Aaron Swartz was one of the major developers of internet code, as well as an activist trying to stop abuses by individuals hiding in government. Almost any page you visit on the internet has some code or feature derived from his work. 

There is considerable evidence that Aaron Swartz was a key developer of Namecoin, the second cryptocurrency after Bitcoin, and the only currency aside from bitcoin that 'Satoshi Nakamoto' worked on. A person can look at public articles written by Swartz and compare them to articles written anonymously to develop Namecoin and it is clear much of Namecoin's development was probably from Aaron Swartz. 

 

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In 2008, Swartz downloaded about 2.7 million federal court documents stored in the PACER (Public Access to Court Electronic Records) database managed by the Administrative Office of the United States Courts. 

The Huffington Post characterized his actions this way: "Swartz downloaded public court documents from the PACER system in an effort to make them available outside of the expensive service. The move drew the attention of the FBI, which ultimately decided not to press charges as the documents were, in fact, public."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz

 

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On December 27, 2010, Swartz filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to learn about the treatment of Chelsea Manning, alleged source for WikiLeaks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz

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In 2011–2012, Swartz, Kevin Poulsen, and James Dolan designed and implemented DeadDrop, a system that allows anonymous informants to send electronic documents without fear of disclosure. In May 2013, the first instance of the software was launched by The New Yorker under the name Strongbox. The Freedom of the Press Foundation has since taken over development of the software, which has been renamed SecureDrop.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz

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According to state and federal authorities, Swartz used JSTOR, a digital repository, to download a large number of academic journal articles through MIT's computer network over the course of a few weeks in late 2010 and early 2011. At the time, Swartz was a research fellow at Harvard University, which provided him with a JSTOR account. Visitors to MIT's "open campus" were authorized to access JSTOR through its network.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz

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Swartz was downloading academic journals to make them available for free to students doing academic research. 

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On the night of January 6, 2011, Swartz was arrested near the Harvard campus by MIT police and a U.S. Secret Service agent. He was arraigned in Cambridge District Court on two state charges of breaking and entering with intent to commit a felony.

On July 11, 2011, Swartz was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of wire fraud, computer fraud, unlawfully obtaining information from a protected computer, and recklessly damaging a protected computer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz

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Federal prosecutors later charged him with two counts of wire fraud and eleven violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, carrying a cumulative maximum penalty of $1 million in fines, 35 years in prison, asset forfeiture, restitution, and supervised release.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz

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On November 17, 2011, Swartz was indicted by a Middlesex County Superior Court grand jury on state charges of breaking and entering with intent, grand larceny, and unauthorized access to a computer network. On December 16, 2011, state prosecutors filed a notice that they were dropping the two original charges; the charges listed in the November 17, 2011, indictment were dropped on March 8, 2012. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz

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According to a spokesperson for the Middlesex County prosecutor, the state charges were dropped to permit a federal prosecution headed by Stephen P. Heymann and supported by evidence provided by Secret Service agent Michael S. Pickett to proceed unimpeded.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz

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Obviously federal law enforcers had a lot of interest in prosecuting Swartz. 

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On September 12, 2012, federal prosecutors filed a superseding indictment adding nine more felony counts, which increased Swartz's maximum criminal exposure to 50 years of imprisonment and $1 million in fines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz

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Swartz died by suicide on January 11, 2013. After his death, federal prosecutors dropped the charges.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Swartz

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Following Swartz's suicide, Swartz's family blamed the government agents who had abused their power by harassing him. 

The spouse of the federal prosecutor responded by saying "Truly incredible that in their own son's obit they blame others for his death and make no mention of the 6-month offer.", referring to a plea deal offered by the government prosecutors.

In other words, he was saying that 'Swartz was at fault because he did not go along with what the government agents wanted'.

A person could ask "Why did the United States Attorney not receive a six month sentence after Swartz's death?" Did Swartz commit a more serious crime than the United States Attorney's prosecutor? 

Law enforcement in most countries attracts people who feel they will become more powerful by operating within a gang. They must always articulate their actions and motives in terms of a 'public good', but the truth is that most law enforcement is simply weak individuals trying to gain personal strength through their government gang. A person who does not need a gang does not join one, and Swartz, like many people, did not feel a need to submit to support the gang trying to intimidate him. 

'Policing' is a necessary job in most societies. It is not an 'archetypal' job, not a permanent feature of society, but in today's melting pot industrializing society it is important to have some individuals whose job is specifically to protect weaker elements from predators. 

The problem that always arises though is that the type of individual who seeks strength by joining a police agency, for example the Secret Service and FBI in the case of the Aaron Swartz prosecution, is also the type of individual who tries to "protect the powerful" and "conquer the weak". 

The United States, as with many other countries, has a long and steady history of law enforcers who target those who are perceived as weak, even if they are harmless, and support those who are perceived as powerful. 

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Albert Einstein was another famous academic hounded by the various law enforcers of his day. 

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/04/science-march-einstein-fbi-genius-science/

https://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/07/science/new-details-emerge-einstein-files-fbi-tracked-his-phone-calls-his-trash.html

Should there be accountability for predators who hide in high powered government jobs? Should they be allowed to attack harmless people while they intimidate the general public into supporting their abuses? 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 The future of crypto?

There have always been people who say that cryptocurrencies will die out or that they will be crushed by regulation or meet some other doom. https://cointelegraph.com/news/dr-doom-slams-cryptocurrencies-says-talk-of-decentralization-is-bullst 

Without exception, people who foresee the end of cryptocurrency have one thing in common, they don't know anything about it. If you ask a bitcoin critic a basic question about digital currencies, almost without exception they demonstrate a complete lack of knowledge. 

So what is the truth?

1) Monetized computing power, i.e., digital currencies, are one of the biggest technical steps in history. While technology has advanced so far through corporations who hire a few experts and pay them well, soon development of sciences will be openly monetized so that if you can produce a new technology you don't need to apply for a job, you just need to work.

When ai coins start to develop, any coin that is properly organized and attracts enough 'human miners' will have far more economic clout than a comparable corporation, but with no overhead and perhaps no contamination from common corporate factors.

2) It is discreetly accepted that regulating cryptocurrency does not help the regulator. Any country that leaves the field unregulated, aside from the usual criminal restrictions, will soon be further ahead technologically than countries that create vast criminal industries through regulation. Basic protections are necessary in most places but whichever countries harness crypto without specifically regulating it, aside from existing criminal laws, will probably be the first digital economic powerhouses. 

3) Fiat, built and maintained around the concept of "managing scarcity", has a psychological stranglehold on people in developed countries. The 'industrialized mind' has been trained to be a herd brain whose every impulse is a group activity. These 'herd' or industrialized populations will soon struggle to encourage real crypto development, but less industrialized peoples will gain great power quickly. 

4) Sometimes the issue of "government backing" is used to defend fiat. There are people who say that 'crypto is not backed by anything' while fiat is backed by "the guns of a government". In fact, there are enough cryptocurrencies already that any person can find one they support "because its interesting", which will lead to a more authentic economy than fiat which is typically used almost at gunpoint. If governments had not used violence to enforce fiat, any specific dominant fiat currency never would have arisen, while crypto is strong enough that it does not need violence, and in fact will wither those countries that try to enforce fiat over crypto. This isn't a political factor, it's simple economics and psychology. 

5) Crypto is still in its early stages. Bitcoin is a wasteful coin that stands only on psychological appeal. Science coins like Primecoin, Gridcoin, Gapcoin, etc are the obvious next step, followed by 'human mining' coins used to generate algorithms to develop 'artificial intelligence', which will create many strong centers of power in different fields. Once crypto is the norm, most jobs will probably involve 'human input' coins, while labor jobs will be automated wherever possible. Sciences will start developing so fast that it will be difficult to know where the cutting edge of a science is. At that point fiat history will probably be looked at as a dark age. 

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On the other hand

The current enthusiasm over the security of cryptography is sorely misguided. Security in currencies must be derived from long term ethnic languages, not short term cryptographic cleverness.

Cryptography is like history in that there are so many experts who don't really know the basics.

 

 

 

 

Brazil deployed police to a remote Amazon village on Sunday after reports it had been overrun by armed miners following the murder of an indigenous leader, officials and tribal chiefs said.

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The violence in an area of the northern Amapa state controlled by the Waiapi tribe comes as Brazil's indigenous people face growing pressures from miners, ranchers and loggers under pro-business President Jair Bolsonaro, who on Saturday called for the "first world" to help exploit the "absurd quantity of minerals" in the Amazon rainforest.

https://news.yahoo.com/brazil-police-probe-tribal-leaders-killing-village-invasion-203333608.html

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Otay Panky

"Detailed knowledge of fission and fusion weapons is classified to some degree in virtually every industrialized nation. In the United States, such knowledge can by default be classified as "Restricted Data", even if it is created by persons who are not government employees or associated with weapons programs, in a legal doctrine known as "born secret" (though the constitutional standing of the doctrine has been at times called into question; see United States v. Progressive, Inc.). Born secret is rarely invoked for cases of private speculation."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermonuclear_weapon

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There are lots of refugees all around the world, and many more aspiring refugees.

They live in dreary camps, in some cases enduring ongoing attacks from local militaries. Many indigenous regions have been bled dry by superpower melting pots who then install repressive regimes. This leaves those regions in squalor and misery with no good options for individuals disinterested in war politics.

https://fablesofaesop.com/greed-jealousy.html

What they need is a reliable free territory outside the control of the melting pot. 

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/07/100-migrants-refugees-feared-drowned-mediterranean-sea-190725150839996.html 

In the Pacific ocean is a large patch of garbage that swirls around the same general area year after year. This is called the Pacific Garbage Patch. It contains an estimated 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic, mostly pieces bigger than 5 cm and almost half of the bulk is fishing nets

Most of the nets are good quality nylon.

https://www.nauticalplace.com/Authentic_Used_Fish_Net_s/39.htm

If a few refugees were put to work collecting the plastic, then using it as raw material to form floating plastic platforms, the overall size of the platforms could probably increase by several square feet per person per day. 

Melt temperatures of most plastics are in the 300 to 600 degree Fahrenheit range, and solar panels could easily generate enough electricity to melt a large amount of plastic. Most nylon is in the 500 degree F range. 

http://plastictroubleshooter.com/ThePlasticTroubleshooter/melt_temps.htm

So, starting with ten people working, after a few weeks there would be living space for twice that number or so, on and on. The equipment to melt the plastic and form panels to build platforms could be kept on boats initially. 

Weathering storms might be rough, but considering there are people who are pretty certain to die from military psychopaths in many regions it probably would not be hard to find some people willing to endure seasickness and rough seas from time to time.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/02/world/europe/greece-lesbos-moria-refugees.html

Fresh water could be gotten from rain or reverse osmosis pumps or other ways. Food would not be hard to get, plenty of free nets and just dropping a finer mesh net from the platforms would probably produce fish pretty easily. All seaweeds are edible, though some are not pleasant to eat, and some seaweeds, like laver in the Atlantic, are rich in vitamin c and important nutrients. 

Once the community got established there, unfortunately the next step would have to be defense. A group of unarmed refugees floating around the pacific could accidentally wander into some nation's pretend space and trigger hostility. It would not be practical to use conventional weapons to defend small floating plastic platforms in the middle of the ocean, but nuclear weapons would serve as a deterrent to aggression. The technology and materials could be crowdsourced, it would not be as difficult as most people believe. 

Perhaps once the floating refugee state got nuclear weapons they could solicit donations from other countries, as has been the custom among nations for the past half century. Those countries that donate the least could be used for nuclear tests. The exact mechanics of storing and moving the nuclear weapons would have to be sorted out. 

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/18/trump-officials-refugee-zero-1603503

"One month after the explosion, chemists at the FBI crime laboratory in Washington found traces of PETN, an explosive component of bombs and surface-to-air missiles. However, on November 18, 1997, the FBI closed its investigation by announcing that "no evidence has been found which would indicate that a criminal act was the cause of the tragedy of TWA flight 800."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Freeh

TWA Flight 800 was a United States commercial jetliner that crashed off Long Island in 1996. Below is a partial timeline. 

This is the best early example of a large number of people in government agreeing to present inaccurate information to the public "for the public's own good". 

As commercial air wars start to develop, this deception by "safety agencies", supposedly in the public interest, will cause more problems than it solves. 

The opportunistic deception of the "authorities" is a feature of melting pot societies. They present themselves as serving the public interest, but they actually are depending on public stupidity, which they encourage, and simply promoting their own authority with regard to facts and secrecy.  

July 3 1988 Iran Air flight 655 is shot down by the USS Vincennes under the command of William C. Rogers III. 

The United States excreted a mass of subterfuge in defense of the slaughter.

"When questioned in a 2000 BBC documentary, the U.S. government stated in a written answer that they believed the incident may have been caused by a simultaneous psychological condition among the 18 bridge crew of Vincennes called "scenario fulfillment", which is said to occur when persons are under pressure. In such a situation, the men will carry out a training scenario, believing it to be reality while ignoring sensory information that contradicts the scenario. In the case of this incident, the scenario was an attack by a lone military aircraft."

Nevertheless, the cause of the incident was clear.

"Craig, Morales and Oliver, in a slide presentation published in M.I.T.'s Spring 2004 Aeronautics & Astronautics as the "USS Vincennes Incident", commented that Captain Rogers had "an undeniable and unequivocal tendency towards what I call 'picking a fight.'" ":

"... Finally, in another fateful decision, he crosses the 12-nautical-mile (22 km) limit off the coast and enters illegally into Iranian waters" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655

The commander of the Vincennes later wrote a book about the incident. Reviews of the book give more information from different perspectives https://www.amazon.com/Storm-Center-Vincennes-Personal-Terrorism/product-reviews/1557507279/ 

August 7 1988 George Bush makes a comment that is generally interpreted as his response to Iranian outrage over the killing. 

 "The U.S. government issued notes of regret for the loss of human lives, but never formally apologized or acknowledged wrongdoing. George H. W. Bush, the vice president of the United States at the time commented on a separate occasion, speaking to a group of Republican ethnic leaders (7 Aug 1988) said: "I will never apologize for the United States — I don't care what the facts are... I'm not an apologize-for-America kind of guy." The quote, although unrelated to the downing of the Iranian air liner, has been attributed as such."   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655 ;"

December 21 1988 Pan Am Flight 103 crashes near Lockerbie Scotland. At least 4 of the 243 passengers have been identified as government employees traveling on some sort of official business. 

"Matthew Gannon, the Central Intelligence Agency's deputy station chief in Beirut, Lebanon, was sitting in Clipper Class, Pan Am's version of business class, seat 14J. Major Chuck "Tiny" McKee, a US Army officer returning from an assignment with the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) in Beirut, sat behind Gannon in the centre aisle, seat 15F. Two Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) special agents were also on board, acting as bodyguards to Gannon and McKee." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_103

March 10 1989  A bomb explodes in a vehicle owned by the commander of the Vincennes.

“Nine months after the downing of Iran Air Flight 655, on the morning of March 10, 1989, Rogers' wife Sharon escaped uninjured when a pipe bomb exploded and set fire to her minivan as she sat stopped at a red light across the street from the University Towne Center shopping mall in San Diego. The van was registered in the name of Will Rogers III, and many people at the time of the bombing suspected that terrorism was involved. Five months later, the Associated Press reported that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had shifted focus away from terrorism towards the possibility of someone with a personal vendetta against Capt. Rogers. As of 2003, the bombing of Rogers' van remains an unsolved case, despite a major investigation involving at some time up to 300 police and FBI agents. On February 17, 1993, the case was featured on the TV show Unsolved Mysteries, but no additional information was uncovered.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_C._Rogers_III

The relevance of the ‘bomb’, and the context, are meaningful. Evidence suggests that the bomb was an attempt, by various U.S. individuals, to defuse a growing tension with Iran. There were enough mistakes made by the ‘bomber’, as well as complimentary mistakes made by the supposed ‘investigators’ that it is clear the two sides are trying to go in the same direction. Whether that itself was a ploy would not be hard to ascertain by any interested person or group. 

Early 1990s Interest in the Flight 655 downing starts to pick up again.

"Nunn Wants to Reopen Inquiry into Vincennes' Gulf Location. Washington Times, 4 July 1992. Abstract: Senator Sam Nunn called on the Pentagon to probe allegations that the Navy "deliberately misled Congress" about the location of the USS Vincennes when it shot down an Iranian civilian airliner four years ago."

 February 1996 The United States pays $131.8 million to Iran through the International court of Justice. Iranian rhetoric regarding the incident becomes stronger. The United States never makes any effort to publicly punish the commander who shot down the plane. 

July 17 1996 TWA Flight 800 crashes near Long Island, NY. Numerous witnesses say they saw two missiles launched and there are abundant witnesses to the event as it occurred. The FBI sent 80 agents to interview witnesses, but did not record the witness statements, and later changed some of the statements, irking some of those witnesses.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TWA_Flight_800 

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Numerous books, websites and videos have been made about the TWA Flight 800 downing. The evidence points strongly to a deliberate act by individuals on the fringes of the U.S. government acting to 'balance' tensions with Iran and its subordinate powers e.g. Hezbollah. 

All the United States had to do was admit it made a mistake in killing a large number of civilians, arrange some sort of accountability for the guilty, and there would have been no problem. ;"

Instead justice was left to a mafia of outsiders. 

 

 

U.S. government "Indian schools" in the past were notorious for beating the languages out of Native students. 

The video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ejf572xg02M 

stars a deputy who recently worked as the school resource officer at Chimewa Indian School

 https://www.opb.org/news/article/marion-county-deputy-punching-video-chemawa/ 

A common gang tactic is to beat an 'outsider' violently, so he or she “knows who is boss”.

Unfortunately, most people who are attacked and initiated by gangs in that way do ultimately surrender and join, or support, the gang, at least superficially. The problem that arises eventually for all gangs though, comes from those who are attacked but do not join. They become the death of the gang that attacked them. 

'Surprise attack’ assaults by police are a common feature of policing in the United States and some other countries.

They are most often committed against vulnerable individuals, including Natives, and typically have three features.

a) The Surprise Attack, followed by

b) criminal charges against the victim, in the case of the video above ‘resisting arrest’,

and finally

c) injury claims filed by the officers involved. In the case above the officers were probably asked to withdraw their injury reports when the video became public. 

Surprise attack assaults by cops almost always target minorities, homeless and other people perceived as 'vulnerable', but occasionally a police officer will accidentally attack somebody with media influence. 

James Blake, a famous ex tennis player, was the victim of one of these attacks. Immediately following the attack the police department issued a number of nonsensical excuses, finally saying that their previous explanations were mistaken and the real reason for the surprise attack assault was that the tennis player resembled a fraud fugitive. 

They then issued a minor punishment to the officer who accidentally assaulted a celebrity.

 https://nypost.com/2018/06/08/james-blake-nypd-let-cop-who-tackled-me-off-easy/ 

The officer then went on a media campaign to portray himself and the NYPD as the victims.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/nypd-officer-suing-james-blake-the-tennis-star-he-tackled-and-wrongfully-arrested

The cop who assaulted James Blake had a history of attacking people

"was named in five civilian complaints during one seven-month period in 2013"

https://www.wnyc.org/story/cop-who-tackled-tennis-star-familiar-name/

The NYPD, like most police departments, does not generally discipline officers unless there is media coverage, but in this case there was media coverage so there was discipline. Sort of. The cop was forced to forfeit five days of vacation pay. 

https://gothamist.com/2018/06/08/nypd_slap_on_the_wrist.php

Another example of cops who literally cannot be arrested for their crimes.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U-N8WzZjurU

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The United States, like any country, has good cops and bad cops.

Edward Savage was a cop for thirty years. He even made it to police chief. But then he was caught inflating crime statistics to make him and his department look better. It was hard to hide that story, but somebody tried. https://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2017/may/31/hanson-massachusetts-refuses-release-report-it-pro/ 

Then he got caught shoplifting hundreds of dollars worth of clothes. He made a back room deal to keep that incident secret if he wrote a letter of apology to the store.

He forgot to do that. 

https://www.wickedlocal.com/news/20181219/ex-hanson-police-chief-wife-avoid-punishment-on-shoplifting-charges

There is also the "typical" cop, the average cop.

A good example of "average" cops in the United States can be seen at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTKTfUHfeKM  

Another average cop. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BOnx5k2TiGk

~Below are some more anecdotal examples of U.S. justice. Most of these are typical and not unusual.~

These are general items in the recent news not with any focus on indigenous people, but simply meant to show the disparity between an almost complete lack of accountability for 'law enforcers' and an obscene level of 'accountability' for others. 

An Oregon woman was sentenced to 21 years in prison for giving melatonin, an over the counter sleep aid, to children in her unlicensed daycare so she could get tans and go to the gym. She obviously was in the wrong line of work, but so was whoever sentenced her. http://www.insideedition.com/daycare-owner-sentenced-21-years-giving-kids-melatonin-while-she-went-tanning-and-gym-41420 

Meanwhile, a Homeland Security agent got 18 months in jail after he stole more than $100,000 worth of gun parts from the government, and was involved in the illegal possession and/or traffic of machine guns and similar things. https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2018/03/03/former-border-patrol-agent-sentenced-stealing-100-k-firearm-parts-equipment/392616002/ 

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A guy in Florida recently got 12 years and 7 months in prison for dealing marijuana. He was dealing large amounts, but the sentence is absurd.

https://www.pnj.com/story/news/2017/12/01/father-son-sentenced-prison-marijuana-trafficking/915219001/ 

Meanwhile a federal agent got 2 years in jail after he was caught taking a bribe and lying about a drug investigation and working for a drug trafficking organization that was distributing large quantities of hard narcotics

https://web.archive.org/web/20171117125020/http://valleycentral.com/news/mcallen/former-border-patrol-agent-sentenced-to-2-years-in-federal-prison 

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"Black man will spend six years in Georgia prison despite jury finding him 'not guilty'"

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/black-man-prison-serve-five-years-ramad-chatman-georgia-prison-not-guilty-probation-broke-terms-jail-a7744326.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/true-crime/wp/2017/05/31/man-acquitted-of-armed-robbery-gets-10-year-sentence-heres-why/

Meanwhile, a police officer is sentenced to one year in jail but the judge suspends 11 months of the jail so the law enforcement officer only has to serve one month. He was caught stealing money within the police department itself. 

https://web.archive.org/web/20171109195049/http://framinghamsource.com/index.php/2017/11/07/former-framingham-police-officer-sentenced-evidence-room-theft/ 

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 If you are thinking about complaining that law enforcers are corrupt, be careful who you complain to. 

A federal prosecutor working for the U.S. Department of Justice was caught trying to sell whistleblower complaints to the parties being complained against, mainly companies. When he went to pick up a $310,000 payoff he was fired. He was sentenced to jail for 2 and a half years.

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/03/08/ex-federal-prosecutor-sentenced-for-stealing-sealed-whistleblower-lawsuits/ 

 A fellow without so much college and without a high paying job who had a habit of stealing things was sentenced to 22 years in prison for stealing a tv remote control. 

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/steal-tv-remote-22-years-jail-in-prison-eric-bramwell-chicago-illinois-serial-thief-burglary-a7517361.html 

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 Items will be added to this page periodically from the news. 

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 ~Federal law enforcers generally have an even more entitled attitude than NYPD. They will arrest local police on occasion, but they are famous for holding themselves to disgraceful entitlement standards that even make the NYPD look good.

 ~There have always been a lot of unsolved murders in the United States that appear to have been committed by police officers. Very rarely there is an outright investigation that leads to some conviction, that case from decades ago. Occasionally there is some publicity over a suspicious case, but little or no followup despite evidence. More common is a trail of evidence indicating one or more police officers committed murders, but no investigation and often questionable arrests of others to give the appearance of a 'solved case'

~When local police commit a crime there is always some chance that another police agency, usually a federal agency, will pursue justice.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LYEzPeTlRag

But when federal agents are involved in crimes like murder there is usually nobody who is capable of bringing them to justice. In that last case, involving two headless torsos discovered near a residence where a powerful Alaskan used to hold parties, there have long been rumors that a small group of federal agents was directly involved in various events, and used a so called "investigation" as cover for years long misdeeds.

Even federal agents on the periphery of those crimes were implicated in milder misdeeds and appear to have "cooperated" with various coverups. 

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 Are other countries all better? https://www.talkingdrugs.org/duterte-son-found-not-guilty 

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August 29 2018

The very strange story of police officer Betty Shelby. A number of white police officers were trying to figure out what to do with a black man whose car had broken down. His car had probably sputtered while he was passing an area with no shoulder, visible on the video, and he likely tried to coast the car to the other side. Numerous police officers started dancing around, acting as if they had caught a major criminal committing a crime. A helicopter was even dispatched. 

Eventually the man was killed by officer Shelby. Other officers stood around and let him bleed out after he was shot.

There was never any doubt that the police would find some “evidence” in the car to justify the shooting. When a police officer shoots somebody, evidence is almost always “found”.

The video shows the facts. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8biCCWZUnd4

Notice at 1 minute 10 seconds in the video three officers backing up and sliding sideways, careful to keep their faces off the dash cam recording. 

The incident starts with a woman who was uncomfortable on a rural road with a much bigger man from a different group. She took out her gun to maintain some space, reduce her sense of danger. The problem escalated though when many more officers showed up and started acting like a bunch of little boys in a gang pretending they were fighting some imaginary enemy. 

Compare this to the shooting of Harith Augustus. He was a barber in St Louis accidentally shot in the back by a female cop. The other police present quickly put the cop in a car and whisked her away. Then they tried to fabricate circumstances that would have justified the killing. https://mobile.twitter.com/NaderDIssa/status/1018289820332851200

Here is bodycam video of the Harith Augustus shooting, edited and released by police. https://mobile.twitter.com/ChipMitchell1/status/1018597938443030528

All would have ended ~without further harm~ In Shelby's case, if the police officers, Ms Shelby and the other officers involved, had just said “we made a mistake”. Instead, the police fabricated a justification for the shooting and gave the killer a high paying job in a neighboring police department. Should other people who kill somebody by mistake also be allowed to pretend they did not make a mistake? 

She teaches a class “for free”, actually she is quite well paid, about the stresses she “endured” https://www.yahoo.com/gma/officer-killed-unarmed-black-man-responds-critics-her-070300393--abc-news-topstories.html 

She, and many other police involved in the killing, made a mistake. Tens of thousands of Americans are serving long prison sentences for much less serious mistakes. 

There is no doubt that she regrets the event, and no doubt that it left her psychologically frail. In other words she is in the same situation as many others who have made similar mistakes, except that she got no prison, a new job and lots of support. 

There is no particular benefit to putting her, and the other officers involved, in prison, but if nonpolice go to prison for mistakes like that, then police have to go to prison for mistakes like that.

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A very similar case https://www.cbsnews.com/news/botham-jean-shooting-dallas-police-officer-amber-guyger-family-attorney-disputes-account/

A female police officer who has been indoctrinated with certain ideas about “how policing works”. No doubt she trusted her fellow officers to “find” a gun or drugs in the apartment. 

https://mobile.twitter.com/FOX4/status/1040361795519541249 

If she were a well connected police officer they would have put more effort into it, but she wasn’t, so they didn’t.

Did she commit a crime? 

She made a stupid mistake obviously, and normally there should be a big difference between a stupid mistake and a malicious crime.

Unfortunately for the police officer in this case, she did what police usually do in a situation like that.

She lied. 

Or was told to lie. 

Witnesses say they heard conversation that probably indicated either a) she was used to a visitor in her apartment, or b) she had visited him previously. Considering that she seems to be less than a stellar cop, but was put in a semi elite unit, it’s possible she may have aced an oral exam or otherwise shared feminine charms at work. If that is the case then it is likely her patron influenced the initial investigation, something that will give leverage to the dead guy’s lawyers. ~

An interesting aspect of this case is the high risk of contagion to other police officers. This policewoman was involved in another shooting that had been considered perfectly justified. She, and her fellow officers, claimed that somebody grabbed her taser so she shot him. Was that the truth? Most likely that shooting will be examined further and if it involved fudging facts then probably several police officers from that area will lose a few days of vacation pay. https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/special-reports/botham-jean/16-months-ago-amber-guyger-shot-a-drug-offender-who-took-an-officers-weapon/287-593030871 

~update~

Ms Guyger has been fired. https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/24/us/dallas-police-officer-fired-botham-shem-jean/index.html

Now, assuming she gets past the manslaughter charge, which shouldn’t be difficult, her next hurdle is employment.

She will probably try to get hired by a neighboring police department, which is what most police officers do after acquittal. The problem is that she has wounded one person and killed another, so a prospective employer has no idea whether she is a good shot or a bad shot under pressure.

She may just try to get a job as a mall cop or private security expert, and if that fails she could work for Border Patrol until she decides whether shooting people is really her gift in life. 

One strange thing some people might notice about the last three cases mentioned above. None of them involved a white male.

There have been white male police officers held accountable but it only happens after a lot of publicity, and only after an extensive cover up.

Women and minorities are encouraged to become police officers with the implicit understanding that they have to pay their dues to the gang.

The result is a lot of psychological copycat clones of a narrow spectrum of society, people trained to follow traditions foreign to them in order to get 'power' within the system.

Any person interested in the psychology of how these clones are created, and why the melting pot does it, can watch minute 34 to minute 41, and 1 hour 26 minutes to 1 hour 28 minutes of the Netflix propaganda video "We Steal Secrets".

 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1824254/ 

 The clips should be watched in reverse order from how they are displayed i.e., second clip first.

 

One more example that was in the news.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qTdJYZMKeQs

That cop was actually rewarded by his department. 

https://thefreethoughtproject.com/philip-brailsford-rehired-retires-pension/

There are exceptions though.

This cop just got 45 days in jail and lost his job for "battery on a person over the age of 65 and false imprisonment".

https://web.archive.org/web/20200921090559/https://keysnews.com/article/story/former-miami-officer-convicted-of-attacking-nurse/ 

This one several years ago led to no punishment despite the absurdity of the attack.

The cop claimed the woman was being physically combative. 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GXF3hf87emk

Are cameras the solution?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3ORXh85F5tM

Ask the judge.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UJUmPmzPqIo

https://thefreethoughtproject.com/shoot-man-sc-cop-lie-body-cam/

Police enjoy attacking people they perceive as vulnerable, but most are not so stupid as to laugh about it on camera https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t16uCMhjPnE 

 

 

"All who have died are equal."

~ Comanche