Sunday, January 9, 2011

Open Letter to Sheriff Clarence Dupnik...Tucson, Arizona

An Act of Violence in Arizona
Sheriff Clarence Dupnik Blames Vitriolic Media!

Yesterday, January 8, 2011, in an act of violence in Tucson, Arizona, 6 people were killed including a Federal Judge and a 9 year old girl, Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was critically wounded and a total of 19 people shot. Our heartfelt condolences go out to all of the victims and their family for their loss and we will hold them up in our prayers.

In a news conference Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, made the following statement: "When you look at unbalanced people, how they respond to the vitriol that comes out of certain mouths about tearing down the government. The anger, the hatred, the bigotry that goes on in this country is getting to be outrageous. And unfortunately, Arizona I think has become the capital. We have become the Mecca for prejudice and bigotry”...

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Just for the Record the Sheriff is a Democrat.

Now if you can believe it, other Democrats are trying to capitalize on this tragedy. Just for the Recently Bernie Sanders sent out a letter to his supports to do that here is part of his letter. This is what people are enraged about and it’s totally disgusting. Here is a clip.

Bernie Sanders Fundraises Off Arizona Murders

3:20 PM, Jan 11, 2011 • By STEPHEN F. HAYES

Bernie Sanders

This afternoon Sanders sent out a fundraising appeal, seeking to raise money to fight Republicans and other “right-wing reactionaries” responsible for the climate that led to the shooting. Bernie writes: " Given the recent tragedy in Arizona, as well as the start of the new Congress, I wanted to take this opportunity to share a few words with political friends in Vermont and throughout the country. I also want to thank the very many supporters who have begun contributing online to my 2012 reelection campaign. There is no question but that the Republican Party, big money corporate interests and right-wing organizations will vigorously oppose me. "

Bernie is up for election in 2012 and should be defeated with this kind of appalling behavior. There is one thing you are right about Bernie, yes we will oppose you.

The Truth Report would like to try to make sense of what seemingly is a senseless act of violence and in so doing is sending this open letter to Sheriff Clarance Dupnik. Sheriff. Sheriff, there is a saying in the bible, “For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned. I believe your words will condemn you and this letter you will explain why. Another relevant saying is, “Know the truth and the truth shall set you free". So let’s see if we can examine the truth about what happened in Tuscon as well as examine your comments to see if they ring true and see if we can shed some light in a dark place.

I think first we can start with a statement by President Regan who said this: “We must reject the idea that every time a law is broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions." President Regan your words are justified.

Acts of monstrous criminality stand on their own. They begin and end with the criminals who commit them, not collectively with all the citizens of a state, not with those who listen to talk radio and not with people who express their freedom of speech by rightfully criticize and redressing the Government or the Police.

The questions everyone is asking is what could possibly have motivated Jared Lee Loughner, 22 to carry out this act of violence. You commented is was a Vitriolic Media. You failed to state that he was described as a left wing pot head and two of his favorite books are Mein Keimf and the Communist Manifesto. Do you think Sheriff that these could have been motivating factors? Do you think that reading this kind of left wing material could have consequences?

On top of that, it's a fact that millions of people are upset with the Government and the police. They do not feel that the Government represents the will of the people any longer and they are getting very upset with police brutality, gestapo tactics, swat team raids in the middle of the night that end up getting many innocent people killed every year.

The people want border control, they want the Government to live within their means and balance their budget like they have to do. They do not want their money debased with trillion dollar deficits. They didn’t want massive bailouts for Wall Street, Foreign Bankers and Big business. They didn't want the health care bill passed. They made their will ery well known in 2009 and essentially “We the People” were told to go and eat cake and Obama and the Congress took action directly against what the people wanted and shoved it down our throats. Do you think that had consequences? Well you saw the results on November 2 didn't you? Favorable ratings of congress are at an all time low of 20 percent. This was not caused by the Vitriolic Media, but by Congress and Obama not following the will of the We the People. The Vitriolic Media is merely a voice of the great dissatisfaction with Congress, Obama and our Government. However, Sheriff you chose to attack and blame the media for the shootings, so Sheriff you are really missing the point and your words condemn you. Let's take a look and see what one of your own has to say Sheriff. Greg Evensen is a decorated and now retired State Trooper criminal investigator and let's see what he had to say in an open letter dated July 2009.

THE DEATH OF LIBERTY: THE FINAL SCENE UNFOLDS

By Greg Evensen

July 29, 2009

NewsWithViews.com

As government began its sickening expansion, policing became a meaner and nastier job. It was made that way by badge wearing thugs who didn’t hesitate to do whatever they were told by the S.A.C. (Special Agent in Charge) of the FBI, BATF(E), US Marshal’s Office right down to armed poultry inspectors—yes they have them and they are really tough on criminal chickens. The “us against them” mentality, and the “mission essential” attitude justified SWAT teams, “dynamic entries,” and later use of MACE, TASERS, FLASHBANG GRENADES and “routine” use of SUBMACHINE guns. All in the name of “taking down” the accused—no matter the charge. I abhor such police tactics and was an officer that served my own warrants, rarely with one other officer at the back door.

Now we have become eaves-dropping, roadblock setting, door crashing, face grinding, arm breaking, pursuit driven bastards that have sold their asses to the government masters, hell bent on establishing the TRUE reincarnation of the dreaded SS. That is NO overstatement. Note: There are significant numbers of officers at all levels that simply detest the forced training at FEMA centers, the requirements to stop Patriots and others simply because they “look” dangerous, and are exercising free speech statements on their vehicles. By whose ultimate authority does this take place? By whose ultimate judgment is it necessary to harass INNOCENT drivers and families? The public sees this Gestapo mentality as far more of a danger than any stickers they put on their vehicles? Where are all these “faithful” enforcers of the law when it comes to confronting the unlawful, unconstitutional, unjustifiable, and unmerciful rotten bunch of usurpers, communists, atheists, deviated, immoral scungebuckets that are walking the halls of Congress, the White House, and the Federal Courts? How is it that the “get ‘em at any cost” morons at Homeland Security have created an environment in Amerika that is an unwarranted intrusion of power in 186 other nations? And all of this is done in the name of safety and security. I guess that a majority of ignorant buffoons really do believe that Barack Sotero is the Messiah and he does hold the keys to socialist paradise in his hands.

So, once again, I implore those officers of the law who are in grave doubt about the legitimate authenticity of their superiors in any agency, to simply read the constitution, re-read their oath of office, seek out retired officers for guidance, and remember this very carefully—to brutalize citizens in the pursuit of order, is a guaranteed recipe for resistance. PLEASE do not pit yourselves (all 650,000 officers at all levels in the US) against a seething and angry populace who outnumber you 5000 to 1. Believe me; you want all of us working with you, not against you.

Greg Eversen

Greg Evensen is an award winning former Kansas State Trooper and Kansas Marshal. He speaks across the nation for Patriot groups and is available to come to your area as well. Call 906-367-0505 or e-mail him at greg@theheartlandusa.com.

Maybe you should call Greg Sheriff and talk with him and maybe even have him come to Tucson and then you and your deputies could talk to him mano to mano.

Mr. Evensen's vitriolic comments did not come from the media, it's coming from one of your own and I think you would be wise to take heed to his words. You mention "consequences", do you think their are consequences for police brutality and the hundreds of innocent people who are killed by police every year? (See our blog report on that.) Do you think there are consequences for Congress and the White House who consistently ignore the will of "We the People" and to tell us to go eat cake?

Let me ask you this Sheriff, do you have any idea how many people have died because of the Government’s failed policies during the administrations of George Bush and Barack Obama? Tens of Thousand’s. It seems every time you watch the news someone is committing suicide, a father or mother shoots their family because of financial pressure, people go into the work place and shoot their bosses and other employees and any number of other deaths of "We the People" due to Government policies. Not to mention Joseph Stack, the 53-year-old software engineer who was reported as being very sane who just got so fed up with the Government and IRS and flew his plane into the IRS building killing himself and another person. While all this carnage is going on daily, Obama and Pelosi go globe trotting around the world in their private jets spending tens of millions of tax payer dollars, while "We the People" struggle to keep a roof over our heads and food on our tables. But do you ever hear anyone blaming the Government for this made in the USA carnage? Do you think this kind of Imperial Government is causing any "consequences" Sheriff?

Do you know how many innocent people die every year due to mistaken police shootings Sheriff? Hundreds. Every year police conduct 50,000 raids on private homes just serving search warrants. Most of the raids are in the middle of the night and many people think it’s a home invasion and are killed trying to defend their homes and families or just randomly shot by trigger happy police. Here is just a couple of examples for you Sheriff:

A Framingham police Swat Team killed an unarmed grandfather of 12 in Framingham Massachusetts, 68-year-old Eurie Stamps. A Framingham SWAT team member yesterday was placed on administrative leave for fatally shooting a 68-year-old grandfather of 12, police said, as relatives struggled to cope with the sudden and violent death. The Boston Herald Reports: (See a more detailed list of innocent people that police have murdered on our blog)

May 16, 2010—A 7-year old girl was shot and killed in her home in Detroit at midnight on Sunday as she sleep on a sofa. According to Assistant Chief Ralph Godbee, police barged into the Jones family’s home with their guns drawn searching for a homicide suspect. Police said the girl was shot in the neck when an officer struggled with, or was jostled by, her grandmother inside the home, but Geoffrey Fieger, a lawyer for Jones’ family, has claimed police fired into the home from outside after tossing a flash-bang grenade. “The entire incident has been a cover up,” Fieger told reporters in June at his Southfield offices north of Detroit. “The rest of the truth will come out.”

HOW MANY POLICE OFFICERS ARE CHARGED WITH MURDERING INNOCENT PEOPLE EVERY YEAR SHERIFF? NONE. IS THIS HAVING CONSEQUENCES IN THE HOMELAND SHERIFF?

This carnage is not mentioned by you, the police or our representatives in congress Sheriff and nothing is being done to stop it. Do you think this is causing a lot of hostility with "We the People" or maybe to you and Big Brother it would better be called Sheeple? Do you think this is having any "consequences" Sheriff?

Sheriff, do you think it is remotely possibility that, rather than the "Vitriolic Media", causing Jared Lee Loughner to snap, it was angry and helplessness he felt with a Government that he believed no longer represented him and just wanted to lash out at a representative of that failed Government and Congresswoman Giffords just happened to be a soft target, at the wrong place at the wrong time? If that's true Sheriff, then wouldn't it also be true that the Government and it's failed policies and failure to listen to the "We the People" would actually be responsible for the carnage in Tucson? Or it's also possible, that he could just be another mad man, like other mad man assassins of the past that wanted his name to go down in the history books by carrying at a mass shooting. The fact is Sheriff, we just don't know why he did, do we? So instead of running your mouth off and speculating on things you have no knowledge about, why don't you just keep it shut and do what you are paid to do, conduct criminal investigations? Is this your normal procedure on how you carry out investigations, you just speculate and then draw your conclusions based on your irrational speculations? My humble suggestion Sheriff is that you do what Detective Joe Friday did during his investigations in "Dragnet", "Just the facts Clarence, just the facts! I know you're old enough to remember that show Sheriff. There is another old saying I like Sheriff, "it's better to keep quiet and let people think you a fool, than open your mouth and removing all doubt". You have removed all doubt about that Sheriff for millions of people. Good job.

Now I do not condone violence, but I can understand what could have possibly caused him to snap and commit this carnage in Tucson and I hope do also, but listening to your words, I have my doubts.

Let me just make this final comment. As long as we have a repressive Government that is becoming more and more fascist every year and police that are acting more like Gestapo Agents every year, who do not represent or serve the will of the people, who are abusive to the rights of the people and tells the people to go eat cake, this is going to cause more and more civil unrest. People are in revolution mode right now and they are sick and tired of being treated like slaves and economic serfs. Unless the Government, the police and our representatives start listening to and representing the will of the people and it becomes a "Government of the People, By the People and For the People" once again, I am afraid that more of this kind of thing will manifest itself again in the future. The people are starting to believe that that answer to 1984 is 1776 Sheriff, so let’s hope the Government and the police wake up and start listening to "We the People" again very soon.

Victor Vendetti The Truth Report 101

THE DEATH OF LIBERTY, BY A STATE TROOPER

THE DEATH OF LIBERTY: THE FINAL SCENE UNFOLDS

By Greg Evensen

July 29, 2009

NewsWithViews.com

When police investigators begin amassing evidence at a crime scene, the bits and pieces of the puzzle begin to take shape. Usually, with several trained men and women working together to come up with an answer, the intent and actions of the perpetrator are almost always revealed.

Since my core training and experience over many years was as a state level law enforcement officer, I have worked crime scenes that were large, complex and conflicting. With enough time, effort and resolve, we too, were able to bring the bad guys to account.

You certainly do not have to be a trained state trooper—or any other level police agent—to use common sense, logic and knowledge, to assess the crime scene that has become the socialist states of Amerika.

I continue to be at a loss to explain how it is that so many tens of millions of Amerikans simply do not see the utter destruction of their former republic by socialists, one worlders, deviates, liars and thieves. The men in black have been roving the country flashing their memory erasers around the clock. Let’s take a check on how things are really going.

Our nation’s police forces prior to the criminal thug Richard Nixon were centered on community policing. MOST of their time was spent on looking for, identifying, and monitoring criminals, and responding to unusual or dangerous events that were beyond the control of ordinary folks. We appreciated those officers and were proud to say, “he is OUR Cop!” We knew that we could talk to him, kid him, see him play adult softball, and sit across from him in church. We watched him shed tears when one of our kids didn’t make it home after a night of drinking and driving. We remembered him at Christmas, because he didn’t make much you know.
I said “him” because back then, there were no women in the ranks.

As government began its sickening expansion, policing became a meaner and nastier job. It was made that way by badge wearing thugs who didn’t hesitate to do whatever they were told by the S.A.C. (Special Agent in Charge) of the FBI, BATF(E), US Marshal’s Office right down to armed poultry inspectors—yes they have them and they are really tough on criminal chickens. The “us against them” mentality, and the “mission essential” attitude justified SWAT teams, “dynamic entries,” and later use of MACE, TASERS, FLASHBANG GRENADES and “routine” use of SUBMACHINE guns. All in the name of “taking down” the accused—no matter the charge. I abhor such police tactics and was an officer that served my own warrants, rarely with one other officer at the back door.

Now we have become eaves-dropping, roadblock setting, door crashing, face grinding, arm breaking, pursuit driven bastards that have sold their asses to the government masters hell bent on establishing the TRUE reincarnation of the dreaded SS. That is NO overstatement. Note: There are significant numbers of officers at all levels that simply detest the forced training at FEMA centers, the requirements to stop Patriots and others simply because they “look” dangerous, and are exercising free speech statements on their vehicles. By whose ultimate authority does this take place? By whose ultimate judgment is it necessary to harass INNOCENT drivers and families? The public sees this Gestapo mentality as far more of a danger than any stickers they put on their vehicles? Where are all these “faithful” enforcers of the law when it comes to confronting the unlawful, unconstitutional, unjustifiable, and unmerciful rotten bunch of usurpers, communists, atheists, deviated, immoral scungebuckets that are walking the halls of Congress, the White House, and the Federal Courts? How is it that the “get ‘em at any cost” morons at Homeland Security have created an environment in Amerika that is an unwarranted intrusion of power in 186 other nations?
And all of this is done in the name of safety and security. I guess that a majority of ignorant buffoons really do believe that Barack Sotero is the Messiah and he does hold the keys to socialist paradise in his hands.

So, once again, I implore those officers of the law who are in grave doubt about the legitimate authenticity of their superiors in any agency, to simply read the constitution, re-read their oath of office, seek out retired officers for guidance, and remember this very carefully—to brutalize citizens in the pursuit of order, is a guaranteed recipe for resistance. PLEASE do not pit yourselves (all 650,000 officers at all levels in the US) against a seething and angry populace who outnumber you 5000 to 1. Believe me; you want all of us working with you, not against you.
Greg Eversen
Greg Evensen is an award winning former Kansas State Trooper and Kansas Marshal. He speaks across the nation for Patriot groups and is available to come to your area as well. Call 906-367-0505 or e-mail him at greg@theheartlandusa.com.

Police Murders Innocent Men, Women and Children

I. Murders — Cold Blooded Killings that would get an ordinary citizen convicted of first or second degree murder.

Ruby Ridge, Idaho: In 1992, the FBI and four hundred armed federal agents conducted a siege of Randy Weaver’s mountain home because of his failure to appear in court to face weapons charges. First the federal agents killed Weaver’s dog, then his 14-year-old son Sammy, and then his wife Vicki as she stood in the doorway, holding their 10-month-old baby. In a 1993 trial, Randy Weaver was found innocent of weapons and murder charges, but was found guilty of not appearing in court on the original charges. The Justice Department’s own report recommended criminal prosecution of federal agents; the surviving Weavers won $3.1 million in civil damages, and the federal government also paid $380,000 in September 2000 to Kevin Harris. A federal appeals court upheld a lower court ruling that dismissed state criminal charges against Lon Horiuchi, the FBI sniper who killed Vicki Weaver and wounded Harris.

Malibu, California: Early on the morning of Oct. 2, 1992, thirty-one officers from the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department, Drug Enforcement Administration, Border Patrol, National Guard and Park Service came roaring down the narrow dirt road to Donald Scott’s rustic 200-acre ranch in an alleged attempt to arrest him for running a 4,000-plant marijuana plantation. When deputies broke down the door to Scott’s house, Scott’s wife screamed, ‘‘Don’t shoot me. Don’t kill me.’’ That brought Scott staggering out of the bedroom, hung-over and bleary-eyed – he’d just had a cataract operation – holding a .38 caliber Colt snub-nosed revolver over his head. As Scott began to lower his arm, one deputy later said, he ‘‘kinda’’ pointed his gun – which he initially was holding by the cylinder, not the handle grip – at deputy Spencer who, in fear for his life, killed him.
Despite a subsequent search of Scott’s ranch using helicopters, dogs, searchers on foot, and a high-tech Jet Propulsion Laboratory device for detecting trace amounts of sinsemilla, no marijuana –or any other illegal drug – was ever found. According to Ventura County District Attorney Michael Bradbury, the purpose of the raid was to seize Scott’s ranch under asset forfeiture laws and then divide the proceeds with participating agencies, such as the National Park Service, which had put Scott’s ranch on a list of property it would one day like to acquire, and the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department, which heavily relied on assets seized in drug raids to supplement its otherwise inadequate budget.
Scott’s widow subsequently filed a $100 million wrongful death suit against the county and federal government. For eight years the case dragged on, until attorneys for Los Angeles County and the federal government finally agreed to settle with Scott’s heirs and estate.

Detroit, Michigan: On November 5, 1992, Police officers Larry Nevers and Walter Budzyn approached a parked car and asked the occupant, Malice Green, for his drivers license and registration. As Green reached into the car’s glove compartment, he held an object clenched in his hand that Budzyn suspected was crack cocaine. Even though Budzyn did not have a search warrant he asked Green to open his hand. When Green refused, officer Budzyn tried to force Green to open his hand by hitting it with a flashlight, and then began to straddle Green. Officer Nevers went to help his partner and began to strike Green on the head with his flashlight. Nevers claimed that he struck Green because he was grabbing for his gun. Robert Lessnau, a third officer who arrived at the scene, pulled Green out of the car. Budzyn and Nevers later testified that they had kicked and punched the 150 pound Green while he was being handcuffed and laid face down in the street before paramedics arrived. Green did open his hands while he was being arrested — and he didn't have crack. He was holding his car keys and a piece of paper. A state medical expert testified that Green died because of blunt trauma to the head, and four EMS technicians at the scene saw Nevers strike Green with a flashlight even though the victim did not appear to resist. Prosecutors believe Green was beaten to death by the officers. When EMS officials tended to Green, his head was covered in blood — his scalp had almost been ripped apart by repeated blows. Despite efforts to save him, Green suffered a seizure and died on his way to the hospital. Nevers and Budzyn were both convicted of second degree murder in August 1993. Lessnau, however, was acquitted of assault. Budzyn was sentenced to 8 to 18 years in prison while Nevers received a 12 to 25-year sentence. Both have since been granted new trials, at which Budzyn was convicted of the lesser charge of involuntary manslaughter and sentenced to time served in prison. Nevers trial was still pending the last I heard.
Waco, Texas: Between February 28, 1993 and April 19th, 1993, approximately 86 men, women, and children living peacefully in their home near Waco, Texas, were killed by the combined efforts of the US Defense Department and other government paramilitary units: the US Treasury Department’s Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF), and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Most of them were incinerated in a fiery holocaust. None of the survivors were found guilty of murder of the four federal agents who also died, but five of them were found guilty of voluntary manslaughter and weapons charges for defending themselves. Nine federal court lawsuits seeking hundreds of millions of dollars in damages were filed by the survivors.

Dinuba, California: In 1997, a SWAT team wearing black masks and camouflage burst into a small house and surprised a 64-year-old farm worker Ramon Gallardo and his wife, who were asleep in bed. The man jumped up and grabbed a folding knife. Invading officers, armed with MP-5 submachine guns, shot him 15 times, killing him. The gun they sought, allegedly belonging to the farm worker’s son, was never found. In May 1999, a federal jury in Fresno awarded the family $12.5 million in damages in a brutality suit filed against the city of Dinuba, population 15,269. The damages are more than twice Dinuba’s annual budget; the city’s insurance policy covers only $9.5 million.

Texas: In July 1998 Pedro Oregon, an unarmed Mexican national, was fatally shot by six Houston police officers during a drug raid on his home. He reportedly died in his bedroom with six gunshot wounds to the back, two to the head and another in his hand. Only one officer was indicted, on a criminal trespass charge. However, after an outcry from the Hispanic community, a police internal inquiry found the officers guilty of ‘‘egregious misconduct’’ and they were fired.

Santa Ana, California: On Sept. 7, 1998, Santa Ana police officer James F. Tavenner fired a .45-caliber round through an open car window that hit Jose Campos in the head. Campos and his girlfriend were sitting inside a parked car reported stolen when they were approached by Tavenner, who was on foot. According to Tavenner, Campos began driving away, and Tavenner was brushed by the left side of the car. Lucia Margarita Torres, Campos’ girlfriend, disputed Tavenner’s version of the shooting. Campos’ family filed a $10-million wrongful death lawsuit against Tavenner and the city. On February 11, 2000, the city of Santa Ana paid $205,000 to Campos’ family. Tavenner had also been named in two previous allegations of using excessive force on Latino suspects. He was cleared in one, in which the suspect died after being hogtied by officers. In the other case, Santa Ana paid $200,000 in 1993 to Cresencio Ruiz, who said he was beaten by Tavenner after a hit-and-run accident.

Philadelphia: In October 1998, 19-year-old Donta Dawson, an unarmed African American youth, was shot dead by a police officer who approached him after seeing him sitting in a stationary car with the engine running. The officer opened fire, shooting Dawson in the eye, after he said Dawson leaned forward and raised his arm. The officer was twice charged with manslaughter (voluntary and involuntary) but city judges dismissed the charges each time. He was fired from the force but is currently seeking to get his job back through arbitration. In July 1999 the city agreed to pay Donta’s family $712,500 in settlement of a civil action.

Sallisaw, Oklahoma: On October 23, 1998, a drug raid took place and a private residence was swarmed by a team of police to ‘‘serve’’ a drug related arrest warrant. Inside the residence was a 13 year old teenage girl, a 5 year old girl, a 4 month old infant, their mother, dad and another couple that had stopped by for a cup of coffee on their way to a fishing trip. Armed agents poured in screaming and waving guns at people. The mother reached for her 5 year old to keep her from running in terror and as she did her shoulder was blown off by one of the SWAT team members. No firearms were in the house and the mother was in the kitchen several feet away from the armed and dangerous gestapho goons. The 13 year old passed out at the sight of seeing her mother shot down in her own home and the 5 year old went into total hysteria. The mother, Pat Eymer, was sent to the Sparks hospital in Ft Smith, Arizona. The dad, Steve Eymer, and the couple that thought they were going to go fishing were sent to jail. The children were held by the state.

Kansas City: In November 1998 a 13-year old black child, Timothy L. Wilson, driving a friend’s pick-up truck, was shot dead after a brief chase. Six officers had pursued the truck for several minutes after seeing Timothy driving erratically. All six surrounded the truck when it came to a halt in mud. Four white officers opened fire after, they said, he tried to reverse then drove towards them, a version disputed by an attorney for the Wilson family. The officers were cleared of criminal wrongdoing by a local grand jury.

Riverside, CA: On December 28, 1998, Tyisha Miller, a 19 year-old black woman, was fatally shot and killed by three white and one hispanic police officers. Early Monday morning, Tyisha Miller was in her car waiting for relatives to come help her change a flat tire. When the relatives arrived at the Riverside gas station shortly after 2 a.m., the two cousins were unable to wake Miller in her locked car and called 911. Officers responding to the call found the white Nissan Sentra locked and the engine running. According to The Associated Press, police said Miller was unconscious and foaming at the mouth, presumably as the result of an epileptic seizure, and appeared to be unconscious. Officers then saw a handgun in Miller’s lap, which according to later police reports, belonged to a friend, and was inoperative. Relatives said she probably had the gun to scare off would-be muggers because it was late at night and in a dangerous part of town. The officers decided that paramedics would not be allowed on the scene until Miller’s gun was retrieved. Police attempted to rouse Miller by ‘‘screaming and hollering’’ and pushing and banging on the car. Police say Miller reached for the gun and that was when they opened fire. District Attorney Grover Trask told a news conference that of the twenty-three shots fired by the police, Miller was hit 12 times. Four of the bullets struck her in the head. A coroner’s report indicated all the bullets entered her body from the back. The officers were subsequently fired and Police Chief Jerry Carroll later stepped down from his position. Attorney Johnnie Cochran said he will file a wrongful death lawsuit and civil rights action on behalf of the family.

New York City: On February 4, 1999, Amadou Diallo, an unarmed Guinean-born street vendor, was killed by six members of the NYPD’s Special Crime Unit. The NYPD officers said they ‘‘accidentally’’ fired 41 bullets, hitting Diallo 19 times. Police said they thought he was pulling out a weapon, but actually he was unarmed and was pulling out his wallet. The six policemen were acquitted of all charges.

Kansas City: On February 13, 1999, at 1:30 a.m. early Saturday morning, police shot and killed Willie Heard in his bedroom during a late night ‘‘no-knock’’ raid. Mr. Heard would have been 47 the next day. Willie and Linda Heard were asleep in their bedroom. Their 16-year-old daughter, Ashley, was sleeping on the living room couch. Shortly before 1:30 a.m., officers burst through both doors to the house. Ashley jumped off the couch and called for her father. Police pinned her and her mother, who had rushed into the living room to assist her daughter, to the floor. Then the officers burst into the bedroom, and when Willie Heard grabbed his rifle the officers shot and killed him. Ashley Heard said later that she believed her father was reacting to her cry for help and that he probably assumed someone was breaking into the house. The police searched the house twice for drugs but didn’t find any. Kansas Bureau of Investigation spokesman William Delaney claimed he did not know whether or not the police had gone to the wrong house, whether or not Heard had a criminal background, or whether or not officers had identified themselves as police before entering the house. A report is available from the News Library archives of the Kansas City Star.

Cincinnati, Ohio: On March 19, 1999, police shot 30-year-old Michael Carpenter after stopping him for driving with an expired license tag in Northside. Although Carpenter was unarmed, the Hamilton County Prosecutor's Office found the shooting ‘‘legally justifiable’’ and noted that Mr. Carpenter had a lengthy criminal history. The city’s civilian Office of Municipal Investigations called for Officer Brent McCurley - who fired nine of ten shots at Mr. Carpenter - to be disciplined for tactical errors, but it noted no criminal wrongdoing. Only two of the shots hit Mr. Carpenter - one in the left arm, and one in the back of the head.

Las Vegas, Nevada: On April 12, 1999, John Perrin, 32, was accosted by Las Vegas Metro Police Officer Bruce Gentner as Mr. Perrin crossed Rainbow Boulevard in suburban southwest Las Vegas at 11:30 that Monday night. Officer Gentner says he stopped and questioned Perrin – who was armed only with a basketball – because he looked ‘‘suspicious.’’ The officer says Mr. Perrin then ‘‘made a gesture with his hand inside his jacket,’’ at which point the officer – from behind the shelter of his cruiser door – emptied the magazine of his service pistol at the suspect, striking him six times, including three times in the back. There was no known evidence Mr. Perrin was wanted for any crime. Based on the recent record of the Las Vegas police department in such matters, the chances of criminal charges being recommended against the officer are virtually nil.

Connecticut: In April 1999, a 14-year old unarmed African American Aquan Salmon, a suspect in an attempted street robbery, was fatally shot in the back by Hartford, Connecticut, police officers during a foot chase. The officer was cleared of criminal wrongdoing but a separate investigation by the state attorney was pending at the beginning of September 1999.

Los Angeles, California: On May 21, 1999, after radioing for back-up, police officers shot and killed Margaret Mitchell, a frail 55-year-old, 5-foot-1, 102-pound, mentally ill homeless woman because she threatened them with a screwdriver during an attempt to detain her for questioning about whether she was pushing a stolen shopping cart. Two eye-witnesses flatly contradicted the police version of events. After months of deliberation, the Los Angeles Police Commission held in a close 3-2 vote that the killing was ‘‘out of policy.’’ The commission’s ruling comes at a time when the department is dealing with the ever-expanding Rampart corruption scandal, in which more than 70 LAPD officers are under investigation for either committing crimes or knowing about them and helping to cover them up.

Chicago: In June 1999, La Tanya Haggerty, a 19-year-old passenger in a car pulled over by Chicago police after a short chase, was shot dead when officers mistook the cell-phone in her hand for a gun. In September 1999, the Chicago Police Board (a police adjudicatory body) opened a hearing to decide on a recommendation by the police chief that the officers should be dismissed from the force. A day after the Haggerty shooting, Chicago police officers shot dead Robert Russ, a former college football player, after he refused to get out of his car after a pursuit. He was shot when an officer smashed the car window and pointed his gun directly into the car. The case was still under investigation at the time of writing. Both Haggerty and Russ were black.

New Jersey: In June 1999, Stanton Crew, an unarmed African American, was shot dead in New Jersey, after he tried to manoevre his car out of the way of two police cars which had boxed him in after a car chase. The officers fired 27 shots at his vehicle, as he tried to drive back and forth. A female passenger in the car suffered police gunshot wounds to her leg. The case (which remained under investigaton in September 1999) is the latest in a series of questionable police shootings of unarmed motorists in New Jersey.

Wilburton, Oklahoma: On July 31, 1999, Floyd Wayne Houston, age 22, was shot twice by Officer Tom Mosely after a 10:30 a.m. traffic stop. Mosely told investigators that he smelled marijuana and ordered Houston out of the car. At that point, Houston ran into a wooded area. The officer chased Houston and said he found him holding a brick as if to throw it and ordered him to drop it. Mosely told investigators he fired when Houston acted as if he was going to hurl the brick. At a public protest following the shooting, Houston's mother and 4-year-old daughter both carried signs. ‘‘Justice for my daddy,’’ the little girl’s placard read

California: In August 1999, in an early morning narcotics raid, a SWAT team from the El Monte police department burst into the home of a Mexican immigrant family and shot the unarmed and elderly Mario Paz, while his was in his bedroom. An autopsy revealed that he had been shot twice in the back. No drugs were found in the raid. In fact, the police had raided the wrong house because a different name than that of the residents was on the search warrant.

Denver, Colorado: September 1999, during an intended ‘‘crack house’’ raid, police officers broke into the wrong house and shot to death Northwest Denver resident Ismael Mena, age 45, leaving behind a widow in Mexico and nine kids. Denver paid Mena's survivors $400,000 to settle a lawsuit. The only officer charged was Joseph Bini, age 31, who pled guilty to a misdemeanor charge that may allow him to keep his badge. The official misconduct charge carries a maximum penalty of one year in jail and a $1,000 fine, but his plea agreement does not require jail time. Followup: Officer Bini was placed on administrative leave on September 29, 1999. In January 2001, he was taken off administrative leave and given his job back, as well as receiving nine-months back pay for part of the time he was on administrative leave. In effect then, his ‘‘punishment’’ for murder was a one year paid vacation.

Dallas, Texas: In December 1999, Troy James Davis, 25, was shot after several North Richland Hills tactical officers broke into the Davises’ one-story brick home in the 8200 block of Ulster Drive as the result of a ‘‘confidential informant’s tip.’’ Officer Allen Hill, 37, shot Mr. Davis twice, and he died at a hospital. Mr. Davis was innocent.

Providence, Rhode Island: On January 28, 2000, Providence police officers Carlos A. Saraiva and Michael Solitro III, shot and killed pistol-wielding suspect Cornel Young Jr when he did not heed their demands to drop his gun. So what's wrong with officers shooting someone who is holding a pistol? Well, the catch here is that Young was an off duty police officer who was trying to subdue his own pistol-wielding suspect. Young Jr was also the son of Providence Police Major Cornel Young Senior. Officer Young junior, was 29 years of age, and had worked for three years on the job as a Providence police officer. He was off duty and had stopped by Fidas diner for a late-night snack, then drew his weapon and ran outside when a fight broke out and was holding his gun on Aldrin Diaz, age 33. Officers Solitro and Saraiva said Young ignored their commands and did not identify himself as a police officer when they arrived and ordered him to drop his weapon. Obviously it was all a tragic mistake, but the reason this incident is listed here is that if the police are so trigger happy that they shoot first and ask questions later, even to the extent of killing their own, what chance does a normal citizen have against them?

New York City: March 16, 2000, Patrick Dorismond, an unarmed security guard, was confronted early Thursday by undercover police officers who asked if he had marijuana for sale. Exactly what followed is unclear, except that Detective Anthony Vasquez, 29, fired one shot from his service weapon, killing the victim. Dorismond, age 26, was an African-American father of two daughters ages 1 and 5. Detective Vasquez was placed on desk duty pending the outcome of a grand jury investigation. This was the third fatal shooting by plainclothes officers in the city in the past 13 months, noted Manhattan Borough President C. Virginia Fields.

Gulfport, Mississippi: On April 8, 2000, A Gulfport police officer shot and killed a man who was visiting the Coast on Saturday for Black Springbreak 2000. Mitchell L. Virgil Jr., 20, of Columbia, was shot three times in the chest, according to witnesses and one family member. Virgil was the passenger in a black Chevrolet pickup that police stopped near the intersection of U.S 49 at 27th Street about 2:30 p.m. Saturday. Eyewitness accounts of the shooting varied as did reports from witnesses as to whether Virgil had a gun. Police put the driver of the vehicle in handcuffs, said Scott Maccio, who is white. When Virgil got out of the vehicle, he was met on both sides by two police officers. ‘‘They looked like they were struggling for a few seconds. All three of them separated, then one of the officers pointed his weapon at him’’ for a few seconds, Maccio said. ‘‘Then he fired three shots, point blank into his chest,’’ he said. Virgil was shot while running and reaching for something, Maccio said. The Mississippi Highway Safety Patrol and the District Attorney’s Office are investigating the shooting.

Orange County, Florida: On July 23, 2000, Christopher J. Savard, 34, an 8-year police veteran who had been a certified SWAT team sniper for more than two years, shot and killed 40-year-old Andrea Hall who had been taken hostage by Jamie Dean Petron. Although this killing was accidental, the victim is nonetheless dead, and would probably be alive today had it not been for the ‘‘help’’ of the government’s SWAT team.

Bloomington, Illinois: On July 26, 2000, police officers shot mentally retarded Shannon L. Smith, age 27 but with the mental age of an 11 or 12-year-old child, in the back five times over $15 worth of gasoline. Authorities refuse to give any details of the murder. Follow-up: On August 2, 2000, Illinois State Attorney Charles Reynard charged police officer Jeffrey Gabor, 23, with first- and second-degree murder in this slaying.

Albuquerque, New Mexico: On July 31, 2000, police officers let Kevin Eugene Boyer, age 25 and who suffered from asthma and had been Maced by the police, suffocate to death while lying in the gutter of a city street handcuffed and leg-shackled. Boyer was an ex-convict and had attempted to evade the police by running away when they stopped him in his pickup truck for questioning. He shouldn't have ran, but does that make it Ok for the police to let him lay handcuffed and leg-shackled in the gutter for more than an hour while ignoring his plea's for help and gasps and screams that he couldn't breathe?

Fairfax, Virginia: On September 7, 2000, two police officers from the West Springfield police station arrived at the home of Ji Young Yoo and his wife, located in a quiet neighborhood at 5223 Stonington Drive in the Kings Park West development of Burke, about 6:20 a.m. to investigate a report of a domestic disturbance. The officers fired pepper spray at Yoo and then shot him in the chest, killing him. Police declined to say whether the man was armed or not, so you can bet he wasn’t. In an unrelated incident the previous week, a Prince George’s County police detective trailed a man from Maryland into Fairfax before shooting him. That incident is under investigation by local and federal authorities.

Modesto, California: On September 16, 2000, at 6:21 a.m., Modesto SWAT officers, speaking in English and Spanish, demanded entry into the home of 33-year-old Moises Sepulveda at 2524 McAdoo Avenue, to serve a search warrant and arrest him on a drug charge. Twenty seconds after demanding entry, the officers saw movement inside the house near a front window. Ten seconds later, the SWAT team members forced their way inside the front door. Officer David Hawn, an 18-year SWAT team veteran, was the second SWAT officer to enter the home. Moments after entering the house, SWAT officers tossed a smoke bomb into the living room, and it exploded near a couch. The officers found Moises Sepulveda standing near the front door. He did not resist arrest. He was ordered to lie on the floor, and was handcuffed. Officer David Hawn then found 11-year-old Alberto Sepulveda in a bedroom, and ordered him to get face down on the floor. Alberto immediately complied. Hawn trained his shotgun on the boy on the floor, illuminating him with the shotgun’s light. A few seconds later, within 30 seconds of the SWAT team’s entry into the Sepulveda home, Officer Hawn shot the boy in the back with his shotgun, while the boy was still lying face down on the floor. Police Captain Ron Sale said the boy was killed instantly by the shotgun slug which entered the boy’s body behind the right shoulder and ended up almost exiting the body near the boy’s left nipple. Hawn was placed on paid leave, which is the usual procedure when an officer is involved in a shooting, and is expected to return to duty in about a week.

Lebanon, Tennessee: On October 4, 2000, five plain clothed police officers broke down the front door at 70 Joseph Street shortly after 10 p.m. to serve a search warrant for drugs and fatally shot John Adams, who police say fired at them with a shotgun. Adams was 62 years old, disabled, and had poor eyesight. Friends and relatives said John Adams believed it was a home invasion when police kicked in the door after refusing to identify themselves. ‘‘They made a mistake, and he was trying to defend his home, and they shot him,’’ said Edward Bell, Adams’ nephew. It was the wrong house, police had mistakenly shot and killed an innocent man. The officers raided the correct address according to the search warrant, but the warrant should have been for the home next door. Lebanon’s Police Chief Billy Weeks said it was simply a mistake by officers who didn’t know they were at the wrong house. The two officers directly involved in the murder, Greg Day and Kyle Shedron, were temporarily placed on administrative leave. Follow up Tuesday, December 19, 2000: The Tennessean.com reports that ‘‘Lebanon officials, including Police Chief Billy Weeks and Mayor Don Fox, had admitted publicly that there was no defense for the incident in which Adams, 64, was shot by police after they said he fired a shotgun at them,’’ that former Police Lt. Steve Nokes was fired shortly after the incident and that Nokes ‘‘... was indicted last month on charges of criminal responsibility for reckless homicide, aggravated perjury and tampering with or fabricating evidence. He goes to trial April 10.’’

Los Angeles, California: On October 28, 2000, shortly after 1 a.m. Saturday, a police officer at a Halloween costume party shot and killed 39-year-old actor Anthony Dwain Lee, after the man pointed a fake gun at him, police said. Lee had appeared in small TV and film roles, including the character Fred in the 1997 Jim Carrey movie, ‘‘Liar Liar.’’ Police said several hundred people, many of them in costume, were at the party. Officer Tarriel Hopper and his partner went there in response to a noise complaint, and were looking for the mansion's owner as they walked along an outside walkway, when the officers looked through a window and saw Lee and two other people in a room. Lee looked up toward Hopper and allegedly pointed a gun that looked authentic in his direction, police Officer Charlotte Broughton said. Hopper responded by firing several rounds from his weapon through the window. Investigators later determined Lee's gun was fake. ‘‘It does not appear that (the officer) did anything wrong,’’ Broughton said. Follow up Tuesday, December 5, 2000: In an article titled Officer's Bullets Hit Actor in Back, Autopsy Finds, the Los Angeles Times reports that according to the coroner's report signed by Deputy Medical Examiner Jeffrey P. Gutstadt, the victim (Anthony Dwain Lee) was shot once in the back of the head and three times in the back. Cameron Stewart, an attorney retained by Lee's family, says ‘‘He could not have withdrawn a gun from his waist and pointed a gun at the officer and then have been shot four times in the back. It's impossible.’’

Upper Marlboro, Maryland: On November 2, 2000 The Department of Justice has decided to launch a civil rights investigation of the Prince George's County Police Department, officials said. The full-scale probe comes amid growing complaints about police brutality and other misconduct in the fast-growing suburban county north of Washington. Among other things, investigators will try to determine whether officers routinely use excessive force or engage in racial discrimination. Over the past year and a half, the FBI has reviewed more than 20 shootings by Prince George's police and numerous reports of abuse, including police dogs being used to terrorize citizens. In the last 15 months, Prince George's officers have shot 12 people, killing five. In two of those cases, officers were indicted. The latest controversial shooting came in Fairfax, Virginia, in September 2000, when an undercover officer fatally shot a college student in the back after trailing his vehicle from Prince George's County into Virginia. Prosecutors say the victim was mistaken for a man being sought by police. For more details, see Feds Launch Probe of Md. Police in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinnel.

Conway, Arkansas: On January 12, 2001, Carl Ray Wilson, age 60, was murdered by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, with assistance from the Conway SWAT team and Faulkner County Special Response Team. The gestapo squad entered at dawn, unannounced, dressed in dark clothes and black masks. When an alarm clock went off, the SWAT team started firing. The police had a search warrant for Mr. Wilson's home so they could look for a rifle, and they claim to have heard shots prior to entering the house. The family is adamant that Carl would not have drawn or fired a weapon at any police officer, but like many, he would have defended his family against intruders, and for that he was gunned down in his own bedroom, and bled to death on his own bed. Was the Faulkner County Police Department and the SWAT team possibly mislead, perhaps used as pawns, to satisfy a personal vendetta? A lot of questions are left unanswered. Carl Wilson has been painted out to be an explosives and weapons outlaw, instead he was, in fact, a retired construction worker, father, and grandfather on disability. His favorite pastime was playing dominos. Mr. Wilson had testified for the prosecution in the infamous Mary Lee Orsini case, in which Mr. (Bill) Buford, of the ATF, was an investigator. Mr. Buford was heard saying to Carl Wilson after the Orsini case, ‘‘I'll get you.’’ During the last two months Carl sold Christmas trees and pecans to the public along the roadside. Why couldn't the police have just arrested him there, if they had a surveillance team investigating him?

II. Manslaughter — Killings in which the victim protested, tried to escape, or threatened the government agents in a non-lethal manner, but that would nonetheless get an ordinary citizen convicted of either murder or manslaughter.

Boston, Massachusetts: On March 24, 1994, during a raid on the wrong house, officers chased seventy-five-year-old Reverend Accelyne Williams into a bedroom and handcuffed him; he then had a heart attack and died.

Albuquerque, New Mexico: On December 16, 1996, Ralph Garrison, 69, awakened to hear the sounds of someone breaking into his rental property next door. Garrison went outside to ask who these people were and what they were doing. The men – dressed in black with no visible identifying marks, wearing black ‘‘balaclava’’ hoods which may have been pulled down to conceal their faces, shined lights in his eyes, brandished rifles and yelled at him to get back in his house. Ralph Garrison called 911. When Garrison come to his back door with a gun in one hand, and cellular phone in the other with the 911 operator on the line, three of the intruders opened fire with their AR-15 assault rifles, discharging at least 12 rounds. They also shot and killed Garrison’s Chow dog, when the animal tried to protect his master after he was down. The intruders turned out to be Albuquerque Police Officer H. Neal Terry and county deputies James Monteith and Erik Little – displaying no badges, dressed in unmarked dark SWAT gear and possibly wearing their black hoods pulled down over their faces. Police Chief Joe Polisar said it isn’t department policy to notify 911 dispatchers before serving a warrant. Garrison was not suspected in connection with any crime and no one was arrested that day.
Albuquerque police officer Howard Neal Terry, one of the three ‘‘lawmen’’ involved, has been a defendant in three federal excessive-force lawsuits in the past six years, the local daily reports. The city of Albuquerque has paid more than $375,000 to settle the three lawsuits. In one case, Terry kicked an unarmed man in the head, causing permanent brain damage, and then contended the 64-year-old Mexican man ‘‘resisted arrest.’’ In another case, the city argued (before paying up) that another Mexican man, whose home Officer Terry has invaded, was responsible for his own injuries since he failed to obey the officer’s orders. In March 1993, Terry was one of two officers involved in the fatal shooting of Randy Libby, a 30-year-old man who supposedly threatened them with a locomotive-shaped cologne bottle. The city paid off the Libby family to the tune of $100,000.
Tucson, Arizona: On January 10, 1997, a few days after residents of the neighborhood had been informed by law officers that a convicted sex offender was moving into the area, David Aguilar, 44, noticed a man was sitting in a car parked alongside the road bordering Aguilar’s property, just sitting and watching. After the man refused to leave or to identify himself, Mr. Aguilar returned with a handgun, with which Aguilar’s children later said he was simply trying to scare the man away. When the stranger saw Mr. Aguilar returning, he opened fire with his own weapon and fired multiple rounds through his own windshield, killing Mr. Aguilar. The shooter later turned out to be undercover agent of the federal Drug Enforcement Administration. Although David Aguilar and his family were not the target of any drug investigation, the unnamed agent was staking out their neighborhood.

Kansas City: On January 12, 1998, a police officer shot and killed an unarmed pregnant woman during a routine traffic stop. Carol A. Kerns, age 37, had been pulled over for running a red light. When the officer asked Ms. Kerns to step out of the car, she tried to drive away from the officer who then fired a shot at the front left tire, and then into Ms. Kerns abdomen. There were several witnesses. Kerns had a record of minor offenses. Dennis Hoyle, Kerns’ boyfriend, said Kerns was determined not to return to jail after her release from the Johnson County Jail on May 5, 1998. ‘‘She was petrified of jail, of being locked up again,’’ Hoyle said. ‘‘... She was so scared. If she had the choice of going back to jail or dying - well, that’s what she chose.’’

Austin, Texas: On March 2, 1999, officer Troy Brown shot Herbert Vences, 33, in the chest and stomach because he said that Vences had attacked him with a tree branch. Vences’ shooting is the third in the past two months involving city patrolmen.

New York City: In May 1999 unarmed 16-year old Dante Johnson (black) was shot and critically injured after running away from three police officers who had stopped to question him and a friend while they were standing in the street. The officers were from the same street crime unit which had shot and killed Amadou Diallo om February 4, 1999 (see above). Johnson’s case was under investigation by the Bronx District Attorney at the time of writing.

Fresno, California: On September 27, 2000, a Tulare County Sheriff’s Deputy shot an unarmed Selma man during a traffic stop near Avenue 384 and Highway 99 in Kingsburg late Wednesday night. Brian Hugh Lane, 36, was shot twice in the stomach when he tried to run away, then stopped and turned around. Officials said the deputy shot Lane because he had some concerns that Lane was not complying with his orders and felt threatened. The shooting is under investigation. Lane underwent surgery at University Medical Center in Fresno and was listed in fair condition.

Saturday, January 8, 2011

Why are Millions of Birds and Fish Dying all Over the World?

Here is a report about millions of birds and fish that are mysteriously dying all over the world. The question is why?

Mystery of mass animal death epidemic deepens after 8,000 turtle doves fall dead in Italy with strange blue stain on their beaks

By Wil Longbottom
Last updated at 3:45 PM on 7th January 2011

Blue stain believed to be sign of poisoning or hypoxia - lack of oxygen that is precursor to altitude sickness
Cold weather and overbreeding blamed for deaths of two 2million fish in Chesapeake Bay
Disease behind deaths of 100,000 fish in Arkansas River
At least nine incidents of mass animal deaths across the globe
Hundreds of confused birds plummeted to their deaths in multiple locations in the U.S.
Rapid movement of Magnetic North Pole towards Russia may have caused bird deaths

Thousands of dead turtle doves rained down on roofs and cars in an Italian town in the latest in a growing spate of mass animal deaths across the globe.
Residents in Faenza described the birds falling to the ground like 'little Christmas balls' with strange blue stains on their beaks.
Initial tests on up to 8,000 of the doves indicated that the blue stain could have been caused by poisoning or hypoxia.

Mystery: 8,000 turtle doves fell to the ground dead in Faenza, Italy, and were found to have a blue stain around their beaks

Shock: Residents described seeing individual doves fall from the sky, before groups of 10 or 20 began hitting roofs and cars

A witness told www.examiner.com: 'We have no idea why this happened all of a sudden.
'The doves just started falling one-by-one then in groups of 10s and 20s.'
Hypoxia, a lack of oxygen, is known to cause confusion and illness in animals. It is also a common precursor to altitude sickness.
Experts said results from tests on the doves will not be available for at least a week.
They said that cold weather could have caused the birds' deaths as the flock was swept into a high-altitude wind storm before falling to the earth.
It comes after two million dead fish were found to have washed up on shores in Chesapeake Bay, Maryland.

The alarming find is being blamed by authorities in Maryland on the stress caused by unusually cold water and overbreeding among spot fish.

Mystery: Experts said they believed the blue colouration around the doves' beaks may indicate poisoning or lack of oxygen

Littering the beach: The bodies of two million spot fish have washed up on the shores of Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, after unusually cold weather

Carnage: Thousands of dead fish have washed up on the shores of Spruce Creek, Florida

That investigation comes just days after the deaths of an estimated 100,000 fish in northwest Arkansas, which is being blamed on disease.
A statement by the Maryland Department of the Environment said: 'Natural causes appear to be the reason.
'Cold water stress exacerbated by a large population of the affected species (juvenile spot fish) appears to be the cause of the kill.'
Preliminary tests of the water in Chesapeake Bay have showed the quality was acceptable, officials said.
The statement added: 'The affected fish are almost exclusively juvenile spot fish, three to six inches in length.
'A recent survey showed a very strong population of spot in the bay this year. An increased juvenile population and limited deep water habitat would likely compound the effects of cold water stress.'

Gruesome: New Year revellers watched in horror as the birds rained down on houses and cars in Beebe

Mystery: Officials initially blamed high-altitude hail or lightning hitting the birds. Then preliminary lab tests concluded they had died from multiple blunt force trauma

Mystery: A starling lies along the Morganza Highway in Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana. Experts said hundreds of birds may have died after hitting power lines

Mass winter deaths among spot fish have occurred twice before in the Maryland area - in 1976 and 1980.
The incident is the latest mass animal death to hit the headlines in the last two weeks.
These include:

450 red-winged blackbirds, brown-headed cowbirds, grackles and starlings found littering a highway in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
3,000 blackbirds on roofs and roads in the small town of Beebe, Arkansas
Thousands of 'devil crabs' washed up along the Kent coast near Thanet
Thousands of drum fish washed along a 20-mile stretch of the Arkansas River
Two million small fish in Chesapeake Bay, Maryland
Thousands of dead fish found floating in warm Florida creek
Hundreds of snapper fish found dead in New Zealand
Scores of American Coots found dead on Texas highway bridge

Experts have speculated that New Year fireworks, thunderstorms, cold weather, parasites and even poisoning may be behind the deaths.
But conspiracy theorists have also speculated on the internet that secret government experiments could be behind them, with some even claiming it was a sign of a looming Armageddon at the end of the Mayan calendar next year.
Another theory is that the rapid movement of the Magnetic North Pole towards Russia may have affected the birds' innate navigation systems.

The plot thickens: Rescue chief Christer Olofsson holds a dead bird in Falkoping, Sweden. Dozens of jackdaws were found dead on the street

Creepy: Thousands of dead drum fish were also discovered just miles away lining the shores of the Arkansas River

Inbuilt navigation systems in birds and fish is believed to be affected by magnetism.
Scientists have said the Magnetic North Pole is shifting at an average of around 25 miles a year.
With birds and fish relying on it to travel to breeding grounds and warmed climes, there are fears that the shifting pole could be confusing the animals which means they do not migrate in time to avoid cold weather.
Tests are being carried out on the dead birds and fish, but results are not expected for several weeks.
Scientists have been baffled by the sudden deaths of hundreds of birds which have plummeted to the ground seemingly simultaneously in several locations.
Two hundred American Coots were found dead on a highway bridge crossing Lake O' the Pines in Big Cypress Creek, Texas.
They are believed to have been hit by passing vehicles while walking or apparently trying to roost on the bridge.
Swedish experts blamed the shock of New Year fireworks for the unexplained deaths of 50 jackdaws found on a street in Falkoping, Sweden.
Many of the birds are believed to have died from stress or as a result of being run over while disoriented.
The largest incident took place in Beebe, Arkansas, were horrified revellers witnessed around 3,000 blackbirds crashing to their deaths into homes, cars and each other as they celebrated New Year.
Another 450 birds were found strewn along a highway in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, after apparently hitting overhead power lines.
In both cases, the birds are believed to have become confused and were flying at a lower height than usual.
The deaths of tons of fish across the globe is being attributed to unusually cold water.
Thousands of Brazilian fishermen have been left struggling to make ends meet after the sale of seafood was temporarily suspended when masses of fish were discovered in Paranaguá, Antonina and Guaraqueçaba Pontal do Paraná.
Fish were also discovered rotting and floating in Spruce Creek, Florida, after another period of cold weather.
100,000 drum fish were found strewn along the shore of the Arkansas River.
And the cold snap has been blamed for the deaths of 40,000 Velvet swimming crabs - known as 'devil crabs - found littering beaches in Thanet, Kent.

Thousands of them: Crabs washed up at Palm Bay, Margate, are thought to have died of hypothermia

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HOMELAND SECURITY HASN'T MADE US SAFER

See Truth Report 101 Comment at the end of this article.

Anne Applebaum

JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2011

Hardly anyone has seriously scrutinized either the priorities or the spending patterns of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its junior partner, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), since their hurried creation in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. Sure, they get criticized plenty. But year in, year out, they continue to grow faster and cost more -- presumably because Americans think they are being protected from terrorism by all that spending. Yet there is no evidence whatsoever that the agencies are making Americans any safer.

DHS serves only one clear purpose: to provide unimaginable bonanzas for favored congressional districts around the United States, most of which face no statistically significant security threat at all. One thinks of the $436,504 that the Blackfeet Nation of Montana received in fiscal 2010 "to help strengthen the nation against risks associated with potential terrorist attacks"; the $1,000,000 that the village of Poynette, Wisconsin (pop. 2,266) received in fiscal 2009 for an "emergency operations center"; or the $67,000 worth of surveillance equipment purchased by Marin County, California, and discovered, still in its original packaging, four years later. And indeed, every U.S. state, no matter how landlocked or underpopulated, receives, by law, a fixed percentage of homeland security spending every year.

As for the TSA, I am not aware of a single bomber or bomb plot stopped by its time-wasting procedures. In fact, TSA screeners consistently fail to spot the majority of fake "bombs" and bomb parts the agency periodically plants to test their skills. In Los Angeles, whose airport was targeted by the "millennium plot" on New Year's 2000, screeners failed some 75 percent of these tests.

Terrorists have been stopped since 2001 and plots prevented, but always by other means. After the Nigerian "underwear bomber" of Christmas Day 2009 was foiled, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano claimed "the system worked" -- but the bomber was caught by a passenger, not the feds. Richard Reid, the 2001 shoe bomber, was undone by an alert stewardess who smelled something funny. The 2006 Heathrow Airport plot was uncovered by an intelligence tip. Al Qaeda's recent attempt to explode cargo planes was caught by a human intelligence source, not an X-ray machine. Yet the TSA responds to these events by placing restrictions on shoes, liquids, and now perhaps printer cartridges.

Given this reality -- and given that 9/11 was, above all, a massive intelligence failure -- wouldn't we be safer if the vast budgets of TSA and its partners around the world were diverted away from confiscating nail scissors and toward creating better information systems and better intelligence? Imagine if security officers in Amsterdam had been made aware of the warnings the underwear bomber's father gave to the U.S. Embassy in Abuja. Or, for that matter, if consular officers had prevented him from receiving a visa in the first place.

Better still, DHS could be broken up into its component parts, with special funding and planning carried out at the federal level only for cities and buildings that are actually at risk of terrorist attack. Here is the truth: New York City requires a lot more homeland security spending, per capita, than Poynette. Here is the even starker truth: Poynette needs no homeland security spending at all. The events of 9/11 did not prove that the United States needs to spend more on local police forces and fire brigades; they proved that Americans need to learn how to make better use of the information they have and apply it with speed and efficiency.

Anne Applebaum is a columnist for the Washington Post and Slate.

(The Truth Report 101 Comment)

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