Filed under: 9/11, 9/11 compensation, 9/11 Families, 9/11 Firefighters, 9/11 pension, 9/11 survivors, 9/11 Truth, 9/11 workers, first responders, NYPD, We Are Change | Tags: kevin o' conner
$650m compensation settlement for 9/11 workers
Times Online
March 12, 2010
Rescue and recovery workers who were exposed to a toxic brew of smoke and dust in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks have been awarded $650 million in a compensation deal struck in New York.
Thousands of 9/11 heroes, including firefighters, police officers, construction experts and emergency workers, have filed lawsuits since 2003 but last night’s agreement is expected to put an end to years of legal battles.
The settlement, worth up to $657.5 million (£434 million), was reached after negotiations between lawyers representing more than 10,000 people exposed to the debris from the World Trade Center and New York City’s federally financed insurer.
Some workers are likely to receive payments of only a few thousand dollars. Others could be in line to get more than $1 million, depending on their injuries.
The deal, which still must be approved by a judge and the workers themselves, would make the city and other companies represented by the insurer liable for a minimum of $575 million (£379 million), with more money available to the sick if certain conditions are met.
Most if not all of the money would come out of a $1 billion grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg called the settlement “a fair and reasonable resolution to a complex set of circumstances”.
Filed under: Canada, New York, NYPD, Oppression, police brutality, police crimes, Police State, Uncategorized, Vancouver
NYPD Caught Slamming Man’s Head on the Pavement
Vancouver Police Apologize After Man Beating Wrong Man
Filed under: false arrest, individualism, nanny state, NYPD, Oppression, police brutality, Police State | Tags: Chargers, Jets, NFL, san diego
Sports Fan Arrested For Chanting For the Wrong Team
Filed under: 9/11, 9/11 coverup, 9/11 Explosions, 9/11 Eyewitness, 9/11 Firefighters, 9/11 heros, 9/11 investigation, 9/11 Mysteries, 9/11 Truth, 9/11 whistleblowers, 9/11 workers, CIA, False Flag, FBI, FDNY, first responders, gag order, George Bush, george w. bush, Ground Zero, Hegelian Dialectic, inside job, James Woolsey, New York, NYC CAN, NYPD, Official 9/11 Story, OKC, Problem Reaction Solution, reichstag, truth movement, twin towers, War On Terror, Whistleblowers, World Trade Center | Tags: Lou Cacchioli, Paul Isaac Jr.
Ex-CIA Chief James Woolsey handed down gag-order to 9/11 Firefighters
Jerry Mazza
Infowars
October 20, 2009
![]() Former CIA director Robert Woolsey |
This tale begins during and shortly after 9/11/2001, when a writer named Randy Lavello published a story at Prison Planet, Bombs in the Building: World Trade Center ‘Conspiracy Theory’ is a Conspiracy Fact. Among the many tales in this article, a number of which were picked up in Mike Rivero’s web site, what really happened, is a conversation between Lavello and Lieutenant Fireman and former Auxiliary Police Officer, Paul Isaac Jr. It’s a head-spinner…
The Woolsey gag order created an Omerta-like mob silence that Firefighters and Police Officers have had to deal with to this day.
“[Lieutenant Fireman and former Auxiliary Police Officer, Paul Isaac Jr.] explained to me [Lavello] that, ‘many other firemen know there were bombs in the buildings, but they’re afraid for their jobs to admit it because the ‘higher-ups’ forbid discussion of this fact.” Paul further elaborated that former CIA director Robert Woolsey, as the Fire Department’s Anti-terrorism Consultant, is sending a gag order down the ranks. ‘There were definitely bombs in those buildings,’ he told me.”
Isaac also addressed the FBI gag order in an article by Greg Syzmanski, saying “It’s amazing how many people are afraid to talk for fear or retaliation or losing their jobs.” He mentions that the FBI gag order placed on law enforcement and fire department officials prevented them from openly talking about any inside knowledge of 9/11. Syzmansky praised Isaacs in a highly interesting article titled One-Man Investigative Team.
Syzmansky wrote that “When he [Isaacs] worked as an auxiliary fireman specializing in emergency and disaster communications response, Isaac said after 9/11 he began monitoring all emergency units to see if any patterns or information about the perpetrators could be learned.
“Over the last four years he’s compiled information and names of civilians and firefighters, whose identities he keeps anonymous for their safety, who all claim to have either witnessed explosions in the towers or have information that a controlled demolition took place.” Isaacs is quoted as saying, “It’s just amazing how many people are afraid to talk for fear of retaliation or losing their jobs,” again regarding Woolsey’s FBI gag order placed on law enforcement and fire department officials, preventing them from openly talking about any inside knowledge of 9/11.
Researcher Vincent Sammartino, also in attendance at the WTC ‘open grave site’ on September 11, 2005, wrote the following on APFN, “I just got back from Ground Zero. People know the truth! Half of the police and firemen were coming up to us and telling us that they know 9/11 was an inside job. They were told not to talk about it. But they were supporting what we were doing! I had tears in my eyes.”
So, why would former CIA director Woolsey, as the Fire Department’s Anti-terrorism Consultant, be gagging Isaac and his colleagues about what they saw and heard, i.e. bombs exploding in the building if not to cover up the government conspiracy, the inside job behind the supposed demolition of the WTC by two jetliners, whose fuel fire supposedly melted the redundant steel frames which caved and caused a pyroplastic free-fall of each building in some ten seconds. All at once the conspiracy of the lone Muslim airliner hijackers destroying the towers goes down the drain, glub, glub! That’s why Firefighters and Police Officers were gagged.
In fact, click Rivero’s “what really happened” site above to get to get more linked interviews of Firefighters talking about explosions shortly after 9/11 occurred. Rivero is amazing at collecting data, classifying it, and incorporating it into his encyclopedic 9/11 site. Read what the heroes had to say.
For instance, “Lou Cacchioli, Firefighter in WTC 1: At that point, Cacchioli found one of the only functioning elevators, one only going as high as the 24th floor … ‘Tommy Hetzel was with me and everybody else also gets out of the elevator when it stops on the 24th floor,’ said Cacchioli. ‘There was a huge amount of smoke. Tommy and I had to go back down the elevator for tools and no sooner did the elevators close behind us, we heard this huge explosion that sounded like a bomb. It was such a loud noise, it knocked off the lights and stalled the elevator.’
Lou continues, ‘Luckily, we weren’t caught between floors and were able to pry open the doors. People were going crazy, yelling and screaming. And all the time, I am crawling low and making my way in the dark with a flashlight to the staircase and thinking Tommy is right behind me… I somehow got into the stairwell and there were more people there. When I began to try and direct down, another huge explosion like the first one hits. This one hits about two minutes later, although it’s hard to tell, but I’m thinking, ‘Oh. My God, these bastards put bombs in here like they did in 1993!’” Unfortunately, the bastards in 1993 and in 2001 had considerable help from the bastards in our government.
The Woolsey gag order created an Omerta-like mob silence that Firefighters and Police Officers have had to deal with to this day. Imagine their anger, seeing their buddies disappear in explosions, fire and smoke. Imagine having to swallow that anger, that grief and humiliation, for the grand purpose of America sinking into the grizzly War on Terror in a matter of days. Imagine having to work on the pile at Ground Zero knowing what you knew. Or having to play deaf, dumb and blind, as 340 Firefighters died, two fire paramedics and one FDNY Chaplain and as 23 New York Police officers and 36 Port Authority officers went down. Not to mention the 2800 plus civilians taken from their lives senselessly.
Is it any wonder then that Justice John Lehner recently killed the NYC CAN ballot initiative to reinvestigate 911. The Justice called the initiative “irrelevant,” and rejected the will of 80,000 New Yorkers who had signed petitions to make it to happen. Is it the specter of James Woolsey gagging the Justice, or Mayor Bloomberg? Bloomberg rejected the will of the people after they had twice voted against a third term for New York Mayors. And since Mayor Bloomberg is in the middle of a political campaign for his illegal third term, he might want to assure us that we’re not being gagged, like Justice Lehner or the Fire and Police Departments. We would like to hear the full 9/11 story presented by a truly independent and expert commission.
What Bush did, what is still being done, is in keeping with Hitler’s axiom: If you tell a lie, make sure it’s a big lie, and keep telling it till everyone believes or has to believe it for fear of seeming unpatriotic. And so it’s time to take the gag off, one way or the other. Let those Firefighters and Police officers speak without fear of retribution. Let the facts, the real facts of 911, gathered by engineers, architects, pilots, retired military men, first responders, citizens of New York and the world, speak for once loud and clear.
New Yorkers should take to the streets to protest the Justice’s gag order. Case in point: a few days ago the governor of Puerto Rico announced that he would fire 20,000 government workers to close his $4 billion deficit, once again balancing deficits on the backs of labor. This caused the people of Puerto Rico to pour into the streets in a spontaneous one-day strike! In fact, their Puerto Rican brothers and sisters in New York City joined in a March at the Puerto Rican government offices here. Their collective reaction made waves from the mainland to the island.
We don’t want to end up with an Emperor instead of a duly-elected Mayor, Governor, or President, and silence instead of justice. Why not bring the wheels of New York to a squealing halt in a similar strike? So for once we can hear the voice of truth on those scratchy fire and policeman’s walkie talkies. Then Mr. Woolsey can gag his old friends at the CIA or his new friends at the Wall Street Journal where he now writes guest columns. Or perhaps be gagged himself by Rupert “The Fox” Murdoch, yellow press media mogul of our time.
Filed under: 9/11, 9/11 commission, 9/11 commission report, 9/11 countdown, 9/11 demolition countdown, 9/11 exposed, 9/11 Firefighters, 9/11 Mysteries, 9/11 Truth, 9/11 whistleblowers, 9/11 workers, ABC, abc news, BBC, BBC foreknowledge, CIA, Controlled Demolition, False Flag, first responders, FOX, giuliani, Ground Zero, Holocaust, inside job, Mainstream Media, Media, New York, NYPD, peter jennings, Rudy Giuliani, State Sponsored Terrorism, truth movement, twin towers, World Trade Center, wtc-7 | Tags: danish prime minister
Danish Prime Minister Knew WTC Would Collapse
Giuliani received the same warning but victims and firefighters inside the tower did not
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet.com
October 16, 2009
During a recent interview on Danish television, the former Prime Minister of Denmark admitted that he received a message 5 to 10 minutes beforehand telling him that the south tower of the World Trade Center was going to collapse, prompting questions as to why the victims and rescue personnel inside the building didn’t get the same warning.
Poul Nyrup Rasmussen told Denmark’s largest broadcast television network, The Danish Broadcasting Corporation, that before he walked into his office to hold a security meeting on the morning of 9/11, he got advance knowledge of the south tower’s imminent collapse.
“I am told that the first tower has completely collapsed….I received a message 5-10 minutes before it physically happened saying there was impending danger the tower would collapse so I knew disaster was coming” said Rasmussen.
Rasmussen added that the imminent collapse of the building was confirmed as soon as he entered his office.
The Danish Prime Minister was not the only high-level official to receive advance knowledge that the World Trade Center was going to collapse.
During an interview on 9/11 with ABC News’ Peter Jennings, then New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani stated, “I went down to the scene and we set up headquarters at 75 Barkley Street, which was right there with the Police Commissioner, the Fire Commissioner, the Head of Emergency Management, and we were operating out of there when we were told that the World Trade Center was going to collapse. And it did collapse before we could actually get out of the building, so we were trapped in the building for 10, 15 minutes, and finally found an exit and got out, walked north, and took a lot of people with us.”
In the eight years since the attacks, Giuliani has failed to explain how and why he received advance knowledge of this unprecedented event and why that same warning was not passed on to those inside the towers, who had been told to remain in their offices via loudspeaker after the first plane struck at 8:46am.
“Some people — it’s not clear how many — returned to their offices after announcements on the building’s emergency loudspeaker system said that it was safe to stay in the south tower,” reported USA Today under the sub headline “announcements caused deaths,” adding that to some this sounded like an order to return, not an option.
The fact that officials knew the tower was about to collapse as much as 10 minutes before it fell was completely ignored by the 9/11 Commission. If that same warning had been transmitted to those inside the towers who still had the capability to get out, hundreds of lives could have been saved.
Add to this the fact that the collapse of a steel building that was purposefully built to withstand the impact of a commercial airliner without collapsing through fire damage was a completely unprecedented event, and the notion that the 9/11 Commission wouldn’t even question these advance warnings sounds alarm bells and provides yet another reason why a new investigation is needed.
- Media fore-knowledge:
BBC Reports That WTC-7 Had Collapsed, 23 Mins Too Early!!!
FOX-5 Reports WTC-7 Collapse Before It Happened
Interview With 9/11 First Responder Who Heard Demolition Countdown
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9/11 Hero: Bailout Us Sick First Responders
Filed under: 9/11, 9/11 Families, 9/11 Firefighters, 9/11 heros, 9/11 survivors, 9/11 Truth, 9/11 workers, CIA, first responders, New York, NYPD, Rudy Giuliani, We Are Change | Tags: European Parliament, fealgood foundation, Greg Quibell, kevin o' conner
First Responder: We Need A 9/11 Pension NOW
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Tasering of mom with baby ‘necessary,’ police say
Gerry Bellett
Vancouver Sun
September 29, 2008
Vancouver police are defending a decision by officers to Taser a 16-year-old mother who wouldn’t hand her baby over to social workers last Monday, saying the officers were afraid to engage in a tug of war with the mother for what they said was a critically ill baby.
However, the great-grandmother of one-month-old Taige said Friday the baby boy was not critically ill.
Doreen Duncan said she saw the baby and his parents — her grandson Scott Michell, 17, and Misha Peterson, 16, — the night before the Taser incident.
“They came to my house and I fed the baby and Misha burped him and they were real happy,” Duncan said.
“The baby was born with a minor brain condition and they’d checked him out the week before, and the baby was fine. They were told that a scan would be done when the baby gets older and other than that, everything was normal,” she said.
Police spokeswoman Const. Jana McGuinness said social workers had come to apprehend the child so he could be taken to hospital and called for police assistance when the mother refused to give the baby up.
“Our members found it necessary to Taser a mentally distraught teenager to save the life of her baby,” McGuinness said.
“They felt it was critical for them to intervene as they were afraid the child might be smothered, and they applied the Taser to her arm and upper back and she released the child,” she said.
“We couldn’t risk a tug of war or a physical struggle with the mother over the child,” McGuinness said, adding that the officers were afraid such a struggle would injure the baby.
Duncan said Michell and Peterson had known each other for three years and that Peterson was living in a Vancouver group home. Michell had quit school after the baby was born and had found a job, she said.
It appears that when Peterson didn’t report back to the group home with the baby Sunday evening, social workers and the police came looking for her, Duncan said.
Cops Gone Too Far
Unruly behaviour ’may be illness’
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/pressass/20..ness-6323e80.html
Denver Police Union Shirt Makes Fun Of DNC Protesters: ’We get up early to beat the crowds’
http://mparent7777-1.livejournal.com/1917138.html
Police Kill Really Small Dog, Claim it Threatened Them
http://stopthedrugwar…really_small_dog_cla?print
Filed under: 9/11, 9/11 Families, 9/11 Firefighters, 9/11 Truth, 9/11 victims, 9/11 workers, FDNY, fealgood foundation, first responders, Ground Zero, House, Michael Bloomberg, New York, NYPD, senate congress, World Trade Center | Tags: health care, Health Care Bill, Healthcare, world tr
Congress Ends 9/11 Workers’ Health Care Bill
http://www.fealgoodfoundation.com
Filed under: education, education system, nanny state, New York, NYPD, Oppression, police brutality, Police State, smoking ban, Taser Guns | Tags: Imam Morales
Diabetic ‘bashed by cops’ after falling ill
News.com.au
September 23, 2008
A MAN in the middle of a diabetic episode was beaten by police who thought he was trying to resist arrest after a short car chase, according to a lawsuit filed today.
It is alleged that 59-year-old Ernest Griglen was beaten so badly during the June 15 incident he needed surgery to remove part of his brain, US television network WDIV reported.
According to the lawsuit filed by his wife Pamela and lawyer Arnold Reed, Mr Griglen was driving along a freeway near the US city of Detroit when he experienced a diabetic hypoglycaemic episode.
They said the episode forced Mr Griglen to swerve between lanes before he was pulled over by police who thought he was drunk.
“They began to hit him, punch him and throw him to the ground,” Mr Reed said.
WDIV said two different reports of the incident was filed by police.
One report said Griglen was pursued along the freeway by police because of a domestic violence complaint.
The other report said he became “combative” and was forced to the ground by officers.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a..ck-people-quitting.html
Police roundup parents for their childrens chronic absences
http://www.timesherald.com/site/news.cfm?..&dept_id=33380&rfi=6
Filed under: 9/11, 9/11 engineers, 9/11 Explosions, 9/11 Firefighters, 9/11 Physics, 9/11 planes, 9/11 Truth, 9/11 workers, al-qaeda, bin laden, Controlled Demolition, FBI, FDNY, first responders, George Bush, Ground Zero, kevin ryan, madrid, neocons, New York, NIST, NYPD, Official 9/11 Theory, Pancake Theory, spain, steven jones, War On Terror, windsor building, World Trade Center | Tags: frank de martini, underwriters laboratory, underwriters labs
Zero Investigation Into 9/11 (movie)
Filed under: 9/11, 9/11 Families, 9/11 Firefighters, 9/11 survivors, 9/11 Truth, 9/11 workers, Alex Jones, christy todd whitman, david miller, EPA, first responders, Ground Zero, Luke Rudkowski, NYPD, Truth Action, We Are Change, William Rodriguez, World Trade Center | Tags: FDNY
Please Donate to 9/11 First Responders This Anniversary
Donations taken at fealgoodfoundation.com
Filed under: 1984, 4th amendment, 9/11, 9/11 Truth, Airport Security, Big Brother, bill of rights, Britain, CCTV, civil liberties, civil rights, Control Grid, Darpa, DHS, Dictatorship, domestic terror, domestic terrorism, Empire, Europe, european union, Fascism, Ground Zero, Homeland Security, michael chertoff, militarized police, Military, Military Industrial Complex, nanny state, Nazi, New York, NYPD, NYSE, Oppression, orwell, Police State, Posse Comitatus, privacy rights, stasi, stasi tactics, Surveillance, TSA, United Kingdom, urban warfare, US Constitution, War On Terror | Tags: Combat Zones That See, cop cam, CTS, donna lieberman, license plate, Manhattan, new yorkers' civil liberties, NYCLU, operation sentinel, plate scan, plate scanning, police fortress, radiation, radiation detector, ray kelly, red light camera, ring of steel, toll camera, union
New York Turns Into a High-Tech Police Fortress
Antifascist
August 14, 2008
However, the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) has denounced the proposal as “an attack on New Yorkers’ right to privacy.” NYCLU Executive Director Donna Lieberman lambasted this outrageous proposal saying,
Despite repeated attempts by NYCLU to obtain information on Operation Sentinel, NYPD and DHS have refused to provide any information about their mega-surveillance system. While all traces of CTS disappeared from DARPA’s website, portions of the program have resurfaced with a vengeance, courtesy of the NYPD and DHS.
According to New York Times reporter Al Baker,
Data on each vehicle–its time-stamped image, license plate imprint and radiological signature–would be sent to a command center in Lower Manhattan, where it would be indexed and stored for at least a month as part of a broad security plan that emphasizes protecting the city’s financial district, the spokesman, Paul J. Browne, said. If it were not linked to a suspicious vehicle or a law enforcement investigation, it would be eliminated, he said. (“City Would Photograph Every Vehicle Entering Manhattan and Sniff Out Radiation,” The New York Times, August 12, 2008)
Filed under: 1st amendment, 4th amendment, BBC, bill of rights, Britain, brownshirts, Camera Ban, cell phone, Child Abuse, Dictatorship, Empire, Europe, european union, Fascism, free press, lawsuit, Media, Nazi, New York, NYPD, Oppression, police brutality, Police State, speeding ticket, Taser Guns, times square, traffic stop, United Kingdom, US Constitution | Tags: christian gutierrez, jordan groh, joyce lin, richard vazquez, sargeant timothy horohoe, sgt. timothy horohoe, timothy horohoe
Police Arrest Photographers For Taking Pictures in Times Square
BBC UK Covers Police Brutality at Climate Camp ’08
http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/localnews/ci_10092259
Injured teen sees no reason police used stun gun 19 times on him
http://www.ky3.com/home/video/26158674.html
UK: Speeding Fines Up 400%
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/main..ring/2008/08/05/mnspeed105.xml
Filed under: 4th amendment, Child Abuse, civil liberties, civil rights, human rights, Minneapolis, New York, NYPD, Oppression, police brutality, Police State, Raid, swat, Taser Guns, US Constitution, war on drugs | Tags: Officer Maurice Harrington, police assault, police attack, Rachel Hoffman, rodney king, Vang Khang
NYPD Cops Beat Already Restrained Man With Batons
NY Post
July 31, 2008
The day after a video emerged of a cop knocking a cyclist to the ground, a second video alleging police brutality surfaced today in which an NYPD officer is seen whaling away at a man’s legs with a baton.
The footage – shot on July 4 on the Lower East Side – shows Officer Maurice Harrington repeatedly hitting Michael Cephus, 46, on his legs with a collapsible metal baton as he struggles with officers trying to cuff him.
Harrington – a four-year veteran working out of the 52nd Precinct in The Bronx – had his badge and gun taken away and was placed on modified duty when the tape was turned over to the department’s Internal Affairs Bureau.
Star Tribune
July 30, 2008
First, the city apologized. Then it gave awards.
Eight Minneapolis officers received medals in City Hall Monday for their valor in a botched raid that the city apologized for last year. That isn’t sitting well with the family shot at multiple times by the officers.
“I’m shocked that they’re receiving awards for that night,” said Yee Moua. “My family is a mess right now. My [9-year-old] son, who saw the shooting, still has nightmares and has needed therapy. They’ve ruined a life, and I don’t understand why they would get rewarded for that.”
The awards stemmed from a high-risk search in December. The eight officers — who had SWAT training — entered the house expecting to find a violent gang member. Instead, they found Vang Khang, a 35-year-old homeowner who thought he was being robbed. Khang shot through his bedroom door at the officers until he understood who they were.
In the midst of the shootout were Moua, who is Khang’s wife, and their six children, who range in age from 3 to 15. Moua said her family has since abandoned the house and can no longer afford to keep it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH_U9IUQ4m0
Experts say woman was on knees when officer fired
http://www.limaohio.com/news/foy_26243___article.html/chavalia_wilson.html
School To Put Students In ’Prison’ Jumpsuits As Punishment
http://www.local6.com/education/17035594/detail.html
Injured, tasered teen: ‘At least I’m alive.’
http://www.prisonplanet.com/injured-tasered-teen-at-least-im-alive.html
Filed under: 1984, Big Brother, Britain, Dictatorship, Empire, Europe, european union, Fascism, Israel, jews, nanny state, New York, NYPD, Oppression, orwell, police brutality, Police State, Protest, south korea, Surveillance, United Kingdom, War On Terror, Zionism | Tags: Christopher Long, Christopher Ryan, critical mass, Officer Patrick Pogan
Critical Mass Bicyclist Assaulted by NYPD
NY Post
July 29, 2008
A rookie cop – the son of a highly respected New York City detective – has been stripped of his badge and gun after being caught on video viciously attacking a bicyclist who was part of a Times Square demonstration. ‘
The startling YouTube video shows Officer Patrick Pogan, 22, apparently setting his sights on – and then tackling – a bicyclist as he pedaled along Seventh Avenue as part of last Friday’s controversial Critical Mass ride.
Christopher Long, 29, was among a throng of riders as he whizzed toward the corner of West 46th Street at 9:30 p.m. and appeared to try and swerve away from the officer.
But the video shows Pogan pick up his pace as he stares down Long before shoving the cyclist, slamming him to the pavement.
To the dismay of stunned pedestrians, Long, who was not wearing a helmet, hurtles several feet through the air as he flips off the bicycle and lands on the curb.
Pogan and a second officer then lunge toward the prone cyclist as the video fades to black. The footage, filmed by a tourist and posted anonymously on YouTube, sparked imme diate public outcry and prompted the NYPD to place Pogan on desk duty while the Internal Affairs Bureau investigates.
The NYPD declined to comment further.
What the video doesn’t show is Pogan arresting Long for attempted assault in the third degree, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct – charges that kept the Bloomfield, NJ, man behind bars for 26 hours before his release late Saturday.
Adding insult to injury, the criminal complaint drafted by Pogan bears little resemblance to what was witnessed by onlookers and recorded on video.
In court papers, Pogan accused Long of purposely swerving his bicycle to block traffic and then using it as a weapon to run down the officer, knocking him off his feet and causing a “laceration” on his forearm. “You are pawns in the game. I’m going to have your job,” Long told Pogan, as he flailed and kicked his arms and legs, according to the complaint.
Pogan has been on the force for just three weeks since graduating from the Police Academy on July 2 and is assigned to Midtown South.
A third-generation cop, Pogan lives at home with his father – Patrick Pogan Sr., a highly respected detective and biochemical and mass-destruction expert who is retired from the Joint Terrorism Task Force.
“He’s my son. I’m proud of him. He’s third-generation that’s been serving the city,” said Pogan Sr., who was at home in Massapequa Park, LI, today and said he had not seen the video. “These people are taking over the streets and impeding the flow of traffic. Then you gotta do what you gotta do,” said Pogan, 51.
Long declined comment through his lawyer.
“If it wasn’t caught on video people would not have believed it,” said Christopher Ryan, who rides with Critical Mass and is filming the monthly protests for a documentary. “The video just shows what the cyclists have been saying all along, that the police are still harassing and intimidating them from doing group rides,” said Ryan. “An officer assaulted a cyclist for no reason. It’s just crazy.”
Police Brutality in South Korea – (2008)
Israel Police Brutality of Innocent Jews
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/jul/25/smoking
Police chief defends spying on protesters as terrorists
http://rawstory.com/rawreplay/?p=1562
Police attempt to arrest teenager prompts mass riot in England
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art..—asking-girl-pick-piece-litter.html
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Christie Todd Whitman Confronted on 9/11 Air Quality
On September 11, 2001 former NJ governor Christie Todd Whitman was the Environmental Protection Agency Director. The agency issued false statements and declared the air safe to breathe. Here is the former EPA Director’s response to critical questions nearly seven years later.
John McCain questioned about PNAC, 9/11
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jul/14/september11.usa
Christie Todd Whitman should be tried for manslaughter!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axdzkvW90Rs
Filed under: 1984, 4th amendment, army, Big Brother, Canada, Child Abuse, David Davis, LA, Los Angeles, Martial Law, New York, NYPD, Oppression, police brutality, Police State, Protest, RAND Corporation, Surveillance, Taser Guns, tennessee, US Constitution, Washington D.C. | Tags: montgomery county
Officer slams teen’s face into a wall, knocking out three teeth
2 large officers beat black transexual man
Recent News:
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/cbc/080617/canada/canada_taser_injuries
Canadian police must restrict, or scrap tasers: watchdog
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM..CiCOMV4w
Protest against police surveillance and you get arrested and evicted
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/attytood/M..i-camera_activists.html
Detained by Montgomery County Police For Buying Sugar
http://dc.metblogs.com/2008/06/14/det..nty-police-for-buying-sugar/
Los Angeles abolishes Fourth Amendment, begins bogus “random bag searches”
http://www.boingboing.net/2008/06/14/los-angeles-metro-ab.html
Innocent Man Released After 18 Months In Jail
http://www.badcopnews.com/20..snitch-no-match-to-collected-dna/
Here’s the buzz: NYPD should outfit cops with TASERS, says Rand Corp
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny..uld_outfit_cops_w.html
Suddenly, Labour is not laughing at David Davis
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/jun/15/labour.daviddavis
4,776 Surveillance Cameras in Washington D.C.
http://www.latimes.com/news/..as16-2008jun16,0,5769627.story
Army Teams With DC Police
http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2008/06/09/daily76.html
Filed under: 9/11, 9/11 Truth, George Bush, Jenna Bush, Laura Bush, neocons, New York, NYPD, Oppression, Police State, Rudy Giuliani, secret service, Uncategorized, We Are Change | Tags: Luke Rudkowski, Matt Lepacek
Two Arrested For Asking Laura Bush A Question
Police reportedly beat reporter’s head against wall, another member charged for assault despite being victim of unprovoked attack
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
April 23, 2008
Two members of We Are Change were arrested in New York last night for asking Laura and Jenna Bush a question. Reporter Matt Lepacek was dragged out during Laura Bush’s speech and physically assaulted by police, according to Luke Rudkowski.
News of the incidents has not been reported by the corporate media as of this morning.
A We Are Change member named Gary reportedly refused to move from a sidewalk when asked by the Secret Service. When Gary attempted to ask Laura and Jenna Bush a question, a plain clothed man escorting someone in a wheelchair started a fight. Both men were taken to a local police precinct and the man who started the fight was released, while Gary was held and later charged with 3rd Degree Assault.
“Please call the 19th Precinct and ask them why Gary was unlawfully arrested and charged with a third degree assault charge when he is innocent and obviously the victim,” asks Rudkowski.
Inside the event, We Are Change reporter Matt Lepacek attempted to interrupt a Laura Bush speech with a question before he was quickly dragged away by police.
Luke Rudkowski reports that the police intentionally bashed Lepacek’s head against a door or wall as they removed him from the scene. Lepacek recorded the incident on his cell phone but this was quickly confiscated by police.
Lepacek was subsequently released with a summons for disorderly conduct and will go to court in the future.
Matt Lepacek previously made headlines when he was arrested for asking a question of one of Rudy Giuliani’s staff members during a press conference last June.
“Phone calls from this office to Precinct 19 in attempt to obtain accurate information about the charges resulted in rude behavior and several hang-ups, as well as a transfer to the NYPD’s Dept. of Public Information (a dead end),” writes Rudkowski.
We Are Change are urging supporters to call the police precinct and politely ask that all charges be dropped against Matt Lepacek and Gary.
19th Precinct
153 E 67th Street
3rd & Lex, New York, NY 10065
(212) 452-0600
NYPD Dept. of Public Information
(646) 610-5000
Disclaimer: Please when calling the precinct please be polite and courteous to the police officers. We Are Change does not advocate any threats of violence of any kind.
Filed under: 4th amendment, 9/11, Afghanistan, Airport Security, al-qaeda, amtrak, atlanta, Canada, Child Abuse, DHS, facebook, FBI, Homeland Security, Iraq, LA, Martial Law, New York, NYPD, Oppression, philadelphia, police brutality, Police State, Taser Guns, Texas, TSA, Uncategorized, US Constitution, Vancouver Police, viper teams, War On Terror, washington, Washington D.C. | Tags: Translink, Van Dongen
Jackboot Stormtroopers Roam New York Subways
Armoured police toting MP5 machine guns begin patrols of transit system in name of fighting terror
Steve Watson
Infowars.net
April 24, 2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nRiZdICilw
Teams of police armed with submachine guns, body armor and bomb-sniffing dogs are to begin patrolling New York subways today in an effort to “prevent terrorism”.
The special bomb teams known as “Torch Teams” will consist of six officers and a dog will patrolling all platforms and trains in 12-hour shifts.
The cops will cary huge MP5 submachine guns that are usually used by Navy seals and FBI hostage-rescue teams.
ABC eyewitness news has a video report here.
he move comes after a 50 percent increase in a homeland security grant was announced earlier this year, translating to $153 million.
“The show of force will no doubt make many riders feel safer, although some weren’t sure how much of a difference it will make.” reports ABC.
If you believe six storm troopers pointing massive machine guns at passengers makes them feel safer I’ve got a bridge I want to sell you.
“They will look similar to the NYPD’s heavily armed hercules teams, which have showed up guarding city landmarks since the 9/11 attacks.” ABC reminds us, slipping in the now ubiquitous 9/11 reference point, in case you’d forgotten that evil muslim terrorists want you dead.
Meanwhile CBS tells us “In this age of heightened security, commuters and keen canines will share the underground world of mass transit.”
Though the “Torch Teams”, presumably so called because they “shine a light” on evil terror in the dark and dangerous underground, are officially the first of their kind, the idea was road tested in late 2005 with TSA VIPER squads patrolling mass transit facilities in major cities conducting searches and checking ID’s.
“The so-called “Visible Intermodal Protection and Response” teams — or VIPER teams — will patrol Amtrak’s Northeast Corridor and Los Angeles rail lines; ferries in Washington state; bus stations in Houston; and mass transit systems in Atlanta, Philadelphia, Washington and Baltimore.” reported the AP.
The move coincided with a federal judge’s ruling
that police had a constitutional right to randomly search passengers’ bags on the New York City subway to deter terrorist attacks.
Though the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prohibits searches without probable cause, the judge declared searches to be only a “minimal intrusion” of privacy.
Presumably the same gross violations of the Fourth will be within the remit of the new “torch teams” and you will be treated as a terrorist suspect and be forced to comply with their orders for your own safety.
The pretext for these jackboot subway patrols came in October 2005
when authorities in New York announced a major terror alert on the underground.
Police temporarily shut down parts of the transit system after a soda bottle filled with a substance resembling the household cleaner Drano was found near an Amtrak ticket counter, the announcement said.
However, it emerged that there was never any corroboration of any terror threat, merely some rumor about it having originated in Iraq
“the plot to bomb city subways with remote-controlled explosives has not been corroborated after days of investigation, law-enforcement officials said Sunday amid an easing sense of concern.”
This did not seem to matter as all the key phrases, “bombs”, “subway” “New York” “Terrorists” “Iraq” “Afghanistan” and “Al Qaeda” steamrolled the incident into becoming a brand new terror alert.
The random bag searches ensued. Even small children with pink My Little Pony bags were considered possible terrorists.
Everyone can see that this activity is absurd and contemptible, and that is the point. We are being acclimatized to consider this as normal and it’s working, the typical reaction is simply, “oh well that’s the way it has to be in order for everyone to be safe”. The lazy and selfish reaction to this climate of fear is severely damaging our society, the masses are sleepwalking towards a police state, they see it, but it doesn’t register.
The VIPER and Torch teams have nothing to do with preventing terrorism, they are there to get people to cower and accept they are under control. There has been no new intelligence indicating that terrorists are interested in targeting transportation modes, these programs are rolled out regardless.
Perhaps the subway stormtroopers will start taking a leaf out of the books of Canadian police and start
tasering passengers who try to avoid paying fares.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkPXmpaCcSM
Or perhaps they will demand middle aged women present ID or arrest those evil terrorists caught donating travel tokens to people without the right change.
This is textbook, mechanized, classic tyranny.
The federal government has ensured that the very same people who grope pregnant women and make 90-year-old men remove their shoes in airports are now going to be on American streets and subways.
Only through constant activism, lobbying and vigilance can we escort martial law away from American shores and live peacefully in a society where we do not cower in fear of the armed security guard barking orders at us when simply walking down the street, “citizen, show me your papers.”
Recent News
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/li..560902&in_page_id=1770
TransLink Cops Will Continue To Taser Fare Dodgers
http://prisonplanet.com/articles/april2008/042108_translink_cops.htm
Van Dongen quiet on TransLink’s Taser use
http://www.canada.com/vancouversun..-45c1-84ae-5a81e0b68197
Sheriff Candidate Believes Crime Is Terrorism
http://www.roguegovernment.com/news.php?id=8556
Student Gets $628 Ticket For Sitting On Ledge
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.ht..df43&k=84541
I dropped a morsel of my girl’s sausage roll and the litter police fined me £75
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/li..in_page_id=1766&ito=1490
Coppers trawling for leads on Facebook
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U.S. prison population dwarfs that of other nations
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Private citizen issues parking ticket to cop
Filed under: 9/11, 9/11 Firefighters, 9/11 Mysteries, 9/11 Physics, 9/11 Truth, 9/11 workers, Controlled Demolition, daniel sunjata, first responders, Flight 93, neocons, New York, NYPD, rosie o' donnell, UN, We Are Change | Tags: Darrell Issa
GOP Rep Opposes 9/11 Fund For Sick Workers
UPI
April 3, 2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubp2Ectij1E
A California congressman said Wednesday he has reservations about a proposed new fund for rescuers sickened by the 2001 terror attacks, not supporting victims.
At a hearing in Washington Tuesday, Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., balked at the idea of a new compensation fund for emergency responders who fell ill after the Sept. 11 attacks in New York, the New York Daily News reported.
Issa insisted the airliners that crashed into the World Trade Center towers in New York were not weapons. He suggested the cause of illness for the responders was simply debris from the collapse of the towers.
“It simply was an aircraft, residue of two aircraft and residue from the materials used to build this building,” Issa said.
Issa issued a statement Wednesday clarifying his position.
“During (Tuesday’s) hearing, I asked tough questions. … I continue to have reservations about the specific bill (Tuesday’s) hearing focused on and I have questions about the appropriate way to determine federal and local responsibility to victims,” Issa said. “I want to make clear that I strongly support help for victims who suffered physical injury as a result of an attack on America, including support from Congress and the federal government.”
WeAreChange Meets Rosie O’ Donnell
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf7F1b9lJDM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCmRTiUA0Wk
http://infowars.net/articles/april2008/100408Official.htm
9/11: The Case For Controlled Demolition
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4biSy4-mxs
Flight 93: Proof of 9/11 Lies by the US Government and Media
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/shootdown.html
Daniel Sunjata to Students: “Join Student Scholars for 9/11 Truth!”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98PUqvJZOVg
Every Eleventh Until Justice
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VF4Ku9m5OI0
UN Could Lead New 9/11 Investigation
http://www.infowars.com/?p=1174
Confirmed: 9/11 Planes Were Tracked even With Transponders Turned Off
http://georgewashington.blogspot.co..nes-were-tracked-even.html
Filed under: 2008 olympics, beijing, China, Fascism, New York, NYPD, olympics, Oppression, police brutality, Police State, Protest, tibet, tibet protests, UN
NYPD BEAT UP Tibet Protesters and Threaten To KILL THEM
http://youtube.com/watch?v=o0rprGKO9-8
Filed under: 9/11, 9/11 Families, 9/11 Firefighters, 9/11 survivors, 9/11 Truth, 9/11 workers, CIA, ed koch, first responders, New York, NYPD, Rudy Giuliani, We Are Change | Tags: European Parliament, fealgood foundation, Greg Quibell, kevin o' conner
9/11 Hero: “Why isin’t this country taking care of me?”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcRTDUO9mwQ
WeAreChange Interviews 1st Responder Greg Quibell
http://youtube.com/watch?v=brTeQupYIAI
http://www.opednews.com/.._080215_9_2f11_victim_s_father.htm
Ex-NY Mayor Ed Koch Faults Giuliani for Destroying Evidence 9/11 Crime Scene
http://www.jonesreport.com/article/03_08/120308koch.html
9/11 Questioned In European Parliament
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smzZFmI5lt4
New Shadowplay Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fKaT1qnGl0