The story reported to Fox News by the Denver Sheriffs Department is that Marvin Booker, 56, was being processed at the jail on the morning of July 9 when deputies used a taser gun to try to control him. He died a short time later.
That’s the official story. The unofficial story is that Marvin Booker was placed in a choke hold by sheriffs deputies and then tased. A fellow inmate thought Booker may have been dead before deputies tased him.
And the quote Fox News received from the Denver Sheriffs department? “But despite the attention the case is getting, the city is urging residents to be patient.”
Now my question for you is, if the Denver Sheriffs Department had one of their deputies killed, do you think they would be patient? Say what you will, but I wouldn’t hold my breath.
I ask the City and County of Denver to have the autopsy of Marvin Booker performed by an independent doctor. The investigation will be as dead as Marvin Booker if it is allowed to be handled internally. Let Denver follow the example set in LA recently and hold our “protectors” responsible for their actions. However, without a video like there was in LA, I don’t expect these cops to see anything like justice. If anything this should be just another reminder of why everyone needs to be carrying a video capable cell phone so crimes like this do see the light of day.
Tags: death, Denver, jail, Marvin Booker, Sheriff
Kate and I have survived another grueling trip to the Caribbean. This time we spent a week in Jamaica at the Couples Resort at Tower Island. I had the opportunity to try SCUBA diving, sailing a Hobie Cat, water skiing, horseback riding and snorkeling. Loved all of it. We ate lots, drank lots, and got a good amount of sun through the week. I would definitely recommend Couples to any couples out there looking for a place to really decompress. When we arrived in Denver this morning it really felt like we had been gone longer than a week. It’s a nice feeling getting back from a trip and not feeling like you need a vacation.
In this modern world of nonsensical political maneuvering the UN is more than willing to impose its will on corporations for carbon dioxide (a greenhouse gas) and sulfur dioxide (an acid rain gas) emissions.
So my question today is, how long before the global busy-bodies decide to impose sanctions or fines against Iceland for their “excessive emissions”?
Yes, I understand that when compared against the aggregate of human emissions that the Icelandic eruption is only contributing a fraction of a percent of emissions to the atmosphere, but the volcano is pumping out millions of tons of water vapor (also a greenhouse gas), carbon dioxide, and sulfur dioxide. When compared to any single emission source, this eruption is in the orders of magnitude of greater emissions. Even if it were associated with a catastrophic accident, no corporation could get away with creating an ash plume that shuts down international air travel for several days or weeks without the politicos demanding someones head on a shiny silver platter.
So with Iceland flaunting any emissions restrictions discussed by the big-heads at Copenhagen, and common sense nowhere to be seen in our current global warming witch hunt, how long can it be before action must be taken against this egregious act of pollution?
The insurance companies should start lobbying for this NOW! Think of the profits to be made when entire countries have to take up insurance policies for protection against their own geology? With the government getting to choose who wins and who loses, this kind of racket starts to sound less far fetched.
I certainly don’t want any of this to come true, but like I said, common sense isn’t an option anymore. What may sound like ranting today may become reality tomorrow. I’m just supplying today’s food for thought.
Tags: Copenhagen, emissions, eruptions, geology, global warming, Government, greenhouse gases, Iceland, UN, volcano
I do not condone what Joe Stack did, but I do understand it. In the same way that I could not condone the homicidal actions of Klebold and Harris, I did understand them. Not everyone is a willow tree that can bend with the storm. Some of us are more likely to break than bend. You can call Joe Stack a coward, but at least he had the conviction to fly the plane into the building himself. The people I would call the cowards are the nameless, faceless, countless bureaucrats that sit in their government offices day after day issuing little pieces of paper that destroy people’s lives with no possible damage to themselves. Well, no damage until someone like Joe Stark breaks and thinks he has nothing left to lose.
My point is, if you truly believe that Joe Stark was a coward and you cannot understand what he did then you are entitled to your opinion. However, if you are engaging in damage control by denouncing a man that fought back against a government that no longer fears its citizens; you are doing no one a favor. I say this because you are not going to soften up the statists attitude toward liberty activists by being tough on someone they broke. The people that count are the people who are mad as hell about our current state of government and while they will not condone Joe Stark’s actions, they also understand them. Take times like this to direct their anger in the constructive direction you want them to instead of blaming a victim of statist violence for breaking and fighting back with violence.
In Liberty, John West
Tags: bureaucrats, cowards, Government, statists, violence
Yep. I’m back at it. Watching what I eat and building up my running to half-marathon distances. Today’s run will be a 9 mile run. Next week 10 miles. I will probably leave my weekend runs at that level for a little while and work on speed from that point. I am already registered for the Colfax Half-Marathon and plan on running in the BolderBoulder and Denver Half-Marathon. I just cannot put in the time it takes to train for a full marathon at this point in my life. Maybe in a few years when my work life can handle it. The biggest problem I have with the training is that I have to run the same distance during the week as I plan on running on the weekend and to run marathon distances I feel you have to train at marathon distances. I don’t have the time to run two hours twice a week. I really do admire people that can put in the time and run like that.
As seen on Twitter:
ProgressNowCO: RT @tweetwtf Big #WTF! Oil & gas companies spent at least $154 million on lobbying in 2009 up 16% from 2008.
So let me get this translated for you. In this recession and with wages being cut all over the business world the politicians are getting a 16% pay raise. Don’t blame the companies that have to pay to protect their interests. Blame the politicians that pull the strings. Then blame yourself for letting them have that kind of power. That goes twice for all of you “progressives” (read “statists”) out there!!
I am disappointed in America today. The SCOTUS has upheld the freedom of expression that campaign finance reform took away from corporations and unions. Instead of taking a really hard look at what the campaign finance problem is, all I have heard today is the usual bickering over how we limit money in politics. WAKE UP PEOPLE!!! Stop playing the shell game the politicians want you to play! Take a step back away from the con-artists table and look at the game. The REAL reason there is money in politics is because the corporations and unions have correctly identified the problem with campaign finance. The politicians have been given or have taken a massive amount of power and now they get to decide who wins and who loses. The corporations and unions are only fighting for survival. If they don’t pay to play, their opponents (often an opposing corporation or union) will pay the piper and make off with the loot. The only way this country will reduce the corruption of our government is to restore the restrictions that had been originally placed on the federal branch of government in the Constitution and Bill of Rights. Remember, if you don’t play a game by a solid set of rules, expect to lose!
Tags: Bill of Rights, campaign finance, constitution, Government, SCOTUS, shell game
Just remember, if you think health care is expensive, just wait until it’s free!!
Indenpendance Institute\’s Take on the Government\’s Health Care Con, I mean Cure. No, I really mean con. Really.
Tags: con, Government, health care, lobbyists, Oregon, special interests
How much longer do you think this house of cards can last? We have a government that no longer bears any resemblance to the Constitution. We have fiat money that no longer bears any resemblance to real money. We have politicians that no longer bear any resemblance to the citizens they are supposed to represent. This country is now a hard-scrabble of good intentions, bad ideas, and down-right thievery.
There is no other way to explain 95% of government spending today. Let’s take money from the working citizens and give it to the retired. Let’s take money from the healthy and give it to the sick. It’s devolved to the point that the politicians have now said let’s take money from those driving nice cars and give it to those driving clunkers. Sooner or later the bill is going to come due and while the politicians say they are not driving us to socialism they are already quickly running out of other people’s money.
The US managed to have a few wars come to it in its first hundred years, but now we have waged wars on foreign soil for almost one hundred years. Our founding fathers warned us that our freedom at home would be lost to the threat of foreign menaces. Each war we fight outside of this country has eroded our freedom at home. With this last war against “terror” our Bill of Rights is threadbare.
Within the US we has seen the evolution of the police forces from sheriffs with little more than badges to para-military police departments in our major cities that would count as a larger military than 75% of the world’s countries. We have the highest imprisonment level of any nation at any time in the world’s history. Even back to Roman times Tacitus’ words ring down to us that “The more corrupt the state the more numerous the laws.”
So I ask you again, how much longer do you think the US can last until we are reduced to a footnote in the textbooks of history?
I don’t think the old gal has much left in her. Now I just cringe every time a politician runs to the public yelling about how the government needs to “do something!!” Necessity is the creed of dictators and the mantra of slaves. If you count yourself as not amongst the sheeple, you need to take a hard look at the necessities our government is operating on right now. I wished I could tell you the answer is that we just need to tell our politicians to stop it but I can’t. Now I think the best we can do is to prepare for the coming collapse in the best way we each know how and then hang on for dear life. Good luck to us all.
Tags: aggression, collapse, constitution, corruption, ecocnomy, failure, Government, military, police, resignation
Mahatma Gandhi once said: “There is no way to peace, peace is the way.”
I really have nothing to add to that, I just want you to think about the words.
With those words, please do not reach for you guns when TSHTF. Reach for your videocamera. Don’t cooperate with your captors or your would-be masters. Video their bad behavior and make sure they cannot hide in the shadows or behind their co-conspirators in the judiciary.
Tags: activism, citizens, failure, Government, non-cooperation, peace, video
