“I’m officially announcing that I am a candidate for president in the Republican primary“– Ron Paul, earlier today, on Good Morning America.
Shortly thereafter he spoke to a gathering in the town hall of Exeter, NH. The hall was packed and overflowing with energy. (Some of us Keeniacs were in attendance.)
Bob Constantine, AKA His Excellency The Elder Reverend Ambassador Weeda Claus, hasn’t been idle despite being held in a cage without his consent by a violent criminal gang. He’s been doing outreach by spreading the word about Law Enforcement Against Prohibition with his jailers and discussing the concept of victimless “crimes” with the other men he’s held captive with. So far he has written three letters, and this is the first:
My mom dropped me off earlier today at 8:55 am. She has a list of a few books she’ll be sending me. The Creature from Jekyll Island should keep me busy for a while.
So far things are not too bad. I think the pen I’m writing with is a “jail pen” and it’s a bit floppy… security reasons I assume. There’s a good possibility I will be out in 40 days due to “good behavior” or so I’m told.
There are some books in the ahem “library” and I’ve suggested a few, Isaac Asimov’s. Somehow I got a corner cubicle w/ window so I’m thankful for that. One of the guards gave me some paper (2 pieces.) I’m told I can buy some on Monday which should be enough to start outlining a book. One of the Jail Captains called me “The Cannabis Guy” so apparently the trial and ensuing events did not go unnoticed. “renowned” at last! (more…)
“A bill to reaffirm the authority of the Department of Defense to maintain United States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as a location for the detention of unprivileged enemy belligerents held by the Department of Defense, and for other purposes” has just been introduced by New Hampshire’s own United States Senator Kelly Ayotte.
I wonder if Senator Ayotte had been born in Afghanistan and watched as her innocent family was black-hooded and taken away to Guantanamo if she would still exhort such deplorable treatment of human life.
Colonel Wilkerson, who was General Powell’s chief of staff when he ran the State Department, was most critical of Mr Cheney and Mr Rumsfeld. He claimed that the former Vice-President and Defence Secretary knew that the majority of the initial 742 detainees sent to Guantánamo in 2002 were innocent but believed that it was “politically impossible to release them”.
Adam Kokesh is a former marine, congressional candidate and activists who has taken his message to RT with ADAM vs THE MAN. The show airs daily Monday through Friday at 7 pm central and tonight I was on the show to talk about CopBlock.org and police accountability.
I’m glad that Adam choose this topic and that CopBlock.org was asked to speak. It means we’re making progress, yet, we have a long way to go. More people need to get involved, question authority and stop paying (taxes) for the government’s protection services. Let’s allow those “good cops” to conduct good business, which most likely wouldn’t consist of caging victimless offenders at alarming rates, instead of the government’s for profit (while being taxed) and control methods.
Based on what little I know, it sounds to me that Officer English did the absolute right thing in this situation. It is sad that a human has been killed… but protection services, public or otherwise, will have to use deadly force from time-to-time to protect innocent human life.
This is the type of thing that police should be doing: protecting people from malum in se.
To those who would question the decision to fire the fatal shot right after a hostage negotiator has arrived I would say this: situations change very quickly. Were I in Officer English’s shoes… my priority would not be trying to resolve the situation without the deceased getting hurt. My priority would be trying to resolve the situation without the person the deceased was threatening to kill getting hurt. If that means killing the offender while a team of hostage negotiators gather outside, enter the room, or beg me to have a chance to talk the offender down, so be it. I would have fired too.
I will snoop around and see if I can find a copy of the actual Attorney General report.
