Black Man’s Lawsuit Claims Baltimore Cops Shot Him for No Reason, Planted Evidence and the DA Falsely Subjected Him to 4 Unsuccessful Murder Trials

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From [HERE] Keith Davis Jr., a man who stood trial four times for a deadly shooting that he always maintained that he did not commit, has sued former Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby and some of the police officers involved in his case.

Davis and his wife, Kelly, filed a lawsuit on Monday in Baltimore Circuit Court alleging that police shot him multiple times without legal justification and then conspired to plant evidence to cover it up. The complaint further asserts that the state’s attorney maliciously prosecuted and defamed him.

The lawsuit contains 12 counts, including fabrication of evidence, excessive force and false arrest.

Baltimore Police Officer Lane Eskins, former Officer Catherine Filippou, former Police Commissioner Anthony Batts and the city are also named as defendants.

The case galvanized people in the community to action. Kelly Davis and DeRay Mckesson, a civil rights activist in Baltimore, spearheaded a campaign that involved protests, billboards and posts on social media that featured the hashtag #FreeKeithDavisJr.

Keith Davis has always professed his innocence in the killing of Kevin Jones, 22, a security guard at Pimlico Race Course who was fatally shot before 5 a.m. on June 7, 2015.

Police were investigating the attempted robbery of a hack driver several hours later and chased Davis into a mechanic’s garage on Eleanora Avenue near Hayward Avenue in Northwest Baltimore. Officers fired dozens of shots and hit him three times.

In 2016, Davis was found not guilty of all charges except for one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm.

From the beginning, Davis claimed that law enforcement planted a handgun near him. He was the first person police shot in Baltimore after the death of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old Black man who died of injuries he sustained in police custody.

One week after his almost-total acquittal, Davis was charged with first-degree murder and related offenses.

Twice, a jury could not reach a unanimous verdict. Courts on two other occasions overturned convictions. [MORE]

Were MLK’s Coercive Tactics Really Non-Violent? What is Violence if No Government is Legitimate in the first place and “Authority” is nothing more than a belief in people’s minds?

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We come, finally, to the concept of violence. Strictly speaking, violence is the illegitimate or unauthorized use of force to effect decisions against the will or desire of others. Thus, murder is an act of violence, but capital punishment by a legitimate state is not; theft or extortion is violent, but the collection of taxes by a legitimate state is not. Clearly, on this interpretation the concept of violence is normative as well as descriptive, for it involves an implicit appeal to the principle of de jure legitimate authority. There is an associated sense of the term which is purely descriptive, relying on the descriptive notion of de facto authority. Violence in this latter sense is the use of force in ways that are proscribed or unauthorized by those who are generally accepted as the legitimate authorities in the territory. Descriptively speaking, the attack on Hitler's life during the second World War was an act of violence, but one might perfectly well deny that it was violent in the strict sense, on the grounds that Hitler's regime was illegitimate. On similar grounds, it is frequently said that police behavior toward workers or ghetto dwellers or demonstrators is violent even when it is clearly within the law, for the authority issuing the law is illegitimate.

It is common, but I think wrong-headed, to restrict the term Violence' to uses of force that involve bodily interference or the direct infliction of physical injury. Carrying a dean out of his office is said to be violent, but not seizing his office when he is absent and locking him out. Physically tearing a man's wallet from his pocket is "violent," but swindling him out of the same amount of money is not. There is a natural enough basis for this distinction. Most of us value our lives and physical well-being above other goods that we enjoy, and we tend therefore to view attacks or threats on our person as different in kind from other sorts of harm we might suffer. Nevertheless, the distinction is not sufficiently sharp to be of any analytical use, and, as we shall see later, it usually serves the ideological purpose of ruling out, as immoral or politically illegitimate, the only instrument of power that is available to certain social classes, [607]

In its strict or normative sense, then, the concept of political violence depends upon the concept of de jure, or legitimate authority. If there is no such thing as legitimate political authority, then it is impossible to distinguish between legitimate and illegitimate uses of force. Now, of course, under any circumstances, we can distinguish between right and wrong, justified and unjustified, uses of force. Such a distinction belongs to moral philosophy in general, and our choice of the criteria by which we draw the distinction will depend on our theory of value and obligation. But the distinctive political concept of violence can be given a coherent meaning only by appeal to a doctrine of legitimate political authority.[MORE]

Willie D: A White Man in DC Threatened a Black Man and Called Him NGHR. So the Black Man Turned the White Man’s Cheek and Stomped Him in the Street

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Osho Rajineesh explained the robotic application of violence or non-violence as dogma to any given situation is stupid, reactionary.

“Jesus said that if somebody hits you on one cheek, turn the other cheek. You are asking me what I have to say about it. This will be the attitude of a man who believes in the idea of non-violence, the philosopher of non-violence. But when you are hit by somebody and you give him the other cheek, you are encouraging violence in the world. It is not non-violence. And you are assuming something which is absolutely your imagination. If somebody hits me, according to Jesus I have to give him my other cheek. But his tastes may be different. He may have enjoyed the first hit, he may enjoy the second even more; he may be a sadist. Then you are encouraging a sadist to torture people; you are encouraging violence. Even to allow your own body to be tortured by somebody is to encourage violence.

No, this stupid ideology has been the downfall of the whole of India. [MORE] and [MORE]

Probable Cause Exists to Arrest and Charge ICE Cop with Murder but Cowardly Dumbocrats Delay. Self Defense is Weak b/c Cop Created the Danger and MN is Not a Stand Your Ground State

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Attorney Marjorie Cohn explains: A Minnesota prosecutor should charge Ross with first-degree murder. . .

Minnesota Murder Statutes

Given the politics of the case it would seem wise for the state to take charge of the prosecution and to resist efforts by federal authorities to take over the case.

Under Minnesota law, a person who causes the death of a human being with premeditation and the intent to kill is guilty of first-degree murder and shall be sentenced to life imprisonment.

Intent to kill can be shown by circumstantial evidence. Ross’ shooting at Good’s head from a short distance is proof of an intent to kill.

Premeditation can occur in moments; there is no minimum amount of time required. It can happen over a matter of months or in a matter of seconds. Ross has a gun in his hand, methodically raises it and shoots at Good multiple times, while saying, “Fucking bitch.” This is evidence of premeditation. 

There is sufficient evidence for a prosecutor to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Ross is guilty of first degree murder.

When a person has the intent to kill but acts without premeditation, he or she is guilty of second-degree murder, and may be sentenced to a maximum of 40 years in prison.

Even if a jury does not find beyond a reasonable doubt that Ross premeditated the murder of Good, it would likely convict Ross of second-degree murder in light of the strong evidence of his intent to kill her.

Causing the death of another by perpetrating an eminently dangerous act with a depraved mind and no regard for human life constitutes third-degree murder which carries a maximum of 25 years in prison and/or a maximum fine of $40,000.

Shooting at Good’s head through the window of her car constituted an eminently dangerous act with Ross’ depraved mind and no regard for human life, which support a conviction of third-degree murder.

Although at a minimum, Ross’ actions satisfy the elements of manslaughter, they also constitute evidence of murder. A Minnesota prosecutor should charge him with first-degree murder. . . 

Supremacy Clause Immunity

In his defense, Ross would try to “remove” the state case to federal court by arguing that he has immunity from state prosecution.

Supremacy Clause immunity is not absolute immunity. It applies only when a federal official acts within the scope of their lawful federal duties. Federal officers are protected against state prosecutions if they can show that although their actions violated state law, they were “’necessary and proper’ in the discharge of their federal responsibilities.”

The inquiry would be whether Ross’ shooting of Good was necessary and proper to enforce the federal immigration law. If he acted beyond the scope of his duties, or behaved in an egregious or unjustified manner, the case would remain in Minnesota state court. Shooting Good dead was not within the scope of Ross’ ICE duties.

Once a state case is removed to federal court, the federal court will apply state substantive law.

The Claim of Self-Defense

Ross will claim that he acted in self-defense when he shot Good so the killing was justified. To prove self-defense, Ross would need to show that shooting Good was necessary to resist or prevent an offense that he reasonably believed exposed him or another to death or great bodily harm.

Minnesota’s use-of-force laws authorize officers to use deadly force only when a reasonable officer would think it necessary to protect themselves or others from death or great bodily harm that “is reasonably likely to occur absent action by the law enforcement officer.”

It allows officers to shoot only when the threat “must be addressed through the use of deadly force without unreasonable delay.” Thus, if the threat can be addressed without the use of deadly force, or if it’s reasonable to delay, the use of deadly force would violate Minnesota law. Ross could have stepped out of the way and gotten Good’s license plate number instead of shooting her.

Last term, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Barnes v. Felix, which said that in assessing the reasonableness of an officer’s use of deadly force, courts must look beyond simply the moment the officer fires the weapon. The court “must consider all the relevant circumstances, including facts and events leading up to the climactic moment.” This would require consideration of what the officer did leading up to the confrontation, including Ross’ decision not to step out of the way of Good’s car. 

Minnesota law requires the “duty to retreat.” It requires individuals to avoid the use of deadly force if it is possible to do so safely, before they act in self-defense. [MORE]

Minnesota is Not Even in the Top 25 States for Most “Illegal Immigrants” and Accounts for Only 0.7% of all Undocumented in the US. Trump’s Racist Circus to Entertain Neuropeons Delayed by Bad Weather

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According to the Migration Policy Institute, Minnesota ranks 29th in the nation for having the most undocumented immigrants. It has approximately 100,000 undocumented persons which accounts for 0.7% of all undocumented in the US (see chart below). That is, at least 20 other states have at least double the number of “illegals.” Similarly, DC accounts for 0.2%. As such, the Blight House’s immigration efforts are not a practical means of reducing the immigrant population. If the ostensible purpose of clown Trump’s efforts is to indulge racists who love watching non-white people being dominated, then what is the actual purpose here?

* Unauthorized immigrant population includes those who entered the country without authorization and visa overstayers, as well as individuals who hold a liminal (or “twilight”) status such as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), humanitarian parole, or Temporary Protected Status (TPS), as well as those with a pending asylum application.

Methodology: The Migration Policy Institute’s method uses information from the U.S. Census Bureau's Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) to assign legal status to noncitizens in the Census Bureau's American Community Survey (ACS). In the SIPP, noncitizens report whether they currently have lawful permanent resident (LPR) status—i.e., a green card. Those without LPR status may be recent refugees, temporary visitors (e.g., international students or high-skilled H-1B workers), or unauthorized immigrants. MPI's method maps characteristics such as country of birth, year of U.S. entry, age, gender, and educational attainment between the two surveys, and those noncitizens in the ACS who have characteristics similar to those reporting LPR status in the SIPP are coded as LPRs in the ACS. The remaining noncitizens—who are similar in characteristics to those not reporting LPR status in the SIPP—are classified as either unauthorized or legal temporary migrants, depending on whether they meet the qualifications for H-1B and the other temporary visa classifications. Estimates of unauthorized immigrants are weighted to match control totals (benchmarks) for immigrants from a set of origin countries and world regions. These control totals are calculated by subtracting the number of legal immigrants from the total of all immigrants for each country and region that are captured in the ACS data. The number of legal immigrants is estimated by adding up all legal admissions from each country and region in every year—using Department of Homeland Security administrative data—and then reducing this number to account for deaths and emigration of legal immigrants. Finally, the unauthorized immigrant population estimates are adjusted upward slightly to account for the undercount of this population in the ACS. [MORE]

ANOTHER NON-INSURRECTION CIRCUS FOR NEUROPEONS WHO STILL WALK AROUND ON ALL FOURS AT THE CRIB. The Pentagon has ordered about 1,500 active-duty soldiers to prepare for a possible deployment to Minnesota, defense officials told The Washington Post late Saturday, after President Donald Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act in response to unrest there.

The soldiers are assigned to two infantry battalions with the Army’s 11th Airborne Division, which is based in Alaska and specializes in cold-weather operations.

The Army placed the units on prepare-to-deploy orders in case violence in Minnesota escalates, officials said, characterizing the move as “prudent planning.” It is not clear whether any of them will be sent to the state, the officials said, speaking like some others on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive military planning. [MORE]

According to FUNKTIONARY:

CIRCUS – Clandestine Insurgent Rogue Clown Uncle $cam. First, the Native Americans were clowned-on; then the Afrikans were enslaved and paraded around like animals; then all Americans were joked by voluntarily giving up their unalienable rights by becoming legal fictions of Congress, i.e., citizens of the United States. Now other sovereign countries are being cajoled into selling their collective soul through the antics and foreign policies of Uncle $cam in concert with the ongoing spectacle of his Economic Hit Men. The CIRCUS is always coming to your town. (See: Uncle $cam, Genocide, Bush Family Crime Syndicate, Racism White Supremacy, Corporate State, Pathocracy, ZR Rifle Squad, CIA, Council on Foreign Relations, Terrorism, Manifest Destiny, Fascism, Internal Revenue Service, Taxation, Inflation, Legal Tender, Gangbanking, Oligarchy & Eugenics)

borders – arbitrary geopolitical abstractions—economic and cultural impediments and surprisingly ineradicable. 2) imaginary geographic distinctions and occult political restrictions. Borders are what allows fences (internetworks of stolen goods) to be erected and trafficked through. (See: Corporate State, Political Borders & States)

What Federal Laws are ICE Cops Enforcing as they Post-Up, Stand Around in the Street and Grit on People? Court Issues Warnings and Partially Blocks Tactics against Protesters in Minnesota

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From [HERE] The US District Court for the District of Minnesota on Friday granted in part and denied in part a motion for a preliminary injunction brought by six individuals who say federal immigration agents unlawfully arrested, stopped, threatened and/or used chemical irritants against them while they observed, recorded, and protested immigration enforcement activity in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul.

The court order prohibits agents from retaliating against individuals engaged in “peaceful and unobstructive protest activity” and from arresting or detaining such persons “in retaliation” absent probable cause or reasonable suspicion that the person committed a crime or interfered with covered officers. The court also barred the retaliatory use of pepper spray or similar tools against peaceful, unobstructive protesters and observers.

The ruling further restricts vehicle stops in the context of protests, holding that the “act of safely following” federal agents “at an appropriate distance” does not, by itself, provide reasonable suspicion to justify a stop. The order requires defendants to disseminate the injunction broadly to covered agents by distributing it to all covered federal agents within 72 hours and to newly deployed agents who arrive in Minnesota to participate in the operation.

The plaintiffs sued Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem and senior officials from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and its Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) arm, alleging that the government’s “Operation Metro Surge” has produced “an unprecedented increase” in federal law enforcement presence in Minnesota. The plaintiffs also claimed that agents have responded to community observers with intimidation, force and detention. [MORE]

Targeted and Presumed Illegal Until Proven Otherwise, like Nazi Germany [but no need for a Jewish Star, Skin Color is the Criteria]: ACLU says ICE Race Soldiers are Sweeping Up Indigenous People in MN

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TARGETED AND PRESUMED ILLEGAL BY SKIN COLOR UNTIL PROVEN OTHERWISE.  IN NAZI GERMANY , AS PART OF THE DESTRUCTION PROCESS OF THE JEWS, NAZI AUTHORITIES REQUIRED JEWS TO MARK THEMSELVES WITH A STAR. THAT IS, JEWS WERE ONLY ALLOWED TO APPEAR IN PUBLIC WHEN WEARING THE JEWISH STAR. WITHOUT THE STAR MARKING SYSTEM (AND METICULOUS RECORD KEEPING) THERE WAS NO WAY TO TELL WHO WAS A SEMITE AND WHO WAS NOT. NAZI'S CREATED AN ELABORATE SYSTEM OF MOVEMENT RESTRICTIONS AND IDENTIFICATION MEASURES THAT INCLUDED PERSONAL JEW IDENTIFICATION CARDS, PASSPORTS MARKED WITH A J, ASSIGNMENT OF NAMES AND THE OUTWARD MARKING OF PERSONS WITH A YELLOW STAR. [MORE]

ACCORDING TO RAUL HILBERG: "THE WHOLE IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM, WITH ITS PERSONAL DOCUMENTS, SPECIALLY ASSIGNED NAMES, AND CONSPICUOUS TAGGING IN PUBLIC, WAS A POWERFUL WEAPON IN THE HANDS OF THE POLICE. IT WAS A CONTROL MEASURE IN THAT IT ENABLED THE POLICE TO PICK UP ANY JEW, ANYWHERE, ANYTIME. [MORE]

IN THIS MORE ORGANIZED, UPDATED OPERATING SYSTEM (OS) OF RACISM/WHITE SUPREMACY THERE IS NO NEED FOR ANY SUCH STAR - NON-WHITES ARE TARGETED BY SKIN COLOR [MORE] AND [MORE] AND [HERE].

From [HERE] Several Native Americans have reportedly been swept up in Donald Trump’s immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota, where federal agents are accused of racially profiling immigrants and citizens alike in rapid, warrantless arrests.

Four members of the Oglala Sioux Tribe were arrested and detained last week, according to Tribe President Frank Star Comes Out. Three remain in federal detention, according to the Tribe.

At least one other Native American, a member of the Red Lake Nation, was arrested and briefly detained last week. Jose Roberto “Beto” Ramirez, 20, was forcibly removed from his aunt’s car and detained by masked officers in Robbinsdale, Minnesota, according to video of his arrest.

Officers pulled him from the passenger’s seat, slammed him on the hood of the car, handcuffed him and hauled him to a detention center, where he spent roughly 10 hours.

Native Americans are U.S. citizens, holding dual citizenship rights and responsibilities under both federal and tribal laws. But indigenous leaders fear federal officers surging into the greater Minneapolis area are unlawfully stopping, questioning and detaining Native Minnesotans on the basis of their skin color and names, or racially profiling Tribal members who officers believe are Latino immigrants.

“Native people have been here since time immemorial — there’s no one that has been a citizen of this country longer than us,” according to Minnesota’s Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, a member of White Earth Nation and the highest-ranking Indigenous woman in statewide elected office,

“The obvious racial profiling happening to our community is disgraceful,” she said this week. “My heart breaks to hear about what’s happening and it pisses me off.”

In a letter to Trump administration officials, the Oglala Sioux Tribe noted that the detention of tribal members is “unlawful and constitutes a direct violation of binding treaties, federal law, constitutional protections, and the United States' trust responsibility.”

Three tribal members are detained at a federal building in outskirts of Minneapolis, where scores of people arrested during the Minnesota surge are jailed, according to Star Comes Out. [MORE]

"The greatest purveyor of violence in the world today is my own Government."- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr

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ARTILLERY ABOVE IS BY Kevin “Rashid” Johnson, a BLACK PANTHER AND AN undeceiveR.

As defined in FUNKTIONARY:

“authority” – (so-called)—a cartoon, an alleged image of the Law. 2) a cartoon clothed in flesh and blood. 3) the notion of an implied right and application of that “right” of individuals or groups of same to control or exercise external power over others, which has no meaning in reality. 4) power over…which is thoroughly institutionalized. 5) ruling through coercion. So-called “authority” is the justification for remaining impotent. The real threat to “authority” is the masses overcoming info-gaps and verigaps through self-knowledge and the proliferation of symbols of opposition, not crime or destruction of property. “Authority” is not a force but a farce! “Every great advancement in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.” ~ Aldous Huxley. Government is the hefty price we pay for our lack of being further evolved as humans. “The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.” ~Stanley Milgram. Regarding obedience to authority and carrying out “orders” Milgram states, “Thus there is a fragmentation of the total human act; no one man decides to carry out the evil act and is confronted with consequences. The person who assumes full responsibility for the act has evaporated. Perhaps this is the most common characteristic of socially organized evil in modern society.” At its root, government is based on violence and coercion. Without violent authority, studies show that violent behavior will all but disappear in its wake. Authority breeds the violence that it combats and perpetuates. Violence perpetrated by individuals is learned through noxious social experiences typically suffered under some assumed “authority.” “The greatest purveyor of violence in the world today [is] my own government.” ~ Dr. Martin L. King, Jr., 1967. Read “Obedience to Authority” by Stanley Milgram, and “Constitution of No Authority” by Lysander Spooner. “They must find it hard to take Truth for authority those who have so long mistaken Authority for Truth.” ~ Gerald Massey. Authority is a sick joke we wait in line to get “punched” by—without getting the joke that it truly is one. (See: Violence, Government, Yurugu, BOG, “The Law,” Hierarchy, Obedience, Duty, Defiance, Disobedience, Compliance Priests, Preachers, Citizens, States, Involuntary Taxation, Tax Invasion, Behavior, Orders, Allegiance, Internal Revenue Service, Corporate State, Anarchy, Taxtortion, Power, Experts & Neuropeans)

“Government” – Latinized Greek (“Gubernatio” = control; and from the Latin “mente” = mind; “The control of the mind.” 2) an abstraction (hoax) created for the sole purpose of making theft respectable and mind-control acceptable. 3) the societal manifestation of mass individual psychological reversal, i.e., the statutes, regulations, agencies, and agents (so-called bureaucrats) needed to threaten and shrink one’s comfort zone. 4) a granfalloon. 5) a fiction supported by those who kill on command and steal on demand under the guise of “protecting” their victims. Government is lawlessness (monopolized violence) mindlessly respected and accepted as law (open threats); politics is the way to enable and circumvent the law. The outworking of history consistently demonstrates that government will, in spite of the Bill of Rights, arrogate all power to itself eventually, if the people don’t act to prevent it. You have rights alright, just don’t get caught exercising them, O.K.? “Government” is simply, unequivocally, and always initiation of force or coercion and nothing else. Official “government” is disorganized, politicized; centralized; canonized and revered initiation of force, but it is no less initiation of force and coercion than any unofficial singular action of the same offensive or violent content. “Government” is an abstract infinite entity acting as a possessive noun. There is not a single line in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, or any governmental document that states that a natural person will be left alone as long as she or he does not impose upon another or others. By commission and omission, all official decrees make clear that a human is regarded as owned property or resource of the god called “Corporate State.” It is controlling the lives, energy and property of others that requires coercive force and this is its sole function. Endorsing the lie of an imagined abstract collective interest supports the very concept that gives rise to all covert and overt oppression. “The government never of itself furthered any enterprise, but by the alacrity with which it got out of the way. It does not keep the country free. The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.” ~Kirkpatrick Sale. The wayward notion that government redistributes wealth is widely held as sacrosanct as it is patently false. There are redistributes aspects, sure, but that’s as close as it gets. “As long as government is allowed to exist, it will everywhere keep growing and getting worse. Nearly everything that “governments” do (i.e., those with wholly symbolic roles “running” it, and who perform acts in its name) is grounded in fear. Government will cease to exist when people cease to grant it legitimacy—in other words stop believing in it, stop looking to it for solutions to problems in their lives, and stop supporting it.” ~Fred Woolworth. Government has failed at every attempt in 6,000 years of recorded history. Government atrocities—carried out by irrational functionaries, economic hit men, soldiers, diplomats, emissaries, etc., under every possible flavor or form of government—have littered the bloody pages of recorded history. Government is indisputably the greatest purveyor of murder, mayhem, genocide, exploitation, rape, forced starvation, pillage and chaos in the annals of humanity. Government does not need to be abolished; merely rendered obsolete through seeing it for what it truly is—a prime manufacturer of poverty, brutal oppression, violence, coercion, conformity and fear. The monetary genius E.C. Riegel once wrote that petitioning to government is like writing to Santa Claus. Government has created its own necessity by making people (its fictitious subject-citizens) fearful of the violence it creates by the effects of its very existence—in the form of violent criminals and external aggressors. “Government is men and women providing services on a compulsory basis; pay or get shot. To be legitimate they would have to drop their guns and provide their services on a voluntary basis. However, the moment they do so, they cease to be a government. That’s quite the conundrum.” ~Marc Stevens. Government is at the root of the cycle of violence—you run to it for protection and run from it out of fear for your life. The Slaughterhouse is to cattle as “government” is to people. “Government is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem.” –U.S. “President” Ronald ‘McDonald’ Reagan. “The only idea they have ever manifested as to what is a government of consent, is this—that it is one to which everybody must consent, or be shot.” ~ No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority, Lysander Spooner. Men and women calling themselves “government” violently impose themselves on victims labeled “citizens,” and “ordain” scriptures called “laws” that define the way “government” sanctions business as a crime by providing services over the barrel of a gun. What exactly is “government?” Have you ever seen a “government?” While there are varying degrees, “government” very simply is “one man violently controlling the life and property of another man.” In some places this violent control is “decreed” to be for the latter’s “own good” and “protection” and hailed as the “best system in the world.” Because it’s based on violence, there are no “states” or “nations,” “states” being “voluntary associations.” You may recognize that violent control over a man’s life and property is what we like to call—slavery. Slavery is a form of “government,” and in most cases, if not all, synonymous with “government.” Govern means control, not protect. Have you ever noticed the word “protect” is mysteriously not included in any definitions of govern? “govern.” To direct and control; to regulate; to influence; to restrain; to manage. State v. Ream, 16 Neb 681, 683.” ~Ballentine’s Law Dictionary, page 530. Just as there are no legitimate governments (power, jurisdiction and control over), there is no political “money” or currency (token) that isn’t counterfeit (by its very nature). With government (“stationary bandits”), the final assessment is always: “Fear for your life and pay tribute to the overrulers or else.” For subjugated people, given the choice of losing your wealth or your life, most choose to sacrifice their wealth in the form of exactions, i.e., tribute-cum-taxation. Whatever governments have, they must take by force or stealth or as conquerors in war. The operatives of government must draw their revenues out of the properties, capital goods and values created by and through the golden-rule relationships of men, and since there is no automatic ceiling on their power to seize, the sovereign powers have always, sooner or later, destroyed the wealth and freedom of the world and thus themselves succumb to their predictable and inevitable demise. Government everywhere fastens itself on the backs of its victims. Rulers sustain their predation at the reluctant and fearful consent of the victim (garnering faux legitimacy)—a direct vestige of the Divine rights of kings trickbag. (See: Fear, ROGUE, Iron Rule, Free-Range Slavery, Property, Slavery, Conquest, Anarchy, Granfalloon, Political Money, Public Service, Jurisdiction, Subjugation, RICO, Violence, Standing, Statism, Fascism, Citizens, Authority, State, Gangs, Stationary Bandits, Territorial Gangsters, U.S. citizen, Taxtortion, TIN-Man, Allegiance, SSN, Power, Authority, Hierarchy, Holodeck Court, Constitution, Taxation, Corporate State, Murder, Ecocide, Political Monetary Units, Programming, Oppression, Privacy, Surveillance State, Control & Colonized Mind) [MORE]

[Pretending Robbery, Involuntary Rule and Kidnapping in Venezuela is Liberation] Massa Media is Doing what Its Told: Minimize and Conceal the Criminal Aggression of the US

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From [HERE] The Western media are doing what they usually do: minimizing and covering up the criminal aggression of the United States.

Trump’s blatantly illegal military attack on Venezuela, the kidnapping of its president, the murder of foreign nationals, and theft of the country’s vast oil resources are not being called out for the litany of grave crimes that such actions constitute. The aggression that the U.S. has carried out is the Nuremberg standard of “supreme crime”.

Yet the U.S. and European corporate-controlled news media fail to report or comment on all this. Britain’s BBC has banned its journalists from using the word “kidnap”.

Instead of a forthright condemnation of Trump’s multiple violations of the UN Charter and international law, the Western media have sought to distract with spurious smearing of Russia and China.

The New York Times, the US so-called paper of record, claimed: “President Trump’s audacious nighttime raid in Venezuela sent a message: If you’re strong enough, you can attack a country, topple its leader and perhaps get access to the resources you’re after. The leaders of China and Russia, who have long shared a vision that divides the world into spheres of influence dominated by major powers, will be drawing their own conclusions.”

How’s that for diversion of public attention? The United States has just committed war crimes and brought the whole international order into disrepute in the most flagrant way, and yet the New York Times endeavors to focus concern on what Russia and China might allegedly do.

The Daily Beast and the Guardian both used the line, “the Putinization of US foreign policy.”

They claim that Trump is now “emulating” Russian President Vladimir Putin.

These Western media outlets are trying to minimize U.S. criminality by making a false equivalence with Russia and China.

So, it is postulated, Trump is repeating what Russia’s Putin has done in Ukraine, while China’s leader, Xi Jinping, is now going to follow through with an invasion of Taiwan.

The Western media distortion is contradicted by Moscow and Beijing, vehemently condemning U.S. aggression towards Venezuela and the violation of the UN Charter.

The only person Trump is emulating is every previous U.S. president. All of them have repeatedly invaded countries in Latin America and all around the world to overthrow governments and steal natural resources.

The criminal record of the United States is incomparable with that of any other nation. Since the Second World War alone, the U.S. has launched regime-change operations in as many as 100 foreign nations and waged countless illegal wars and proxy conflicts on every continent.

During the past eight decades of this “American exceptionalism” of mayhem and barbarism, the Western media have covered up the criminality by peddling pretexts such as the Cold War, defending the free world from communism, protecting human rights, promoting democracy, eliminating weapons of mass destruction, and so on. [MORE]

Senate Republicans Block War Powers Resolution on Venezuela, Enabling President Trash to Continue Attacks

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The Senate on Thursday voted against a war powers resolution aimed at limiting President Trump’s ability to conduct further attacks on Venezuela after two Republican senators withdrew their support for the legislation. Republican Senators Josh Hawley of Missouri and Todd Young of Indiana flipped under pressure from the Trump administration. They had joined Republican Senators Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, and Rand Paul of Kentucky to advance the legislation last week. Vice President J.D. Vance had to break the 50-50 deadlock in the Senate to dismiss the measure. [MORE]

Latino Man's Attorney Fell Asleep in his Death Penalty Case and Yet, Fifth Circuit Denies Habeas Relief

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Sigh. "There is unrebutted evidence that [defendant's] lead counsel at trial fell asleep, more than once, during direct examinations of witnesses counsel then cross-examined in this capital murder trial." Which, sadly for the defendant, is the first line of the dissent in this Fifth Circuit habeas denial. [MORE]

New Reforms Don’t Disturb the Official Klanarchy Running NY Prisons: Rule by Racists Enabled Gangs of White Cops to Savagely Beat and Murder Robert Brooks and Messiah Nantwi at Separate Prisons

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ACCORDING TO FUNKTIONARY:

reform – superficial change in form and formalities (fictitious change) which only further lubricates the status quo by renovating and painting old society in new colors. 2) appearance of change sans the change. Reform is always in the service of the status quo and the politician: it serves the privilege of the past not the promise of the future. Reform creates hypocrisy as a matter of course. Reform is the first stage in the three “R’s” in hue-man evolution; the other two being revolution and rebellion. There are two basic types of reformists: those who are preparing the ground for Third Eye revolution and those who are trying to prevent the conscious revolution. (See: Revolution, Status Quo, Meme & Change) reformers – naïve politicians. They came to do good and stayed to do well. Reformers themselves get reformed into the structure, consciousness and content of the dominant exploitative system—and thus become the system. (See: Revolution)

Klanarchy – rule by the Klan. Klanarchy was practiced at its zenith in the southern states between 1910 and 1955; characterized by such vigilantism as murders, beatings, lynchings, tar-and-feathering, bombing and maiming almost exclusively people of Afrikan descent, and to much lesser extents Catholics and “Jews.” The TRUMP Klan currently ruleS.

[AREN’T NY PRISONS CONTROLLED BY ELITE LIBERALS?] From [HERE] A sweeping prison reform bill aimed at improving safety, accountability, and transparency in New York’s correctional facilities was signed into law Friday following the murders of incarcerated individuals Robert Brooks and Messiah Nantwi by corrections officers.

The killings prompted widespread outrage and renewed calls for systemic reforms across the state’s prisons and jails.

The legislation codifies expanded use of body-worn and fixed cameras in all facilities and transport vehicles, requires rapid disclosure of video evidence to investigators, incarcerated individuals, and their attorneys, and strengthens reporting requirements when deaths occur.

Video related to deaths must now be provided to the Office of the Attorney General within 72 hours, or within 24 hours if discovered belatedly. Next of kin must be notified online within 48 hours, and autopsy reports must include photographs and x-rays.

The new law mandates continuous 24-hour video surveillance in all areas where guards interact with incarcerated people, including infirmaries and all prison vehicles. The law requires prisons to eliminate all camera “blind spots” except toilets, showers and inside cells. [MORE]

The bill also enhances oversight by increasing the number of members on the State Commission of Correction from three to five, including at least one formerly incarcerated person, and mandates a study of deaths in state facilities over the past decade. Incarcerated individuals will have greater access to the Correctional Association of New York, and former inmates will have a post-release window to file claims for harms suffered while in custody.

Many of the reforms are already underway. Body-worn cameras are now fully deployed statewide, fixed-camera projects are prioritized at Marcy and Mid-State correctional facilities, and the Office of Special Investigations has expanded staffing to boost investigative capacity.

Unprovoked Violence by Slave Patrol was Lawful but Immoral. Strawboss Sheriff and Racist Suspect DA Clear Cops who Arrested William McNeil; Stopped for Driving While Black w/o Lights On During the Day

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From [HERE] A white police officer with the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office was reprimanded for failing to report that he punched a Black college student in the face during a traffic stop, but he was cleared of using unnecessary force.

Will McNeil Jr. was punched and dragged from his car in February in an episode that attracted national attention. A video shows sheriff's deputies beating and punching McNeil during a traffic stop after he repeatedly questioned why he was being pulled over and refused to exit his vehicle in an incident that occurred on Feb. 19, 2025.

The white State Attorney’s Office in Duval County ruled earlier that Officer Donald Bowers acted lawfully and that no criminal charges would be filed against him. The sheriff’s office then completed an internal affairs investigation to determine whether agency rules were violated.

That results of the investigation, released Friday, state that Bowers was exonerated for his use of force. But he was reprimanded because he did not mention in his report that he struck McNeal.

Bowers was stripped of his law enforcement duties during the internal investigation, but they have since been restored.

McNeil was pulled over just after 4:15 p.m. Feb. 19 because his vehicle “did not have its headlights or tail lights illuminated in inclement weather.” The booking report said the driver was not wearing a seat belt. Yet, on video McNeil is shown wearing a seat belt. Also, it is clearly not raining or dark outside.

In the video, he tells the officer it’s not raining. The officer acknowledges that it is not raining and responds “it doesn’t matter” and that the driver is still required to have headlights turned on (during the day).

McNeil asks the officer to show him that law, which the officer says he will do “when you step out of the car,” the report said. McNeil asks for a supervisor, and a voice is heard saying, “All right, go for it” as his window is smashed out.

In the video, McNeil is told to “exit the vehicle now,” then gets punched by an officer. Another officer demands McNeil get out, followed by another punch to his face.

In the video, McNeil holds up both hands and waits for the door to be opened. He is pulled out, grabbed by his head and hair and shoved down, and an officer punches McNeil in the face again.

McNeil hired civil rights attorney Ben Crump to file a lawsuit against the police department

In ruling the officer’s actions lawful, State Attorney Melissa Nelson said McNeil created a dangerous situation by refusing to follow officers’ instructions.

BELIEF IN AUTHORITY IS THE PROBLEM. Nothing can ever change with regard to police brutality or the police murders of Black people so long as police possess the power to use force offensively on “citizens.” Petitioning puppeticians to defund or lower police department budgets or even “reforming the law on police use of deadly force” to make an officer’s claim of justifiable force the same as a civilian-defendant's claim of self-defense, would still have minimal effect on the extraordinary police power to use force offensively on citizens.

Political “authority” is the idea that government and its representatives have the legal and moral right to forcibly control people, and that, consequently, people have the moral and legal obligation to obey.’ In short, authority is the right to command and correlatively the right to be obeyed. It is the implied right to rule people. As representatives of authority, police officers are empowered to use force offensively to enforce laws against citizens who are correspondingly legally and morally obliged to obey authority on a content neutral basis (whether they agree or not).

Although we all know that an unwanted offensive touching by another person is wrong and that physical force used offensively on people against their will is immoral and evil, nevertheless, when such conduct is done by government agents they are exempt from rules of morality and legality due to the concept of “political authority.” As Michael Huemer explained, “acts that would be considered unjust or morally unacceptable when performed by non-governmental agents will often be considered perfectly all right, even praiseworthy, when performed by government agents” because they are believed to possess “authority.” Authority is the hypothesized moral property that 1) enables governments to use physical coercion (here meaning violence) in ways not permitted by citizens and 2) legally obliges citizens to obey government agents, rules and orders under the threat of physical harm (coercion). Where a government legitimately has “authority” it thus has the implied right to rule over people in a particular place or jurisdiction.

To be clear, all persons have the natural, inalienable right to defend themselves and come to the defense of others if they believe another person is in imminent danger from an aggressor. Private security guards work under this natural law of self-defense. In contrast though, police officers and other representatives of authority have the additional “power” to act offensively as aggressors - to initiate unprovoked acts of violence against people whenever they deem it necessary to enforce law. As such, police are permitted to engage in conduct that “citizens” can never lawfully do, such as; stop individuals, touch them against their will, attack (make arrests) people, kill people, interfere with their freedoms in many ways (search interrogate, order etc), kidnap people (that is, ‘detain and transport’) or imprison them because higher authorities have empowered them to do so. [MORE]

Pervasive, arbitrary stops function to “niggerize,” degrade humanity and humiliate Blacks in public, rendering them “unsafe, unprotected, subjected and subjugated to random violence” by government authority. The undeceiver Jeremy Locke points out that “slavery is not a concept of totality . . . The ultimate slavery is murder . . . Slavery is found both in the partial and complete destruction of freedom.” Prolific stops by cops everywhere a large number of Black people reside, inhibit their freedom of movement and function as a tool to keep Blacks confined to a physical, social and symbolic space. Thus, elites use arbitrary stops to help dominate Black people and control their movements by force. Such stops are a form of slavery. The result is a 2nd class “citizenship” for Blacks. Legal scholar Charles Epps observes, “police stops convey powerful messages about citizenship and equality. Across millions of stops, these experiences are translated into common stories about who is an equal member of a rule-governed society and who is subjected to arbitrary surveillance and inquiry.” FUNKTIONARY makes it plain, “People who are awake see cops as mercenary security guards that remind us daily, through acts of force, that we are simultaneously both enemies and slaves of the Corporate State”