The Reason Police Brutality Is Rising

[mick silver]

http://www.thedailybell.com/images/library/police.jpgA headline in Mint Press News (Nov. 6) declared, "U.S. Police Have Killed Over 5,000 Civilians Since 9/11." An earlier Mint article (Aug. 19) reported, "Claims of Minneapolis Police Misconduct: 439; Officers Disciplined: 0." It is almost cliché to talk about an epidemic of police brutality or the militarization of police departments. But what is occurring is a more intricate and interesting social dynamic than mere brute force.In his magnum opus, Man, Economy, and State, Murray Rothbard broke the ways in which the state controls people into three categories.
Autistic intervention. The state directly restricts an individual's use of his body or property. For example, a man is arrested for possessing drugs. Even if more than one person is arrested at the same time, the line of force runs directly from the state to each individual. No exchange occurs. It is the application of brute force, pure and simple.
Binary intervention. The state directly confronts an individual in order to force the exchange of a good or service. For example, a person is sent a property tax assessment on his house or he is conscripted into the military. The line of force is still the individual but a coerced exchange occurs to the benefit of the state.



Triangular intervention. The state uses the force of law to determine the manner in which two people can make an exchange. For example, an employer must hire someone at a minimum wage. Rothbard (http://www.thedailybell.com/definitions/params/id/957/) further divides triangular intervention into "price control, which deals with the terms of an exchange, and product control, which deals with the nature of the product or of the producer." The line of force is aimed at the two people involved, one of whom may benefit from the government's intervention.
Each form of intervention constitutes a transfer or redistribution within society. Even the autistic intervention transfers power to the state and to the people in society who want drug addicts put away. All three types of force are intimately related and interactive. For one thing, all state power ultimately rests on autistic intervention or its threat. That is, the state's final recourse to compel compliance is to lay hands directly upon an individual and take control of his person and property. Brute force underlies even the driest, most bureaucratic triangular intervention.
Generally speaking, however, a state prefers to avoid the use of brute force. It will directly attack those for whom the average person has no sympathy or patience, such as drug addicts. But a prudent state will avoid inflicting direct violence upon the man on the street because it relies upon some level of cooperation from him. The state does not want average people to view it as an enemy to be resisted or evaded. So why are the police now acting like a military force that is occupying the streets of an enemy nation?
A main reason for the increase in police violence is because average people are beginning to understand that all of society's forced exchanges (binary and triangular interventions) are rigged. This has not been as obvious before, especially with triangular intervention. The farther the state moves away from direct force, the less apparent it is to the average person that any force is occurring at all. Everyone recognizes a policeman kicking a helpless man on the ground as brutality; few people recognize inflation as the economic equivalent. This is changing. The triangular interventions are becoming widely viewed as scams through which government and its cronies are feasting on the productive sector of society. They are feasting so richly that the children and grandchildren of the productive sector are confronted with wage slavery to sustain the gluttony.
The 19th century classical liberal (http://www.thedailybell.com/definitions/params/id/1904/) Frédéric Bastiat described government as "that great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else." In his remarkable essay "What is Seen and What is Unseen," Bastiat argued: "The advantages which officials advocate are those which are seen. The benefit which accrues to the providers is still that which is seen. This blinds all eyes." The blind eyes do not see the injury caused by the benefit. "When an official spends for his own profit an extra hundred sous, it implies that a tax-payer spends for his profit a hundred sous less. But the expense of the official is seen, because the act is performed, while that of the tax-payer is not seen, because, alas! he is prevented from performing it."
The problem now confronting government is that the unseen is becoming visible. The damage done by 'services' like Obamacare (http://www.thedailybell.com/definitions/params/id/28358/) has become as evident to people as the social security check in their hands. Cronyism has become so blatant that government does not even bother to hide the raw privileges it grants, such as health care exemptions for unions. The triangular interventions through which government controls social and economic interaction are being seen for what they are: sophisticated versions of brute force and plunder. Politicians are being seen for who they are: arrogant elites who care nothing about the average person and cannot even lie about it convincingly.
The great fiction of government is imploding. What is left is the great reality; namely that all government intervention rests upon coercion.
The intimate relationship between the three forms of intervention is in motion. As average people begin to see triangular intervention for the fraud it is, law enforcement will increase its use of direct force to compel obedience and to create a fear of authority to fill the vacuum where respect used to be. The rise in police brutality against average people is proportionate to the loss of trust with which those people now view all government intervention.
It is a vicious circle, of course. The more brutality occurs, the less trust there is. And law enforcement's willingness to taser children, shoot unarmed civilians and gang-bludgeon unresisting people is an ominous sign. It means they are no longer reluctant to be "seen."

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This is raw video from start to finish of the Kelly Thomas beating. Kelly Thomas was a homeless 30 year old man with Schizophrenia. The video begins with Thomas calm and speaking with officers, and the police swinging nightsticks in a manner that it appears they are looking for trouble.


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Police brutality has been a problem for many years in the United States. The police have taken their brutality a step further and have begun killing innocent people. In 2007 USA Today featured a story about the rise of police brutality since the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. USA Today stated that the use of excessive force (http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-12-17-Copmisconduct_N.htm?csp=15)increased by 25 percent from 2001 to 2007. In reality, I do not think that police brutality is increasing. I think that the number of police being caught is increasing. With new technology come new methods of documenting what happens.
Today we have smartphones, tablets, and various other items that can record video in an instant, and many of them can record undetected. Having a mini-camcorder in the palm of the hand enables more citizens to catch bad cops in the act. More police violence is being reported because of the vast amount of the readily available means to capture it on film. It is not just police brutality or crimes in progress that these little cameras capture; they also capture unlawful killing of innocent people by law enforcement as well.
In 2010, police raided a home in Detroit. After throwing a stun grenade into the house, police burst in the door and shot 7-year-old Aiyana Stanley-Jones (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/29/joseph-weekly-trial-detroit-aiyana-stanley-jones_n_3352351.html?ir=Detroit) in the head while she slept on the couch with her grandmother. It is now three years later and the case is just beginning trial. In 2011, Kelly Thomas (http://documents.latimes.com/kelly-thomas-cause-of-death/) was beaten into a coma by police and died five days later in the hospital. The entire incident was captured on film. Thomas can be heard crying and begging for help, saying he could not breathe. What started out as a conversation on the sidewalk with two officers became a beatdown by a gang of police that resulted in death. The officers involved are slated for trial on June 28 of this year and are being charged with murder.
Incidents such as these are abundant. During the research for this article, I found vastly more than I could possibly write about in one article. One website has reported that a survey conducted among police officials shows that 84 percent polled said that they have witnessed other police officers using more than reasonable force when dealing with suspects. They also reported that of the officers surveyed, 67 percent said that if misconduct or brutality is reported, the reporting officer will “receive the cold shoulder” (http://www.graphs.net/201207/police-brutality-statistics.html)from other officers in the precinct.
This is possibly the same reason that police corruption is also so rampant in the United States. Officers are frowned upon for doing their job when that job entails other officers being investigated. Some might believe that the media sensationalizes these events for ratings. While for some media outlets that is the case, the majority are only bringing to light the atrocities committed by those in a position of power and authority.
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[mick silver]

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How The Middle Class Enables Police Brutality And The Rise of Fascism (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/11/18/1037644/-How-The-Middle-Class-Enables-Police-Brutality-And-The-Rise-of-Fascism) by Ray Pensador (http://www.dailykos.com/user/Ray%20Pensador)Follow (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/11/18/1037644/-How-The-Middle-Class-Enables-Police-Brutality-And-The-Rise-of-Fascism#?friend_id=312119&is_stream=1)





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http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6033/6375402939_ec93f5318d_z.jpgIt's impossible for a fascistic police state to consolidate power without the approval and acquiescence of a very large segment of the middle class. Currently, in the United States, the stage is set for a mighty struggle between those who would prevent the ascendancy of a fascistic police state, and those who would enable it. The stakes are that high.
In the current situation, the struggle will take place between the segment of the population who has risen in protest against the nascent fascistic police state, which is embodied in the Occupy Wall Street movement, and those members of the middle class, who failing to understand or conceptualize the fact that we are indeed in the middle of a transformation towards fascism, are more focused on demanding order, stability, and security.
This is a very dangerous, and difficult situation... For whatever reason, it is always the case that there is a minority of middle class members, intellectuals, and members of academia, and labor unions who in every society, in every historical period, are able to understand the danger of a rising fascistic and oppressive Police State.
When the State has "turned" fascistic, this segment of the population always rises up to confront it. But historically, they have been unsuccessful because they are typically a minority within the middle class. The vast majority of the middle class usually remains oblivious to the rise of fascism, and see those rising against it as dangerous, disruptive, and a threat to their economic security, safety, and well-being.
I know many people take issue with the use of the word "fascism" when they believe it is being used in the wrong context, so in order to address that objection (a priori), let me summarize my understanding of the current situation in the United States, and why I consider it the rise of a fascistic police state:

A plutocratic ruling class has taken over all the levers of power across the country, mainly by using money and influence to corrupt the entire political machinery to do their bidding. This has resulted in a massive transfer of wealth and power to ruling elite, and a proportional lost of economic stability, human rights, constitutional rights, education opportunity, for the rest of society. This plutocratic system has put into place an oppressive fascistic police state in order to protect it, keep order, and control the population.One definition of fascism I found online, written by Chuck Anesi, makes the point in more general terms:

Fascism is a form of political and social behavior that arises when the middle class, finding its hopes frustrated by economic instability coupled with political polarization and deadlock, abandons traditional ideologies and turns, with the approbation of police and military forces, to a poorly-defined but emotionally appealing soteriology of national unity, immediate and direct resolution of problems, and intolerance for dissent.The emphasis is mine. Other characteristics of a fascistic system, as put forward by Dr. Lawrence Britt, include: Disdain for human rights; supremacy of the military, which is given a disproportionate amount of funding as domestic needs are ignored; controlled mass media; obsession with national security, and the use of fear to manipulate the masses; corporate power protected, and labor power suppressed; disdain of intellectuals and the arts; obsession with crime and punishment; rampant cronyism and corruption.
To a certain degree, all those conditions have already been met in the United States. And since every historical era is different, new fascistic characteristics of this era will be written about by future historians... Things related to the use of technology, massive surveillance, etc.
Again, the odds are against a significant-enough segment of the middle class coming together to reject the imposition and consolidation of power by a fascistic police state, if history is any guide.
When the confrontation comes to a head, the corporate fascistic police state is likely to be able to use its total control of mass media to demonize and delegitimize the resistance movement (Occupy), appealing to middle class sensitivities when it comes to social order.
A version of this situation is what set the stage for the rise of all previous fascistic regimes. The question is whether we'll be able to buck the trend, and unite a large enough segment of the middle class against the nascent fascistic police state. That remains an open question.



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Police brutality cases on rise since 9/11





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WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors are targeting a rising number of law enforcement officers for alleged brutality, Justice Department statistics show. The heightened prosecutions come as the nation's largest police union fears that agencies are dropping standards to fill thousands of vacancies and "scrimping" on training.
Cases in which police, prison guards and other law enforcement authorities have used excessive force or other tactics to violate victims' civil rights have increased 25% (281 vs. 224) from fiscal years 2001 to 2007 over the previous seven years, the department says.
During the same period, the department says it won 53% more convictions (391 vs. 256). Some cases result in multiple convictions.
Federal records show the vast majority of police brutality cases referred by investigators are not prosecuted.
'CODE OF SILENCE': Milwaukee beating case collars 'bad cops' (http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-12-17-Copside_N.htm)
University of Toledo law professor David Harris, who analyzes police conduct issues, says it will take time to determine whether the cases represent a sustained period of more aggressive prosecutions or the beginnings of a surge in misconduct.
The cases involve only a fraction of the estimated 800,000 police in the USA, says James Pasco, executive director of the National Fraternal Order of Police (FOP), the nation's largest police union.
Even so, he says, the FOP is concerned that reduced standards, training and promotion of less experienced officers into the higher police ranks could undermine more rigid supervision.
"These are things we are worried about," Pasco says.
For the past few years, dozens of police departments across the country have scrambled to fill vacancies. The recruiting effort, which often features cash bonuses, has intensified since 9/11, because many police recruits have been drawn to military service.
In its post-Sept. 11 reorganization, the FBI listed police misconduct as one of its highest civil rights priorities to keep pace with an anticipated increase in police hiring through 2009.
The increasing Justice numbers generally correspond to a USA TODAY analysis of federal law enforcement prosecutions using data compiled by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University.
Those data show 42 law enforcement prosecutions during the first 10 months of fiscal year 2007, a 66% increase from all of fiscal 2002 and a 61% rise from a decade ago.
David Burnham, the co-founder of the TRAC database, says prosecutions appear to be increasing, but "more important" are the numbers of cases prosecutors decline.
Last year, 96% of cases referred for prosecution by investigative agencies were declined.
In 2005, 98% were declined, a rate that has remained "extremely high" under every administration dating to President Carter, according to a TRAC report.
The high refusal rates, say Burnham and law enforcement analysts, result in part from the extraordinary difficulty in prosecuting abuse cases. Juries are conditioned to believe cops, and victims' credibility is often challenged.
"When police are accused of wrongdoing, the world is turned upside down," Harris says. "In some cases, it may be impossible for (juries) to make the adjustment."

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Indifferent elites, poverty and police brutality – all reasons to riot in the UK This summer's social unrest in Britain was destructive and incoherent but, as our study shows, it was still a form of protest



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At the beginning of August, in a fit of collective pathology, thousands of young people across Britain took to the streets and started breaking into shops, stealing and confronting the police. What triggered this is a mystery. But whatever it was, it wasn't politics, poverty, alienation or despair. That would be making excuses for bad behaviour and imply a humanity to which the rioters had no right. For the riots were not the work of mostly disaffected teenagers but a "feral" (http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/sep/05/punishment-rioters-help), "uneducated" "underclass" (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/8736640/UK-riots-Michael-Gove-pledges-to-tackle-underclass.html) who somehow managed to outwit the police (http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/dec/03/police-summer-riots-hours) for the best part of a week using new technology. Venal, entitled and irresponsible, they adhered to values entirely unfamiliar to the British political establishment.
Beyond the growth of gang culture and the demise of individual responsibility, no credible broader explanations were offered for their behaviour. If the problem had been rooted in politics and economics, the solution might have resided there also. But for the government, this was the work of criminals; the only effective remedy was punishment.
Four months later the absurdity of the official response to the riots is painfully clear. It took a while. Given the spontaneous, geographically diverse and inchoate nature of these disturbances, there was never a credible single cause. Even if there had been, there were few among the rioters who would have been in a position to articulate those grievances. The journey from the margins to the mainstream is a perilous one, which few make intact without losing their voice.
The government's narrative may have been ridiculous, but in the absence of a counter-narrative, many believed it plausible. The impression of unclaimed chaos and the shots of burning cars, devastated shopkeepers and hooded youth lent credibility to claims that this was nothing more than young hooligans running amok. "A riot," said Martin Luther King, "is the language of the unheard." Now, thanks in no small part to a study undertaken by the Guardian with the London School of Economics (http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/sep/05/reading-riots-study-guardian-lse), we've had a chance to listen.
We already knew the government was wrong about the causes. "At the heart of all the violence sits the issue of the street gangs," claimed David Cameron at the time. The government's own research (http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/oct/24/riots-analysis-gangs-no-pivotal-role) later showed that only13% of those involved in the riots were gang members, and even then, most were not operating as a gang. Paradoxically, if anything, the riots temporarily tempered gang activity, as rival gangs set aside their differences so they could participate freely in the looting. Poverty was clearly a factor. Ministry of Justice figures revealed almost two‑thirds (64%) of the young rioters lived in the poorest areas and 42% relied on free school meals. "There is nothing so dangerous as a man who has nothing to lose," wrote James Baldwin. "You do not need 10 such men. Only one will do." With youth unemployment rising (http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2011/nov/16/youth-unemployment-hits-1m-uk) to 21.9%, Britain is producing thousands.
But in the absence of any demands, organisation or even slogans, even those who argued that these riots were political in nature struggled to fathom what the nature of the politics were. Thanks to the research, two particular themes have helped correct some initially flawed impressions. First, the rioters were far more politically conscious (http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/aug/14/young-british-rioters-political-actions) than even many on the left, myself included, first thought.
This in no way romanticises their actions. Looting is opportunistic, and most of those involved freely admit to being opportunists. When asked how he heard about the riots, one interviewee said he got a message on his BlackBerry saying people were "getting free stuff out and about", so he joined in. One should not overstate the case: stealing trainers and burning police cars are not the hallmarks of political sophistication. But then nor are riots. They are the crudest tool for those who have few options (http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2005/nov/14/france.eu). By definition, they are chaotic. Rich people don't riot because they have other forms of influence. Riots are a class act.
However, these youngsters were not devoid of political consciousness either. Many, including those who live outside London, knew of the fatal police shooting of Mark Duggan (http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/nov/18/mark-duggan-ipcc-investigation-riots), and 75% cited it as an important or very important cause of the riots. They were also considerably more likely than the public at large to say poverty, inequality, government policy and policing were behind the riots.
The second theme to emerge from the report is that the rioters' primary grievance is not the one most of us imagined. The general assumption, among those who believed political causes both existed and mattered, was that the driving force for discontent was economic. Everyone from the UN to Nick Clegg had predicted social unrest if the austerity measures were pushed in time of recession. Indeed, the government's high-handed moral pronouncements were particularly hard to take given the recent behaviour of our political and financial elites: a corrupt political class embroiled in phone hacking and expense scandals, and a disdainful financial sector where failure brought huge bonuses.
Cameron characterised the moral collapse that made the riots possible thus: "It is a complete lack of responsibility in parts of our society; people allowed to feel the world owes them something, that their rights outweigh their responsibilities and their actions do not have consequence." He could just as easily have been talking about bankers.
Economic issues were important. The cause most often cited for the riots was poverty (86%), but unemployment (79%) and inequality (70%) featured prominently too. Few guessed, though, that this tinder in the box was lit at least as much by the long arm of the law as the invisible hand of the market. Almost three-quarters of interviewees said they had been stopped and searched by the police in the last year; 85% said "policing" was an important or very important cause of the riots. Just 7% believed the police do a good job in their area.
But in all the interviews, the apparently mutual contempt between rioters and police comes through. Tales of petty harassment, abuse and humiliation were commonplace. One told the story of a looter who stole a television so he could throw it at the police. "It felt like it was on a leash for years and … we've come off the leash and just responded in that way basically," says one interviewee.
"And what was the leash; who was holding you on that leash?" asks the interviewer.
"The police."
In a year that started with the uprisings in Tunisia and is ending with police raids on occupations protesting inequality across the globe, only a naïf would understand these disturbances as a random, isolated moment of mass social deviancy particular to Britain. It would be like claiming that the two black athletes who raised their fists on the podium during the Mexico Olympics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1968_Olympics_Black_Power_salute) in 1968 engaged in individual acts of protest in no way related to the students in Paris, the massacre in My Lai or the passing of the US civil rights act.
The 2011 riots would probably win gold as the year's most destructive, least coherent protest of disaffected youth against indifferent elites, economic hardship and police brutality. Rioters were more likely to give the finger than clench the fist. But what this report makes clear is that they belong to the same category of protest.

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one of the reasons cops gang up is so that there are multiple witnesses in the event a case goes to trial.


I think its a show of force for the other plebes on the street. This is what happens when you question authority. We hit you with overwhelming numbers and force........

[Ponce]

OK, yara, yara, yara , yara, yara..............so.........now what?......how to solve and finish the problem?

To expose the problem without giving a solution is just talking.

V

[Hatha Sunahara]

OK, yara, yara, yara , yara, yara..............so.........now what?......how to solve and finish the problem?

To expose the problem without giving a solution is just talking.

V

The solution is a massive and rapid shift in perceptions, which we can only talk about now. It will happen and is happening by itself. There is nothing we can do now but talk about it, and make ourselves ready for it. The one thing we can all do now is to stop paying attention to the mainstream media--because that is what is holding the status quo together. Turn off your TV. It is hypnotizing you. It is suggesting to you that all things that are rotten and wrong are OK.

I think we here at GSUS have for the most part done our part, so I think I am preaching to the choir. If you want to do something constructive, get other people--the sheeple--to turn off their TV sets.

Lately, I have been watching You Tube videos about hypnotism. If TPTB have everyone hypnotized through the MSM, then obviously hypnotism works. So why not learn how to do it yourself, and use it against them? There's no shortage of sheeple to practice it on. Who knows, you might make a difference.


Hatha

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LAPD officers Luis Valenzuela and James Nichols are under investigation for allegedly forcing women into performing sexual acts under threat of arrest, several times over the past five years. So far four women have made independent accusations against them, all involving a strikingly similar scenario.
All four women worked either as informants for Valenzuela and Nichols or have been previously arrested by them, so the two officers used that info to scare them into obeying. Valenzuela and Nichols would drive plain-clothed in an unmarked car and force women to get in, threatening to arrest them if they refuse to. They would drive to a secluded area where one of the officers would molest the woman while the other would keep watch.
The first case against the two officers was opened in January 2010, but the detective assigned to it was unable to locate the woman who made the accusation and the investigation was stopped. A year later, another woman reported being forced into oral sex by Valenzuela while Nichols was watching. This incident took place in 2009, but the woman hesitated to press charges because she was scared for her life and thought no one would believe her.
Her accusation reopened the case, but for 18 months the investigation didn’t show any progress. In July 2012, a member of the Echo Park neighborhood watch left a phone message to the Northeast Station claiming that the officers who patrol that area pick up prostitutes and release them in exchange for sex, which gave new material for the case.

The investigation identified two women who claimed they were raped by Valenzuela and Nichols on several occasions in the past five years.
Chief of police Charlie Beck has suspended the two officers and ordered discipline hearing panels to decide if they are guilty or not.
Sources close to the investigation claim that there is enough evidence so far to have them fired, but since according to Los Angeles city rules the chief of police doesn’t have the authority to fire an officer outright, they have to wait for the hearing.

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[mick silver]

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Tennessee Police Robbing Motorists On The Highway Posted on: January 28th, 2013 12 Comments (http://www.policebrutality.info/2013/01/tennessee-police-robbing-motorists-on-the-highway.html#comments)

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If you plan on driving through Tennessee on the Interstate 40, you better not be carrying a large amount of money with you. As it turns out, the police patrols have a right to seize your cash under suspicion that it’s drug money, and keep it without any proof you obtained it in an illegal way.
The reporters from News Channel 5 interviewed one of the victims, Karen Petrosyan, whose father was arrested for driving the truck in which the officers found two large blocks of cash containing nearly $200,000.
“What’s wrong with having a large amount of cash?” asked Karen Petrosyan. ”If I am a criminal, if they allege me to be a criminal,” he said, “why would they settle? They do not just let criminals go.”
Petrosyan and his father were released with no charges, but he will still have to come back to Tennessee and prove that his money wasn’t drug related. Due to the current law, in case the owner doesn’t take legal action to prove that their money is legal, the police get to keep it all.

Ricky Chandler, Dickson police chief, admits that they use money to invest in the force, creating new teams to patrol the road. Since these teams are paid out of the seized money, their jobs depend solely on the amount of money they find. It’s no wonder these teams have collected millions of dollars so far using the civil asset forfeiture laws that are a direct breach of some of the essential civil right




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[Bigjon]

Well on some mornings I head down to the local coffee shop for coffee with the "boys" who consist of some retired school teachers, farmers, building tradesmen and the talk is always very safe banal tripe about sports and other non-controversial topics. They are totally oblivious to what is going on in the world and they want it that way.

I have tried to pique their interest by tweaking them with controversial subjects, but none of it sticks. No one ever brings any of my topics up for review and are glad when one of "my" topics is sidetracked usually by a local jock teacher who always steers the topics back to sports.

[Hatha Sunahara]

I know exactly that scenario, Bigjon. When I'm with a group of people like that, I leave. I don't waste time or energy with those kind of people. I don't want to be around them when life smacks them real hard--they will be looking for someone to blame, and it will be the wrong people.


Hatha

[Bigjon]

I know exactly that scenario, Bigjon. When I'm with a group of people like that, I leave. I don't waste time or energy with those kind of people. I don't want to be around them when life smacks them real hard--they will be looking for someone to blame, and it will be the wrong people.


Hatha

It's tough, but being a missionary to the heathens is a tough calling. Freedom Force International says go forth and convert the masses.

The other day the anniversary of JFK's assassination, gave me a chance to tweak some more, I really would like to be there when that group had to listen to Kennedy's conspiracy talk, but don't know how to pull that off. I'm sure they would run away from that as fast as they run away from anything controversial. Thinking is forbidden, especially among the teaching class as they already know they know everything worth knowing.