Satan’s Garden

There have been many outraged articles over the recent YouTube airing of Jared Massey being Tasered by Utah Highway Patrol officer John Gardner, back on September 14th. That outrage seems to be two sided as well. Those who believe in the ultimate authority of the state are claiming that Gardner did what he was supposed to do and that Massey was being confrontational. Those who believe that the police are servants of the people and not their masters (such as yours truly) know that what Officer Gardner did was unquestionably wrong, even though Massey was mildly agitated.

Over a conversation with a couple of friends of mine over this, the topic turned to the fact that Gardner was using lethal force without provocation. At first, that argument seemed a stretch to me - Tasers are considered to be non-lethal devices, but it was quickly pointed out that not everyone dies from gunshot wounds, or stabbings, which are also considered lethal force. To call a device which last year killed over 150 people in the USA alone, a lethal device, is no great stretch after all.Which leads me to several disturbing questions concerning this incident. First and foremost is why the Taser was ever pulled.Utah law allows the use of a Taser for the following reasons:

• When a person is a threat to themselves, an officer or another person.
• In cases where the physical use of force would endanger the person or someone else.
• When other means of lesser or equal force by the officer has been ineffective and a threat still exists.

Absolutely none of these protocols existed at the time of the incident. When Gardner talks about the incident with a fellow officer after the event is done, he states several times that the Tasered Massey because the man failed to comply with his instructions and demands. He actually threatens Massey several times with another dose of the Taser for not following instructions. When Massey’s wife asks the officer why he pulled the Taser (8:00 minutes in,) Gardner claims he did it because, “it looks like he was leaving to me”. He also did not inform Massey that he was under arrest until after he had already Tasered the man.

Sorry, Officer Gardner but that isn’t a good enough reason to use lethal force. Ever. That is the sign of tyranny in action.

I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that he was wearing a brown shirt.

Among the other notable moments from the video, is how Gardner lies through his teeth to the other officer on how the event happened, claiming to have given warning that he was going to deploy the Taser (9:45) “turn around right now or I Taser you” and other recollections of the event that the video clearly shows did not happen. The three part unedited video shows even more of these lies than this clip does. (All available on YouTube as well.) This alone should be enough to remove Gardner from the Utah Highway Patrol.

Update: Jared Massey has now settled out of court for a $40,000 settlement.

I’ve gone off against this crazy religion a few times, but I’ve never seen a video that quite so vividly captures the insanity of the followers of this cult. From straw man accusations to stalking the cameraman, they display the traits which so vividly show that these people are not beyond criminal intimidation, and probably not beyond criminal violence, in order to “protect” their insane belief system. You can find more at XENUTV.

This BBC report is not as frighteningly “in your face” with the craziness of this church, but it has a great deal of amazing information showing it all for the fraud it is.

We have a whole new generation of sheep coming out of Amerika’s schools these days. Most students have been placid and pliable over the last half a century, but it has gotten to the point that they would rather give up all personal privacy, their very inalienable rights for that matter, in order to feel safe. My guess is that they couldn’t list their actual rights if they were pressed to, let alone understand their importance to a free society.

The latest test bed of managing the herd comes from New Jersey, where at least one school now has complete camera surveillance, fed live to the police, during all school activity. Big Brother is watching you, watching Telescreen. Only this isn’t a joke.

“I would want the police to be there right away if something happened to our school. Especially with all these bomb scares happening now, I know the high school had a couple,” says one student.

I’ve got news for you little lamb, the police won’t be there. They’ll see it happen, but they won’t be there. They’ll be hanging around outside, waddling their fat asses around sheltered barriers, while they wait to see what happens. Just like they did at Columbine. Just like they did at Virginia Tech. You see, they want to go home to their families and they can’t do that if they risk their lives for you. “To serve and protect” is just a motto. You cannot hold the police responsible for failing to protect you. The Supreme Court has ruled that unanimously in over fourteen cases to date. You’re on your own, whether you realize it or not.

Anyone who believes that having the police monitor your every move somehow makes you safer, is living in a dream world. The best it provides is the ability to gather evidence against the people that killed you. In the meantime you’re living your life as a lab rat, confined, controlled and monitored.

Don’t bother making a fuss about it. Take your Ritilan and shut up.

The Agitator.com brings us this wonderful bit of news.

It is amazing how far down the road to tyranny we’ve slid. That the police can force you to give up portions of your body’s tissue at will is something that we once shuddered over when we read about Joseph Mengele’s horrid works during the Nazi’s reign in Germany. Now it is considered status quo in some states of the USA, performed by people with absolutely no medical training whatsoever, at their whim.

I have to agree whole hearted with the author’s last paragraph:

Give MADD its due credit. They’ve managed to shred the Bill of Rights almost single-handedly, with little more than a brilliant, two-decade public relations campaign. Even the drug warriors have to be envious.

Professor Bob Carter, a researcher at the Marine Geophysical Laboratory at James Cook University, presented an intriguing look at Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) theory in the scope of scientific method and in the process illuminates a slew of problems with the current AGW propaganda. This is taken from a presentation at the Annual Conference of the Australian Environmental Foundation on September 8th of this year, held in Melbourne.

The speech is shown here in four parts, for a total time of roughly 37 minutes.

There has been a buzz of late in blogs and other Web sites, over prospective Attorney General to be Michael B. Mukasey’s wishy-washy response to whether the practice of waterboarding is torture or not. AP article here.

William Cox, in a very thorough article on waterboarding on Buzzflash, describes the method quite accurately:

During water torture, the body and head of a victim are typically strapped to an inclined board with the head lower than the feet. The victim’s jaws are forced open and a cloth is forced deep into the mouth and over the nose. Water is continuously poured over and into the cloth forcing the victim to stop breathing until forced to either swallow water and/or aspirate it into the lungs, triggering the gag reflex.

Water torture results in controlled drowning, the degree of which depends upon the ability of an individual to resist and the will of the torturer. The punishment ranges from psychological torment and physical suffocation to death. At the least, water torture represents a mock execution. The primeval fear of asphyxiation leads to overwhelming panic in even the most disciplined individuals who may be trained and psychologically conditioned to die rather than submit.

Water torture can lead to serious injury to the victim. A lack of oxygen can quickly result in permanent brain damage, and the aspiration of even small amounts of water can lead to lung disease, including pneumonia. Struggles by the victim against the restraints can produce severe sprains and broken bones. Significantly, the intense fear of imminent death and the victim’s helplessness to prevent it produces devastating and long lasting psychological damage.

Put simply, for all of you ignorant pissants out there who can’t see past the “terrorism” colon surrounding your head; waterboarding is torture! It disgusts me that we even have to debate this! This is not the fashion of an educated and enlightened society, it is the action of the dark and malignant cruelty of tyranny. Those who support this practice in our government should be removed from office, stripped of rank, pulled from public service no matter what military or civilian position they hold. There is no room to be indecisive when it comes to the use of torture. It is vile and repugnant to the Constitution and the American way of life and should not be given the slightest breadth of tolerance!

If for one moment you think that this torture can’t be applied to you (as if that is justification of any kind), that it is reserved for only “the evil doers”; note that the Patriot Act allows any citizen of this nation to be taken away without charges filed, defined as a “enemy combatant”, without any right to legal council, due process of law or even the ability to contact anyone in the outside world - with only the say so of the President needed for this to occur! You and I are as much a target of this practice as any Islamic radical.

Waterboarding started in the Inquisition. It was used to torture people into confessing sins against the church. That Bush is supporting using it on people to torture them into confessing sins against the state, belays the same evil intent. The goal is not to gain information. It is simply to cause suffering against those who have been arbitrarily labeled guilty by the government, to manufacture stories and consent by force - in a sick attempt to elevate the methods and madness of government as being righteous.

Keith Olbermann expresses my entire raging ire on this, better than I can.

There are so many problems with the official story of what happened on September 11th, 2001, that several books have been written about it all. From time to time you find tidbits of information leaking through which just have you scratching your head. This is one of them.

Former Air Force fighter pilot Russ Wittenberg, who flew for Pan Am and United for over 30 years, actually operated two of the aircraft in question. His statement here is something to consider.

Well, what’s a Halloween without a horror story?

Proposition 1 is a $192 million public safety bond, aimed to pay for new police and fire headquarters, an emergency operations center, and a public-safety center, among other things, in various locations in Salt Lake City. The Salt Lake police have gone as far as having a Halloween spectacle for the kids to share in, in the current capital public safety building. The goal was to show the public through this event, how shabby the building is, in order to draw further attention and hopefully sympathy for Proposition 1.

Personally, I don’t know enough about Proposition 1 to have an opinion on its merit. I don’t live in Salt Lake City either, so this doesn’t effect my taxes. It’s been off my radar. It took the email of a friend to clue me in on it.

It appears that “a chief”, either Police Chief Chris Burbank (who denies it) or some other police chief, or Fire Chief Dennis McKone (who’s keeping his mouth shut) or some other fire chief; directed 911 dispatchers to stuff envelopes with propaganda pushing to support Proposition 1 in Salt Lake City during their “down” times on the job.

It is first claimed that no chief was involved. Then, when an email was leaked, the claim has changed to it being the act of an “over-zealous employee”, who’s identity has not been released. Burbank denies any involvement at all, claiming he was out of town at the time. However, the email sure seems to say that either he, or the fire chief, not only knew what was going on, but orchestrated it.

The e-mail in question is from Dispatch Supervisor Roxann Cheever to all 911 dispatchers:

We have been asked by the chiefs of police and fire to help stuff envelopes with information in regards to our new building. There are 50,000 envelopes that need to be stuffed with a pre-folded letter and building brochure. If you all could please help by kindly taking a box of each to stuff over the weekend as they need to be done by the first of next week. Consider this our part of helping with the campaign for the new building! The envelopes do not have to be sealed, just put the stuffed ones back into the boxes for administration to pick up.

The materials are located in the lineup room and the hallway (west end), be sure to stuff each envelope with a letter and brochure.

The chiefs have expressed their appreciation to all of you for your time!

All told, an estimated 40,000 envelopes were stuffed, by between 14 and 16 dispatchers during the graveyard shifts.

No matter who was behind it, state law was violated. City employees are forbidden from electioneering on taxpayer’s money. Police administrators shut down the project the moment they found out about it and City Attorney Ed Rutan ordered that none of the mailers will be sent. Burbank has claimed they will be destroyed.

Furthermore, public servants should not be allowed to hide the identify of someone who is breaking the law. Cheever won’t name names, but has come out to say that it was “a chief” and that she would have never sent such a memo without that chief’s instigation.

Chief Burbank has said that he has no intention of punishing or even identifying the “over-zealous employee”, claiming that, “It was an error in judgment, but not a matter that requires discipline.”

The message here from the Salt Lake police is very, very clear: If one of The Blue breaks the law, we won’t even tell you who it was. We are above the laws we enforce. Or perhaps that should be, we are above the laws that we force on you.