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Georgetown, Texas – Officer George Bermudez was fired from the Georgetown police department after it was discovered that he intentionally and maliciously tampered with a fellow officer’s weapon. The situation began on February 2nd when Bermudez was asked to pick up another officer’s weapon from the Williamson County Firearms Range where they were practicing.
The rifle was left behind by Officer David Lanier, but instead of picking the weapon up and doing him a favor, Bermudez took the rifle to the Guns Plus gun shop in Georgetown and requested that the clerk make very specific and dangerous modifications to the gun. …read more

Florida: Vendor Tries To Save Red Light Cameras Despite Accident RiseThe Newspaper.com
Hollywood, FL — Accidents are up at the intersections with red light cameras in Hollywood, Florida, but American Traffic Solutions (ATS) is desperate to keep the troubled system alive. City commissioners last week unanimously approved an ordinance to dump the controversial devices, only to back away from the resolution after ATS proposed a last-minute deal. The company will, in effect, pay the council to ignore the city police chief’s warning about the impact of automated ticketing since January 2011.
“Just so we’re clear, we looked at empirical data, we did …read more

London, UK — The United Kingdom tabloid, The Sun has published a video from the private footage of the British royal family.
In the video the Queen and the Queen mum raise their Nazi salutes proudly for the camera.
According to the Sun:
The film shows the then Princess Elizabeth, just seven, larking about in 1933.
Egging on her sister Princess Margaret, three, is their uncle Prince Edward, Prince of Wales. He was a sympathiser towards Hitler’s Nazi Germany and became King Edward VIII.
The stunning film footage of the Queen performing a Nazi salute is today revealed by The Sun.
The astonishing clip lay hidden …read more

Palm Beach County, FL — The CDC estimates that there are currently 1.2 million persons aged 13 years of age and older living with HIV infection, including 156,300 who are unaware of their infection.
Greenacres police officer, Ervans Saintclair is one of the 1.2 million people who has HIV. However, he is not in the second number of people who were unaware.
In 2007, medical records show that Saintclair was diagnosed as HIV-positive. For the last 8 years, he knew that he could potentially spread HIV to individuals through unprotected sex.
In January of 2014, Saintclair was arrested after three victims came forward …read more

On July 18, North Carolina legislative leaders decided that the 2016 presidential primary should be on March 15. Back in April 2015, the House had passed HB 457 to move that primary from February to March 8. That bill had not made any headway in the Senate.
For some reason, HB 457 will be abandoned and HB 373 will be the vehicle for the change. This story says it will soon be heard in the Senate committee.
It is somewhat extravagant for North Carolina government to pay for a March 15 presidential primary and then pay for a May …read more

According to this story, the Working Families Party is organizing in Wisconsin. Wisconsin does not permit fusion, and generally the Working Families Party only becomes ballot-qualified in states that have fusion. However, the party may be feeling more confident about running and winning races without fusion. It has elected two of its nominees in special legislative elections this year, and in neither case was the WFP nominee also the nominee of the Democratic Party. The two 2015 legislative wins were to the Connecticut State Senate and the New York Assembly. …read more

Albuquerque, NM — The city of Albuquerque and the Albuquerque Police Department may be facing a lawsuit by one of their own officers after an undercover officer was repeatedly shot by another member of the APD.
As we previously reported, Officer Jacob Grant was critically wounded after being shot approximately eight times by Lieutenant Greg Brachle during an undercover drug bust. Both officers were undercover at the time of the shooting.
According to the criminal complaint, Grant and his partner Holly Garcia met a suspect to buy $60 worth of “shards,” another term for meth. The suspects got into Garcia’s car, and …read more

Waller County, TX — As more details emerge in the tragic in-custody death of Sandra Bland, this story gets even more suspicious.
Sandra Bland, 28, died in police custody Monday, after being assaulted by cops just a few days before, during a routine traffic stop. Authorities are claiming she committed suicide.
According to Waller County Sheriff’s Department officials, Bland was pulled over last Friday for “improperly signaling a lane change” and charged with “assault on a public servant.”
Sheriff Glenn Smith claimed that Bland failed to use her turn signal then became combative during the traffic stop. Video of the arrest was posted …read more

I sent this letter through DownsizeDC.org’s Cut Federal Spending campaign.

Washington Watch (http://bit.ly/1O6xdkB) informs us of your latest spending bills. Here’s some of the stuff you will force me to fund:

* Cronyism: The Overseas Private Investment Corporation

* Foreign meddling: In the form of the National Endowment for Democracy

* TV and programming I could pay for myself, if I wanted it: The Corporation for Public Broadcasting

These are just three of dozens of departments and agencies that not only go beyond the enumerated powers of the Constitution, but don’t serve any real “governmental” purpose at all.

They offer …read more

I sent this letter to Congress through DownsizeDC.org’s Deny Consent to “Government” Criminality campaign.

An Atlantic story (http://theatln.tc/1xGmEgM) revealed that in addition to unconstitutional, warrantless spying, the NSA is one giant Creep. They’re storing pictures of children and innocent adults in sexy poses.

This is the final straw. The NSA doesn’t abide by the Constitution, criminal laws the rest of us must follow, or even common decency.

It should be abolished.

After all, does Jamaica need an NSA-type agency to be “secure?”

Does Chile?

Does Switzerland?

Instead of “curbing” the NSA’s powers, just get rid of it!
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