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Conrad Murray Persecution Exposes Lack of Due Process

CivilLibertyWatch — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 07:43:14 -08:00

When Dr. Conrad Murray was convicted of manslaughter for killing Michael Jackson with Propofol today Judge Michael Pastor denied him bail pending appeal in a decision exposing a lack of due process in the California judicial system. His decision to remand Murray deprived him of the right to due process under the law by imposing a sentence on a man who although convicted was not yet sentenced for his crime. A crime that he has the right to appeal while remaining free on bail because he never once missed a court date and like most doctors he earned the right to buy his freedom with his riches if he so pleases. The right of rich or famous people to preferential under the law is a quintessential component of the American dream which took a drastic hit today. Once upon a time people flocked to America in search of a dream. The dream of striking it rich and elevating themselves to a level of superiority making them better than average people. Police, prosecutors, and judges like Michael Pastor are destroying America by making people less motivated to pursue the dream that America once offered. A dream where you can buy yourself out of trouble no matter what you did because you earned the right through years of hard work to pay the price with your wallet instead of your body.
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Oregon Duck Cliff Harris Victimized by Racial Profiling

CivilLibertyWatch — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 00:41:42 -07:00

Eugene police need to stop harassing Oregon Ducks pre-season All American cornerback Cliff Harris. There might not be many black people in Eugene, but surely officers of the Eugene Police Department (EPD) and Oregon State Police (OSP) are capable of finding lesser members of society to satisfy the urges of their racist desires. For those of you who don't watch football or follow inferior teams here is a rundown of the harassment Harris has suffered so far. The first incident took place this past summer when Cliff was just driving down a deserted highway minding his own business when OSP Nazi officer David Ray Stallsworth pulled him over, burglarized his car, and kidnapped him all because Stallsworth thought he might have been driving just a little bit over the speed limit. Then this past week Cliff was minding his own business driving down the street in downtown Eugene in a convertible when a EPD Nazi officer harassed Cliff again just because he thought it looked like he was not wearing a seat belt. Now either Cliff Harris has the worst luck of people the police choose to treat like criminals instead of busting crackheads or he has been racially profiled twice in past six months alone. In the first incident Stallsworth could clearly see not only Cliff, but two other black men in the vehicle as well when he walked up to the driver's window if he did not notice before pulling them over which is unlikely. The second incident should erase all doubt in your mind because as the police statement indicated he was driving a convertible which made it easy for anyone to see his darkness clear as day like JFK's face from the book depository and that fascist pig zeroed in on him like Lee Harvey Oswalt. Due to these clear cases of racial profiling a new policy must be mandated for police in the Eugene area so that they can properly identify Ducks players and treat them as they deserve to be treated. The first step is to make sure that every Ducks player carries with them an Official Oregon Ducks Football Team Membership Card (if no such card exists one should be made). The second is to require any police officer with reasonable suspicion to believe that someone is an Oregon Ducks football player to ask the subject two questions as follows: 1. Are you or have you ever been a member of the Oregon Ducks football team? 2. Do you have an Official Oregon Ducks Football Team Membership Card? If the subject can confirm that they are in fact a card carrying member of the Oregon Ducks football team the officer should then be required to let them go about their business. I propose that this policy should put on the ballot in the next election to reduce racial profiling and make Eugene a sanctuary city for football players.
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Sarah Boswell Tried to Frame Her Ex-Husband for DUI

CivilLibertyWatch — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:37:47 -07:00

Every man should feel bad for Tray Boswell after his ex-wife Sarah Boswell and the Plano Police Department nearly frame him for drunk driving while sober. The plot was foiled when the Collin County District Attorney's Office dropped the DUI charge against Tray because of how bad the arresting officer's cell phone records looked. Sarah had called Officer Michael Kress on his personal cell phone several times that night until he finally found her husband and arrested him. Tray had been pulled over another time shortly before his arrest by Officer Scott Copeland who had received personal calls from Sarah before that traffic stop. Tray says that Sarah was friend with another officer named Michael Nunns have been "friends" from high school, but the media has listed their nature of the relationship as unclear. I might be about to rush to judgement, but if you have a woman unhappy with her marriage who wants men in uniform to risk their jobs so that she can leave her husband with a better divorce settlement only one type of relationship comes to mind. A close relationship of a physical and clothing optional nature. Tray Boswell eventually filed a federal lawsuit against the Plano Police, Michael Kress, Scott Copeland, Michael Nunns, and a fourth officer. I wish him the best of luck with his lawsuit and hope that he will someday thank these officers for helping him retire early by violating his civil liberties. I was going to put this in police rants, but am putting it in ex-wives since Sarah instigated it. I also can't say for sure until all the facts are know whether or not Sarah got all their numbers through platonic relations and just called them repeatedly until they pulled her husband over just to stop her from bothering them anymore.
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Officer Ian Walsh Caught on Tape Abusing Teen Girl

CivilLibertyWatch — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 15:17:35 -07:00

Seattle Police Officer Ian P. Walsh was caught on tape abusing a 17 year old girl during a jaywalking stop proving that he thinks its ok for grown men to physically abuse young girls by punching them in the face. This happened in 2010 when he harassed the victim and three of her friends over a draconian ordinance that allegedly outlawed the manner in which they walked across a street. The victim was understandably confused and angry over this before naturally becoming physically resistant to his attempts to touch her in places and in ways that she was not comfortable with. Then the officer became violent and lashed out striking the minor child in the face with his fist. Officer Ian P. Walsh is a poor excuse for a man who should have learned as a boy that it is never ok for a man to hit a lady. It doesn't matter what she does men are not supposed to hit women for any reason. I'm sure Officer Ian P. Walsh has told that to many drunk trailer park rednecks and as a police officer he should hold himself to a standard higher than that of those he arrests. Society should hold him to a higher standard and teach him that grown men professionally trained as law enforcement officers to restrain large men non-violently have no excuse for punching a much smaller and younger teenage girl. Sgt. Rich O'Neill defended the woman battering by his fellow officer by false stating that "it is never okay to get into a confrontation with an officer out on the street, use force against that officer and then somehow think that you are justified". It is always justified to use force against an officer who subjects you to cruel and unusual punishment on the street, even if he is enforcing the law as long as the law is unjust. If such force were not justified then Gaddafi would still be in Tripoli, but as this incident proves it not always smart to fight because you won't always end up owning the enemy's hat. Sometime it is better to shut up, stand still, cooperate, and hope to get off with a verbal warning or just a small fine for a minor violation. Still the victim had every right to fight against a clear and present danger to her civil liberties. The question should not be if Officer Ian P. Walsh was justified, but if the friends of the victim and other bystanders are cowards for not placing Officer Walsh under citizens arrest until a competent replacement could be located. They may have done the smart thing, but they certainly were not brave. As a white man I can never truly understand what it is like to stand in the shoes of a black person being harassed by a white cop. I do understand the long history white cops have of finding excuses to use excessive force on groups of black people who are just peacefully walking down streets, so I can try to imagine the fear one my experience because most incidents of police brutality in America against minorities are racially motivated and a lot of those incidents result in the murder of innocent civilians at the hands of cops. In closing society should not let bad cops like Officer Ian P. Walsh get away with abusing minor children, hitting young girls, harassing minorities on the street, and using excessive force against black people. I would urge anyone who finds themselves in the back of his car to deliberately piss themselves and vomit to make his job harder, but I don't want to incite anyone to make fools of themselves like that. I still think it would be totally awesome if anyone did that, but that is just my opinion.
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Man Arrested for Slander After Pro-Communist Comments

CivilLibertyWatch — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 06:16:03 -07:00

The Royal Malaysia Police (RMP) arrested Mohamad Sabu last week on charges of criminal slander for pro-communist comments he made in August. The comments allegedly praised 180 members of the Malayan Communist Party who attacked the Bukit Kepong police station in 1950 and killed 25 officers who were members of the Federation of Malaya Police now known as the Royal Malaysia Police. The attack was part of a failed communist insurgency against the British and the loyalist colonial government. Sabu is the leader of the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party also known as the PAS. The PAS is the main opposition party to Prime Minister Najib Razak. Sabu claims that his arrest is politically motivated and suspects that the Prime Minster might be behind the charges he is currently facing. If convicted he faces a maximum sentence of 2 years in prison. Malaysia is weird country when it comes to free speech laws. You can basically say whatever you want for the most part unless you criticize the government in which case you might be found in violation of the Sedition Act. In this case he is being charged with criminal slander for supposedly questioning the patriotism of the officers attacked by the communists that day over 61 years ago.
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