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Bond between police and accusers. Corruption from compensation payments, hush money, extortion, blackmail.
Possible police executions
The Nemesis project
The most important development in connection with police corruption is the Nemesis project.
Scroll down for other police corrruption
We are beginning with California, but would welcome contributions from any US State and from any other Western country. As we can do nothing to influence police executions in many countries, we are interested only in such events in Western democracies.
WARNING. There is a link to a video of a prisoner shooting himself in the Comment below.
California
Sometime in 2003 in Long Beach, California, two police officers shot a 57 year old 350 pound woman whom they claimed had thrown a knife at them when they tried to arrest her for stealing a cart of groceries. The question not answered is why shoot her dead after her knife throw failed, if she did indeed throw a knife.
In 2004 in downtown Wall Mart in Long Beach, a shoplifter had been detained by a Wall Mart security guard, (both men being unarmed) for just over 30 minutes when the police arrived to arrest the suspected shoplifter. They ordered the security guard out of the room shortly after they arrived and in less than five minutes shot the unarmed man in the head, later claiming they feared for their lives. No further information was released.
In (probably) the Fall of 2000, in Hollywood or Beverly Hills, the Los Angeles police responded to a loud party complaint. When they arrived they went around the back without knocking on any door and peered through the windows where a Halloween party was in progress. Inside was a black man dressed as a cop. They shot him several times in the back, later claiming he had pointed a gun at them, despite him being inside in the light and they outside hiding in the dark. His family may have been paid hush money.
Early in 2004 in San Bernardino, county sheriff deputies arrested a man they claimed shot an officer when they responded to his location. The witnessing officers arrested the man and transported him to the main county jail. About four or five hours later, he was found dead in his cell. The police claimed that he had managed to smuggle the very 45 caliber pistol they say he had used to shoot the officer into his cell and had then used it to shoot himself.
(Editor - see below in Comments where a reader has now posted a link to a video of this shooting. We have gone back to the supplier of the original story and asked him to comment on the video. Any other comments? The unedited video of the suicide is HERE.)
In 2004, in La Habra Heights, LA County, a man was shot and killed by more than a dozen LA county sheriff deputies. They reported that they had responded to a call from a hotel where someone said they saw a man with a gun. They claimed that when they arrived, he was shooting at them and that they all returned fire, killing him and one of their own. In the initial story it was claimed that the man had shot the deputy, but one of the local newsmen discovered that all the man had was a broken gun. Once the story of the broken gun came out, the story vanished from the media. Normally when a police officer in California is killed in the line of duty it is headline news for days and the funeral is televised by most of the local stations with thousands of officers from around the state and country coming to the funeral. This funeral received almost no coverage. Some believe that the police officer was executed at the scene for reasons known only to his executioners.
Important note. Any information that will contradict or cast doubt on these stories will be appreciated and published, as will any that supports or corroborates them. See Contact in menu.
It is possible that police corruption in America is out of control, despite attempts by the FBI and other authorities to contain it. The adversarial and prosecutorial ideological environment which empowers police may be fanning the corruption, especially when the legal profession also is infected with a moral prosecutorial bias.
First feedback – end January 2005
From a reader in California
You must also take into account the deliberate propaganda delivered by the media on behalf of its private financial sponsors in the form of the police drama shows. Sponsors also pay to ensure that stories critical of the police are short lived on television news. It would not be good for programming or the prison industry to have stories of brutal police officers or prison guards in the news.
There was a story this week here in California about a prison guard stabbed and killed by an inmate. You can image how it was told - about the dangers of being a prison guard and so on. They did mention the fact that he was the first prison guard killed in the line of duty since 1985. They however did not mention the fact that nearly daily a prisoner in the California prison system is brutally killed in prison, most of them by prison guards. So if you do the maths that is one guard dead in 25 years and over 9,000 prisoners killed. But, these guys are now using the death of one guard to seek even higher pay and much higher benefits.
Here also a brand new 21 year old prison guard in California with 6 weeks of training gets paid much more than even our most senior enlisted soldiers with 30 years of service get paid, and these guys want still more.
Other police shootings
http://www.libertocracy.com/Webessays/police/policeabuses.htm
http://michaelbluejay.com/police/jay.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/273666.stm
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1312923/posts
http://www.massbrutality.org/nephew.html
http://www.papv.org/victims/ellerbe.html
http://www.itsabouttimebpp.com/Links/police_brutality_archives.html
http://www.lubrinco.com/articles/Pittsburgh%20Tribune%20Review%202%20January%202003.pdf
http://www.injusticeline.com/victims.html
http://www.detnews.com/2005/metro/0501/05/B07-50692.htm
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/3981677/detail.html
http://www.civiliansdown.com/Families%20regret%20calls%20to%20police%20after%20teens%20deaths.htm
http://www.post-gazette.com/localnews/20021231boyshotreg2p2.asp
http://www.seidenlaw.com/articles/criminal_defense/Premium_Archive.htm
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04349/426473.stm
http://pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk/sr241/smith.htm
Electrocution without prosecution
The Southern Christian Leadership Conference in Georgia has joined in the campaign against police using stun guns and has called on the US Justice Department to establish national guidelines for these weapons. The organization, co-founded by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., claims that the Taser-type stun guns have been involved in 86 deaths nationally since 1999.
There has been a marked increase in the criticism of Tasers since the death of Frederick Jerome Williams, who had been shocked while in the custody of the notorious Gwinnett County Sheriff's Department last summer.
Tasers fire darts that incapacitate victims with a 50,000-volt shock, and police claim that they are a way of subduing suspects in high-risk situations, but their use is proliferating in the US where they appear to be used also to punish and even execute. Amnesty International claims that at least six people have died in Georgia in the past two years after being shocked with Tasers.
Police corruption in the UK
The most important developments are covered under the Nemesis project.
Police corruption
We may have to remind newcomers that there are a number of ways in which the police may behave to the detriment of our liberty and of justice. Perhaps the most common and damaging is that police tend to be prosecution orientated, not to look for justice or avoid injustice, but to obtain results. This, allied to the tendency of police to identify with populist social ideologies, such as the existence of widespread sex abuse and child pornography, makes them quite dangerous and a threat to family life and individual liberty. A most undesirable development is how the police have been empowered to make moral judgements that writers and other scholars are not permitted to make, such those concerning the morality of human sexual activity and the reality and nature of child pornography. This empowerment to judge social and sexual behavouir creates thought police. A much-overlooked result of all this is that the police are in danger of losing the support of educated people. For example, extreme pronouncements and bullying threats, such as those emanating from UK police Internet censors, have not done much good for the image of the UK police.
Apart from the adversarial and ideological orientation of the police, there is great scope for police corruption. Some of this is legal corruption (legal for the police) and some is illegal. At the legal end we have police prowling the Internet chat rooms, setting up stings, both to trap individuals into looking for child pornography and to create ‘cyber minors’ looking for sex with adults. The ‘cyber minors’ are of course police men and women pretending to be children. This process has become known as using ‘Honeypots’ to trap would-be offenders. It has resulted in the extraordinary situation that most of the ‘child pornography’ going onto Internet sites is being put their by police forces or their accomplices to entrap individuals.
Sex abuse and child porn cases are very popular with the police. There is little or no danger for them in such cases, as violent criminals are not involved – indeed, the opposite, often helpless older men. In the current environment, the chances of prosecution are high, and the police may gain popularity from the ‘moral indignation’ of society against child sex abusers. There is also the opportunity for positive exposure in the media, especially where well known people are involved.
The opportunities for corruption
Both sex abuse and child pornography cases offer opportunities for criminal police corruption. For example, from the very beginning of a sex abuse complaint, a bond may be established between the police and the accuser or accusers. It may be between the accusing female or her mother and the policewoman to whom they bring the complaint. The police will be predisposed to the idea that sex abuse is rampant, which, allied with the opportunity for easy conviction, enhances the bond with the accuser. This may partly explain the notable absence of any sense of justice or fair play in the attitude of the police towards the accused. How often we see how the police treat false accusations as probably true. Similar criticisms can be made of social services personnel. What we are seeing here is the absolutist viewpoint, which can spread to the legal profession and to the court and juries. A good example of how absolutism makes corruption easier, and even disguises it, is the number of Swedish administrators and social workers who have, or have had, connections with the profitable foster home industry into which they have been committing children.
Opportunities for corruption abound. It is now known that individual members of the police routinely sell stories of sex abuse and the discovery of child porn downloaders to the newspapers. The higher the profile of the accused, the bigger the fee. As a result, an accused person can be ruined, whether innocent or guilty, although by now anyone reading the contents of this web site will know that being accused in the first instance can make guilt or innocence largely irrelevant. This corruption has been made all the more grotesque by newspapers following up exposes of accused persons with further stories of the payment of ‘hush monies’ by the accused to the accusers in exchange for the accusations being dropped. In the politically correct language of our absolutist society, blackmail and extortion have become ‘hush money’. Some of the extortionists go on to become ‘media celebrities’, spokespersons for other victims - thus the expression 'celebrity victim'.
Being paid to leak stories is just one part of a corrupt process. The bond between accusers and the police can lead to other possibilities. There are opportunities for some accusers to obtain compensation, whether or not a conviction is obtained, especially where a large institution, such as the Catholic Church, is involved. If the police deal roughly with a frightened accused, a word dropped into the ear of that accused may indicate that the accuser will drop the accusation in exchange for a certain sum in compensation, such as the ‘hush money’ mentioned above. If the police do a thorough job and find other witnesses, or corroboration, or manage to get the accused to incriminate himself during the interviews, a conviction in court may be much more certain. Where the accused is a good ‘financial mark’ or a member of a religious order or church, civil compensation following conviction could be very great indeed. Whether or not a case goes to court and results in conviction, where compensation or ‘hush money’ are obtained the accusers may have much to thank the police for.
In Ireland it is known as the ‘brown envelope’ after numerous instances where politicians and planners accepted bribes in plain brown envelopes. Where a state’s leaders do it blatantly, police and minor officials follow. Where the case has gone to court and the accused convicted, resulting in a large compensation award to the accuser, there is virtually no way to know if a brown envelope has passed also to the police person involved.
Now that the sex abuse moral panic is being replaced by that of child pornography, the police have new and even safer corruption possibilities, in which the third party of ‘the abused victim’ is not involved. After finding child pornography on a computer, or causing it or a child solicitation to be there through a sting, police are in an ideal situation to solicit brown envelopes, from hapless prey. We have already heard of innocent individuals receiving unsolicited messages from ‘cyber-patrol’ companies warning them that illegal images have been planted on their hard drives and offering to remove them for a fee. If those innocents have been visiting any porn sites they will feel very vulnerable indeed. Even if they have not, a leak to the media or police could ruin them. The extortionists planting the child porn images have to have a supply of such images. The police have a huge supply, and a large number of policemen have already been convicted for privately indulging in the genre. The ‘Honeypot trap’ scheme has expanded the potential for this corruption further. We already have evidence that in certain countries police and related child rights organizations employ both official prosecution and extortion against alleged offenders, using the second both as an alternative to prosecution and even in addition to it. One easy way is for the police to ask the accused to make a contribution to the alleged victim through the child rights organization, or in cash to a third party.
As with other past scandals, when society decides that the time has come to re-examine the obsession with sex abuse and child pornography, and the police are divested of their powers of moral judgement, then, and only then, will the reality of police corruption be faced. Meanwhile, more people must be prepared to take a stand and denounce it.
As more information comes into us, such as in the cases under ‘People in trouble’ above, we may be in a position to reveal more. We can also be reached over Hushmail and can send our Hushmail email address to anyone who wants to send us a protected message. Just ask us for it through Contact in menu.
The extent of the corruption
When Jack wrote to the US writer Paul Craig Roberts about the injustices he had experienced in the US, this was the reply he received:
Dear Jack
I think all child porn sites are run by the police. Perhaps the browser hijackers are also police. I have no way to help you. The US has the largest prison population in the world, both in absolute number and as a percentage of the population. Amazing. I think most are innocent. Prosecutors and police justify their budgets with high conviction rates. Only 5% of cases go to trial. Rest are coerced pleas.
Paul Craig Roberts
Most of the child porn available to non-police has long ago either vanished or gone well underground – often literally, but the police who carry out stings use the huge hoards of mainly child nudity and erotica that they have seized for the stings they carry out to entrap people, and some of them use it for private extortion. This should surprise no-one. In some of the SEA countries where our writers have been at work, the prostitution industry itself is run by the local police and sometimes by powerful government ministers. We must also constantly remember that prosecutors and police are paid for by the state, so the adversarial system is hard wired against innocent citizens.
Are the police stealing equipment?
Questions are asked about what the police are doing with seized equipment.
Here is a typical case.
Dear Editor
I was arrested in (xxx) as part of Operation Ore. I had no idea what was going on and have, naturally, contested the allegations all the way along. After three referrals to the CPS where, as far as I can tell, the CPS told the police to 'go back and try harder' the CPS has now decided not to prosecute. I only heard this last Monday and still don't know exactly why they decided this (no case, not winnable, not in the public interest etc.)
But, and this is what I would like your help with if possible, my solicitor tells me that the police intend keeping my computer. Can they do that?
Best wishes
PC Owner
We passed the request to our panel and here are the responses:
Response 1.
The police cannot keep his PC. Mine was returned even before it was decided to drop my case. He should get his lawyer to start harassing them.
I'm glad his case was dropped.
It is well documented that the police targeted (high profile people and those likely to be the most severely damaged buy the publicity)
Response 2.
If there are no charges in play, the computer is yours and short of a court order, you have an absolute right to it.
It is quite typical for the police to 'try it on', and they have often been particularly partial to video cameras, but your solicitor should write a letter to see that your computer is returned to you. In the event of a court order for destruction, this should only apply to the hard disk, not to the computer. I did go through this, and even while the investigation was in play, a client of mine instituted legal proceedings against the police as I needed data from one the computers to work on, and because what they sent me was not enough, legal proceedings went in to recover my programming computer. Confronted with the law, my Ore case was over within 3 days of legal force being applied.
The CPS must be well aware that these cases are facing increasing challenge. The police do not use discretion; anything they decide to consider as incriminating is reported to the CPS and, quite routinely, prosecution ensues almost regardless of there being any case at all.
Solicitors let people down very badly: in fact the whole system collapsed. If you are armed with knowledge, justice is available to you. For example, if the police said to me, they found illegal images and could not give me my hard disk back, I would ask if they would delete these images before returning the computer, as, regardless, the computer is not their property and they would have to apply to the court for the right to destroy it. If they sought to keep it, that is plain old theft.
These cases are massively challenging for the accused. I take this opportunity to wish you well, and of course, no end of support is out there if you need help or even just wish to let off steam for the madness that has been running riot in these cases.
PC Owner responds
Dear
I'm sure you are right that the police or their agents have the technical ability to delete specific files without reformatting the hard drive, but I can't get away with just saying 'oh yes you can'. Do you know where I can find chapter and verse on how they do it and, of possible, where and when it has been done before?
Response 2A.
First and foremost, if you are not being charged, the computer is yours, the police are not exempt from the theft act. If they want to charge you for what is yours, and on a fraudulent basis, that is of course also, a simple criminal issue.
I am a programmer, Encase will give the locations of the data concerned, and it is not big issue to overwrite any part of a sector. If a police forensic officer suggested to the contrary, no ifs or buts, any cases they have worked on should be re-examined and I would be happy to file a formal complaint. Unless you know what code can do, you should not be in forensics, period.
To comment specifically, I don't know where these images were recovered from. If the images are deleted, standard wiping software will overwrite the data. If it is in un-allocated or cluster tips etc, that is simply overwritten with a $20 program and they can prove it with Encase if they wished to. It is far cheaper to repair the computers than destroy them overall, so there is not even a logical basis for destruction.
If you were arrested as part of Operation Ore, the officers are automatically suspects in the largest crime this century. So, if the police say they cannot wipe out the suspect data, the answer is a question, why not, what is the problem?
If they say the counter forensic software doesn't work, don't believe them, they will nearly all remove the image residues if used correctly.
If they say it cannot be done, they are bluffing; you simply say you would like to take independent computer advice. Any serious computer programmer or defence expert should give the same advice as I have.
I can read a sector from a hard disk and write back anything I want. Encase does sector grabs, but the police use a hardware write block to prevent any changes being written back.
The nasty issue for them is they wouldn't like to admit that cleaners do anything. If they don't like that idea, if they provide me with the physical locations and sizes, I can supply a program to you that will specifically purge any data of interest to the police.
They can only destroy your equipment with a court order, and they are fully accountable for damage and consequential damage. More important, it is not just a civil issue, the computer is yours and attempts to permanently deprive you of it is plain old theft.
The destruction of computers was just part of the theatre of this criminal operation, and actually with a sinister imperative too. It will in due course be exposed, and those who stand by it, are at risk of going down with it.
Response 3.
I'm no legal expert, but I would have thought that the police had no right to confiscate computer equipment like that.
If the case is clear cut, it might be best to ask for a legal opinion on how to proceed. If all else fails, presumably it's possible to sue the police? If not then the police can take whatever they want.
Response 4.
Not really my area but in a similar situation at Leicester yesterday (1/11/05) the prosecution offered no evidence and there was then some discussion regarding the seized property. The judge indicated that it should be returned to the defendant, but since there were images of CP on two of the drives (each 10 GB), the police should wipe them before returning them. He asked the defendant if there were any files of value to him on these drives and, if so, to tell the police who would copy the files for him before wiping. The defendant indicated through his Counsel that he wanted nothing further to do with these drives and the judge then instructed that he sign a disclaimer for the police so that they could wipe/destroy them.
From this I assume that if no evidence is offered, then ALL of the seized property should be returned to the owner.
Hope this helps.
From PC Owner.
After he tried to have the equipment returned. Edited selected comments only so as not to reveal his identity
Thank you, and everyone else who has written, for your help and guidance. I had my meeting yesterday. The policewoman was late, and when she did arrive she was insulting and arrogant – “If you don’t like it, sue us – no problem!” And “You don’t know how lucky you are to have got away with it.”
She claimed that said they had found a few images that they 'could prove' were children, but it would be a minor infringement that would be dealt with at Magistrates Court level and even in the event of a conviction the punishment would be ‘nominal’. And then the choice one. It was felt by the CPS that a prosecution would be an abuse of my human rights under Euro legislation and thus it was not in the public interest to proceed.
But I can’t have my PC back because they say it has illegal images on it and they can’t be deleted without wiping the whole of the hard drive. I may be able to get copies of the non-contentious files but, it seems, I may have to pay a fee for that.
So it drags on, but at least I’m not under arrest anymore.
Response 4.
In response to the above. This is utter nonsense. If they do not have the technical ability to wipe the image footprints, then I would like to examine all cases these people have worked on. What has been asserted is untrue.
Response 5.
If they sought to retain the computer, without a court order, then that is theft. If they said they had to keep the whole computer because it had images on the hard disk, firstly that is a lie, and secondly what happens when British Telecom blocks a site, do the police move in to take BT's computers away? They are simply failing to uphold the law.
Erasing specific areas of a hard disk is not a problem. Even if they don't have a special program for the job, they can use disk cleaners like so many others.
I have a computer here back from a customer with CP on it. It is an old computer so it is not worth rebuilding. I asked the local police to collect it. They said they had plenty already and didn't want any more.
Response 6.
This is an issue that is part of a scam. As you know, the police have been stealing equipment and selling it on.
The destruction of computers was just part of the theatre of this criminal operation, and actually with a sinister imperative too. It will in due course be exposed, and those who stand by it, are at risk of going down with it.
The sinister imperative is simple and I was well aware of the issue the first time I heard of it. Imagine if I was busted in Operation Ore, sent to jail, the works, whatever. Say I am innocent, so I get in a forensic expert to clear my name. Now we have a problem, Blunkett's law says I have to prove I am innocent and the police have destroyed the evidence. Simple con trick. As there is no reason to destroy the computer, the police have no defence for this.
If challenged they will panic as it is all part of the scam. The symbolism of the theatre is of course very useful to them also. Look, this is so nasty that we have to destroy it. Utter nonsense, as usual.
Response 7.
Thanks for the news.
This is a climb down and no matter how they try to justify it, it represents different 'justice' for different people. Is this because the suspects (victims?) are becoming better informed and more capable of putting up a fight? Or are they running increasingly scared that someone WILL take it to the European Court of Human Rights and blow the whole disgusting mess sky high?
The policewoman’s observation that they could 'prove' the images were of children typifies the whole approach. From a forensic point of view the images are not the point at issue - the questions are how did they get there and what has happened to them since? I wonder if she knows what 'mens rea' means? Perhaps she'd be happier with 'women’s rear'?
As for the suggestion that they can't wipe the images without wiping the hard drive - that is complete garbage! If they can find them, they can overwrite them. If I had a drive with 10 images on it (all presumably identified by their sector location address) I reckon I could remove them within half an hour at the most (and I'm reckoned to be slow).
At this point in time if there are no charges then the equipment belong to him. He should insist that they remove the pictures (and only the pictures) and then return the equipment to him. If they subsequently screw the equipment (as has happened in other cases) they should be made to pay compensation for it.
The attitude of this woman makes me very angry. What is she trying to do - get an OBE? Heaven preserve us from another (her name removed) clone.
Is it too much to hope that this interview he had with her was taped? If so I'd ask for a transcript and get legal advice on what sounds like serious harassment. The time has come to go on the attack and show up these mealy-mouthed pipsqueaks for what they are!
One final question - are Amnesty International aware of the corruption and manipulation that goes on in this small corner of so-called British Justice?
End of soapbox oration . . .
Editor response
“Are Amnesty International aware of the corruption and manipulation?”
I looked into this for Cambodia and elsewhere and discovered that Amnesty International was infected with PC and in places such as SEA with militant feminism also. To the best of my knowledge Amnesty International does not assist those accused of child sex abuse, whether innocent or not.
Worse, they don't want to know about it.
Response 8.
I don't know if you got the message, but a leading defence expert has confirmed the ridiculous assertion of the police. There is no problem with deleting specific images.
You might like to request a letter from a defence expert, regardless, as a simple overwrite is sufficient to remove Encase access to such images, though it is equally simple to do a defence level wipe preventing any equipment from being able to recover any history of the image data.
If the police have a problem, I am quite happy to visit the police station to wipe the data for you. There is no need to look at any images to do this, as there are numerous ways to achieve the desired results.
It can be done by manual programming via the windows API, or DOS boot via bios irq 13, or via disk editor or via personal security software as per the link I sent you. A DE or another programmer might have further suggestions.
It isn't actually an issue, except that the police have clearly sought to intimidate you.
From PC Owner
Image Footprints
Dear (last responder)
I'm sure you are right that the police or their agents have the technical ability to delete specific files without reformatting the hard drive, but I can't get away with just saying 'oh yes you can'. Do you know where I can find chapter and verse on how they do it and, of possible, where and when it has been done before?
Dear Editor
I am now advised that the Metropolitan police want to charge me for copies of the files I need to recover from the computer, which they are determined to destroy despite all the advice I have received from experts here.
I have written to someone at Met Evidential Services, today, as follows:
Dear Mr. K…….
I have been asked to write to you regarding provision of copies of files on a computer of which I have ownership and you have possession.
I regret that no one has provided me with any reference to facilitate your identifying which computer this is. I can tell you that DC D ….. was the officer in charge and that you must have written to my solicitor, C…. S…. of D…. about this recently.
I understand that you would like to charge a fee for sending me copies of files and, tempted as I am to discuss the lawfulness of that here, I don't expect that you are interested.
I have not seen my computer for 20 months, so I am sure you will appreciate that I cannot give you, off the top of my head, precise file locations for that which I wish to recover. I should like to say 'delete those files which you consider to be unlawful (I understand there are less than ten and they are in the cache)', but I am advised that this is beyond your competence. I don't understand why it is beyond your competence, but that is another issue I don't expect you to be keen to debate.
I am only interested in files from the Dell computer. The disembodied hard drives were nothing to do with me and can happily be destroyed.
So, how to proceed?
Please send me a copy of your fee scale so that I can decide whether to ask for 'My Documents' or specific elements therein.
Please provide a directory tree of the Dell PC, so that I can identify which files I really want.
In the event that you are unable to provide a directory tree, please tell me how I am supposed to be able to tell you which files I need.
TIA
Best wishes
(Name removed here)
Copied to solicitor.
Police stings
While police stings are legal, they are both highly unethical and a temptation for police to use them for blackmail. The following is just an example of how a legal sting can work.
Ridin' Low meets Becky Boo
A trial has begun in Brisbane Australia of immigrant Irfan Azeen Mohammed who was caught in a chatroom ‘grooming’ a 13-year-old Brisbane schoolgirl by the name of Rebecca Williams, who was using the chatroom user name of ‘Becky Boo’, while he used that of ‘Ridin' Low’.
From what is transpiring in court, Ridin' Low became quite excited by his interaction with Becky Boo, especially when she sent him her picture, which was really one of the singer Sophie Monk (picture is above), but looked like a well-developed schoolgirl. As things got hotter he asked for her bra size and requested that she wear tight white pants and a pink G-string. Finally, he arranged to meet her.
Ridin' Low was a much more appropriate name for the unfortunate Mohammed than Ridin' High would have been, because the Becky Boo that had been playing with him in the chatroom was in fact a female police officer from the Crime and Misconduct Commission conducting a covert computer operation – a sting. When he arranged an assignation with Becky Boo at South Bank Parklands he walked into a police stakeout and was arrested. It was another triumph for the Brisbane police force.
An outraged citizen has written us suggesting that a campaign be begun to warn Australians about the dangers of expressing their ‘dirty thoughts’ on the Internet.
This is another example of the expansion of police powers into thought control. But it raises many questions about the legality of a policewoman posing as a schoolgirl and encouraging a man to express fantasies.
It should also give many of our absolutists food for thought. The legislation started out as protecting children. Look at what it is now criminalizing. A close reading will reveal that imaginative works of fiction are next.
New Zealand police caught exchanging pornography
Just when New Zealand was undergoing another moral panic over child pornography and its new draconian grooming laws, 327 police staff, including a superintendent and three inspectors, are under investigation after auditors found sexually explicit email images in their work accounts. Amongst the pornography senders and receivers were 40 women police officers and civilian women staff members
According to Police Commissioner, Rob Robinson, ‘some of the officers caught’ may face criminal prosecution and possible dismissal as a result. He admitted to local media that some of the 5,000 images discovered ‘are not mere nudity, but sexually explicit images of sex acts’, some of them ‘abhorrent’ and ‘shockers’.
This comes at a bad time for the police as the NZ government has just announced that it is restarting an inquiry into the handling of rape complaints by the police. The original inquiry was launched after two women alleged that police investigators had covered up their rape accusations against fellow police officers. Now several other women have made similar allegations against the police.
Editorial comment
This should come as no surprise. Some US commentators believe that the police control virtually all of the available so-called ‘child pornography’ in the western world. Special sections of police forces legally employ child pornography in stings to catch down loaders. They also surf and trawl web sites dealing in adult pornography for possible underage erotic or pornographic images, or borderline images, or for links to illegal sites. The article on censorship under the ‘Threats to liberty’ section in menu on left suggests that censorship can corrupt the censor. Consider the possible affects of the power given to insensitive police to censor the sexual morality of citizens. We saw what happened with male and female prison officers in Iraq. Imagine if they had also been empowered to police sexual morality.
Attorney-General Michael Cullen said that the commission of inquiry looking into the possible cover up into allegations of rape against police officers would now also take into account a separate examination of police culture, sparked by the email scandal. He added that there was a potential link between police culture and the commission of inquiry's scope of how police responded to sexual assault allegations and whether the people making them were treated appropriately. Translated into English, do the police privately snigger at rape and other sex crimes?
There can be little doubt that the child pornography laws have corrupted many police officers and also opened up new opportunities for extortion.
Imagine the ribald laughter of these custodians of our morality as they sent each other pornographic images!
Police corruption in Florida
This is an invitation for Americans in Florida to stand up and fight police and administration corruption in that state. They can do it either in confidence or in public. We have one man prepared to stand up and name himself and it is hoped that others now will join him, anonymously or otherwise. In this way perhaps ‘regime change’ can be brought about in this corrupt state.
J. Andy Gallogly owned a night club in Tampa Bay Florida for seven years. He claims that before he ‘even opened the doors’ that he was informed by a sheriff’s deputy, named Rocky Rodriguez, that there would be narcotic trafficking in the club. We need to be clear on what he is actually saying to us. He claims that he was not simply informed that there would be narcotic trafficking in the club, but that a named person from the sheriff’s office threatened him that there would be narcotic trafficking in the club he was about to open. As this story unfolds we will reveal the name of that person.
It appears that the way the drugs trafficking works is that the dealers use club strippers and other less than credible people working or visiting the club, in particular convicted felons, to sell the narcotics to club patrons. These people are too scared to turn on their dealers. J. Andy claims to have reason to believe that a person or persons in the sheriff’s office were the drug dealers in his club.
Shortly after he opened, he received numerous reports that the dealing was taking place. His strippers confided to him that they were being pressed into selling drugs and wanted to report their coercers but that there seemed no one they could turn to for help. He called the Sheriff’s office to report the criminal activity and when two officers arrived at the door he begged them to come inside to stop the drug dealing, but they replied that as it was private property there was nothing they could do ‘and took off in their cruiser’.
He then went to the FBI to report the activity. Their advice was to tell the Sheriff’s office. He replied, “It is the Sheriff’s office that is doing the dealing.”
Right after going to the FBI, he began to receive death threats. He says, “One of the drug dealers got in
my face and said I was playing both sides of the law.” Another went to his accountant and told her that he, J. Andy, was a racist. This guy also claimed to be Keith Hamilton of Florida’s ABT (Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco), and demanded to see his accounts. The accountant described him to J. Andy, who recognized him and later confronted him in the club. He was not Keith Hamilton of Florida’s ABT, but according to J. Andy a dealer who had the protection of the Sheriff’s office.
Then a gun was planted in J. Andy’s apartment in Saint Petersburg and so he reported this to the FBI. As before, nothing happened.
J. Andy claims that in the seven years that he owned the club he witnessed extortion, prostitution, planting of evidence, narcotic trafficking, perjury, grand theft, mail tampering, and assault, and claims that these were done ‘under the protection of the Hillsboro Sheriff’s office’.
He has since closed the club and filed a suit. If anyone can supply further information to help confirm or refute these claims, they could be making not only a contribution to this one Tampa Bay case but to the long battle ahead to restore justice to the United States of America. They should contact the Nemesis project.
Police corruption
Come into my parlour said the spider
A charter for racketeers
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