i> have decriminalized the use of medicinal marijuana but <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">would</i>have allowed parents a positive legal defense of necessity if they are charged with an offense for using medicinal cannabis to treat children suffering from seizures. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the same time, Otter issued an executive order allowing a tiny number of families to participate in an officially sanctioned test project using a marijuana-derived product offered by </span><a href="http://www.gwpharm.com/GW%20Pharmaceuticals%20Provides%20Update%20on%20Epidiolex%20Program%20in%20Treatment-Resistant%20Childhood%20Epilepsies.aspx"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">a government-licensed pharmaceutical company</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. What this means, of course, is that providing medicinal cannabis to a child is only a “crime” if this is done in a way that circumvents state-approved gatekeepers. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If Kelsey Osborne were able to use the defense offered by the bill Otter vetoed, it’s profoundly doubtful that the Jerome County Prosecutor’s Office would bother pursuing the case. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Owing to the corrupt entente between the pharmaceutical cartel and the state’s prohibitionist Pharisees, Idaho is burdened with anti-marijuana laws </span><a href="http://drugabuse.com/the-20-countries-with-the-harshest-drug-laws-in-the-world/"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">worthy of Saudi Arabia</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. The irony of this situation is lost on the full-time “creeping Sharia” alarmists who canker the Gem State, the sort of people who are reliably deaf and blind to most varieties of native-grown authoritarian sanctimony. Such people irrigate their skivvies at the thought that somewhere in the state a woman might be wearing a hijab as a gesture of religious commitment, but they aren’t unduly troubled by the thought of children being abducted at gunpoint from a young mother who faces prison for trying to wean her daughter from a foul psychoactive drug that routinely wrecks both minds and bodies. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Six years ago, Detroit resident </span><a href="https://www.lewrockwell.com/2011/04/william-norman-grigg/stormtroopers-and-child-snatchers/"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maryanne Godboldo – who, like Kelsey Osborne, is a single mother -- held off an attempt by police and “child protection” bureaucrats to abduct her teenage daughter</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">, Ariana, so that she could be forcibly drugged with Risperidone. Godboldo, a college dance instructor, had attempted to school her daughter at home, but was eventually compelled by her financial circumstances to place the youngster in a local government school. This meant subjecting the already troubled child to the government-dictated suite of vaccinations. Shortly after receiving the injections, the girl experienced severe side-effects, including behavioral problems she hadn’t previously experienced. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">In entirely predictable fashion, the government’s medical functionaries decided to add one more noxious chemical to the cocktail by prescribing Risperidone as the “remedy” for the damage caused by the injections. Within a few days, the victim began to display suicidal impulses. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Maryanne sensibly decided to withdraw her child from the local mind-laundry and take care of her at home. The so-called Child Protective Service, decreeing that this motivated, loving, and well-educated mother was “in denial,” authorized itself to kidnap the child and finish the job of destroying her mind.</span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZlOD0lKkN30/WBEcoV5nOHI/AAAAAAAAM9U/LrZ10TGs9-Ec68kjzS1ypxFh37DIJ03eACLcB/s1600/Thug.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZlOD0lKkN30/WBEcoV5nOHI/AAAAAAAAM9U/LrZ10TGs9-Ec68kjzS1ypxFh37DIJ03eACLcB/s1600/Thug.jpg" /></a></div><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">When the child snatchers came for her daughter, Maryanne — exercising the natural and plenary authority of a mother defending her child — denied them entrance to their home. Rather than obeying her lawful order to leave, the CPS contacted a SWAT team — complete with automatic weapons, armored personnel carriers, and helicopters — that laid siege to her home for ten hours.</span><br /><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Maryanne, who took up arms against the invaders, eventually surrendered and was charged with several felonies. All of those charges were dismissed a few months later when the Wayne County District Court ruled that the search of her home was illegal. </span><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Seething with frustration over his thwarted desire to make an example of Godboldo, the DA tried to revive those charges in 2014. </span><a href="http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2014/07/judge_supports_dismissal_of_ch.html"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">On July 12 of that year they were finally, and definitively, dismissed</span></a><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">. </span><br /><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">“In the end, it is a basic human right for parents to choose if they want to medicate their children,” observes Godboldo’s attorney, Allison Folmar. “When the state steps in and says `hey, mom and dad, we know what’s better for your child,’ that’s wrong.”</span><br /><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-h8trmr8_VIM/WBEctoeoZyI/AAAAAAAAM9c/HAVhqQOBGYwvcqA5mG2TlyXeJAZw5p5GACLcB/s1600/Victory.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="242" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-h8trmr8_VIM/WBEctoeoZyI/AAAAAAAAM9c/HAVhqQOBGYwvcqA5mG2TlyXeJAZw5p5GACLcB/s320/Victory.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Victorious: </span></b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Goldbodo (center) with friends.</span><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></b></i></td></tr></tbody></table></span><br /> <span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Significantly, an appeals court that heard Godboldo’s case acknowledged that citizens in “imminent danger” as a result of illegal police action have the right to use lethal force in protection of their homes. The true purpose of the right invoked in the Second Amendment, after all, is to protect one’s self and one’s family from the criminal violence of those who claim to rule us. </span><br /><br /> <div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If Idaho were the state it pretends to be, its residents would not permit its government to punish Kelsey Osborne for choosing a safe and healthy treatment regimen for her daughter’s seizures – and they would not allow Governor Otter to escape accountability for the harm he has inflicted on that family, and many others, in the service of the pharmaceutical-prohibitionist axis. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";"><br /><i><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This essay has also been published at the newly inaugurated website of <a href="https://www.libertarianinstitute.org/">The Libertarian Institute</a> -- which is where you will also find the archives of the weekly Freedom Zealot Podcast. Please check it out -- and tell your friends! <br /><br /><form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" target="_top"><br /><input name="cmd" type="hidden" value="_s-xclick" /><br /><input name="hosted_button_id" type="hidden" value="WZLN7H99TQ63Q" /><br /><input alt="PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!" border="0" name="submit" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_donateCC_LG.gif" type="image" /><br /><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" /></form><br /><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Dum spiro, pugno! </span></span></b><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /></span></i><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /></span><br /> <br /> William N. Grigghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14368220509514750246noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-90824177375759570202016-10-20T23:49:00.000-06:002016-10-21T09:22:42.681-06:00Sheriff David Clarke: The Warlord of Milwaukee County <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings></xml><![endif]--><br /><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> 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style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /><br />Now that Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona’s Maricopa County <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=newssearch&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjb6IiAlevPAhWEND4KHSnrAF8QqQIIHCgAMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fktar.com%2Fstory%2F1310643%2Fsheriff-joe-arpaio-to-face-criminal-contempt-of-court-trial%2F&usg=AFQjCNFaGdrAdezFcd4Tn-glgLWVKP22Ag&sig2=p9Jq1OwVOyYxp4u8egIs7w&bvm=bv.136499718,d.cWw">faces a possible federal felony conviction that would dislodge him from offic</a>e, the floor is open for nominations to replace him as the preening figurehead for the <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiUgOHHlevPAhUMbD4KHR3-CvgQFggcMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Ffreedominourtime.blogspot.com%2F2009%2F08%2Fplague-of-punitive-populism.html&usg=AFQjCNE0KezqcaCyrzC4i-qYMQ3K1fGIHg&sig2=07efTnPZUbWz_ACeDC6pdQ&bvm=bv.136499718,d.cWw">Punitive Populist constituency</a>. Milwaukee County, Wisconsin Sheriff David Clarke, who has been auditioning for that role over the past several years, is the prohibitive favorite for that position. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Like Arpaio, Clarke is a part-time sheriff and full-time media whore, tirelessly seeking opportunities to favor Fox News viewers with a visage set in a sullen pout that he mistakes for an expression of Churchillian pugnacity. Where Arpaio advertised himself as the “World’s Toughest Sheriff,” Clarke has become the most visible exponent of the view that <a href="https://www.lewrockwell.com/2016/02/william-norman-grigg/never-say-boo-cop/">law enforcement officers should be provided with an institutional “safe space” befitting members of a specially protected class</a>.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Perhaps the most remarkable facet of Clarke’s public persona is his studied rejection of the idea that sheriffs and other police officials should be <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">peace </i>officers. He espouses the view that law enforcement is a tribe that is at war not only with criminal offenders, but with its law-abiding critics. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Clarke, an </span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://county.milwaukee.gov/MeettheSheriff9152.htm"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">FBI-indoctrinated</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">prohibitionist fanatic who was </span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://county.milwaukee.gov/ImageLibrary/Groups/cntySheriff/sheriffnews/2013-New/NewsreleaseClarkeDavid.2013.pdf"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">awarded a Master’s Degree in “Security Studies” through the Naval Postgraduate School Center for Homeland Defense and Security in Monterey, California</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">, has issued an explicit demand for the suppression – and, if necessary, the “eradication” --<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of Black Lives Matter activists and others giving voice to what he calls “anti-cop rhetoric.” Such people, he maintains, are “vulgar, vile, [and] vicious … slime” who should be characterized as “domestic terrorists.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Following a prominent speaking role at the <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=5&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwil6Ij-huvPAhVCez4KHSd_DwYQFghHMAQ&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.csun.edu%2Finvestiture%2Fwhat-is-an-investiture&usg=AFQjCNG1aJoC52r8vxJDhIVscZk7p9LTaQ&sig2=q9vt1-dfOir-Xk14B3hZqw">investiture</a>of <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=10&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjb09Wgh-vPAhUDbT4KHdQVA8QQFghDMAk&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2016%2F05%2F29%2Fopinion%2Fsunday%2Fthe-nazi-tweets-of-trump-god-emperor.html&usg=AFQjCNHVFSJtCCv99jQAzs1SZ6Z4EvtMUA&sig2=bj1pZvamqfJZxCo6NJzLWg">God-Emperor (in waiting) Donald Trump</a>, Clarke published an essay urging the public and the political class to mobilize for a literal war of extermination – and insisting that citizens must rally to the defense and protection of the police officers whose advertised role <i>is to protect them</i>.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">“It’s time to come to the aid of our police, our front-line soldiers, <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">by calling this war, and not terrorism<b>,”</b></span></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/civil-rights/sheriff-david%20clarke-black-lives-matter-baton-rouge-civil-war"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">exhorted Clarke in an essay for The Hill.</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">“Avoiding the truth through wordsmithing – the false narrative of the lone-wolf – is contemptible as more innocent officers perish while our politicians hem and haw. We as a people need to declare that we stand with the rule of law, and not with the false tales of the revolutionary Marxist forces, who most recently have rebranded themselves from Occupy Wall Street to Black Lives Matter.”</span><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vzTcUjZuiEQ/WAmn3n0ElFI/AAAAAAAAM8s/smIr-306Fy0T7X0M-Z67T8IhPAN5aEIiACLcB/s1600/Poseur.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="87" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vzTcUjZuiEQ/WAmn3n0ElFI/AAAAAAAAM8s/smIr-306Fy0T7X0M-Z67T8IhPAN5aEIiACLcB/s400/Poseur.JPG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A poseur on horseback.</span></b></i> </td></tr></tbody></table></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Those who refuse to enlist in that war are “accomplices” in league with “an enemy within our borders [and] without our borders,” Clarke insists. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">“This slime needs to be eradicated from American society and American culture,” </span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><a href="http://dailycaller.com/2015/08/31/fox-cop-president-of-the-united-states-started-this-war-on-police-video/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Clark insisted during an August 29, 2015 interview with Fox News host Jeanne Piro</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">. While professing to “love the First Amendment” and “freedom of speech,” Clarke maintained that the right is “not absolute.” You can’t say anything you want in the United States. You cannot threaten people’s lives…. This is not First Amendment-protected.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">As he explained in the same interview, Clarke believes that the spectrum of impermissible speech may end with overt death threats, but it begins with the “disparagement” of police in social media.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">It should be noted that as a <a href="http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2014/12/law-and-order-leninism.html">Law-and-Order Leninist</a>, Clarke does not object to insurrectionist speech or activism in principle: It’s all a question of who does what to whom. As Donald Trump’s presidential prospects have dimmed, Clarke’s ardor for order has waned, and his appetite for retaliatory violence has waxed. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“It’s incredible that our institutions of gov[ernment], W[hite] H[ouse], Congress, DOJ, and big media are corrupt & all we do is bitch,” <a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/davidclarke/2016/10/dear-media-only-liberals-can-call-for-a-political-revolution/">wrote Clark in an October 15 post on Twitter</a>. “Pitchforks and torches time.” </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">After successfully baiting media critics into condemning his hypocrisy, Clarke published an essay commending himself for emulating the courage of the Founding Fathers. Those men, Clarke apparently forgets, were disreputable radicals who opened fire on law enforcement officers in the performance of their duties on the morning of April 19, 1775, and <a href="http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2014/12/have-we-reached-peak-jackboot.html">whose revolutionary exemplars included a black felon named Crispus Attucks </a>(he “stole” himself by escaping the custody of a man with a “lawful” claim to own him) who was killed while assaulting a law enforcement officer and trying to seize his firearm. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qc_7jWxNg-8/WAmoPHfHGAI/AAAAAAAAM8w/VThRlC0UcaYsxbZ0-oIqWWpLj_b2Rj1vQCLcB/s1600/Crispus%2BAttucks.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="305" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qc_7jWxNg-8/WAmoPHfHGAI/AAAAAAAAM8w/VThRlC0UcaYsxbZ0-oIqWWpLj_b2Rj1vQCLcB/s400/Crispus%2BAttucks.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Patriot martyr Crispus Attucks acted in self-defense, but his actions were an obvious threat to “officer safety.” If cornered and compelled to contemplate the matter at adequate length, Clarke might well dissolve into a puddle of cognitive dissonance. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Yes, the sheriff professes to revere the colonial-era patriots, but he also subscribes to the “officer safety <i>uber alles</i>” dogma, under which the use of hostile language toward officers by a Mundane can justify the use of lethal force by the former. This was made clear in Clarke’s interview with </span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://crooksandliars.com/cltv/2015/07/wingnut-sheriff-clarke-says-cop-who"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Meg<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">y</span>n Kelly</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">in which he discussed the arrest and subsequent death in detention of Chicago activist Sandra Bland.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/23/opinions/cevallos-sandra-bland-traffic-stop/index.html"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Bland was stopped in Hempstead, Texas by State Trooper Brian Encinia on July 10, 2015 for allegedly failing to signal a turn</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">. The already tense encounter deteriorated when Encinia ordered Bland to extinguish her cigarette. She was not legally forbidden to have a lit cigarette in her car, but </span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><a href="http://patch.com/georgia/dacula/cigarettes-air-freshener-fail-to-hide-scent-of-marijuana"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">police officers are often trained to perceive lit cigarettes, car fresheners, or even heavy colognes and perfumes as masking agents to cover up the smell of marijuana</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">When Bland refused to put out the cigarette, Encina (<u><span style="color: blue;">who had previously been warned about “unprofessional” behavior)</span></u>needlessly escalated the encounter, ordering her from the car, bellowing the incantation “I am giving you a lawful order,” then pulling a Taser and threatening to “light you up.” </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Bland’s violent arrest led to a three-day incarceration in the Waller County Jail that ended with a death that has been described as a suicide, despite a number of documented irregularities and derelictions on the part of the guards.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Asked by Kelly if he considered Trooper Encinia’s actions to be appropriate, Clarke said that he “wholeheartedly” supported the officer. This encounter, he continued, was a “classic case of a citizen who did not comply with an officer’s lawful commands.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Although she was armed only with a lit cigarette – an object some exceptionally inventive police apologists describe as a dangerous weapon – and her own sense of self-ownership, Clarke described Bland as “loaded for bear from the time she was pulled over.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">“I expect an officer to go into arrest mode” in dealing with a citizen exhibiting such impudent self-possession in the presence of a uniformed overseer, Clarke told Kelly. “And once you go into arrest mode, you get to move up on the force continuum – it’s no longer verbal commands, you can use intermediate weapons. He chose a Taser.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MFup0cxGjqE/WAmoVrhtmRI/AAAAAAAAM80/MnosrypJ19oFWx7WcnbtCORwdSPELyNZgCLcB/s1600/Encina%2BAssault.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="173" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-MFup0cxGjqE/WAmoVrhtmRI/AAAAAAAAM80/MnosrypJ19oFWx7WcnbtCORwdSPELyNZgCLcB/s320/Encina%2BAssault.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">While the violence employed by Trooper Encinia was entirely appropriate, Clarke opined, “I was more appalled with the language [Bland] was using with an authority figure…. <i>She did some things that caused an officer to move up in terms of his response to keep her safe and to keep himself safe</i>.” (Emphasis added.)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Disdainful language hurled at “an authority figure” is to be treated as a “threat,” from Sheriff Clarke’s perspective – and a violent assault with a reliably lethal weapon by an officer on an unarmed woman suspected of a trivial traffic violation is merely a responsible exercise of that “authority.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Trooper Encina <a href="http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-fg-sandra-bland-trooper-20160322-story.html">was subsequently fired and charged with perjury</a> for lying in the official report describing his assault on Bland. This would not change Clarke’s opinion of the ex-trooper and his conduct, given that the sheriff consistently condemns – on the basis of purely tribal considerations -- legal action against abusive law enforcement officers.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">“I’m tired of qualifying these statements [by talking] about `bad apples’ within the law enforcement profession,” complained Clark in another Fox News appearance after a Texas prosecutor offered a fleeting acknowledgement that corrupt police officers exist. Clarke perceives law enforcement as an undifferentiated mass of heroic virtue – or at least he insists that the public should embrace that official fiction. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It has been said that no honest cop ever struck it rich, and no wealthy cop could possibly be honest. (For the purposes of discussion, I will stipulate to the possibility that the words "honest" and "cop" can be used in proximity without violently annihilating themselves as if they were matter and anti-matter.) Clarke is a stranger to the penury that frequently is virtue’s unwelcome companion. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">During 2015, Clarke </span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjk6OuYm-LPAhVCSiYKHTBBDy4QFggcMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jsonline.com%2Fstory%2Fnews%2Finvestigations%2Fdaniel-bice%2F2016%2F09%2F18%2Fbice-sheriff-clarkes-profile-soars-gifts-roll%2F90429910%2F&usg=AFQjCNEr5C1rs5gUBtZ4SaV-OMcAMNjQ2w&sig2=d6Xi4K0kH--T_50VcjYHxQ&bvm=bv.135974163,d.eWE"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">was paid a more than adequate plunder-derived salary of $132,290. He also received speaking fees, travel reimbursements, gifts, and other benefits amounting to more than $150,000, reports the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> This includes trips overseas to Israel and Russia sponsored by the National Rifle Association.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Sheriff was given more than $9,000 in travel reimbursements to attend </span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://deadline.com/2015/07/herb-allen-sun-valley-retreat-2015-1201471686/"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif";">the annual Herb Allen & Company conference, a four-day gathering of moguls and media figures in Sun Valley, Idaho</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">. In November, he was paid a $5,000 honorarium to offer a 48-minute presentation at the annual Restoration Weekend, a neocon assembly in Charleston, South Carolina. During that visit he was given nearly $3,000 in travel reimbursements, $1,212 for lodging, and almost $800 for meals. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5ELa3nSS3N0/WAmo7JrgIkI/AAAAAAAAM84/pIXo7r4WoD0UzmuwibvN6sg9lJOecWJqgCLcB/s1600/Award.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="241" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-5ELa3nSS3N0/WAmo7JrgIkI/AAAAAAAAM84/pIXo7r4WoD0UzmuwibvN6sg9lJOecWJqgCLcB/s320/Award.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Clarke told the Journal-Sentinel that “I reported everything that I was required to report.” Milwaukee attorney Jeremy Levinson, who focuses on campaign finance and ethics issues, argues that “It looks like Clarke’s banking money he shouldn’t or is a part-time sheriff with a side job.” </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">However, continued Levinson, the latter possibility “would require one to believe he’d get those lucrative speaking gigs and travel even if he weren’t an elected official.” </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sheriff Clarke has been </span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/04/28/conservative-medias-latest-ill-advised-hero-is/199055"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">warmly embraced by a segment of the population that looks upon all government agencies and officials – except for the police and the military – with incurable suspicion and no small amount of hostility</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">. This includes some people who really should know better: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Clarke was named 2013 “Sheriff of the Year” by the </span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;"><a href="http://cspoa.org/zenphoto/Sheriff%20David%20Clarke/"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association</span></a></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt;">, a group that opposes federalization of law enforcement. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">That honor is a dubious fit for someone who clearly sees himself as a warlord, rather than a peace officer. <br /><br /><br /> <b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Introducing The Libertarian Institute </span></b><br /><br /><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Some people I greatly respect and admire -- Scott Horton, Sheldon Richman, and Jared Labell -- <a href="https://www.libertarianinstitute.org/articles/welcome-to-the-libertarian-institute/">have invited me to participate in the newly created Libertarian Institute as managing editor</a>. They have done me a tremendous honor, and I am deeply grateful. Scott's radio program is a national treasure, Sheldon is a man of deep and expansive learning and wisdom, and Jared has been aptly described as a "force of nature in the freedom movement." <br /><br />My essays and podcasts will be available at The Libertarian Institute's website, and will continue to appear here, as well. That site will also host a blog featuring the insights offered by dozens of the most perspicuous and principled people in the individualist movement. <br /><br />Once again, I am honored to be part of this undertaking, and thankful to those who have found my work worthwhile. 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Grigghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14368220509514750246noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-40414914868673018802016-10-11T11:44:00.002-06:002016-10-11T11:58:28.694-06:00Who Protects Kids from Predatory Police and Prosecutors? <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings></xml><![endif]--><br /><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> 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class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /><br />Raising teenage girls in the age of Snapchat exhibitionism is a challenging proposition – and it’s not made any easier by ambitious prosecutors seeking to criminalize unwise acts that fall within parental jurisdiction. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Last April 6, <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/325677069/Knoxville-Lawsuit">two parents from Knoxville, Iowa</a> were summoned to a meeting with <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaron-fuller-74b25051">Lt. Aaron Fuller</a>and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/kyle-keller-5737a8102?authType=NAME_SEARCH&authToken=S4Jl&locale=en_US&srchid=301412621476197329500&srchindex=1&srchtotal=1&trk=vsrp_people_res_name&trkInfo=VSRPsearchId%3A301412621476197329500%2CVSRPtargetId%3A437917479%2CVSRPcmpt%3Aprimary%2CVSRPnm%3Atrue%2CauthType%3ANAME_SEARCH">Sgt. Kyle Keller</a> of the city police department. A few days earlier, they had been informed by Carolyn Johnson, a guidance counselor at Knoxville High School, that their 14-year-old girl had sent “inappropriate” pictures to a male friend. When confronted by the parents, the young woman sheepishly admitted that she had sent photos to the young man, but insisted that they didn’t involve nudity. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">She had deleted the photos from her cellphone. Her parents promptly – and properly – confiscated the teenager’s cellphone, until they could examine the photos for themselves and decide what restrictions, if any, would be appropriate. Their primary concern, most likely, was provoked by the girl’s statement that the male friend in question had sent unsolicited and unwanted sexually explicit pictures to her. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6rgBFEalb4M/V_0kXaNdASI/AAAAAAAAM8M/XoU44PLmlOcpWmIfRrAEs-4ajAjVOKmjwCLcB/s1600/AaronFuller.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6rgBFEalb4M/V_0kXaNdASI/AAAAAAAAM8M/XoU44PLmlOcpWmIfRrAEs-4ajAjVOKmjwCLcB/s320/AaronFuller.jpg" width="256" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lying in wait: </span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Lt. Fuller. </span></i></td></tr></tbody></table></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In meeting with Fuller and Keller, the parents were chiefly interested in seeing the “inappropriate” pictures their daughter had sent. Earlier that day the police had called to inform the parents that officers were investigating a teen “sexting” ring, and that they intended to interview their daughter at school. The parents quite sensibly ordered the police and school administrators not to speak with their daughter, and told the officials to speak with them instead.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The parents were acting to protect their daughter, and discipline her, if necessary. The police were trying to build a case for a criminal prosecution. Those objectives were irreconcilable, which is why the parents should have either refused all cooperation, or insisted on being accompanied by an attorney during their meeting with the police. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">At police headquarters, the parents were shown two photos that had been printed by the girl’s classmates. In one, she was wearing shorts and a sports bra. In the second she was wearing shorts while using her hair to cover her chest. Neither of the pictures involved nudity or met the <a href="https://coolice.legis.iowa.gov/Cool-ICE/default.asp?category=billinfo&service=IowaCode&input=728.12">statutory definition</a> of pornography.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The officers, exploiting the concerns of parents whom they were seeking to ensnare, asked them to identify the young woman depicted in the photos.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In response to that question, a reasonably perspicuous attorney (who should also have made an audio recording of the meeting) would have told the parents not to answer, and then told the officers: “Those photographs are not evidence of a criminal offense. Do you have any evidence that their daughter has committed an offense?”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">When the officers failed to produce that evidence, the attorney should have responded, “Then we’re finished here,” and escorted the parents from police headquarters. The parents had no legal obligation to help two uniformed predators make a criminal offender out of their child. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Acting with the devious subtlety of a child molester grooming a potential victim, the officers beguiled the parents into incriminating their daughter. When the parents left, they later recalled, they were incredulous that the photos were the subject of a police investigation. Smugly satisfied that their deception had succeeded, the officers blithely assured the parents that they and their daughter didn’t have anything to worry about.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwj_t-y_otPPAhUBUSYKHd62DxgQFggjMAE&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lewrockwell.com%2Flrc-blog%2Fnever-talk-to-the-police-theyre-trained-to-lie%2F&usg=AFQjCNGDfH2kwrzbsfBwqlMAOtJHFvhBuQ&sig2=N5TDZJArsQbwM1Ci9gg9XQ&bvm=bv.135258522,d.eWE">They lied</a>, of course. <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwj_t-y_otPPAhUBUSYKHd62DxgQFggcMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.officer.com%2Farticle%2F10233095%2Ftraining-cops-to-lie-pt-1&usg=AFQjCNEvtf3qmakr9k1hbH11bhXEQ3lpxg&sig2=V48ybBITVkSYkFDsZ1Tdow&bvm=bv.135258522,d.eWE">That’s what police officers are trained to do</a>.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">On the following day, the parents were informed by email that school officials “were cooperating with law enforcement” in an ongoing investigation of students who had shared “inappropriate” photos. Since schools act as an intake mechanism for the carceral state, this development was hardly surprising. Twenty days later the parents were contacted by Kristi Dodson, the <a href="https://www.legis.iowa.gov/publications/fiscal/salaryBook?aid=112&cFY=true">well-compensated</a>Dolores Umbridge avatar who afflicts Marion County as a Juvenile Court Officer. She informed them that their daughter was the subject of a criminal complaint for “sexual exploitation of a minor.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6x1HqHez4rw/V_0kkZruPII/AAAAAAAAM8Q/TTcVTge62E89GOR0M8FidhbXL4RBqcq2QCLcB/s1600/Dolores%2BUmbridge%2Baka%2BKristi%2BDodson.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-6x1HqHez4rw/V_0kkZruPII/AAAAAAAAM8Q/TTcVTge62E89GOR0M8FidhbXL4RBqcq2QCLcB/s320/Dolores%2BUmbridge%2Baka%2BKristi%2BDodson.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">To be specific, the 14-year-old was accused of exploiting <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">herself </i>by sending two photos that do not meet the legal definition of pornography, but apparently made <a href="http://www.pellachronicle.com/news/local_news/county-attorney-discusses-his-budget/article_a352fae9-1c8c-5a29-9aa6-03656a42637d.html">Marion County Prosecutor</a> Ed Bull feel funny in long-dormant areas of his overfed anatomy. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Dodson “requested” that a parent attend an “intake interview” along with several dozen other students and their parents on May 24. A “request” of that sort is akin to being asked on a date by a known serial rapist, so the parents sensibly decided not to attend. At this point they tardily contacted a criminal defense attorney. They later received a detailed account of the mass “intake meeting” conducted by Bull at the Marion County Courthouse. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Bull “informed all the students present that they could all be charged with child pornography … and/or sexual exploitation of a minor … and that such charges would require [each of] them to register as a sex offender for life,” <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/325677069/Knoxville-Lawsuit">recounts the lawsuit</a> subsequently filed by the parents of the 14-year-old girl, who was designated “Nancy Doe.” </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The terrorized children and outraged parents were told that the only way to avoid the ineffaceable sex offender stigma was to agree to a “pre-trial diversion” program. This would require that they confess to their supposed crimes and accept punishment without the state taking the trouble to prove the charges against them. The youngsters would be forced to perform punitive “community service,” undergo “a reeducation class on the dangers and consequences of sexting,” surrender their laptops and cellphones for an unspecified period of time, and provide Dodson with “a confession of their conduct.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Dodson distributed a questionnaire to the parents “that delved into the intimate details” of their stewardship regarding the accused teenagers. Although Nancy Doe’s parents weren’t at the meeting, they were given a copy of that invasive document, which they did not fill out.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In a subsequent meeting at the courthouse, Nancy’s parents asked Dodson’s supervisors if they had even seen the photos of their daughter. They were told that “such details don’t matter,” and that the girl “would be criminally charged just like the other students if she did not agree to the pre-trial diversion program offered by Bull.”</span><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XOw3vgBJM7I/V_0kti-AnVI/AAAAAAAAM8U/k81ufDTUEeMxyC5z7sGiB6a0Qqspt54egCLcB/s1600/The%2BBullster.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XOw3vgBJM7I/V_0kti-AnVI/AAAAAAAAM8U/k81ufDTUEeMxyC5z7sGiB6a0Qqspt54egCLcB/s1600/The%2BBullster.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Child predator Ed Bull. </span></b></i></td></tr></tbody></table></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The family’s defense attorney, Matthew Lindholm, contacted Bull and pointed out that the photos of Nancy did not involve nudity or a sexual act, and thus were not a violation of <a href="https://coolice.legis.iowa.gov/Cool-ICE/default.asp?category=billinfo&service=IowaCode&input=728.12">the applicable statutes</a>. Stolidly indifferent to the law he had dishonestly sworn to uphold, Bull parried that objection by saying that unless Nancy and her parents submitted to his demands the 14-year-old faced a felony prosecution and potential sex offender designation for life. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Bull is aware that Iowa law at the time of Nancy Doe’s purported offense would not permit the prosecution of a voyeur who invaded her privacy unless she was nude. This is because <a href="http://www.radioiowa.com/2016/04/14/convicting-peeping-toms-may-be-easier-in-iowa-after-july-1/">he conducted a campaign to change the state’s Peeping Tom law</a> to allow prosecution of people who, in the service of prurient interests, invade any space where people have a “reasonable expectation of privacy.” </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">If a heavy-breathing stranger – say, someone who resembles Ed Bull – had peered into Nancy’s bedroom window while she was taking her “inappropriate” selfies, the intruder could not have been prosecuted under the laws as they existed at the time. Yet Bull, in the service of an equally depraved appetite, is trying to turn the young lady into a felon for sharing photographs of herself in that state. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">By early September, all of the other teenagers subject to the extortion plot arranged by Bull and Dodson <a href="http://www.journalexpress.net/news/sexting-juveniles-wrapping-up-probation/article_1edd0236-7118-11e6-91c6-e372cf48e6a2.html">were told that they had finished their term of “probation</a>.” This, too, was a lie: The “confessions” they were compelled to sign can still be used to prosecute them. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Bull and Dodson are determined not to allow Nancy and her parents to escape punishment for their defiance. This must be particularly galling to Dodson, who is unaccustomed to displays of parental assertiveness in the face of the state’s demands. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.pellachronicle.com/news/local_news/county-juveniles-parents-face-challenges/article_2e8c1407-6aeb-57c3-8ddc-7325ecc2580d.html">In an interview with the Pella Chronicle three years ago</a>, Dodson insisted that the “majority” of the parents who fall beneath her Gorgon’s stare “side with law enforcement.” Very few, she continued,“are adamant about their child's innocence. Most are already aware that the child has done something wrong before receiving a knock on the door from law enforcement. Parents read the reports and, in some cases, parents complain more about [that the] consequences the State eventually imposes are `too mild.’” </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This, according to the Dolores Umbridge of Marion County, is the proper parental posture when the state seeks to make a criminal out of a child: They are to accept the claims of the police uncritically, and display eager approval of whatever punitive sanction is imposed on what, after all, is someone owned by the state. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Apart from what can be inferred from her official actions, Dodson’s political views aren’t easy to discern. It should come as a surprise to nobody that Bull is a devout Christian Rightist, <a href="http://theiowarepublican.com/2011/santorum-announces-iowa-steering-committee/">a former campaign adviser to Rick Santorum</a>, who promotes <a href="http://reason.com/archives/2005/09/06/a-frothy-mixture-of-collectivi">an attenuated version of Hillary Clinton’s “It Takes a Village” –style nanny state collectivism</a>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">When he was elected in 2010, <a href="http://www.pellachronicle.com/news/local_news/county-attorney-discusses-his-budget/article_a352fae9-1c8c-5a29-9aa6-03656a42637d.html">Bull declared it was his intention to “plea bargain from a position of strength”</a>in order to make Marion County the “safest county in Iowa.” No person upon whom rationality finds purchase can believe that by strong-arming the terrified teenagers and anxious parents of Knoxville High School – and pursuing his vindictive jihad against Nancy Doe and her parents – Bull is making Marion County safe for anything other than the indulgence of his moral vanity. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-z9O0qz-2YMA/V_0k6OblOnI/AAAAAAAAM8Y/alG0XHsdVSYwyrMEullYhpUHUJwU993qwCLcB/s1600/heaven-can-wait-1943-his-excellency.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-z9O0qz-2YMA/V_0k6OblOnI/AAAAAAAAM8Y/alG0XHsdVSYwyrMEullYhpUHUJwU993qwCLcB/s320/heaven-can-wait-1943-his-excellency.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Given Bull’s affinity for Bible-derived authoritarianism, he might be interested to learn that the term “Satan,” as used in the Old Testament, actually refers to the office he presently occupies. <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0141QB9XA/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1">Theologian and linguist Michael Heiser writes</a> that the Hebrew expression is more accurately rendered into English as “the satan,” and “means something like `adversary,’ `prosecutor,’ or `challenger.’ It speaks of an official legal function” carried out by “an anonymous prosecutor” <a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiv8Mzso9PPAhUBxCYKHf_ODmcQFggeMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcriminaldefenselawyertx.com%2Fsatan-was-a-prosecutor-jesus-was-a-defense-lawyer%2F&usg=AFQjCNHADzzgdThz7YLNPt_PyieL7mlAaw&sig2=CwFAREhkkjbBcclzM7GTdw">who gathers evidence of the failings of others</a>. <br /><br />This puts non-believers in a rather interesting position: Whatever their opinion regarding a Supreme Being, Satan's existence is indisputable. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Shakespeare’s caricature of Richard III gave voice to the kind of satanic sanctimony displayed by Bull and his ilk: “[T]hus I clothe my naked villany with odd old ends stol’n out of holy writ, and seem a saint, when most I play the devil.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The only indecent exposure in this matter is Ed Bull’s shameless moral exhibitionism, and the prosecutor’s unfettered <a href="https://glosbe.com/en/en/libido%20dominandi">libido dominandi</a> is an immeasurably greater threat to public decency than the misbehavior of hormonally undisciplined teenagers. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><i><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This week's Freedom Zealot Podcast offers further reflections on Ed Bull -- the Satan of Marion County: </span></b></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; 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mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0in; mso-para-margin-right:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0in; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin;} </style><![endif]--> <br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ISi5Byd7CrU/V_VWLF_-FjI/AAAAAAAAM7E/hIJKWzgU6Y0DFsDIMPEamCYZfWRje8-KgCLcB/s1600/idaho-falls-mormon-temple12.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ISi5Byd7CrU/V_VWLF_-FjI/AAAAAAAAM7E/hIJKWzgU6Y0DFsDIMPEamCYZfWRje8-KgCLcB/s400/idaho-falls-mormon-temple12.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A picturesque landmark in a troubled county: </span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Idaho Falls LDS Temple</span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/322509261/James-Swogger-Evidence"><br />James Swogger</a> was a terrified 25-year-old awaiting trial on a charge of sexual misconduct with a child when </span><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/326397572/James-Swogger-Contacted-Victor-Rodriguez"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">he contacted Detective Victor Rodriguez of the Bonneville County Sheriff’s Office with an offer to testify against a former cellmate, Idaho Falls resident Lanny Smith</span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">. Rodriguez headed the investigation into the murder of Leo and Mary Downard, an elderly couple who lived next door to Lanny, a mentally handicapped 24-year-old man with no prior criminal record or known penchant for violence. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Swogger had been arrested before on relatively minor charges, but he now faced the prospect of a lengthy prison term. In his cell at Burley’s Mini-Cassia Jail, Swogger told Rodriguez and Bonneville County Prosecutor Tom Moss that in exchange for “<a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=6&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwj86b298sPPAhWK7SYKHZtnDaEQFghCMAU&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.snitching.org%2F2009%2F08%2Fnew-aba-opinion-on-prosecutorial-duty.html&usg=AFQjCNHgwXPogOkuogd-C6gh4ymp-mjZng&sig2=ZAPto0fUYcmUKR4UE9bfyA&bvm=bv.134495766,d.eWE">considerations,</a>” he was willing to testify that Lanny Smith had confessed to the murders, thereby supplying the prosecution with a piece of evidence it otherwise couldn’t find. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Bonneville County Sheriff’s Office had originally arrested Lanny’s adopted brother, Jeffrey Lynn Smith, <a href="http://www.deseretnews.com/article/240940/IDAHO-MAN-FREED-AFTER-CHARGES-DISMISSED-IN-DEATH-OF-COUPLE.html?pg=all">as a suspect in the murder</a>. Jeff, as he was commonly known, <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/322509509/Victor-Rodriguez-impeachment-of-Jeff-Smith">had a lengthy history of violent crime</a>, including rape, kidnapping, theft, and several documented murder threats. The charges against Jeff were quickly dropped, however, leaving the BCSO without a credible suspect. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-N_fxez2xmjk/V_VXCQjNbsI/AAAAAAAAM7M/7VyIlji_SPMtTJDgpaAF3arw5bYSC6lVwCLcB/s1600/Tom%2BRoss.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="235" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-N_fxez2xmjk/V_VXCQjNbsI/AAAAAAAAM7M/7VyIlji_SPMtTJDgpaAF3arw5bYSC6lVwCLcB/s320/Tom%2BRoss.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Former Bonneville County DA -- and Federal Prosecutor -- Moss.</span></b></i> </td></tr></tbody></table></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">No physical evidence connected Lanny Smith to the murders, and he had no known motive to murder a couple he regarded as friends. For reasons that remain elusive, Rodriguez devised a bizarre theory that Lanny was sexually attracted to elderly, heavy-set women like Mary, and that this fixation eventually found expression in murderous jealousy after Mrs. Downard rebuffed the younger man’s attentions. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The detective was able to recruit a neighbor named Beverly Huffaker who was willing to share gossipy speculation under oath, and testify that on the night of the murder Lanny was distraught over “something bad” that had happened to the Downards. She was not a direct witness to the killing, however, nor did Lanny make a confession to her. Huffaker’s recollection of an anguished conversation on the night of the murder would later be impeached in court. She claimed that it happened just after she and her son had returned to Idaho from a trip to Nevada that actually happened six weeks prior to the killings. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Roughly two years had passed by the time Swogger contacted Det. Rodriguez. He had read about the Downard murders in the newspapers, and discussed the case with both Lanny and his sister Viki. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“I took what he [Lanny] had told me and kinda turned it as if he was confessing instead of someone who was confiding in me and was scared,” Swogger would later explain. “He just kinda broke down because they were accusing him.” Lanny was heartsick over what had been done to his friends, and horrified by the prospect of a life sentence or perhaps the death penalty – but he never confessed to his cellmate. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This didn’t trouble Rodriguez and his comrades, Swogger recalled. For his part, the prisoner – accused of molesting his daughter – was willing to say anything expected of him in exchange for promises of protection.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Convicted child molesters are particularly vulnerable targets in the Regime’s rape academy, and Swogger was both a “</span><a href="https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwio84fGwMHPAhVLziYKHca6AKsQFghBMAM&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.urbandictionary.com%2Fdefine.php%3Fterm%3Dshort%2520eyes&usg=AFQjCNEkP3A0thhsWMml0rM4W6izAi0gWg&sig2=grBFhxBx9OLMfGQ5UeTNWw"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">short eyes</span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">” and a snitch. <br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Hw2LUgfTf0c/V_XWwACDOoI/AAAAAAAAM74/cXuBL7OyChoWVX2Ii4899DudZf-3gxGgQCLcB/s1600/IMG_6082.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Hw2LUgfTf0c/V_XWwACDOoI/AAAAAAAAM74/cXuBL7OyChoWVX2Ii4899DudZf-3gxGgQCLcB/s320/IMG_6082.JPG" width="240" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ironically appropriate floor design at the Bonneville Co. Courthouse</span></b></i>. </td></tr></tbody></table></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">During Swogger’s subsequent visit with Detective Rodriguez and deputy prosecutor Jay Rosenthal, they reconfigured his story by “basically leading me through what they wanted me to say. I had several conversations from the prison afterwards and I think one before they took me down to Idaho Falls telling me not to worry [and] that you will be safe....”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">That invitation to commit perjury </span><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/326397305/Lanny-Smith-Threatened-by-Victor-Rodriguez-and-Jay-Rosenthal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">was coupled with a threat in the event Swogger succumbed to the entreaties of his conscience</span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“After I had originally talked to Victor [Rodriguez] and [Tom] Moss, that is when I told them … I wanted to get out of it, and they said no. If you back out now, we will prosecute you along with Lanny.” The detective and county prosecutor warned Swogger that “if I didn’t go through with it [perjuring himself on the witness stand], and not cooperating, and that I knew about this capital murder case and basically told me that if I don’t go through with it, I was through.”<br /><br />This tactic -- "solving" a murder by using a combination of threats and promises to elicit perjury -- could be called the "<a href="http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2016/09/do-you-know-who-killed-my-baby.html">Chris Tapp Interrogation Strategy</a>," and it seems to be something of a Bonneville County law enforcement tradition. <a href="http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2016/09/make-this-right-jared-help-free-chris.html">Unlike the hapless Chris Tapp</a>, however, Swogger was able to tag someone else before the game ended, and there was enough residual decency in him to make him regret what he did. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“I was young and scared and if I knew then what I know now, I would have said to find someone else and do what you need to do,” </span><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/326397778/Swogger-Motive-for-Disclosing-Prior-Perjury"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Swogger disclosed in a lengthy September 12, 2011 statement to Elisa Massoth</span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">, the attorney representing Lanny Smith in his ongoing federal appeal. Unlike his jailhouse conversations with Det. Rodriguez and the prosecuting attorneys, Swogger had nothing to gain by speaking with Massoth, apart from reclaiming a measure of self-respect. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Swogger had returned to his native Oregon, remarried, and was trying to build something akin to a normal life. As he pointed out to Massoth, by speaking out he left himself vulnerable to potential reprisals. There is no evidence that his subsequent conviction </span><a href="http://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/crime/2016/06/25/marion-county-criminal-convictions-june/86358358/"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">on drug and theft charges</span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> was the result of official retaliation – nor does it invalidate his admissions against interest in 2011.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vEWSDJ9NIAc/V_VXSbWM4UI/AAAAAAAAM7U/2-ZTprPWhC4KKu78CTmjE344P0QmsIn5gCLcB/s1600/Poor%2BLanny%2BSmith.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vEWSDJ9NIAc/V_VXSbWM4UI/AAAAAAAAM7U/2-ZTprPWhC4KKu78CTmjE344P0QmsIn5gCLcB/s1600/Poor%2BLanny%2BSmith.JPG" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A stolen life:</span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Lanny Smith in court. </span></i></td></tr></tbody></table></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“I was trying to make things better for myself and not considering someone else’s life,” </span><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/326397778/Swogger-Motive-for-Disclosing-Prior-Perjury"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Swogger lamented</span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I know what it is like to be in a prison and having to live with that as a result of self-centeredness and selfishness,” Swogger elaborated, acknowledging that he had been punished for “the sexual assault on my daughter.” Now he was out of prison, he wanted to make restitution to an innocent man whom he had helped put there “for no apparent reason.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“I cannot imagine Lanny and what he is going through [after] being convicted for something he never did,” Swogger explained to Massoth. “I really want my integrity all intact. I want some integrity in doing this.” </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Swogger’s years of incarceration had left him with a functioning conscience burdened with the knowledge of what he had done to Lanny Smith. The same isn’t true of former Detective Rodriguez, who is now drawing a tax-plundered pension after retiring from the Nampa Police Department He currently <a href="http://www.cityofnampa.us/index.aspx?NID=105">serves on that city’s planning and zoning commission</a> and is occasionally <a href="http://www.kivitv.com/news/local-experts-review-fbi-video-of-fatal-shooting">called on by the media to offer “expert” justification for controversial fatal police shootings</a>. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“James who?” <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/326519223/Victor-Rodriguez-Deposition">Rodriguez asked by way of a reply to a question about Swogger during a May 2010 deposition</a>. A moment later the former detective dimly recalled that “I know that he testified in trial – I think he was in a cell with him, with Lanny, I believe, but I don’t know how we elicited his information or if we did.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-D02izJS32Es/V_VXirKnMxI/AAAAAAAAM7Y/cZbmQzFiszow6ZEyum8K4Cdce61ZV3M8gCLcB/s1600/Victor%2BRodriguez.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-D02izJS32Es/V_VXirKnMxI/AAAAAAAAM7Y/cZbmQzFiszow6ZEyum8K4Cdce61ZV3M8gCLcB/s320/Victor%2BRodriguez.JPG" width="311" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Untroubled conscience: </span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Rodriguez. </span></i></td></tr></tbody></table></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/326396942/Email-Inquiry-to-Victor-Rodriguez"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Rodriguez didn’t respond to a recent email seeking a response to Swogger’s disclosures</span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">. He may soon be required to respond to them under oath. </span><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/326404517/Lanny-Smith-v-Lawrence-Wasden-Et-Al"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">On August 23, a habeas corpus petition was filed on behalf of Lanny Smith</span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> that describes, at some length and in great detail, the suppression of exculpatory evidence during his 1995 trial, the chaotic chain-of-custody regarding that evidence, the use of speculative and unreliable “expert” testimony regarding a solitary shoeprint found at the murder scene, and several other due process violations.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Among the major topics in that petition is the bizarre solicitude shown by Rodriguez and the prosecution toward original murder suspect Jeff Smith, a habitual violent criminal who terrorized nearly everybody in his family -- including his ex-wives, the first of whom was forced to marry him against her will at age 15 after he impregnated her through rape. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In a 2011 letter to Lanny Smith, Julie Woodall – formerly Julie Smith – </span><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/326405711/Julie-Woodall-Burke-Smith-Affidavit-and-Letter-to-Lanny-Smith"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">recalled</span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> an incident from 1986 in which Lanny intervened to protect his brother from beating, and perhaps killing, his ex-wife. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“I looked out the window and saw you running up to my front door with your brother, Jeff, right behind you,” Woodall wrote. “I saw you stand in front of my door when Jeff caught you, pushed you in front of my window and began beating you viciously…. I will always remember … that you tried your best to keep me from being hurt by your brother, all at the cost of being assaulted yourself. I have always been touched by the fact that you were willing to do this, even though you didn’t even know who I was.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The man who took that beating is now in prison, convicted of a double-murder most likely committed by the man who assaulted him – and who was later called as a prosecution witness at the trial. Julie Woodall, the woman who was saved from that beating, reported more than a half-dozen crimes of violence committed against her by that witness. </span><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/326405711/Julie-Woodall-Burke-Smith-Affidavit-and-Letter-to-Lanny-Smith"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">She was not called to testify at Lanny’s trial</span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Viki Smith, Lanny’s biological sister and sister to Jeff by adoption, was likewise not called as a witness during Lanny’s trial, or during his post-conviction hearing. </span><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/326414051/Viki-Smith-Rodriguez-Affidavit-Jeff-Smith-Rape-Attempt"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In a subsequent affidavit she testified</span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> that Jeff had been “sexually inappropriate” with her as a teenager, and that he attempted to rape her when she was 16 years old. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Lanny, by her account, was entirely unlike Jeff, a “kind, caring, gentle and soft-spoken” young man who “would always come to the defense of others.” This included, as mentioned previously, Lanny’s ex-sister-in-law, Julie. Contrary to the prosecution’s insinuations about a deviant sexual preoccupation with elderly women, Lanny had “crushes on my friends that were my age,” Viki recounted. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Like nearly everybody else who knew Lanny and Jeff, Viki Smith was perplexed by the BCSO’s determination to see Lanny prosecuted for the Downard murders.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Victor Rodriguez, the primary investigating detective in Lanny’s case, hounded me and hounded me to make a statement,” </span><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/326454744/Viki-Smith-Rodriguez-Reference"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Viki declares in her affidavit</span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">. “Victor Rodriguez told me that Lanny would go down for the Donward murders no matter what anyone said or did.” </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Jeff Smith’s second ex-wife, Robbin, likewise described Lanny as “the opposite of Jeff Smith.” As had happened with Jeff’s first wife, Lanny became aware that Robbin was being abused and tried to help and protect he when he could. This didn’t prevent Jeff from repeatedly </span><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/326413665/Jeff-Smith-death-threat-to-former-wife-Robbin"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">threatening to murder Robbin</span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">. This included several explicit threats made during Lanny’s trial that should have led to charges of witness intimidation – if Lanny’s defense attorney had the presence of mind to call Robbin as a witness. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Detective Rodriguez, <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/322509509/Victor-Rodriguez-impeachment-of-Jeff-Smith">who perjured himself on the witness stand during the trial by claiming that Jeff Smith was no longer considered a threat</a>, was aware of the fact that Smith was abusing and threatening his wife. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JDq4Z45axCs/V_VX5vuXLxI/AAAAAAAAM7k/sp4mrozdjzk04PNwyNfRsafBdeqekI7kgCLcB/s1600/Jeffy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JDq4Z45axCs/V_VX5vuXLxI/AAAAAAAAM7k/sp4mrozdjzk04PNwyNfRsafBdeqekI7kgCLcB/s1600/Jeffy.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Predatory psychopath: </span></b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Jeff Smith</span></i></td></tr></tbody></table></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“In late June 1995, I witnessed an argument between Jeff and Robyn [sic] Smith,” </span><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/326455311/Heidi-Liebert-Affidavit"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">testified former co-worker Heidi Libert in a 2004 affidavit</span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">. “Jeff had asked Robyn for her paycheck, supposedly to pay the bills. Robyn knew that he would not pay the bills, so she refused to give him the paycheck…. Jeff then slapped her on the face and said `You will pay for this.’”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“I advised Robyn to call the police, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">but she told me that the police would not believe her</i>,” Liebert </span><a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/326455311/Heidi-Liebert-Affidavit"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">continued</span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">(emphasis added). </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Concerned that her husband would kill her, Liebert urged Robyn to divorce him “because of the abuse she was going through.” Eventually Jeff learned of that advice and “came to my residence and threatened me. He told me that `if you ever tell my wife [Robyn] to divorce me, I will kill you and your husband.’”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Leibert’s husband confronted Smith and ordered him to leave. Understandably concerned, they called the sheriff’s office to report the threat. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">That call was routed to Det. Rodriguez. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Not content to ignore Jeff Smith’s ongoing crime rampage, Det. Rodriguez and Tom Moss (who <a href="http://lmtribune.com/northwest/tom-moss-is-sworn-in-as-idaho-s-u-s/article_2dc6796b-e15d-55d3-a4aa-f71172515b24.html">a few years later was appointed by George W. Bush to be US Attorney for Idaho</a>) actively protected him after he had offered what was tantamount to a confession before the grand jury.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The only scrap of potentially useful physical evidence at the murder scene was a shoeprint left on the dusty hardwood floor of the Downards’ master bedroom. Rodriguez photographed the print, but did so at an angle, and neglected to place a ruler next to it in order to define its size. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">After bungling what should have been a rudimentary crime scene investigation, Rodriguez sought out a mathematician employed by the Idaho Nuclear Energy Laboratory, who devised an exotic computer program that supposedly corrected the distortions in the image and found that the print had been made with a size eight and a half “Footjoy” tennis shoe.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Both Lanny and Jeff owned Footjoy shoes that were seized as evidence. Lanny’s shoes were reportedly size eight and a half, but they were disassembled by police investigators prior to the grand jury hearing. When called to testify, <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/326455833/Jeff-Smith-Grand-Jury-Testimony">Jeff Smith <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">stated four times under oath</i>that “I usually wear an eight and a half” and that to the best of his knowledge, Lanny’s shoes were a size nine and a half</a>. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">According to the prosecution’s theory of the case, Jeff Smith was admitting that he was the one who left the incriminating shoe print at the scene of the murder. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A brief recess was called, during which Rodriguez held a brief, furtive conference with Jeff. When the hearing resumed, Bonneville County Prosecutor Tom Moss asked four additional questions about Jeff Smith’s shoes – and in reply to each of those questions, Smith invoked the Fifth Amendment. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">If the State’s expert witness was correct, Jeff Smith had identified himself as the murderer. Yet the BCSO and the Bonneville County Prosecutor’s Office remained perversely determined to prosecute Jeff’s mentally challenged and apparently benevolent adopted brother for the crime. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">James Swogger knew the participants in what was a conspiracy to obstruct justice by protecting a murderer and framing an innocent man. He had played a key role in that conspiracy himself. In his 2011 statement to Elisa Massoth, Swogger said that the attitude of his co-conspirators was, “We found somebody, let’s convict him and get it over with.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">To his credit, Swogger – notwithstanding his admitted acts of criminal indecency – is trying to make amends for his crimes against Lanny Smith. Tragically, neither retired Detective Rodriguez, nor his former colleagues in Bonneville County, can summon the strength of character displayed by an admitted child molester. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Listen to Carol Dodge, mother of Idaho Falls murder victim Angie Dodge, describe how the IFPD has impeded her efforts to find the killer -- on this week's Freedom Zealot Podcast: </span></b></i></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <iframe frameborder="0" height="360" scrolling="no" src="http://app.stitcher.com/splayer/f/84897?el=1&refid=stpr" style="border: 0; height: 360px; overflow: hidden; width: 400px;" width="400"></iframe><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /><form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" target="_top"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><input name="cmd" type="hidden" value="_s-xclick" /><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><input name="hosted_button_id" type="hidden" value="6WRUKTHB248MW" /><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><input alt="PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!" border="0" name="submit" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_donateCC_LG.gif" type="image" /><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" /></span></form><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><i><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><br />Dum spiro, pugno! </span></span></b></i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>William N. Grigghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14368220509514750246noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32869165.post-30173634602933469112016-09-28T22:23:00.002-06:002016-09-28T22:27:25.970-06:00Rather than Indulging the Reparations Racket, Why Not Abolish Enslavement to the State? <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings></xml><![endif]--><br /><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-US</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> 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src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ovnZzw_-LE4/V-yRaMrN6vI/AAAAAAAAM6Y/Yu43odnH4bsSCh6q1JAHPB7OgCvdjI3xwCLcB/s400/Slave%2Bshackles.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /><br /><br />Forty-five years have elapsed since the passing of <a href="http://www.msnewsnow.com/story/16593702/sylvester-magees-unmarked-grave">Sylvester McGee</a>, the last black American citizen who had been claimed by another American as property. Eighty-one years have elapsed since the death of <a href="http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1991-02-10/sports/1991041108_1_cleon-jones-cudjoe-lewis">Cudjoe Lewis</a>, the last black American who had been born in Africa, captured by African slave traders, survived the often fatal <a href="http://abolition.e2bn.org/slavery_44.html">middle passage</a> in a slave ship, then vended to people who claimed him as property.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">No living American for at least two generations has lived under the long-dead and universally reviled system of chattel slavery. No living American has ever been a slave owner, a title reflecting the abhorrent proposition that it is possible for one human being to own another. Notwithstanding all of these facts, <a href="http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/Racism/WGAfricanDescent/Pages/WGEPADIndex.aspx">the United Nations’ Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent</a>, which reports to Prince <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Zeid bid Ra’ad al-Hussein, the world body’s <a href="http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Pages/Home.aspx">High Commissioner for Human Rights</a>, has </span><a href="http://daccess-ods.un.org/access.nsf/Get?Open&DS=A/HRC/33/61/Add.2&Lang=E"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">published a report</span></a><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> contending that white Americans who have never participated in chattel slavery owe reparations to black Americans who have never experienced it. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CrfksJhD84s/V-yRiJQJfwI/AAAAAAAAM6c/qafrzexi72sCr_F3jhFGRl4ufr3Y2lElACLcB/s1600/sylvester-McGee.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="285" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-CrfksJhD84s/V-yRiJQJfwI/AAAAAAAAM6c/qafrzexi72sCr_F3jhFGRl4ufr3Y2lElACLcB/s320/sylvester-McGee.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Sylvester McGee</span></b></i></td></tr></tbody></table></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Past injustices and crimes against African Americans need to be addressed with reparatory justice,” the report asserts. This would supposedly require passage of <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/40/text">HR 40</a>, which calls for creation of a commission that would examine “Whether African-Americans still suffer from the lingering effects” of slavery, and whether “any form of compensation to the descendants of African slaves is warranted,” and, if so, “what should be the amount of compensation, what form of compensation should be awarded, and who should be eligible for such compensation.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">That august commission would be a shakedown soviet with the power to dictate how much the “who” is supposedly entitled to extract from the “whom” – with both parties in this redistribution scheme defined in purely racial terms. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">"The reparations could come in a variety of forms,” the UN panel pontificates, including "a formal apology, health initiatives, educational opportunities ... psychological rehabilitation, technology transfer and financial support, and debt cancellation."</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The “legal framework” for this monumental program of plunder, the report contends, is provided by a series of UN treaties and conventions, including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. The UN panel demands that those agreements, and several that have not been ratified by the US Senate, be integrated in both federal and state policy. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Nothing less than full implementation of the UN’s “human rights” framework would be sufficient, the panel asserts, because even if the elaborate federal “civil rights” program were “fully implemented,” this would be “insufficient to overcome and transform the institutional and structural racial discrimination and racism against people of African descent.”</span><br /><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iZURLsTar84/V-yRrstDzXI/AAAAAAAAM6g/R2xGUnA7GAYwOilOxLjE3Le-fPj_xjBVwCLcB/s1600/Belgian%2BPeacekeepers.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="264" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iZURLsTar84/V-yRrstDzXI/AAAAAAAAM6g/R2xGUnA7GAYwOilOxLjE3Le-fPj_xjBVwCLcB/s320/Belgian%2BPeacekeepers.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Blue Berets' burden: UN "Peacekeepers" in Somalia.</span></b></i> </td></tr></tbody></table></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It is bad enough that US tax victims pay for the United Nations; it is intolerable for us to be expected to pay attention to it, and indulge the preposterous pretense that it is our moral tutor. <br /><br />Regarding the well-being of “people of African descent,” the UN’s most notable accomplishment in that continent was <a href="http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2015/12/rwanda-and-evils-of-politicized.html">to facilitate genocide in Rwanda by disarming a targeted ethnic sub-group</a>. For six decades the UN has been an a<a href="http://forum.calgarypuck.com/showthread.php?t=9646">id conduit for African kleptocracies</a> while <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/04/06/africa/united-nations-peacekeepers-sexual-abuse/">organizing“peacekeeping” forces that have provided full employment – with benefits– for sexual predators.</a> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Following its tour of the United States, the Working Group expressed entirely justified alarm over the “levels of police brutality” and the official impunity enjoyed by abusive police officers in the United States. In their visits to Washington, Baltimore, Chicago, New York, and Jackson, Mississippi, the panel heard many black Americans complain that “from an early age they are treated by the State as a dangerous criminal group and face a presumption of guilt rather than of innocence.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Panel members were frequently told that “the `War on Drugs has had a devastating impact on African Americans and that mass incarceration was considered <a href="http://newjimcrow.com/">a system of racial control that operated in a similar way to howJim Crow laws once operated</a>.” <br /><br />In its recommendations, however, the panel didn’t call for an end to what was insistently described to it as system of “enslavement.”Rather than calling for an end to the War on Drugs – that is, abolishing the direct institutional heir to chattel slavery – this troupe of globe-trotting moralists emitted pious piffle to the effect that prosecutors, judges, and legislators should consider “the costs of mass incarceration practices” while perpetuating this system of human bondage. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Nowhere in the 22-page report is there even an oblique acknowledgement of the role played by the United Nations in cultivating the misery experienced by millions of Americans of African descent. While <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005M26J1U/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1">theframework of Prohibition was erected by American progressives a century ago,</a>the contemporary War on Drugs is a UN-promoted enterprise. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The UN’s 1961 <a href="http://www.incb.org/pdf/e/conv/convention_1961_en.pdf">Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs</a> is the enabling document for the global anti-drug jihad. The U.S. government didn't fully embrace that campaign until ten years later, when Congress – at the urging of the Nixon administration – passed the <a href="http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=2767">Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act</a>, which was a literal declaration of war on the American people. That legislation conspicuously noted that the U.S. government “is a party to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs … and other conventions designed to establish effective control over international and domestic traffic in controlled substances.” </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Sm7xZ1fsGhE/V-yR9Uf-3kI/AAAAAAAAM6o/TStUfTMCiFsL6o61nyC7dQEYGbCz9ZKZgCLcB/s1600/SWAT%2BTroopers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="116" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Sm7xZ1fsGhE/V-yR9Uf-3kI/AAAAAAAAM6o/TStUfTMCiFsL6o61nyC7dQEYGbCz9ZKZgCLcB/s400/SWAT%2BTroopers.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We have more to fear from the JBTs than from the Blue Helmets. </span></b></i></td></tr></tbody></table></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">A few months later, Richard Nixon created the <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=l-kCAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA8&lpg=PA8&dq=ODALE+narcotics&source=bl&ots=XDZJYfFkf1&sig=g3eLKTtrPDJBsBGc3Or3kCtmRTA&hl=en#v=onepage&q=ODALE%20narcotics&f=false">Office of Drug Abuse Law Enforcement</a> (ODALE) <a href="http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=3552">through an executive order</a>. This agency amalgamated several agencies – including the IRS, the ATF, and the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs (the direct ancestor of the DEA) and was given permission to “bypass normal channels” to prosecute the war. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">ODALE quickly drew up a thirty-city target list (which included every stop on the UN panel's recent tour), created multi-jurisdictional task forces with state and local police, <a href="http://www.edwardjayepstein.com/agency/prologue.htm">and unleashed newly created SWAT teams to begin the blitzkrieg</a>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That UN-authorized domestic war, which has relentlessly escalated over the past 45 years, consciously targeted America’s black population.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“You want to know what this was really all about?” <a href="http://harpers.org/archive/2016/04/legalize-it-all/">an exasperated John Ehlirchman admitted in a 1994 interview with investigative author Dan Baum</a>. “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-reYsQxfqfLA/V-ySD4Yzo9I/AAAAAAAAM6s/2WHsU_ywSaQ5WACU7bY6DC54d8HkxzwlwCLcB/s1600/ehrlichman-1973-resize.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-reYsQxfqfLA/V-ySD4Yzo9I/AAAAAAAAM6s/2WHsU_ywSaQ5WACU7bY6DC54d8HkxzwlwCLcB/s320/ehrlichman-1973-resize.jpg" width="220" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Ehrlichman attempts a Spock eyebrow -raise.</span></b></i> </td></tr></tbody></table></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“Did we know we were lying about the drugs?” concluded the Nixon confidante and co-conspirator. “Of course we did.” </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The UN-facilitated drug war is largely responsible for the fact – noted in the UN panel’s report – that “one out of every three black American males born today can expect to go to prison in his lifetime.” At least half of those held in the federal gulag, and more than half of those in state-level rape cages, <a href="http://www.drugwarfacts.org/cms/Prisons_and_Drugs#sthash.NjHQ51Gr.dpbs">are being punished for drug-related offenses</a>. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Once again, the UN panel’s report offers a satisfactory description of the irreparable economic and social harm resulting from a criminal conviction. A paroled convict, or one who has been given a term of probation, remains the property of the State, subject to the invasive supervision of a parole officer who can consign him to a cage again on a whim. As the UN’s “experts” were repeatedly told, this condition doesn’t differ dramatically from that of an antebellum slave. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Those who seek to destroy slavery root and branch must support an end to Prohibition in all its forms, as part of a larger campaign to reclaim the principle of self-ownership -- which, in an ultimate sense, would require abolition of the State. Of course, this wouldn’t occur to “experts” in the employ of an institution that sees the State in all its malignant variations as the center of human society. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /><i><b><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This week's Freedom Zealot Podcast continues the series of exposes of pervasive corruption in Bonneville County, Idaho:</span></b></i><br /><br /><iframe frameborder="0" height="360" scrolling="no" src="http://app.stitcher.com/splayer/f/84897?el=1&refid=stpr" style="border: 0; height: 360px; overflow: hidden; width: 400px;" width="400"></iframe><br /></span><br /><form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" target="_top"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><input name="cmd" type="hidden" value="_s-xclick" /><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><input name="hosted_button_id" type="hidden" value="ZBHRMWGXGFNAU" /><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><input alt="PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!" border="0" name="submit" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/btn/btn_donateCC_LG.gif" type="image" /><br /></span><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/en_US/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" /></span></form><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><br /><i><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Dum spiro, pugno! </span></span></b></i></span></div>William N. 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