The D.C. police officer accused of drunkenly shooting at transgendered people has been punished at least twice before for alcohol-related incidents, records and sources said.

Charging documents released Monday described how Kenneth Furr crashed his Cadillac into another vehicle early Friday morning, stood on the hood of the victims' vehicle and shouted, "I'm gonna kill all of you."

While he wasn’t on duty, he did commit this act with his service weapon.  Tell me, do they allow concealed carry or open carry within the capital for civilians?  Given the answer to that question I find this issue state sponsored.  Doubly so considering the egregiousness, bigotry, and down right viciousness of the incident.  The icing that sealed my decision on counting it even though he was off duty is that his punishment is only paid leave.

State Sponsored Criminal Count: 51

Because being a cop means you can assault anyone you don’t like and just get a paid vacation!

H/t to JayG who emailed me Robb’s post.  I saw it earlier today and starred it for tonight, but it makes it SOO much easier when people email them in.  So please, send me your submissions!  Not to mention you get bonus links from me! See, WizardPC sent it in too! 

Update: Phssthpok sent it in as well.  Good lord that was a hot one!

KOB Eyewitness News 4 has obtained surveillance pictures of a State Police officer having sex with a woman on the hood of a car in broad daylight.

He was on duty at the time of the incident.  He was in uniform.  The only thing is he didn’t really break any laws other than maybe some decency laws.  It’s grey, it’s not clear cut, but certainly since tax payers were paying him to do his job, it’s a problem.

Dr. Joe’s cure all is quite an effective remedy, however there is a time and place for it.  I must say though I started laughing when I saw it was the New Mexico State Patrol. 

My dad hated the New Mexico State Patrol with a passion.  After getting out after his first tour he was driving to California and had everything he owned in his car.  He pulled over into a rest stop in New Mexico to get some sleep.  A police officer woke him up asking him what he was doing.  Asked for ID and then ran my dad.  Please note, my dad was in the Navy, and had a clearance due to his job.  When they ran him there was a hold, with no indication as to why.  The promptly arrest my dad, tow his car and throw him in a cell.  Back at the station they tear his car apart.  Seats, interior and all.  About two hours later they get a call from NCIS asking about my dad.  The conversation went like this evidently:

NCIS:“Is Mr. Barnett being held against his will?”

NMSP: “Yes, he’s currently been placed in a cell and is under arrest.”

NCIS: “Why?”

NMSP: “Because there was a hold and we assumed he was a criminal”

NCIS: “You will release him immediately, that hold was to guarantee that he was not being placed under duress or pressed for information.”

They then let my dad go, with his stuff scattered to hell and gone and his car still disassembled.  From that day forward my dad would stop at the New Mexico border, piss on the state, and then drive non-stop to the other side.

Because ultimately the sole purpose of being in the state patrol is to fuck someone, either literally or figuratively.

I did not see a single reason in that video for the use of force.  (Not to mention the videographer is a douchebag.)  A Taser is not the correct level of force to get someone to comply with a verbal command.  It is the sign of a lazy cop who believes that over escalation of force is the solution to his problem.

But that’s not all folks because the situation gets even better.

In the video, the man allegedly refused to comply with the officer's commands to put his hands down, according to a woman in the video who saw the incident. The man taking the video stated several times on the video and to the officer that the man who had been stunned was mentally challenged.

The reason for the arrest was the following:

The 41-year-old Prescott Valley man was arrested and originally charged with felony resisting arrest and misdemeanor using abusive language to provoke, according to the police report.

Let me translate for those of you who do not understand the full meaning of those two quotes above.  I have a nice video that will help explain it.

Many might ask the following question.  Why would you ever strap a turbine jet engine to a boat to drive a jet pump?  The answer is the most simple of all answers, because you can.  There is a second part of this answer though.  Because it’s awesome!

The wife and I volunteered to help the local ARES group do the communications for “Thunder on the Snake”.  What the hell is that you ask?  It is a 30 mile (one way) white water jet boat race.  Until I got the email asking for help, I didn’t even know about the sport.  Now I firmly believe NASCAR is for pussies.  I apologize for some of the pictures not being the sharpest.  My safety boat got on station as the race started.  I had to spend time getting the radios operational and didn’t have a chance to even look at my camera before the first boat showed up.  Didn’t have the lens I would have use and didn’t even have chance to glance at the camera settings before he was on top of us.  Here’s the first boat, on the first leg, of the first day. 

Minnetta Walker, who was arrested in March after an 11-month investigation, admitted that she helped an alleged member of the drug ring use a fake name for traveling and helped him bypass security scanners at the airport.

The 43-year-old Buffalo woman also admitted that she once warned two of the man's alleged drug associates that federal agents were tailing them in the airport.

Isn’t it wonderful to see such an entrepreneurial federal agent.  The discovered that her position allowed her to receive kickbacks to ignore things going on.  Even more than that, she then figured out how she could get people to pay protection money with her position.

State Sponsored Criminal Count: 47

Because the TSA is just like the ATF, they need to allow criminals to break the law to help create new ones.

According to the indictment, Wielsch, 50, and Butler, 50, are alleged to have participated together in criminal activities made possible by Wielsch's position as the commander of the Contra Costa County Narcotics Enforcement Team (CNET).

…

Wielsch, aided and abetted by Butler, stole from county evidence facilities methamphetamine and marijuana that had been seized in CNET operations. Wielsch and Butler sold some of the stolen narcotics and intended to sell the remainder.

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Wielsch and Butler participated together in a phony "sting" operation in which they falsely detained a person under the guise of a legitimate law enforcement operation, conducted warrantless searches, and kept narcotics that were taken from the person during the "sting."

Drugs, money, and sex.  The trifecta for a triple word score.  Nothing quite like using a badge and a gun to make sure that you’re the only game in town.  It explains why the drug cartels are dealing with the DEA for protection. 

What better way to make money than deal drugs and rough up prostitutes.  Best part is the drugs were from other drug dealers.

State Sponsored Criminal Count: 41

Because vice only applies to those who don’t work for the state.  If you work for the state, run guns and deal drugs all you want.

The investigation conducted by the state Comptroller’s Division of County Audit, which also found that District Attorney General Hansel McCadams and Henry County Sheriff Monte Belew liked to drive around in a seized BMW Z-3 on personal business. Auditors found that items seized from drug defendants were stolen or misused, with the administrative assistant and her ex-husband admitting to taking drugs, utility trailers, and a flat-screen television from the task force. Auditors also found that jail trustees had access to seized items and were not adequately supervised.

Awesome, what a way to get that new beamer you always wanted.  As for you crack addicts out there, the lesson is become a cop.  That way you can bust your dealer and smoke his stash.

Overall there were so many failures in this “Drug Task Force” that one must wonder how they ever got anything done.  It was a revolving door operation allowing people to take what ever seized property they wanted.

State Sponsored Criminal Count: 38

Because when you work for the state and want someone else's stuff, you just have to seize it.  Then you just divvy the loot amongst you and your fellow state workers.

It appears that not only did they attempt to intimidate this individual into no longer filming in public, but the also beat him numerous times including while in jail.  They use false charges to arrest the individual.

As I have said previously, if you have a problem with the public video taping you while on duty, maybe you should reevaluate your behavior.  You know video’s of cops when they do something bad take off like wildfire.  Just the same they take off when they do something good as well.*

Because cops are exempt from having their behavior being documented in public.  How else would the public know about their abuses and misdeeds?

*I do need to send an email to the Oceanside Police department praising them for the actions of that officer.  It does provide me with a glimmer of hope seeing other officers who behave like that.  I just wish the good ones would help reign in the bad ones.

Around these parts we have a saying, follow the three ‘S’s and you can’t go wrong.  For those that don’t know the three S’s are Shoot, Shovel, and Shut-up.  This was coined most predominantly in dealing with the wolf problems in the area.  Well it has now expanded to cover any defense shooting involving an animal.

Jeremy M. Hill, 33, pleaded not guilty in U.S. District Court to killing the animal with a rifle on his 20-acre property near Porthill, Idaho, at the Canadian border. He lives five miles from the closest grizzly bear recovery zone.

Why was the Grizzly bear shot I hear you ask.  It was the standard reason for any defensive gun use.

He said his son was concerned for the safety of his children playing outside when a mother grizzly and two cubs wandered onto his property on May 8.

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The bears had gone after some pigs in a pen that the kids had been raising, Mike Hill said.

Heaven forbid you use deadly force against an animal that can kill a full grown man without thinking twice.  The debate about the wolf has been the biggest pile of crap I’ve ever seen.  Why?  Because every last complaint against hunting is filed by people who live out of state and are unfamiliar with the actual situation on the ground.

I can guarantee you that the next time someone has to shoot a grizzly in self-defense, it’s NOT going to be reported.  There is no such thing as winning a law suit, all you can do is scrape by.  Any and every law suit is best avoided.

In light of Columbine, people are more aware and pay more attention to the rumors and threats that float around about possible school shootings, especially among high school aged students.  In St. Tammany, a potential Columbine redux was stopped before it could be executed, thanks to aware citizens who took the threats seriously. The threats were credible to start with, not just rumors, as going off half-cocked could cause the harassment of the innocent or catching the guilty too early could make them look innocent. 

Last week, deputies with the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office arrested three 15-year-old Lakeshore High School students, each accused of plotting a shooting rampage on the first day of school, scheduled for tomorrow. The teens, two from Lacombe and one from Mandeville, allegedly were part of a group called “Day Zero” that both targeted specific students on the LHS campus and talked of random shooting.

We are very fortunate this group’s threats were taken seriously. Had they not been, the 2011-12 school year could have begun with a tragedy at the parish’s newest high school.

Remember, criminals are nondiscriminatory.  There is no area that is exempt and no magical zone is safe, it’s just like Pacific Playland.

Please note, both incidents occurred in a “gun free zone”.

Gun Free ≠ Safe

The Husband recently started the State Sponsored Criminal Count, now I’m creating the ”It Can’t Happen Here” series.

“It can’t happen here” is a mantra everywhere.  Well, it can happen here and it does.  This series is about shootings and other criminal activities that people think, feel, or say “can’t happen here”.

The rules are short and sweet:

1. It needs to have someone stating, “I could never see that happening here” or something along those lines OR
2. Within a location such as a gun free zone i.e. a college campus.
3. Info needs to come from the news, be it internet, radio, TV or newspapers.

A form will be available to submit any incidences.  The submission form is available here.  Feel free to recommend additions or changes, I will take them into consideration.

The first addition to this series happened in Moscow, ID yesterday, August 22.  An ex-Professor at the University of Idaho shot and killed a U of I graduate student and then later shot himself.

I first heard about this via a friend on Facebook.  She is one of the nicest people in the world and recently new to the area.  I in no way use the following to demean her, but her post created the idea for the series.

Every sperm is great. If a sperm is wasted, God gets quite irate

People flipped their shit over tanks that fell from a Greyhound bus.  Granted, gas was escaping the top of the canisters along with a foul odor.  The on-ramp to I-65 South in Nashville, TN was closed and Hazmat brought in.  The canisters contained liquid nitrogen and, you guessed it, semen. 

Coming from an animal science background, the bull semen contained in the canisters is most likely useless now that the liquid nitrogen escaped and a foul odor was emanating from them.  That is a lot of wasted money, not to mention a major set back to the breeding facility where they were headed.  Choosing sperm for such facility is not a simple task.  Each cow to be bred is matched with a specific bull for various traits to be passed on to offspring. The collection of said semen is also an arduous task and who knows if there is extra semen ready to go to cover such a loss.

Where can your contact be directed?

So Tam talked about her bad luck in having the date of her dentist appointment off in her head.  She’s not alone in having bad luck currently.  Our summer thus far hasn’t been too severe, been up in the 90’s yes, but no real long streaks.  This past weekend that changed.

Saturday the wife and I got home from flea market I dug in and started working on some projects I had for the weekend.  The wife while she was in her office noticed the A/C unit which is directly outside her window wasn’t sounding normal.  She decided that this fact wasn’t worth bugging me about.  At about 2000 hours Saturday night I heard the thermostat relay fire and the lights dimmed a bit more than normal.  I said that was interesting until about a minute later I heard it open and said, well that’s odd.  5 minutes after that I hear it close again and the lights dim.  At this point I ask what’s going on and she said the A/C unit was sounding funny.

When I went outside to look at the unit it was buzzing quite loudly.  Immediately the unit was shut off and I decided since it was the evening I’d let it sit over night and look into it tomorrow.  Sunday I did a cursory troubleshoot to no avail.  It definitely wasn’t the thermostat but was the AC unit itself.  I knew the most likely cause was the contactor or the start/run capacitor.

We're learning more on why the U.S. Air Force raided a local gun store Friday. They say it wasn't guns they were looking for.

The article goes on to state that they were investigating stolen military equipment.  If that in fact is the case, why didn’t the FBI conduct the raid based off the evidence provided by the Air Force.  Air Force Special Investigations is not civilian law enforcement, and has no business conducting operations within the civilian populace.

Do they need to recover the military property? Yes!  Does that give them the right to deploy military personal and have them lead a raid on a civilian establishment on civilian property?  No!

This is just another example of the creep of big brother throughout society.  It used to be doing something like that would land you into a world of hurt.  Guess the military is now just another branch of the civilian harassment corps.

Civilian Harassment Corps: Any government agency whose role or purpose allows the harassment, intimidation, or destruction of private citizens or their property.

Examples members of the Corps include: DHS, TSA, ATF, and the FBI.

This show of force by the DC Metro Capitol PD was nothing more than that.  It was done in front of parents and children specifically to instill fear of what could happen to them should they disobey.  Fear, they use fear to coerce people into behaving as they would like.

ter·ror·ism

noun /ˈterəˌrizəm/

1. The use of violence and intimidation in the pursuit of political aims

The government is force and every law they pass is done with the threat of force.  That force is now used to intimidate, harass, and stop children from partaking in free enterprise.  Not only that but the female officer on more than one occasion attempted to stop the documentation of the behavior of the police.  If you happen to find the names of the officers involved, please, post them in the comments.

It’s good to know that given the crime rate in DC the police have nothing better to do that to shut down someone selling lemonade.  Especially on Lemonade Freedom Day.

State Sponsored Criminal Count: +4 = 33

Because there is no greater crime than children selling lemonade in the capital of the “most free” country on earth.

When you get blacklisted.  Interesting thing when you look at who hasn’t been blacklisted.  I look at that, like I do the hate mail I got, it means I’m obviously doing something right!

*Yes I get it, doesn’t mean I can’t have fun with it. 

It took a while for me to figure it out.  I was the kid off by himself in school.  Once people got to know me, they were like he's cool, it's that initial hump that's always been my problem.

I do find from time to time I still feel like the kid in the corner again. I wonder now if I'm just obnoxious and disliked, well if that’s the case I also remember Mr. Adams was and I have since learned to embrace it and work it to my advantage.  Note you can be both of those without being a dick.

I don't blame anyone for a lack of traffic to my site, and evidently that makes me not normal.  I have discovered, since I finally started writing up regularly, that if I write something the traffic will follow.  Most of those complaining want instant gratification of getting hundreds of readers overnight.  I know that's not going to happen. 

Looking at my stats on site meter and Google analytics though for the month of July, traffic was up 544% in site views over last year.  Yeah the site is 3 years old, yet I didn't really start posting regularly till the beginning of this year.  At which point my traffic grew by 482% from the previous month.  My monthly traffic has now finally doubled what Joe gets in just daily traffic, but it is growing.   The more blogs I write, the more I have out there for people to find and explore.  I have figured that out and my original goal this year was a post a day.  I have since modified that to average a post a day.  Some times I have nothing to write about, other times I have stuff to do, and I can't stop my life for my blog.

Until about 2001, I would invite friends from Russia and Europe to visit because I wanted to share my wonderful new homeland. Now I invite them with advance apologies for the indignities they are likely to endure en route from the US government agents. Hopefully, we will all be able to be proud of America again someday soon.

Sentimental Value of a Flag – Oleg Volk

[It makes me ashamed that this is the case.  While I could easily shift blame one way or another I cannot.  I hate and despise the TSA and feel them to be nothing more than Jack Booted Thugs preying upon the innocent and law abiding.  I was still in high school when the patriot act and the fallout from September 11th destroyed what was left.  However it has continued on my watch, and unlike our fearless leader I will accept responsibility instead of shift it.  Even if the majority of these issues are directly out of my control.

The root cause of this issue goes further back than my generation, however a generation needs to step up and take responsibility.  A generation needs to finally put it’s foot down and say enough is enough.  I am looking to my generation as we are now creating the youth of tomorrow. 

Sadly however, I’m afraid that most of my generation still hasn’t seen the light.  So here and now, to my future children* I apologize as my father did to me. 

In a news release Tuesday, Logan County District Attorney Tommy Lee says while on duty as a trooper, Venable pulled over a woman on the Broadway Extension in Oklahoma City. Lee says Venable took the woman into custody for driving under the influence of intoxicating liquor. He's accused of then transporting her to a residence in Guthrie where he had sex with her.

While on duty he made an arrest.  Then he proceeded to use his position over the woman to satisfy his own urges.  Ignore the statement that he is a “former” officer because he resigned as opposed to actually being dismissed by the OSP as punishment.  This is by no means the first issue with OSP either, not even the first of a sexual nature.

Arganbright has been under investigation for professional misconduct by the Internal Affairs Division of the state Department of Public Safety. Among the allegations against him, are that he used his patrol car for romantic rendezvous with a 16-year-old girl and sent text messages to her, asking her run away with him, authorities said.

A cop having relations with a minor, at least in this case the OSP actually fired him.  Not to mention he was also tagged with violating a protection order and embezzlement.  The most famous incident of late though happens to be the following:

They put Washington State Senator Patty Murray in charge of finding 1.5 trillion to cut from the deficit.

That socialist cow has never seen a taxpayer dollar she didn’t feel like spending.  Not to mention how much she loves the TSA, Social Security, Obama Care, and ever other big government program under the sun*. I sent a letter to both Senators over Obama care, it was obvious she never read mine since she (more likely an aid) sent me a response thanking me for my support and then reiterating the lies of why it was so important to pass it.

You want to know why the S&P down graded the credit of the United States?  This is why, the government isn’t serious about cutting back spending in any way, shape, or form.  The proposed cut backs amount to pennies in comparison to the problem and even then they shove the spending cow from Washington to be in charge of it. 

I can guarantee you ever last cut is going to be from programs that will cause maximum carnage and outrage so that all the Repulicrats and Democicans can drum up support amongst the dependent voters.  The country is swirling the drain folks and I hope you’re ready cause it’s going to be one hell of a ride.

Seriously, that's like putting the fat kid at fat camp in charge of the diet.

*I’m sure that the fact that I am stating these opinions publically will have me placed on the list for reeducation when the time arrives.  She seriously is nothing more than an elitist socialist cow.

So, a couple months ago while the Egyptian riots were going down, our government berated the Egyptian government for cutting off internet access and limiting communications.  Well local legislators have yet again embraced the “let no crisis go wasted” mantra and are now exploiting the London riots to be able to restrict communication abilities.

The question resonated Saturday in San Francisco and beyond as details emerged of Bay Area Rapid Transit officials' decision to cut off underground cellphone service for a few hours at several stations Thursday. Commuters at stations from downtown to near the city's main airport were affected as BART officials sought to tactically thwart a planned protest over the recent fatal shooting of a 45-year-old man by transit police.

Considering this is the “Republik of California” how does one now notify the police when in an emergency situation?  You have not only disabled the ability of the enemy for communication, but for the law abiding as well.  But that’s the point isn’t it, put the public in the dark and make them dependent upon the state for assistance.

That said, I know that all they did is disable the towers within the tunnels, but it’s only a matter of time before they request the ability to do it elsewhere.  The wife and I have backup long distance communications abilities and procedures, do you?

Came across this wonderful little book that honestly everyone should read.  DuPont, I thank you for creating that wonderful book.  It’s been forwarded to Joe, but this thing is just too awesome not to share.

• 9 Times with the taser.
• The victim stated that they were killing him.
• They proceeded to beat him.  Including hits to the head and neck.  Which are ruled as lethal force.
• 54 contusions.
• No injuries to officers, not even a bruise or scratch.
• His only crime was having an open container in public.
• The state claimed he died from cardiac arrest cause by an “unrecognized” medical condition.
• Independent autopsy stated a broken neck.

It was the day he was going to be released.  They claim he was violently resisting, yet all he was doing was passive, further proven by the fact that no injuries occurred to their officers.  The county and independent autopsies were grossly different.  Which makes sense considering all parties involved work for the same master.

My heart goes out to this man’s father.

State Sponsored Criminal Count #20

Because lethal force is always justified against an unarmed individual locked up in confinement; whose only crime was having an open container and a mental condition.

I've got a bunch more comments on the debt ceiling hike and the blame game that's currently going on, but there's a couple things that have to happen first.

The system is in very bad shape currently and it's going to take some serious work to fix it. Both parties created this mess and have absolutely no interest in fixing it. I don't care who you are, your politician is equally culpable.

A former Yonkers police officer will serve eight weekends in jail for assaulting two people in a bar while on duty last year, then falsely arresting one of them to cover up his actions.

It’s good to know that he’s spending a total of 16 days in jail for assaulting two people and then making a false arrest.  It’s such a wonderful thing to see prosecutors, judges, and police officers working together.

In all seriousness this is extremely disturbing and disappointing. Given the maximum sentence of 7 years just for the assault charges, he basically got off.  Especially when you also consider the fact he falsely arrested one of his victims.   The issues though are much deeper in the department than just him.

His partner remains the subject of an ongoing Internal Affairs investigation, Detective Sgt. Patrick McCormack said.

Guess they ran it like a team.  It took Ramirez a whole 6 months on the force to do something like this.  On the upshot at least the prick is broke, jobless, and living with his parents.  It is disconcerting that they justify the light sentence despite the fact he plead guilty to three felonies.  None of them though pertain to his abuse of power as a police officer, just “falsifying business records”.  The department may have fired him, but that’s mainly to save face.

State Sponsored Criminal Count: 18

Because cops are allowed to vent and what better time than on duty and what better place than a bar when you can more easily frame the victim.

Shooting went down in Skyway Washington tonight.  A passing concealed carrier detained the individual and ceased the hostile activities while waiting for police.  The whole incident was over before the police were even aware it was going down.

We're told a citizen who was driving by the scene was able to apprehend the suspect.  Sgt. John Urqhart of the King County Sheriff's Office tells us that the citizen was legally carrying a concealed weapon as well as handcuffs and was in those handcuffs until police arrived.

The “victim” in the shooting will probably survive, most definitely thanks to the actions of this individual.  Current suspicion is this was a dispute over drugs, so it was goblin versus goblin violence that was stopped by a law abiding citizen.

While the Criminal Occupational Hazard Reduction movement would prefer that citizen be disarmed, to be at the mercy of the criminal, as well as to leave the victim to die.  Which makes sense because he wronged another criminal right?  Obviously they have to side with one of them, in this case they wanted to make sure the victim criminal was killed.

Carry your guns, you never know when something might go down.

So back over near my old stomping ground the Renton police have as always continue their tradition of being up to no good.  It seems that some cartoonist decided to make fun of the situation, except the department didn’t find it too funny.

The Renton City Prosecutor wants to send a cartoonist to jail for mocking the police department in a series of animated Internet videos.

The "South-Park"-style animations parody everything from officers having sex on duty to certain personnel getting promoted without necessary qualifications. While the city wants to criminalize the cartoons, First Amendment rights advocates say the move is an "extreme abuse of power."

Here’s the cartoon’s in question, all nine actually that are being used as evidence in the “cyber stalking” case against the creator.

So for grins I went and looked up RCW (9.61.260) which states: