BEWARE OF RACIST WHITE COWARD CANADIAN POLICE TRESPASSING YOUR PRIVATE PROPERTY AND
PERSONAL LIVES THROUGH ABUSING THEIR POWERS AND MISUSING TECHNOLOGICAL GADGETS SUCH AS
WALL-SEE-THROUGH TECHNOLOGIES, TEMPEST TECHNOLOGIES, INFRARED TECHNOLOGIES IN CONNIVANCE
WITH RACIST WHITE NEIGHBORS ACTING AS THE DIRTY EYES AND EARS OF THE STATE TO
DEHUMANIZINGLY TRESPASS AND INFILTRATE INTO YOUR PRIVATE PROPERTY AND YOUR PERSONAL LIVES
AND YOUR PERSONAL SELVES IN YOUR HOMES. THE POLICE HAVE BECOME BLOATED WITH ARROGANCE TO
ABUSE THEIR POWERS AND CLAIM THAT THEY HAVE THE TECHNOLOGIES AND THE POWER TO COMMIT THE
AFOREMENTIONED ABUSES AND NOT BE LIABLE TO ANSWER FOR IT. THE POLICE SHAMELESSLY BLOAT THAT
THEY ARE NOT REQUIRED TO GIVE ANY ACCOUNTABILITY AND TRANSPARENCY OF THEIR ABUSES. THE LAW
FUNCTIONS ON PHYSICAL EVIDENCE. THE WALL-SEE-THROUGH TECHNOLOGIES AND AUDIO BUGGING DEVICES
CAN BE USED FROM OUTSIDE YOUR HOME TO SEE AND LISTEN INSIDE YOUR HOME. SINCE IT IS BEING
DONE FROM OUTSIDE YOUR HOME AND SINCE THESE TECHNOLOGIES ARE NOT YET WELL-KNOWN AND THE
PHYSICAL EVIDENCE IS NOT INSIDE YOUR HOME BUT OUTSIDE AND HIDDEN IN NEIGHBORS HOMES AND IN
MOBILE PASSING CARS, THE POLICE ARE LAUGHING SINISTERLY AT THE ABUSE OF THESE TECHNOLOGIES
WHILE OUTWARDLY CLAIMING TO BE UPHOLDERS OF LAW. THE POLICE USE ALL THEIR DIRTY TRICKS AND
ARE LABELLED AS DIRTY TRICKSTERS IN CANADA. THEY USE NEIGHBORS AND OTHERS UNKNOWN TO YOU TO
INTIMIDATE AND PROVOCATE YOU AND THEY USE AUTHORITIES OF OTHER DEPARTMENTS TO MAKE FALSE
ALLEGATIONS AGAINST YOU AND THEN THEY COME IN THROWING THEIR WEIGHT AROUND IN THEIR PIG-FAT
UNIFORMS BOUGHT FROM TAX-PAYERS MONIES. THE RACIST WHITE CANADIAN POLICE FAVOR ONLY THE
RACIST WHITE COMMUNITIES AND BIG BUSINESSES AND CORPORATIONS WHILE CLAIMING THEIR INABILITY
TO DO ANYTHING AT ALL ABOUT ANY COMPLAINTS LAUNCHED BY NONWHITES AGAINST THE RACIST WHITES
FOR THEIR DEHUMANIZING HARASSMENT OF NON-WHITES THROUGH USE OF WALL-SEE-THROUGH
TECHNOLOGIES AND AUDIO BUGGING OF NON-WHITES HOMES FROM OUTSIDE. THE RACIST WHITE POLICE
AND THE RACIST WHITE COMMUNITIES CANNOT BEAR TO HEAR THE TRUTHS ABOUT RACISM AND TRY TO
HUSH IT AND SHUN IT AS IF IT IS NON-EXISTENT. THESE RACIST WHITE COMMUNITIES AND RACIST
WHITE POLICE IN CANADA ARE HYPOCRITES ADEPT AT TWISTING THE HUMAN WORD AND MAINTAINING A
FALSE PRETEXT ON THE OUTSIDE THAT THEY ARE NOT RACISTS AND CANADA IS A MULTI-CULTURAL
COUNTRY; HOWEVER, THE TRUTH IS THAT MANY OF THEM ARE RACISTS IN THEIR HEARTS AND THIS UGLY
RACISM REARS ITS UGLY HEAD AGAINST NON-WHITES EVERY NOW AND THEN. THEY PREACH THAT IF YOU
AIN'T WHITE YOU AIN'T RIGHT AND THE POLICE AND THE AUTHORITIES LAUGH SINISTERLY ABOUT
REFLECTING THE UGLY FAECEAS INNER QUALITY OF THEIR HEARTS.
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Criminologist identified boredom as the policeman's greatest enemy; University of Toronto
expert on crime and punishment took police officers to task for pushing too much paper, for
doing little more than maintaining the status quo and for picking on ‘pukers' RON CSILLAGSPECIAL TO THE GLOBE AND MAIL1799 words19 November 2007The Globe and MailS10English2007 CTVglobemedia Publishing Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Is being a police officer boring? Consider the startling research on policing in Canada
carried out in the 1980s by University of Toronto criminologist Richard Ericson.
He found that the average number of reported crimes per police officer in Canada was 30 in
1962, rising to 45 in 1977 – or about one a week. He reported that officers on average
spent about half their time on the job doing paperwork, and reporting to superiors about
what they did with the other half.
He repeated what has virtually become an adage about police work – that the worst part of
being a police officer is boredom. The police themselves, in his study, rated fewer than 7
per cent of incidents they dealt with as “exciting.”
In a subsequent book, he examined what policing really is about in Canada and concluded
that it is “concerned with the reproduction of order.” In other words, maintaining the
status quo.
To illustrate (and here he probably won few police friends), he reported that a common
diversion among officers was to pick on “pukers” – young males of lower socioeconomic
background – and minorities of any sort. Patrol officers, Prof. Ericson said, seemed to go
out of their way to stop such people, run their names through the national database and
look for ways of laying charges.
“The police sell themselves as crime fighters,” Prof. Ericson said in a 1984 interview,
“but do not spend much time on this activity, per se.” The bulk of the patrol officer's
time was spent “doing nothing other than consuming the petrochemical energy required to run
an automobile and the psychic energy required to deal with the boredom of it all.”
PUBLIC MISINFORMED
Partly, he blamed a “relatively misinformed public” for buying into the belief that cops
are around-the-clock crime busters.
“The general feeling is that crime is under the control of the government as long as you
keep giving tax dollars,” he said. The public's acceptance of this “creates a view among
citizens that they should be deferential to the police.”
A year-long study done by his department of an Ontario police force seemed to support that
claim. It found “an amazing compliance” by more than 400 citizens, who dutifully turned
over files to officers, remained in their presence even though not under arrest, and rarely
objected.
Complaining can be risky. In 1981-1982, he found that about one third of all those who
filed charges against Metro Toronto Police officers were taken to court by the
municipality's lawyers for malicious prosecution. Only two were spared civil damages.
The time had come, he believed, for police officers to be treated just as human beings,
with citizens “criticizing them, questioning them and resisting them.”
A world-renowned criminologist who challenged assumptions, ruffled feathers and put U of
T's Centre of Criminology on the map, Prof. Ericson was described by colleague David
Garland of New York University as “a serial specialist with the broadest of visions, a
continually curious scholar who became expert in one field after another.”
Indeed a polymath, he became authoritative in several fields relating to crime and society:
Young offenders, detective work, policing, defendants in the criminal process, crime
reporting in the media, risk, insurance and the regulation of financial institutions, and
surveillance. Lauded by scholars around the world as creative, innovative, critical and
highly rigorous – and by students as a warm, wise and nurturing teacher – Prof. Ericson
authored, co-authored or edited 17 books on crime and punishment, the first two when he was
27.
“He was a sociologist who took criminology as his chosen specialty but who had an expansive
view of what criminology should be and whose work transformed the scope of that
discipline,” eulogized Prof. Garland, who is considered the English-speaking world's top
criminal theorist. “He paid attention to complexity and to detail. His research projects
were large, ambitious undertakings intended to address big theoretical questions.”
Prof. Ericson was educated at the Universities of Guelph and Toronto, and received his
doctorate from the University of Cambridge. Most of his career was spent at U of T's Centre
of Criminology, where he became director in 1992. For a decade, he was the first principal
of Green College and professor of law and sociology at the University of British Columbia,
and then won an appointment as professor of criminology at Oxford University, where he was
a fellow of All Souls College, among other foreign postings. He returned to U of T in 2004.
His work may have been big and theoretical, but it had real-world relevance. He was known
for offering a shocking new vision of police work in which data gathered by law enforcement
using surveillance and other technologies is not only not protected, but brokered to other
institutions.
LINKS TO INSURANCE
The police, he noted, have become information dealers to insurance companies and
health-and-welfare organizations whose operations are based on knowledge of risk. These
institutions, in turn, influence the ways in which police officers think and act.
“It's fairly obvious, as any homeowner who's had a break-in knows,” explained Mariana
Valverde, acting director for the Centre for Criminology. “The only reason you call the
police is to get a report that you can then submit to the insurance [company]. You don't
actually expect the police to really find your lost CD player.”
It wasn't that Prof. Ericson had broken new ground. “It's just that nobody studied how it
works, and the tremendous importance the police have by way of generating information for
all sorts of agencies,” Prof. Valverde said. “He put the work of police forces in broader
context.”
Prof. Ericson also conducted the first major sociological study of the insurance industry,
examining how it controls our institutions and daily lives in ways that are largely
invisible, and how it functions as a kind of government beyond the state.
One alarming conclusion was that there's a lot less certainty than people may think in the
insurance business – the very industry that is charged with transforming uncertainty into
manageable risk.
Post 9/11 security measures, he argued, include disturbing new forms of “counter law” or
“law against law,” which criminalize not only those who actually cause harm, but also those
merely suspected of being harmful.
Words such as vandalism are always being applied to youngsters breaking windows but almost
never to “large corporations polluting the atmosphere … which in the aggregate is far
greater.”
CRITICAL OF MEDIA
And there's the matter of how the media report crime. After six months of studying how
three Toronto newspapers – including The Globe and Mail – covered some high-profile sexual
assaults in 1982, he found the news outlets rarely questioned the prevailing belief that it
was up to women to curb their activities if they wanted to avoid sexual attack.
The articles presented a central image that sexual assault “was best controlled by having
women take precautions that restricted their freedom,” the study said.
“By locating the problem with the victim and by not questioning the cultural and social
structures in general, and gender relations in particular, the news accounts functioned to
acknowledge the existing order of values and social relations which perpetuate the
subordinate place of women. The newspapers arguably perpetuated the views that it is
something women do that contributes to attacks.”
He rejected the old saw that journalists are mere observers. “I don't see the media as
being in any way outside the process they are reporting on. The reporters, in the way they
use sources, are active players. They don't reflect reality, they help to constitute the
reality.”
It seems incongruous that someone who tackled such bold subjects was described as not
especially outgoing, often to the point of shyness. And despite being critical of police,
his own son became an RCMP officer. “It was a very proud moment in Richard's life when
Matthew was sworn in,” Prof. Valverde noted. “So it's not as though he disrespected police,
or didn't have an understanding of [their] day-to-day realities. I think his sympathies
were always with the rank and file.”
Don't tell that to the Peel Regional Police force on Toronto's western flank.
Perhaps the biggest stink Prof. Ericson raised was in one of his books, Making Crime: A
Study Of Detective Work, in which he accused the police he was observing of routinely
forging, or “left-handing” the signatures of justices of the peace on search warrants.
FORCE NOT NAMED
The force he observed was unnamed in the book (though he dropped one juicy hint by
mentioning 19th-century British prime minister Robert Peel in the first sentence). Peel
Regional Police revealed it was them, and went on the offensive.
“It wasn't a big deal because at that time, even when real signatures were placed on
warrants, the warrant approval process accomplished little,” recalled colleague Anthony
Doob. “That was Richard's point: Real signatures, fake signatures … it didn't matter.”
It did to police in Peel, who called the book “a crock of garbage” and said the force
“seriously questions Prof. Ericson's bias in policing.” They also found evidence they said
totally contradicted his allegations.
As Prof. Doob recalled, one Wednesday afternoon in August, 1980, two senior police officers
visited the centre “and delivered what we saw as a serious threat to get additional details
about activities described in the book. After Richard refused to answer most of the
questions that were put to him, we made the decision that in order to protect the identity
of the police officers he had observed, his data had to be placed somewhere secure.”
That somewhere was in the attic of Prof. Doob's ex-wife's grandmother's cottage in rural
New Hampshire. And Prof. Ericson, despite the intimidation, stood his ground. “I'm not
revealing sources,” he said, “and if I did, I might as well pack in my books.”
http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/books/National-Dreams-Myth-Memory-Canadian-Daniel-Francis/978
1551520438-item.html
http://www.blackcommentator.com/70/70_cover_white_terror.html
WHITE TERROR
By Black Commentator
The Bush men decorate our holidays in Homeland Security yellow, orange and red, while
demonizing Islamic green as the color of the most implacable foes of Western
“civilization.” Yet official silence conspires to hide genocidal maniacs in our midst who
have sworn to erase the Black presence from the landscape of the United States: White
Terror.
Tens of thousands of members of a racist legion operate openly in every corner of the
nation – men, women, juveniles, extended families, cells, gangs, churches, clans, militias,
border armies, all engaged in what they consider to be a war to the death against non-white
America.
George Bush and John Ashcroft don’t want you to hear about White Terror, understandably
fearing that the lyrics of white supremacy strike the same racial chords as the Pirates’
own War on Terror theme, itself a rearrangement of the many martial tunes written
throughout American history in praise Manifest Destiny. Less than a decade ago Timothy
McVeigh’s band of terrorists got carried away with the logic of America as a White Man’s
Country, and may have cost the Republicans the White House in 1996. That’s why the homeland
security colors didn’t change in May of this year, when federal agents arrested a white
racist couple dealing in weapons of mass destruction in a small town near Tyler, Texas. The
feds seized a cyanide bomb capable of unleashing a deadly, poison cloud, chemicals and
components for additional WMDs, gas masks, 100 conventional bombs, an arsenal of automatic
weapons, silencers and half a million rounds of ammunition.
The bust went unreported last Spring, although George Bush was said to have been regularly
briefed about the “ongoing” investigation. Finally, the Dallas-Fort Worth CBS affiliate
broke the story on November 26, when longtime militiaman and traveling gun merchant William
J. Krar and his common-law wife pled guilty to possession of a chemical bomb and lesser
charges. Local Channel 11 news producer Todd Bensman thought he had a huge national story
on his hands, but CBS network refused to pick up his report. "I guess they didn't think it
was important enough," Bensman told David Neiwert, a Seattle-based journalist who has
covered right-wing terrorism since 1978. In fact, the national news blackout was
near-total, as reported online by The Memory Hole.
The only media that saw fit to report about this terrorist plot within the US were a few
newspapers and TV stations in Texas. The Web-based news outlet WorldNetDaily ran a story
about it, but Google News shows that there hasn't been a word in the New York Times,
Washington Post, LA Times, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, or any other big media outlet. Why have
the media decided that this is a non-story? It's hard to say, but we can say with certainty
that if Muslims had been caught with these weapons of mass destruction, fake I.D., gas
masks, and books on making explosives, it would've been front-page news for days.The New York Times got around to the story on December 13, not on the news pages, but
through a back door Op-Ed article titled “Enemies at Home.” Daniel Levitas’ piece passed
the Times’ blandness test. “Americans should question whether the Justice Department is
making America's far-right fanatics a serious priority,” Levitas wrote. “And with the
F.B.I. still struggling to get up to speed on the threat posed by Islamic extremists
abroad, it is questionable whether the agency has the manpower to keep tabs on our
distinctly American terror cells. There is no accurate way of analyzing the budgets of the
F.B.I., Justice Department and Department of Homeland Security to discern how much
attention is being devoted to right-wing extremists. But in light of the F.B.I.'s poor
record in keeping tabs on the militia movement before the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, one
wonders whether the agency has the will to do so now.”
What apologetic nonsense. The federal police are acting just like their predecessors under
J. Edgar Hoover, who for decades denied there was such a thing as the Mafia. Hoover knew
full well that the Italian-American syndicate existed, since the Bureau had used gangsters
countless times as lethal instruments against leftists in the union movement. The FBI was a
friend to the Mafia until deep into the Sixties and – the movie, Mississippi Burning
notwithstanding – sheltered and immunized far more Klansman than it ever arrested. The
Bureau does as it is told, and it has been instructed to hide White Terror from view.
Indeed, there are striking similarities between the FBI’s modus operandi with the Ku Klux
Klan in the Sixties and the Bureau’s behavior towards today’s white terrorists; the feds
watch, but don’t do much of anything to stop them. There is no question that the Aryan
Nations, National Alliance, Christian Identity, various reconstituted Klans, skinheads and
hundreds of other homegrown Nazi organizations have been heavily infiltrated by various law
enforcement agencies. After all, they are full of criminals of the kind that routinely
trade evidence for extended sojourns outside of prison. In addition, the American domestic
arms trade is a roadmap to the violent Right, a national grid full of above ground gun
markets and fairs. All it takes is some cash to join the circuit and meet the folks.
Terrorists with impunity
The feds met William Krar around the time of the Oklahoma City bombing. According to the
November 26 television report from Dallas-Fort Worth:
“In 1995, the ATF investigated Krar and another man on weapons charges. The other suspect
told authorities at the time that he and Krar shared an abiding hatred of the federal
government and had been planning to bomb government facilities, court records show. But the
suspect later recanted the story about plotting terror attacks with Krar. Krar denied the
allegation and was not arrested, according to records.There is little to indicate that the feds wanted to make anything stick to Krar. On the day
after 9/11, an employee at a New Hampshire storage site where the weapons dealer kept his
regional customers’ stock reported Krar’s “wicked anti-American” remarks to the FBI, which
filed a report but did – nothing! When the feds finally moved on Krar and his companion in
Noonday, Texas a year and a half later, the arrest warrant said he was “actively involved
in the militia movement…a good source of covert weaponry for white supremacist and
anti-government militia groups in New Hampshire,” his native state. How long had this been
known to the FBI? It’s a moot question, since such activities were clearly not of great
interest to the Bureau.
Four months after 9/11, in January 2002 the feds stumbled on Krar’s network through no
smarts of their own when a package meant for New Jersey militiaman Edward Feltus was
mistakenly delivered to a Staten Island, New York address. “The package contained more than
five false identification documents, including a North Dakota birth certificate, a Social
Security card, a Vermont birth certificate, a Defense Intelligence Agency Identification
card, and a United Nations Multinational Force Identification card,” said the East Texas
U.S. Attorney’s office. But no attempt was made to halt Krar’s activities, which continued
until May of this year.
The U.S. Attorney’s statement claims that after the New Jersey package turned up, a
“subsequent investigation” discovered that Krar “had accumulated dangerous chemical
weapons,” an apparent reference to a Tennessee Highway Patrol stop of Krar’s car a full
year later, in January 2003. State Police – not federal agents – found dangerous chemicals
and a note that “appears to represent instructions for carrying out some kind of covert
operation,” Channel 11 reported. “It lists code words for cities where meetings can take
place at motels.”
The cities where the conspirators would presumably meet were called “zones” and included:
Chattanooga, Bristol, and Knoxville, Tennessee; Scranton and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania;
Winchester and Roanoke, Virginia; Jackson, Mississippi; and Shreveport, Louisiana.
The TV story continued: “Other codes appear to be warnings about how close police might be
to catching the plotters. ‘Lots of light storms are predicted,’ for instance, means ‘Move
fast before they look any harder. We have a limited window remaining.’”
The FBI and other federal agencies had left the “window” open for mad white bombers Krar
and Bruey for two whole years, but you’d never know it from the U.S. Attorney’s press
release. “Through the cooperative effort of the FBI, ATF, the Army CID and the Criminal
Investigative Service, these defendants were identified and their activities pinpointed and
neutralized. We live in a safer world because of the efforts of these agencies."
Honest lawmen see things differently. Channel 11 warned that “authorities familiar with the
case say more potentially deadly cyanide bombs may be in circulation.”
The Right rampages, again
The Oklahoma City bombing killed 168 people in 1995, most of them white and many of them
children. For a time, the white public recoiled from the harshest rhetoric of their
race-crazed kin, and it appears that many rank and file supremacists shrank away in shame,
becoming inactive. Bill Clinton’s political fortunes rose dramatically on the sea change of
public revulsion at the Right, and he defeated Bob Dole decisively in the 1996 election.
Thomas Sowell, Republican Uncle Tom Emeritus, still complains about that period. “The
Oklahoma City bombing was immediately blamed on conservative talk show hosts, even before
the perpetrators were known,” Sowell wrote in a November, 2002 column, exaggerating as
usual.
However, as the William Krar saga indicates, at no time have federal authorities treated
white hate groups as clear and present dangers to national security. The lethal threat to
Black America failed to spur Bill Clinton to any serious action against these very visible
networks. Krar kept selling his wares, and apparently grew more sophisticated and deadly.
Then came September 11. Racism was back with volcanic vengeance, unbound by any notions of
shame – the Great Mobilizer of White Americans. The horror of Oklahoma City had provided
only a respite, after all. This time, the Republicans are determined to ride the tidal wave
of white fear and hate to its ultimate, ordained destination: world conquest. And there
will be no reminders of the despised Tim McVeigh to break the triumphalist spell – not if
Attorney General Ashcroft can help it.
On the December 5 edition of Democracy Now! University of Texas journalism professor Robert
Jensen attempted to explain the silence over racists armed with WMDs. “[C]ases like this –
of domestic terrorism, especially when they involve white supremacist and conservative
Christian groups, don't have any political value for an administration, especially this
particular administration,” said the professor. “ Therefore, why – if one were going to be
crass and cynical, why would they highlight this?
“On the other hand, foreign terrorism and things connected to Arab, South Asian and Muslim
groups, well those have value because they can be used to whip up support for military
interventions, which this administration is very keen on.”
Jensen understates the case. The Noonday, Texas WMD story was squashed by the Bush
Administration with the active collaboration of editors throughout corporate media. The
December 10 issue of Intelligence Squad got it just about right: “Suddenly it becomes clear
why John Ashcroft isn’t going to make a big deal out of nailing these guys: they are
essentially a more extreme version of Ashcroft himself.”
The Bush men conceal the existence terrorists, as if embarrassed by their own kind.
Reporters at Channel 11 in Dallas-Fort Worth were told, “federal agents have served
hundreds of subpoenas across the country in a domestic terror investigation” since May. Yet
there have been no subsequent news reports of such events and only three people are in
custody: Krar, Bruey and the New Jersey militiaman, Edward Feltus. If the hundreds of
persons suspected of terrorist activities were Arabs or South Asians, we might assume they
were locked away incommunicado in the twilight Gulag created since September 11. But these
are white Americans with special dispensation to engage in an ancient yet familiar rampage.
They can hide in plain sight, because nobody’s really looking.
http://school.familyeducation.com/african-american-history/racism/47434.html
"Criminal" White Terrorist in Chicago Vs. Non-White "Enemy Combatants" http://www.musicforamerica.org/node/99204
White terrorist sentenced to 30 years, mainstream media…http://politics.propeller.com/story/2006/12/05/white-terrorist-sentenced-to-30-years-mainst
ream-media-ignores-story
FBI Whistleblower: White Supremacists Are Major Domestic Terrorist Threathttp://www.democracynow.org/2005/6/13/fbi_whistleblower_white_supremacists_are_major
http://iraqwar.mirror-world.ru/article/104841
White terrorists- Never the focus of Western mediahttp://tabacco.blog-city.com/western_media_bias_why_are_white_terrorist_acts_ignored_alja.h
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Is it time to profile white males? http://whitewatch.wordpress.com/category/terrorism/http://www.nowpublic.com/adl_org_white_supremacist_terrorist_david_lane_dies
White terrorism fails to make the news http://www.searchlightmagazine.com/index.php?link=template&story=184
