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“If there are anarchists, if there are weapons, if there is an intention to engage in violence and confrontation, that obviously raises our concerns,”

November 12, 2011 By: John Kindley Category: Albert Jay Nock, Cops, Friedrich Nietzsche, Henry George, Iroquois, John Hasnas, Thomas Jefferson, Wendy McElroy

Portland police Lt. Robert King said.

The official demonization of “anarchists” by State propagandizers continues on apace, in this instance by an agent of an “agency”-without-principals which intends to violently evict Occupy protesters from Portland parks this weekend. Meanwhile, a real-life “anarch” (leader of leaderlessness), Wendy McElroy, explores, at the Daily Anarchist, what an anarchist system of justice might look like, and in reply to a comment on her post writes:

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A little perspective

November 06, 2011 By: John Kindley Category: Cops, Criminal Defense Lawyers, Judges

I’ve edited out the needlessly profane words I used in a recent post to describe the most hated judge in America. Other judges have done even worse things in their published opinions. Police officers have seen, and criminal defense attorneys have represented people accused of doing, much worse things.

Judge fed up with lying prosecutor faces jail for disrespecting higher court.

October 15, 2011 By: John Kindley Category: Cops, Honor, Judges, Prosecutors

Volokh has links to the judge’s offending opinion and the higher court’s contempt finding. A commenter writes:

Before this gets farther, the underlying case was the charge of murdering an officer. Subsequent evidence –official police investigation and all witnesses– state the act was unintentional homicide in the act of self defense. The officer had a history of violence, and first (without provocation or cause) chased one brother down and beat him with an axe-handle. Then the officer went after and started to beat the other brother with the axe-handle; initiating a 5 minute tussle in which the officer’s gun was discharged.

The trial court Judge’s disrespect was for the prosecutor who made an involuntary manslaughter plea offer, then denied making it. When confronted with an audio tape of the offer, the prosecutor retracted it for voluntary manslaughter. In addition, the prosecutor flouted the court by refusing to attend the plea hearing, etcetera ….There is far more underneath all this –and far more background too– but the Virgin Islands Daily News has a splendid reporter who gives a great summary of this series.

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Some cops are heroes.

October 15, 2011 By: John Kindley Category: Cops, Tyrus Coleman

Like these cops, who “chose to sack a man instead of shooting him in the Tenderloin early this morning, even after he drew a .380.” (Via Fark)

And some cops aren’t, like this local cop who shot and killed an unarmed man who’d led police on a pursuit before crashing into a building:

The chase ended after ten minutes when Bledsoe crashed his truck into the main building at Faubian Plumbing, Heating & A/C Inc. The business located in the 700-block of E. Lincoln Ave. saw nearly $10,000 in damage.

Police say Bledsoe tried to dislodge his truck from the building by flooring the accelerator as police surrounded him. After refusing to stop, Bledsoe was shot once in the neck.

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Heretics

September 11, 2011 By: John Kindley Category: Cops, David Gross

Karen De Coster:

I am swearing off all media today because I cannot stand this endless attention to 9/11 and the persistent glorification of police and fire and EMT, and whatever other state-employed professionals are deemed to be heroes because they represent the state as our rescuer, benefactor, and savior.

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Gratuitous Violence

June 19, 2011 By: John Kindley Category: Castle Doctrine, Cops, Double Jeopardy, Jamison Koehler, Judges, Prosecutors, Rule of Lenity, Self-Defense, Tyrus Coleman

Jamison Koehler cites Ashe v. Swenson (1970) as currently his favorite U.S. Supreme Court case. In a comment on his post I wrote: “If you like Ashe, you might also like Yeager. Until recently these used to be my favorite U.S. Supreme Court cases too.”

What recently changed my mind about these cases is the Indiana Supreme Court’s decision in Tyrus Coleman v. State (2011), and the utter failure of these cases to do Mr. Coleman (whom I represented at trial) any good. Now when I read Yeager the only significant thing about the case seems to me to be the fact that the defendant, Mr. Yeager, was an Enron executive.

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“The Lair of the Wolf is his refuge, and where he has made him his home, Not even the Head Wolf may enter, not even the Council may come.”

May 15, 2011 By: John Kindley Category: Castle Doctrine, Cops, Judges, Tyrus Coleman

As Patrick says:

[T]here is a rule older and superior to that of the Constitution.  Many Americans do not believe that to be the case.  There is a philosophical divide in America, with the Justices of the Indiana court, and their Constitution, on one side, and a different law on the other.

One American called it “the Laws of Nature and Nature’s God”.

One Englishman called it “the Law of the Jungle”. [Link added.]

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