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http://boingboing.net/2013/05/07/dont-ever-speak-to-the-fbi-w.html

Don't ever speak to the FBI without a tape recorder running and a lawyer present

Civil liberties and civil rights attorney Harvey Silverglate made this video to show you how to protect yourself from FBI agents who will interview you, then claim you lied so they can threaten you with imprisonment unless you become their puppet.

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http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_21250203/coroner-burbank-fbi-agents-death-ruled-suicide

Coroner: Burbank FBI agent's death ruled suicide

  08/06/2012 07:52:30 PM PDT
 

FBI Agent Stephen Ivens of Burbank is seen in this file photo. He was last seen May 10, 2012. Hikers found his body near his home on July 30, 2012.
BURBANK - The Los Angeles County coroner has determined the death of an FBI agent who went missing from his Burbank home was a suicide.
Chief Coroner Investigator Craig Harvey said Monday that 35-year-old Stephen Ivens shot himself in the head with a handgun, and died of the wound.

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http://behindthebluewall.blogspot.com/2012/02/usca-not-forgetting-fbi-commanders.html


TOP FBI AGENT IN L.A. PLACED ON LEAVE: Sources say division chief Jim Sheehan is being transferred to Washington after the suicide of his former girlfriend, a colleague. 
Los Angeles Times
By Greg Krikorian And Christine Hanley
February 3, 2005

The head of the FBI's criminal division in Los Angeles has been placed on administrative leave pending a reassignment to the bureau's headquarters, law enforcement sources said Wednesday.

The transfer of veteran FBI Special Agent in Charge Jim Sheehan comes amid an internal investigation into the recent suicide of a longtime agent, Wendy Woskoff, with whom Sheehan had been romantically involved until several months ago, sources said.

Woskoff, 54, died of a self-inflicted gunshot Jan. 23 at her Santa Monica home. A 24-year veteran of the FBI, Woskoff was most recently assigned to an intelligence squad in the Los Angeles division.




see link for full story

http://www.ticklethewire.com/2011/04/27/fbi-agent-commits-suicide-in-maine/

FBI Agent Commits Suicide in Maine

 
 
By Allan Lengel
ticklethewire.com
The FBI wasn’t saying much last week about the suicide of an FBI agent, who shot himself  in the Portland, Maine area over the weekend of April 24, according to sources.
 
FBI agent Greg Comcowich, a spokesman for the Boston FBI Division, which includes Maine,  told the ticklethewire.com:
“The type of question which you are inquiring (about)is not something the FBI would comment on.”
Last year, an FBI agent assigned to Quantico committed suicide.

see link for full story
http://blog.al.com/montgomery-independent/2011/03/fbi_harassed_deputy_ag_who_committed_suicide_last_year.html


FBI harassed Deputy AG who committed suicide last year

Published: Thursday, March 31, 2011, 3:53 PM     Updated: Thursday, March 31, 2011, 4:31 PM

By Bob Martin, Editor & Publisher
 
     A Deputy Alabama Attorney General, who committed suicide last Nov. 5th was being harassed by two FBI agents who mistakenly thought he was trying to help Milton McGregor.
     Officials in the AG’s office confirmed that fact and also the tragic self-inflicted death last December after the The Independent submitted questions to them. The agents, both involved in the investigation of McGregor and the current gaming legislation issue, were Keith Baker and John H. McEachern, III. 
     The Deputy AG, Robert William “Bob” Caviness, was in the process of conducting a background check on an individual with the last name of McEachern, who lived in the Auburn-Opelika area. It was a matter involving worker’s comp fraud.
     The Independent was told by the AG’s office that Agents Baker and McEachern became suspicious when they found out through the state’s computer data base that someone in the Attorney General’s office was conducting the search involving McEachern’s name.



Body of Missing Retired FBI Agent Found in Texas: Homicide or Suicide?

 
 
 
 
 
 
http://www.yourhoustonnews.com/body-of-former-fbi-agent-found-in-waller-county/article_7f3f6278-09b3-59d9-8fb2-5305c7baed30.html


The body of a missing retired FBI agent was found in Waller County, Texas late last week near her car, the Waller County News Citizen  reported.
The paper said unconfirmed reports indicated Patricia Durney had suffered a bullet wound to the head. It said authorities were trying to determine whether it was a homicide or suicide. Her body was found Thursday, one day after she was reported missing.
A comment from the sheriff’s department  made it sound as if they were leaning toward suicide.

  1. America's Secret Police - FBI COINTELPRO in the 1990s

    http://www.judibari.org/America's_Secret_Police.html
    FBI repression against Earth First! in context of its history of repression ... Richard W. Held was Special Agent-in-Charge of the San Francisco FBI Office .... and received permission from J. Edgar Hoover to "neutralize" actress Jean Seberg. ... to the press if King did not commit suicide before accepting the Nobel Peace Prize.
  2.  

    Jean Seberg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Seberg
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    COINTELPRO documents on Jean Seberg

    http://www.pinknoiz.com/covert/seberg.html
    Context: Because of her support for the Black Panther Party, actress Jean Seberg was targeted for 'neutralization' by the FBI's COINTELPRO effort. SAC Richard W. Held, the author of the request, went on to become SAC San Francisco at ... Jean Seberg attempts to commit suicide, which results in the premature birth and ...
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    Cointelpro.com The Counter Intelligence Program and the internet

    http://www.oilempire.us/cointelpro.html
    The fragile actress ultimately committed suicide after a gossip nugget based on a ... I hope that the commemoration of those unknown activists being held today in ..... 1996 - The Centennial Park Bombing - FBI leaks Richard Jewell's name as a ...
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    The FBI's War on the Black Panther Party's LA Chapter

    http://www.itsabouttimebpp.com/Chapter.../FBI_War_LA_Chapter.html
    Subject: The FBI's War on the BPP's Southern California Chapter ... Furthermore, 1967 was also when the FBI's Richard Wallace Held "was assigned to ..... and is known to have written the false accusation that actress Jean Seberg, ... suffered a spontaneous abortion, and subsequently attempted suicide on the ...
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    COINTELPRO: The Untold American Story

    http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/FBI/COINTELPRO_Untold_Story.html
    We're here to talk about the FBI and U.S. democracy because here we have this ..... to the media unless he committed suicide prior to bestowal of the Nobel Prize. .... FBI Richard Held arrived by helicopter to inform ...

FBI tried to get Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to commit suicide ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com › Discuss
43 posts - 15 authors - Dec 20, 2004
The FBI tried to drive King crazy in order to get him to kill himself. It's no " conspiracy theory." It's in the official record of the Government of the ...


 

 









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27 March 2013 Last updated at 00:42 GMT





The trouble with using police informants in the US

By Rob Walker BBC World Service, Florida

John Horner John Horner was asked to become an informant





Some law enforcement agencies in the US use informants in as many as 90% of their drug cases. But there are surprisingly few rules on how informants are used and a groundswell of calls for the system to be reformed.



"Snitches" are staple fare in Hollywood crime dramas, often working secretly with the police to bring down mafia godfathers or powerful drug cartels.



The reality of informants in the US criminal justice system is usually rather different.



Take the case of 46-year-old John Horner, a fast-food restaurant worker who was prescribed painkillers after he lost an eye in an accident in 2000.



Three years ago he was befriended by a man called Matt (not his real name).



"We kind of clicked right off the bat. One day he came to where I worked. We were standing there talking, and I realised he was in pain," says Horner.



"He laid it out on me, 'Look dude, I can either pay my rent or go buy my prescriptions. I can't do both.' I decided Matt was a friend. I said, 'I'll help you out.'"

Continue reading the main story        

Find out more



Rob Walker reports for Assignment on the BBC World Service

His documentary, Snitching in the USA, airs on 28 March at 09:05, 13:05, 16:05 and 20:05 GMT



Listen via BBC iPlayer

Browse the podcast documentary archive

More from BBC World Service



What Horner didn't know was that Matt was an informant working for the Osceola County Sheriff's Office in central Florida.



Over a period of several weeks, Horner provided Matt with four bottles of prescription pain pills - morphine and hydrocodone. He says he also lent him money. On the last occasion Horner handed over pills, he was arrested.



"The next thing I know I got a guy's knee in the back of my neck grinding my face into the concrete. I'm told, 'You're under arrest for trafficking.'"



According to Sheriff's Office documents, Matt paid Horner a total of $1,800 (£1,200) for the pills, in three separate payments. The money had been provided by agents who also recorded the transactions.



Horner maintains he only received part of that money from Matt, and he believed it was a repayment of cash he'd lent him earlier.



Whatever the case, under Florida law Horner now faced a minimum sentence of 25 years, if found guilty.

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The use of criminal informants is often very helpful in penetrating organised crime, but that's not how we use criminal informants in this country”



Alexandra Natapoff Loyola Law School



"My public defender told me, 'They got you dead to rights.' So I thought, 'OK, I guess there's no need taking this to trial.'"



Prosecutors offered a plea bargain of 15 years if Horner accepted a guilty plea.



"I said, 'My youngest daughter will be 25 years old when I get out. I can't do that.'"



That left him with only one option - to become an informant himself.



Under the deal he signed with prosecutors, he agreed to plead guilty. But if he helped make prosecutable cases against five other people on drug-trafficking charges - charges carrying 25-year minimum terms - his own sentence could be reduced from 25 years to 10.



That choice - put crudely, do the time or snitch - is one faced by thousands of Americans every year.



"The use of criminal informants is often very helpful in penetrating organised crime, but that's not how we use criminal informants in this country - we use them everywhere," says Alexandra Natapoff, professor of law at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles.



"Every case is open to negotiation."



The number of informants has exploded in the past few decades. The main reason is the tough mandatory minimum sentences introduced in the 1980s for even relatively minor drug crimes.

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“Start Quote



I would have taken anybody down, just so I could be with my family”



John Horner



Snitching offers one of the few escape hatches.



"Every defendant facing a mandatory minimum sentence will be confronted with the reality that becoming an informant may be the only way to get out from under those very high sentences," says Natapoff.



But Florida is one state where the snitching system has attracted criticism - and where attempts to reform it have begun.



These were largely sparked by the case of Rachel Hoffman, a 23-year-old college graduate.



In 2008, she was caught with marijuana and ecstasy in her apartment. To escape charges that could have resulted in a five-year prison term, she agreed to become an undercover informant for the Tallahassee Police Department.



The police sent her out on a sting operation with $13,000 (£8,600) in cash to buy cocaine, ecstasy and a gun from two convicted criminals.



But despite the presence of 19 undercover officers, and a surveillance plane circling overhead, police lost track of her.



"She never had any police training, they never did a dry run of this, there was no tracking device in her car," says her father, Irv Hoffman, a mental health counsellor.



Rachel Hoffman was murdered with the gun the police had sent her to buy when the suspects found a police recording device in her purse.

Irv Hoffman at his daughter's grave Irv Hoffman at his daughter Rachel's grave



Subsequent investigations were damning, listing a whole series of police failings and incompetence.



But the botched sting operation opened a debate in Florida about the ways confidential informants were being used.

Continue reading the main story        

Reforming use of informants



California:



Corroboration required for testimony provided by informants in jail

'Chad's Law' prohibiting the use of informants under the age of 12 and restricting the use of informants under 17



Florida:



'Rachel's Law' requiring police to advise informants of their rights and to maintain certain policies with respect to the recruitment and use of informants



Illinois:



Hearings required to establish the reliability of informants, plus heightened discovery to defence lawyers of testimony from jailhouse informants



New York:



Senate Bill A3609-2011 would require corroboration of testimony from informants, heightened discovery to the defence, and additional safeguards



Texas:



Corroboration required for testimony acquired from informants in jail, and from informants charged with drug offences



Washington:



In January, Washington State Senator Adam Kline introduced a bill that would ban use of informants aged 16 or under, require police to tell informants about their obligations and potential rewards in writing, and establish mechanisms to keep track of the use of informants



Source: Professor Alexandra Natapoff's blog



"I got contacted by people from all over the state saying their kid had been put in a dangerous situation over a couple of marijuana cigarettes. They felt that confidential informants had no rights and that they were expendable," says Hoffman.



According to Natapoff, the lack of effective regulation on police use of informants is a nationwide problem.



"There are almost no rules constraining the government in its effort to persuade people to co-operate, the threats they can make to induce people to become informants, and how they are handled after that," she argues.



But many in Florida's law enforcement community are keen to stress the crucial role that informants play.



"An agent can't go up to an organisation and introduce himself and try and get in the door to be able to make a case to prosecute a trafficking organisation. It takes confidential informants to get you through that door," says Larry Zweig, director of Orlando's Metropolitan Bureau of Investigation, which targets drug trafficking and organised crime in central Florida.



He estimates that his officers use confidential informants in 90% of drug cases.



"They made that life-changing decision to become part of the illegal drug trade and now that they've been charged and arrested and are looking at a conviction, this is an option that they have," he says.



Horner says the problem for him, as someone with no previous drug arrests, was finding drug dealers to inform on.



"You start running the streets. You go to the places where drug dealers go, trying to find drugs.



"I had gotten to the point at the end, I was desperate, I didn't care who went to jail. I would have taken anybody down, just so I could be with my family," says Horner.

Irv Hoffman with a photograph of his daughter Rachel Irv Hoffman is lobbying for stricter laws around the use of informants



Natapoff says this is the danger the informant system poses.



"We've created thousands of little criminal entrepreneurs running around looking for other people to snitch on," she says.



"And when they don't have information we've created a massive incentive for them to create it."

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People don't know their rights, they're coerced, bullied into doing things that are wrong”



Irv Hoffman Rachel's father



Horner failed to make cases against drug traffickers.



As a result, he was sentenced to the full 25 years in October last year and is now serving his sentence in Liberty Correctional Institution, outside Tallahassee. He will be 72 by the time he is released.



Osceola County Sheriff's Office did not respond to requests for comment on Horner's case, including his assertion that Matt unfairly set him up by befriending and borrowing money from him, in the process of trying to buy drugs.



The state attorney's office, which prosecuted Horner, told me that Florida law provides defendants with extensive access to evidence to help them decide whether to plead guilty or seek a trial, and that Horner had the benefit of a lawyer when he made the decision to plead guilty.



Since 2009, Florida has introduced more rules on the use of informants than exist in many US states.



That year, following lobbying from Rachel Hoffman's parents, the state legislature passed "Rachel's Law", which set out for the first time some minimum standards police have to meet when recruiting informants and assessing the risks they may face.

Continue reading the main story        

'Rachel's Law'



Law enforcement agencies must:



tell confidential informants (CIs) that officers can't promise reduced sentences in exchange for their work

provide special training for officers who recruit CIs

give CIs the opportunity to consult a lawyer if they request one (but not the right to a publicly funded one)

take into account a person's age and emotional state when deciding whether to recruit them as a CI, as well considering the potential risks they may face



But Rachel's father, Irv, says it's not enough. He's calling for a new law to provide greater protection for minors and those in drug treatment programmes.



"People don't know their rights, they're coerced, bullied into doing things that are wrong, and we want people to know that they have rights," he says.



There are also now some signs of a nationwide reform movement.



"We're seeing around the country legislators grappling with this question: 'How should we permit the government to cut these deals with criminal offenders?'" says Natapoff.



But Horner believes the first priority should be reforming the laws on mandatory minimum sentences for drug crimes.



"You bust the little man, the little man snitches on the bigger man, he faces 25 years, so he turns round and snitches on a bigger man. That's the way this law was written, for the drug cartel and the mafia," he says.



"It was written so you could go up the chain of command. But that's not what it's doing. It's all the little guys at street level that are fighting each other."



The irony is that if Horner been an experienced drug dealer, he may well now be serving a much shorter term than 25 years.



"What snitching does is it rewards the informed, so the lower you are on the totem pole of criminal activity, the less useful you are to the government," says Natapoff. "The higher up in the hierarchy you are, the more you have to offer."



Court records show that Matt, the person who informed on Horner, had a lengthy record of drug offences. At the point he informed on Horner, he was facing a minimum sentence of 15 years for trafficking. He was ultimately sentenced to just 18 months and is now free.



Rob Walker's documentary Snitching in the USA is broadcast on the BBC World Service at 09:05 GMT on 28 March. Listen back via BBC iPlayer Radio, or browse the podcast documentary archive.



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21939453









The President of the United States: Reform Florida’s Minimum Mandatory Sentencing Laws 1st Time Offenders

Petitioning The President of the United States

The President of the United States: Reform Florida’s Minimum Mandatory Sentencing Laws 1st Time Offenders



Kathi Horner



Petition by



Kathi Horner



kissimmee, FL





https://www.facebook.com/ReformSentencingLaws



-Reform Florida’s Minimum Mandatory Sentencing Laws for Non-Violent First Time Offenders-



Thanks go out to FAMM, Families Against Minimum Mandatory http://www.famm.org for the words to help express how serious this situation is.



Our vision is a nation in which sentencing is individualized, humane, and sufficient but not greater than necessary to impose just punishment, secure public safety, and support successful rehabilitation and reentry.



The laws for non violent drug offences, especially where possession is being called trafficking and given 25 year minimum mandatory sentencing are unjust and inhumane. Minimum mandatory sentencing allows prosecutors to railroad defendants into plea bargains with little to know effort on proving the quality of the case against them. Due to the possibility of serving an incomprehensibly lengthy prison term, a defendant without the means to afford private counsel to pose a costly defense must accept whatever offers are made to them, whether guilty or innocent. Judges should have the discretion to weigh the merits of each case and defendant independently and the sole right to impose a just sentence.



In the past few years Florida’s prison population has skyrocketed, and now stands above 100,000, a 20 percent increase from just five years ago and the third highest in the country. The costs associated with our prison population have exploded as well. In 1987, for every dollar spent on higher education, Florida spent 34 cents on corrections; today, it spends 66 cents. A significant portion of the increase in Florida’s prison population can be attributed to Florida’s harsh mandatory minimum sentences. For instance, Florida law defines drug “trafficking” as possession of a given weight of illegal drugs, and possession of 28 grams of illegal painkillers triggers a mandatory minimum 25-year prison sentence; no intent to distribute is required to trigger the mandatory minimum sentence. For perspective, the same crime in Texas carries a two-year sentence. While no doubt well-intentioned, Florida’s laws leave no room for a judge to determine whether a particular defendant deserves the sentence prescribed by the statute. This often leads to unjust outcomes.



Consider the case of my husband, John Horner. My husband was just sentenced to a 25 year min/man on Oct 12, 2012. HE IS A FIRST TIME NON-VIOLENT OFFENDER! He is 46 years old and has 3 children to provide for. Now the state will be providing for him in prison AND for his family to survive. I guarantee he wouldn't give another person an aspirin now, do you really think he will ever give someone a pain pill again?? You can't tell me that it will take 25 years for him to be "rehabilitated". He didn't know that helping someone out who had Crone's Disease would cost him his own life.



Obviously something is very wrong with Florida’s criminal justice system. We can no longer afford to keep nonviolent, first-time offenders in prison for decades. The current system is expensive, inefficient and in desperate need of reform. We need better, more creative solutions to our criminal justice problems, not more of the same. As a start, I respectfully urge you to support reform of Florida’s mandatory minimum sentencing laws.

To:

The President of the United States

The U.S. Senate

The U.S. House of Representatives

florida legislators

I just signed the following petition addressed to: Florida Legislators.



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-Reform Florida’s Minimum Mandatory Sentencing Laws for Non-Violent First Time Offenders-



Our vision is a nation in which sentencing is individualized, humane, and sufficient but not greater than necessary to impose just punishment, secure public safety, and support successful rehabilitation and reentry.



The laws for non violent drug offences, especially where possession is being called trafficking and given 25 year minimum mandatory sentencing are unjust and inhumane. Minimum mandatory sentencing allows prosecutors to railroad defendants into plea bargains with little to know effort on proving the quality of the case against them. Due to the possibility of serving an incomprehensibly lengthy prison term, a defendant without the means to afford private counsel to pose a costly defense must accept whatever offers are made to them, whether guilty or innocent. Judges should have the discretion to weigh the merits of each case and defendant independently and the sole right to impose a just sentence.



In the past few years Florida’s prison population has skyrocketed, and now stands above 100,000, a 20 percent increase from just five years ago and the third highest in the country. The costs associated with our prison population have exploded as well. In 1987, for every dollar spent on higher education, Florida spent 34 cents on corrections; today, it spends 66 cents. A significant portion of the increase in Florida’s prison population can be attributed to Florida’s harsh mandatory minimum sentences. For instance, Florida law defines drug “trafficking” as possession of a given weight of illegal drugs, and possession of 28 grams of illegal painkillers triggers a mandatory minimum 25-year prison sentence; no intent to distribute is required to trigger the mandatory minimum sentence. For perspective, the same crime in Texas carries a two-year sentence. While no doubt well-intentioned, Florida’s laws leave no room for a judge to determine whether a particular defendant deserves the sentence prescribed by the statute. This often leads to unjust outcomes.



Obviously something is very wrong with Florida’s criminal justice system. We can no longer afford to keep nonviolent, first-time offenders in prison for decades. The current system is expensive, inefficient and in desperate need of reform. We need better, more creative solutions to our criminal justice problems, not more of the same. As a start, I respectfully urge you to support reform of Florida’s mandatory minimum sentencing laws.

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Sincerely,



Sincerely,



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Re: Instawallet/Bitcoin-Central Security Breach

Today at 03:13:48 AM

       

#131

My day job, I'm president of Yooter InterActive.

I've been working with search engines for a long time..



Let me tell you some tibits of what I have discovered over the years regarding Google.



1 - Their mission is to obtain information, and resell that in the form of advertising. Period.

2 - They used to collect it back the very late 1990's and early 2000's virtually all though spidering.

3 - Then out of no where they started spending money on stuff like gmail, google maps, google chrome, android, google voice, google chat, google x, y ,z etc...

4 - these products exist for the sole purpose of collecting information.. that spider collects only a fraction of their info now. every search you make is recorded, every url you visit is recorded if you use their product, every time you use google maps and your start location is residental and that happens more than 2 or 3 times they now know where you live.

5 - you send a link to your friend from gmail or to a gmail address, they now know that link exists, if your friend clicks on that link.. now google knows that url exists.. even if that site is banned in the robots.txt file



This goes on forever... in one huge massive ungodly database of tens of thousands of machines linked together that makes the complete hashing power of the bitcoin network look like a peanut.



That's google...



If they wanted to find the urls of instawallet.. nothing on earth could stop them. That being stated, the fact that instawallet didn't ban Google from listing all urls in Webmaster tools (instead relying on just a robots.txt file) is their (instawallets) fault.



For the record, if 3000 people over the course of 2 years e-mail themselves (not anyone, but themselves) to their gmail account their instawallet address for safe keeping... google knows and most likely will list the results.



These people most likely leaked the info ... TO THEMSELVES!!! hence the problem!



The more I research, the more I believe that some of these instawallet urls (not all but a big number of them) were due to people mailing themselves their OWN URL using Gmail.



I wish I could get a million people to read this exact post... because I don't think people fully comprehend what they are dealing with when they mention the company google.









https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=164143.120

]]> http://whosarat.websitetoolbox.com/post?id=6280235 Tue, 02 Apr 2013 12:18:09 GMT <![CDATA["Freeway" Ricky Ross announces film by Nick Cassavetes, Starring Nick Cannon]]> http://whosarat.websitetoolbox.com/post/quotFreewayquot-Ricky-Ross-announces-film-by-Nick-Cassavetes-Starring-Nick-Cannon-6277315
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Freeway%22_Rick_Ross



http://thehypemagazine.blogspot.ch/2013/03/freeway-rick-ross-talks-music-film-and.html

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2660743/











http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/nick-cannon-play-freeway-rick-425942



Nick Cannon to Play 'Freeway' Rick Ross in Biopic

3:20 PM PST 3/4/2013 by Emily Zemler

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UPDATED: The notorious drug kingpin and the "America's Got Talent" host announced the collaboration in a YouTube video.



Nick Cannon will portray former drug kingpin “Freeway” Rick Ross in an upcoming film.

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Cannon appeared alongside Ross in a YouTube video posted to Ross’ Facebook page Monday to announce the movie. Nick Cassavetes (Alpha Dog, Blow) wrote the script and will direct.



“I've been wanting him to play my role since '96,” Ross said of Cannon in the video. “We got hooked up, I met him … I loved his personality.”



STORY: Nick Cannon Inks First-Look Deal With NBC



Added Cannon: “This is history in the making right here. We family now. We gonna get this thing right however long it take. The story gotta be told: the real Rick Ross.”



The brief video offers little other information regarding the planned film but does note in a caption that the script will be penned by the “writer of Blow” (Cassavetes did indeed co-write the screenplay for the 2001 Johnny Depp starrer) and includes the following description: “This is more than a movie it’s a movement. This is the story of the real Scarface.”



It's unclear whether the biopic has secured financing. Cannon will also serve as executive producer.



STORY: Nick Cassavetes' New Film Imperiled By Lawsuit



Ross, who has clashed with Maybach Music head and Miami rapper Rick Ross (real name: William L. Roberts) over use of the moniker for numerous years, gained notoriety as a cocaine trafficker in Los Angeles in the 1980s. He has been interviewed on several programs and documentaries including BET's American Gangster series.



Cannon, whose acting credits include Up All Night, Drumline and Bobby, hosts America's Got Talent. He also creator TV's Wild 'N Out, Short Circuitz and The Nick Cannon Show.



Twitter: @THR









http://allhiphop.com/2013/03/04/exclusive-freeway-rick-ross-speaks-on-his-biopic-documentary-and-nick-cannon/



EXCLUSIVE: “Freeway” Rick Ross Speaks On His Biopic, Documentary and Nick Cannon

by Keith Nelson Jr (@JusAire) March 4th, 2013 @ 9:00pm













http://www.examiner.com/article/exclusive-freeway-rick-ross-talks-music-film-and-being-him-advance-look





EXCLUSIVE: 'Freeway' Rick Ross Talks Music, Film and Being Him (Advance Look) (Photos)



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]]> http://whosarat.websitetoolbox.com/post?id=6277315 Sun, 31 Mar 2013 14:12:33 GMT <![CDATA[Undercover cop outed on Facebook, woman arrested for posting photo]]> http://whosarat.websitetoolbox.com/post/Undercover-cop-outed-on-Facebook-woman-arrested-for-posting-photo-6253643
http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/10/18/undercover-cop-outed-facebook/





by Lisa Vaas on October 18, 2012 | 12 Comments        



Filed Under: Facebook, Featured, Law & order, Privacy, Social networks



Melissa Walthall and George PickensIt's not uncommon these days for police to use the internet and social networks like Facebook to gather information about criminals and criminal activity.



But a recent case proves that undercover police on Facebook should be careful not to find the tables turned against them, and their Facebook profile used against them.



A US woman, Melissa Walthall, 30, of Mesquite, Texas, was arrested on Monday and charged with a felony violation for posting a photo of an undercover police officer onto her Facebook page.



A federal affidavit says that Walthall was retaliating against the officer for testifying against a friend, George Pickens, in a drugs case.



Pickens has been charged in the past with drug, disorderly conduct and theft offenses and is now facing federal drug and weapons charges.



The affidavit says that police who searched Pickens's home found an unregistered, sawn-off shotgun under his bed, 28 grams of methamphetamine, bags for packaging, and a scale.



In addition, police found fliers that looked like "garage sale signs" featuring the undercover officer's image.



According to the Dallas Morning News, after her friend's arrest, Walthall allegedly posted a photo of this flyer onto her Facebook page:



"Undercover Mesquite Narcotics. . Anyone know this bitch?"



Court documents claim that it was Pickens who had originally found the photo on the undercover investigator's Facebook page.



Facebook policePickens and his brother, Bobby Stedham, then printed the fliers hoping to blow the officer's cover, an affidavit charges.



Walthall's post was spotted by an acquaintance who tipped off Mesquite police about her post.



A police investigator found the image, confirmed it was posted by Walthall, and interpreted it as a "viable threat to that officer’s safety," the affidavit said.



According to the Dallas Morning News, Walthall has an active misdemeanor drug case. Bobby Stedham, 26, who was also charged with retaliation, likewise has multiple marijuana convictions.



Retaliation is a federal offense that can result in a prison term of up to 10 years.



According to the Texas Penal Code, retaliation occurs if:



A person... intentionally or knowingly harms or threatens to harm another by an unlawful act... in retaliation for or on account of the service or status of another as a public servant, witness, prospective witness, or informant...



But is posting a photo to Facebook an "unlawful act"?



As pointed out by one observer, it's hard to imagine such an act as unlawful when the officer himself publicly posted his own image onto Facebook.



Walthall and Stedham's alleged act of outing an undercover officer is clearly, rationally an act of retaliation and spite.



Police tools, courtesy of ShutterstockBut on purely legalistic grounds, it's another matter entirely, given the wording of the statute and its reliance on an "unlegal act" taking place to constitute the crime of retaliation.



I called the International Association of Undercover Officers to determine whether there's any other law that might cover the purposeful outing of an undercover officer, but a 23-year veteran of undercover work told me that he knew of none.



When I asked what type of training police receive before undertaking undercover work, he said that many officers simply learn on the job, with no training about keeping their identities out of public view.



That's a problem, not only with young people posting their images onto social networking sites before they've made up their minds to go into undercover work, but also with Google's facial recognition technologies and the ubiquity of Street View imaging, he told me.



Police departments seem to lack a consistent approach to policing their officers' use of social media. Policies are all over the map.



Given this case, maybe it's time to change that.



I'd suggest that police departments start protecting their own by educating undercover cops about how easy it is for them to be outed by their own social media activities.



Come to think of it, that's a good lesson for us all. ]]> http://whosarat.websitetoolbox.com/post?id=6253643 Sat, 16 Mar 2013 11:41:24 GMT <![CDATA[(PART 2) LAW ENFORCEMENT AWARD NAMED AFTER A DRUG TRAFFICKER - The Mark M. Richard Memorial Award]]> http://whosarat.websitetoolbox.com/post/(PART-2)-LAW-ENFORCEMENT-AWARD-NAMED-AFTER-A-DRUG-TRAFFICKER-The-Mark-M.-Richard-Memorial-6247431 http://www.scribd.com/doc/128584423/Law-Enforcement-Award-Named-After-a-Drug-Trafficker]]> http://whosarat.websitetoolbox.com/post?id=6247431 Tue, 12 Mar 2013 02:21:08 GMT <![CDATA[San Jacinto CA Tranny sexually Harassed]]> http://whosarat.websitetoolbox.com/post/San-Jacinto-CA-Tranny-sexually-Harassed-6237247 PLEASE HELP!
I am a feminine and delicate Tranny in San Jacinto CA. For several years I have been the target of many crimes.. I believe that is the same phenomena called gangstalking. Members of this group of people sexually harass me day and night not because my beauty is my curse.. But probably because they can't get laid as much as I do. So despite of they endless sexual harassment I have endured. I have continued to get laid even more. The members of these groups have insulted me and sexually harassed in every imaginably way.

Today I went to the pharmacy located in San Jacinto Ave and 7Th street San Jacinto CA. Two VERY UGLY black thugs stood next to me. I am pretty sure they have successful criminal careers and any and all forms of income they have is derived from illegal activities and communal enterprises. They stood next, Oh My god they STUNK, and they needed a bath.

One of the stated out loud: "This bitch continues to smoke, to spread her legs and get fucked regardless what we do.. What we are going to do next is to----" I walked away before hearing the last of the threats.

Oh no! More threats! What am I going to do?... Their goal is to intimidate me. So I am so scared! But I can tell those stinky black thugs. to shower more often, to get a life and stop obeying their much wealthier and whither superiors.

I am going to continue to get laid. So you can do what you want to do. Yes I know, my beauty is my curse.

I was going to kick their black asses. They think they are so though because they have been empowered by their stalking group as secret agents and as investigators.

They are so lucky I walked away because my tranny wife was waiting for me on the car. If I had beat them to a pulp. They would have been forced to go back to their masters and report that a little tranny kicked their asses.

Please somebody help meee! I know of other Targeted People in the area bu like me they are so afraid to leave our houses and feel unsafe the peaceful San Jacinto CA streets.

I cannot ask anyone from help.. Police will always give me the standard response: Gangstalking is myth and I made up the story because I want more attention. What I want from those low life criminals is to please leave me alone.

Sure, Stalking Group Members consider themselves to be Secret Agents. One a victim attempts to speak out or to defend herself. The rest of their members join in to increase their persecution and harassment. As Secret Agents that they are, they hate to see victims screaming for justice. The rest of their group can see what will happen to them if they don't participate:  "Participate in the entrapment and harassment. Or become a Target yourself."

Well, I will NOT obey. I will continue to live my life as I please. So you all can start increasing your attacks and carry out your threats. I have until the rest of my Transexual life to do what I want to do... I could get a gun and kill some of those stalking group members. But if I do that it would be the end of my life for me. They are cocky because they know that they are entitled to do anything to me and they will ALWAYS get away with it. Nobody outside their dirty organization will know nothing about it.

What they don't know is that if I pull a gun and return the attacks in the forms of bullets. Their members in charge of terrorizing victims are Equally expendable as the people they persecute... Nobody will know about their heroism, there will be another lie in the evenings news. Another yet unexplained a unprovoked act of violence. Nobody knows what caused the attack. Stalking groups are not real and they will always be.

I was going to post a duplicate of this post in the local Internet discussion groups. Craiglist and Topix and send it to local officials and the media. But I got busted by a relative, so I don't want them to worry. So I will wait few days before I do this.

I wonder how the soap opera of my life is developing for the stalking groups. I hope I have been able to keep you entertained and busy.

Uhmm I am not sure if the retaliation will start now or will star then. Bring it on assholes!

http://www.ci.san-jacinto.ca.us/

]]> http://whosarat.websitetoolbox.com/post?id=6237247 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 06:58:26 GMT <![CDATA[San Jacinto CA Sexual Harassement - Plesae Help]]> http://whosarat.websitetoolbox.com/post/San-Jacinto-CA-Sexual-Harassement-Plesae-Help-6237241 PLEASE HELP!
I am a feminine and delicate Tranny in San Jacinto CA.    For several years I have been the target of many crimes.. I believe that is the same phenomena called gangstalking.  Members of this group of people sexually harass me day and night not because my beauty is my curse..  But probably because they can't get laid as much as I do.  So despite of they endless sexual harassment I have endured.  I have continued to get laid even more. The members of these groups have insulted me and sexually harassed in every imaginably way.

Today I went to the pharmacy located in San Jacinto Ave and 7Th street San Jacinto CA.  Two VERY UGLY black thugs stood next to me.   I am pretty sure they have successful criminal careers and any and all forms of income they have is derived from illegal activities and communal enterprises.  They stood next, Oh My god they STUNK, and they needed a bath.

One of the stated out loud: "This bitch continues to smoke, to spread her legs and get fucked regardless what we do..  What we are going to do next is to----"  I walked away before hearing the last of the threats.

Oh no! More threats!  What am I going to do?... Their goal is to intimidate me.  So I am so scared!  But I can tell those stinky black thugs.  to shower more often, to get a life and stop obeying their much wealthier and whither superiors.

I am going to continue to get laid.  So you can do what you want to do.  Yes I know, my beauty is my curse.

I was going to kick their black asses. They think they are so though because they have been empowered by their stalking group as secret agents and as investigators.

They are so lucky I walked away because my tranny wife was waiting for me on the car.  If I had beat them to a pulp.  They would have been forced to go back to their masters and report that a little tranny kicked their asses.

Please somebody help meee!  I know of other Targeted People in the area bu like me they are so afraid to leave our houses and feel unsafe the peaceful San Jacinto CA streets.

I cannot ask anyone from help..  Police will always give me the standard response:  Gangstalking is myth and I made up the story because I want more attention.  What I want from those low life criminals is to please leave me alone.

Sure, Stalking Group Members consider themselves to be Secret Agents.  One a victim attempts to speak out or to defend herself.  The rest of their members join in to increase their persecution and harassment.  As Secret Agents that they are, they hate to see victims screaming for justice.  The rest of the members can see what will happen to them if they don't participate.  Participate in the entrapment and harassment. Or become a Target yourself."

Well, I will NOT obey.  I will continue to live my life as I please.  So you all can start increasing your attacks and carry out your threats.   I have until the rest of my Transexual life to do what I want to do...  I could get a gun and kill some of those stalking group members.  But if I do that it would be the end of my life for me.   They are cocky because they know that they are entitled to do anything to me and they will ALWAYS get away with it.  Nobody outside their dirty organization will know nothing about it.

What they don't know is that if I pull a gun and  return the attacks in the forms of bullets.  Their members in charge of terrorizing victims are Equally expendable as the people they persecute...  Nobody will know about their heroism, there will be another lie in the evenings news.  Another yet unexplained a unprovoked act of violence.  Nobody knows what caused the attack.  Stalking groups are not real and they will always be.

I was going to post a duplicate of this post in the local Internet discussion groups.  Craiglist and Topix and send it to local officials and the media. But I got busted by a relative, so I don't want them to worry.  So I will wait few days before I do this.

I wonder how the soap opera of my life is developing for the stalking groups. I hope I have been able to keep you entertained and busy.

Uhmm I am not sure if the retaliation will start now or will star then. Bring it on assholes!

http://www.ci.san-jacinto.ca.us/

]]> http://whosarat.websitetoolbox.com/post?id=6237241 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 06:54:04 GMT <![CDATA[LAW ENFORCEMENT AWARD NAMED AFTER A DRUG TRAFFICKER- THE WILLIAM FRENCH SMITH AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING. CONTRIBUTIONS TO COOPERATIVE. LAW ENFORCEMENT]]> http://whosarat.websitetoolbox.com/post/LAW-ENFORCEMENT-AWARD-NAMED-AFTER-A-DRUG-TRAFFICKER-THE-WILLIAM-FRENCH-SMITH-AWARD-FOR-OUTSTANDING.-6235991


Hitz's admission was made before congress during hearings on CIA / CONTRA involvement in narcotics trafficking.



US Congresswoman Maxine Waters obtained copies of the documents and entered them into the congressional record. The documents can be viewed on the CIA website by clicking the links below.

They are signed by DCI William Casey

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_J._Casey



Attorney General William French Smith

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_French_Smith



Mark M. Richard, at that time Deputy Assistant Attorney General (Who has his own law enforcement award - The Mark M. Richard Memorial Award)



A.R. Cinquegrana - Deputy Chief of DoJ's Office of Intelligence Policy and Review (OIPR) from 1979 to 1991







See the documents here:





Exhibit 1



U.S. Attorney General William French Smith replies to a still classified letter from DCI William Casey requesting exemption from reporting drug crimes by CIA assets,agents and contractors.



Source:



https://www.cia.gov/library/reports/general-reports-1/cocaine/contra-story/01.gif













Exhibit 2:



DCI William Casey happily agrees with William French Smith and signs the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) exempting his agency from reporting drug crimes. This agreement covered both the Latin American conflicts and Afghanistan war. It remained in effect until August, 1995 when it was quietly rescinded by Janet Reno after Gary Webb began making inquiries for his series. The 1995 revision of the DOJ-CIA MOU specifically includes narcotics violations among the lists of potential offenses by non-employees that must be reported to DoJ.



Source:



https://www.cia.gov/library/reports/general-reports-1/cocaine/contra-story/13.gif









Exhibit 3:



On February 8, 1985, Deputy Chief of DoJ's Office of Intelligence Policy and Review (OIPR) from 1979 to 1991, A. R. Cinquegrana signed off on this letter approving the MOU. Mark M. Richard, Deputy Assistant Attorney General with responsibility for General Litigation and International Law Enforcement in 1982, states that he was unable to explain why narcotics violations were not on the list of reportable crimes except that the MOU had "other deficiencies, not just drugs."



Source:



https://www.cia.gov/library/reports/general-reports-1/cocaine/contra-story/14.gif













Maxine Waters investigation and testimony before the US House of Representatives can be seen here:

http://www.scribd.com/doc/117070568/US-Congresswoman-Maxine-Waters-Investigation-of-CIA-Contras-involvement-in-drug-sales-1996-2000







So there you have it. Four of the largest drug enablers in history, masquerading as law enforcement officials. Two of the men have Law enforcement awards named after them. When Journalist Gary Webb was told of the "William French Smith Law Enforcement Award" he laughed and asked "what do they give that out for"?



During his testimony before Congress Inspector General Fred Hitz was basically telling congress that records don't exist because none were required.



]]> http://whosarat.websitetoolbox.com/post?id=6235991 Mon, 04 Mar 2013 15:52:47 GMT