White Navy Seal Accused of Holding a Reenlistment Ceremony Next to the Corpse of a Murdered “Islamic State Prisoner" says Prosecutors are Spying on His Emails

From [HERE] A military prosecutor sent an email with tracking software to 13 lawyers and paralegals, as well as a reporter with the Navy Times, according to a motion filed last week.

The motion was filed by defense lawyers for Lt. Jacob Portier, who is accused of conduct unbecoming an officer, report the Military Times, the Guardian and the Associated Press. Portier is accused of holding a reenlistment ceremony for a Navy Seal next to the body of an Islamic State group prisoner allegedly killed by the Seal.

The Seal, Edward Gallagher, has pleaded not guilty to murder in the Islamic State group militant’s stabbing death.

Defense lawyers for Gallagher and Portier received the tracking software, as did a Navy Times reporter who has broken stories on the Gallagher case based on leaked documents, according to defense lawyers.

The tracking software was in an unusual logo showing an American flag and a bald eagle perched on the scales of justice, according to the defense motion. The device tracks emails, including forwarded emails, defense lawyers say.

The email was sent by Navy prosecutor Cmdr. Christopher Czaplak.

The military has acknowledged that it “used an audit capability” during the course of an investigation into the unauthorized disclosure of information covered by a protective order. Spokespeople did not say on the record whether the Navy obtained a search warrant to install the devices, according to the Military Times. The judge in Gallagher’s case was aware of the investigation and the software, according to a court document cited by the AP.

A spokesperson for the Naval Criminal Investigative Service told the Military Times that the audit capability “ensures the integrity of protected documents. It is not malware, not a virus, and does not reside on computer systems. There is no risk that systems are corrupted or compromised.”

The defense motion seeks additional information about the device and its capabilities. The motion says the tracking software could intrude into the attorney-client relationship and implicates Portier’s Fourth and Sixth Amendment rights.

Newark Cop Indicted for Manslaughter After Firing at a Car as it Fled & at Close Range. Black Man Shot to Death & Black Passenger Injured

From [HERE] A Newark police officer is facing manslaughter charges after prosecutors say he shot and killed a man fleeing a traffic stop earlier this year. 

The Essex County Prosecutor's Office announced Jovanny Crespo, 26, was indicted on multiple charges including aggravated manslaughter, aggravated assault and two each of counts of second degree possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose and official misconduct.

The indictment came almost three months after Crespo was suspended without pay as an investigation was launched. 

If convicted of all counts, Crespo could face life in prison.

Although a detention hearing has not been scheduled, Crespo is likely to make his first court appearance Wednesday or Thursday.

The Essex County Prosecutor's Office presented the case to a grand jury following a review of the incident.

On Tuesday, prosecutors said Crespo acted in a "criminal" way and his actions were not in line with his training.

"He showed a reckless disregard for human life by shooting into a moving vehicle — a vehicle which had heavily tinted windows," Acting Essex County Prosecutor Stephens said.

In late January, prosecutors said a preliminary investigation indicated that Newark police tried to stop a vehicle but the driver didn't stop, and "shots were fired by one police officer at three separate locations."

Two Newark men in the car, 35-year-old Andrew Dixon and 46-year-old Gregory Griffin, were shot. Griffin died the next day.

A loaded semi-automatic handgun was found in the vehicle.

Prosecutors say that Crespo was not the original officer to make the traffic stop in the area of Clinton Avenue and Thomas Street, but rather a female officer. However, when Griffin allegedly fled the stop, she radioed that he was fleeing and that she sat a gun, which lead to a pursuit involving numerous police cars, prosecutors say.

Crespo fired shots at the fleeing car at three separate locations, according to prosecutors. The vehicle then stopped in the area of Irvine Turner Boulevard, near Kinney Street.

No police officers were injured, prosecutors said, adding no other police officers discharged their weapons.

According to prosecutors, this is the first fatal police-involved shooting to result in an indictment in Essex County in recent memory.

Prosecutors released body camera (which can be seen below) and dash camera video, as well as dispatch audio related to the police chase and shooting.

In Crespo's body camera video footage, you can hear someone, presumably Crespo, telling the other officer in the police car at one point, "I think I shot him. I seen a gun. He pointed a gun at me" once he enters the car after firing at the vehicle involved in the pursuit.

Body camera video shows Crespo fired at the car on three different occasions — the last almost at point blank range. 

Later on the body camera video, after the pursuit, Crespo tells other police officers that he shot both of the men.

White Media ‘Makes Believe’ that there is More at Stake in the Administrative Trial of the White Cop who Helped Murder Eric Garner than Just a Loss of Vacation Time or a Job

Lex-icon - “law as image - the appearance of justice (the form) over the substance of justice via truth and law over humanity.” FUNKTIONARY.

it's an administrative hearing in the police department's own trial room. It's not a criminal proceeding. What is the most serious consequence that could come for the officer, Officer Pantaleo, as a result of this?

The police department can fire him. They may also cause him, as part of that penalty, to forfeit any accumulated vacation or sick time that he has. Or it can go all the way down to a few days' suspension or a loss of vacation time, or, if he's not found guilty, he will go back to work. [MORE]

BELIEF IN THE SYSTEM HOLDS THE WHOLE THING TOGETHER. From [AP] After Eric Garner died following a confrontation with New York City police five years ago, one officer involved in the struggle wrote up paperwork that exaggerated the seriousness of the dead man’s suspected crime, according to testimony Tuesday.

Officer Justin Damico testified that after riding in an ambulance with the dying Garner, he went ahead on his own and filled out arrest papers listing a felony tax charge that would have required prosecutors to prove Garner, a small-time street hustler, had sold 10,000 untaxed cigarettes.

Damico spoke at the police department disciplinary trial for Daniel Pantaleo, the officer accused of placing Garner in a banned chokehold as they attempted to arrest him for selling loose, untaxed cigarettes near a Staten Island park in July 2014.“You initiated this on your own, writing up the arrest of a dead man?” asked Suzanne O’Hare, a lawyer for the police watchdog agency bringing the disciplinary case.

Damico acknowledged that the felony charge was incorrect because Garner actually had with him five packs of Newports that contained a total of less than 100 cigarettes. The cigarettes were marked for sale in Virginia, a telltale sign that they were being resold illegally in New York.

Garner was ultimately charged with two misdemeanors, which alleged that he resisted arrest and sold untaxed cigarettes. The case was not prosecuted because Garner died.

The confrontation with Garner was partially caught on a bystander’s cellphone video, ending with Pantaleo grabbing Garner and pulling him to the ground. Garner’s dying pleas of “I can’t breathe” became a rallying cry against police brutality.

Pantaleo, 33, denies wrongdoing. He has been on desk duty since Garner’s death.

Testifying for more than an hour Tuesday, Damico told a nearly full hearing room at police headquarters that he’d given an agitated Garner a warning two weeks before the confrontation.

Damico said he and Pantaleo allowed Garner to vent for about 10 minutes before moving to arrest him because they were reluctant to use physical force.

And he testified that he did see Pantaleo’s arm around Garner’s neck as the two men struggled — but he didn’t say if he thought the move was a chokehold.

Until Tuesday, Damico had never spoken publicly about the case.

Damico testified that he and Pantaleo tried to be patient as Garner screamed that he was tired of continually being harassed by police. They stayed calm even as Garner swatted Damico’s hands away and refused to be arrested.

Damico and Pantaleo “utilized textbook de-escalation techniques to limit the use of force against a much larger and irate individual,” said Pat Lynch, the president of the union representing officers, the Police Benevolent Association.

“We are convinced that if the politics of the streets are removed from this process and the case is decided on a dispassionate hearing of the facts, that Police Officer Pantaleo will be exonerated,” Lynch said.

The NYPD’s disciplinary process plays out like a trial in front of an administrative judge.

Normally the purpose is to determine whether an officer violated department rules, but that’s only if disciplinary charges are filed within 18 months of an incident.

Because Pantaleo’s case languished, the watchdog Civilian Complaint Review Board must show that his actions rose to the level of criminal conduct, even though he faces no criminal charges and is being tried in a department tribunal, not a criminal court.

The final decision on any punishment lies with the police commissioner. Penalties range from the loss of vacation days to firing.

The disciplinary hearing is scheduled to resume June 5.

Pantaleo’s lawyers say they will call a medical examiner from St. Louis to rebut the New York medical examiner’s finding that a chokehold set into motion “a lethal sequence of events” for Garner.

Garner’s family said it’s tired of the delays.

White Judge Steered Mostly Black Defendants to White Campaign Contributor's Ankle-Monitor Company, Refusing to Remove Monitors Until All Fees were Paid in Full

From [HERE] A white criminal court judge in New Orleans steered defendants to an ankle-monitoring company owned by campaign contributors, according to a report released last week by the nonprofit Court Watch NOLA.

Judge Paul Bonin sent 15 defendants to ETOH Monitoring last year and four defendants to a different company, according to Court Watch NOLA’s review of court transcripts and attorney interviews. Several times, Bonin refused to release defendants from the monitors until they paid all their fees, the report said. The New Orleans Advocate and WDSU have coverage.

Over a 10-year period, Bonin received more than $8,000 in campaign financing from the ETOH executives, as well as a $1,000 campaign loan, according to the report.

A company executive gave money to five criminal court judges in New Orleans, but Bonin is the only judge to require defendants to use an ankle monitor from a specific company.

“The public should not be left to wonder if an ankle monitor was required by a judge because it comported with public safety or if the ankle monitor was required by the judge because it financially benefited a judge’s campaign contributor,” the report said.

ETOH Monitoring is owned by two New Orleans lawyers, one of whom was once a law partner with Bonin.

The sheriff’s office had operated the ankle-monitoring program from 2010 until 2016, when it quit the program during a budget dispute, according to the New Orleans Advocate. Judges turned to private vendors after that.

Ankle monitors usually cost defendants an installation fee of about $100 and a daily fee of at least $10, the report said.

Bonin told the New Orleans Advocate that ankle monitors help keep defendants out of jail and that he trusted ETOH Monitoring. He said he had a bad experience in one case with the other company, but he has since become more comfortable with its services.

Bonin said that, after he was contacted by Court Watch NOLA, he emailed lawyers for five defendants in his court who are currently using ETOH to let them know they can switch to the other company.

Scholars say Virginia’s Approved Textbooks are Rife w/Mischaracterizations & Missing Info about Black History [in service of White Supremacy]

Happy slaves? The peculiar story of three Virginia school textbooks. Amos Wilson explains that "an objective of white supremacy is to decontextualize subject matter and project it as race neutral and objective."

According to FUNKTIONARY:

His-story - the account of how varying forms of slavery have failed to fulfill the aspirations of schizophrenic barbarians. 2) his lie commonly agreed upon as historic fact. 3) a fiction widely accepted. The absence of the presence of our past and exclusion of presence for the future splits the present like a conquered nation rendering interpretation and speculation ineffective as a means of predicting present events cadenced in time. When we speak of a sense of his-story and not a sense of our unfoldment in higher states of awareness in impersonal Consciousness, we conveniently replace our destiny with an illusion and thereby dismiss the Noble Law of Life and Infinity. (See: Caucasian, Civilization, Law, Order, Finitude & Manifest Destiny)

From [VAMercury] According to a Houghton Mifflin Harcourt textbook allowed for use in Virginia high school classrooms, the 1965 Watts riots in Los Angeles were a burst of violence brought on by black Americans’ frustration about discrimination.

But that’s not the whole story: Before the riots broke out, there was a violent confrontation between police and onlookers during an arrest of a black driver and his relatives, noted Shawn Utsey, director of the African American Studies Department at Virginia Commonwealth University.

“The Watts story leaves out the major precipitating event — police brutality during an arrest,” Utsey said in an email after reviewing the excerpt. “It makes it sound like violence just erupted out of thin air. I think the description is problematic in that it leaves out the context for the violence and fails to mention the violence that sparked the violent reaction.”

Throughout Virginia’s approved history textbooks are mischaracterizations and missing information about major events in African American (and other groups’) history, state officials and educators say. The state’s Standards of Learning, which are supposed to be reflected in the books, make only passing references to African Americans, some scholars said.

That’s become an issue for Gov. Ralph Northam, who says he is on his own journey to better understand racial history and how it still affects the state in the wake of his blackface scandal.

Northam’s racial reconciliation efforts have included private meetings with black community leaders, cancelled speaking engagements at historically black colleges and universities and a list of legislative priorities he’s tried to support through his vetoes and approvals.

At a community meeting in Danville, Northam said that he’s noticed information students are being taught about African American history is “inadequate and often times inaccurate,” the Danville Register & Bee reported.

Virginia’s curriculum often skips over major events in black history and leaves out some information, said Ofirah Yheskel, the governor’s press secretary.

Two ways the state manages what students learn in the classroom are the Standards of Learning, Virginia’s expectations for what students should learn in different subject areas throughout their careers, and which textbooks are approved for use.

William & Mary history professor and parent Carol Sheriff found a number of concerning passages in her daughter’s fourth-grade history textbook in 2010, which prompted Virginia to create a new textbook adoption and revision process.

Sheriff took particular issue with a passage that claimed thousands of slaves fought alongside Gen. Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson in the Confederate army.

“To my knowledge, not a single piece of peer-reviewed scholarship contends that blacks served in such large numbers as soldiers (rather than laborers) in the Confederate army or that Stonewall Jackson commanded black soldiers (rather than black laborers),” she wrote in a Civil War research journal.

The passage was in a book by Five Ponds, a Connecticut-based company. The Board of Education temporarily removed Five Ponds’ books from its list of approved books in 2010. The books were corrected and new editions remain on the list of approved textbooks for use in kindergarten to fourth grade. 

Out of the 2010 controversy came new rules for textbook adoption: Publishers are required to show proof they consulted a content expert while writing; the company is responsible for the price of fixing errors and providing corrected books and they must submit a corrective action plan to the state to prove they’ve addressed problems identified by reviewers.

Since those rules were put into place, only Five Ponds has been required to submit a corrective plan to the state. Reviewers pointed out a range of issues in the books, like making it seem only the Lakota tribe lived in the American plains and glossing over the details of the Emancipation Proclamation.

The company responded to many of the issues raised by reviewers by saying it would be fixed in future editions or that the SOLs didn’t require such information.

“With a review process that apparently values correlation with the Standards of Learning curriculum above accuracy, the department indirectly influences not only what gets into textbooks but what does not,” Sheriff wrote.

It’s difficult to know how much incomplete or inaccurate information is included in textbooks approved for use in the state. Virginia allows people to submit concerns about inaccurate information in textbooks via email and allows public comment on the material during the process of adding titles to approved lists. [MORE]

Racist Suspect Arizona Prison Authorities Ban Black Attorney's Book about the Racist Treatment of Black Men in the Criminal Justice System

From [HERE] The American Civil Liberties Union is pushing back after Arizona prisons banned a book about the treatment of black men in the criminal justice system.

Arizona has banned prisoners from reading a book that discusses the impact of the criminal justice system on black men, drawing outcry from First Amendment advocates who say the move is censorship.

The American Civil Liberties Union called on the Arizona Department of Corrections this week to rescind the ban on "Chokehold: Policing Black Men." The book by Paul Butler, a former federal prosecutor, examines law enforcement and mass incarceration through its treatment of African American men.

"In order for them to ban a book, they have to show the restriction is related to a legitimate prison interest," said Emerson Sykes, an ACLU attorney. "There's no interest to keep inmates from learning about the criminal justice system and policing."

Butler, a criminal law professor at Georgetown University, said his publisher was notified by email in March that his book had "unauthorized content." The notice did not specify what led to the decision but warned that some aspect of the 2017 book was "detrimental to the safe, secure, and orderly operation of the facility."

Butler said he is mystified as to what raised alarm bells. He uses the title, which is a maneuver police have used to restrain a suspect by the neck, throughout the book as a metaphor for how society and law subjugate black men. Nowhere does Butler advocate violent or retaliatory behavior.

"I disavow violence because first, I think it's immoral, and second, because it wouldn't work," Butler said. "I've received letters from several inmates who have read 'Chokehold' while they are serving time. No one has indicated that reading 'Chokehold' has caused any problems in prison."

Arizona's corrections department prohibits inmates from receiving publications that contain any depictions or descriptions that would incite or facilitate a riot, a resistance or stopping work. They also can't contain pictures, illustrations or text that encourage "unacceptable sexual or hostile behaviors." Any publications with sexually explicit material or sexual representations of inmates and law enforcement also are not permitted.

Corrections spokesman Andrew Wilder said the department had not yet received the ACLU's letter asking for the ban to be reversed and declined further comment Monday.

The agency is in a court battle over a similar case. Prison Legal News, a monthly journal, sued corrections officials in 2015 for refusing to deliver four issues in 2014. The publication said in court documents that there were descriptions of "non-salacious" sexual contact between jail guards and prisoners when talking about incidents where inmates were sexually harassed. The case is set for trial later this year.

Supporters say access to books for the more than 2 million people incarcerated in the U.S. can make all the difference for life outside the prison walls. More education decreases the likelihood of repeat offenses and can lead to better job prospects later, according to inmate advocates. They point to studies showing the literacy rates of incarcerated white, black and Hispanic people are significantly lower than their non-incarcerated counterparts.

About half the adult prison population doesn't have a high school degree, said Christia Mercer, a philosophy professor at Columbia University who has taught classes in New York prisons. Reading books can be transformative and help them feel like they are using their time to make something of themselves.

"Unless the book itself promotes violence, there is never a reason not to allow it," Mercer said. "Short of that, anything that gets people to read and think about themselves in the world is just going to be good for the person."

Arizona's population of 7.1 million is roughly 5% black, according to the U.S. census. As of October 2018, the corrections department found black people make up 14.5% of the 42,000 inmates in the Arizona system.

"One in 19 black men are in prison in Arizona right now," Butler said. "Rather than acknowledge it's a good thing that inmates want to read about and debate important public policy, Arizona pushes back against rehabilitation, against literacy, against the Constitution."

Sykes, of the ACLU, said the group is prepared to sue if corrections officials fail to respond to its written request to end the book's exclusion. He believes the ban was made based on content, which would be unconstitutional.

It's not uncommon for state prisons to ban books, Sykes said. "Chokehold" is also not the first book dealing with racial justice issues to be prohibited.

In January 2018, New Jersey banned from two prisons "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness" by Michelle Alexander. The 2010 book looks at how black felons convicted of minor crimes are seemingly set up to fail. Officials reversed course after receiving a letter from the ACLU.

"When these issues come up, we try our best to push back against them," Sykes said. "Unfortunately, the reality is I think in many cases, no action is taken because people whose rights are being affected are not in a strong position to push back."

Blind Obedience to Authority Indoctrination: In new Video Game "Sniper 3D Assassin" You Murder a Journalist on Behalf of the Government

From {WashPost] The mission is called Breaking News. It’s the seventh mission in the game, and it comes after you’ve upgraded your sniper rifle to shoot at a distance of nearly 1,000 feet with accuracy.

By now, you’ve already taken out, among others, a gunman who allegedly killed several people at a pizzeria last year, someone who stole a backpack from a tourist, a sniper who (without a trace of irony) is killing innocent people, and three men who were guarding a gang’s weapon arsenal.

Breaking News has a clear goal: kill a reporter.

“A journalist bribed a cop and will pick up a briefcase from the cop,” the mission says. “The briefcase is full of sensitive documents. Make him famous in a different way.” (In reality, journalists’ codes of ethics ban them from paying sources for information or material. There would certainly be no bribing.)

Sniper 3D Assassin is a mobile game available on iOS and Android. It has a rating of about 4½ stars, with a combined 12 million reviews on both platforms. The app launched in 2014 and reached 10 million downloads in the first month, according to the developer, TFG, which is based in Brazil. In 2016, the developer claims it was the most-downloaded game in the App Store.

“Take your sniper, aim and start shooting your enemies,” the game description reads.

New York Times editor Jamal Jordan shared an image of the game on Twitter and said his nephew invited him to play. “My nephew is 10, and we had a very long talk after,” Jordan told HuffPost. [MORE]

Baltimore has No Insurance to Cover the Cost of the Ransomeware Cyber Attack that Has Shut Down the City's Payment, Email & Phone Systems

From [HERE] It's been nearly two weeks since the City of Baltimore's networks were shut down in response to a ransomware attack, and there's still no end in sight to the attack's impact. It may be weeks more before the city's services return to something resembling normal—manual workarounds are being put in place to handle some services now, but the city's water billing and other payment systems remain offline, as well as most of the city's email and much of the government's phone systems.

The ransomware attack came in the midst of a major transition at City Hall. Mayor Bernard C. “Jack” Young assumed office officially just days before the attack, after the resignation of former mayor Catherine Pugh, who is facing an ever-expanding corruption investigation. And some of the mayor's critical staff positions remained unfilled—the mayor's deputy chief of staff for operations, Sheryl Goldstein, starts work today.

To top it off, unlike the City of Atlanta—which suffered from a Samsam ransomware attack in March of 2018—Baltimore has no insurance to cover the cost of a cyber attack. So the cost of cleaning up the RobbinHood ransomware, which will far exceed the approximately $70,000 the ransomware operators demanded, will be borne entirely by Baltimore's citizens.

It's not like the city wasn't warned. Baltimore's information security manager warned of the need for such a policy during budget hearings last year. But the final budget did not include funds for that policy, nor did it include funding for expanded security training for city employees, or other strategic investments that were part of the mayor's strategic plan for the city's information technology infrastructure.

In a statement to press on May 17, Mayor Young said:

I am not able to provide you with an exact timeline on when all systems will be restored. Like any large enterprise, we have thousands of systems and applications. Our focus is getting critical services back online, and doing so in a manner that ensures we keep security as one of our top priorities throughout this process. You may see partial services beginning to restore within a matter of weeks, while some of our more intricate systems may take months in the recovery process… we engaged leading industry cybersecurity experts who are on-site 24-7 working with us.

Some of the restoration efforts also require that we rebuild certain systems to make sure that when we restore business functions, we are doing so in a secure manner.

City officials have provided few details about the extent of the attack, as the city is cooperating with an FBI investigation. But it appears that the ransomware was triggered on some systems in the early hours of May 7, when email service was suddenly interrupted. The city's response to the attack has thrown many city services into disorder or shut them down entirely.

The attack was first reported by Baltimore's Department of Public Works, when the department's official Twitter account announced that its email access was cut off, and it reported phones and other systems were affected soon afterward. As it became clear what was happening, the city's Office of Information Technology team shut down nearly all of the city's non-emergency systems to prevent the further spread of the attack. It’s not clear how widespread the ransomware was within the network, but the city's email and IP-based phones were among the systems affected.

City officials have stressed that emergency systems, such as police and fire department networks and the city's 911 system, were not affected. The 911 system suffered from a ransomware attack last year when some firewall settings were disabled during maintenance. But the Baltimore Police Department was dependent on the city's email servers, and surveillance cameras around the city have been affected by the network shutdown. Nearly every other city department had services interrupted as well.

Real estate purchases cannot be closed, though Mayor Young said that a paper-based workaround for handling closings would be put in place by today. Water bills and other city charges (including parking tickets and citations from the city's speed camera and red light camera network) cannot be paid. And many city workers have had to resort to using their own laptops without a connection to city networks, as well as personal e-mail addresses and cell phones, in order to get work done. Other tasks are idled completely or have gone back to paper-based processes the city was in the midst of trying to eliminate.

A thankless job

The mayor's Office of Information Technology has been struggling to regain its footing over the past two years after a string of fired chief information officers—four consecutive CIOs were fired or forced to resign over a period of five years. Frank Johnson, who now holds the titles of both CIO and Chief Digital Officer for the city, was hired in November 2017 after leaving a position as a regional vice president of sales for Intel. Johnson led the development of a digital strategy for the city that aimed to bring Baltimore's IT spending more in line with those of similarly sized cities and transform its IT practices. According to a 2018 strategy document, Baltimore spends about half of what other cities budget for IT, and the Office of Information Technology only controls about one percent of the total budget; most of the IT spending is part of other department's operational budgets.

Until the ransomware attack, the city's email was almost entirely internally hosted, running on Windows Server 2012 in the city's data center. Only the city's Law Department had moved over to a cloud-based mail platform. Now, the city's email gateway has moved to a Microsoft-hosted mail service, but it's not clear whether all email will be migrated to the cloud—or if it's even possible. While Mayor Young said the city had data backups, it's not clear how widely backups were implemented. And Johnson would not say whether there was a disaster-recovery plan in place to deal with a ransomware attack.

Some of Baltimore's systems are hosted elsewhere, including the city's primary website, which is hosted on Amazon Web Services and operated by a contractor. But the city almost lost that website last week, and not because of ransomware: the contract for operating the site had expired, and the city was delinquent in its payments.

Tracking down how and when the malware got into the city's network is a significant task. The city has a huge attack surface, with 113 subdomains—about a quarter of which are internally hosted—and at least 256 public IP addresses (of which only eight are currently online, thanks to the network shutdown).

"We engaged leading industry cybersecurity experts who are on-site 24-7 working with us," Young said. "As part of our containment strategy, we deployed enhanced monitoring tools throughout our network to gain additional visibility. As you can imagine, with approximately 7,000 users, this takes time."

Milwaukee County Executive Declares Racism a Public Health Crisis [advertising “Equality," w/o resolution of unequal conditions & imposed artificial divisions]

From [HERE] Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele who was joined by county supervisors and the Office on African American Affairs, signed a resolution Monday declaring racism a public health crisis, saying this was "about action." 

The new resolution works to continue efforts to ensure racial equity is part of the public discourse and decision-making processes.

"Everybody has been reading and hearing about the same set of statistics in Milwaukee for decades," he said. "We lead in an unfortunate way the racial disparities in employment, in education, incarceration, income and even things like ... access to capital."

The resolution is about making a public commitment to taking action, he said. Every decision across the county should be framed in terms of how to make a difference in these disparities, he said.

With the new measure, the county will be held to:

• Assess internal policies and procedures to make sure racial equity is a core element

• Work to create an inclusive organization and identify specific activities to increase diversity

• Incorporate inclusion and equity, and offer educational training to expand employees' understanding of how racism affects people

• Advocate for policies that improve health in communities of color

• Encourage other local, state and national entities to recognize racism as a public health crisis. [MORE]

It is not clear what the county executive means by racism or “equality.”

Osho Rajineesh makes it plain, “equality is an illusion.” “Only machines can be equal; man cannot be. If you want man to be equal, then you will have to destroy his humanity and make him a robot.”

“Start looking at the uniqueness and drop the idea of equality, which is in every way impossible. Unless man is produced in a factory on an assembly line, there is no possibility of equality. And a man produced on an assembly line will not be a man; he will be just a machine.

It is very simple: just as two faces are not the same, in the whole world even two fingerprints are not the same -- and you want two beings to be the same? You don't value the being more than the fingerprint even? A very absurd idea of equality has become widespread.”

Among other things, Dr. Blynd defines democracy as ‘advertised equality. A parody of a free society that only ethical anarchism or voluntaryism can usher into existence.’FUNKTIONARY states, "Democracy has always been seen (and is still seen today) as equality of rights (granted privileges), not conditions. To the hypothetical equality of rights there has always corresponded a substantial inequality of conditions. And instead of being related to the nature of their individuality, differences between people have always been those marked by the different basic conditions they live in as they struggle against the suffocating artificial divisions imposed on them by power." —Alfred M. Bonanno. [MORE]

When racism is defined as somehow not connected white supremacy you will find yourself solving the wrong problems and/or no problems at all or creating new ones. Amos Wilson explains that "an objective of white supremacy is to decontextualize subject matter and project it as race neutral and objective." Even the subject of racism can be decontextualized if you don’t understand what it is and how it functions. This leads to half explanations, half truths and false solutions.

In terms of public health, racism is definitely a mental illness. Dr. Blynd explains, “Racism White Supremacy is a virus in the mind, a malignant meme that has both the host of the virus and the whole society sick. White Supremacy (Degeneracy) is socially engineering Black Consciousness and/or also responsible for the falsification of Black consciousness. "If you don't understand racism white supremacy, everything else you think you know will only confuse you." -Neelly Fuller, Jr.” Although Dr. Francis Cress Welsing is known for imploring Black people to understand what motivated white people to practice racism, she also explained that white people could benefit from understanding their own motivations in order to drop their belief in imaginary systems of hierarchy based on a lack of melanin. She stated,

“If they are sincere in their attempts to stop the practices of white supremacy (racism), whites may be able to find methods to do so once the cause is understood. Perhaps some psychiatrist will develop a method of mass psychotherapy (i.e„ therapeutic counter-racist theater) to help whites become comfortable with their color and their numbers. However, one can foresee a major problem arising from the possible difficulty of motivating whites to release the secondary gains historically derived from the racist system.”

equality - a misnomer; a dangerous word for the concept of uniqueness (i.e., the equal opportunity to be naturally unequal and unique. 2) a euphemism for a complacent unidentifiable haze - the bozone layer. 3) the promise held out to the poor, miseducated and ignorant. Equality ostensibly, that is in theory, means created and endowed with unalienable rights, powers and liberties antecedent to (outside of government). Equality spoken of in the Declaration of Independence specifically meant unalienable rights—no one person having any power over another; equal in our right to exist with inherent rights and powers not having their origin with "government" or kings. Governments were instituted among men, not the other way around. The purpose of government, at least ostensibly at the mythic level of consciousness, is to secure and protect unalienable rights of men women and children. The only purported purpose of government is protecting (as a racket) each individual's unalienable right to life liberty and property. However, history has proven that government is force, control and dispenser of violence. It is services are provided over the barrel of a gun. Where there is no protection (even as a racket), there can be no allegiance. Equality can only exist in humanoids, borgs, and commodities—not in sentient beings. "Equality is a mathematical concept and it might be useful to bureaucrats but it is inapplicable to human personalities and capabilities." —Peter Gelderloos. If we accept that human needs and desires are different and furthermore are best defined by the individual herself, how can we continue to insist that one law can be applied to two different people, or two different circumstances, if our interest is fairness or the meeting of human needs and desires? People are, after all, different in terms of their inclinations, abilities, perspicuity, etc., so equality becomes a useless phrase when speaking of lived experiences in a horizontal [non-hierarchical] non-authoritarian society. Freedom and equality cannot co-exist; and when you sacrifice freedom, you sacrifice everything. Religion grants equality in heaven, democracy at the ballot box, and despotism through the cartridge box. They are all equally sincere—but sincerely deluded. (See: Demockery, Allegiance, Socialism, Individual, Responsibility, Self-Discipline, R.I.P., Backside Economics, individualism, Involuntary Servitude, G.A.M.E. Theory, Fascism, Volunteered Slavery, Democracy, Voluntiered Slavery, Real Tax, Underemployment, Tax Money & Freedom)

Racism -  White Degeneracy wrongly cast as Supremacy. Racism—a psycho-socio-economic reality based on a pseudo-scientific biological myth—is a power group dynamic, i.e., a defined group cooperatively via legacy institutions exerting structured and enforced institutionalized and systemic injustice, oppression and power over another group. Racism is not individualistic, but institutional, cultural, economic, political, linguistic, self-perpetuating and systematic. Racism is economic discrimination by one group over and against another for the purposes of subjugation and/or maintaining the imbalance of power through cooperative control, misinformation, indoctrination, genocide and oppression. Racism is the socioeconomic and cultural bequest of colonialism, neo-colonialism and the vestiges of the transatlantic trafficking of enslaved Afrikans and their descendants. Racism has its bio-physiological origins in the immune response of primitive life-forms to foreign matter and has its geo-psychological roots in the response of primitive humans encountering more intelligent ones based on the meme of scarcity and the fear of genetic annihilation through genetic assimilation. "Racism destroys men—and women—as much by what it denies them as by what it metes out to them." -Isaiah Thomas. "It is pathological for Blacks to keep attempting moral suasion on a people who have no ethics or morality where race is a variable." -Bobby Wright. [MORE]

Racism White Supremacy - psychopathic degeneracy. 2) "The local and global power system and dynamic, structured and maintained by persons who classify themselves as white, whether consciously or subconsciously determined, which consists of patterns of perception, logic, symbol formation, thought, speech, action and emotional response, as conducted simultaneously in all areas of people activity (economics, education, entertainment, labour, law, politics, religion, sex and war); for the ultimate purpose of white genetic survival and to prevent white genetic annihilation on planet earth—a planet upon which the vast majority of people are classified as non-white (Black, Brown, Red and Yellow) by white skinned people, and all of the nonwhite people are genetically dominant (in terms of skin coloration) compared to the genetic recessive white skin people." -Dr. Francis Cress Welsing, MD. Hate and oppression can never reign. Only love is supreme.

White privilege - an invisible package of unearned assets bequeathed to all Caucasians. 2) an invisible weightless knapsack of advantages including but never limited to: special provisions and dispensations, over-passports, code words, maps, signs, codebooks, visas, clothes, vistas, tools, etc. of which most Caucasians are oblivious to wearing or utilizing. 

white supremacy - White Presumacy. (See: Racism, Windigo, Yurugu, Western Civilization & White Presumacy)

double consciousness - the sense of looking at one's Self through the eye's (axiology) and distorted mirrors of others. 2) the psycho-mismanagement of one's neurosis. 3) intimately involved with what you hate, and torn apart from who you (think you) are. You cannot learn to use that which you refuse to acknowledge, i.e., one's heritage, roots, or asili. (See: Matah, Inauthentic, "Wille-Chip," Power, Anxiety, Anguish, LEARN & Asili.) 

Mentacide - the "deliberate and systematic destruction of an individual or groups' mind." [MORE] See the “Falsification of Afrikan Consciousness” by Dr. Amos Wilson for greater understanding.

Contrary to Trump’s Lies & Paper Boat Plans, the Black Jobless Rate is Rising & is Twice the Rate for Whites. Any Propagandized [McJob] Gains Have Been Erased

IS EVERYBODY WORKING ON THE PLANTATION? According to Forbes, “The black unemployment rate, often more than double the white rate even when the economy is supposedly humming, is one especially stark symbol of the deep racism that underpins the American economy.

Take current conditions. The overall unemployment rate fell to a 50-year low of 3.6% in April. The rate for whites is 3.1%. For black Americans, it’s 6.7%. Worse, that rate has been rising in opposition to the broader trend.”

According to the Washington Post: "In tweets and interviews, speeches and campaign rallies, Trump often takes credit for a decline in the unemployment rate for African Americans. It’s a well-worn talking point that appears dozens of times in our database of Trump’s false or misleading statements.

"Regardless of whether the black unemployment rate goes up or down in a given month, the president celebrates it as the 'lowest in history' or lowest on record.

"That was accurate in May 2018, when the rate declined to 5.9 percent, its lowest level since the Bureau of Labor Statistics began to report it in 1972. Fast-forward to February 2019, and the unemployment rate for African Americans had jumped back to 7 percent, erasing all the gains it had made over the previous year.

"Yet Trump continues to talk about it as the lowest rate in history. What gives?"

It’s important to keep in mind that this official statistic for black unemployment — which Trump keeps talking about as “the lowest in the history of our country” — is less than 50 years old, dating to 1972.

A different data set from the Labor Department that goes back to 1947 shows that the annual unemployment rate for “negro and other races” went as low as 4.5 percent in 1953 — far below the 6.5 percent yearly average for black unemployment in 2018.

The two data sets (before and after 1972) are not apples-to-apples, but several experts told us that it’s still useful to compare them. “This isn’t the same measure but is the best that exists and even then ‘negro and other races’ is higher than whites,” said Omari H. Swinton, chair of the economics department at Howard University.

So it seems as if Trump’s claim to a historical record is sketchy at best. He was president when the BLS’s current statistic for tracking black unemployment reached a record low of 5.9 percent in May 2018. But an older set of government data suggests black unemployment went much lower in the 1950s.

According to the Brookings Institution: "Who deserves credit for African American employment?" — "When it comes to black employment, more credit for improvement should go to the very persons holding and hiring for the jobs. Notwithstanding the improving national unemployment rates, structural racism still precludes erasing employment disparities between racial groups. We should celebrate all people’s contributions to a robust economy, but we should not allow improvements in the aggregate to hide inequality behind the numbers.

"After being in office for a year, Trump is claiming the lowest African American unemployment rate ever as a result of him being in office. The fuller picture shows that unemployment among blacks has been declining since the early Obama years. However, blaming one’s predecessor for bad employment numbers while accepting signs of growth is a presidential tradition of sorts; and at 6.8 percent, Trump has squatters’ rights on the lowest unemployment rate since the federal government started calculating the metric in 1972.

"Nevertheless , there are certainly other people in specific places who deserve substantial credit for black employment. Instead of looking at national unemployment averages, which can mask geographic inequities, a look at cities’ individual employment rates offers another perspective on where credit for putting people to work should be given. Notwithstanding the broader macroeconomic forces that impact the flow of goods and services nationally, we can get a sense of how fertile and equitable a local economy is by examining cities’ employment profiles."

“We should never celebrate the fact that black folks are just working,” said Andre M. Perry, an expert at the Brookings Institution. “It’s like saying: ‘Look, you have a job. Why should you complain?’ And I think that’s what Trump is signaling. He’s saying to the black community, ‘Look what I’ve given you,’ and not necessarily saying, ‘Let’s look at the percentage of people in poverty, let’s look at the percentage of people rising to the middle class.’”

“Are black folks getting the kinds of jobs that are propelling them to the middle class? No, they are not,” Perry added. “You still see that gap in the unemployment rate, and you still see that gap in median income.” [MORE]

FUNKTIONARY makes it plain:

McJob - a "low pay," low prestige, low benefit, no benefit, no future job in the feudal looks-like-it-could-be food chain service (servitude) sector of the New God Economy. [MORE]. 

statistics - opinions dressed as facts. 2) the disembodied abstraction of numerical signifiers and graphic ghosts that are conjured up in an attempt to support a political posture already taken. 3) a pseudo-scientific system used to manipulate physical reality. Statistics is a weak model. Statistics is like a bikini—what they reveal are suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. With statistics, there is only modeling of the distribution of events. Also, with statistics, you always have the luxury of having high trends in Jow spaces. Anyone who cites a statistic has an investment in the statistic cited. Statistics generate opinions, but more often, opinions generate statistics. Figures lie and liars figure their way out of lies—so it figures. Dogma and statistics are kissing-cousins. We do not believe what we prove with statistics, we prove what we believe. Statistics are a snap-shot in time of what has been. If you want to be a has-been, believe in statistics. (See: Dogma. Opinions, Beliefs & ICE) Statue of Liberty - originally an image of a woman of recent African descent with broken ball & chains on her feet; now immortalized in statue form as "Big Brother" in drag. (See: Justice System & Tarot)

Slavery - psychologically or physically subjugated to another where one"s thoughts or one's labor is not his or her own. 2) mental and/or physical captivity—living someone else's reality consciously or unconsciously, willingly or unwillingly. 3) a system wherein someone is forced to work without pay, being economically exploited, and unable to walk away. 4) that which separates thought from action. Slavery is an economic system, not a social system. Slavery  wasn't ended—-but extended, i.e., slavery is not dead—but in the head—of all men it lingers. Forced labor, also known as involuntary servitude, may result when unscrupulous employers exploit workers made more vulnerable by high rates of unemployment, poverty, racism, crime. discrimination, corruption, political conflict, or cultural acceptance of the practice. [MORE]. 

wage $lave - on the hour, by the hour. “Sell your time to buy the time that other people sold.” Way down into the marrow of my bone, this much I have always known - I am unable to obey (or conform to) someone who views my time as their own.

"Because We are Enough To Take Care of Our Own Community." Black Billionaire Robert Smith Will Pay Off the Student Debt of the Entire Morehouse College Graduating Class [video of full speech]

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Witnesses say Michael Samra Struggled After Lethal Injection. Pro-Life Alabama Authorities Shrug it Off & Get Ready for Their Next Murder: Blacks are 26% of AL population but 51% of Its Death Row

Uncivilized Alabama has the highest death sentencing rate in the US. According to the Equal Justice Initiative, each year in Alabama, nearly 65% of all murders involve black victims, yet 80% of the people currently awaiting execution in Alabama were convicted of crimes in which the victims were white. Only 6% of all murders in Alabama involve black defendants and white victims, but over 60% of black death row prisoners have been sentenced for killing someone white. [data in graph is from DPIC.]

Although black people in Alabama constitute 27% of the total population, none of the 19 appellate court judges and only one of the 42 elected District Attorneys in Alabama is black. Nearly 63% of the Alabama prison population is black. The State of Alabama disenfranchises more of its citizens as a result of criminal convictions than any other state in the country. [MORE]

Michael Brandon Samra was put to death by lethal injection Thursday the day after Gov Ivey signed the restrictive abortion bill. A few hours before signing the ban, the governor was asked about the bill not including rape or incest exceptions. "All human life is precious," Ivey responded. [MORE]

From [EJI] The State of Alabama delayed Michael Brandon Samra's execution last night for over an hour without explanation, and witnesses observed disturbing evidence that Mr. Samra struggled on the gurney before he died.  [Samra was classified as white.]

Supreme Court justices recently have complained about delays caused by last minute challenges to lethal injection protocols and have questioned the motives of lawyers who attempt to ensure that inmates are executed humanely, but Mr. Samra’s case did not involve any such litigation. 

Even though all litigation was completed more than two days before the scheduled execution and Governor Kay Ivey denied clemency eight hours earlier, state officials nevertheless delayed Mr. Samra's execution from the scheduled time of 6 p.m. until 7:09 p.m. The State did not offer an explanation for this significant delay.

Mr. Samra was pronounced dead at 7:33 p.m. Witnesses to the execution reported very troubling evidence that Mr. Samra actually struggled during the execution in ways that raise questions about whether it was administered in a humane manner.  

Samra appeared alert for several minutes before his eyes closed. At 7:15 p.m., his chest heaved three times in quick succession. 

After, his breathing appeared significantly labored, with his head slightly jerking with each breath. 

A consciousness test was conducted at 7:17. 

Two minutes later, Samra stretched and drew his fingers outward, attempted to raise his right hand against his wrist restraints before curling his fingers inward.

He then stilled.  The curtain was closed at 7:25 p.m.

Mr. Samra's execution is the latest in a series of problematic attempts to execute people by lethal injection. In 2014 in Ohio, Dennis McGuire gasped and convulsed for 10 minutes before dying; Clayton Lockett in Oklahoma writhed, groaned, convulsed, and strained to lift his head up despite being declared unconscious (he died 43 minutes after the execution began, of a heart attack); and Joseph Wood in Arizona repeatedly gasped for nearly two hours before being pronounced dead. In 2016, Ronald Bert Smith in Alabama clenched his fists and raised his head, then heaved, gasped, and coughed while struggling to breathe for 13 minutes after the lethal drugs were administered. And in 2017, Kenneth Williams in Arkansas violently lurched forward about three minutes after drugs were injected and continued to convulse about 20 times.

While lawyers have argued for years that lethal injection is an inhumane method of execution, the Supreme Court has denied these challenges and issued rulings that allowed states to carry out executions using this method. Yet evidence persists that cruelty and inhumane suffering may accompany executions carried out by lethal injection.

1 of the Only 2 Alabama Based Doctors who Does Abortions is Black. After Racist Statists Ban Procedure She Faces Life in Prison for Doing Her Job. Says En-Forced Law Will Mostly Impact Non-White Women

From [HERE] Alabama Governor Kay Ivey signed a controversial bill Wednesday that bans nearly all abortions in the state, including in cases of incest and rape.

The Alabama Human Life Protection Act is one the most restrictive anti-abortion laws since Roe v. Wade legalized the procedure nationwide in 1973. The act bans performing abortions in the state and imposes criminal penalties of up to 99 years in prison on doctors who perform an abortion. In addition, the Act goes further than most other recent abortion bans, with no exceptions to the ban except when the mother’s life is threatened by the pregnancy, including banning abortions when the fetus is conceived from rape or incest. These “carve out” exceptions to abortion laws are widely popular even among people who are otherwise anti-abortion, with a 2018 Gallup poll showing 77% of Americans favor allowing abortions in cases of rape or incest.

The bill passed through Alabama’s Republican dominated House of Representatives and Senate with overwhelming majorities. Though women make up 51% of Alabama's population, its lawmakers are 85% male. There are only four women in the 35-seat Alabama Senate, and they are all Democrats. [MORE]

In a statement issued following her signing of the bill, Ivey described the act as “unenforceable” and directly contrary to the precedent set by Roe v. Wade. Echoing the sponsors of the bill, she stated that the purpose in passing such a restrictive law was to force the federal courts to weigh in on the legality of abortion and “for the U.S. Supreme Court to revisit this important matter” in the hope that they will overturn Roe.

The American Civil Liberties Union has already committed to bringing a lawsuit to block the law’s implementation.

Since the confirmation of Justice Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court last year, numerous states have raced to implement restrictive abortion laws with the hope that the new conservative majority on the court will overturn Roe. Georgia, Tennessee, Ohio and Kentucky have all recently passed “fetal heartbeat” bills that bans abortions later than six weeks into the pregnancy, while Texas and North Carolina have implemented “born alive” bills.

DEMOCKERY. In an unrepresentative Demockery 25 white male senators enact abortion ban on behalf of a deluded, violent neuropeon votary, forcing their unwanted views down the throats of millions of non-white women. Like all laws, the abortion ban is command backed by the threat of violence against those who do not obey. Such is the true nature of “democracy.” Undeceiver Larken Rose observes,

“the belief in “authority” leads to a strange contradiction in how people see the world. Almost everyone advocates that “law” be used to coerce others to do certain things, or to fund certain things. However, while advocating such violence, knowing full well the consequences to any who are caught disobeying, those same advocates fail to recognize that what they are advocating is violence. There are millions, for example, who consider themselves to be peaceful, civilized people – some even proudly wear the label of “pacifist” – while advocating armed robbery against everyone they know, as well as millions of strangers. They see no contradiction, because the robbery is given the euphemism “taxation” and is carried out by people who are imagined to have the right to commit robbery, in the name of “government.”

He states,

A prevalent lie, used to try to hide the master-slave relationship between “government” and the public, is the notion of “representative government.” The claim is that the people, by electing certain individuals into positions of power, are “choosing their leaders” and that those in office are merely representing the will of the people. Again, not only does this claim not at all match reality, but the underlying abstract theory is inherently flawed as well.

…Even in theory, the concept of “representative government” is inherently flawed, because “government” cannot possibly represent the people as a whole unless everyone wants exactly the same thing. Because different people want “government” to do different things, “government” will always be going against the will of at least some of the people.

Even if a “government” did exactly what a majority of its subjects wanted (which never actually happens), it would not be serving the people as a whole; it would be forcibly victimizing smaller groups on behalf of larger groups.

Furthermore, one who represents someone else cannot have more rights than the one he represents. To wit, if one person has no right to break into his neighbor’s house and steal his valuables, then he also has no right to designate a representative to do that for him, To represent someone is to act on his behalf, and a true representative can only do what the person he represents has the right to do. But in the case of “government,” the people whom the politicians claim to represent have no right to do anything that politicians do: impose “taxes,” enact “laws,” etc. Average citizens have no right to forcibly control the choices of their neighbors, tell them how to live their lives, and punish them if they disobey, So when a “government” does such things, it is not representing anyone or anything but itself.

According to FUNKTIONARY:

Statism - the belief "citizens"' and "states" exist and the memetic thought patterns supporting such beliefs. 2) the religion of oppression and domination coupled with the science of exploitation and sociopathic control. 3) the opiate of the so-called Elites. 4) a philosophy that idealizes majority rule gang force (authority) over individual authenticity (autonomy). 5) servitude over liberty and statutes over humanity. So long as "states"' are viewed and accepted as natural, normal, reality-based and inevitable, they will continue to violently abstract humans into extinction. Statism is mind control; people both unwillingly and willingly surrender their property (labor being one's most inviolable property) to men and women pretending to be "governors,"" "commissioners," and "presidents" etc. because they believe they are "citizens" of a so-called "state" and must pay their proverbial "fair share" to support such abstractions or fictions of law. Just using statism against itself proves bureaucrats never have a case regardless of what they "charge" someone with. "Statism and it's supporting political theology do not exist in people's minds to promote freedom or protect 'Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness:" it's pure mind control to divert our attention away from the actions of anti-social individuals (sociopaths) who are so desperate to "protect" us they are willing to kill us and steal our property." -Marc Stevens. (See: DOME. Beliefs, Landmine Legislation, Scrapitalism, Standing, Subject Matter Jurisdiction. Judicial Victimization, States. Holodeck Court, Allegiance. Anarchy, Society, Civilization, Citizens, Monopoly Capitalism The Golem, Government Paradox, Granfalloons, Corporate State. Government, Servitude. Stalinize, Property, Standing & Monopoly)

democracy - a commercial form of "government" (exploitation and theft via force, deception and involuntary participation) of the mob, by the mob, and/or the mob, i.e., Mob-Rule. 2) a guise rubber stamping of an alternative royalty into overruling power. 3) the worst possible form of government because the majority rules whether they be good, evil, or misled by a minority. 4) slavery of the people, by the people, for the people. 5) equality achieved through force. 6) a system where only the majority need to befooled. 7) advertised equality. 8) a parody of a free society that only ethical anarchism or voluntaryism can usher into existence.

"Democracy has always been seen (and is still seen today) as equality of rights (granted privileges), not conditions. To the hypothetical equality of rights there has always corresponded a substantial inequality of conditions. And instead of being related to the nature of their individuality, differences between people have always been those marked by the different basic conditions they live in as they struggle against the suffocating artificial divisions imposed on them by power." —Alfred M. Bonanno. Democracy is a euphonious term created mainly to serve as sheepskin for Leviathan, Doggy and the Crimethlnc. All-Stars. 9) Dictatorship camouflaged as freedom 10) a whitewashed plutocracy with a pastel eggshell finish. Democracy, next to "monetized debt," and direct taxation (on labor) is the biggest con-game perpetrated on a population. Democracy has proved only that the best way to gain and sustain power over people is to assure the people that they are ruling themselves. Once they believe that lie, they make wonderfully submissive and self-maintained slaves.

"There are those who maintain that at bottom what is called democracy, (whenever and wherever it is supposed to have existed), is merely the mask for the rule of capitalist and/or bureaucratic minorities over an ignorant and deceived majority whose franchise signifies only the right to choose or tc change its masters." -Max Nomad. As long as mob rule is allowed through secret ballots, operational and organizational transparency will evade us and vice (vested interests controlling economies) will continue to forsake us and break us. Democracy is a powerful synthetic ideology of recuperation. Democracy goes against the emancipation of desire. Democracy allows for A to band together with B (majority rule) to rip off C. Democracy and citizenship are the chains that filter your pursuit of happiness and the happiness in your pursuit. Democracy in America has been checked and balanced, or gone unchecked and unbalanced—depending on one's indoctrination—to the point (extent) of collapse. Only the improper is left to prop it up aright as if it were still standing on its own ideological efficacy and edifice. "Democracy (the political ideal) is just a dream, it has not happened anywhere, it cannot happen. And wherever it happens (in practice), it creates trouble, the medicine proves more dangerous than the disease itself." -OSHO. "If the people of a democracy are allowed to do so, they will vote away freedoms that are essential to that democracy." -Snell Putney. As H.L. Mencken so aptly observed, "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard." In a democracy, scum rises to the top; otherwise it starts there. Democracy is a specific instance of stationary rogue State power. Under the rubric of democracy, justice can be attained only by begging, buying, milking and taking.  

A gang is an embryonic democracy in the making. Keep in mind that Hitler was elected in a full, free and fair democratic election. Democracy is a sweet-sounding word that offers freedom but delivers illusions. It has no other choice—it isn't what it appears and never could be what it advertises. There has never been a democracy where the public was consulted for input or consent before statutes and policies detrimental to their interests were already completed and or implemented by the shadow, invisible or parallel government (the Pathocracy). The ruse of democracy and fake elections stalls rebellion.   It's a placebo fed to the public so the ruling dominant elite can execute their plans for a global society—a New World Order.  

"Already American democracy and freedom are in their to throes, hemorrhaging from years of corporatist mutilation. Elections have become a sham, a farce. Freedoms are disappearing becoming extinct. The enemy within wishes for nothing more than an authoritarian, fascist nation, the easier to make decisions the easier to implement their vision, the easier to control the population. The enemy within detests democracy, and this we must understand. Democracy and freedom are enemies.

Ask yourself who has been the organization destroying our democracy and freedoms, our civil rights and liberties?  Who has enacted Patriot Acts I and II, who has destroyed due process, right to an attorney, habeas corpus? Who has tried to silence truth, dissent, protest and free speech? Who has made torture legal, faise imprisonment necessary, confessions by torture legal and evidence concocted through hearsay or torture legal? Who has made it legal to spy on American citizens, opening our email accounts, overhearing our phone conversations, and looking into our lives It has not been the dreaded Arab evildoers. It has been the Bush administration. It has been your own government." —Manuel Valenzuela. [MORE]

Race-Neutral Black Strawboss in Mo County Won’t Presume White Cop is Racist Just b/c She Stopped & Frisked 3 Black Men for No Reason & Called Them NGHRS, Needs More Smoking Gun Proof of Racism

“NIGGER” IS WHAT IS BEING DONE TO YOU. A Nigger is a Non-White Person who is Subject to White Supremacy. From [WashPost] Montgomery County police say they are still investigating the “concerning incident” last week related to a video showing a white officer using a racial slur during an encounter with four African American men and will release additional information as it is “developed and confirmed.”

The Montgomery County Council sent a strongly worded letter this week to acting police chief Russ Hamill about the May 9 incident outside a McDonald’s restaurant in the White Oak section of Silver Spring. In it, the council said the officer’s body-camera video — showing her saying the n-word, then telling the men she was quoting their own use of the language — appeared to violate “department protocol and standards that we would expect of county-employed personnel.” [The white cop was sarcastic and provocative during the entire episode, it took very little for her contempt to rise to the surface.]

The letter, signed by all nine council members, went on to question the actions of at least one other officer who is seen on the body-camera video, which police released after one of the detained men posted his own video of the incident on social media. The letter said the “tone, language and actions of the sergeant on the scene was also contemptible.”

The footage has sparked outrage from some community groups, including a march and protest Monday to the police’s 3rd District station. But Torrie Cooke [Black droid in photo], president of the union that represents Montgomery police officers, said in a statement the officer’s “use of the term appears to be absent any racial or discriminatory intent” and noted the men interacting with the officers used the word before the officer did.

“As an African American police officer and the President of the Fraternal Order of Police, it is disturbing to hear the use of the n-word by male subjects referring to African American and White officers on the scene, and the female police officer repeating the word during a lapse in good judgment and composure,” Cooke wrote on the website of FOP Lodge 35.

His statement said the word should not have been used by anyone: “An objective viewer is hard-pressed to give deference to the males in the video who liberally use the n-word and are offended when their words are repeated back to them.”

[The word nigger actually has no meaning. The use of any word depends on the intent of the speaker. What was the speaker intending when he/she spoke? That's all. However, the intention of racists is to use the word as a derogatory term.

Officer Cooke, a Strawboss, is part of the lex-icon, a reconstructed world in the legal system. The fake world re-created or simulated in courtrooms is a “race neutral” world where non-discrimination is presumed. In order to establish that conduct was motivated by racism a party must provide tangible evidence of discriminatory intent from the mind of a bigoted decision-maker. Racial slurs, white kkk hoods, explicit pronouncements like, "I'm assaulting you because you are Black" or other egregious conduct is what the court is looking for. Such smoking gun evidence is rare because in the real world racism/white supremacy is primarily carried out by deception. A most effective deception is decontextualization. Amos Wilson explains that "an objective of white supremacy is to decontextualize subject matter and project it as race neutral and objective." This leads to half explanations, half truths and false solutions. The legal system’s illusory decontextualized search is done only for appearances, a placebo in the lex-icon.]

In reality most white people hate black people and most white people consciously or sub-consciously participate in the system of racism white supremacy. In said system of white domination and control all white people should be presumed to be or suspected of being racist [“racist suspect”]. So If you hear a white person say NGHR then you are probably listening to a racist.

The all-Democratic council, in its letter, asked Hamill how he intends to address the issues raised by the incident, whether the trespassing notices the police gave to the four men could be rescinded and how the culture in the police department may need to be changed.

The letter also requested a voluminous amount of additional information, including:

•Body-camera footage from every officer who responded to the 10:30 a.m. incident and calls related to the incident.

•More information on a program that allows business owners to authorize police to stop and question people for trespassing on their private property.

•All trespassing citations issued in the past two years in which no arrest or other charges were brought.

•Demographic and geographic statistics of everyone who has been stopped and frisked and cited for trespassing in the past two years.

•Additional information on the department's stop-and-frisk and racial-profiling policies.

“I’ve spoken to our county attorneys, and it’s my understanding everything we’ve asked for should be able to be released and given to us,” said council member Will Jawando (D-At Large), who initiated the letter.

In its statement late Thursday, the police department said it understood the concerns of the council members and others and had immediately opened an Internal Affairs investigation once the incident came to light. “The Department has been gathering further information and data as well as evaluating training and policies as the investigation and review of the incident proceeds,” the statement read. “The requests for information by members of the Council and others, while not routine, will be handled consistent with laws and policies applicable to the release of information.”

County Executive Marc Elrich (D), who has said the incident “violated the standards which we expect our officers to uphold,” also requested the release of more body-camera footage. He said Friday he was told the footage “is going through redaction.”

The police union said Friday that neither it nor the union members involved objected to the release of the footage. Police have not released the name of the female officer or said whether her duties have changed. But Elrich said Thursday that the officer is still working, but is not on patrol.

Jawando and Council member Craig Rice (D-District 2) met Monday with two of the men who were detained. The men have said they went to McDonald’s for breakfast the morning of the incident, then left the restaurant to wait for their ride to a landscaping job. It was then that the sergeant approached them, questioning them about trespassing. About six more officers appeared. All four men were given trespassing notices, and two also received civil citations for having a small amount of marijuana, according to a police spokesman.

[There was no basis for the initial stop and no basis for a frisk for weapons within the meaning of the 4th Amendment (something the racist suspects at the Washington Post don’t concern themselves with, at least in regard to their coverage of Blacks & Latino and their relations with cops). As such, the discovery of the marijuana was unlawful and the court should suppress it, if they challenge it. The charges are also bogus; to establish misdemeanor trespass the Government must prove that the Black men remained on the private property after having been notified by the owner not to do so. It appears that no one at McDonalds called the cops or had asked them to leave the premises. But racist suspects at the WashPost didn’t concern itself with reporting such details about the underlying basis for the stop and pending criminal prosecution of the Black men. The racist suspects at the WashPost most likely view this niggerizing incident as lawful but for the use of the “n-word.” As stated by Anon, “Once we understand what a "nigger" is, we will understand that a made-up word does not define who we are; it defines what is being done to us.“]

It was during that encounter that one of the men began taking a video on his cellphone, showing the female officer using the racial slur, along with some other comments Jawando said he found troubling.

Jawando said the men have since told him they have lost their jobs as a result of the encounter.

Arlington Police Finally Fire Cop Charged w/Negligent Homicide for the Murder of O'Shae Terry - Shot Unarmed Black Driver Multiple Times While Standing on Passenger Side of Fleeing Car

[IMAGES REDACTED TO PROTECT CORPORATE POLICE STATE] From [HERE] A Texas police officer has been fired after he was charged with criminally negligent homicide in the fatal shooting of a black man during a traffic stop last year.

In a statement Friday, Arlington police announced Officer Bau Tran was fired after an internal investigation found policy violations that led to the Sept. 1 shooting of 24-year-old O'Shae Terry .

Tran, who may appeal his dismissal, has yet to enter a plea to the criminal charge. A message left with his attorney wasn't immediately returned.

The indictment marks a rare criminal prosecution of a police officer in the historically conservative North Texas county. It could draw greater attention to a case that was largely overshadowed by another in the same month in which a white Dallas police officer fatally shot a black man in his own apartment.

Tran shot Terry on Sept. 1 after another officer pulled the Forest Hill resident over on a registration violation. After talking for several minutes, body camera footage shows Tran grabbing the passenger-side window of the SUV Terry was driving as it begins to roll up. The officer stepped on to the vehicle's running board as it started to move, pointed his gun into the SUV and fired multiple shots. Terry later died at a hospital.

Tran was placed on restricted duty following the shooting, then was put on leave when the Tarrant County grand jury returned its indictment on May 1.

Tran's attorney, Randall Moore, has maintained that his client's actions were legal and taken to protect the public.

Fed Court says Navajo Tribe Not Allowed to File Suit on Behalf of Loreal Tsingine; 5 Foot Tall, 90 lbs Woman Posed No Real Danger to Race Soldier who Shot Her to Death after Shoplifting Incident

DISPROPORTIONATE USE OF FORCE. From [HERE] A federal court has dismissed the Navajo Nation’s lawsuit against the U.S. government and Winslow, Arizona over the police shooting of a tribal member.

The Gallup Independent reports Judge G. Murray Snow ruled last week that the tribe lacked standing and “did not suffer a legally cognizable injury” from the March 2016 death of Loreal Tsingine.

The tribe filed suit last year, claiming Tsingine’s civil and constitutional rights were violated. It also faulted the U.S. Justice Department for not prosecuting former Winslow Police Officer Austin Shipley [racist suspect in photo].

The department said it could not prove that Shipley willfully used excessive force and did not act in self-defense.

Navajo Nation spokesman Jared Touchin says the tribe is reviewing the ruling and has not yet decided if it will appeal.

The Navajo Nation sued the federal government and the city of Winslow in March on behalf of Loreal Tsingine's (SIN'-uh-jin-ee) daughter.

Tsingine was shot and killed on Easter Sunday by Shipley, a Winslow police officer responding to a report of shoplifting at a nearby Circle K. Shipley fired five shots from his firearm after Winslow police say Tsingine brandished a pair of scissors threateningly at him. The shooting spurred an outcry from members of the Navajo Nation, whose reservation borders Winslow, that Native Americans suffer systemic discrimination and excessive use of force at the hands of city police.

Authorities say Tsingine posed a threat to now former Winslow police Officer Austin Shipley when he killed her in March 2016.

The tribe contends Austin Shipley, who subsequently resigned his position as an officer, could have used non-lethal force when he responded to a report that Tsingine shoplifted from a convenience store in March 2016.

"Our people have the right to be free from unreasonable violence when they visit our neighboring communities, particularly from off-reservation law enforcement," Navajo President Russell Begaye said in a statement. "Navajo lives matter, and that needs to be acknowledged and protected by our bordering jurisdictions."

The Navajo Nation said Shipley could have used less than lethal force as Tsingine stood 5 feet tall and weighed less than 100 pounds. Shipley is over 6 feet tall and over 200 pounds.   Even if she had attempted to stab Shipley, his body armor would have protected him, the tribe alleged.

Tsingine also had a history of mental health-related issues, and the tribe contends police officers weren't properly trained. The tribe alleged violations of her equal protection rights in its claim against the Justice Department. [MORE]

Racist suspects at the Maricopa County Attorney's Office cleared Shipley of wrongdoing in the shooting. The U.S. Department of Justice reviewed the case but said it could not prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Shipley willfully used excessive force and did not act in self-defense.

Authorities said Tsingine resisted arrest, refused commands and advanced on Shipley with the scissors before he shot her, striking her four times in the torso. The 27-year-old was pronounced dead on the sidewalk, down the street from the convenience store.

Kevin Washburn, a law professor at the University of New Mexico, said wrongful death lawsuits typically aren't filed by tribes but it's an exercise of sovereignty.

Tsingine's family previously filed a $10.5 million notice of claim against the city, a precursor to a lawsuit. 

The claim alleges that Officer Austin Shipley [racist suspect in photo] violated Tsignine’s civil rights and contends the city “uniformly ignored warning signs that Austin Shipley was a threat to the public.”

"The city is responsible for Shipley's homicide because it was negligent in hiring, training, retaining, controlling and supervising Austin Shipley," the claim said.

"Shipley's record demonstrates that he does not exert self-restraint, does not obey law, and ignores orders. Personal feelings and animosity influence his actions and decisions. He is incapable of exerting his authority with courtesy required of servant of the people." [MORE]

According to records obtained by the Associated Press, at least two officers who trained Shipley had serious concerns about his work, including that he was too quick to go for his service weapon, ignored directives from superiors and falsified reports.

“Shipley has a well-documented history of incompetence, insubordination, dishonesty, aggression and unreasonable use of force,” the claim said. 

The document uses Winslow Police Department evaluation forms to detail more than 30 violations Shipley racked up during his four months' training in the field to be an officer. The list of issues includes tampering with evidence, falsifying reports, repeating the same mistakes, and tunnel vision, along with concerns that he was too quick to go to his gun.

In field training reports released by the city of Winslow, a police corporal wrote, "at this time I do not believe that this Officer should be retained by the Winslow Police Department due to the below listed reasons." Those reasons included: "integrity issues", "inability to follow the chain of command", "lack of conducting a proper investigation", "fails to control suspects when making an arrest" and "continues to falsify reports." [MORE]

Documents do not show how the department responded the Chisholm’s recommendation.

In his 2½-year career as an officer, Shipley held a suspect at gunpoint at least five times, drew his Taser four times, and used physical force in at least three situations, according to his personnel file.

Twice Shipley was suspended for a day without pay: once in 2013 after he was found to have violated the department’s code of conduct for using vulgar language with a 15-year-old girl, and a second time in 2016 for violating the department’s Taser policy for shocking a 15-year-old girl as she walked away from him.

According to his letter of disposition, at the time of shooting of Tsingine, Shipley was on six months of disciplinary probation and was required to enroll in department-mandated training on the use of force and Taser deployment.

White Mississippi Cops Grab Non-Resisting Latino Woman By Her Hair & Drag Her Out of Car in Front of Her Kids for Not Obeying their Orders Fast Enough

From [HERE] A weekend arrest is under investigation after a video of a Latino woman being pulled out of a car by her hair by Mississippi police officers went viral. 

Jaqueline Clay, 32, of Philadelphia, was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct and failure to comply, Philadelphia Police Chief Grant Myers told the Neshoba Democrat. The arrest about 7:30 p.m. Saturday stemmed from "a disturbance call that progressed to a car chase," he told the paper. 

Meyers could not be reached on Monday about details of the arrest.

Clay, responding on Facebook to a Clarion Ledger inquiry about the video Monday, said, "They said I fled from them but it was because he was hollering and getting mad at me in front of my kids. I was only going 10-15 mph on my street to the end of a stop sign and went down to the next stop sign which was on at least 5-10 yards maybe. I'm bad with the measurements."

Officers were wearing body cameras, Meyers told the Democrat, and the events leading up to the arrest will be reviewed. The video begins after the woman has come to a stop.

In a 36-second video published to Facebook, a woman is sitting in the driver's seat of a vehicle with screaming in the background. Her window is rolled down and she is not wearing a seat belt.

Two male officers approach the vehicle and the woman's arm reaches to the passenger side, where the front-seat passenger appears to be filming. The woman's window is rolled down. One officer reaches inside the car and appears to unlock the door. A second officer opens the door and grabs the woman by her left arm. Less than one second later, the first officer grabs her by her hair, both officers dragging her out of the car. She does not resist and appears to be completely surprised when her head is grabbed and is jerked backed.

The white cops then throw her on the ground, the first officer putting his knee into her back to handcuff her although she is not resisting the arrest.

According to the Democrat, Meyers said there’s another several minutes of dialogue the department has and is reviewing, stressing he plans an objective review of the incident.

Video Shows a White SAPD Cop Use a Chokehold on Black Man for 32 Seconds while Another Repeatedly Punches Him in the Kidneys to Make Arrest for an Alleged “Criminal" Assault

From [HERE] The family of a man whose arrest was caught on camera claims he was the victim of excessive force, at the hands of San Antonio police.

SAPD says they arrested Denzale Shaw Monday because he was assaulting his girlfriend near Pecan Valley Drive on the East Side.

Police tried to put him in handcuffs, but say Shaw resisted.

"He shoots him with a taser gun," Krystal Thomas said.

That's when one officer shot him with a taser. His family says Shaw was simply in a panic and wasn't resisting.

"I know he was fearing for his life because for one, he's never been arrested like that, he's never been tased," said cousin Krystal Thomas. "That's traumatizing, you can tell he was traumatized."

Shaw remains in the Bexar County Jail, charged with assault and resisting arrest.

Police sent us the following statement:

“Per policy, all use of force incidents are documented and reviewed to ensure departmental policies were adhered to. Any incident where the force appears to be excessive or outside of policy will be addressed through the formal investigative process at internal affairs.”

Thomas said officers went to far, especially when the video appears to show an officer put him in a choke-hold and another punching him.

"You're supposed to protect us no matter what," Thomas said.

In terms of domestic violence, Thomas said it could have been a mutual fight between Shaw and his girlfriend.