Liberty Maven

Following an earlier Liberty Maven article (Mayor’s Dogs Shot Dead By Police, Drug War Victim?) is an article on Disloyal Opposition entitled “Maybe cops and dogs don’t mix so well” recounting several more stories of police officers gunning down our innocent canine friends.

Twice in recent days, police officers have gunned down family pets in incidents where the animals posed little or no clear threat to humans. The killings raise serious questions about law enforcement attitudes toward the use of force, law enforcement attitudes toward the general population and the potential for violent confrontations between police and the people they are supposed to protect.

In Park Forest, Illinois, police investigating a burglary entered the yard of the Walker family with a police dog in tow. Princess, the Walker’s German shepherd-pit bull mix, apparently smelled the police canine on the other side of the door and scratched to be let out. Thinking the dog needed to answer a call of nature, the Walkers’ 10-year-old son opened the door, at which point Princess ran to investigate the intruders.

One of the officers promptly shot the dog with his service revolver.

According to the Southtown Star, “Walker said the bleeding dog crawled back into the house, spilling blood everywhere, including on the hands of Walker’s two stunned children.”

Princess died of blood loss.

The sad stories go on and on.  Continue reading here.

D o w n s i z e r – D i s p a t c h

Quote of the Day: “Under democracy, one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule – and both commonly succeed, and are right.” Source: “Minority Report” (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997 [1956]), p. 222

Subject: A state of permanent preparedness for impeachment

It’s Election Day. What should we say about it? We’re tempted to declare it a day of mourning, but instead, we’re going to argue that today is the day to adopt a state of permanent preparedness for impeachment.

As of yet, neither a Democrat nor a Republican has been elected President. That outcome will be revealed later today. But before that happens, we should commit ourselves to closely monitor the actions of the new President, and to be ready to call for his impeachment, should that become warranted.

We should be prepared to do this regardless of partisan loyalties.

What warrants impeachment? Different people will have different standards. We plan to maintain a running “bill of impeachment,” listing broken laws, Constitutional violations, and abuses of power. It will be up to you to agree or disagree with the items we choose to list, and to decide whether or not any one item or group of items justifies impeachment.

It’s possible, given your level of sensitivity, that the new President could do something on his first day that would immediately warrant impeachment in your eyes, or that he will never do enough bad things to justify such an action.

The call will be yours.

Some people reasonably object that impeachment is too vulnerable to partisan ax grinding. There are also many things for which a president could be impeached of which the impeachers themselves will be guilty. It is precisely these concerns that prevented us from advocating the impeachment of President Bush. But . . .
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Thirteen year old Jack Theisen in Madison, WI had to make a quick decision when he spotted two men casing his home:

Madison (WKOW) — 13 year old Jack Theisen had to make a quick decision when two would-be robbers were in the process of coming through an unlocked, basement door, and Theisen was home alone.

Theisen grabbed his Red Ryder model BB gun and shot the first invader in the shoulder, scaring off both men.

“He’s resilient,”  Jack Theisen’s father, Mike Theisen told 27 News.

Mike Theisen said his son, an eighth grade student at St. James Catholic School, has taken a hunter safety course and is proficient and safe with guns.

Theisen said his son spotted the two men as they cased the front of the house on Sherman Avenue, perhaps believing the house was empty since most of the lights were out around 8 p.m. Oct. 9.   Theisen said Jack Theisen then watched the men make their way to the home’s side entrance.

While the Political Correct agenda would be to counsel the boy to never point a gun at someone and to “run away” from all threats, I commend this young man for using his wits (along with his toy gun) to protect his home.  As beautifully explained in A Nation of Cowards by Jeffrey R. Snyder, to protect one’s property and family is to protect one’s dignity:

Crime is not only a complete disavowal of the social contract, but also a commandeering of the victim’s person and liberty. If the individual’s dignity lies in the fact that he is a moral agent engaging in actions of his own will, in free exchange with others, then crime always violates the victim’s dignity. It is, in fact, an act of enslavement. Your wallet, your purse, or your car may not be worth your life, but your dignity is; and if it is not worth fighting for, it can hardly be said to exist.

Personally, I would be proud to have a son like Jack.

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My purpose for writing this is that I view it as what should be a major political event, but instead I find there is a mainstream media blackout. As you read, understand to my knowledge there is only one corporate news agency that has reported this (FOX) has reported anything, and it was 5 days after the McKinney announcement. I want to know the truth, were people executed by the government during the Hurricane Katrina relief effort? I think that everyone can still remember how incapable that relief effort was. Please keep in mind that I do not pretend to know the truth here, I am just doing my best to document and report.

by Jake, the Champion of the Constitution
Originally published October 5, 2008 at http://www.nolanchart.com/article5123.html

OAKLAND, CA – Cynthia McKinney, Green Party Presidential candidate, charged the Department of Defense with the cover-up of 5,000 execution-style deaths during the chaotic aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in September 2005 on September 28.  She related that an anonymous mother told her that her son had processed 5,000 corpses, mostly male, with a single bullet wound to the head and entered the results into a Pentagon computer.  The mother stated that the son had signed a confidentiality agreement and could not legally talk, and that the bodies were dumped into the swamp.  Listen to her statement here.    (photo)

The total death/missing toll of Hurricane Katrina was 2,541 per Wikipedia.

McKinney said in the same statement she did receive confirmations from “anonymous insiders” from the Red Cross and that McKinney said she suspected these 5,000 were prisoners of the state.

The federal government did not offer proof to the contrary.  Lieutenant Colonel Les’ Melnyk stated that “The claim is outrageous on the very face of it and doesn’t merit any further consideration.  It would be inconceivable that 5,000 people would go missing in America without anyone noticing it prior to this.”

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Are the days of being stopped, questioned, and possibly charged for a “pre-crime” nearing reality?  Yes, says New Scientist.

‘Pre-crime’ detector shows promise

Last year, New Scientist revealed that the US Department of Homeland Security is developing a system designed to detect “hostile thoughts” in people walking through border posts, airports and public places. The DHS says recent tests prove it works.

Project Hostile Intent as it was called aimed to help security staff choose who to pull over for a gently probing interview – or more.

ommentators slated the idea that sensors could spot people up to no good from their pulse rate, breathing, skin temperature, or fleeting facial expressions. One likened it to the “pre-crime” units that predict criminal behaviour in the movie Minority Report.

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At an equestrian centre in Maryland, 140 paid volunteers walked through a pair of trailers kitted out with a battery of FAST sensors, including cameras, infrared heat sensors and an eyesafe laser radar, called a Bio-Lidar, that measures pulse and breathing rate from a distance.

Some subjects were told to act shifty, be evasive, deceptive and hostile. And many were detected. “We’re still very early on in this research, but it is looking very promising,” says DHS science spokesman John Verrico. “We are running at about 78% accuracy on mal-intent detection, and 80% on deception.”