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Alleged Former Abu Ghraib Guard Discussed Gang Rape in Video

01/22/2007 12:49 PM ET

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Get this on tape man. Say it again. Say again what happened.

Say what?

You know, like what was going on? What was it like being a guard there?

A guard at Abu Ghraib?

Yeah. That place, man, it's fuckin' world famous now.

I don't know what to say. Nothin' special. It's better than being a fucking bullet sponge.

Know any of those guys who got busted, you know, for torturing those inmates?

They got fucked, man. You know, just cuz someone let the pictures get out.

I don't get that.

Yeah, why'd they....

No one expected...

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I mean, compared to what we were doing every day? Teasing a couple of hajjis? Give me a fucking break. You know, what's the big deal about making a haji walk around like a dog and bark?

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....expected anyone to get all upset...

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What else would you guys do?

What would we do?

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Or we would take plastic and wrap it around their heads until they started choking....

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CIA showed us a lot of shit....

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.....crank generator, where we'd hook it up to their nipples or their nuts, fucking crank it and shock the shit out of them.

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What was the most fun things?

The most fun thing, umm....definitely the women.

Yeah? They had chick insurgents, man?

No, they didn't have chick insurgents.

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Something goes down, they just grab everyone around, you know, fuck em. I mean, you gonna have 35 trials? No, you know. People are like, "Oh they're innocent." You know what, I don't give a fuck. As far as I'm concerned, they're all guilty. You know what? They should have kicked Saddam out themselves. Instead, we're there doing the fucking job. We're losing guys.....

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Were those people in the World Trade Center guilty? No. Fuck them. They fucked us, so now we're fucking them. Fuck them, dude, anyone with a fucking rag on their head is fair game.

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....girl, she was probably like 15 years old. Yeah, she was hot dude. The body on that girl, yeah, really tight. You know, hadn't been touched yet. She was fucking prime. So....

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One of the guys started pimping her out for 50 bucks a shot. I think at the end of the day, you know, he'd made like 500 bucks before she hung herself.

Really?

Yeah.

She hung herself? How's come she hung herself?

I don't know. She wasn't happy.

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In their culture, it's really shunned upon if you get raped. I guess she would have been stoned to death anyways by her people, you know. It's fucked up.

She was fucked anyway, I guess. In more ways than one.

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You didn't get shit from the CO, did you?

Uh-uh, not until those fucking pictures came out. After then the biggest rule was no fucking cameras.

Yeah, you hear that?

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Will this “Anarchist” be arrested for threatening and advocating the overthrow of the Government?

Colin McEnroe, The Hartford Courant

The Unbearable Rightness Of Krayeske
January 21, 2007

I am sick of Ken Krayeske.

As all the world knows, Krayeske was arrested by the Hartford police for doing absolutely nothing during the inaugural parade for Gov. M. Jodi Rell earlier this month. He was held in jail for 12 hours on $75,000 bail.

I would like to point out that I, too, was doing absolutely nothing on that day and have received none of the abuse and subsequent attention lavished on Krayeske.

It was one of those Hartford parades where the marcher-to-watcher ratio was way off. Lots of marchers, not many watchers. There were a few parents of high school marching band members, there to see those private cymbal-smashing lessons put to good use. There were handfuls of bored office workers, grabbing an excuse for some fresh air. This made it easy to spot Krayeske, who was taking pictures, which - you have to admit - was pretty suspicious. Taking pictures of a parade nobody cared about? What's up with that?

Krayeske would have been a lot safer in the parade as the Central Connecticut Harmonica and Expensive Camera Equipment Marching Band, because nobody would have thought to look for him there.

Instead, he stood at the side peacefully, sticking out like a sore thumb, got his stupid behind arrested, and now he's practically an honorary Berrigan brother.

Not fair.

I currently support the 2007 Sparsely Attended Parade Act, legislation that would require public officials to guarantee attendance at triumphal parades held on their behalf. In the event that more people are found to be marching in the parade than are watching it, the person being honored would have to pay every voter in the state 5 bucks. An amendment to the bill would exempt Rebecca Lobo from its provisions because lobbyists representing Ms. Lobo took me on an expensive golfing holiday in Scotland.

My bill is currently not being considered by the state government due to crypto-fascist control of the lawmaking apparatus. On Monday, I plan to stand at the corner of Farmington Avenue and Woodland Street at 11 a.m. jumping up and down and yelling "Death to the crypto-fascist control of the lawmaking apparatus! Death to the crypto-fascist control of the lawmaking apparatus! Viva Lobo! [See above.] Overthrow the government!"

I mean to bring the twin pillars of power and corruption crashing down. Do you hear me? Somebody better stop me because I'm a big threat. OK?

Hello?

Sigh.

What does Krayeske have that I don't have?

Wingnut opinions? Shabby clothes? I feel I can match him in those departments.

In Friday's Courant, I come to find out that the state police printed up a color brochure of Ken Krayeske, a two-page "security flier," with current and former driver's license photos of the extremely dangerous Green Party peace activist. Please. Why stop there? Why not put: "ARREST THIS DISSIDENT & WIN A FOUR-NIGHT STAY IN ACAPULCO!" on the front of the flier?

That flier - a dagger through my heart - was paid for with my tax dollars, even though I do not regard Krayeske as anywhere near as dangerous or irksome to the commonweal as I am. I have a long acquaintance with Krayeske. He weighs about 160 pounds and his weapons training pretty much stops at Super Soakers. I know 70-year-old Quaker ladies who could kick his butt.

It is ridiculous that he gets this kind of special treatment. What am I supposed to do - hire a private firm to make up a brochure about me, citing all my dangerous opinions and encouraging the police to arrest me? Do you have any idea how much that would cost? While Mr. Nonviolent Golden Boy gets his done on the taxpayers' nickel?

And do I have to wait for another gubernatorial inaugural parade? What if the next governor is some nerd like state Rep. Andrew Fleischmann and he says, "Oh, I think the money for the parade would be better used on health care reform"? Where does that leave me? Protesting the lack of a parade?

On Friday night, Krayeske's supporters threw an "Oh My God, They Jailed Kenny!" party to raise money for his legal defense fund. Legal defense fund! Can you stand it? I come from an era when, to have a legal defense fund, you pretty much had to be a governor. Now I guess just about anybody can have one.

What's next? A Springsteen song about him? Willie Nelson hosting "Ken Aid?" I toss and turn each night with visions of Willie and Sheryl Crow singing, to the tune of Patsy Cline's "Crazy":

"Kray-skee

Kray-skee for being arrested ..."

I hate to sound bitter, but I had a lot of crackpot, anti-establishment opinions back when Krayeske was sitting around his parents' house watching "Jem and the Holograms" and playing Hacky Sack. I paid my dues. Why am I not a folk hero?

Everything is going to change on Monday. Except I just realized I have a dental appointment at 10 a.m. So I may not be able to overthrow the government until noon. Let's make it 12:30, in case I run into traffic. Does that work for you, oppressive thought-control police? You don't have to answer. Just send a signal through my new filling.

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Escalation of US Iran military planning part of six-year Administration push

Larisa Alexandrovna and Muriel Kane
Published: Tuesday January 23, 2007

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The escalation of US military planning on Iran is only the latest chess move in a six-year push within the Bush Administration to attack Iran, a RAW STORY investigation has found.

While Iran was named a part of President George W. Bush’s “axis of evil” in 2002, efforts to ignite a confrontation with Iran date back long before the post-9/11 war on terror. Presently, the Administration is trumpeting claims that Iran is closer to a nuclear weapon than the CIA’s own analysis shows and positing Iranian influence in Iraq’s insurgency, but efforts to destabilize Iran have been conducted covertly for years, often using members of Congress or non-government actors in a way reminiscent of the 1980s Iran-Contra scandal.

The motivations for an Iran strike were laid out as far back as 1992. In classified defense planning guidance – written for then-Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney by then-Pentagon staffers I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, World Bank Chief Paul Wolfowitz, and ambassador-nominee to the United Nations Zalmay Khalilzad – Cheney’s aides called for the United States to assume the position of lone superpower and act preemptively to prevent the emergence of even regional competitors. The draft document was leaked to the New York Times and the Washington Post and caused an uproar among Democrats and many in George H. W. Bush’s Administration.

In September 2000, the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) issued a report titled “Rebuilding America's Defenses,” which espoused similar positions to the 1992 draft and became the basis for the Bush-Cheney Administration's foreign policy. Libby and Wolfowitz were among the participants in this new report; Cheney, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other prominent figures in the Bush administration were PNAC members.

“The United States has for decades sought to play a more permanent role in Gulf regional security,” the report read. “While the unresolved conflict with Iraq provides the immediate justification, the need for a substantial American force presence in the Gulf transcends the issue of the regime of Saddam Hussein. . . . We cannot allow North Korea, Iran, Iraq or similar states to undermine American leadership, intimidate American allies or threaten the American homeland itself.”

This approach became official US military policy during the current Bush Administration. It was starkly on display yesterday when Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns noted a second aircraft carrier strike force headed for the Persian Gulf, saying, "The Middle East isn't a region to be dominated by Iran. The Gulf isn't a body of water to be controlled by Iran. That's why we've seen the United States station two carrier battle groups in the region."

The Structure

Almost immediately after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, Iran became a focal point of discussion among senior Administration officials. As early as December 2001, then-Deputy National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley and the leadership of the Defense Department, including Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, and Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith, allegedly authorized a series of meetings between Defense Department officials and Iranian agents abroad.

The first of these meetings took place in Rome with Pentagon Iran analyst, Larry Franklin, Middle East expert Harold Rhode, and prominent neoconservative Michael Ledeen. Ledeen, who held no official government position, introduced the US officials to Iran-Contra arms dealer Manucher Ghorbanifar. According to both Ghorbanifar and Ledeen, the topic on the table was Iran. Ledeen told RAW STORY last year the discussion concerned allegations that Iranian forces were killing US soldiers in Afghanistan, but Ghorbanifar has claimed the conversation focused on regime change.

In January 2002, evidence that Iran was enriching uranium began to appear via credible intelligence and satellite imagery. Despite this revelation – and despite having called Iran part of the Axis of Evil in his State of the Union that year – President Bush continued to focus on Iraq. Perhaps for that reason, throughout 2002 the strongest pressure for regime change flowed through alternative channels.

In early 2002, Ledeen formed the Coalition for Democracy in Iran, along with Morris Amitay, the former executive director of the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC).

In August 2002, Larry Franklin began passing classified information involving United States policy towards Iran to two AIPAC employees and an Israeli diplomat. Franklin pleaded guilty to the charges in October 2005, explaining that he had been hoping to force the US to take a harder line with Iran, but AIPAC and Israel have continued to deny them.

At the same time, another group’s political representatives begin a corollary effort to influence domestic political discourse. In August 2002, the National Council of Resistance of Iran – a front for a militant terrorist organization called Mujahedin-E-Khalq (MEK) – held a press conference in Washington and stated that Iran had a secret nuclear facility at Natanz, due for completion in 2003.

Late that summer , the Pentagon's Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith and Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz expanded its Northern Gulf Affairs Office, renamed it the Office of Special Plans (OSP), and placed it under the direction of Abram Shulsky, a contributor to the 2000 PNAC report.

Most know the Office of Special Plans as a rogue Administration faction determined to find intelligence to support the Iraq War. But that wasn’t its only task.

According to an article in The Forward in May 2003, “A budding coalition of conservative hawks, Jewish organizations and Iranian monarchists is pressing the White House to step up American efforts to bring about regime change in Iran. . . . Two sources [say] Iran expert Michael Rubin is now working for the Pentagon's 'special plans' office, a small unit set up to gather intelligence on Iraq, but apparently also working on Iran. Previously a researcher at the Washington Institute for Near East policy, Rubin has vocally advocated regime change in Tehran.”

Dark Actors/Covert Activities

While the Iraq war was publicly founded upon questionable sources, much of the buildup to Iran has been entirely covert, using non-government assets and foreign instruments of influence to conduct disinformation campaigns, plant intelligence and commit acts of violence via proxy groups.

A few weeks prior to the Iraq invasion, in February 2003, Iran acknowledged that it was building a nuclear facility at Natanz, saying that the facility was aimed at providing domestic energy. However, allegations that Iran was developing a nuclear weapons program would become louder in the course of 2003 and continue unabated over the next three years.

That spring, then-Congressman Curt Weldon (R-PA) opened a channel on Iran with former Iranian Minister Fereidoun Mahdavi, a secretary for Ghorbanifar. Both Weldon and Ledeen were told a strikingly similar story concerning a cross border plot between Iran and Iraq in which uranium had been removed from Iraq and taken into Iran by Iranian agents. The CIA investigated the allegations but found them spurious. Weldon took his complaints about the matter to Rumsfeld, who pressured the CIA to investigate a second time, with the same result.

In May 2003, with pressure for regime change intensifying within the US, Iran made efforts to negotiate a peaceful resolution with the United States. According to Lawrence Wilkerson, then-Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, these efforts were sabotaged by Vice President Cheney.

"The secret cabal got what it wanted: no negotiations with Tehran," Wilkerson said.

The US was already looking increasingly to rogue methodology, including support for the Iranian terrorist group MEK. Before the US invasion, MEK forces within Iraq had supported Saddam Hussein in exchange for safe harbor. Despite this, when they were captured by the US military, they were disarmed of only their major weapons and are allowed to keep their smaller arms. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld hoped to use them as a special ops team in Iran, while then-National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice and State Department officials argued against it. By 2005, the MEK would begin training with US forces in Iraq and carrying out bombings and assassinations in Iran, although it is unclear if the bombings were in any way approved by the US military.

The Pressure is On: 2004 – 2006

For a variety of reasons – ranging from the explosion of the insurgency in Iraq following the high point of "Mission Accomplished" to Iran's willingness to admit IAEA inspectors – the drumbeat for regime change died down over the summer of 2003. In October 2003, with Iran accepting even tougher inspections, Larry Franklin told his Israeli contact that work on the US policy towards Iran which they had been tracking seemed to have stopped.

Yet by the autumn of 2004, pressure for confrontation with Iran had resumed, with President Bush telling Fox News that the US would never allow Iran to acquire nuclear weapons. By then, the Pentagon had been directed to have a viable military option for Iran in place by June 2005.

This phase of pressure was marked by increased activity directed at Congress. An "Iran Freedom Support Act" was introduced in the House and Senate in January and February of 2005. Neoconservatives and individuals linked to the defense contracting industry formed an Iran Policy Committee, and in April and May presented briefings in support of MEK before the newly-created Iran Human Rights and Democracy Caucus of the House of Representatives.

In March 2006, administration action became more overt. The State Department created an Office of Iranian Affairs, while the Pentagon created an Iranian Directorate that had much in common with the earlier Office of Special Plans. According to Seymour Hersh, covert US operations within Iran in preparation for a possible air attack also began at this time and included Kurds and other Iranian minority groups.

By setting up the Iranian Directorate within the Pentagon and running covert operations through the military rather than the CIA, the administration was able to avoid both Congressional oversight and interference from then-Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte, who has been vocally skeptical about using force against Iran. The White House also successfully stalled the release of a fresh National Intelligence Estimate on Iran, which could reflect the CIA's conclusion that there is no evidence of an Iranian nuclear weapons program.

In sum, the Bush Administration seems to have concluded that Iran is guilty until proven innocent and continues to maintain that the Persian Gulf belongs to Americans – not to Persians – setting the stage for a potential military strike.

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"Presidential Signing Statements under the Bush Administration: A Threat to Checks and Balances and the Rule of Law?"

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Contact: Zach Lowe - (202) XXX-XXXX ***Media Advisory*** FEINGOLD TO CHAIR JUDICIARY HEARING ON CONGRESS’S POWER TO END A WAR

Washington, D.C. – On Tuesday, January 30th, U.S. Senator Russ Feingold will chair a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing entitled, “Exercising Congress’s Constitutional Power to End a War.” Earlier this month, Feingold, Chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, became the first Senator to call on Congress to use its power of the purse to redeploy our troops safely from Iraq so that we can refocus on the global terrorist networks that threaten our national security. Feingold proposed this action after President George Bush announced plans to escalate our military involvement in Iraq despite the objections of members of both parties, military and foreign policy experts, and the American people.

“Congress holds the power of the purse and if the President continues to advance his failed Iraq policy, we have the responsibility to use that power to safely redeploy our troops from Iraq,” Feingold said. “This hearing will help inform my colleagues and the public about Congress’s power to end a war and how that power has been used in the past. I will soon be introducing legislation to use the power of the purse to end what is clearly one of the greatest mistakes in the history of our nation’s foreign policy.”

Witnesses at the hearing will include:

• Louis Fisher, Library of Congress
• Prof. Walter Dellinger, Duke University School of Law, former Solicitor General of the United States
• Prof. David Barron, Harvard Law School
• Prof. Robert Turner, University of Virginia Law School

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When: Tuesday, January 30th – 10:00 am ET

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Hoaxes, Statistics and Anthrax

by Edward McSweegan

You're sitting in the kitchen going through the day's mail. You tear open an unfamiliar envelope and out spills a fine white powder. What do you do? Call the police? Call an ambulance? Run screaming from the house? Maybe call the terrorism hotline that Homeland Security is always flashing on highway traffic signs?

Maybe you should just clean up the spilled powder, wash your hands and finish sorting the mail. Statistically, that is the most sensible thing to do.

According to CNN, there were more than 15,000 anthrax hoaxes between September 2001 and August 2002. Previously, the Center for Nonproliferation Studies counted more than 400 anthrax hoaxes between 1998 and September 2001. In late 1998, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported seven anthrax threats; another thirty-five threats were made during February 1999. A subsequent article in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (July/ August 1999) suggested anthrax hoaxes were fast replacing telephoned bomb threats as the favorite sport of the disturbed, the disgruntled, and the just plain stupid.

The first widely reported mailing of an anthrax threat occurred in 1997 when the B'nai B'rith office in Washington, D.C. received a package labeled "anthrachs." It was not anthrax. Neither were the thousands of other powders mailed to various people and businesses over the years. Most of the mailed powders turned out to be flour, sugar, sand, baby powder, powdered Tylenol, grated cheese and other innocuous materials.

There has been only one event in which someone mailed spores of pathogenic Bacillus anthracis. In that case, five to seven letters were mailed to a handful of well-known individuals and offices. The opened letters released billions of wispy anthrax spores into enclosed, high-traffic work areas and produced 11 minor cases of cutaneous anthrax, 6 non-fatal cases of inhalational anthrax, and 5 cases of fatal inhalational anthrax among two postal workers and three elderly mail recipients. There have been no further mailings of real anthrax spores.

Each year the U.S. Postal Service delivers about 107 billion pieces of First Class mail to roughly 240 million adults. The odds of receiving a random piece of mail containing a white powder are vanishingly small. The odds of receiving real anthrax are essentially zero. The numbers are on your side. So why worry?

Unless you call 911 about that 'suspicious powder' in your mail. Then you'll have something to worry about. The police will show up with lights flashing. Maybe they'll bring along one of their federally funded robots. Hazmat crews in Tyvek suits will rush into your house. You'll be removed and perhaps made to strip and shower outside as so many others have before. Your house may be quarantined as crews roam around inside sampling the air and the countertops. Maybe your neighbors will be evacuated too. The local news crews will arrive and film you being taken away for a medical exam.

The FBI may show up too. They'll want you to name possible suspects responsible for the 'suspicious powder' in your mail. You may become a suspect yourself because people have been known to make false claims and accusations for 15 minutes of fame. You may become a 'person of interest:' that persistent, mysterious category of person who is neither suspect nor victim but someone to add to the federal watch lists.

Worse still, the police and the FBI, wandering through your house and poking through your possessions, may find things that suggest possible criminal or terrorist activity. That's exactly what happened to an art professor in upstate New York ("Art Becomes the Next Suspect in America's 9/11 Paranoia," The Guardian, June 11, 2004). Now he and a genetics professor in Pittsburgh are facing numerous charges and twenty years in prison ("U.S. Prosecutes Professors for Shipping Microbes," Science, July 9, 2004).

Adding insult to injury, your insurance agent may show up at some point to tell you that your policies don't cover any clean up costs, damages or inconveniences related to infectious diseases.

Last November, the American Association of Insurance Services (aais.org) filed a new virus and bacteria exclusion designed to prevent insurance company losses that may arise from claims related to infectious diseases and bioterrorism. "Coverage is excluded for loss, cost, or expense caused by, resulting from, or relating to any virus, bacterium, or other microorganism that causes or is capable of causing disease, illness, or physical distress. In addition, the exclusion explicitly applies to any loss, cost or expense arising from denial of access to property because of any...microorganisms." The exclusion is designed for commercial and farm insurance policies, but there is no reason to think it will not eventually trickle down to homeowners and small businesses.

Police. Hazmat. News crews. Street-side decontamination. People wandering through your house. Questions from the FBI, and nagging phone calls to your insurance agent. It's a lot of trouble and a huge legal and financial risk because of Sweet'N Low or talcum powder in an envelope. The hoaxers know the havoc they can create with a thirty-nine cent stamp and a cheap envelope. In the end, the best defense may be to defy the hoaxers by showing no reaction to their actions.



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24 September 2002

US Military Operating a Secret Chemical Weapons Program
Sunshine Project provides evidence for US violation of international law

(Austin and Hamburg, 24 September 2002) - The Sunshine Project today accuses the US military of conducting a chemical weapons research and development program in violation of international arms control law. The charges follow an 18 month investigation of the Department of Defense's Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate (JNLWD). The investigation made extensive use of the US Freedom of Information Act to obtain Pentagon records that form the primary basis of the allegations. An array of documents, many of which have been posted on the Sunshine Project website, demonstrate beyond a reasonable doubt that JNLWD is operating an illegal and classified chemical weapons program.

Specifically, the Sunshine Project accuses the JNLWD of:

1. Conducting a research and development program on toxic chemical agents for use as weapons, including anesthetics and psychoactive substances, in violation of the Chemical Weapons Convention;

2. Developing long-range military delivery devices for these chemicals, including an 81mm chemical mortar round, that violate the Chemical Weapons Convention.

3. Pursuing a chemical weapons program while fully cognizant that it violates the Chemical Weapons Convention and US Department of Defense regulations;

4. Attempting to cover up the illicit program by classifying as secret even its own legal interpretations of the Chemical Weapons Convention and attempting to block access to documents requested under US information freedom law.

These charges are detailed in the attached Annex to this news release, in the accompanying map and fact sheet, and the Sunshine Project's JNLWD documents web page, which has full text of more than two dozen documents. Specific citations are in footnotes below.

The Weapons: JNLWD's secret program is not focusing on highly lethal agents such as VX or sarin. Rather, the emphasis is on "non-lethal" chemical weapons that incapacitate. JNLWD's science advisors define "non-lethal" as resulting in death or permanent injury in 1 in 100 victims.(1) JNLWD's Research Director told a US military magazine "We need something besides tear gas, like calmatives, anesthetic agents, that would put people to sleep or in a good mood." (2) These weapons are intended for use against "potentially hostile civilians", in anti-terrorism operations, counterinsurgency, and other military operations.

The major focus of JNLWD's operation is on the use of drugs as weapons, particularly so-called "calmatives", a military term for mind-altering or sleep inducing chemical weapons. Other agents mentioned as militarily useful in the documents are convulsants, which are dangerous cramp-inducing drugs, and pharmaceuticals that failed development trials due to harmful side-effects. (3) This interest in so-called "calmatives" has been discussed in previous Project publications. (4)

New documents prove the existence of an advanced development program for long range delivery devices for the chemicals, in particular a "non-lethal" 81mm mortar round with a range of 2.5 kilometers and which is designed to work in standard issue US military weapons (the M252 mortar) (5). Photos of testing of this round and a gas generating payload canister are posted on the Sunshine Project's website. (6) JNLWD has recently asked the company building the gas canister, General Dynamics, to develop methodologies to characterize the aerosols it generates, and to calculate the ground area coverage of gas clouds created by an airburst at different altitudes. (7) A chemical mortar round with a 2.5 kilometer range has solely military applications, and cannot possibly be justified for a US military domestic riot control purpose.

The Solutions:

1) UN Inspectors into the US: The Sunshine Project, while urging the United States to immediately halt this chemical weapons program, also announces its intention to take its allegations and evidence to the 7th Session of the Conference of the States Parties of the Chemical Weapons Convention, scheduled to start in The Hague on October 7th. There, the Sunshine Project will present its case to governments and request tthe Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons send a UN weapons inspection team to the US to investigate.

2) US Oversight: The Sunshine Project calls upon the US Congress to investigate JNLWD's arms control violations, to conduct public hearings, to hold JNLWD and its superiors responsible for their actions, to freeze all JNLWD funding, and to immediately declassify all JNLWD documents.

Says Edward Hammond, director of the Sunshine Project US, "We can present hard evidence for an illicit and shameful chemical weapons program in the US. If the US invades Iraq and uses these weapons, we may witness the depravity of the US waging chemical warfare against Iraq to prevent it from developing chemical weapons."

Jan van Aken, Director of the Sunshine Project in Germany says "The US administration 'names names' of alleged violators at arms control meetings. We have written documentation that the British government told JNLWD that its program violates the CWC in private talks. (8) However, Europe must publicly denounce American chemical weapons violations in The Hague. Those who remain silent will bear part of the guilt."

Escalation danger: JNLWD's chemical weapons program not only violates international law, it presents an escalation threat. Any use of chemical weapons in a military situation - even if the agents are purported to be "non-lethal" - carries the inherent danger of escalation into an all out chemical war and heightened violence. If attacked with a chemical of unknown nature with a fast incapacitating effect, victims may assume that lethal chemicals have been used, leading to heightened violence or even retaliation in kind. This rapid escalation danger is one of the key reasons why the Chemical Weapons Convention prohibits the use of even tear gas or pepper spray as a method of warfare.

The Road to a Chemical Arms Race: In addition, JNLWD's program might easily be used to disguise lethal chemical weapons development. Deadly chemicals are the former specialty of JNLWD's partner in the program, the US Army's Aberdeen Proving Ground. Long range delivery devices may easily be converted to use biological agents or other chemicals, including lethal nerve gas. Design and development of new delivery devices, production facilities or delivery experiments - all key parts of a lethal chemical weapons program - might easily be performed by the US or other countries if the buzz-word "non-lethal" is used as a cover. If non-lethal chemical warfare programs are not banned, the basic principles of the CWC could fall apart, resulting in new full blown chemical arms race even before Cold War stocks are destroyed.

Thumbnail images of the Map and Fact Sheet

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ANNEX TO SUNSHINE PROJECT NEWS RELEASE
"US Military Operating a Secret Chemical Weapons Program"
(24 September 2002)

An Outline of the Case Against the Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate

The charges made by the Sunshine Project are supported by thousands of pages of US government documents, many obtained under the US Freedom of Information Act, and many of which are available on our website. This news release and annex are accompanied by a map and fact sheet on JNLWD's program. This is available for download from our website. The charges against JNLWD will be further detailed in a briefing for the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and diplomats attending the October meeting of the Chemical Weapons Convention. A brief outline is provided here:

1. JNLWD is conducting a research and development program on toxic chemical agents for use as weapons in violation of the Chemical Weapons Convention.

JNLWD's desire for chemical weapons is intense and widely documented. JNLWD has explicitly stated that it is operating a program to develop "calmative" chemical weapons (9). In May 1999, its Research Director told Navy News and Undersea Technology "We need something besides tear gas, like calmatives, anesthetic agents, that would put people to sleep or in a good mood." In 2000, JNLWD's Commanding Officer told New Scientist "I would like a magic dust that would put everyone in a building to sleep, combatants and non-combatants." (10) The Marine Corps Research University (MCRU), a major JNLWD contractor, produced an October 2000 study that concluded "the development and use of calmatives is achievable and desirable" and urged "immediate consideration" of drugs like diazepam (Valium). (11) The unit that produced the study is headed by JNLWD's former commander. JNLWD currently has a secretive technology investment program for incapacitating chemical weapons that is being conducted in cooperation with the US Army's Aberdeen Proving Ground. (12) It is urging academic and private institutions to bring it new proposals for chemical agents (13) and has repeatedly emphasized the need for the US military to develop a calmative capability. In addition, it recently concluded a new request for proposals that includes a call for "advanced riot control agents", (14) a military synonym for drug weapons. In October 2001, it offered to equip US commercial aircraft with calmative-dispensing weapons. (15)

2. JNLWD is developing long-range military delivery devices for these chemicals that violate the Chemical Weapons Convention and have no law enforcement application.

JNLWD has been funding the development of chemical weapons delivery devices since the late 1990s. 1999 and 2000 photos of outdoor tests of chemical aerosol equipment and wind tunnel tests at the US Army Soldier Biological Chemical Command are included on the obverse side of the accompanying map. JNLWD has funded a multi-year program to microencapsulate chemical agents, specifically, anesthetics and anesthetics mixed with corrosive chemicals to penetrate thick clothing. (16) In 2001, JNLWD accelerated this effort, developing a specification for an 81mm "non-lethal" mortar round with a 2.5 kilometer range. (17) The round can use chemical payloads and is required to work in standard issue military M252 mortars. (18) Under this program, in September 2001, JNLWD inked a deal with General Dynamics that calls for building a "dispersion gas generator" for this mortar round and to "identify analytical tools that can be used in follow-on design/performance modeling of droplet formation and dynamics" and to perform "preliminary parametric estimates of ground area coverage versus payload volume and height of burst." (19) The JNLWD team which developed chemical microencapsulation methods and the Aberdeen Proving Ground team which is participating in the chemical agents technology investment program are both collaborating with JNLWD in the mortar round design. (20)

3. JNLWD is pursuing this program despite being fully cognizant that it violates the Chemical Weapons Convention and US Department of Defense regulations.

The JNLWD program runs afoul of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), the global ban on the development and use of all chemical weapons. And JNLWD is well aware of this fact. JNLWD presentations in 2001 list the Chemical Weapons Convention as a major "challenge" to its calmatives program. (21) In 2000, JNLWD held a series of war games with British military officials. JNLWD’s report of the war games concludes "In all three game scenarios, players espoused calmatives as potentially the most useful anti-personnel non-lethal weapons” but that “the principle concern was about the legality of the weapon and possible arms control violations..." Despite this, it continues "The end result is that calmatives are considered the single most effective anti-personnel option in the non-lethal toolkit." (22)

At the end of the wargames series, JNLWD held a final, high-level meeting with UK officials. It included the participation of five active duty US Marine Corps and Army generals. British officials objected to the US calmatives program, saying that it is illegal. JNLWD replied by saying but that it would proceed anyway (quoting from the report): "a research and development program with respect to... chemically based calmatives... [will] be continued as long as it is cost-productive to do so." In the same report, JNLWD acknowledges that its research and development program violates Department of Defense regulations, declaring its intent to evade the law: "DOD is prohibited from pursuing [calmative] technology... If there are promising technologies that DOD is prohibited from pursuing, set up MOA with DOJ or DOE." (DOD is the US Department of Defense. DOJ is the US Department of Justice. DOE is the US Department of Energy. MOA is a Memorandum of Agreement.) (23)

4. JNLWD is seeking to cover up this illicit program by cloaking it behind US secrecy law.

JNLWD has made a systematic effort hide its program from public view and to impede the Sunshine Project's investigation. JNLWD asked the US Navy Judge Advocate General (JAG) to perform a legal review of its "non-lethal" chemical weapons; but then classified the JAG opinion, preventing its release. (24) JNLWD has placed export control restrictions on its 81mm "non-lethal" mortar specification. (25) In 2002, JNLWD officials trained US Marine Corps officers in its anti-personnel chemical weapons capabilities. It classified the training "secret". (26) Interviewed by news media, JNLWD officials deny developing chemical weapons; but have informed the Sunshine Project in multiple telephone conversations that they will deny release of documents requested under FOIA because of "classified weapons development". With 18 months elapsed since the Sunshine Project's first Freedom of Information Act requests to JNLWD, almost two thirds of the documents requested have not been released. JNLWD has ordered the US National Academies of Science to halt release of documents it deposited in the public record at that institution, (27) despite the fact that the National Academies states that there are no security markings on the documents requested, (28) and in apparent violation of US law.

TO DOWNLOAD THE MAP AND ILLUSTRATIVE TEXT THAT ACCOMPANY THIS RELEASE, VISIT:

http://www.sunshine-project.org/incapacitants/mapfacts.html

NOTES

1) Kenny, J. The Human Effects of Non-Lethal Weapons, presentation of the JNLWD Human Effects Advisory Panel to the US National Academy of Sciences Naval Studies Board, 30 April 2001.

2) Susan LeVine, JNLWD Research Director, quoted in Non-Lethal Programs Will Enhance Navy And Marine Warfighting in Navy News and Undersea Technology, v. 16, n.19, 10 May 1999.

3) Lakoski J, Murray, W.B., Kenny J. The Advantages and Limitations of Calmatives for Use as a Non-Lethal Technique, Applied Research Laboratory / College of Medicine, Pennsylvania State University, 3 October 2000.

4) See the Sunshine Project news release Pentagon Program Promotes Psychopharmacological Warfare (1 July 2002), the information brief The MCRU Calmatives Study and JNLWD: A Summary of (Public) Facts (19 September 2002), and Sunshine Project Backgrounder #8, Non-Lethal Weapons Research in the US: Calmatives & Malodorants (July 2001).

5) See, for example, 81mm Frangible Case Cartridge, Contract DAAE-30-01-C-1077 (June 2001), US Army TACOM and M2 Technologies.

6) See side two of the accompanying map and fact sheet.

7) Liquid Payload Dispensing Concept Studies Techniques for the 81mm Non-Lethal Mortar Cartridge, Contract DAAE-30-01-M-1444 (Sept. 2001), US Army TACOM and General Dynamics.

8) Assessment Report: US/UK Non-Lethal Weapons (NLW)/Urban Operations Executive Seminar, JNLWD, November 2000.

9) ibid (and other documents)

10) Colonel George Fenton, USMC, JNLWD Commanding Officer, quoted in War without tears, New Scientist, 16 December 2000.

11) Lakoski J, Murray, W.B., Kenny J. The Advantages and Limitations of Calmatives for Use as a Non-Lethal Technique.

12) The US Department of Defense Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Program, Program Overview, April 2001.

13) See Fenton, G. To The Future: Non-Lethal Capabilities Technologies in the 21st Century, presentation to the University of New Hampshire's Non-lethal Technology and Academic Research III symposium, November 2001.

14) Nonkinetic/limited effects/non-lethal weapons for crowd control, US Department of the Navy solicitation M67854-02-R-6064, 18 July 2002.

15) See Non-Lethal Weapons Suggested to Incapacitate Terrorists in Airliners, Air Safety Week, v. 15 n. 39, 15 October 2001.

16) Durant Y. White Paper: Delivery of chemicals by microcapsules, Advanced Polymer Laboratory, University of New Hampshire, 1998.

17) 81mm Frangible Case Cartridge, Contract DAAE-30-01-C-1077 (June 2001), US Army TACOM and M2 Technologies.

18) See Liquid Payload Dispensing Concept Studies Techniques for the 81mm Non-Lethal Mortar Cartridge, Contract DAAE-30-01-M-1444 (Sept. 2001), US Army TACOM and General Dynamics,

19) ibid.

20) Aberdeen Proving Ground: see Design and Development of an 81mm Non-Lethal Mortar Cartridge, United Defense LP, US Army Soldier Biological Chemical Command (SBCCOM), US Army Research Laboratory, March 2000.

University of New Hampshire: see Durant Y, et al, Composites material selection study for NL Mortar, presentation to the University of New Hampshire's Non-lethal Technology and Academic Research III symposium, November 2001.

21) Fenton, G. To The Future: Non-Lethal Capabilities Technologies in the 21st Century.

22) US/UK Non-Lethal Weapons (NLW) / Urban Operations War Game Two Assessment, JNLWD, June 2000. The wargame was held 13-16 June 2000 at the US Army War College, Carlisle Barracks, PA.

23) Assessment Report: US/UK Non-Lethal Weapons (NLW)/Urban Operations Executive Seminar, JNLWD, November 2000.

24) Response letter (3 September 2002) from US Department of the Navy, Office of the Judge Advocate General, International and Operational Law Division to Sunshine Project Freedom of Information Request of 21 August 2002.

25) Several JNLWD-funded contracts indicate this. See, for example, 81mm Frangible Case Cartridge, Contract DAAE-30-01-C-1077 (June 2001), US Army TACOM and M2 Technologies, URL above.

26) Non-Lethal Weapons: Acquisitions, Capabilities, Doctrine, & Strategy: A Course of Instruction, contract M67004-99-D-0037, purchase order M9545002RCR2BA7, between the US Marine Corps University (Pennsylvania State University Applied Research Laboratory) and JNLWD, December 2001.

27) Letter from Col. George Fenton to the National Academies of Science (NAS), 17 May 2002, text provided in an e-mail from Mr. Kevin Hale, Director of the NAS National Security Office to William Colglazier, Executive Officer, 17 May 2002.

28) Letter from Kevin Hale (NAS) to Col. George Fenton (JNLWD), 17 May 2002. This letter and the e-mail of note #27 were provided by the NAS Public Affairs office.

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Published on Sunday, November 3, 2002 by the Observer/UK

Army's Secret 'People Zapper' Plans

by Antony Barnett

Britain has been involved in secret talks with the United States over the development of so-called non-lethal weapons, including lasers that blind the enemy and microwave systems that cook the skin of human targets. The Observer has established that British and US military leaders met at the Ministry of Defense HQ in London to discuss the operational benefits of such technology when used as a 'persuasive tool' against people from enemy regimes. Documents obtained under the US Freedom of Information Act detail talks about battlefield uses of the weapons and whether they could be used to back up economic sanctions against target countries. The weapons include lasers that can blind and stun an enemy and cut through metal to disable vehicles. Another weapon discussed was a system that uses microwave beams to heat the water in human skin in the same way as a microwave oven cooks a meal. The third category of weapons was the use of gases similar to those deployed to end the terrorist siege in a Moscow theatre, which killed more than 100 hostages. The disclosures prompted demands last night from opposition politicians for a full statement on Britain's involvement in developing such weapons. Opposition MPs and campaigners believe the fact that the military is considering developing and using these weapons in war or as a tool to threaten other states breaches a number of international arms and humanitarian treaties. Menzies Campbell, foreign affairs spokesman for the Liberal Democrats, called on the Government to 'come clean' on Britain's involvement and will demand Foreign Secretary Jack Straw gives details. 'These reports have serious implications,' Campbell said. 'If Britain and American are together seeking to exploit loopholes in existing international arms convention, our credibility will be severely undermined. Suggestions that we use such weapons as part of any sanctions program is a level of policy which must be discussed on the House of Commons.' British personnel at the secret meeting with the US military included Vice Admiral Sir Jeremy Blackham and Dr Martin Hubbard, who heads the non-lethal weapons research program at Porton Down, Wiltshire. US officers included Major General Bice, deputy commander of the US Marines in Europe, and Brigadier-General Richard Zilmer, deputy director of US operations at European Command Headquarters. The documents reveal the full scope of the new weapons programs that the US military is developing. The first was high-power microwave technology that cooks an enemy's skin. Its military name is the Vehicle-Mounted Active Denial System (V-Mads), but it has already been nicknamed the People Zapper. It works by harnessing electromagnetic power to fire an invisible pulse of energy at light speed towards a target. The beam causes the water molecules under the skin to vibrate violently, producing heat and discomfort. Scientists believe the system could heat a person's skin to about 130 degrees in two seconds. The US delegation admits there might be problems with legal claims by victims. The documents reveal that both the British and US military believe laser beams have a 'number of potential applications and desirable attributes as a non-lethal weapon'. They are impressed that laser guns can be 'tunable' either to stun or kill. Although laser weapons that permanently blind are banned under international law, the documents show officials are studying low-energy lasers that blind temporarily and others that produce a stunning effect. The classified document, which is an 'assessment report' of a meeting that took place on 30 November 2000, admits the term 'non-lethal' was inaccurate.' © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2002

Is the US preparing for massive Civil Unrest?

... or you may ask yourself, "Is it something I said?"

I am not saying that I buy into the premise of the video, or not, but it should make anyone think that the time, may or may not, have past to start watching the watchers. Does George W. Bush and Co. want a "reason" not to have elections in 2008? Well, look around, watch this video, think back, and "just relax", is it time to "eat popcorn"?

Concentration Camps being built for U.S citizens

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Martial Law and Concentration Camps
The following video was recently sent to me, and after the shock wore off I started researching this video and story line behind it. What I have learned and seen has lead me to believe Soon they will convince the American people a state of anarchy exists within the major cities, Due to a wave of alleged crime sweeping the nation and false threats from abroad. They are now building their case almost nightly on TV and daily in newspapers. When public opinion has been won over to this idea they intend to state that a terrorist group armed with a nuclear weapon has entered the United States and that they plan to detonate this device in one of our cities. The government will then suspend the Constitution and declare martial law.
All dissidents, which translated into anyone they choose, will be rounded up and will be placed in concentration camps which already exist throughout the country.
The media, radio, TV, newspapers, and computer networks will be nationalized and seized. Anyone who resists will be taken or killed. This entire operation was rehearsed by the government and military in 1984 under the code name REX-84 and it went off without a hitch. When these events have transpired the secret government takeover will be complete. Your freedom will never be returned and you will live in slavery for the remainder of your life. You had better wake up and you had better do it now.

More coming from the www.savesa.tk blog series: The New World Order
More Documental evidence coming in this shocking expose

Iraq, the testing ground for Big Brother's Crowd Control Weapons

US military unveils heat-ray gun

The gun uses a large dish mounted on a Humvee vehicle

The US military has given the first public display of what it says is a revolutionary heat-ray weapon to repel enemies or disperse hostile crowds.

Called the Active Denial System, it projects an invisible high energy beam that produces a sudden burning feeling.

Military officials, who say the gun is harmless, believe it could be used as a non-lethal way of making enemies surrender their weapons.

Officials said there was wide-ranging military interest in the technology.

"This is a breakthrough technology that's going to give our forces a capability they don't now have," defence official Theodore Barna told Reuters news agency.

"We expect the services to add it to their tool kit. And that could happen as early as 2010."

'Blast from an oven'

The prototype weapon was demonstrated at the Moody Air Force Base in Georgia.

A beam was fired from a large rectangular dish mounted on a Humvee vehicle.

The beam has a reach of up to 500 metres (550 yards), much further than existing non-lethal weapons like rubber bullets.

It can penetrate clothes, suddenly heating up the skin of anyone in its path to 50C.

But it penetrates the skin only to a tiny depth - enough to cause discomfort but no lasting harm, according to the military.

A Reuters journalist who volunteered to be shot with the beam described the sensation as similar to a blast from a very hot oven - too painful to bear without diving for cover.

Crowd control

Military officials said the weapon was one of the key technologies of the future.

"Non-lethal weapons are important for the escalation of force, especially in the environments our forces are operating in," said Marine Col Kirk Hymes, director of the development programme.

The weapon could potentially be used for dispersing hostile crowds in conflict zones such as Iraq or Afghanistan.

It would mean that troops could take effective steps to move people along without resorting to measures such as rubber bullets - bridging the gap between "shouting and shooting", Col Hymes said.

A similar non-lethal weapon, Silent Guardian, is being developed by US company Raytheon.

The above from the BBC found here

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Allegedly there are weapons being co-developed by Israel and the US. Palestinians have been fried and killed to get the dose right for crowd control, families of victims have gotten the bodies back minus organs which were needed to adjust dosing.

A helicopter version is reportedly being developed to kill large crowds and to reduce unwanted populations when "genetic selective" bio-weapons do not do the trick. I have long, not listened to conspiracy theorists, but when what they are talking about beforehand comes out in the news, you just have to come to you own opinion.

It would be nice if all this money spent to kill, hurt, and detain people was instead used for medical research and paying for college educations ...

Ethics and Separation of Powers

Emailed to governor.rell@po.state.ct.us, Governor M. Jodi Rell, at approximately 8:30 AM EST Jan. 25, 2007.

Governor Rell,

Elected Officials, also paid workers for the Connecticut Judicial Branch, are working and being paid as Elected Officials in the Connecticut Legislative Branch. With a Separation of Powers I am asking that you look into the matter and contact all elected officials in the Legislative Branch on whether or not practicing Attorneys can at the same time hold elected office.

Lawyers are disbarred and worse when they are critical of each other, prosecutors, cops, and mainly, Judges. How then can a legislator on the Judicial Committee be impartial in the Judge nominating and discipline arena?

Lawyers make the most money on discord, immorality, a system working with maximum inefficiency, unfair fining and taxation, maximum bureaucracy, and the policies of Separate and Unequal. How then can lawyers that are elected officials legislate on behalf of the people?

The answer is they can’t. Please act accordingly for the Constitution, for ethical reform, and for those that voted you into office.

Thank you,
Steven G. Erickson
972 Putney Rd. # 156
Brattleboro, Vermont 05301

P.S. more info at the starkravingviking.blogspot.com, should Judge Jonathan Kaplan know the difference between a criminal and the victim of a crime? Kaplan knew I was a victim of an attempted strong arm robbery and assault. Kaplan knew I was trying to have him removed for years for his bias in Civil Cases. Kaplan knew I was having a feud with police over lack of protection of service. Kaplan should have recused himself in my case. This is obvious retaliation.

Chris Kennedy alleges that Kaplan took away his kids in retaliation for Kennedy having lodged a complaint.

The legislature is skewed with practicing attorneys and won't discipline and remove bad judges. The Judicial Review Council doesn't investigate complaints and just shreds the complaints sent into them. YOU should do something.

Should I not be able to get a job or most lodging in my name of the rest of my life because I didn't like heroin and crack cocaine being sold off and near my property and because I did not like my property being wrecked? Should I have been retaliated against by police for wanting them to actually do work that they were being paid to do, but are too lazy and arrogant to do? Should a rigged trial with Police Officer Perjury be allowed to stand?

Please review docket # CR01-0074672. If felonies have been committed by a judge, prosecutors, an attorney, and police officers, AND some official or other person knows this and does not report it to the proper authorities, isn't that official or person guilty of a crime?

The ethics outrage that should have been acted on in 1997, Click Here

My FOI request regarding former Connecticut State Police Commissioner Henry C. Lee, Click Here

The Connecticut State Police Get Straight F’s!

Leonard C. Boyle, is he a moral and good human being, disgusted and wanting to get out of a sewer of sleaze? Is he a savior to the oppressed and officially ruined?

Is it any wonder that Leonard C. Boyle wants to step down as the Connecticut State Police Commissioner?

Would you want to be part of an organization that thinks it is ok for other members to rape, rob, and if you are White, execute Blacks while standing on their backs is ok, as Connecticut Officer Scott Smith did?

If someone wants police to actually serve the public in Connecticut and talks to legislators or the newspapers, that person faces arrests. Connecticut State Police Officer bogus reports, malicious investigations, and perjury in the Connecticut Court System is the process to get that “mouthy” citizen to shut up. Other states can be as bad, but others wouldn't be as bad if Connecticut were publicly corrected.

Ruining lives, raping, retaliating, and being a general menace to society should not be what a police organization should be about.

Changes have to be made, and the whole nation needs to see just how bad it can get.

Official Connecticut being used as the most modern, and blatant, example of how out of control everything can get would teach a good lesson. When there is no Civilian Oversight of Police and the Courts. Judges, Police, Prosecutors, their family, and friends should not be immune from prosecution where the average citizen in retaliated against and ruined just for pointing out the truth, there needs to be accountability for all officials, they need to serve the public's best interests, face oversight, and be punished if found to have been doing wrong.

I have been told Boyle has a conscience and has made a difference on the Federal level with ethics and fairness being something that is important to him.

Boyle's Connecticut “experience” as Commissioner probably can’t be cleaned off with just soap and water, as “Connecticut Sleaze” permeates to the bone.

Leonard does not want the express route to hell, so is he is resigning?

Is it a good thing, at the right time, for a good man?

Those that are victims of the Connecticut State Police and the Connecticut Courts still haven’t seen justice. I hope Commissioner Boyle is stepping down to step up.

We can only hope.

-Steven G. Erickson a.k.a. blogger Vikingas

P.S. Judge Jonathan Kaplan of Rockville Superior Court in Connecticut should know the difference between a crime victim of an attempted mugging, a strong arm robbery, and crimes committed. There has been a blatant abuse of discretion, and worse, retaliation and collusion with corrupt police officers that are too lazy and immoral to do their jobs, actually earning their pay paid in tax dollars, protecting and serving, in the public's best interest, so all suffer and pay the freight for corruption and its aftermath.

My trial transcripts should be reviewed and Judge Jonathan Kaplan, Arthur L. Spada, and others should be hauled off in handcuffs, to be tried in a legitimate, honest court, hopefully found guilty, and hopefully will spend the rest of their lives in prison as an example to what happens to immoral and sleazy officials, police, and judges that act illegally to harm. I can only hope.

A doctor can "accidently" amputate the wrong leg on a patient and be civilly and criminally answerable. Judges can do more financial and social damage in one month than any Middle Ages Despot or Monarch. Yes, they need to be watched and punished for wrongdoing.

If you steal a candy bar from a candy store with the value of less than a dollar, you can go to prison under certain circumstances. Those that steal the value of millions of candy bars and wreak havoc on the populace need to have the same fear of arrests and prison that the rest of us have if we do wrong. THEY will then behave if they feel they will face punishment if they do not. If they behave, We the People don't have to fear becoming political prisoners just for educating others and speaking our minds.

That should be America as our Forefathers intended. Fighting men and women should not suffer and die on battlefields all over the world in the name of freedom if freedom does not truly exist.

Police, prosecutors, judges, and asshole elected officials, such as George W. Bush, need to face the music when they commit crimes. No one should be above the law.

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Click Here for the report that shows the Connecticut State Police, Straight F's

CONNECTICUT NEWS
Commissioner Looking For Another Job
2:58 PM EST, January 23, 2007
The Associated Press, The Hartford Courant

Public Safety Commissioner Leonard Boyle told state lawmakers Tuesday he's looking for a new job.

Boyle, a former federal prosecutor who helped oversee investigations of state government corruption, said he has asked Republican Gov. M. Jodi Rell not to reappoint him to oversee the agency, which includes the state police.

"I have asked that she not submit my name for re-nomination," Boyle told members of the legislature's Public Safety Committee. "For personal and professional reasons, I believe it is time for me to move on to other things."

Boyle testified Tuesday about a recent 13-month investigation by Connecticut and New York officials that found incomplete and inadequate internal affairs investigations of complaints against state police troopers.

Boyle has been on the job since July 2004.

State Rep. Christopher Caruso, D-Bridgeport, asked Boyle whether he was planning to leave because Rell had reassigned one of her civilian commissioners to oversee the revamped state police internal affairs division. Boyle had told lawmakers he wasn't consulted about the appointment and didn't learn about it until Rell's chief of staff, M. Lisa Moody, told him that Rell wanted Linda Yelmini to lead the division.

Boyle said a number of factors influenced his decision. He said he decided about six months ago that it was time for a change.

Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, who was also testifying with Boyle, joked that the commissioner didn't have to answer the question. He said, "As your lawyer, you have the right to be silent."

Asked again by Caruso whether he was offended professionally by not being personally consulted by Rell about the Yelmini appointment, Boyle quipped, "I am going to rely on Attorney General Blumenthal's advice, thank you."

Lawmakers praised Boyle for his efforts as commissioner, and expressed dismay that he was leaving the job.

"You certainly have raised the bar in terms of the agency, and I thank you for that," said Sen. Andrea Stillman, D-Waterford, co-chairman of the Public Safety Committee.

A former East Hartford police officer, Boyle worked in the U.S. attorney's office for 17 years. He was most recently an assistant U.S. attorney and counsel to the U.S. attorney for Connecticut.

Boyle investigated and prosecuted public corruption, corporate fraud, civil rights, violent crime and drug trafficking. Connecticut U.S. Attorney Kevin O'Connor selected him in 2003 to oversee a new corporate fraud unit.

That same year, he helped successfully prosecute a case against a Boston investment firm, Triumph Capital Group, and its officials. Triumph was fined $4 million after being found guilty of having corrupt dealings with former state treasurer Paul Silvester.

Lawyers’ “Collective” Conspiracy to Absolutely Wreck America for their gain

Excerpt:

Separation of powers serves several goals. Separation prevents concentration of power (seen as the root of tyranny) and provides each branch with weapons to fight off encroachment by the other two branches. As James Madison argued in the Federalist Papers (No. 51), "Ambition must be made to counteract ambition." Clearly, our system of separated powers is not designed to maximize efficiency; it is designed to maximize freedom.

The above excerpt found here

Lawyers that are practicing law are Judicial Branch minded. If they piss off a judge, prosecutor, or cop as a lawyer they can end up disbarred, arrested, discredited, and even in prison. Judicial Branch infiltrators wrecking the separation of powers as American 'Checks and Balances'. Who are they a Cheerleader for? Well, it certainly isn't 'We the People', so we should see it that attorneys don't block Americans from their Representative Democratic Republic.

Attorneys should either practice law OR represent the American populace as an elected official in the Legislative Branch.

Double dipping should not be allowed, PERIOD.

Those that profit from a law practice, are lobbyists for lawyers, or in some way have a business or would profit from the furthering of the Judicial Branch agendas or Lawyer causes should not hold elected office unless they severe those connections while in office.

Lawyers profit from unfairness, red tape, bureaucracy, and the maximum fining, confiscating, taxing, and abusing. So, what do you think they'll as a group legislate for?

Well, save America, don't let practicing lawyers hold elected office, PERIOD.

-Steven G. Erickson a.k.a. blogger Vikingas

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Sad but Delicious Irony–Lesbian Mom Describes How She Got the Dad Treatment

January 22nd, 2007

Behind the recent highly-publicized ruling in a Virginia/Vermont lesbian child custody battle is a sad but delicious irony. As I explained in my co-authored column Ruling in Vermont Same-Sex Child Custody Case: Lesbian Moms, Divorced Dads in Same Boat (Rutland Herald, Montpelier-Barre Times Argus, 12/10/06, Danville Register & Bee, 12/22/06, and others):

“The former couple, Lisa Miller and Janet Jenkins, joined in a same-sex civil union in Vermont in 2000 and had a child together in 2002. After their breakup, Miller, the biological mother, moved to Virginia with their daughter Isabella, won sole custody, and excluded Jenkins from the girl’s life…

“During Jenkins’ and Miller’s same sex-union Jenkins did everything she could do to be a good parent to their child. She was involved with the pregnancy from the beginning, was present in the delivery room, worked to support the family, and played an important role in Isabella’s life. Following their breakup she was granted visitation rights but Miller refused to comply. After Tuesday’s ruling, Miller’s side vowed to further appeal the case to deny Jenkins access to the girl. Miller says she does not want Jenkins to have any visitation rights, and has not allowed her to see their daughter since 2004.”

According to details of the case provided in this article in the Washington Blade, a prominent gay newspaper, Miller’s actions read like a checklist of what heterosexual women do to the fathers of their children:

1) Move the child far way from the child’s noncustodial parent after the divorce or separation–check.

2) Deny the noncustodial parent the opportunity to visit or co-parent the child–check.

3) Make an unsupported, dubious and oh-so-convenient accusation of abuse against the noncustodial parent–check.

4) Pretend that the noncustodial parent is out-of-line or acting against the child’s best interests by wanting to continue the relationship with the child–check.

Other familiar highlights include: the relationship was ended by the child’s birth mother, just as most marriages are ended by mothers, not fathers; and the relationship soured because–guess what–the birth mother was hormonal and unstable during and after her pregnancy.

Like most divorced dads, Jenkins soft-pedals her ex-partner’s appalling behavior, trying to avoid conflict in the interests of their child. She says that if she does win custody (which she should), she will be very careful to make sure that her former partner’s relationship with her daughter is protected and respected.

Echoing the words of millions of divorced fathers, Jenkins says:

“I would rather not be going to court. I had no idea anything like this would happen.”

She adds:

“I would never abandon Isabella. She has no power over this situation and didn’t choose it. It is time to behave like adults and do what is best for her. It’s only been about Isabella. I miss her and have high hopes we will be together soon.”

As I wrote in the column, “ladies, welcome to the club.”

Posted in Family Law, Feminism, Domestic Violence, Fatherhood, Fathers' Rights, Shared Parenting, Marriage, Men's rights, Children's Rights | 4 Comments »

Tags: custody, divorce, gay rights, Janet Jenkins, lesbian, lesbian marriage, lesbian rights, Lisa Miller, move ways, noncustodial parents, same sex divorce, same sex marriage, visitation

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Alerting the Head of Police and a State's Governor about gross Police Misconduct

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Legislative Constitutional Armageddon

Our Forefathers would vomit if they saw the abortion that has become our Representative Government.

There are paid infiltrators of the Judicial Branch into the Legislative, practicing lawyers.

This absolutely lacks ethics of any kind. This secret society rule should be abolished immediately.

Practicing Attorneys will legislate and allow maximum budgets and pay for themselves, judges, prosecutors, the courts, secret files and secret investigations, making the courts less and less accessible to the people, until America is reduced to a Fascist Police State. These lawyers in elected office want maximum pay with minimum accountability. Immunity from prosecution for these abusers and other members of the Judicial Branch is a Satanic Ritual that has gone on in secret too long and has to be ended, now.

In Connecticut, the head of the Executive Branch nominates future Judges. Members of the Legislative Judiciary Committee approve these nominees. Judges with no experience and qualifications are being nominated and approved. Why is this?

The infiltrators are for the judges, prosecutors, other attorneys, and a secret Police State agenda, not for the public’s best interest.

Immediately, no practicing lawyers should hold any elected legislative office, State or Federal.

Francis Knize has drafted legislation to abolish Judicial Immunity working with Congressman Shays for Federal Bill H.R. 5219. Knize has proposed a similar bill to the Connecticut Legislature, “Connecticut Judicial Transparency and Ethics Enhancement Act of 2007". The Bills proposed within the text of this letter need to be debated and voted in.

There also needs to be a State and Federal Bill for the legislature to identify victims of police, judicial, attorney, prosecutorial, and official misconduct. Those that have been imprisoned wrongly, falsely arrested, and railroaded need compensation and to have their criminal records expunged. The courts have not been the avenue of Justice, the Legislative Branch, State and Federal, has to take up the cause of those that have voted them into office.

Thank you,

Steven G. Erickson [stevengerickson@yahoo.com]
c/o Francis C. P. Knize
50 Sunset Pass
Wilton, Ct. 06897

203 544 9603


I intend on distributing the above text to all Connecticut Legislators and then to select US Congress persons and US Senators.

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On The Record Public TV Transcript, re; [Ken] Krayeske Case

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http://www.fecl.org/circular/5501.htm   (1996)

"Bill Collins, a former four term Mayor of Norwalk and State Representative
of Connecticut: "Guns are looked upon differently here, for familiar historic
reasons. So are the police. While other countries feel it's important to install
civilian oversight, we feel the opposite. We like to turn our police loose, a
bit like vigilantes.

Mostly, that preference has to do with race. Many Americans
feel that blacks are a menace to their safety, and if police have to rough them
up once in a while to keep them in their place, so be it. And if some whites
also get mistreated in this exuberance of power, well, that's a small price to
pay for security. At any rate, that seems to be the thinking in Connecticut".

[so where is Rick or Ritt Goldstein now after having proposed Civilian Oversight of Police?]

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CT Rep. Lawlor the chairman of the Judiciary Committee is a lawyer. Look at this little more than a half minute clip. Lawlor was asked a question about information on complaints against judges and their reviews that is supposed to be public information. He has no intention of actually complying with giving out the public information. Lawyers shield each other, prosecutors, cops, and judges. It is an unwritten rule. Practicing attorneys should not be legislators.

Will Tony Blair stand down if scandal widens?

Click Here for more. I wonder if there is such a scandal brewing here in the US that could implicate Bush, Cheney, and others in their Organized Crime Syndicate where they could wake up to an arrest and being hauled off in handcuffs.

Free Speech, What Free Speech?

Flight ban for anti-Bush T-shirt

The T-shirt featuring President Bush could offend, Qantas says

A passenger barred from a Qantas airlines flight for wearing a T-shirt depicting US President George Bush as a terrorist has threatened legal action.

Allen Jasson said he was sticking up for the principle of free speech by challenging the decision by the Australian flag carrier.

Mr Jasson was stopped as he was about to board the flight from Melbourne to London last Friday.

Qantas said the T-shirt had potential to offend other passengers.

The T-shift features an image of President George W Bush, along with the slogan "World's Number One Terrorist".

'Principle'

The 55-year-old computer specialist, who lives in London, had encountered difficulties with the same T-shirt on an earlier Qantas flight in December.

After clearing the international security checks at Melbourne Airport, he reportedly approached the gate manager to congratulate him on the company's new-found open-mindedness.

At that point, Mr Jasson was ordered to remove the T-shirt after being told it was a security threat and an item which might cause offence to other passengers.

He was offered the chance to board the flight wearing different clothing, but refused.

"I am not prepared to go without the t-shirt. I might forfeit the fare, but I have made up my mind that I would rather stand up for the principle of free speech," he told Australian media.

A Qantas spokesman defended the airline's decision, saying: "Whether made verbally or on a T-shirt, comments with the potential to offend other customers or threaten the security of a Qantas group aircraft will not be tolerated".

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Don’t Piss on me and tell me it is raining: A Constitutional Crisis

There is supposed to be separation of powers in the American System of Government. There is supposed to be checks and balances. There is not, and that should change.

Lawyers are for each other and are Judicial Branch minded.

So an elected official that is a practicing lawyer has a conflict of interest and is working and being paid by two branches of government. So lawyers can draft legislation in their language, only language they understand, to benefit their brethren and the Judicial Branch, FOUL!!!

Are We the People absolutely stupid without a clue?

Liaisons from the police tell legislators what they can and cannot propose for legislation. What!!!???

So, who is in charge here?

Elected officials are supposed to represent the people.

How can they if the police and the Judiciary have stolen all the power?

We elect puppets for the abusers, why?

Lawyers should not practice law AND hold elected office.

Pick one or the other.

No more double dipping in two branches.

There should be a national vote taken on whether lawyers should be able to practice law and hold office.

Judges should not have immunity to break the law and cover up for abusers and retaliate against whistle blowers. If judges do the crime, they also should do the time.

Let your elected official know now that you mean business and want America back in the hands of the people, not arrogant bleepholes.

-Steven G. Erickson

High Level Public Corruption Arrests

If much of what happens in the UK hierarchy also mirrors trends in the US Government, I like this latest news from the UK. No matter how high someone is in government, if they are doing wrong, they should face a standard arrest and be hauled off to the lock up in handcuffs to face trial.

There are so many reasons Bush and Cheney should be arrested and then tried. I would like to see their financials along with all their cronies investigated for profiteering and defrauding taxpayers. Click Here for more on the UK Scandal brewing in the UK.

Click Here for videos post regarding Bush's Police State. Does the Governor of Connecticut have a goon squad out to track down those on the secret "Enemies List" for false arrests and imprisonment?

Click Here for a story on Judges' and State Police Officers' "Rub and Tug" brothel.

Click Here for story on how those that drive through Connecticut, especially the elderly face corrupt officials and their attorney friends to take the assets of those that get caught getting sick to have attorneys appointed for them "in their best interest". This is the excuse to divide a persons assets up between the state and lawyers to put "patients" in mental hospitals unable to see their adult children.

Bush's Police State

This is a 43 minute google video from 2004. Bush doesn't trust the American people and we should be subjected to wiretapping and eavesdropping. Well, who should trust George W. Bush, has he earned our trust? We the People need to undo all the damage George W. Bush and Co. has done to America.



The Connecticut Governor's Goon Squad, the Connecticut State Police. Should they operate in secret to take out everyone on their "Enemies List"?

The Connecticut Black Hand

How would the Connecticut State Police and Judges use such a girl? [Click Here for post]

Do they make profits from crime, drug dealing, prostitution, and corporate White Collar Crime?

The answer might be a big, "Hell, yes!"

Click Here, Did Dr. Henry C. Lee order domestic surveillance on me, Steven G. Erickson? My FOI request.

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Palestinians, Peace activists dress like American Indians in protest

Some 100 Palestinian residents, peace activists held a peaceful protest at Huwwara checkpoint near Nablus in the northern part of the West Bank, dressing like Native Americans to send a message to the visiting US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.


Agence France Presse Photo

The campaign is planned to last for thirty days, and is called ‚30 days against roadblocks. Some of the protesters chose to deliver a message to Rice by dressing up like Native Americans, and were wearing traditional headdresses and regalia.

The Israeli Ynetnews reported that at about 11 a.m. the protesters gathered at the Hawwara checkpoint south of Nablus, and held up signs in English denouncing the military roadblocks across the territories.

The Ynetnews added that the protest was originally organized by a peace group calling itself “Palestinians for Peace, Dialogue and Equality.

The peaceful protesters slammed the Israeli policies of closures and difficulties the checkpoints impose on the Palestinians on daily basis. The checkpoints restrict the freedom of movement of the residents, barring them from reaching their workplaces and their educational and medical facilities, in addition to enclosing them in enclaves, and even restricting their entry to their own farmlands and orchards isolated by the checkpoints and the Annexation Wall.

One of the signs at the protest reads, "The roadblocks are ruining the Palestinians' lives," while another poster aimed to juxtapose between the native-Americans, whose lands were stolen by the newcomers from Europe, and the Palestinians, the Ynetnews reported.

Another sign addressing Rice reads, "The Indian wars are not over, Ms. Rice, We are still here too."

Hartford, Connecticut, is it the NEW Selma, Alabama?

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.- "A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE"

Dear Governor Rell,

I testified in front of the Judiciary Committee yesterday, live on Connecticut's version of C-SPAN. regarding having cameras in the courts. I think cameras should be in all areas of the courts so that judges and prosecutors can no longer abuse citizens and their families across the board. The reason the OJ Simpson trial comes to my mind is that judge, those prosecutors, and those police had no practice having trials and operating legally, the right way, and had to do so while under the spotlight. The cockroaches that have been parasites on society too long need to scurry into the prisons, not those citizens caught up in Official Connecticut's Meat Grinder of Abuse.

I am posting this email to you on starkravingviking.blogspot.com

Should Connecticut Judges like Howard Scheinblum tell citizens, especially minorities and poorer whites to shut up and take a deal, guilty or not, without a lawyer, terrorized into taking a plea deal to avoid an absolute BBQ?

Should Sheinblum rent out courts for parties and play the violin listening to notes played for being good or bad in order to decide how harshly to sentence a defendant?

Should Judge Jonathan Kaplan act like an absolute lunatic, in my opinion, by following those around courts, blocking their exit from the courthouse with his car, and retaliate against those that try to have him removed with prison, false arrests, and/or having their children illegally removed? Should Kaplan bring up racial stereotypes as reasons for his ruling in open court?

Why should White Police Officers be able to execute Blacks, shoot them in the back, and the prosecutor in Connecticut purposely botches the case so that the Racist White Police Officer skates and appeal?

Why should the Connecticut State Police continue to get away with their policy of "Arrest and Discredit" when a citizen makes a Police Misconduct Complaint. Why are complaints regarding Judicial and Prosecutorial Misconduct routinely shredded, not investigated?

Why are Connecticut Attorneys allowed to do just about everything wrong and immoral, drive drunk, have inappropriate relationships with young clients, etc., and they usually skate through the "Wink and Nod Pedophile Priest Investigations by Pedophile Priests"-like style of discipline and quality control? Attorneys that have no ethics can be told to BBQ clients by judges, prosecutors, and police to deprive citizens of liberty, life, and pursuit of happiness for kicks, racism, bias, and retaliation by the officially corrupt in Connecticut.

I would like Chief State's Attorney Kevin T. Kane investigated for having been possibly under the influence of drugs and/or alcohol during his testimony, while on duty, yesterday, live on television.

I would like to see those that are allegedly on the Connecticut State Police "Enemies List" have their cases looked into for possible help and compensation. Journalists, bloggers, and those that are political activists should not have to automatically face false arrests and prison to block their Free Speech and to prevent them from proposing legislation and redressing grievances to elected officials if they upset those now really in charge in Connecticut, the heads of the police and the judiciary. Are ALL elected officials mere puppets of police and members of the Judiciary?

Governor Rell, can Connecticut become American and not possibly America's most corrupt state, a Police State?

Governor Rell, how come minority citizens are routinely pulled over if they pass over the "imaginary" border into West Hartford and Wethersfield from Hartford, Connecticut? Is that ok with you?

I request that you Governor Rell look into why there is a mass exodus of citizens and businesses out of Connecticut. Please also look into whether or not Connecticut's unofficial racist policies to eliminate "White Trash" and minorities can be eliminated by studying the reasons why the racial percentages aren't the same just into other districts just into Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and lower New York State.

Please bring back America and Ethical American Justice to Connecticut ending the national stain of Apartheid once and for all? It is my opinion that Connecticut is the worst and last bastion of Separate and Unequal.

Please set me and those likewise abused by Connecticut's Corrupt and Abusive System, FREE.

Thank you,
Steven G. Erickson
972 Putney Rd # 156
Brattleboro, Vermont 05301

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Has Connecticut Corrupticourts ruined our nation with the National Precedent, Eminent Domain? If Connecticut courts weren't run in such an illegal and Unconstitutional way would Eminent Domain have been approved? Click Here for Eminent Domain post.

Lock up your valuables, hide your wife and daughters, here comes the Connecticut State Police. Click Here for more.

Short Clip: The Waffle Shuffle Politician Expression

Subject: Cameras in the Courts



Connecticut State Representative Michael (Mike) Lawlor of the Judiciary Committee was asked by Chris Powell, last night Jan. 17, whether the public records of judges being reviewed was being made public. Lawlor's expressions tells it all, and there goes the idea for the title of this post. Click Here for Mike Lawlors's picture and webpage.



I didn't know I was live on television in Connecticut on CTN because the regular news reporters left shortly before I was to testify. I think that if cameras were in the courtrooms there would be less racist and absolute abuse of citizens by judges.

I bring up the OJ Simpson televised trial. The Judge, Prosecutor, and Police in that case had no practice doing things the right way. If there were cameras on in the courtrooms all the time, there would have to be politeness, respect, and those that are being paid tax dollars would have to do the work to earn them. There would be fewer false allegations of judicial, attorney, prosecutorial, official, and police misconduct.

There would also be a video record to use to see that these offenses are actually prosecuted.

When judges, police, prosecutors, tax paid officials, and even attorneys break the law, they do not get investigated and punished properly now. Cameras in all areas of the courts, except in the bathrooms would bring back ethics and justice to a morality challenged official Connecticut.



Rep. Green of Connecticut asks Chris Powell to explain more about what he is supposed to do as an elected official approving and reviewing judges. Don't they give these guys handbooks or something so they know what they are doing?



William (Bill) Mulready has been making the courts and legislators know that the courts are, and have been in violation of ADA guidelines. Notice that Bill tells the legislators live on camera about the problems and there ARE NO QUESTIONS ASKED BY LEGISLATORS.



Complain about a Judge, such as Jonathan J. Kaplan of the Rockville Connecticut Superior Court and you can be retaliated against, Chris Kennedy, also speaks out last night, live of CTN, Jan. 17. Kaplan brought up that Kennedy is Irish and his kids are going to be taken away. What!!!???

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The Get Justice Coalition

Dear Connecticut Chief State's Attorney Kevin T. Kane

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note: picture not of Kevin Kane

Dear Mr. Kane,
I was at a Judicial Committee Hearing today at the Hartford Capitol, Legislative Section, Connecticut where you testified live on CTN before I did.

The issue was cameras in the court rooms. Cameras could help curb Judicial, Prosecutorial, Official, Police, and Attorney Misconduct. It would also ensure that officials worked, were respectful, honest, and efficient while on the taxpayer dime.

Judges and prosecutors that may have rented out the courtrooms for retirement parties or are enjoying themselves "in chambers" could not be drinking or doing drugs if there are cameras in the courtrooms and "in chambers". There would be no false allegations of judges "drunk in public". Judges as the one in Oklahoma allegedly did would not be able to pleasure themselves under the bench with the cameras in the courtroom without being removed.

I think there should be cameras and audios in cruisers facing inside, there should be cameras with audios in all areas for prosecutors, court personnel, and for judges. The "funny business" in Connecticut has gone on too long. We the People want the "Official" party over.

I was told that your appearance live on television, C-TN, was of a concern of someone that has monitored those that abuse alcohol and or drugs, were you, sir, under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs when you testified today, Jan. 17, 2007? Did you have any drugs or alcohol?

And, if you did sir, should we, the taxpayers, pay you for today?

Just curious. Please email me a response to stevengerickson@yahoo.com

Thank you,
Steven G. Erickson

P.S. I am posting this open letter to you on the Internet. And didn't Vince Valvo accuse you today of not investigating anything regarding judges? Do you dismiss everything regarding prosecutors, judges, and attorneys, uninvestigated? Mr. Kane, do you owe favors for anything?

I am posting this open letter to you on starkravingviking.blogspot.com

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The Enforcers of the "Rich and White Only" Policy in Connecticut?

Click Here for the YouTube Video of the Connecticut State Police Graduation Ceremony from last Summer.

The video goes from color to black and white, back and forth, it sometimes resembles a morph between a Ku Klux Klan Rally and a Hitler Parade.

No offense to anyone of the homosexual persuasion, but it is about as flamingly gay as Mel Brooks latest movie version of "The Producers". But, ironically the Connecticut State Police have gotten bad press for "Gay Bashing" their own when they are "outed".

The recent behavior of Connecticut State Police that has come out in print would be comical if it weren't so appalling.

This post is dedicated to Ritt Goldstein a former prominent, Connecticut small business owner that advocated, and for legislation, to ensure an honest, public serving justice system. He and others testified in front of the Connecticut legislators in December of 1996 and produced a videotape called, "Under Siege".

Here is a clip where former Norwalk Mayor, Bill Collins, talks about police officers vandalizing his house, wearing ski masks to abduct citizens, to covertly beat and torture them at an abandoned warehouse. Those that have proposed Civilian Oversight of Police get put on the secret police, "Enemies List" in Connecticut. Goldstein later fled to Sweden seeking political asylum as gross police misconduct is that bad in Connecticut. Since, it has only gotten drastically worse.

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Liberty Taken, Free Speech Tested

Connecticut's version of separate and unequal, does the old racist cartoon still apply to what is reality in Connecticut?

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An Email into me regarding Attorney Misconduct

January 14, 2007, 12:06 PM EST

STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) _ The arrest and conviction of several attorneys on charges of stealing clients' money has prompted the Connecticut Bar Association and state judicial officials to impose stiffer penalties for lawbreaking lawyers.

In the last three years, seven lawyers in the Fairfield County area have been arrested on larceny and other charges. Attorneys elsewhere in the state also have faced various charges, though the total number represents a minuscule proportion of the state's 16,000 lawyers.

Former state bar president Fred Ury, who serves on bar association's Task Force on Attorney Client Funds, and Mark Dubois, state Judicial Branch Chief Disciplinary Counsel, have been trying to figure out why as much as $20 million in client funds have been misappropriated statewide over the past three years.

Ury and Dubois said they see a pattern. They call it "the middle-aged white guy scenario" because many of the 20 or so lawyers who have been accused of bilking clients fit that description.

"At that time in their careers, they have access to more money and people tend to unravel in mid-life crisis," Dubois said. "The kids have gone to college and left home, sometimes there is divorce or some other family tension and usually there is some form of addictive behavior like gambling, alcohol, drugs or sex."

Bill Durkin, president of the Fairfield County Bar Association, said more publicity and stepped up prosecution _ not more lawyers who are caught _ are driving lawyers and authorities to act against dishonesty in the legal profession.

"I don't think that anything is going on rather than the system is working," he said. "I think that it is more likely now that the situations are getting greater public attention for the reasons that the legal authorities are taking aggressive steps on this."

Dubois said the Judicial Branch's Office of the Chief Disciplinary Council, which was established in 2004 to pursue lawyer grievance complaints, is doing its best to head off misappropriation of money.

"We have a new regime in place," he said. "Whether we will be able to stop the stealing, I don't know."

A new rule went into effect Jan. 1 that call for mandatory disbarment of lawyers who steal from clients. The rule prohibits attorneys from reapplying for membership to the bar for 12 years, Dubois said.

Beginning July 1, another rule will allow the Chief Disciplinary Council to conduct random audits of attorneys' client trust fund accounts.

Yet another rule change gives Dubois quick access to the financial records of any client trustee account when an overdraft is recorded. In the past, the process to legally begin auditing those accounts took at least six months to complete, he said.

And the General Assembly this year also will consider legislation requiring lawyers who hold money for clients be bonded.

Using lawyers' money, the Judicial Branch has established a lawyer assistance program that offers referrals to lawyers with addiction, mental health and other problems.

Dubois said few clients have been victimized by their lawyers in part because of the Connecticut Client Security fund set up in 1999. The account, which has paid more than $7 million in claims since its inception, is funded by lawyers who practice in the state.

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Information from: The Advocate, http://www.stamfordadvocate.com

Governor Deval Patrick

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Faxed to: (617) 727-9725 and (202) 624-7714, at approx 8:15 AM EST:

January 16, 2007
Dear Governor Deval Patrick,

Subject: Civil Rights Abuse and Economic Damage being done to Massachusetts due to Connecticut’s “Secret Police Enemies List”, Civil Rights Abuses, Official Kidnaping of Children at about ten times more than should be taken, racist illegal court proceedings, and the separate and unequal across the board policies of Official Connecticut

Please check this website:http://starkravingviking.blogspot.com/ for more information.

The Connecticut State Police Internal Affairs was taken over by New York State Internal Affairs and a scathing 168 page report was issued about gross police misconduct of the Connecticut State Police. Please obtain the report as part of an investigation into civil rights violations of Massachusetts residents at the hands of Connecticut State Police and their rubberstamp judiciary. Please send a copy to the Massachusetts Attorney General, US Attorney for Massachusetts, and any appropriate investigating bodies. Please look into the allegations within this letter and on the above noted website.

The Connecticut State Police have a “100 Club” for falsely arresting as many citizens as possible for DWI. False reports, bogus paperwork, obstructing justice, police officers committing perjury, and citizen abuse is Connecticut State Police business as usual. How many Massachusetts residents have been taken off the taxpayer roles, have lost their jobs, and lost their families because of this official illegal abuse of citizens? How much has the economy suffered? How many sit in prisons that should not. How many can never again get a decent job, rent an apartment in a good neighborhood, or ever own a home because of this gross judicial, prosecutorial, police, attorney, and official misconduct?

I seek a reward, Qui Tam, for informing you of fraud that if fixed will save Massachusetts and Federal Taxpayers. Please get back to me on this issue.

Those that wish to sue the Police in Connecticut for Civil Rights Abuse, write things in newspapers or blogs police don’t like, or propose laws to elected officials, such as Civilian Oversight of Police are placed on the Connecticut State Police “Enemies List” and then are maliciously investigated to be arrested and imprisoned as political prisoners in Connecticut. Please obtain and review my trial transcripts, docket # CR01-0074672, Rockville Connecticut Superior Court.

I believe I was placed on the Connecticut State Police “Enemies List” for wanting equal protection and service from police as they refused to take complaints regarding such crimes as heroin and crack cocaine drug dealing and other crimes going on and near my Stafford Springs Connecticut rental properties that I had fixed up from a boarded up condition. I refused to agree to “not rent to African Americans and other minorities” when the former Stafford selectman told me that Stafford was “White Only”.

Racism and keeping poorer whites out of the Rich White Only neighborhoods means labeling as many citizens as possible as criminals to deny rights and access. Taking away as many children as possible, defrauds all Federal Taxpayers. Breaking up families does social and economic harm for generations. Connecticut Prisons are used as birth control for Connecticut’s unwanted citizens, minorities and poorer whites. False imprisonment is also defrauding all Federal Taxpayers.

Police in Connecticut operate their own teen gangs to threaten, terrorize, and enforce Connecticut State Police unofficial properties. Crime, contributing to the delinquency of minors, separate and unequal, prostitution, alcohol and drug abuse, blight, the lowering of the quality of life, and other social problems are increasing due to the activities of the Connecticut State Police. I would like to see legal action initiated to abolish the Connecticut State Police. Connecticut needs a Highway Patrol, not a police force that operates to enforce unofficial “Jim Crow”. Please help fix possibly the most abusive police force in America. KGB style policing should not be anywhere in America.

Judge Jonathan Kaplan feels comfortable bringing up someone’s race and heritage, the areas of someone ancestors origins, to make racist stereotypical comments on the record and because of racist stereotypes makes judgments such as taking away children. Please contact me for examples.

Judge Howard Scheinblum formerly of the Enfield Court would tell poorer Whites and minorities defendants to take plea deals, guilty or not, under duress, without a lawyer present. Intimidation and terror should not be used to deny citizens their Constitutional Rights.

Please look into this Judge. ADA laws have not been followed by Connecticut Courts since their passing in the early 1990's. Please look into having every case that has been heard in Connecticut since then to be reviewed for legal and Constitutional proceedings and if they are not the records and convictions should be thrown out. Please forward this request to the appropriate persons.

The Connecticut US Attorney might be guilty in obstruction justice in the prosecution and investigation of former Governor John G. Rowland who spent time in Federal Prison for taking bribes. The Connecticut Attorney General might be part of a syndicate to defraud taxpayers by issuing no big contracts to former law partners and not properly investigating a Lyme Disease testing and treatment scam with members of Yale University allegedly involved.

Please take legal action against Official Connecticut to benefit all of America to again foster faith in government, police, and the American Justice System.

Please mail me a response to this fax.

Thank you,
Steven G. Erickson
972 Putney Rd. # 156
Brattleboro, Vermont 05301

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I emailed the above complaint to Connecticut Governor M. Jodi Rell.

I had fixed up 3 Connecticut rental properties, 2 from a boarded up condition.

I had a contracting business in Massachusetts with 4 Yellow Page ads built up over 2 decades also lost due to Connecticut State Police misconduct, perjury, and retaliation for my having wrote things about Connecticut Police in newspapers, for telling elected officials that I intended to sue Police, and for proposing Civilian Oversight of Police to Connecticut elected officials.

I believe the former Connecticut State Police Commissioner Arthur L. Spada conspired with his Rockville Connecticut Superior Court buddy, Judge Jonathan Kaplan to shut me up and ruin me by rigging a trial to send me to prison.

There was jury tampering by showing a videotape of how to find me guilty and nothing about reasonable doubt or finding me innocent. A worker for the police became jury foreman against my wishes. Attorney Michael H. Agranoff told me he was not allowed to dispute the police or disagree with the prosecutor in a private in chambers conference with Judge Jonathan Kaplan regarding my case.

A police informant had been threatening my life for weeks, stalking me, and tried to rob me on 10-11-01, where I ended the attack with pepper spray. Brian Caldwell either attacked me or tried to attack me 7 more times before my trial for "overreacting" to being beaten during a robbery attempt by ending the attack with pepper spray. What!!!???

Stafford Connecticut Police Officer Prochaska and Resident State Trooper Mulcahey allegedly offered Peter Coukos help in obtaining a pistol permit if he was able to threaten and harass me and my then 14 year old National Honor Society Student daughter out of Connecticut. Coukos allegedly has smoked crack cocaine, is an alcoholic, abuses prescription drugs, smokes marijuana, and in a racist road rage incident continually smashed into an African American woman's car while drunk over miles of road to be arrested for DUI. Coukos is also allegedly known to be a frequenter of prostitutes and offers young women money to sleep with him.

I called or left a message for Stafford Springs Connecticut State Senator Tony Guglielmo after each of the attacks or attempted attacks by Caldwell and Coukos. I also told Guglielmo that I had been denied AR to make me lose my properties and business. I told Guglielmo that officers were bragging that I was going to prison BEFORE the kangaroo trial.

I told Guglielmo that officers had threatened me with another arrest if I did not shut my mouth and leave Connecticut. I had also told Tony that police had refused to take my and tenants' complaints and/or statements regarding Caldwell's stalking, harassing, attempted robbery of me on my property, his threatening my life, and beating on my door after midnight telling me he would cut my penis off if he caught me out in my yard before I was arrested after he attacked me.

I wrote George W. Bush 9-15-01 about what I was going through regarding being punished by police and the courts for having invested in the American Dream buying downtown rental properties. The absolute nightmare became worse when I was attacked by Caldwell 10-11-01. Notice the two dates!!!

Should I never have a decent job or place to live ever again because of a bogus criminal record and false imprisonment? Should this common Connecticut prosecutorial, attorney, judicial, official, and police misconduct be ended to stop the defrauding of all Federal Taxpayers?

I have been faxing and writing governors and attorneys general of states to let them know that I cannot service their state as a first responder during natural disasters as I was fired from my job due to Connecticut's false arrests, false imprisonment, and the bogus criminal record that I have been saddled with.

Click Here for my YouTube video

Click Here for the Connecticut Secret Police doing their "Secret Enemies List" surveillance and citizen abuse using uncover operatives.

Click Here for the story and photo of the woman allegedly offered $10,000 to set me up for false arrest and prison.

Click Here for the YouTube video of Connecticut Police Informant Todd Vashon talking about Officers Thomas and Nardella that had paid him $10,000 to kill either Phil Inkel or Stephen Murzin for having lodged a police misconduct complaint against them on a Connecticut News Broadcast.

From the 40 year plan blog

found here

January 15, 2007

Free Kenny Legal Defense Fund Bash, Friday, 1/19/07

By Ken Krayeske • Hartford • 11:00 AM EST

American silkscreen - t-shirts will be available!

W ho? You! And as many freedom loving friends as you can bring!

W hat? The Free Kenny Legal Defense Fund Bash, featuring beer, wine, hors d'oerves, music and free speech.

W here? La Paloma Sabanera, 405 Capitol Ave., Hartford [Connecticut]

W hy? Because lawyering up to defend free speech isn't cheap.

W hen? Friday, Jan. 19 from 6 to 9 p.m.

H ow much? $25 suggested donation, or whatever you can give will help defray Ken Krayeske's legal expenses, which arise from his arrest and detainment after photographing Gov. M. Jodi Rell's inaugural parade Jan. 3. If you can't attend, but still want to support the battle to protect civil liberties, click here for info on how to send a check.

F or more information, email Steve Colangelo or call him at 860-508-4740. No RSVP needed.

For more info on the arrest, please see

Government Surveillance A Troubling Growth Tred, Say Anti-War Activists from FoxNews.com, 1/15/07

Activist's arrest is raising uncomfortable questions from the Waterbury Republican, 1/14/07

A Lack of Intelligence from the Hartford Courant, 1/09/07

Drop the Charges, Apologize from the New London Day, 1/10/07

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January 15, 2007

Revolutionary Fiber Art

By Ken Krayeske • Hartford • 1:00 AM EST

Vietnamese needlepoint.

American silkscreen.

Stitch and bitch took on a whole new meaning over at the Weavings of War: Fabrics of Memory exhibit at the Institute for Community Research in Hartford.

The exhibit, which closed Saturday night, featured needlepoint narratives of progressive struggles for liberation. Sewn tapestries Southeast Asia, rugs from Iran and Pakistan, and quilts from Chile and South Africa told of the ravages faced by ordinary people in wartime.

Since Adam Bulger of the Hartford Advocate covered the symposium on folk tale techniques of Bosnian fabric artists, I'll cut right to the photos. Link...

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all the below, NOT from the 40 year plan blog

Click Here for my open letter to Connecticut Governor M. Jodi Rell

Click Here for the text of my letter to the Washington DC FBI

Click Here for "Too FN Lazy to protect and serve"
post includes a YouTube video of me, Steven G. Erickson, testifying in front of the Judicial Reform Committee

Click Here for post on the Secret Police Goons out acting on the Secret Police Files, "The Connecticut State Police "Enemies List", post includes pictures.

Click Here, Did your tax dollars pay for the woman pictured to sleep with me to set me up for a Connecticut State Police BBQ?

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POLITICS (Connecticut)

Key Committee To Hold Hearing

Testimony About Conduct Of State Police Will Be Heard By State Lawmakers

January 13, 2007

By CHRISTOPHER KEATING, Hartford Courant, Capitol Bureau Chief, The Hartford Courant

A key legislative committee will hold a hearing on two of the most embarrassing issues facing the state police: a scathing internal affairs report on trooper misconduct and the controversial arrest of a political activist during the governor's inaugural parade.

State Police Commissioner Leonard Boyle will testify on both issues Jan. 23 before the General Assembly's Public Safety Committee. The hearing is open to the public, but testimony will be limited to those asked to appear.

Attorney General Richard Blumenthal will discuss a 207-page report his office co-authored on the internal affairs unit, which detailed allegations of trooper drug use, sexual abuse, excessive force, family violence and association with prostitutes.

Four law-enforcement officials will talk about the arrest of Kenneth Krayeske, a political activist who was handcuffed during the Jan. 3 inaugural parade and charged with breach of peace and interfering with police.

Before the parade, Krayeske had been identified by state police as a possible threat to Gov. M. Jodi Rell. He had confronted her during last fall's election campaign at a Glastonbury parade and written critically about her recently on his website.

But Krayeske's supporters say he was simply taking photographs of Rell during the Hartford parade and did nothing that could be deemed a threat. His attorney, Norman Pattis, said Krayeske took at least 50 photographs during the public parade, including 16 of Rell as she walked along the route near Bushnell Park.

Pattis said he hoped to attend the hearing - which he described as a "show trial" - but is scheduled to be in court that day on another matter. A veteran trial attorney who is known as one of the state's best defense attorneys, Pattis remained confident about Krayeske's prospects.

"If this case goes to trial and I lose it, I will shave my head on the steps of the state Supreme Court," said Pattis, who for years has worn a long ponytail.

Krayeske has limited his comments on the advice of his attorney, and Pattis said that Krayeske "will not speak anywhere until he speaks to a jury."

One police official described the Krayeske arrest as "a train wreck."

As lawmakers have publicly criticized the arrest, some lawmakers have been jockeying behind the scenes over which committee would hold hearings.

Some pushed for the judiciary or the government administration and elections committee to conduct the inquiry because they are deemed among the most aggressive in the legislature. The public safety committee finally was chosen because it retains jurisdiction over law-enforcement issues.

The hearing will be conducted by state Sen. Andrea Stillman, D-Waterford, and state Rep. Stephen Dargan, D-West Haven, the committee's co-chairs.

"If something happened to the governor, there would have been criticism that law enforcement didn't do enough to protect the governor," Dargan said Friday night. "It's like a Monday morning quarterback. We want to make sure that law enforcement is not handcuffed in the job they're supposed to do."

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COMMENTARY
The Long Arm Of The List

Targeting People Who May Be Politically Disruptive Strikes At Heart Of Political Freedom

January 14, 2007
By NORMAN A. PATTIS

"License and registration, please?" The officer stands beside your car. Behind you, his cruiser lights are flashing. Other motorists slow down to gawk. Your heart pounds.

"What have I done?" you ask. The officer explains that you ran a stop sign several blocks back. You never saw the sign, but no matter. It will be a small fine and off you will go. Everyone makes simple mistakes from time to time.

The officer takes your license and registration to his car. He enters your name into a database linked to his car by computer. A message flashes across his screen:

WARNING - APPROACH WITH CAUTION

THIS INDIVIDUAL IS ASSOCIATED WITH TERRORISM ...

USE CAUTION AND IMMEDIATELY CONTACT THE TERRORIST SCREENING CENTER AT (866) 872-9001 FOR ADDITIONAL DIRECTION.

Your plans for the evening have changed. You are now on a federal radar, listed and tagged as a potential threat. Your name is part of the FBI's Violent Gang and Terrorist Organization File (VGTOF). Will you go home, or to a jail cell?

How did your name get on the list? You don't know. You may never know. Perhaps you were seen at an antiwar rally. Or perhaps you contributed money to a candidate or cause that some anonymous soul views as suspect. Like it or not, however, every law enforcement officer in the country now need only log onto his computer to learn that you are a suspect.

We saw how innocent acts become crimes at the inaugural parade for Gov. M. Jodi Rell this month. Ken Krayeske, a free-lance journalist, law student and former campaign director for Green Party gubernatorial candidate Cliff Thornton, was arrested there and charged with breach of peace and interfering with a police officer. Why? He was taking pictures of the parade.

Of course, that is no crime. But before the parade began, Hartford police officers were told by the Connecticut Intelligence Center and the Connecticut State Police Central Intelligence Unit that a number of political activists posed a threat to the governor.

These intelligence groups are part of the new state-federal security network that is sharing information about all manner of things that can go bump in the night. The state police had photographs of the activists listed as threats. Krayeske's picture was among them.

Ken Krayeske was not arrested for taking pictures. He was arrested because he was on a list of potential threats. His innocent conduct took on a sinister cast when viewed through the secret lens of suspicion.

The state police deny maintaining any such lists. I suspect the denials are a mere linguistic trick. The state may not maintain a list. The lists of who is naughty and who is nice are most likely in federal hands. State lawmakers can hold all the hearings they want in Hartford to find out about these lists and they will learn almost nothing. State law enforcement officials are merely participating in federally managed and funded programs designed, we are told, to protect the security of this, our blessed homeland.

When state lawmakers try to subpoena federal officials, those subpoenas will be quashed in the name of national security or some other legal devicethat makes the federal government a distant, and sacrosanct, overlord.

VGTOF, for example, was created in 1995 in response to the Oklahoma City bombing. It is managed by the FBI. The list initially was focused on individuals believed to be members of groups posing a threat to the United States. But in recent years, the list has expanded. Not long ago, mere protesters against the war in Iraq were placed on the list. A federal audit of VGTOF in 2005 found an error rate of 40 percent based on a small sample of records. Are you on the VGTOF list?

These lists are dangerous and easily misused. Was Ken Krayeske arrested because he had threatened to attend the gubernatorial ball and protest? Or because he once questioned why Gov. Rell refused to demand that gubernatorial debates be open to all candidates?

I did not pledge allegiance to a national-security state. We proclaim in the federal Constitution's preamble that "we the people" created government for limited ends, to assure our life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

"Live free or die," read license plates in New Hampshire. These are words to live by. When did we yield the freedom to be let alone to bureaucrats who decide without meaningful review who is and is not a threat? More important, who regulates the men and women sitting up nights deciding who among us to include on lists that can transform innocent conduct into crimes?

Norman A. Pattis is a criminal defense and civil rights lawyer in Bethany. He represents Ken Krayeske in criminal charges arising from the arrest at the inaugural parade.

Impeach Bush?

No, let's have him arrested, hauled away in handcuffs, to stand trial for war crimes, crimes against humanity, for lying, for going back on his Presidential Oath to uphold the US Constitution, for obstructing justice, and for being a MAJOR ASSHOLE. The below from Raw Story, found here (click)

Democratic presidential candidate Kucinich warns, 'If Bush attacks Iran, all bets are off'

Miriam Raftery
Published: Sunday January 14, 2007

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While making an unannounced appearance at a media reform conference on Friday, Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) - a candidate for president in 2004 and already announced for 2008 - was pressed by bloggers in attendance about impeachment.

Telling the crowd that while he didn't think immediate action was wise, due to fears that Bush might "accelerate the war even more," the congressman warned that "if Bush attacks Iran, all bets are off."

At the Free Press National Conference on Media Reform in Memphis, Tennessee, Kucinich announced that he has been named chair of the newly-formed Domestic Policy Subcommittee of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, drawing cheers from the crowd. The subcommittee will have jurisdiction over all domestic agencies of the federal government, including the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)

"Kucinich, among Capitol Hill's most outspoken critics of President Bush and the war in Iraq, had been ranking member of the National Security Subcommittee in the last legislative session," Jessica Brady reported for CongressDaily. "As the panel's presumed chairman in the Democratic-led 110th Congress, he had a ready platform to advance his antiwar agenda."

But Kucinich told CongressDaily that he "might wield more influence" as chairman of the subcommittee and that House Oversight and Government Reform Chairman Henry Waxman (D-CA) "made clear that he's going to use the full committee" to address foreign policy issues. Kucinich added, "Domestic policy could end up having the most influence of any committee [because] it has oversight of all domestic policy in the US."

On media reform and subcommittee plans

At the conference Friday attended by RAW STORY, which included bloggers and alternative media journalists, Kucinich said, "I intend to hold hearings on media reform."

"Those hearings would address concentration of media ownership and other issues," he pledged. "We know the media has become the servant of a very narrow corporate agenda…The entire domestic agenda has been ignored while the focus has been on the acceleration of wealth upwards." Kucinich also pledged to hold hearings on restoring the Fairness Doctrine.

Asked by RAW STORY if he would support a federal shield law to protect journalists and alternative media members, such as blogger Josh Wolf, who has been in jail 144 days for refusing to turn over videotape of a protest demonstration, Kucinich replied, "I would be willing to hold hearings on journalists who have been prosecuted or persecuted because of their defense of the First Amendment. One of the founding matters in our country is a free and unfettered press…I think there should have been an inquiry into why Dan Rather was fired." He embraced Liz Wolf Spada, the mother of Josh Wolf, and asked her to contact his office with details of her son’s plight.

Kucinich stated that he would support a federal shield law and would restore Constitutional rights to prevent the government from eavesdropping on journalists without a warrant. "This surveillance society needs to be dismantled," he said. Kucinich called for repeal of the Patriot Act, adding that most members of Congress voted for it sight unseen.

Kucinich, who voted to reject the Ohio electors after the controversial 2004 presidential election, said he has held meetings with committee staff to set up hearings on the integrity of the electoral process. "This issue of election integrity is right up there with peace and healthcare and all the other issues that people are most concerned about," he told an election integrity advocate in the alternative media press corps. "I’m ready to work with you to heighten public awareness."

Kucinich suggested that his committee, which has broad oversight powers, could look into other issues, ranging from contractors involved in post-Katrina work to Bureau of Indian Affairs policies, poverty and neglect of American Indians.

"We are now in a position to move a progressive agenda to where it is visible," the presidential contender concluded.

On impeachment and Iran

Bloggers pressed Kucinich about the impeachment issue. While agreeing that the administration should ultimately be held accountable under international law, Kucinich opposed immediate impeachment proceedings. "We must keep the focus on our troops, Kucinich said. "The minute impeachment is on the table, this President will accelerate the war even more."

But he added, "if Bush attacks Iran, all bets are off." Later he added, "We need to safeguard our Constitution." If the President takes steps towards another war, Kucinich warned, Congress could make "an active effort" toward impeachment.

"The President is clearly trying to provoke Iran," he said, adding that the Bush administration is "treading on the thinnest ice it has ever been on."

Last week, in a press release sent out after Bush's speech on his "new strategy," Kucinich said that Congress should not "follow the President's path of war."

"Congress needs to take a stand against the President and take the necessary steps to bring our troops home," Kucinich stated. "We need to begin talks with Iran and Syria -- and not blame them for our misguided war in Iraq. Diplomacy is the only way to avoid a widening war. If we follow the President's path of war, we will get...more war."

On Friday, the presidential candidate also discussed a petition for redress signed by 1,000 active-duty members of the US armed forces, which he will presented to Washington on Tuesday.

"We are not supporting our troops by sending them off to a war based on lies," Kucinich said, also criticizing the Bush administration for failing to properly armor and supply solders in Iraq. "Support for the troops is listening to what they have to say."

America's New Low, Get Shot or Beaten by Police for Jaywalking?:

The Below found here on the web. What do you make of it? This blog allows anonymous comments.

Jaywalking don hit by full force of the law

Will Pavia

Five officers pin professor to ground

It's lucky he was not shot, says wife

Peter Stothard on Armesto's arrest

A distinguished British historian who tried to cross a road in Atlanta, Georgia, has complained of being wrestled to the ground, pinioned by five police officers and incarcerated.

Felipe Fernández-Armesto, 56, visiting Professor of Global Environmental History at Queen Mary, University of London, was attending the conference of the American Historical Association last Thursday when he was caught jaywalking.

“I’m a mass of contusions and grazes,” he said in an interview shown on the website YouTube.

“I come from a country where you can cross the road where you like,” he said. “It hadn’t occurred to me that I wasn’t allowed to cross the road between the two main conference venues.”

He was not the only historian so to offend. A policeman called Kevin Leonpacher led a crackdown on the scholars, cautioning several before confronting the British professor, whose work has been compared to that of the 18th-century greats Gibbon and Montesquieu.

“I didn’t appreciate the gravity of the offence,” he said. “And I didn’t recognise him as a policeman. He was wearing . . . a bomber jacket, like a jerkin.”

The officer asked the professor for identification. The professor asked the officer for identification. Officer Leonpacher then told him that he was under arrest and, according to the professor, subjected him to “terrible, terrible violence”.

He said: “This young man kicked my legs from under me, wrenched me round, pinned me to the ground, wrenched my arms behind my back, handcuffed me.” As he bridled at this treatment, Officer Leonpacher called for help and soon “I had five burly policemen pinioning me to the ground”.

His colleagues were astonished. It was “like he was Osama bin Laden or something”, said Lisa Kazmier, a historian from Philadelphia.

The professor had hoped to spend the afternoon listening to his fellows discoursing on arcane topics. Instead, he was handcuffed to another suspect in a “filthy paddywagon” and fingerprinted in a detention centre, where his peppermints were confiscated. His bail was set at £720 and he remained behind bars for eight hours. When he told a judge his side of the story in court the next morning the case was dropped.

Officer Leonpacher was unrepentant, saying: “He chose to ignore a uniformed officer. At what point can anyone say I overreacted?”

The professor’s wife, Lesley, told The Times yesterday: “I suppose it’s lucky he wasn’t shot.”

The professor said that, as an “ageing member of the bourgeoisie”, he found it all educational — and was now seen by many of his colleagues “as a combination of Rambo, because it took five cops to pin me to the ground, and Perry Mason, because my eloquence before a judge obtained my immediate release”.

Walk, don't walk

Georgia’s criminal code, Section 40-6-96, states: “Where a sidewalk is provided, it shall be unlawful for any pedestrian to walk along and upon an adjacent roadway”

A police officer was present when the professor, right, attempted to cross the road, so he was charged with being in breach of Section 40-6-90:

It states: “A pedestrian shall obey the instructions of any official traffic-control device specifically applicable to him, unless otherwise directed by a police officer”

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Now the End Game?

From nytimes.com:

Military Expands Intelligence Role in U.S.

By ERIC LICHTBLAU and MARK MAZZETTI

WASHINGTON, Jan. 13 — The Pentagon has been using a little-known power to obtain banking and credit records of hundreds of Americans and others suspected of terrorism or espionage inside the United States, part of an aggressive expansion by the military into domestic intelligence gathering.

The C.I.A. has also been issuing what are known as national security letters to gain access to financial records from American companies, though it has done so only rarely, intelligence officials say.

Banks, credit card companies and other financial institutions receiving the letters usually have turned over documents voluntarily, allowing investigators to examine the financial assets and transactions of American military personnel and civilians, officials say.

The F.B.I., the lead agency on domestic counterterrorism and espionage, has issued thousands of national security letters since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, provoking criticism and court challenges from civil liberties advocates who see them as unjustified intrusions into Americans’ private lives.

But it was not previously known, even to some senior counterterrorism officials, that the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency have been using their own “noncompulsory” versions of the letters. Congress has rejected several attempts by the two agencies since 2001 for authority to issue mandatory letters, in part because of concerns about the dangers of expanding their role in domestic spying.

The military and the C.I.A. have long been restricted in their domestic intelligence operations, and both are barred from conducting traditional domestic law enforcement work. The C.I.A.’s role within the United States has been largely limited to recruiting people to spy on foreign countries.

Carl Kropf, a spokesman for the director of national intelligence, said intelligence agencies like the C.I.A. used the letters on only a “limited basis.”

Pentagon officials defended the letters as valuable tools and said they were part of a broader strategy since the Sept. 11 attacks to use more aggressive intelligence-gathering tactics — a priority of former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld. The letters “provide tremendous leads to follow and often with which to corroborate other evidence in the context of counterespionage and counterterrorism,” said Maj. Patrick Ryder, a Pentagon spokesman.

Government lawyers say the legal authority for the Pentagon and the C.I.A. to use national security letters in gathering domestic records dates back nearly three decades and, by their reading, was strengthened by the antiterrorism law known as the USA Patriot Act.

Pentagon officials said they used the letters to follow up on a variety of intelligence tips or leads. While they would not provide details about specific cases, military intelligence officials with knowledge of them said the military had issued the letters to collect financial records regarding a government contractor with unexplained wealth, for example, and a chaplain at Guantánamo Bay erroneously suspected of aiding prisoners at the facility.

Usually, the financial documents collected through the letters do not establish any links to espionage or terrorism and have seldom led to criminal charges, military officials say. Instead, the letters often help eliminate suspects.

“We may find out this person has unexplained wealth for reasons that have nothing to do with being a spy, in which case we’re out of it,” said Thomas A. Gandy, a senior Army counterintelligence official.

But even when the initial suspicions are unproven, the documents have intelligence value, military officials say. In the next year, they plan to incorporate the records into a database at the Counterintelligence Field Activity office at the Pentagon to track possible threats against the military, Pentagon officials said. Like others interviewed, they would speak only on the condition of anonymity.

Military intelligence officers have sent letters in up to 500 investigations over the last five years, two officials estimated. The number of letters is likely to be well into the thousands, the officials said, because a single case often generates letters to multiple financial institutions. For its part, the C.I.A. issues a handful of national security letters each year, agency officials said. Congressional officials said members of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees had been briefed on the use of the letters by the military and the C.I.A.

Some national security experts and civil liberties advocates are troubled by the C.I.A. and military taking on domestic intelligence activities, particularly in light of recent disclosures that the Counterintelligence Field Activity office had maintained files on Iraq war protesters in the United States in violation of the military’s own guidelines. Some experts say the Pentagon has adopted an overly expansive view of its domestic role under the guise of “force protection,” or efforts to guard military installations.

“There’s a strong tradition of not using our military for domestic law enforcement,” said Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker, a former general counsel at both the National Security Agency and the C.I.A. who is the dean at the McGeorge School of Law at the University of the Pacific. “They’re moving into territory where historically they have not been authorized or presumed to be operating.”

Similarly, John Radsan, an assistant general counsel at the C.I.A. from 2002 to 2004 and now a law professor at William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul, said, “The C.I.A. is not supposed to have any law enforcement powers, or internal security functions, so if they’ve been issuing their own national security letters, they better be able to explain how they don’t cross the line.”

The Pentagon’s expanded intelligence-gathering role, in particular, has created occasional conflicts with other federal agencies. Pentagon efforts to post American military officers at embassies overseas to gather intelligence for counterterrorism operations or future war plans has rankled some State Department and C.I.A. officials, who see the military teams as duplicating and potentially interfering with the intelligence agency.

In the United States, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has complained about military officials dealing directly with local police — rather than through the bureau — for assistance in responding to possible terrorist threats against a military base. F.B.I. officials say the threats have often turned out to be uncorroborated and, at times, have stirred needless anxiety.

The military’s frequent use of national security letters has sometimes caused concerns from the businesses receiving them, a counterterrorism official said. Lawyers at financial institutions, which routinely provide records to the F.B.I. in law enforcement investigations, have contacted bureau officials to say they were confused by the scope of the military’s requests and whether they were obligated to turn the records over, the official said.

Companies are not eager to turn over sensitive financial data about customers to the government, the official said, “so the more this is done, and the more poorly it’s done, the more pushback there is for the F.B.I.”

The bureau has frequently relied on the letters in recent years to gather telephone and Internet logs, financial information and other records in terrorism investigations, serving more than 9,000 letters in 2005, according to a Justice Department tally. As an investigative tool, the letters present relatively few hurdles; they can be authorized by supervisors rather than a court. Passage of the Patriot Act in October 2001 lowered the standard for issuing the letters, requiring only that the documents sought be “relevant” to an investigation and allowing records requests for more peripheral figures, not just targets of an inquiry.

Some Democrats have accused the F.B.I. of using the letters for fishing expeditions, and the American Civil Liberties Union won court challenges in two cases, one for library records in Connecticut and the other for Internet records in Manhattan. Concerned about possible abuses, Congress imposed new safeguards in extending the Patriot Act last year, in part by making clear that recipients of national security letters could contact a lawyer and seek court review. Congress also directed the Justice Department inspector general to study the F.B.I.’s use of the letters, a review that is continuing.

Unlike the F.B.I., the military and the C.I.A. do not have wide-ranging authority to seek records on Americans in intelligence investigations. But the expanded use of national security letters has allowed the Pentagon and the intelligence agency to collect records on their own. Sometimes, military or C.I.A. officials work with the F.B.I. to seek records, as occurred with an American translator who had worked for the military in Iraq and was suspected of having ties to insurgents.

After the Sept. 11 attacks, Mr. Rumsfeld directed military lawyers and intelligence officials to examine their legal authorities to collect intelligence both inside the United States and abroad. They concluded that the Pentagon had “way more” legal tools than it had been using, a senior Defense Department official said.

Military officials say the Right to Financial Privacy Act of 1978, which establishes procedures for government access to sensitive banking data, first authorized them to issue national security letters. The military had used the letters sporadically for years, officials say, but the pace accelerated in late 2001, when lawyers and intelligence officials concluded that the Patriot Act strengthened their ability to use the letters to seek financial records on a voluntary basis and to issue mandatory letters to obtain credit ratings, the officials said.

The Patriot Act does not specifically mention military intelligence or C.I.A. officials in connection with the national security letters.

Some F.B.I. officials said they were surprised by the Pentagon’s interpretation of the law when military officials first informed them of it. “It was a very broad reading of the law,” a former counterterrorism official said.

While the letters typically have been used to trace the financial transactions of military personnel, they also have been used to investigate civilian contractors and people with no military ties who may pose a threat to the military, officials said. Military officials say they regard the letters as one of the least intrusive means to gather evidence. When a full investigation is opened, one official said, it has now become “standard practice” to issue such letters.

One prominent case in which letters were used to obtain financial records, according to two military officials, was that of a Muslim chaplain at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, who was suspected in 2003 of aiding terror suspects imprisoned at the facility. The espionage case against the chaplain, James J. Yee, soon collapsed.

Eugene Fidell, a defense lawyer for the former chaplain and a military law expert, said he was unaware that military investigators may have used national security letters to obtain financial information about Mr. Yee, nor was he aware that the military had ever claimed the authority to issue the letters.

Mr. Fidell said he found the practice “disturbing,” in part because the military does not have the same checks and balances when it comes to Americans’ civil rights as does the F.B.I. “Where is the accountability?” he asked. “That’s the evil of it — it doesn’t leave fingerprints.”

Even when a case is closed, military officials said they generally maintain the records for years because they may be relevant to future intelligence inquiries. Officials at the Pentagon’s counterintelligence unit say they plan to incorporate those records into a database, called Portico, on intelligence leads. The financial documents will not be widely disseminated, but limited to investigators, an intelligence official said.

“You don’t want to destroy something only to find out that the same guy comes up in another report and you don’t know that he was investigated before,” the official said.

The Counterintelligence Field Activity office, created in 2002 to better coordinate the military’s efforts to combat foreign intelligence services, has drawn criticism for some domestic intelligence activities.

The agency houses an antiterrorist database of intelligence tips and threat reports, known as Talon, which had been collecting information on antiwar planning meetings at churches, libraries and other locations. The Defense Department has since tightened its procedures for what kind of information is allowed into the Talon database, and the counterintelligence office also purged more than 250 incident reports from the database that officials determined should never have been included because they centered on lawful political protests by people opposed to the war in Iraq.

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Cruelty to Animals at Yale University in Connecticut?

Note: Picture is not from the Hartford Courant and is not part of the below story.

CONNECTICUT NEWS
Primate Lab Violations End Project At UConn
January 12, 2007
By GRACE E. MERRITT, Courant Staff Writer

FARMINGTON -- The University of Connecticut Health Center has stopped a controversial neuroscience project involving monkeys and reprimanded the researcher after U.S. Department of Agriculture inspections found about a dozen violations in the primate lab.

The researcher, David Waitzman, voluntarily stopped the research on rhesus monkeys in August, two days after a USDA inspector cited him for incorrect drug dosages and failure to follow approved research procedures, including unapproved injections into a monkey's brain that temporarily resulted in a severe head tilt to the left, an inability to look left and other problems.

The developments, which came to light this week, follow protests and petitions by UConn student and animal activist Justin Goodman to stop the research and free the monkeys. Last winter, Goodman chained himself to a railing and staged a raucous protest outside a gala hosted by UConn President Philip E. Austin after learning that two of the three monkeys involved in the project - Cornelius and Lips - had died.

"As far as I'm concerned, the monkeys who died at UConn did not die in vain," Goodman said Wednesday. "People know their names. People know what they went through."

Four USDA inspections conducted from November 2005 through October 2006 found violations, including a failure to provide alternatives to potentially painful or distressful procedures, failure to provide adequate water, failure to provide adequate veterinary care and failure to adequately train handlers. Inspection reports also cited the researchers for causing bruises around a monkey's eye, face and neck by using a metal collar and pole to train the animal.

The project allowed researchers to drill holes into the monkeys' skulls and to implant steel coils in their brains to record eye movements.

The research, which studied the coordinated control of the eyes by the brain to direct the center of gaze, was designed to help clinicians diagnose and treat stroke, progressive supranuclear palsy and other diseases, Peter J. Deckers, executive vice president for health affairs at the Health Center, has said.

USDA spokesman Darby Holladay said Thursday that the agency has not taken any enforcement action against the Health Center. "It is our policy not to comment on open investigations," he said.

He added, "The USDA takes seriously any non-compliant items in an inspection report."

Health Center officials declined to comment on the findings and simply reproduced a press release written last year to defend the research.

The release states that UConn is keenly aware of the controversy surrounding the use of monkeys in medical research and says the university uses humane and ethical procedures on animals in its research to develop vaccines, treatments and cures that will save human lives.

"The UConn Health Center is committed to full compliance with all relevant animal welfare laws and guidelines followed by major research universities through the country," the release says.

Reports obtained by The Courant show that the Health Center's own animal care committee investigated findings in the USDA reports and made several recommendations. The committee found that researchers performed unauthorized procedures and employed unauthorized staff, and that discrepancies in drug dosing were the result of carelessness and typographical errors.

As a result, Waitzman voluntarily stopped all work on the project on Aug. 31 and was given a letter of reprimand, according to a letter written by Leonard P. Paplauskas, associate vice president for research administration at the UConn Health Center, to the National Institutes of Health, which funded the research.

In addition, research staff members were barred from the laboratory, required to be retrained in animal care and must document that they have read the approved protocols for work they are conducting.

Goodman and a small group of protesters have been pushing for more than a year to stop the project and transfer the remaining monkey, Mowgli, to an animal sanctuary. Mowgli is now being used in another project conducted by a researcher at the University of Mississippi.

"It's not a victory for us in that everything we wanted happened because the monkey still got sent away elsewhere. But it's some progress," said Goodman, a graduate student in sociology.

Two other monkeys in Waitzman's lab have died. One was euthanized as part of the experiment protocol, and the other died during research, "although it received proper veterinary attention and treatment," Deckers has said in a report to Austin.

The USDA has taken enforcement action against UConn's main campus, not the Health Center, twice in the past nine years for animal care violations. In a consent decision in 2002, UConn paid $129,500 for failure to provide adequate veterinary care, Holladay said. The university paid a $4,500 fine in 1998 because the attending veterinarian did not have proper authority over the health and well-being of the animals, Holladay said.

Contact Grace E. Merritt at gmerritt@courant.com.

A discussion of this story with Courant Staff Writer Grace Merritt is scheduled to be shown on New England Cable News each hour today between 9 a.m. and noon.

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Journalists are Subversives to be hunted

It can be argued whether or not bloggers can be considered journalists. Whether or not someone is photographer or writer for the Hartford Courant that might be considered a threat to the Connecticut State Police or the Connecticut Judiciary, or a “Big Mouth” blogger, there are files with photos being kept on citizens for a takedown, and ARE distributed through the police network.

Taxpayer dollars are used for domestic spying. Those that want ethics and the police and courts to act in the public’s best interest are considered ENEMIES OF THE STATE.

Police Officers can repeatedly get you fired from jobs, ask Don Christmas of Enfield, Connecticut. Police can present your wife with a bogus complaint against you, and she is told to sign it, unread, again, ask Donny. If you are on the list and you are dating, your date can be pulled over, twice, followed all the way home, groped and searched twice, and told not to date you after being terrorized over miles of road, ask me.

Propose laws to elected officials that are upsetting to law enforcement and the judiciary and find your self on a HIT LIST of what are now considered a SECRET POLICE FORCE with SECRET FILES to take down citizens. Is this what our forefathers intended? Are our honorable fighting men and women fighting for freedom and justice, or for protecting the cruel propagandists of a POLICE STATE?

If you are on the list, your person relationships, including those with your children, are fair game to be ruined by the police, in the minds of the official abusers. So is your job, you ever owning a home or getting most rents for the rest of your life. Get labeled a criminal and you are discredited. Go to prison and your friends and family may shun you for life. False accusations are readily taken. Perjury of police has a name, it is called, “Testalying”.

No one is safe, anywhere.

Anything involving children can be secret in the eyes of the police or the judiciary. DCF is the ultimate tool of a Secret Police. Surveillance can be done, and all the activities and results can be kept sealed and secret. The Department of Administrative Service, of Connecticut, allegedly procures contracts, distributes funds, consumes and distributes goods, AND allegedly is responsible for domestic and international spying, and might be hacking into computers to set citizens up or for gathering information for a smear campaign or take down, to crash a website, or other mayhem, just ask Lisa Masterson (click) of England.

This case (click) is the best example to date of what I am talking about regarding out and out Constitutional abuse of those involved in exposing truth whether or not you consider anyone a journalist or not. Freedom of the Press and FREE SPEECH should apply to everyone.

Whether or not you live in Connecticut or not, if you live in the US and there is no Civilian Oversight of Police or the Judiciary, YOU LIVE IN A POLICE STATE.

Speak up, act, and be effective now, or all future generations will be living in fear of upsetting those that are living high on the hog consuming lives and children as a Rich, Ruling, Elite that gets richer at the expense of everyone else.

There is such a club growing out of control. The center of the spider web just might be Connecticut as there is no greater arrogance and perception of “entitlement” based on associations and family anywhere else in the world in my opinion. If there were a State that most represented an Organized Crime Syndicate, it is Connecticut.

Do something.

-Steven G. Erickson a.k.a. blogger Vikingas

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Open Letter to Vermont's Attorney General

January 10, 2007
Dear Vermont Attorney General William H. Sorrell and Staff:

I’m back in the great State of Vermont. I wish to prevent further injury to Vermonters and our Nation, please look into my allegations in the text of this letter and please offer remedy and assistance.

I should have never left Vermont. I invested in rental property in a boarded up condition in Stafford Springs, Connecticut. To do this, I had to believe in the American Dream. Official Connecticut is so corrupt, it is an absolute nightmare for those that don’t have connections and wealth of primarily Caucasian heritage.

I am contacting you in behalf of myself, my family, and for the untold hundreds to thousands of Vermont victims of Connecticut’s corruption. I seek a reward and/or Qui Tam for saving Vermont State and Federal Tax Payers money by informing you of fraud committed against the State of Vermont and all Federal Taxpayers.

If a Connecticut Police Officer rapes a woman, the case is either not investigated properly or the woman is intimidated or terrorized into not lodging or pursuing a police misconduct complaint. We all have mothers, but those of us that have daughters and sisters find this especially heinous. The policy of anyone who lodges a police misconduct complaint in Connecticut is arrest and discredit, which means Vermont residents have been falsely arrested and possibly imprisoned for having made a complaint. The court system in Connecticut can’t even abide by ADA laws and are retaliatory, are racist, biased, and in no way represent how an America System of Justice should be conducted. The New York State Police Internal Affairs took over Connecticut’s after it was temporarily shut down. Please obtain the 168 page report as it is an eyeopener.

The Connecticut State Police have a “100 Club” where citizens are falsely arrested and possibly imprisoned on manufactured evidence, suppressed evidence, false documents, abuse of authority, tax dollars, discretion, and a videotape of how to find a defendant guilty with nothing about innocence or reasonable doubt is plain and simple jury tampering. Every arrest of a Vermont citizen in Connecticut should be questioned and every case of a Vermont resident in a court of law in Connecticut should be questioned. This fraud has to stop.

If there are 10 times more staff needed to take away and confine children in Connecticut, there are possibly 10 times too many children taken away from their parents. Are any Vermont families in children victims of one of Connecticut’s scams to defraud Federal Taxpayers and depriving citizens of liberty and their Constitutional rights?

It has been recently reported that the Connecticut State Police have a “Secret Enemies List” where photos and files are distributed of citizens that lodge complaints and/or are vocal about citizen abuse and public corruption. I am asking you to head an investigation to end this KGB style of Secret Police and Kangaroo Courts in Connecticut that is harming our great nation.

I proposed Civilian Oversight of Police as officers refused to protect and serve me because I catered to “Niggers and Riffraff” for supplying affordable housing. The former selectman told me who I was allowed to and not to rent to, “Or else”.

Police refused to investigate thefts, vandalism, when I was assaulted or threatened, or for basically any complaint. I was told by officers to go back to where I came from and shut my mouth, “Or else.” I was told I would be arrested if I did not sell my properties and leave the State of Connecticut.

I proposed Civilian Oversight of Police to former Representative Mordasky and State Senator Tony Guglielmo of Stafford Springs, Connecticut. Rosemarie a staffer of Mordasky’s told me I was going to be severely retaliated upon by Connecticut State Police for what I wrote in newspapers and for the legislation I proposed to elected officials. Please find out who that police liaison was that told Rosemarie I was going to be falsely arrested and thrown in prison as a political prisoner. The liaison told legislators what they could and could not propose for legislation regarding police. I would like the liaison from late 2001 identified and questioned.

I was falsely arrested and imprisoned, please request transcripts for. Docket # CR01-0074672, Rockville Connecticut Superior Court, Judge Jonathan Kaplan presiding, Connecticut vs. Erickson

My trial transcripts will bare out that I was stalked and harassed over months of time, harassed, had my life threatened, and the individual that was stalking and harassing me and that demanded money threatening to kill me when I came home to my dark driveway, a violent felon and police informant, was given immunity from arrest and prosecution was given immunity, to maximumly prosecute me for having to defend my life after taking a severe beating. Self-defense is not legal in Connecticut.

My daughter has been deprived of a father and Vermont has been deprived of a citizen that had excellent credit, the ability to own a home, that had health insurance, that had the ability to get good paying work, that had a retirement plan, that could get most lodging opportunities, and was a productive, honest taxpayer. The fraud of the courts and police in Connecticut is costing all citizens in Vermont.

I should not suffer the rest of my life for a false arrest, false imprisonment, and bogus criminal record. Why should I be deprived of most living accommodations and jobs because of fraud of the court in Connecticut and gross police misconduct of Official Connecticut?

Vermont, our nation, and our economy could be improved by looking into my case and that of all others likewise abused by and in Official Connecticut. Please investigate the claims made in this letter to you.

Thank you,
Steven G. Erickson
972 Putney Rd. #156
Brattleboro, Vermont 05301, telephone 802-[snipped]

My open letter to Connecticut Governor M. Jodi Rell

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Interview with Ken Krayeske

Connecticut's nut gets cracked by this guy.



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Society feasting on itself to “liberate” the people

History has a way of repeating. The movie, “Eleni” staring John Malcovich and Kate Nelligan does an excellent job of telling the true story of what was the first arena of Communist expansionism being tested in Greece after the close of World War II.


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Your family, your home, your job, your community; everything can be consumed when a government system will feed on all around to just survive and thrive.

All at the expense of everyone and everything.

It is allowed to go its course out of control.

America’s “New Government” is eating freedoms and consuming everything in its path.

If we do not pay attention and do something, history will repeat itself.

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Synopsis:

Eleni

Based on the autobiographical novel by Nicholas Gage, Eleni traces Gage's search for the truth behind the execution of his Greek mother Eleni. John Malkovich plays Gage (herein referred to only as Nick), a New York Times journalist assigned to cover a border war in Albania. Intimately familiar with his beat--it's where he grew up--Nick periodically flashes back to his childhood, and his memories of his late mother Eleni (Kate Nelligan). Not at all concerned with politics, Eleni goes to extreme lengths to shelter her children from the ravages of civil unrest. For attempting to smuggle her kids out of the country, Eleni is arrested and executed. Back in the present, Nick manages to locate local politico Katis (Oliver Cotton), the man who signed Eleni's death warrant. He wangles his way into Katis' confidence, then prepares to kill the man--but he's in for a surprise, and something of an epiphany.

~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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User Comments:

10 out of 12 people found the following comment useful:-
It's about motherhood, not ideology., 18 August 2001
Author: Mag-13 from northern Virginia

Other people commenting on this film complain about its being mere propaganda against communism and supporting fascism. What a lot of baloney. It's about mothers and children, and about how, no matter what kind of brawl is going on, the men run to the hills, leaving the women and children behind to be brutalized. And it's about how one woman lost her life because she refused to give her children up to the state, no matter who that state was.

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La Cosa Nostra, The Positive Side

Can Political Activitists be arrested for being near an official in public?

Does the below mean I can be arrested on sight, anywhere I am in public in Connecticut?:


Governor M. Jodi Rell, photo taken by the gentleman below, Click Here for his post to go with the above photo


Ken Krayeske, Click Here for his blog

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Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 18:40:27 EST
Subject: Hartford PD Boosts Reporter's Career And, Ultimately, His Lawyer's Bank Account
To: [snipped]


link:
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Editor's Note: Journalist Ken Krayeske became the envy of all Connecticut reporters looking for ways to jump-start their careers. He will be indebted forever to the Hartford police and, perhaps, others. The focus now should be on how the city and the state handle this matter. Someone working late at the Capitol should tell the Hartford mayor and police chief they are apologizing to Krayeske, and that high-level company is available. Of course, such an action could lead a judge down the road to cut an award for civil rights violations [sorry, Norm, but you probably don't have to worry about that happening.]


Reporter Arrested for Political Activism
by Christine Stuart
Click Here for story with latest updates from ctnewsjunkie
Friday, Jan. 5, 2007

A freelance journalist, who has worked on political campaigns, was arrested by Hartford Police Wednesday as he took photos of Gov. M. Jodi Rell's inaugural parade in downtown Hartford.

Ken Krayeske, who worked on Green Party candidate Cliff Thornton's campaign for governor against Rell, was near the corner of Ford and Pearl Street photographing Rell's inaugural parade when, according to the police report, he was identified as a 'political activist' and a threat to the governor. Krayeske was arrested and charged with breach of peace and interfering with an officer.

Norman A. Pattis, one of the state's best known criminal defense and civil rights attorney, called the charges "ridiculous." Pattis entered an appearance on Krayesk's behalf Friday in Hartford Community Court where Krayeske was arraigned and entered a "not guilty" plea.

Now the case will automatically be transferred to Hartford Superior Court. Where "we expect it will be nolled or dismissed," Pattis said.

"We're not admitting we did anything wrong," Pattis said Friday. But if the "governor's goons" take exception to that then he looks forward to a "vigorous and spirited fight in court," he said.

According to the police report, plainclothes Hartford Police Officers recognized Krayeske from a photo they were given by the Connecticut Intelligence Center and the State Police Central Intelligence Unit that "briefed us on possible threats to Gov. Rell by a political activist."

Krayeske was working as a freelance photojournalist at the time of the arrest Wednesday. He was previously arrested in 2003 for demonstrating against the war. In 2004 Krayeske worked on Ralph Nader's presidential campaign and in 2005 he traveled to Syria to report on the war. He has also contributed stories and photos to ctnewsjunkie.com

After he was in custody Wednesday, he was taken to police headquarters where he was put in an interrogation room. Hartford Police Sgt. Andrew Weaver read Krayeske his rights then attempted to interview him.

"The accused refused to be interviewed and asked for his lawyer, so he was taken to booking and charged with breach of peace and interfering with an officer," the report states. Krayeske was given an eyebrow raising $75,000 bond and taken to state lockup on Lafayette Street.

Krayeske didn't make bond, but nonetheless was released at 1 a.m. on a promise to appear in court Friday.

Krayeske showed up at court Friday with Thornton, whose campaign platform for governor included free college education and the legalization of drugs. Krayeske fought hard, but failed during the campaign to get Rell and her Democratic opponent to include Thornton in the televised debates.


Attorney Norm Pattis

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Are cops to FN lazy to protect and serve? Click Here

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Is this playing politics or is Connecticut Governor M. Jodi Rell honestly concerned about OUR American Rights?

added Jan. 8, 2007, 6:32 PM EST:

CONNECTICUT NEWS
Rell Questions Arrest Of Political Activist At Inaugural Parade
1:56 PM EST, January 8, 2007
Associated Press

HARTFORD, Conn. -- Gov. M. Jodi Rell is questioning the arrest of a political activist who allegedly stepped toward her during her inaugural parade last week.

The activist, Ken Krayeske, was on a list of people labeled political threats by police. Rell, in a letter to the state's public safety commissioner, said today that she was "disturbed" to learn of the existence of such a list.

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She called on Commissioner Leonard Boyle to review the circumstances of Krayeske's arrest and determine how he came to the attention of state police and how his name and photograph were provided to the Hartford Police Department.

"In this environment of heightened security, the use of information must be balanced with the individual rights of our citizens," Rell said in the letter. "In providing security and protection, we cannot permit the rights of individuals to be trampled."

Krayeske, 33, of Hartford, was charged with breach of peach and interfering with an officer after he was detained during Wednesday's parade through downtown Hartford. Rell was sworn in that day to her first full term as governor.

Krayeske's attorney said Krayeske was working as a freelance journalist and was trying to photograph Rell.

According to a police report, officers at the parade recognized Krayeske from a picture provided by state police and the Connecticut Intelligence Center, a multi-agency entity under the umbrella of the state's homeland security programs.

Officers said they recognized Krayeske when they saw him speed up on his mountain bike, dump it and jump off, then run up the street and step off the curb into the parade route.

Krayeske was campaign manager for Cliff Thornton, the Green Party's candidate for governor. During the campaign, he took issue with Rell's refusal to debate Thornton, appearing at Rell's campaign headquarters and at least one event. Members of the state police provide security for the governor at such events.

A group of state lawmakers planned a 2 p.m. news conference at the Legislative Office Building on today to react to Krayeske's arrest.

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added Jan. 8, 2007, 10:40 PM EST:

Rell's Letter to Boyle more...

by Christine Stuart
05:00:00 pm, Categories: State Capitol, 292 words

Commissioner Leonard Boyle
Department of Public Safety
1111 Country Club Road
Middletown, Connecticut 06457

Dear Commissioner Boyle:

I am writing with regard to the incident last week involving Kenneth Krayeske which led to his arrest by the Hartford Police Department.

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I recognize that security assessments are by necessity comprehensive, and I understand that our State and local law enforcement agencies must work together and share information. Law enforcement agencies also have the difficult job of assessing the information they receive. Nonetheless, I was disturbed to read in media reports allegations regarding the existence of a “list” of individuals.

It is my expectation that all State Police information is maintained in strict compliance with federal law. In this environment of heightened security, the use of information must be balanced with the individual rights of our citizens. In providing security and protection, we cannot permit the rights of individuals to be trampled.

The parade was a public event, and moreover an event at which public participation was invited. People also have a right to protest – and that right is one of the fundamental freedoms of our state and nation.

Most importantly, security procedures must be uniform and consistent in order to safeguard both the people and places of Connecticut as well as our basic freedoms.

Accordingly, I am requesting that you review the circumstances of this incident. Specifically, I would like to know how this individual came to the attention of State Police and the circumstances under which his name and photo were provided to the Hartford Police Department.

In addition, I am requesting that you evaluate existing procedures to ensure that information gathered by the State Police is reliable and reported to other law enforcement agencies in a responsible manner.

Sincerely,

M Jodi Rell
GOVERNOR

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Comment from: itoldyouso [Visitor]

Let me get this straight -- CTnewsjunkie broke this story Friday morning at 11:50 a.m. The Hartford Courant followed at 7:15 p.m. Friday night on its Web site. The Associated Press ran its own story Friday night in which one of the governor's many spokesmen said "no comment" on the entire matter.

Rell made no phones calls and sent no letters Friday night, Saturday, Sunday, or all Monday morning.

Then 30 minutes before the Democrats heavily publicized press conference, she decides to show some phony, cynical concern on the matter by issuing a letter??

Rell as got no guts. No leadership. No ethics. Thanks for "setting the tone" for the next 4 years.

01/08/07 @ 17:51

Comment from: James Beam [Visitor]

Let me help you understand a recent letter sent to Connecticut Public Safety Commissioner Leonard Boyle from Lisa Moody, ummmm Governor Rell. RE: InauguralGate

My translation appears in whatever this color is.....

Dear Commissioner [Leonard] Boyle:

I am writing with regard to the incident last week involving Kenneth Krayeske which led to his arrest by the Hartford Police Department. You idiot I told you to make sure no one embarrassed me during my coronation and you let this happen! you twit

I recognize that security assessments are by necessity comprehensive, and I understand that our State and local law enforcement agencies must work together and share information. At least you got someone else to do the dirty deed. Law enforcement agencies also have the difficult job of assessing the information they receive. Nonetheless, I was disturbed to read in media reports allegations regarding the existence of a "list" of individuals. You better not let anyone even think that I or the Governor had any knowledge of the list. After all I, uh Jodi has been Lt. Governor from 1998 to 2004 and Governor since July 2004. It is my expectation that all State Police information is maintained in strict compliance with federal law. You better find some loophole in law, the patriot act or something like that so I can say we did nothing wrong. Remember the fundraiser tickets I made you sell to your staff? Well we got away with that didn't we? In this environment of heightened security, the use of information must be balanced with the individual rights of our citizens. Don't be stupid, next time.In providing security and protection, we cannot permit the rights of individuals to be trampled.The parade was a public event and my time to shine, and moreover an event at which public participation was invited. Well the ones on our side. People also have a right to protest – and that right is one of the fundamental freedoms of our state and nation. Most importantly, security procedures must be uniform and consistent in order to safeguard both the people and places of Connecticut as well as our basic freedoms. rotfl Accordingly, I am requesting that you review the circumstances of this incident. Specifically, I would like to know how this individual came to the attention of State Police and the circumstances under which his name and photo were provided to the Hartford Police Department. In addition, I am requesting that you evaluate existing procedures to ensure that information gathered by the State Police is reliable and reported to other law enforcement agencies in a responsible manner. Figure out how this happened and make sure the next time your staff does it right. Plausible denyability, loopholes in law etc. Next time you are in my office you had better bring me the head of some trooper, I don't much care if he had anything to do with this or not.

Sincerely,


M. Jodi Rell
GOVERNOR

01/08/07 @ 19:03

Comment from: fuzzyturtle [Visitor]

ha, Jim Beame.. thanks for the translation!!! ;)

01/08/07 @ 21:35

Comment from: Steven G. Erickson [Visitor]

The abuse has gone on far too long.

The officials in Connecticut have just gotten beyond sloppy.

Arrests and prosecutions of dirty officials is necessary.

Bring on the justice.

01/08/07 @ 22:33

Strip Off Your Clothes, Get a Driver's License

CONNECTICUT NEWS
Police: DMV Worker Asked Driver To Strip
January 5, 2007
Associated Press, The Hartford Courant

NAUGATUCK -- A license inspector for the state Department of Motor Vehicles has been charged with persuading a woman to strip off some of her clothing in exchange for passing her driver's test.

Kevin Chagnon, 48, of New Britain, allegedly took advantage of a woman in her 20s who had failed her driver's test several times in the past, police said.

Chagnon was charged Tuesday with coercion, when he turned himself in to Naugatuck police. The charge of coercion is defined as compelling a person to involuntarily behave in a certain way by threats or some other form of pressure or force.

Police said Chagnon was giving a road test to the woman Dec. 13. She had failed the driving test several times previously. Chagnon allegedly told the woman he would issue her a driver's license if she would take her clothes off.

Police said the woman reluctantly took off some of her clothing, but refused to take off all of it and Chagnon issued the woman a license.

Chagnon was released on a written promise to appear in Waterbury Superior Court.

When reached at his home by telephone by the Waterbury Republican-American newspaper Wednesday afternoon, Chagnon said he had no comment.

Chagnon has been placed on paid administrative leave at the DMV.

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The Bush Bias and Favoritism

Bush's top lawyer Miers resigns

Ms Miers been a trusted and loyal adviser to Mr Bush

White House counsel Harriet Miers has submitted her resignation, Washington has said.

White House spokesman Tony Snow said President George W Bush reluctantly accepted her resignation, which takes effect on 31 January.

Mr Snow said a search for a successor was under way.

Mr Bush nominated Ms Miers in October 2005 to the Supreme Court, but she had to drop out after lawmakers questioned her qualifications.

Asked why she was quitting her job, Mr Snow said that "basically, she has been here six years".

"As somebody said earlier today 'She put 12 years of service into six years,'" Mr Snow said.

Court debacle

Ms Miers - who has no judicial experience - was nominated by President Bush to the Supreme Court to replace retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.

But she was forced to withdraw as a nominee after coming in for criticism from both Democrats and Republicans.

She was reprimanded by Senators for giving "incomplete to insulting" answers to written questions.

In a letter confirming her decision to withdraw from the nomination process, Ms Miers wrote that continuing to seek Senate approval would prove to be a burden on the White House.

The withdrawal of Ms Miers was seen as a significant blow President Bush at the time.

'Straightforward advice'

Ms Miers has been a trusted and loyal adviser to Mr Bush since the 1980s.

The two met in Texas, where she was his personal lawyer, then served on his gubernatorial campaign in 1994 and again during his presidential election of 2000.

Officially described as deputy chief of staff for policy, Ms Miers has been serving as President Bush's top legal counsel since November 2004.

At the time of her appointment, Mr Bush said he relied on her for "straightforward advice".

A Pressing National Issue

Do we have a 1st, 2nd, 4th, and 14th Amendment protections in the US or is it all just a bunch of crap?

Will Connecticut's gun grabbing policies go national?

Will the methods used by the Connecticut Judiciary promote the new "Jim Crow" policies of separate and unequal nationally?

Will those that live and pass through Connecticut continue to be victims of a "fleece the public" policy of the Connecticut State Police, called the "100 Club" to falsely arrest drivers for DUI for fun? Click Here for post on subject.

Will workers at the Connecticut DMV continue to sell driver's licenses to anyone who wants who can't get one or needs a false identity for the tune of $3000 per false document sold to possibly even terrorists out of the Connecticut DMVs?

Will CT Gov. Rell or her Chief of Staff M. Lisa Moody be arrested for illegal campaign contributions and conspiracy?

Will the Connecticut Attorney General Blumenthal be investigated for giving million dollar no bid contracts to his former law partners?

Will Connecticut US Attorney Kevin O'Connor be investigated for running interference to obstruct justice in the corruption scandal of former CT Gov. John G. Rowland?

Were bribe type renovations done on O'Connor's' lake house as they were on Rowland's nearby?

Will former Chief Justice William Sullivan be arrested and tried for trying to stack the court so that his friend and other "more important" people could judge and prosecutor shop to get off while those that blew the whistle get a judge and prosecutor that will see citizens and officials that break ranks roasted and toasted?

Judicial Immunity needs to be abolished now. There can be no fairness in courts, checks and balances, or separation of powers with Judicial Immunity.

Chris Kennedy is accusing Judge Jonathan Kaplan of Rockville Connecticut Superior Court of blocking his way out of court with his car, following him around court, making racist remarks in taking away kids from parents with glee, and acting illegally in targeting whistle blowers, retaliating against those that try to have him removed or that complain about police misconduct, etc.

Chris was so alarmed he reported Kaplan to the Connecticut State Police Major Crime Task Force. Chris was then told by police to turn in his guns and that his accusations for serious judicial misconduct and law breaking by Kaplan would not be investigated.

If anyone needs to turn in guns for mental illness or for stalking and harassing someone, it should be Judge Jonathan Kaplan. Should judges be allowed to stalk and harass citizens with no consequences?

There are rumor rumbling that the orders to police to terrorize and threaten Kennedy came from the top, possibly even out of Connecticut Governor M. Jodi Rell'’s Office.

Chris Kennedy was arrested, previously, just after making a police misconduct complaint to Connecticut State Police Internal Affairs. After an investigation into the operations of IA, it was found to arrest and discredit as their policies to respond to citizen complaining. Click Here for a post on Connecticut State Police Internal Affairs.

Should Chris Kennedy be yet another victim that faces false arrests, false imprisonment, losing his home, family unity, retirement, credit, reputation, and the sum total of his life’s work to be retaliated upon for having exposed corrupt officials, police, and judges to be maliciously investigated, tried, and held at your Federal Tax Dollar expense.

Haven'’t you been defrauded by Official Connecticut long enough? It is time to stop this national rip off of Federal Taxpayers.

Click Here for a post of the text I sent to the Washington DC FBI

Click Here for post about Todd Vashon talking about being paid to kill either Phil Inkel or Stephen Murzin for making a police misconduct complaint about Colchester Connecticut Police Officers Thomas and Nardella.

Cocaine and Bush

Fox News reporter says Bush admitted using cocaine, then retreats, citing, 'questions'

David Edwards
Published: Wednesday January 3, 2007

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As political media buzzed about whether or not Senator Barack Obama's admission eleven years ago that he used cocaine as a teenager would hurt his political prospects, Fox News ran a segment on "Obama's Cocaine Confession." Their conversation took an unusual turn, however, when Fox reporter Kirian Chetry said President Bush had also admitted to using cocaine.

Obama "talks very candidly, as did our current president, who admitted to using cocaine, correct? [Others demur] Well, who wrote, somebody wrote in a book -- well, he admitted that he had an alcoholic, he had a drinking problem. Who was it who said they witnessed him using cocaine? It was somebody who wrote a book..."

As her colleagues tried to talk her down from the line of discussion, Chetry responded, "Okay, okay, fine, but there were questions about the current president and whether he used cocaine or not as a young guy, but there's something about turning your life around...that people can accept."

A clip of the exchange is available for viewing below:

Clarification: Because of editing word ordering, an earlier headline suggested that Bush had admitted to using cocaine on air. It was in fact the reporter who made the assertion. We apologize for the confusion.

Arrest and Discredit

Official Connecticut is not a friendly bear.

If you complain about an official in Connecticut, you too, can be a victim of this policy.

Chris Kennedy made a police misconduct complaint. He was reportedly arrested the next day.

Chris Kennedy made a complaint about Judge Jonathan Kaplan to the Connecticut State Police. The transcripts and other evidence shows a pattern of abuse by Judge Jonathan Kaplan.

Chris Kennedy received a call allegedly from Detective Dan Cargill that Chris had to turn in any firearms he may possess. It is sounds like Official Connecticut is going to go after Chris Kennedy for lodging a legitimate complaint.

There are no checks and balances in the Connecticut Judiciary and Law Enforcement.

Speak out, expect to get your tax dollars’ worth, report official criminals, and go to elected officials about making the courts and police act in the public’s best interest and you can have your marriage destroyed, lose your kids permanently, lose your job, credit, home, reputation, and the sum total of your life’s work to face numerous false arrests and false imprisonment.

You should care as this in costing taxpayers nationally. The Connecticut and National Economy suffer. What is going on in Connecticut does not foster faith in government.

Driver’s licenses are now a tool to keep minorities and “the fringe” at bay while collecting revenue for a state in trouble.

Connecticut is losing population and their tax base.

Businesses are going to states that have ethics and a fairer tax system.

Why is Official Connecticut continuing to spend more and more money, hiring more and more for official jobs, if the state is shrinking because people are leaving the state and not moving to Connecticut because of all the Bullshit?

Should you be labeled a criminal just for being a minority or an non-suburban white to be separate and unequal the rest of your life?

Connecticut and some other states are just like meat grinders.

There is no hope, no fairness, and nothing that resembles anything our American forefathers intended.

Civilian Oversight of Police and the Judiciary and to abolish Judicial Immunity would go a long way to put some of the power back in the hands of the people. If the police and the judiciary can operate in secret, do as they please, and get funded as they please, elected officials are merely puppets, afraid like the populace, of being ground to a pulp for saying “boo”.

The Connecticut State Police should be abolished as their would be less rapes, murders, robberies, drug dealing, vandalism, official retaliation, and blight in the downtown areas. Police are necessary to have order in a society, but when police in Connecticut commit crimes the victim often is punished for just wanting justice. The State Police should be shrunk down to a Highway Patrol only. Towns should have their own police departments or share with another town on a limited bases. Police absolutely should not police themselves for the same reasons priest have not and cannot police themselves.

Chris Kennedy is a victim, no different than the 10s of thousand barbecued in Connecticut and in other states for just wanting the system to operate as advertised. Chris happens to have better than average proof of abuse and is an excellent, credible speaker.

Please let Connecticut Governor Rell that the abuse of Chris Kennedy and other citizens should not and will not be tolerated. Please don’t be silent, act for a better America.
-Steven G. Erickson a.k.a. blogger Vikingas

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Should you make the NRA aware of Chris Kennedy's case? Do you want your guns taken away if you are violated by police or the courts and just make a complaint without any conviction?

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US Air Supremacy

Other nations know that this is America if they disagree or stand in the way of the US grabbing oil, a country's resources, or in accessing drugs and the revenue collected in poluting the world with illegal narcotics:



The Friendly Skies over Afghanistan:



Afghanistan is a major source of heroin. Everyone on the ground is seen being blown up or shot up from a C-130. The little blips on the ground could be women and children and it is near a Mosque. Killing all the people in a rural area that only has sheep, goats, grass, mountains, and poppy fields to make heroin makes sense if you need a cheap and abundant supply of heroin of the strongest quality in the US cities.

Who do these people think they are fooling?

One Shot, One Kill

That is the sniper motto. The video below shows what civilians and soldiers in Iraq see daily in their lives. Planes come in, massive amounts of damage and bodies strewn everywhere, run from the hole and snipers pick you off. The sniper in the video maybe goes through more than 100 rounds in just over 6 minutes. Depending on the shooter, as little as one shot is a kill.

Is George W. Bush refered to as the "Black One" by Nostradamus?

Well this passage might just very well describe Saddam and George W. Bush:

His final hand through Alus,
he will be unable to protect himself by sea.
Between two rivers he will fear the military hand,
the black one, irate, will make him regret it.

The above found here.

The Cell Phone Saddam Executed Video:

WARNING: GRAPHIC AND DISTURBING, VIEW AT OWN RISK



Keywords: Saddam Executed Iraq Court YouTube Video Hanging Hung Verdict Killed Gallows Dead

Saddam Background on Nightline:

Police beat a suspect where they think there are no cameras:

The new tactic for police is to either confiscate video cameras and arrest or terrorize witness to police beating a suspect, or just take a suspect where police think there are no video cameras, and then go to town beating the suspect. Many times handcuffs are taken off to avoid the tell-tale marks of handcuffs put on too tight with all sorts for marks created from a scuffle. Beating a suspect near or to death is easier to explain with the handcuffs off. Check this video out:



If this doesn't advocate the need for National Civilian Oversight of Police, FBI, CIA, all law enforcement agencies, courts, DCF, prison guards, and all covert and overt investigators of civilians in the nation, then nothing does.

I watched as Stafford Springs Connecticut Police Officers Desso and another officer beat Brian Caldwell in handcuffs while he was on the sidewalk downtown. I was making my nightly rounds as one of the founders of the Stafford Springs Crime Watch.

Desso pulled out his handcuffs and asked me what I had seen. I was not too intimidated into not speaking, telling him I was making my rounds as part of the Crime Watch. He asked to see my Driver's License. Desso asked me if I intended on making a Police Misconduct Complaint. I gave the right answer.

Desso asked me what I would like done. I told him to nicely ask Brian Caldwell to get in the back of the Police Cruiser rather than kicking and punching him down on the sidewalk. I did not know Caldwell's name at this point in time. And Caldwell said, "Yes, please ask me to get into the back of the cruiser."

At that point the officers, helped Caldwell up and nicely placed him in the cruiser. If I had not been a member of the Crime Watch and stated so, and not indicated to officers that I was not filing a police misconduct report, I could have gotten the standard arrest, police beating, and charges that I attacked an officer, the police standard to covering up their own brutal behavior, police misconduct, and citizen abuse.

I had purchased a single family home in Stafford Springs, Connecticut and then fixed it up and sold it. I did everything needed inside and out. A bank had been a day late in sending back my approval to go to the Massachusetts HUD action. I was then approved to go to the Connecticut one, a state I had not intended on living in. The missed Massachusetts auction and my then living in Connecticut, just doing the American Thing, just looking for Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness in daily life, being productive, owning a home, raising a family, and saving for retirement.

I did not know I was in for a Corruptikut, Absolute Nightmare.

Connecticut is for the rich, living at the expense of everyone else by defrauding all federal taxpayers and abusing and ripping off minorities, the non-connected, and those that aren't rich or suburban in Connecticut. Arresting, processing, confining, and taking children away from families all produce revenue and confiscated assets.

Soon after becoming a Connecticut resident, I helped start a Stafford Springs, Connecticut, Crime Watch. I advocated legislation that would allow police to write youths detentions for infractions to be served year round at local schools. I wanted positive intervention and for kids to go good instead of bad, being arrested and serving time as felon never to have a normal or productive life again, living out their lives a common criminal parasites, inmates, or die addicted to alcohol and drugs, all at public expense.

These kids could have easily been fostered into going good to pay taxes and be society assets.

I was threatened with arrest by Stafford Officer Prochaska, known to most as "Fat Frank" of the "Town Clowns", if I pursued trying to make officers deal with "Youth Crime" as they did not have time, if I tried to have him required to walk a beat with me on a Friday or Saturday night, or if I did not shut my mouth about what police should or should not be doing.

It was not long after that I recall seeing Stafford Police Officer Desso beating Brian Caldwell along with another officer. Caldwell was wearing handcuffs and crying out in pain as officers punched and kicked him on the ground.

Desso saw the alarm on my face and took out his handcuffs and asked me what I intended to do. I think he was referring on whether or not I would make a police misconduct complaint. I told him I was a founder of the Crime Watch out doing my rounds. He then asked me for my driver's license and asked what I suggested be done.

I suggested to Desso that he ask Brian Caldwell nicely to get into the back of the cruiser instead of beating him anymore. I did not know Caldwell's name at the time. I had only observed him staggering around town, walking into posts, passed out, throwing up, and urinating in public. Brian Caldwell was known in town as "Muck Mouth" as he was missing front teeth and had or has horrendously foul breath.

I could not get police to do anything about teen vandals drinking alcohol all hours using my yard as a toilet. Crack Cocaine and Heroin were being sold near and on my property all hours. If 3 arrests are made on or near your business or property, it can be taken under the "Nuisance Statute" so if you do not report drug dealing and crimes, you can lose your property and income, but police in Connecticut downtown areas think they are above actually serving and protecting, minorities, "White Trash", and riffraff.

I was told by a former Stafford Springs Connecticut selectman that Niggers were not allowed in Stafford. Landlords and businesses that catered to them would be dealt with by the Health Department, Building Inspector, Police, the Courts, and have their finances aggressively looked into so they could be taken down. What!!!???

I told State Senator Tony Guglielmo that I intended to sue police for violating my rights in refusing to protect and serve because of my profession, landlord, and because I was "... stupid for having bought property in a crime area."

I proposed Civilian Oversight of Police to local elected officials. I spoke out in newspaper letters to the editor. Police officers openly threatened me with arrest and worse if I did not leave town and shut my "Big Mouth".

Rosemarie, former Representative Mordasky's aid told me to leave town before it was too late as she told me the Connecticut State Police liaison told her that police were going to retaliate for my having complained about police misconduct and especially for proposing Civilian Oversight of Police.

Town and Connecticut Police allegedly encouraged Brian Caldwell to try and shake me down for cash, threaten, harass, stalk, and attack me. I was able to run from my work van to my apartment for over 2 weeks before Caldwell was able to catch me on my property in the dark when I came home from a double shift of work.

Brian Caldwell jumped me and told me he would kill me if I did not give up my wallet. He beat my back and back of my head. I fought him off and he threw up all over me. I saw him reach for a knife. I pepper sprayed him.

Connecticut State Police Officers Amaral and Langlois were soon there to arrest me, refusing to take my complaint or tenant statements of the abuse I had been taking for weeks. Caldwell either came after me or attacked me 6 more times with police refusing to help me or keep Caldwell away from me.

They then allegedly enlisted Peter Coukos to threaten and harass me with the promise with help in obtaining a gun permit to carry concealed pistols. Coukos has frequently smoked marijuana, been addicted to crack cocaine, abused hallucigens, prescription mind altering medications, in a taped message admitted to being bi-polar and an alcoholic, and was caught drunk continually smashing into an African American woman over miles of roads near Boston, Massachusetts in racist road rage incidents.

I was told by Stafford Police Officer Prochaska and former Resident Stafford Springs Connecticut State Trooper Mulcahey that if I tried to have Coukos arrested for threatening and harassing me and my then 14 year old daughter that I would be arrested. What!!!???

I went to trial at your expense for having pepper sprayed Brian Caldwell after he threatened to kill me if I did not turn over my wallet. He attacked me from behind and injured me. I could have sued the police for millions with getting the information out.

Instead I believe former Connecticut State Police Commissioner Arthur L. Spada conspired with his former judge friend, Judge Jonathan Kaplan, to railroad me to prison to shut me up and keep me from winning a civil judgment and in getting Civilian Oversight of Police inacted into law in Connecticut.

I was sentenced to a year in prison, 3 years probation for "overreacting" to being beaten and nearly robbed on my own property.

Self-defense is not legal in Connecticut. Caldwell was never arrested. Judge Jonathan Kaplan told Attorney Michael H. Agranoff that he was not allowed to dispute police (their perjury) and was not allowed to defend me.

A worker for the police became jury foreman. I asked Agranoff to strike that juror. A video tape of how to find me guilty, but not how to find me innocent or about reasonable doubt was shown to the jury. That is jury tampering.

Should I never own a home again, have a decent job, or have any retirement or quality of life for the rest of my life because I was a crime victim and victim of Connecticut Absolute Corruption?

-Steven G. Erickson a.k.a. Blogger Vikingas

Click Here for post that contains a YouTube Video where Todd Vashon talks about Colcester Connecticut Police Officers Thomas and Nardella pay him $10,000 cash to kill either Phil Inkel or Stephen Murzin for having lodged a police misconduct complaint against them.

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