Controlling the News

[rpicardi1]

What was not reported yesterday.

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/Conventions/story?id=5668622&page=1

Video of the arrest included for you to decide.

http://miamiherald.typepad.com/changing_channels/2008/08/abc-producer-ar.html

There is even more on attempts to control the news, but, given the current censorship, those links would soon be deleted if not this post as well.

Dangerous times are ahead.

[rdamurphy]

I've grew up in Denver, lived in this area my entire life. I didn't see anything out of the ordinary. That's the way the cops operate in Colorado, we have this concept called "home-rule" where every City has the right to do whatever they want, independent of the State. There is no oversight for police, each Department "polices" itself, and is investigated by their on City Attorney. No Denver Police Officer has EVER been prosecuted for misconduct on duty. Ever. One cop being investigated for an off-duty crime and some of his cronies broke into the property room and tried to cover up the crime by disposing of evidence in hundreds of cases by dumping the stuff in the dumpster. Hundreds of thousands of dollars worth, the idea being they couldn't figure out what crime was being covered up.

A Denver SWAT team broke into the wrong house, fatally shot an old man who couldn't even get out of bed, and walked away - scot free - and the Police Union even got what little "administrative" punishment taken away, and the cop paid back-pay for the time he was on suspension.

The only time anything gets done is if there's video, and as you can see, they didn't even care, did they? A lawyer was beat up and arrested for DUI when he was stone cold sober, and the local department tried to dispose of the dash-cam footage when they found out he was a lawyer - and they would have gotten away with it if the guy hadn't gone to the Federal Marshalls with the warrant first.

Robert

[rpicardi1]

There was a similar event in Sodom Francisco in March. However, no arrest or confrontations took place. Police were present for security reasons but behaved professionally and did not arrest anybody for taking pictures so long as they were on the public right away and were behaving in a responsible manner. He got some very good photos of the event that was, as usual, mostly ignored by the Main Stream Media. Zombies.com.

[rdamurphy]

What the article doesn't say, and what ABC probably doesn't know, is that the Deputy was probably a rent-a-cop. Literally. You can employ police officers and deputies as private security, they wear their uniforms and bring all of their government authority with them to the job. And occasionally, a government paid for patrol car.

Robert