Leftist Lawyers Sue Boston Police For Public Records

What about the fact that 83 percent of deaths from opioid ODs in Massachusetts are white? Isn't that actionable? Why no lawsuit at the MCAD against the drug dealers? Why are they above the laws?

[From article]
The second request was made late last year pertaining to the demographic make-up of BPD’s current police recruiting class, the group said in a statement.
“To be accountable to the community, the Boston Police Department must be transparent,” said Ivan Espinoza-Madrigal, executive director of the lawyers’ committee, in the statement. “Diversity and community representation in the police force is a critical issue, and the public has a right to know the impact of BPD’s employment practices on Blacks, Latinos, and other minority groups.”
Espinoza-Madrigal said state public records law requires government agencies to provide access to public records within 10 days of a request

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/local_coverage/2016/01/activists_sue_bpd_to_get_drug_records

Activists sue BPD to get drug records
Antonio Planas

Friday, January 22, 2016

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Sounds like disparate impact of drug dealer sales. Are they targeting white males? Are the drug dealers racists? 16 percent of the world population is white. That means an outrageous disproportionate effect of opioid abuses, finding that 75 percent of white men are affected by ODs.

[From article]
White males aged 25 to 44 have been hit the hardest by the opioid epidemic in Massachusetts, and the number of overdoses continues to climb, according to new data released by the state Department of Public Health.
For the first time ever, DPH released information on the demographics of those dying of overdoses across the state, finding that three quarters of those affected by ODs fall into the above category.
The new data included updated numbers for 2014, confirming that the number of accidental overdose deaths in 2014 was 1,099

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/local_coverage/herald_bulldog/2016/01/opioid_ods_climbing_hitting_white_males_hardest

Opioid ODs climbing, hitting white males hardest
Lindsay Kalter 

Wednesday, January 20, 2016

DEA Seizes Cash From Amtrak Passenger, Without Charge of Crime

Henry Louis Mencken's observed, "First they pass laws against the SOBs. Then they use them against the rest of us." In Harvey Silverglate's book, "Three Felonies A Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent," he argues that Congress passed so many laws, ordinary citizens usually violate three felonies a day without knowing it. Making the victim "whole" is a curious legal notion. In this case the government thugs simply seized property. 

In 1973 government psychiatrists drugged me using hallucinogens for 80 consecutive days contrary to law. I was not under the care of any psychiatrist. There was no court order to permit the criminal abuse. I never volunteered as a human subject for any medical research project. Some of the elite political geniuses thought I was a spy. They asked, "How did he know that?" If they did not reveal secrets no one is capable of figuring out what they do, was their thinking. 

Compassionate FBI agents and police scared me, then used me for 15 years to fight organized crime. They did not pay me one cent. They stole my personal journals and culled all of the women I mentioned and married them off to FBI informants. They told everyone I knew, know and met, "He's homosexual." adding, "He's a retired drug dealer." "He's a racist." "He's crazy." He's homeless." He's a high school dropout." and more. This continues in 2015. 

They coordinated teams of crime family associates who retaliated for the next 23 years. For 42 years crime families, FBI informants, local police, Harvard University campus police, building superintendents, and graduate students in psychology at Harvard Medical School, Communists and assorted psychopaths, took turns harassing me. At no time has the government ever admitted what they did. At no time has the government ever tried to make me half or three quarters whole. They continue stirring up more and more animosity to cover up what they did and continue to do. Democratic politicians want more of this kind of government. 



[From article]
Carly Fiorina told a packed audience that a huge, complex and sometimes corrupt government was "crushing the potential" of Americans.
"That is not hyperbole," she said. "That is fact."
When democracy becomes so big and powerful, and so costly and complex, Fiorina said, only the big, powerful, wealthy and well-connected can handle it.
"The small and the powerless get crushed," she said.

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Carly Fiorina: Big government is crushing Americans

Jon Offredo

The News Journal
1:59 p.m. EDT May 30, 2015

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[From article]
McLellan owns L&M Convenience Mart in Fairmont, N.C., a restaurant and store that opened in 2001. Last year, the Internal Revenue Service seized all of the money in the store’s bank account—$107,702.66—after accusing McLellan of committing structuring violations.
McLellan, though, was never charged with a crime.[. . .]
Structuring involves making consistent cash deposits of less than $10,000 into a bank account for the purpose of avoiding reporting requirements. The procedure began as a way to combat money laundering and drug trafficking. However, more and more instances have come to light where innocent Americans have committed structuring violations without knowing it.
[. . .]
Though the government will return all of the money it seized from McLellan, it dismissed the case without covering the store owner’s legal fees and expenses, as well as interest on the money.
In 2000, Congress passed a law that entitles McLellan to those fees and expenses, which total more than $20,000.
Additionally, government policies require the $107,702 seized is kept in an interest-bearing account. Though McLellan will receive the money, the government wants to keep the interest earned.
[. . .]
“But at the same time, the government needs to make Lyndon whole.” “They came into his store and turned his life upside down, caused him all kinds of heartache and expense, and now they’re just trying to walk away as if nothing happened and forcing Lyndon to bear all those costs,”

http://dailysignal.com/2015/05/14/federal-government-to-return-107702-irs-seized-from-north-carolina-convenience-store-owner/

Federal Government to Return $107,702 Seized From North Carolina Convenience Store Owner
Melissa Quinn / @MelissaQuinn97

May 14, 2015

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[From article]
DEA agents approached Rivers, the only black passenger in the train car, and asked to search his bag. Inside the bag, agents found $16,000 in cash—money Rivers said he had saved up and received from family members to pursue his music video aspirations.
The agents detained Rivers and asked him about the cash. According to Rivers and his lawyer, Michael Pancer, a San Diego-based attorney, Rivers had the agents call his mother to confirm his story, but the DEA nevertheless seized his money, believing it was somehow connected with drugs.
The DEA agents then released Rivers, leaving him penniless in Albuquerque. He was never charged with a crime. The incident, first reported by the Albuquerque Journal, is the latest case to highlight the practice of civil asset forfeiture.
Under civil asset forfeiture laws, police and federal agents can seize property on the mere suspicion that it is connected to criminal activity. The property owner does not even have to be charged with a crime, since asset forfeiture is technically an action against the property itself.
“We don’t have to prove that the person is guilty,” Sean Waite, the head of the DEA’s Albuquerque office, told the Albuquerque Journal. “It’s that the money is presumed to be guilty.”

http://freebeacon.com/issues/dea-seizes-amtrak-passengers-life-savings-without-charging-him-with-crime/

DEA Seizes Amtrak Passenger’s Life Savings Without Charging Him with Crime
Latest case to highlight practice of civil asset forfeiture
BY: CJ Ciaramella Follow @cjciaramella
May 12, 2015 4:59 am

Afghanistan Poppy Cultivation At All Time High, After $7.6 billion Taxpayer Funded Campaign

An Afghan farmer works on a poppy field in the Khogyani district of Jalalabad, east of Kabul, Afghanistan
Photo: AP

[From article]
Cultivation of the illegal poppy plant in Afghanistan has reached an “all time high” following a $7.6 billion counternarcotics campaign paid for by the United States, according to government oversight investigators.
Despite the spending to combat growth of the poppy plant, which is used to make drugs such as opium and heroin, cultivation has reached an “all time high,” especially in places once declared “poppy free,” according to new report by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR).
“After a decade of reconstruction and over $7 billion in counternarcotics efforts, poppy cultivation levels are at an all-time high,” SIGAR concluded in its report released Wednesday.

http://freebeacon.com/national-security/afghan-poppy-cultivation-at-all-time-high/

Afghan Poppy Cultivation at ‘All-Time High’
SIGAR: U.S. has spent $7.6B on counternarco ops
BY: Adam Kredo
October 21, 2014 10:00 am

Mexican Security Forces Capture Boss of Juarez Cartel

Nabbed: Vicente Carrillo Fuentes, one of Mexico's most-wanted drug lords and leader of the Cartel de Juarez"drug trafficking organization, is arrested by Mexican Federal Police at Torreon City in Northern Mexico.
[From article]
Mexican security forces on Thursday captured the leader of the once-feared Juarez Cartel in the country's restive north, making it the second drug kingpin to fall in just over a week.
Vicente Carrillo, 51, long-time head of the Juarez Cartel, was a fierce rival of Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman, the leader of the Sinaloa Cartel and the world's most wanted drug boss until his capture in February.
A turf war between the two cartels in 2009-2011 unleashed a bloodbath in Ciudad Juarez, in Chihuahua state on Mexico's border with Texas, making it one of the most violent places in the world.
Carrillo, alias 'The Viceroy', was captured after identifying himself with a false name at a checkpoint in the northern city of Torreon, national security commissioner Monte Rubido said in a press conference.

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'The criminal organization that he led up until today led to the strengthening in Chihuahua of various groups that at one time contributed to Juarez being considered one of the most violent cities in the world,' Rubido said.
United States had put a $5 million bounty on Carrillo's head, while Mexico had offered a 30 million peso ($2.24 million) reward.[. . .]
It also comes as the government is grappling with public outrage at an apparent massacre of trainee teachers by police in league with gang members, which has triggered mass anti-government protests.
[. . .]
Hitmen for the Juarez Cartel were behind the high-profile murders of Lesley Enriquez, an employee of the U.S. consulate in Ciudad Juarez, as well as her husband and the husband of another consulate employee in 2010.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2787206/Mexico-captures-Juarez-Cartel-boss-government-source.html

One of Mexico's most-wanted drug lords who goes by the name 'El Viceroy' arrested during traffic stop
Vicente Carrillo, 51, arrested Thursday in Torreon, a city in northern Mexico
Head of the Juarez Cartel since 1997
Known as 'The Viceroy'
Carrillo gave a fake name at a checkpoint stop
United States had a $5 million bounty on his head
Carrillo's arrest is part of 'the end of the era of the narco', officials said
International drug smuggling rings are now controlled by smaller groups rather than large organizations like Juarez Cartel
By REUTERS REPORTER
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 22:00 EST, 9 October 2014 | UPDATED: 16:53 EST, 10 October 2014

War On Drugs Targets Wrong Individuals

[From article]
The list of young stars being caught up in drug scandals or checking into rehab seems endless.
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Such is the prevalence of drugs that a celebrity needs to be hospitalised or have a run-in with the law for the story to break in the quality press.
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Yet what is different today is not that drug taking seems to be the norm, but that the drugs being taken have evolved and are easier than ever to obtain. More importantly the moral stigma of being seen to be on drugs has been hugely diminished.
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Lindsay Lohan [admitted] on Oprah, claiming to take cocaine only because it allowed her to drink more.
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Drug taking has become a fact of life, and it's true for bankers and lawyers as much as for film stars.
It's now become a story when someone feels the need to come out and say they don't do drugs,

Here's an idea, why not follow known drug addicted elite celebrities. They are easy to follow and to observe where and when they get their drugs. It makes the war on drugs much easier. Instead the law enforcement apparatus focuses on 70-year-old white males who do not drugs, and who were exploited by police and the FBI using him in an impaired state to fight organized crime for 15 years without paying him. Followed by 22 years of retaliation by crime families. Currently Harvard University campus police and their residential building superintendents conduct surveillance harassment, sleep disturbances every one or two hours every day, character assassination, insults, provocations, threats, and more. One more misguided priority of government wasting taxpayer funds.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/philip-seymour-hoffman-and-hollywoods-drug-addiction-9105298.html

Philip Seymour Hoffman and Hollywood's drug addiction
KALEEM AFTAB
Tuesday 04 February 2014

NM Police Do Anal Probes, Colonoscopy, After Dog Mistakenly Identifies Drugs on Person

[From article]
David Eckert was pulled over by police in Deming, New Mexico, for failing to come to a complete halt at a stop sign in the Walmart parking lot. He was asked to step out of the vehicle and waited on the sidewalk. Officers decided that they didn’t like the tight clench of his buttocks, a subject on which New Mexico’s constabulary is apparently expert, and determined that it was because he had illegal drugs secreted therein. So they arrested him, and took him to Gila Regional Medical Center in neighboring Hidalgo County, where Mr. Eckert was forced to undergo two abdominal X-rays, two rectal probes, three enemas, and defecate thrice in front of medical staff and representatives of two law enforcement agencies, before being sedated and subjected to a colonoscopy – all procedures performed against his will.


http://www.ocregister.com/articles/police-536057-one-carey.html

Published: Nov. 8, 2013 Updated: 2:55 p.m.
Mark Steyn: Better not to tense up around police
By MARK STEYN / Syndicated columnist

Florida Police Make Millions Selling Drugs

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/10/13/police-in-florida-suburb-make-millions-selling-drugs-report-finds/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews%2Fmost-popular+%28Internal+-+Most+Popular+Content%29

Police in Florida suburb make millions selling drugs, report finds
Published October 13, 2013
FoxNews.com

DEA Using Vast Surveillance Techniques, Threat to Freedom

With the widespread surveillance, government agents remain unable to stem the flow of illegal drugs into the country, and those manufactured and grown here. Is the problem they are targeting the wrong people? Are government agencies infiltrated by corrupt employees?



http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/02/us/drug-agents-use-vast-phone-trove-eclipsing-nsas.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2&smid=tw-nytimes&partner=rss&emc=rss&

Drug Agents Use Vast Phone Trove, Eclipsing N.S.A.’s
By SCOTT SHANE and COLIN MOYNIHAN
Published: September 1, 2013

South American Countries Consider Legalizing Drugs

Game-changer: Latin American countries could stop deploying law enforcement agencies to fight cartels after concluding that the human costs of the 'war on drugs' is just too high


[From article]
Keeping track of the drug deaths is difficult, as official figures have been issued sporadically but in Mexico alone, upwards of 70,000 people have died in drug-related violence over the past six years.
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Honduras, for example, now has the highest homicide rate in the world, with about 7,200 people murdered last year in the tiny nation of 8 million people, most in drug-related crime.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2326955/Could-South-America-end-participation-war-drugs-Fears-horrific-human-cost-tackling-cartels-lead-change-policy.html

Could South America end its participation in the war on drugs? Fears horrific human cost of tackling cartels will lead to change in policy
Latin American countries could stop deploying law enforcement agencies
'Gamechanging' report on global drugs policy released
Almost all cocaine consumed in West is produced in Latin America
Report advocates for softer policies toward drug users
By JILL REILLY
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 09:15 EST, 19 May 2013 | UPDATED: 09:30 EST, 19 May 2013

The House I Live In, PBS Feature on War On Drugs

This two-hour feature provides an in depth look at the War on Drugs and the harm it does in the name of good. One prison guard articulated the pattern where private prison corporations get towns with high unemployment to build the prisons which the corporations lease as income for the city. They then fill up the prisons with addicts and sellers.

Two quotes focus on some of the problems.

"Understand that the political infrastructure is so wedded to the status quo that they're so consumed with the next election that there will never emerge a shred of leadership that will change the situation."

"We need to care about that person down the block because the same rights that they have, you have. And if you let their rights be compromised their rights are compromised. At some point you have to stand up and say, 'It's not O.K.'"

Missing from this film are any arguments from proponents of the war on drugs.

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/house-i-live-in/film.html

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The House I Live In
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