There was enough evidence to fire the sadistic cop but not enough evidence to charge him. The woman Angela Garbarino, was alone in the room with this nut who probably caused her injuries while her hands were bound behind her back, but there just isn’t enough evidence. What would have been enough evidence? What if this cop had killed her, would that have been enough evidence?

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What kind of culture produces human beings like this? We have to question the corporate Hollywood media obsessed with conflict and violence and we should also question the public education institutions. And what kind of police state are we becoming?

Surveillance footage from Jan. 29 shows Hillsborough County deputy Charlette Marshall-Jones, 44, dumping Brian Sterner out of his wheelchair and searching him on the floor after he was brought in on a warrant after a traffic violation.

Sterner, 32, said when he was taken into a booking room and told to stand up, Jones grew agitated when he told her that he could not.

"She was irked that I wasn't complying to what she was telling me to do," he told The Tampa Tribune in Tuesday's edition. "It didn't register with her that she was asking me to do something I can't do." boston.com

The post-FTAA investigation of the police's tactics didn't just whitewash police who fired on innocent civilians, but actually praised them. In a training video. While laughing. Cut to yesterday's Herald, Attorney incensed after viewing FTAA police video:

As a middle-aged Coral Gables attorney, dressed sharply in a red suit jacket, skirt and black slingback heels, Elizabeth Ritter stood out among the throng of protesters on Nov. 20, 2003.

Frustrated that she couldn't do business because the Miami-Dade County Courthouse was shut down that week during the Free Trade Area of the Americas summit, she hastily made a sign that read ''Fear Totalitarianism'' and decided to stand with the protesters.

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An extremely informative, in-depth account of four of the major global warming "confusionists" is available free-online.

Naomi Oreskes of the University of California, San Diego Science Studies Program is currently giving a lecture about the people at the center of the denialist camp. It is exceptionally well researched back to the first scientists to raise a red flag about the rising CO2, and who have been proven to be correct with alarming accuracy in their projections of climate change.

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You voted for Bush and now you live in a bankrupt police state. Your children are tazered and your women strip-searched and brutalized. This is your freedom Americans, this is your democracy. The State Torture of Hope Steffey

Below is a letter written to the police in Ohio, which exemplifies the kind of attitude that every American will have to adopt if they are ever to turn back the fascism and regain their country and freedom:

To: Timothy A. Swanson, Stark
County Sheriff | strkshrf@raex.com

Postal address:
4500 Atlantic Blvd., N.E., Canton, Ohio 44705
(330) 430-3800

Mr. Swanson,

I just watched a video of your officers conducting a brutal strip search of an innocent woman who had sought help from your department. Instead, she was subjected to a brutal and completely unjustified strip search and physical abuse bordering on rape if not including it. There is evidence of numerous violations of the US Constitution as well as blatant and documented violations of numerous other statutory prohibitions and limitations.

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