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    Police Leave 2 Teenagers in a Holding Cell for an Entire Weekend, In the Dark, Without Food


    “It’s obvious we need to make some changes at the courthouse, to make sure our procedures are followed (and) that this doesn’t happen again. I’m embarrassed today as I can possibly be.”

    June 26, 2014
    Two teens, 16 and 17, were at the Douglas County Courthouse for their appearances on Friday.
    Neither of their parents showed up for court so they were set to be transported back to the youth detention center.
    However, they were instead put in a courthouse holding cell and left there all weekend long.
    The two teens were left in the dark, with no food, and no toilet paper.
    Douglas County Sheriff spoke out about this ridiculous mistake.

    “It’s obvious we need to make some changes at the courthouse, to make sure our procedures are followed (and) that this doesn’t happen again. I’m embarrassed today as I can possibly be,” he said.
    The teens were not discovered until Monday morning.
    Miller says that eight to ten officers are responsible for the checks to prevent such things from happening and they may lose their jobs once an internal investigation is complete.




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    Embarrassed, embarrassed they say!!!! That just doesn't cut it!!! That is abuse and they need to be fired and charged with dereliction of duty!!!
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    10 Facts About The SWATification Of America That Everyone Should Know

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    Can You Trust a Government that Kills, Maims, Tortures, Lies, Spies, Cheats & Threate

    Can You Trust a Government that Kills, Maims, Tortures, Lies, Spies, Cheats & Threatens its Citizens like Criminals?

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    Can You Really Trust a Government that Kills, Maims, Tortures, Lies, Spies, Cheats & Threatens its Citizens like Criminals? - Freedom Outpost
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    "Why should anyone trust a government that has condoned torture, spied on at least 35 world leaders, supports indefinite detention, places bugs in thousands of computers all over the world, kills innocent people with drone attacks, promotes the post office to log mail for law enforcement agencies and arbitrarily authorizes targeted assassinations? Or, for that …



    Can You Really Trust a Government that Kills, Maims, Tortures, Lies, Spies, Cheats & Threatens its Citizens like Criminals?


    John Whitehead 3 hours ago


    "Why should anyone trust a government that has condoned torture, spied on at least 35 world leaders, supports indefinite detention, places bugs in thousands of computers all over the world, kills innocent people with drone attacks, promotes the post office to log mail for law enforcement agencies and arbitrarily authorizes targeted assassinations? Or, for that matter, a president that instituted the Insider Threat Program, which was designed to get government employees to spy on each other and 'turn themselves and others in for failing to report breaches,' which includes 'any unauthorized disclosure of anything, not just classified materials.'" — Professor Henry Giroux

    Why should anyone trust a government that kills, maims, tortures, lies, spies, cheats, and treats its own citizens like criminals? For that matter, why should anyone trust a government utterly lacking in transparency, whose actions give rise to more troubling questions than satisfactory answers, and whose domestic policies are dictated more by paranoia than need?

    Unfortunately, "we the people" have become so trusting, so gullible, so easily distracted, so out-of-touch, so compliant and so indoctrinated on the idea that our government will always do the right thing by us that we have ignored the warning signs all around us, or at least failed to recognize them as potential red flags.

    As I point out in my book A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State, the consequences of this failure on both our parts—the citizenry's and the government's—to do our due diligence in asking the right questions, demanding satisfactory answers, and holding our government officials accountable to respecting our rights and abiding by the rule of law has pushed us to the brink of a nearly intolerable state of affairs. Intolerable, at least, to those who remember what it was like to live in a place where freedom, due process and representative government actually meant something. (Remember that the people of Stalin's Soviet Union and Hitler's Germany also failed to ask questions, demand answers, and hold their government officials accountable until it was too late, and we know how that turned out.)

    There's certainly no shortage of issues about which we should be asking questions of our government representatives, demanding truthful answers, and subsequently insisting on changes within our government. Keep in mind, however, that the government has mastered the art of evasion. Thus, it's not enough to ask the questions. We need to demand answers, and when those answers aren't forthcoming—either because a government official claims to not "know" or because it's outside his or her jurisdiction—we need to demand that they find out.

    To get the ball rolling, here are just a few dozen of the questions that require honest answers by those individuals and agencies that are supposed to be answering to us. For my part, I'm going to send this exact list of questions to my government representatives and see how responsive they are. I'd suggest you do the same.

    To start with, what's the rationale behind turning government agencies into military outposts? There has been a notable buildup in recent years of SWAT teams within non-security-related federal agencies such as Department of Agriculture, the Railroad Retirement Board, the Tennessee Valley Authority, the Office of Personnel Management, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Education Department. As of 2008, "73 federal law enforcement agencies… [employ] approximately 120,000 armed full-time on-duty officers with arrest authority." Four-fifths of those officers are under the command of either the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) or the Department of Justice.

    What's with all of the government agencies stockpiling hollow point bullets? For example, why does the Department of Agriculture need .40 caliber semiautomatic submachine guns and 320,000 rounds of hollow point bullets? For that matter, why do its agents need ballistic vests and body armor?
    Why does the Postal Service need "assorted small arms ammunition"? Why did the DHS purchase "1.6 billion rounds of hollow-point ammunition, along with 7,000 fully-automatic 5.56x45mm NATO 'personal defense weapons' plus a huge stash of 30-round high-capacity magazines"? That's in addition to the FBI's request for 100 million hollow-point rounds. The Department of Education, IRS, the Social Security Administration, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which oversees the National Weather Service, are also among the federal agencies which have taken to purchasing ammunition and weaponry in bulk.

    Why is the federal government distributing obscene amounts of military equipment, weapons and ammunition to police departments around the country? And why is DHS acquiring more than 2,500 Mine-Resistant Armored Protection (MRAP) vehicles, only to pass them around to local police departments across the country? According to the New York Times:
    [A]s President Obama ushers in the end of what he called America's "long season of war," the former tools of combat — M-16 rifles, grenade launchers, silencers and more — are ending up in local police departments, often with little public notice. During the Obama administration, according to Pentagon data, police departments have received tens of thousands of machine guns; nearly 200,000 ammunition magazines; thousands of pieces of camouflage and night-vision equipment; and hundreds of silencers, armored cars and aircraft. The equipment has been added to the armories of police departments that already look and act like military units.

    Why is the military partnering with local police to conduct training drills around the country? And what exactly are they training for? In Richland, South Carolina, for instance, U.S. army special forces are participating in joint and secretive exercises and training with local deputies. The public has been disallowed from obtaining any information about the purpose of the drills, other than that they might be loud and to not be alarmed. The Army and DHS also carried out similar drills and maneuvers involving Black Hawk helicopters in Texas, Florida, and other locations throughout the U.S., ostensibly in order to provide officers with realistic urban training.

    What is being done to protect the American populace from the threat of military arms and forces, including unarmed drones, being used against them? Policy analysts point to Directive No. 3025.18, "Defense Support of Civil Authorities" (issued on Dec. 29, 2010), as justification for the government's use of military force to put down civil unrest within the United States.

    Why is FEMA stockpiling massive quantities of emergency supplies? On January 10, 2014, FEMA made a statement enlisting the service of contractors who could "supply medical biohazard disposal capabilities and 40 yard dumpsters to 1,000 tent hospitals across the United States; all required on 24-48 hour notice." This coincides with other medical requests seeking massive amounts of supplies, such as "31,000,000 flu vaccinations," "100,000 each of winter shirts and pants and the same for summer" and other goods and services requests as well like tarps, manufactured housing units, and beverages. And why does the TSA need $21,000 worth of potassium chlorate, a chemical compound often used in explosives?

    Why is the Pentagon continuing to purchase mass amounts of ammunition while at the same time preparing to destroy more than $1 billion worth of bullets and missiles that are still viable?

    Moreover, what is really being done to hold the Pentagon accountable for its doctored ledgers, fraud, waste and mismanagement, which has cost the taxpayer trillions of dollars? According to Reuters, "The Pentagon is the only federal agency that has not complied with a law that requires annual audits of all government departments. That means that the $8.5 trillion in taxpayer money doled out by Congress to the Pentagon since 1996, the first year it was supposed to be audited, has never been accounted for. That sum exceeds the value of China's economic output last year."

    Given the similarities between the government's Live Active Shooter Drill training exercises, carried out at schools, in shopping malls, and on public transit, which can and do fool law enforcement officials, students, teachers and bystanders into thinking it's a real crisis, how much of what is being passed off as real is, in fact, being staged by DHS for the "benefit" of training law enforcement, leaving us none the wiser? These training exercises come complete with their own set of professionally trained Crisis Actors playing the parts of shooters, bystanders and victims in order to help "schools and first responders create realistic drills, full-scale exercises, high-fidelity simulations, and interactive 3D films."

    Given that Americans are 110 times more likely to die of foodborne illness than in a terrorist attack, why is the government spending trillions of dollars on "national security"? How exactly is the $75 billion given to 15 intelligence agencies annually to keep us "safe" being spent? And why is the DHS giving away millions of dollars' worth of federal security grants to states that federal intelligence agencies ruled have "no specific foreign or domestic terrorism threat"?

    Why is the government amassing names and information on Americans considered to be threats to the nation, and what criteria is the government using for this database? Keep in mind that this personal information is being acquired and kept without warrant or court order. It's been suggested that in the event of nuclear war, the destruction of the US Government, and the declaration of martial law, this Main Core database, which as of 2008 contained some 8 million names of Americans, would be used by military officials to locate and round up Americans seen as threats to national security, a program to be carried about by the Army and FEMA.

    Taken individually, these questions are alarming enough. However, when viewed collectively, they leave one wondering what exactly the U.S. government is preparing for and whether American citizens shouldn't be preparing, as well, for that eventuality when our so-called "government of the people, by the people, for the people" is no longer answerable to "we the people."

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    Video Sheriff Claimed Didn’t Exist, Recovered. Shows the Brutal Beating of a Man By Deputies



    July 7, 2014

    Fernando Davis had been drinking on the night of his birthday and was sent to jail for DUI. He had no idea that his time in jail would lead to him being sent to the hospital as well.


    Davis received a beating so violent that the toilet in his cell was filled with blood.


    When Davis tried to claim the officers had assaulted him for no reason he was met with opposing stories from all of the deputies, so he hired an attorney.

    Davis’s attorney, Daniel Romano, knew that if the cops were lying, it could be proven by simply watching the surveillance footage from that night.

    Naturally, the Sheriff’s office claimed that no such tape existed. However, Romano found that it did in fact exist, and obtained a copy.

    The tape clearly showed that all of the differing and off the wall claims made by deputies in their reports were completely fabricated.


    Deputies claimed that Davis was being belligerent and starting fights with other inmates. They also claimed that he tried to attack them.


    The video shows the exact opposite.

    In solitary confinement Davis is seen with his hand against the wall, simply conversing with deputies, when all of the sudden he is swarmed by cop In reports and testimony, they would later acknowledge pepper spraying him and delivering hand and knee strikes to his body, saying Davis was resisting them.

    “My eyesight was taken away, I had no control over my body,” Davis told WXYZ Detroit News. “I don’t know what they did to me, but they were laughing at me. That’s the hurting part.”

    The sworn depositions taken from deputies that night, are so contrived that they actually contradict each other’s stories.

    Davis has since filed a federal lawsuit which deputies tried to get thrown out.

    However, a magistrate and two judges have now ruled that the case should move forward after seeing this video footage.

    Right now, all of the deputies involved are still out “protecting and serving.”


    video at link below

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