Professor Gates, President Obama: Clyde Coffey Is Still Dead

It would be hard to find a better example of the self absorption exhibited by children of the “Age Of Aquarius” than the inane discussion conducted by President Obama and the Nattering Nitwits of the National Press about the arrest of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates by Cambridge Police.

Seriously folks, We, The Public, should shed crocodile tears over the arrest of a Professor with more degrees than intelligence because he could not talk his way out of a routine investigation? And he teaches where? At Harvard? AND he wants to make the incident into some kind of racial issue?

Geez. A small reality check is in order.

In just five years, writer David Codrea CLICK HERE has amassed nearly 3,500 Police Misconduct Incidents in his (TM) “Only Ones” File; incidents that range the gamut from (but are not limited to) murder to rape to child molestation among other charges.

Really, CLICK HERE.

Before David Codrea’s (TM)”Only Ones” File there came the now defunct Bad Cop News, where, as the description on their masthead stated: Bad Cop News:10’s Of Thousands Of “Isolated Incidents” – Our Tax Dollars At Work

Really, CLICK HERE

Before that, JJ Johnson of the equally defunct Sierra Times maintained an archive dubbed the Whack’em and Stack’em Files.

Really, CLICK HERE

I, myself, here in this small humble blog of a few hundred daily hits have uncovered a ridiculous number of police misconduct reports to the point where I tire of the chronicle.

Police who invade the wrong address in SWAT Team garb, police who gratuitously shoot the family pet dog, who terrorize women and children over fabricated charges of illegal food sales(?!) and just generally leave a trail of mayhem and mischief where ever they go.

Really, CLICK HERE

A surprising number of these incidents, if not the overwhelming majority, occur between white cops and white citizens.

Which brings us to the strange case of Clyde Coffey in North Carolina. CLICK HERE

In April of this year 76 year old (Caucasian) (male) (taxpayer)(Citizen)(Landowner) Clyde Coffey was turkey hunting on a remote parcel of land he owned in Wilkes County, North Carolina as he had for 25 years without incident when he was approached, shot and killed by (Caucasian) (male) Wildlife Enforcement Officer Mark Minton who alleges Clyde Coffey was engaged in illegal bait tactics.

In spite of a severely contaminated crime scene (caused by Emergency Medical Personnel and others) the State Bureau of Investigation has exonerated the conduct of Wildlife Enforcement Officer Minton and the County DA has declined to even present the case to a grand jury.

In a State that brought (recently) disgraced Prosecutor Mike Nifong to national attention, the inaction of the Wilkes County DA seems to reach the level of routine procedure.

Where is the national discussion or outrage over this case?

Professor Gates, President Obama, get over yourselves.

The issue is hardly racial profiling. The issue is Police Training.

Who writes the curriculum for these people and how have they become so isolated from their fellow Americans (Black or white?) that they shoot, kill and terrorize with impunity?

Professor Gates had a mild experience, probably because he is black.

Clyde Coffey is still dead.

Update: Be sure to visit the Traffic Stop and Police Encounter Tutorial CLICK HERE

Lucy! You Have Some ‘Splaining To Do!

Wow! The perfect media template story: a single mother, a child, jack booted thugs and a miscarriage of justice. And all of it not exactly true!

Imagine. A highly professional local muddlestream media TV Station hoodwinked, hoodooed and swindled by a source! Talk about the tail wagging the dog. Why, that has not happened since, ah, Al Gore and Global Warming.

Wait, that story really IS true. At least they say it is, or least as a wag once observed: “Fake but accurate”. Nevertheless, shades of Janet Cooke!!! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Cooke)

Whatever happened to the two source rule? Gather ye screen shots while ye may folks, this is the kind of story that tends to “disappear” in 21st Century America.

And has anyone seen Amanda Lamb recently? As Ricky Ricardo famously said in the 1950’s sitcom I Love Lucy:” Luuuuccee, you have some ’splaining to do”

Tantalizing Excerpt:
It’s the false TV news report heard ’round the world. Raleigh, North Carolina’s WRAL-5 reported last week that a 16-year-old bomb hoax suspect was hauled out of his mother’s home by federal agents, and is now being held without any legal rights on the authority of the 2001 USA PATRIOT Act, which “supersedes the Constitution.”

This tale of injustice has since shown up on Drudge, Digg, Reddit, and a thousand blogs and shoot-from-the-hip mailing lists. The boy’s name is rising on the Google Trends index. Radio show host Alex Jones interviewed the boy’s mother on Tuesday, and pundits on the left and right are seizing on the story to rail against the government’s unfettered power to make an innocent citizen disappear at will. Some outraged reports are claiming the teenager hasn’t even been charged with a crime.

The arrest of the teenager is real enough. FBI agents investigating a February 15 bomb hoax that evacuated the mechanical engineering building at Purdue University traced the phone call to the juvenile’s Oxford, North Carolina home, served his mother with a search warrant and arrested the teen. They issued a press release about it, omitting the suspect’s name. That was on March 5, and he’s been held without bail in Indiana ever since.

Link To Wired Magazine:

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/05/bloggers-tv-go-nuts-over-misleading-patriot-act-claim/

Olofson Conviction Upheld

Oh crap! The BAT Boys have pulled off another swindle. Where do they find these dingbat judges? David Codrea has the gory details at his Examiner.com site:

http://www.examiner.com/x-1417-Gun-Rights-Examiner~y2009m5d4-Olofson-Machine-Gun-Transfer-Conviction-Upheld

Grisly Excerpt:

Earlier today I reported on my WarOnGuns blog that exclusion of expert witness Len Savage from the courtroom during testimony by his government counterpart was held to be “not an abuse of discretion.”

Are You Next? Patriot Act Allegations Used To “Disappear” NC Teenager

With all the heinous crimes rejected by the courts for a change of venue it is odd a teenager with an *alleged* smart mouth can be kidnapped into jurisdiction far from local authorities in a complete and unapologetic suspension of habeas corpus.

Are you next to be “disappeared” in a banana boat Republic Kidnapping for some real or imagined crime?

Who were the local authority Oath-Breakers who assisted this Unconstitutional Usurpation?

Tantalizing Excerpt:

Around 10 p.m. on March 5, Lundeby said, armed FBI agents along with three local law enforcement officers stormed her home looking for her son. They handcuffed him and presented her with a search warrant.

“I was terrified,” Lundeby’s mother said. “There were guns, and I don’t allow guns around my children. I don’t believe in guns.”

Ashton now sits in a juvenile facility in South Bend, Ind. His mother has had little access to him since his arrest. She has gone to her state representatives as well as attorneys, seeking assistance, but, she said, there is nothing she can do.

“Never in my worst nightmare did I ever think that it would be my own government that I would have to protect my children from,” Lundeby said. “This is the United States, and I feel like I live in a third world country now.”

Complete Link:
http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/5049867/

Oath-Breaker Wake County Republican Sheriff Donnie Harrison

Another missive from Raleigh Constituent:

Dear John Jacob:

One of the joys of life in occupied North Carolina is to experience the perpetual shakedown by civic groups who want to save the planet, save the children, save the stuffed teddy bears etc.

One of the older North Carolina Civic Groups is the North Carolina Sheriff’s Association, who think it no impropriety to lobby the legislature for various unconstitutional laws and restrictions on the Right To Keep And Bear Arms, an attitude held over from the Jim Crowe era when everybody agreed those people should not be allowed to possess weapons or arms under any but the most limited circumstances.

Here is an example of the Sheriff’s Association at work on a gun control project from yesteryear:

http://www.grnc.org/alerts/alert5_12_05.htm

When we, the public, elected Republican Donnie Harrison sheriff, there was a natural assumption he would introduce an innovative lobby organization to squelch the questionable gun control activities of the staid and outdated North Carolina Sheriff Association, possibly by formation of the North Carolina Constitutional Sheriff Association.

Sadly, after only a few years in office, Donnie Harrison has gone completely native and taken up the bad habits of his predecessor *Socialist Sheriff John Baker*with a letterhead shakedown solicitation of the public to fund the increasingly senile and predatory NC Sheriff Association.

So, once again,We, the Public,must search for a new standard bearer for the traditional Constitutional Values of our representative Republic.

All the best,

Oath-Breaker-New Hampshire Police Captain Explains Gun Confiscation

New Hampshire Police Captain confiscates legal pistol and then demands the right to perform a background check. “The form exists for a reason”. “It is a simple process for public safety”.

Explanatory Excerpt:
A Manchester police captain discusses the New Hampshire PD’s recently-questioned handling of confiscated firearms…specifically their policy of requiring background checks before they return guns. Some are claiming it is illegal for them to do this.

Armed Uniformed TSA Agents Interrogate Liberty Activist Steven Bierfeldt

Tantalizing Excerpt:

TSA agents claim having a large sum of money which could be any amount over $50.00 is cause to be detained and interrogated. When Mr. Bierfeldt asks if the interrogation over having cash is lawful he was threatened with further detainment and investigation by DEA and FBI.

More details and links at Congress Check:

http://www.congresscheck.com/2009/04/03/campaign-for-liberty-worker-with-ron-paul-bumper-stickers-detained-harassed-by-tsa/

Support Ron Paul Or Chuck Baldwin? You might be a terrorist! You too, Oath-Keepers!

Remember Missouri?

In September of 2008, Missouri sheriffs and prosecutors organized truth squads to intimidate people opposed to Obama and threatened to arrest and prosecute anybody who ran “misleading television ads.”

Now they are at it again.

“Missouri Information Analysis Center (MIAC) provides a public safety partnership consisting of local, state and federal agencies, as well as the public sector and private entities that will collect, evaluate, analyze, and disseminate information and intelligence to the agencies tasked with Homeland Security responsibilities in a timely, effective, and secure manner,” explains the MIAC website. “MIAC is the mechanism to collect incident reports of suspicious activities to be evaluated and analyzed in an effort to identify potential trends or patterns of terrorist or criminal operations within the state of Missouri. MIAC will also function as a vehicle for two-way communication between federal, state and local law enforcement community within our region.”

Tantalizing Excerpt:

The Congress Blog
What are your government officials doing?
Secret State Police Report: Ron Paul, Bob Barr, Chuck Baldwin, Libertarians are Terrorists

By Congress Check in Uncategorized on March 11th, 2009

Kurt Nimmo
Infowars
March 11, 2009

The MIAC effort to characterize Libertarians and Constitutionalists as racists is reminiscent of an attempt by the corporate media in early 2008 to portray Ron Paul as a racist by attempting to link him to a series of vaguely racist newsletters produced in the 1980s. Paul did not exercise editorial control over the newsletters and went so far as to apologize for them, but this did not prevent the corporate media from characterizing him as a racist.

According to MIAC, opposition to world government, NAFTA, federalization of the states, and restrictive gun laws are a threat to the police. “The militia subscribes to an anti-government and NWO mindset, which creates a threat to law enforcement officers. They view the military, National Guard, and law enforcement as a force that will confiscate their firearms and place them in FEMA concentration camps,” the document claims in a section entitled “You are the Enemy.”

In regard to supposed militia movement literature and media, the MIAC report mentions Aaron Russo’s America: Freedom to Fascism and William Luther Pierce’s The Turner Diaries — the latter was penned by the former leader of the white nationalist organization National Alliance and the former by a Libertarian filmmaker. In order to underscore the absurdity of the MIAC attempt to link Pierce’s novel and Russo’s anti-tax documentary, it should be noted that the late Aaron Russo was Jewish and The Turner Dairies posits a Zionist government in America (or ZOG, the Zionist Occupation Government) run by Jews.

Complete Link:

http://www.congresscheck.com/2009/03/11/secret-state-police-report-ron-paul-bob-barr-chuck-baldwin-libertarians-are-terrorists/

Parable Of The Good Cop Part II

Last summer the Michael Bane Blog was host to a remarkably bizarre encounter of the Orwellian (or, if you prefer, Kafakaesque) variety between an anonymous (RETIRED!!!!) Detective and a message board moderator.

On February 12th of this year in Oklahoma City there was similar incident, only this time the dispute was over the interpretation of a sign on the back of a car and the cops were clearly visible and operated in broad daylight.

While the Police Chief backpedaled as fast as he could, the hapless motorist was subjected to an (informal?) visit from the Secret Service which included a (warrentless?) “plain view” search of his home and an “interview” with said Secret Service Agents.

newsok.com/okc-officer-pulls-man-over-for-anti-obama-sign-on-vehicle/article/3347038?custom_click=headlines_widget

No one knows how many incidents of this type regularly occur around the country, but these two highly public examples should be enough to alarm anyone who has ever taken an oath to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic”.

Take your choice as to which incident is more chilling.

In the Michael Bane case a moderator on one of the message boards received a phone call from a ” retired Marine and undercover cop” who somehow advised her one of the comments on her board was somehow out of line.

In response to this out-of juridiction, extra legal and (presumably) interpretive view of the 1st Amendment the moderator went into “super compliant sheeple” mode and posted this gem:

http://www.downrange.tv/forum/index.php/topic,3055.msg34924.html#msg34924

When challenged about the whole business the moderator then posted this explanation:

http://www.downrange.tv/forum/index.php/topic,3055.msg35196.html#msg35196

My question to all current, former and otherwise wannabe JBT’s: WHEN will Jesse Jackson be publicly investigated for his widely broadcast threat to harm a Presidential Candidate?

Or in the absence of such investigation, is it acceptable for me to make a tee shirt or bumpersticker which reads: “I agree with Jesse Jackson, castrate ObamaNation!”

Link to original Parable Of The Good Cop:

http://johnjacobh.wordpress.com/2008/08/16/the-parable-of-the-good-cop/ec

Wisconsin Open Carry Battle! DNR Wants To Seize Your Gun!

Here we have a breath taking power grab only a modern government official can produce.

Update January 14,2009:

Apparently the DNR has forgotten about this little fandango from 2004.

Every one of the people killed had disarmed themselves because they obeyed Hunter Safety “Best Practices” and thought a stroll in the woods, even a heated argument, would not ever end in “shots fired”.

Link:
freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1289180/posts

Tantalizing Excerpt:

DNR to hunters: Hand over your guns on demand
Ex-hunter ed instructor says directive unconstitutional
Richard Moore
Investigative Reporter

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has a simple, blunt message for hunters in Wisconsin: When a DNR warden asks you to give up your legal firearm, do so, plain and simple, no matter what.

What’s more, that goes for all citizens, the agency has asserted. Citizens with firearms, the DNR argues, should always do exactly what law enforcement officers tell them to do, regardless of the circumstances of the situation.

To which one former hunter education instructor for the department has an equally simple and blunt response: The agency’s directive is unconstitutional, plain and simple, and citizens don’t have to hand over their firearms without any probable cause.

The first thing he teaches is, he said, when a person is on private property and a warden stops and asks to see a license, the first thing to do is ask the warden for his credentials. The second thing, Palan said, is to boot the warden off the property because he’s trespassing.

“And when they start throwing their weight around, you just reach in your pocket and dial 911 and have the police come out and have them removed,” he said.

Just as important, along with an ongoing non-DNR case in West Allis, the agency’s expression of support for the ability of police to take away legal firearms upon simple command has in effect opened the door for a de facto state policy for all law enforcement.

The question is, is it constitutional, or, as Palan contends, does the DNR’s position characterize an unconstitutional breach of a citizen’s Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable search and seizure?

Simply asked, can law enforcement take a person’s legally carried firearm without any probable cause that a crime is being committed? Must a hunter in the field surrender his firearm just because a conservation warden tells him to?

Complete Article Link:

lakelandtimes.com/main.asp?SectionID=9&SubSectionID=9&ArticleID=8907&TM=37236.69