Gangster Thug Baby Subjects Peace Officers to Stress and Suffering

Infant is to Blame for Deliberate Criminal Conduct, Assumption of Risk,

and Failure to Avoid Consequences

So said the response filed by lawyers representing the officers and the Habersham County Sheriff Department.  Infant Bou-Bou Phonesavanh, who we wrote about last year, was the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit attempting to recover about a million dollars in medical bills caused by a flash bang grenade thrown into Bou Bou's crib.  Below is the relevant part of the filing:

TENTH  DEFENSE

To the extent as may be shown by the evidence through discovery, plaintiffs'injuries and damages, if any, were caused by the deliberate, criminal conduct of  plaintiffs, and such criminal conduct supersedes any and all negligence or liability,if any, on the part of these defendants.

ELEVENTH  DEFENSE

To the extent as may be shown by the evidence through discovery, these defendants also assert the affirmatives defenses of assumption of the risk, failure to avoid consequences, laches, failure to mitigate damages, last clear chance and sudden emergency

EPA Loses one Pond Prosecution but Sends another Pond Builder to Federal Prison

  

  Wasn't too long ago that Andy Johnson of Wyoming won his case against the EPA over the farm pond he built.    The stock pond was declared illegal by the EPA and Johnson was threatened with finds of $37,500 per day till it was removed.  Well the EPA settled that case and the pond is still there.

But that was one of dozens of cases where the EPA and various federal agencies are cracking down on land owners and mineral lease owners all across the west.   Joe Roberson of Basin Montana had a different outcome.  Joe had build a few ground water ponds, not in a stream, but built to capture water flowing off a hill and storing the water for stock use and for fire fighting.  They own 200 acres in the mountains and have a patented mining claim.  One of their sources of income is a very large Freightliner water tender, an enormous water truck that is used to support fire fighting in the area.

Doctors Don’t Make Much Money off Vaccinations Or so we Were Told….

  You gotta follow the money if you want to find the truth on something.   We were told that doctors were above board in supporting forced vaccination of children and that they certainly didn't make very much money off the vaccinations but it turns out they really, really, make a lot of cash vaccinating kids.

  Blue Cross Blue Shield actually pays $400 per child that is completely vaccinated before 2 years of age.     A pediatrician with 200 new incoming patients a year can earn a cool $80,000 and as someone that once made storage racks for a pediatrician, let me tell you a good one has a lot more than 200 new patients a year.    This fact was dug up after people started noticing a trend for pediatricians refusing to serve unvaccinated children.  It turns out that there is a target of 63% of vaccinated kids needed before the cash bonus kicks in.

We Don’t Need No Stinking Reasons

 We all want to catch the bad buys, right?  And LEO need a lot of leeway to make us safe, right?  And there are tough guidelines and protections built into the system to avoid abuse, right?

Turns out the feds or your local law enforcement officer don't need a shed of evidence to put you on a terrorist watch list.  The feds say that neither "concrete facts' nor 'irrefutable evidence" are needed  to designate someone as a terrorist:

"In determining whether a REASONABLE SUSPICION exists, due weight should be given to the specific reasonable inferences that a NOMINATOR is entitled to draw from the facts in light of his/her experience and not on unfounded suspicions or hunches. Although irrefutable evidence or concrete facts are not necessary, to be reasonable, suspicion should be as clear and as fully developed as circumstances permit,"

A Hero Cop outs a Coward Cop

    We do enough stories that are critical of LEO so when we see a story of a cop going above and beyond we also like to report it.  In this story though the cop paid for his honesty.  Teax Police officer Michael Kelly reported that other local LEO attempted to cover up the facts in the Sandra Bland arrest last summer.  Bland allegedly committed suicide in her cell after she was roughed up and arrested.

The officer reported that supervisors edited his police report that was critical of the state trooper that had initially arrested Bland and that he had been threatened by the local prosecutor for speaking out about what had really happened that day.  Bland was arrested for assaulting trooper Brian Encinia but officer Kelly reported that when he arrived on the scene the woman was already in handcuffs in the back of the trooper's car.  Kelly overheard the trooper saying he didn't know what to charge the woman with but that he would come up with something.  The trooper had also turned off his body camera.  Officer Kelly told the media that the trooper had messed up, had no probable cause to arrest the woman after completing the traffic ticket.   Kelly's two page report was edited down to less than one page and entered into the record without his approval.    Attempts to testify before the grand jury hearing the case were rebuffed by the prosecutor with Kelly being told "it wouldn't be good for your career" and that he might wind up "beneath the jail" if he testified.

And a Prosecutor that Gets it and is Trying to Set Things Right

  A Texas cop was arrested on July 13^th after drunkenly firing his service pistol at a church.  Police body camera footage showed Deputy William Cox crying and complaining about the cop shootings in Dallas while using racial slurs.  

  Cox admitted that he got drunk and fired into the church and he was arrested for deadly conduct and jailed at the Ellis County Jail.  The pastor of the church then signed an affidavit of non prosecution and the deputy was released..

Letter from a Reader

Q: "I have one question...

 when the lottery vote was put before Oklahomans (I didn't vote for it), it was promised all of this money would be poured into the schools.  Really?  Where is it?

Donna P"

A: Good question.  The lottery was oversold as a way to create jobs for term limited and retiring legislators and their cronies and to provide advertising dollars to the media.  It took in around 200 million last year and paid out 35% of that to schools but K-12 gets less than half of that and Higher Ed (colleges) get around 27% of the take.