Thursday, September 30, 2004

Detroit--and reverse Jim Crow makes a return

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tmretiredRegistered UserPosts: 16(9/29/04 17:18)

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Detroit--and reverse Jim Crow makes a return

(Title of News Piece) Detroit council OKs plan that touts racial separation September 21, 2004

BY MARISOL BELLO
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER

A majority of the Detroit City Council wants to implement an economic development plan it commissioned for $112,000 that preaches racial isolation and rails against immigration in its bid to gain economic success for poor blacks.

The crux of the plan is the creation of a business district -- dubbed African Town -- that would be funded in part with city money and made up of black-owned businesses catering to a black clientele.The report also complains that immigrants from Mexico, Asia and the Middle East are stealing resources, jobs and other opportunities from blacks and calls on city leaders to stop the economic shift.

The report does not call on the city to stop immigration -- and the city wouldn't have any power to stop it, even if it wanted to -- but the report does call on the city to level the playing field between blacks and the newcomers who it says are economically surpassing them."We see this as another compliment to the exciting development going on in the city," said Councilwoman JoAnn Watson, who introduced the effort to the council earlier this summer.

The plan is under scrutiny by some city leaders and economic development experts who question the legality of an effort meant to help only one race. Some officials decry the council's efforts as threatening to reverse strides made in the region to improve race relations and the city's relationship with its neighbors.

Such a plan also could further alienate efforts by Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to seek regional cooperation and funding for major projects, such as an expansion and renovation of Cobo Center.

One official calls it outright racist."It's reverse racism," said Kay Everett, one of two councilwomen who voted against the plan. The other council member who rejected the plan was Sheila Cockrel."This is foolish," Everett said. "They don't understand. They're not thinking of the city as a whole. We need to bring harmony to this city, and if we say that we do not want any other people here, then we're being racist."Council members who voted for the plan are quick to say they are not against immigrants.

They say the city must act to help blacks, who more than any other ethnic group in the United States suffer from high levels of poverty, unemployment and school dropout rates.

Kilpatrick vetoed efforts by the council in July to implement the plan, but last week the mayor met with the plan's creator, Claud Anderson, a former Detroiter who had unsuccessfully applied for a casino license. He is also the author of popular books about the economic state of blacks in the country.

Kilpatrick officials said they did not sign any agreements with Anderson, but they are working to help him find land for a business district. So far, they have been unsuccessful.

A mayoral spokesman said that while the meetings were not an endorsement of the politics behind Anderson's plans, the mayor sees merit in the portions of the plan that are focused on creating jobs and increasing the number of black-owned businesses in the city."As they do with any potential investors, the mayor and his development team will continue to evaluate any economic development proposal presented to the city as part of its ongoing efforts to grow Detroit," said mayoral spokesman Howard Hughey."This administration is committed to improving the social and economic conditions, not only of African Americans, but also other traditionally disadvantaged groups."He said the administration is against the council's efforts to institutionalize a system that only helps blacks to the exclusion of other races. The council will find it difficult to implement its plan without the mayor's approval.The report, "A Powernomics Economic Development Plan for Detroit's Under-Served Majority Population," says inner cities should be improved for its residents, who should own and control the businesses in their neighborhoods.

He calls on blacks to support black-owned businesses, in the same way he says other groups frequent stores owned by people of their own ethnicities.

The report also says integration has failed blacks and that regionalism is a bid by whites to control the city's resources. Anderson warns city leaders to beware of non-blacks moving into the city because they will have their own agendas.

Anderson says his theories are not racist, but they are honest.He said the city is bordering on an economic crisis, with 26 percent of the city's population living below the poverty line."The biggest problem in the city of Detroit -- and it's true of all urban areas -- are black leaders and white leaders who continue to use and hide behind the myth of a color-blind and race-neutral society and use it as an excuse not to deal with this dilemma," Anderson said."There are special problems unique to black folks, and the city needs to address their problems."Detroit is the first city to begin to implement his Powernomics philosophy, Anderson said. He wants to create a business district for blacks, like Mexicantown or Greektown, that would include a fish factory with its own hatchery, black hair-care supplier, popcorn factory and fruit juice producers.He said he has some investors lined up to help with such a project, but he would not reveal their names.

The executive director of the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, a Boston-based nonprofit created by a Harvard University business professor, said the council is right to want to implement a plan to help blacks become entrepreneurs.


But the director, Anne Habiby, said black-business ownership is not a panacea, especially if there are no plans in place to help the business owners succeed. The initiative is in talks with Detroit to work as a consultant on economic development issues.

Habiby said Detroit has suffered so much population loss that its future success depends on more people moving into the city."Detroit must be an attractive place for people to live," Habiby said. "It's shortsighted for city leaders to create an environment that feels unwelcoming."Activists in the Hispanic and Arab communities say the city should work to help African Americans, but they said they worry that if the plan is seen as a race-based solution, it may deepen rifts between ethnic groups."I do think it's the city leadership's duty to work with the community and no doubt, the priority is African Americans," said Imad Hamad, Michigan director of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. "We have to go by the makeup of the community. ... My concern here is that it depends how people read it or react to it."One Hispanic business leader said the city should open its doors to all ethnic groups.

She said the Mexican community has been part of the city since the early 1900s. Hispanics account for 5 percent of the city's population."There's a lot going on in the city of Detroit, and if there is a need for an African Town, go for it," said Maria Elena Rodriguez, president of the Mexicantown Community Development Corporation. "But we should not be knocked for trying to get a seat at the table."And John Carroll, who heads the Detroit Regional Chamber of Commerce, said like it or not, the city and the suburbs are tied together."We think it's not a good option to pursue," he said.

But seven of nine council members did. They voted in July to begin implementing parts of Anderson's plan, including a resolution that designates blacks, who make up 83 percent of Detroit's population, as the "majority minority" group and another that creates a development corporation that would operate as a loan fund exclusively for black entrepreneurs.

The mayor vetoed both resolutions, but the same council members overrode the veto.

Councilwoman Cockrel, who supported the mayor's veto, said: "I'm not prepared to support an economic development strategy that has the unintended consequences of pitting people against each other.

At the end of the day ... the plan ... advocates exclusionary classifications and illegal set-asides that only serve to divide and polarize within the city and the region.

And we have plenty of that already."

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African Town? 'Majority minority"?

Lets call thgis plan what it is--it's leagalized racism.

It may have been passed by the Coincil , however it will be struck down the second it gets to a court.

Can you imagine the bile of these Detroit Coincil members in passing such a vile racist bill as this?

In effect what they are calling for is Jim Crow for everyone else except blacks. If Detroit can pass its Africantown program--a program that exculdes all groups except blacks, when will it pass laws on where all excluded groups can live,whom they can marry,and what public facilities they can use?

The larger question is why has this not been front page news?

wHERE IS THE BREATHLESS Ted Kopple,and Peter Jennings et.al?

No mentionin the national news pages of the NY Times--no op-ed mention either?Are the major networks and the natioanl paper of record for racial economic gerrymanding--silly me of course they are.

What Detriot did in passing this "Powernomics" nonsense is stab at the heart of the Constitution--plain and simple---they just tore up the equal protection and civil rights sections of the Constitution--and the national press is as quite as the grave.

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SinkingShipRegistered UserPosts: 24(9/30/04 2:59)

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Re: Detroit--and reverse Jim Crow makes a return

Okay... let me get this straight? An asian family, right off the boat speaking NO english, can scrape together the money to open a business in a drug infested, high crime ghetto... where the entire family participates and works 16 hour days (with the kids actually going to school while learning english at the same time) while constantly suffering the abuse and violence of the local residents, all in pursuit of the American dream and making a better life for them and their children.... but this is wrong to do in a black neighborhood?

So why don't the local residents just do it then?

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CalRegistered UserPosts: 288(9/30/04 3:36)

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where the entire family participates and works 16 hour days
See thats it.

They work.

I dont mean to disparage everyone from a certain group, but there does seem to be a high percentage of "blame someone else" and "give me the guvment cheese" over working you a$$ off to better your life.

As for the taking jobs bit, I have a somewhat topical story from college:

Student: Its not fair, they come across the border and take our jobs.

Professor: Do you want to pick strawberries for $5/hr 9+ hours a day?

Student: No.

Professor: Do you know anyone who would?

Student: No.

Professor: Then whos jobs are they really taking?

If Detroit wants to see just how successful an "African" retail area is, why not look at Africa? I mean can you imagine "Blue light special on Isle 6, get a pygmy frier for only 159.99"

Its hard to hear the argument that certain people cant get ahead in society when they seem hell bent for leather to be their own society and not work with anyone else.

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VikingasRegistered UserPosts: 18(9/30/04 9:41)

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Jim Crow is alive and well in America

Jim Crow is alive and well.

Drug laws weren’t enforced until after integration and the aftermath of the Civil Rights movement.

Low law enforcement areas are going to be America’s downfall.

I am talking about the pits of despair too many inner city and downtown areas have become in America.

Just over 20 years ago I was in a known downtown Mafia breakfast hangout in Springfield, Massachusetts.

Mafia guy to cop in Alfredo’s: “I thought you were going to keep the Moolies on their side? They are block up from where they’re supposed to be. They’re selling drugs on the Italian side. Either you do something or we’re going to do something, and you’ll probably not like our method”

Cop in uniform: “Okay, I’ll take care of it.”

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Minority drug dealers and users are later nailed as felons which limits them for life and keeps them down and out.

Crime watch areas are low law enforcement areas.

Armed Revenue collectors, Police, go after those that are bringing the neighborhoods up economically and can give residents a boost into the White Suburbs.

So property and investors and small business owners are the number one target of police, not criminals and drug dealers.

Jim Crow can't be secretly enforced unless those that aid and abet White Trash and Minorities are put down and taken out by being fined, fee'd, ruined, and having their property taken by a bank or under a nuisance statute where property can be taken if cops actually arrest criminals for criminal behavior downtown.

Take down landlords and small business owners downtown of any color and the invisible lines are still in place and long live, JIM CROW in the Peoples Republik of Hypocrania, USA.

If something was done in the initial stages there would not be so many minorities in prison.

Prison is birth control and containment for minorities.

The way drug laws are enforced minorities have a very small chance of ever living in the ‘White’ suburbs.

There you go, it’s Jim Crow.

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Jim Crow is alive and well in modern America: FreeSpeech.com post
(warning: has graphic racist cartoon)

Drug dealer shoots pig in head with illegal gun chop pig up downtown: (post)
(warning: graphic photos of severed pig's head and feet)

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SinkingShipRegistered UserPosts: 25(9/30/04 14:04)

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Re: Jim Crow is alive and well in America

Sooooo anyway..... as we were saying... it's just too bad certain people would rather sit on a stoop all day drinking malt liquor and smoking weed while b!tch!ng about how they can't get a break while others are working so hard to make a difference and get to a better place in life.

Let them have their own neighborhoods.... hell, give them an entire state to run. It'll be another violent and depressed area in no time.

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VikingasRegistered UserPosts: 22(9/30/04 16:59)Reply Edit
Cops cause crime areas to be crime areas
It is attitudes like yours that keep, “Separate and Unequal” alive in this country.Women and minorities weren’t given or would have never gotten the vote had they not fought for it.When cops feel certain residents and neighborhoods don’t DESERVE protection and service you get a bad neighborhood.Almost no policing is needed in the suburbs so those residents may never know rude, sloppy service, being threatened by police for calling and complaining, and may never know how badly disciplined and wasteful certain members of “the live off our backs in taxes,” such as police officers can be.If you own a home or a small business in most downtown areas you need adequate police protection and service to prosper and in some cases to just survive.Police officers serve, protect, and investigate based on their biases and whims. Police answer to each other and couldn’t give a rat’s behind on what most taxpayers think.If we had the power behind the paycheck in overseeing police maybe we'd get the respect, protection and service we work AND ARE PAYING FOR. We possibly spend more than half of everyday working to PAY TAXES.We were taught communism, fascism, and living in a police state was bad and how good, etc. America was all the way up through schools.It looks like America has a corporate brand of Socialism, and after 9-11 we do live in a POLICE STATE as police have more power and less oversight than ever before, which is a dangerous combination.So whenever I see a crime area, vacant buildings, and misery, I know that it is a place the police feel they don’t have to do any work in, except as little as possible, allowing those that are perceived as 2nd class or not worthy, to be contained in misery.Label someone a felon and they are down and out and controlable for life. Their life is only a phone call away from being ruined forever, thrown back in a hole. __________Who am I talking about that has the power to allow someone to own a home, business, or even to date?Answer: Members of an almost exclusively White male club, think White Trash and minorities don’t deserve a way up and out, and don’t deserve any respect, quality of life, nor the services and protection of those, deemed by themselves, superior to all the lesser humans. Yes, there are minorities and women in the ranks, but home much influence do they really have if they get ‘mouthy’.That attitude is so pervasive in your blog, that a civilian reading it, or I would think most, after reading enough of it, realize that most of you guys have to be put on a much tighter leash.Talking about blanket parties (groups of officers beating an object of their infection) and having a get together “For Coffee” when directed towards a civilian, it means to be threatened with keeping quiet or suffering the consequences.I have said enough on this blog that if I told members of this blog an exact location and what time I’d be there in NYC, I could expect a large group of officers wanting to get a look at me … and well beyond …After writing about drugs being sold off my property, vandalism, and the lack of police doing anything about it as their most common excuse was, “We don’t serve landlords and neither do the courts,” and for proposing Civilian Oversight of Police to elected officials, I still didn’t get any protection and service from Connecticut State Police.But, when my name went over the radio any cop in a car within a half hour of my location would come. There were enough cops and cruisers to look like a riot was occurring in front of my 3 and 5 Church St., Stafford Springs, CT, 3 and 4 family houses. The dispatcher had to yell at the cops over the radio to go on their calls for accidents, domestic disputes, etc. They would stare me down and tell me to go back where I came from and to shut my mouth, “Or else.”I’m sure if it wasn’t a time of video cameras I would have been hung from a tree in my front yard and it would be ruled a ‘suicide’ I got the modern version of hanging as Trooper sloppily committed perjury after they had one of their informants stalk, threaten, harass, and jump me one night I came home late from work to arrest just me. For that I went to prison and was told to leave Connecticut or get more prison when I was released.I was one of the few productive people in a downtown area and I was harassed and more viciously targeted than rapists, thieves, vandals, drug dealers, prostitutes, or any other criminal other than a cop killer, for having a “Big Mouth”


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The Stark Raving Viking

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stevengerickson@yahoo.com

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FreeSpeech.com (http://www.freespeech.com) posts relating to above subject:


"Instant Misery, Just Add Connecticut"
http://www.freespeech.com/archives/001654.html

"Downtown America, why are so many, criminal breeding grounds and pits of despair?"
Jim Crow is alive and well in modern America. Graphic racist cartoon in below link.
http://www.freespeech.com/archives/001883.html

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You Know you're from New York When...

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commander12Registered UserPosts: 138(9/29/04 14:31)

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You Know you're from New York When...

YOU KNOW YOU'RE FROM NEW YORK WHEN...

YOU RIDE IN A SUBWAY CAR WITH NO AIR CONDITIONING JUST BECAUSE THERE ARE SEATS AVAILABLE.

YOU AND THE OTHER THREE PASSENGERS LOOK AT EACH OTHER AND KNOW YOU HAVE PURE GRIT.

YOU TAKE THE TRAIN HOME AND YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHERE ON THE PLATFORM THE DOORS WILL OPEN THAT WILL LEAVE YOU RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE EXIT STAIRWAY.

YOU KNOW WHAT A "REGULAR" COFFEE IS.

IT'S NOT MANHATTAN, IT'S THE "CITY".YOU GET UPSET THAT A CABBIE IS OBEYING ALL THE RULES OF THE ROAD.

YOU'RE WILLING TO TAKE IN STRANGE PEOPLE AS ROOMMATES SIMPLY TO HELP PAY THE RENT.

THERE IS NO NORTH AND SOUTH. IT'S "UPTOWN" OR "DOWNTOWN."

IF YOU'RE REALLY FROM NEW YORK YOU HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO CONCEPT OF WHERE NORTH AND SOUTH ARE....

AND EAST OR WEST IS "CROSSTOWN.

"YOU CROSS THE STREET ANYWHERE BUT ON THE CORNERS AND YOU YELL AT CARS FOR NOT RESPECTING THE FACT.

YOU MOVE 8,000 MILES AWAY, SPEND 10 YEARS LEARNING THE LOCAL LANGUAGE AND PEOPLE STILL KNOW YOU'RE FROM BROOKLYN THE MINUTE YOU OPEN YOUR MOUTH.

YOU RETURN AFTER 10 YEARS AND THE FIRST FOODS YOU WANT ARE A "REAL" PIZZA AND "REAL" BAGEL.

A 500 SQUARE FOOT APARTMENT IS LARGE.

YOUR CO-WORKER COMMUTES 45 MINUTES BY TRAIN TO A 2,000 SQUARE FOOT HOUSE IN THE SUBURBS THAT WAS THE SAME PRICE AS THAT SAME 500 SQUARE FOOT APARTMENT OF YOURS THAT TAKES ONLY 35 MINUTES TO GET TO AND YOU THINK HE'S A SUCKER.

YOU KNOW THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN ALL THE DIFFERENT RAY'S PIZZAS.

YOU ARE NOT UNDER THE MISTAKEN IMPRESSION THAT ANY HUMAN BEING WOULD BE ABLE TO ACTUALLY UNDERSTAND A P.A. ANNOUNCEMENT ON THE SUBWAY.

YOU KNOW WHO DR. Z IS.

YOU HAVE AT LEAST 50 MENUS IN YOUR APARTMENT, TWO THIRDS OF WHICH YOU HAVE NEITHER ORDERED FROM NOR EVEN HEARD OF.

YOU WOULDN'T BOTHER ORDERING PIZZA IN ANY OTHER CITY.

YOU KNOW THAT OFF-THE-SHELF INSECTICIDES ARE JUST LAUGHING GAS TO THE SUPERIOR ROACHES COHABITATING WITH YOU IN THE 500 SQUARE FOOT APARTMENT.

YOU GET READY TO ORDER DINNER EVERY NIGHT AND MUST CHOOSE FROM THE MAJOR FOOD GROUPS: CHINESE, ITALIAN, MEXICAN OR INDIAN.

YOU'RE NOT IN THE LEAST BIT INTERESTED IN GOING TO TIMES SQUARE ON NEW YEAR'S EVE.

YOUR INTERNAL CLOCK IS PERMANENTLY SET TO KNOW WHEN ALTERNATE SIDE OF THE STREET PARKING REGULATIONS ARE IN EFFECT.

YOU KNOW WHAT A BODEGA IS.

YOU KNOW HOW TO FOLD THE NEW YORK TIMES IN HALF, VERTICALLY, SO THAT YOU CAN READ IT ON THE SUBWAY OR BUS WITHOUT KNOCKING OFF OTHER PASSENGER'S HATS.

SOMEONE BUMPS INTO YOU, AND YOU CHECK FOR YOUR WALLET.

YOU DON'T EVEN NOTICE THE NICE LADY WALKING DOWN THE ROAD HAVING A PERFECTLY NORMAL CONVERSATION WITH HER SELF.

YOU PAY "ONLY" $230 A MONTH TO PARK YOUR CAR.

YOU CRINGE AT HEARING PEOPLE PRONOUNCE HOUSTON ST. LIKE THE CITY IN TEXAS.

THE PRESIDENTIAL VISIT IS A MAJOR TRAFFIC JAM, NOT AN HONOR.

FILM CREWS ON YOUR BLOCK ANNOY YOU, NOT EXCITE YOU. (THEY TAKE UP ALL THE PARKING SPACES!)

YOU CAN NAP ON THE SUBWAY AND NEVER MISS YOUR STOP.

YOU LOOK FORWARD TO RIDING THE SUBWAY TO READ THE NEXT INSTALLMENT OF "MARISOL AND JULIO".

THE DELI GUY GIVES YOU A STRAW WITH ANY BEVERAGE YOU BUY, EVEN IF IT IS BEER.

YOU MAY AIR HEARTFELT GRIPES AND COMPLAINTS ABOUT YOUR CITY, BUT HEAVEN HELP ANY VISITORS WHO DIS' YOUR CITY.

THAT'S NEW YORK, BABY!

YOU GOTTA LOVE IT.

IF YOU ARE A TRUE NEW YORKER SEND THIS TO EVERYONE, LIKE YOURSELF

thought you might enjoy a good laff, a buddy gave me this.

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ProudPDRegistered UserPosts: 1545(9/29/04 14:55)

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Stand by the bubble gum

commander 12

"YOU TAKE THE TRAIN HOME AND YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHERE ON THE PLATFORM THE DOORS WILL OPEN THAT WILL LEAVE YOU RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE EXIT STAIRWAY."

They are all good but the one above had my wife and I cracking up.

You nailed me on the head. I have it down to the inch - right where the crack is on the metal edging. lol lol

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dinosaurRegistered UserPosts: 677(9/29/04 15:18)

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Re: Stand by the bubble gum

I think we went through this one before. Bagels? Nah but pizza?

Cardboard sh1t in the sticks.

Peas and carrots in the chinese food, ugh animals, the Italian sausage tastes strangely like kielbasa and wtf, and who cares what a pierogi is.

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retguyRegistered UserPosts: 228(9/29/04 19:31)

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commander

you got this one from mattys roomate didnt you?

YOU'RE WILLING TO TAKE IN STRANGE PEOPLE AS ROOMMATES SIMPLY TO HELP PAY THE RENT.

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ProudPDRegistered UserPosts: 1551(9/29/04 22:40)

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Must be outside spot.

"YOU PAY "ONLY" $230 A MONTH TO PARK YOUR CAR. "WOW!!!!

Email me with the location so nobody else beats me to the place. lol

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CalRegistered UserPosts: 290(9/30/04 3:52)

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cities

Amusing list. Care to guess where this is?

- Your co-worker tells you she/he has 8 body piercings but none are visible.

- You make over $100,000 and still can't afford a house.

- You take a bus and are shocked at two people carrying on a conversation in English.

- You can't remember ... is pot illegal?

- You've been to more than one baby shower that has two mothers and a sperm donor.

- You have a very strong opinion where your coffee beans are grown and can taste the difference between Sumatra and Ethiopian.

- A really great parking space can move you to tears.

- You assume every company offers domestic partner benefits.- Your child's 3rd grade teacher has two pierced ears, a nose ring and is named "Breeze." And, after telling that to a friend, they still need to ask if the teacher is male or female.

- A man walks on MUNI in full leather regalia and crotch less chaps. You don't notice.- A woman walks on MUNI with live poultry. You don't notice.

- You know that any woman with a George Clooney haircut is not a tourist.

- You keep a list of companies to boycott.

- Your hairdresser is straight, your plumber is gay, the woman who delivers your mail is straight and your Mary Kay Lady is a guy in drag.

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Detroit--and reverse Jim Crow makes a return
http://starkravingviking.blogspot.com/2004/09/detroit-and-reverse-jim-crow-makes.html

Proposed Curfew in NYC

Patrolman85Registered UserPosts: 1(9/28/04 17:32)Reply
The City Council's Latest Idea (aka Citywide Curfew)
Two members of the City Council now reviving old legislation and want to make it an offense for a person under age 18 to be allowed outside between midnight and 6 am. If this passes all the "little kiddies" will have to go back to the S/H and wait until their parents show up, or, and this is just brillant, GET DRIVEN HOME BY A MOS. Then, the parents get to receive a summons for letting the kids out of the house without supervision. As great a tool as this could be for clearing corners, parks etc there is no manpower to utilize it. Imagine taking a sector car out of service for this, especially in the "A" houses. Now, as everyone knows, there really isn't any legitimate reason for a fourteen year old to be out in the park or the street at 2 am. For the most part they're there to get high, drink Old English/Colt .45 and engage in other...ahem...questionable activities. But how the hell do they think this is going to be enforced with Dept. manpower being what it is? Oh, well. The powers that be will probably just turn it into another quota ("I want you to write five parents a month... ) The link, in case anyone is interested, is as follows: http://www.ny1.com/ny/TopStories/SubTopic/index.html?topicintid=1&subtopicintid=1&contentintid=43700
SW4747Registered UserPosts: 89(9/28/04 17:36)Reply
Re: The City Council's Latest Idea (aka Citywide Curfew)
Not that I don't agree that no 8-18 year old has a valid reason for handing out in the streets at insanely late hours, but I can't see how such a law would be constitutional.
Patrolman85Registered UserPosts: 2(9/28/04 17:45)Reply
True
You might have a point there about it being Unconstitutional (and I'm not certain that it is, as there are arguments to be made on both sides) but since when has the law (even the Supreme Law of the Land) stood in the city's way? Just look at our gutless Mayor and his illegal (a federal felony, I might add) sanctuary policy when it comes to illegal immigrants here in NYC. Besides, the city would probably argue "a compelling state interest." Nevermind that those words are no where to be found in the Constitution. Besides I'm sure all the so-called community boards and their members will agitate in favor of the measure since it will (theoretically) get all the noisy/high/drunk/loitering/vandalizing/roaming kids off the street. We'll see I guess.
Edited by: Patrolman85 at: 9/28/04 17:48
ProudPDRegistered UserPosts: 1539(9/28/04 18:26)Reply
Not My Chillin'
Patrolman 85"Besides I'm sure all the so-called community boards and their members will agitate in favor of the measure since it will (theoretically) get all the noisy/high/drunk/loitering/vandalizing/roaming kids off the street."Sorry but I really disagree with you. I don't see community boards in ghetto areas approving any laws that will bring their innocent little chillin in contact with the police any more than is necessary.I wrote about this some time ago. I predict that the power of community boards will grow over the coming years and that one day you will see "hole in the wall" areas in the city.For example, areas that will not permit arrests of juveniles for GLA, Possession of Marijuana etc, etc. I can just see an RMP from the 104 chasing a GLA up to the border of the 83 and then having to call off the chase because the driver "appeared to be under the age of 17."You can laugh all you want just as I laughed when a friend of mine got up and spoke about the coming problems with community boards and education almost 30 years ago. Are you laughing now?How about having Community Boards interview all police officers that are supposed to work in their area and determining whether they want them there or not?
Door KickerRegistered UserPosts: 728(9/28/04 18:38)Reply
Cur-few
We have a curfew law here in LA.No one under 18 can be out past 2200 hrs. It is a misdemeanor crime that can be written on the equivalent of a C-summons. The juvie gets summonsed, not the parent. Although in court, I believe the parent can get banged some how by the Judge.It's a great tool to get into someone's pockets (PC) or just to clear the corners.
dinosaurRegistered UserPosts: 676(9/29/04 6:19)Reply
Re: Cur-few
"Yo 5-0, you violatin my midnight b-ball rights suckah!"
12XpdRegistered UserPosts: 3(9/29/04 14:54)Reply
what happens
Ok so I'm on a 75-juve returning this little curfew breaker home. I speak to the parent, run the idea lookie we've got an open warrent ok. so the mother is 1 under and the child has to go back and then be taking to a safe house. woohoo this is frickin great.
ProudPDRegistered UserPosts: 1546(9/29/04 15:11)Reply
Oh No!!!! Not Again
This whole business about taking a kid home is about as volatile as pulling the pin on a grenade.I remember a rookie asking me “Sarge, what’s the biggest difference in the job since you came on.” I thought about a number of things but I finally said to him: ‘The way we handle juveniles. I can remember when a kid would pull some minor thing and we would take the kid home and when the door opened the parent would yell ‘why is a police officer bringing you home?’ Today when you try to do the right thing and bring a kid home, the door opens and the parent yells ‘why the hell you got my son by his neck?’So after time, cops didn't think about doing the right thing, they just processed the kid like any other criminal. It's a shame but I can understand it.That to me is one of the biggest changes in the job. Now they want you to do it all over again. All I can say is get ready for some real knock-down, drag-out confrontations. It’s going to go from a YD to “2-3 under for assault on an MOS, Central.”
mattythecopGlobal UserPosts: 963(9/29/04 15:20)Reply
Re: Oh No!!!! Not Again
With this liberal establishment I can't see this law passing.
commander12Registered UserPosts: 139(9/29/04 15:53)Reply
curfew
I saw the news report last night and they stated that many other states have similar curfews in place with no-problem. I don't think its un-constitutional, I do think its a good thing.It will give any officer on patrol the ability to stop someone who appears to be under the age of 18 and ask for ID, this might also lead to arrest for quality of life crimes.Those parents of those kids who are caught violating the curfew will also be fined, added incentive to keep your kids indoors after midnight.My thoughts.
laurnsmomRegistered UserPosts: 223(9/29/04 17:29)Reply
Re: curfew
I don't think its a matter of constitutionality, or liberal establishment. It's plain and simple, that the parents of the kids who are going to be out are a) not going to give a sh1t,and b) not pay the summons and Proud, you're right, here comes the fight.It may very well work in other cities or towns but I doubt it's anywhere the size or makeup of NYC. These kids have no respect for the law or any kind of authority during the day so I doubt 11:59 is going to come and all of a sudden they're going to turn into pumpkins.The kids that would obey the curfew already have one put in place....BY THEIR PARENTS; and if more parents did their job we wouldn't even be having this discussion.
ProudPDRegistered UserPosts: 1547(9/29/04 20:41)Reply
Foot Pursuit, Central
With all due respect, I can't see some of our robust officers chasing every one of these olympic dash experts through the projects for a summonsable offense. I think we would be seeing a hell of a lot of 3/4s applications.What happens in other states has absolutely nothing to do with what would happen here - New York is New York and there ain't nothing like it anywhere on the map. Don't forget, if what happened in other states mattered, we would be making a hell of a lot more money, right?I too, believe that there might be a constitutional problem. It's not as if it was being implemented under emergency conditions.
semiretiredRegistered UserPosts: 5(9/29/04 23:08)Reply
here we go again
what do you do with the 17 year old navy kid here for fleet week? do you give the ships captain the summons? or the 17 year old nyu student coming home from the movies? the dean? forget about the friday night high school football games, they might end too late. LET the parents set the curfew. they might know there kids a little better than jim oddo does.
ProudPDRegistered UserPosts: 1552(9/29/04 23:39)Reply
Notifications
You put a statement in the originating regulation that allows POs to use the same discretion every officer has when it comes to issuing any type of summons.What happened to "warned and admonished?"BTW I didn't know there were any more Friday night football games. They were all played on Saturday when I was a kid. But back then the footballs were really made out of pigskin and high school football was covered in all lthe papers. lol lol

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onemoreyearRegistered UserPosts: 106(9/30/04 11:05)Reply
Curfews
Notwithstanding issues related to Constitutionality, race politics, summons quotas, etc., I think curfews are a good idea, if the element of police discretion to enforce them is present.Why?Because in this liberal City, when the powers that be, continuously try to reduce police power, through increased scrutiny, civilian review boards, etc., anything that would increase our ability to engage the public "legally" is in our best interests and ultimately in the best interests of the communities we serve (even though many won't realize, understand or even appreciate the circumstances).

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VikingasRegistered UserPosts: 20(9/30/04 11:19)Reply Edit
Re: Notifications
Aren't there already laws covering youths being out at night?Isn't there a Dept. of Social Services in NYC?In the book "1984" children were used as a tool to exert Big Brother control over a populace.It is just another tool to collect revenue and exert control, right?Before laws were even out about giving your pets water and how long you can leave your dog out, deadbeat tenants already had made plans on making false accusations or probably even dumping my dog's water dish out to make a complaint. It would allow them to live for free at my expense longer and help the police officer's addiction to cash and confiscating assets of citizens, especially downtown citizens.There are more and more laws out to collect revenue and control the average citizen.Common Criminal Parasites that are hard to fine and to find fall through the cracks.Laws are mainly enforced to collect revenue, ie fines and taking all the stuff police can under any lame excuse.There would be less crime and less need for a standing army of cops if 'quality of life' issues were addressed by cops.Allow crime to flourish and you all have job security.Vandalism, thefts, fraud, identity theft, kid's starting to use drugs and alcohol, squeegee men, deadbeats jumping the turnstiles, etc catch those out and about with outstanding warrants and makes the quality of life better for all, improves business, and lowers taxes.The downside is you guys even try to do your jobs, you have less job security.That is why Civilian Oversight of police is needed, so that crimes and criminals are dealt with, not just honest citizens/taxpayers shaken down for their last dollar in undeclared taxes.The "War on Crime" and the "War and Drugs" is really:THE WAR ON PURSES AND WALLETS and taking and confiscating all the cash, assets, cars, and houses on any lame excuse while thumbing your noses at OUR U.S. Constitution.I think crime can be reduced by reducing the number of police and requiring them to act in the public’s best interest not the city’s, town’s, and State’s addiction to fleecing citizens out of their last dollar in declared and undeclared taxes. The addiction that the authorities have to curbing our rights and taking our cash is probably worse than a drug addict's need for crack cocaine or heroin. Crime could be further reduced by putting cameras facing inside the cruiser with audio, viewed by an independent Civilian Oversight board. Cruisers could not then be used to beat up suspects, as cheap hotel rooms, a place of making secret deals and meeting center for acting out on personal vendettas, and promoting crime and misery by using informants. (story)If a bar owner doesn’t know which cop or official to bribe, he or she should lose their business, family, and be facing up to 9 years in prison, right? (story)
Edited by: Vikingas at: 9/30/04 11:25

Tuesday, September 28, 2004

Whacking a beehive with a stick

… standing back and EXPECTING not to get stung.

I posted this on a pretty much cops only, NYPD Blog:

Vikingas
Registered UserPosts: 9(9/28/04 14:06)

Reply A word about TROLLS on this site

Something could be said for making this a “Cop Only” site.

Something could also be said for making those that view and respond on this site, register.

Pro Cop civilians and cops only could be attained.

But, what if:Somebody with the same genetic make-up, that makes a cop, one that could have been one of you, and someone that was wronged by one of you, and not left for dead, but is now able to shout from the mountain tops, might just end up being GROUND ZERO for a COP’S WORST NIGHTMARE:

Civilian Oversight of Police, with quality control questionnaires going out to citizens lodging complaints against officers and those requiring police protection and service.

The Civilian Board would not be a police officer cheerleading squad and could ensure top performance, an orientation to actually having goals and working towards them, to see that ethics are adhered to, and that misconduct is punished to the full extent of the law, so that fewer GOOD cops GO BAD.

If there is ever CIVILIAN OVERSIGHT of POLICE instituted nationwide, remember the name, Steven G. Erickson…

or a poster on the internet known as Vikingas …

A snapshot of dialogue, cop to cop, on this site, on any given day, would only bolster my argument for Civilian Oversight of Police.

So, do you as the rank and file of the NYPD, think that this site should be for active and retired cops only, no civilians or trolls?

Do you think this site should be a register only, view and post, site?

Thank you,

Steven G. Erickson

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JoeyTreats
Registered UserPosts: 117(9/28/04 15:08)

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Re: A word about TROLLS on this site

YOU ARE A TOOL OF THE HIGHEST ORDER . Take your meds and possibly you may get better but I doubt it, but then again maybe you will OD.

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RetBxDetRegistered UserPosts: 316(9/28/04 16:04)

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Hey Steve.........

you been hitting yourself in the ass too much.

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Airborneguy Registered UserPosts: 180(9/28/04 22:35)

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lol lol

This guy takes the cake.

Of all the people who prove it is stupid to have an open board like this, he's the best.

I have to read up on the EDP procedures again, maybe there is something in there about how to handle this!

This looks better everytime he posts:http://www.getmybb.com/mybb/index.php?mforum=NYPDTRUTH&http://www.getmybb.com/mybb/?mforum=NYPDTRUTH

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ProudPDRegistered UserPosts: 1543(9/28/04 22:39)

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ENOUGH ALREADY!!!!!!!

There are 4 different strings about this guy already - when is everyone going to stop posting about the azzhole and just let it drop.

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RoccohibaRegistered UserPosts: 103(9/28/04 23:22)

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Viking ASS

After reading your nonsense for the past 2 days I gotta ask, one-why you chose this place to vent when your gripe is with Ct police and two- Dont you have a life?

get a hobby, get a girl, get drunk, do something that will pry you away from the computer for a while and spare you from continuing to make a total ass out of yourself.

C'mon Idiot.

have some respect for yourself and stop acting like an @#%$

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VikingasRegistered UserPosts: 14(9/28/04 23:33)

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Re: Viking ASS

I literally have a dollar in my wallet and because I am on probation for 3 years and a former inmate, job prospects are bleak.

All I have is my fight.

I had proposed Civilian Oversight of police to elected officials in Connecticut, BEFORE I had any trouble with police.

Had I not written in newspapers and proposed laws, an American right, I would not have been railroaded to prison.

The comments in various posts, NOT the four I posted in, says oversight IS needed nationwide.

My presence here has already served MY purpose.

So reposting some of your banter could be, at least partially instrumental, in my lobbying efforts to make Oversight of Police by civilians, nationwide law.

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RoccohibaRegistered UserPosts: 104(9/28/04 23:40)

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blah blah blah blah blah

YAWWWWWNNNNNNNN

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MickeyIIIRegistered UserPosts: 81(9/29/04 3:36)

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Re: ENOUGH ALREADY!!!!!!!

PROUD, Well said, ...also check your inbox about flash gordon.

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Pete Da HeatRegistered UserPosts: 29(9/29/04 5:36)

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Re: ENOUGH ALREADY!!!!!!!

Hey Vikingass holeI ve read some your epic drama.

and its just that ...long on drama and short on facts.

But whatever you did really has nothing to do with us. We've had a CCRB for almosy 40 years now. A few years back they were given powers to discipline POs.

Many of the people there are unskilled, untrained, and in posession of large axes that need grinding.

I ve been down there numerous times as well to IAB on force complainants. None were ever founded or substantiated.

As a cop and as a supervisor, having been thru the ringer, let me tell you it leaves a bad taste in your mouth.

Furthermore, the complaints remain in our folders FOREVER no matter the disposition.

You might be a great active cop and have collected some CCRBs along the way.

But in the politically correct, no balls, Kool Aid drinking NYPD of today you are DEAD IN THE WATER.

They have your CPI in front of them whenever you go on an interview.

Your career is on hold.

I really dont want hear about the "positive aspects" of CCRB.

So take your silly bullsh1t diatribes somewhere else.

As you might gather there is a wide spectrum of the PD people represented here.

New guys, old guys, active guys, retired guys.

Guess what...you are preaching to the wrong choir.

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VikingasRegistered UserPosts: 17(9/29/04 9:40)

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How I found your NYPD blog

I put the words "police misconduct injustice" in a search engine and then found your site.

I've obviously found what I was looking for.

My FreeSpeech.com post on Korruptikut and rogue cops is only a companion piece to exposing the sleaze, as this site does a good job of proving ALL my points.

Edited by: Vikingas at: 9/29/04 9:45

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mattythecopGlobal UserPosts: 989(9/30/04 14:50)Reply
Prosay : CCRB Investigators
The type of people that they are looking for are Menso, retguy, vikinggas, and company.
retguyRegistered UserPosts: 235(9/30/04 16:44)Reply
only if
Gloria were still alive. She was the best!!
EXBXACURegistered UserPosts: 36(9/30/04 16:49)Reply
Re:Gloria
God Bless the MIDGET!

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NYPD web blog found here:
http://p066.ezboard.com/fnypdrant64609frm1

Should a badge exempt you from a DUI, DWI, or OUI?

Cops, fire personnel, EMTs, and other officials may get off with a ticket or life altering arrest, JUST BECAUSE.


NYPD web blog:

esubuff
Registered UserPosts: 11(9/26/04 20:17)

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another firefighter arrested (daily routine now)

ON 09/26/04, AT APPROXIMATELY 0004 HOURS, ON THE W/B GOWANUS EXPRESSWAY AT THE INTERSECTION OF HICK STREET, CONFINES OF THE 76 PRECINCT, A M/W/25 WAS ARRESTED FOR DWI.

THE SUSPECT IS A NYC FIREFIGHTER. NO INJURIES. INVESTIGATION IS ONGOING.ARRESTED: THOMAS CAPPELLI M/W/25CHARGES: DWI

Edited by: esubuff at: 9/28/04 10:38

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fdnyemt5330Registered UserPosts: 29(9/26/04 21:18)

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Re: another firefighter arrested (daily routine now)

Anybody got any green pants and white shirts I can wear to work?

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Vikingas
Registered UserPosts: 4(9/26/04 22:57)

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Re: another firefighter arrested (daily routine now)

I thought anyone with a badge got off on that type of charge. An EMT told me a good reason to become one is fire personel, EMTs, and anyone with a badge gets a free pass on a DWI if there isn't an accident.

That special privilege must not apply in NYC

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flagg79
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vikingas

a badge means nothing...fire personel, emt's, bounty hunters, pathmark security, even janitors have "badges" .

doesnt mean a damn thing.

EMT's especially think they have a free pass with anything..thats why its always a pleasure handing them their yellow copy when there "badge" is the first thing they can fish out

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PBMN
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Even EMT's?

Sorry, I don't agree with writing EMS, they always go out of their way for us.

We work with them day in and day out, why would you write one of them unless he was REALLY disrespectful.

I just will never understand the mentality of writing MOS friends and family, EMS or FD.

Are you a safety guy per chance, or Highway?

(Before everyone starts, I know that there are good guys in both details, I have nothing against either of them.)

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Extorris
Registered UserPosts: 17(9/27/04 8:12)

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Re: Even EMT's?

We really shouldn't throw stones, one of ours was locked up for DWI this weekend also.

19 years on.

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196881frankRegistered UserPosts: 27(9/27/04 8:50)

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Badge??

Oh about 4 decades ago we still called it a shield...and 1 decade ago we still called it a shield...

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Roccohiba
Registered UserPosts: 102(9/27/04 9:07)

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Re: Badge??

How about "tin" ?

I only heard the real dinosaurs refer to it as such

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TRANSIT4EVER
Registered UserPosts: 13(9/27/04 9:09)

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Re: Badge??

What ever happened to " TIN "

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ProudPD
Registered UserPosts: 1506(9/27/04 9:17)

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EMTs?????

I don't know why anyone would write an EMT.

Whether when they were separate or a part of FD, they were always a different breed and I always found them to be nice guys.

Okay, okay, I didn't appreciate being 10-85 to help with some 400 lb whale down a flight of stairs but that's life.

I can tell you that I know one EMT who saved about 3 PD jobs by doing the right thing and he got passed over for promotion because of it and he never shed one tear.

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NypdBlew
Registered UserPosts: 131(9/27/04 9:26)

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Re: EMTs?????

I have always respected EMT"S in fact alot more than FF's.

IMO they work harder over a course of a year, and are paid peanuts.

I must agree with proud, whenever I had called for assistance, they were always there, and quick.

Always humble, and ready to do their job.

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civilservant
Registered UserPosts: 325(9/27/04 10:14)
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How many Cops have been DWI'd this year?

Where are the statistics for us , the press is giving these guys what we have gotten in the past, and it is the NY Post in particularly hitting them hard.

My insight is the Ruppert Murdock and Bloomberg are friends and Bloomy is telling him everything to discredit the Firemen because of the recent heckling he has gotten from them, of course their deportment has been less than stellar lately so the press is really putting them in their place.

People of the City of New York to its Cops and Firemen: Put your hats on and be the Servants we expect you to be!!!!!!

With over 35000 Cops there has to be atleast 100 DWI's logged every year for the PD, but for what ever reason even Officer involved shootings are on the later pages of the Papers, a couple years ago everything a Cop did was Headlines, Smelly Kelly and Paul Brown must really be washing some serious Ball Bags in the Press, Ray's son works for FNC which is owned by Murdock to so maybe this is the press connection.

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FDNYFOREVER
Registered UserPosts: 54(9/27/04 10:52)

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another firefighter arrested (daily routine now)

ESUBUFF you're as bad as the PRESS if you're going to report the news GET IT RIGHT !!

A Firefighter and a Cop were arrested for DWI last night.

You are will be forever a TOOL

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commander12Registered UserPosts: 125(9/27/04 11:12)

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FDNY got it right

Actually there was a Firefighter and a cop arrested for DWI and in addition a NYC school teacher was arrested on cocaine charges.

The NYC school system has it worse among all city agencies - there teachers, custodians and office personell have had record number of arrest in the past several years, mostly for drugs.

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mattythecopGlobal UserPosts: 927(9/27/04 13:00)

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don't throw stones

Actually in the last two instances when a FF was collared for DWI a cop was collared the same day.

The last cop collared was done so because he was in an accident and the cops on the scene had no choice.

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Highway Chaz
Registered UserPosts: 85(9/27/04 20:08)

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The TIN

I had an old timer tell me many years ago, just show em the Potsie and its on the arm.

Or i also heard it's on the potsie, any old timers wanna clarify this one, im not gonna comment on the DWI crap it is getting boring....

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dinosaur
Registered UserPosts: 671(9/27/04 20:15)

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Re: The TIN

You're probably too young to remember the comic strip "Potsie".

It was about a M.O.P.

I think he did ride once in awhile though.

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EXBXACURegistered UserPosts: 34(9/27/04 20:18)

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Re: The TIN

It was in reference to the comic strip character of the same name,it ran until the mid 60's.

Potsie was a cartoon about a typical beat cop of that era.

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civilservant
Registered UserPosts: 328(9/27/04 23:47)

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The Hersey Wrapper

Thats an old school Term, because of the foiled paper around a Hersey Bar you could make a shield from that.

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ProudPDRegistered UserPosts: 1529(9/28/04 0:08)

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You're a Pottsey

civilservant:Someone should wrap you in foil paper.

The term came from the comic strip which was written by Jay Irving.

Jay use to come to the Shomrim meetings all the time because he loved the idea of a Jewish cop, and many of the old timers have drawings of themselves done by him at the meetings. They might be worth something today.

For whatever reason he named the cop after the silver metal object kids used in the game potsy.

Jay's son, Clifford (?), became infamous when he tried to peddle what he called an authorized biography of Howard Hughes. He ended up getting indicted and I think he did some time.

Fortunately his father had died by that time so he avoided a tremendous embarassment. Jay was one of the nicest guys you could ever meet. A really gentle easygoing individual who genuinely loved a cop.

Just a kind, old man. Reminded me of my grandfather. Yes, he got a lot of his stories from cops themselves.

He also had a love of the Honor Legion and all the "true heroes of the city."May he rest in peace.

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civilservant
Registered UserPosts: 329(9/28/04 9:24)

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Thanks for the History Proud but...
I have still heard Cops of my fathers era call their shield the Hersey Wrapper, such as "I showed him the Hersey Wrapper and got my kids on the Cyclone for free" My Dad was a Patrolmen from 1948 to 1980 he probably saw the Job at its best.

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Vikingas
Registered UserPosts: 6(9/28/04 11:27)

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Nailing an EMT for DUI, DWI, or OUI

An EMT told me the reason EMTs don’t get tickets or DUIs is that unless they have made some real enemies or are really blatant and public with an offense, they will get off Scott Free.

The reason I was told is that if an EMT feels he/she was wrongly ruined, they will give the other EMTs the officer’s name.If the officer is ever shot, stabbed, or injured, maybe an EMT would drive extra slow, or give lip service, not lifesaving.

"Stitch yourself up a**hole," -an EMT buddy

or here is another EMT line they like to recite to each other, "You've lost a lot of blood, I think you're going to die. Remember ____________, well you, F'd up, Jack*ss"

The same goes with fire personnel, piss them off and whatever you own would not conform to fire codes, and you could get extra slow service if you need them, or then again, lip service.

I know certain addresses are on lists to be allowed to just burn to the ground, if they are drug houses or a business or residence that is not so popular with town hall.

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squad co
Registered UserPosts: 48(9/28/04 12:26)

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Re: Nailing an EMT for DUI, DWI, or OUI

Isn't OUI that girlie mag from the 60's and early 70's?

Take your meds nutjob.

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Vikingas
Registered UserPosts: 7(9/28/04 12:57)

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OUI

O * U * I

Don't you have a charge, OUI, in NYC?

Operating Under the Influence (of drugs)

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I used to be a 100% advocate of police. None could do any wrong.

I always considered becoming a cop myself.

I did everything in my life, so as, the option would always be open.

If police officers think that it is ok to rape, rob, beat, and murder with immunity, I take exception to that.

If officers are willing to look the other way, silence witness, and back each other, no matter what, that is just plain wrong.

There would be almost no opposition to anything you guys do, if you weren't so willing to cover for each other, no matter what.

I understand the brotherhood, brothers in arms, and us against them mentality, but most of you have common sense ... at least that would be the expectation.

A White Connecticut Officer stood on the back of an African American suspect and pulled his piece and shot through the suspect's back.

A Willington, CT, pizza restaurant is a big hangout for Troop C, Connecticut State Police, and I was a table away sitting with a C.I. that I was dating at the time, and overheard how upset officers were that a 'good' officer, Scott S., had to lose his job over the incident of shooting the suspect as he stood on the back.

If I get upset about stuff like that, and if you don't, who is the whacko?

P.S.
If you don't like my posts here on your blog, I'm sure members of Troop C, Connecticut State Police, Tolland, CT, would be more than willing to pitch in for a rope, and be witnesses to my 'suicide' AFTER the fact.

There (oops, their) main # is 860-896-3200

I know that number by heart.

Whenever I called in as vandals were destroying my property, teens were selling drugs out of lawn chairs off my front lawn, or if I was beaten with a 2x4 with a nail in it when I tried to make use of my own yard I was paying taxes on, I could expect to hear excuses why I wouldn't get service, get threated and yelled at over a recorded line, or if I wanted to be woken up in the middle of the night by Troopers banging on my door with their flashlights and night clubs, chanting, "Oh Stevie, oh Stevie, oh Stevie ..."

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ProudPD
Registered UserPosts: 1534(9/28/04 13:06)

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What did I say?

This is why I said not to respond to this friggin psycho.

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Vikingas
Registered UserPosts: 8(9/28/04 13:33)

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P.S.

The Connecticut Officer, Scott S., got a year suspended sentence upon Appeal, for murder.

Not bad, huh?

The new State Police Commissioner in Korruptikut, seems to be answering my email to him, line item, in this post:(HERE)

I emailed him and carbon copied newspaper reporters.I was on the phone to an aid to the new Governor of CT, and top legislators regarding the former police commissioner, asking that he be FIRED in the days that led up to his being asked to resign.

If you put his name in a yahoo search engine, the crap I wrote about him demoting women in the State Police ranks because they were women, falsifying records saying he was working when he was golfing, the unexplained inconsistencies in the use of Homeland Security funds, and his apparent cover up of the crimes of his chief of staff for theft and fraud, in which his top man was arrested for.

I called Fox News everyday for a matter of months in 2003, and emailed the O'Reilly Factor everyday and then quit when this piece aired on the O'Reilly Factor Talking Points in mid December, 2003:

The Death of Shame in America
(in this piece O'Reilly asks the Connecticut people to march on Hartford and demand Governor John G. Rowland resign.)

My number one goal in life after my downfall was to take down the sitting Governor, his lackey State Police Commissioner, and the Judge that took his instructions to send me up the river from the a former judge, a now former police commissioner, as Gov. Rell asked him to resign.

I wanted to make sure they were all disgraced, taken out of their positions, and then sent to Federal Prison.

I am one for three in the take down.

Number 2 might be on his way.

And, as long as I draw a breath, number 3 will be on my sh*tlist.

I will live as a Big Mouth, and die as a Big Mouth.

Some hope sooner, then later.

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Airborneguy
Registered UserPosts: 178(9/28/04 13:36)

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Question

Is the problem that anyone can post without limit, or is it that these other jurisdictions do not have their own boards for these people to piss and moan on?

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VikingasRegistered UserPosts: 10(9/28/04 14:23)

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Re: Question


I expand on your above theme on a post that stands on its own:

A word about TROLLS on this site

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RetBxDetRegistered UserPosts: 318(9/28/04 16:25)

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1 more Qeustion..............

I assume VikingASS doesn't care to respond to the bio that was submitted about his "past".

If what was said about this person is true then he is truly not only a "tool" but should be considered a "dead man walking".

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esubuff Registered UserPosts: 12(9/28/04 16:48)

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firefighter DWI (stress on the job from 9/11)

back to the point how many firefighters where arrested this year for DWI (stress from 9/11 <3>)

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fdnyemt5330Registered UserPosts: 31(9/28/04 18:37)

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Re: firefighter DWI (stress on the job from 9/11)

boy, the point of that joke went right past everyone.

or maybe we were distracted by viking gas.

i have never shown my shield, or asked for special favors. if i get let go, i get let go. if i get a ticket, i get a ticket.

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FDNYFOREVERRegistered UserPosts: 55(9/28/04 19:08)

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firefighter DWI (stress on the job from 9/11)

esubuff what is your point tool !!!!

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rogueangel007Registered UserPosts: 16(9/28/04 19:23)

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i have never shown my shield, or asked for special favors.

UMMMM, Yeah okay?

Choice, mover w/ points.....Ins goes upFlash a shield, seek courtesy, and perhaps get some...No mover, no points, no insurance raise.

No brainer here. Nothing to lose except maybe eat a little crow.

Sorry but I don't buy the self serving note, "i have never shown my shield, or asked for special favors"NEVER SAY NEVER!!!!

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fdnyemt5330Registered UserPosts: 33(9/28/04 21:52)

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Re: i have never shown my shield, or asked for special favo

i seek courtesy by acting in a courteous manner.

if i think the officer is wrong in writing the citation, four words:

" Not guilty, your honor." no brainer also.

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fdnyemt5330Registered UserPosts: 34(9/28/04 22:03)

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Re: i have never shown my shield, or asked for special favo


a case in point: A while ago i was in uniform, driving home from work. it was 2 am and i turned right at an intersection aginst the light.

an unmarked saw me and pulled me over. as the officers approached i had my license and registration in my hand, just like anyone else. the conversation went as follows:

OFFICER: EMS huh,?

ME: Yes. ( fully expecting to get a ticket).

OFFICER: You know you went right that light, right.

ME (somewhat sheepishly) yeah.

OFFICER: OK goodnight.

You'll notice that nowhere in there did I ask anyone any favors. If i had been cited I would have taken it and paid it (after all he was right, I did go through that light.)

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esubuff Registered UserPosts: 13(9/28/04 22:33)Reply
the point is*******
FDNYFOREVER obviously u got the point..p.s. watch those chairs in the fire house.
Edited by: esubuff at: 9/28/04 22:37

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rogueangel007Registered UserPosts: 17(9/29/04 9:25)

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a case in point: A while ago i was in uniform

This is a moot point. The reason you were given a courtesy was BECAUSE you were in uniform.

Albeit you were returning from work, that is not the issue, the clothing (uniform) is what brought the courtesy brought on by a self admitted traffic infraction.
If the scenario were changed, and you were NOT wearing the uniform, you can stand there and say you would not ID yourself, eat a little crow, and apologize for a committed (self confessed above) infraction that WAS viewed by the RMP, unmarked etc?Yeah, and all your tax deductions are legit, you NEVER sped anywhere in your own vehicle, never looked at another girl other than your wife/girlfriend, etc.Please drop the "Holier Than Though" act.It is an uncommon trait, never to be found from members of ANY LE service, or one that carries a shield, when caught in a situaution (violation) that may constitute a gift of courtesy.You have my respect for the tedious, thankless job you perform. And by experience I have dealt with EMT's on a personal, private level, and have them to thank for the outcome.Just don't blow smoke up my a$$.Be safe!!

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FDNYFOREVERRegistered UserPosts: 56(9/29/04 9:27)Reply
the point is*******
ANOTHER TOOL WITH A GRUDGE I'll see you at the next pin job fool

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Police think I am an Enemy of the State and should be burned at the stake, here:

http://www.freespeech.com/index.php?/S=3fcf8b07c6cb2cdd1305623da7c0528e61c704b9/weblog/comments/3425/

Monday, September 27, 2004

VIKINGAS - Another cop bashing civilian

VIKINGAS - Another cop bashing civilian
XVIIRegistered UserPosts: 45(9/27/04 6:13)Reply
Ignore This loser . Re : See Connecticut cops make all cops look bad.
Edited by: XVII at: 9/27/04 6:17
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Re: VIKINGAS - Another cop bashing civilian
RoccohibaRegistered UserPosts: 101(9/27/04 7:27)Reply
Sounds like another freak from the copssuck site
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Re: VIKINGAS - Another cop bashing civilian
onemoreyearRegistered UserPosts: 96(9/27/04 8:23)Reply
We may have a problem if the left-wing, cop bashers begin circulating this web site around. They'll get on here and begin their BS and harassment and change this website as we know it!
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BYE BYE AZZHOLES
ProudPDRegistered UserPosts: 1509(9/27/04 9:51)Reply
You could be right but one way to make sure we are not deluged with this type of crap is not to respond.They come on - they post their sh1t - no one responds and away they go. Very simple.
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Re: BYE BYE AZZHOLES
onemoreyearRegistered UserPosts: 99(9/27/04 14:48)Reply
You are right. I will heed that advice.

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Airborneguy Registered UserPosts: 177(9/27/04 21:41)

Reply this is why

this is why I thought that failed site, NYPD TRUTH was worth it. The admin can block anyone and only allow registered users to access the site and see certain parts of it. I still check it everyone in awhile to see if anyone has posted. Anyone can see this, and as evidenced by this and in the past, tons of people drop by to say "hi"...Here's the

link:http://www.getmybb.com/mybb/index.php?mforum=NYPDTRUTH&http://www.getmybb.com/mybb/?mforum=NYPDTRUTH

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XVIIRegistered UserPosts: 46(9/28/04 15:13)Reply
Re: this is why
CAN WE PLEASE IGNORE THIS IDIOT!!!??? CAN'T HE BE EXPELLED FROM THE SITE??


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mattythecopGlobal UserPosts: 949(9/28/04 16:06)Reply
Re: VIKINGAS - Another cop bashing civilian
Someone please nudge Polecat ,lol. That other temporary moderator took 20 days to answer an email .

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VikingasRegistered UserPosts: 11(9/28/04 16:07)

Reply Edit
Re: this is why

No, I wouldn’t want to belong to any club that would have me as a member.

Ha, ha.

No, seriously, I have gotten what I want, as you all have proven my point.

Check out what is posted on FreeSpeech.com tomorrow after 6 AM. Then we’ll see how angry the bees are after I whacked their nest with a broom handle.

I am a former landlord and was banned from mrlandlord.com by police officers that were also posters on that site. I was ranting along the same lines.

Mrlandlord.com get hits in the 10’s of millions a year.

I posted about an Enfield Connecticut landlord’s plight which was equivalent to mine.

He also had proposed Civilian Oversight of Police in open town meetings, also planed on suing police for 14th Amendment and civil rights violations, AND also had gotten mouthy to newspaper reporters regarding police refusing to service and protect downtown residents, and ESPECIALLY landlords.

An Enfield PD officer’s 16 year old girlfriend attacked Donny C. on his property and only Donny was facing a year and a half in prison no deals, for getting yelled at and smacked in the back of his head and back. I was facing a year and a half, no deals.

My injuries were to my back and back of my head, too, for which I was also arrested on my property.

I posted Donny’s story on Mrlandlord.com and 100’s of letters poured into the Enfield Superior Court, and State Senators, media, and 100’s of calls went into the Enfield Police Department asking what the heck they were doing to productive honest citizens, while ignoring crime, and collecting as much revenue from taxpayers as possible.

I also posted how the Enfield PD was sent out to doors collecting overdue library fines!!!If that doesn’t say it all, nothing does.I was attacked on my property by a Connecticut State Police informant after he left threatening messages on my voicemail that he was going to hurt me when I got home which he did. He kept my neighbors and tenants up many nights, pounding on my door well after midnight telling he would cut off my (male anatomy) if he caught me out in MY yard.

He told my tenants he was going to kill me when I got home at 1 PM and I came home at 11:30 PM. Connecticut State Troopers refused to take that statement, that of other witnesses, and from me, choosing to tell them and me to shut up, and then arrest just me.

For getting pummeled after I got out of my vehicle in my dark driveway, Connecticut State Troopers were right there to arrest me, and then commit perjury to get me sent to prison. I had no previous record and wasn’t even given the program for 1st time offenders, if I was really guilty of overreacting to being beaten during a robbery attempt.

I lost my dog, daughter, credit, 100,000 points on my Amex that I was going to take my daughter to Paris with, my contacting business of 22 years, my ability to leave the state, hunt, own firearms, own a home, my retirement, investment property that I had fixed up from a boarded up condition, properties I toiled over 5 years spending $50,000 of my father’s and 100’s of thousands of my money making luxury living, and the sum total of all I had ever dreamed of, worked for, and had.

I worked my entire life to attain the $500,000 in real estate.ALL GONE.For WHAT??!!!Complaining in newspapers how I couldn’t stand drugs being sold off my front yard, drunk teens smashing and taking everything they could 24 hours a day, and exposing the fact that prostitutes as young as 14 were doing tricks openly all over Stafford Springs, Connecticut.Seeing children’s heads bob up and down in cars made me so angry I could vomit.

Complain to Connecticut State Police about the underage prostitutes high on ecstasy that were stripping in a back parking lot and they came quicker than ever before (except to lie in ambush to arrest me) not to do anything, but just to ogle. Before, I got arrest there were failed attempts to take me down.

A retired Enfield dog officer kept flooding my Somersville, CT, 2 family basement with sewage. I narrowly escaped prison for not being able to clean up his messes fast enough.I then found out a woman on probation was told to make a false statement against me regarding sexual assault. She refused because, it never happened, and she went to prison, losing any chance of having her two kids live and be with her.

Simply awful that humans can be so sleazy and lacking in morals, Connecticut State Police, no less.

I now have absolutely nothing to lose except what little freedom I have and my life.I can’t even get a job bagging groceries or loading boxes on a tractor trailer 3rd shift.

Before I would get any job I applied for and was offered cushy salaried positions, ALL DRIED up because I couldn’t make it, dog tired, to the inside of my home, take a shower, and go to bed.You might ban me here, but as long as I have at least one finger to type with, a voice, and a pulse, I absolutely won’t shut up, nor go away.How do you like me now?

-Steven G. Erickson

P.S. I don’t have a beef with the NYC PD, and now have one more place I probably can’t safely live, I have a beef with bad police policies, and the officers that were willing to deprive me of sleep day after day, allow kids to become worse and worse criminals until they were either dead, drug and alcohol addicted, or doing long prison sentences.

You only prove my point 10,000 fold by not, even a little bit, considering what I have to say and not empathizing with me to even the smallest degree.You are saying it isn’t an aberration, it is an across the board, FLAWED Policy.Priests can’t police themselves without little boys being molested.

Police can’t police themselves without making the U.S. Constitution a worthless rag or have the same meaning in American’s lives as Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and the Tooth Fairy.

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SecondGenBLUE
Registered UserPosts: 1(9/28/04 15:48)

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A little bit about "VIKINGAS"(Steven G. Erickson)

-Back in 1994, Mr. Erickson (VIKINGAS), a white male, decided to become a slumlord and bid on some HUD housing in CT

-Not only did he buy the property, but the dumba*s decided to move his family into the drug/crime ridden neighborhood thinking he could make a "difference"

-Moved into an area that would be comparable to a middle class white guy living in the confines of the 73 pct.

-He ignored warnings from the local skells to leave the area or else something bad will happen

-Had several domestic incidents with his wife that would have required DIRs in NYC-This FOOL tried to take the law into his own hands and preceded to try and beat up a 6'4 300lb drug dealer.

-Needless to say, VIKINGAS got his VIKINGAS handed to him

-Not only that, he interfered with a police investigation that was ongoing concerning the crime in the area....meanwhile, this fool accused the cops of not doing anything about the crime not knowing the ongoing sting operation (in which he ruined 2 years of police work by going after the drug dealers himself)

-Now he pissed everyone off, including the locals in which one chased him around the hood with a gun..YOU GO BOY!

-The police advised him to leave town for his own safety

-Steven G. Erickson(VIKINGAS) ingored the warning and preced to continue to take the law into his own hands by assaulting a known police informant who was being observed by the police at the time of the assault because the informant was about to take part in a buy/bust operation

-VIKINGAS went to JAIL for assault, and lost everything, including his Russian Whore wife who left him for someone else because she was sick and tired of being abused by him and being in such a shitty neighborhood**********************************************So here you go, a little biography on who we're dealing with here.

A disgruntled a*shole who lost everything because he was stupid enough to move his white a*s into a warzone, and then preceded to chastise the police about the job their doing, and took the law into his own hands which is ILLEGAL and paid the price.

Sounds like a bitter as*hole that has nothing better to do than blame other people for his problems. Go back to Russia and find a new wife, and for gods sake, stay out of the bad neighborhood you fu*cking idiot.

Stop blaming the police for your problems, you're starting to sound like the people you lived with before you got your VIKINGAS handed to you.

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squad co
Registered UserPosts: 54(9/28/04 15:50)

Reply
Best line of the year

-Needless to say, VIKINGAS got his VIKINGAS handed to him

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SecondGenBLUE
Registered UserPosts: 2(9/28/04 15:53)

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Re: Best line of the year

LMAO! Didn't realize it was that good until a read over it. Thanks.......

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commander12
Registered UserPosts: 133(9/28/04 15:54)

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2nd gen blue

you have never posted here before and low and behold you come out with such an accurate and down to the point story about vakingas.....Wonder Why ?

Can anyone guess what Im thinking?

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Edited by: commander12 at: 9/28/04 15:54

SecondGenBLUE
Registered UserPosts: 3(9/28/04 15:57)

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Re: 2nd gen blue

Actually, have posted on here before, lost my SN/Password...

Had to re-register b/c you can't have 2 names under 1 email adress.

Plus, I stopped posting a while ago, but when I saw this shmuck spew his garbage, it made me do some research to find out who he is.

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retguyRegistered UserPosts: 213(9/28/04 16:05)Reply
commander12
im ascared to imagine what youre thinking after your post analyzing the ramblings of stevie g, aka vikingass i thought you completely exhuasted yourself and wouldnt be posting for quite some time. the humor of your post wasnt lost - i laughed until a coughing fit almost killed me. thank you.

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From another firefighter arrested:


VikingasRegistered UserPosts: 10(9/28/04 14:23)Reply Edit
Re: Question
I expand on your above theme on a post that stands on its own:A word about TROLLS on this site
RetBxDetRegistered UserPosts: 318(9/28/04 16:25)Reply
1 more Qeustion..............
I assume VikingASS doesn't care to respond to the bio that was submitted about his "past". If what was said about this person is true then he is truly not only a "tool" but should be considered a "dead man walking".

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This NYPD web blog was found here: http://p066.ezboard.com/fnypdrant64609frm1

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Writing your U.S. Congressman:

http://starkravingviking.blogspot.com/2004/09/writing-your-us-congressman.html

Cops let loose on NYPD web blog

NYPD web blog is found here on the web:
http://p066.ezboard.com/fnypdrant64609frm1


Author Comment

Vikingas
Registered UserPosts: 1(9/26/04 21:23)
Reply Edit officers in Connecticut are making all police look bad

Connecticut State Police Internal Affairs seem to think it is ok for officers to harass and threaten gay and lesbian officers.

It also seems ok for police in Connecticut to rob, rape, beat, commit perjury, and even murder.

Click for post and links:Post on FreeSpeech.com

Thank you,Steven G. Erickson

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12x8KopFromDaHook

Registered UserPosts: 34(9/26/04 21:31)

Reply WHO THE HELL.......

Who the hell are you.

The only thing the news is good for is lining the bottom of a bird cage.Dont believe everything you read.

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RetBxDet
Registered UserPosts: 313(9/26/04 21:43)

Reply Hey Vikingas...............

kindly use the built in spell checker, you're missing an "s" in you screen name !

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Vikingas

Registered UserPosts: 3(9/26/04 22:11)
Reply Edit Re: Hey Vikingas...............

I thought things have changed since Serpico in New York. He couldn't find one honest cop in the higher ranks to complain about corruption.

If you have got each other's back no matter what, what does that say about you?

There are more good cops than bad cops, but bad cops all give you a bad name.

I just don't think you should cover for each other no matter what.

The law is the law and the Constitution is the Constitution.

I didn't like drugs being sold off my front yard by teens drinking all hours in lawn chairs.

I got mouthy in Connecticut newspapers about police not being for downtown property investors and small business owners.Connecticut

State Police told me to shut my mouth and leave the state, "Or else."So I lost $500,000 in rental property, my dog, credit, home, daughter, family, business, and all I ever worked for as a police informant beat me in my dark driveway and two Connecticut State Police officers were there to arrest me for being his victim.

I went to prison. No one is willing to take complaints against those officers.

I may have gotten the top Connecticut cop fired, and I went to newspapers before Gov. Rowland was even in any trouble and a rising star in the Republican party, even being thought of a possible Presidential candidate in the future.

I had an argument over police corruption with his aid Carol Amino and made the 2 my number one priority to have lose their jobs and go to prison. It took me 2 years, but I may have taken both pieces of s--- down.

One is soon to go down, but I am still hounding the US Atty and Attorney General and I have a U.S. Congressman on my side, which can possibly found through the link provided.

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ProudPD
Registered UserPosts: 1505(9/26/04 22:31)

Reply They Found Me

It's unbelievable!!!!!!!

They come out of Bellevue Psychiatric Ward with a token and a picture of me with the instructions - "Go find this guy and bust his chops."

I just can't get away from it even though I'm retired.

Hey Pal - we don't have anything to do with the Connecticut SP or any other state.

Take your complaint 1 state to the left and 2 states north.

Bye Bye

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flagg79
Registered UserPosts: 17(9/26/04 23:47)

Reply Re: They Found Me

Vikingas, Serpico single-handedly made this country a more dangerous place so your praise of him is wrong.

Lock your windows and doors, thank you Serpico!

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Vikingas

Registered UserPosts: 5(9/27/04 0:03)

Reply Edit Re: They Found Me

How so?I'd be very interested in hearing why.

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IrishIntellect
Registered UserPosts: 3(9/27/04 1:04)

Reply EDP

Here we go again, another nut...Vikingas, do yourself a favor...let it go and don't post on this site again.

You are going to get ripped on 6 ways from Sunday, and we all know your weak liberal as$ can't hack that!

Go watch something nice on the Disney channel and eat some cookie dough you putz!

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MickeyIII

Registered UserPosts: 79(9/27/04 3:05)

Reply hey VIKINGTROPOLUS

You must be Greek or maybe a geek......You really need to come to Chicago and be treated like gold by the police, They WILL be there for you always.

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Pete Da Heat
Registered UserPosts: 24(9/27/04 3:38)Reply

Re: hey VIKINGTROPOLUS

Oh jeez.....another John Menso!

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retguy

Registered UserPosts: 196(9/27/04 8:06)

Reply oh boy,

I feel numerous battythecop posts coming on - Quick, to the battmobile and zip up to connecticut and have "a cup of coffee" with Steve aka vikingass!!

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onemoreyear
Registered UserPosts: 98(9/27/04 8:36)

Reply Stay out of my City

Hey Viking,
Take your beef up with Connecticut and leave my City alone, you crazy, obsessive, wacko!

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ProudPD
Registered UserPosts: 1507(9/27/04 9:43)

Reply EX - CON

Hey guys Did you miss the following statement in one of his replies:"I went to prison.

No one is willing to take complaints against those officers."THE GUY IS A F'N EX-CON.

Why the hell are you responding to him?

Don't respond and he will go away.

Every time you respond it is like putting gravy on the meat - he eats it up.

STOP!!!!!!

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mattythecop
Global UserPosts: 928(9/27/04 13:06)

Reply Re: Pete

Pete knows that viking is John Menso but ret guy (btw go f*ck yourself) is too stupid to see it.

In the end Proud is correct ignore this EDP .

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retguy
Registered UserPosts: 197(9/27/04 13:22)

Reply hey pinhead

only you really think john menso and this lunatic are one in the same.

go put on your helmet and wait by the curb - the little yellow bus will let you on.

and you call yourself "a skilled investigator"?

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mattythecop
Global UserPosts: 934(9/27/04 13:40)

Reply Re: hey pinhead

Isn't it interesting that you always defend Menso.

Why is that?

I didn't say it first .

I have a life .

I was off line all weekend.

Pete said it, I agreed.

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Pete Da Heat

Registered UserPosts: 25(9/27/04 13:58)

Reply Correction!
I didnt say he was John Menso. I said he was another John Menso.

Which is the same thing almost. Both are total whooples. You get a lot of whining and hot air from these guys but never the truth. I was reading one of Menso's websites oneday. In it he stated he was thrown out of the NYPD for smoking pot.

Are you kidding me? And then he has the balls to come on a cop rant page and spout off about the OBPD? We should take this other moron in the same vein. By the way...his link didnt work last night.

I took it upon myself to check the site out.

Another bunch of anti cop,anti govt, conspiracy spouting freaks. And guess what...our buddy Steve is one of the top posters.

Some off the crapola on there is beyond belief.....but I guess if you read it on the Internet it must be true....NOT!!!

PS Has anybody ever figured out if Menso was in fact a member of the NYPD or was he in some other agency?

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mattythecop
Global UserPosts: 936(9/27/04 14:04)

Reply Re: Correction!

Pete : I knew what u meant. It must be his "butt buddy" if not him. Our "friend" ret guy states Menso is not anti cop just anti OBPD.

Steve is posting there too. Coincidence?

I bet not.

OBPD should have given Menso a little blanky party (lol) when they had him in custody instead they treat this EDP like a human being and look what he pulls. Had he not tried his vigilantism and just called 9-11 on the c/w he would have been free and she would have been a collar no matter who she knew.

Instead he interpreted the law to mean that he can bite someone for holding his cheap tape recorder( and certainly not fleeing with it).

According to someone in Personnel Menso was thrown out of the PA for smoking pot .

He describes himself as a disgraced former cop and jumkie.

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retguy
Registered UserPosts: 200(9/27/04 14:54)

Reply matty - the new john kerry

hey, you stuttering idiot:

pete: "Oh jeez.....another John Menso!"

batty: "Pete knows that viking is John Menso but ret guy (btw go f*ck yourself) is too stupid to see it"batty: "Pete said it, I agreed"pete: "I didnt say he was John Menso.

I said he was another John Menso."batty: "I knew what u meant. It must be his "butt buddy" if not him"the meds matty, the meds!!!!!!!

tthhhhhats alllll folks

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commander12
Registered UserPosts: 127(9/27/04 14:58)

Reply Hmmm

retguy - are you John Menso?

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Edited by:

commander12 at: 9/27/04 14:59

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retguyRegistered UserPosts: 202(9/27/04 15:11)

Reply shhhhhhhhhhh!!!

im hunting cwazy wabbits.

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mattythecop

Global UserPosts: 937(9/27/04 15:33)

Reply Re: shhhhhhhhhhh!!!

Ty Commander. He sure defends him enough.

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Vikingas
Registered UserPosts: 3(9/27/04 16:00)

Reply Edit Whacka, Whacka

I had only voted Republican, never have done drugs, and the only reason I posted on this site or ever at all on the internet, is for making one big, huge mistake.

I invested in rental property in downtown Connecticut. I had traveled in Europe and almost opened an import/export office in the former Soviet Union. I would have done well and the authorities there are more American in their thinking than any in the Peoples Republik of Korruptikut.

I should have either stayed in the mountains in Vermont or in Europe.I was asked by officers in Vermont to go to the academy and become one of them. I did all I could to help whenever they needed me as in a rural area as they can be short handed.

I help pull trees off of roads with my plow truck and gave the elderly rides to the hospital or where they needed to go in very foul weather.

I once helped find a young teen, or possibly younger than that, a child, that was distraught and had broken into a Vermont public school after hours with a .22 rifle. I was dating an officers sister-in law and he wanted me to be on the force with him. I helped officers look for the kid in the school. I was offered a revolver, but refused, because under no circumstances was I going to shoot a child.

I was pushed through a window by officers and went to let them in at a door. I heard some rustling in the cafeteria. I yelled that I was not the police and if he could to find a way out and to go home and everything would be ok. Officers had told me his family was important so they wanted things to go smoothly and did not want the family embarrassed by anything happening or being printed in the paper. The kid heard what I had said, got out, and the incident was quickly forgotten.

If I had never left Vermont, I would have only the utmost respect for all members of law enforcement, I had never met any sleazy or even remotely disgusting officers, before locating to Korruptikut. I remember the first time I was in NYC and talked to a police officer and was very impressed, if I had taken notes, it would have been a good screenplay to write. I do that now for fun and to try and deal with my Connecticut experience.

I don't wish to insult in any good NYC officers, by exposing what are probably the exception in the Connecticut State Police and town police.

You probably have a decent Internal Affairs unit, and more of you probably have hearts and deserve honor and respect.

An Ellington, CT, brought one of two sisters to a hotel, where she woke up in the morning in just her socks. The officer had brought her saying she was drunk and he didn't want her arguing with her sister.

She tried to report the officer for sexual assault. CT State Police Internal Affairs investigated and no charges were filed and I believe the officer kept is job.

Is that honorable and would any NYC officer allow that type of behavior of a fellow officer? I think almost accross the board, the answer would be, no they would not.

I could go on and on with other examples printed in reputable newspapers. Connecticut just isn't dealing with the bad apples and it reflects badly on all police in Connecticut, and all police period.

It would take other departments with honor and pride to shame the Connecticut officers into doing a better job of policing their own flock.

Does that make sense?

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commander12

Registered UserPosts: 128(9/27/04 16:16)

Reply sense ?

your story makes absolutely no sense what so ever..

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had only voted Republican, never have done drugs, and the only reason I posted on this site or ever at all on the Internet, is for making one big, huge mistake.
thanks for clearing that up

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I should have either stayed in the mountains in Vermont or in Europe.
anyplace but here would be good

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I was asked by officers in Vermont to go to the academy and become one of them. I did all I could to help whenever they needed me as in a rural area as they can be short handed.
Vermont cops are so short handed that they asked you to become one of them.

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I help pull trees off of roads with my plow truck and gave the elderly rides to the hospital or where they needed to go in very foul weather.
and thats what they teach in the police academy in Vermont, all this time I thought it was Police work.

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I once helped find a young teen, or possibly younger than that, a child, that was distraught and had broken into a Vermont public school after hours with a .22 rifle. I was dating an officers sister-in law and he wanted me to be on the force with him. I helped officers look for the kid in the school. I was offered a revolver, but refused, because under no circumstances was I going to shoot a child.

was it a teen or not ? and cops actually offered you a revolver, to do what with ? your story does not jivestay off the page, rant or whatever you want to call it...we do not care about your personal and psychological problems you may have. We do not want to hear it, you seem to be a kid with an over-active imagination, a police buff and you need attention go get help !

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Vikingas
Registered UserPosts: 4(9/27/04 16:54)

Reply Edit Credibility

I have been writing in Connecticut newspapers since 1998.

My pieces often have been accompanied by artwork and drawings and have been prominently displayed within the newspaper.

That helped my demise.

It can be easily verified. I wrote in the Hartford Courant and the Manchester, CT, Journal Inquirer.

If I was insane, I would post all names to verify my story, but why should I? Why put friends and good police officers on the spot to prove my point to someone that no matter what I say will have some rude comment or try to find any excuse not to believe what is the truth?

I have been posting on FreeSpeech.com since August of 2003.I have an ongoing challenge for anyone to prove one, even the smallest item, in any of my claims, false, and offer proof.

To date their are no takers.If you put "What is prison really like?" my prison story is the number one listing if you use a yahoo search engine.

My big mouth got me kicked out of that prison and the state of Connecticut. Looking back at some of what got published in the newspaper, I can see why.

I didn't like drugs being sold off my property in Connecticut, and if the Connecticut officers weren't willing to help, I probably should have just sold my property and moved elsewhere.

Because writing in the newspaper and proposing laws to elected officials that Connecticut Police Officers didn't like ended my life as I once knew it.

I have nothing and can't even get a job bagging groceries.

So, I was paid back and then some for my BIG MOUTH.

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John Menso
Registered UserPosts: 17(9/27/04 17:24)

Reply Re: sense ?


Hey, mattythelibrarian.

Remember this webpage - licab.250free.com/TrollsA...urity.html - I sent you last week. The same page in which I embedded a script I used to capture your ISP and IP number.

Why is it the IP number you used to connect to my webpage comes back to:151.204.50.252New Jersey State Library185 W State StreetTrenton, NJUSCoincidentally, the same IP appears in the header of emails sent to me by an alleged NYPD captain/attorney who claimed he was sympathetic to my plight.

Matty, you are a hoot!

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John Menso
Registered UserPosts: 18(9/27/04 17:26)

Reply Re: mattythelibrarian

Quote:
stay off the page, rant or whatever you want to call it...we do not care about your personal and psychological problems you may have. We do not want to hear it, you seem to be a kid with an over-active imagination, a police buff and you need attention go get help !
It's about time someone spoke their mind about Matty.

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squad co
Registered UserPosts: 43(9/27/04 19:13)

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Menso and Vickingas

You are both nuts.

Please re-apply the tinfoil to your windows.

The deflection of the M-rays will keep you safe.

Have a nice day.

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Bx Guy
Registered UserPosts: 336(9/27/04 21:09)

Reply NJ Library

If Matty lives in NJ they, like Suffolk Co., have a free internet service via the library site. Anyone in NJ can tie in. But in SC you have to live in the Co.

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Vikingas
Registered UserPosts: 5(9/27/04 22:51)

Reply Vikingas picture for wanted poster

Vikingas goes to prison for having big mouth
(post contains pictures)

Only a whack job or someone really pissed would write the President. I wrote 9-15-01 to Bush as a last resort as drug dealers had taken over my property. I was arrested 10-11-01 for having too big a mouth and for writing in newspapers.

Post with links, email to Bush, 9-15-01 letter to Bush, and its response.

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JoeyTreats
Registered UserPosts: 116(9/27/04 23:11)

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HEY JOHN

I thought u had enough of this crap. Why keep posting?

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MickeyIII
Registered UserPosts: 80(9/27/04 23:48)

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Re: officers in Connecticut are making all police look bad

Vikingas, If I recall correctly...your name rings a bell ! Your one of the "clay people" from the Flash Gordon series. I thought by now, the Emperior Ming set you and your sister, viklips free.

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Pete Da Heat
Registered UserPosts: 26(9/28/04 5:57)

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You are a weird dude!

My man, you need help. I looked at Free Speech.Com. as a matter of fact, you are one of its top posters. The whole site is collection of lunatic conspiricacy buffs. And every other whoople on there seems like he s got an ax to grind with law enforcement/government/authority. That last post you put about about Vermont was beyond bizarre. You sound like the Conn version of RsqSrvs (the aux PO/ Aux Fire Lt) who used to be on here.

The sad thing about mental illness is that you are usually the last to know. You should really seek professional help. Thorazine would be a big plus too.

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retguy
Registered UserPosts: 211(9/28/04 7:27)

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hey john menso

the matty IP address is NOT a nj state library, per se - its a library located inside a psch center.151.204.50.252New Jersey State Library185 W State StreetTrenton, NJUS
Coincidentally, the same IP appears in the header of emails sent to me by an alleged NYPD captain/attorney who claimed he was sympathetic to my plight.

and no way is matty a captain or an attorney - he's have to pass 3 civil service test for that, and he totally exhausted the pea inside his head passing the test to get OTJ.attorney?? he'd have to pass the bar for that - and hey, the only way he's passing the bar is to get to the next one.


Is the law biased, prejudiced and unfair?

Well, a good example is to steal a candy bar from a corner store. This can lead to arrest and even prison. Steal, even in the millions, as a white collar criminal, corporate criminal, elected politician, friend or family of an official, or be a complete fraud and maybe not even get investigated, and if you are, maybe get a slap on the wrist and more than likely, no prison, that is unless you are Martha Stewart, and possibly not guilty of anything. It is not illegal in some states to write a bad check if it is to a landlord, move in a rental property without permission, change the locks, and not get arrested for trespassing, stealing goods and services, and for causing thousands of dollars in damages and lost rents. So if it matters what your occupation is, how much money you do or don’t have, your political clout, and whether you choose or have to, live downtown instead of the suburbs, decides whether you will be arrested, investigated, or how severely, if at all, you are punished. That is unfair and un-American and should change.

A prostitute that moved into one of my apartments without permission and had a history of doing this since Rockville (Vernon) Court kept records has been moving into apartments without permission, refuses to pay for back rent and damages even when sued and a judgment is handed down in Small Claims Court, and isn’t prosecuted for theft, fraud (often fills out false information to get rents when she doesn’t just move in and changed the locks) is still doing these crimes over and over and not being punished.

After years have gone by, I recently talked with a Used Car lot owner/landlord, the same women took him for over $15,000, in back rent damages, and was able to scam a car from him, making only the first payment.

I asked him why not call police or bring her to court and his answer is they’ll either arrest me, fine me, or take my property, as we are talking about Connecticut, and good behavior is punished and bad behavior is rewarded.

I sued a City Manager over breach of contract and tried to get him investigated for bid rigging and taking kickbacks. As he wanted me to work on his property for free and pay him kickbacks to get city contracts.

I don’t work that way and think sleazy criminals, even if they are officials with friends in high places, should have to obey the law and be punished, equally severely as anyone else.
The politically powerful have done what they want, when they want, and squashed anyone who makes a peep against them, since there has been language and any form of exchange.

The City Manager may even have had keys to the courthouse in his pocket as the courthouse was one of his responsibilities. He was able to tell me to go Fuck myself in open court in front of a magistrate or judge, witnesses, and over a recorded proceeding and nothing was done and the case automatically was decided in his favor and I had to pay him, after HE ripped me off.

A woman that I reported for fraud because she tried to get the contractor/builder to pay for her ceiling damage as electric heating coils contained within caused paint to peal was able to use Connecticut’s corrupt courts to rip me off.

She tried to go after her condominium association before deciding to commit insurance fraud.
This was unknown to me when she tried to get me to submit a false, inflated insurance estimate and provide her with a 2nd estimate of what I would actually charge.
I refused to help her commit fraud and gave her my price.

She used an inflated estimate and pocketed the balance of what that estimate was.
The woman at that point MADE A PROFIT COMMITTING FRAUD.

She then called me over the next 3 years and demanded I come patch and fix or ceiling donating my time and paying for material myself.

I fixed it and repainted it at my expense, twice, the job ended up costing me about triple what I had originally charged and I told her when I did the estimate that I would not be responsible for any future damage as I did not make the structure of her condo, nor did I install the heating coils in the ceiling that would be causing an ongoing problem.

She sued me in Small Claims Court in Rockville (Vernon Court), Haas vs. Erickson. Judge Jonathan Kaplan wasn’t willing to listen to my accusations that the woman committed fraud and was trying to use the court as a tool to rip me off.

It didn’t matter that I had document and knowledge that she had possibly committed fraud before, buying the condo and having a huge amount of cash saying she was somehow injured while riding in a train and that I had provided enough information before the trial to have her investigated and prosecuted for fraud.

I was cut short, Judge Kaplan was rude to me and cordial and polite to the thief that was ripping me off and committing fraud.

Kaplan found in her favor and I was responsible for paying for her ceiling to be completely redone, repainted, and was charged for the materials.

The woman again made a profit off my sweat and hard work and was able to steal a huge amount of money from me after costing me weeks of free labor at my expense, I was ripped off and raped by the system yet again.

I wrote an extremely nasty letter to Kaplan and sent it to the clerk’s desk for all to read my nasty accusations accusing Kaplan of bias and aiding criminals, with the docket number on the letter I mailed. I noticed that Judge Jonathan Kaplan would frequently be rude to the self-employed, contractors, and especially landlords.

Judge Jonathan Kaplan and I were openly hostile and disrespectful to each other whenever I was before him for other small claims cases that I lodged even though I knew it was an absolute act in futility.

I went to State Senator Guglielmo and the former Representative Mordasky, and gave Kaplan’s name to the two political action landlord groups in which I belonged to have Kaplan removed as a COMPLETE ASSHOLE and unfair judge.

I wrote letters and actively tried to have Kaplan fired for bias over a number of years.
Kaplan is the judge who sentenced me years later for ‘overreacting’ to being beaten during a robbery attempt on my property to a year in prison, 3 years probation, the highest possible fines, and every class and option he had to cost me money, time, and make my life miserable.

Kaplan knew he would ruin my credit, make me lose my contracting business of 22 years, and divide me from my family, daughter, would make it extremely difficult to even get ANY job in the future, would make my family suffer, and that I would lose the sum total of my life’s work, including my retirement.

Another man, Tommy DeCiantis was given a $250 fine from the same court, and was not given prison, being charged with Breach of Peace and Assault 3rd, the same two misdemeanors I later was.

He was caught by police jumping on a man that he’d broken his nose, almost the guy’s jaw, all while on probation, drunk and high.

Tommy wasn’t even violated on probation.

Does that sound fair and balanced, and in the public’s best interest for my getting prison for being a crime victim and Tommy gets almost nothing, even though he had committed serious crimes and has a lengthy criminal record and I had absolutely no record.

What a complete, dishonest ASSHOLE.

That judge should be put in prison, not me.

A homeowner can breach a contract, steal a contractor’s tools, commit perjury and theft, steal goods and the costs of labor, and make the individual pay him/her as most court cases are automatically found in favor of the homeowner.

A landlord is often required to pay the living expenses, electric, heat, and for the cost of a deadbeat’s lodging for months and years at his or her expense because of the courts and the way laws are enforced and not enforced.

The deadbeat tenant can cause damage, adverse health conditions, and make a property dangerous for human living and the landlord had to pay and might even be arrested and imprisoned for not fixing what he/she can’t get into an apartment legally to fix, CATCH 22.
If you owe the government a dollar, they can arrest you, put you in prison, and take all your property.

If someone owes you a judgment there is nothing other than hurting their credit that can be done.

So if they have bad credit, it is a license of common criminal parasites to steal at will and not get into trouble or ever have to pay, if they know how to pick and choose whom they rip-off.

If one person can be treated unfairly and nothing is done, the whole system is unfair to all.

Judgments that can ruin someone financially or rob a person’s life, should not be taken lightly.
There are huge crimes committed against humanity by police, prosecutors, and judges which is a homegrown, Holocaust.

I spoke out about this injustice in newspapers BEFORE I was in any criminal trouble.
Testing Free Speech, shows me that it isn’t FREE if I can end up in prison based on the collusion of the Connecticut then top cop, Arthur L. Spada, Judge Jonathan Kaplan, the perjury of 2 Connecticut State Troopers, and a prosecutor that wasn’t willing to prosecute my assailant when follow-up police reports were done, saying I was the victim and my attacker, the perpetrator.

Prosecutor, John Panone, said I couldn’t be unarrested.

That is why he wouldn’t drop the charges against me, nor arrest the criminal that tried to rob me while he was beating me on my property.

The prosecutor was aware that my assailant left me a voicemail that he was going to hurt me when I got home, and then did. I wasn’t looking for trouble or to commit a crime when I came home dog tired after working a double shift, but the criminal did, and wasn’t punished, nor even arrested.

Panone spared the officers a misconduct charge and would have handed me a million dollar or more win in a civil suit for civil rights violations and false arrest if he had dropped my charges and had the criminal arrested. So, not allowing me any deal or program I was legally entitled to, and expose me to a Kangaroo trial and being shut up and thrown in prison was their only option if they didn’t want to be sued and for corruption to be exposed.

Making the trial go against me, saved the officials that acted illegally, kept the story of how sleazy Connecticut courts and police can be, out of the papers, and ruined my life permanently.

My family and especially my straight A, National Honor Society Member daughter because of lies, perjury, police and judicial misconduct, and elected officials that just don’t care and just want to make their pay, get re-elected, and preserve the status quo all the while enriching themselves, friends, family, and cronies.

I have used real world examples to show how out of hand and sleazy our American Injustice System can be.

Thank you,

Steven G. Erickson
Formerly of the Peoples Republik or Korruptikut
and former Political Prisoner # 305662

Email: stevengerickson@yahoo.com

This post says it all in a nutshell.

Sunday, September 26, 2004

NYPD Blog

New York City Cops talk about who they are arresting and what's on their minds, here:

http://p066.ezboard.com/fnypdrant64609frm1

Police Protection and Service

a discussion posted on mrlandlord.com regarding police misconduct, etc.

found here:
http://www.freespeech.com/archives/001242.html

Is our U.S. Constitution Null and Void?

Some Cops show they just can't control themselves

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SecondGenBLUERegistered UserPosts: 1(9/28/04 15:48)Reply
A little bit about "VIKINGAS"(Steven G. Erickson)
-Back in 1994, Mr. Erickson (VIKINGAS), a white male, decided to become a slumlord and bid on some HUD housing in CT-Not only did he buy the property, but the dumba*s decided to move his family into the drug/crime ridden neighborhood thinking he could make a "difference"-Moved into an area that would be comparable to a middle class white guy living in the confines of the 73 pct.-He ignored warnings from the local skells to leave the area or else something bad will happen-Had several domestic incidents with his wife that would have required DIRs in NYC-This FOOL tried to take the law into his own hands and preceded to try and beat up a 6'4 300lb drug dealer.-Needless to say, VIKINGAS got his VIKINGAS handed to him-Not only that, he interfered with a police investigation that was ongoing concerning the crime in the area....meanwhile, this fool accused the cops of not doing anything about the crime not knowing the ongoing sting operation (in which he ruined 2 years of police work by going after the drug dealers himself)-Now he pissed everyone off, including the locals in which one chased him around the hood with a gun..YOU GO BOY!-The police advised him to leave town for his own safety-Steven G. Erickson(VIKINGAS) ingored the warning and preced to continue to take the law into his own hands by assaulting a known police informant who was being observed by the police at the time of the assault because the informant was about to take part in a buy/bust operation-VIKINGAS went to JAIL for assault, and lost everything, including his Russian Whore wife who left him for someone else because she was sick and tired of being abused by him and being in such a shitty neighborhood**********************************************So here you go, a little biography on who we're dealing with here. A disgruntled a*shole who lost everything because he was stupid enough to move his white a*s into a warzone, and then preceded to chastise the police about the job their doing, and took the law into his own hands which is ILLEGAL and paid the price.Sounds like a bitter as*hole that has nothing better to do than blame other people for his problems. Go back to Russia and find a new wife, and for gods sake, stay out of the bad neighborhood you fu*cking idiot. Stop blaming the police for your problems, you're starting to sound like the people you lived with before you got your VIKINGAS handed to you.
squad coRegistered UserPosts: 54(9/28/04 15:50)Reply
Best line of the year
-Needless to say, VIKINGAS got his VIKINGAS handed to him
SecondGenBLUERegistered UserPosts: 2(9/28/04 15:53)Reply
Re: Best line of the year
LMAO! Didn't realize it was that good until a read over it. Thanks.......
commander12Registered UserPosts: 133(9/28/04 15:54)Reply
2nd gen blue
you have never posted here before and low and behold you come out with such an accurate and down to the point story about vakingas.....Wonder Why ?Can anyone guess what Im thinking?
Edited by: commander12 at: 9/28/04 15:54
SecondGenBLUERegistered UserPosts: 3(9/28/04 15:57)Reply
Re: 2nd gen blue
Actually, have posted on here before, lost my SN/Password...Had to re-register b/c you can't have 2 names under 1 email adress. Plus, I stopped posting a while ago, but when I saw this shmuck spew his garbage, it made me do some research to find out who he is.
retguyRegistered UserPosts: 213(9/28/04 16:05)Reply
commander12
im ascared to imagine what youre thinking after your post analyzing the ramblings of stevie g, aka vikingass i thought you completely exhuasted yourself and wouldnt be posting for quite some time. the humor of your post wasnt lost - i laughed until a coughing fit almost killed me. thank you.
RetBxDetRegistered UserPosts: 317(9/28/04 16:10)Reply
re:VikingASS
#1) cmdr12, you got me. I can't get it.#2) great bio though. What a jerkoff, but then again, you didn't have to hear that story to size this clown up.
commander12Registered UserPosts: 135(9/28/04 16:19)Reply
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2nd gen blue - my apologiesRetguy - you have always made me laugh - I figured it was time to return the favorevryone else - no more rambling " Promise" can't seem to express my self as good as I did before - " guess my trigger finger is just a little slow"Be safe all
VikingasRegistered UserPosts: 12(9/28/04 16:22)Reply Edit
Hey Poster
Hey poster,you completely fabricated your post.You did no research.This the post in which you read and twisted:(post)LIAR.I bet you'd do the same in a police report, you piece of crap.
RetBxDetRegistered UserPosts: 319(9/28/04 16:30)Reply
Re: LIAR !
I sitting here trying to put a voice to the words he's writing and I believe that he has had one too many Viking-up the- as !
mattythecopGlobal UserPosts: 955(9/28/04 16:35)Reply
Re: LIAR !
Commander,LOL.Vikingas s : U look like a Mark David Chapman on LSD.
SecondGenBLUERegistered UserPosts: 4(9/28/04 17:16)Reply
VIKINGAS.....
Actually......I didn't read any posts on the internet...It's full of conspiracy theories and misleading fiction. Kind of like the garbage link you put on here just now. It's actually kind of funny what happened to you. One question though, when you attempted to beat up the drugdealer that was kinda large for a human specimen......did you land a punch on his head? And if so, did he smile at you after the punch did nothing and tell you what he was going to do to you now that you F*ucked with him?Because that's the image I have in my head as you tried to rid the world of all the @#%$ single handed. I think I actually pissed myself. Come and clean it up Jizz mopper......
retguyRegistered UserPosts: 216(9/28/04 18:10)Reply
hey Vicadinass
when you start posting about ufo's i'll take you more seriously.
squad coRegistered UserPosts: 59(9/28/04 20:41)Reply
Re: hey Vicadinass
Vicadinass ---- you're killing me! Forget the UFO's though I think psycho boy sees black helicopters!
VikingasRegistered UserPosts: 13(9/28/04 23:21)Reply Edit
Drug dealer chomps into my ear
SecondGenBLUEI am just a little shy of 5’10 and was a little over 180 lbs, with a muscular build.The drug dealer picked me up with one hand and pummeled me with the other. He then brought me up to his mouth and bit into my ear.Blood ran down my neck, chest, and soaked my underwear.I demanded the police find my assailant. So I toured all the bars with police the following weekend and we found him. His 2 friends that told police they didn't know the guy suddenly 'remembered' and said I attacked there friend and he was in fear of me.I was arrest at the front door of my house in front of my wife and neighbors 6 weeks later. I beat the wrap by telling the prosecutor I would demand the 911 tape be played to the jury and all I would have to do to win is have my assailant, the monster, stand next to me in court.The drug dealer was instrumental in taking down 2 bars in Stafford Springs, whose owners did not eat lunch with the Stafford Springs, Connecticut, selectman. The other bars were putting the ‘connected’ bar owner under, that is until the little Good Ole Boy scheme. (Story) I was all over Europe and even the former USSR for over a month and had not one problem, didn’t smell the foul smell of marijuana, didn’t see 14 year old drug using prostitutes or prostitutes of any age, wasn’t beaten, nearly robbed, saw very little graffiti, and felt safe walking around at night almost everywhere over there.I came home to America, and I can’t even walk outside my door without concern, and my living area was broken into so many times I kept almost nothing of value in my house. I sold my hunting rifles and short arms as I couldn’t secure even a roll of toilet paper, literally, as my last clean towel, my razors, only roll of toilet paper and about 8 cold beers were taken out of my refrigerator on just one of the countless times I came home and didn’t need a key.A picture of the house that I spent almost 5 years in the “read more” section of this post. It was boarded up as well as the one beside it. I cut out all the overgrowth, fixed the chimneys, did the roofs, spent 3 months restoring the hardwood floors on my hands and knees. Frozen pipes and wires ripped out of the walls meant I replaced all plumbing fixtures, pipes, electric, heat, etc as needed. I spent 100’s of thousands of dollars in mortgages and saving and charged about $100,000 on my American Express, all for nothing. After no income for about 5 years I was done and would retire in 12 years with $500,000 free and clear and an excess of $6500 gross monthly rents. I couldn’t make it to my back door in the dark and didn’t see my assailant before he jumped me.If I had been arrested for being attacked on my property I wouldn’t be writing this now or even ever blogged on the internet, or at minimum writing about my ruined life and injustice.SecondGenBLUE,To each their own, but it sounds like you are a sadist if you enjoy hearing about suffering, and if you want a man to wipe your jizz, are you a latent homosexual? I happen to disagree with that type of behavior entirely, but what you do in private is your business.
JoeyTreatsRegistered UserPosts: 122(9/29/04 1:10)Reply
Re: Drug dealer chomps into my ear
Just shows that you are a Bitch. I can only imagine what happened to you on the inside.D -->D" src="http://www.ezboard.com/intl/aenglish/images/emoticons/grin.gif">
Pete Da HeatRegistered UserPosts: 32(9/29/04 6:13)Reply
Re: Drug dealer chomps into my ear
LOL you sold your "short arm"? Did you mean sidearm or was "short arm" a Freudian Slip? By the way.....that wasnt blood in your shorts. That was the piss draining out of you after Mr. Huge Fearsome Pissed Off Drug Dealer grabbed you by the neck....or did he have you by the "short arm" also?Leave...go somewhere else....nobody wants to hear your blathering nonsense in here.
VikingasRegistered UserPosts: 15(9/29/04 9:08)Reply Edit
Re: Drug dealer chomps into my ear
Is an officer down considered a bitch?I faced down drug dealers, thugs, and a police force that was angry that I demanded service and protection as I believe in the 14th Amendment should apply.Some of you 'boys' probably need back-up when you choose to go to the Men's room, when there should be a third option,"Confused" and you'd all know which restroom is for you.I never backed down and I was nobody's bitch.The Blacks called me the Great Silver Back Monkey as my back hair would some times come out through a tee shirt, and they were a little afraid of me because they thought I had to be absolutely crazy to write things pissing off cops in newspapers and ending up in prison for it. They thought I was capable of anything and would not stop at anything I put my mind to, no matter what.I will admit that I am stubborn.I am enemy number one to any criminals and officials that promote misery, criminal and drug activity, that are corrupt, or are out of touch with America as our Forefathers intended.Some of your behavior on this site is ample evidence that too many of you are all too willing to be part of a hanging party or a part to OBSTRUCTION of Justice.If you can't control YOUR anger and aggression some of you are in need of serious help. Are some of you becoming like the @#%$ on the streets you spend so much time with?So maybe you all are more like monkeys thrown in a monkey cage with out of hand monkeys. You become like them.My stay with the misbehaving monkeys was relatively short, yours lasts a lifetime. Who is to know YOUR damage.Disclaimer: I am not refering to monkeys as being any particular race, it is just my term for criminals that can't change.

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XVIIRegistered UserPosts: 45(9/27/04 6:13)Reply
VIKINGAS - Another cop bashing civilian
Ignore This loser . Re : See Connecticut cops make all cops look bad.
Edited by: XVII at: 9/27/04 6:17
RoccohibaRegistered UserPosts: 101(9/27/04 7:27)Reply
Re: VIKINGAS - Another cop bashing civilian
Sounds like another freak from the copssuck site
onemoreyearRegistered UserPosts: 96(9/27/04 8:23)Reply
Re: VIKINGAS - Another cop bashing civilian
We may have a problem if the left-wing, cop bashers begin circulating this web site around. They'll get on here and begin their BS and harassment and change this website as we know it!
ProudPDRegistered UserPosts: 1509(9/27/04 9:51)Reply
BYE BYE AZZHOLES
onemoreyearYou could be right but one way to make sure we are not deluged with this type of crap is not to respond.They come on - they post their sh1t - no one responds and away they go. Very simple.
onemoreyearRegistered UserPosts: 99(9/27/04 14:48)Reply
Re: BYE BYE AZZHOLES
You are right. I will heed that advice.
Airborneguy Registered UserPosts: 177(9/27/04 21:41)Reply
this is why
this is why I thought that failed site, NYPD TRUTH was worth it. The admin can block anyone and only allow registered users to access the site and see certain parts of it. I still check it everyone in awhile to see if anyone has posted. Anyone can see this, and as evidenced by this and in the past, tons of people drop by to say "hi"...Here's the link:http://www.getmybb.com/mybb/index.php?mforum=NYPDTRUTH&http://www.getmybb.com/mybb/?mforum=NYPDTRUTH
XVIIRegistered UserPosts: 46(9/28/04 15:13)Reply
Re: this is why
CAN WE PLEASE IGNORE THIS IDIOT!!!??? CAN'T HE BE EXPELLED FROM THE SITE??
mattythecopGlobal UserPosts: 949(9/28/04 16:06)Reply
Re: VIKINGAS - Another cop bashing civilian
Someone please nudge Polecat ,lol. That other temporary moderator took 20 days to answer an email .
VikingasRegistered UserPosts: 11(9/28/04 16:07)Reply Edit
Re: this is why
No, I wouldn’t want to belong to any club that would have me as a member.Ha, ha.No, seriously, I have gotten what I want, as you all have proven my point.Check out what is posted on FreeSpeech.com tomorrow after 6 AM. Then we’ll see how angry the bees are after I whacked their nest with a broom handle.I am a former landlord and was banned from mrlandlord.com by police officers that were also posters on that site. I was ranting along the same lines.Mrlandlord.com get hits in the 10’s of millions a year.I posted about an Enfield Connecticut landlord’s plight which was equivalent to mine.He also had proposed Civilian Oversight of Police in open town meetings, also planed on suing police for 14th Amendment and civil rights violations, AND also had gotten mouthy to newspaper reporters regarding police refusing to service and protect downtown residents, and ESPECIALLY landlords.An Enfield PD officer’s 16 year old girlfriend attacked Donny C. on his property and only Donny was facing a year and a half in prison no deals, for getting yelled at and smacked in the back of his head and back. I was facing a year and a half, no deals.My injuries were to my back and back of my head, too, for which I was also arrested on my property.I posted Donny’s story on Mrlandlord.com and 100’s of letters poured into the Enfield Superior Court, and State Senators, media, and 100’s of calls went into the Enfield Police Department asking what the heck they were doing to productive honest citizens, while ignoring crime, and collecting as much revenue from taxpayers as possible.I also posted how the Enfield PD was sent out to doors collecting overdue library fines!!!If that doesn’t say it all, nothing does.I was attacked on my property by a Connecticut State Police informant after he left threatening messages on my voicemail that he was going to hurt me when I got home which he did. He kept my neighbors and tenants up many nights, pounding on my door well after midnight telling he would cut off my (male anatomy) if he caught me out in MY yard.He told my tenants he was going to kill me when I got home at 1 PM and I came home at 11:30 PM. Connecticut State Troopers refused to take that statement, that of other witnesses, and from me, choosing to tell them and me to shut up, and then arrest just me.For getting pummeled after I got out of my vehicle in my dark driveway, Connecticut State Troopers were right there to arrest me, and then commit perjury to get me sent to prison. I had no previous record and wasn’t even given the program for 1st time offenders, if I was really guilty of overreacting to being beaten during a robbery attempt.I lost my dog, daughter, credit, 100,000 points on my Amex that I was going to take my daughter to Paris with, my contacting business of 22 years, my ability to leave the state, hunt, own firearms, own a home, my retirement, investment property that I had fixed up from a boarded up condition, properties I toiled over 5 years spending $50,000 of my father’s and 100’s of thousands of my money making luxury living, and the sum total of all I had ever dreamed of, worked for, and had.I worked my entire life to attain the $500,000 in real estate.ALL GONE.For WHAT??!!!Complaining in newspapers how I couldn’t stand drugs being sold off my front yard, drunk teens smashing and taking everything they could 24 hours a day, and exposing the fact that prostitutes as young as 14 were doing tricks openly all over Stafford Springs, Connecticut.Seeing children’s heads bob up and down in cars made me so angry I could vomit.Complain to Connecticut State Police about the underage prostitutes high on ecstasy that were stripping in a back parking lot and they came quicker than ever before (except to lie in ambush to arrest me) not to do anything, but just to ogle. Before, I got arrest there were failed attempts to take me down. A retired Enfield dog officer kept flooding my Somersville, CT, 2 family basement with sewage. I narrowly escaped prison for not being able to clean up his messes fast enough.I then found out a woman on probation was told to make a false statement against me regarding sexual assault. She refused because, it never happened, and she went to prison, losing any chance of having her two kids live and be with her.Simply awful that humans can be so sleazy and lacking in morals, Connecticut State Police, no less.I now have absolutely nothing to lose except what little freedom I have and my life.I can’t even get a job bagging groceries or loading boxes on a tractor trailer 3rd shift.Before I would get any job I applied for and was offered cushy salaried positions, ALL DRIED up because I couldn’t make it, dog tired, to the inside of my home, take a shower, and go to bed.You might ban me here, but as long as I have at least one finger to type with, a voice, and a pulse, I absolutely won’t shut up, nor go away.How do you like me now?-Steven G. EricksonP.S. I don’t have a beef with the NYC PD, and now have one more place I probably can’t safely live, I have a beef with bad police policies, and the officers that were willing to deprive me of sleep day after day, allow kids to become worse and worse criminals until they were either dead, drug and alcohol addicted, or doing long prison sentences.You only prove my point 10,000 fold by not, even a little bit, considering what I have to say and not empathizing with me to even the smallest degree.You are saying it isn’t an aberration, it is an across the board, FLAWED Policy.Priests can’t police themselves without little boys being molested.Police can’t police themselves without making the U.S. Constitution a worthless rag or have the same meaning in American’s lives as Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and the Tooth Fairy.
JoeyTreatsRegistered UserPosts: 118(9/28/04 16:14)Reply
You Are Moron
Do yourself a favor take your meds, maybe u will recover which is doubtful or maybe you will OD.
Pete Da HeatRegistered UserPosts: 31(9/29/04 6:03)Reply
Re: You Are Moron
You are a moron indeed. All the crap you put up there is based on YOUR hypothesis of what happened. None of this nonsense is factual hence inadmissable. If you could, please post your stuff on WWW.RamblingNonsense.Com.PS You might not know this but the Conn State Police is one of the most widely repsected law enforcement agencies around. They have a rigorous, demanding academy, as well as some of the toughest stringent standards for their troopers. Their code of conduct for troopers is one of the most demanding I have ever heard; their Rules and Procedures are harsh to say the least.And another thing you overblown self centered egotistical loon.....You are taking credit forbringing down the Gov of Conn? You need a check up from the neck up.
VikingasRegistered UserPosts: 16(9/29/04 9:25)Reply Edit
Re: You Are Moron
Cities and towns don't want the Connecticut State Police to whore all the Homeland Security funds for towns.Many are just saying 'no' to the Connecticut State Police.The former Chief of Staff to the head of the police in Connecticut was arrested for theft and fraud. The sleaze goes right to the top.The CT State Police are an armed bunch of thugs, use Mafia tactics, and have a 'gang' mentality.Not all are bad, but the bad ones seem to rule in Connecticut.It was in the Hartford Courant about how they get off when robbing, raping, and murdering.The incoming Governor asked for the head to the Connecticut State Police to resign believing he was part of the corruption that so plagues Connecticut.Wrong, Connecticut State Police have a lame internal affairs unit and there is no quality control of cops. Some them are as bad as the criminals they are supposedly protecting us from, but some are too busy shaking down prostitutes and using their cruisers as cheap motel rooms and a place to torture civilians.I think crime could be vastly reduced if there were cameras facing INSIDE the cruisers with audio.

Saturday, September 25, 2004

Writing your U.S. Congressman

U.S. Congressman Simmons wrote to the Attorney General of Connecticut on my behalf at the end of June just asking that my trial transcripts be reviewed.

As of today’s date no answer has been received. A Simmons aid told me that is highly irregular and suspicious.

Please check out this post:
http://www.freespeech.com/archives/002765.html
(open letter to Simmons)

Email sent to Bush 9-15-04:
http://www.freespeech.com/index.php?/weblog/comments/3293/
(contains text and links for scanned document of a letter mailed 9-15-01 to Bush and the answer to it)

Are a U.S. Atty and Atty General Obstructing Justice?
post: http://www.freespeech.com/index.php?/weblog/government_is_a_scam/

Will politicians help you?

Propose Laws to Elected Officials, and Police may have you thrown in Prison

I went to elected officials in Connecticut proposing laws to force police to protect and serve all equally. It should already be covered by the 14th Amendment to the Constitution.

I proposed Civilian Oversight of Police with quality control questionnaires going out to those that need police protection and service.

Connecticut State Police brass didn’t like my idea and a legislator’s aid told me to leave Connecticut and sell all my property before it was too late.

A police liaison told her I had gone to far proposing that law and for what I had wrote regarding police not serving downtown residents, allowing crime, and going after mostly honest, working people collecting fines.

I lost my dog, family, daughter, home, retirement, and the sum total of my life arrested on a slim excuse and put into prison based on Connecticut State Trooper perjury.

I wrote the below email to the Lt. Governor and other important Democrats. I have gone to Republicans and nothing has happened.

So, we’ll see if politicians have hearts and are willing to act for Justice and seeing that the U.S. Constitution isn’t just a worthless rag.

I have edited some of my mistakes in the email below that I email:

Emailed to:
Kevin.B.Sullivan@po.state.ct.us, Looney@senatedems.state.ct.us, Coleman@senatedems.state.ct.us, Jim.Amann@po.state.ct.us, Annette.Carter@po.state.ct.us, William.Dyson@po.state.ct.us, Moira.Lyons@po.state.ct.us, public.information@cnn.com

Subject: investing in Connecticut and not somewhere else

Text:


I can't even get a job bagging groceries with a criminal record and was offered an insurance position out of state and can't leave the state, I'm on probation for 3 years and for any violation of probation, or if my probation officer feels like it, I can go back to prison for 3 to 5 years.

A rapist got off with probation, an armed robber got off with 10 years probation, and a man going through the same court as me while on probation, was charged with Assault 3rd and Breach of Peace for breaking a guys nose, almost his jaw, and was caught jumping on the man, while he was drunk, another violation of his probation.

He was fined $250 and not violated on probation.

I pepper sprayed a man that beat me and told me he'd kill me and I get a year in prison, have to pay him restitution, pay the highest possible fine, have to take anger management, see a psychiatrist weekly (my PO didn't think I needed a doctor for using pepper spray, so I don't see one), drug and alcohol classes (my PO didn't make me go because I wasn't drunk when I was attacked and have never used drugs)

I lost contact with my daughter, my dog, home, retirement, credit, and everything I have ever worked for and can't get a decent job or work in almost 2 years.

I have suffered enough.

If I hadn't have moved to downtown Connecticut I would not have complained about the drug dealing and crime and police would not have gotten angry with me for exposing the truth and I would never have been falsely arrested and police officers would not have committed perjury to have me sent to prison.

I need to be pardoned so I can go on with my life and get a good job.

Please help me.

Thank you,

Steven G. Erickson
PO Box 730
Enfield, CT 06083

Please check out this post:

http://starkravingviking.blogspot.com/2004/09/i-cant-get-job-bagging-groceries.html

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Police internal Affairs refused to take or deny my allegations, contained in this post:

http://www.freespeech.com/archives/001440.html

My email: stevengerickson@yahoo.com

Letter to Connecticut Attorney General

Dear Connecticut Attorney General, October 17, 2003

Subject: Docket # CR01-0074672, Rockville Court, Connecticut, 20 Park St.

With all due respect, I am trying to convey my story without a tone of anger, which is impossible. I mean no disrespect to you in any of my words below. I admit a lack of tact and can be guilty of not having basic common sense, but I have worked hard my entire life, spoke my mind too often, and have tried to improve my life and for those around me as long as I have been old enough to be aware. I feel a grave injustice has occurred and wish to make you aware for possibly investigating my claims.

Should the Justice System, including law enforcement, in a State, act in anyway similar to a KKK infested state, as was the case in some States at the height of the Klan?

Judge Jonathan Kaplan was aware of me being stalked, harassed, threatened, including my life, while my assailant and I struggled as I defended myself, ending the assault in my dark driveway with pepper spray. In court late October 2002, my assailant admitted to the judge that he, Brian Caldwell, had threatened my life while demanding money. Isn’t that attempted robbery?

Is it strange that police refused to arrest Caldwell, the prosecutor refused to sign Caldwell’s arrest application, and a judge is fine with a landlord being beaten, threatened, stalked before and after the incident, attempted robbery, but is not ok with a landlord ‘overreacting’ defending him/herself?

I was called the victim, when I finally got the police to take my statement almost a month later. But, prosecutor John Panone, refused to sign the arrest application for my assailant, refused to drop the charges against me when I was declared the ‘victim’, and even refused to offer me the AR program that I was eligible for that would have ended up in my charges being erased.

I was sentenced to one year in prison and 3 years probation, had no former record, and was defending myself on my own property during a robbery attempt.

Troopers Ameral and Langlais, refused to take my statement/complaint the night I was attacked on my property, refused to interview witnesses, refused to look at my injuries, but paraded me around the 3 and 4 family houses in Stafford Springs, CT, in front of my neighbors and tenants, then leaving me propped up against a police car with the blue lights flashing for as many as 15 minutes to be displayed, lit, and prominent, for all passing traffic on the major Rt. of 190.

I had spent 4 years and 100’s of thousands and dollars, blood and sweat, fixing up those formerly boarded up properties.

The criminals and drug dealers still operate in Stafford Springs, Connecticut. Yet, after police officers had bragged that ‘Big Mouth’ was going to be run out of town, and taught a lesson, and had bragged I was going to prison before I even went to trial, justice has not been served.

Troopers Ameral and Langlais committed perjury in order that I be convicted. The State Police Internal Affairs refuses to deny nor to take my complaint against officers.

I feel my First Amendment rights have been violated, as I had complained about police and the local court system in newspapers, and had proposed legislation inflammatory to police and those in the judiciary BEFORE I was railroaded to prison.

Your attention to this matter would be greatly appreciated,

Steven G. Erickson
PO Box 730
Enfield, CT 06083 (address no longer valid)

Connecticut State Police Internal Affairs refused to take nor deny these complaints:

Steven G. Erickson February 14, 2003
PO Box 730
Enfield, CT 06083-0730 (address no longer valid)
860-749-xxxx

To whom it may concern at Connecticut State Police Internal Affairs:
(fax to 203-238-6447, tel 238-6390)

I belief Troopers Ameral and Langlais of Connecticut State Police, Troop C, Tolland Connecticut, committed perjury in my criminal trial at Rockville GA#19, 20 Park St, Connecticut on 10-22-02, to get me convicted on 2 misdemeanor charges.

I would like to formerly lodge a complaint against Trooper Ameral and Langlais as I believe they perjured themselves.

Trooper Ameral seemed to turn red and choke over his words as he testified that when asked whether or not I had asked to make a statement and identified myself 10-11-01, after I was nearly robbed, beaten, and threatened on my own property at night after arriving home with Clayton Varno in my van.

Troopers Ameral and Langlais refused to listen to the taped threats on Sue xxxx answering machine against me, 10-11-01, before I was assaulted, to take Sue xxxx statement, Apt x, 5 Church St., Stafford Springs, CT 06076 (860-684-xxxx).

The pair also refused to take my statement, refused to listen to the threats against me from my assailant made from 1:00 PM that day against me.

I had identified myself as a crime victim, my name, and that I wished to make a complained. Both officers denied me this. Trooper Ameral refused to take my statement during processing 10-12-01, and refused to listen to my voicemail with the threats against me.

My assailant was not arrested.

I asked Trooper Ameral more than once to make a complaint and wanted my statement taken. I called out while being held, and asked to make a complaint against my assailant for attempted robbery, assault, and the threatening of me, Sgt Sticca refused to take my statement, 10-12-01.

I called Troop C, when I arrived home in the morning after being held at Troop C, Trooper Decker listened to my entire account of the previous events from the late evening before. I believe he interviewed tenants that had heard my assailant threaten my life and were aware of my assailant going back and forth from the local bar all day looking for me, each time saying he was going to hurt or kill me when I got home.

Trooper Decker politely refused my 2 or more requests to take my written statement regarding the events from the previous day.

My assailant continued to harass and threaten me and attempted to beat me again, Oct 18, 2001. I called the State Police and I believe it was Trooper Colleen Anuszewski, who responded to the call maybe sometime between 8PM and 9PM.

She listened to the threats on my voicemail and listened to my account of the threats made against me and that I had just nearly escaped a 2nd beating by locking myself in my office in my other multi family house, 3 Church St, Stafford Springs, CT.

My assailant came after me 7 times in the time before my trial. 4 of the times I reported the incidents to police.

There was a follow up investigation that calls me the victim of the assault in which I have included. This tells me that if my statement was taken before I was arrested that I would never have been arrested, and at the time of the 2nd report, I think my charges should have been dropped.

Sgt Izzarelli took my statement and interviewed Sue xxxx, possibly Clayton Varno, and others.

Sgt Izzarelli came calling on me and in the presence of Sue xxxx, seemed surprised that my assailant was not arrested and with my case in general, in my opinion.

I believe I had previous arguments with Trooper Langlais, over teens drinking, fighting, and selling drugs off my front lawn, and my displeasure over losing sleep and with the lack of anything being done.

Langlais may have been one of the officers on a previous occasion to Oct 11, 2001, that were chanting, "Oh Stevie, Oh Stevie, Oh Stevie!" outside my office door waking me up maybe 2AM or 3AM in the morning maybe an hour or so after I had called in and complained about intoxicated teenagers, banging into my house, and being so loud they were keeping me awake.

The contents of this letter are to my best belief and knowlege.

Thank you,
Steven G. Erickson

(Another complaint faxed to Connecticut State Police Internal Affairs, not taken nor denied):

Steven G. Erickson April 16, 2003 xxx xxxx
(an address- snipped)

To Whom It May Concern at the Connecticut State Police Internal Affairs Unit
(fax to 203-238-6447, tel 238-6390.

Subject: Trooper Mulcahey’s possible violation of my (Steven G. Erickson) 1st and 14th Amendment rights, civil rights violations, and improper conduct unbecoming of a State Law Official

I believe Trooper Mulcahey acted improperly in telling me I would be arrested if I pursued any charges or allegations against anyone and did not leave the State of Connecticut.

I had brought a tape that Trooper Mulcahey took possession of threats against my daughter, her life, by a man who was sexually obsessed with my then 14 year old daughter and her friend Leann.

The tape also had threats against me, possibly 15 to 20 involving Peter Coukos. Please look into my allegations and take my complaint.

From statements made by Peter Coukos, before I was harassed by him telling me that the Stafford Resident Trooper and Stafford Police Officers did not like him (Peter Coukos) getting along with me and encouraged him to harass me and get rid of me.

After making this statement, Peter Coukos, told me that if I did not write him a check for $30,000 he would make up a false police report, report me to the building inspector for possible code violations, and would try and say I had committed fraud in some way or another fabricating a complaint.

I was also told I was evicted from the property by Peter Coukos, when I believe only a court order could bar me from 3 and 5 Church St.

Stafford Springs, CT, and that it was entirely illegal that I could be told I was barred from Stafford Springs and/or Connecticut, by someone saying they are speaking on behalf of the police.

I asked Trooper Mulcahey to take my complaint against Peter Coukos more than once and over time from as early as February 2002 into the Summer of 2002, regarding Peter Coukos threatening me, assaulting me, locking me of my apartment, blocking my vehicles in the driveway, breaking into my apartment, stealing my van seats and pick up truck cap, etc.

I believe it was an admission to these crimes by Peter Coukos when he signed an agreement not to harass me and to settle my Small Claims suit I brought against him regarding the stolen property.

I do not think it honorable and legal for a State Trooper to threaten me with arrest for being the victim of crimes, not the perpetrator, if I pursued matters taken in police reports, and if I did not leave Stafford Springs and/or Connecticut as soon as was possible.

I find it disturbing that Peter Coukos, claimed to me that the Resident State Trooper had told him, “Big Mouth is going to be shut up,” “Big Mouth is going to be run out of town,” and “Big Mouth is going to be taught a lesson,” before the harassment began, telling me it was encouraged and condoned possibly violating federal and Connecticut laws by police officers and Peter Coukos.

What is contained in this letter is to my best belief and knowledge.

Please look into my allegations and take my complaint.

Thank you,
Steven G. Erickson

P.S. the address of some of the violation is 3 and 5 Church St., Stafford Springs, CT 06076

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added December 29, 2008:
(posted on OpEd News, click below title to go to OpEd News)

December 28, 2008 at 13:58:30

Considering becoming a US Ex-Patriot in 2009

by Steven G. Erickson


Steven G. Erickson mugshot

I went to elected officials in Connecticut from about 1995, regarding the inaccessibility of courts to average working people, and how police will refuse to offer you protection and service based on your race, zip code, occupation, economic status, and whether or not you are politically active. I was told I was “kicked out of Connecticut” by Connecticut State Police from about 1999. After I wrote Bush, 9-15-01, just venting, absolutely fed up with what I was having to go through after having invested 100’s of thousands of dollars, and years of my life acquiring and fixing up boarded up rental properties. Police stepped up their domestic spying program, harassment, threats, and terrorization of me, often following me around in pairs all day from the time I pulled out of my driveway.

Two druggie police informant felons were trying to attack, stalking and terrorizing, and threatening my life at two different rental property locations, Stafford Springs and Somersville, Connecticut.

Another Police Informant, Barbara Sattal [scroll down in post for picture], was encouraged to date me, and then to set me up for a drunk driving arrest where State Police would arrest me, plant drugs on me, beat me up, and I would face decades in prison for the grocery list of felonies I would be charged with.

Sattal fell for me and told me of the State Police plot. I broke up with her. She told me I would lose my daughter, my properties, and go to prison if I did not continue to date her. I had no record, and refused to continue seeing Barbara. Her threat came true. I lost everything I had ever worked for AND contact with my daughter.

I was attacked on my property by a police informant 10-11-01, not even a month after having written Bush [this letter, getting this response], scroll down. Police and local elected officials had the text of my letter a day after I mailed Bush.

I was sentenced to a year in prison for two misdemeanors, breach of peace, and assault 3rd, which can be loud yelling. Without a record, I got prison for “overreacting” to being mugged, ending the beating I was taking with pepper spray. I didn’t want to get stabbed. My assailant wasn’t arrested. To be charged with breach of peace you have to be “in public”. I was attacked from behind in my dark driveway on private property.

If we in the US, live in a police state, if the courts are rigged, and elected officials continue to do nothing, I may leave the US in 2009, to be “Free” and “American” at the same time, elsewhere.

I have found through personal experience that NOTHING in the US Constitution actually applies to anything.

-Steven G. Erickson

A witness tells my story [video]

[click here] for the Connecticut State Police misconduct complaints I lodged. Police in Connecticut have a policy for complainers, it is called, "Arrest and Discredit"


Steven G. Erickson is a freelance cameraman, blogger, photographer, documentary producer, screenwriter, sometimes journalist, and can and will travel anywhere if the terms are right. His objective is to reform America's courts, creating a "People's Grand Jury" system, exposing and fixing public corruption, corporate abuse of the public, and punishing police, official, prosecutorial, judicial, and attorney misconduct.





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Added December 27, 2008, at 11:03 EST. Witness tells of my saga


(mailing address has changed, my email address is stevengerickson@yahoo.com)

A penis pump, disturbing acts going on under a black robe, and the judge accused:

JUNE 24--While seated on the bench, an Oklahoma judge used a male enhancement pump, shaved and oiled his nether region, and pleasured himself, state officials charged yesterday in a petition to remove the jurist.

According to the below complaint filed by the Oklahoma Attorney General, Donald D. Thompson, 57, was caught in the act by a clerk, trial witnesses, and his longtime court reporter (these unsettling first-hand accounts will make you wonder what’s going on under other black robes).

Visitors to Thompson’s Creek County courtroom reported hearing a “swooshing” sound coming from the bench, a noise the court reporter said “sounded like a blood pressure cuff being pumped up.” Thompson, the complaint charges, even pumped himself up during an August 2003 murder trial.

Piece found (here)

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It sounds like Pee Wee Herman would make a good judge … -Steven G. Erickson (Vikingas)

A more serious indictment of our judicial system

Posted by Vikingas on 06/30 at 12:01 AM

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Comments:

Dude, i scooped you on this last week. talking about the “whacky judge.” you can read the complaint against him at the smoking gun website.

Posted by
A.W. on 06/30 at 02:49 AM #

Sorry, A.W., I missed your post on that one ...
How outrageous is that judge?
It says volumes about the judicial system in need of a ‘clean up’.

Posted by
Vikingas on 06/30 at 05:54 PM #

Actually i see you as engaging in the zero failure fallacy there. one judge can whack off in court without it bearing on the enter judicial system of the us. the fact that removal proceedings are going forward says this is not a systematic failure but an abberration.

Posted by
A.W. on 06/30 at 06:22 PM #

A.W., I have seen more than just one cog in the wheel fail in the Connecticut Court System.
Those that don’t break ranks to protect each other is too often a matter of course. For quality and justice they should, at least more than they do now.

Being a lawyer, A.W., you will defend your own, your industry, and take an insult against another in the judiciary as an insult to yourself.

I am not attacking you, as it is just human nature. Those that judge are supposed to be at a higher standard. The public is not getting that quality.

Just as with religion, one will side with one of his/her flock.

Ok ... off on a tangent, priest can’t police themselves ... neither can anyone else. Then there is abuse.

Posted by
Vikingas on 06/30 at 11:06 PM #

Blasting France

Freedom Fries, not French Fries, do you remember? I was in Paris celebrating my divorce, or just taking a trip before the realization set in. France is considered borderline Communist by many critics here in the U.S. What is my take?

I have a different take on Socialism, Communism, and the supposed freedom here in the United States of America.

After, 1917, the Reds went after the educated, artists, writers, shop keepers, dissenters, lawyers, landlords, business owners, and those with a clue, speaking their minds. They were sent to die immediately or suffer slowly and die with their entire families. In later years, countries annexed into the former USSR or Chinese form of Communism suffered similar fates.

I noticed, bustling, safe downtown areas in England, Denmark, France, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia.

Confections, chocolates, pastries, custom ornate draperies, corner butchers, thriving Mom and Pop shops, small independent family restaurants, corner cafés, specialty shops, shoe and dress repair, cobblers, watch repair, tailors, antique shops, and just a hint of the corporate scourge which has taken over the US landscape, courts, and fuels the election process in donations, bribes, and with their muscle.

The family farmer is all but gone in the United State of America.

The corner bar where there used to be cohesive neighborhoods, where those being subjected to tyrants, could go and air their gripes are going the way of the dinosaur in the U.S.A.

Sam Adams and the Patriots would have had a hard time organizing and having militant conversations at the local ‘99’ Restaurant/Corporate Bar.

How are bar owners and other downtown business owners being taken down?
http://www.freespeech.com/archives/002675.html

Teens that dare go out and cut lawn or baby-sit children are tax cheat, criminals. There are more road blocks to teens babysitting and cutting lawns than going out smoking, cigarettes, drinking, doing drugs, and committing crimes.

Bookworms had more to worry about in Enfield, Connecticut, as police were sent to doors collecting overdue library fines, and little is being done about vandalism, thefts, fraud, prostitution, strong armed robberies- muggings, and other crimes not related to collecting traffic fines.

From recent national news stories, we know that corporate heads and corporations themselves always act within the law and are ethical, yeah right. Family run daycares have been taken down and owners have done decades in prison, have been labeled as sex offenders for life, over false accusations while daring to compete with corporate daycare.

I ate in a restaurant in Vilnius, Lithuania, that had no signs, no lights on the outside, it was in the ruins of an ancient castle in the basement that was still intact.

We opened a door, centuries old, and a man in a tuxedo took our suit jackets and coats, and behind an iron caldron maybe 8’ across hung on chains going up a story and a half in an ancient chimney, hid a secret passage down to a large area and restaurant and food I still dream about to this day. There is no handicap accessibility and the stairwell was made when people were much shorter, fire exits aren’t marked and do not exist.

Corporate restaurants are more and more prevalent. Historical and family restaurants are hard to pass on as taxes of 60% or so are imposed on those trying to takeover their parents’ businesses don’t have the money to BUY what is passed on to them. Corporations are unaffected by death of founders. Scores of owners that own stock, not equipment, and hold the deeds are interchangeable in market trends.

Independent contractors and laborers are being swallowed up by the mega huge hardware chains. Pay scales and benefits are in the toilet.

Do you see any doctors or dentists working out of their houses charging reasonable rates?

Any small business start has a 1 in 10 chance of being in business for 10 years. A business can go 3 to 5 years without profit being built up, and may never be profitable. Corporations favor bureaucracy and red tape as smaller, independent businesses don’t have the special accounting and legal departments to comply, and can quietly be put out of business.

Then there are common modern misconceptions. Small independent restaurants are ‘greasy spoons’, others are called ‘hacks’, ‘fly-by-nights’, ‘travelers’, or just plain flimflams and scammers.

A contractor can face a $500 fine for not having 3 prongs on an extension cord, if it came with one.

A fine can permanently shut down an independent business or individual.

A corporation paying a fine, just might be a business decision. Some mege, super, colossal chains didn’t put prices on items, just deciding to pay the fine as it was cheaper than paying wages for someone to price all the items, usually just after set-up. Loss leaders are used to shut the competition down. That if offering items at or below cost to draw customers away from the ‘little guy’ putting him (or her) out of business. Have you noticed that the return policies and prices change at the corporate slut store just after they have put their competition, the ‘little people’ and your neighbors, out of business?

Money no longer stays in your neighborhood, and the ‘monkey can do it’ jobs offered by the chains can be part time and even full timers can have a hard time making ends meet, get shoddy benefits, and maybe no health insurance.

You’re selling your souls to the corporate store.

America was built by men (and women) with wares on their back, maybe carrying a carpet bag, willing to take a chance, invest their money in themselves and independent ventures, believing in the fairness of America and its leaders.

Having the same spirit today may have you ending up taking a bath in piranhas.

I read in Connecticut newspapers where a man suspected of armed robberies was put in prison for a year for contracting without a license while authorities found out if they could build a case for the armed robbery.

Another contractor was shot at, possibly randomly, he was then investigated financially, with the thinking he must have screwed somebody over. His records were so thoroughly scoured that something was found and he ended up in serious trouble, just because he was a second class citizen and victim of random violence.

Independent property investors that have their properties destroyed by tenants and local vandals are being jailed for health code violations, dilapidated and blighted property, and landlords are the preferred targets of police for arrest when there is an argument or disturbance involving a tenant.

Fines can range from $75 to $100 for crimes committed by others. Good behavior and property investment is punished and bad behavior is either ignored or subsidized with tax dollars …
(I can't get a job bagging groceries, post:
http://starkravingviking.blogspot.com/2004/09/i-cant-get-job-bagging-groceries.html)

I helped a friend occasionally with his food trailer at events. The head fireman, police officers, and others came by expecting free food for themselves and their friends.

Failure to pay up would mean being shut down.

An inspector told us we’d be shut down unless we went over to his recommended shop that was remaining open for us to come and pay $150 for a special fire extinguisher for that event.

We were charged special connection fees to have our garden hose and electric extension cord ‘professionally’ connected.

If we were competition for someone CONNECTED in the town or hooked up with officials, we’d be inspected in the middle of a rush shutting us down during the most profitable time of the day, diverting business to others.

A cooler that is opened frequently during a rush won’t maintain temperature, an inspector knowing this and wanting to shut down competition of a connected friend, will check the temperature and if it is about 40 degrees we could be shut down and fined. Checking the grill just after a massive amount of food is put on, or if frozen meet is put on the one, split second reading would mean the food and grill wasn’t at a high enough temperature and we could be shut down, and face a huge fine.

The same tactics were probably used to shut down umteen restaurant owners that were competition to others with friends in town hall or with Big Brother, Jr., the corporate chain syndicate.

I helped my friend put his trailer on the front yard to sell it. A health inspector was there within ten minutes with his clipboards as I was in it and he thought he was going to collect the MOTHER OF ALL FINES.

I pointed to the for sale sign and had to show him there was no food in the trailer and that the grills weren’t on or connected. I suppose someone breaking into a house or selling drugs on the corner would not have been so alarming to authorities as finding an excuse to fine the shit out of a 2nd class citizen or finding excuse to take all of his/her shit.
http://www.freespeech.com/archives/001809.html

I saw many independent vendors and thriving small businesses in France and even in the now independent Baltic States of the former USSR, that to me says government cooperates with the individuals, cares about what is the heart of society- downtown areas, and services the needs of the people, not a few corrupt members of the governing/elite.

I can’t even leave the country and be a free American elsewhere, setting up a small downtown business in a country more conducive to a FREE THINKER and hard worker as I was taken down for having a BIG MOUTH by a jackbooted thug’s lackey, having been beaten in the dark on my property having defended myself with pepper spray.

I went from getting almost every job I ever applied for, getting offers for good salaried positions, owing $500,000 in prime investment properties, collecting $6500 in gross monthly rents, to not
being able to get a job loading trucks or doing virtually anything, because I was sent to prison and now have a criminal record for shooting my mouth off in newspapers.

So for me being allowed to leave Hypocrania, Inc. (The USA) and going to France or anywhere else in Europe would be a dream come true. Big Mouths on probation can’t travel, nor earn a living, maybe for life.

Steven G. Erickson
PO Box 730
Enfield, CT 06083, Hypocrania ( The Peoples Reblik of Korruptikut)

email: stevengerickson@yahoo.com

Links to my story and angst:
http://www.freespeech.com/index.php?/weblog/bad_cops/

Another good post:
http://www.freespeech.com/index.php?/weblog/a_pattern_of_deceit_092304/

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If you are Black, a landlord, a contractor, or self-employed, is it an express route to prison? Are sentences fair? Can a bar owner be put in prison if he doesn’t know whom to bribe? Can a black man that has a restraining order against a white woman on probation, that breaks into his house and uses a weapon, he should go to prison not her, right? Story:

http://www.freespeech.com/archives/002750.html

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Donald Christmas of the Thompsonville section of Enfield, Connecticut, also proposed Civilian Oversight of Police, is also a landlord that got mouthy to newspaper reporters regarding police harassing landlords, refusing to give protection and service, also threatened to sue police for civil rights violation, and was also attacked on his property, and was arrested and only given a choice of pleading guilty and going to prison for a year and a half or face a fixed trial and get sent up anyway. Donny was attacked by a police officer’s 16 year old girlfriend and only Donny got into trouble and faced prison.

Police officers allegedly followed Don around, harassed him and his family, caused him to get fired from two jobs, and police allegedly threatened witnesses into making false statements, but they refused.

Story:
http://www.freespeech.com/archives/001360.html

Friday, September 24, 2004

I can’t get a job bagging groceries, loading boxes in trucks, or any other job, period

It is almost impossible to get a job with a criminal record, while on probation, having been let out of prison.

Which is a better choice for a small downtown business or property investor, the USA or former USSR?

Well, I was in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, and had a choice of starting a downtown shop, opening an import/export office, or going home with my European wife to America.
I would like to report to you that I made the right choice.

I didn’t I came home to American.

There are two Americas, one for the suburban whites and another, downtown, for minorities and white trash.

I found out the hard way crime areas or that way because they are lack of law enforcement, riffraff containment areas. Crime Watch Area means a taxpayer can drive up and watch crimes occur uninterrupted.

While I was out an about in Europe and the former USSR, I encounter no smell of marijuana being smoked, didn’t see drunks/drug addicts passed out on sidewalks, didn’t have 14 year old and older prostitutes propositioning me, wasn’t beaten, no one attempted to rob me, and no one threatened my life.

I had a pleasant experience and regret ever leaving.

I was treated with respect and met with officials and some of the movers and shakers in Europe.
I could have operated a business up to 5 years without having to pay taxes as an incentive to locate my business in Lithuania.

I was told I could even get a gun permit as a foreign national and business owner.

I felt safe, wanted, and that I could have started a business and make money with my contacts and expertise. I don’t know why I was so eager to return to the states and my doom. I guess I just thought America was as it is advertised.

I would still believe in all the good of America if I had not located to an American downtown, especially downtown Stafford Springs, Connecticut.

If I had only known the suburbs I would not have found out about how absolutely sleazy the system and police can be and I wouldn’t have been taken down exposing the scam which is the drug war and the running of our downtown areas.

Instead, I invested in downtown property in the USA, so my wife could go to college for accounting, and I could, come home to America.

Instead of being able to go to my 20th high school reunion saying I had lived a successful life, was going to retire in 12 years as I would have $6500 plus in gross monthly rents and $500,000 in real estate free and clear. Not bad for working hard, honestly, paying bills on time, investing, and living honestly. But, none of that was to be, I was in prison.

My wife married another while I was serving time.

Drug dealers, prostitutes, thieves, and common criminal parasites broke into my home, destroyed my property, moved into my apartments, and committed crimes at will and most threatened ME with arrest if I INTERFERED with them.

I had to put up with years and years of this, seeing the police do little to nothing other than harass those that called in telling the criminals and drug dealers who had called in. If it didn’t have a big fine, high profile bust, or some property or cash they could take, the police, downtown, weren’t interested.

I had to worry that 3 arrests would occur on my property and I could lose my property under the nuisance statute as I was warned by a property owner’s association I belonged to, how the police and the courts scam you out of your property.

The parasites/criminals and the authorities/police were sucking the blood out of me as I foolishly thought the American Dream could be found in downtown America.

So I reported crimes and drug dealing to Connecticut State Police and Stafford Spring, Connecticut, town police. If I was silent, and drug dealing went on, it would be construed that I condoned it and I could have lost my investment of 100’s of thousands and years of sweat and blood.

The police told me I was not allowed downtown if I wasn’t on drugs or an alcoholic, and they refused to do anything about teens and older criminals, no matter what they did. The police were only looking at collecting fines from me, if large amounts of trash was thrown on my property, or after my houses were heavily damaged by vandals.

I wrote about my problems with criminals and drug dealers in the newspapers, detailing how police were unwilling to help me because of my location and because I was a landlord, getting separate and unequal or NO protection and service.

I wrote in the newspapers that police were more interested in collecting fines and confiscating property on any excuse and had very little with criminal correction.

After getting loans for 3 rental houses in the 100’s of thousands of dollars, charging a $100,000 on my American Express alone, and working years getting my houses in order, without income, so I’d have retirement and college tuition for my Honor Society Student daughter for her college with the rents.

I planned on taking my daughter and her friend to Paris with my 100,000 Amex points. I deserved a vacation for gone years working to hard to take one, promising my daughter we finally could spend some time together as I was finally turning a profit after 5 years of not turning one. I lost my Amex points and was in prison during the time I was to go to Paris.

My daughter hasn’t talked to me since I was railroaded to prison on Connecticut State Trooper perjury.

When I started to make a profit, Connecticut State Police officers and drug dealers told me I had to leave Connecticut or else.

I didn’t leave and I lost my dog, daughter, home, retirement, credit, and everything I had ever worked for being thrown away like a piece of trash.

I had close calls and faced prison for negligence when a retired cop, a tenant, kept flooding my basement with raw sewage, nearly getting caught up in a railroad job then.

The Somers, Connecticut, Sewer Dept. manager broke ranks and did the right thing, he told the truth, and I narrowly missed prison for being negligent for not being able to clean up the sewage messes fast enough.

I found out after the fact, a sister of a contractor I had working, was approached by Connecticut State Police about allegedly fabricating a story and statement that I tried to sexually assault her, as she violated probation having had drinks. I didn’t do anything and was not interested in her, and she told the truth, so she got violated, went to prison, and lost her children. I feel bad she had to make that choice and got shafted for being honorable and not cooperating with the sleazebag Connecticut State Troopers.

Soon after a police informant began leaving threatening messages on my voicemail and told my tenants he was going to kill me. He kept my neighbors awake kicking on my door after midnight he was going to cut my dick off if he caught me out in my yard.

I didn’t call police as they wouldn’t do anything other than threaten me with arrest if I didn’t leave Connecticut and shut my fucking mouth.

The police informant caught me coming home from a double shift as I got out of my work van in my dark driveway.

He beat me from behind, and told me he’d kill me if I didn’t give him my wallet. I didn’t and fought back and pepper sprayed him when I though he was reaching for a knife.

Connecticut State Police were there to arrest me, refusing to listen to me or take my complaint and refused to take witness statements to verify I was jumped and beaten during a robbery attempt after being publicly stalked, threatened, and harassed.

Only I was arrested, THE VICTIM.

My assailant had attacked others just before me and attacked two bar patrons just days after attacking me.

He is an violent drug using alcoholic, with a lengthy criminal record, and front teeth missing.

I was entitled to first offender status if I did do something wrong and to get a program where my charges would be erased after a short time for $100. I was illegally denied that program and falsely arrested.

I have lost all I ever worked for my dog, family, daughter, credit, retirement, home, investments, and all I ever worked for in my life because I have a big mouth and resisted being beaten and robbed by a police informant sent to harass me out of Connecticut.

Since I have been out of prison I can’t even get a job loading boxes on a truck with a criminal record and while on probation.

I would have been better off staying in the former USSR and done import/export or opened a business.

The climate that is conducive to business exists more there than in an AMERICAN downtown.

That is an indictment of our system and tells me where this country is going.

It is rotting from the inside out.

I have found from my own experience Free Speech isn’t free, proposing legislation to elected officials can land you in prison if the police don’t like it, and if you speak out about police not doing their jobs and about not wanting drugs being sold off of your property and having to deal with 24 hour a day pandemonium and lawlessness, and if you complain in newspapers, you can also end up in prison.

It is just bullshit and my life is permanently ruined. I was stupid for believing the crap I was taught about Freedom and how fair our system is. I was stupid for coming back to America
when I was so much better off, NOT COMING BACK.

-Steven G. Erickson
PO Box 730
Enfield, CT 06083

Email: stevengerickson@yahoo.com

My picture and story

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If you are Black, a landlord, a contractor, or self-employed, is it an express route to prison? Are sentences fair? Can a bar owner be put in prison if he doesn’t know whom to bribe? Can a black man that has a restraining order against a white woman on probation, that breaks into his house and uses a weapon, he should go to prison not her, right? Story:

http://www.freespeech.com/archives/002750.html

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Donald Christmas of the Thompsonville section of Enfield, Connecticut, also proposed Civilian Oversight of Police, is also a landlord that got mouthy to newspaper reporters regarding police harassing landlords, refusing to give protection and service, also threatened to sue police for civil rights violation, and was also attacked on his property, and was arrested and only given a choice of pleading guilty and going to prison for a year and a half or face a fixed trial and get sent up anyway. Donny was attacked by a police officer’s 16 year old girlfriend and only Donny got into trouble and faced prison.

Police officers allegedly followed Don around, harassed him and his family, caused him to get fired from two jobs, and police allegedly threatened witnesses into making false statements, but they refused.
Story:
http://www.freespeech.com/archives/001360.html

Obstruction of Justice?

As posted on FreeSpeech.com:

Obstruction of Justice?

Police simply need more oversight and accountability, Civilian Oversight with quality control questionnaires going out to those needing police protection and service and ESPECIALLY to those lodging complaints against police. This would ensure and see that those citizens are safe and not being harassed, served, not harassed out of the state, followed around, or being set up for a fall. -Steven G. Erickson (Vikingas)
This post says it all

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Ex-Officer Charged With Larceny September 25, 2004 By MATT BURGARD, Courant Staff Writer

When Hartford police Officer Philip Laffin agreed last year to repay more than $25,000 in missing funds from the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association, he was allowed to quietly retire without a criminal investigation by his own police department.

But after the circumstances of Laffin’s departure became public and sparked outrage, Attorney General Richard Blumenthal began investigating, and the then police chief, Bruce P. Marquis, asked his department to look into it. Shortly after he replaced Marquis Jan. 1, interim Chief Mark R. Pawlina opened a criminal investigation and kept pressing for its completion. More from the Hartford Courant (a register to view, site)

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Last Chance:
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Cheryl Magazine, from the Hartford Courant (ctnow.com), has emailed Del and I, asking us to remove all Hartford Courant content from FreeSpeech.com, citing copyright infringement. I have almost 900 posts, alone, so it will be a daunting task.

The above post, to me, details the REAL REASON, we were contacted.
Somebody with juice got on the phone to the Hartford Courant, and thought the best way to take the teeth out of my protest was to take away the Hartford Courant content, in my opinion.
Many individuals that also have gripes and stories, email me after having found my posts on FreeSpeech.com.

Two posts on this site are #1- when you put, “Connecticut Police Misconduct” or “Connecticut State Police Misconduct” in a yahoo search engine. I can understand their urgency to silence me and Free Speech.

Those posts and many more will soon be past history of Free Speech.
Those high officials, police brass, politicians, and others that I have embarrassed with the truth, no need, any longer, be mocked by other miffed taxpayers reading the posts, referring to them, and citizens seeing that they are not alone, can’t congregate in one mass protest getting the lying, cheating, thieving, and corrupt bastards to either do the right thing, fess up, and/or resign.
I believe a story by Rick Guiness, “Raw Deal,” that detailed Connecticut State Police Gestapo tactics, was squashed by editors at the Manchester, CT, Journal Inquirer, probably as a result of pressure of top police brass. Usually noteworthy and newsworthy citizen comments are printed in the Journal Inquirer.

Again, Rick Guiness was miffed at being CENSORED probably by police officers not wanting to be embarrassed by the truth, their misconduct, and organized cover-up being exposed.
If the above link, the head of the Connecticut State Police seems to be answering my complaints and posts here, line item. I have emailed Hartford Courant pieces and my opinions to almost every state, local, and national politician in Connecticut, including the Governor’s office, television stations, and many print media reporters as a carbon copy.

So, within 3 weeks I will, effectively, be silenced, and the posts that are in question will be removed, permanently, no longer searchable by search engines.

Pathetic Sheep Populate the World

I think groups such as PeTa (story) have gone too far and have a political agenda way beyond the eating of meat and treatment of animals. How do you ensure animals don’t suffer, without terrorist/bushwhack/nutcase organizations wrecking daily life as we once knew it? The foie gras complaints just might be valid, but what bigger demons are out there, such as the safety of the food supply and how it is being altered?

We were told nuclear power was safe and authorities were looking out for our best interests, then there was 3 Mile Island and Chernobyl. Meryl Streep played Karen Silkwood in the movie, “Silkwood,” one of the better movies showing that those exposing conspiracies and the true nature of the government/corporate beasts aren’t all whack jobs. (story)

How safe is genetically altered food designed to have a longer shelf life, be more durable for transport and packaging, resists diseases, insects, is injected, altered, adulterated, and/or otherwise changed so drastically it is far removed from what nature intended?

Not much was done about cigarettes and drunk driving, until authorities realized there is billions of dollars to be made pretending they care about us. All the money collected in supposed good faith, is being used inappropriately, wasted, and funneled to people and places that is just plain immoral and illegal.

Billions of dollars are collected in the fleecing of America. Authorities can lie all they want on how they are looking out for our best interests as they enrich themselves, family, and cronies.

Cows have been fed animal parts and slaughter waste and cows aren’t meat eaters, this practice led to Mad Cow disease and other threats to the public health.

Pigs have been fed hospital waste such as tumors and other unmentionables just begging for an outbreak of a super virus raising havoc.

What inedible and unimaginable ingredients are being added to processed foods?
Much is untested on what it will do to our health, reproduction functions, and what is in store for us in the future.

The military allegedly sunk barges out at sea of chemical wastes, batteries, and other hazardous wastes, up until recent times and may still be. How many fishing areas are contaminated and how many have suffered health effects without knowing why.

What about water supplies contaminated and the health effects?

Authorities knew from the very beginning of industrialization that what was being emitted in the air, dumped in rivers, and buried in the ground caused health problems, death, killed wildlife, and wreaked havoc on the environment.

It has always been about the bottom line, not us or anything just.
So the populace should be outraged across the board, not just about the possible cruelty to a relatively small number of birds.

Without splinter groups and infighting, more average Americans should be outraged and tackle real issues, not the agenda of those way out in left field without a clue.

Thank you,
Steven G. Erickson PO Box 730 Enfield, CT 06083

Email: stevengerickson@yahoo.com

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Golf declared illegal especially for married white men on weekends

Are their unnamed factions in the US, similar to the KKK?

More everyday sleaze

Thursday, September 23, 2004

Unresponsive Democrat U.S. Senator Christopher Dodd of Connecticut

Unresponsive Democrat U.S. Senator Christopher Dodd
I wrote Dodd when I was a Connecticut property and business owner. He was unresponsive, his staff was unresponsive, and the issues I wrote to him about took me and others down only months later.
I then contacted his office after the fact, and again, no response.
My letter and the post that I would never have needed to post, if he or others got off their asses, is below:

Email that should have been answered, at least by a staff member:

Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 23:55:49 From: Steven G. Erickson [ Add to Address Book Block Address Report as Spam ] To: Subject: landlord rights

Dear Honorable Senator Dodd,

I bought and fixed up a 3 and 4 family houses that were boarded up in Stafford Springs, CT, in July ‘98. Now all are fixed up and rented.

There are ‘professional’ tenants that get access to apartments, do damage and stay as long as they can for as long as they can over and over where ever they can.

There seems to be nothing illegal about this and police do not go after those that have done severe damage and even left drug using equipment.

I have had to pay movers to remove one tenant that I evicted after she moved in without my permission and stayed many months for free. I have lost over $25,000 last year in damages and lost rent and have no way to recover.

I have sued tenants in Small Claims Court and have yet to receive a dime for any of my wins. If I owned a candy store and these people stole candy bars, I could have them arrested ... but instead, I may lose my properties and the criminals/ drug users go on their merry way without a thought.

Please consider addressing these issues in this next session,
Thank you, Steven G. Erickson, Stafford Springs, CT 860-684-xxxx

P.S. Are hardworking people to be punished, and irresponsible con artists rewarded?

Life as I knew it ended when I was attacked on my property by a police informant 10-11-01. I was arrested and put in prison, losing everything.

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Would I have posted pieces such as this if he had:
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Anatomy of the Good Ole Boy Network

Bias in the Courts

Are their unnamed factions in the US, similar to the KKK?

Anatomy of the Good Ole Boy Network

December 12, 2003
Anatomy of the Good Ole Boy Network

I have provided more information and history on my Stafford Springs, Connecticut, nightmare.
Anyone that wants to know dates and full names, instead of just the initials below, I can email you more information. I am not afraid of libel, nor slander, as long as I am diligent enough to be 100% accurate. If you are sick of this, just skip this post. Thank you,Steven G. Erickson
click link below for more

I talked with the Stafford, CT, selectman in the Fall of ’98 after I had bought the boarded up 3 and 4 family, at the beginning of the main drag, near the town’s cannon. The selectman told me that to deal with the drug problem, 2 bars in town were going to get closed down, the Springs House Cafe, the Finish Line Cafe (Stafford has a NASCAR speedway in town), and possibly even Munn’s Pub which was on the outskirts near the lake.

The owner of the Finish Line ended up with his business closed and in prison. It was alleged that the bartender, a tall, stunning model, at the Finish Line was going to go down to, but she at some point started dating a Connecticut State Police Officer.

Before the highly publicized, and political, raid of the Finish Line Cafe, it seemed that drug dealing was allowed to go on, and go, even though many complained and gave names. Properties and businesses can be taken under the nuisance statute. I think the drug dealing was used to take the bar and allowed to go on promoting crime and getting even more caught up in the crack cocaine scourge.

The Finish Line had better heat, and Lark’s Café in the center of downtown seemed to be lacking customers and was in danger of closing.

But, the owner of Lark’s was a close personal friend of the then selectman of Stafford.
The Springs House offered a varied menu and did a good lunch time business as it was located in one of the oldest bed and breakfast areas in possibly our nation’s first resort town, because presidents and others came for the reported healing powers of the Spring’s waters.

The Spring’s House ended up getting closed over and over for infractions. It was alleged that there were efforts to take the owner’s house and property. It is alleged that the owner decided to go bankrupt, in order not to end up as others, in prison. But, it did allegedly take a toll on his marriage and his former financial security and retirement.

Meanwhile Lark’s is doing extremely well, and it is alleged that the Stafford Town Police and Connecticut State Police cut back the DUI patrols on Mondays and Wednesdays. Which are Lark’s two biggest nights due to the pool leagues, and important members of town are possibly involved in the league, and the business at Lark’s doesn’t need to be hurt by someone getting a DUI or busted for drugs.

It is alleged that drugs have been used and dealt openly, more so than in the other bars that were allegedly seized or forced to close for that very reason.

Pizza Parlor owners new to town were said to hurt the main Pizza Parlors with history in the town of Stafford. These newcomers allegedly got extra ‘attention’ from the building inspector and health department and were then closed down. I guess THEY weren’t grand fathered in.

An art dealer was alleged to be mouthy and did not have relations or powerful friends in town, the building inspector went after him, and that couple’s business closed. The owner did not go quietly as he blasted Stafford in interviews saying it was not a business friendly place to be.

Independent discount and specialty stores, and even some chains, came to Stafford, to find out the hard way, their mistake.

Those that lived downtown involved in prostitution, living at landlord’s and taxpayer’s expense, in the heroine and cocaine trade, break-ins, and fencing stolen prescription drugs and heirlooms of the elderly, were shoplifting whatever they could and occasionally getting jobs, embezzling cash and even more items left the stores, not paid for.

When I was on the crime watch in Stafford Springs, Connecticut, sometime shortly after I had bought the single family house with my wife at a HUD auction in late ‘94, I attended a meeting where the selectman said that the riffraff, drug, and crime problem would be dealt with by squeezing out landlords.

Getting rid of landlords, that are not the bigwigs in town, would be accomplished by going through financial records, sending the building inspectors out, tearing down properties as soon as possible if the owner was foreclosed upon, using the nuisance statute or similar, and further squeezing landlords by taking away, on street, parking wherever possible.

I stood up and complained about not enough being done about the vandalism and about the drive thru drug market going on all hours on my street back in ‘95. A town policeman had harsh words with me. My wife fell down the stairs as she had too little water and not enough fluids.
I called for an ambulance. That same cop, slammed me against my house, treated me roughly, and asked what did I do. If that officer was a civilian, how he roughly handled me would constitute assault.

He threatened to arrest me if I resisted and said he believed I pushed my wife down the stairs. He went over my wife and was dismayed when she said I was no where near her during her fall.
The same officer, told me, he doesn’t serve landlords and refused to take my felony property damage complaint when 2 heroine and crack dealer tenants and their children skipped after doing thousands in damage, even ripping wires out of the walls. He is allegedly just as arrogant and disrespectful to other property and business owners that are not politically connected in town.

Months later, after my wife and I were in Europe, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia for over a month for vacation going everywhere all hours with no problems.
I resumed my nightly walks as part of the crime watch. I happened upon a powdered cocaine deal. I was called a ‘Narc’, ‘Undercover cop, and asshole and the biggest one maybe 6” taller than me and maybe outweighing by about 100 pounds picked me up by my neck and started beating me and bit into my ear.

I dialed 911 from a payphone as blood ran down my neck, down my chest, soaking my underwear. The drug customers on the scene said they did not know who the man was who attacked me.

I kept being a pain asking police what they were doing to find my assailant. I agreed to take a tour of all of the bars with a number of police officers and we found my assailant. They had driven me to all the bars, but then got extremely rude and told me to walk home. I was then permanently labeled ‘cop caller’ by the teen drug dealers and the adults criminal that Stafford seems to be a breeding ground for.

I inquired what was being done. About 6 weeks later, the officer that tried to arrest me after my wife fell down the stairs, arrested me in front of my wife and neighbors. I asked what I was being arrested for.

Police talked to my assailant and his two friends, that did not know who he was just after P.P. attacked me, later remembered. The 2 signed statements that I had attacked their friend, and my attacker told police that HE was afraid of me, so only I was arrested for Assault and Breach of Peace. So for taking a beating and having my ear bit into because I had happened on a crime in progress, only I was arrested.

Police told me that I was not allowed downtown and not to interfere with their ongoing investigation. An officer told me I did not belong downtown unless I was involved with drugs. It was alleged the guy who attacked me was one of the key players, unwittingly, in closing the Springs House and possibly being able to seize the bar owner’s house also.

I had countless court dates and finally got the prosecutor to nolle the charges. I told her I would have my assailant stand next to me in court. That I would demand that my 9-11 call be played in court. And, I refused to even pay a fine, which started with some ridiculous number in the thousands and went down each work day I had to waste, waiting in long lines in the court, too many days in a number of weeks.

My wife got fed up with Stafford and total me I had poor judgment, we got divorced.
We sold the house and soon after I bought 3 multi family houses containing 9 apartments. The 3 and 4 family houses, that were boarded up, adjoin the single family house I used to own.

I started dating a woman, that I found out, according to her that she had a part in closing the Springs House and the Finish Line Café in town and assisted in other assets, property, and cash being seized working as a police informant and sometimes undercover in prostitution stings for the john’s cash and assets.

The woman with the initials, B.S., also claimed she was offered $10,000 to compromise me by finding out if there was any way to link me to drugs or obtain any other information to be used to take my property, but I had played it straight. It was alleged that the church owners would like my property for extra parking, a new library location was being looked for, and a national drug store chain was looking for a convenient site, such as my property.

A ‘Good Ole Boy’ that obtained my property on the ‘cheap’ could have made a windfall, and a killing, with the inside connections of making such a deal possible.

I dumped B.S. when I also found out she was married and had lied about her age. She got divorced, lost her show horse, sold their Enfield, CT, house, and her husband had primary custody of the 6 year old son. B.S. said she could have me arrested for DUI whether I was drinking or not, and that she could protect me with police, or be my worst enemy if I did not take her back.

Barbara stalked me for as many as 2 years. I brought a date to the Stafford properties when my date requested a look at them. My date claimed she was stopped and her person and car were searched after she came out off my property in Stafford, was followed all the way to Avon/Canton area by police and searched again and harassed. The woman said she did not want to be hassled by police just to date me and refused to see me again telling me that was the ONLY reason she would not see me again.

I had worked over 3 years fixing up the properties sometimes ordering tractor-trailer loads of goods from Home Depot.

I had just started making money on rents and looked forward to taking my daughter to Paris with the 100,000 Amex points and buying more property, when I was arrested for resisting a robber, who had been leaving threatening messages and telling my tenants he was going to kill me. I pepper sprayed him when he finally caught me out in the open in my yard after he jumped out of my bushes catching me from behind.

For this I went to prison, losing contact with my daughter, my property, credit, home, business, dog etc, etc.
(What is prison really like?: http://www.freespeech.com/archives/001059.html)

With no previous record, I went to prison for 2 misdemeanor charges as I was given no option, but to plead guilty and go to prison for 18 months, or face trial at taxpayer expense. You the taxpayer got ripped off for the trial and having to pay the $73/day to keep me locked up. All while the parasites in Stafford were free to commit crimes and suck up tax dollars and whatever they could steal.

Your tax dollars were used to take me off the list as a tax payer, consumer, business owner, and father figure, punishing good, moral behavior, by rewarding bad behavior by ignoring it as it did not produce immediate revenue for the police.

While I was in prison I met the owner of the Cadillac Ranch, a country music and line dancing bar. He claimed he did not pay a person off that had demanded money for ‘protection’. A police informant allegedly set up a drug buy. 3 arrests are needed to take a property under the nuisance statute. The owner was arrested, making 3.

The bar owner had a choice of losing his bar, home, and contact with his family for as much as 9 years, or plead guilty to charges, that he says, he was not guilty of, pay large fines, and serve 18 months, most of which he could serve out in a halfway house where he could still have contact with his wife and kids. He claimed not to have a record before and in now a felon unable to ever own a bar again, losing countless other rights.

I don’t know how the rest of the United State operate their law enforcement, but what I saw in Connecticut for years and years, the rampant corruption, and the lawlessness, especially in the downtowns makes me want to vomit.
http://www.freespeech.com/archives/001043.html

-Steven G. EricksonConnecticut Political Prisoner # 305662, temporarily on the outside, as I refuse to shut my mouth about subjects such as the ones above.
Disclaimer: What is in this post is to my best belief and knowledge.

Links to more information within the Arther L. Spada post:
http://www.freespeech.com/archives/001440.html

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Text:Subject:Wrongful imprisonment, crippling small business, and property investors costs Connecticut, residents and tax dollars.

What is wrong with Connecticut, its police, legal system, and attitude towards small business? Please click these 2 links for answer:

http://www.freespeech.com/archives/001492.html and

http://www.freespeech.com/archives/001489.html Posted by: Steven G. Erickson at

December 12, 2003 12:56 PM

Truth is the best defense against a claim of defamation.
Translation, you can mention names and facts as much as you want, as long as they are just that - facts. You dont want to use emotion, exaggeration, or anything else though. But you can say whatever you want as long as its the truth.

Posted by: Godfather at December 12, 2003 03:36 PM

Here is more for you Viking:

Panel accuses judge of breaking rules with affair
Tuesday, December 9, 2003 By STEPHANIE RICE, Columbian staff writer
A Clark County District Court judge who was disciplined in 1996 forhaving an affair with a court employee has been accused of violatingjudicial conduct rules again by having another affair with a staffer.

A statement of charges against Judge Randal B. Fritzler, 59, wasreleased Monday evening by the state Commission on JudicialConduct.

Fritzler, a Hockinson resident, could face punishment includingsuspension or removal from office.

Fritzler was first elected to the bench in 1986 and has beeninstrumental in creating the county's domestic violence and mentalhealth courts. He has lectured at conferences worldwide on thechallenge of restructuring the criminal justice system so offenders getan opportunity to recognize and correct their destructive behavior.

According to a statement by the commission, rumors of Fritzler'sbehind-the-scenes behavior have caused a stir at the Clark CountyCourthouse that has been "destructive to the reputation of the court."

The employee was not named. But she is widely known to be a40-year-old who was hired by the District Court in March 2001 andquickly passed over employees with more seniority to fill coveted clerkpositions.

Fritzler, who is married, met the woman when she was in a class hetaught at Clark College in 1990 and '91.

"Since the time of her hiring to the present, rumors of (Fritzler's)close personal relationship with this employee and apparent favoritismbased on that relationship have disrupted the orderly administration ofthe court workplace and adversely affected morale for courtemployees, administrators and fellow judicial officers," the commissionwrote.

Fellow judges warned Fritzler about the relationship, according tothe commission.

The commission alleges that Fritzler violated three canons of theCode of Judicial Conduct by failing to "uphold the integrity" of thejudiciary, failing to "avoid impropriety and the appearance ofimpropriety" and failing to "perform the duties of the office impartiallyand diligently."

The commission says the relationship violates the terms of its 1996disciplinary order, in which Fritzler was censured for having a sexualaffair with a judicial secretary whose attorney husband was arguingcases before Fritzler.

Fritzler was ordered to take a course on judicial ethics and not"repeat such violations."
Censure is the strongest verbal discipline the commission caninvoke short of recommending suspension or removal from the bench.

The Washington Supreme Court has final say on all punishment.
According to the commission, it received a complaint about Fritzlerin September 2002 and subsequent complaints in February andSeptember of this year.

Investigations are kept confidential until the statement of charges arereleased, but the matter has been anything but a secret at the ClarkCounty Courthouse. Rumors of the pending investigation have beenswirling so long that attorneys have been speculating who the ClarkCounty Commissioners will appoint to replace Fritzler on the five-judgebench.

Fritzler, who could not be reached for comment Monday evening,has three weeks to respond to the charges.

Unless Fritzler stipulates to the allegations, there will be a publichearing on the matter, after which the 11-member commission willrecommend a punishment to the Washington Supreme Court.

The commission consists of six nonattorney members, three judgesand two attorneys who are appointed by the governor, the WashingtonState Bar Association and judicial organizations to serve four-yearterms.

**********Another service fromCitizens for Legal ResponsibilityP.O. Box 232Morton Grove, IL 60053-0232email: clr@clr.orghttp://www.clr.org

Posted by: at December 14, 2003 11:26 AM

CT PD, Eat Shit

Posted by: at April 27, 2004 07:43 AM

Mark Gordon, formerly of 5 Church St, Stafford Springs, Connecticut 06076, allegedly part of an engineering firm that were contracted to build the buildings at the Stafford Town Dump, told me that officials openly demanded and got a $100,000 bribe from his bosses.

Posted by: Steven G. Erickson at May 4, 2004 09:29 AM

Steven G. Erickson’s Plan for Reducing Crime

The number one thing I would do is reduce the number of police officers.

Downtown officers, especially promote crime by allowing children and teens to do drugs, sell drugs, drink, vandalize properties, commit acts of prostitution, fence stolen goods, assault, rob, maim, etc. as long as they are useful as informants and in helping the officer satisfy his (I’m not saying her, as this might be a primarily male thing) immediate sexual gratification.

Reducing the number of police officers nationwide and some of my other ideas might reduce crime dramatically, save taxpayers scores of dollars, and help reduce the ever expanding American prison populations.

(Please check out this post on prisons:
http://www.freespeech.com/archives/001439.html)

Teens and children that are prevented from becoming lifetime career criminal parasites, that stay in school, and learn the benefits and rewards of work, aren’t later clogging our prisons and sucking up tax dollars that would be more useful for furthering college education and other programs to benefit America and Americans.

Police officers should not be contributing to the delinquency of minors, drug and alcohol abuse, crime, blight, vandalism, prostitution, vice, immorality, all while helping stuff state coffers in the short run, selling our soul and future economy and cohesion as a nation in the process.
Civilian Oversight of Police is needed desperately, NOW.

Cameras with audio pointing INSIDE cruisers monitored by civilian oversight committees, in interrogation areas, officer lunch rooms, evidence room, lock-ups, crime labs, and in prosecutor/police officer conference areas would help reduce the obstruction of justice, officers using police cruisers as cheap hotel rooms for sex acts, police from threatening and abusing suspects, from getting their stories straight to file false police reports and committing perjury, acting out on vendettas, to keep police from preventing citizens from proposing legislation reducing police budgets or directing police powers and eliminate fear of beatings and being railroaded to prison, would curb the get out of jail free card officers extent to each other, friends, family, any official or badge holder, judges, prosecutors, and members of the covert, corrupt, criminal governing or corporate elite.

Quality Control Questionnaires should go out to those lodging complaints against police officers and for those needing police assistance.

This would prevent Internal Affairs from threatening a complainer and notifying other officers who to target for arrest and his/her downfall and would ensure that repeated problems don’t occur over decades in a “crime area.” Spouses and significant others should not have to leave a state to avoid statewide, organized, and covert harassment and retaliation of an officer’s friends and colleagues.

Those calling into police should get equal treatment regardless of their race, sexual orientation, age, occupation, status, economic standing, or regardless of their geographic location.
Call in an identical crime from the suburbs and get prompt courteous and thorough service.
Call in from a downtown area, get treated rudely, maybe get service eventually or not at all, or if you demand service, get the full wrath of the officers within a department. Persist and get vocal, and end up in prison, I did.

Calls into police need to be monitored by individuals other than those out to cover up police misconduct.

Priests can’t police themselves without problems, police can’t police themselves without problems.

Prosecutors need to be monitored to see that they aren’t selectively prosecuting, acting out on police officer vendettas, aren’t obstructing justice, are honoring our U.S. Constitution, punishing and silencing an individual for his/her political views and outspokenness, for being gay or lesbian, for being ‘White Trash or a minority, those complaining police and the courts unfair in newspapers(my case), and are acting in the Public’s best interest, not doing favors for their “Good Ole Boy Network.”

Judges should examine cases to see if they are ones acting in the public’s best interest or are not being pursued for less than honorable intentions. Judges should be monitored to see that they are acting in an ethically and fair way, and their sentences imposed should be reviewed to see they are not biased and vindictive, to see if the judge is allowed to keep working at taxpayer’s expense.

Legislators can be afraid to say anything bad about law enforcement, can fear for their and their family’s safety, if they propose reduction in police budgets, manpower, or help propose legislation that limits or directs police powers.

Legislators are afraid and feel they can’t interfere in police or court matters.
A police liaison monitors all legislation proposed about police and can tip off the head of the police to retaliate and squash those daring to even question police budgets, policies, and conduct. I know about this from personal experience and believe the then head of the State Police ensured I was harassed, punished, ruined, and imprisoned for my challenging of a God, him, for being vocal and embarrassing to police in newspapers, and for daring to propose civilian oversight of police to legislators.

Well members of the judiciary and law enforcement interfere with elected officials, their activities and in their representing the common good of citizens, and pick and choose what laws THEY FEEL LIKE ENFORCING, targeting groups and individuals they personally have a problem with, not those necessarily committing criminal acts, sometimes those just demanding that government and law enforcement act ethically and legally.

Are we a POLICE STATE or a democracy?

Are elected officials mere puppets of the police, who actually run the show?

There is no Freedom, nor Free Speech, if you can be chased down, harassed, and thrown in prison for your beliefs, opinions stated at public meetings, in newspapers, or laws proposed to elected officials.

I know what it is like to express my alarm and concern that police and the courts are acting unfairly, unethically, not in the public’s best interest, hurting our economy and insulting all that is supposedly Just and American, to a President, U.S. Senators, local legislators, and in newspapers and was told to shut my mouth and leave the state, “Or else,” and then because I did not, being thrown in prison and told I would get more prison if I talked to the media, complained about police officers, and didn’t leave the state of Connecticut in a hour, including packing!!!!

Our elected officials need to show they have balls and more citizens have to get active and MAKE DEMANDS when they are outraged when they find out WHAT IS REALLY GOING ON.
Let’s preserve America. YOU have to do something.

Thank you, Steven G. Erickson PO Box 730 Enfield, CT 06083

Email: stevengerickson@yahoo.com

Please see this post for more and links:

http://www.freespeech.com/index.php?/weblog/a_pattern_of_deceit_092304/

Stewart gets new five-year deal

Martha Stewart may be heading to jail, but the company that oversees her stable of books, magazines and television shows is staying loyal.

Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia has given its founder a new five-year contract worth $900,000 (£500,000) annually, with bonuses of up to $1.35m.

piece found here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3686954.stm

Wednesday, September 22, 2004

Maybe the Sleaziest politician in modern time, Republican Gov. Rowland

The Death of Shame in America
Thursday, December 18, 2003, By Bill O'Reilly, Fox News

Excerpt: “So let's get this straight. The governor violates every ethical public policy rule, directly tries to deceive the citizens about that, and then says he's still entitled to keep his job.
This is so over the top, it's stunning. But not unusual. Bill Clinton lied directly to the folks and didn't resign. [Ex-California Governor] Gray Davis lied and was thrown out by the recall. And plenty of other politicians lie and haven't been caught.

Governor Rowland simply has no shame. This is not some small deal. He contrived to have his house fixed free and then flat out lied about it. The good people of Connecticut should march right on [the state capital] Hartford and toss the guy out on his butt. We simply cannot have this kind of thing in government.”

Click for Piece

Dear Governor Rowland (an open letter), Oct. 2, 2003, by Steven G. Erickson is as of yesterday and 5AM EST, December 19, 2003, the #2 listing on a yahoo search for the words “Governor Rowland.”

Mr. Rowland,Please, do the honorable thing, resign.
You have disgraced yourself, your family, and the State of Connecticut.
How can any citizen go to you with any kind of complaint, concern, or even give you their trust ever again?

To me, the fact that you admit receiving goods and services without paying, to me constitutes bribery. Which is no different than if you had those that needed favors came to your office, bundled up cash, and inserted it in your coat pocket.

Our Government and what it can do for the people is not for sale to the highest bidder, the most politically connected, and the corrupt.

If, we the people, are to have the US Constitution honored, even in the Constitution State of Connecticut, we the people have to demand it, resign.

If the very head of Connecticut is considered absolute sewage, what runs down the pipes further down the line? My answer is, shit.

Maybe all sorts of corruption with public officials, in the courts, and within law enforcement, is possible if the supposed, head answer guy, is the figure head, for the whole despicable works can’t be counted on for his honesty.

It is time to clean house. It is time to start at the top and work our way down, until the mess is cleaned up.

Yes, Mr. John G. Rowland, it is time for you to go.

-Steven G. Erickson
formerly of Stafford Springs, CT, and former Connecticut Political Prisoner #305662 for having written in newspapers exposing the truth about Connecticut officials, the courts, and the police, a little ahead of most others.

Arthur L. Spada, head of Dept. of Public Safety, Connecticut State Police

Posted by Vikingas at December 19, 2003 05:44 AM TrackBack

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P.S. I emailed Fox News, The O'Reilly Factor, and CNN, the links to news stories on Rowland in the Manchester, Connecticut, Journal Inquirer, and the Hartford Courant (ctnow.com), before the story broke on the O'Reilly Factor.

I am not saying that my emails got to Bill O'Reilly, but then again maybe they did.
There are probably 100's or 1000's that either emailed national media regarding the Rowland outrage, or maybe even a larger number that had wished they did.

Posted by: Steven G. Erickson at December 19, 2003 05:53 AM

Steven,
All insults aside, I will say constructively that the way you present your story does not create confidence in its truth. I think it would be great if you could get Bill O to look into your case, but the way you are going about it, you honestly are not likely to get his attention.

What you need to do is write a calmer, less insult-laden, and more properly structured argument. You need to write an account that lays out the facts that are pertinent, such as a very simple description of the exact events that led you to defend yourself, presented chronologically.

It is an old, but valuable point said often that the best way to convince a person is not to tell but to show. That is you don't say "I have been treated unjustly." Instead you matter-of-factly tell your story and let them figure it out for themselves.

So this is my constructive advice to you. Rewrite your account in a very, very matter of fact manner. Acknowledge anything you did wrong, but point out every fact that proves you right.

Don’t merely say you were just defending yourself, for instance, but describe in detail his background and then give the full and exact sequence of events in that encounter that led to your arrest, etc., word by word, blow by blow. Give the man a sense that you are not holding back or leaving anything out. Of course, he will know it is your side of the story, but tell the full story, and write it more like a reporter would. You are much more likely to be taken seriously.

Posted by: A.W. at December 19, 2003 07:12 AM

Steven,
I can't give you advice because i am not a connecticut lawyer. But I would say this. Every law school has what is called a clinic, where students work for real clients, practicing law, and under the supervision of real lawyers. For instance, Yale's clinic is here, and their contact info is provided.

http://www.law.yale.edu/outside/html/Site/contact.htm

Even if they cannot personally help you, they can usually direct you to someone who can. There is alot of good free legal help out there, if you know where to look.

Yeah, yeah, I know that Yale is a liberal mecca and both of as are to the right of most of them.

But, what you alleged were due process and free speech violations, and so there is good reason to think that they would defend you. Just try to keep global politics out of the discussions, eh?

Posted by: A.W. at December 19, 2003 08:32 AM

AW,
I had a 3 day trial at Rockville Court Connecticut, as the prosecutor only gave me a choice of pleading guilty to Assault 3rd (can be loud yelling) and Breach of Peace (the 'event' occurred on my property when I was jumped in the dark during the robbery attempt, this charge has to be in public), 2 misdemeanors.

I had absolutely no record before and I an entitled to AR, for $100 my charges are ERASED, with no supervision, in as little as 3 months. Police officers refused to even take my complaint against my assailant for about a month.

When police finally interviewed witnesses and the tenant's that heard my life threatened by the individual, and that were aware of him threatening me over their voicemails, on my voicemail, and those that were aware that the individual has attempted to attack me for about 2 weeks waiting me out for hours and hours, and days before he caught me in the dark by jumping out of my bushes in the dark.

AW, I was called the VICTIM in the follow-up police report, because the police had been forced to do an investigation and interview witnesses. Brian Caldwell continued to harass and threaten me up until my trial, but still was never arrested.

In the police report and arrest application for Brian Caldwell, it state he was to be charged with Assault, Breach of Peace, AND Threatening, as their was overwhelming evidence.

Prosecutor, John Panone, refused to sign the arrest application for Caldwell, saying that I could not be un-arrested. Caldwell was then used to prosecute me and Panone refused to give me AR or offer any deal, only offering me 18 months in jail or go to trial at taxpayers' and my expense.

I called the head of Troop C, Connecticut State Police and asked why as a honest citizen attacked on his own property during a robbery attempt, why was I receiving the harshest treatment possible, and the attempted robber who beat me about my back and head injuring me received no arrest, nor punishment at all even though he was implicated as the CAUSE in the follow-up police reports.

The LT gave me the answer and no help, but said, "My only duty is to protect the integrity of the system." What?!!!!

I had only caused a small bruise on my assailant. I did block shots and return a few once I was beaten from behind, and did return shots. I could not get away to the safety of the inside of my home and was forced to defend myself. The punch I gave him in the stomach caused him to vomit all over me.

He then stood back and grabbed for his pocket. I pepper sprayed him as he had threatened to cut my dick off one of the nights he banged on my door after midnight disturbing my neighbors and tenants.

I got pepper spray in my eyes. I flushed my eyes out with water changed my shirt, met the state police, my tenant and I asked to make a complaint against my assailant. Troopers, Ameral and Langlais refused to take either of our Statements, interview witnesses, and arrested only me, and then perjured themselves to get me convicted at trial.

The Connecticut State Police Internal Affairs refuses to take my complaints nor deny them. LT Wack, of IA, told me one of the officers I was complaining about was his friend and refused to pursue the matters.

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I had told local politicians I intended on suing the State Police and Connecticut over lack of protection and service based on my occupation and geographic locations and over threats and harassment I had received from police officers over what I wrote in newspapers, for proposing "Civilian Oversight" of police, and for calling police, "Armed Revenue collectors" and being accused by police of being "A complete pain in the ass, with a Big Mouth," BEFORE the incident with the alleged police informant that was encouraged to harass me and to continue to harass me.

Attorney Michael Agranoff told me he was not allowed to say anything against the police and said he could not challenge the prosecution, for his $17,000 plus legal fee. He refuses to give me my legal file nor to even show it to me. He did not call witnesses and did not use our strike option allowing a worker for the police to be jury foreman.

I do not think anyone in the history of Connecticut has gone to prison for those 2 misdemeanors for a first offense, even if guilty given the extent of my injuries, and the absolute minumum of my attacker, even if I was guilty. The fact that my attacker admitted threatening my life while demanding money from me in front of the judge is beyond comprehension.

I had tried to have Judge Jonathan Kaplan fired for bias against landlords for 2 years before I was assaulted. I had reported the prosecutor of Rockville 2 times to the Connecticut State Attorney General and/or the State's Attorney for refusing to prosecute a felony property damage case nor go after a career fraud that routinely bilks landlords ruining their property.

So, my question, AW, is how do I get my trial transcripts that prove my innocence and that I was railroaded? They want $1000 or more for just making copies at the court!

Posted by: Steven G. Erickson at December 19, 2003 09:36 AM

Well, there you have stated your case much, much better than any time before.

I would say that your case would sound even better if you first told them about the inexplicable arrest, failure to investigate, and so on. Then say something like: "I am at a loss to understand why the police have acted in this fashion. One possibility is that Caldwell was a police informant, and they were protecting him. But to do so at the expense of a man's freedom is simply wrong.

The only other explanation is that I am a community 'loud mouth.' I have been highly critical of the local police and even the judge in my case. It is, I admit, hard to believe that officials would act in such a manner, in retaliation for my excercising my basic constitutional rights as a citizen, but i am honestly at a loss to understand their behavior, otherwise." THAT, i think, would be more likely to get Bill O, or any journalist's attention.

The key thing you need to focus on is the injustice, not the why of it. Get them first to say, "Huh, this is weird." Let them figure out that for some reason you were treated in a manner grossly out of whack. Then when they are convinced you were being treated differently, introduce your theories as to why. And be apologetic. Make it clear that you are not just paranoid, but you have a situation that makes no sense, and you are trying to make sense of it.

Contact those people at Yale. Or look for a clinic at a closer law school. I would say that once you have this in the hands of a new lawyer, there will be alot of issues there to explore.

But listen to what i am saying. Be matter of fact. Let the facts pile up. Let them figure out that something is screwy. And only then start to suggest an explanation. That is a far more effective manner of advocacy.

And any time you talk about a situation that is, well, hard to believe, say, "Yes, i know it is hard to believe, but..." and go on to explain that it is indeed true.

I would love it if you could get someone to investigate. Someone should investigate. i don't know who is right or wrong, because i only heard your side of the story, but it deserves to be looked at.

So like i said, talk to those Yalies.

Posted by: A.W. at December 19, 2003 09:59 AM

Impressive AW! ;)

Posted by: MostlyCoherentwill_b at December 19, 2003 03:15 PM

Thanks Guys. Have a good weekend.

Posted by: Steven G. Erickson at December 19, 2003 04:29 PM

There are more newspaper articles on fact available on Rowland, click on
"Dec 18 Post"

Posted by: Dec 18 Post at December 19, 2003 04:30 PM

For a story on other Governor scandals click on
"Other Governors"

Posted by: Other Governors at December 20, 2003 08:10 AM

Stan Simpson, Hartford Courant, ctnow.com

It's All Over For Rowland
With Three Years Left To His Term, No Way Governor Can Hang On
December 20, 2003

The last time state Republicans found themselves in this kind of political crisis was a decade ago. They ended up ousting the man leading the party - and cutting their losses.

Richard Foley, then Connecticut Republican state chairman, was forced to resign in April of 1993, two months before his term expired. He had become a polarizing figure in a party rocked by leadership issues, financial problems and trepidation about a federal bribery investigation targeting Foley.

Two months after he resigned, Foley was indicted by a federal grand jury on bribery and tax charges. In October 1993, he was convicted and sentenced to a 40-month prison sentence. Four and a half months later Foley was released from prison on appeal. His bribery conviction was reversed in January 1996 on the grounds no federal funds were involved.

John Grosvenor Rowland has three years left in his third term, marred now by scandal, corruption and daily anticipation of federal indictments. He's not going to make it. Despite his fighting spirit and pleas for forgiveness you gotta believe that even Rowland knows he's done.

In the end it won't be the heat from the media, the feds, salivating Democrats or Attorney General Richard Blumenthal that makes Rowland quit. It will be fellow Republicans trying to save their party and their own hides. At some point they will tell Rowland that he's become an albatross, and that it's time to go.

Had to be eerie for His Excellency to read headlines this week about former Illinois Republican Gov. George Ryan getting indicted on corruption charges. Ryan is accused of taking cash, gifts, vacations - ooooh - and other goodies, in exchange for steering state contracts to his cronies. He became so unpopular that he was blamed for a Democratic romp in the 2002 races and the election of the first Democrat governor in 30 years. When Rowland became Connecticut's 86th governor in 1994, he was the first Republican to win the office in 24 years. Now it's the Democrats pining for the top spot, which they haven't held in 13 years and counting.

The tepid support for Rowland and statements of indignation from high-profile Republicans such as Lt. Gov.M. Jodi Rell, and U.S. Reps. Christopher Shays and Robert Simmons indicate that Rowland is on a tight leash. One more slip, one more fabrication, one more indictment of a key aide, and the next call Rowland receives will not be one of conditional support.

Republicans "will either head into 2006 limping out of the most scandal-ridden administration in the history of this state, and people will just want to throw out that entire crowd, or they will have an incumbent governor, Rell, who herself may be in a position of having to explain how all this could be going on and she didn't know anything about it," says Roy Occhiogrosso. He's a well-connected Democratic political consultant who ran Bill Curry's unsuccessful 2002 gubernatorial campaign.

Still, Rell now becomes the Republicans' best hope for salvation. The GOP's bench of gubernatorial possibilities is awfully thin. And even Rell, the likable former state representative from Brookfield and PTO mom, has had her brushes with conflicts of interest.

While Republicans dicker about Rowland's future, the Democrats are locking and loading. Integrity will be a central plank of the 2006 campaign. If Dems can't take the top spot then, they might as well forever concede the chief executive's job to the GOP.

Meanwhile, the Republicans don't ever again want to go 24 years without one of their own as governor. Rells' cellphone must be exploding.

"What the Republicans have to do now is ride Rell, build her up," one GOP operative says. "

She's certainly capable. You ride her a couple of years and you hope at the end of the process you've got someone to ride into a campaign."

The illegal doings inside the Rowland administration not only have weakened him significantly, but they also needlessly taint Rell and Republicans running for statewide election in `04.

The Good Ship Rowland is sinking. His minions can't bail water fast enough to keep it afloat. Real soon, just watch, the other shipmates will be angling to throw the captain overboard.

Stan Simpson's column appears Wednesdays and Saturdays. He can be reached at simpson@courant.com

E-mail: simpson@courant.com

Posted by: at December 23, 2003 09:03 PM

Connecticut Governor John G. Rowland has got to go.

Posted by: dump Rowland at December 23, 2003 09:04 PM

Child Abuse

Which is worse physical or psychological?

Are you suffering, still, from trauma, from your childhood?

Feel free to tell your story in the comment section below or feel free to email me.

I’m studying the effects of negative parenting on children.

Were you ever told you would never amount to anything and that everything you ever did was wrong, and if you did it that way, go back to the way you were doing it before?

What is the most traumatic event in your life? Would you like to share?

Are you still living the endlessly repeating track of tape of mean comments that were reamed into your brain by a parent or important adult, and feel you can’t get away from those words? Please share.

Have you broken free from a negative pattern, addiction, abusive relationship, pit of despair, or location that you felt you’d never escape? Please share.

Remain anonymous, state your name, provide links, whatever …

My Story and Picture

Found here:

http://www.injusticebusters.com/04/Erickson_Steve.htm

and here:

http://www.freespeech.com/archives/001654.html

and links to my very reason for blogging:

http://www.freespeech.com/index.php?/weblog/bad_cops/

My experience of reverse racism at McDonald's Hamburger restaurant in Albany, New York:
http://www.freespeech.com/index.php?/weblog/reverse_racism_post_092004x/

Another Myth Shattered

Many women and men, think women are less likely to get a DUI, speeding ticket, or to even get pulled over by police. With all the stops pulled, Grandma can be subject to speeding tickets, DUI, and is now just as viable a revenue collection target as anyone else.

There are growing number of younger and middle age men that don’t want to be driving on a Friday or Saturday night whether they are drinking or not. They may just not want the hassle of worrying about being pulled over for any reason.

Even before 9-11, lodge a complaint against a police officer, piss just one off, speak your mind, propose legislation directing police and policies, be a rival for romance or business of family or friend of an officer, and you just might be putting your life or your life as you once knew it, in jeopardy.

Those keeping an eye on trends may notice more female teens, young women, mothers, and grandmothers are getting nailed for DUI and other offences, seemingly more than in any previous time. A elderly single librarian may just end up in prison alongside a dangerous criminal, unlike any other time in our past history.

More women are now more likely to complain if they are sexually assaulted, raped, or ‘given a deal’ to get out of charges by a male police officer, than ever before. A phone number, an adoring glance, flirtatious compliment given may have gotten a woman off in the past, not so much the case, anymore.

I was paddling a canoe years ago in Vermont back in the late 80’s, and had argued with my girlfriend and took off with a cold six pack.

A game warden that I had talked to and was a little wary of because he liked to use his Vietnam training to sneak up on people, especially hunters thinking they were alone in the woods, came upon me while I was out paddling the canoe, sipping beer, enjoying the day in a Vermont lake.

He told me if I drifted another few feet, he would have to arrest me for DUI and I would lose my driver’s license.

I started paddling with fury, while saying thank you.

He then informed me, it was ok on one side of the lake because of town bylaws to have an open container, but not on the other, and he used 2 opposing docks to know when someone crossed over.

I had a dead battery and an electric motor in the canoe not connected to the dead battery, enough of an excuse to have nailed me for operating a ‘motorized’ vehicle while drinking and an excuse to take my driver’s license.

The warden’s supervisor was on shore with binoculars and the warden seemed disturbed.

I learned days later that the warden was given two weeks off unpaid as punishment for not bringing in enough revenue during an important revenue collection weekend.

SO IT IS ABOUT COLLECTING OUR CASH, NOT ABOUT PREVENTING CRIME AND GOING AFTER CRIMINALS.

Just into the 90’s I had parked my 4x4 pick-up in a bar parking lot. After 3 hours I headed for my mother’s house, in Massachusetts at about 2 AM.

I then noticed I had a cruiser behind me and my life literally flashed before my eyes and I felt impending doom.

All my lights worked, my registration was current, I went exactly the speed limit, and made it to my mother’s driveway. The police officer hit the blue lights briefly and then slowly pulled away, a warning.

A warning to this day, I haven’t forgotten.

I am aware of many young women in a particular social group that have all been nailed recently for DUI in the Stafford Springs, Connecticut, area.

If their stories are to be believed they did nothing other than being out late, having been noticed over time by police as being a ripe target.

So now it doesn’t take erratic driving, going over the line, speeding, not stopping for a stop sign, a light out, but just being out at a time that there is assumed to be more drivers out after drinking.

So the police are TROLLING for dollars.

Almost all Americans that drink and have a driver’s license, may have at least once or twice a year driven when they should not have, that includes law officers and members of the judiciary.

Having a badge, whether it is for law enforcement, EMT, firefighter, or anyone with an official ID is almost guaranteed a get out of a DUI FREE CARD.

With a glut of police officers out on the roads all required to collect cash to a certain quota, there are less fish out there to catch being hindered by probable cause and proper procedures.

Fudging and filing false reports and just randomly pulling people over is more the case. I doubt some were even at the level required to charge a person, but that doesn’t stop an officer bucking for a promotion or having to bring in a certain level of revenue to avoid discipline or EVEN LOSS OF JOB.

Drunk driving brings in millions and millions into state coffers.

More and more average people are having their lives turned upside down, put on probation, at high risk to going to prison, and losing everything, teetering on the brink of disaster.

Well, you could say it their own fault.

I disagree, what happened to discretion?

Those that would have been given a warning, because they were citizens on a positive track, that were caught out on a fluke, and otherwise are not any threat to society and are a positive plus to society, are now having their lives irrevocably tarnished and growth, stunted.

A DUI with or without prison mixed in, can lead to job loss, a taxpayer/consumer being taken offline (hurting the economy an inch at a time), keeping someone underemployed for life or without a job, separates children from parents, spouses and significant others can split, cars and houses can be repossessed, credit can be lost forever, along with the ability to ever buy a house, depression, and can even put an individual at risk for suicide.

Shouldn’t there be at least a little more thought be given to this life altering process?

Try to get ANY job while on probation with a criminal record.

If you live on a State line and want to get a job a few feet into which is basically another country, FORGET ABOUT IT.

Employers have enough qualified applicants that don’t have a 50% of being thrown in prison for their length of probation for the simplest violation of probation, or if a Probation Officer is having a bad day, and can violate whomever they want, whenever they want, just saying a person on probation has a bad attitude.

On probation you have no rights.

You can be searched, detained, harassed, and worse and you have no recourse, complain and go to prison.

If you want to find out what it is like to be insulted, have your time wasted waiting for an arrogant official to decide when and if they want to talk to you, and can be tell where you can live, who you can associate with, whether or not you are allowed to drive or not whether your offense had ANYTHING at all to do with driving, whether or not you are allowed to drink alcohol, even if your offense has nothing to do with drugs or alcohol, and you can be assigned programs that are a further hindrance to finding and keeping a job, and can be so financially draining that you may not even have money to eat with.

For those hating authority and Big Brother, don’t support him, by doing drugs, driving with any alcohol in your system at all, don’t gamble, even legally, don’t smoke, don’t argue with your spouse, significant other, or neighbors, and do your best to convince others to do the same.

A mass protest that would do the most damage, and the system could be shut down for lack of funds, if THERE WAS A MASSIVE OUTBREAK OF GOOD BEHAVIOR.
Do you think that law enforcement and the courts aren’t ALL ABOUT MONEY, YOUR MONEY?

Well let’s use a simple example.

If two homeless people argue, threaten each other, beat each other up, create a disturbance, etc., a cop may not even arrest the pair.

The police officer may not want a drug addicted alcoholic throwing up on him or in the cruiser, he/she may not even want the human contact, fearing disease and closeness to stink, and figures the pair are possibly trying to scam a free roof over their heads and free food in prison.

A married couple having a loud argument in their own home can both be arrested, put on probation, are in danger of going to prison for the length of their probation, might not be able to contact each other as each is each other’s victim of a crime, may have to pay huge fines, forced to pay tuition for programs, pay to be under supervision, might be denied credit or ability to buy another home, may cause them to separate and divorce, and just might be a permanent black mark on their lives, a criminal record, and a hindrance and trauma that may never be recovered from.

I know this is an extreme example, but have I made my point?

I had moved back briefly with my mother to recover financially during the recession at the beginning of the 1990’s. At the most inconvenient time, I could have lost lucrative contracts, not had the money to buy a house, travel, meet my wife, and build a thriving contracting business.

That one falling down, possibly getting nailed for a DUI, could have altered my life beyond any measure.

There should be alternative punishments other than prison for those that don’t kill or cause property damage, if their drinking is not chronic and blatantly causing distress and danger to the public.

What about first offering treatment if there is a real problem, and then punish the individual if he or she is unwilling to stick with the program?

Prison can put a person in danger of death, disease, serious injury, sexual assault, and can damage a person psychologically beyond repair for life and costs taxpayers now and LATER.

Someone that is ‘overly’ processed through the system or has gone to prison can have their value system altered for life.

There is then a belief that the system is petty, unfair, only out to steal your cash and anything you own, and is willing to ruin your family, career, retirement, relationships with friends, and wreck your living arrangements on any excuse in a split second.

Why then save, plan ahead, or get too attached to any person or pet?

There is no thought process, caring, or acting in the public’s best interest in enforcing laws and passing judgments, just thoughts of maximum revenue collection regardless of the costs in human misery and making society’s social problems worse, not better.

I became mouthy in newspapers about police being more out after revenue and confiscating property, than in doing anything about solving the drug and crime problem downtown, or doing anything to solve social problems and improving the quality of life, hurting small business owners and property investors, especially downtown.

I learned that I was to be a target of police for DUI, being set-up for a fall, property confiscation, 3 arrests on my property to take my property under the nuisance statute for a bounty, I had a price on my head for having embarrassed police with what I had written in newspapers, and for having proposed Civilian Oversight of Police to elected officials.

I rented cars, didn’t go out anywhere in Connecticut unless I walked or had to, and drove to Massachusetts, which I perceived as part of America, unlike feeling my days were numbered, as since I had fixed up 3 rental houses investing 100’s of thousand of dollars and years of my sweat and blood, I just couldn’t up and leave in a matter of minutes.

I learned that I was a hot target for the police from a blond bombshell, Connecticut State Police CI, that had found out that I had not been doing anything illegal, and after spending time with me, decided she wanted a future with me.

B.S. didn’t tell me she was married, and she ruined her marriage.

I found out she had lied about being married and cruelly dumped her.

She told me to take her back, or I would face arrest for DUI or whatever, whether I was guilty of anything or not, as she claimed she could protect me from the State Police or have them barbecue me beyond recognition.

Enough about me, this piece isn’t about me.

I just wanted to give a real world examples on how DUI can be used for revenge or police vendettas.

It is also convenient for a police officer that is a rival for a woman’s affection with a civilian, to nail another for DUI, guilty or not.

The civilian can be conveniently targeted and taken out of the running.

I have never been nailed for a DUI, drugs, or anything other than resisting being beaten and nearly robbed by a police informant that was sent to harass me out of Connecticut, when I came home tired and dirty, wanting a shower and sleep, after working a double shift, getting arrested and thrown in prison, and having my life, retirement, and everything I had ever worked for or dreamed of, cruelly ripped from me.

So if you think seat belt, cell phone, drunk driving, and other laws are enforced by "Feel Good Policies" of caring authorities you are a PATHETIC SHEEP and don’t deserve the vote, freedoms, and Free Speech rights you are in the process of losing anyway.

Undeclared taxes, law enforcement, and American courts are about further ripping you off.

Are you blind?

Steven G. Erickson
PO Box 730
Enfield, CT 06083 USA

stevengerickson@yahoo.com

A Stark Difference Between the Rich and Poor

http://www.freespeech.com/index.php?/weblog/rich_and_poor_092204/
(Click above link for links and more on this theme)

There is less and less affordable housing, rental and otherwise. Small markets and businesses, apartment buildings, and rooms for rent in downtown areas are being phased out or squeezed out, mostly by the lack of service and protection of police, an all out push to fine owners and take property whenever possible, and to give the poor no quarter. Where are they to go?
Larger and larger, more and more expensive single family houses are being built. Affordable housing and multi family units are burning down, falling down on their own, and being torn down at alarming rates.

Buy property or a business downtown and you just might be a target for a takedown. Those that aid and abet the less desirable, White Trash, and minorities with businesses, jobs, and housing are enemies to the State and are treated as such. It doesn’t take long to see the pattern.
There is a chasm a mile wide and growing between the rich and poor. A selectman at an open meeting stated the way to get rid of the riffraff is to squeeze the landlords out of business using any mean necessary and tear down buildings and multi family houses that are vacant for even a short period of time.

So I was an enemy to the State investing in, fixing up downtown houses, providing affordable rents, and operating a business. The Good Ole Boy network is alive and well and in operation making themselves rich and shaking down anyone that stands in their way.
Those that buy property or a business and are not connected with the Good Ole Boy network can first find themselves harassed and threatened to pick up and leave at a loss, then police and authorities start their work, and the unsuspecting victim ends up loosing their investments to the bank, the town, and if they resist too much, make noise, or are otherwise stubborn, there is always prison.

If more people were aware of what is going on in downtown America, they would think the policies and behaviors were anything, but AMERICAN.
-Steven G. Erickson PO Box 730 Enfield, CT 06083

Email: stevengerickson@yahoo.com

Heroin in America:
http://www.freespeech.com/index.php?/weblog/heroin_in_america_092204/

Tuesday, September 21, 2004

Going after criminals

shouldn’t be more criminal, in the process, than the criminals were in committing crimes.

Due process and adherence to rules of law, maintaining ethics, not manufacturing evidence and intimidating witnesses, omitting information beneficial to the defense, and skewing American Justice, tells us OVERSIGHT and ACCONTIBILITY is needed more for the Judiciary and law enforcement, more than any other time, before 9-11, in the United States of America.

Taking out American checks and balances, accountability, and ethics doesn’t make us any safer or reduce crime, in fact the contrary. -Steven G. Erickson

More:

http://www.freespeech.com/index.php?/weblog/going_after_criminals_092104/

Are their unnamed factions in the US, similar to the KKK? Post:
http://www.freespeech.com/index.php?/weblog/kkk/

Abolish the Connecticut State Police:
http://www.freespeech.com/archives/002812.html



Do you have a police misconduct story?

If you do please share. Maybe I'll post yours here or on http://www.freespeech.com

I post on FreeSpeech.com as Vikingas.

If you put, "Connecticut Police Misconduct" or "Connecticut State Police Misconduct" the number one post on yahoo is usually a post that is a link contained within this post:

http://www.freespeech.com/index.php?/weblog/bad_cops/

If you have a case of judicial misconduct or your lawyer royally screwed you, let me know, and maybe I'll post it.

Check out this ethical misconduct of a lawyer:
http://www.freespeech.com/archives/001431.html

I can be reached at stevengerickson@yahoo.com

Steven G. Erickson
PO Box 730
Enfield, CT 06083

My story in a nutshell: http://www.freespeech.com/archives/001440.html

The prison system is a scam/rip-off: http://www.freespeech.com/archives/001439.html

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Wednesday, September 08, 2004

How do you manufacture a sociopath, rapist, serial killer, thief etc out of a child?

Some parents don’t know how to say no to their children, set no limits, enforce no rules, cover for bad behavior, don’t instill any work ethic, responsibility, caring for others, common sense, or any value system whatsoever in their kids. So what does that produce?

Well, very bad behavior or even a possible lifetime criminal parasite/sociopath.

Kids that don’t learn boundaries, that there are disappointments, responsibilities to others they live with, and that life is an evolving process of negotiations, compromises, goals, setbacks, ups and downs, elation, pain, and death, are destined for depression and worse, later in life.

I just came across a website on MSNBC that touches on these issues: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5909207/site/newsweek/?GT1=5100

This is what happens when there is a high concentration of that attitude of parenting and kids: http://www.freespeech.com/archives/001741.html

Why Vote?: http://www.freespeech.com/index.php?/weblog/why_vote/

Thank you,
Steven G. Erickson

Sunday, September 05, 2004

Police easy on Police for misconduct

I tried to make these complaints:

Dear Connecticut Attorney General, October 17, 2003

Subject: Docket # CR01-0074672, Rockville Court, Connecticut, 20 Park St.

With all due respect, I am trying to convey my story without a tone of anger, which is impossible. I mean no disrespect to you in any of my words below. I admit a lack of tact and can be guilty of not having basic common sense, but I have worked hard my entire life, spoke my mind too often, and have tried to improve my life and for those around me as long as I have been old enough to be aware. I feel a grave injustice has occurred and wish to make you aware for possibly investigating my claims.

Should the Justice System, including law enforcement, in a State, act in anyway similar to a KKK infested state, as was the case in some States at the height of the Klan?

Judge Jonathan Kaplan was aware of me being stalked, harassed, threatened, including my life, while my assailant and I struggled as I defended myself, ending the assault in my dark driveway with pepper spray. In court late October 2002, my assailant admitted to the judge that he, Brian Caldwell, had threatened my life while demanding money. Isn’t that attempted robbery? Is it strange that police refused to arrest Caldwell, the prosecutor refused to sign Caldwell’s arrest application, and a judge is fine with a landlord being beaten, threatened, stalked before and after the incident, attempted robbery, but is not ok with a landlord ‘overreacting’ defending him/herself?

I was called the victim, when I finally got the police to take my statement almost a month later. But, prosecutor John Panone, refused to sign the arrest application for my assailant, refused to drop the charges against me when I was declared the ‘victim’, and even refused to offer me the AR program that I was eligible for that would have ended up in my charges being erased.
I was sentenced to one year in prison and 3 years probation, had no former record, and was defending myself on my own property during a robbery attempt.

Troopers Ameral and Langlais, refused to take my statement/complaint the night I was attacked on my property, refused to interview witnesses, refused to look at my injuries, but paraded me around the 3 and 4 family houses in Stafford Springs, CT, in front of my neighbors and tenants, then leaving me propped up against a police car with the blue lights flashing for as many as 15 minutes to be displayed, lit, and prominent, for all passing traffic on the major Rt. of 190.

I had spent 4 years and 100’s of thousands and dollars, blood and sweat, fixing up those formerly boarded up properties.

The criminals and drug dealers still operate in Stafford Springs, Connecticut. Yet, after police officers had bragged that ‘Big Mouth’ was going to be run out of town, and taught a lesson, and had bragged I was going to prison before I even went to trial, justice has not been served.

Troopers Ameral and Langlais committed perjury in order that I be convicted. The State Police Internal Affairs refuses to deny nor to take my complaint against officers.

I feel my First Amendment rights have been violated, as I had complained about police and the local court system in newspapers, and had proposed legislation inflammatory to police and those in the judiciary BEFORE I was railroaded to prison.

Your attention to this matter would be greatly appreciated,

Steven G. Erickson
PO Box 730
Enfield, CT 06083

Connecticut State Police Internal Affairs refused to take nor deny these complaints:

Steven G. Erickson February 14, 2003
PO Box 730
Enfield, CT 06083-0730 860-749-xxxx

To whom it may concern at Connecticut State Police Internal Affairs:(fax to 203-238-6447, tel 238-6390)

I belief Troopers Ameral and Langlais of Connecticut State Police, Troop C, Tolland Connecticut, committed perjury in my criminal trial at Rockville GA#19, 20 Park St, Connecticut on 10-22-02, to get me convicted on 2 misdemeanor charges.

I would like to formerly lodge a complaint against Trooper Ameral and Langlais as I believe they perjured themselves. Trooper Ameral seemed to turn red and choke over his words as he testified that when asked whether or not I had asked to make a statement and identified myself 10-11-01, after I was nearly robbed, beaten, and threatened on my own property at night after arriving home with Clayton Varno in my van.

Troopers Ameral and Langlais refused to listen to the taped threats on Sue xxxx answering machine against me, 10-11-01, before I was assaulted, to take Sue xxxx statement, Apt x, 5 Church St., Stafford Springs, CT 06076 (860-684-xxxx). The pair also refused to take my statement, refused to listen to the threats against me from my assailant made from 1:00 PM that day against me.

I had identified myself as a crime victim, my name, and that I wished to make a complained. Both officers denied me this. Trooper Ameral refused to take my statement during processing 10-12-01, and refused to listen to my voicemail with the threats against me.
My assailant was not arrested.

I asked Trooper Ameral more than once to make a complaint and wanted my statement taken. I called out while being held, and asked to make a complaint against my assailant for attempted robbery, assault, and the threatening of me, Sgt Sticca refused to take my statement, 10-12-01.
I called Troop C, when I arrived home in the morning after being held at Troop C, Trooper Decker listened to my entire account of the previous events from the late evening before. I believe he interviewed tenants that had heard my assailant threaten my life and were aware of my assailant going back and forth from the local bar all day looking for me, each time saying he was going to hurt or kill me when I got home.

Trooper Decker politely refused my 2 or more requests to take my written statement regarding the events from the previous day.

My assailant continued to harass and threaten me and attempted to beat me again, Oct 18, 2001. I called the State Police and I believe it was Trooper Colleen Anuszewski, who responded to the call maybe sometime between 8PM and 9PM.

She listened to the threats on my voicemail and listened to my account of the threats made against me and that I had just nearly escaped a 2nd beating by locking myself in my office in my other multi family house, 3 Church St, Stafford Springs, CT.

My assailant came after me 7 times in the time before my trial. 4 of the times I reported the incidents to police.

There was a follow up investigation that calls me the victim of the assault in which I have included. This tells me that if my statement was taken before I was arrested that I would never have been arrested, and at the time of the 2nd report, I think my charges should have been dropped.

Sgt Izzarelli took my statement and interviewed Sue xxxx, possibly Clayton Varno, and others. Sgt Izzarelli came calling on me and in the presence of Sue xxxx, seemed surprised that my assailant was not arrested and with my case in general, in my opinion.

I believe I had previous arguments with Trooper Langlais, over teens drinking, fighting, and selling drugs off my front lawn, and my displeasure over losing sleep and with the lack of anything being done. Langlais may have been one of the officers on a previous occasion to Oct 11, 2001, that were chanting,

"Oh Stevie, Oh Stevie, Oh Stevie!" outside my office door waking me up maybe 2AM or 3AM in the morning maybe an hour or so after I had called in and complained about intoxicated teenagers, banging into my house, and being so loud they were keeping me awake.
The contents of this letter are to my best belief and knowlege.

Thank you, Steven G. Erickson

(Another complaint faxed to Connecticut State Police Internal Affairs, not taken nor denied):

Steven G. Erickson April 16, 2003 xxx xxxx (an address)
To Whom It May Concern at the Connecticut State Police Internal Affairs Unit (fax to 203-238-6447, tel 238-6390.

Subject: Trooper Mulcahey’s possible violation of my (Steven G. Erickson) 1st and 14th Amendment rights, civil rights violations, and improper conduct unbecoming of a State Law Official

I believe Trooper Mulcahey acted improperly in telling me I would be arrested if I pursued any charges or allegations against anyone and did not leave the State of Connecticut.
I had brought a tape that Trooper Mulcahey took possession of threats against my daughter, her life, by a man who was sexually obsessed with my then 14 year old daughter and her friend Leann.

The tape also had threats against me, possibly 15 to 20 involving Peter Coukos. Please look into my allegations and take my complaint.

From statements made by Peter Coukos, before I was harassed by him telling me that the Stafford Resident Trooper and Stafford Police Officers did not like him (Peter Coukos) getting along with me and encouraged him to harass me and get rid of me.

After making this statement, Peter Coukos, told me that if I did not write him a check for $30,000 he would make up a false police report, report me to the building inspector for possible code violations, and would try and say I had committed fraud in some way or another fabricating a complaint.

I was also told I was evicted from the property by Peter Coukos, when I believe only a court order could bar me from 3 and 5 Church St.

Stafford Springs, CT, and that it was entirely illegal that I could be told I was barred from Stafford Springs and/or Connecticut, by someone saying they are speaking on behalf of the police.

I asked Trooper Mulcahey to take my complaint against Peter Coukos more than once and over time from as early as February 2002 into the Summer of 2002, regarding Peter Coukos threatening me, assaulting me, locking me of my apartment, blocking my vehicles in the driveway, breaking into my apartment, stealing my van seats and pick up truck cap, etc.
I believe it was an admission to these crimes by Peter Coukos when he signed an agreement not to harass me and to settle my Small Claims suit I brought against him regarding the stolen property.

I do not think it honorable and legal for a State Trooper to threaten me with arrest for being the victim of crimes, not the perpetrator, if I pursued matters taken in police reports, and if I did not leave Stafford Springs and/or Connecticut as soon as was possible.

I find it disturbing that Peter Coukos, claimed to me that the Resident State Trooper had told him, “Big Mouth is going to be shut up,” “Big Mouth is going to be run out of town,” and “Big Mouth is going to be taught a lesson,” before the harassment began, telling me it was encouraged and condoned possibly violating federal and Connecticut laws by police officers and Peter Coukos.

What is contained in this letter is to my best belief and knowledge.
Please look into my allegations and take my complaint.

Thank you, Steven G. Erickson

P.S. the address of some of the violation is 3 and 5 Church St., Stafford Springs, CT 06076

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My story and photo on an international injustice site: http://www.injusticebusters.com/04/Erickson_Steve.htm

Do newspapers and other corporate media have a monopoly on Free Speech?

Friday, September 03, 2004

Police easy on Police for Misconduct

Fired Police Have It Easy
August 13, 2003 (Hartford Courant, Connecticut)

HARTFORD -- The Hartford police union's defense of two veteran officers who were fired after an internal investigation found them guilty of misconduct would be comical if it weren't so appalling.

One officer, Roy E. McCravey, was arrested at a Wal-Mart in Charlotte County, Fla., where, according to police records, he was caught switching price labels on various pieces of merchandise to pay less for them.

He is scheduled to go to trial in Florida this week.

Officer John Nisyrios, meanwhile, was granted a form of probation for first-time offenders known as accelerated rehabilitation for a charge of pilfering spare parts from a Hartford auto yard.

Accelerated rehabilitation results in no plea, no jail time and no criminal record after 18 months, as long as Mr. Nisyrios makes a $500 charitable contribution and stays away from the auto yard.Residents don't typically expect the police union to aid someone accused of thievery. But union President Michael Wood says he plans to challenge the decision to fire the officers, claiming to have evidence that would allow them to keep their jobs.As it is, Mr. McCravey, 47, and Mr. Nisyrios, 44, are getting off easily. Relatively young and able-bodied, within six months they'll be able to collect pensions of about $50,000 a year, based on 19 years of service each in the department.

Sticking up for colleagues who clearly deserve to be terminated adds to the perception that Hartford officers are not as interested in law enforcement as they are in fattening pensions and preserving generous work schedules that give them at least 15 extra days off per year and generate record overtime pay.

Yet the union would have the public believe that its members are victimized by staff shortages and poor leadership. Residents, meanwhile, are left to wonder how low a threshold an officer must cross before his colleagues consider him unworthy of wearing a badge.

http://www.ctnow.com/news/opinion/editorials/hc-badcops67aug13.story (Now Expired)______________________________

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Journal Inquirer, Manchester Connecticut

Manchester releases details of accusations against ex-cop

By Doreen Guarino, Journal Inquirer August 07, 2003

MANCHESTER - Former Officer Jonas Searle, who retired from the Police Department in April amid efforts to fire him for misconduct, had kissed a female police volunteer, asked her to go skinny-dipping, commented on the size of her breasts, and told her he wanted to cheat on his wife with her, according to a police internal affairs report released Wednesday by an assistant town attorney.

Those are some of the details previously blacked out of a heavily redacted report on the Searle misconduct investigation that was released by the Police Department in May.In response to the Police Department's blacking out certain information on all but one of the 32 pages that made up the Searle report, the Journal Inquirer filed a complaint with the Freedom of Information Commission.

While the Journal Inquirer was never seeking the name of the woman who filed the complaint - any reference to her identity had been blacked out of the report - the newspaper objected to other information that was blacked out.Lt. Joseph Morrissey, who conducted the investigation, had said that revealing more information might pose "potential embarrassment to others."Assistant Town Attorney Timothy P. O'Neil, after meeting recently with a Journal Inquirer editor, restored all of the previously blacked-out information that did not have to do with the female complainant's identity.

O'Neil said Wednesday that while Morrissey might have thought the release of certain information in the report might be an invasion of personal privacy, he felt that it wasn't and released it.In response to O'Neil's action, the Journal Inquirer has sent notice to the Freedom of Information Commission that it is withdrawing its complaint against the town.Searle, 53, a married father of two daughters, retired April 30 after nearly 30 years with the department.

He retired before disciplinary action could be taken against him for a pattern of unprofessional conduct while in uniform that included making sexual remarks to a female police volunteer, a 45-year-old married mother with children, according to police.

At the time of his retirement Searle had been the subject of three separate internal affairs investigations into allegations of misconduct.Only one of those investigations - the one involving sexual remarks Searle was alleged to have made to the female volunteer - was completed at the time of his retirement. It was the outcome of that investigation that led Morrissey, who is in charge of the office of professional standards and internal affairs, to recommend that Police Chief Gerald Aponte fire Searle.Neither Searle nor his lawyer, Jan P. Van Der Werff of West Hartford, could be reached for comment.

Other allegations now made public in the report state that the woman told police Searle commented that her toenails and fingernails turned him on, that he couldn't stop thinking about her, and that he once asked if she were wearing any underwear, the report stated.

Searle, who was interviewed by Morrissey during the investigation, either denied making any sexual remarks to her or could not recall certain situations and comments she alleged, according to the report.

Searle indicated, through his answers during the interview, that it was the woman who was being untruthful in her accusations against him, and that he had no idea why she would accuse him, Morrissey wrote in the report.Morrissey's investigation sustained four of the eight situations alleged by the woman where Searle had acted inappropriately toward her, according to the report.

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Name: Steve Erickson Date: Aug, 13 2003

Just one more reason there should be 'Civilian Oversight' of police so they do their jobs efficiently, legally, and in the public's best interest. -Steve EricksonNumber of Opinions: 1 1 - 1 of 1

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=9971571&BRD=985&PAG=461&dept_id=161556&rfi=6 (Expired)

Connecticut Officer, Scott Smith, allegedly chased down a suspect and stood on the suspect's back firing a round through the suspect's back, killing him.

Scott Smith lost his job and I believe now is on probation on appeal for what any non-officer would be charged with 2nd Degree Murder. From talking with officers they seemed upset that Scott had to lose his job. Police should not police themselves.

Checks and Balances are American. It is time to Americanize our American Police Force with Civilian Oversight

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My Story:

I called Connecticut Police, Armed Revenue Collectors in letters to the editor and suggested 'Civilian Oversight of Police' to local politicians.

I was told to leave Connecticut by police.

I did not leave and was arrested at near midnight 10-11-01 when an alleged police informant that police had allegedly encouraged to harass me, jumped me in my dark driveway demanding money. I pepper sprayed him after being beaten from behind.

I was sentenced to one year in prison, 3 years probation, Anger management, fines, and strict reporting. The attempted robber received no punishment. It seems the 1st Amendment does not apply in the Constitution State of Connecticut. I have lost everything I had ever worked for including regular contact with my family, pets, my home, investments, credit, and retirement.

I was run out of Connecticut by police for having been critical of them in newspapers regarding downtown crime and rampant drugs and had suggested 'Civilian Oversight of Police' which was very unpopular with police.

What is your opinion on Civilian Oversight of Police?-Steven G. Erickson (Vikingas)

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Is Arthur L. Spada the kingpin of a crime syndicate, The Connecticut State Police?

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But then, that’s what union’s are for!
Right, Will?

And people wonder why I hate unions. Between stories like this one, and the story last week of the union thugs beating up the recall supporters, it’s amazing that unions get such respect from such a large segment of our society. I think they’re time has passed.

Posted by
Del Simmons on 08/15 at 09:14 AM #

End the cycle of abuse, State Police should only be on the highways and support the local cops when needed. They should not oversee each other as they lie and cover-up for each other.
Posted by on 03/21 at 08:09 AM #

Here, here
Posted by on 04/09 at 11:54 AM #

“Connecticut Police Misconduct” were the words just put in a yahoo search engine and this post was the number 2 listing just behind the ACLU, showing the power and amount this site is read.

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Steven G. Erickson on 04/13 at 07:22 AM #

now the #1 listing on yahoo.

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Thursday, September 02, 2004

American Politicians Provide Drugs to European Drug Dealers?

18:28 2003-03-14

All heroine that is available in Europe is of Afghan origin, Vikingas on 09/21 at 04:36 PM
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http://users.resist.ca/~mayworks/911/2/newwar.shtml
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Building on this, the “war on terrorism” has provided increased legitimacy for the military to be a strong presence throughout the US. Defense Secretary Rumsfield has openly called for a greater role for the US military so that it can be used to fight “terrorism” in the US itself.

These are powers that have not been considered necessary since the post-Civil War Reconstruction era, when the 1879 Posse Comitatus law effectively outlawed domestic military participation.

Already the US Congress has approved US$40 billion in aid, much of that going to the military machine. In addition, the US House of Representatives has approved a 9% increase in spending for spy agencies that were already consuming US$30 billion per year. US Attorney General John Ashcroft called recently for “increased surveillance and detention ability for agencies such as the FBI.” $300 million was approved for “aid” to Afghanistan. How much of that money will be spent arming the murderous and terrorizing band of thugs called the Northern Alliance in that country?

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Heroin By M. Simon

Heroin. The name itself strikes terror into the heart these days. But originally it was named by the Bayer people from the word heroine. Or female hero. Why? Because it was so effective in relieving pain and suffering. If it were legal it would still be one of the most effective pain relievers in the doctor’s arsenal. It was also considered such a safe and effective medicine that it was available over the counter until 1914.

The story these days with heroin is different. It not only is not available over the counter, its not available anywhere in America legally.

So where does this leave us today? We have black markets and addicts. Black markets of course require police and addicts require treatment.

An interesting study by Dr. Lonny Shavelson looks into the world of the addicts and their treatment. What do we know? What works? How can addicts be helped?

First we start out with an unusual point of view. Most addicts are in pain. This is quite surprising. It surprised me. I thought they were just in it for the euphoria.
Here is what Dr. Shavelson found in his study of 200 addicts: a high proportion of severely abused children (beatings, rapes, rapes of siblings). He questioned his study methodology. He thought there must have been a flaw in how his sample was selected or in how the questions he asked were framed.

Then while he was doing his research, an article came out in the Journal of the American Medical Association that said that the addiction rate goes up for male sexually abused children. And it doesn’t just double or triple. It is 25 to 50 times higher than the rest of the population. Approximately 70% of the women in drug rehab experienced sexual abuse before they started on drugs. In other words, those heroine addicts not in actual physical pain are suffering from severe post traumatic stress disorder, PTSD. What is the preferred treatment in America today for these hurt and humiliated souls? We don’t deal with the pain that made them liable for drug abuse. We ask that before they can be healed that they heal themselves by giving up drugs. And then we wonder why rehab for hard-core addicts does not work too well. But how could it when the treatment does not match the disease.

So the next time the TV expose shows the junkie with the spike in his or her vein think of what torment that person must be in internally in order to put them in the place they are in. And all too often our response to those suffering is to jail them. Barbaric. Or treatment that deals with symptoms and not causes. Stupid.

Dr. Shavelson has written a book called “Hooked” about his experiences with addicts. A recent transcript of an interview by NPR with the doctor is available here.

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Addiction or Self Medication? By M. Simon

“Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize an undercover dictatorship. To restrict the art of healing to one class of men, and deny equal privilege to others, will be to constitute the Bastille of medical science. All such laws are un-American and despotic, and have no place in a Republic. The Constitution of this Republic should make special privilege for medical freedom as well as religious freedom.” Abridged quote

----Benjamin Rush, M.D., a signer of the Declaration of Independence

Let me start this little essay on the uses of marijuana with an idea. A very simple idea. An idea that strikes at the very heart of the drug war and it’s moralistic foundation. The very idea that those who use unapproved drugs are the lawful subjects of religiously motivated government persecution.

What we call addiction is in fact self treatment of undiagnosed pain.

This is a truly revolutionary idea. If it is in fact true then the whole notion of a drug war to save the children is a lie from beginning to end. Those of you who have read my article on heroin have a window into this new idea. What I tried to show in that article was that medical research shows that victims of sexual abuse and severe physical abuse (PTSD) are many times more likely to get addicted to heroin than the general public.

Let us next look at the case for marijuana.

Natural molecules similar to an active ingredient in marijuana play a part in helping the brain clear fearful memories and keep them from being permanently debilitating. The British journal Nature has reported this discovery by scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich, Germany. The scientists of the Institute say that this has implications for the treatment of post traumatic stress disorder and other fear based conditions.

It turns out that anxiety disorders are the most common mental health problem in the United States. They are worth $46 billion a year to the pharmaceutical industry. You don’t suppose this fact has any thing to do with the pharmaceutical industries being in the forefront of the Drug Free America campaign do you? Of course not. They are just trying to keep you from being addicted to natural products at the cost of 1/10th of a cent per dose when they are more than willing to sell you an FDA and doctor approved, pharmacy sold product that will do the job for a dollar a dose. They have only your best interests at heart. Just ask their accountants.

All humans show fear reactions to dangerous situations. However, in the case of one out of ten people (surprisingly the same percentage of people who are susceptible to substance addiction) the fear does not die down in the absence of the dangerous situation. The fear stays at debilitating levels even in the absence of danger. These people have a definite, if ordinarily invisible problem. You cannot find this problem with x-rays. It is possible that this problem could be found with a many thousand dollar PET scan. Or you could take a few puffs of a joint and see if that helps.

If the joint was legal.

Which it is not.

Pankaj Sah of Australian National University believes that chronic marijuana users are self medicating for anxiety problems. He goes on further to say that we self medicate for head aches with aspirin and this causes no social problems. He speculates that people experiencing emotional problems are taking cannabis for relief. Of course since this medicine is not doctor approved it is against the law. Especially it is against Federal Law, as a number of states have made medical use of marijuana legal. The Feds in California know how to stop this though. They put the sick, the dying and the pain wracked in jail to show their compassion. You don’t suppose it has anything to do with maintaining at all costs the State and Federal $50 billion dollar drug war do you?

Not a chance.

They are the government and they have only your best interests at heart. Trust them.

You can read a good review of the report here.

Let me leave you with a final quote from a Supreme Court Judge:

“Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government’s purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.” Justice Brandeis

That quote and an impassioned speech for the right of self medication can be found here.

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Police and PTSD By M. Simon

All too many police officers are victims of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. PTSD. This disorder is a response to traumatic stress. Seeing victims of violence. Having to kill some one in the line of duty. Being hurt in the line of duty. Seeing the death of a child.

This disorder was first identified as “shell shock” and soldiers were it’s first identified victims. As time has gone on and further work has been done in the field; we have learned more. In the aftermath of the Viet Nam War we learned more about “shell shock” and stated calling it PTSD. With more research we found that soldiers were not it’s only victims. We found out that police and firemen also “got” PTSD. Then we found that victims of severe child abuse and childhood sexual assault also got PTSD.

Now we know even more. The drunken cop who abuses his wife is a regular stereotype. Drinking alcohol to numb the pain and taking your pain out on those close to you are two recognized symptoms of PTSD. Alcoholism may not be a “disease” but a response to pain.

In fact we now know even more. Police in some jurisdictions are being trained to look for signs of PTSD in the populace they police in order to better help keep the peace. Some markers that stand out in children are abuse of legal and illegal drugs. Cocaine. Alcohol. Heroin. Pot.

The Western New York Rural Mental Health Partnership advises police that “ ‘self medication’ with alcohol or illegal drugs is a common complication found in adolescents with mental health problems.”

The Massachusetts Department of Mental Health says “Youths who suffer from PTSD frequently use alcohol or other drugs to ‘self-medicate’ in an attempt to dull painful memories or psychological torment.”

Police in the above mentioned jurisdictions are given booklets with the above guidelines in them. The only thing left out of the guides is that what afflicts children can also afflict adults. In fact not even the police are immune.

Just as we should have compassion for children with PTSD problems so we should also have compassion for the police and all other adults whose pain is still all too real. Running a steam roller over those already hit by a truck does not live up to the American ideal of justice or compassion.

An online health guide to PTSD advises:

“It is important to be gentle on yourself and to give yourself time to heal.”
Just as it is true of the individual so it also ought to be true of society in general. Once we see that what we have been doing for so long is inappropriate we will need to change our behavior at once. After changing our ways we are also going to need time to heal. Because hurting those who didn’t deserve it is a stressor. And stress can lead to PTSD.

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The Pain Enforcement Administration By M. L. Simon

America’s Puritan heritage is described by H.L. Mencken as a person who is constantly worried that somewhere, sometime, someone might be having a good time. This is the fundamental nature of our government morality bureau: the Drug Enforcement Administration. As a morality bureau it does not enforce the taking of drugs, but merely the kind of drugs that can be taken, by whom, when, and in what amounts.

If you have been following my previous columns you know that people take drugs to relieve pain. They take the kind of drug and amount that allows them to function given their level of pain. This is true of legal and illegal drugs. We know that opiate patients in hospitals have very little problem giving up opiates when their pain is gone. We know that given the chance to self regulate opiate delivery that people take no more than is necessary to relieve their pain. This is as true of illegal drugs as it is of legal drugs. Drugs do not cause drug taking. Pain causes drug taking.

There are no addicts. Only people in pain. What we call addiction is self medication for undiagnosed pain such as PTSD or other severe emotional or physical trauma. Cure the pain and the desire for the drugs vanishes. This is true not only of drug addicts but also alcohol addicts and food addicts as well. In fact it is my belief that it is true of all so called addictions. This is made quite clear by the title of the popular book on food addictions called “It’s Not What You Eat, But What’s Eating You” by Jack Schwartz.

What does all this have to do with the DEA? It is quite simple. The purpose of the DEA is the enforcement of pain. Or as they would prefer the prevention of the use of drugs to help people feel better. They make this quite clear in the recent series of prosecutions of doctors who treat patients with intractable pain. A case in point is Dr. Marlou Davis a pain management specialist in Missouri who was recently arrested for prescribing “excessive” doses of opiods to his patients despite the fact that the original case was dropped in October of 2000. Another case is that of Doctor William E. Hurwitz of Northern Virginia who had his clinic shut down by the DEA for prescribing “excessive” amounts of OxyContin. Dr. Hurwitz writes “While spokesmen for the DEA give lip service to the idea of a balanced enforcement policy that preserves the access of deserving patients to needed medications, these aggressive and ill informed prosecutions convey a message of intimidation to doctors and of indifference to the plight of patients in pain.” You can read the rest of the Doctor’s message to his patients. The Doctor also has given a talk on “The Police State of Medicine”.

America is a Judeo-Christian nation culturally, dedicated to the relief of suffering. We have direct proof of this in recent surveys about the acceptance of medical marijuana. Eighty percent of the American people believe that is OK to use marijuana for the relief of suffering in medical situations, despite the efforts of Federal and State law enforcement bodies to discourage this point of view.

I think it is time to prevail on our law makers to put an end to the Pain Enforcement Administration other wise known as the DEA. It is time to stop making criminals out of people in pain and the doctors who treat them.

Write your Senators and Congress persons and let them know how you feel. The pain you relieve may one day be your own. Try one of these Web Sites for contact information:
U.S. House of Representatives Write Your Representative Service
Senators of the 107th Congress

Contacting Congress (& Other US Policymakers)
The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws

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Aftermath By M. Simon

Recent reports from Israel in a Ma’ariv article (excerpts and further commentary can be read here) indicate that the Israeli Army has an ongoing problem in even its most elite units. In a war against guerilla operations, as in fact the Palestinian operations against Israeli civilians are, civilians take the brunt of the counter offensive. The guerillas depend on this counter reaction to maintain sympathy for their cause among the general population in which they hide. In fact the crack down on civilians is one of the desired results of guerilla operations from at least the time of the Spanish guerilla operations against the troops of Napoleon.

This necessity for cracking down on the civilians has caused a lot of pain and suffering among even the elite of the Israeli soldiers. No doubt causing the opposing soldiers to lose their humanity is also one of the desired results of guerilla operations. As the opposing soldiers lose their humanity once they are removed from the battle situations they lose their self respect. On the other side of the coin, as chronicled by B.H.L.Hart in his book “Strategy”, the countries where guerilla operations by outlaw segments of the population are extensive become ungovernable for long periods of time after the war. This is because guerrillas are under no command and are recruited mainly from outlaw segments of the population. In fact Spain is still suffering from the results of the fighting of the wars against Napoleon by guerilla operations. So the aftermath of the War in Israel is likely to be bad for all concerned for at least decades to come, no matter who wins.

The Ma’ariv article, though, is concerned not with the long term aftermath but the immediate hurt of the Israeli soldiers. The hurt of “shell shock”. The hurt of doing unspeakable things to fellow humans in order to fight a war. In America today we have a name for this condition. We call it PTSD and we know that it affects not only soldiers but victims of rape and severe child abuse among others. We also know that one of the symptoms of this problem is substance abuse.

People will take anything to numb the pain. Heroin, alcohol, pot, MDMA, LSD. Any thing in the hope of relief.

Israeli soldiers visiting Thailand often come back with severe cases of heroin abuse. Other soldiers take other drugs in an effort to clear their minds of distressing memories. So many have these problems that there is a village in Israel specifically designed to help those suffering from the effects of war. That Village is called Izun. Ma’ariv stated “Israeli army reserve lieutenant-colonel Omri Frish, a social worker by training, organized the village. ‘ We were staggered by the number of calls we got. We got more then 900 calls from parents with very painful stories of sons becoming drug addicts, trying to commit suicide and generally emotionally distressed.’ “

America has embarked on a war which I hope will free the suffering citizens of Iraq from the terror of Saddam Hussein. But, whatever happens, we know that we are going to get back a lot of soldiers wounded in the mind as well as the body. After every war we have the stereotypical stories of the returned soldiers becoming addicted to alcohol and/or illegal drugs. We need to look on these addictions as symptoms of deeper problems not their causes. We need to heal these men and women who fought in our name, not discard or persecute them because of their symptoms.

In fact, we need to treat all so called “victims of addiction” as the victims of pain they actually are.

If the current war teaches us nothing else it will have gone a very long way towards the healing of America and, in addition, the world. Then those who have died on either side of the battle will not have died in vain

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Genetic Discrimination

In America we pride ourselves on the fact that we have eliminated almost all forms of arbitrary discrimination in our political and criminal justice systems. I think this is a good thing and in many ways makes America so much better than the rest of the world. For example it is very difficult no matter how long you or your ancestors have lived in Germany for a “non German” to become a citizen. The same is true in Japan and many other countries of the world. Adapting to the language and the laws of your adopted country is not enough if your heritage is not correct. It is attitudes like these that made the fascism of Germany and Japan so vicious. The fascism may be gone but many of the attitudes that spawned that fascism remain.

Yet America, improving though it is, is far from perfect. There is one form of discrimination that is very popular among the majority of Americans. That discrimination is no different from racism which is in effect a genetic discrimination. This discrimination that is so popular is also a genetic discrimination but it’s marker is not as obvious as skin color. It’s marker is addiction. To sex, to food, to alcohol, to tobacco, to illegal drugs. When it comes to those marked by genetics for a possible illegal drug addiction we come down on them with the full weight of the law. We put them in jail, we steal their property, we make them subject to what can only be called gestapo raids at 3 AM in the morning. And like the good Germans we are, not only do we say nothing for fear of the gestapo coming to our doors, some of us actually applaud this effort to make the country safer from the Jews. I mean addicts. The horror of the effort to eliminate the Jews of Central Europe is not that it was a crime unique to Germany. The horror is that given the right propaganda it can be done by any government any where. Even in America.

The genetics of addiction is a very interesting subject. There appears to be a number of genes involved depending on the addiction. In some cases there are not enough copies of a gene to protect the body from addiction. This seems to be the problem in the case of tobacco addiction and the TPH 779C alle. In addition a version of the dopamine transporter gene (SLC6A3-9) seems to protect people to some extent from tobacco addictions. Carriers of this gene who do start the tobacco habit find it easier to give up than those who have a different version. In addition those with the D 2 dopamine receptor (DRD2) in addition to the SLC6A3-9 gene had even fewer problems with tobacco.

Another interesting finding in relation to the tobacco metabolizing protein that is controlled by the CYP2A6 alle is that there are different types of that gene in the body depending on whether one is Caucasian, Asian, or African American. So we see that for tobacco “addictions” there may actually be racial differences that align with genetic differences.

Let us look at the mutation of another gene the FAAH 385. This gene helps produce an enzyme called fatty acid amide hydrolase (FAAH). This enzyme is responsible for neutralizing cannabinoids that naturally occur in the body. These naturally occurring body chemicals are the same as the psychoactive component of marijuana. So the body can produce it’s own marijuana and destroy it. All without the intervention of drug dealers and the police. Roger Pertwee, professor of neuropharmacology at Aberdeen University says that if you have a mutated copy of the gene you may need more cannibinoids than the body produces to feel normal. He says that this may be one of the reasons that cannabis use is so popular among ten to twenty percent of the population. He also says that genetics accounts for about one half of the nature of addiction.

Let us see if we can account for the other half. A study by the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich reported here: http://www.msnbc.com/news/788294.asp?cp1=1 shows that one of the functions of the cannibinoid system in the body is to help deal with painful memorizes. Now from an evolutionary stand point remembering painful memories can be very helpful if that memory keeps you out of further danger. It is also true though that remembering them for too long can paralyze the ability to act even when necessary. So it is good to remember the pain but generally it is also good, if the pain is not repeated, to gradually forget the memories so a person an “get over it” and get on with life. For some people without the cannibinoid receptor (in the study mice were used) or with out enough cannibinoid production or possibly a system that destroys the cannibinoids prematurely pain memories can be a problem.

In dealing with the human condition we now have a name for those who have problems dealing with long term pain memories. We call them PTSD sufferers. We see them as victims of war, domestic violence, child abuse, and on the job trauma such as firemen and police officers. We know that not all of them have trouble even with very painful memories and now we know why.

There is not only a trauma component but also a genetic component. v So in the end it comes down to this. We are making war on people based on their genetics and their suffering. I can think of nothing so unAmerican and unChristian. And yet, sadly, it is not the first such episode in America. I think it is incumbent on us all to make sure it is the last.

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Posted by on 09/21 at 06:19 PM #

Pravda ran an article in January claiming that Saddam had recovered a crashed UFO and was going to use its military secrets against the United States.As for the other two sources, is run by the Resist! Collective, which is run by… well, see for yourself:


We are committed to providing communications infrastructure resources to those who we identify as allies in the struggle against capitalism and for a better world.Now, who is it that is leading the worldwide struggle ‘against capitalism’? Oh, I remember now--the same fellows who made up the “CIA runs drugs” story back during the Cold War. Don’t believe me? Do a search on “Communist” using their built-in search engine, limiting it to only Resist! Collective websites. Result--230 hits.I can’t speak to Surrealist.org. I’m not sure, however, that it is necessary.


Posted by Grim on 09/21 at 07:48 PM #

Grim, read your link on Saddam’s UFO. Who knows what is Russia’s National Enquirer equivalent? I saw the small shopping carts and empty shelves in the former Soviet Union. There is truth, lies, and everything in between in their papers and to a lesser extent, possibly, in ours.
As far as the drug expose, I would not have believed anything about complicity in drugs involving authorities, namely police, until I saw it with my own eyes.

Posted by
Steven G. Erickson on 09/21 at 08:43 PM #

I have to admit--I hate Communists. I spent some time living in the People’s Republic of China, outside the bigger cities and out where you can see what’s going on. Frankly, any man or woman who lives in the free world, with free access to the truth about what Communism is and does, and who still declares for Communism--that man, that woman is filth.
It’s close to the last real prejudice I have.
Posted by Grim on 09/21 at 10:40 PM #

Have no love for Socialism nor Communism. Those I talked to in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia pretty much all expounded on how bad communism is. Their economies are not coming up as fast as they could after the fall of the USSR, and that can be a concern.

I have to say that I am alarmed at how much influence a shrinking number of corporations have over the US and world as they merge. There are less major sources of news in the US, as they also merge.

Posted by
Steven G. Erickson on 09/22 at 04:43 AM #

I got more flack from Stafford police and Connecticut State Police for complaining about drug dealing and other crimes occurring on my property than than did the perpetrators of the crimes.
I was told I was not allowed downtown by a police officer, if I was not using drugs, or why should I want to be downtown? They had an agenda of what property and assets they were targeting in an investigation. If a citizen got in the way, namely me, they went down, not the common criminals and drug users that are an army of informants that help the police in revenue collection and asset confiscation.

Having not seen a lot with my own eyes, I would not have believed the extent of the BS involving downtown law enforcement and how they actually may increase drug use, alcoholism, delinquency of minors, blight, crime, and hurt small business and property investors in their crackheadlike pursuit of assets and cash taken in high profile busts of middlemen.

If authorities were really interested in reducing crime, criminals would be punished when caught, not used to get bigger fish for bigger takes.

If police actually did their jobs and reduced drugs and crimes, they could see their ranks and political influence wane.

Downtown areas are safe for common criminal parasites, alcoholics, frauds, drug users, and corporate and government use, but not for most small businesses and individual property investors as I can personally attest. -Steven G. Erickson

P.S. for those of you that have not see my previous posts, I went to prison and lost my property after having complained about crime and drugs on my property. The drug dealers, frauds, vandals, and other criminals in my former little corner of the world, Stafford Springs, CT, I hear are doing fine and still living as blood suckers on those that work and pay taxes. I fear getting railroaded back to prison for continuing to speak out about my injustice.

Posted by
Steven G. Erickson on 09/22 at 05:21 AM #

Have no love for Socialism nor Communism. Those I talked to in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia pretty much all expounded on how bad communism is. Their economies are not coming up as fast as they could after the fall of the USSR, and that can be a concern.

I have to admit--I hate Communists. I spent some time living in the People’s Republic of China, outside the bigger cities and out where you can see what’s going on. Frankly, any man or woman who lives in the free world, with free access to the truth about what Communism is and does, and who still declares for Communism--that man, that woman is filth.

grim and steve.

you give examples of dysfunctional communism. why dont you take a look at this: http://www.anu.edu.au/polsci/marx/classics/manifesto.html and maybe you will be able to understand communism’s true intent. your opinions make sense, only they are based on irrational dictatrships and not any true communist state. there is no existing state which coinsides with the marxist theory of communism. its people who are uneducated about communism who give it the stigma it has. you may as well be mccarthy for all i care. its thoroughly ridiculous.

Society can no longer live under this bourgeoisie, in other words, its existence is no longer compatible with society… Proletarians of the world - UNITE! (Marx)

Posted by
mel on 09/22 at 10:22 AM #

and grim. prejudice is exactly what it says it is: prejudging something without adequate knowlege. and yet you still admit to being prejudiced? way to be! you’ve basically given anyone license to discredit your unresearched point of view.

Posted by
mel on 09/22 at 10:25 AM #

Mel,
I know from your earlier posts that you are twenty years old. I will therefore be gentle, because I realize your experience of the world is limited.

Do you honestly think I’ve never seen the Communist Manifesto before? Well, I have: I have read and studied it, and Das Kapital, Lenin’s Imperialism: The Final Stage of Captialism, as well as the less famous writings and letters of Karl Marx, and the formal response to Marx by economist Joseph Schumpeter. I hold a Masters of Arts in history, and I have made a full study of the history of socialism and Communism.

I have also had, as I mentioned above, the experience of living in a Communist country. You can not imagine the harm done to a society by having thirty million (this being the lowest estimate, with the upper estimate being sixty million) of its people starved for no other reason than that the government made a policy change. “The good of the People’s Republic” demanded an increase in the production of iron and steel ingots, so the government mandated it. The local bureaucracies enforced it even on farmers, who could only make iron and steel ingots by melting down their tools. With no tools, there could be no planting and no harvesting; and so millions of people died of starvation.

Of course, there was food elsewhere--in the free world. We would have shared it. But the government couldn’t admit its bad judgement, because the “good of the People’s revolution!” required that they not show faulty judgement. They therefore denied the famine existed, and refused any aid. Between thirty and sixty million died, I repeat.

But this is all ancient history--right? Well, no. The Chinese government did just exactly the same thing with AIDS, declaring that the PRC was AIDS-free until two years ago, when they admitted at last that the rate of infection in many parts of rural China is as high as 100%. Over the next few years, millions are going to die again.

My prejudice is the result of having reached a point at which there is no new evidence to consider, just new people with the same old arguments. There IS NO FUNCTIONING COMMUNISM. There never will be. Marx’s economic models are simply wrong, as Schumpeter showed; and the attempt to force the society to conform to a broken model ruins whatever was right with the economy. At the same time, the force required to do that establishes tyranny, which tyranny is used to cover up the “mistakes” rather than admit them.

Millions have died from it. Millions more are going to die from it. Their death warrants are already signed--in sick and starving North Korea, in AIDS-ravaged “socialist” Africa, in Vietnam as in rural China, they are already dead. They just haven’t stopped breathing. Or suffering.

That is as gently as it may be put.

Posted by Grim on 09/22 at 11:10 AM #

Grim Age doesn’t denote stupidity. You can be as blatant as you want with me… I’m graduating with a bachelors in history next spring and i plan to go on with school until I have a Ph.D. I’ve lived in two other countries, including “socialist” Canada. I don’t hold my views because I’m uneducated. I understand you may have degrees, but that doesn’t say anything about your true intellect (nor mine). It’s pretty irrelevent if you ask me. What you are describing is NOT Marxist communism. I’m not a communist, and therefor I am not trying to defend communism; however, it really should be differentiated from what you are describing. As I see it, you are describing, basically, the Dan Rather version of the world. It’s not TRUE, Grim! I mean, what you’re saying, the facts and the figures, are true, but what they inherently are, just simply does not describe communism, even if the people partaking in this political systems call it that. It’s easy to have a dictatorship when you pass it off as communism. It’s easy to be white power and pass it off as imperialism. It’s blatantly selling out. “The modern bourgeois society that has sprouted from the ruins of feudal society has not done away with class antagonisms. It has but established new classes, new conditions of oppression, new forms of struggle in place of the old ones. In bourgeois society, living labor is but a means to increase accumulated labor. In communist society, accumulated labor is but a means to widen, to enrich, to promote the existence of the laborer. “ This is not what you are describing. What you are describing is dictatorial despotism. You are right Grim, when you say that there is no functioning communism. But, you also say that you have had a terrible experience living in a communist country. And yet, you admit that there is no functioning communism in this world? So, how can you condemn something that has yet to be, Grim??!?!?!!?! That’s all I’m saying. What you’re saying just doesn’t add up. It just DOESN’T MAKE SENSE. Age is nothing but a number. You don’t need to talk to me like I’m a child.

Posted by
mel on 09/22 at 04:32 PM #

What I am telling you is that Marxist Communism and dictatorial Communism are the same.

You start off
to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner, just as I have a mindbut you end up, very quickly, with purges and mass graves.The reason for this is that Marxist economics are a false model.

The great problem, even in Lenin’s day, was why Marx’s predicted Revolution had not happened. Lenin chose to explain it by making reference to imperialism by which--he argued--the existing powers drained the resources of the undeveloped world to maintain, for a while longer, the industrial capitalist system.

But this, of course, could not last forever (he further argued). It would only serve to bring the undeveloped world into the capitalist system, to turn the masses of peasants and serfs into proles, and therefore it would heighten the great revolution when it came.We’re a hundred years on from there, and still no great revolution.

Capitalism humms on cheerfully--in America, which accounts for sixty percent of the world’s economic growth. Does that mean America is doing what Lenin argued, sucking the wealth out of the world? Hardly.

America maintains a massive trade imbalance in the world’s favor--that is, all that produced wealth isn’t accumulated in America, but flows from America. That is why the US economy was described by Clinton’s economic advisor (as quoted in the Economist piece above) as ‘the world flying on one engine.’You say that none of this should matter--that if we could just really do it, just really make Communism, it would be everything Marx dreamed.

Lenin set out to try. He was a true believer. Mao set out to try. He was a true believer too.

Both of them were well-versed in Marxist and later Communist theories--in Lenin’s case, he was well-enough versed to have been a leading composer of them. What happened was not an accident. Above I cite only the mistakes of Communism, not its intentional mass-murder, but the mass deaths that resulted from tyrannical bad judgement. Let’s look now at the intentional killings, as a way of illuminating why “true” Communism is in fact just what we’re looking at in the Soviet Union and Communist China.

You take over a country, by revolution, just as the Communist Manifesto calls for. Great. What now? Well, first you assert that you and your fellow Vanguardians are going to be asserting the Common Control of the Means of Production, which means practically that you are going to be telling people where they will work and what they will produce.

You start making decisions and giving orders. So far, everything is going according to plan.A year or so on, things start getting weird. There’s a famine--there is always a famine, because Marxist theory is centered on industry and doesn’t adequately address the question of food production. The Soviet Union’s food production regime resulted in about seven and a half million dead; China’s, thirty to sixty million. Cuba’s famine was held off by Soviet grain shipments… so it arrived promptly in 1991, as soon as the Berlin wall fell. Famine is constant in states that try to follow Marx’s model. Of course, you’d do it differently--you understand the mechanisms of food production, don’t you, better than Lenin, Mao, and their legions of professionals, educators, thinkers, and bureaucrats?Well, the famines lead to riots and a new revolution. That has to be put down. The apparatus of the State, which was meant to be withering way, suddenly looks pretty necessary to keeping the State from falling apart. That would lead to chaos, as well as people producing things to sell--claiming to own land, or fruit, which is the root of exploitation. You can’t allow that. So you call out the Army. (Or you don’t. End of Communism. The new revolution institutes market reforms and spits on your tomb. Not surprisingly, no Communist government ever took this route.)Well, you finally get the famine under control--mostly by reducing the size of your population until you can feed them with your existing agricultural policies--but you find that your suppression of the revolution has led to large parts of the country being turned against you. Unsatisfactorialy, these include the thinkers, who feel that you’ve moved away from the goal of withering off the state. They begin to agitate for a new revolution. Thus the purgers, the Gulags, or the Cultural Revolution. (Of course you’d let them carry on, wouldn’t you? That’s what Mao said he’d do too--"let a Hundred Flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.” When it led to rebellion, he had to kill them all to save the State.)This isn’t an accident. This isn’t a perversion of Marx’s dream. These are the natural, unavoidable consequences of following Marx’s dream. His models don’t work. Trying to enforce them destroys the economy and creates situations in which mass killings are unavoidable. This is “true” Communism--they all started off toward the same place you think you want to go. They were all supported by legions of true believers, and the best minds of their age.

This is where they all ended up. There is no other end to this road.You say age is just a number, but it’s a number to which you ought to cling. The only excuse you have for supporting this great dream is not being old enough to have learned your history, or widely-enough traveled to have seen where that dream leads. In time, when age isn’t just a number to you, you may say as I do: the teachers you have had, who have taught you to believe in this old poison, this mother of homicide, they have dealt falsely with their charge; they have betrayed the trust laid on them by mankind.

Posted by Grim on 09/22 at 06:32 PM #

If communism is dying or dead, then there should not be any aspects of it the USA, right Hillary?

Posted by
Steve Erickson on 09/22 at 08:42 PM #

You say age is just a number, but it’s a number to which you ought to cling. The only excuse you have for supporting this great dream is not being old enough to have learned your history, or widely-enough traveled to have seen where that dream leads.


how do you know im not widely enough traveled, or old enough for anything? i bet that im more traveled than most people here on this site. how can you judge like that??

In time, when age isn’t just a number to you, you may say as I do: the teachers you have had, who have taught you to believe in this old poison, this mother of homicide, they have dealt falsely with their charge; they have betrayed the trust laid on them by mankind.

i have had no teachers but myself and my own studies which advocated any kind of socialism or communism. as i said, I AM NOT A COMMUNIST. what you are saying is true. what i am saying is that THEORETICALLY, communism is not bad.

i am not waiting for the day when it arrives. i fully expect to live in “democracy” (the kind with no female or minority presidents, and the kind that gives tax breaks to the wealthy and exploits and undermines the poor) for the rest of my life.

im not arguing for the sake of argument. im dissenting because i care. because i dont believe in the american dream (joke). because ive been screwed and socialism (the means by which communism is achieved)is the outlet by which i feel that I could best suceed. I, not AMERICA or any other country, place, thing. that’s all.

I’m so sick of all the anti-communist sentiment. as you can see in my recent post, these are the attitudes which maintain the white man’s burden. these are the attitudes with which our society will decline.

so, yay for democracy, and yay for capitalism. rome wasn’t built in a day, nor in a day did she fall. but in the end, we SHALL be as the city upon the hill.

Posted by

mel on 09/22 at 10:29 PM #

As you say, things are not done in a day. We have had enough lessons on this topic for a space, though perhaps we will return to the topic some other day. There is much left to be said of Communism, and the mindset behind it:

“Not with the humour of hunters Or savage skill in war, But ordering all things with dead words, Strings shall they make of beasts and birds, And wheels of wind and star.”
Since you have chosen poetry as your next battlefield in the war against the evil, minority-hating, white-man’s West, I shall join you above. Never let it be said I passed by a hazel-fence’d field.

Posted by Grim on 09/23 at 12:05 AM #

In the former USSR, dept heads could send rivals for affection to their demise, squash opposition and alternative viewpoints, live ‘high on the hog’ as compared to the average citizen when all are considered equal and paid equally. The true essence of Karl Marx writings are more like misguided poetry than a real plan.

Communism and Socialism are disgusting and are anti Free Speech.
We live in dangerous times and are at a pivotal point. The powers that the Elite in the former USSR are now even a closer reality for our ‘Elite’ with the passage of the Patriot Act.

Abuse of power, squashing opposition covertly, and covering up illegal acts and inefficiency to keep one’s job are all aspects of a very unpatriotic act, The Patriot Act.
Free Speech has taken a major hit. -Steven G. Erickson

Posted by
Steve Erickson on 09/23 at 07:12 AM #

Bantam Chef Held On Gun Charges While Picking Mushrooms

September 23, 2003 Associated Press (From The Hartford Courant, Connecticut, ctnow.com)

LITCHFIELD, Conn. -- All he was doing was picking mushrooms. But police are trying to figure out why George Skrehota needed a gun. Skrehota, chef and owner of The Bantam Inn Restaurant, was gathering wild mushrooms near a school Monday. He said he's done it for years.

Teachers reported a suspicious man walking around school grounds. Police questioned and searched Skrehota and found a loaded .22 derringer in his pocket."They asked me what I was doing, I told them picking mushrooms," Skrehota said. "They could see I was picking mushrooms. I have a state permit for my gun and it's just a little .22 thing.

It has five tiny little bullets."He called it an "unlawful arrest," insisting that he can carry his gun anywhere in Connecticut.

State law forbids firearms or other deadly weapons on school grounds.

Skrehota said he will fight the charges and promised to continue picking mushrooms on school property."It's public property, and I pay $8,000 a year in taxes, so I'm going to pick mushrooms there again, you better believe it," he said. "Where's freedom in this country when I can be arrested for picking mushrooms?"Skrehota is scheduled to appear in Bantam Superior Court Oct. 6.

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(Letter to the editor submitted September 23, 2003)

In response to ‘Bantam Chef Held On Gun Charges While Picking MushroomsSeptember 23, 2003 Associated Press’ I think this just another example of police discretion not being used.

Common sense seems to be used in reverse especially in Connecticut. Criminals for the most part do not have a fixed address, are wary of police walking up on them, and can commit fraud and other crimes in Connecticut for years with no known address, unlike married couples arrested, fined, and charged for arguing, those fined just trying to get to and from work, or those naïve enough to buy a downtown business or property facing fines and aggravation for having invested in the American Dream.

I do not think it matters what it says in the text of the laws on the books in Connecticut, but who is easiest to collect money from. After reading over and over about the rampant crime in downtown areas, especially Hartford, I think at least some of the law enforcement personnel should be taken off revenue collection duties which mostly nabs law abiding citizens for nuisance infractions while ignoring more serious crimes and not pursuing those that lower the quality of life and infringe on our American way of life-security and quality of life issues for those that PAY the nuisance fines and fees the State and towns neglect to list as ‘taxes’.

The police officer who arrested the chef undoubtedly passed houses being broken into, drugs being sold, teens drinking and smoking, and countless crimes that go on daily without being dealt with to nail someone, to the maximum, that made a misjudgment, and is not a danger to society.It is time police and the authorities targeted crime and criminals, not the purses and wallets of those just trying to provide for their families and their own retirements.

-Steven G. Erickson

another Connecticut story of disgrace regarding law enforcement and the courts-

Vikingas on 09/23 at 06:49 PM

Big Brother's Matrix

Concerns about citizen privacy grow as states create 'Matrix' database

By Jim Krane, Associated Press, 9/24/2003
click for Boston Globe piece (expired)

NEW YORK -- While privacy worries are frustrating the Pentagon's plans for a far-reaching database to combat terrorism, a similar project is quietly taking shape with the participation of more than a dozen states -- and $12 million in federal funds. The database project, created so states and local authorities can track would-be terrorists as well as criminal fugitives, is being built and housed in the offices of a private company but will be open to some federal law enforcers and perhaps even US intelligence agencies.

Dubbed Matrix, the database has been in use for a year and a half in Florida, where police praise the crime-fighting tool as nimble and exhaustive.

It cross-references the state's driving records and restricted police files with billions of pieces of public and private data, including credit and property records.But privacy advocates, officials in two states, and a competing data vendor have branded Matrix as playing fast and loose with Americans' private details.

They say that Matrix houses restricted police and government files on colossal databases that sit in the offices of Seisint Inc., a Boca Raton, Fla., company founded by a millionaire who police say flew planeloads of drugs into the country in the early 1980s."It's federally funded, it's guarded by state police but it's on private property?

That's very interesting," said Christopher Slobogin, a University of Florida law professor and expert in privacy issues.

Matrix was initially intended to track terrorists, as was the Pentagon's Terrorism Information Awareness project, which sparked a congressional uproar and got watered down.

As a dozen more states pool their criminal and government files with Florida's, Matrix databases are expanding in size and power. Organizers hope to coax more states to join, touting its usefulness in everyday policing.

Federal and state law enforcement officials in Massachusetts could not confirm whether the Bay State was in the program.

It gives investigators access to personal data, such as boat registrations and property deeds, without the government possibly violating the 1974 Privacy Act by owning the files.

California and Texas dropped out, citing, among other things, worries over housing sensitive files at Seisint. A competing data vendor, ChoicePoint, decided not to bid on the project, saying it lacked adequate privacy safeguards.

Aspects of the project appear designed to steer around federal laws that bar the US government from collecting routine data on Americans. For instance, the project is billed as a tool for state and local police, but organizers are considering giving access to the Central Intelligence Agency, said Phil Ramer, special agent in charge of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement's intelligence office.

In the 1970s, Congress barred the CIA from scanning files on average Americans, after the agency was cited for spying on civil rights leaders.

Florida officials have acknowledged that users of Matrix, which stands for Multistate Anti-Terrorism Information Exchange, can "monitor innocent citizens." Globe correspondent Jared Stearns contributed to this report.

2nd Class Citizens of the ‘Slimiest Professions’

(Editorial Comment)

In America you do not have the ability to have your rights protected unless you are a member of one of the ‘protected groups’.

Let’s say you were squeezed out of a business, property, and were forced to live as a 2nd Class Citizen because of your race, if you are a homosexual, or are of another protected group, there are untold people and organizations ready to help you, just waiting for your phone call.

If you are not a ‘protected member’ of society, special interest group member, a corporate elitist, or are a public official, you are out of luck.If you happen to be a sex shop owner, downtown bar owner, art dealer in a mill town, tattoo parlor owner, landlord, etc you are considered undesirable in most cases, don’t get protection and service from police, don’t get your fair share of municipal services, are unfairly taxed, fined, charged fees, and are more often targeted for stings, investigations, audits, property and asset confiscation, and generally get the harshest treatment possible in the courts and at the hands of police.

Should someone in America be denied basic American Rights, because of where he/she chooses to live and what he/she chooses to do for a living?

When I owned a single family home and was a member of the Crime Watch, the selectman said that there was a program initiated where multi family home owners would be targeted for parking violations, code violations, and any means necessary to eradicate these people who bring riffraff into town, namely landlords bringing in renters. This in lieu of actually going after the few lifetime, criminal parasites, prostitutes, drug dealers, vandals etc, property owner would be targeted, harassed, fleeced, and then eradicated in the name of justice and preserving order.

It was thought then the undesirable people would have to leave if they did not have a place to liveDon ‘C’ of a Connecticut downtown had allegedly given a woman a bad recommendation to another landlord as the woman had previous evictions and exhibited all the behaviors of a ‘nightmare’ tenant.

She left Don threatening messages, stalked him, and then attacked him at his home after a verbal barrage. Police arrived and arrested Don and were unwilling to take his statement/complaint.

Don faces charges that can result in 18 months in prison. The woman was charged with ‘Breach of Peace’. The charges were dropped against the woman so she can be used to prosecute Don to the maximum extent of the law.

Don has to go quickly from his car to his home, as neighborhood teenagers and others taunt him, “Want to fight?” knowing Don will get arrested, not those tormenting him.

2nd Class citizens deserve to be harassed, have their lives turned upside down, don’t deserve decent treatment, a retirement, ability to own property, and should become extinct, right?

Substitute ‘African American’ for the word landlord in the way police and authorities discuss downtown property investors, does the prejudice and bias now show its ugly head?

If the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, does not apply to one individual because of his or her geographic location or profession, it applies to no one.-Steven G. Erickson

Posted by Vikingas on 09/25 at 06:00 AM
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Comments:

steve connecticut is a hardcore corrupt state. i know. my family lives there. my aunt lives in west haven (we call it waste haven) on the “beach” (if you can call long island sound the beach that is). she used to live on what was considered prime property. but now, the “riffraff” have moved in (she doesn’t mind lower class people at all - in fact, she isnt rich at all, she just happens to have prime property by default - its a long story)and her neighborhood is becomming quite ghetto. she is quite the hippie type and doesnt mind, except for the fact that the police no longer care about what goes on over there (logically, you’d think they’s care more). the other day, she was taking a walk, and she was bit by a richer’s dog, with the owner standing right there. the owner kept telling her it wasnt bad at all, it wasnt bad, blah blah, so she called the cops, as there was blood all down her leg. the cops came and told her she was FINE! PRIMO EXAMPLE OF CONNECTICUT LAW! so now the city of west haven, and the richie rich dog owner are getting their asses sued. bastards. so yeah i know what you mean about connecticut.

Posted by

mel on 09/25 at 09:01 AM #

Mel, went to a Stafford Connecticut special meeting tonight. It was called because of the crime problem, drugs, and upset residents.

I brought up being yelled at by a Stafford Resident State Trooper when I called complaining that a man was shooting up heroine in my former back yard in front of tenant children. My former tenant also called and was yelled at for calling.

As long as police are answerable to cities and the state not the people, they will collect revenue and protection and service is doled out as they decide to grace us with their presence. Connecticut has ‘Armed Revenue Collectors’ and little or no law enforcement.

I could tell the panel of 6 or so police had trouble containing their anger at my revelations as they may be printed in tomorrow’s Manchester, Connecticut, Journal Inquirer as they were in the last meeting I attended, Sept 11.

Don ‘C’ also attended with his wife and young baby. He is facing up to 18 months in prison for having been threatened and attacked on his own property, while the prosecution will use his attacker as a prosecution witness.

I don’t know how widespread the ‘policy’ of restricting parking (so tenants move out), overly enforce codes, tax to the max, deny services, and fee, fine, and confiscate property investors out of their life’s blood.

The reasoning is that property investors are thought to attract vermin- renters. If you eradicate renters, States like Connecticut can be suburban Utopia.

Posted by
Steve Erickson on 09/26 at 12:06 AM #

Do you agree with this?:

I was told by a selectman that the riffraff in town could be removed by restricting parking around multifamily houses, and if code violations were rigidly enforced, and if there was a program to teardown multifamily housing as they are now doing, citing fire hazards, nuisance, digging into financial transactions of landlords, and for any excuse they can, to rid us of the sources of crime and drugs.

It’s true, riffraff are mostly renters and can live transient lifestyles. If the program the selectman said was being implemented were done so at a faster pace, Connecticut could be suburbs border to border, and a safe State.

Posted by
Steven G. Erickson on 09/26 at 06:14 AM #

The taxes are too high in Connecticut, and with overbearing police, I can’t imagine an informed consumer wanting to locate to Connecticut.

Posted by on 10/13 at 11:03 AM #

I live in WASTE HAVEN, but even if it is a little ghetto, the property your talking about is getting better than worse every day and since you dont live there you shouldnt dog on it. The police are corrupted and thats been the story since the 50’s (im not 50), but there are in every town in CT. There are also very good cops that i know, so be quiet until you’ve lived their for at least a year!


Posted by Taylor on 04/30 at 07:38 PM #

Ashcroft Is Unprintable, and Glad of It

Ashcroft Is Unprintable, and Glad of It

By Todd Gitlin and Jay Rosen The Los Angeles Times, click for piece

(ExcerptAshcroft is betting that the press corps has no core, that reporters are more committed to seeking advantage over rivals than protecting the public's right to know.

It's past time for journalists to hold him to account.

We need a US Attorney General that respects the U.S. Constitution, understands what a privilege it is to be an American, respects centuries of wisdom initiated by our Forefathers, and whose ideals were fought, suffered, and died for on countless battlefields all over the globe.

-Steven G. Erickson

P.S. Repeal Ashcroft, um, arh, ... I mean the Patriot Act.

_________________

Added April 9, 2004

-Steven G. Erickson (Vikingas)

Are Taxpayers being screwed over Homeland Security?

Was a Connecticut Trooper fired because he is a minority?

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Key McVeigh Witness Testimony Questioned

By JOHN SOLOMON, Associated Press Writer

Wed Apr 30,10:17 PM ET WASHINGTON - Ten days before Timothy McVeigh was executed, lawyers for FBI lab employees sent an urgent letter to the attention of Attorney General John Ashcroft alleging that a key prosecution witness in the Oklahoma City bombing trial might have given false testimony about forensic evidence.

The allegations involving Steven Burmeister, now the FBI lab's chief of scientific analysis, were never turned over to McVeigh or the trial court, though they surfaced as the judge was considering whether to delay his execution because the government withheld evidence.

The letter, however, was recently turned over to bombing conspirator Terry Nichols who faces another trial on Oklahoma state murder charges. "Material evidence presented by the government in the OKBOMB prosecution through the testimony of Mr. Burmeister appears to be false, misleading and potentially fabricated," said the June 1, 2001, letter to Ashcroft obtained by The Associated Press.

The lawyers represented several FBI lab employees, including one who sued after being fired. The letter cited Burmeister's testimony in a civil case as evidence contradicting his earlier McVeigh testimony.

The letter specifically challenged Burmeister's testimony that chemical residues found on evidence came only from McVeigh's bomb, not other sources such as lab contamination. It was sent to Ashcroft's general fax number and by courier with the notation "URGENT MATTER FOR THE IMMEDIATE ATTENTION OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL." Justice officials said Wednesday the letter was routed to Ashcroft's clerical office in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, where it sat for nearly two months and then was forwarded to the FBI — well after McVeigh was executed.

Neither Ashcroft nor other top officials in the Justice Department who handled the McVeigh case saw the letter, spokeswoman Barbara Comstock said.

It was never reviewed to determine if it should be handed over to McVeigh's lawyers, officials said. Prosecutors are obligated by law to disclose any potentially exculpatory evidence to the defense.

Law enforcement officials, however, divulged that last year Justice Department lawyers made a lawsuit settlement offer to the law firm and the fired FBI lab employee that would have required the firm to give up all copies of the letter.

The offer was eventually dropped. The officials, who spoke only on condition of anonymity, said Justice did this to keep erroneous information from being circulated later in the legal system. "We were not trying to suppress embarrassing information," one official said. "We think it was erroneous information. All these discussion took place in a legal setting where it is commonplace for both sides to disarm each other's strategies." McVeigh's lawyers expressed dismay that they weren't told of the letter.

At the time it was sent, a judge had dramatically delayed McVeigh's execution by one month because of other evidence the FBI failed to turn over during his trial. "It is truly shocking and just the latest revelation of government conduct that bankrupts the prosecution, investigation and verdict," said Stephen Jones, McVeigh's lead trial attorney.

Rob Nigh, an Oklahoma attorney who represented McVeigh from trial through his final appeal, added: "Had we had this letter, we would have had additional arguments to make to Judge (Richard) Matsch why the execution should be stayed." Justice officials could not explain how a letter marked for urgent attention by Ashcroft on an issue that was dominating the headlines could be misrouted, except to say that the outside lawyers should have done more than send it by fax and courier.

Comstock said the Justice Department does not believe the allegations would have affected the outcome. "Court after court has found that the evidence of guilt against McVeigh was overwhelming," she said.

The allegations surfaced in mid-May 2001 when Burmeister, who made a key forensic discovery in the McVeigh case, was being questioned by lawyers for FBI lab employees who had sued the agency. One of the lab employees had been dismissed recently.

A transcript of the deposition obtained by AP shows Justice and FBI lawyers became concerned that statements Burmeister might make would be helpful to McVeigh and Nichols, and they ordered lawyers to cut off that line of questioning.

"We can't have him now second guess his testimony in the McVeigh case," a Justice lawyer interjected.

"I mean the effect of that is to embarrass the FBI." The FBI said Burmeister was unavailable for comment, but they stood by his work. "It didn't happen," FBI lab director Dwight Adams said when asked about the allegations of false testimony. "Steve Burmeister is one of the FBI's finest experts. He is meticulous and honest."

The law firm that sent the letter represents several FBI lab employees, including a fired chemist who worked with Burmeister as well as Frederic Whitehurst, who trained Burmeister and later made whisteblower allegations that led to widespread reforms inside the FBI lab.

"We believe that these concerns are most serious and that we are under an obligation to turn this information over to you so that you may fulfill your obligation to notify the defendants in the OKBOMB cases about these serious matters and take corrective action," the letter to Ashcroft stated.

Burmeister rose to prominence in the case after he made a surprise discovery of ammonium nitrate crystals embedded in a single piece of the Ryder truck McVeigh used to detonate his deadly explosive that killed more than 160 people at the Alfred P. Murrah building on April 19, 1995. Burmeister's discovery was key to the government's proof that McVeigh and Nichols had used a giant fertilizer bomb to carry out their attack.

Ammonium nitrate is a key ingredient in such a bomb. McVeigh's defense lawyers attacked the evidence, suggesting the ammonium nitrate, which dissolves in moisture, could not have survived the rain that fell on the Murrah site shortly after the bombing and that it might have come from contamination inside the lab.

At the time of the 1997 trial, the FBI lab had been stung by Whitehurst's allegations of shoddy science and some forensic evidence was kept out of the McVeigh trial because of contamination issues. But Burmeister's discovery was permitted as evidence in the trial.

Burmeister testified the evidence he found could not have been contaminated because he kept his lab examination area locked and that only FBI personnel wearing sterile lab coats and other protective gear had access to the area. Outsiders "were restricted basically from coming into my work area, into my room," Burmeister testified. "My room was specially locked, and that's where I conducted the examinations." If lab employees are "coming into my area where I'm going to be handling evidence, they're required to wear protective clothing," he added.

However, the law firm letter to Ashcroft provided citations of sworn testimony from Burmeister in an unrelated civil case showing cleaning crews and a fellow chemist had unrestricted access to Burmeister's work area — without protective clothing. "Mr. Burmeister testified that while this chemist shared an office with him, no extra precautions were taken to prevent contamination," the letter said.

The letter further offered Burmeister's own description of the access cleaning crews had to his lab area. "There was a service staff that would come in and buff and wax the floors," he testified, adding he was present working in his suite sometimes when the crews came in. "I've known them to clean windows in offices and I've seen them stand on the heating elements by the windows," Burmeister added. Ammonia is one of the ingredients in common window cleaning solution.

Adams, the FBI lab director, said the lawyers took Burmeister's deposition testimony out of context and that the fact that cleaning crews or lab employees in nonsterile clothing accessed his workspace after hours could not account for how the ammonium nitrate crystal became embedded in the truck part. "You can make what you want to about who has access to the room but the key fact is that crystal was embedded with great force and that could only come from an explosion ... not contamination from some cleaning crew," he said. The lawyers' letter also stated that during his deposition, Burmeister contradicted testimony on a second matter in the McVeigh case when he testified that the chemical residue PETN found on McVeigh's clothing is "not used for drug purposes anymore." "At his deposition, Mr. Burmeister contradicted his OKBOMB testimony and admitted that PETN was 'still used for some heart medications,'" the letter to Ashcroft said.

The letter questioned why prosecutors had never corrected the trial record. Adams said Burmeister qualified his answer at the McVeigh trial by saying it was to the best of his knowledge, that he did not intend to mislead the court and that other witnesses explained to the jury about the multiple uses of PETN.

Piece found here.

Posted by Vikingas on 09/28 at 12:47 PM
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say something like this:

“‘Jim Crow’ is alive and well downtown. Laws, fees, and fines are unfairly enforced against downtown, businesses and property owners, so a State or town can rid itself of unwanted ‘White Trash’ and minorities if they have no place to live and no amenities.”

Then watch what happens. I said much more than this in newspapers and to politicians and for some ‘unknown’ reason my family, job, and freedom all soon disappeared after being called a ‘Big Mouth’ by law enforcement.

-Steven G. Erickson

Posted by
Steven G. Erickson on 09/29 at 07:32 AM #

Ashcroft Is Unprintable, and Glad of It By Todd Gitlin and Jay Rosen The Los Angeles Times
Thursday 25 September 2003


On tour, he bars the press and cozies up to local TV reporters.

Atty. Gen. John Ashcroft, who is continuing his tour of the country to promote the Patriot Act, has at several stops, including Buffalo and Philadelphia, refused to speak to print reporters. While television correspondents can often breeze right in, their newspaper colleagues are kept at bay by Secret Service agents doing the bidding of the nation’s chief law enforcement official, who prefers audiences of handpicked enthusiasts and interviews with local television reporters.

According to Justice Department spokeswoman Barbara Comstock, Ashcroft wants to explain “key facts directly to the American people” and not have to subject himself to “as much of a filter from people who are already invested in having a different view of it.”

Of course he does. What public official wouldn’t prefer a stenographer to an interlocutor? Ashcroft, like the president he serves, wishes to conduct the public’s business in an echo chamber. With aplomb and no hint of bad conscience, they practice the politics of no-politics, the politics of l’etat, c’est moi.

Like president, like attorney general. For example, on March 6, in a rare press conference on the verge of war in Iraq, George W. Bush joked that the choice of which reporters would be permitted to question him was scripted in advance. But he did put some of the tougher-minded reporters in their place, passing them over as if they were overeager sixth-graders.

Ashcroft knows that, with niftily chosen sound bites, he can dominate credulous local television, which harbors few practitioners of the probe and deep focus that can legitimately be called journalism. This has allowed him largely to stay “on message,” rally his partisans and keep annoying critics at bay. The exception was an interview with ABC News’ Peter Jennings this month in which Jennings did ask some pointed, specific questions about immigrant detention and other civil liberties infractions. No doubt Ashcroft will not be doing that again soon.

Television journalists are a competitive bunch, and they are loath to show solidarity with peers who have been stranded beyond the ropes. But it is wrong to go on with business as usual in this instance. Instead of enabling this highhanded behavior, they should solicit questions from print colleagues and use them, or ask Ashcroft on the air why he wants to reach local viewers but not local readers. (Don’t they need to know about the Patriot Act?) Surely it behooves favored television reporters to note for their listeners that the administration plays favorites. That’s news.

Ashcroft’s avoidance of the print press reveals something important about this administration — the zealotry with which it goes about protecting itself from scrutiny. This zealotry is linked with the paranoid streak that, as the historian Richard Hofstadter taught us long ago, runs like a bright thread through American history. Ashcroft’s segregation of journalists is paranoid, in the sense Hofstadter meant, because it turns fantasies of persecution into a conspiracy among print reporters to deny the attorney general a fair hearing. So he denies them access.

This is a bad twist on already unsavory precedents. In 1980, Ronald Reagan avoided reporters so devotedly they once felt compelled to put on a skit in which they interviewed a painting of him on the tarmac. In 1992, presidential candidate Bill Clinton delivered his message “unfiltered” to the voters by appearing on MTV, “Larry King Live” and Don Imus — in part because he preferred softball questions.

The Bush administration apparently figures that with this approach, you fool enough of the people enough of the time. In attention-span politics, you don’t care that some people will see through the smoke, and you don’t have to keep everything secret. You just assume that attention will fragment and move on. The next news cycle will focus elsewhere. Television works that way.

Ashcroft is betting that the press corps has no core, that reporters are more committed to seeking advantage over rivals than protecting the public’s right to know.
It’s past time for journalists to hold him to account.

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Todd Gitlin is a professor of journalism and sociology at Columbia University and the author of “Letters to a Young Activist” (Basic Books, 2003). Jay Rosen is chairman of the department of journalism at New York University and the author of “What Are Journalists For?” (Yale University Press, 1999).

Posted by on 01/05 at 07:52 PM #

The US Atty General can eat shit.

Posted by on 05/23 at 09:39 PM #

My photo and more:
http://www.injusticebusters.com/04/Erickson_Steve.htm

Criminals Running the Courts

Most police officers, prosecutors, and judges probably aren’t punished when they take bribes, obstruct justice, commit perjury and for other offenses, as accusations, can go without being investigated.

Police, prosecutors, lawyers, and judges can be lax overseeing each other. This is an underreported nationwide problem. It is disgusting that police perjury can be so common as to have a special term for it, ‘Testalying.’
-Steven G. Erickson

Federal Grand Jury Indicts State Judge
September 19, 2003 By EDMUND H. MAHONY, Courant Staff Writer, Hartford, Connecticut,
http://www.ctnow.com/hc-brennan0919.artsep19.story (expired)

NEW HAVEN -- A federal grand jury Thursday indicted state Superior Court Judge Daniel E. Brennan Jr. on charges that he obstructed and lied to FBI agents who were investigating an allegation that he was willing to take a bribe.Brennan, 60, of Trumbull, is believed to be the first state judge in Connecticut history to be criminally prosecuted.

Gov. John G. Rowland appointed Brennan, a Republican, to the bench in March 1999. But because of a serious cardiac condition, Brennan has applied for a medical disability and has not presided over court cases since June 25, 2002. He sat in Superior Court in Bridgeport.

The grand jury indicted Brennan late Thursday afternoon on an obstruction of justice charge and four counts of providing false statements to investigators. Brennan became the subject of a federal investigation based on allegations made to FBI agents by William A. Trudeau Jr., a criminal defendant in another federal case, according to the indictment against Brennan. Before his appointment to the bench, Brennan was an attorney in private practice and represented Trudeau in a criminal case.

During 2000, after Brennan's judicial appointment, Trudeau informed Brennan that he was in trouble again, this time having been accused in federal court of failing to pay taxes and other acts of financial fraud, according to the indictment.

In January 2001, the indictment charges, Brennan asked Trudeau for a $62,500 personal loan. According to the indictment, Trudeau "understood" that Brennan would not have to repay the loan if Brennan used his influence as a judge to obtain a favorable resolution for Trudeau in the federal fraud case.

It is not clear from the indictment how Brennan, a state judge, could influence the outcome of a federal prosecution.Edward Gavin, Brennan's lawyer, said Thursday, "We're waiting for an opportunity to review the indictment before we make any comment."The indictment charges that on Feb. 6, 2001, Trudeau gave Brennan a $10,000 check drawn on the account of Trudeau's uncle.

Brennan accepted the check and signed an informal receipt on the back of his business card. Brennan converted the check into a cashier's check in his name, the indictment says.

The FBI began investigating Brennan after learning of the $10,000 transaction. On May 11, 2001, investigators say, Brennan met Trudeau at Trudeau's house. They said Trudeau pulled a paper bag containing $52,500 from under his desk, pulled out several bundles of cash and placed them on the desk in front of Brennan.

Trudeau offered the money as a bribe, in return for Brennan's using his influence in the criminal case, the indictment says.According to the indictment, Brennan did not take the $52,500 - which would have made up the balance of the $62,500 loan he had requested.

But, the indictment says, Brennan said he was still interested in having Trudeau lend him more money, and renewed his request for a loan several times.

The indictment says Brennan sent Trudeau an e-mail on June 4, 2001, saying that he was at his "wits' end," that he had "bad guy money due," that he was "being pressured for repayment," and that "20K is the immediate need."Nine days later, the indictment says, Brennan sent Trudeau several e-mail messages suggesting that the payment could be disguised as a loan from Trudeau's girlfriend or by Brennan's sending Trudeau a phony invoice for nonlegal consulting services.

Sources with knowledge of the evidence against Brennan said the judge was given the opportunity to plead guilty to a charge of making a false statement to a federal agent. But he was indicted after his failing health prolonged talks concerning a plea agreement.

At a press conference Thursday, U.S. Attorney Kevin J. O'Connor said he wanted to reassure the public that judges in Connecticut aren't "fixing cases.""The public needs to understand this is an isolated incident affecting one particular judge," O'Connor said. Trudeau was sentenced in July to 22 months in prison on federal tax and wire fraud charges unrelated to Brennan's case. He also was ordered to pay a $458,000 fine.

O'Connor said Trudeau will not be charged in connection with the case outlined against Brennan.Brennan's confirmation by the General Assembly created a stir when it was disclosed that he was convicted of forgery in 1961, when he was 18.

Brennan said he was working at a temporary employment agency in Memphis and was so pressed for money that he took two company checks, made them out to himself and cashed them at a supermarket.

He admitted stealing a total of $200.

He pleaded guilty to two counts of forgery and was given a suspended prison sentence, put on probation and fined $1.

Tennessee Gov. Ned McWherter granted Brennan a full pardon in January 1995, something the outgoing governor said would enable Brennan to advance his career.

Brennan did civil and criminal work while in private law practice in the Bridgeport area. In the early 1990s, he was chairman of the Connecticut Bar Association's litigation section. Courant Staff Writer Kim Martineau contributed to this story.

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So Connecticut sucks, so move

Posted by on 09/21 at 09:53 AM #

Citizens for Legal Responsibilty has lists from all states of bad lawyers and judges that have been reported http://www.clr.org/

Connecticut State Police internal affairs refused to take my perjury complaint against officers nor did they deny my allegations.

I had alleged legal misconduct to the Connecticut Statewide Grievance Committee regarding legal, ethical, and financial misconduct of my lawyer. The board refused to schedule a hearing where my complaints could be heard.

I guess any misconduct and illegal acts are allowed for police, prosecutors, lawyers, and judges if complaints against them won’t be heard. -Steven G. Erickson

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Steven G. Erickson on 09/21 at 12:29 PM #

excerpt from website:
CSE, Citizens For a Sound Economy (Blasting Governor Rowland of Connecticut)
http://www.cse.org/informed/issues_template.php/1210.htm

READER COMMENTS
Steven G. Erickson from Stafford Springs, CT2003-09-04 “Embezzlement, fraud, theft, perjury are all words used against someone in the private sector possibly committing the same acts. Politicians commit ‘misjudgments.’ Ordinary citizens can see themselves ruined for life speaking out about those who commit ‘misjudgments’ as I can personally attest. Steven G. Erickson Stafford Springs, CT “

Posted by
Steve Erickson on 09/23 at 08:34 AM #

The New Haven Superior Court in 1999 treated me very well!! They produced for me a court order voiding a Mexican Divorce by my wife of 1955 in Wallingford. I legally divorced her in 2001 in the same court.
The Supreme Court of New Hampshire, where I lived 22 Years, refuses to acknowldge the court order from New Haven in violation of Full Faith and Credit Laws. It was initially refused by Rockingham Superior Court and the Supreme Court refused me an appeal on clear error of law..

Posted by
MacFarlane, Major on 11/02 at 11:15 AM #

If Connecticut were a corporation, it would be Enron
The corrupt officials and corporate criminals scurry around like roaches when you turn the light on. Connecticut is a blue print for States that want to be a complete nightmare for those other than the privileged class, to suck the life out of the average citizen. Fleecing those naïve enough to step on the flypaper, which is Connecticut, out of their last dollar. -Steven G. Erickson

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Rowland Criticizes Nappier Questions Public Comments About Pioneer Ventures Associates
September 26, 2003 By JON LENDER, Courant Staff Writer, Hartford Courant, ctnow.com
Gov. John G. Rowland Thursday criticized state Treasurer Denise L. Nappier’s public request for a federal investigation into what she sees as possible ties between organized crime and Pioneer Ventures Associates, the Windsor partnership that got a $50 million investment contract in 1998 from now-convicted former treasurer Paul Silvester.

The controversy has political significance for the governor: It was Rowland who originally forwarded Pioneer sales literature to the treasurer’s office before the deal was made years ago. Pioneer’s partners include James Mengacci, a family friend of Rowland, whose sister-in-law has long served as the governor’s executive secretary.

Nappier’s office “shouldn’t be impugning people’s reputations and, you know, slurring people and slandering people,” Rowland told reporters after a ground-breaking ceremony for a new hotel at the Adriaen’s Landing project site in Hartford. “It’s not healthy to our democratic form of government.

It’s not fair to people that haven’t done anything wrong. So you have information like that, hey you can’t just wing it out there.”

“I mean, you have to be a responsible elected official,” the governor added. “I realize she’s running for higher office, but she should still be responsible.”

The last comment was a reference to the fact Nappier has been mulling the possibility of running for governor someday.

A spokesman for Nappier defended her actions.

“The treasurer has an obligation as a responsible public official and prudent manager of public funds to bring to the attention of appropriate investigatory authorities information of serious concern - which in this case has been provided not only by a published report, but by a principal of Pioneer,” said treasurer’s office spokesman Bernard Kavaler.

Kavaler was referring to questions Nappier’s office posed to Pioneer management recently.
“We will await the decision of federal investigatory and regulatory authorities in this matter,” Kavaler said.

On Tuesday, Nappier wrote to U.S. Attorney Kevin J. O’Connor and to Wayne M. Carlin, New York regional director for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, asking: “Can you confirm whether ... Pioneer Ventures Corp., or any individual or entity associated with [Pioneer] are targets of any criminal inquiry or investigation of the violation of securities laws?”

She said if those federal authorities are not investigating, she would like them to start. O’Connor would not say if his office is or will be investigating. The SEC has issued no response.

A managing partner of Pioneer denied any suggestion that his group was involved in criminal or improper activities. “I’m very surprised by the letter that was written,” said the partner, Robert Lerman.

Pioneer’s investments on behalf of the pension fund have lost at least $19 million in value from the original $50 million the treasurer’s office placed with the partnership, a consultant to Nappier has reported.

Nappier’s office has had heightened concerns about the deal it inherited from Silvester, a Republican appointed by Rowland, since the 1999 disclosure that Pioneer had put state money into small companies whose shares were traded as low-priced “penny stocks.” Their share prices plummeted, losing millions of dollars in value.

Last month, the New York Post reported three of the penny stocks Pioneer put state funds into were also owned by Lancer Management Group, a family of investment funds established by financier Michael Lauer.

Lancer was shut down this year after the SEC found the funds’ portfolios were essentially worthless; The Post estimated the Connecticut pension fund lost as much as $10 million on the stocks.

Two of the penny stocks owned both by Pioneer and Lancer were tied to Abraham Salaman, whom the Post identified as a “twice convicted organized crime figure.”
Silvester has told federal investigators that when Rowland forwarded Pioneer’s original proposal to the treasurer’s office, then-treasurer Christopher Burnham, to whom Silvester was a top deputy, considered it a bad deal and did not act on it.

But after Rowland appointed Silvester to succeed Burnham in 1997, Silvester went through with it. Silvester has said people purporting to speak for Rowland pressured him into the Pioneer deal. Rowland denies exerting any pressure, and has said no individual was authorized to speak for him.

Posted by
Steven G. Erickson on 11/27 at 07:42 AM #

Crime Watch Areas are Low Law Enforcement Areas

There is a grave disparity of Justice in America depending on where you live, your occupation, and the degree of political influence you have. Crime areas are such because these areas lack the cooperation of law enforcement with those that need them most.

This is because law enforcement is answerable to towns, cities, and states for revenue collection. An example of this is when Enfield, Connecticut, police officers were sent to doors to collect library fines.

The Thompsonville section of Enfield is riddled with crack, heroine, prostitutes, career criminal parasites, blight, and lack of police help, fire, and basic services to that section of Enfield as there are less suburbanites in that section.

The authorities are bleeding to death, those that are helping fix problem areas the most. Another example of the disparity of services is that blighted Holyoke, Massachusetts, had 54% fail the Math section of the statewide testing where, home of the elite, Wellsley, had only 4%!The thinking is, by closing neighborhood bar/restaurants, and ridding areas of landlords, the riffraff, druggies, alcoholics, parasites, criminals,‘white trash’, and minorities will not have infrastructure and a place to live.

A town or city may rid themselves of the people they consider vermin, by attacking those with the least amount of respect by the general public, landlords and small downtown business owners. Maybe the ACLU will not even serve such a lowly, slimy person, such as a landlord, a true 2nd Class Citizen.

After watching open air drug drive-thru markets operating on my front lawn in Stafford Springs, Connecticut, seeing p