Gangsters in Blue

The time has come for you to make a choice. You must choose where you stand. You must take a stand and decide what society you wish to live in. Do not tell us that you follow orders, we dealt with that one decades ago. We don’t want to hear that policies are set far above you, by those with more power than you. They have no power without you; you are their power. Without your willing participation, they are nothing more than miserable creatures, talking to the walls in overly decorated rooms. You convert their statements into physical actions. You decide which orders to follow, and from whom. It is your call.

We know why you joined the force. You wanted to protect the weak and the innocent from the strong and vicious. You desired a society where justice is done, the guilty punished. You abhor the use of violence against women and children. You wanted to stand for good, protect those who need protection. Are you doing this now?

Have you noticed the decline, over the past few decades, in public regard for your profession? When I was growing up, the friendly police officer was a part of our neighborhood. Children aspired to grow up to be policemen; the job was respectable. Seeing a police officer nearby meant safety. Today, citizens are fearful of you. When you 

drive by, they shudder – the innocent as well as the guilty. A policeman in close range no longer is resassuring. Citizens today worry that they will be assaulted, be electrocuted, or in other ways be harmed by their former public servants. Children worry that they will raise suspicions. Your job has changed from keeping the peace to enforcing various arbitrary, bureaucratic dictates. Have you wondered why?

You are the hired muscle of a small group. You no longer work for us, but for an alliance of businessmen, politicians, and bankers. They are determined to make society over in the vein they wish to see it. You are their muscle, their enforcer. This is why the public no longer respects you, but rather fears you. It is why your ranks have become full of sadists uninterested in the tasks that motivated you to join the force. It explains the orders you have been receiving.

Perhaps, though, you are thinking that the men you take orders from know best. Look around you. Is our society better than it was 50 years ago? Are we better off? Are we a more moral society? Take a drive down any of our highways in your cruiser, but this time, rather than looking for speeders, take a good hard look at what you see. Count the billboards advising drivers to part with their hard-earned money for a small thrill. Notice how much of our economy is simply entertainment – playgrounds for grown-ups – designed to take away the boredom and disillusionment we all feel. How many psychiatric offices will you see? How many people stream in and out of those offices each week, perfectly healthy, except that they need a vial of pills to get over the pointlessness of their lives? Can a healthy society ever be one in which most adults take anti-depressants? Will you see the obese people lining the sidewalks? After your drive, study what has happened to our food chain, and how the government has influenced it.

As you drive, notice the traffic patterns. Don’t use your lights, drive as the rest of us do. When I question the need for government, I am often referred to roads as a prime example of the good done by government. Drive through a metropolitan area, if there is one in your jurisdiction, and observe the traffic patterns. Ask yourself if government has done a good job with the roads. Are the cars moving and merging in ways that seem safe? Are the roads designed to serve the driving public, or do they seem designed to facilitate the movement of weapons first, to make access to major corporations easier second, and the safety and comfort of the public a distant last concern?

People move in constant fear of, quite by accident, violating some rule or other, and suffering a penalty at your hand. When you issue a ticket, who is enriched by the fine? Is it you, or is it the faceless bureaucrat who issues your orders? Are you punishing evil behavior, or a simple inability to follow the many arbitrary and contradictory rules? Why should you spend your time taking money from a man who drives safely, but in excess of a number posted on a sign, and delivering that money to men who spend their time planning mass murder?Ask yourself what it would feel like to drive down that road as a civilian. Notice that, when you aren’t in the mindset of giving orders, driving becomes a matter of being given orders, almost constantly. Signs direct you, under threat of physical violence, to move in certain ways. Is a healthy society one in which citizens 

receive constant orders and threats? In a decent society, would every sign indicate “Prohibited”? Drive the speed limit for a time. Do you feel quite sure that going faster would be unsafe?

The men you serve have had their chance; the world we have today is the one they have delivered. Have they done well? Theirs is a world in which some are forever rich at taxpayer expense, others are forever poor due to regulations preventing them from improving their lot.

Speaking of OWS, they have been cleaned out of the park. Men like you were ordered to remove them; ordered by a Wall Street billionaire. How much of his money was made honestly? My guess is none of it. He lives on bailouts, and demands that you and others like you use violence to eliminate anyone who calls him on it. Right or wrong, do you think they should have had the chance to speak? Do you think it was correct to order the use of weapons and SWAT teams against peaceful protestors? How did you feel when that took place in other countries – why is it any different when it takes place here?You are not a leader. You are not a CEO, and you will never be paid as one is paid. You will never be granted access to the ruling class; your assigned lot is to remain forever hired muscle. You are working class, what OWS calls the 99%. Why do you serve those whose lot is different? You work hard and want a peaceful world; they start wars and collect their bailouts. Why do you choose to protect them?

It is time for you to consider where you stand. The government is force, not eloquence, not reason. The symbol of government is the barrel of a gun – a gun you hold. The government has allied with carefully selected men – not with you – to siphon wealth from the rest of us and award it to the selected ones. They regard you as the unthinking, uncaring tool of their desires. They will rip us off, trample on our rights, and you will carry it out, all without gaining a thing for yourself. Will you prove them right? Or will you stand against this? Will you join us in calling for a free market, one where some participants do not get bailed out while others get regulated into oblivion? Will you join us in calling for freedom? Or will you help them to keep their boot directly over our throat? You are one of us, not one of them, do not continue as their deluded tool. Return to your mission of protecting the innocent from the depredations of the strong – protect us from government by bailout.

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Larken Rose, author of “The Most Dangerous Superstition,” wrote an essay for CopBlock.org titled, “When Should You Shoot A Cop.” The essay is a philosophical discussion about rights and the length one can take to defend those rights. From Larken’s post:

“To be blunt, if you have the right to do “A,” it means that if someone tries to STOP you from doing “A”–even if he has a badge and a politician’s scribble (“law”) on his side–you have the right to use whatever amount of force is necessary to resist that person. That’s what it means to have an unalienable right. If you have the unalienable right to speak your mind (a la the First Amendment), then you have the right to KILL “government” agents who try to shut you up. If you have the unalienable right to be armed, then you have the right to KILL ”government” agents who try to disarm you. If you have the right to not be subjected to unreasonable searches and seizures, then you have the right to KILL “government” agents who try to inflict those on you.” – Larken Rose, “When Should You Shoot A Cop”

Since being published at CopBlock.org, “When Should You Shoot A Cop” has stirred up a politico party in South Carolina, been published at Pro-Police websites (like my favorite - PoliceOne.com) and caught the eye of law enforcement – including IRS agents.  Recently, it drew the attention of the Arizona Counter-Terrorism Information Center (ACTIC), who found the essay at Occupy Phoenix (AZ).

I attempted to call ACTIC, for comment, shortly after learning of the leaked Officer Safety Document - I was  unable to make contact with anyone.  A week later I was considering using the story for CopBlock.org News and decided to try again. This time I was able to talk with two officers. The first hung up on me after I started asking questions about the lengths one can go to defend their rights. The second officer, who identified himself as “Officer”, had  a lengthy conversation with me.

Below are the edited and unedited videos of our conversation. Note how many times “Officer” interrupts me and how often he applies a double standard to police. Stating things like, “Of course a person has the right to decide what they put in their bodies.” But goes on to say that they, police officers, have the right to arrest folks for putting things in their bodies. The most shocking statement, IMO, was when “Officer” stated, “It’s unreasonable to use violence, when, a simple act is way more justified.” Talk about hypercritical. Today’s police are, and “Officer” even states it in the video, trained to use whatever force needed to affect an arrest. The police use violence when a simple act is ‘way more’ justified daily. Yet, it’s crazy for CopBlock.org to ask, “Are you able to defend your rights, even if that means using lethal force?”

Read the post(s), watch the video and let us know what you think. Does a person have the right to use force to protect their rights?

Edited Video:

Unedited Video:

Larken Responds to the public attention:

Related Links:

• When Should You Shoot A Cop – CopBlock.org
• Hello Arizona Counter-Terrorism Information Center – CopBlock.org
• Federal Agents Visit Larken Rose - CopBlock.org
• Arizona Counter-Terrorism Information Center Release
• Politico’s Attacked for ‘Liking’ CopBlock.org Post – CopBlock.org

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“When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion – when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing – when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors – when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you – when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice – you may know that your society is doomed.” – Ayn Rand

There was a time in my life when I would have said that they were all bad; that even if they started out good the sense of power acquired by holding a monopoly on force must corrupt by it’s very own nature. At 31 years old, I had never experienced a positive exchange with an officer of the law. Even small attempts I’d made to reach out such as a smile or kind word never seemed to have much effect with them. I figured that it was me, that some intrinsic element of mischievousness in my personality must simply make me always appear as if I’m up to no good, or that perhaps my negative experiences were unconsciously causing me to appear as if I wasn’t really being genuine. Whatever it was, my experiences with police had consistently left me with the feeling that we each regarded the other as somehow less than human and so, although my meeting with Sgt. William Ponce was under a slightly different set of circumstances, I wasn’t quite sure how he would react to me.

With this in mind, I called him ten minutes before our meeting to ask exactly when he would be at our designated meeting place because, as usual, I was running late and was concerned that he wouldn’t react well at being made to wait. He had gotten a bit lost and I could tell that the tone in his voice was apologetic as he thought I was calling because I was waiting on him. I had to laugh as I reassured him this wasn’t the case simply because I could already tell that he wasn’t what I had expected; I’m pretty sure he didn’t realize that he had just attained the status of an iconoclast in his own right.

Proper ethics dictate that government employees avoid political involvement while on duty and policy of the Quartzsite, AZ PD reflects the same. “Internally we’ve been battling with the chief for quite some time” Ponce explains. “We’re not supposed to get involved in politics in any way”. Unfortunately, this didn’t stop Police Chief Jeff Gilbert from using his officers to target his political enemies. He claimed it was their responsibility because such people were trying to destroy the town. Ponce and his officers were explicitly ordered to harass these particular individuals and either cite or arrest them for any and all possible infractions, but much to Gilbert’s dissatisfaction, they refused.

“I feel like I have that obligation…and the day I retire I want to be proud of my service. I have two little girls and I want them to know what it is to do the right thing”. Ponce candidly recants how he had wanted to become a police officer since experiencing the effects of domestic violence during his childhood and that it inspired him to want to make a difference. Originally from Parker, another small town in Arizona located north of Quartzsite, he started his career in law enforcement thirteen years ago at the Maricopa County Madison Street Jail. Fresh out of the military at the time, he enjoyed that experience and credits it with opening his eyes to certain nuances of human behavior he hadn’t yet seen. “That’s where I learned about people. You encounter so many different people and I was honestly still a little naive…You realize that there’s all types and how they each carry themselves” he confides. He wasn’t kidding, as a graduate of the same school of hard knocks I could sense his artful mastery of the subject matter; the fact that not much gets past him doesn’t make it past me and I’d hazard a guess that Sgt. Ponce is damned good at being a cop.

And what a shame it is when the good are punished for being the good. Sgt. Ponce and the Quartzsite 10 are now fighting not only corruption but suspension and possible termination from their positions.

“Look where we’re at. We decided we were going to do this because it’s the right thing, not because we wanted anything….As you know, our careers are on the line, and that’s the sad part. But we decided that we have to do this because it is the right thing to do. Not only is Jennifer affected, but the funny thing is the way he [Gilbert] treats the citizens is exactly the way he treats us, and that’s not right. You can’t treat people that way. We wanted everyone to know that, hey, he’s doing the same thing to us; we aren’t going to stand for it and neither should you.”

The message of freedom coming from Quartzsite seems to be reaching everyone except the higher ups in the Arizona government who ought to be doing something about it. In an advanced case of moral agnosticism, everyone from the governor to the attorney general are acting as though it is not their place to intercede. Perhaps they think if they ignore it it will simply cease to exist. Or perhaps they mistakenly believe A is B and that there is any excuse at all for government employees to be suspended because they exposed government corruption. Granted, to any halfway intelligent person, such a concept completely defies rationality, Therefore this leaves two options: one, that Arizona’s leaders are idiots, or two, that something more insidious is at play. Although I never estimate the underlying and necessary stupidity of politicians I must unfortunately choose option two.

One possibility has to do with the fact that Quartzsite is smack dab in the middle of something called BLM land. BLM of course stands for the Bureau of Land Management, the government entity responsible for collecting monies for land sales, maintaining land records, issuing land grants and patents, and other land related bureaucratic activities. Considering that the BLM is responsible for land patents, which are at the root of what just may be the worst act of fraud ever committed by the United States Government, anything under BLM management is definitely suspect. Despite inconsistencies in the color coding of this map and legend showing the allocation of land in Arizona, we can narrow the status of Quartzsite down to two possible options. Along with Parker, it is one of two very small towns that a) consist of BLM land in the middle of a relatively large geographical area made up of nothing else but BLM land or b) are not BLM land but are completely surrounded by BLM land and qualified as “other”.

Either way, the philosophical, sociological, and economic consequences are the same. There are people who live in Quartzsite, people who have not violated any individual’s rights; good, kind people…are they now relegated to a dismal black abyss as the latest sacrifice to the dark altar of the common good because they just so happen to live on land that the Federal Bureau of Land Management of the United States of America has designated for their own nefarious purposes? What exactly, whom exactly, is the BLM? Like any corporation, the BLM is nothing, a zero entity with no rights of its own. So what on God’s green earth gives them the right to grab land? Most importantly, since the violation of one individual’s rights equals the violation of all individual rights, are we simply going to stand by and allow the individual citizens of Quartzsite to suffer the indignity of their rights being tread on like dirt, as if they mean nothing at all?

Obviously, the persecution of certain inconvenient individuals began with more than just Police Chief Jeff Gilbert. According to Sgt. Ponce: “One of my officers told me that during a meeting with a council member he and several other officers explained how they were being directed to target people and the council member stated that the chief had been directed to do so by certain council members because those people were a problem and needed to be dealt with. Last time I checked I don’t work for the city council. I work for the police chief and I don’t take my orders from the city council”. Another sergeant in the Quartzsite PD so happens to be married to the town magistrate who for all intents and purposes serves as town judge; even trying misdemeanor and litigation cases with no actual background in law. The corruption in Quartzsite is seemingly endless with completely unethical individuals playing positions of power like musical chairs.

“I’m not going to play these games, I’m out here trying to make a difference. I’m not going to order my officers to do things that I don’t believe are constitutional or lawful….This guy [Gilbert] is tarnishing my honor and the entire reason I became a cop” Ponce tells me. And despite my negative personal experiences, my years of advocating against police brutality, and even despite the thousands of horrible stories I hear and read about bad cops on a daily basis, I could tell by the tone in his voice that this particular cop is genuinely a good man.

What is it that defines good? According to Webster’s dictionary, it is defined as “being positive or desirable in nature “. Is good then a subjective value to be determined by each individual according to what they find desirable? If that were the case it would mean that there is no such thing as good or evil, that man’s life has no meaning, that there is no existence outside of consciousness; that the world is nothing but an accidental playground of pure, unbridled nihilism and that we are the devil’s children with empty, cackling, infinite nothingness as our total sanction and final purpose. While looking to any form of mainstream media at various interludes might depict this to be the case, rationality tells us quite differently; and although my overall faith in the human race is sometimes lacking I highly doubt that such a concept accounts for the inner beliefs of anyone but a psychopath.

If good is not subjective – determined by the consciousness of whomever one is asking – is it then intrinsic? Are certain things simply good in and of themselves, requiring no sanction? The intrinsic theory of values unfortunately is responsible for almost as many horrors as the ridiculous concept of “public interest” (social theory of ethics). The intrinsic theory of values provides the logical base for the idea that since certain things are simply good and certain things are simply bad, it doesn’t matter how they are achieved. For instance: terrorism is bad and safety is good, thus whatever must be done to combat terrorism and guarantee safety must be moral. According to the intrinsic theory of values, the internment of thousands of Japanese-Americans during World War II was perfectly moral, and according to the intrinsic theory of values it would also be perfectly moral to throw every Muslim on earth in front of a firing squad…or in a gas chamber.

Value cannot be characterized independently of reality nor of consciousness. It must as fact of matter be a seamless integration of both, using total rational consciousness to build its meaning with the building blocks of reality; primary axioms which exist and their logical corollaries. This is objective value. Existence exists, consciousness exists, life exists, and man’s life exists. As such man’s purpose is to live free, to thrive, and above all, to create. Good is what forewords life; evil is what spins life out of control to its demise, the concept of irrationality, the idea that life and its corollaries, including principles of non-aggression and self -ownership, do not matter and are not subject to the laws of existence.

What a shame it truly is to punish the good for being the good, and how unfathomably twisted society has become when corruption is rewarded and virtue equals self sacrifice. Look around, because this is the point at which we have now arrived. Sgt. Ponce and I chatted about this for awhile before parting ways, each in full agreement that the status quo is completely unacceptable; both ready, albeit from opposite sides of the fence, to do whatever it takes to change it.

-Kelly James, submitted this story via CopBlock.org’s submit tab

More about Quartzsite, AZ and the sheriff

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The video speaks for itself.

Oakland, CA Police:
455 7th Street
Oakland, CA 94607
(510) 777-3211

Video Sources:

• RTAmerica YouTube 
• Democracy Now
• Guslto99 YouTube
• AbbyMediaRoots YouTube

Last night the violence by police continued, note the last 1 min of video is extremely violent – welcome to america, land of the police state.

Riot Police Storm Occupy Oakland is a post from Cop Block - Badges Don't Grant Extra Rights

For 10 years I have been complaining about the street in front of my house. I have 4 young kids and am married. In front of the house are single lanes that travel in either direction.

So, a car stopped seeing a red light down the end of the street and let my wife leave our driveway. There was a line of traffic down the street behind this car . We have 3 witnesses that gave statements, stating they saw a car traveling on the wrong side of the road cutting around traffic. When my wife pulled out she was hit by this car, totaling our vehicle.

I showed up roughly 15 mins after. The man on the wrong side of the road was not sited, and told me my “wife cut him off”. So, I flipped, and yelled A-Lot! The female police officer on scene (Suzanne Tibbetts) did not like it. She lost ALL witness statements, given a report that my wife was at fault and drawn a diagram that shows my street being two lanes. It clearly is not. The chief has defered all questions about the accident to her. He won’t help.

Who do I turn to now??????? Do they answer to NO ONE???
This is more of an illegal system, than a legal system.
Anyone got any ideas?

Corrupt Police in Danvers, MA is a post from Cop Block - Badges Don't Grant Extra Rights

My brother has been calling me the past two months about traffic stops from the Wilmington Police Department. He calls me every time he is stopped, which has been about 6 times up to this date.

The main problem is the officer’s continuous unconstitutional searches of his vehicle and his person. The first starting with an officer pulling him over for running a stop sign, in which he attempted to dig his hands into my brother’s pants to search for drugs. When my brother refused, he contacted a K-9 unit to search his vehicle and found nothing. They then escorted him downtown to the police station to strip search him (Yes for the running of a stop sign). I must admit that my brother has had a few run-ins with LEOs but this is too much!! They then let him go with just a warning ticket.

He has filed plenty complaints with WPD and none have been investigated at all. The is some serious ethics violations here!!

Another time he was pulled over for the same thing, this time having a friend with him. The officers demanded the two step out of the car, without notifying them of their violations. They began to search his friend, digging their hands into the back of his pants, discovering a bag of weed he was hiding. My brother was taken to be searched again due to this discovery. When my brother advised them of wanting to have his lawyer present, they forced him into the search. Thy found nothing and found out later that his car had been towed.

On another occasion, they pulled him for no reason, held him downtown claiming he was drunk, yet failed to give him a breathalyzer. Luckily he called me and I told him to demand a breathalyzer before they decided to write him up for a will refusal without notifying him of his rights.

They have detained him numerous times without reading any rights or informing him of his alleged crimes. They are using their power to terrorize and harass him. He has come a long way in the 2 years since he did 4 months for a petty drug charge. It seems police have a new tactic of provoking people into fits of anger by degrading them to make them feel less than human. I have overheard outrageous statements by an officer over the phone, so I have advised my brother to make sure he records everything. There has been little effort by WPD to keep the peace. Even while there have been 6 murders in the city, they spend most of their time harassing citizens…

Wilmington NC PD is a post from Cop Block - Badges Don't Grant Extra Rights

The following events happened just prior to this footage being captured:

After a lively march around downtown, encircling the Federal Reserve Denver Branch, thousands of people from all walks of life, flooded back onto the park in the front of the Colorado State Capitol building. Someone had set up a tent providing food and water to the crowd. It was a sunny and unusually warm day for October in Denver, and water inparticular was in high demand. The crowd was passionate, but totally non-violent. Large teams of police and government agents had closed nearby roads and were surrounding the protesters from a distance.

The occupation was taking place peacefully, until a man with a badge threatened to cage the people working the food tent for not having a permit to vend. The “vendors” refused to close down, then a small but heavily armed, team of police started slowly moving towards kitchen tent. At this time, people got fed up. They swarmed across the street towards the team of police, in an attempt to record and block the cops from encroaching any farther towards the make-shift kitchen. A human shield was set up around the kitchen, and the state’s initial assault was prevented.

This video was sent to us via CopBlock.org’s submission tab. Please, send us your videos of police encounters we’ll gladly help you get them posted here.

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A mistaken address in the Town of Erin last week ended up with a dog being Tasered three times by a Chemung County sheriff’s deputy who believed he was going to be attacked.

Paige, a 6-year-old spayed white mixed terrier, disappeared after the incident that occurred shortly after noon Sept. 28, said Sue Nowlan, who owns the dog with her husband, Barry. Paige returned on her own about 10 p.m. Sept. 29, Sue Nowlan said earlier this week. The dog was traumatized and is now very skittish.

“She won’t go out the doggie door after dark. She won’t even go outdoors after dark unless my husband or I coax her out,” she said. “In fact, the vet gave us a special collar that emits something to help calm her, and also a canine-calming anxiety control medication to try on her.”

The day after it was first given, the anxiety medication seemed to be helping, she said.

Paige also was being treated for deep burns where the Taser probes had penetrated, she said, noting the sheriff’s office is paying for the veterinarian.

As long as the leads are still connected after the initial shot with the Taser, each press of the trigger gives another jolt for up to three seconds, Nowlan said. Paige was hit with 50,000 volts three times, she said.
How it happened

When the Nowlans were not home, a deputy went there looking for an individual he had a warrant for, but he went to the wrong address. He was trying to find someone on Jones Road. However, the Nowlans’ driveway is a town road called Jones Drive that leads only to their home.

“It was an unfortunate incident,” Sheriff Christopher Moss said. “The dog came through a dog door up on a deck, and the officer said the animal came after him in an aggressive nature and he utilized his Taser.”

Paige went out the doggie door and started barking at the deputy, Sue Nowlan said.

“His claim is that she had him pinned and he felt threatened, and so he Tasered her and then Tasered her again on the deck and then as he was going toward his patrol car, he Tasered her a third time,” she said, citing a copy of the unofficial sheriff’s office report. “I don’t understand why she was Tasered three times.”

Use of the Taser is at the deputy’s discretion, Moss said.

“If he feels that he’s going to be attacked by the canine, then he needs to use whatever means he can,” he said. “At one standpoint, you can look at it and say, ‘Thank goodness this officer was equipped with a Taser and didn’t have to use his firearm to dispatch the animal.”

Nowlan said there has never been an issue with Paige in the six years that they have had her, even with United Parcel Service, Federal Express and U.S. Postal Service deliveries and daily visits by a natural gas well tender.

“She’s not a vicious dog. She’s not an aggressive dog or anything else,” she said, adding that she takes offense at the deputy referring to Paige, who weighs 54 pounds, as a large, vicious pit bull.

“That breed of dog that they want to refer to has a very bad reputation. There are drug people and such out there that raise dogs for the wrong purpose,” Nowlan said.

Suspects sometimes use dogs as a diversion before firing on law enforcement, Moss said.

“There have been times when firearms have been discharged when an officer’s been attacked by an animal,” he said.

Nowlan said if anybody fears for their life, she can understand why a dog would be Tasered, but she maintains that Paige is a family dog.

“She rides on our tractor with us in our buggy. She rides in our boat. She goes swimming in our pool,” she said. “I have a 6-month-old grandson. If I had a vicious dog, I certainly wouldn’t be allowing her around my grandson. My daughter certainly wouldn’t allow the dog around him if she were vicious.”
Investigation

Moss said the use of the Taser on the canine isn’t being questioned by his administration, but there is an internal investigation of the circumstances that followed the Tasering.

“There are some things that happened that I’m not pleased with on our officer’s behalf,” Moss said. “This should have been expedited a little better. Some further follow-up should have been conducted. So we have an internal investigation going, so I can’t comment at this time.”

According to the sheriff’s office report, the incident occurred at 12:10 p.m. Sept. 28, but the Nowlans did not find out about it until 6 p.m., Sue Nowlan said. A call to the sheriff’s office was returned at 7:45 p.m., she said.

“For 36 hours straight, that’s what we did. We looked for her. She’s not a dog that stays out. She’s not a dog that wanders,” she said. “My husband and I want assurance that this isn’t going to happen again. We lost valuable hours that we could’ve been out there trying to look for her, had we been notified.”

Nowlan said she met Monday with Moss, Undersheriff William Schrom and Capt. Thomas Argetsinger.

“The three people I spoke with down there do seem concerned,” she said. “They do tell me that there is an internal investigation going on within.”
Road name change?

She also planned to meet with code enforcement to file an application for a change of the road’s name.

When she talked with town officials earlier, they assured her that was not necessary. But if something terrible happens because of confusion over the road names and it is disclosed as an ongoing problem, there is an opportunity for someone to file a lawsuit, she said.

“We’ve had at least five incidences where they’ve reported here. At one point, our house was completely surrounded by state troopers. They were getting ready to do a drug bust, but they were supposed to be on Jones Road, and they had us surrounded,” she said.

“We have to do something at this point to prevent this from happening because we don’t plan on moving.”

Meanwhile, they have put up signs that are white with red reflective letters that read “For dog’s safety, toot horn!! Do not exit vehicle.”

“I don’t feel that I need to protect people from my dog,” Nowlan said. “But I do feel that I need to protect my dog from people.”

Derek Tomsa

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The Philly Tyranny Response Team was participating in the Nation wide Ron Paul sign wave – which took place on Oct 10th – when they had a little run in with an Exton, PA police officer. Below is video of that encounter – raw video here.

There you have it, more proof that the police aren’t concerned with protect you. This officer says, “I don’t have to be nice to you. That’s not in my job description.” He even states that he can tell you what to do and doesn’t care if you appreciate it or not. The men in the video did a great job of standing their ground against this jackboot thug.

If you’d like to remind the Exton, PA police that filming public officials is NOT A CRIME feel free to call them.

Stephen J. Meacham -Chief of Police
chiefpd@westwhiteland.org

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The above video is the second installment of “Better Than A Cop.” The purpose of “Better Than A Cop” is to highlight individuals who go above and beyond their regular activities. These truly heroic individuals often risk their own lives to save others, something officers claim to do all the time. I’m hoping that these videos will do two things. One, show folks that police don’t actually protect you, in fact, the police are awful at preventing crime. The second thing I hope these videos will show is you’re more likely to be saved by a random person than an actual officer.

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This weeks story came from these sources.

Hero Halts Rape – New York Post

Former sheriff’s deputy convicted.. – LA Times

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