Stay Calm In New York City, Or NYPD May Use Body Bags

Carried off: The events leading up to the arrest are unknown but the man was put on a gurney and carted into an ambulance. The bag apparently has ventilation, according to a police spokesperson.

[From article]
That’s one way to wrap up a case — a man went berserk in Manhattan, so cops zipped him head-to-toe in a body bag, bizarre video footage reveals.
Five cops bound the apparently violent man by his wrists and ankles — and wrapped him like a burrito in a blue NYPD bag — before hauling him away, according to the footage uploaded on ­YouTube Thursday.
The video doesn’t show what prompted cops to stuff him in the sack — and the NYPD refused to release any details.
But stunned pedestrians stopped to stare at the man in the bag — which cops later said is used to keep emotionally disturbed people from hurting themselves or others — near 14th Street and Eighth Avenue.
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But using the bag is part of police protocol when restraining some emotionally disturbed people, an NYPD spokeswoman said Friday.
“[The NYPD] uses the device when an EDP is violent and may cause harm to themselves or others. The bag is ventilated and they can breathe,” the spokeswoman said.
They are used by Emergency Service Unit officers, who respond to calls about mentally ill people and other extreme situations.
Roughly 20 minutes after cops zipped the man in the sack, they lifted him onto a gurney and carted him away in an ambulance.
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The bags, which feature a strong fabric, sell for roughly $750 on some police-supply Web sites.

http://nypost.com/2016/03/25/jarring-video-shows-nypd-cops-putting-man-in-restraining-bag/

Another reason not to mess with the NYPD
By Natalie Musumeci
New York Post
March 25, 2016 | 4:50pm

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[From article]

NYPD officers were caught on camera tying up a man before dumping him into a body bag and sealing it shut.
An onlooker filmed the bizarre encounter in the West Village on March 18 and posted it to YouTube on Thursday, according to the New York Post.
In the footage, a group of around five officers can be seen holding the man on the ground near the entrance of a subway station while they search him for weapons.
The officers then appear to carry the unidentified man by his hands and feet before putting him face down in a body bag, closing it, and tightening the straps as though it were a piece of luggage.
'Dude, that is the craziest sh** I've ever seen done to somebody in my whole f****** life. Holy s***. What do you even call that thing?,' the onlooker, identified as a man named Mike by Gothamist, could be heard saying as her recorded it all on his mobile device.
The events leading up to the arrest are unknown but the man was put on a gurney and carted into an ambulance, according to Gothamist.
Mike could be heard saying that the police 'maced' the man before allegedly kneeing him to the ground.
According to a police spokeswoman, the bag is used on emotionally disturbed individuals (EDP) who could potentially cause harm to themselves or someone else, according to the New York Post.
'The bag is ventilated and they can breathe,' the spokeswoman added.
The EDP bag was first produced by a company called HELGEN for the NYPD's Emergency Service Unit, according to Gothamist.
'The EDP Bag deploys in a split second and can be used to secure an EDP (emotionally disturbed person) in just moments. The fabric is strong and allows fluids to pass through, and can be cleaned and decontaminated easily after each use. Seven handles make it easy to manage and carry,' according to the product description.
The price of the bag is listed as $752.88 on a police supply website.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3510118/The-shocking-moment-NYPD-officers-restrain-man-face-BODY-BAG-sealing-like-piece-luggage.html

The shocking moment NYPD officers restrain man then put him face down in a BODY BAG before sealing it like a piece of luggage
An onlooker filmed the bizarre encounter in the West Village on March 18 and posted it to YouTube on Thursday
According to a police spokeswoman, the bag is used on emotionally disturbed individuals (EDP) who could cause harm to themselves or others
The price of the bag is listed as $752.88 on a police supply website
By ALEXANDRA KLAUSNER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 20:27 EST, 25 March 2016 | UPDATED: 20:33 EST, 25 March 2016

Applying Engineering Protocols To Human Activity, and Government

Hehe. Logical argument. But liberals, progressives, do not think logically. They speak propaganda, appealing to emotions. Logical arguments and critical thought can never counter emotional beliefs. It is easier to open a rock than a mind.

[From article]
Why are most engineers politically conservative? The answer is that engineers fail most of the time. In engineering there is a cycle of design, test, test failure, diagnosis, and redesign, until a product is perfected. Failure is the natural state of engineering new devices. Through their repeated failures, competent engineers are forced to become rigorously honest and functionally conservative.
This honesty is notably lacking in the ungrounded wishful thinking of the political left. The great failure of liberals is that they never fail (according to them).
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There are three classes of top-down social engineering. Government programs to restructure society is one class. Government laws, regulatory mandates, and court orders to change behavior is a second. The third is liberal social pressure, often with government complicity, to control thought. We call this third method “political correctness.”
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America has hundreds of millions of people. Each individual is infinitely complex and unique. Each has desires, intentions and needs that normally are incompatible with any master scheme. And yet, the left has the arrogance to assume that a master planner can engineer a social system that best for all the people -- a “one size fits all” program. There is no way, other than forcing everybody to be identical robots,
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Unfortunately, most political Democrats, and many establishment Republicans as well, have been seduced by a lifetime of pro-government experience into believing that top-down, big-government programs are the answer to all ills. It is vanity to think that they are specially chosen to steer everyone’s life.
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Of the seven deadly sins, theologians say the most deadly of all was Vanity. The Greeks called it Hubris. We call it Arrogance. All the other deadly sins derived from Vanity. This sin is really at the heart of progressive, or liberal, social engineering programs. One can do no wrong if one’s heart is in the right place -- so liberals believe.
Our Founding Fathers thought otherwise. They realized that no person, or selected group, could anticipate all circumstances. They therefore created a Constitution that allowed for local adaptation within a protective framework -- a framework that inhibits vanity by enlisting contending interests in making the most important decisions.
The American Constitution was designed for a society whereby people manage their own affairs and solve their own problems. Beyond promoting trade among the states, protecting against foreign invasion, and ensuring the rights of property, the Federal Government really has no legitimate role in structuring society. Society was intended to evolve social arrangements on its own within the protective framework of the Constitution. Thus, this progressive idea that government has the right to impose social change is contrary both to the spirit and to the words of the Constitution.
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successful complex structures grow organically: Start small, and simple. Find out what works. Try adding features. Edit out those elements that don’t work and build on those that do work. [. . .] Consider computers. Computers today are far different, and vastly more complex, than they were at their beginning. All successful innovations start simple and evolve complexity as discoveries are made about what works and what doesn’t.
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many people, including many conservatives, believe that Social Security has been a success. In fact, Social Security is a great, compulsory, Ponzi scheme. But even it, too, started small: merely as insurance against personal catastrophe. It has grown to be a monster that is devouring the national budget and jeopardizing national security. There is no money in its so-called “Trust fund” and it is generally conceded that the program is on the verge of financial failure, the only dispute being when insolvency will occur.
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ObamaCare is the contemporary classic. But, what we have not yet seen is all the damage that ObamaCare has in store. Examples of programs where we do see the wreckage are those “Great Society” antipoverty programs initiated by President Johnson. Enough time has passed to validate the early warnings. Senator Daniel Moynihan warned, all the way back in 1965, that liberal poverty policy was leading to disaster: the breakup of families, crime, drug use, wasted lives and all the other horrid consequences that have followed. The liberal community did not listen and, today, we are stuck with the predicted social disaster.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/02/the_lessons_of_engineering_for_social_engineers.html

February 10, 2016
The Lessons of Engineering for Social Engineers
By Chet Richards

Trump Appeal Is Emotional. People Love Him

[From article]
Pundit Charles Krauthammer is bewildered, saying that “for some reason” Trump “is immune to the laws of contradiction.” (In reality, Democrats get away with contradiction continually; the only difference is that the media actually report on Trump’s.)
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“[W]hen you have a hero, leading the troops in the heat of battle against a despised oppressor, you don’t worry about his marriages, past ideological indiscretions or salty language. You charge right behind him.” This is largely why Trump’s contradictions don’t matter.
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logic and reason play less of a role in people’s decision-making than most of us care to think.
This brings us to what Trump now has. It’s something all successful politicians have to a degree and that every iconic one has in spades: an emotional bond with his supporters.
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a true romantic bond is somewhat inscrutable, an emotional phenomenon, not an intellectual one. And it’s powerful enough to cause a woman to follow a man into a life of faith or a life of crime (Bonnie and Clyde); it explains the enduring good marriages — and the bad ones.
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Ben Franklin observed, “You cannot reason a man out of a position he has not reasoned himself into.”
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It’s as if Trump is courting Lady America with wine, roses and his alpha-male persona, while the Establishment candidates are lead-tongued nerds promising a tent with NSA surveillance, a bowl of soup and squatters on a burnt-out lawn.

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/01/the_voters_trump_love_affair_explained_in_terms_even_beltway_pundits_can_understand.html

January 25, 2016
The Voters’ Trump Love Affair Explained in Terms Even Beltway Pundits Can Understand
By Selwyn Duke

Americans Alienated From The United States, Trump Feels Their Pain

[From article]
Trump’s continued dominance of national and state-level polling has vexed the GOP establishment and pushed it to near-panic as voting nears.
A recent survey of public attitudes by Reuters/Ispos, though, suggests caution for the GOP establishment.
Whatever failings there may be in his specific policies, Donald Trump’s campaign has tapped into a strong, visceral feeling of millions of Americans. Seeking to destroy Trump, the candidate, may further alienate the Republican party from a rapidly growing block of voters.
According to the Reuters survey, 58 percent Americans say they “don’t identify with what America has become.” While Republicans and Independents are the most likely to agree with this statement, even 45 percent of Democrats share this feeling.
More than half of Americans, 53 percent, say they “feel like a stranger” in their own country. A minority of Americans feel “comfortable as myself” in the country.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/11/20/majority-americans-feel-like-stranger-country/

Majority of Americans Feel Like ‘Stranger in Own Country
by MIKE FLYNN

20 Nov 2015

Internet Images Desensitizing Humans

http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/what-are-we-losing-in-the-webs-images-of-suffering-and-schadenfreude/2012/12/27/6e61aa20-4df2-11e2-950a-7863a013264b_story.html

What are we losing in the Web’s images of suffering and schadenfreude?
By Philip Kennicott,
Published: December 27, 2012

Obsessed Researchers Test Blood For Emotions

The psychiatric industry continues to medicalize human emotions. How can a human emotion be an illness, except for business purposes? The antidote to depression is adding love, friends, ice cream, candy, cake and maybe some Marx Brothers movies. The drug industry prefers that people take anti depressants known to cause violence. Even the drug-company-controlled FDA requires warnings on those drugs. Obsessed researchers should leave people alone to enjoy their lives and teach people how to appreciate emotions and not let emotions rule their actions. Psychiatry must be recognized for the boondoggle fantasy it is.

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The psychiatric industry spent millions on media campaigns to create the notion of a chemical imbalance in the brain as a basis for mental illness. But they do no chemical test of brain matter. Moreover there is no chemical balance of the brain to measure against. It is all fantasy to promote drug treatment for the drug industry. You may believe it but it is not based in any science. Mental illnesses are made up from consensus not science. See e.g. Boston University's Professor Margaret Hagen's Whores of the Court. Psychiatry is personal opinion masquerading as science. Read about fake illnesses and their fantasy chemical imbalance. The American Psychiatric Association was unable to provide evidence of any chemical imbalance when challenged by critics a few years ago. Fake illnesses that charlatans create each year is to increase their client base. Mental illnesses have no pathology. Only psychiatrists can see them.


http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2012/2/9/hms-study-blood-depression/

New Blood Test May Help to Diagnose Depression
By Armaghan N. Behlum,
Harvard CRIMSON STAFF WRITER
Published: Thursday, February 09, 2012

Obama, Bad Actor, Monotone

http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/06/the_not_so_great_pretender.html

June 03, 2010

The (Not So) Great Pretender

American Thinker
By Carol Peracchio

Abortions Stressful on Doctors and Nurses

Abortions Stressful on Doctors and Nurses


http://www.theweeklystandard.com/articles/mugged-ultrasound

Mugged by Ultrasound
Why so many abortion workers have turned pro-life.
BY Jon A. Shields & David Daleiden
Weekly Standard
January 25, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 18