America will face Riots, Marches, and Revolution

[Ryan Ruck]

Louisville Mob Violence, Downtown Prepares For Weekend

March 27, 2014

City officials rushed on Wednesday to prove to a terrorized public and questioning metro council that the city is safe from roving mobs of teenagers that besieged downtown and eluded police for hours Saturday night.

On the eve of weekend events expected to draws tens of thousands downtown, Police Chief Steve Conrad pledged ranks of police patrols — on foot, bike, horseback and squad cars.

Mayor Greg Fischer unveiled a $227,000 plan to add 24 cameras to the city's security network. The Louisville Downtown Partnership announced that its team of yellow-shirted "Ambassadors" who greet visitors and patrol the downtown district will work until 1 a.m. this Friday and Saturday, hours beyond their typical 10 p.m. quitting time. The city bus system increased security and downtown businesses promised to protect their patrons in the events of unrest.

But the frustration simmered as downtown businesses have divulged that they've experienced problems with groups of teenagers crowding down South First Street on weekends before.

"We've dealt with this for a while," Adam Bader, service station manager at Bader's Food Mart, told The Courier-Journal in an interview early Wednesday. His mother Paula, repeated that assertion later in the day during a specially called meeting of the Metro Council's public safety committee.

Adam Bader said Louisville Metro Police officers often warn them that groups of kids are forming, and his staff is usually able to get the doors locked to keep them out — it's part of employee training, he said. "We just usually catch it in time."

Adding to the turmoil Wednesday was the revelation that a grand jury had declined to charge the man accused of stabbing a 14-year-old boy to death on a TARC bus on March 16 — in an incident that police have said may have sparked last weekend's unrest. Grand jurors found that Anthony Rene Allen had acted in self-defense when he jabbed a knife at a group of teens who attacked him on a TARC bus; Me'Quale Offutt died two days later.

The mob of teenagers who poured through downtown streets Saturday night, beating people, looting a store and vandalizing cars had originally gathered for a vigil to honor Offutt, according to police.

Conrad, along with activist Christopher 2X, pleaded with teenagers on Wednesday not to lash out in response to the grand jury's decision.

Security upgrades

City officials meanwhile announced a host of security measures meant to protect the city in the event of another bout of violence.

Fischer ordered 24 additional security cameras, to be installed before the Thunder Over Louisville air show on April 12, and the Kentucky Derby Festival events in the weeks after. The widening of the city's surveillance network will include new cameras at the Big Four Bridge, playgrounds, parking lots and open, grassy areas on the waterfront, he added.

Transit Authority of River City said it is increasing security on city buses, though declined to detail the specific plan or say whether a guard will be posted on every bus.

The Louisville Metro Police Department also will station two officers at the foot of the Big Four Bridge around the clock, Deputy Police Chief Col. Yvette Gentry said Wednesday.

Another four officers will patrol Waterfront Park between 4 p.m. and midnight Sunday through Thursday. Two additional officers, for a total of six, will patrol the park on weekend nights. Four more officers will be assigned to Fourth Street Live in the evenings through the weekend.

Eight additional officers will be stationed at various points along West Broadway, from 4 p.m. through 2 a.m. every night. And VIPER and K9 units will be sent to problem areas, she said.

That staffing plan runs through April 6, the Sunday after spring break, and Gentry said it could be extended if necessary.

Another 100 officers will be shifted throughout the city to patrol targeted areas on days when crowds are expected.

For example, thousands are expected to swarm downtown and the University and Baxter Avenue areas for Friday night's Sweet 16 game between Louisville and Kentucky. Some 14,000 baseball fans are expected downtown to see the Cincinnati Reds play the Louisville Bats in a sold-out match on Saturday; another 10,000 are anticipated for the UofL women's basketball team NCAA playoffs Sunday at the KFC YUM! Center; and thousands more at the weekend Comic-Con conference.

Security staff at the Yum! Center will be working as usual to monitor arena cameras that watch sidewalks, parking areas and inside "the bowl," said general manager Dennis Petrullo.

"We are doing what we do all the time. We are comfortable everything is fine here," said Petrullo, adding he lives in a waterfront apartment, and walks, runs or bikes downtown daily. "This is a wonderful environment. We are used to handling large crowds here."

Rebecca Matheny, spokeswoman for the Louisville Downtown Partnership. The organization, which promotes downtown development, said it sent off an email blast to some 5,200 businesses, individuals and institutions about last weekend's mayhem, asking that safety concerns be communicated by calling 911, with the goal that downtown and Waterfront Park "remain safe, vibrant and positive places to be."

Adam Bader, whose Bader's Food Mart on South First Street was one of the first stops by teens roaming downtown Louisville last Saturday night, sending six to the hospital, said he isn't taking any new security measures for his business.

Karter Louis, owner of Hillbilly Tea on South First Street, said he's watched groups of teenagers wander downtown for years on warm weekends. It's not something that happens every Friday and Saturday night, but almost, he said.

One time of year the teenage crowds are conspicuously absent is the week leading up to the Kentucky Derby, Louis said, adding that he believes that's because police on horseback are a constant presence at that time."But we deserve that every weekend," he said.

"If they do that — if they did half of that, year round — it would make a huge difference," he said, adding that restaurant security like extra lights and alarms offer little help without more police protection. "We have everything from our side to deter people," he said. "But there's no (police) presence here."

Bader said he hopes Saturday night's violence has opened some eyes and prompts changes to keep visitors, residents and businesses safe.

"I hope this is the final straw," he said.

Council reacts

Several members of the Louisville Metro Council, during a special meeting of the Public Safety Committee on Wednesday, appeared taken aback that while Saturday was an unprecedented event that unrest is not uncommon downtown and along the waterfront.

Concerned Metro Council members questioned Conrad and the operators of Bader's Food Mart.

The Baders said that it is common for groups to gather at their store several times a week, taking merchandise and trying to flip a vehicle on at least one occasion. Conrad confirmed eight calls in the last two years for large groups and seven reports of "trouble." There were dozens of other calls.

Council members expressed concern about the possible level of criminal behavior, with Councilman Jerry Miller pointing out statistics for crime not being currently available online for much of downtown and a 2011 incident in which a gathering led to the beating of a handicapped man.

"I'm a little worried there is a cover-up here," Miller said. "… That is what it appears to the citizenry."

Miller said he looked and did not see crime "anywhere north of Main Street for the last three months."

Conrad attributed the issue with the crime not being on the web site to a technical problem that is being addressed, but said the timing was "unfortunate."

"I don't think there is an effort to sugarcoat that" Conrad said of what he said is a glitch in showing crime statistics downtown.

Conrad said Saturday was "extremely unique" and unusual for Waterfront Park, downtown and for the city.

"However, there have been instances in the past where large groups of young people come together," the chief said. He said those groups "caused us similar problems but nothing to degree that we saw Saturday night." Conrad said they sometimes have to address rowdy youth during Thunder Over Louisville or celebrations for the 4th of July.

Conrad told Council members he will provide them a list of any criminal activity in Waterfront Park in last 90 days.

More questions

Councilwoman Vicki Aubrey Welch also questioned why there were not more arrests "out of all those incidents with all that action going on."

Conrad said there was a total of four arrests and acknowledged that was not many with all of the activity, but said officers did not witness some of the incidents and that there is an ongoing investigation in which they are trying to identify other people responsible.

LMPD spokesman Dwight Mitchell said later only two people have been arrested in connection to the incident – an 18-year-old man and a 17-year-old juvenile -- and one other juvenile was ticketed.

In responding to concerns from Council members about whether enhancing security downtown meant fewer officers in their district, Conrad said they are additional officers being funded from money allocated for overtime and are not being moved from elsewhere. He said they do bring in officers during other key times such as Thunder Over Louisville and the Kentucky Derby.

The budget for overtime is $3.6 million, Conrad said, of which $2.5 million was spent by the end of February. He said he has $1.1 million remaining for the rest of the fiscal year and expects to meet and likely exceed that allotment.

Conrad argued, looking at numbers and the drop in crime, that current staffing levels and funding are adequate. Councilman Kevin Kramer said he and his colleagues have looked to increase the police budget to fund more officers for years, arguing they are understaffed, and encouraged Conrad to listen and reconsider this year.

[Malsua]

A few "teens" getting their savage heads perforated will end this nonsense in a hurry.

They should simply ban groups of "teens" more than 3. "Teens" of course is a euphemism for those Amish rabble rousers.

[Ryan Ruck]

Be nice if the police actually put a few of those free MRAPs to actual good use.

[Ryan Ruck]

Louisville: Mall St. Matthews Under Heightened Police Presence

March 28, 2014

Police in St. Matthews are increasing their presence at Mall St. Matthews in response social media posts that groups of young people would be skipping school Friday and assembling there.

Officer Dennis McDonald, a spokesman for St. Matthews Police, said his department received the information Friday morning.

“At this point, these are rumors and we don’t believe there will be any problems,” he said. “However, we will be adding police presence and added patrols in the area of the mall. We are trying to be proactive in order to ensure the safety of mall patrons and ensure that there will not be any problems.”

The move comes nearly a week after a mob of teens terrorized downtown Louisville.

A Courier-Journal review of dozens of incident reports obtained from Louisville Metro Police chronicle the teens' movements. Mobs of teenagers roved the streets, several dozen people deep.

They beat a man unconscious, broke windows, threw rocks at moving cars, looted a store, threatened a police officer and mugged anyone who dared get in their way. More than 30 people called to report trouble. Police have counted at least 20 crimes, and suspect there are more that have yet to be reported.

[Ryan Ruck]

And I just heard about this on the local news tonight.

Looks like the Cincy police are trying to head off anything like Louisville.

Police In Full Force To Help Avoid Retaliation After Quadruple Shooting

Officers surrounded Withrow High School, street corners Friday

March 28, 2014

Cincinnati police were out in full force Friday making sure there wasn't any retaliation following a quadruple shooting one week ago.

When students left Withrow High School Friday afternoon, Cincinnati officers were everywhere surrounding the school and on street corners.

Officers started hearing about threats on social media that someone was going to "get even" for last week's shooting in which Jashawn Martin, 14, was killed.

His funeral was held Friday and police weren't taking any chances.

"You have young people, you have a death. We have people with a propensity to gun violence and that can bring together a tragedy in a hurry,” Cincinnati Police Lt. Col. James Whalen said.

Whalen said the force wanted to send a clear message that Cincinnati police won't tolerate violence if they know about it.

[Avvakum]

When are people going to realize that the United States is already involved in a low-level domestic insurgency nationwide?

And don't they realize the longer we pander to the very rebels and insurgents who are destroying this nation, the worse it will become? All we did with the Welfare state is put off the burning of the cities for a generation by buying off the barbarians in our midst, because it began in 1968.

[Ryan Ruck]

Springtime in Chi Town...

Man Fatally Shot On South Side, 13 Wounded In Other Shootings

March 29, 2014

A man was fatally shot in the city's South Side in the Bronzeville neighborhood, and at least 13 others were wounded during shootings citywide over 36 hours Friday and Saturday.

Most recently, about 7:30 a.m. in the Humboldt Park neighborhood, a 19-year-old man was shot in the upper thigh in the 3500 block of West Hirsch Street, according to police. Chicago Police News affairs Officer Jose Estrada said the man was taken to John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County in an unknown condition.

In addition to the gunshot victim, another 19-year-old man was the victim of a battery when he was pistol whipped by the same person who shot the other man, police said. The battery victim was listed in good condition, police said.

Chicago Fire Department Chief Joe Roccasalva listed that man's condition as serious to critical and also said a second victim was taken in fair-to-serious condition to Saints Mary and Elizabeth Medical Center.

It was not clear if the second victim was shot or wounded in another way.

Earlier, in the city's Belmont Gardens neighborhood on the Northwest Side, a 16-year-old boy was shot in the calf about 4:50 a.m. in a gang-related attack, said News Affairs Officer Janel Sedevic.

The boy was a passenger inside a vehicle in the 4000 block of West Fullerton Avenue when another vehicle pulled up and someone inside it shouted gang slogans at the boy's car before firing shots at it, said Sedevic. The boy was driven to Our Lady of The Resurrection Medical Center where he was listed in good condition. No one is in custody, according to Sedevic.

In the city's Englewood neighborhood about 4 a.m., someone shot a 17-year-old boy in the leg in the 6800 block of South Throop Street, said News Affairs Officer Ronald Gaines. The teen was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where his condition had stabilized.

In another attack in the Englewood neighborhood, someone shot two men in the 500 block of West Tremont Street about 2 a.m., according to Gaines.

One victim, 21, was shot in the head and seriously wounded while the other, 39, suffered a gunshot wound to the buttocks, Gaines said. Both were taken to Stroger hospital. The older man's condition had stabilized.

The crime scene was outside a large 2-story frame house in an area near Hope Park without many buildings. Most have been torn down, police on the scene said. District officers cordoned off a wrought iron fence leading into the house with yellow tape. A front door to the home remained open and colored lights lit up two upstairs rooms.

Several shell casings were recovered by evidence technicians in the street in front of the home.

No one was in custody, Gaines said.

In a separate attack in the South Side's Stony Island Park neighborhood, a 19-year-old man was shot in the hand at 85th Street and S. East End Avenue, according to Gaines. Police learned of the shooting, which happened about 12:45 a.m., when the victim went to Roseland Community Hospital for treatment. He was in good condition, said Gaines.

In other shootings Friday, one man was killed and seven others wounded.

About 1:30 p.m., a 20-year-old man was shot in the head on the 300 block of East 51st Street, in the city's Bronzeville neighborhood, police said.

He was identified as Marc Campbell of the 9200 block of South Stony Island Boulevard and was pronounced dead at the scene at 1:41 p.m., according to a spokesman for the Cook County medical examiner's office.

Police responded to a call of a person shot and found paramedics already on the scene. Officers interviewed a witness who told them he was standing behind the assailant and saw the attacker shoot the 20-year-old using a handgun with an extended clip, according to a police report.

The witness ran for cover and wasn't able to see the gunman's face. Other assisting officers reported that the gunman's vehicle, a silver minivan with Florida license plates, fled north and then west, the report said. The minivan was later found, in flames, about 6:30 p.m. in the 3700 block of South Ellis Avenue, poilce said.

Several shell casings were recovered and a POD camera was active at the time of the killing.

Earlier this afternoon, two people were wounded in a shooting at 12:05 p.m. on the 1500 block of West Morse Avenue in the Rogers Park neighborhood, News Affairs Officer Jose Estrada said. The two victims were described as males but their ages were not immediately available. One was shot in the right leg and the second was shot in the buttocks, Estrada said.

In addition to that shooting, a 25-year-old man was shot in the thigh at 12:39 p.m. on the 5100 block of South Emerald Avenue in the Back of the Yards neighborhood on the South Side at 12:39 p.m., according to police. He was taken to Stroger hospital.

At 6:37 p.m., a man and a 48-year-old FedEx driver were shot on 41st and Cottage Grove in Bronzeville, officials said.

The man, 19, was shot in the left arm and was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in good condition. The woman FedEx driver suffered several gunshot wounds to her right leg and was taken in critical condition to Northwestern, officials said.

According to a police report of the incident, the 19-year-old told police he saw a white Chevrolet Monte Carlo with tinted windows traveling northbound on Cottage Grove and then make a left onto 42nd Street. A gunman exited the car and fired shots at him, hitting the 19-year-old in his left elbow and giving him a graze wound across his upper back, the report said.

The victim said he didn't get a good look at the shooter because he was running east to try to get away. The assailant or assailants continued west.

The woman driving the truck was also going north on Cottage Grove when she was hit in the right knee, the report said. She was not able to talk to responding officers because she'd lost consciousness, the report said.

FedEx spokesman Scott Fiedler confirmed that the woman was an employee.

"Our thoughts are with our employee and her family during this difficult time and we wish her a speedy recovery. FedEx would like to thank the first responders and hospital for their work to assist our employee," Fiedler said in a statement Saturday.

A woman who lives on the 3rd floor apartment across the street from where the FedEx truck was still parked late Friday with its front and rear hazards going said she was at home all night with her 17-month-old son and had ordered a pizza.

When the delivery man left about 7:10 p.m., she closed the blinds and noticed the flashing lights of the first responders.

"I closed the blinds and saw them pull the woman out and put her on a stretcher," said the resident, who declined to be identified.

At first she said she saw two police officers and then multiple other personnel go to the scene, including paramedics from the Chicago Fire Department. She saw officers looking around the outside of the truck, which did not have any broken windows or appear to be damaged except for a blown front driver's side tire.

There was a pool of what appeared to be blood outside of the front passenger side of the truck near the tire and red stains could be seen on the lower part of the truck, near the door. Bright orange rubber gloves were discarded nearby.

The resident said she didn't hear anything that sounded like a shooting.

Earlier Friday, an 18-year-old man was shot in the lower abdomen about 1:46 a.m. in the 9400 block of South Commercial in the Calumet Heights neighborhood on the Far South Side, said News Affairs Officer Thomas Sweeney. The man was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in good condition.

In addition to those shootings, a suspect in a home invasion was wounded by an off-duty police officer in the Longwood Manor neighborhood at about noon today.

[Ryan Ruck]

Attorney: Louisville Police hid past crime in Waterfront Park

March 27, 2014

A man who knows the inner workings of Louisville Police says former city leaders wanted to disguise crimes at Waterfront Park years ago.

Meanwhile, metro council members are questioning the way city administration is responding to Saturday's rash of violence.

Earlier in the week, city officials described the 21 incidents as "unusual" and the "exception to the rule."

"Nothing like this has happened in decades," Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer said about Saturday's string of violence, vandalism, and disorderly conduct around the downtown. Police say the crimes followed the dispersing of around 200 teens at Waterfront Park.

"For anyone to say that this has never happened, or hasn't happened in decades is flat wrong," said Metro Councilmember Jerry Miller, referring to an incident in 2011 when a group of teenagers assaulted a disabled man outside Slugger Field.

Miller says the city promised to increase patrols in the area following the attack.

"That was three years ago, what's happened since then?"

Attorney Thomas McAdam was legal counsel to Louisville Police for ten years. He claims officers were directed to hide crime problems in the park.

"After Waterfront Park was built, there was a directive informally from the Mayor's office not to report too many crimes in the park because they didn't want to scare people off," McAdams said.

According to McAdams, officers were directed to put a street name on the police report and never list "Waterfront Park" as the location. Police say that is standard procedure.

McAdams believes the current administration knows nothing about the directive, but thinks the effects may linger with veteran officers.

"I'm confident that this administration had no part of it," McAdams emphasized.

There was only one arrest Saturday night, and at 18-years-old, the suspect was a legal adult.

Police say teens can be taken into custody, but that officers must actually witness them committing a crime. In regards to Saturday's events, police say there is nothing illegal about forming a mob of people.

McAdams said even if more juveniles were arrested, it wouldn't mean an end to the violence. He describes the Kentucky juvenile justice system as "frustrating."

"It's very frustrating for the police to deal with juvenile justice because they know that they'll go down to the courthouse, cool their heels for a couple hours, and the kid will go home as if nothing happened," said McAdams.

And even with several concerns regarding a systematic breakdown, Councilmember Miller says the priority is to stop the violence.

"We're not worried at this point with pointing fingers, there's plenty of time for that, let's get the problem fixed," Miller said.

Ultimately, Miller added, Metro Louisville likely needs more officers to deal with this problem.

[Ryan Ruck]

Boston Police Rush To Help As 6 Attacks Unfold

Assaults involved group of up to 20

April 10, 2014

Police rushed around downtown Boston Wednesday night, responding to calls for help after a group of up to 20 males and females launched at least six unprovoked attacks on people on Boston Common and in the neighborhood, police said.

On Thursday, police said there were at least six incidents, but only in four did victims want to press charges. Police and prosecutors offered this summary of the four cases:

Around 6:50 p.m. Wednesday, officers responded to 75 Boylston St., where a victim reported being attacked while walking through Boston Common by a group of males and females, police said.

About four minutes later, a woman reported that a teenage female started an argument with her while both were walking through the Common. Officers tracked the group that included the assailant to a nearby 7-11 store, where a 15-year-old girl was issued a summons for assault, police said.

In the store, a man identified as Abdirizak Yusef was charged with disturbing the peace when he allegedly became belligerent toward police. The 19-year-old was arraigned Thursday in Boston Municipal Court, where he pleaded not guilty and was released on personal recognizance after a judge declined to revoke his bail on a pending larceny case, Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley’s office said.

At 8:06 p.m. Wednesday, officers responded to Milk and Devonshire, where a woman reported that she had encountered a group of male and female teenager, and that a girl in the group had grabbed her purse. When the woman resisted, she was “violently attacked’’ by the girls, police said.

Officers identified a 15-year-old Mattapan girl as the assailant in both the Devonshire Street attack and the first attack on the Common. She was arrested and charged with unarmed robbery and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, police said.

The last incident occurred at 8:23 p.m. Wednesday when a man reported he was assaulted near Otis and Summer streets and robbed of a bag carrying his cellphone and his iPad.

Jake Wark, the district attorney’s spokesman, said a 15-year-old from Mattapan was arrested in that attack; he also allegedly robbed another man of a cellphone. Also, Wark said, a 15-year-old Mattapan girl was arrested for allegedly assaulting a woman and trying to take her bag in the same area.

The boy and the girl entered not-delinquent pleas to assault and robbery charges Thursday and were ordered held on $10,000 bail and $1,000 bail, respectively, with conditions that they stay away from the alleged victims, Downtown Crossing, and the Common and abide by 6 p.m. curfews.

Advertising copywriter Joseph McNamara apparently witnessed one of the attacks.

McNamara said he was walking on Arch Street around 8:30 p.m. Wednesday when he saw about 10 people attacking a man who looked like an office worker from one of the downtown buildings.

“They were really coming down on this one guy,’’ said McNamara. One person, a teenager with short cropped hair and red sweat shirt, was the most aggressive attacker, he said. “I didn’t really realize what was going on until I was in the middle of it.’’

When the victim got up and tried to break away from his attackers, McNamara said, the assailants followed him as he crossed back and forth across Arch Street in search of a safe place to stop. The flow of attackers was “like a swarm,” said McNamara. “It actually enveloped me at one point.’

“It was weird. They would follow him, this whole swarm,’’ he said. “At one point, they just came up to me, but they were totally focused on this guy. I was right there, I could have touched him. [But] I didn’t like the odds at all. I was just standing there motionless.’’

While the teenagers swarmed down Arch Street, McNamara said he saw a male he believed to be part of the group, standing some distance away at the intersection of Arch and Summer streets. This person was watching the violence unfold, while holding closely onto a female McNamara believed was his girlfriend.

Suddenly, the male shouted, McNamara said.

“He just shouted, ‘We out!’ and everyone broke,’’ said McNamara. “They all left.’’

McNamara said that once the swarm flowed past him, he rushed into a nearby 7-11 store, where he called the police.

When officers arrived a minute or two later, he told them what he had seen, as did the victim, who said that he had been subjected to an unprovoked attack and robbed of his cellphone and iPad.

Officer Rachel McGuire, a Boston police spokeswoman, said Thursday that the department does not believe the assaults were part of a “knockout game,’’ which the department considers to be when a person is physically assaulted, but no other crime is committed against them.

McGuire said that at least some of the attacks involved robberies.

Authorities said three people were transported to hospitals after being attacked.

[American Patriot]

American Civil Unrest is Starting on Schedule

April 17, 2014 / The Eye is Watching

We have been warning that 2014 is the beginning of a new cycle that will see a highly unusual convergence between our domestic (civil unrest & revolution) data and our international war model. Both converge for the first time since the 1700s when there were US and French Revolutions and the fall of monarchy. This was the topic at our Cycle of War Conference (see also special report).


[IMG]http://static.************.com/p/images/april2014/170414unrest.jpg[/IMG] Image: Bundy Standoff (********).

The civil unrest will develop first outside the USA and turn up more aggressively in the USA after 2015.75. Nonetheless, it still begins in 2014 for the USA as well. We are starting to see this in the West where memories of previous events still linger deep wounds from 1992.


The confrontation in Nevada between Cliven Bundy and the Bureau of Land Management, whose Director was Sen. Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) former senior adviser, has turned into an issue of important cycle unrest. The government wants the land and demands Bundy gets his cattle off of the land his family has worked for over 140 years in order to make way for solar panel power stations. This dispute between a Nevada rancher and federal rangers over alleged illegal cattle grazing erupted into an Old West-style showdown on the open range this week, even prompting self-proclaimed members of militia groups from across the country to join the rancher in fighting what they say is U.S. “tyranny.”


This is a brewing resentment of federal government that goes back to Ruby Ridge, which was the site of a deadly confrontation and siege in northern Idaho in 1992 between Randy Weaver, his family and his friend Kevin Harris, and agents of the United States Marshals Service (USMS) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). It resulted in the death of Weaver’s son Sammy, his wife Vicki, and Deputy U.S. Marshal William Francis Degan. The Feds simply shot his unarmed family dead and it was alleged they even shot his son in the back. This is indeed the continued militarization of the police in America.

The corruption was so bad in Ukraine that when someone saw the police, they trembled in fear. In the US, this trend is also underway and demonstrated by this video where the police began shooting at a minivan driven by a woman with children in the car over a traffic violation.

[Avvakum]

"The corruption was so bad in Ukraine that when someone saw the police, they trembled in fear"

You see? I do now.

It's the same damn fight against the SAME DAMN ENEMY.

[Ryan Ruck]

Feds Intervene After Violent Weekend In Chicago

April 22, 2014

The federal government is offering help to the city of Chicago in the fight to end violence in the streets. The special section of the U.S. Attorney's Office will target drugs and guns.

The news was announced after an especially violent Easter weekend in the city. Police officials say at least 44 people were shot over the weekend in Chicago. Eight of those victims died.

Monday night, two teen boys were wounded — one critically — in a shooting in the South Shore neighborhood. The two boys, ages 14 and 16, were standing on the sidewalk in the 1600 block of East 69th Street about 9:35 p.m. when they heard shots ring out and felt pain, police said.

They were both taken to Comer Children’s Hospital. The 14-year-old was shot in the back and listed in critical condition, while the 16-year-old suffered a gunshot wound to the upper right thigh, police said.

Earlier this year, the federal government created a special violent crimes section as part of the restructuring of their office. That means 16 prosecutors from the narcotics and gang section will focus on how to use statutes and gun laws to go after people terrorizing the streets of Chicago.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel says he does not yet have all the details, but he is pleased they are coming in to help the situation in Chicago.

"I think it is a good thing, I welcome it," Mayor Emanuel said.

The man who will head up the special division is a U.S. Attorney who used to be a Cook County prosecutor. He is very familiar with the Chicago Police Department and other local law enforcement agencies.

[Avvakum]

Feds Intervene After Violent Weekend In Chicago

April 22, 2014

The federal government is offering help to the city of Chicago in the fight to end violence in the streets. The special section of the U.S. Attorney's Office will target drugs and guns.

The news was announced after an especially violent Easter weekend in the city. Police officials say at least 44 people were shot over the weekend in Chicago. Eight of those victims died.

Monday night, two teen boys were wounded — one critically — in a shooting in the South Shore neighborhood. The two boys, ages 14 and 16, were standing on the sidewalk in the 1600 block of East 69th Street about 9:35 p.m. when they heard shots ring out and felt pain, police said.

They were both taken to Comer Children’s Hospital. The 14-year-old was shot in the back and listed in critical condition, while the 16-year-old suffered a gunshot wound to the upper right thigh, police said.

Earlier this year, the federal government created a special violent crimes section as part of the restructuring of their office. That means 16 prosecutors from the narcotics and gang section will focus on how to use statutes and gun laws to go after people terrorizing the streets of Chicago.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel says he does not yet have all the details, but he is pleased they are coming in to help the situation in Chicago.

"I think it is a good thing, I welcome it," Mayor Emanuel said.

The man who will head up the special division is a U.S. Attorney who used to be a Cook County prosecutor. He is very familiar with the Chicago Police Department and other local law enforcement agencies.

If it gets bad enough, they'll check and see if they will be able to use this crisis as a trial balloon, to see if Chicago citizens are ready to surrender more liberty for the illusion of safety.

[American Patriot]

Wait, what????

Earlier this year, the federal government created a special violent crimes section as part of the restructuring of their office. That means 16 prosecutors from the narcotics and gang section will focus on how to use statutes and gun laws to go after people terrorizing the streets of Chicago.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel says he does not yet have all the details, but he is pleased they are coming in to help the situation in Chicago.

"I think it is a good thing, I welcome it," Mayor Emanuel said.

Gosh, it's a good thing the FEDS had to come in and "fix" it?

[Malsua]

It's easy enough to fix Chicago.

Enforce the laws on the books and stop letting them back out onto the street.

I guess that's racist of me since over 60% of the crime is perpetrated by 10% of the population.

[Avvakum]

It's easy enough to fix Chicago.

Enforce the laws on the books and stop letting them back out onto the street.

I guess that's racist of me since over 60% of the crime is perpetrated by 10% of the population.

That's a nationwide trend that nobody is to speak up about, according to the White Leftists and their resident Minority Houseboys.

Prevent people from defending themselves without them possibly going to jail themselves, and the resulting fear makes them want a Police State to protect them and their loved ones.

Let's not fool ourselves; our political class isn't normal anymore. Neither the Left nor the 'Right' controlled opposition, they are like the Bolsheviks just prior to 1917, criminals, malignant narcissists and psychopaths.

[American Patriot]

Then it is high time to stand up and speak out.

Either the cops do the jobs they were given (which they don't) and citizens be allowed to keep their guns and defend themselves, or it's time for the people to take up arms and tell the government to step down in those local areas.

This isn't about my rights, or yours, it's about EVERYONE'S rights.

And taking rights from the criminals who hurt those with rights.

[American Patriot]

The Reason Why There Will Be a Second American Civil War

01 Thursday May 2014
Posted by Mary W. in Central Bankers, Economic Collapse, Economic Crisis, Federal Reserve, FEMA, Global Elites, Law Enforcement, Martial Law, Military, New World Order, Police State, Social Security, Tyrannical Government, United States, Veterans
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Anyone knows, who has half of an eye open, that American citizens are soon to become an endangered species under our present lunatic President.


Everyone should know that all of our constitutional protections against an out-of-control globalist puppet regime are melting away right before our very eyes.


Everyone knows that Obama, under the NDAA, has the legal authority to “disappear” all political opponents without so much as a trace.


Everyone knows that American economy was driven over the fiscal cliff in 2008 when Congress permitted the bankers to plunder our tax revenues and, today, we are just waiting for the official eulogy that the American economy is dead and the real “hunger games” are about to commence.




Everyone knows that when the Obama puppet masters in the Federal Reserve are done plundering what is left of our pensions, our social security, our private property and our 401k’s, that the economy will be collapsed once and for all. And then, what will the American people do? They will do what any generation of Americans would do, they will take to the streets in an attempt to rid themselves of the corrupt banker controlled government which has ruined this country. Sadly, this last ditch desperate attempt at regaining our lost liberties will not have a happy ending.


Picture, if you will, the veterans groups marching on Washington DC. Imagine bus loads of citizens following the veterans groups which will demand an end to a tyrannical government. Obama will make a formal declaration of martial law. Americans, desperate for food, water and the means to make a living will seek open confrontations with the present administration and this will commence the darkest days in American, and perhaps, even world history. As an aside, this is why Operation American Spring is a bad idea.
Will American Troops Carry Out Genocidal Orders?

Will American troops follow the genocidal orders surely to be delivered by Obama? Will they begin to secretly arrest perceived dissidents? Will the military follow orders to shoot to kill American citizens who will be desperately looking for their next meal? With FEMA’s performance following Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy, will there even be a next meal? Don’t hold your breath.


When the irresistible force meets the immovable object, what will happen? Will American troops fire, when ordered, upon their American brothers and sisters? There are two possible answers to this question. First, it is a known fact that the military is programmed in boot camp to follow orders like a bunch of Pavlovian conditioned dogs who are well trained in the art of unquestionably carrying out the orders of their superiors without hesitation. From a military training perspective, there can be little doubt that American soldiers will not only fire upon American protesters, but most will do so without the slightest amount of hesitation or conscience. However, the field of psychology provides an even more accurate view of why we can expect the American military to do in the coming desperate times.


Not only will our military fire upon us, their fellow citizens, but they will also willingly participate in the round up of dissidents, and the extermination of these dissidents in what has become known FEMA Camps, which will surely accompany the coming martial law. NORTHCOM has been training for this since the 1990′s.


Before I address the psychological reasons on why the coming American genocide is almost upon us and it will receive the enthusiastic support from active duty military personnel, let’s examine the fiction set forth by a group known as Oath Keepers.


Some our citizens are deluded into a false sense of security by the group known as Oath Keepers. It is a well-intentioned effort to remind both law enforcement and the military to uphold the Constitution and to disobey unlawful orders which would bring harm to American citizens. Under the this false sense of security, many in the American public really believe that American troops will not fire upon American citizens. Unfortunately, the field of psychology demonstrates why only a minority of soldiers will actually resist committing atrocities against the American people.
Group Think

The world of psychological research provides the definitive answer to whether we should fear our military in the coming storm ahead in the form of a phenomenon called group think. Group think is often described as a decision-making process whereby the group members go along with what they believe is the consensus. Group think has also been used to describe individual acquiescence to authority even when the authority has limited power to enforce compliance. Group think often causes groups to make hasty, irrational decisions, where individual doubts are set aside, for fear of upsetting the group’s leadership and balance.


Just how far will people go to please authority figures and subsequently do what they know to be immoral? The first known laboratory test for group think occurred in 1963 by Yale professor, Stanley Milgram. Subjects for this landmark study were recruited for the Yale study through newspaper ads and direct mail. The participants were men between the ages of 20 and 50, from all educational backgrounds, ranging from an elementary school dropout to participants with doctoral degrees.




Milgram wanted to determine what percentage of people would willingly administer enough progressive electric shocks which would result in death simply based on the orders of a perceived authority figure (i.e., the experimenter).


There were three participants in the experiment:



1. The Teacher was the real subject in the experiment. Their role was to administer shocks for each wrong answer provided by the learner. How far would they go, was the true subject of the experiment. Would they actually kill a person for failing to provide the correct answer on a word pair test? Would they mindlessly follow the orders of the experimenter to continue with the abuse, regardless of the results and obvious harm being perpetrated upon the pretend victim in the experiment?


2. The second participant, the Learner, was actually a plant in the experiment. The Learner would sit in an adjacent room and pretend to be shocked for each wrong answer that they would purposely give. Eventually, they would cry out for help and beg the Teacher to stop administering the electric shocks. Their cries included pleas of mercy that were often based on an unknown level of self-expressed cardiac distress that they were pretending to experience.


3. The Experimenter was a stern looking fellow who carried a clipboard, wore a lab coat, and would urge the Teacher to continue regardless of the make believe pleas of the Learner.


Read more at The Common Sense Show

[American Patriot]

MUST READ!!! PressTV: The secret “American” army, by Brett Redmayne-Titley

Posted on May 1, 2014 by Jean
Thu May 1, 2014 11:28AM GMT
By Brett Redmayne-Titley


A new American army is growing on American soil. They are prepared.

In hushed tones during conversations across the breadth of the heartland of America there are whispers. Quiet talk. About an army. Of Americans?
An army prepared to defend an increasingly oppressed population craving reprieve from their government’s increasingly draconian methods. This army, they say, is growing.
After firm handshakes all around, Dan T. and Gene R., who I had good reason to believe were both retired military, settled into our task at hand. I was in their company for the day on business. During the one-day meeting Dan and Gene revealed that they were indeed career military. Dan, Army. Gene, retired Navy. I attempted to politely avoid political discussion in the interest of decorum.
So at the first comment on politics from my hosts I took a long deep breath. My opinions, despite being armed with facts, don’t go-over well in conservative America. Much less with ex-military. No doubt, patience would be needed.
Two hours later we clashed the mugs of our third round of beers together in a boisterous toast.
“This country is going to hell!,” I offered just a bit too loudly in the confines of the cramped bar.
“Damn right it is,” agreed Dan. At 6’4”, and a stout 280 pounds, Dan would make a fine nose tackle. “Quite frankly, I’m in favor of ringing America with an expanded Navy to protect us. It’s time our Military went back to protecting our Nation. Leave the world alone. But… the real question right now in America is…,” and he lowered his voice, giving me a direct stare, “are you prepared?”
Indeed America is going to hell. A sleeping America has no idea of the depth of the plot against them. Those few who are paying attention have good reason to fear the direction of their country and their Government.
The savvy American knows about the FEMA incarceration camps. These camps are intended for them. This is confirmed by a leaked two-hundred- fifty-four page US Army manual showing the designs of the camps, defining who is to be culled from the population, and who is to be put to death.
These same Americans also know that their America has recently purchased 1.5 Billion rounds of hollow point ammunition and 800 million rounds of double-aught shotgun shells. This ammo is designed for one purpose; killing… people. While police and National Guard are having trouble getting their own ammo, this massive arsenal is being distributed via the Dept. of Homeland Security to points unknown.
They also know that the FBI formally requested in writing to assassinate with a high powered rifle the leaders of the Houston Occupy camp.
Now, on Tuesday April 29, 2014 the US Supreme Court approved this behavior and a myriad of other authoritarian controls straight from the manuals of Dachau, Auschwitz, or the Gulag.
The informed American should be terrified.
I had heard and read rumblings of a ground-swell movement within the American military. This quiet, passionately pro-American, pro-Constitution, pro-democracy, army is rapidly growing. It has already faced down the US empire twice. Their mission: to save Americans from their Government. They call themselves, “Oath Keepers.”
“I Do Solemnly Swear (Or Affirm) That I Will Uphold the Constitution of the United States of America, Against All Enemies, Foreign and Domestic…Pledging My Life, My Fortune, and My Sacred Honor. So Help Me God.” – US Military Oath of Service.
Oath Keepers are the predictable historical reaction by populations to endemic political, financial, and corporate corruption and the destruction of their society. With a puppet president, malicious congress, and constitutionally irrational court system, to more and more Americans Oath Keepers is becoming the only effective counter weight to a tyrannical empire.
There are approximately 21.5 million military veterans of all ages and ethnic backgrounds in America. Estimates put Oath Keepers membership in excess of 200,000. Within this growing army are every military rank from all four branches of the US military. From Gunny Sergeant to Admiral, from Army Chaplain to Naval Captain, Marine Corp. General to PFC, America’s veteran military corp. remains full of a vast wealth of very expensive and thoroughly trained military.
Oath Keepers include many active duty service men and women who keep their membership very private. Their numbers are reportedly also swelling.
All these men and women were trained to fight. They remember their training. They remember that they are first and foremost American’s, sworn to protect the constitution and the American people. That never changed. These real American patriots have not for gotten the Oath of Service they swore to so many years before.
Few thought the day would come when, rather than providing protection from foreign adversaries, they would actually heed the currently two most important words, “…and Domestic.”
By all current reports Americans hold over 320 million non-military fire arms of all makes, models, and calibers. That figure is only the guns that are accounted for. Actual numbers are higher. With the recent gun buying surge across America, this number is ever rising. Many of these people are buying these weapons whether they are aware of Oath Keepers or not, and hold very similar views on our Government’s authoritarian intentions.
Combine all these weapons with the millions of American veterans and you have a highly trained and well- armed militia ready, willing, and waiting to protect Americans from their own government. Was this not the original wisdom of the inclusion of the American Constitution’s very controversial Second Amendment?
Freedom loving Americans have only two distinct choices. Either use their First Amendment right to assembly and free speech to produce a massive showing of outrage that retrieves the remains of true democracy…
Or… it will be the Second Amendment. Guns.
I asked Dan and Gene to comment.
Dan slams his glass down in agreement, since it is empty, looking intently out from under a beat-up, bleached out, somewhat reddish baseball cap.
“That’s a good way to put it,” he says while eying me carefully over the foam atop a freshly poured beer. “The question really is,” he says again quietly, “are you prepared?”
In America’s desperate condition being prepared runs the gambit from eliminating one’s personal debt, eliminating unnecessary possessions, putting assets into gold or silver, and stocking a sensible amount of supplies and provisions away just in case. It means having the presence of forethought to realize the dire reality of America’s real social and political condition.
It also implies being prepared to protect and defend those possessions, and freedoms, from a growing government tyranny.
A whole lot of well trained, well-armed, Americans have seen this day coming.
The Oath Keeper motto is, “Not On Our Watch!” Their own pro-American, pro-constitutional oath has been sworn by all Oath Keepers whether active military, veterans, police officers, national guardsmen, TSA officials, firemen, or peace officers. The Oath is defined clearly in ten separate guarantees:
Oath Keepers will NOT obey any order to:
1. Disarm the American people.
2. Conduct warrant-less searches of the American people,
3. Detain American citizens as “unlawful enemy combatants”
4. Impose martial law or a “state of emergency” on a state.
5. Invade and subjugate any state that asserts its sovereignty.
6. Blockade American cities, turning them into giant concentration camps.
7. Force American citizens into any form of detention camps.
8. Assist or support the use of any foreign troops on U.S. soil.
9. Confiscate the property of the American people.
10. Infringe on the right of the people to free speech, to peaceably assemble, and to petition their government for a redress of grievances.
Only two Days ago the US Supreme Court of the United States formally gave approval for US Government goons to reap all these horrors on all Americans. On Tuesday, the court in Hedges v. Obama, U.S. Supreme Court, No. 13-758, refused to review the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeal’s (traditionally the president’s pocket court) decision to overturn a lower court decision that did, temporarily, protect Americans from these unconstitutional war crimes of Sect. 1021 of the Obama inspired of the National Defense Authorization Act. All ten horrors are, right now, legal across America.
Foolishly I had mistakenly interpreted the Oath of the Oath Keepers to mean that those who take the oath would lay down their weapons under such extreme circumstances.
“Wrong!” said Paul immediately, inching forward and giving me a penetrating glance while setting down his beer. “We’re not laying down our weapons for anyone!”
Gene was also eying me keenly. Quickly forgiving my small indiscretion, he offered support saying, “Yeah. You’re absolutely right about the Oath. But if you don’t have your weapons you’re not going to fight back. That’s what the huge recent increase in gun sales is all about.”
Gene’s a retired Navy aircraft carrier pilot, one of the Navy’s most highly trained servicemen. Of a Bantam weight’s build, and just as feisty, at sixty Gene is looking as youthful as his days in the cockpit. He is just as assured and straight talking.
I told them about the FBI study that concluded that American citizens and their massive private, and growing, arsenal could never defeat the US military, should the populous finally fight back.
Gene smiled slyly, then laughed. “They’ve got that one wrong,” Gene is quite likely correct. Quantifying the totality of a potential armed push back by an armed American public, truly shows the dire consequences about to befall America. It is no wonder that Gene is smiling.
Sadly, that result will be bloodier than the Civil War, just as apocalyptic, and spell the darkest days in the history of America, should it remain a nation when the sands of time have finally cleared the wreckage.
The American Empire has been keeping any news of Oath Keepers out of the media. The regime does not want an example of courage and successful opposition getting to the minds of its subjugated and fearful people. The regime fears the Oath Keepers for a very good reason; this army has already beaten the devil back-down below.
Twice.
When the sequestration cuts agreed to by a criminal congress took effect in late 2013, the Obama administration decided to punish Americans for his failure as president. He proceeded to close the ocean to recreational fishing and boating, and close access to lakes and national parks. His dark minions in the Forest Service went so far as to ring the famous geyser, “Old Faithful,” a US tourist attraction, with a twelve foot high solid plastic fence. This made sure that no-one could see and enjoy it. Tourists who went to the third floor of an adjacent hotel to sneak a peek, were arrested.
Then the puppet went too far.
American veterans come from across America to remember their friends and loved ones at the Vietnam and World War Two war memorials. When Obama closed these, it was a call to action for the Oath Keepers.
Wearing side arms, some in uniform, Oath Keepers showed up en-mass. They proceeded to escort arriving visitors past the equally armed Capitol Police and then protected them during their visit. To everyone privy to this successful operation, the Oath Keepers were heroes.
Two weeks ago a corrupt US Senator Harry Reid (D-NV) tried to use his equally corrupt connections at the Bureau of Land Management to then order US Marshal’s Service to seize Clive Bundy’s Nevada ranch so he could sell it to the Chinese. Two thousand people showed up to defend the ranch, but the siege was turning ugly. Marshall’s were tazering peaceful protesters, and slamming women to the ground. Things were getting bad.
Then the Oath Keepers road in.
Armed and ready, several dozen Oath Keepers took up positions and began patrols on Clive Bundy’s property. Many publicly stated that if they were fired on they would return fire.
So, two hundred plus Federal Marshals went home.
The cheers were world-wide.
Our conversation had been enlightening, optimistic, supportive, but at the same time terrifying. To discover that so many American active and retired military are of like mind to just as many passionate pro-American progressives holding radical viewpoints was heartening.
Knowing that former members of America’s military had already sworn an oath to protect me, and other Americans, from the very real threat of being shot, or incarcerated without a warrant, by our own government was reassuring.
Assuredly the Oath Keepers will be called to order again soon.
That is terrifying.
BRT/HSN


Brett Redmayne-Titley spent his formative years with his family in Queensland, Australia, Ghana, West Africa, and the Bahamas. Visiting over fifty counties over four decades he has seen the world slowly destroyed by greed, capitalism and empire. Not content to watch from the side lines, Brett has taken up his pen to tell the truth about important stories. On-scene reporting is his specialty. Traveling to the story he has written in-depth, multi-part articles about the Keystone XL Pipeline, Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations, the San Onofre Nuclear Power Plant, the 2012 Democratic National Convention, the police killing of Evan Kwik and many more. His articles have been published by dozens of on-line news services. More articles by Brett Redmayne-Titley.

[Malsua]

How soon we forget...I'd forgotten that they had arrested people who were looking at Old Faithful.

Frankly, that's where the first shots should have been fired, in warning if nothing else. Back off feds.