Remember that whole business in the Third Amendment about not having quarter soldiers in private homes without the owner’s consent or that stuff in the Fifth Amendment about takings of property or that other stuff in the Fourth Amendment on unreasonable searches and seizures. It does not appear to apply to police in Henderson Nevada. The City of Henderson is being sued with its police chief Police Chief Jutta Chambers (left) as well as the City of North Las Vegas and its Police Chief Joseph Chronister (right) for a bizarre takeover of a home for a stakeout. Anthony Mitchell says that he was told that police needed to occupy his home to get a “tactical advantage” on the occupant of a neighboring house. When Mitchell refused, the police ultimately, according to his complaint, busted through his door, hit him with pepper balls, and put him into custody. The lawsuit also names Officers Garret Poiner, Ronald Feola, Ramona Walls, Angela Walker, and Christopher Worley.
Mitchell says that the ordeal began with a call from Officer Worley demanding access to his home. He refused to allow the police to do so and the call ended.
The complaint states that Officer David Cawthorn laid out the following plan in a report: “It was determined to move to 367 Evening Side and attempt to contact Mitchell. If Mitchell answered the door he would be asked to leave. If he refused to leave he would be arrested for Obstructing a Police Officer. If Mitchell refused to answer the door, force entry would be made and Mitchell would be arrested.’” Ultimately, when Mitchell did not open the door, the police bashed it in, shot him with “pepperball” rounds, searched the house, and set up a lookout point in the house. He says that they then went to his father’s house, a few doors away, and made a similar “request.” They took the father to the Henderson police station, and when he tried to leave, they arrested him. When his wife Linda opened the door, they used the house as planned. Both Mitchell and his father were booked them for obstructing an officer.
If these allegations are true, it is unclear why the police chiefs or the responsible prosecutors are still employed. Chief Chambers retired with a large buyout from the city.
All of the charges were later dismissed, a pattern we have seen in police abuse cases where victims are hit with charges and later offered pleas bargains or settlements. In this case, the charges were dropped but what prosecutor prepared the charges to begin with?
What I find most troubling about this case is that it seems to be following a trend. After the Boston bombing, I wrote a column expressing concern over how the Boston police effectively searched every home in a huge area — forcing families into the street under some general claim of exigency. It turned out that the suspect was not in the area. Police seem to be using exigency or “tactical” claims to circumvent constitutional protections.
I am eager to hear the response of these departments because, if true, these allegations constitute a chilling case of police abuse. If police can simply proclaim a “tactical” need as the basis for entering any home, the fourth amendment would become a purely discretionary rule. In my view, Mitchell had every right to refuse the use of his home. This was not some hot pursuit of a suspect or a need to protect officers from an imminent threat or harm. It was the forced occupation of a home — a poignant case to read on the Fourth of July weekend. We previously broke away from a guy named George who liked to do stuff like this.
Source: Courthouse News
Kudos: Andre Campos
**Jim Sinclair’s Commentary
Putin has a sense of humor. This would make Snowden a Russian citizen in waiting. I can just see him running all over the Moscow airport screaming get me a computer!
Ex-Russian spy Anna Chapman tweets marriage proposal to Edward Snowden
Chapman, 31, was outed as a Russian spy posing as a real estate agent in New York City in 2010. Now, she’s a model and celebrity with the hots for the NSA leaker.
By Stephen Rex Brown / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Published: Wednesday, July 3, 2013, 4:34 PM
Updated: Thursday, July 4, 2013, 7:40 AM
SHE LOVES spying so much, she wants to marry it!
Knockout Russian secret agent Anna Chapman has the hots for Edward Snowden, the man behind the leaks of top-secret National Security Agency documents.
“Snowden, will you marry me?” Chapman tweeted Wednesday from Russia, with love.
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Here are some possible details about what might have been going on.
“Man barricades himself, baby in house
Posted: Jul 10, 2011 3:52 PM CDT Updated: Jun 14, 2013 3:50 PM CDT
HENDERSON, NV (FOX5) –
Phillip White Jr., barricaded himself and his baby inside their home on the 300 block of Evening Side in Henderson Sunday morning, according to a neighbor.
Domestic violence is rumored to be the cause of the barricade.
Special Weapons and Tactics, along with Henderson police closed off all entrances and exits to the neighborhood.
Photo journalist Chris Delcamp is scene now awaiting details from police.”
http://www.fox5vegas.com/story/15055694/man-barricades-himself-and-baby-in-house?clienttype=printable
From on online listing of Las Vegas Plumbers.
“Christian Plumbing LLC.
363 Eveningside Avenue
Henderson, NV 89012 map
Phone: (not posting the phone number)
Contact Person: Phillip White Jr. ”
http://lvplumbingguide.com/residential-list.html
What boils down to is just another example of how police do not really hold as their mission statement, the safety of those they swear to protect but instead a desire for their organizations to wield power they have not been granted.
Violations of the third, forth, and fifth amendments aside, the police themselves engaged in more violence within a domicile than that which they supposedly were trying to prevent in the firs place.
For anyone who reads any of my writings and regards me as being some sort of “out-of-it” loner, I find it may be useful to mention that I actually have a lot of company.
For example, the 2012 Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize Documentary, “The House I Live In” recently became available on DVD; I already have my properly licensed and paid-for copy.
“The War On Drugs” has never been an actual war on drugs, it has always been a coercive, terrorizing War on Truthfulness.
Consider Donald Black, “The Social Structure of Right and Wrong: Revised Edition,” Academic Press, 1993, 1998:
From Black, Appendix: A Strategy of Pure Sociology, the opening paragraph, here used in accord with fair copyright use:
Science is the study of variation. Variation is also known as behavior—as in the study of the behavior of matter in physics, of molecules and compounds in chemistry, of plants and animals in biology,and of persons in psychology. Moreover, in its pure form, each branch of science is a study of a particular kind of variation in its own terms. Pure physics ignores chemical and biological variation, for instance, as does pure psychology. Accordingly, sociology is the study of the behavior of social life, and pure sociology is the study of this behavior without regard to biological, psychological, or other variation.
Well, folks, I am a licensed Wisconsin Registered Professional Engineer whose work as a bioengineer is done in accord with the Code of Ethics of the National Society of Professional Engineers.
Engineering is, to me, the solving of practical problems, efficiently, effectively, and economically, using scientific principles, Bioengineering is engineering applied to the phenomenon of life. Humans are a biological species and therefore are an aspect of the phenomenon of life.
As an engineer, I find I have no actual use for any pure (meaning totally detached from practical use) form of science.
I study pure science only to unriddle what horrors the detachment of pure science inflicts on actual, living humans and other species. I observe those horrors to be not merely legion, but vastly greater than merely legion.
The greatest horror among all horrors of which I have become aware is the belief that life is actually, in any way whatsoever, actually adversarial.
The greatest adversary the adversarial system can ever have is itself, for the adversarial system is acting out its own destruction in a vain, ultimately futile, effort to save itself.
Of the My Lai strategic hamlet of Song My village, “We had to destroy it to save it.”
Retaliation is the “opiate” of the adversarial system.
Retaliation is a damaging process.
Reciprocal retaliation is a defeating process.
Escalating reciprocal retaliation is an annihilating process.
How terribly well is that illustrated in the movie, “War Games”?
“A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.”
Professor Turley wrote a great article on this website: “The Nineteen Member Court: The case for expanding the United States Supreme Court” dated June 24, 2012. That reform along with campaign finance reform (ACLU plan) would help restore American rule of law government in my view.
Tom Squires: You’re just figuring this out right now? The government (at any level) can take Eminent Domain over your property today and pay you absolutely nothing for it. But this is an ancient law not under Mr. Obama!
For instance: in New London CT (home of our oldest USN Sub Base), they took ED at several Fort Trumbull homes to build a SHOPPING CENTER (private industry). This was years ago. Those people are all kicked out of their homes/property and NOTHING was developed not even a state highway or town road. So lay off Mr. Obama as he has NOTHING to do with this case. I hope that’s not why this foolish case was invented? If so then shame on you “Do not tread on me” moonies!
This could be an interesting ACLU lawsuit also. The homeowners have legal standing to change these policies nationwide and a ruling could also restrain federal law enforcement as well. They should contact the Nevada ACLU affiliate.
I looked up Anthony’s address on Google Streets (367 Eveningside) and see that all the houses on that block are single-family homes. The street looks a little difficult to set up a HPD surveillance van unnoticed. However, make the Google compass turn to the other side o the street. There is a perfect place at the summit of that hill overlooking the target suspect’s home. With a camo-tarp and a high-powered digi-cam viola! No need to bust down Anthony’s door. You could even do audio surveillance with a long-range shotgun mic. I’m inclined to call BULL SH*T here right now! Sorry just IMHO!!!
If these allegations are true the victims here should end up owning the police dept + their $$$$ though the court case. It’s what’s called for in these type cases.
We are all truly living in the movie Idiocracy.
Look around yourselves, with so many more supposedly sharp minds then this nation had at it’s founding, including some with law degrees, how is it that this society has devolved into such a state of govt caused terrorism & chaos?
With all these claimed Mensa types one would want to assume society would be running like a well oiled machine.
If one takes the time to read their own words of the planners behind what’s happening you see that things are running mostly according to their plans, planned chaos that is.
Even if this case above is just another one off case of lunatics in charge of the nuthouse you should be able to plainly see by the mountain of evidence of rampant abuse of govt authority that taken as a whole this is a small piece of their larger plan of taking down the remaining freedoms/liberties of “We the People” govt.
This is the systemic destruction of the confidence & trust the people have in law enforcement agencies & they’ve bought in fools into leadership positions to help them achieve their goals.
This is one of their main targets for destruction as it remains the law of this land today:
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The Preamble to The Bill of Rights
Congress of the United States
begun and held at the City of New-York, on
Wednesday the fourth of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine.
THE Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government, will best ensure the beneficent ends of its institution.
RESOLVED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, two thirds of both Houses concurring, that the following Articles be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States, as amendments to the Constitution of the United States, all, or any of which Articles, when ratified by three fourths of the said Legislatures, to be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of the said Constitution; viz.
ARTICLES in addition to, and Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America, proposed by Congress, and ratified by the Legislatures of the several States, pursuant to the fifth Article of the original Constitution. **
Now take a look beyond this one off local story & consider the broader picture of what those evil aholes behind these type events are really after & actions they’ve already taken:
Congress/Prez/State govts have among other things ceded sovereignty to:
1st. Global foreign banking interest with the creation of the Federal Reserve System & the creation of our currency.
2nd. Allowing the UN to govern our foreign & domestic policies.
3rd. Allowing Nato control of our military.
4th. The Merger of Canada & Mexico with the US, nearly completed now.
Note the nearly complete take over of law enforcement by FEMA/TSA/DHS/NSA/etc….
Note Mexico military troops were here, on the ground, after hurricane Katrina, robberies, rapes & murders were committed by LE outfits sent into police the area & guns were confiscated.
Then among the thousand of other items I could mention here this one below should sound the alert to even the drunkest of sailors:
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Thursday, 04 July 2013 11:45
FEMA Signs “Exchange” Deal With Russian Government
Written by Alex Newman
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FEMA Signs “Exchange” Deal With Russian Government
Following outrage and controversy last year over the Obama administration’s unprecedented decision to invite Russian troops for terror drills on U.S. soil, the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is now under fire for signing more agreements to “cooperate” with Vladimir Putin’s Russian “Emergencies Ministry” (EMERCOM) in a wide array of fields. Among the controversial deals outlined in an official Russian press release: exchanging of “experts” and “experience,” “provision of security at mass events,” and “cooperation in disaster response operations.” Critics of the scheme reacted with a mixture of fury and deep concerns.
After the news was picked up in the alternative media, it quickly went viral, stirring widespread fears that Russian forces could be deployed inside the United States under the bogus guise of “security.” Officials from both governments rushed to deny the speculation, trying to downplay the agreements as merely routine international collaboration. However, it remains unclear why the American people would need or want any sort of “assistance” from the Russian government, which, despite the supposed fall of communist tyranny, is still widely regarded as a lawless gangster regime. more…. **
http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/foreign-policy/item/15899-fema-signs-exchange-deal-with-russian-government
Note, of all the different websites that carried that Fema/Russian conspiracy I choose the one above for a reason.
I keep an eye on about 2500 websites & there are many good ones.
But I now often pump the infowars site because it has easy to use archives that will help you/me find the original source material from the govts & institutions that wrote or recorded them in their own words.
William Pitt on Old English law:
“The Poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the force of the Crown. It may be frail – it’s roof may shake – the wind may blow through it – the storm may enter, the rain may enter – but the King of England cannot enter – all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement.”
Thought the so-called law & order types may like to know the foundation for their authority. (From the book: “The Rights of the People” by David K. Shipler).
This is an open declaration that private property no longer exists in The United States of America. All property belongs to the government to use as they see fit. Your use of “your” property lasts only so long as the government allows.
The failure of Obamas Justice Dept to join this lawsuit on behalf of the plaintiffs shows clearly that the they agree.
Tom Squires: “The failure of Obamas Justice Dept to join this lawsuit on behalf of the plaintiffs shows clearly that the they agree.”
It shows nothing of the sort.
Hmmm… something isn’t passing the smell test here. First this so-called incident occurred 2 years ago… yet not one word in the MSM that isn’t just Anthony Mitchell’s side of the story. All of the articles that list his federal lawsuit pleading has this case number posted on it: Case 2:13-cv-01154-APG-CWH. However, if you check US DC for Dist of Nevada’s case lookup website you see the format is all wrong for a case number. The only part they got right was the CV part.
If this case was filed with the US/DC clerk on July 1, 2013 (4 days ago), how is it that everyone posting it on the Internet got it so quick? You do realize that the federal govt is NEVER his quick with anything.
Also the details sound so contrived and made up. The only side we ever hear is the Plaintiff who is EXTREMELY biased IMO. Where is the Henderson Police side of the story? How about Mitchell posting the original HPD Report online. Or how about a police blotter news article from the local newspaper?
3rd Amendment violation? Who’ve got to be kidding me. A police force is not a “troop” and they were not trying to “quarter” there. When the authors of this amendment wrote it they were very familiar with a police force as the Philadelphia Police Department was formed in 1751 (years before this amendment – I think).
All of the details of the incident sounds nonsensical (at best). In this litigious society no LEO agent is going to use such excessive force on someone not legally deserving of it. No LEO needs a next door stake out for ANYTHING especially for a domestic dispute. If an LEO needs a secure surveillance location they can use a undercover surveillance vehicle, a vacant building or apartment, or just stand (or jog) on the street and act nonchalant. You don’t call the guy and ask to use his apartment and then when he refuses ram his door in! Yeah right!
The chances that Mr. Mitchell knew the neighbor well, which he did, would jeopardize the “op”. But let me reiterate that he op was a DOMESTIC DISPUTE! Who needs surveillance on that? Just check the wife for bruises and lacerations and BINGO you have a case.
This case is retarded and should not even be posted here. Let’s wait until after the holidays and call the clerk at (702) 464-5400 and verify that this is even a real case. But if you have access to PACER, then even better. You can solve this mystery right now!
I would go one step further and say some of these officers could be charged with burglary and felony assault for what they did in forcing entry and pepperballing the resident. Using “tactical advantage” does not give the police license to force use of any person’s dwelling. If an insurance fraud investigator did this he would be locked up, no questions asked. What gives police the deferrence to do the same?
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Kraaken 1, July 5, 2013 at 12:57 pm
And people wonder why ANYONE would been as assault wepon or a large magazine? Really?
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What are you trying to say?
You can use the spell check here by using the right click on your mouse & then click on English/language.
Kraaken: And you think that would have helped the situation? Really?
And people wonder why ANYONE would been as assault wepon or a large magazine? Really?
I find this form of police conduct to be an unavoidable consequence of the traumatic physiological brain damage, commonly in the form of intransigent moral injury, that is the cause and the result of the commonplace coercive socialization-tradition-generated infant-child transition of, commonly around 18 months of age.
As long as the prevailing social consensus construction of reality includes the biologically-false doctrine of the happening of avoidable mistakes and/or avoidable accidents, the functional mental integrity required to prevent such destructive behavior as exhibited by the police in the above story of police behavior in Henderson, Nevada, will remain impossible to actually prevent.
For as long as society clings to the deception that causes such horrible police conduct, that deception will endlessly drive ever-escalating forms of horrible police conduct as it drives all other forms of horrible conduct.
Why? Because the lesson of the infant-child transition is horribly brain-damaging, and that horrible brain damage is truthfully acted out in such events as are reported, supra, as happened in Henderson, Nevada.
It is impossible to keep doing what inescapably causes horrible events without getting horrible results.
The atrocity that is most central to deception is, to put it simply, a person who has been, and remains, deceived cannot be consciously aware of being deceived because being consciously aware of being deceived is operationally indistinguishable from being not-deceived.
It is the neurobiology of deception, as moral injury, that blocks conscious awareness of the actual making of decisions, as described in Benjamin Libet’s book, “Mind Time: The Temporal Factor in Consciousness,” Harvard University Press, 2004.
Libet’s work is of the neurophysiology of deception and of how deception leads to the making of decisions by an unconscious aspect of neurotypical human brains. What my bioengineering research has done is to demonstrate, in formidable and unrefuted detail.the effects of the deception of the infant-child transition on human personality formation and human society formation and function.
The notion, a foundational (biologically false) premise of the Adversarial System of Law and Jurisprudence is the hypothetical happening of avoidable mistakes and avoidable accidents and the (biologically false) consequent civil and/or criminal liability.
I expect that, when the law profession is ready, it will discover simple fact that I come as a friend and not as an adversary.
As long as the law profession is adversarial, how can it ever treat me, by (unbounded?) tragic mistake, as other than an adversary?
Nick: I do try to keep up from the neck up. 😉
My guess is that the Terminator is right; once this case reached the prosecutors desk the decision to drop the charges was made and preparations to gird the municipal loins commenced.