Out and about in the City of Mississauga with 88 year-old Mayor Hazel McCallion.
Sources:
via CBC's Rick Mercer Report.
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Showing posts with label mayor. Show all posts
March 30, 2009
Hazel McCallion Gives us Hope
Hope I can be as sharp when I'm 88. Worth the six minutes to renew your faith in the possible. Heart warming.
Out and about in the City of Mississauga with 88 year-old Mayor Hazel McCallion.
Sources:
via CBC's Rick Mercer Report.
Pulp Friction Blog
Out and about in the City of Mississauga with 88 year-old Mayor Hazel McCallion.
Sources:
via CBC's Rick Mercer Report.
Pulp Friction Blog
September 3, 2008
No Impunity for RNC Police Civil Liberties Violations
Time to raise our voices. It's an easy way exercise, an protect, our democracy.By now you should know that the conglomeration of police agencies assembled in St. Paul Minnesota for the Republican convention have committed numerous civil liberty violations:
St. Paul Police Conduct Mass Preemptive Raids Ahead of Republican Convention, DemocracyNow Sept. 1, 2008.
As the RNC Opens in St. Paul, Twin Cities Police Arrest Nearly 300; Journalists Targeted, DemocracyNow Sept. 2, 2008.
Amy Goodman & Two Democracy Now! Producers Arrested at RNC Protest, DemocracyNow Sept. 2, 2008.Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) Condemns Police Intimidation of Journalists, DemocracyNow Sept. 2, 2008.
Most Urgent:
Contact the following county and city attorneys to urge them not to press "probable cause riot charges" against Democracy Now! producers Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar.
Today I left a voice mail for St. Paul Mayor
Ramsey County Attorney Susan Gaertner
E-Mail: RCA @ co.ramsey.mn.us (cc: dropthecharges at democracynow.org)
651-266-3222
Susan Gaertner for Governor
info at susangaertner.com (cc: dropthecharges at democracynow.org)
(612) 978-8625
(612)804-6156
The St. Paul City Attorney’s office has already charged Amy Goodman with misdemeanor obstruction of a legal process and interference with a peace officer. Contact St. Paul City Attorney John Choi by all means possible to demand that the charges against Goodman be dropped immediately.
St. Paul City Attorney John Choi:
E-mail: john.choi @ ci.stpaul.mn.us and cc: dropthecharges @ democracynow.org
(651) 266-8710
Minneapolis Police Department
350 South 5th Street,
Room 130, Minneapolis, MN 55415-1389
police @ ci.minneapolis.mn.us
Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak
City Hall, Room 331
350 South Fifth Street
Minneapolis, MN 55415
Phone: (612) 673-2100
Fax: (612) 673-2305
Ironically, Minneapolis has a Civil Rights Department.
call (612) 673-3012.
August 8, 2008
New Meaning to "Police State"
Local police are adopting increasingly militarized attitudes and techniques.
Assuming the societal need for police, one could acknowledge the need for police to be on balance with organized crime in terms of weapons, communications, etc. The key word is balance.
Today however, as a result of 9/11 overreach, many local police departments have adopted unbalanced methods of fulfilling their missions. For the past several years they have had a homeland security feeding frenzy buying vast amounts of new hardware (armored vehicles, helicopters, non-lethal weapons, riot gear, and surveillance tools) and attending more federal training sessions. The later serve to torque them up, infusing them with desire to use all of the new special tactics they have learned. They are inculcated into the deep dark stealth world of security in which everything is a potential threat and everyone is a potential enemy. They naturally feel like a member in a small elite group, and in some ways above the law, because they are a small elite group and they think they are the law, when in reality they are just supposed to enforce the laws in a fair and balance way.
The latest example in post-9/11 testosterone driven police state overkill comes from the small town of Berwyn Heights in Prince George's County, Maryland. The mayor's wife was the innocent victim of identity theft in which a drug ring was using her as an unsuspecting shipping address in order to transfer marijuana.
The Prince George's County police conducted a raid on the small town mayor's house killing the mayor's two pet dogs, hand cuffing his mother in law on the floor and roughing them all up.
Article and Video Interview of Calvo Family
Sources:
Baltimore Sun, Prince George's raid prompts call for probe , August 8, 2008.
Assuming the societal need for police, one could acknowledge the need for police to be on balance with organized crime in terms of weapons, communications, etc. The key word is balance.
Today however, as a result of 9/11 overreach, many local police departments have adopted unbalanced methods of fulfilling their missions. For the past several years they have had a homeland security feeding frenzy buying vast amounts of new hardware (armored vehicles, helicopters, non-lethal weapons, riot gear, and surveillance tools) and attending more federal training sessions. The later serve to torque them up, infusing them with desire to use all of the new special tactics they have learned. They are inculcated into the deep dark stealth world of security in which everything is a potential threat and everyone is a potential enemy. They naturally feel like a member in a small elite group, and in some ways above the law, because they are a small elite group and they think they are the law, when in reality they are just supposed to enforce the laws in a fair and balance way.
The latest example in post-9/11 testosterone driven police state overkill comes from the small town of Berwyn Heights in Prince George's County, Maryland. The mayor's wife was the innocent victim of identity theft in which a drug ring was using her as an unsuspecting shipping address in order to transfer marijuana.The Prince George's County police conducted a raid on the small town mayor's house killing the mayor's two pet dogs, hand cuffing his mother in law on the floor and roughing them all up.
Berwyn Heights mayor Cheye Calvo called on the U.S. Justice Department's civil rights division to investigate the raid and other similar actions by Prince George's law enforcement. He said officers burst into his house without knocking or announcing themselves, in violation of the warrant they had.
Article and Video Interview of Calvo Family
Sources:
Baltimore Sun, Prince George's raid prompts call for probe , August 8, 2008.
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