MAGNA CARTA AT 800: A PROMISE UNFULFILLED

Indefinite detentions, illegal wars and imprisoning millions

by REAL NEWS NETWORK | JUNE 15, 2015

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As the world marks the 800th Anniversary of the Magna Carta, Michael Ratner says the promised guarantees of liberty are unfulfilled as our elected leaders continue to flout the law through indefinite detentions in Guantanamo, illegal wars and imprisoning millions.

JAISAL NOOR, PRODUCER, TRNN: Welcome to The Real News Network. I’m Jaisal Noor in Baltimore.

The Magna Carta, or Great Charter, turns the ripe old age of 800 on Monday, June 15th. It’s considered a seminal building block of democracy because simply put, it established that everyone is subject to the rule of law. King John of England was forced to sign it in 1215 to appease a growing rebellion. The Magna Carta states, quote: “No free man shall be seized or imprisoned except by the lawful judgment of his equals or by the law of the land.

Now joining us to discuss this is someone who knows a little bit about the rule of law and how it’s applied today, Michael Ratner. Michael is the President Emeritus of the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York, and the U.S. attorney for Julian Assange. He’s also a board member for The Real News Network.

Thanks so much for joining us, Michael.

MICHAEL RATNER, PRESIDENT EMERITUS, CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS: Good to be with you, Jaisal.

NOOR: So Michael, the Magna Carta is 800 years old now. What is its significance today?

RATNER: You know, when you did the introduction, Jaisal, you talked about it as the product of really essentially a people’s struggle, rebellion really, or something. But it actually took place between King John and the barons. And in some sense it was a political document that divided power between the barons and the king, and the barons were asserting more power against the king. And in that sense, they were trying to rule the limit of authority and rule the, and limit the king.

It also of course as you said is the foundation of many of what we consider to be fundamental human rights and constitutional rights. Particularly the right of habeus corpus, which is the right to test your detention, the right to be free essentially from executive detention. You have a right to go to court, the king can’t just send you into a prison, or the president can’t without taking you to a court. The prohibition on torture came out of it. Really fundamental rights. That’s not what it said when it began, but it again eventually developed into that.

I want to talk about it today particularly for two reasons. One is, is let’s look at those rights and see how they’ve come down and whether there’s more than lip service being paid to them. And also because when people talk about the Magna Carta they forget about another charter of liberty that occurred at roughly the same time and was considered equally important at the time, and that’s called the Charter of he Forest. The forest was the economic resource of people in the United Kingdom at that time, or in England. And the charter, the Magna Carta gave what we call political and judicial rights. The Charter of the Forest actually gave economic rights. And it’s ignored of course n this country, the United States, particularly because this is a country that doesn’t believe in economic rights.

In any case we’re coming up on the 800th anniversary as you said, or June 15th, 2015 is the 800th anniversary when King John was forced to sign it at Runnymede in the United Kingdom in England. As I said, it’s widely celebrated. You’ll see flag flying, you’ll see courts having special kind of meetings, you’ll see all kinds of–the President I’m sure will say something, because this is very, a very important document. But the question is for me, how real are the promises of the Magna Carta, and what is being left out? And of course, I said the Charter of the Forest is of course left out.

I became very familiar with the Magna Carta not only as every schoolchild in America does, but because the Center for Constitutional Rights and I represent the Guantanamo detainees. And of course as people may know, in 2001 President George Bush said that he could pick up any person in the world and hold them indefinitely without a trial. And what does that sound like? That sounds like indefinite detention. We went to court, and we eventually made it to the Supreme Court in 2004 in a case called Rasul v Bush, Guantanamo detainees against George Bush, saying essentially we have a right to habeas corpus, a right to test our detention in court, and that the president has no right to simply pick up people by the neck and thrust them into some dank prison, in this case offshore Guantanamo, and not let them go to court.

Amazingly, and surprisingly to me at the time, 6-3 the Supreme Court in 2004 agreed with us. And they did this incredible quote, the author of that opinion, said executive imprisonment has been considered oppressive and lawless since John at Runnymede, that’s 800 years ago, pledged that no free man should be imprisoned, disposed of, outlawed, or exiled save by the judgment of his peers or the law of the land. So a very important decision, adhering to the Magna Carta, giving rights to the people at Guantanamo.

And yet, let’s look at whether those words have actual meaning. Yes we went to court, we got hearings on a lot of our clients. But today as we speak, 122 people remain at Guantanamo despite this right to a hearing, despite that over 50 of them have actually been cleared for release by the government or the courts. And the courts sit there right now and they basically do this. They twiddle their thumbs. They don’t do anything. So here we have a right, a right to go to court, a right to get a remedy, and the courts do nothing.

So yes, I say to our viewers, let’s celebrate the Magna Carta, but understand that we have to fight to make its liberties have meaning. At these kind of moments I always recall the famous words of the abolitionist, former slave Frederick Douglass in the 1850s. He was asked to address a 4th of July celebration. And of course, people in the United States are enslaved at that point. Millions of slaves. And what does he say about it? He says, your 4th of July is a sham, your boasted liberty, an unholy license for enslaving blacks. Your shouts of liberty and equality a hollow mockery. And I say, could not the tortured and those who remained in prison at Guantanamo, could not the over 2 million imprisoned by the United States, could not those murdered by drones, by police, and killed in unlawful wars, and countless others oppressed by the United States say similarly, as Douglass said, what to us is this Magna Carta? What is your–what your Magna Carta is is a sham. Your boasted liberty an unholy license for the millions murdered and tortured, and your shouts of liberty and equality a hollow mockery.

So that’s how we have to think about the Magna Carta. Yes its rights are there for some people. Its rights are not there for most people. And even when they’re given lip service, that’s all they’re given.

As I said, one aspect that’s always forgotten in the U.S. about the Magna Carta is that while that concerned primarily political and judicial rights the other important charter, the Charter of the Forest, which was proclaimed at roughly the same time, guaranteed economic rights. The right of people to what was called the commons, then. The right to the forest. So imagine a small village, there’s a forest. The people were given the right to chop that wood, use that wood to build their houses, and to take parts of the forest as, against the king would one time claim all that forest. They were allowed to take honey. They were allowed to have the rights to economic survival.

And then what happened is the enclosures laws happened in England and Europe and the people got taken away the right to commons and the right to the forest. The right to the forest you could analogize really to the right to natural resources today, whether that be oil or other resources. And of course, those are now all privatized. So that charter, the right to the forest, is to me as critical if not more critical than the Magna Carta.

And today if we recognize that in this country and perhaps in much of the world we’re at the beginning of a struggle about what I would call the Charter of the Forest. The right to economic rights. Let’s not forget those rights, particularly at a time when we’re celebrating judicial protections and judicial rights. Both those sets of rights badly need reinvigoration.

Finally, and I want to end on this. The American Bar Association, which is the major bar association for lawyers in the United States, huge number of members. They put up a plinth, or a marble column, at Runnymede in England. And they engraved these words on it: Freedom Under Law.

And I want our viewers to think about that. Freedom Under Law. It was the same period as the United States established law day instead of a labor day. All of these, Freedom Under Law, Law Day, you have to look at as a way to control people’s struggles by saying they need to obey a law. But that’s not what the Magna Carta stands for. The Magna Carta, as I said when I opened, is about the struggle against the barons, against the authority of the king. Against authority. Let’s remember that. So what that plinth should have said, should have said, was Authority Under Law. In other words, that the president, the congress, the judiciary, those who seek to dictate to us, those people should be the people under law.

And as we have less and less democracy in this country, we need to go back to that principle, authority under law, and we have to stop making a mockery of the Charter of the Forest that guaranteed economic wellbeing and subsistence to human beings all over.

NOOR: Michael Ratner, thank you so much for joining us.

RATNER: Thank you for having me on The Real News.

NOOR: And thank you for joining us at The Real News Network.

ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BANS ‘CARTWHEELS’ & ‘HANDSTANDS’ TO ‘SAFEGUARD’ STUDENTS

"It is ridiculous. They are banning children from being children"

by MIKAEL THALEN | INFOWARS.COM | JUNE 15, 2015

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Students at a Plymouth, England, elementary school are no longer allowed to perform “cartwheels” and “handstands” after administrators deemed the moves too advanced for children.

According to the Plymouth Herald, the Old Priory Primary Academy banned all “gymnastic movements” this week after administrators reported minor injuries among several students.

Emma Hermon-Wright, the school’s interim headteacher, says the ban will keep children from performing acrobatics “beyond their capability.”

“Following a number of minor incidents we took action to ban these gymnastic activities during play and lunch,” Wright told the Herald. “Through PE lessons in primary schools, pupils are carefully taught to develop movements of their bodies in safe, controlled and supported ways.”

Both students and parents alike reacted negatively to the announcement, alleging the policy criminalized normal childhood behavior.

“They are taking away a child’s right to be a child and they are taking away the things we took for granted as children,” Sarah Evans, a mother of two, told the Herald. “As a parent I just simply don’t agree with it. Bumps and scraps are all part of the rough and tumble of being a child.”

Another parent, who asked to remain anonymous, called the rule “ridiculous,” arguing that minor injuries while playing are a part of growing up.

“It is ridiculous. They are banning children from being children,” the woman said. “They are not allowed to run, play conkers and now they can’t do handstands. They are not allowed to take any risks.”

Similar policies are being adopted by schools throughout the Western world at a growing pace, with even the most mundane activities being targeted for regulation.

Another school in the United Kingdom went one step further last April by banning “running” on its playground after administrators called the activity a safety issue.

“I know children do get the occasional bump to the head or grazed knee while running around on the playground but having spoken to a number of parents as well as children, 100 per cent of both expressed that running and getting the occasional minor injury was most definitely preferable to not running at all,” a parent said in response.

Schools in the United States with similar rules have targeted several well known games as well includingdodgeball and tag.

6 Manufactured Problems That Are Behind 6 Major Globalist Agendas

Sunday, June 14, 2015

By Bernie Suarez

Problem-reaction-solution, the Hegelian Dialectic is that process the globalist ruling class have chosen to use as the primary tool to constantly change society in the direction they want it to go. They manufacture a problem, focus on that problem, then sell the solution. The solution is always the very thing that drives their plan forward.
In this day and age the fundamentals of basic knowledge and awareness of what is happening in the world can be gauged by someone's awareness of the Hegelian Dialectic. If someone is not aware of this powerful tool used by the controllers it is likely they are not aware of a lot of other things. For this reason the basics of the Hegelian Dialectic cannot be underscored enough in explaining major agendas today. Let's look at 6 absolutely engineered problems today whose solutions play perfectly into the new world order plans. No one should mistake these for anything other than manufactured problems without which there would be no new world order. For this reason the following manufactured problems will never be solved. These manufactured problems are required and we should not expect them to go away any time soon.

1- Deliberate geoengineering of climate quietly behind "climate change"
The global warming movement has been debunked many times over by non-government/non-IPCC funded scientists, researchers and critical thinkers all over the world. As a result of this, by the turn of the new century the movement had to change its name to the broader more generic "climate change". Here we are many years later and the earth never warmed like it was supposed to. But don't get any ideas. Those deeply committed to the climate movement will not be moved by facts or logic that interfere with their position on the matter. Meanwhile the controllers know that to admit that the planet is not warming would put the future of geoengineering in jeopardy. Government geoengineers for years have been planning the roll out of the geoengineering global operations to the general public and they know the only way to do is to justify it under the global warming "problem".
In this script they've been working on for years, geoengineering is the "solution" to climate problems. Geoengineering, meaning the spraying of our skies with chemicals and the additional injection of our skies with chembomb aerosol massive plumes in conjunction with HAARP to manipulate the weather among other things.

This agenda is so important to the globalists that no movement has been more infiltrated with what I call cross-confusion, as much as the geoengineering movement. Over the last few years we've seen outright global warming hoaxers positioning themselves (in some cases) in perceived leadership positions just to lure those active in the geoengineering movement into alternate confusing narratives where in order to supposedly understand the problem of geoengineering the followers are being deceived into accepting the Al Gore, UN, CFR, Rockefeller, Club of Rome's long planned global warming hoax theories.
In this particular topic the globalists have thus attempted to create a two-layered deception, which goes something like this - The "problem" (problem A) of global warming has led to the "problem" (problem B) of geoengineering. But since global warming is real let's see how we can make the geoengineering a more responsible kind of geoengineering, or maybe we'll stop the geoengineering and use the stopping of geoengineering to confirm the need to address problem A, the global warming hoax. Does this remind anyone of the left-right paradigm where you have to pick the better of two evils?
2 - ISIS creation funding and arming center of continued war on terror
No ISIS means no new world order. The globalists know this; so, as I suggested some time back, the primary goal for the global elite is to simply prolong the existence of ISIS and make them sound greater than they are. The logic we are told suggests that ISIS is a powerful always growing uncontrollable force and thus the solution to this problem is to keep and expand the war on terror, keep attacking other nations in the name of fighting ISIS, and continue being afraid of ISIS even if it means ignoring the fact that the U.S. and its NATO allies created, funded, armed and continue to arm and support ISIS.
This reminds us that the globalists will never let reality get in the way of their script. The script always comes first, then the interpretation of reality follows. Anyone bothered, disturbed or resisting this cultic reverse logic where the interpretation of reality is secondary to the customized version of their script opens themselves to being labeled a "conspiracy theorist". Yes, the script to suppress knowledge and keep the masses in the blind has not changed, we all know the rest.
3 - Staged or co-opted revolutions giving police state militarization an open stage
All over the nation the local police are sitting on tons of military gear given to them by the Federal government under the 1033 program of the 1990s. It's one thing to have military capability, it's another to actually show it off and get the masses accustomed to the police state so they can see what happens when you resist. We're talking mass conditioning which is very important to the new world order plans. They need a public which has learned to accept their submissive role at the hands of an aggressive, fully armed, federally militarized nationwide police state. In almost every police show of force which has followed the latest police shootings or injustice we've seen suspicious provocateurs inciting violence. This is common in staged or co-opted revolutions and no one should be surprised. Sometimes the reason for the revolution may be genuine but the participants unfortunately don't realize how the likes of George Soros are funding many of these events forcing one to wonder how these revolutions fit the bigger picture. George W Bush summed it up best with the phrase "order out of chaos". This is all part of their plan to destabilize nations including America, cause revolutions then role out THEIR solutions to the problems.
4 - Intelligence "cold war" propaganda leading to WW3
We've all watched how the Obama administration has worked hard to manufacture the new propaganda cold war against Russia and Vladimir Putin who have not marched along with the globalist new world order plans and the Western debt-based dollar banking scheme. We all know the script by now. You don't play along with the Western banking cabal and you automatically get demonized. Russia knows full well how this works now after several years of propaganda, lies, accusations, territory wars in Ukraine, and the colossal failure of blaming Russia for the downing of MH-17 in 2014. The end result is that Russia has become the new bogey-monster in the eyes of CIA's Western mainstream media. The latest version of the ISIS psyop show propaganda even includes new suggestions that somehow Russiais with ISIS!
With few being fooled by this political foreign policy, CIA driven, 1950's style resurrected anti-Russia propaganda the script rolls on. The new "problem" is Russia. This is the perfect manufactured problem to slowly lead us to the planned WW3 scenario the globalists have been thirsting for. This is "order out of chaos" to the third power and a very important part of the global Hegelian Dialectic staged "solution" to usher in their new world order.
5 - Disease hysteria providing backdrop for medical tyranny
We've seen the periodic health and disease hysteria. They come and go before you even notice. Remember the Ebola hysteria of 2014? Did anyone ask the simple question - how and when did Ebola go away?? The answer is it didn't. CIA's mainstream media removed it from the news voluntarily. The virus is still real and nothing has changed. What we are seeing in these modern days is a mainstream media which has the power to insert something into your mind suddenly with 24/7 media hyped coverage. When they do this, then the topic they are covering IS the story that you need to worry about. This same mainstream media, however, has the power to magically make that same topic disappear from your mind. The effect is magical and instant. That's right, when the mainstream media says the crisis is gone then it's gone regardless of what is actually happening.
So beware of the next medical crisis. When it comes it will be because the mainstream media decided it has come. They will also decide if and when the story will go away. During the next disease hysteria "problem" expect them to use this tool to advance whatever agenda they have cooking. As the SB277mandatory vaccination bill is on the verge of becoming law in California forcing all parents to subject their children to government dangerous and unproven vaccines, we shouldn't be surprised if this agenda is followed up by a new disease scare much worse than the not-so-scary measles hysteria of a few months ago or the 2014 Ebola mania.
Keep in mind also that the control system is gauging the effectiveness of these early hype campaigns. They are measuring how the public is affected by these mainstream media 24/7 hysteria campaigns and they are taking notes on how to improve the script for next time. Now more than ever is the time to be alert, vigilant and aware of this informational propaganda war for your mind and your body.
6 - Scarcity, overpopulation, "carbon emission" hysteria setting up Agenda 21 and global taxation
Finally, the left wing section of the right-left globalist control system continues to push their Malthusian, elitist, Eugenics, master race planned problems of scarcity and overpopulation as well as the "carbon emission" hysteria which all traces back to the failed global warming hoax of the Al Gore days. The "solutions" to these scripted problems of course line up perfectly with their need to control the world by taxing and monitoring all human behavior worldwide as the world moves toward "sustainable" solutions. The U.N.'s long plannedAgenda 21 is a major part of the implementation of these solutions to these scripted problems. And, like all the other scripted problems above, anyone thinking critically, asking questions, exposing these agendas or pointing out what's wrong with these claimed problems or solutions is a "conspiracy theorist".
Remember you are not allowed to interfere with these scripts. The problem MUST exist for the solution to be implemented. The "solution" must be implemented exactly as planned for the new world order agenda to move forward as planned. Is there any part of this script that doesn't make sense to you yet?
Solutions and hope
What we are now seeing is a growing segment of humanity which is reading and educating themselves on the simple truth behind the new world order. As we see things get much worse every day now we are all reviewing and recognizing how this works. Make no mistake, as we share this basic knowledge about the new world order plans the simple truth becomes easier and easier to see. Ironically, the more the control system offers resistance to this human awakening with counter deceptive stories, the more people wake up even if it's at the expense of those who are more blinded. If this story seems easier and easier to understand realize that this is the process of human intellectual evolution in motion.
As a whole, what we are finding is that it is becoming less and less difficult to convince people of these events occurring within our species. People are continuing to slowly but surely wake up. Part of this intellectual evolution and mass awakening phenomenon is that people are becoming less and less fazed by mainstream media lies. More than ever before the average awakened intellectual and discerning individual can watch a scary ISIS report or climate change report on the mainstream media news and literally not have their emotions or heart rate effected at all. The human brain is beginning to bypass the old lower brain physiological knee-jerk response that was supposed to be associated with these script scaremongering stories which the globalists relied on so heavily. I personally believe that the human species is essentially becoming better and more effective at detecting when it is being lied to. It's doing this for the sake of its own survival. (more on this topic another time)
Let's therefore continue sharing this information for information sake and realize this is having an impact on the species, our consciousness and ultimately our road to freedom; more importantly, freedom from the system of enslavement that threatens our current existence.
Bernie is a revolutionary writer with a background in medicine, psychology, and information technology. He has written numerous articles over the years about freedom, government corruption and conspiracies, and solutions. A former host of the 9/11 Freefall radio show, Bernie is also the creator of the Truth and Art TV project where he shares articles and videos about issues that raise our consciousness and offer solutions to our current problems. His efforts are designed to encourage others to joyfully stand for truth, to expose government tactics of propaganda, fear and deception, and to address the psychology of dealing with the rising new world order. He is also a former U.S. Marine who believes it is our duty to stand for and defend the U.S. Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic. A peace activist, he believes information and awareness is the first step toward being free from enslavement from the globalist control system which now threatens humanity. He believes love conquers all fear and it is up to each and every one of us to manifest the solutions and the change that you want to see in this world, because doing this is the very thing that will ensure victory and restoration of the human race from the rising global enslavement system, and will offer hope to future generations.
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HOW DO YOU VERIFY A MILITANT’S DEATH?

Constant issues with verification

by BBC | JUNE 15, 2015

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Like a cat with nine lives, militant Mokhtar Belmokhtar – dubbed “the uncatchable” – has been reported dead at least three times in recent years. Official confirmation of the latest reports of his “killing” is yet to come from the US, but how exactly do governments and their militaries go about verifying militant IDs after the kill?

Tobias Borck, an analyst with the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies (Rusi), says verification of a kill depends on the type of operation carried out in the first place.

He contrasts the air strikes targeting Mokhtar Belmokhtar to the operation carried out by US special forces to kill Osama Bin Laden four years ago.

“One was killed from the air, the other was killed by soldiers going in in person. The latter is obviously much easier for identification purposes,” Mr Borck says.

Bin Laden was shot in a night-time raid at his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, in 2011. His body was transported to a ship for DNA tests before being dropped into the Arabian Sea.

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DALLAS POLICE SHOOTING DOES NOT ADD UP

Numerous unanswered questions and oddities

BBC World Service / Flickr

by THE ALEX JONES SHOW | JUNE 15, 2015

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Alex covers shooting in Dallas with a report by Infowars reporter Joe Biggs, who was there at the scene of the shooting.

POLICE RELEASE “PRE-CRIME” SMARTPHONE APP

App warns users about crimes "before they are committed"

by KIT DANIELS | INFOWARS.COM | JUNE 15, 2015

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Swiss police have released a “pre-crime” smartphone app which warns users about crimes “before they are committed” based on criminal prediction software.

The app, published by the Aargau cantonal police under the name “Kapo Aargau,” sends users a “pre-crime” report for their area compiled by the Precobs forecasting software, which uses past crime data fed into an algorithm.

“The cantonal police of Aargau used the Precobs for a short time and comes to a similar conclusion: the system has repeatedly delivered amazingly accurate predictions,” the Aargauer Zeitung reported when the app was first being tested. “That leaves other cantons listening attentively; police forces from across the country are interested in testing the software.”

And across the world as well; numerous police departments in the U.S. are also using similar technology,such as the Miami Police Dept. which has adopted the Hunchlab prediction software.

Hunchlab reportedly allows officers to “best forecast when and where crimes are likely to emerge” using years’ worth of past crime data.

“It doesn’t replace actual police work,” Lt. Sean MacDonald told the Miami Herald. “It’s policing with smarter technology.”

But pre-crime software is not without its critics.

“Experience says that such apps get expanded and changed after they are on the market,” privacy advocate Matthias Monroy told Spiegel.

And there’s also the risk of police harassing innocent people because they happen to be where a crime is predicted to happen.

“To stop you and frisk you and search you, a police officer needs reasonable suspicion, so my question is how will this affect reasonable suspicion?” Andrew Guthrie Ferguson, a law professor at the University of the District of Columbia, asked.

If the search is based on a computer algorithm, Ferguson added, and the case comes to court, how do you cross-examine a computer?

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VIDEO: COP CHOKES, TASES 13-YEAR-OLD IN THE SPINE FOR SKATEBOARDING

Witnesses say sheriff’s deputy tried to delete videos from their phones

by STEVE WATSON | INFOWARS | JUNE 15, 2015

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A San Diego sheriff’s deputy has been filmed brutally choking and tasering a child for skateboarding around a parking lot.

Horrified bystanders are heard yelling at the cop to stop in the video as the child writhes in agony from being tased at point blank range in the spine by the cop who already has him in a choke hold.

Witnesses told reporters with the San Diego Union-Tribune, that the cop attempted to force several witnesses to delete the footage from their phones after he had put the kid in the back of the police car.

The report notes that the child had run away from home, and been missing for a day-and-a-half. The cop was aware of this and was looking for him at his mother’s request.

The sheriff’s office is claiming that the deputy did not have the kid in a choke hold and that the treatment of the boy was justified because when confronted, he reached into the waistband of his pants.

“He approached him, identified him, verified who he was and said he had to come with him,” (Sheriff’s spokeswoman Jan) Caldwell said. “The juvenile refused. As the situation unfolded, he became not only verbally assaultive but physically combative.”

The cop also claims that the boy bit him on the hand, prompting the tasering.

“There were other juveniles and people in the area with skateboards and there was only one deputy,” Caldwell said. “He needed to get the situation under control as quickly as he could.”

The witness who filmed the video spoke to reporters with PINAC, claiming that the cop used excessive force for no good reason, and that the kid, referred to as “Josh”, was on his way home anyway, because he had injured his hand.

“As he walked by the officer, the officer said ‘get in the car please,’ and Josh asked ‘why’, because he was confused. The officer gets out the car and grabs him and throws him down. Josh was saying ‘my hand hurts, my hand’. Then the officer than just put him in a choke hold. I saw his face red like a tomato.”

“[The officer] then starts tazering Josh in the lower back spine and that when the officer pointed his tazer towards us, thinking we were gonna stop him or something, but we backed off and the officer just choking him and still tazering him. We were yelling ‘get off him, get off him’. Then he just picked him up like he was a doll and put him in the back [of the police vehicle].”

The witness also claims that the cop threatened to have everyone at the scene arrested, and wanted to confiscate their phones.

“So they all separate us, ask for our information, and took pictures of us all, even the minors. Another friend was recording only a little bit, so he didn’t much, but they asked to see his phone and the video- and they tried erasing it. They asked me if I was also recording, but I said no because I didn’t want them looking at the video.” the young man said.

The sheriff’s office says it is looking into the incident further and will investigate the claims of the deputy attempting to delete videos from the cell phones of witnesses.

TPP = PIRACY AND LOOTING

Even worse screwjob than Obamacare

MICHIGAN POLICE SEIZE KIDS FROM FAMILY FOR ”CAMPING” fored into child trafficking ‘Child Protective Services’

CPS made four allegations

by JOSHUA KRAUSE | ACTIVIST POST | JUNE 15, 2015

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Last month, a Michigan family decided it would be fun to go camping for the summer, on a 10-acre plot of land they had recently purchased. Christopher and Antonia Hernandez wanted their six children to experience the outdoors, and get a taste for off-grid living. But after living in several large tents for 9 days, their rural experiment came to an abrupt end.

On May 19, the parents left the property to do laundry at a laundromat, as well as to buy food and some fencing for the animals. The younger children were left in the care of their 15-year-old son, who is nearly 16.

“When we arrived back, the Otsego County Sheriff’s Department was at the property claiming to have received a report of squatters on the land,” Antonia said. “We provided documentation of our right to be on the land, which was verified the next day by the land owner.”

A CPS representative also was on the property, and had concerns about the living conditions. CPS made four allegations, according to the official court document:

• The family was not in a “stable living environment.”
• The family had no electricity or water source, and was using kerosene as a means of heat.
• The children were playing in the woods, cared for by a 15 year old.
• The youngest child had a diaper rash.
• The 17-year-old girl, who has Cerebral Palsy, was cold.

The children, whose ages ranged from 7 months to 17 years, were promptly taken away from the parents by CPS and the Otsego County Sheriff’s Department. However, many of the reasons given for the seizure of these children don’t hold up. For one, the kids appear to have had everything they need. Their lifestyle was by no means “easy” according the standards of someone living on the grid, but they were in good hands.

The family had a generator, and had purchased a pass to use the showers at a nearby state park. The multiple tents they were using were very large, and were sufficient to house the family and their belongings. They were also receiving an abundant supply of drinking water by filling 5-gallon jugs at Walmart, and collecting rainwater.

The claim that some of the children were “cold” also doesn’t hold up. The oldest girl with Cerebral Palsy, had a temperature of 96 degrees after the government officials left her tent flap open for an hour and a half. Her temperature quickly stabilized as soon as she was admitted to the hospital, where doctors claimed she was “very well taken care of.”

The “diaper rash” accusation is equally absurd. Apparently these CPS workers have never had children of their own. If they did, they would know that the vast majority of parents have experienced this problem with their infants, and it is not necessarily a sign of neglect. In any case, the rash had already been healing when CPS arrived.

And since when is a teenager too young to look after his/her siblings? I guarantee you there are millions of single parents out there that have had to leave their kids home alone to take care of each other. If the adolescent is a responsible person (which this one probably is after taking care of an older, disabled sibling) then the other children are probably in good hands.

Unfortunately, none of this was taken into consideration by the authorities. The parents were given no choice but to leave the property and hand over their children to CPS. They weren’t even given the option to return to their original residence (which was an ordinary grid-connected home). Fortunately for these parents, their children were returned to them on June 10th, after 21 days. However, the kids were not returned on the grounds that CPS had made mistake, or overreacted.

The only reason the Hernandez family has been reunited, is due to the Tlingit ancestry of the mother. Federal and Michigan state laws create an additional barrier for separating Native American families. If not for her ancestry, the kids would probably still be in the hands of CPS.

WHERE DID UNEMPLOYED MECHANIC BOULWARE GET MONEY TO BUY “ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE ASSAULT VEHICLE”?

Family said attacker did not have money to pay for mental health care

Image Credits: eBay.

by INFOWARS.COM | JUNE 14, 2015

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James Boulware, the man killed Saturday in Dallas after shooting up a police station, bought a customized “Zombie Apocalypse Assault Vehicle and Troop Transport” despite the fact his family said he did not have any money.

A van similar to the one used by Boulware was sold by Jenco Sales Inc. in Newnan, Georgia on eBay for $8,250.

Boulware traveled to Georgia last week to pick up the vehicle.

“He just got the van last week,” said Jim Boulware, the dead man’s father. “He went and took a bus to Georgia and picked it up.”

WFAA, an ABC News affiliate in Dallas, reported that Boulware’s family wanted him to get psychiatric help, but he did not have the money to pay for it. Boulware’s mother, Jeannine Hammond, said her son was mentally ill and “heard voices,” NBC 5 – KXAS in Forth Worth reported.

Authorities have yet to discuss how Boulware, a 35-year-old unemployed mechanic, was able to purchase the van and the weapons used in the attack.