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33 Police Officers Fire 600 Bullets into Car Knowing It Contained a Hostage

600 rounds? That is completely insane. No one can ever live after an attack like that. 33 gun slingers? Aweful lot of fire power to take over a car.

An attorney for the family of Misty Holt Singh spoke out on Thursday, asserting that Stockton police used unreasonable force in the July 16th incident when they took the life of this 41 year old mother of two.

Socker mom assassinated by Stockton Police

Holt-Singh was taken hostage by robbers at Bank of the West in Stockton, California, in front of her 12 year old daughter who was waiting for her in the car.
“Misty was crying,” a witness told KOVR. “She was saying her daughter was alone in the car. She said, ‘I don’t want my daughter to see me coming out with you,’ and they said, ‘Don’t worry, nothing is going to happen,’ and they took her anyway.”
Unfortunately it was not only the robbers that Holt-Singh needed to worry about.
Holt-Singh was in the vehicle as the three suspects lead police on a high speed chase which lasted for nearly an hour. The suspects reportedly fired over 100 rounds at officers during the 55 mile incident.
Two other women were taken hostage as well, but were either thrown or jumped from the vehicle as it was speeding from police, both survived.
The beloved wife and mother was ultimately shot at least 10 times- not by the suspects, but by the police- 33 of them, who fired 600 rounds into the vehicle despite knowledge that it contained a hostage. Holt-Singh as well as two of the three suspects were killed in the barrage of bullets.

The family attorney Greg Bentley said in a statement on Thursday that protocol calls for discriminate gunfire and described the 600 bullets shot into the suspects’ vehicle as excessive and unreasonable force.
The department has defended its officers, saying they were worried the violence would escalate.

“According to Chief Jones, at least 10 bullets struck Misty, killing her, and all 10 of those bullets, were fired by police officers.” Bentley stated.

Even if there hadn’t been an innocent hostage, are police such awful marksmen that they require 600 rounds to take down three men?  On what planet could this be considered reasonable?
Jaime Ramos, 19, the sole surviving suspect, has been charged with her murder.
The family of Holt-Singh has not yet announced if they will file a lawsuit against the department.

By Cassandra Rules on October 20, 2014 

Fascist thuggery at US colleges

A conservative activist was kicked off Broward College on Wednesday night after a campus security guard overheard her asking a student if “big government sucks,” a video of the incident posted on YouTube shows.

Lauren Cooley, a 22-year-old field coordinator for Turning Point USA, was at the public university as it hosted a gubernatorial debate between Charlie Crist and Rick Scott.

She spent nearly 90 minutes there asking students “Hey, do you think big government sucks?” as she worked to find students interested in signing a petition to launch a Turning Point student club on campus, she said in an interview with The College Fix.

Turning Point USA is a national nonprofit aimed at galvanizing students to rally for liberty, small government and free-market values, and is pushing a 10-week “Big Government Sucks” campus activism program this fall.

As Cooley was leaving the Davie, Florida campus she saw a male student and asked him if he thought big government sucked, and at that point she was told by a campus security guard that she needed to go to the “free-speech area,” she said in an interview Friday with The College Fix.

She told him free-speech zones are unconstitutional, and she eventually started to walk away when the security guard said “if you just want to hang around I have a supervisor coming,” a four-minute video taken by Cooley shows.

“I don’t really want to hang around so I think I am going to leave,” Cooley replied. 
“Can I have your name, please, or your identification,” the security guard then asked.
“No, I don’t have to give identification,” Cooley said.

“Well, actually you do,” the guard said back. “On Broward College campus, I am allowed to get your identification. If you don’t you are refusing to give me your identification. I need to call a Davie police officer over here, and we can handle it from there if you like.”

“Am I free or are you going to detain me,” Cooley said.

“I am not detaining you, I am asking for your identification,” he said.

“OK, then I am leaving,” Cooley said, and walked off.

As she did so, the security guard used his two-way radio to give a description of Cooley, and he followed her in his golf cart, the video shows. He eventually asks her to stop, and she asks why.
“What have I done wrong,” she repeatedly asked. When he did not respond, she continued walking. That’s when two police cars rolled up.

“Sir, I don’t know what I have done wrong,” Cooley starts up when a police officer gets out of his car and walks up to her. He replied: “I don’t either but I am about to find out. If you are on this campus and you are asked to identify yourself you need to identify yourself.”

Cooley tells him she left her identification in the car, and the policeman then asked the campus security guard, “What’s the issue with her?” The guard explains she’s been asking students “if big government sucks” and that he pointed her to the free-speech area on campus.

“I can’t talk to students?” she asked the officer.

“No, you cannot,” he replies. “You need to leave the campus now. … If you do not leave you will be arrested for trespassing. … Have a nice day and go on your way.”

“Alright,” Cooley said as she walked away. “Remember, big government sucks.”

“Yeah, I know,” the officer can be heard saying in the background.

Cooley, in an interview Friday with The College Fix, said she was frustrated by the incident.
“Broward College, it’s a public school, I live in Broward County, it’s literally the college my taxdollars go to partially fund,” she said.
She said she has actually been on the campus several times on behalf of Turning Point and this was the first time anything “negative” happened.

“I would speculate this happened because of heightened security for the governors debate, but that just shows the larger your government grows, the quicker your rights are violated,” she said.
Cooley, who has been trained on her rights and how to handle interactions with campus security and law enforcement through Turning Point as well as the conservative organization Leadership Institute, said she believes she did nothing wrong nor violate any law.

“The campus security officer thought it needed to be in a free-speech zone, but it’s ironic because everyone walking into the debate hall was talking about a candidate or something political,” she said.
As a result of this incident, she said her group plans to launch a petition on Change.org to ask Broward College to remove its “unconstitutional” free-speech zone.

Broward College representatives could not be reached late Friday for comment.

http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/19760/

High School Student, Forced to the Ground at Gun Point for Not Wearing Seat Belt

By Matt Agorist on October 18, 2014

Waycross, GA — High school senior and community role model, Montre` Merritt’s life was forever changed the night he was thrown to the ground and held at gun point in his own driveway by an rage filled cunt of a police officer.

On January 18, Merritt was pulling into his driveway when a Waycross police officer pulled up behind him and jumped out of his cruiser, pistol drawn.

Merritt was then forced to the ground with the gun pointed at his head, and handcuffed.
Hearing the commotion in the front yard, Merritt’s mother came outside. She asked the officer why her son was lying on the ground in cuffs with a gun pointed at him, and the officer told her that Merritt was driving without his seat belt on.

Immediately following this ridiculous excessive force and violation of rights, Merritt filed a complaint with the Waycross police department.

According to the chief of the department, Officer Cory Gay was found guilty of using excessive force, and he was suspended for five days without pay. Gay was then ordered to take Judgmental Use of Force Training. But Merritt’s family said that’s not enough and Thursday they filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit against the department.

Merritt, who is now in college, says he cannot believe that this happened to him.

Merritt opened up to News 4, saying, “Coming from me being a huge role model in my community, to see my mom witness that. That was one of the most painful things I could ever imagine for her,” he said. “The pain that I still feel. The tears that I still cry. Everything is just real in reality. I have to wake up with this on my heart and on my mind every day, and it hurts.”
Merritt said he still has flashbacks from the incident.

“That night when it happened, I felt like I could have been another Trayvon Martin case,” Merritt said. “And just hearing how Mike Brown went about his case for doing the right thing. He still got shot. I just feel like I don’t want any of my friends or family, I don’t want that to happen to anybody.”

According to a $12.5 million lawsuit filed Thursday by Merritt’s lawyer, Reginald Greene, Merritt is suing the Waycross Police Department, claiming one of their officers racially profiled Merritt, and then used excessive force in a false arrest. The lawsuit also claims negligent supervision, assault and battery, deprivation of civil rights, and causing emotional distress.

Despite having this negative experience, Merritt has managed to find a light in the darkness. He plans on starting a mentoring program to teach kids of all races to know and understand their rights.
Families from Georgia and Florida who’ve lost loved ones through police violence gathered at a town hall meeting in Waycross Thursday evening to discuss the problem of police brutality.

“It’s just a shame that people are killing and killing and ain’t nothing being done about it,” said Sandra Gandy, whose son was shot 12 times by police in 2005. “Police just getting off. And I say that because my son was begging for his life.”

They hate us for our freedoms...hahahahahahaha!

Parking Meter Activists attacked by fascist pigs After Saving Drivers $80,000 in Fines

Stepping in between the State and their revenue stream can be quite hazardous.

Doing good deeds is hateful to those who live for hurting others

Activists in Keene, New Hampshire have adopted a charitable strategy in dealing with unacceptable parking policies that the local government has in place.
For years, groups of Keene residents known as “Robin Hooders” have walked the streets filling expired parking meters with their own money, in order to save people from getting parking tickets.
Occasionally, when they encounter an angry parking enforcer, they are prepared to film the situation with their smart phones.
When the Robin Hooders come across a car that already has a ticket on it, they will place some information on the person’s windshield, which provides tips on how to beat the ticket in court.
Robin Hood activist and radio show host Ian Freeman estimates that they prevented at least 8,000 tickets in 2013, saving Keene motorists an estimated $80,000 in that year alone.  These savings have not gone unnoticed by the local government, who have become concerned about the revenue that they are missing out on.
In 2013, an amusing rivalry between the Robin Hood activists and city employees turned into a legal battle, when parking enforcers claimed that they felt “threatened”, and the city government filed a pair of lawsuits against six Keene activists accused of organizing many of the Robin Hood efforts.
The initial lawsuit would prevent the activists from getting within 30 feet of one of the parking enforcers, while a second lawsuit sought monetary damages.  Both lawsuits were thrown out by a lower court, but the city has appealed, and now the case is headed to the New Hampshire Supreme court.

When asked about the lawsuits, Freeman said that these legal attacks are obviously an attempt to slow down Robin Hood activism and deter people from getting involved, but if anything, this style of activism has become more popular as a result of these lawsuits and the attention that they created.
In an email interview on Sunday, Freeman credited The Free State Project for the success of the local Robin Hood parking meter efforts.  The Free State Project is a plan that encourages freedom-oriented individuals from all over the world to move to New Hampshire, for the purpose of building communities with like minded people.
“Incredible things happen when liberty activists get together.  Numbers make all the difference in what is possible to achieve. Activists who love liberty need to stop making excuses and plan a move to NH, in my opinion,” Freeman said.
There are certainly very exciting things going on in New Hampshire, but those of us who don’t have the option of moving can still try these same techniques in our own communities.  People as far as Poland have been filling parking meters to protect their neighbors from steep parking fines.

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John Vibes is an author, researcher and investigative journalist

Meet Our Ebola Czar: a Bureaucrat with No Medical Experience Who Helped ...

Activist confronts Cop trying to intimidate her

Armed lockdown and typhoid Mary finger pointing: The Ebola Scam

This is what happens to ANYONE even SUSPECTED of being in any kind of contact with yet another SUSPECTED Ebola case in the good ole USA. This is also what martial law looks like in a neighborhood.

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Millions of FEMA coffins to be used at "hermetically sealed body storage" as mandated by the CDC for ebola deaths

Millions of FEMA coffins in dozens of mass open-air storage facilities

In the late 1990s, it was discovered and heavily photographed and filmed that FEMA was stockpiling millions of hermtically sealed coffins in various places around the southern US. No explanation, just there. Okay.

Now, it turns out that the CDC is demanding all ebola deaths be handled by  "hermetically sealed body storage" which, as it happens, is what these turn out to be. They say.

In point of fact, the predictive programming for Ebola starting showing up in the media around that time - 15 years ago, wow! - and has periodically been revived from time to time, lest we forget our conditioning.  At least that is what the demonstrable evidence shows as research has proven on this site and others.

Then we have all those concentration camps and unused prison facilities sitting around and still being built. Are these for the accused of exposure to Ebola, or is that just the cover story for a great culling of free thinkers and individuals who practice critical thinking skills and who refuse to kiss the Satanic butt as so very many others do without hesitation?

Is Ebola the weapon superb for the Martial Law they have been pining for since the 1980s? Or is it, like last year's eviction of 4 million souls from the national parks in 2013, as test run or dry run, prior to something much uglier? For that answer we must wait and see. For a great many level escalations have to pass and come into play for such things to be.

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An executive order mandating total USA compliance to a deadly binary weapon known as an Ebola Vaccine.
A few heavily publicized events that scare the people into taking the needle into their arms, thereby sealing their collective fate.
We also need to see refuseniks getting wasted and hauled off into no access area camps, never to be heard from again. That should get the herd in line.
They need to make the vaccine mandatory for drivers licenses and school attendance, in any EO law.

Doing the above, makes things rather obvious.

we must wait and see. We must push fear out, stay aware and educated and do our own thinking. We must avoid the paid shills and liars in the MSM so we can get to the truth.

And we must be patient.

Don

How they turn people into droids

You were born free … a bundle of tremendous potential.

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You were loved, and loved unconditionally...God, sometimes your parents, and the good of the Earth loved you. They still do, though you forget that from time to time.

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The concept of lack was foreign to you.

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As you grew you started to question the world around you. As well you should.

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You hunted fireflies on warm summer nights and you put them in jars to light your room at night. Every day was a new adventure in learning and joy.

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And the door to your imagination was never locked. Hope sprang eternal and that always.

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Einstein said, “Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.”  But government schools were more interested in you becoming an obedient drone … and they wound up killing your joy of learning. You reacted intuitively to the slave masters.

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You were ridiculed when you challenged the status quo. By the stupid, the power hungry, and those lesser lights who hated your innate brilliance.

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You were judged … and so learned to judge others. The first of many steps to the Fall...

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And so you allowed group mentality to sway your actions and decisions. Another step away from freedom and being an individual.

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The Powers That Be worked very hard to make you believe you have no power, no control. So, you did as you were told, and feared the consequences of what would happen if you did not. You became ruled by fear. Only those with inner strength knew that fear was slavery at its worst.

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But, your beliefs were formed by television programming. And enforced obedience to stunted authority figures who hated the light and free expression as much as they hate anything that isn't soulless as themselves.

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And what your culture says you should believe about God …. pick one. Organized religion made sure your divine relationship with real spirituality was brutally maimed and that always.

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And by what your government wants you to believe about itself, and what you should sacrifice for blind Patriotism. Die for jingoistic slogans, the way of our world in the 21st century.

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You sought news of the world … but were fed propaganda. Those with the truth were bankrupted, sidelined and maligned and slandered. You were taught not to trust the truth but to believe in endless lies.

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You were presented with continuous distractions to keep you from questioning the reality around you. The word amusement means "to not think."

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You were kept deliberately ignorant. Ignorance is slavery, not strength.

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You were given hope … that you could effect change by voting. But hope was crushed when you realized both parties played the same hand.

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So, you joined the rat race as no other options seemed evident. Obey...grovel...consume...die. These became your credos, whether you knew it nor not.

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You were trained to be a consumer. True freedom is a crime to the devils in power.

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You bought into The American Dream. Which, as it happens, no longer exists anymore.

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They fed you poison. Die fucker die! That is the NEW American Dream.

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You acquired debt. Those who owe are never free.

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You ….. conformed. Is it any wonder you feel confused and hopeless? Conformance is slavery of the worst kind: you surrendered your true self to go along with other slaves.

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But … you’ve felt it all your life …. that it’s all just an illusion. And found out that you were one in a million, a rarity. And a target for extermination. The more awake you became, the more the system stomped on every aspect of your being. Only The Holy Lord,  "God" still loved you unconditionally.


You let the past dictate your present, and you worry about your future. But you only have the present … living in the moment is all you can do.  Once you realize no one has power over your thoughts … you will never again act against your will. Like the drunks, you realize all anyone can do is live one day at a time. The system that hates you prevents any real kind of long term planning from ever happening.

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Just remember who you are … the same soul that was born all those years ago (though your years may be closer in age to the hands holding the baby).

But, years of conditioning almost completely eroded your sense of who you are, and the power within you. Don’t you want to change? Will you roll the red die, or the green one?

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It’s your choice, completely. Fight, first for your soul, then your mind, then for what is right and true. For they are all one and the same thing and always have been.

Kentucky Man Arrested For "Terroristic Threatening" After Posting Song Lyrics To Facebook

Submitted by Michael Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
It seems as if the never-ending stream of American plebs being arrested for the most innocuous activities, things that were seen as completely normal just a few years ago, is continuing its irrational march forward toward peak nanny-statism, at which point everything will be criminalized. Apparently, being fascist cunts is okay in our society, but being a harmless citizen enjoying the rights pointed out by the constitution is double plus bad.
This disturbing trend has been a key topic for Liberty Blitzkrieg in 2014. Here are the three most recent absurd cases from July and August alone:
South Carolina Woman Arrested for Cursing in Front of Her Kids
The “Nanny States of America” – Mother Arrested for Allowing 7-Year-Old Son Walk to Park Alone
Connecticut Man Arrested for “Passive Aggressive” Behavior to a Watermelon
The latest incident involves a Kentucky man, 31-year-old James Evans, who was arrested and spent eight nights in jail for posting song lyrics to Facebook. No, this is not a joke. Local station 14News reported that:

Family members say Evans posted the following on Facebook on August 24:

“Student bodies lying dead in the halls, a blood splattered treatise of hate. Class dismissed is my hypothesis, gun fire ends in debate.”

The family says it’s lyrics from the song “Class Dismissed” by the band Exodus.

Mike Drake, the Muhlenberg County school resource officer, says multiple agencies received calls concerned about the post.

So Evans was arrested for terroristic threatening.

The warrant says Evans was arrested because, “he threatened to kill students and or staff at school.”

“Whenever we found out that he actually got arrested for lyrics, we were all shocked,” said Ashelynn. “We couldn’t believe that you could do that or get in trouble for that. I don’t personally agree with the band or the music but I agree that you should have the choice to listen to it if you want to.”

Maybe I’m missing something here, but how is posting lyrics equal threatening to “kill students and or staff at school.” Also, notice how the word “terrorist” is thrown into the charge. As I have said for years, the entire sham “war on terror” will be used to justify putting regular citizens in jail for pretty much anything.
Think eight nights in jail is more than sufficient for this non-crime? Think again. It appears Mr. Evans will be forced to undergo a mental evaluation.
While the lyrics in question certainly don’t leave you with a warm and fuzzy feeling, they pale in comparison to the lyrics I recall listening to growing up and which my classmates recited endlessly. After all, isn’t this supposed to be America. Aren’t we supposed to have a right to offend?
The band Exodus, which composed the song agrees. We learn from Consequence of Sound that:

In response to the incident, Exodus’ manager released a statement, explaining that while the “band does not promote or condone terrorists, threats or bullying,” they are “somewhat baffled by the fact that this man being charged for what seems against his first amendment rights of Freedom Of Speech.”

In a separate statement, guitarist Gary Holt explained that the song “was written as a view through the eyes of a madman and in no way endorses that kind of fucked up behavior. It was the Virginia Tech massacre perpetrated by Seung-Hui Cho that was the subject and inspiration to write the song, one in which we put the brakes on playing it live after the Sandy Hook shooting, as we did not want to seem insensitive.”

Holt added, “As some of us in Exodus are parents, of course these things hit close to home; it’s every parent’s worst fear. These moments are the stuff of nightmares, and life, as well as music, isn’t always pretty. But when we start to overreact to things like lyrics by any band, including Exodus, and start arresting people, we are caving in to paranoia and are well on our way to becoming an Orwellian society.”

Good thing the terrorists didn’t win or anything…

Judicially sanctioned extortion racket

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Elvis Mann said his fine of around $300, when managed by a private probation company, ballooned into almost $9,000. America Tonight

Pay up or pay time: Alabama’s private probation industry

Alabamians who can't pay a fine may end up in a vicious cycle of fees and even jail time – and someone's profiting

August 12, 2014 12:00PM ET

by Sarah Hoye @Sarah_Hoye

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CHILDERSBURG, Ala. – Elvis Mann dropped a freshly sliced green tomato into a skillet, bringing it to life. One by one, he flipped the slabs with a fork, his worn fingers immune to the popping grease.
“It’s a secret recipe,” he said with a thick drawl and flashing a Cheshire Cat grin.
The 55-year-old Mann wasn’t always so carefree. Trouble began in 2006 when the police stopped him for a broken taillight and ticketed him for not having a valid driver’s license. When Mann couldn’t afford to pay the fine, he was told he was on probation.
“They put me on probation for 300 and some dollars,” he said.
Mann was told to report to the small non-descript Childersburg offices of Judicial Corrections Services (JCS), a for-profit company that has probation contracts with more than 100 courts across Alabama. In the areas where it operates, JCS manages the probation of offenders who are unable to pay a ticket in full, collecting the court fine plus a monthly supervision fee.
Unemployed and surviving off disability payments, Mann couldn’t afford the mounting costs. When he didn’t pay up, JCS asked the court to issue a warrant for his arrest.
“I don't think it's right for them to do people like that. You know, if you ain't got the money, you just don't have the money,” Mann said. “And I don't think by putting people in jail ain't going to make them pay the money, you know what I mean? It ain't going to help them.”

'Barely getting along’

In the U.S., a dozen states have private probation services.

America Tonight

Every year, hundreds of thousands of people across the country who are ticketed for minor offenses are sentenced to probation managed by private companies, according to Human Rights Watch. In Alabama, it’s become a vicious cycle of fines, mounting fees and even jail time.
JCS collects fines for violations like drunk driving, speeding or driving without a license, all at no cost to taxpayers. The Atlanta-based company charged Mann an additional monthly fee of $35 and also dug up old fines that Mann owed from past offenses dating back to the 1990s, including disorderly conduct, public intoxication and resisting arrest.
“I was a drinker, heavy drinker,” he said. “I was wild.”
But Mann was a sober, married churchgoer when he started making regular payments to the city – paying down a debt that JCS claimed was almost $9,000. 

Elvis Mann used to be a drinker and had several brushes with the law. But today, he's sober and married.

America Tonight

“That's all I was doing – digging holes, making it deeper and deeper,” he said. “At first, I felt hopeless that nothing could be done.”
Danny Evans, Mann’s attorney, has filed a class-action lawsuit against JCS, accusing it of illegally preying on the poor.
“They pretend that they're a probation service,” Evans said. “In fact, they're not certified as state or federal probation officers. They're not trained as probation officers. What it provides to the city is a collection service.”
Mann said he was jailed for 30 days for non-payment. On another occasion, the Army veteran said JCS told him that if he didn’t pay $600 by the end of the day the town would lock him up again.
“He looked like he was crying,” said Mann’s wife, Rita Mann. “It scared me, ‘cause we didn't have $600. We were barely getting along … making and trying to pay bills.”
Rita Mann was able to borrow the money from her aunt. But she said the monthly JCS bills were unrelenting, even when her husband was in the hospital with an infection and she begged the company for a respite.
“I was struggling. I had to go to the hospital every day for my husband,” she said, her voice quivering. “I almost lost my husband. He likely died. And I explained that to them and they still didn't care. It was all about their money.” 

An 'offender-funded' system

Deaundra Bell, from Birmingham, Ala., said his probation started after police spotted him drinking a beer on a friend’s porch and ticketed him for public intoxication.
“It put pressure on me and my family 'cause I can't provide for them right now,” Bell said. “And it's really hard to get a job and I have bills to pay.”
In Prattville, Ala., Teresa Halston’s three sons have all struggled to make their JCS payments.
“They mail you notices, saying, ‘You've gotta pay this amount of money by this date, or we're gonna put you in jail,’” she said. “They mail you little postcards. I mean, it's just a bombardment. They're bill collectors.”

Hali Woods' family can't afford a new tag for the car, so she now has three expired tag tickets at $186 a piece, she said.

America Tonight

Hali Woods fell into debt with JCS when she was only 16. In August 2013, Woods was ticketed for not wearing a seatbelt. That $25 ticket coupled with court costs ballooned into $300. She paid that off, but is now back at town hall, saddled with another debt because her mother can’t afford a new tag for the family’s only car.
In 2012, Judge Hub Harrington temporarily shut down JCS in an Alabama town, calling the “offender-funded” system a “debtor’s prison.”
“I called it judicially sanctioned extortion racket,” said Harrington, now a retired circuit court judge. “What happens is it's kind of a shakedown, because the individuals are told, ‘If you don't bring a payment I will put you in jail.’”
In the 1980s, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that it was illegal to lock someone up simply because they can’t pay a debt, especially if there hasn’t been a hearing to determine economic status.
“There's nothing legal about it, which is the basis of my opinion. In fact, I think I even wrote something that violations were too egregious and too numerous to mention in the short space,” Harrington said. “They were following none of the procedures set out by the constitution, by the State of Alabama, by the Code of Criminal Procedure.”
JCS CEO Robert McMichael declined America Tonight’s repeated requests for an interview. However, two years ago, he wrote an op-ed saying, “JCS does not levy fees or fines” against those who are “ordered by the court.” He added: “JCS does not have the authority to jail people. Only the judge may do so.”
It’s true that JCS doesn’t directly send people to jail. But that isn’t always clear to the debtor, according to Harrington.
“They use that apparent authority to the utmost to coerce and threaten and extort the people that they're serving,” he said.

Easing the burden

Alabama State Sen. Cam Ward believes private probation companies can serve a useful purpose.
“There's a role for it, because there's a lot of municipalities [that] have no way in the world of collecting a lot of those fines and fees. And that's not fair to them,” Ward told America Tonight. “Privatizing part of it’s fine as long as there's good, proper government oversight to make sure it's being carried out properly.”
Earlier this year, Ward introduced legislation to better regulate the industry, including more oversight and training, which failed to pass.  

Attorney Danny Evans, who has filed a class-action lawsuit against JCS.

America Tonight

“If I get a $100 fine or citation I should be required to pay it and there should be a method to collect it,” Ward said.
But Evans, Mann’s attorney, doesn’t believe a for-profit company belongs in the probation business.
“There's nothing that I can tell you that makes sense about it,” Evans said. “It's a system that's run amok, that is completely ignorant and has no concept or any consideration for these constitutional protections.”
After eight years on probation – six years beyond Alabama’s legal limit – and thousands of dollars paid, Elvis Mann finally won his fight and his fines were dismissed. It’s a small victory Mann and his lawyer hope to build on through the class-action suit for the thousands of others caught in the cycle of debt and unable to dig themselves out.
“When they said I'm dismissed that was the happiest day of my life,” Mann said. “The burden just lifted up off of me.” 

http://america.aljazeera.com/watch/shows/america-tonight/articles/2014/8/12/alabama-private-probation.html

The 4th of July...American style

Harry Reid Issues hate-filled Statement On Cliven Bundy

Note the propaganda talking points in fascist Reids diatribe of hate and slander.

1) "Racists" -. Check
2) "Women" - Check
3) "Children" - Check
4) "playing the race card" - Check

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-04-24/harry-reid-issues-statement-hateful-racist-cliven-bundy