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The Youngest Victim of Police Abuse

Levii Dozier is only four months old, but he’s already been assaulted by the police.

Roughly five months ago, Levii’s mother Raven Dozier was present when her brother got embroiled in a child custody dispute with a girlfriend. After the police arrived, Raven did what she could to calm her brother down. Eventually one of the officers shot the agitated man with a Taser. A thugscrum quickly coalesced as several officers inflicted gratuitous punishment on the prone and helpless man while his sister – who had been assisting the police – looked on in horror.

“He’s on the ground!” shrieked Dozier, who was in tears. “You don’t need to do that!”

“Shut the f**k up!” replied one of the gallant officers. When Dozier failed to act on that thoughtful suggestion, Officer Jarad Wheeler strode up to her and kicked her in the stomach with sufficient force to open a door.

At the time, Raven Dozier was nine months pregnant.

For about fifteen minutes, the DeKalb County officers conferred with a supervisor outside the house — within earshot of Raven’s brother, who was sitting, handcuffed, in the back of a police car.

“He kicked a pregnant woman,” one of the officers reported.

“You’ve got to charge her with something,” another replied, pointing out that doing so would magically transmute aggravated assault into a “justified” use of force.

Following the discussion outside, several officers re-entered the home, where Dozier was on a couch trying to regain her composure.

In a voice suppurating feigned concern, one of them asked if they could take a picture of the traumatized mother; in the same affected tone, he asked her if she could trouble herself to put on a pair of shoes and step outside the house for a moment to talk with the supervisor.

As soon as Raven had crossed the threshold of her home, she was placed under arrest for “obstruction.”

To their credit, officials at DeKalb County Jail refused to book Dozier. Instead they sent her to a nearby hospital, where she passed a small amount of blood and amniotic fluid. . A photograph of Raven taken after Wheeler’s assault displayed a huge bruise across Dozier’s abdomen. Two weeks later she gave birth to Levii by way of an emergency C-section.

Atlanta attorney Mark Bullman, who is representing Raven Dozier in a lawsuit, recalled to Pro Libertate that the doctors who treated Raven and delivered Levii “found that the kick was severe enough that it caused the baby to defecate in the womb.”

What this means is that Levii literally had the sh*t kicked out of him by a bullying cop before he was born.

In his official report of the incident, Wheeler did what police in such circumstances always do: He lied, claiming that he was dealing with an “aggressive” woman and that he used “a front push kick to the abdomen, as [I] was taught to do at the academy.” It was only after he arrested this “aggressive” woman that he supposedly noticed her condition.

“Her condition was obvious to everyone,” Bullman – himself a retired police officer – explains. “She had gained seventy pounds in this pregnancy. The incident took place in a well-lit area, and she had spent a great deal of time standing alongside the police officers, attempting to calm her brother down and resolve the situation.” Furthermore, as the comments overheard by Dozier’s brother demonstrate, every officer on the scene was aware of the expectant mother’s condition – and all of them instinctively collaborated in covering up the crime committed against her.

That cover-up continued “all the way up the chain of command,” Bullman observes. “There was no ambiguity about the facts, but this didn’t matter.” The department exonerated Wheeler, ruling that his felonious assault on Raven and her unborn child was “within policy.”

This was at least the third time the DeKalb County Police Department has validated criminal acts committed by Officer Jarad Wheeler. On an earlier occasion, he attacked a 53-year-old grandmother who was trying to help her grandchildren following an automobile accident, slamming her face-first into the hood of his car. Earlier this year, Wheeler – who had responded to the wrong address – shot and killed a dog that was chained up inside its owner’s garage.

DeKalb is a shit hole. I wouldn’t trust the cops there even before reading this story.

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Posted at 11:34 PM 10 May 2012

I have a date tomorrow

First date in like two years. I seriously think I’m going to throw up.

What’s worse is that I am actually REALLY interested in this guy.

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Posted at 9:38 PM 27 April 2012

Notes on INTPs

beautyeverywhereelse:

INTPs are not inclined to take subjective emotional considerations seriously, and are not naturally equipped to meet the emotional needs of others, no matter how willfully pigheaded this seems. Don’t take this personally.

INTPs cannot read your mind, no matter how obvious you think you’re being. Do not screw with their heads. If you want something, ask for it. If you don’t get all emotional about it they will usually try to accommodate any reasonable request. But don’t expect them be “sensitive” enough to just “know” - if you want a psychic, call a hotline.

If, for example, you are always expecting an INTP to do things that he didn’t know he was supposed to do, and if you keep getting mad at him for not doing things he didn’t know he was supposed to do (or not do) he will become bewildered and frustrated and, like a gate crashing down, abruptly give up trying to please you. You will become something either to be (barely) tolerated or escaped from.

INTPs are drawn to complexity: anything simple is too quickly processed and can’t hold interest for very long. I’m not thinking exclusively of television, but you get the idea. An INTP’s primary interest will be in things which he cannot fully understand, either because they are highly complex or have some exotic element that does not yield easily to analysis. And this is the reason your INTP can’t tell you what is on his mind: He doesn’t know yet.

That said, like all humans, they need to be able to share the things that are important to them with others. There are some things that they will talk about that will make your eyes glaze over (just as all the emotional crap you talk about makes their eyes glaze over), but try to act interested. They do it for you.

INTPs have famously melancholic faces (consider Albert Einstein, Gerald Ford, Bob Newhart). This is not necessarily a reflection of their inner state, and does not mean they are depressed or unhappy or mad at you. So just let it go.

INTPs tend to be disorganized, but they are meticulous about details and facts. Inaccurate details in anything will usually drive them up the wall.

That said, an INTP sees day-to-day matters and routines as the drudgery they are. This includes “work,” which keeps them both in the presence of other people and away from their real interests for hours at a time. Since society’s priorities are completely screwed, it can take a long time for an INTP to find a job that he doesn’t consider a complete waste of time. In fact, don’t expect any introvert to “high-five” you because your “team” exceeded some quarterly sales “goal.” He will not understand what you are talking about, and he will hate you more than he already does.

INTPs are not team players, and do not recognize authority derived from position or wide acceptance. And that leads to another INTP blind spot: anything embraced by the crowd is automatically suspect, regardless of any objective value.

INTPs are obsessed with logical correctness, meanings and descriptions and are sorely tempted to correct others if the shade of meaning is a bit off. Don’t take this personally.

If you do decide to take it personally: INTPs can let a lot of human foibles slide, but if you do manage to provoke one into an argument make sure you have your facts down cold.

For INTPs, the universe exists primarily to be understood, and it is crucial that whatever is stated about the universe is stated correctly, with coherence and without redundancy. This is the INTPs final purpose in life, and explains in part why he does not give a damn about who won American Idol.

God damn American Idol…

(Source: web.archive.org, via statehate)

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Posted at 9:35 PM 27 April 2012

As House Passes CISPA, The Fight Is Just Beginning | Forbes

Despite growing resistance to the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, CISPA has cleared its first legislative hurdle. But the battle over the widely-criticized information-sharing bill is just heating up.
In an earlier-than-expected vote Thursday evening, the House of Representatives voted 248 to 168 in favor of the bill, which was originally designed to allow more sharing of cybersecurity threat information with government agencies.
The legislation has drawn the ire of legislators, civil liberties groups, security practitioners and professors, and hundreds of thousands of petitioners, who say the bill tramples over users’ privacy rights as it allows Web firms like Google and Facebook to give private users’ information to government agencies irrespective of other laws that protect users’ privacy. “It’s basically a privacy nightmare,” says Trevor Timm, a lawyer and activist with the Electronic Frontier Foundation. “CISPA would allow companies to hand over private data to the government without a warrant, without anonymity, with no judicial review.”
But even before it passed, the House voted to amend the bill to actually allow even more types of private sector information to be shared with government agencies, not merely in matters of cybersecurity or national security, but in the investigation of vaguely defined cybersecurity “crimes,” “protection of individuals from the danger of death or serious bodily harm,” and cases that involve the protection of minors from exploitation.
That statute, which in effect widened the most controversial portion of the bill just hours before it came to a vote, is sure to draw even more heat as the bill works its way through the legislative branch and reaches President Obama’s desk. The president currently backs a bill in the Senate put forward by Senators Joe Lieberman and Susan Collins, designed to increase the cybersecurity regulatory powers of the Department of Homeland security, which has been opposed by the GOP and stalled in the legislature.
The White House came out Wednesday with a strongly-worded statement slamming CISPA and pushing its regulatory approach in a threat to veto CISPA, writing that “cybersecurity and privacy are not mutually exclusive” and calling CISPA an intelligence bill rather than a security bill that treats civilians as subjects of surveillance. (White House watchers have observed, however, that the president’s advisors similarly recommended that he veto the National Defense Authorization Act, which he instead signed into law.)
Regardless, reconciling the House bill in its new, even more controversial form with a Senate version, even as the White House opposes the central thrust of the legislation, will only rekindle the controversy that has grown around CISPA in the last week.
The EFF’s Timm says he sees the House’s early vote on CISPA as an attempt by its author, representative Mike Rogers, to squeeze the bill through before its opposition grew any stronger. “We’ve seen an explosion of a variety of groups and congressmen coming out against the bill,” he says. “As the Senate debates this, it’s good that privacy and civil liberties will be front and center.”

also check out:
What is CISPA?Why CISPA Is Worse Than SOPAElectronic Frontier Foundation: Stop Cyber Spying

As House Passes CISPA, The Fight Is Just Beginning | Forbes

Despite growing resistance to the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, CISPA has cleared its first legislative hurdle. But the battle over the widely-criticized information-sharing bill is just heating up.

In an earlier-than-expected vote Thursday evening, the House of Representatives voted 248 to 168 in favor of the bill, which was originally designed to allow more sharing of cybersecurity threat information with government agencies.

The legislation has drawn the ire of legislators, civil liberties groups, security practitioners and professors, and hundreds of thousands of petitioners, who say the bill tramples over users’ privacy rights as it allows Web firms like Google and Facebook to give private users’ information to government agencies irrespective of other laws that protect users’ privacy. “It’s basically a privacy nightmare,” says Trevor Timm, a lawyer and activist with the Electronic Frontier Foundation. “CISPA would allow companies to hand over private data to the government without a warrant, without anonymity, with no judicial review.”

But even before it passed, the House voted to amend the bill to actually allow even more types of private sector information to be shared with government agencies, not merely in matters of cybersecurity or national security, but in the investigation of vaguely defined cybersecurity “crimes,” “protection of individuals from the danger of death or serious bodily harm,” and cases that involve the protection of minors from exploitation.

That statute, which in effect widened the most controversial portion of the bill just hours before it came to a vote, is sure to draw even more heat as the bill works its way through the legislative branch and reaches President Obama’s desk. The president currently backs a bill in the Senate put forward by Senators Joe Lieberman and Susan Collins, designed to increase the cybersecurity regulatory powers of the Department of Homeland security, which has been opposed by the GOP and stalled in the legislature.

The White House came out Wednesday with a strongly-worded statement slamming CISPA and pushing its regulatory approach in a threat to veto CISPA, writing that “cybersecurity and privacy are not mutually exclusive” and calling CISPA an intelligence bill rather than a security bill that treats civilians as subjects of surveillance. (White House watchers have observed, however, that the president’s advisors similarly recommended that he veto the National Defense Authorization Act, which he instead signed into law.)

Regardless, reconciling the House bill in its new, even more controversial form with a Senate version, even as the White House opposes the central thrust of the legislation, will only rekindle the controversy that has grown around CISPA in the last week.

The EFF’s Timm says he sees the House’s early vote on CISPA as an attempt by its author, representative Mike Rogers, to squeeze the bill through before its opposition grew any stronger. “We’ve seen an explosion of a variety of groups and congressmen coming out against the bill,” he says. “As the Senate debates this, it’s good that privacy and civil liberties will be front and center.”

also check out:

What is CISPA?
Why CISPA Is Worse Than SOPA
Electronic Frontier Foundation: Stop Cyber Spying

(Source: fuckyeahdrugpolicy, via laliberty)

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Posted at 1:23 PM 27 April 2012

God, I’ve been so busy lately. I got talked into signing up for the Warrior Dash at the beginning of May. And in Oct. I’ll be running the Tough Mudder obstacle course with some friends in Popular Bluff. I am mega excited about this one, but training for them is a bitch.

I’ve changed to an open major. I’m going to get some basic classes in then switch colleges and go for biology. I’m hoping that I can get a job at the dam and have them pay for a portion of the tuition, cause you know…that would be fucking fabulous.

I have lost all motivation for my classes this semester. No matter how hard I try, I can not get into doing the assignments. I’m just so distracted right now.Two more weeks, dammit!

And finally…

I met someone. He’s pretty amazing and I can’t even begin to formulate a coherent sentence about him… just…idk…he’s just great.

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Posted at 2:17 AM 25 April 2012