SAN ANTONIO – A San Antonio police officer fired in October 2016 after he allegedly gave a homeless man a sandwich with dog feces had his dismissal overturned by an arbitrator earlier this month.
Bike patrol Officer Matthew Luckhurst won his appeal due to a provision in the local government code that prevents law enforcement from disciplining an officer for conduct that occurred more than 180 days before they are disciplined.
Arbitration documents state that Luckhurst testified the incident occurred on May 6, 2016, when he and two other officers on bike patrol were clearing transients from a parking lot near Houston Street and Interstate 35.
As the officers asked the individuals to leave the area, which was marked with “no trespassing” signs, Luckhurst said he noticed dog feces, condoms, vomit, personal hygiene products and a discarded slice of bread. He said that he grabbed the dog feces with the piece of bread to avoid stepping on it and placed the feces, wrapped in the bread, into a nearby food container which he said he viewed as trash…..Read More
“ ‘We’re all puppets,’ the suspect [Sirhan Sirhan] replied, with more truth than he could have understood at that moment.”
– Lisa Pease, quoting from the LAPD questioning of Sirhan
When Senator Robert Kennedy was assassinated on June 5,1968, the American public fell into an hypnotic trance in which they have remained ever since. The overwhelming majority accepted what was presented by government authorities as an open and shut case that a young Palestinian American, Sirhan Sirhan, had murdered RFK because of his support for Israel, a false accusation whose ramifications echo down the years. That this was patently untrue and was contradicted by overwhelming evidence made no difference.
Sirhan did not kill Robert Kennedy, yet he remains in jail to this very day. Robert Kennedy, Jr., who was 14 years old at the time of his father’s death, has visited Sirhan in prison, claims he is innocent, and believes there was another gunman. Paul Schrade, an aide to the senator and the first person shot that night, also says Sirhan didn’t do it. Both have plenty of evidence. And they are not alone…..Read More
Luiz Edson Fachin, of the Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE), ruled that the PT candidate for the presidency, Fernando Haddad, paid Google to highlight negative content and manipulated searches to point to a website with negative coverage of Bolsonaro.
Google wasn’t fined because they claimed that as soon as they were notified by the court of the irregularities they dishonored the contract.
This is a common practice by Google in the United States.
Google manipulates search results for conservatives and conservative publishers to point to negative articles and hit pieces.
So does Google allow people or companies to pay them in order to manipulate search results or only if they are far left/socialist/communist websites?
Google claims their search results are driven by some sacred algorithm. Then how is it possible that they offered such a service to Socialists?… Read More
In yet another major move from the great folks over at the Lawyers’ Committee for 9/11 Inquiry, Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth, and 9/11 victim family members Robert McIlvaine and Barbara Krukowski-Rastelli, a joint federal lawsuit has been filed to assess any evidence the FBI may have known about that contributed to the destruction of the towers on 9/11 which they may have kept from Congress.
The complaint cites the failure of the FBI and its 9/11 Review Commission to assess key 9/11-related evidence that the FBI can be shown to have had, or been aware of, regarding:
the use of pre-placed explosives to destroy World Trade Center Buildings, 1, 2, and 7;…. Read More
Most Americans would say we have a military for national defense and security. But our military is not a defensive force. Defense is not its ethos, nor is it how our military is structured. Our military is a power-projection force. It is an offensive force. It is designed to take the fight to the enemy. To strike first, usually justified as “preemptive” or “preventive” action. It’s a military that believes “the best defense is a good offense,” with leaders who believe in “full-spectrum dominance,” i.e. quick and overwhelming victories, enabled by superior technology and firepower, whether on the ground, on the seas, in the air, or even in space or cyberspace.
Thus the “global war on terror” wasn’t a misnomer, or at least the word “global” wasn’t. Consider the article below today at TomDispatch.com by Stephanie Savell. Our military is involved in at least 80 countries in this global war, with no downsizing of the mission evident in the immediate future (perhaps, perhaps, a slow withdrawal from Syria; perhaps, perhaps, a winding down of the Afghan War; meanwhile, we hear rumblings of possible military interventions in Venezuela and Iran).
Here’s a sad reality: U.S. military troops and military contractors/weapons dealers have become America’s chief missionaries, our ambassadors, our diplomats, our aid workers, even our “peace” corps, if by “peace” you mean more weaponry and combat training in the name of greater “stability.”
We’ve become a one-dimensional country. All military all the time. W.J. Astore
Mapping the American War on Terror Now in 80 Countries, It Couldn’t Be More Global
By Stephanie Savell
In September 2001, the Bush administration launched the “Global War on Terror.” Though “global” has long since been dropped from the name, as it turns out, they weren’t kidding…. Read More
resident Trump and his Trumpista supporters are making a big deal about Democrats being socialists. They say that if Democrats were to get their way, America would be turned into Venezuela.
What a joke! No, not the part about the Democrats being socialists and turning America into Venezuela. Trump is right about that. It’s a joke that Trump and his Trumpistas are opposed to socialism. The truth is that Trump and his followers are as much socialist as Democrats.
Let us count five ways:
Social Security and Medicare, the two crown jewels of the welfare state. These socialist programs are based on the Marxian idea of taking money from one group of people and giving it to another group of people. They were not part of America’s founding political system. The concept originated among German socialists and was later imported into the United States.
Trump and his followers are as ardent supporters of these two socialist programs as Democrats.
Immigration controls, which are based on the socialist principle of central planning and which are enforced by an immigration police state. For decades, there has been a decades-long, ongoing, never-ending immigration crisis, which includes death, suffering, misery, and the destruction of liberty and privacy. That shouldn’t surprise anyone. Those things come with socialism.
Trump and his followers are as ardent supporters of this socialist program as Democrats.
Public schooling, which is a perfect example of a socialist program. Central planning by local, state, or federal politicians and bureaucrats. State-controlled. State textbooks, curricula, and teachers. Compulsory attendance. Taxation-funded. Regimentation. Deference to authority. Memorization. Ritalin and Adderall. Constant, never-ending education crises.
Trump and his followers are as ardent supporters of this socialist program as Democrats.
Federal Reserve System, which is a system of monetary central planning, a core feature of the socialist paradigm. Constant, decades-long monetary debasement. Financial bubbles.
Trump and his followers are as ardent supporters of this socialist program as Democrats.
The military-industrial complex. As Milton Friedman pointed out, the military is “a socialist activity.” Is it any wonder it is rife with corruption and inefficiency?
Trump and his followers are as ardent supporters of this socialist program as Democrats.
If you’d like to see Republicans and Democrats have a conniption fit, suggest to them that any or all of these socialist programs should be dismantled. The thought of living under freedom, free markets, and a limited-government republic drives both of them crazy….. Read Original Story
Google has been exposed by a new study revealing the impact they had on influencing votes in 2018. Alex breaks down how this Big Tech collusion is larger than most people think.
MFP Commentary: This is the most draconian bill I have ever seen. I can not figure out why we are not talking about arresting the criminal legislators, under a plethora of laws including: treason, USC title 18 sections 241 & 242, and advocating the commision of a crime (Incitement to violate the 2nd amendment the highest law in the land)
Does anyone see the pattern here? First they take your children with CPS with zero due process, now they are talking about taking your guns with zero due process and the “churches” are silent about both abominations of our God given rights.
The censorship that is being conducted (also here) D. is a big reason why bills like this may pass. Why is the “church” asleep at the wheel? Is aiding evil what christianity is all about? It sure looks that way to me. Satan has corrupted our churches to the point that you can’t even recognize them. ~MFP
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) has announced that the Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to begin conducting hearings next Tuesday, March 26, on Senate Bill 7, the Extreme Risk Protection Order and Violence Prevention Act of 2019—otherwise known as a national “red flag” gun confiscation bill. The bill was introduced in the Senate by Marco Rubio (R-FL). If this gun confiscation bill passes the U.S. Senate, it will most certainly pass the Democrat-controlled U.S. House of Representatives, and President Donald Trump absolutely WILL sign it into law.
I am writing this open letter to Senators Rubio and Graham, President Trump and the untold numbers of legislators, judges and lawmen that will be working together to facilitate and execute the confiscation of the arms of innocent American citizens—citizens who have not even been charged with a crime.
I have purchased a full-page ad in the capital city newspaper in my home State of Montana, the Helena Independent Record, in which the following letter will appear this Sunday, March 24. I urge readers to feel free to use, copy, promote, publish, etc., this open letter in an attempt to bring this information to the attention of as many people as possible.
The GOP faithful are mostly in denial about what Donald Trump and many Republican senators are up to. They refuse to acknowledge that Trump, Graham, Rubio, et. al are about to enact a gun confiscation bill that rivals anything in Nazi Germany or Stalin’s Russia.
If S.7 becomes law, NO gun owner (and that means YOU) will be protected from the seizure of their firearms. It will not matter that they have not committed a crime; it will not matter that they have not been charged with a crime; and it will not matter that they have never even threatened to commit a crime. And they won’t even realize that it’s happening until the SWAT team bangs on their door at 5am to seize their guns.
The letter below is an in-depth, passionate appeal to everyone involved to STOP S.7 from becoming law. The letter speaks for itself.
Again, I urge everyone to take this open letter and get it into the hands of as many people as you can. If the American people do not arise in massive numbers against this bill, it WILL pass. We are getting NO HELP on this from the NRA or the vast majority of so-called pro-Second Amendment Republicans. Ron Paul, Gun Owners of America (GOA) and a few others are trying to warn the American people about this communistic bill. But that’s about it…… Read More
