Former Chicago Police Commander Guilty

It has taken too many years to get this seriously bad cop into a courtroom on charges, but today Jon Burge was found guilty on three counts of obstruction of justice and one count of perjury. This worthless piece of garbage is 62 years old and in poor health now, and though the possible sentence is 45 years, his attorneys are requesting probation. They'd better not get it – he should die in prison for torturing and abusing so many in police custody over such a lengthy period of time. Now it's time to charge his partners in crime. May they all rot in hell.

Burge and his "Midnight Crew" of criminal thug cops tortured 100s into confessing to crimes and cost Cook County, Illinois millions in lawsuits. From what I know, Burge currently resides in South Florida, but hopefully US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald will change that forever. Read the full article in the Chicago Tribune here: Burge Found Guilty.

If only more US Attorneys and prosecutors came close to Patrick Fitzgerald and had half his integrity. Watch the YouTube:

Survivors of Jon Burge's Torture Regime Speak Out

Riot Fraud and Provocateurs in Toronto

One website that I often view is Centre for Research on Globalization and the hot topic of the week is Toronto 2010 G20 and the peaceful protests turned riots by police provocateurs. Imagine the guardians of peace [sic] inciting riots and then arresting anyone close-by ala COINTELPRO.


What is a Provocateur?

Wikipedia definition: Traditionally, an agent provocateur (plural: agents provocateurs, French for "inciting agent(s)") is a person employed by the police or other entity to act undercover to entice or provoke another person to commit an illegal act. More generally, the term may refer to a person or group that seeks to discredit or harm another by provoking them to commit a wrong or rash action.

The use of provocateurs is nothing new, but it's not all that often that they are caught point blank in their own game plan. The article on the noted website offers thanks to The Globe and Mail for the clear photos of undercover cops AKA provocateurs busting out a Starbucks store window, going nuts on their own police cars, and doing their damn best to actually start a riot. Look at the marked photos in The Toronto G20 Riot Fraud: Undercover Police Engaged in Purposeful Provocation and then at the photos on The Globe and Mail website for a clear picture of what really transpired on Saturday June 26, 2010.

These cops are supposed to be the good guys? Thus far arrests for the police-created riot are beyond 600, and no telling how many innocent protestors have been harmed and/or killed.

Prefer to pretend this isn't happening? Don't you dare - watch the YouTube video Police Admit using Provocateurs to Stage Riots:

For or Against New Porn Domain

The new .xxx top-level domain name for websites that have adult content is now here, or at least will be soon. This topic has been an argument for years and is now a reality.

What's my position?


As with many others I will grab a website or two with the .xxx because if I don't I'll be sitting on the sidelines at some point in the future, and it's always better to be prepared. It is not mandatory for websites to move to this domain yet, with "yet" being the keyword. At this point one can only reserve a specific .xxx domain for $60 and it will be assigned in the near future.

This is not a good thing for adult business. They want to shove any website with adult content into the .xxx ghetto, and mark my words – that is precisely what it will become. It will be the internet equivalent of the red light district on the outskirts of town. Some will find the websites, but most will not when their internet service providers (ISPs) begin to block all .xxx websites. But then that is the general idea, right?

There are already so many tools available to ISPs, parents, hotels, and anyone in-between to block websites by keyword searches, categories, and URLs, so this move will take it a step further and enable blocking of any website considered adult or with adult content. I view it as tossing the adult books in a pile across town, blocking the road to them, and instructing interested parties to search as they wish.

The new ghetto will be blocked by every library, hotel, or business that offers free internet access or WiFi. If you are in adult business you should understand this translates to much of the population never finding your website. Write erotic stories? Better find something else to do. Own an escort service or an entertainment company that books strippers at parties? Good luck reaching your potential client base.

They are indeed killing the internet for anyone that is an adult and thinks that they should be able to view normal adult material or visit an adult website if they so desire. The results will serve to kill-off much of adult business.

So why are websites like CNN, FoxNews etc… presenting this as if it is an achievement for adult businesses? Either the writers are just plain dumb or they assume the readers are. To pre-reserve your .xxx website, visit the ICM Registry and have at it, but first you must sign-up for an account here – I just did.

Government Accountability

The title is a misnomer as the reality is that there is no such thing accountability on the local, state, or federal government levels. The entire concept is a fraud. Actors of state and federal government serve the state and federal governments, and not the people. There is not and never really has been accountability to the citizens. They do whatever the hell they want to do and answer to no one.


I am aware of so many different situations far beyond my own that it is overwhelming to think about. Orlando Sentinel columnists Scott Maxwell and Mike Thomas have been writing about various situations that demand answers as long as I've read their columns. Each usually writes about topics of significant importance, and usually sock puppets from the agency in question respond all over the forums with the usual stuff that's always in favor of the cops that killed citizens or car thieves or anyone they manage to justify killing in their own system-sucking minds.

This week Mike Thomas has been writing about the teen that was arrested for false imprisonment for attempting to help a little girl wandering alone at a store front. The minimum wage dolts at the store decided to call the police and the teen was arrested and interrogated ala Michael Crowe for hours. Mike Thomas brought it to our attention that the overzealous whack that arrested the poor teen is Richard Mankewich, now with the Sex Crimes Unit in Orange County, Florida. Mankewich is better known for his 1997 traffic stop of a Miami police major traveling on the turnpike through Central Florida. Campbell is black and the case had major racial overtones since there was no valid reason for the traffic stop to begin with. Before the stop was over, and Campbell was arrested on a list of false charges, I am sure that he considered it more than possible that the good old boy cops intended to kill him.


Mankewich is also known for his heated chase on foot in 2004 of Marvin Williams, also black, through a neighborhood near downtown Orlando. Mankewich claimed he thought the alleged suspect was pulling out a weapon and shot Williams dead, firing as he ran through the neighborhood. The facts here are that Williams was not a suspect in anything to begin with, only ran from Mankewich because of a driver's license issue, and was unarmed. But oh well – just another day for Richard Mankewich, whacko cop leftover from the Sheriff Beary era.

Scott Maxwell has written extensively about the case of John Preston and his magical dog. Preston is now deceased, but his legacy as an investigator with a dog that tracked evidence of nothing lives on. Preston helped the state with a list of cases by testifying in court and successfully railroaded a still unknown number of defendants. The Brevard/Seminole State Attorney, Norm Wolfinger, has so far held off any actual investigation as to which specific cases Preston testified in by claiming to conduct the investigation himself. Well, Wolfinger was with the Public Defender's Office back in the 1980s when all of this transpired, and I know that I wouldn't want an attorney this inept – he did nothing to help his clients and didn't dispute Preston's false testimony back then – investigating exactly how many cases there are.

In my opinion, what we really need is a list of defense attorneys that allowed Preston's testimony about his magical dog's tracking abilities to convict their clients, but there's not much doubt that our State Attorney, Wolfinger, would be on the list. Most of the cases are murder cases, and there was no direct evidence – just Preston's testimony. The two best known cases at this point are the William Dillon case and the Wilton Dedge case, and both men were released from prison after serving more than two decades thanks to Preston and his dumb dog, but mostly thanks to their own inept attorneys.

Anyway, Scott Maxwell has been a moving force in the demand for investigation of all Preston cases. He has also taken on the cause of demanding answers here: 100 bullets, 5 months, zero answers. Orange County deputies fired over 100 shots to stop a car thief, killing him and freaking out the entire neighborhood. Deputies claim that Torey Breedlove, the car thief, intended to kill them with his vehicle. I say that ramming his vehicle with one of theirs, or just blocking it in until a tank unit arrived (yes, we have tanks here), would have resulted in Breedlove's surrender. After all, it was only a vehicle theft charge – I can't imagine that he was willing to die over it.

While I certainly appreciate both Scott Maxwell and Mike Thomas for their demands of accountability in these situations and many others, I feel that it is a losing battle. There hasn't been accountability in this state for as long as I can remember, and my memory is sharp. My own civil suit never had a chance, and I suppose that the bright side to this is that they didn't murder me as they have so many others.

When researching for my own civil suit I came across so many unknown cases of people murdered by deputies that even I was shocked, and in all cases the suits were dismissed. One case involved a teen that was electrocuted (literally) by seven Orange County deputies. The unknown deputies jolted the teen a total of 19 times with Tasers, until he was dead on the ground. The suit was filed against former sheriff Kevin Beary and seven John Doe deputies. The deputies were "John Does" because Sheriff Beary buried and hid the police reports and the mother of the dead teen and her attorney couldn't even get the names or the police report. As usual, the case was dismissed, but is there any possible correct reason for seven deputies to literally electrocute an unarmed 150 lb. teenager?

Effects of Terrorism on My Life

A reader emailed me several days ago and stated his desire to ask a few questions and his concern that the email was monitored. My response was that it is probable that this is the situation, but to go ahead with the questions and if I considered anything legally compromising to me, well, I'd simply ignore it. I never heard back from him.

Most Americans have little idea as to the scope of the attack on civil liberties that has taken place since September 11, 2001 or its consequences for all. Foremost is the USA Patriot Act, pushed through Congress with the majority of representatives not even bothering to read it, a month after September 11th. The passing of Patriot and its successor Acts have allowed for the creation of a police state, one with no accountability for actors of government and secret files, preventing the dissemination of accurate information concerning police activities. There are no more checks and balances here.

I feel as if one day I woke up and there was no longer a Fourth Amendment, nothing between police power and the people, resulting in police doing whatever they desired. And what a scary world that is to wake up in – may it never happen to you!

Under the guise of a criminal investigation, actors of the State of Florida committed a lengthy list of violations of my civil rights. Under the shield of secrecy of the Patriot Act they would make sure that I could never prove it in a court of law.

While certain actors of the state wanted rid of me long before September 11th, the passing of Patriot in late October furnished them with necessary permissions to break into my home, terrorize my family, wiretap my telephones, track me wherever I went (or try), read and even divert my email among other violations. The key was that the provisions of Patriot provided the tools of secrecy to commit such acts without probable cause, a basis for the Fourth Amendment, and an attribute of a true constitutional democracy.

The facts of the matter are that these state actors found nothing usable in my house or in their wiretaps. Aside from the mental effects this had on both myself and my son, the financial loss was complete. I spent every dollar I had saved in a decade on my bond, discovery, investigation, process service, transcripts of depositions, and paying attorneys. Between attorney one and attorney two, I had no choice but to represent myself, through four months of living hell.

While most of the nation was busy fearing terrorists and possible future acts of terrorism, I was occupied by the actions of a kangaroo system of justice, police, and courts with no boundaries. I am certain that my situation is far from isolated. Why would I start fearing terrorists today? This would be quite a stretch considering what actors of my own government did to me, both state and federal. The greatest threat to the American people comes, not from foreign terrorists or Islamic fundamentalists, but from the actors of the American government itself.

Hotels Using WiFi to Block and Censor

Anyone that has read my Blueprint books knows that I have a website and a couple of telephone numbers that I have used extensively in research. I've been working on my other book concerning the wireless network blocking that began as PBX blocking so many years ago. For me the line block phenomena began back in 1992 when I opened my businesses in Orlando, though I've heard that it was already transpiring at that point.

This is more about how the blockers are going about it today. I included a chapter in Memoirs of an Accused Madam entitled "The Experiment" and referred to IP blocking as a method of blocking websites at that point in time, but this is about URL filtering and other tools and it is happening at all sizeable resorts in the Orlando area and all resorts in Disney World.

As a guest at one of theses hotels this should really bother you. Your hotel censors the internet for you, but sure doesn't admit to it. I know that my research website contains no porn or nudity type of content; it is a conservative website from any standpoint. Unless you appreciate book burnings this should be appalling to you, but wait till you read what they do with it.

There are numerous methods that hotel management utilizes in the quest to censor your internet, and several are too simple for comfort. McAfee makes URL filtering software called Webwasher URL Filter and brags of 64 categories that can be enabled, depending on your censorship needs. They state: "Undesired content of any kind can be managed within the categories of the filter database."

Another big hit with the hotels theses days is Antamedia HotSpot. As most people are aware, most smart phones on the market have WiFi connectivity. Since most potential clients are searching for information online with a smart phone, a netbook, or a laptop, all of this is great news to the censors at Orlando area resorts. Most likely this is occurring elsewhere also, though I only know for sure about issues in Las Vegas at this point.

Antamedia HotSpot enables the hotel to become the Internet Service Provider (ISP) for guests and others desiring access within a specified range. The software includes a feature that allows for forced customer data collection that can be used for collecting records or for marketing purposes. The software also has features such as website blocking that can redirect all blocked websites to the host's home page. URL tracking is another added feature – the hotel can log URL addresses that customers visit, along with their username, IP, MAC, and date and time when page was visited.

The most useful Antamedia HotSpot censorship tool is the ability to block access to websites that contain specified keywords in URL address, say for example, the term "escort". Of course this can be used with any specified keywords though. They also have a tool that can specify keywords which redirect the customer browser to another URL. They state: "For example, when customer enters competition brand name, browser will be redirected to your website."

Obviously search engines like Google index content with keywords, so all of this is bad news for restaurants, pizza places, transportation companies, taxi drivers, and who knows what else that is competing with hotels for guests' money. One thing about Disney is that they want guests to spend all money on the property, so imagine how this is probably being used to interrupt other local business.

The funny thing about censorship is that it sure doesn't stop at "escort services," and more likely that the "escorts" keyword was only the first of many URL filters. I used to speak with taxi and limousine drivers that were in business for themselves and had similar experiences to my own. Disney resorts only utilize one transportation company: Mears. As long as I can remember they've done their best to keep any other operating companies off property unless dropping off guests. Smaller pizza places have periodically reported similar troubles.

When big business is allowed to censor and block small business an open economy is severely diminished. It has gone far beyond playing Net Nanny. I may just pursue my legal options on this problem. It sure ain't legal!

Show Trials in the US

I recall a particular court hearing in my own case that triggered the understanding that there are show trials in the US too. The thought that I was in a kangaroo court permeated my mind as I listened to John Craft, the prosecutor, state that I had foreign bank accounts and trash bags full of cash buried in my backyard. It would have been laughable if I wasn't the victim du jour. I made several attempts to respond to the allegations, but was cut-off by the kangaroo court judge, Anthony Johnson. I did manage to blurt out my response before Johnson was able to move on to a new topic; I had to as Orange County, Florida records all Circuit Court hearings, and if the allegation was going to be recorded, I knew that my response needed to be as well. Can't let such wild lies go without response and I was stuck representing myself at that point.


If you've read Memoirs of an Accused Madam, then you know it only worsened from that point forward. The trial was totally bizarre, with clerks from the prosecutor's office dressed like street hookers for effect and state witnesses gabbing with each other all over the halls. My friend Dusty kept me updated on the hallway circus at the conclusion of each day. The jurors could hardly walk through it all as they entered and exited the courtroom throughout each day. I can only imagine what they thought, but then it was clear to me that the verdicts reflected their thoughts well.

I will venture to say that there aren't many trials as bizarre as that one; I know there aren't as I've sat in many courtrooms watching other trials.

There are other variations of the show trial that take place in courtrooms across the US every day of the week. If you're ever bored and want to find out what's really going on with our criminal justice system, go watch a felony trial. For good measure make it an interesting one, perhaps a racketeering trial if at all possible.

I have almost finished reading J. Patrick O'Connor's The Framing of Mumia Abu Jamal. I figured that I would mention the book, since I'm on the topic of show trials. What a book. I am floored at what McGill (the prosecutor) was allowed to get away with during Mumia's trial; absolutely shocking! O'Connor lays out the scene of the shooting of Officer Faulkner and the evidence piece by piece, word by word, and witness by witness. He includes transcripts of court testimony that was important, and tells the reader why it is so important. This was a show trial to rival any in the former Soviet Union.

The main issue that tugs at me as I read this book is that I do not understand why the murdered officer's wife Maureen would find this acceptable. It really bothers me or I wouldn't state it here. Doesn't she want justice served in her husband's murder? Doesn't she care that it is CLEAR that Mumia Abu Jamal is not guilty? I won't say anymore here as I do intend to review the book in the next few days. It is a troubling case, and one that should bother anyone interested in justice.

There is a man in Montgomery County, Mississippi that is now starting his sixth capital murder trial for a 1996 shooting that left four people dead. Yes, you read that correctly – the sixth trial. His name is Curtis Flowers and his most recent two trials ended in hung juries. The first three trials resulted in convictions; however, the racial issues in ole Mississippi, the fabricated witness testimony, and prosecutorial misconduct during each trial resulted in the state Supreme Court overturning the verdict and ordering a new trial.

Curtis Flowers new show trial begins this week according to CNN. He has a team of attorneys and many supporters watching. Montgomery County, Mississippi prosecutors should be put on notice that the world is watching and they're not going to get away with the criminal acts committed in the preceding five trials. Mr. Flowers is entitled to a real and fair trial – he has already been incarcerated since January of 1997 waiting for it. If they can't convict him this time they had better set him free.

Drug War is a Total Failure

The War on Drugs takes in unimaginable sums of money and at the same time it costs taxpayers in the range of $50 billion annually when state and federal agencies are taken into account. Does that make sense? Perhaps it does, if we consider the independent variables. The Drug War money goes into the system in the form of forfeitures of property and cash, fines, and court costs charged to defendants. Money from forfeitures is then split among participating agencies and funds the pursuit of more Drug War prosecutions and the salaries and expenses of agency workers. This sounds like a never-ending vicious circle.


Drug War arrests and prosecutions also fund the prison system. The US incarcerates more of its population than any country in the world. We like to lock people up here, and often for any reason that we can find or create. We also hand out the lengthiest sentences in the world, and the longest tend to be for drug prosecutions; not violent crime. According to studies conducted by the International Center for Prison Studies at King's College London, in 2007 there were 2.3 million people incarcerated in the US, and I have little doubt that the figure has since increased. China came in second with 1.6 million imprisoned.

I'm not going to fill your mind with a lot of statistics here, but will include links to websites at the end of this post if additional information is desired. I sometimes read through press releases on US Attorney's Office websites for various districts just to look at prosecution and sentencing trends, and what I've read lately is scary. It's hard for me to imagine anyone with a marijuana offense doing 20+ years in prison, but it is happening. Texas is a place that I'll never enter again. How can there be so much pot available at such great prices and so many prosecutions resulting in decades in a prison in the same place? This makes little sense to me.

South Texas has always had plenty of smuggling operations due to its geographical proximity to Mexico. If you read through press releases in the past year and half you will see sentences so long that it's mind-boggling – many are life in prison. They also work hard for as long as it takes to extradite the indicted from Mexico when necessary. In one recent case they worked on the extradition for eight years! Try to imagine the costs involved in that.

When forfeitures and prison costs are taken into account, the taxpayers are still spending close to $50 billion a year to prosecute and incarcerate drug users, drug dealers, and drug traffickers. What this is saying is that beyond building prisons, jails, and new courthouses, and paying millions of workers, they are still in the hole by $50 billion a year on the average. If this were a business it would have been dissolved long ago. We have a large percentage of our population that is so poor they have no health care and only eat because they receive food stamps. I believe the most recent figure is 31.5 million Americans receiving food stamps.

It is far past time to end the failed US War on Drugs. I get it and much of the population gets it, including many in law enforcement, so why don't our politicians get it?

Links to check out the statistics:

LEAP – Law Enforcement Against Prohibition
Drug War Clock
Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP)
Bureau of Justice Statistics
November Coalition – Working to End Drug War Injustice
Families Against Mandatory Minimums (FAMM)

Stop voting for politicians that don't get it!