We have often discussed the plight of women in the Middle East where they are often treated as chattel and denied basic rights and privileges. A story this week out of Tunisia therefore may not surprise the readers of this blog but it again shocks the conscience in giving a glimpse into the desperate existence of many women. The victim in this latest case was pulled from a car with her fiance by three police officers. As the boyfriend was taken to withdraw money from an ATM and robbed, the other two officers took turns raping the woman. When she filed a complaint, the police responded by arresting her for public indecency. So much for the balanced scales of justice on the country’s coat of arms.
The couple had been parked on September 3rd in Tunis when the officers set upon them. Her complaint and the public outcry forced the police to charge the officers with rape, but the department then arrested her after the officers, for the first time, alleged that the two were in an “immoral position” in the car. Both the man and woman were charged with “intentional indecent behavior” and are now facing six months in prison.
The Tunisian government has repeatedly charged both reporters and human rights activists with “public immorality” and “public disorder.” It has also refused demands from the U.N. Human Rights Council to rescind discriminatory laws against women.
Tunisia has also seen widespread anti-American protests where President Obama has been called an “Ape” and thousands chanted their allegiance with Osama Bin Laden. This occurred after the White House celebrated its close friendship with Tunisia and how Tunisia “ignited” the Arab Spring movement.
The rape case of this woman should be an international cause for justice and galvanize the movement for greater rights for women in Tunisia and other Muslim nations.
Source: CNN
Throughout my life, I have traveled many parts of the world – many countries in Europe as well as Asia. The Middle East is somewhere that I have never, and will never visit. There have been occasions when my presence has been requested at meetings in the Middle East for my company but, I have allays either refused to go or, found some “urgent” matter that requires my attention back home.
I have many friends who live there, including a good friend in Egypt who is allays asking me to visit his family. I know that the vast majority of the people who live there are friendly, loving people. However, the governments and state supported fanaticism makes this are of the world far too unsafe for me to even consider visiting – for any reason.
And we are different how, when we imprison whistle blowers……
One reason why I feel that I should publicize the fact that DOJ repeatedly imprisoned me without a bail hearing, without a criminal charge, and after I was told in Court that I was not entitled to an evidentiary hearing, not entitled to cross examine the witnesses against me, not entitled to my own witnesses, not entitled to a lawyer, and not entitled to consult my computer or a law library after a surprise arrest based on non existent criminal charges for bail violation being entered into the DOJ Warrant Information Network and NCIC, is that I had a friend whose father was in Auschwitz for 5 years. The German courts failed to protect the public.
The Federal Courts have failed me too. My original complaint involved the facts that in Routt County Colorado, Judge Joel Thompson ruled that I did not have a right to enforcement of the zoning 10 feet from my property. His live in fiance was arrested by the DEA the next year on a cocaine selling charge. Routt County Judge James Garrecht ruled that a permanent order that I should keep 30 feet from my adjoining neighbor because I complained that they had violated the zoning. In 2009, it was publicly disclosed at a meet the candidates event by Kevin Bennett, my adjoining neighbor, that he had a felony drug dealing related record but kept that from the public when he was president of the Steamboat Springs Colorado city council. I recently checked his property tax record for 701 Princeton Ave at the Routt County assessor’s office and found that the 2000 square foot detached building I complained about is not listed in the square foot calculations and that his original house is not shown in the drawings. The guest house he built in 2000 is listed as being built in 1965.
When I filed in federal court in Colorado I did not agree to adjudication by a magistrate and specifically refused to after the magistrate disclosed in court that he had discussed my case with Kevin Bennett’s attorney, David Brougham, and said that he drinks with lawyers. Yet my first appeal to the 10th Circuit 04-1108 shows the judge as being the magistrate O.E. Schlatter. In fact Schlatter didn’t write an opinion, only a magistrate’s report and recommendation, which Judge Nottingham adopted without writing an opinion even though I had filed a timely objection. The magistrate’s report said that I should have to pay over $100 K with no Rule 11(c)(6) orders, no evidentiary hearings, and no trial because prosecutors have absolute immunity for press conferences. That conflicts with the Supreme Court opinion in Buckley v. Fitzsimmons. He said that the standard for defamation is malice when in fact that is the standard only if the person defamed is a public figure, which I was not, and the newspaper staff was aware that they were republishing false statements. Schlatter said that complaints I had filed which were never served and to which no responsive pleading was filed caused res judicata. That conflicts with the Supreme Court opinions in Semtek International v. Lockheed Martin and Blonger-Tongue Laboratories Inc. v. University of Illinois Foundation, which I had cited. He claimed that all attorneys have blanket immunity when working as advocates, which is not supported by any opinion other than his own.
My belief is that former judge Edward Nottingham and Magistrate Schlatter were paid off in my case, i.e. bribed, by defense counsel David Brougham. My theory is that Brougham, Schlatter, and Nottingham, were hanging out together at the Diamond Cabaret strip club, one mile from the Denver court. In 2007, the 10th Circuit reported that Nottingham had resigned after a prostitute submitted an affidavit saying that he asked a prostitute to lie to investigators about their relationship. The 10th also said that Nottingham was calling multiple prostitutes on his court issued cell phone. I saw Nottingham’s court financial disclosure forms on-line and it showed that his only significant source of income was his federal paycheck and I don’t think he could afford prostitutes. Nottingham’s prostitute problem became public through his divorce from his 3rd wife Marcie Jaeger. She found a $3,000 charge on his AMEX bill on 9/5/2005 at the Diamond Cabaret lap dance club. That was three days after he first ordered my summary imprisonment for trying to get a hearing in a different federal court. At the hearing Brougham said that Kevin Bennett had come down from Steamboat. This is not in the transcript. I think that Bennett brought a pre paid credit card to bribe Nottingham and that the reason that he put the $3,000 on his AMEX card on Monday is that he had run through the prepaid credit card. His wife didn’t find any other Diamond Cabaret charges even though AP reported that he was enough of a regular customer at the Diamond Cabaret that the staff knew him. She didn’t find prostitution services on his credit cards even though the Denver Post reported that he was a customer at the Denver Players brothel and that many lawyers credit cards were used there. The Feds prosecuted the Denver Players manager Brenda Stewart for income tax evasion but all the Court files were closed and there was no investigation or prosecution of the parties who provided credit cards for payment. 9 News of Denver reported that they interviewed the prostitute who testified against Nottingham and that she said that she was selling him sex every week during the time my case was assigned to him. 9 News also reported that they interviewed a driver for prostitutes who said that he was kissing prostitutes on the street in front of his condo and told them that he was a federal judge. So Nottingham was very indiscreet.
Brougham was representing Colorado Intergovernmental RiskSharing Agency. I have a blogspot about CIRSA. It turns out that CIRSA sent a letter to the Denver Post reporter Chuck Plunkett in which they claimed that they were not a political subdivision and therefore were not subject to the State of Colorado open records act. However, the State of Colorado treats CIRSA as a political subdivision for the purposes of insurance regulation. Therefore CIRSA does not report how much it pays in claims for the insurance policies it sells. Its limited financial statements lump claims paid together with settlement expenses, which are undefined, and which together are only about 50% of proceeds. Also, it has never filed its claims handling procedures with the State, which is supposed to be required when political subdivisions form an insurance pool. All questions to the State of Colorado about CIRSA are referred to one and only one person so there is no transparency. CIRSA has had only one executive director during its entire history and he is not elected nor appointed by the governor. CIRSA doesn’t disclose the compensation paid to him or its directors. CIRSA doesn’t have lawyers and CPAS on its board of directors, instead they are city council members of small communities who in Colorado can be felons and do not need college educations.
I never got a hearing on the merits in any court I was ever in. Federal Rules of Procedure say that a judgment is not supposed to include reports of prior proceedings but what always happens is that they report that other judges reported what Magistrate Schlatter said which is that my documents were prolix and disorganized and they all agree that I have a bad personality. Character evidence is not supposed to be allowed by the Rules of Evidence. Fraud is supposed to be pled with particularity per Rule 9(B). No one ever pled with any particularity that I filed something that was fraudulent. I verified my pleadings under penalty of perjury and the FBI and U.S. Attorneys offices have no evidence that anyone ever even complained that I had committed perjury. All the Courts agreed that I was “obsessed” because I had wanted an evidentiary hearing on my defamation claims even though that is supposed to be a constitutional right. They apparently expected that I would file bankruptcy to get rid of the attorney fee shifting orders, which would have meant that I would have lost my causes of action in bankruptcy where they would have been treated as an asset. I think they thought that I would commit suicide and wanted me to do so.
Furthermore, because of my failure to get a hearing on the merits on my original claims a man named David Engle was killed in a fire in Steamboat Springs. He died in a fire in a residence with no secondary exit. His neighbor couldn’t get in to save him from the fire in front of his only door and small window. His home for 10 years was officially a garage. It is not realistic that local officials didn’t know about his home because it was only a few blocks from the building department, was on street level, was painted purple, and had a porch with a grill in front so it was obviously a residence. It had been sold while he occupied it so it should have been inspected but it was not. The former county assessor was quoted as saying that there are many illegal buildings in Steamboat Springs but enforcement of the regulations is lax. The city of 11,000 had about 14 full time staff in its city planning department with a fancy office and computer system plus in 2001 they spent $400,000 on consultants so its not that they didn’t have the money to enforce their regulations. It is a ski resort with many valuable properties. My former home was 45 years old and had 4,000 square feet and the current owner, another city council member, had it for sale for $1.3 Million. The City went to great lengths to stop a David Criste from occupying his home because he had to put 18 inch structural supports into the set back area and he was refused a hardship variance. Yet they gave a 35 foot variance to a timeshare property even though they had to narrow the only ambulance access to the Mt. Werner ski area. One problem with the Steamboat Springs community is that since their income is derived almost entirely from sales of second homes and tourism as a community they don’t want outside scrutiny. In any case, Engle is dead because they didn’t enforce basic safety ordinances. The magistrate’s report is on PACER in the District of Columbia 05-01283 document 27-3 and it says that I should be sanctioned because I alleged government corruption.
I was imprisoned for filing 05-01283. That is according to the transcript available on PACER in D of Colorado 02-1950 document 884 and documents filed by DOJ in DDC 09-0562 document 8. That action was for relief from judgment in a non rendering court under Rule 60. I had a hard time pleading that case because DOJ locked me up without law library or Internet access and then threatened me with arrest when I was in Canada if I returned to the U.S. The District of Columbia Federal Court of Appeals ruled in 1993 in Geraldine Harris v. Secretary, U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs et al, No 96-5091 (on the CDC opinions website for free) that a Court cannot rule res judicata in response to a motion without a previous answer. However, Judge Urbina did so anyway. He claimed he was ruling sua sponte, but the lawyers had previously argued res judicata in their motion to dismiss. One of the lawyers against me was Jerome Schaefer, who was then CEO and General counsel of Mutual Insurance. The attorney bills show that he managed the Colorado litigation and had sold insurance to the Steamboat Pilot. Mutual Insurance is head quartered in Bermuda and has no U.S. office. The National Association of Insurance Commissioners has no record of the company even though Mutual Insurance’s website says it sells insurance across North America and has for decades. The attorney bills should have been enough to establish long arm jurisdiction in the District of Columbia since I had no access to the District of Colorado where I was subject to a no pro se order.
They probably would if they could sell some military weapon systems to them.
But don’t expect the Swedes to ask America to reform.
We know who is defending us, they are using our submarine bases. We even allow Swedish dual-nationals to be CIA-rendered. The UN forced the Swedes to pay cash compensation. If cash can compensate for torture.
Speaking as someone who feels that she was tortured by DOJ, cash would help in many ways, making life easier and also the recognition that they did wrong.
There is a new book “Dignity” by Donna Hicks that says that when someone is humiliated and made powerless their body releases the same chemicals and reacts exactly as if they were beaten.
So if you are living in Sweden, can you get them to support building a civil law system in Tunisia that would facilitate women suing police officers who rape them?
I’m not jacking the thread.
I think that it all hangs together.
Corruption in Tunisia, in USA, in Sweden.
Here is my report from Sweden:
Yesterday, inspired by a GB here and curious I approached the Swedish Foreign Office information and asked for info on Swedes’ attitude towards Israel. Got referred to boiler plate with a denial that any special study existed on this matter.
I contacted the Israel embassy and received a link to an International Multination survey of attitudes, where notably Swedes scored very high on the anti-Israel scale.
I received also the link to an article on the editorial page of the leading conservative newspaper on this study.
On the study, it showed that the Swedish International Institute, funded by the Foreign Office, had also paid as a sponsor. Primary sponsor was thé German Marshall think tank. I surf to the International Institute, UI iutrikesinstitutet, and find a blog and a thread devoted to the bloggers opinion on the study which they had sponsored (official UI opinion?).
The blog if carefully read, especially the last paragraph, mentions the “villains” in the ME without naming who they are. Most is devoted to the results of the poll regarding attitudes towards Israel.
The first commentator makes the point that a study led by Professor Asp has shown that most of the Swedish so-called state independent media editorial personnel (radio/TV) are supporters of red or green parties. Historically since 1970 the reds have been strong supporters of the Palestinians, including Arafat.
The media influence was news to me. It loudly proclaims its independence of government influence—which in itself may be true, but not free from politically colored opinions apparently, according to Professor Asp.
So how much Pro-Arab influence do they have. Are Swedes influenced. Well, if you have sold the hog to folks, they will usually swallow the ham.
Further down the comments, is one by Franz Cohn, a fellow journalist (?) who is personally acquainted with Per Jonsson the blogger in question.
He calls out Jonsson, and refers to a recently published book containing falsarier om Zionism written by Ingmar Karlsoon. He also in a collegial way accuses him by his book review of the book of contributing to the Swedish peoples negative opinion towards Israel. True? Not true. At any rate the Foreign Office coverup, if it was that is disturbing, and a caution in taking news for truth. Heard that before?
In all justice, note that the TAT report also made clear that Swedes are strong supporters of interventionism, more so than corresponding figures from the USA on Irak and Syria, for example.
You know it is kinda despicable, like our professional army system is. Let somebody else pay for it. And let their sons and daughters perish and be mainmed and commit suicide. Just so I can feel holier than thou.
Is this again an example of media steering the people? Plus the fact that Swedes love to judge others, even there neighbors. 😉
Now how was it here in the USA with media control of public opinion???
Was this report from Sweden any news? Yes, that socialism does not correct media steering, or political party influence on media news products.
Darren,
Nobody has argued against your points. Are they agreeing or do they think they are not worth replying.
Let me start simple, Jesus simple, in case you believe in him. “He who is without sin, let him cast the first stone.” Of course that applies to USA offenses as to Tunisian.
Let’ try another: “Dig where you stand.”
Another: If we cant cast off our own chains, the how do we free others? If we can’t fix our system, how can we fix others? If we are not clean, how can we call others dirty? If we are NOT superior, then where do we get hubris to correct others?
Enough I hope.
We are not running from Tunisia, in order to distract by using USA problems.
You interpret Turley one way. I can suggest another one: He is using these outrages to shine a light on OUR OWN. Our own are certainly familiar to him. But we give up, frankly, in trying to fix them. KaysieVerding exemplifies this common problem very well. We have heard of many others. Malisha has a similar case of conscious abuse by the system. Do you have confidence in it?
Have you or anyone else heard of a systemic improvement in this situation of police abuse or justice abuse?
What is different now and could save us is the Internet and computers in general. I was really bummed out and then I just got an email from an organization that might publicize the fact that DOJ’s Data Integrity Board never has meetings. This is a big deal because they are the ones who are supposed to make sure that the Privacy Act is implemented — 5 USC 552a (u)(1). They are supposed to have meetings with public agendas per the Open Records Act where the public can make sure that the government’s computer systems are set up to respect our rights.
DOJ was required by the Privacy Act to publish the names of their systems of records. One of them is the USMS Internal Investigations Systems. I had complained to them that the USMS knowingly held me without a bail hearing or criminal charge and also that the FBI wrote to me with evidence that the USMS entered non existent criminal charges against me into the Warrant Information Network and the NCIC. Then I found out on DOJ’s own website that I am supposed to be able to get copies of my complaint and how it was handled. So the same thing should happen when someone complains that a USMS officer raped her. There are similar systems in state governments. Foreign governments also have privacy acts. Now we can reach out to people in foreign nations and compare how they control their governments’ computers with how we control our governments’ computers. We can ask our government why we don’t have as many rights as they do in some foreign nations. And before someone jumps on me about being negative about my country, I don’t think that citizens in most European countries are being imprisoned without a criminal charge as I was. I think that probably not that many countries actually imprison people without criminal charges. It’s against the United Nations International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
The Arab Spring is dead. It is autumn. Winter is approaching. The reactionaries won, politically.
I don’t believe that the religious ones were seriously moved by the movement, but they are taking revenge now.
The extortion/robbing is old time police thuggery there and everywhere (of course not in America, only on the highways in Virginia, etc.)
Sitting in a car together and not being married is enough to warrant blackmail. Terrible, but that is the way it is.
Let us reflect if this is but an expression of the patriarchal system—worldwide. It may be much more horrendous there in the muslim countries, but we are not free from sin.
In AZ a police officer, offduty and drunk comes into a bar, strides up to a woman and sticks his hands into her genitals. He was convicted, given time off and a raise and a promotion. No, he was given a slap on the hand,he had washed it, but the lady was besmirched and told by the WOMAN judge that if she had not been thare, that it would not have happened. One of many?
I’m not going easy on the muslims. I am using them to add my little weight to KaysieVerding first comment above. FRIGHTENING. AND THAT IS NOT JUST WOMEN, BUDDIES. IT IS YOU TOO.
So put your chastity belt on the next time you are in court.
I don’t think that we have to wait longer for a police state. It is here now.
What happened in the Holocaust is that the first round of victims posted warnings. The police state is here now in the U.S. and the Courts are useless. I’ve been told that one standard practice in pro se cases is not to rule on motions. That violates the U.S. Judicial Canons.
I complained to the 8th Circuit that former Wisconsin Court clerk Theresa Owens ordered that I should be imprisoned without a bail hearing after assistant U.S. attorney Robert Anderson showed up and said that the government wasn’t a party to this. I had a transcript which is even on PACER in the Circuit of the District of Columbia 10-5149. They pretended that they didn’t understand that I wasn’t criminally charged and then they said that the complaint had been ruled on and couldn’t be reopened.
You know that what happened to me, the victim intimidation, victim retaliation, unlawful imprisonment etc. had sentencing guidelines as long as for rape showing that they were crimes of comparable seriousness. So this happened by government employees whose names the government knew and senior government officials just chose to allow it or ignore it after the fact.
“Many human rights organizations and the UN deem Israel as a center of human rights abuse and in some instances there is merit to the charges.”
Freedom House gives Israel accdg article in SvD, number 2 newspaper in Stockhom, a high rating on:
“en skala 1 – 7 i den årliga globala granskning som görs av Freedom House får Israel högsta betyg i fråga om politiska och näst högst vad gäller medborgerliga rättigheter”
Paraphrased as ´highest rating on politics and next highest on civil rights.
The link to the article was given to my by the Israel embassy here. It is in Swedish and am investigating its basis in an intl report which Swedish International Institute has been a funder.
Will get back with more. For now can summarize that accdg to report, 68 percent of Swedes are negative or highly negative to Israel.
More as info comes to me from the International Institute.
ID707,
Ran across this article this afternoon and I thought it might interest you and complement what you’ve been discussing:
http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/113177/the-campaign-against-scandinavian-jewry
At least from this articles point of view it would seem that anti-Jewish feeling is on the rise in Scandinavia, Denmark and Germany, based primarily on the negative opinion that exists towards Israel. Some of this negative opinion as you have pointed out is both media and politically driven.
The problem I find with this is that the bigotry extends it would seem to all Jews, not just those who support Israel. Look at this quote from the article:
“If this had been another story about a resurgence of anti-Semitism in impoverished outskirts of European cities or the failure of multiculturalism, it might have been easier to dismiss the trend as something that’s only taking hold along the margins. But Neuding’s story was about Ilmar Reepalu, Malmö’s mayor for seventeen years now, who has blamed Swedish Jews themselves for the rise in anti-Semitism and called on them to oppose Israel’s policies of “genocide.” She indicted other Swedish politicians for their deafness on the issue.”
So now, as LBJ said, let us reason together. Given my own rage against this
despicable act in Tunisia, would it be logical for me to take it out on Americans of Tunisia (Islamic) heritage. It would in fact be rank bigotry.
The problem faced is that Jews have been scapegoated for millenniums. A Jew of Scandinavian birth, whether or not a supporter of Israel, should not be attacked for her/his heritage, yet it seems increasingly they are.
I see two facets to this issue. The first is that despite the fact of their relative liberality, most of these countries have a long heritage of being anti-Jewish, so much so that they really don’t understand it as bigotry.
Second is that being liberal peoples they tend to side with the underdog. The Palestinians certainly seem to be the underdog and so the Israeli’s must perforce be their oppressors. What is missed by many is that since the 1967 war and the defeat of the massed Arab forces, the Saudi’s have spent billion$ on a professional Public Relations Campaign to paint Israel as a villain and an interloper. In Europe they have succeeded to a great extent with this PR campaign. For Instance were you aware that before 1967 the “Palestinians” were called Arabs and the term “Palestinians” was an alternate term for Israeli? As a PR ploy this was genius because it established a “Palestinian” identity in a people formerly known as just “Arabs”. with that identity then a narrative could be developed and developed successfully it was. This campaign has take root through the years and so now most of Europe believes its particular memes. I write this not to argue Israel’s cause, but as an explanation as to why there is such hostility towards Israel and such compelling interest.
Real Genocide has taken place in many African country’s. By that I mean mass murders in the millions. No one in their right minds can accuse Israel of anything even approaching real genocide, even if they think that Israel is wrongly oppressing people. When the African genocide stories flare up there is outrage, interest and concern, yet is little done and memory fades. I find it disturbing peculiar that Israel is negatively compared with Sudan and Namibia. I won’t belabor the issue, but request that those who differ at least respond to the points I’ve made. I must say though that if the response is Israel’s situation is different because of US involvement, that argument fails. The failure is simply for the fact that all of the African turmoil can be laid at the feet of the Corporatocracy exploiting African natural resources.
I will finally state that Jews are so invested in the continued existence of Israel, because no nation is immune to anti-Jewish feeling and we need some haven to return to if we are driven out of our various homelands. In my parents lifetimes they directly experienced anti-Jewish feeling and they were born here in America. Up until the age of 16, or so, I was still being called “Christ-Killer” in High School and half of my fellow students were Jewish.
When I grew up I was told that my relatives were from Skona and that that’s where the Swedish Jews lived. My grand father never went to church. Someone researched my family and found supposedly French Jews who moved to Sweden.
How about instead of essentially ignoring what is going on with this case and others like it in Tunisia by drawing attention to issues in the United States to instead ACTUALLY talk about and advocate reform in those countries?
I find it rather tiresome how so often it has been the case in this blog where Professor Turley brings up abuses such as this and the majority of the responses are geared to using the opportunity to lodge an attack on LE in our country without any mention of the subject of these two victims.
We have no shortage of topics concerning assinine bahaviors by LEOs here to talk about in those threads, but whenever something totally outrageous happens in some very problematic countries many here instead attack the police in the US., ignoring the plight of those victims as in this case Tunisia.
It is almost as if we don’t care about those victims, as it seems the greater importance based on the content of those responses would to be to address other LE issues here rather than mention ways to curb the oppression and injustice there.
It is symptomatic of a larger problem of turning a blind eye to problems suffered by PEOPLE elsewhere when some hold greater importance to herald political statements to advocate their own personal agendas.
A person suffering from oppression in their mind does not rationalize “well I live in Tunisia, so my suffering does not matter.” There is no US or THEM in her mind.
If I might be so bold, I would suspect our professor places topics such as this on his blog to bring attention, advocacy, and hopefully change and reform in these countries to benefit the human rights of all persons. Not, to have it thwarted and stopped at the beginning by others halting the inertia by indifference.
Darren, I read a complaint on a blog that the American bar wouldn’t help the Iraq bar. Basically, governments don’t want to prosecute government employees. DOJ is now finding that prison guards in the U.S. frequently assault prisoners but very few get prosecuted. Police officers with similar backgrounds probably assault just as many people as prison guards but they are almost never prosecuted.
Foreign countries should have something similar to 42 USC section 1983 so that people who are raped and beaten by government employees could sue them. The whole idea is that there are supposed to be private attorney generals out there getting money damages for victims even when there is no criminal prosecution and that that would serve as a deterrent. But it sounds like maybe 1% of the potential section 1983 cases actually result in damages for the victim here. So if we can’t offer victims relief in the U.S., or the American bar doesn’t think it pays enough, then we can’t offer victims relief outside the U.S. unless we go to war everywhere and as was shown in Iraq, having American occupation didn’t stop people acting under color of law from raping, beating, and killing civilians.
My thought is to use develop forms and graphic based pleadings so that women who are raped can fill out a complaint under color of law picking pictures of the perps and graphics for rape and then go to the jury with the assistance of counsel. But in this country very few people who are assaulted by authorities can get a court hearing. And that’s why they keep doing it, there’s nothing to stop them.
indio007, anonymously posted
It seems that what has happened is that anyone who can’t come up with over $100 K for a lawyer to represent them in Federal Court doesn’t have the protection of the constitution so police and other government actors can just do whatever they want to hurt people. I talked to Mark A. Grannis at Wiltshire & Grannis and he said that law firms will only take pro bono or contingency cases if the evidence is so clear cut, like a beating on videotape per Rodney King, that they can do it lickety-split and they want a cause of action that they are already familiar with down to the exact subsection of the Privacy Act. I think my case is clear cut because DOJ published in the Federal Register that the PTS and the JABS are only for alleged criminal offenders, I wasn’t criminally charged, and that Rule 804(6) allows me to value my lawsuit on hearsay because DOJ prevented me from testifying in court and already filed that they did it on purpose for the reason of stopping me from participating in federal court proceedings. See DDC 09-0562 document 8. It doesn’t seem like there is anyone out there that cares that DOJ is imprisoning people without an oath or affirmation, without a bail hearing, without a criminal charge or that thinks it could affect them or someone they care about.
indio007, kaysieverding,
http://rt.com/politics/medvedev-wedding-shooting-celebration-499/
“If such an incident had happened in New York the consequences could have been much more serious,” Medvedev said. “The police would have reacted by opening fire and they would have been acquitted.”
“If countries such as Tunisia continue to abuse its citizens,…” -Darren
Look homeward… Abuses abound right here in the good old USA.
The charge of the two couples being engaged in sex or whatever was purely an act of revenge against them or at best a feeble attempt at CYA by the gov’t.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. If countries such as Tunisia continue to abuse its citizens, either all of them of 50% of them, we (meaning everyone else) should stop doing business with them entirely. Lip service does nothing. UN veiled threats do nothing. But they listen to money regardless of religion or government structure.
Police do all sorts of bad stuff. I once went through the City of Denver website and it seemed that they have authority to check police for steroids but they never do.
I had a bad experience with the City of Steamboat Springs police department. They let the wife of the city council president use their police criminal summons and complaint forms to initiate a criminal charge against me without a warrant and without a statement of probable cause. Her husband was a convicted felon and I think they knew that. Their police report showed that I accused them of violating the zoning.
My lawyer at the time, William Hibbard, advised me to sue them in Federal Court but he said he wouldn’t do it for me because he was worried about retaliation against his law practice. So it turned out that they had bought law enforcement coverage from Colorado Intergovernmental Risksharing Agency. They asked Judge Nottingham to dismiss my case on a miscellaneous Rule 12 motion, no subsection stated, and he did so without writing an opinion. Then they asked that I be imprisoned by DOJ without a criminal charge or a bail hearing because I tried to get a hearing in a different federal court. The same series of events could have happened if I had claimed police rape.
@kaysieverding
I second that motion . Police in the US commit sexual assaults EVERY DAY.
National Police Misconduct Reporting Database (recently taken over by CATO)
http://www.injusticeeverywhere.com
this Country is on the fast track to more of the same here…privatising prisons will ensure it.
http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2007/01/02/tuesday_map_injustice_in_tunisian_prisons
This is what happens when religion dominates so much in society. Women are put into a gross inferior status, based on the supposed belief on a god. Christianity is not as bad as Islam is right now, but before the Enlightenment it was pretty bad. Women were burned at the stakes for supposed witches. Treated as property. Even today fundamentalist Christianity doesn’t believe women should be involved in church leadership. So, what we see in Tunisia is religion in its’ purest, which is anti-women, anti-gay and anti-reason.
Just to add if I have not made myself clear. Repression and debasement of women is to my mind among the major human rights crimes that exists in the world today. It is one reason that I, as a Jew, reject the claims of many Ultra Orthodox Jews to a moral high-ground. The repression of women and their banishment behind walls, is unjustifiable and incompatible with any belief in
a higher being, no matter the biblical exegesis that justifies it.
We can draw comparisons between the treatment of women in Islamic countries and treatment of women and men in the U.S.. However, the glaring difference is that from a religious/cultural standpoint the climate in Islamic countries as to women and their second class status is exponentially worse than in the U.S.. While not demonizing those of Islamic belief, we must nevertheless recognize that the general behavior towards women, sanctioned by government, is totally abhorrent. I know that fair minded people need to point out that cultural/religious differences are society specific and that it is not for us to judge this bad behavior in terms of our own standards. While this point of view is persuasive to me on many levels, my gut tells me that this behavior is unacceptable and easily as disgusting as is slavery. The treatment of women in most Islamic countries hearkens back to the middle ages and even taking into account cultural relativity is impossible to justify. It is among the most heinous of human rights abuses.
The fact that Saudi Arabia is one of the really abusive nations is overlooked constantly in our government and in our media. Isn’t it curious that in Iraq and in Libya, under their supposedly horrific governments, women were far freer than in Saudi Arabia? It seems when it comes to economic influence many turn a blind eye towards the Saudi’s despotism. Many human rights organizations and the UN deem Israel as a center of human rights abuse and in some instances there is merit to the charges. Strangely though, many who anathematize Israel are strangely silent when it comes to the abuse of women in the countries that surround it. Is that hypocrisy, or is it expediency in the light of Saudi power?
Is Tunisia in Texas? 😉
The protection of people from law enforcement in the U.S. is almost nonexistent at this point in time. A quick search of the Internet shows that law enforcement officials do sexually assault women in this country. Insurance companies such as Colorado Intergovernmental Risksharing Agency sell inexpensive “law enforcement” coverage. There is a copy of CIRSA”S Steamboat Springs Colorado policy on one of my blogspot postings. There is no guarantee of getting a lawyer to enforce rights against law enforcement misconduct in Federal Court and it costs about $ 100 K. If you don’t have a lawyer in Federal Court you can’t use government funded court mediation services. It you try to go alone without a lawyer you can’t get an evidentiary hearing, your case will be dismissed. Then if you continue to try to get an evidentiary hearing, with no published procedure you will be branded as a vexatious litigant and with no criminal charge and no bail hearing, DOJ will imprison you using the Prisoner Tracking System, which, according to the Federal Register vol 69 p 23214, is supposed to be used only for prisoners with criminal charges and isn’t supposed to be exempt from all the Privacy Act subsections including 5 U.S.C § 552a (e)(4)(D) and (e)(4)(I). But DOJ will just file fraudulent motions.