The Montgomery County police conducted a raid on a home roughly a quarter of a mile in the territory of Washington, D.C. It appears that the Montgomery County police rented themselves and their vehicles to a television production company for a show called “Prison Wives” and proceeded to conduct the raid without notifying the District of Columbia.
D.C. residents were terrified when officers with guns drawn and police cars blaring raided a home in Northwest D.C.
This was all done for a cable show for Investigation Discovery on women who fall in love and marry prisoners.
I am not sure what is more disturbing: the fact that police are now rented out like cheap extras or that a raid is conducted with county cars for a cheap cable show. They are not alone in this theater of the absurd, here.
For the full story, click here.
AY,
I only attack when I am attack.
All these ad hominem attacks against me b/c I was a felon are IRRELEVANT.
It’s either the exposure of their ingrained biases or it’s that they’re so dishonest that they’re willing to compromise themselves just to attack me.
Ad hominem biases ONLY exposes the ignorance of the attacker.
My initial posts were not that far off from many of the progressive views on this site. But there are those biased against me b/c I’ve exposed them, and done so rudely, I will admit, but NO one could ever cause me to cloud my beliefs and principles to engage in an exclusive ad hominem assault just b/c I’m biased against a particular person or their views.
Thank you for the compliment.
Sil1,
See you make a positive post and make a valid point. But if someone disagrees with you, you attack. Why? You appear brighter than that.
IS,
I did nothing any different than the BUSH/OBAMA administration did w/their faux bailouts.
Tell me what was so different about:
Lend people who beg, and beg, and beg, and beg, and promise the moon and stars for as much monet as you’ll put in their hands. You extend credit and forgive late payments over and over and you give them more and more money as they continue to beg and promise the whole time using YOUR money to indulge themselves and rob Peter-to-pay-Paul.
Finally you decide to call in your markres on these shameless deadbeats who never had any intention of really paying, their only goal was to meet their interest payments and continue the shell game for as long as possible.
So you SUMMON these deadbeats to a meeting and proceed to instruct these deadbeats who you’ve so indebted to yourself that you now own their business and they will do what you tell them to do, how to do it and when to do it. You tell them that ALL other creditors or investors are to be told to go-pound-sand. You tell them to tell those creditor’s who protest to come see you and when they do, if they’re nice, thwey’ll get a payoff but if they’re fresh they’ll definitely be out of luck.
Then if the business can be salvaged, then you’ll make a nice salary. If it’s a lemon you bleed it for all it’s worth untill you cut ties.
I used to do this w/legitimate business’ and illegal business’. And there was nothing anyone could do or anywhere they could go.
And these were not innocents who were preyed upon. These people came to me begging me to bail them out. They were such deadbeats that they had no where else to go. They had tapped out every legitimate institution and stiffed them all that I was there last option. But the fact was that they couldn’t stiff me.
For the illegal operators. They had nothing to cry about. They decided to play be the rules of the “life” so they had to accept the consequences.
These corrupt govn’t administrations did the exact same thing that we have been doing for over a century. Lending money, rewriting loans, forgiving late payments, compromising industries to such an extent that the govn’t owns them lock-stock-and-barrell. And everyone else has to go pound sand.
I don’t excuse and I don’t resent. I just point out the hypocricy of these corrupt govn’ts that have stolen our playbook. If we’re all guilty of RICO then the govn’t is the ULTIMATE RICO.
But everybody wants to praise the govn’t as they usurp our liberties!!!
These cops and prosecutor’s are nothing but tools to keep us in line. The Judiciary is used to LEGISLATE our rights away from us.
Power has been centralized, policing has been centralized and our liberties are being taken away by a centralized machine.
They could not function unless these SCARED to death judges and justices conttinued to make laws and rulings that encroach on our freedoms more and more. And it all begins and ends in the Federal criminal AND civil venue where the powers are unchecked and these authoritarians do what they want.
But these so-called progressives (B/c this pro-police attitude seems to me to be some YAHOO right wing ideology) want to turn cops and feds as if they are above reproach. Some kind of nobles incapable of corruption.
At least you recognized my honesty. Taxes and authoritarian dictates that usurp our liberties are only enforced by the full force and power of the govn’t.
Not paying taxes. Being a pure capitalist. Like the in tradition of my ancestors, all we do is infultrate from w/in and use the system of the tyranical opressor’s against ittself.
I retired from the “life” and decided to become a straight civilian b/c you can NOT beat the man. They write the rules however they see fit. I decided I like my psuedo-liberties that I still enjoy better than straight incarceration.
Scilian1:
I just figured it out, since you did not pay any taxes (which I would do if I could figure out how to do it legally) and were a pure capitalist you are to be reviled. Now it makes sense.
Thank you for clearing it up.
I hope you stashed a bunch of your money in offshore accounts. Taxes are paid because of the full force and power of the government. At least you were honest and used a gun and there was no double speak.
Gyges,
Save your insults they do not effect me.
If you are so intellectually challenged that you can not discern b/t an insult and a point of topic w/in a rant then you are proving my point of your ignorance. Or maybe it’s ADHD b/c the dissertations are too long for your mind to process.
Anytime anyone wants to respond Silician1 I want you to say “I’m ignorant and it’s been proven that I don’t think for myself.” That way: You’ll save yourself the trouble of typing your response; Sicilian the the trouble of telling you you’re ignorant and that it’s been proven that you don’t think for yourself; People like me the trouble of scrolling past his rants and your (less and less) mildly entertaining taunts in the hope that an actual conversation was going on.
IS,
First off, I accepted full responsibility for my crimes of which I was charged and punished. That is what the justice system is about.
As a member of an ethnicity who has had war declared upon it by a corrupt and oppressive government, I do not apologize for anything I did b/c not only were me and my people part of a tradition that not only protected their fellow brethern but only developed what was the highest form of capitalism.
You do NOT believe me? All the tricks of the trade that we developed and exploited throughout the century have only been adopted by the government which employs them by force and threat of prosecution.
They have only “marked” my type b/c we were able to manipulate the system from w/in. If we had been a tax paying organization they would leave us alone. But b/c we did NOT give them their undeserved pound of flesh we have been identified as the enemy.
Do NOT think I am the bad guy. Guys like me just have to sit back and let people come to us. They beg to get involved w/us.
The govn’t could NOT fight us on an even playing field so they had to write RICO into law. The most back-door, invasive, corrupt law on the books.
After being hit w/a RICO and experiencing the wrath of the federal govn’t I came to the conclusion that it is better to just be a normal civilian b/c you can not battle those who write the rules.
Continue w/your ad hominem insults. They in NO way decrease my credibility and only serve to note your inferior skills of which I’ve certainly proven are NO match for me.
Do you understand you ignorant, that casting dispersions on someones character that have NO relevance to the questions is a classic ad hominem trick that one who does not possess the ability to defend themselves uses to try to divert attention away from their own deficiencies.
You are the most predictable ignorant that I’ve ever exposed. You continuously go to the same well w/no luck.
You’re bag of tricks are laughable. The only thing you continue to do is prove that you are a robot who can only give the same exact rant to every topic. You are so myopic in your insight that you lend absolutely nothing to any discussion as you only look to pounce on an opening to manipulate a circumstance to give your same tired old rants.
You are the one who is truly the insignificant gnat. W/those feeble little asides that prove nothing accept an inability to articulate.
Scilian1:
First off I would like to say I believe that any man that does prison time and pays his debt is offered a clean slate and a chance at redemption. No one can judge another mans soul.
But Mespo727272 does bring up a good point, namely have you contacted the victims of your crimes and apologized sincerely and made attempts at financial restitution? Obviously if your crimes were not against individuals per se that is a moot point. But no crime is really victimless, did you sell drugs or have girls or was it hijacking shipments, etc.? Some crimes are beyond redemption-child molestation, murder, rape.
I am guessing here but part of Mespo727272’s lack of respect has to do with his respect for Thomas Jefferson. Property rights are a fundamental concept in any free society and your trouncing of them through crime is a slap in the face of any civilized society. An individual’s property is sacrosanct and destruction or theft is a very fundamental transgression.
If you can ask forgiveness have you and have you tried to make restitution?
I have no problem calling you an idiot for as long as you act like one, felon.
And you’re an insult to meat. What’s your point? Other than your head?
Buddha,
You are the most ignorant, psude intekllectual on this site.
You have been exposed as a fraud who does not really believe or is ready to defend the ideologies you spout from your ivy-tower.
You are NOT even capable of even a morsel of introspection on any topic. And certainly not capable of any personal introspection.
You are a charlatan only concerned w/the false identity of an enlightened type that you have failed to convince.
You do NOT have an original thought in your feeble mind. All your little attempts at humor or sarcasm are obvious ripped off from some rote handbook you bought at Barnes and Nobles.
All your rants are pre-programmed from your progressive handbook. You throw out buzz words like “Rovian” and do NOT even realize how you are guilty of “Rovian” tactics.
You are like all the rest of your progressive types who only live to pat themselves. You are consumed with vanity and vapidity. You are blinded by your ignorance and arrogance. You are a one note pony only capable of manipulating everything into an anti-Bush rant.
You are an insult to Siddarthura.
sicilian1 1, July 8, 2009 at 4:59 pm
Save your soapbox rants.
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Take your own advice.
So progressives, since I’ve once again exposed you for the intellectual ignorants answer this:
Try to remove your personal biases against me. Forget aboutr the fact that I had the money and influence to make sure my lawyer got me the best plea bargain possible. I know that will be nearly impossible b/c that is mainly what fuels your every action.
Save your soapbox rants.
How is it justified that, the poor, indigent,? those w/out connections or money or influence are handed out time in excess of their complicity or exposure in individual crimes and conspiracies?
How is it justified that the feds tell you to take the plea or if you go to trial you’ll get the max?
And what kind of justice are they really after when the plea bargain offer is decades LESS than what they threaten they’ll ask for if you go to trial and lose? Where is the correlation? Why are they willing to “go easy” w/a plea. But they’ll punish you if you assert your constitutional right to a trial? In my book their heavy-handed intimidation is nothing more than a force play to get you to forego your rights and give in to them. And there willingness to have offers that are so disparate in punishment is evidence that they really do not care about justice and only care about numbers and wins.
Here’s a scenario from a friend:
He took his case to trial. He had one co-defendant. The other co-defendant ended up cooperating and taking a 5 or 6 year sentence in order to testify against my friend and his co-defendant.
The 2 were charged with 4 counts. Then my friend picked up a 5th count b/che intimidated a witness in the case.
The jury acquitted both defendants on the 4 original counts. But my friend was convicted on the witness tampering count.
Ok fed guidlines called for 10-16 months on the tampering charges.
My friend went for sentencing fully ready to do the 10-16 months. Obviously the feds were seeing RED b/c they lost at trial. But they had that one guilty count with which to manipulate and they were going to play it for all they could.
At sentencing the feds moved to ENHANCE my friend with the ACQUITTED conduct. That’s right, they used the ACQUITTED conduct to enhance his guidlines and give him a 40 month sentence.
My friend lost every appeal. (This was before Booker/FanFan)(Which everyone knows didn’t change much b/c the feds can still use the guidelines as an “advisorary” tool)(And if they depart from the guidlines downward the prosecutor appeals and the appeals curciut sends it back for re-sentencing. Clearly a signal that they endorse the harsher guildline sentence or an upward departure)
So was it fair that my friend took it to trial, won on 4 of 5 counts, by the guidelines was only looking at 10-16 months, but the feds sore assed at losing weilded their unchecked power and stuck him with a 40 month sentence AND used the ACQUITTED conduct to do it?
You don’t think that guy had a right to be bitter? And was embittered all the more b/c of the personal hardships he and his family endured through his incarceration?
How about the guys that negotiate a plea bargain say for 10 years in federal prison. Then they go to sentencing fully expecting to get the 10 year sentence. But the good old fed prosecutor unearths a “rat” or two from somewhere in the federal system who gets on the stand and w/no cooboration swears to the sentencing judge that the defendant sold X# of a quantity of drugs for X# of months sometime in the not to distant past?
I’ll tell you what happens. They pull out thje calculators and instead of lokking at the 10 years he had been ready to plea to he’s looking at 20 or 30 years. And there is nothing his lawyer can do about it. Ya, withdraw the plea you say. Good luck. B/c you’ll just be back to square one w/the fed saying, ok now that we got these knew charges he’s looking at X# of years BUT we’ll go easy if he now pleads to X# of years.
And the judges are too afraid to buck the prosecutors b/c if the little punk prosecutor doesn’t like how the judge departed downward, he’ll just use more tax payer money to appeal. And no judge likes to get their cases sent back from the appeals court for re-sentencing.
This plea bargain process has been completely corrupted.
Or how about the old time bank robber I know that had an old fed beef. Got 20 years under the parole system. Paroled in 10. Then spent the next 20 years going in and out of the feds on violations. The thing is that NOT a one of the violations was for ANY new criminal conduct. The feds had a hard-on for him b/c they could never stick nothing new on him so they marked him. They’d manipulate any type of conduct to give him a year or 2 here or there. In and out he went and never once did he committ another crime. He was under the old law so they kept restarting his time over and over. And the only ones who suffered was his family.
Was that fair?
Whay you all need to understand is that if they can do it to people they don’t like then they’ll do it to everyone. The violation of the liberty of one innocent man is not worth the imprisonment of every guilty man. In the halls of justice the end should never justify the means.
I saw the disregard for humanity first hand. I do not cry for me. I thank my maker for giving me the opportunity to live another day. And I was fortunate to have experienced people to look out for me and advise me on the best route to take. If I hadn’t had that then I too would have been swallowed by the system. When I look at the bullet I dodged I am chilled to the bone.
But what about all those who’s future’s are lost to the feds # and power game? They too are humans.
You are ALL raging progressives. You should believe in rehabilitation and second chances and redempytion. In your progressive mantra’s you spout about the rights and liberties being infringed upon at every turn. You talk about your freedoms and how the intolerance of the “state” infringes upon them.
Well, you better believe that it starts right with the criminal justice system. Not every criminal is a crack dealer. Not every criminal was like me; someone deserving of time and sophisticated enough in his behavior to accept that. You know how many guys I did fed time with for some bullsh*t tax beef. Some accounting mistake that the feds then threatened w/all kinds of confiscations of personal property? B/c believe it or not “upstanding citizens” that could happen to you. And don’t think you’ll be shown any mercy b/c you’re a good progressive. You’ll be part of the same #’s game as that inner city crack dealer and you’ll probably end up being his cellmate.
You rant against me b/c I had my one fed felony. Big deal. You sound like all those radical “tough-on-crime” “repubs” that you hate.
People don’t wear either white or black hats. Everyone wears a grey hat. And just b/c someone has the DOJ seal behind them does not mean they’re above corruption or dangerous zealotry. And just b/c someone makes their money in what may be considered a “shady” way does not mean they’re all bad and deserve to be locked up.
And for you progressives to defend these dishonorable law enforcement officers that only use their positions to bully makes you sound like some “yahoo”, “red-state” law-and-order” zealot that approves of every expansion of government.
The “cop” show that gives me the biggest laugh is A&E’s “Manhunters” It is common knowledge in the feds that Marshall’s do NOT go looking for ANYBODY. Least of all the cases on “Manhunters”
When somebody runs the Marshall’s do NOT expend an ounce of energy. They just wait till the fugitive gets picked up on some traffic beef or assault rap or some other stupid crime that gets him arrested. As soon as the locals run the sheet and the guys come up fugitive, they call the Marshall’s who then bring the guy into federal custody. That’s how the Marshall’s operate. They don’t move a muscle. You couldn’t offer them O.T. to move a muscle b/c they know how to play the game.
Any time someone gets picked up they never even fight b/c they know what’s up. I had a friend of mine tell me that any time the feds hit him he runs and just waits untill he gets caught. He told me that he can run anynwhere set up shop and have a good run untill they catch up w/him b/c he said they never look.
But this stupid show glorifies these punks as if they’re modern day Texas Ranger’s, flying all over the states to catch bad guys.
It’s the biggest made for Tv propaganda “cop” show they ever invented. But people buy into this hero worship of these fakers.
Cop shows are a detriment to society. And don’t think for one second the cops or prosecutors believe in real justice. It’s just some word thet throw around to mask their corruption and apathy.
mespo,
Indeed. The Bard was a wise man and your quote brings to mind The Merchant of Venice (Act 2, Sc. 9), with Sil playing the part of Arragon and everyone else playing Portia.
Arragon:
What’s here? the portrait of a blinking idiot,
Presenting me a schedule! I will read it.
How much unlike art thou to Portia!
How much unlike my hopes and my deservings!
“Who chooseth me shall have as much as he deserves”!
Did I deserve no more than a fool’s head?
Is that my prize? Are my deserts no better?
Portia:
To offend and judge are distinct offices,
And of opposed natures.
Buddha:
I am picturing Lear here screeching against the rising storm. Maybe we should tiptoe away quietly and let him take an aspirin or something?
King Lear:
“Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!
You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout
Till you have drench’d our steeples, drown’d the cocks!
You sulphurous and thought-executing fires,
Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts,
Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder,
Smite flat the thick rotundity o’ the world!
Crack nature’s moulds, an germens spill at once,
That make ingrateful man!”
Act 3, Scene 2
Buddha,
You may be laughing but Siddarthura is certainly crying.
Your rhetoric is certainly lacking. Trying to turn my exposure of your hypocricies around on me are lame.
You spout only propaganda but as I have pointed out you are only a talker.
I have nothing to be afraid of. I served my time and am now a civilian so I can speak w/out worry.
You do not care about the things you claim to represent.
If you weren’t so ignorant and narrow minded you would be able to understand my point about those swallowed by the system. I only bring up myself as an example to enlighten about how if it can happen to me, who was “hip-to-the-game”, others are nothing but food for fodder.
But being thje hypocritical, arrogant, pompous, vapid, vain charlatan that you are you can not see that and even if you could you do not care b/c you are selfish and only care about how good you think you sound.
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Mespo,
Remember this for all time. It’s guys like me who are responsible for your existence and lifestyle.
It’s guys like me that guys like you would DIE to represent. Guys like me could pay guys like you more money in one case than you could make in 10 years hustling cases at the local district court and picking up every court appointed case you can just to pay your rent.
It doesn’t sound like you’ve ever been in a criminal court house. And if you haven’t I advise you NEVER even entertain the thought of doing so. Federal criminal law is ONLY reserved for the BIG-TIMERS, those playing play for blood and it’s filled w/pirahna’s on both sides. We’d see a guy like you coming a mile away and just out of sympathy we’d send you back where you came to save you from getting in over your head and getting hurt.
So just be content being the hack lawyer you are, hustling a payday like any common snake-oil salesman.
But remember, it’s hacks like you that undermine the whole system and allow it to perpetuate yourself. And keep fawning over the feds as they preen for your salutations then laugh behind your back at what an insignificant you are. We need more lawyers like mine who aren’t afraid to go toe-to-toe w/the feds, lawyers who take their pledge to defend the rights of the accussed seriously, lawyers who hold the arrogance and bullying tactics of the feds in contempt, lawyers who know that every accussed deserves to be defended vigorously and without predjudice b/c they know that if the liberties of the accussed are compromised in even the slightest then all our liberties as citizens of this nation are at risk, lawyers who do not get scared and stand their ground against the tyranny of an oppressive state.
We don’t need sell-outs like you who are all to ready to compromise their beliefs for their own interest, who are all too willing to be mistified by the faux majesty of the “state” who only wants to encroach on our liberties little-by-little.
You try to besmirch me when I never excused my behaviour. Unlike you I am able to view treality outside the prism of my own self interests.
I do NOT cry out in outrage over myself. I cry out in outrage over those who are less fortunate and have fallen victim to the tyranny of the “state”. I only gave my circumstance as an example to show how if it could happen to me, someone able to “dance” w/the feds a little bit, someone who was able to get good criminal representation, imagine what happens to the less fortunate.
But you as a hypocrite do NOT understand that. And are so narrow minded that you were unable to see the forest through the trees of my example to grasp the larger point.
I implore you; turn in your law liscense. You are a disgrace to your profession and do not deserve the right to represent a jay-walking case. You are a sell-out of the highest degree.
Mespo,
You are such a dishonest cherry-picker.
You quote my criminal admittance in my blog.
But you do not point out my college education which I also made reference to. I came from a classic upper suburban middle class upbringing. My pursuit of a criminal lifestyle was a choice of which I took full responsibility.
I am not a hypocrite unlike those who hide behind their badges and the seal of the DOJ. They act as if they are noble when their merciless dirty tricks only corrupt the system all the more.
I have food the higher up the criminal food chain I rose the more you could trust the honor and word of those with whom you dealt. The civilian world is filled w/weak, dishonest charlatan’s such as yourself. You sing plattitudes about constructs of which you are incapable of ever living up to and against the lifestyles of which you know nothing about. You are a naive, scared to death insignificant nobody. You were not endowed with the natural constitution to represent anything of substance and the praises you sing and causes you claim to defend are only lip service.