Mistaken Raid Leads to Medals

In December, Minneapolis police raided a home looking for a violent gang member. The eight officers who had SWAT training, but are not actually called SWAT officers entered the house, guns blazing searching for this gang member who wasn’t there because the police had the wrong information.

“In the midst of the shootout were Moua, who is Khang’s wife, and their six children, who range in age from 3 to 15. Moua said her family has since abandoned the house and can no longer afford to keep it.

Minneapolis police spokesman Sgt. William Palmer said Tuesday the department has acknowledged the raid was a mistake and has apologized to the family. But he said the officers “performed very bravely under gunfire and made smart decisions.”

The police officers still received medals for their mistake that cost taxpayers who knows how many dollars and the Khang family could no longer afford to keep the house that had 22 bullet holes in it from this raid.

That’s what this police department gives out medals for. Did you also notice that none of the officers had any injuries at all? Their body armor and helmets had shrapnel damage, but no one needed medical attention. But the Khang’s nine year old boy is now traumatized for life.

In this brave new world order, traumatizing children earns one medals.

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Locked Up For Life In Mental Asylum

In Britain, as well as the U.S., women were locked in hospitals because they were typhoid carriers. Britain locked them up in mental asylums. No one knows exactly how many women this happened to since they got “lost” in the system.

Why they were in mental asylums to begin with is not addressed. None of the women had any symptoms of the disease but because they were carriers, they were taken from their homes and families and locked up. Even worse:

“Some former nursing staff believe that a number of the women may have been sane when they were admitted, but went mad because of their incarceration.
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Records show that only a few of the women admitted to the isolation unit were already in mental health hospitals.

More than half were admitted from private addresses and general hospitals.”

Records are missing so no one knows how these women were identified. I bet some of those women weren’t carriers at all, but for some reason the State was after them. Some of them were married with children and they were all from one section of London-the East End. In fact, that section produced more supposed carriers than the entire London population at that time. Don’t tell me there was no ulterior motive-eugenics, perhaps?

No visitors were allowed to see them, pressure put on their families by the authorities, I’m sure. I can hear them now: “Do you want to be locked up too? You will be if you become a carrier”. Or later when the women had gone insane: “There’s no point in visiting now. She does not remember you and besides that, she is insane.” This is of course assuming that the relatives of these women were even told where the women were moved when the original ward shut down in 1972. It is entirely possible that they were never told where their mothers, wives, daughters, sisters, aunts, friends were moved to or they could have been told that the women died.

When the 1972 move happened, two women were separated from the rest and put in bedrooms isolated from everyone else. What happened to them? Were they left to fend for themselves and possibly starve to death? The isolation unit closed which is why the other prisoners women were transferred. Where exactly were these two isolated bedrooms?

There was of course no reason for this to happen, but people do not ever want to be confused by the facts.

The response from the Dept. of Health:

‘There was not, and never has been, a policy of incarcerating anyone, in this context.’

However, many of the women were incarcerated before the creation of the National Health Service.”

No records were kept, i.e. they were gotten rid of and this happened before a national registry was made public, so of course the Director can’t speak with authority on this subject. He has no idea what happened.

It is a good way to make someone disappear, isn’t it?

This kind of thing is already happening here, on a smaller scale-so far. Remember what happened to T.B. Andrew, and there were a few others like him that were locked up for disease?

Conditioning us to get used to the fact that it is okay to lock people up for supposed sickness and getting us ready to see people “disappear.”

Does this sound like freedom?

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Online College Spying

Folks taking online college courses should get ready for more expenses. A law is being considered that will require onlineprograms to prove that the student who is enrolled is actually the one doing the work.

Some methodologies being used are fingerprint scanners, web cameras and keystroke logging. Not all officials like this new law:

“But some college officials are wary of the technologies, noting that they are run by third-party vendors that may not safeguard students’privacy. Among the information the vendors collect are students’ fingerprints, and possibly even images from inside their homes.”

They are also concerned that the government will force them to use only one method. This would be a good way for government to gain control over curriculum and extend the “No Child Left Behind Act” to the college level.

Securexam Remote Proctor has both a camera and fingerprint scan in it’s technology. The camera takes a 360 view around the test taker. Anything suspicious is flagged. The suspicious things could be another person in the room or another voice in the room.

Having these things as suspicious can create lots of flags for the at home student. How can they guarantee no one will walk through the room they are taking the test in? Even if they wait until people are asleep there can still be noise form people talking or coughing in their sleep that the microphone will pick up. How can the students prove that had nothing to do with their test taking?

The university also gets a share in the proceeds after they receive the first 10,000 Securexams of the company. That’s a pretty good incentive for the college to push online enrollment.

Webassessor is another system that recognizes typing styles and images. Notice that if the keystroke pattern is not the same as when you registered the test can be turned off. If one is taking online classes, doesn’t it stand to reason that ones typing skills would improve over the course? Apparently improving your typing skills is detrimental with this assessment system.

It also does not say that you can turn the keystroke logger off, so this means that the things you do outside of exam time are logged. In other words, everything you do on the computer would be logged and filed, whether or not you take a test.

This same assessment also goes by photograph-so if the way you look now does not match the photo you submitted at registration, you can’t take the test. That means no drastic hairstyle changes such as long to short or vice versa or coloring your hair.

That’s a lot of control for a third party to have over ones life.

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Behavioral Gate Screening

People that are flying this summer may notice extra random screenings at airline gates. This can include checking identification and boarding passes, physical searches of carry-on luggage, and screening of individuals. They are not announced in advance and can occur at any gate at any given time.

“TSA’s specially trained Behavior Detection Officers (BDOs) will accompany the TSOs during some of the screening activities to provide an additional layer of security. BDOs screen travelers for involuntary physical and physiological reactions that indicate stress, fear or deception.”

The article goes on to say that the thought police BDO’s realize those behaviors do not automatically someone has criminal/terrorist intent. Gee, that’s magnanimous of them. Do you feel safer now?

I wonder what kind of “specialty training” the thought police BDO’s have? The article does not say if they had to take psychology classes, criminal justice classes, read George Orwell’s 1984?

Even the most well trained professionals in the medical field admit that their profession is subjective, not objective. Do the BDO’s understand this?

What measures are they using for the physical and physiological reactions? This area is so broad that a lot of people will be caught up in this snare, which I suspect is the real reason they are doing this in the first place.

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Dobson and McCain

Remember this statement made by James Dobson earlier this year:

“Speaking as a private individual, I would not vote for John McCain under any circumstances,” said James Dobson, founder of the Colorado Springs-based Focus on the Family …”

Fast forward to yesterday (July 20) where now we have this:

“I never thought I would hear myself saying this,” Dobson said in a radio broadcast to air Monday. “… While I am not endorsing Senator John McCain, the possibility is there that I might.”

He doesn’t seem too bothered about his double mindedness essentially saying that if his stance is a flip-flop, so what?

I guess these verses from James 1:6-8 don’t mean much to him either: (KJV)

“But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed. For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord. A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.”

Beware of the double minded man.

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Under Investigation for Spanking

A mother in Idaho is being investigated for injury to a child after eight witnesses signed statements that she caused injury to a child.

“They described it as she was slamming her on the ground and smothering her as she was holding her.

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The officer who issued the citation reported no visible signs of injury to the child, he added.”

One of these statements is false. How is it possible to “slam” a two year old on the ground without that child sustaining injuries? A bruise, scrape or cut would be visible if that was true. The officer could not see any physical injuries, but still cited the mother. I also want to know how that is possible.

Why was the mother restraining her child, you ask? The mother did not want her child to run out into the street while the parade was continuing. I guess these people would have preferred to see that little girl get really hurt or possibly killed instead of her mother restraining her. Then the same people could complain that the mother could not control her unruly child.

The parents are concerned that their children will be taken away from them. Let’s hope for all their sakes that does not happen.

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How Many Shocks Does It Take?

It took 7 to kill 21 year old Scooter Pikes. They actually tasered him nine times in fourteen minutes, but he was unconscious during the last two shocks. It is my opinion that he was already dead by the time the last two shocks were given.

The police spotted Pikes and went to arrest him on an outstanding drug warrant. He took off and was pursued. A second officer cornered him when the first officer (Nugent) came by. Pikes resisted arrest so Nugent gave him the first taser blast.

According to the Police Chief-who was not there at this incident-Pikes fell ill, said he was on drugs and had asthma. An ambulance was called and Pikes died at the hospital.

The autopsy shows us something different-there were no drugs in his system, nor did he have asthma. Knowing all the trouble one can get into if one was on drugs, why would a sober Pikes even say that to the arresting officers?

“Moreover, Pikes did not resist arrest, and he was handcuffed while lying on the ground, according to Nugent’s police report of the incident. It was only after Pikes refused Nugent’s command to stand up that the officer applied the first Taser shock in the middle of his back, Nugent wrote.”

We now have proof that the police chief is lying. Pikes kept being shocked because he was not responding to orders quickly enough. Let us ponder this for a moment. What does a taser do? It paralyzes your body so you cannot move. If you’ve been tasered, it stands to reason that you might need a few minutes before you can move again or in Pikes case, get up.

Nugent did not think about this though so he kept tasering Pikes, thereby decreasing Pikes’ mobility further, and in Nugent’s mind giving him more reason to continue paralyzing Pikes.

The ambulance was not called while Pikes was in the car. It was called after they carried an unconscious Pikes into the station and he was already dead slumped over in his chair.

The official cause of death:

“...Pikes’ death was a homicide. On the death certificate, he listed the cause of death as “cardiac arrest following nine 50,000-volt electroshock applications from a conductive electrical weapon.”

The coroner has been doing this for 33 years and is known for his independent investigations. Due to his penchant for truth, he has been shot at 19 times and once his garage was firebombed. I guess he can look forward to more of the same from this case.

The taser use by Nugent was against his own department’s policy:

“The Taser shall only be deployed in circumstances where it is deemed reasonably necessary to control a dangerous or violent subject,” the policy states. It also requires that a suspect who has been Tasered should immediately be checked out at a hospital, which did not happen in Pikes’ case.”

The manufacturer of the taser says that repeated, continuous or simultaneous exposures should be minimized, and our own Justice Department says no one knows the medical risks of repeated taser exposure.

Nugent has been fired from his job.

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Youth Service Plan

Barack Obama wants more public service and has tied it to money to make sure his plan is implemented:

“He said he would make federal assistance conditional on school districts establishing service programs and set the goal of 50 hours of service a year for middle school and high school students.

For college students, Obama would set the goal at 100 hours of service a year and create a $4,000 annual tax credit for college students tied to that level of service.”

The experts in the field are excited by what they see as heightened interest in service programs among young people and that these programs will grow as a result.

Of course there’s heightened interest in the programs, but I wonder would this interest still be there if strings weren’t attached? Many schools in the nation now require some sort of service to graduate from high school. If a student does not do the service, they won’t graduate. Thus the increase in volunteering is not because all students want to do it or even have an interest in doing it-but they do want to graduate.

Same thing with Obama’s plans-schools will force students into these programs so they can get more funding, by having the same requirements they have now: No service, no graduation.

It won’t be any different at the college level-want $4,000 tax credit-do the service. If all the hours are not served, the money will not be given out. It would be interesting to see a study about what happens in the adult years when the students are out of school and college. Are they still volunteering or do they look at it as “I did my time already, I’m done. I only did it so I could graduate/get the money.”

Coercing students into service is bad enough, but then we have this statement that bothers me:

“We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set,” he said Wednesday. “We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.”

Now the service emphasis has shifted to national security, something he admits later in the paragraph-this is not service like Peace and AmeriCorps as was suggested earlier in the article, but this service program is for national security.

A civilian force that is just as powerful, strong and well-funded as the military?! Essentially we will have two military forces-the ones overseas and the ones here at home.

Like Hitlers and Stalins Youth Corps? Like the East German Stasi that Katarina Witt, 1984 and 1988 Olympic Gold Medalist in Ladies Figure Skating, spied for? That kind of youth service?

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Arrested For Taking a Photo

We are descending further into tyranny as evidenced by this story:

“A Johnson County sheriff’s deputy arrested Scott Conover for unlawful photography.

“He says you took a picture of me. It’s illegal to take a picture of a law enforcement officer,” said Conover.”

The officer is mistaken. It is not illegal to take a picture of a police officer, but as usual, the facts don’t seem to matter to him.

Conover was arrested in front of his children and taken to jail for this supposed crime.

The officer and sheriff would not comment on the story, but that’s understandable since the officer “embellished” his affidavit:

“In an affidavit, the deputy said he saw something black with a red light which he thought was a threat. Conover was also arrested for pointing a laser at a law enforcement officer.”

There is no flash or light when you take a picture with the iPhone, so where was this light coming from? Where is the laser? If Conover had a laser then the officer should have confiscated it, since the officer said it threatened his life. Yet, there is no laser to produce.

A witness says that the officer said nothing about a laser during the arrest, only the picture. It also alarms me that an officer who is supposed to protect and serve does not know the law, cannot tell the difference between a phone and a laser and would lie on an affidavit. I sure don’t want this person “protecting” me.

The ACLU was consulted and they did state that there is no law that prohibits people taking photographs in public areas, even of police.

In a truly free state, this would not happen.

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12 Babies

This time the problem is in Argentina where at least 12 babies were killed over the past year while testing a pneumonia vaccine. That’s one every month. GlaxoSmithKline must be proud of their accomplishment. The article said at least 12, so who knows how many really died?

“The study was sponsored by global drug giant GlaxoSmithKline and uses children from poor families, who are “pressured and forced into signing consent forms,” the Argentine Federation of Health Professionals, or Fesprosa, said.”

Obviously, they have no ethics. To add insult to injury:

“The vaccine trial is still ongoing despite the denunciations, and those in charge of the study were cited by the Critica newspaper as saying that the procedures are being carried out in a lawful manner.”

Twelve deaths aren’t enough for them. How many more deaths do they want?! Colombia and Panama were also chosen for this trial so I wonder what their death rates are?

The cost for enrolling the babies in this study is $8,000 but the article says that money is not staying in the provinces. So who is getting that money? It’s not the parents of the babies, it’s not the health personnel or the facilities in the provinces so that leaves…GlaxoSmithKline.

GlaxoSmithKline’s price for killing babies is $8,000.

I’m disgusted.

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