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‘A dozen witnesses’ say Ferguson teen attacked cop before shooting

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‘A dozen witnesses’ say Ferguson teen attacked cop before shooting

August 19, 2014 | 1:25pm

Multiple witnesses in riot-torn Ferguson, Mo., said that the unarmed black teen killed by a white cop attacked the officer in his patrol car before the teen was shot, according to a new report.

“Police sources tell me more than a dozen witnesses have corroborated cop’s version of events in shooting,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch crime reporter Christine Byers tweeted, without elaborating.

Officer Darren Wilson has not spoken publicly about the Aug. 9 shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown shortly after Brown and a pal allegedly stole a $50 box of cigars in a strong-arm robbery at a convenience store.

But two friends have come forward to defend him — with one describing his version of events leading up to the killing.

A man who said he played hockey with the 28-year cop said on “Good Morning America” Tuesday that Wilson was a “really quiet, well-mannered, respectful guy” who showed no signs of violence.

“‘I can tell that this is really hard on him,” said the man, who said he had exchanged texts with Wilson since the shooting, which sparked nights of violence on the streets of Ferguson, prompting the governor to call in the National Guard.

Earlier, another friend who identified herself only as Josie called “The Dana Show” on radio station KFTK to say that Wilson told her the tall, burly Brown, 18, had “bum-rushed“ him before the shooting.

Josie — who said she heard the version from Wilson’s girlfriend — said the cop encountered Brown and his pal Dorian Johnson walking down the middle of a street, pulled up and ordered them onto the sidewalk.

Wilson then noticed the pair were carrying cigars, and had heard the report of the robbery and recognized the pair as possible suspects.

“And he’s looking at them and they got something in their hands and it looks like it could be what, you know, those cigars or whatever. So he goes in reverse back to them,” Josie said.

Wilson, she said, “tries to get out of his car. They slam his door shut violently. I think he said Michael did. And then he opened the car again. He tried to get out. He stands up.

“And then Michael just bum-rushes him and shoves him back into his car. Punches him in the face and then Darren grabs for his gun. Michael grabbed for the gun. At one point he got the gun entirely turned against his hip. And he shoves it away. And the gun goes off,” Josie said.

“Well, then Michael takes off and gets to be about 35 feet away. And Darren’s first protocol is to pursue. So he stands up and yells, ‘Freeze!’ Michael and his friend turn around. And Michael taunts him … And then all the sudden he just started bum-rushing him. He just started coming at him full speed,” she told the station.

“So [Wilson] really thinks [Brown] was on something, because he just kept coming. It was unbelievable. And so he finally ended up, the final shot was in the forehead, and then he fell about two to three feet in front of the officer,” she said.

An autopsy performed by the St. Louis County medical examiner determined Brown had marijuana in his system when he was shot.

Meanwhile, police said 31 people were arrested overnight Monday into Tuesday as rioting continued unabated despite the National Guard’s presence.

But NBC News reported that 78 people had been taken into custody, citing arrest records.

State Highway Patrol Capt. Ron Johnson said at least one person from New York and another from California were among those busted, though cops on Tuesday provided no further details.

Two people were shot, though police were not involved.

“Our officers came under heavy fire. Not a single bullet was fired by officers,” Johnson during a news conference at 2:30 a.m. Tuesday.

But cops did fire multiple canisters of tear gas to disperse the rioters and prevent further looting.

“This nation is watching each and every one of us,” said Johnson, who was clearly angry during the news conference, The Post-Dispatch reported. “I am not going to let the criminals that have come here from across this country, or live in this neighborhood, define this community.”

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Attempted second-degree murder of Justina Pelletier by DCF Boston

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Keep Your Hippocratic Oath Free Justina

You are Killing #JustinaPelletier

Hippocratic Oath

n.

An oath of ethical professional behavior sworn by new physicians and attributed to Hippocrates.

 

I swear by Apollo the Physician, Asclepius, Hygeia, Panaceia, and all the gods and goddesses, making them my witnesses, that I will fulfill this oath and this covenant according to my ability and judgment: 
To regard him who teaches me the art of medicine as equal to my parents; to share my life with him and, if he is in need, my sustenance; to regard his children as my brothers and to teach them this art, if they wish to learn it, without fee or covenant; to give instruction, written, oral, and practical, to my sons and the sons of my teacher, as well as to any students who have signed a covenant and sworn an oath according to the canons of our profession, but to no others. 
I will apply therapeutic measures for the benefit of the sick according to my ability and judgment, and will abstain from harm and wrongdoing. 
I will not give a lethal drug to anyone requesting it, nor will I recommend the use of such. Likewise I will not give a woman an abortive drug. 
I will live my life and practice my art in purity and in holiness. 
I will not perform surgery, even on sufferers from stone, but will not interfere with those who engage in such work. 
Whatever houses I enter, I will do so for the benefit of the sick, refraining from all intentional wrongdoing and misconduct, particularly from sexual involvement with persons of either gender, whether free or slaves. 
I will not divulge anything of a private nature regarding people’s personal lives that I see or hear, whether in the course of my professional activities or not, because I recognize the shamefulness of revealing such information. 
If I carry out this oath and do not break it, may I find satisfaction in life and the practice of my profession and may I deserve honor among men forever. If I violate it and swear falsely, may the opposite be my lot.

Executive leadership Boston Children’s Hospital
 
Sandra L. Fenwick, President and Chief Executive Officer Kevin Churchwell, MD, Executive Vice President of Health Affairs and Chief Operating Officer

Leadership

President and Chief Executive Officer: Sandra L. Fenwick

Executive Vice President of Health Affairs and Chief Operating Officer: Kevin Churchwell, MD

Physician-in-Chief, Pediatrician in Chief, Chair of Department of Medicine: Gary R. Fleisher, MD

Surgeon-in-Chief: James Kasser, MD

Executive Director, Heart Center: Michael J. Anderegg

Senior Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer: Dick Argys

Executive Director, Satellite Clinical Operations: Julee Bolg, RN, MS, MBA

Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing and Communications Officer: Margaret Coughlin

Chief Innovation Officer: Naomi Fried, PhD

Vice President, Clinical Services: Michael Gillespie

Vice President, Research Administration: Gus Cervini

Vice President, Government Relations: Josh Greenberg

Senior Vice President, Chief Safety and Quality Officer: Kathy Jenkins, MD

Vice President, Strategy: Jean Mixer

Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer: Daniel Nigrin, MD, MS

Senior Vice President and General Counsel: Stuart Novick, Esq.

Chief Investment Officer: Phil Rotner

Senior Vice President, Patient Care Services and Chief Nursing Officer: Laura J. Wood, DNP, MS, RN

Vice President, Human Resources: Inez Stewart

President, Children’s Hospital Trust: Lynn Susman

Vice President of Support Services: Henry Tomasuolo

Chief Financial Officer (CFO): Doug Vanderslice

Executive Director, Satellite Administrative Operations: Jane Venti

Senior Vice President, Network Development and Strategic Partnerships: Wendy Warring, JD

Vice President, Real Estate Planning and Development: Charles Weinstein, Esq.

Department and division chiefs

Department of Anesthesiology 
Paul R. Hickey, MD, Anesthesiologist-in-Chief

Department of Cardiac Surgery: Pedro Del Nido

Department of Cardiology: James Lock, MD, Cardiologist-in-Chief

Department of Dentistry: Man Wai Ng

Department of Laboratory Medicine: Orah Platt

Department of Medicine:
Gary Fleisher, Physician-in-Chief
Frederick Lovejoy, Associate Physician-in-Chief

Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine: S. Jean Emans

Division of Clinical Pediatric Oncology: Lisa R. Diller

Division of Developmental Medicine: Leonard Rappaport, MD, MS

Division of Emergency Medicine: Richard G. Bachur, MD

Division of Endocrinology: Joseph A. Majzoub, MD

Division of Gastroenterology/Nutrition: Wayne I. Lencer, MD

Clinical Research Center:
Stavroula Osganian, MD, ScD, MPH
Ellis Neufeld

Division of General Pediatrics: Mark A. Schuster, MD, PhD

Division of Genetics: Christopher A. Walsh, MD, PhD

Division of Hematology/Oncology: David A. Williams, MD

Division of Immunology: Raif Geha, MD

Division of Infectious Diseases: Michael Wessels, MD

Division of Molecular Medicine: Stephen Harrison, PhD

Division of Nephrology: William E. Harmon, MD

Division of Newborn Medicine: Stella Kourembanas, MD

Division of Respiratory Diseases: Craig Gerard, MD, PhD

Department of Neurology: Scott L. Pomeroy, MD, PhD

Division of Epilepsy: 
Blaise Bourgeois, MD

Department of Neurosurgery: Alan Cohen, MD, FACS, FAAP

Department of Ophthalmology: David G. Hunter, MD, PhD

Department of Orthopedic Surgery: James R. Kasser, MD, Surgeon-in-Chief

Division of Sports Medicine: Lyle J. Micheli, MD

Department of Otolaryngology: Michael J. Cunningham, MD

Department of Pathology: Mark Daniel Fleming, MD, DPhil

Department of Plastic Surgery: John G. Meara, MD, DMD, MBA

Section of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery: Bonnie L. Padwa, DMD, MD

Department of Psychiatry: David R. DeMaso, MD

Division of Psychology: Eugene J. D’Angelo, PhD

Department of Radiology: Richard L. Robertson, Jr., MD

Division of Computed Tomography: Michael J. Callahan, MD

Division of Diagnostic Radiology: Kirsten Ecklund, MD

Division of Interventional Radiology: Darren B. Orbach, MD, PhD

Division of Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Caroline D. Robson, MB, ChB

Division of Neuroradiology: Caroline D. Robson, MB, ChB

Division of Nuclear Medicine/PET: 
Stephan D. Voss, MD, PhD
Laura Drubach

Division of Ultrasound: Carol E. Barnewolt, MD

Department of Surgery: Robert C. Shamberger, MD

Division of Gynecology: Marc R. Laufer, MD

Department of Urology: David A. Diamond, MD

Genomics: Louis Kunkel, PhD

Informatics: Isaac Kohane, MD, PhD

Neuroscience: Clifford Woolf, PhD

Stem Cell/Developmental Biology: Leonard Zon, MD

Vascular Biology: Marsha A. Moses, PhD

Everyone listed above is responsible in whole or in part of this

DCF

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Commissioner of DCF email: dcfcommissioner@state.ma.us
When to Contact the FBI: Corrupt activities in state, local, or federal governments or in law enforcement;
FBI E-mail: Boston@ic.fbi.gov
FBI Boston
One Center Plaza
Suite 600
Boston, MA 02108
Phone: (617) 742-5533
Fax: (617) 223-6327
Attorney General, may be sent to AskDOJ@usdoj.gov

 

MURDER! by depraved indifference  it’s attempted second-degree murder by Boston DCF

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To constitute depraved indifference, the defendant’s conduct must be ‘so wanton, so deficient in a moral sense of concern, so lacking in regard for the life or lives of others, and so blameworthy as to warrant the same criminal liability as that which the law imposes upon a person who intentionally causes a crime. Depraved indifference focuses on the risk created by the defendant’s conduct,not the injuries actually resulting.

the People were required to establish also that defendant’s act was imminently dangerous and presented a very high risk of death to others and that it was committed under circumstances which evidenced a wanton indifference to human life or a depravity of mind. . . .

Yes WE THE PEOPLE find that Central Office of the Department of Children and Families: involved in the Justina Pelletier case have and are acting in imminently dangerous way and presented a very high risk of death to Justina Pelletier. Further more WE find that the DCF and ALL those involved  in this case, that their action demonstrates a “callous disregard for human life” that may results in death. WE demand the immediate removal of DCF officials pending charges for the attempted second-degree murder of Justina Pelletier.

Central Office of the Department of Children and Families:

Phone number: (617) 748-2000

Commissioner of DCF email: dcfcommissioner@state.ma.us

Address: Department of Children and Families. 600 Washington Street, Boston, MA 02111

YES I DID EMAIL THIS TO THEM AND YOU SHOULD TOO!i sent it

update: Aresst them all

Central Office

  • Olga Roche, Commissioner
  • dcf-commissioner-74x86

@Mass_DCF

 

  • Vacant, Chief of Staff
  • Paul Fitzsimons, Acting Deputy Commissioner, Field Operations
  • Christina Joyce, Acting Deputy Commissioner, Policy, Planning & Programs
  • David O’Callaghan, Chief Financial Officer
  • Mary Ellen Bennard, Chief Information Officer
  • Virginia Peel, General Counsel
  • Ruben Ferreira, Assistant Commissioner, Continuous Quality Improvement
  • Robert Wentworth, Assistant Commissioner of Planning and Program Development
  • Mary Gambon, Assistant Commissioner of Adoption and Foster Care
  • Cayenne Isaksen, Director of Public Affairs
  • Colin Moore, Director of Legislative Affairs
  • Kevin Barboza, Ombudsman
  • Leo Farley, Adoption Support
  • Joy Cochran, Foster Care Support
  • Debora Sullivan, Adoption and Foster Care Recruitment
  • Maureen Fallon-Messeder, Adolescent Services
  • Lucille Lovanni, Accounting/Bill Paying
  • Neal Michaels, Early Intervention and Special Projects
  • Ros Walter, Data
  • Tammy Mello, Domestic Violence

To contact any of the individuals above, please call the Central Office of the Department of Children and Families at (617) 748-2000, or, write to them at the following address:

Department of Children and Families
600 Washington Street
Boston, MA 02111

For any comments or questions, please email the Commissioner at: dcfcommissioner@state.ma.us.

I do know that Justina IS at risk maybe I should fill out this form Report of Child(ren) Alleged to be Suffering from Serious Physical or Emotional Injury by Abuse or Neglect

Thank you for your e-mail.

We will respond to your inquiry as soon as possible.
If you are writing to report a case of abuse or neglect, please call the Child At Risk Hotline at: 1-800-792-5200.
For a listing of local DCF offices , please visit: mass.gov/dcf.

Update:

Boston, MA – Today, A contempt of court motion was filed against the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families (DCF) in the Justina Pelletier case.

Three weeks ago on March 3, Judge Joseph Johnston approved a written agreement transferring care to Tufts Medical Center. Despite this enforceable order, DCF still has not made appointments with Tufts. The Pelletiers have spoken several times to Dr. Korson, who was treating Justina before this debacle began, and they obtained an appointment date. Dr. Korson said that he wants to see Justina and resume her treatment immediately, but on Friday, March 21, DCF said it will not honor any appointments with Tufts until the judge rules on Tuesday.

“A child’s health and welfare are hanging in the balance. We cannot continue to withhold treatment from this young girl,” said Mat Staver, Founder and Chairman of Liberty Counsel. “It is obvious to everyone but DCF that this disease is physical, not psychiatric. DCF should stop delaying, obey the court order, and send her to Tufts for medical treatment today!” Staver continued.

The Pelletiers are preparing other legal pleadings to remove DCF from this case.  “DCF has abused its authority. DCF had no right to come between Justina and medical care,” Staver said.

Last Monday, Mat Staver was in court before Judge Johnston. Two matters were brought up: (1) Staver’s (second) motion to be admitted to the case, and (2) a request to return Justina home to the parents. Judge Johnston said he would rule on both matters by the end of the week. On Friday afternoon, the clerk of the court stated the judge will rule next Tuesday. In 14 months, Judge Johnston has not issued a single written opinion. He continually kicks the can down the road.

On February 24, Mat Staver first appeared in the Boston court seeking to represent the family. DCF objected. The judge said that DCF had 48 hours to file any written objections. DCF did not, but the judge did not rule. “The delay tactics, hoping that the press will lose interest in this case, must cease. Justina must be returned to her parents’ custody and Tufts’ care,” Staver said.

Update:

A Massachusetts judge ruled Tuesday that the Connecticut teen in the middle of a contentious custody battle between her parents and the state will remain in the custody of the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families.

The Boston Globe reported that Suffolk County juvenile court Judge Joseph Johnson granted“permanent” custody to the state DCF. This decision was in response to a motion filed by Lou and Linda Pelletier, Justina’s parents, and her court-appointed lawyer for a “conditional custody” plan. Up until this point, DCF only had temporary custody of Justina, which it had maintained for more than a year.

 

Mass Gov. Deval Patrick’s office:

Massachusetts State House

Office of the Governor Deval Patrick

Phone: 617.725.4005; 888.870.7770 (in state)

Fax: 617.727.9725

TTY: 617.727.3666

CT Gov. Dannel Malloy’s Office:

Phone: (860) 566-4840

Toll-Free: (800) 406-1527

Tdd: (860) 524-7397

Fax: (860) 524-7395

Address: State Capitol, 210 Capitol Avenue, Hartford, Ct 06106

UPDATE:

“Please let me go home right now.”

Those are some of the first words that the public has ever heard from Justina Pelletier since she was taken out of her parents custody and into the care of the Massachusetts Department of Children and Families 16 months ago.

“This is the first time they can actually hear her in her own voice,” Rev. Patrick Mahoney told TheBlaze Monday of the video posted to the “A Miracle for Justina” Facebook page, showing the 16-year-old in a wheelchair.

Justina Pelletier was recorded asking a judge and Gov. Deval Patrick to allow her to return home to her family. (Image source: Facebook video)

“All I really want to be with is with my family and my friends,” Justina said in the video posted Sunday night.

“You can do it. You’re the one that’s judging this. Please let me go home Judge Johnson and Gov. Patrick,” Justina continued directing her comments to Suffolk County juvenile court Judge Joseph Johnston and Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick. “Please, right now. Please let me go home right now. I need to be home with my family and just please do it.”

Watch the video:

Justina’s video comes after she was allowed a brief visit at home and attended her sister’s dance recital over the weekend, Mahoney said. It also comes after the DCF filed a motion last week to reconsider and dismiss the case against Justina Pelletier’s parents, Lou and Linda Pelletier.

“We are pleased that the family has engaged around the reunification plan and we have filed papers in court to support our shared goal of bringing Justina home,” Alec Loftus, a spokesman for the state’s Health and Human Services department, said in an emailed statement.

The teen’s parents lost custody of their daughter after a disagreement with Boston Children’s Hospital over a medical diagnosis. Since then, they have been fighting for her return in and out of court.

Mahoney told TheBlaze the next set date when Judge Johnston could rule on the case in light of DCF’s motion is June 20, but the family hopes for something sooner.

“The Pelletiers have completed all four elemnts of DCF reunification plan. Based on DCF filing this request for dismissal and the Pelletiers completing reunification plan, there is no reason at all why Justina should not be released immediately,” he said, noting that Father’s Day was coming up this Sunday.

While Mahoney could not comment on any further legal action that the Pelletiers might take, he said, that “one would expect the Pelletiers to use every recourse to hold government accountable to ensure this never happens again.”

 

 

 

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Cochran staffers to commit massive voter fraud

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Cochran Campaign Manager, Staffer Busted in Illegal Vote Buying Operation

Charles C. Johnson and Joel S. Gilbert

Democrat black reverend, who brought “hundreds” to the polls for promise of payment, exposes alleged massive voter fraud, vote buying operation by Cochran campaign.
 

A black reverend stiffed by the Cochran campaign has exposed an alleged criminal conspiracy by Cochran staffers to commit massive voter fraud ahead of Tuesday’s controversial U.S. Senate Republican runoff election in Mississippi.

Reverend Stevie Fielder, associate pastor at historic First Union Missionary Baptist Church and former official at Meridian’s redevelopment agency, says he delivered “hundreds or even thousands,” of blacks to the polls after being offered money and being assured by a Cochran campaign operative that Chris McDaniel was a racist. “They [the Cochran campaign] told me to offer blacks fifteen dollars each and to vote for Thad.”

It is illegal under several provisions of Mississippi law and federal law for campaign officials to bribe voters with cash and punishable up to five years in jail. (MS Code 97-13-1; MS Code 97-13-3 (2013) (Federal Code 18 U.S.C. 597, U.S.C. 1973i(c)) Voter fraud schemes are not unusual for Mississippi. In 1999 Mississippi’s attorney general reported massive voter fraud allegations throughout the Magnolia state. In 2011, a Mississippi NAACP leader was sent to prison for voter fraud, according to the Daily Caller.

It would seem that laws were broken here, too. At the direction of the Cochran campaign, Reverend Fielder went “door to door, different places, mostly impoverished neighborhoods, to the housing authorities and stuff like that,” telling fellow blacks that McDaniel was a racist and promising them $15 per vote. “They sold me on the fact that he was a racist and that the right thing to do was to keep him out of office,” Fielder says.

Text messages released to Got News and a recorded interview with Reverend Fielder confirmed that Saleem Baird, a staffer with the Cochran campaign and current legislative aide to U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, and Cochran campaign manager, Kirk Sims, were involved in a $15-per-vote cash bribery scheme to target members of the black community.

“They said they needed black votes,” said the Reverend Fielder on the phone. He says Baird told him to “give the fifteen dollars in each envelope to people as they go in and vote. You know, not right outside of the polling place but he would actually recruit people with the $15 dollars and they would go in and vote.” Fielder said he received thousands of dollars in envelopes from Baird and distributed them accordingly. Fielder also says he went to the campaign office on another occasion to pick up $300 in cash and was among a room full of people who were doing the same thing he was.

Fielder said that Saleem Baird was doing the same thing with people all over the state. Fielder believes that the racism charge against McDaniel and the promise of $15 a vote motivated ‘thousands’ of black Democrats like him to vote for Cochran in the runoff. When asked if Fielder would have been more suspicious of Baird’s promises had he been white, Fielder replied, “Yes, definitely.”

For his efforts, Fielder says the Cochran campaign and Baird promised him $16,000 for paying black voters $15 a vote, but Baird wound up stiffing him. Baird even asked him to delete all texts between the two of them. In addition to Baird, Fielder says he spoke with Kirk Sims, the Cochran campaign manager, and a woman named “Amanda” with the campaign, most likely Amanda Shook, director of operations to re-elect Thad Cochran. All refused to pay him the agreed upon amount of $16,000.

Baird realized he had been lied to when he “took a good look at the campaign ads” and realized “McDaniel was not a racist…me and other people were misguided and misled.”

Fielder confronted Saleem the weekend before the election and asked about whether or not McDaniel was actually a racist and Baird confirmed it. Baird “personally confirmed that McDaniel was a racist.” Baird ‘manipulated me to manipulate many other people,” says Fielder. Baird did not disclose that he worked as a paid legislative staffer for Senator Roger Wicker. Fielder also says he spoke with campaign manager Kirk Sims about getting paid and about the ethical complaints he had.

Fielder is a Democrat but said he has voted for Republicans in the past. And though Fielder is being paid for his story by Got News, he says he’d come forward anyway. “I thought what I did was wrong.” Fielder said he was motivated mostly by concerns that McDaniel was a racist, not money.

As to what should happen next, ‘definitely the election should not be allowed to stand,” says Fielder, who says he’ll support McDaniel in event of a special election. ‘He’s been done wrong. He’s not what they said that he is.’

Got News tried calling both Baird and Sims with Fielder on the line. We got through to Sims but Sims insisted that there was a bad connection when Fielder asked about the racist smear campaign against Chris McDaniel and hung up. Were Baird found to have violated any laws in this matter, this would not be his first time he had a brush with the wrong side of the law. In 2011, Baird, who is a legislative staffer with U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, was allowed to keep his job with the senator after being arrested on charges of running an illegal strip joint in Jackson.
Fully aware that we have helped reveal the Cochran campaign may be involved in a criminal conspiracy, Got News will turn over any and all evidence to law enforcement.

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Imprisoned Marine Calls Glenn Beck From Mexican Prison, Shares Disturbing New Details About His Confinement | TheBlaze.com

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U.S. Marine Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi has been detained by Mexican authorities since March 31, when he says he accidentally drove across the border with three legally registered firearms in his vehicle. Much of his time has been spent in La Mesa Penitentiary, one of Mexico’s most dangerous and notorious prisons.

On Monday, Tahmooressi called Glenn Beck from prison with the help of his mother, Jill Tahmooressi, for a live radio interview about the circumstances that led to his arrest, and what has happened since. The 25-year-old also divulged a number of disturbing new details about his confinement.

“I was put in a small cell that was meant for six people,” Tahmooressi told Beck, speaking calmly throughout the entire interview. “There was about 15 to 20 people in there. … There were murderers in there, and kidnappers and drug dealers and all these people. And there I was, someone who’s not a criminal, never done a crime before, never been to prison. I was nervous.”

Andrew Tahmooressi has been held by Mexican authorities since March 31. (Photo via WSVN-TV)

Tahmooressi said the other inmates threatened to rape and kill him, terrorizing him until, he said, he was “fearful to the point where my heart was pounding and I couldn’t have gotten a single word out if I had to yell for help.” Tahmooressi said he knew if he stayed in that cell, he was “not going to see tomorrow.”

That was the night he tried to escape.

Jill Tahmooressi has shared with TheBlaze how she received a gut-wrenching phone call that day from her son. She said he begged her not to come down and investigate if he didn’t survive, or she would be killed, too.

Tahmooressi didn’t make it far before he was was caught and shot at by a prison guard, at which point he surrendered.

“After that, I got punished physically for maybe, like, 20 minutes to 30 minutes,” Tahmooressi told Beck. “After that I was stripped naked and I was handcuffed, both my legs and my hands around the post of a bunk bed. And I was there for maybe 12 hours, or maybe 10 hours, overnight, you know, shivering in the cold, naked.”

This May 3, 2014, photo shows Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi left, who is being held at Tijuana's La Mesa Penitentiary. The 25-year-old Marine Corps combat veteran is being held on weapons charges for mistakenly crossing the border with a shotgun, handgun and rifle in his vehicle. If Tahmooressi is convicted, he faces six to 21 years in a Mexican prison, his lawyers said, adding that alternatively the case could be dropped if the Mexican Attorney General’s Office in Mexico City requests dismissal. SAN DIEGO, ALEJANDRO TAMAYO — AP Photo

Tahmooressi said the next day, one of his legs was chained to one wall, and his arm was chained to a separate wall roughly 2 feet above his head.

“I was there with my hand dangling above my head with no circulation going to my — or a very minimum circulation — going to my fingers there for about maybe, I think it was maybe 24 hours with no food, no water,” he continued.

Tahmooressi said that after all the threats he had received, he was still afraid the prisoners were going to find him and torture him for information about his family.

“So I said I’m not going to let them do that,” Tahmooressi told Beck. “There was a light bulb on the ceiling, and I took this light bulb and I broke it and I stabbed myself in the neck. I said I’m not going to let them take my life, I’m going to take my own life. That was my train of thought then. And I was there on my knees praying with blood pouring out of my neck, puddled on the floor, and thankfully, thank God, the prisoners were outside the door and I think they heard the smash of the light bulb, and they came in. And I blacked out from there, and I remember waking up on a bed in a room in the prison with IVs in my arms.”

After Tahmooressi received medical care, he was sent back to solitary confinement where his hands and feet were handcuffed to a bed for roughly 30 days.

U.S. Marine Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi calls Glenn Beck from a Mexican prison on June 2, 2014 for a radio interview. (Photo: TheBlaze TV)

Beck asked Tahmooressi if he could give him his word that he is innocent, and that he had no illicit intentions in Mexico.

“God as my witness I was not there doing any criminal activity,” Tahmooressi said. “I had no intent on doing any harm or breaking any laws or selling any guns or anything of that sort. I’ve never been like that before in my life. I’ve always been a peaceful, loving man and I don’t break the law. I did not intend to do anything of that sort at all.”

Tahmooressi, who faces up to 21 years in prison if convicted, said he is “confident” the judge is going to see he is innocent. He is also grateful for the lawmakers who have taken up his case, and that Secretary of State John Kerry recently got involved.

“I think it’s just a matter of time, just a matter of me going to court and I think they’re going to realize that I’m not guilty,” he said. “And I think it’s gonna move pretty quick from here, I hope.”

Beck and his radio co-hosts remarked on how calm Tahmooressi was throughout the interview, saying he didn’t seem bitter or out of control in any way.

“He’s not angry. He’s not a guy who’s saying crazy thing things, accusing everybody of everything,” Stu Burguiere remarked. “He’s calm. He’s rational. This seems like an obvious case of one wrong turn. And how this takes 63 days to turn around, I don’t understand.”

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The Real Story Behind The Bundy Ranch Harassment | The Dana Show

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By now you’re familiar with the standoff between the federal government, i.e. the Bureau of Land Management, and 67 year-old rancher Cliven Bundy. (If not, check the backstory and my radio interview with him here.) The BLM asserts their power through the expressed desire to protect the endangered desert tortoise, a tortoise so “endangered” that their population can no longer be contained by the refuge constructed for them so the government is closing it and euthanizing over a thousand tortoises. The tortoises, the excuse that BLM has given for violating claims to easements and running all but one lone rancher out of southern Nevada, is doing fine. In fact, the tortoise has lived in harmony with cattle in the Gold Butte, Clark County Nevada for over a hundred years, or as long as Cliven Bundy’s family has lived on the land as ranchers. In fact, the real threat to it is urbanization, not cattle.

A tortoise isn’t the reason why BLM is harassing a 67 year-old rancher. They want his land. The tortoise wasn’t of concern when Harry Reid worked BLM to literally change the boundaries of the tortoise’s habitat to accommodate the development of his top donor, Harvey Whittemore. Whittemore was convicted of illegal campaign contributions to Senator Reid. Reid’s former senior adviser is now the head of BLM. Reid is accused of using the new BLM chief as a puppet to control Nevada land (already over 84% of which is owned by the federal government) and pay back special interests. BLM has proven that they’ve a situational concern for the desert tortoise as they’ve had no problem waiving their rules concerning wind or solar power development. Clearly these developments have vastly affected a tortoise habitat more than a century-old, quasi-homesteading grazing area. If only Clive Bundy were a big Reid donor.

BLM has also tried to argue that the rules have changed, long after Bundy claims he secured rights and paid his dues to Clark County, Nevada. BLM says they supersede whatever agreement Bundy had prior; they demanded that he reduce his living, his thousand-some-odd head of cattle down to a tiny herd of 150. It’s easy for the government to grant itself powers of overreach, but it doesn’t make it right. Many bad things are done in the name of unjust laws. Just look at Obamacare. This heavy-handed tactic has run the other ranchers from the area and now Bundy is the last one. He’s the last one because he stood up to the federal government.

So why does BLM want to run Bundy off this land and is Reid connected?

I discussed this on “Kelly File” tonight, video via Jim Hoft.

*UPDATE: Those who say Bundy is a “deadbeat” are making inaccurate claims. Bundy has in fact paid fees to Clark County, Nevada in an arrangement pre-dating the BLM. The BLM arrived much later, changed the details of the setup without consulting with Bundy — or any other rancher — and then began systematically driving out cattle and ranchers. Bundy refused to pay BLM, especially after they demanded he reduce his heard’s head count down to a level that would not sustain his ranch. Bundy OWNS the water and forage rights to this land. He paid for these rights. He built fences, established water ways, and constructed roads with his own money, with the approval of Nevada and BLM. When BLM started using his fees to run him off the land and harassing him, he ceased paying. So should BLM reimburse him for managing the land and for the confiscation of his water and forage rights?

Cliven Bundy’s problem isn’t that he didn’t pay — he did — or that his cattle bother tortoises — they don’t — it’s that he’s not a Reid donor.

**One last thought: For those conservatives saying that since BLM arrived in the late 90s, it’s the law now, well, so is Obamacare.

via The Real Story Behind The Bundy Ranch Harassment | The Dana Show.

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Keep Your Hippocratic Oath Free Justina Pelletier

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Hippocratic Oath

n.

An oath of ethical professional behavior sworn by new physicians and attributed to Hippocrates.

 

I swear by Apollo the Physician, Asclepius, Hygeia, Panaceia, and all the gods and goddesses, making them my witnesses, that I will fulfill this oath and this covenant according to my ability and judgment: 
To regard him who teaches me the art of medicine as equal to my parents; to share my life with him and, if he is in need, my sustenance; to regard his children as my brothers and to teach them this art, if they wish to learn it, without fee or covenant; to give instruction, written, oral, and practical, to my sons and the sons of my teacher, as well as to any students who have signed a covenant and sworn an oath according to the canons of our profession, but to no others. 
I will apply therapeutic measures for the benefit of the sick according to my ability and judgment, and will abstain from harm and wrongdoing. 
I will not give a lethal drug to anyone requesting it, nor will I recommend the use of such. Likewise I will not give a woman an abortive drug. 
I will live my life and practice my art in purity and in holiness. 
I will not perform surgery, even on sufferers from stone, but will not interfere with those who engage in such work. 
Whatever houses I enter, I will do so for the benefit of the sick, refraining from all intentional wrongdoing and misconduct, particularly from sexual involvement with persons of either gender, whether free or slaves. 
I will not divulge anything of a private nature regarding people’s personal lives that I see or hear, whether in the course of my professional activities or not, because I recognize the shamefulness of revealing such information. 
If I carry out this oath and do not break it, may I find satisfaction in life and the practice of my profession and may I deserve honor among men forever. If I violate it and swear falsely, may the opposite be my lot.

Executive leadership Boston Children’s Hospital
 
Sandra L. Fenwick, President and Chief Executive Officer Kevin Churchwell, MD, Executive Vice President of Health Affairs and Chief Operating Officer

Leadership

President and Chief Executive Officer: Sandra L. Fenwick

Executive Vice President of Health Affairs and Chief Operating Officer: Kevin Churchwell, MD

Physician-in-Chief, Pediatrician in Chief, Chair of Department of Medicine: Gary R. Fleisher, MD

Surgeon-in-Chief: James Kasser, MD

Executive Director, Heart Center: Michael J. Anderegg

Senior Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer: Dick Argys

Executive Director, Satellite Clinical Operations: Julee Bolg, RN, MS, MBA

Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing and Communications Officer: Margaret Coughlin

Chief Innovation Officer: Naomi Fried, PhD

Vice President, Clinical Services: Michael Gillespie

Vice President, Research Administration: Gus Cervini

Vice President, Government Relations: Josh Greenberg

Senior Vice President, Chief Safety and Quality Officer: Kathy Jenkins, MD

Vice President, Strategy: Jean Mixer

Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer: Daniel Nigrin, MD, MS

Senior Vice President and General Counsel: Stuart Novick, Esq.

Chief Investment Officer: Phil Rotner

Senior Vice President, Patient Care Services and Chief Nursing Officer: Laura J. Wood, DNP, MS, RN

Vice President, Human Resources: Inez Stewart

President, Children’s Hospital Trust: Lynn Susman

Vice President of Support Services: Henry Tomasuolo

Chief Financial Officer (CFO): Doug Vanderslice

Executive Director, Satellite Administrative Operations: Jane Venti

Senior Vice President, Network Development and Strategic Partnerships: Wendy Warring, JD

Vice President, Real Estate Planning and Development: Charles Weinstein, Esq.

Department and division chiefs

Department of Anesthesiology 
Paul R. Hickey, MD, Anesthesiologist-in-Chief

Department of Cardiac Surgery: Pedro Del Nido

Department of Cardiology: James Lock, MD, Cardiologist-in-Chief

Department of Dentistry: Man Wai Ng

Department of Laboratory Medicine: Orah Platt

Department of Medicine:
Gary Fleisher, Physician-in-Chief
Frederick Lovejoy, Associate Physician-in-Chief

Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine: S. Jean Emans

Division of Clinical Pediatric Oncology: Lisa R. Diller

Division of Developmental Medicine: Leonard Rappaport, MD, MS

Division of Emergency Medicine: Richard G. Bachur, MD

Division of Endocrinology: Joseph A. Majzoub, MD

Division of Gastroenterology/Nutrition: Wayne I. Lencer, MD

Clinical Research Center:
Stavroula Osganian, MD, ScD, MPH
Ellis Neufeld

Division of General Pediatrics: Mark A. Schuster, MD, PhD

Division of Genetics: Christopher A. Walsh, MD, PhD

Division of Hematology/Oncology: David A. Williams, MD

Division of Immunology: Raif Geha, MD

Division of Infectious Diseases: Michael Wessels, MD

Division of Molecular Medicine: Stephen Harrison, PhD

Division of Nephrology: William E. Harmon, MD

Division of Newborn Medicine: Stella Kourembanas, MD

Division of Respiratory Diseases: Craig Gerard, MD, PhD

Department of Neurology: Scott L. Pomeroy, MD, PhD

Division of Epilepsy: 
Blaise Bourgeois, MD

Department of Neurosurgery: Alan Cohen, MD, FACS, FAAP

Department of Ophthalmology: David G. Hunter, MD, PhD

Department of Orthopedic Surgery: James R. Kasser, MD, Surgeon-in-Chief

Division of Sports Medicine: Lyle J. Micheli, MD

Department of Otolaryngology: Michael J. Cunningham, MD

Department of Pathology: Mark Daniel Fleming, MD, DPhil

Department of Plastic Surgery: John G. Meara, MD, DMD, MBA

Section of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery: Bonnie L. Padwa, DMD, MD

Department of Psychiatry: David R. DeMaso, MD

Division of Psychology: Eugene J. D’Angelo, PhD

Department of Radiology: Richard L. Robertson, Jr., MD

Division of Computed Tomography: Michael J. Callahan, MD

Division of Diagnostic Radiology: Kirsten Ecklund, MD

Division of Interventional Radiology: Darren B. Orbach, MD, PhD

Division of Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Caroline D. Robson, MB, ChB

Division of Neuroradiology: Caroline D. Robson, MB, ChB

Division of Nuclear Medicine/PET: 
Stephan D. Voss, MD, PhD
Laura Drubach

Division of Ultrasound: Carol E. Barnewolt, MD

Department of Surgery: Robert C. Shamberger, MD

Division of Gynecology: Marc R. Laufer, MD

Department of Urology: David A. Diamond, MD

Genomics: Louis Kunkel, PhD

Informatics: Isaac Kohane, MD, PhD

Neuroscience: Clifford Woolf, PhD

Stem Cell/Developmental Biology: Leonard Zon, MD

Vascular Biology: Marsha A. Moses, PhD

Everyone listed above is responsible in whole or in part of this DCF

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About Dr. Coyne

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About Dr. Coyne.

 

THOMAS JOSEPH COYNE, MBA, Ph.D. – tom@coyne-assoc.com

(Financial Economist, Professor of Finance – tenured, inactive)

Candidate of U.S. Senate (L. WV.)

 

Financial economist Thomas Joseph Coyne is a native of Wheeling, West Virginia, a graduate of Central Catholic High School.

 

Thomas Joseph Coyne earned his Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree at Case Western Reserve University (Economics/Finance), his Master of Business Administration degree (MBA) from Kent State University (Management/Finance), his Bachelor of Business Administration degree (BBA) from Marshall University (Accounting/Economics). He completed his postgraduate work at the University of Chicago (Monetary Theory/Price Theory) and the University of Michigan (Computers).

 

As a full-time undergraduate student at Marshall University, Dr. Coyne worked full-time as a brakeman on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, graduating in three years time. He worked full time as industrial credit manager for The B. F. Goodrich Company while a graduate student at Kent State University, graduating in two years time. Coyne taught at Case and John Carroll and Kent State and Akron Universities while studying finance and economics at Case. While attending high school, Coyne rose from stock boy to floor manager and buyer at the J. C. Penney Company. Using his experience, age, education, and background, Coyne has contributed to solution of labor and management problems for decades. After writing his Master’s thesis: “Railroad Proposals for the Alleviation of their Financial Crisis” and receipt of his MBA, Tom worked with Cyrus Eaton at the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway as it acquired the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, (the combined railroad today is called CSX). Tom appeared before the Interstate Commerce Commission dealing with per diem rate cases of railroad cars. Tom is a licensed pilot. After writing his Ph.D. dissertation, receipt of the degree and having it published by the Legislative Services Committee and distributed by the Committee to each member of the House and Senate and administrative persons in West Virginia, entitled “Banking Structure in West Virginia,” branch banking was adopted by the state of West Virginia. Prior to distribution of the Coyne dissertation West Virginia was the only unit banking state (NO branches allowed) in the nation.

 

Professor Coyne spent the bulk of his professional career teaching graduate and undergraduate courses (MBA) as a tenured full professor of finance and/or business economics at fully accredited (AACSB) universities. He has traveled extensively throughout Russia, Western Europe, and the United States, lecturing and presenting papers in finance and economics. He has negotiated countless multi-million dollar contracts for scores of American Boards of Education, has created and served as executive director of several foundations in the United States and Europe. Coyne grew financial and real assets for one group from only eleven dollars to $6.0 million before leaving.

 

Tom has been an active member in his church, in church institutions, and has published at least ten books or monographs, plus about one hundred peer-reviewed articles to be found in many academic & professional journals. His Arbitration Awards are published. Many written contributions have appeared in newspapers and online. Coyne is an arbitrator, serving from the lists of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service. He completed the Indianapolis Mini-Marathon for Cancer Research (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 & 2006), and had a weekly one hour 50,000 watt call-in talk radio show broadcast simultaneously in Cleveland, and Youngstown, Ohio. Tom is an honorably discharged U.S. Army combat infantry veteran, having served with L Company, 180th Infantry Regiment, 45th Infantry Division, Sandbag Castle, Korea, receiving the Korean Service Medal with 2 Bronze Service Stars, the United Nations Service Medal, the National Defense Service Medal, the Combat Infantry Badge (CIB), the Good Conduct Medal, a Letter of Appreciation signed by Kim Dae-jung, President of the Republic of Korea, and The President Syugman Rhee Memorial Association 60th Anniversary Korean War 1950-2010 Medallion.

 

Tom sought the U.S. Senate seat Ohio (I) being vacated by Howard Metzenbaum, 1994. Ohio Secretary of State denied Coyne placement of the Coyne name on the ballot claiming inability to read 11,000 (approx.) properly prepared signed and printed petition signatures).

 

Tom sought the Office of Governor West Virginia (I), 2004. WV Secretary of State refused to provide Coyne with appropriate petition forms subsequent to which in Wheeling Federal District Judge Frederick P. Stamp, Jr. declared from his bench WV violated previous (2 years prior) Federal District Court orders of Judge Kelley requiring WV to provide proper petition forms, that WV should have provided Coyne with proper petition forms, but in his written Award Stamp found in favor of WV. U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice William Hubbs Rehnquist was at his residence outside Washington, D.C. studying Coyne’s appeal of the Judge Stamp “award” the night Rehnquist died.

 

Thomas Joseph Coyne, Ph.D., was formerly married to Patricia Anne Smith, R.N., of Huntington and together they proudly raised their five children, all of whom are college-educated. Tom and Pat have twelve grandchildren. Tom plans to take the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Jay Rockefeller (D.WV) in the election of November 4, 2014.

 

Professor Coyne maintains a home in Bath, Ohio, USA.

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it was an inside job

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mikem…
sorry, your ‘look at the video’ attitude is ridiculous and the underlying ‘theories’ that have been advanced have been thoroughly debunked.

Instead of being thankful that engineering allowed those buildings to withstand that impact force at speed jumbo jets fully loaded with fuel (and larger than the buildings had been designed to tolerate) striking, and instead of being toppled immediately standing long enough for thousands to escape, a petty fearful self-important few choose to believe that a conspiracy that would have necessarily involved hundreds of people has been kept completely silent for more than a decade…

It doesn’t happen, mike, and arguing the contrary is providing our enemies with ammunition and our allies with doubt that the sheeple of America will ever throw off the yoke of big government tyranny and resume the mantle of world leadership.

Bin Laden never claimed it was an inside job. There are plenty of REAL things to be suspicious of your government about, stop wasting time with fantasies.

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Thank You Wendy you gave YOUR child the chance at life

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OOPS ONE GOT AWAY, don’t worry #TeamWendy will get them next time.

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Before she donned her hot pink sneakers and became a voice for abortion supporters across the nation, Wendy Davis was a single mother at age 19.

Being a single mother raised by a single mother, the odds were stacked against her.

However, she worked hard to provide for her child, attended college and eventually graduated from Harvard Law School.

Today Wendy is a proven, successful lawmaker in the Texas State Senate.

Wendy’s life serves as an example to women across the country facing an unplanned pregnancy and the possibility of single motherhood. Through her story we are reminded that, even in times of uncertainty and challenge, women can raise children and be wonderful examples of success.

Join thousands of prolife Americans in thanking Wendy Davis for not only choosing life for her child, but for overcoming difficult challenges to be a successful woman and mother.

This letter of support will be made available to Senator Davis for her consideration and encouragement.

Please add your name!

Dear Senator Davis,

As an American who believes that all life is valuable and should be protected, I thank you for having the courage to bear and raise your own child when social pressure and personal circumstances were against you.

Your actions thirty years ago remind us that courage, hard work, and grace can overcome challenges, for both mother and child.

Today, I commit myself to helping the thousands of women across this nation who face unplanned pregnancies. Through the work of life-affirming pregnancy centers, community organizations and local churches, I will support these women in their time of need.

I will encourage women in crisis pregnancies to follow the example you set when you gave your child the chance at life.

Thank you, Senator, for demonstrating true courage and strength.

Sincerely,

via Thank Wendy Davis | Thank You Wendy.

October 19th we will stand under weight or arms and declare ‘THIS IS OUR LINE IN THE SAND!”

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Push back is growing to a planned ‘open carry’ gun rights rally which is set for Saturday on Alamo Plaza, 1200 WOAI news reports.

 

Several groups and prominent individuals, including State Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson, who wrote the state’s concealed handgun law while he was a member of the Texas Senate, plan to gather at the Alamo carrying loaded rifles, including some weapons which are categorized as ‘assault rifles.’

 

“We cannot stand by any longer in silence,” says a statement by a group called ‘Don’tComply.com,’ which is one of the organizers.  “They (police agencies) have been left unchecked too long.  October 19th we will stand under weight or arms and declare ‘THIS IS OUR LINE IN THE SAND!”  We will stand as free men and women!”

 

Even though a concealed handgun license, which required a training course and a background check, are required to carry a handgun in a concealed holster, Texas law allows rifles and other long guns to be carried openly, without any training or permitting required.

 

Michelle Green, who heads the Texas chapter of a group called ‘Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America’ says that law, which dates to the 19th Century, was passed to make sure people could hunt game in rural areas unmolested, and it was never intended to allow people to carry AR-15s in the downtown areas of big cities.

 

“The thought of walking around a Wal-Mart or a Starbucks with a loaded long rifle is alarming, and it is completely disproportional to what anybody needs,” Green said.

 

Gun rights advocates say it is not up to the government to decide what level of weapon they ‘need,’ and say the Second Amendment is clear that no laws can infringe on the right to bear arms.

 

Several people organizing the rally say they are concerned that police departments around the state are targeting law abiding gun owners.  A man is on trial in Belton after he was arrested while carrying a long rifle down a country road while hiking with his son.  DontComply.com says San Antonio Police Chief William McManus has authorized ‘a policy of harassing law abiding citizens and gun owners.’

 

Green says most members of her group own guns and all support the Second Amendment.  But they say carrying a loaded rifle to a downtown rally goes over the line for them.

 

“I think most of us understand the need for hunters to be able to carry their guns when they are hunting out the country,” she said.  But she called the Saturday rally ‘alarming and sickening’ and said the ‘Come and Take it, Line in the Sand’ organizers are a ‘fringe group.’

 

Adding to the controversy is the fact that the Alamo is generally off limits to political rallies, and permission for dozens of political rallies were rejected by the Daughters of the Republic of Texas when they operated the Alamo.  But the Alamo is now under the control of Patterson’s General Land Office.

 

Patterson, by the way, is a candidate for Lieutenant Governor.

 

Read more: http://www.woai.com/articles/woai-local-news-119078/pushback-growing-to-planned-alamo-gun-11745786/#ixzz2hzoRfCX5

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