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After two tours in Iraq, Marine murdered at home by SWAT in front of family

He Served the Empire Abroad; The Regime Killed Him in His Home

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Be sure to visit the link here to the original source, chock full of inline links with additional information:

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/87886.html

Here is a link to the most recent local news station story on the raid:

http://www.kgun9.com/story/14644374/kgun9-viewers-join-emotional-debate-over-man-slain-in-swat-raid

As if no-knock warrants were not a bad enough idea, bound to get innocent people killed, the Indiana State Supreme Court has just ruled that a citizen has no right to defend themselves or to protect their home from an ILLEGAL entry by police.

Resistance is futile!

UPDATE:

Video of incident released. You will notice that after nearly all shot are expended, there is a long pause before one final shot is fired. A headshot no doubt.

Dutchess County NY to lead the nation in GPS tracking

If testing of the system is successful, Dutchess County soon will be the only place in the country where domestic-violence offenders are tracked by GPS devices and their victims are notified if they are nearby.


That was the message from county officials Thursday as they unveiled a plan that would require selected repeat offenders to wear devices that track their whereabouts by global positioning satellites.

Full article at link:

http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/article/20110513/NEWS05/105130342/Dutchess-will-test-GPS-domestic-violence-offenders

What concerns me right off the bat about this article, is that it appears to be an open endorsement of the pilot program. There is no question as to whether or not we should even be doing this in the first place, and no reporting on precisely what protocols will be implemented when testing is completed. In this day and age of excessive abuses against citizens and police-state mission-creep, I hardly feel compelled to let them put us on yet another slippery slope. Domestic violence propaganda invokes a classic knee-jerk response by the layman, which allows for the powers that be to convince the people that this is "for your own safety."

In Dutchess County, there has been a string of shocking murders that make the area ripe for the implementation of yet another Orwellian solution to our problems. The fact of the matter is though, that none of these deaths would have been prevented by a GPS tracking system. The article makes reference to "select repeat offenders" but makes no mention of the criteria that will be used in this selection.

Do they intend to track people who are merely accused of a domestic violence crime, or merely accused of violating an Order of Protection, before they have had their Constitutionally protected right to a trial? It hardly seems that in a land of liberty, we would tolerate the police electronically tracking a person who has never been convicted of any crime. In all of these recent murders, none of the offenders had yet had a trial, and in one case, was never even accused of domestic violence by his victim.

The vaguely outlined plan as reported in the linked article above calls for the person being tracked to pay $14 a day to cover the cost of the tamper-proof device which they must wear at all times to be tracked via a Global Positioning System satellite. I get the impression though, that there are more hidden costs to the taxpayer here which are not being discussed for one thing.

Like paying the police to monitor this system and act as personal body guards to victims and/or alleged victims of DV. If an alleged perpetrator is being tracked by this system before a trial, and the accused is then exonerated, will they be reimbursed for the $14 per day cost? And if the wrongfully accused is in fact reimbursed, would that not then pose a threat to their right to a fair trial to begin with, as the court itself would have a financial stake in seeing the accused be found guilty, rather than refund the money?

And lastly, what about folks who can't afford the $14 a day, $98 per week, $424.32 per month or the whopping $5,110 per year? The truth is, so many DV cases are brought about because of severe financial pressure on folks. Four hundred and some odd dollars is almost as much as some folks pay for rent each month, or what someone might pay for a car payment and insurance each month. For all too many people, it would simply be unaffordable. And it certainly should not be a cost mandated upon someone who has not been found guilty of any crime.

So maybe they are just going to use it on people who have been convicted of a crime. Hardly seems like a logical measure to implement this system as a preventive measure after the bomb has already gone off so to speak, but okay, perhaps in a few rare instances this technology might actually be helpful as part of the disposition of a case. Though I can't really imagine what such instances might actually be.

Someone who has been convicted of a domestic-violence crime, who seems likely to go after their victim again, really belongs in jail or prison if the threat is that serious. And if the person has already done their time, and has been released from jail, what right does the state have to track someone who has already paid their debt to society? Are the courts to mandate someone convicted of a DV crime must pay $400+ a month for the rest of their life to be monitored?

Lastly, we have to finally look at, specifically, how effective this technology can actually be. The article linked above tells us...

If the person wearing the device enters a "protected zone" where the offender's purported victim lives or works, the victim and police will be notified automatically, Senior Assistant District Attorney Marjorie Smith, chief of the special victims bureau, said during a news conference at the Dutchess County Office Building.

Well, in two of the recent DV homicides, the victim was living with their killer at the time of the murders. So clearly, GPS tracking would have done no good in either of those two cases.

In another case, the victim herself went to meet her alleged abuser. In that case we are told that she was murdered by her husband, who then shot and killed a police officer, before finally turning a gun on himself and committing suicide. The husband had already been accused of violating an order of protection (though not convicted) and the woman had moved out of their shared home to go live with family three counties away. Yet she still felt compelled to meet him at the train station, where triple-death occurred, simply so that she could take possession of the family car. She was neither at home or at work, and willingly violated her own order of protection to go meet this man, well outside of any "safety zone" that might have been being monitored, so clearly in that case too, this technology would have been useless.

Lastly, there is the case of the woman who was murdered at home by her husband, in front of their daughter, before he killed himself. A month earlier, the man had been accused of beating her and menacing the family with a firearm. He was released on bail, served with an order of protection directing him to stay away from his house and family, and the woman was notified that he was being released. When he came to the house several days later, in the very early hours of the morning, a GPS device may have been of some benefit. However, it is important to note, that it is unlikely the woman would have been able to defend herself had she gotten an alert, because the judge in the case had ordered that all firearms be taken from the home. Therefore, she had no defense against the man who came armed with a pistol that was not his. It is also important to note, that police were in fact notified of his presence at the home, and a large number of them had already assembled outside when the deaths actually occurred. So even in this one single case, where GPS tracking may have been useful to a limited extent, it is still unlikely that it would have prevented that tragedy.

So, considering all of these facts, I ask you, what is the real point of this program? Do the benefits really outweigh the costs in tax dollars? Do the benefits really outweigh the potential for abuse by police and courts? Is this really a program meant to help save lives, or to accelerate the erosion of liberty in this country? How long will it take them to come with a reason to track YOU?

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EXCLUSIVE! Sample of porn found at Bin Laden's hideout revealed!

Officials have said they would not discuss details or the nature of the porn found at Osama bin Laden's compound hideout, but inside sources tell us it was the most vile sort of porn a Muslim might ever come across, a niche porn only viewed by the most reviled fetishists. In this Station.6.Underground exclusive, we bring you a sample image provided to us by our sources. (Though we are still waiting for the pics of OBL's body.) But be warned, some readers may find the image highly offensive to good taste...

Click here for Muslim porn image sample

This is the link to the real report of porn found at OBL hideout:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/13/us-binladen-porn-idUSTRE74C4RK20110513

Brazilian woman wins right to look at porn and spank it while at work

A Brazilian won the right to masturbate at work

A Brazilian, 36, won a court battle that gives you the right to masturbate in their workplace due to a compulsive need to obtain orgasm. Bezerra Ana Catarina is an accountant and suffers a very rare disorder, orgasmic compulsion.

This condition is the result of a chemical alteration in the cerebral cortex, causing the woman is always looking orgasms as a way to alleviate their anxiety.

According to the Brazilian newspaper "Região Noroeste ", Ana Catarina masturbate several days reached 47 times. "It was then when I asked for help. I began to suspect that this was not normal, "she told the newspaper Siglo XXI.

Dr. Carlos Howert Ana Catarina treated for three years and to prescribe a "cocktail" of anxiolytic FOR REDUCING their anxiety levels. In this way, you just need to masturbate 18 times per day.

A few weeks ago, in April, this woman won a court battle that gives you the right to masturbate in the workplace and accessed through the company computer to erotic images.

This report was translated to English. The original report can be found at this link, in the original language:

http://www.panorama.com.ve/09-05-2011/avances/mega-orgasmica.html

Resistance is futile!

You will be assimilated!

The Indiana State Supreme Court has ruled that a citizen may not protect their premises against an illegal intrusion by police. This will surely go on to set a precedent as the dominoes fall nationwide.

Court: No right to resist illegal cop entry into home


INDIANAPOLIS | Overturning a common law dating back to the English Magna Carta of 1215, the Indiana Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Hoosiers have no right to resist unlawful police entry into their homes.


In a 3-2 decision, Justice Steven David writing for the court said if a police officer wants to enter a home for any reason or no reason at all, a homeowner cannot do anything to block the officer's entry.


"We believe ... a right to resist an unlawful police entry into a home is against public policy and is incompatible with modern Fourth Amendment jurisprudence," David said. "We also find that allowing resistance unnecessarily escalates the level of violence and therefore the risk of injuries to all parties involved without preventing the arrest."


David said a person arrested following an unlawful entry by police still can be released on bail and has plenty of opportunities to protest the illegal entry through the court system.

Story continues at link:

http://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/article_ec169697-a19e-525f-a532-81b3df229697.html

Yea, suuuure. Plenty of opportunities. Pffft. Talk about the fox guarding the henhouse. It also seems that this case was used to deliberately further this agenda. The event in question revolved around a reported domestic violence incident. So why didn't police simply invoke probable cause? So that it could go all the way to the Supreme Court to set the precedent that resistance will not be tolerated even in the face of the most blatant violations of the Constitution and abuses of police authority.

Blogger crash

Blogger has not really shared much information about what happened, but I have been unable to access my account since yesterday. I can finally get on now, but several posts have disappeared. This is really an unprecedented event, and I hope that some news about this is reported soon. My confidence in Blogger has been seriously ahaken.

Little Girl Plays With Dead Squirrel

Special thanks to "Slaughter" for bringing this to my attention.

Arbitrary freedom is no freedom at all

Executive Orders associated with FEMA that would suspend the Constitution and the Bill of Rights

These Executive Orders have been on record for nearly 30 years and could be enacted by the stroke of a Presidential pen:...


EXECUTIVE ORDER 10990 allows the government to take over all modes of transportation and control of highways and seaports.


EXECUTIVE ORDER 10995 allows the government to seize and control the communication media.


EXECUTIVE ORDER 10997allows the government to take over all electrical power, gas, petroleum, fuels and minerals.


EXECUTIVE ORDER 10998 allows the government to seize all means of transportation, including personal cars, trucks or vehicles of any kind and total control over all highways, seaports, and waterways.


EXECUTIVE ORDER 10999 allows the government to take over all food resources and farms.


EXECUTIVE ORDER 11000 allows the government to mobilize civilians into work brigades under government supervision.


EXECUTIVE ORDER 11001 allows the government to take over all health, education and welfare functions.


EXECUTIVE ORDER 11002 designates the Postmaster General to operate a national registration of all persons.


EXECUTIVE ORDER 11003 allows the government to take over all airports and aircraft, including commercial aircraft.


EXECUTIVE ORDER 11004 allows the Housing and Finance Authority to relocate communities, build new housing with public funds, designate areas to be abandoned, and establish new locations for populations.


EXECUTIVE ORDER 11005 allows the government to take over railroads, inland waterways and public storage facilities.


EXECUTIVE ORDER 11051 specifies the responsibility of the Office of Emergency Planning and gives authorization to put all Executive Orders into effect in times of increased international tensions and economic or financial crisis.


EXECUTIVE ORDER 11310grants authority to the Department of Justice to enforce the plans set out in Executive Orders, to institute industrial support, to establish judicial and legislative liaison, to control all aliens, to operate penal and correctional institutions, and to advise and assist the President.


EXECUTIVE ORDER 11049 assigns emergency preparedness function to federal departments and agencies, consolidating 21 operative Executive Orders issued over a fifteen year period.


EXECUTIVE ORDER 11921allows the Federal Emergency Preparedness Agency to develop plans to establish control over the mechanisms of production and distribution, of energy sources, wages, salaries, credit and the flow of money in U.S. financial institution in any undefined national emergency. It also provides that when a state of emergency is declared by the President, Congress cannot review the action for six months. The Federal Emergency Management Agency has broad powers in every aspect of the nation. General Frank Salzedo, chief of FEMA's Civil Security Division stated in a 1983 conference that he saw FEMA's role as a "new frontier in the protection of individual and governmental leaders from assassination, and of civil and military installations from sabotage and/or attack, as well as prevention of dissident groups from gaining access to U.S. opinion, or a global audience in times of crisis." FEMA's powers were consolidated by President Carter to incorporate the...


National Security Act of 1947 allows for the strategic relocation of industries, services, government and other essential economic activities, and to rationalize the requirements for manpower, resources and production facilities.


1950 Defense Production Act gives the President sweeping powers over all aspects of the economy.


Act of August 29, 1916 authorizes the Secretary of the Army, in time of war, to take possession of any transportation system for transporting troops, material, or any other purpose related to the emergency.


International Emergency Economic Powers Act enables the President to seize the property of a foreign country or national. These powers were transferred to FEMA in a sweeping consolidation in 1979.

More on FEMA camps from original source here:

http://educate-yourself.org/cn/femaconcentrationcamplocations07sep05.shtml

If you have the time, enjoy this full length feature film on the subject...

Prohibition returns to Poughkeepsie

The Congress Tavern located on Main Street in the City of Poughkeepsie, New York, first opened in 1935, just after the end of Prohibition. It has been owned and operated by the same family since they purchased the business in 1949. Over the years, that stretch of Main Street has seen many changes, but for many decades, that part of town has been notoriously dangerous, particularly after dark. Today, that trend continues, with two homicides within two weeks of eachother on the 400 block of Main Street, where the Congress is located.

But rather than mount an effective law-enforcement campaign to combat violence in the neighborhood, the city's Mayor John Tkazyik has seen fit to place the blame squarely on the Congress Tavern and its owner David Auffarth.

"The city is now concerned that despite efforts to implement procedures to reduce the public risk, the licensee continues to permit or suffer behavior that constitutes a disorderly premises," ~Mayor Tkazyik

What the Mayor neglects to say is that Auffarth has long been a part of police efforts in combating crime and violence on Main Street. The Congress is the only bar in Poughkeepsie with a camera surveillance system inside the bar that feeds a live stream directly to police headquarters. Auffarth himself has been a cooperating witness in many criminal cases over the years, including the most recent Main Street homicide of a notorious narco-gang leader, putting himself at grave risk in order to combat crime in the neighborhood. And how have all his efforts and risk been rewarded by the City of Poughkeepsie, the Mayor slams him for running a "disorderly premise, and has the state liquor authority revoke the Congress' license.

The state Liquor Authority this morning suspended the Congress Tavern’s license, claiming the City of Poughkeepsie bar is a threat to public safety following two recent homicides near the Main Street business.


The authority’s three-member Board of Commissioners voted 3-0 to hit the Congress with an emergency license suspension. Officials said the board can approve such suspensions if it determines an establishment poses an imminent threat to public safety.


The move means alcohol cannot be served or consumed inside the Congress, effective immediately.


Poughkeepsie Journal

The move seems to be clearly politically motivated, as the "tough on crime" Republican Mayor is launching a bid for a second term in office. Also, his own family owns and operates a bar in the City of Poughkeepsie, making this move a clear cut case of cronyism, using his political power in order shut out the competition of his family's business.

Aside from the two homicides that happened outside of the bar in the street, the last on a vacant lot next to the bar, in their complaint to the state liquor authority the city has cited "other problems. Indeed in the past on two occasions, the Congress Tavern put their liquor license at risk by cooperating with undercover police investigations. Each time, the police spoke on behalf of the tavern to the state liquor authority to show that whatever complaints or violations that were alleged were a part of their own operations, not the Congress Tavern's business operations.

With this unprecedented level of cooperation by the tavern and the live surveillance cameras inside the place, it would seem that the real failure here is the failure of police to assist the tavern owner in maintaining peace and order and to protect that stretch of Main Street from the scourge of violent criminals and illegal weapons. It is also quite curious that the Mayor would move to shut down a business that so actively cooperates with police. If one didn't know better, one might think that we had returned to the heyday of roaring-20's gangsterism and that the Mayor himself was on the payroll of one of these narco-gangs, like the one's who's founder/leader was just murdered in the lot next to the tavern.

Mahna Mahna Killer

20 reasons not to buy a house in 2011

Don’t Buy A House In 2011 Before You Read These 20 Wacky Statistics About The U.S. Real Estate Crisis

Unless you have been asleep or hiding under a rock for the past five years, you already know that we are experiencing the worst real estate crisis that the U.S. has ever seen. Home prices in the United States have fallen 33 percent from the peak of the housing bubble, which is more than they fell during the Great Depression. Those that decided to buy a house in 2005 or 2006 are really hurting right now. Just think about it. Could you imagine paying off a $400,000 mortgage on a home that is now only worth $250,000? Millions of Americans are now living through that kind of financial hell. Sadly, most analysts expect U.S. home prices to go down even further. Despite the “best efforts” of those running our economy, unemployment is still rampant. The number of middle class jobs continues to decline year after year, but it takes at least a middle class income to buy a decent home. In addition, financial institutions have really tightened up lending standards and have made it much more difficult to get home loans. Back during the wild days of the housing bubble, the family cat could get a zero-down mortgage, but today the pendulum has swung very far in the other direction and now it is really, really tough to get a home loan. Meanwhile, the number of foreclosures and distressed properties continues to soar. So with a ton of homes on the market and not a lot of buyers the power is firmly in the hands of those looking to buy a house.


So will home prices continue to go down? Possibly. But they won’t go down forever. At some point the inflation that is already affecting many other segments of the economy will affect home prices as well. That doesn’t mean that it will be middle class American families that will be buying up all the homes. An increasing percentage of homes are being purchased by investors or by foreigners. There are a lot of really beautiful homes in the United States, and wealthy people from all over the globe love to buy a house in America.


But because of the factors mentioned above, it is quite possible that U.S. home prices could go down another 10 or 20 percent, especially if the economy gets worse.


So what is the right time to buy a house?


Nobody really knows for sure.


Mortgage rates are near record lows right now and there are some great deals to be had in many areas of the country. But that does not mean that you won’t be able to get the same home for even less 6 months or a year from now.


In any event, this truly has been a really trying time for the U.S. housing market. Hordes of builders, construction workers, contractors, real estate agents and mortgage professionals have been put out of work by this downturn. The housing industry is one of the core pillars of the economy, and so a recovery in home sales is desperately needed.


The following are 20 really wacky statistics about the U.S. real estate crisis….


#1 According to Zillow, 28.4 percent of all single-family homes with a mortgage in the United States are now underwater.


#2 Zillow has also announced that the average price of a home in the U.S. is about 8 percent lower than it was a year ago and that it continues to fall about 1 percent a month.


#3 U.S. home prices have now fallen a whopping 33% from where they were at during the peak of the housing bubble.


#4 During the first quarter of 2011, home values declined at the fastest ratesince late 2008.


#5 According to Zillow, more than 55 percent of all single-family homes with a mortgage in Atlanta have negative equity and more than 68 percent of all single-family homes with a mortgage in Phoenix have negative equity.


#6 U.S. home values have fallen an astounding 6.3 trillion dollars since the housing crisis first began.


#7 In February, U.S. housing starts experienced their largest decline in 27 years.


#8 New home sales in the United States are now down 80% from the peak in July 2005.


#9 Historically, the percentage of residential mortgages in foreclosure in the United States has tended to hover between 1 and 1.5 percent. Today, it is up around 4.5 percent.


#10 According to RealtyTrac, foreclosure filings in the United States are projected to increase by another 20 percent in 2011.


#11 It is estimated that 25% of all mortgages in Miami-Dade County are “in serious distress and headed for either foreclosure or short sale“.


#12 Two years ago, the average U.S. homeowner that was being foreclosed upon had not made a mortgage payment in 11 months. Today, the average U.S. homeowner that is being foreclosed upon has not made a mortgage payment in 17 months.


#13 Sales of foreclosed homes now represent an all-time record 23.7% of the market.


#14 4.5 million home loans are now either in some stage of foreclosure or are at least 90 days delinquent.


#15 According to the Mortgage Bankers Association, at least 8 million Americans are currently at least one month behind on their mortgage payments.


#16 In September 2008, 33 percent of Americans knew someone who had been foreclosed upon or who was facing the threat of foreclosure. Today that number has risen to 48 percent.


#17 During the first quarter of 2011, less new homes were sold in the U.S. than in any three month period ever recorded.


#18 According to a recent census report, 13% of all homes in the United Statesare currently sitting empty.


#19 In 1996, 89 percent of Americans believed that it was better to own a home than to rent one. Today that number has fallen to 63 percent.


#20 According to Zillow, the United States has been in a “housing recession” for57 straight months without an end in sight.


So should we be confident that the folks in charge are doing everything that they can to turn all of this around?


Sadly, the truth is that our “authorities” really do not know what they are doing. The following is what Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke had to say about the housing market back in 2006….


“Housing markets are cooling a bit. Our expectation is that the decline in activity or the slowing in activity will be moderate, that house prices will probably continue to rise.”


Since that time U.S. housing prices have experienced their biggest decline ever.


At some point widespread inflation is going to reverse the trend we are experiencing right now, but that doesn’t mean that most American families will be able to afford to buy homes when that happens.


As I have written about previously, the middle class in America is shrinking. The number of Americans on food stamps has increased by 18 million over the past four years and today 47 million Americans (a new all-time record) are living in poverty.


Millions of our jobs are being shipped overseas, the cost of living keeps going up and an increasing percentage of American families are losing faith in the economy.


More Americans than ever are talking about “the coming economic collapse” as if it is a foregone conclusion. Our federal government is swamped with debt, our state and local governments are swamped with debt and our economic infrastructure is being ripped to shreds by globalization.


So sadly, no, there are not a whole lot of reasons to be optimistic at this point about a major economic turnaround.


The U.S. economy is going down the toilet and the coming collapse is going to be incredibly painful for all of us.


Hopefully when that collapse comes you will have somewhere warm and safe to call home. If not, hopefully someone will have compassion on you. In any event, we all need to buckle up because it is going to be a wild ride.

Be sure to visit Blacklisted News to see the article as originally presented and chock full of inline links for additional info, at this link:
www.blacklistednews.com

Cellphone providers now required to transmit government propaganda

As with all technology, this looks like yet another double-edged sword. On the one hand, I might like to be provided with news about emergency events and other alerts, via cellphone. Forcing me to receive those alerts however (and attaching a hidden cost to my cellphone service in the process) is not something I am comfortable with. And really, what better way to corral the masses into certain mindsets at a certain given time, to the point of even literally driving their physical movements within a city?

Emergency officials will soon be able to blast critical alerts to anyone with a cell phone in a certain section of the city.


If Times Square needs to be evacuated because of a bomb threat or if a hurricane is bearing down on Queens, warnings will be bounced from cell towers.

NY Daily News

Not only will I be forced to get these alerts, but these alerts will interrupt your service and whatever task you might be performing (data, voice call, text, etc.) in order to get these alerts. The crying wolf amber alert system may be something that someone might be interested in getting updates from, but I sure as hell don't want whatever important call I may be on to be dropped simply so that I can be notified of another custody battle gone wild.

Also from the Daily News Article...

The messages, including urgent blasts from the President, information on imminent threats and Amber Alerts about missing children, will supercede all other phone traffic so they won't be stalled or delayed.

While the mainstream media outlets such as the Associated Press and CBS have touted this latest government intrusion into our lives as something beneficial, with catchy little quotes/soundbytes from the likes of NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg who said this is a "quantum leap forward in using technology to help keep people safe," I prefer the counterspin reporting of infowars.com who reported...

It’s not enough the government and its corporate media propaganda tool commandeer the television and radio with phony terror alerts and incessant nonsense about Muslim miscreants who are inspired by FBI agents provocateurs to talk about terrorism.


Soon it this propaganda will reach out to your cell phone. It will be mandatory to receive this propaganda.


CBS and the AP report today that next year the government will mandate all new cell phones will be required to have a chip that receives government propaganda and fear-mongering. Many smart phones already have technology easily commandeered by the state. Government propaganda will supersede all other calls.


Carriers AT&T and Verizon say they will implement the technology. Eighty-five percent of Americans over 18 own a cell phone.


Following the debunked Osama death raid, the government announced it will alert the public to emergencies via cell phones. The Federal Communications Commission and the Federal Emergency Management Agency said the system will warn people about terrorist attacks, natural disasters or other emergencies.


The new system will be in place in New York City and Washington by the end of the year and in cities across the country by the end of next year, according to CBS New York.


In addition to Amber Alerts and warnings of imminent doom from terrorists who hate us for our freedom, the system will send out “urgent blasts from the president,” according to the New York Daily News.

Police shootout in Wisconsin caught on dash cam

A man killed by police in Wisconsin may be connected to at least 10 random shootings in that state and across Illinois, authorities say.


Police in the town of Tomah, north of Madison, fatally shot Seth McCloskey, 28, on Friday during a traffic stop after he jumped out of his pickup truck and started shooting, wounding one officer, investigators said.

Story continues at link:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chibrknews-slain-suspect-may-be-linked-to-10-shootings-in-ill-wis-20110427,0,2266698.story

GUN PORN:'Saiga 12' as never seen before

The Saiga-12 is a Kalashnikov-pattern 12 gauge combat shotgun available in a wide range of configurations. Like the Kalashnikov rifle variants, it is a rotating bolt, gas-operated gun that feeds from a box magazine. All Saiga-12 configurations are recognizable as Kalashnikov-pattern guns by the large lever-safety on the right side of the receiver, the optic mounting rail on the left side of the receiver and the large top-mounted dust cover held in place by the rear of the recoil spring assembly.


The looser clearances offered in an AK style design result in high reliability—an enormous boon on a semi-automatic shotgun, as this class of weapon had previously tended towards unreliability.


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Legal status


In Russia this shotgun can be relatively simply obtained, requiring only a "smoothbore-gun license" (which is relatively easy to obtain, compared to a "rifle license" that requires a five-year period of owning a smoothbore gun and/or a hunting permit).[2]


In the US state of California, as configured from the factory, it can be classified as an "assault weapon", as it is a semiautomatic shotgun with the ability to accept a detachable magazine and has a pistol grip installed. However, if a magazine lock that only allows the magazine to be removed by use of a tool is installed, it is no longer classified as such, as its previously detachable magazine is then rendered a fixed magazine.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saiga-12

Additional links:

http://www.izhmash.ru/eng/product/saiga12.shtml

http://world.guns.ru/shotgun/rus/saiga-12-e.html

http://www.raacfirearms.com/Saiga_12.htm

'Mad Hatters' gang of elderly white ladies terrorize Detroit

So often I hear criminals demonized as the scum of the Earth. As if desperate people are inherently evil, simply born that way, without a moral pang in their bones. Rather than stopping for a second and taking a look at how fucked up this country has gotten because of bad leadership, how our economy has been deliberately driven into the ground, and considering the real reasons why someone might be pressed into taking the risk of losing their freedom and maybe even their very lives, all too many jackholes out there riding around on their fuckin high horses would rather point finger and blame the little guy who had nothing left to lose thanks to the fuckin screw job the government and the corporations are handing all of us.

Just because you haven't had to apply for food stamps, just because you still have a job, just because your house is paid for, does not mean you are fuckin special, or that the fuck-you-next check hasn't already been mailed to your address. And it certainly does not put you on some moral high ground where you have the right to judge someone without having walked the mile in their moccasins.

I can tell you one thing for sure though. You know it's a bad goddamn sign when you have an organized gang of little middle-aged to elderly women called the "Mad Hatters" terrorizing a city as fucked up as Detroit.

Police in Detroit are hunting a gang of middle-aged women, nicknamed the "Mad Hatters", who they blame for a string of robberies, purse snatching and fraud.


The suspects typically steal a woman's wallet or purse, police said in a statement. Shortly afterward, the credit cards and checks are used at stores to buy merchandise or at banks to get cash.


Surveillance photographs supplied by police show the middle-aged to elderly women wear hats, usually of the floppy, fisherman variety, at the time of the incidents.


Purse-snatching crimes are not uncommon, but what is unusual is the organised nature of the crimes.


"Seldom are there these organised rings doing it, such as this one," Sterling Heights police Lt. Luke Riley said.


The incidents began about a year ago and the most recent incident occurred last week, according to a press release from the Sterling Heights Police Department.


The total value of merchandise and cash stolen could be as high as $500,000, police said. The women stole almost $200,000 from one bank.


Riley said authorities are looking for "at least" five or six women in this group.


Photographs show the person responsible for the theft is not always the one who uses the stolen items to commit the fraud, police said.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/8499955/Mad-hatters-gang-of-middle-aged-women-blamed-for-Detroit-crime-spree.html

NY man tasered to death in jail cell

Police say he was acting irrationally when they tased him more than once in jail cell, after being arrested for a dispute with a neighbor.

You can read a brief article about the story here:

Poughkeepsie Journal

Dumbass bank robber of the year award

This genius had a clever new way of robbing a bank. He walks into a Bank of America branch in New Paltz, New york, and rather than the tried and true mask and gun stickup approach, he decides to be a little more clever. He demands that the teller transfer the money into his account and threatens violence.

Brilliant. How would they ever catch him? And I am sure the money would be there waiting for him on Friday at the stip-club ATM.

Here's a link to the story:

Poughkeepsie Journal

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S6U adds CopBlock.org hotlink button

CopBlock.org is an excellent source of information regarding police abuses on the front lines in the march of Fascism against the people. They are not what some might call "police haters" but rather seek to hold police accountable for wrongdoing and corruption. Hopefully, one day, with the help of groups like CopBlock.org, we will be able to roll back tyranny, restore Constitutional liberty, and see equality between police and citizens be restored.

As a show of thanks for the work that they do each day in bringing us this important information, and for the convenience of my readers, I have installed a button in the left column, as another tool for easily accessing info. By clicking this symbol...



...you will be taken directly to their home page.

Enjoy.

Pilot refuses to fly two Muslim men to tolerance conference

Two Muslim men were removed from a flight bound for North Carolina before the plane took off Friday, reportedly because they were clad in traditional Muslim garb, making the pilot and other passengers uncomfortable.


The two men, Masudur Rahman and Mohamed Zaghloul, are both imams and were headed to a conference to discuss Islamophobia — fear of Islam — and tolerance with other religious leaders.


Rahman compared his plight to the Civil Rights movement, and told a CNN affiliate, "That history I found today in that plane, and it shouldn't happen with any other person," he said.

A few more details at link:

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/05/07/pilot-refuses-to-fly-two-muslim-men-to-tolerance-conference/

Pentagon video of OBL filmed in America?

Conspiracy forums are buzzing with another recent astute observation. In the video released by the Pentagon allegedly showing Osama bin Laden watching himself on television, it appears that the electrical outlets are all in the format used only in North America and Japan.

A little info for folks who don't understand, different countries and regions throughout the world use different voltages and different electrical plug formats. The plugs shown in the video, both on the wall and another power-strip on the floor, appear to show plugs of the format used in North America (and Japan), not the sort used in Pakistan.

Electrical Plug/Outlet and Voltage Information for Pakistan

New World Order initiation video

Satire, propaganda, or hiding in plain sight? These nefarious sorts have a long history of hiding in plain sight. Is this yet another example of them publicly declaring their agenda?

NY rails to get 'no-ride' list?

And so it begins, all over again...

NEW YORK — Sen. Charles Schumer is calling for better rail security now that the raid on Osama bin Laden's compound has turned up plans to attack trains in the U.S.


Schumer said Sunday that he will push for the creation of a "do not ride" list for Amtrak. The list would be similar to the no-fly list that keeps those suspected of terrorism from flying into or out of the United States.

More at link:

poughkeepsiejournal.com

"Those who would sacrifice liberty for security will have neither." ~Benjamin Franklin

Full-body searches coming to a mall, church, museum near you

Say hello to $5-6 a gallon

And so the badly thought out experiment to supply Libyan rebels with a central bank, to be used to fund an "alternative" fuel industry comes to a prompt and fiery end. Reuters reports that "Libyan government forces destroyed four fuel storage tanks and set several others ablaze in rebel-held Misrata, dealing a blow to the port city's ability to withstand a government siege, rebels said on Saturday." Not surprisingly this fits in perfectly with the assumption first postulated by Zero Hedge that Gaddafi will destroy his entire oil infrastructure before letting it fall into "enemy" hands. This likely marks the end of the Libyan rebellion and will force NATO to launch a land offensive or suffer a crushing blow to its already shaky reputation as globocop, especially now that the US is in theory at least, out of the air campaign against Gaddafi. Which means that the boots on the ground are soon coming. Alas, it will not be the marines in the Kearsarge. As the below naval update map indicates, the Kearsarge has been relieved and now has left the theater of operations, however replaced with LHD 5 Bataan.

More info and video at link:

http://www.zerohedge.com/article/so-much-libyan-rebel-oil-exports-gaddafi-forces-destroy-last-fuel-tanks-under-rebel-control-

NY overturns Family Court decision to bar level 3 sex offender from his kids

James Colliton was a half-million dollar a year tax attorney with a Manhattan apartment and a home he shared with his wife and children in upstate Poughkeepsie, New York. Today, he is a convicted level-3 sex offender after pleading guilty to rape, among other charges, for patronizing teenage prostitutes who were pimped out by their mother according to prosecutors. Initially he took his family and fled to Canada, was arrested but released in Ontario, before finally being arrested again in Manhattan to face a 43-count indictment. By the time of his 2007 conviction, he had been in jail for 19 months and was sentenced to one year, time-served, in a plea deal that let him off the hook for a potential 30 years in prison. The mother of the teen girls had previously pleaded guilty to charges against her for pimping the girls out to Colliton.

In Plea Deal, Lawyer Admits Having Sex With Teenagers

Seem like a pretty open and shut case of a real creep who probably got off a lot easier than he should have. I mean, just getting a look at this guy's mug is almost enough to convict him. Tell me that doesn't look like the textbook pic of a pedophile.

Since his conviction he has gone from tax attorney to pro se litigant, suing everyone from American Express for revealing account information leading to his arrest, to his former employer for not paying him his bonus, to the Town of Poughkeepsie and Dutchess County for violating his Constitutional rights and rights to privacy while monitoring him as a registered sex offender. Now it appears as though he might have grounds to go after the county's Department of Social Services with the NY State Court of Appeals ruling in his favor against the Family Court and recommendations of DSS which forced him out of his home for the next three years after his conviction. According to the Poughkeepsie Journal...

The Dutchess County Department of Social Services filed neglect petitions against both parents alleging the father was an untreated level-three sex offender, deemed likely to reoffend, whose crimes involved young teens, and that the mother failed to protect the children from the father.

Enough to make your blood boil right? One article I linked above there they called him "the most ridiculous pro se litigant of all time." And I am sure much worse has been said about him. Certainly enough to piss off the average Joe or Jane to see a creep like this using his legal expertise in to start snagging up loopholes in order to sue various parties for hundreds of millions of dollars. You would think he would have been happy with getting such a lucky break at sentencing for his admitted crimes.

Well, if you know me, or as you get to know me, you will see that I like to play the devil's advocate a lot. I am not easily swayed by rhetoric and shock-value reporting. I don't have the same knee-jerk reactions as most people do to words like communist, terrorist, sex offender or pedophile. So I tried to think about this objectively. Should this man have been forced from his house and barred from his children simply because he was guilty of sex with a teenage girl for money?

Of course I understand that these girls were underage and what he did is indeed a crime, but I am not quite seeing the correlation that shows he would actually attack his own children. It's kind of like the assumption that homophobes always make when they find out a guy is queer. All the sudden the straight guys all think the queer guy is going to try to have sex with them. You see that assumption too when it comes to homosexuals interacting with children. Legal or not, homosexuality is still often seen as sexual deviancy, that the homosexual might be more inclined to molest children and therefore should not be allowed to adopt or work with kids. Even if there were data to support such a notion, there is certainly nothing that says all homosexuals are likely to attack children.

So just because he pled guilty to having sex with a minor, does not mean that he is likely to attack any and all minors, especially his own children.  If he had sex with a prostitute that was of legal age, would that be a sign that he was likely to proposition his children for sex when they became legal age of consent? Certainly not, yet that is same sort of logic which was applied to bar this man from his house and his kids.

Applied logic doesn't always pan out though in the real world. My gut was still telling me that this guy is a creep and his kids would be better off without him. I would certainly sleep better at night knowing that this guy was nowhere near kids, his own or otherwise. But then again I am conflicted between what my gut is telling me, and what my morals tell me. And my morals tell me this has nothing to do with how I sleep at night. My morals tell me that this has nothing to do with what my gut tells me "might" happen. My morals tell me that just because a man is guilty of one crime, I have no right to assume he is destined to be guilty of any crime my imagination conjures up.

Therefore, I must conclude that the judges in this case did in fact make the right decision in their ruling. A difficult decision on their part no doubt, and an unpopular ruling it is likely to be in the face of hyperbole and the public's utter contempt for sex offenders. Nonetheless, we see that they had statutory basis for their ruling.

...under New York's Family Court Act, they cited two findings that required them to determine neglect. The first is "proof of actual (or imminent danger of) physical, emotional, or mental impairment to the child." Second is the danger "must be a consequence of the parent's failure to exercise a minimum degree of parental care."


The court noted the statutory test is not best or ideal care for children, but a minimum degree.

So it does appear that the Department of Social Services did wrongfully separate this man from his family, falsely accusing both himself and his wife of neglect. And as much as I hate to admit it, he should be compensated for that. As this story begins to unravel, now we must consider too that perhaps his other lawsuits were not so frivolous as we had assumed. What if this man were not guilty of statutory rape? I think that perhaps me might actually give him more serious consideration. Which we should anyway. Just because someone is the perpetrator of a crime, no matter how heinous, that is no justification for others to commit crimes against him or to deny him his rights, lest one day we too are abused simply because we are not popular.

Digging a little deeper now, I am confronted by articles that paint a very different picture than what has been portrayed by the prosecution and in most media sources reporting on the case. What if this man really is not in fact guilty of the crimes he was convicted of? It would seem incredulous, unthinkable to even suggest such a thing. How dare I even doubt for a second that such a creep is not as guilty as sin. After all, he pled guilty, and so did the mother who pimped out those poor girls.

So let's go ahead and take a second look at that woman, who also pled guilty in a plea arrangement. How could a mother do such a thing to her daughters? Well, the case comes undone a little more as we pull at the loose ends as they begin to fray.

"The one that was prostituting my [now] 15-year-old daughter was my [21-year-old] daughter," the mother said in her sparse apartment in lower Manhattan. "She's the devil's child, period."


The mother said her vengeful child had been out to get her since she called ACS to report her daughter's boyfriend was abusing her granddaughter.

But it also appears the girls weren't just out to get the mother. According to another article, these young girls have lied about an awful lot in this case, even lying under oath to the grand jury. So what can we really believe? The window of reasonable doubt is suddenly wide open it appears, and perhaps James Colliton should never have pled guilty to what may have been false allegations from the start.

The older sister had alleged that her own relationship with Colliton began when she was 15. This is disputed however by a cousin of the sisters, identified only as "Shorty," who states that it was she who introduced the older sister to Colliton and that it had been three years later than claimed, when she was 18, a year older than the legal age for consent in New York State. If that is true, then one of the rape charges against Colliton goes right out the window. Plainly not guilty of statutory rape, even if guilty of patronizing a prostitute.

The younger girl has now admitted that she lied about her mother pimping her out, but maintains that she did in fact have sex with Colliton for money and gifts at the behest of her older sister.But that too must be met with the utmost skepticism at this point, considering how this whole case came about in the first place. The elder sister became pregnant by another man, but then began extorting Colliton until finally he demanded a DNA test be done. This is where the younger sister comes into the picture.

By some accounts, still needing cash, the older sister began offering up her younger sibling to Colliton. At first to clean his apartment in exchange for money, but eventually he is alleged to have begun paying in cash and gifts for sex with the younger girl for the next several months. By her own admission, the younger girl began extorting Colliton, threatening to have him arrested.

"I started threatening him that if he didn't give me money that I'd call the cops on him. I told him to give me whatever he could give me. I didn't want to have sex with him anymore," she said.

Maybe she never had sex with him in the first place. The older sister convinced the younger to report Colliton to ACS Administration for Children's Services) while implicating their mother becasue she was too strict on them. As if the credibility of these two girls was not already in serious doubt, we also have the case of José Mangual, the ex boyfriend of the mother of these two girls, who has come forward stating that he was the subject of false allegations made by these two sisters.

Mangual said he ran afoul of the older sister when he moved into the family's Manhattan home and the mother began paying more attention to him than to her kids.


The older girl, then 17, filed physical-abuse charges against the mother with the Administration for Children Service and allegedly persuaded her younger sister to accuse Mangual of sexual abuse.


Mangual said he was never arrested but hired a lawyer to defend himself in family court. He said that the girls' claim fell apart under questioning and that the case against him was dismissed. He and their mother later broke up.

Considering that Mangual came forward and the testimony of the girls had been all but disproven by their own public statements to press, it is hard to imagine how the charges against either the mother or Colliton still stood at all, much less why they might have elected to plead guilty to those charges. Of course, there are those who will maintain the naive notion that "only a guilty person would plead guilty." But sadly, that just is not the truth in this day and age of the presumption of guilt over innocence. The police and courts are too well trusted, while someone as loathsome as a child molester or an unfit mother will hardly be afforded any reasonable doubt even when only the weakest of evidence is brought against them.

So considering that. Considering the very real possibility that they may spend decades in prison for something they did not do, it is really little surprise that such a fear would get the better of someone. And that they would rather just plead guilty, go home and try to move on, leaving the whole sordid tale behind them the best they can. And that my friends, is a big reason why our system is broken. Because the accused, even with the best lawyers often, know full well that there is no such thing as the presumption of innocence anymore. How did that happen? How do we change that?