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The May 2012 arraignment in the long-stalled war crimes case was an unruly 13-hour spectacle, drawn out as the defendants refused to use the court translation system, ignored the judge and stood up to pray in court. The defendants sat out portions of this week's session. When they were in court, they remained largely silent. The lead defendant, self-professed terrorist mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, sat quietly at his defense table, wearing a military-style camouflage vest over his white robe.
This week's hearings largely dealt with fears by members of the five defense teams that the U.S. government has been eavesdropping on their private conversations, violating the core legal principal of attorney-client privilege.
Military officials confirmed that meeting rooms used by the attorneys have microphones apparently disguised to look like smoke detectors. They said, however, that the devices have no recording capability and have not been used to monitor private meetings that prisoners have with their lawyers or the Red Cross. Prosecutors agreed on Thursday to disconnect the devices.
Bormann and Mohammed attorney David Nevin said the defense is continuing to investigate whether there has been any eavesdropping, which they said undermines their ability to represent their clients and under some circumstances could be illegal.
The chief prosecutor, Army Brig. Gen Mark Martins, said that after looking into the matter and hearing this week's testimony he is confident that there wasn't any monitoring of the attorney's conversations with the defendants. "It's not happening and we can go forward," he told reporters after the hearing adjourned.
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I'm not so confident, myself.
One bizarre thing about following this particular story is that I haven't been able to print out any of Arun Rath's excellent reports from the PBS website.
What happens is, I print it, and gibberish comes out of the computer. The headline prints fine, and the rest is gibberish.
So, what I do, is I copy and paste it into our metro browser here, and then print it.
This has happened with all of Arun Rath's reports so far on the PBS site.
I was able to print out one of his reports from Public Radio Intenational's site for The World.
A colleague said, "You've got to get off of whatever list you're on."
18 Şubat 2013 Pazartesi
"The Burners"
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What just happened this week?
Did we really all gather round our screens and watch and listen as a man was torched to death by the L.A.P.D.?
Here in our air-conditioned hallways, under the fluorescent lights, we tuned in the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department scanner and the fire department scanner. Comments poured in from all over the country on Twitter with the #Dorner hashtag. When the law took the scanners offline, sound was down for about twenty minutes, and then another web address made its way around the Net which raised the scanner again.
From sea to shining sea, we all looked into shining screens, filling our eyes with artificial light, and lost ourselves in the void.
The void---the place where the present has no reality.
The place where the warm living human beings around us become secondary to the activity on the screens and the sounds coming out of the speakers.
The place where we are reduced to being a silent audience with only keyboards to send signals and no power to act.
The place we go to every day.
Except this time, we went there to see a man die.
Because we all knew it was going to happen.
So I watched too.
I watched because it's my job. I watched because it's what I do. I watched because everyone was watching. I watched because this was what it means, now, to be part of something.
Experience has been reduced to reacting to information coming from machines.
On the highway, we steer our machines through a stream of other machines shooting through space, and pray we reach our exit without meeting any of them metal to metal, bone crunch to blood spray. At home, we sit and watch more screens, and listen to people far away, talking about what's important to talk about, with the people who are there with them. Something is always happening, and it's always happening somewhere else. In fact, that's the only place anything important happens, any more.
And with distrust of the media that controls what comes out of the machines, not only is the matter of immediate importance happening elsewhere, but we can't even know for sure what it is. (Burn that motherf*cking house down!)
The whole game of mass distraction means moment to moment, the present--and the people in it--are of secondary importance to these signals from elsewhere firing through the hive mind.
And so the present has become a wasteland. The human people around us are all watching screens or listening to headphones. Their brains --and hearts-- are disconnected from their bodies.
And the L.A. Times keeps avoiding the conversation everyone wants to have----HOW DO WE STOP THIS FROM HAPPENING AGAIN?
Chris Freewell
The LAPD 'may' be out molesting children, shooting old ladies in pickups & burning down houses tonight.
'I don't know what the big deal is, cops molest children all the time' said Geoffery Alpert, a professor at the University of South Carolina.
Way to lie, LATimes & LaPD! You really think no-one heard your maniac cops screaming 'Burn the Mother'Fer' down multiple times before the fire?
Just google 'Police Audio From Dorner Siege' - The entire world knows you idiots are lying. Give it up.
....I really love the part of this article where they admit 'they could wait no longer for Dorner to surrender.' Of course they couldn't! Why bother to get a negotiator, wait him out or give him a chance to put his hands up? We don't need know stinking law, we are the law!
Besides who needs police work when we have military grade CS Gas that burns at 4,000 degrees planted around the house whose soul purpose is to start fires and burn people to death? 'Like We Planned' 'Yea' The Burners' 'Burn that Mother'f'er Down!'
Did we really all gather round our screens and watch and listen as a man was torched to death by the L.A.P.D.?
Here in our air-conditioned hallways, under the fluorescent lights, we tuned in the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department scanner and the fire department scanner. Comments poured in from all over the country on Twitter with the #Dorner hashtag. When the law took the scanners offline, sound was down for about twenty minutes, and then another web address made its way around the Net which raised the scanner again.
From sea to shining sea, we all looked into shining screens, filling our eyes with artificial light, and lost ourselves in the void.
The void---the place where the present has no reality.
The place where the warm living human beings around us become secondary to the activity on the screens and the sounds coming out of the speakers.
The place where we are reduced to being a silent audience with only keyboards to send signals and no power to act.
The place we go to every day.
Except this time, we went there to see a man die.
Because we all knew it was going to happen.
So I watched too.
I watched because it's my job. I watched because it's what I do. I watched because everyone was watching. I watched because this was what it means, now, to be part of something.
Experience has been reduced to reacting to information coming from machines.
On the highway, we steer our machines through a stream of other machines shooting through space, and pray we reach our exit without meeting any of them metal to metal, bone crunch to blood spray. At home, we sit and watch more screens, and listen to people far away, talking about what's important to talk about, with the people who are there with them. Something is always happening, and it's always happening somewhere else. In fact, that's the only place anything important happens, any more.
And with distrust of the media that controls what comes out of the machines, not only is the matter of immediate importance happening elsewhere, but we can't even know for sure what it is. (Burn that motherf*cking house down!)
The whole game of mass distraction means moment to moment, the present--and the people in it--are of secondary importance to these signals from elsewhere firing through the hive mind.
And so the present has become a wasteland. The human people around us are all watching screens or listening to headphones. Their brains --and hearts-- are disconnected from their bodies.
And the L.A. Times keeps avoiding the conversation everyone wants to have----HOW DO WE STOP THIS FROM HAPPENING AGAIN?
Chris Freewell
The LAPD 'may' be out molesting children, shooting old ladies in pickups & burning down houses tonight.
'I don't know what the big deal is, cops molest children all the time' said Geoffery Alpert, a professor at the University of South Carolina.
Way to lie, LATimes & LaPD! You really think no-one heard your maniac cops screaming 'Burn the Mother'Fer' down multiple times before the fire?
Just google 'Police Audio From Dorner Siege' - The entire world knows you idiots are lying. Give it up.
....I really love the part of this article where they admit 'they could wait no longer for Dorner to surrender.' Of course they couldn't! Why bother to get a negotiator, wait him out or give him a chance to put his hands up? We don't need know stinking law, we are the law!
Besides who needs police work when we have military grade CS Gas that burns at 4,000 degrees planted around the house whose soul purpose is to start fires and burn people to death? 'Like We Planned' 'Yea' The Burners' 'Burn that Mother'f'er Down!'
Ride along with the Washtenaw County Sheriff's Office
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I went on a ride along with a deputy of the Washtenaw County Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday this week. I have been looking forward to it for awhile. As the police and court reporter covering Washtenaw County, I wanted learn more about the sheriff’s department and its methods. I was assigned to ride along with Deputy James Roy, who has been with the sheriff’s department for about five years. He is part of a violent crime unit stationed in Ypsilanti Township, but there are a number of aspects of his job. Deputy Roy explains it himself in this video:
Deputy Roy showed me around Ypsilanti Township and the different areas he regularly patrols, which include neighborhoods like West Willow, some apartment complexes like Village Grove Apartments, and trailer home parks. Part of the reason for the patrols is simply to have a visible police presence in the community. I’m still pretty new to the area so I was seeing quite a few things for the first time. He also talked about the different technology and techniques he uses, and about his own experience as a law enforcement officer.
The different kinds of technology used by police are among what I learned about on the ride along. Recording equipment is heavily used. Deputy Roy showed me a body microphone held in patrol vehicles. When he leaves the vehicle he clips it onto his uniform, and it provides an audio record such as for interactions with residents and suspects. Patrol vehicles have cameras in them. Footage gets downloaded wirelessly when a vehicle gets to the station, which for him is usually the Ypsilanti Township Civic Center on Huron River Drive.
The sheriff’s department also looked into portable video cameras for deputies to keep on themselves like the microphone. Deputy Roy said he tested a few of these cameras out over the summer, trying to find something that works out good. It needs to be easily portable, he said, because deputies carry plenty of equipment already.
From my own understanding, recording equipment is used both as a record of what happened if needed in court and as a means to protect officers from accusations.
I was also shown the computer deputies connect to their vehicles while on the road. They look like heavily armored laptops. There’s all kinds of features, such as a touch screen and easy to navigate screens that allow deputies to look up information even while on the move. Systems are in place capable of pulling up any driver’s license photographs and mug shots a person may have, allowing deputies to cross reference – useful for determining if somebody has a fake ID. Some of the computers even have a print reader, which is able to pull up this information with the imprint of a finger or thumb.
I also learned quite a bit about Deputy Roy during the ride along. I could tell he was passionate about being part of the sheriff’s department and working to make the community a better place.
“I could do this every day,” he said. “It’s what I always wanted to do.”
Three members of his family are also in law enforcement, two cousins and an uncle, so one explanation for his interest in law enforcement is that it’s simply in his bloodline.
Overall the ride along was a good experience. I’m glad I got to know Deputy Roy. He invited me to do another ride along pretty much whenever, but there were some suggestions like a midnight shift in July. I was told that’s one of the most active times in the year for law enforcement – mostly because people are themselves more active and get out more when its warmer, and this activity peaks in July.
Deputy Roy showed me around Ypsilanti Township and the different areas he regularly patrols, which include neighborhoods like West Willow, some apartment complexes like Village Grove Apartments, and trailer home parks. Part of the reason for the patrols is simply to have a visible police presence in the community. I’m still pretty new to the area so I was seeing quite a few things for the first time. He also talked about the different technology and techniques he uses, and about his own experience as a law enforcement officer.
The different kinds of technology used by police are among what I learned about on the ride along. Recording equipment is heavily used. Deputy Roy showed me a body microphone held in patrol vehicles. When he leaves the vehicle he clips it onto his uniform, and it provides an audio record such as for interactions with residents and suspects. Patrol vehicles have cameras in them. Footage gets downloaded wirelessly when a vehicle gets to the station, which for him is usually the Ypsilanti Township Civic Center on Huron River Drive.
The sheriff’s department also looked into portable video cameras for deputies to keep on themselves like the microphone. Deputy Roy said he tested a few of these cameras out over the summer, trying to find something that works out good. It needs to be easily portable, he said, because deputies carry plenty of equipment already.
From my own understanding, recording equipment is used both as a record of what happened if needed in court and as a means to protect officers from accusations.
I was also shown the computer deputies connect to their vehicles while on the road. They look like heavily armored laptops. There’s all kinds of features, such as a touch screen and easy to navigate screens that allow deputies to look up information even while on the move. Systems are in place capable of pulling up any driver’s license photographs and mug shots a person may have, allowing deputies to cross reference – useful for determining if somebody has a fake ID. Some of the computers even have a print reader, which is able to pull up this information with the imprint of a finger or thumb.
I also learned quite a bit about Deputy Roy during the ride along. I could tell he was passionate about being part of the sheriff’s department and working to make the community a better place.
“I could do this every day,” he said. “It’s what I always wanted to do.”
Three members of his family are also in law enforcement, two cousins and an uncle, so one explanation for his interest in law enforcement is that it’s simply in his bloodline.
Overall the ride along was a good experience. I’m glad I got to know Deputy Roy. He invited me to do another ride along pretty much whenever, but there were some suggestions like a midnight shift in July. I was told that’s one of the most active times in the year for law enforcement – mostly because people are themselves more active and get out more when its warmer, and this activity peaks in July.
It's time to get those potholes filled, Washtenaw County Road Commission
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The most obvious sign of the warm weather we've had the last few weeks can be spotted on Austin Road, west of Saline in Saline Township. The potholes are some of the worst I've driven in quite some time.
They stretch from the west side of the City of Saline and then mostly through Saline Township. Once you get to Bridgewater, most of the nasty potholes stop.
The weather looks pretty nice out, perhaps the county could take their truck and fill some of them...?
It's paczki day: where did you get yours?
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Tomorrow begins the season of Lent for Catholics and many Protestants, a season of fasting and penitence. Which means it's time for the metro Detroit favorite, the paczki.
A Polish favorite, the paczki has gained statewide popularity. I picked mine up at Benny's Bakery in downtown Saline this morning, and the line was the longest I've ever seen at the bakery.
Where did you pick yours up around Washtenaw County today? And who makes the best paczki?
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A Polish favorite, the paczki has gained statewide popularity. I picked mine up at Benny's Bakery in downtown Saline this morning, and the line was the longest I've ever seen at the bakery.
Where did you pick yours up around Washtenaw County today? And who makes the best paczki?
17 Şubat 2013 Pazar
Deputies receive recognition for life saving
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Deputies Chris Duncan, Jaime Miranda and SpenserBryan received Sheriff’s Medals for life saving efforts at a ceremony heldFriday in Marathon.
Deputy Duncan received his medal after repeatedlydiving into the water in an attempt to save a child who he’d been told wastrapped in a submerged car. The mother, who was injured and confused, thoughther child was in the car at the time; it was later discovered the child was,thankfully, not in the car and was safe at home.
Deputies Bryan and Miranda stopped a man armed with a knife from killing himself; the tense and distraught man was disarmed without injury to himself or to the officers on the scene.
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| Deputies Jaime Miranda and Spenser Bryan with Sheriff Rick Ramsay. |
Deputies Bryan and Miranda stopped a man armed with a knife from killing himself; the tense and distraught man was disarmed without injury to himself or to the officers on the scene.
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| Sheriff Rick Ramsay and Captain Penny Phelps congratulate Deputy Chris Duncan. |
Man fights with deputies, is arrested on drug charges
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Key Largo – A New Jersey man stopped for riding his bikeerratically in Key Largo early today was arrested after he ran from deputies,fought them and was found to possess drugs.
Deputy Matthew O’Neill was on patrol at the 100 mile markerat 1:20 a.m. when he spotted 23 year old Richard Scrivani riding his bike inthe middle of the highway. As the deputy watched, Scrivani rode southbound inthe northbound lanes, swerving back and forth, and he had no lights on hisbicycle.
Using his overhead lights, the deputy stopped Scrivani andasked what he was doing. Scrivani was vague in his responses. He said he hadbeen “hanging out” at Publix with friends. He could not explain why he would behanding out at a closed business, nor could he give any of his friend’s names.He told Deputy O’Neill his own name was Russell Coopper and said he was fromNew York. He said he had no identification with him.
When Deputy O’Neill told him he was going to do a pat down searchfor officer safety reasons, Scrivani fled on foot with the deputy running afterhim. The deputy called on the radio forback up. At one point Scrivani tripped and fell. Deputy O’Neill ordered him atTaser point to stay on the ground. When Scrivani got up , Deputy O’Neilldeployed the taser. Unfortunately, because he was wearing a jacket the taserwas not effective. Scrivani again began running, but Deputy O’Neill tackled himand they fought. Sgt. E.B. Askins arrived on the scene as back up and the twodeputies were able to subdue Scrivani.
A driver’s license with his real name was found in his possession.A check on the name revealed a warrant out of New Jersey for drug relatedcharges. A cigarette pack in his pocket was found to contain Oxycodone, Xanax,crack cocaine and a small metal pipe.
Scrivani later admitted to smoking crack cocaine just 10minutes before his encounter with the deputy.
He was charged with battery on a law enforcement officer,resisting arrest with violence, giving a false name to a law enforcementofficer, possession of cocaine, drug paraphernalia and possession of acontrolled substance. He was also charged with the outstanding New Jerseywarrant. He was booked into jail.
Key Largo – A New Jersey man stopped for riding his bikeerratically in Key Largo early today was arrested after he ran from deputies,fought them and was found to possess drugs.
Deputy Matthew O’Neill was on patrol at the 100 mile markerat 1:20 a.m. when he spotted 23 year old Richard Scrivani riding his bike inthe middle of the highway. As the deputy watched, Scrivani rode southbound inthe northbound lanes, swerving back and forth, and he had no lights on hisbicycle.
Using his overhead lights, the deputy stopped Scrivani andasked what he was doing. Scrivani was vague in his responses. He said he hadbeen “hanging out” at Publix with friends. He could not explain why he would behanding out at a closed business, nor could he give any of his friend’s names.He told Deputy O’Neill his own name was Russell Coopper and said he was fromNew York. He said he had no identification with him.
When Deputy O’Neill told him he was going to do a pat down searchfor officer safety reasons, Scrivani fled on foot with the deputy running afterhim. The deputy called on the radio forback up. At one point Scrivani tripped and fell. Deputy O’Neill ordered him atTaser point to stay on the ground. When Scrivani got up , Deputy O’Neilldeployed the taser. Unfortunately, because he was wearing a jacket the taserwas not effective. Scrivani again began running, but Deputy O’Neill tackled himand they fought. Sgt. E.B. Askins arrived on the scene as back up and the twodeputies were able to subdue Scrivani.
A driver’s license with his real name was found in his possession.A check on the name revealed a warrant out of New Jersey for drug relatedcharges. A cigarette pack in his pocket was found to contain Oxycodone, Xanax,crack cocaine and a small metal pipe.
Scrivani later admitted to smoking crack cocaine just 10minutes before his encounter with the deputy.
He was charged with battery on a law enforcement officer,resisting arrest with violence, giving a false name to a law enforcementofficer, possession of cocaine, drug paraphernalia and possession of acontrolled substance. He was also charged with the outstanding New Jerseywarrant. He was booked into jail.
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