Seriously, I moved to this state to get away from the dirty, corrupt governing that goes on in Massachusetts, & now this revelation that the snooper trooper was delving into the personal files of a Tennessean newspaper reporter who writes on the Tennessee Highway Patrol?
This is very disturbing to say the least. What other conclusion can one come to, than that he was looking for “something” to embarrass that reporter with, or a way to shut him up? I suppose there are other possibilities, but what is the likelihood of those “other” possibilities?
I rarely agree with anything the Nashville City paper says, but they’ve written an excellent article on the importance of conducting an “independent investigation” in this case. I agree completely.
Put simply, we need to be able to trust our public officials in order to preserve ORDER, & especially the ones that carry 40 cal. pistols, AR-15 assault rifles, shotguns, tasers, nightsticks, handcuffs & pepper spray as a matter of daily course. Can I get a witness?
Preferably one that doesn’t work for the THP or the Dept of Safety in Tennessee..
I was listening to the Steve Gill show this morning when I heard some really disturbing news. A Tennessee state trooper who’s been in trouble for “ticket fixing” is now being investigated for allegedly conducting unauthorized background checks on members of the media & other undisclosed individuals. Members of the Tennessee media SHOULD be very concerned with this kind of activity, & believe you me, they clearly are..
Governor Phil Bredesen assures us that there are no “political shenanigans” going on..
Uhuh….
Gov. Phil Bredesen described what Shirley was accused of doing as “rummaging around in the driver’s license records and those types of things.”
Yes.. mhmm.. Just “rummaging”.. Like at a yard sale right? Except he was wantonly “rummaging” through people’s personal records & information like he was looking through a box of old 45 rpm records at a garage sale? Does anyone really buy this?
Bredesen said he was satisfied by the early results of the investigation.
“There is at this point no evidence whatsoever any public officials were targeted or any political maneuverings going on,” he said.
Really? So if these allegations turn out to be true, why else would a State trooper who’s already fixed a ticket for one of your aids Governor Bredesen, want look into the backgrounds of media folks? Just sayin’… There seems to be a pattern emerging.
I think that list should of people who were investigated should be made public myself. This is a very, very serious violation of public trust, & the kind of thing you’d expect to hear coming out of the former Soviet Union in they heydays of the KGB.
As a Tennessee resident, you don’t expect to hear that Tennessee State Troopers may be doing rogue investigations on private citizens or media personnel, just in case they have a “use” for that info later on.
No matter what the motive, it smells to high heaven, & anyone involved no matter how high up the corruption goes, should be removed from their position in the interest of preserving public trust in our elected officials. As of right now, unfortunately it sounds like Nashville is on track to become the new Chicago..
Terry Frank has done an excellent job following this investigation here.
Tonight I watched the Democratic National committee stand there & flat out lie to the American people about what THEY can do for this country, & what Bush hasn’t done. The truth is they have had control of most of this country’s power for two years now, with their control of the US Congress, & they’ve gotten less done than any congress in history. They have the lowest approval rating of any Congress in history. They have the nerve say that “On Bush’s watch” this, & on Bush’s watch that, when they are the ones who had the opportunity to change things, & they completely squandered it.
How we let morally corrupt trash like Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid & Howard Dean become leaders in this once great nation, is beyond reason. They lie constantly & do it with absolutely no remorse or conscience.
They have the gall to blame the Gas Prices on Bush, when they were the ones proposing more taxes on companies that bring us our energy, thus eventually driving up the prices even more. Their party is the party that keeps us from drilling for our own oil & natural gas resources on OUR OWN SOIL.
I really don’t know what to say to my fellow Americans other than you’d better get your head out of your XBox, Sex in the City, & whatever else is distracting you from caring about what kind of corruption is occurring in the Government of the United States. These people are intentionally destroying the sovereignty of this nation because they believe in selling out to our enemies for a quick political payoff. Most Democrats do not fear God, because they don’t believe in him in the first place, so why would they have a problem with lying? They don’t believe that they will face eternal consequences for their actions, so what do these old farts like Pelosi & Reid care if they destroy the nation? The way they see it is when they’re dead they’re dead, so they might as well get all they can while they are alive.
It is critical that we take out the trash in the next 8-12 years, starting with most of the Democratic Party. As I said, I have never in all my life seen more people in a position of such power who are so willing to flat out lie to our faces for personal & political power & gain. Remember, one of the biggest problems facing this nation today is an energy crisis, & these people have the nerve to point the finger at others after 2 years of controlling the congress & doing almost nothing.
There is one comfort I have in all of this, & that is that I know that those who lie & cheat without conscience will face the wrath of God when he returns. That includes people like Howard Dean who’s viral lying words about President George Bush go far beyond constructive criticism.
Then there’s that complete scumbag Senator Debbie Stabow who has the nerve to blame Bush’s economic policies for her democratic tax & spend government’s failures in Michigan. Democrats have run Michigan into the ground, & this psychopath had the nerve to get up on CSpan & blame Bush. Bush is to blame for everything if you’re a Democrat. A manhole transformer explosion can occur in Moscow, & the Democrats will say that’s Bush’s fault too. These people are less insane than they are just plan evil, but they are a some of both.
My fellow Americans, I hate to be the one to tell you this, but you have turned your government over to one of the most vile broods of viper in all history, & they want to put a closet Muslim Extremist sympathizer in office to further undermine our sovereignty, & submit to like minded liberal,fascist,communist,socialist governments around the world. If we don’t begin to take out the garbage soon, you will be living under a tyranny that will be painful to remove.. It’s critical to your future & the future of your children that you remove this tumor that is growing on our nation.
After I watched the horrid drivel coming from the DNC, the idiots (like Mike German) from the ACLU had their turn spewing their hypocrisy & rhetoric (since they are are a front for the Democrats) on privacy & surveillance.
They sadly & pathetically try to use the abuse perpetrated by ONE police officer using an infrared camera to spot a couple making out on a roof, as proof that “Bush’s” surveillance policies have violated the privacy of the American people. Yet I’ve worked for Democrats at a college they run, & they monitor people’s phone calls, confiscate the hard drives & IM Logs of any employee that’s quit or been fired, & regularly try to brainwash employees about global warming & a host of other social issues that have nothing to do with their Job requirements.
In short, Democrats are largely vile & despicable lying hypocrites, & the way you can tell if they are lying to you, is if they are communicating to you in any way whatsoever, be it speech, writing, or hand signs. Turn this country over to these people, & we will be doomed to more than listening to the Liberal employees at Starbucks trying to force us to say “Grande”, “Venti”, & “Tall”, instead of speaking english in the United States. We will be doomed to bowing to the whims of the democratic party & whatever terms they have made with the devil while selling out our country to terrorists & their sympathizers.
My message to my fellow countrymen & women is to wake up & see what evil is creeping up on you. They want to tell you what size car to drive, take away your guns, & tell you that you can’t have bibles or prayer in public schools, yet they speak out the other side of their mouths about their concerns of over liberty & Government surveillance. These people are lying scum, & the Democratic party as it currently exists, must be defeated & destroyed, period. It has lost it’s moral compass, & besides it’s advocation of murdering babies & pushing the gay agenda on the American people, & blatantly lying to the public about phantom environmental concerns like “Global Warming” it’s list of moral atrocities grow exponentially every year. They have infiltrated & completely taken over the news media & educational system so that they can control the information the American people receive, & they regularly attack any media outlet with whom they either don’t agree, or who tries to present anything other than a liberal view. Liberals these days only believe in their own liberty. If you want proof, watch C-Span. It really should be call “C-Spam” (for cerebral spam), but that would be too much honesty for a liberal network to handle.
Oh. one more thing.. I wonder if it’s any coincidence that there was a man in some hardcore Muslim garb sitting in the CSPAN audience & listening intently to Mike German from the ACLU? Talk about surveillance…
Today, the Houston Chronicle reports that the Houston PD shot a man who’s friends & family say is a CIA officer, after a high speed pursuit. The CIA claims he doesn’t work for them.
The story is scary because if he wasn’t a CIA officer, how did he convince so many people? If he was? Why didn’t Police recognize his credentials?
Also, why did he run & then reach under the seat ignoring police commands? How did the police miss THREE weapons in the car at the scene, & then mysteriously find them behind closed doors at an impound yard, including a shotgun on the floor in front of the back seat? It may be legit, but it certainly raises eyebrows.
Justice & even a long time coming sanity prevails as the assault charge against a 79-year-old man called the “Patriotic Grandpa” was dropped this morning by Guilford District Attorney Doug Henderson, & dropped quietly in a closed court session.
We at the Dan Lee Report would like to thank Guilford District Attorney Doug Henderson for doing the right thing with this case, Pop’s attorney Seth Cohen, Michelle Malkin, Jeri Rowe & others at the News & Record for breaking the story, the entire blogosphere, the American people for responding, & last but not least Alexander “Pop” Kohanowich for being a great American.
When free speech & freedom of assembly are threatened, it’s everyone’s problem. We’re sure that Pop appreciates all of you as well.
Hopefully the Greensboro NC Police department with re-evaluate the way it handles senior citizens in the future.
Leviticus 19:32
“Stand up in the presence of the aged, show respect for the elderly and revere your God. I am the LORD.”
The Department of Justice has a program (at least in South Carolina), called the “Cease Fire” project..
Sounds like a good thing if it helps prevent gun crimes. HOWEVER, ahem.. On their website, they have a very ominous poster that is not very constitutional in my opinion as an educated U.S. born citizen. In fact it’s wording is a bit scary to say the least.
I have just a little teensy weensy question though..
Since when does a broken tail light alone lead to probable cause for a search of a person’s trunk?
Or is law enforcement doing courtesy tail light bulb changes that we didn’t know about?
As a legal gun owner & advocate, I don’t want people having guns illegally either, but at the same time, DUE PROCESS is imperative to our Constitutional rights. Although motor vehicles have “less” protection under the fourth amendment, they are still protected against illegal or harassing searches. A broken tail light alone certainly does not justify rifling through a citizens trunk, or vehicle. Once police have validly stopped a vehicle, they “may”, based on articulable facts warranting a reasonable belief that weapons may be present, conduct a Terry-type protective search of those portions of the passenger compartment in which a weapon could be placed or hidden. The poster I linked should be changed to reflect a respect for constitutionality in law, & due process.
Now the Greensboro NC Police are saying that they were justified in how they handled asking Alexander Kohanowich to leave the median strip with his Pro US Troop/America signs at an Barack Hussein Obama rally. Barack, who by the way is AGAINST the Iraq war, & has been from the beginning, clearly doesn’t agree with God Bless America signs, or else he wouldn’t have attended a church for decades that promotes a message of “God Damning America.” The Police also state that “witnesses” corroborate that Al Kohanowich pushed Prescod. Well what color are these witnesses? Is there a racial component to these claims? Could these accounts be motivated by discrimination against a white man going against the grain at an Obama Rally?
Of course now I’m getting reports that the arresting officer, one Lester Prescod, is also an African American. So what we have is a young African American Greensboro N.C. Officer, arresting an old white man at a Rally for a man named Barack Hussein Obama, that hangs around with a Pastor who hates on white people, & says “God Damn America”, which is again the Opposite what Mr. Kohanowich’s signs said.. Starting to see a picture developing here?
Yes, this makes me as mad as hell! Because If this were a black man who was arrested by a white officer, with a bunch of white witnesses around testifying to what they saw? Jessie Jackson, Al Sharpton, & perhaps Reverend Jeremiah Wright himself, would be calling for the heads of the whole police department, & especially the firing of the white officer who discriminated against the poor black protester.
I guess maybe we need an organization for the protection of white people now, since I don’t see anyone at Jessie Jackson’s “Rainbow Push Coalition” screaming at the top of their lungs for a thorough internal affairs investigation of these officers & “witnesses”. No interestingly, there’s no mention of this story on the “Rainbow” site. I guess Alexander Kohanowich while being white & all, is not colorful enough to qualify for civil rights, or to be part of the “Rainbow”. Why should we trust that these blacks at this rally didn’t just arrest & then bear false witness against Kohanowich, for going against the message of the man we all know that most of them will vote for? Why!?
I want these questions answered, because if blacks like Obama can say things like:
“Black anger persists over injustice in America, and whites shouldn’t be surprised about the way it’s expressed in sermons”, then I guess blacks shouldn’t be surprised that white conservative bloggers are angry about the arrest of an 78 year old white patriot minding his business at a Barack Hussein Obama rally. They shouldn’t be surprised by the way my “white anger” is expressed in my blog, or any other then..
Question: Why did Prescod have to take a 78 year old to the ground to put cuffs on him? Is Prescod out of shape or something? If he is, it’s time to check the fitness policies in this department so that officers are strong enough to arrest elderly people without throwing them to the ground like ragdolls. Seriously, if he had to take a 78 year old man down & risk giving him a heart attack, maybe officer Prescod is at risk for one himself? This was clearly an unprofessional move, from an unprofessional police dept, (in my most humble & gentle opinion of course.)
Another question: Where in the constitution does it say that Police can force people off of a publicly owned median if they are citizens paying taxes to mow the grass on it, or keep it clean & paved?
He wasn’t obstructing traffic from any of the reports I’ve read.
What? Just because the Royal Barack Hussein Obama was coming through, Police can arbitrarily alter constitutional rights? Were they afraid he was going to beat Barack’s car with a paper/wooden sign or something?
Mr. Kohanowich’s question; “What are we becoming?” is a very good one.
The answer: We are slowly becoming a fascist Police State.. Time to wake up my friends, & push back, before Police & Goverment are telling you how long you can run the water when you brush your teeth.
Furthermore, this Police department is not known for it’s ability to “Self Police”. There should be an investigation independent of them.
Then there’s this Greensboro officer that was arrested recently for allegedly stealing from underprivileged children:
“To Protect & Serve”, is really starting to lose it’s ring for me with regards to the Greensboro NC police. There’s more, but I need space for other stories. The point is, this department didn’t need another scandal, but now they have one because of their actions against this peaceful old man. They clearly can’t be trusted to Police themselves.
I’m sure Doug Henderson will be glad to hear from you (sarcasm) as I would hope that the Attorney General is quite tired of dealing with these jokers by now..
I’d also like to note that I’m sure there are many good Greensboro NC police officers. My message to them? Don’t cover for thugs in your department, they’ll only bring YOU a bad name.
And later that month:
“I think it’s important for us to recognize that we’ve got a tradition of handgun ownership and gun ownership generally. And a lot of law-abiding citizens use it for hunting, for sportsmanship, and for protecting their families. We also have a violence on the streets that is the result of illegal handgun usage. And so I think there is nothing wrong with a community saying we are going to take those illegal handguns off the streets. And cracking down on the various loopholes that exist in terms of background checks for children, the mentally ill. We can have reasonable, thoughtful gun control measure that I think respects the Second Amendment and people’s traditions.”
Then on the Anniversary of the VT shootings. (You know the one wear the students,staff & faculty were like “fish in a barrel” because only the shooter ignored the no gun rule?) He said the following:
“I am not in favor of concealed weapons,” Obama told the Pittsburgh Tribune.“I think that creates a potential atmosphere where more innocent people could (get shot during) altercations.” Hmmm… Like at VT Barack? One gun in the right hands could have ended it before so many were killed, & that’s an irrefutable fact
Hmm, let us see here.. Should we vote for a President that doesn’t believe in the 2nd Amendment of the US Consititution, which the tenants thereof made this nation strong & free?
Should only the Police & Government officials have the guns, & if they do, who’s to stop them from abusing the rest of us & treating us like their peasants, slaves, & minions?
Looks like Mr. Barack Hussein Obama is on the wrong side of the issue with the American People. Or maybe he just wants to control everyone eventually? Adolf Hitler started by taking all the public’s weapons away.. Then he started systematically murdering those he didn’t like. I’d hate to compare Obama to Hitler unfairly, but as a Tiger walks out from the shade, into the sunlight, we identify him by the pattern we see, & compare that pattern to a known creature to identify the one before us in our minds.. Taking guns out of the hands of citizens, & violating our constitutional rights would be a pattern that is also familiar to us. It’s the pattern that a tyranny follows.
The former Soviet Union, the citizens of China, the citizens of the Cambodians under Pol-Pot, the Kosovars under the Serbs, the Weimar assembly’s efforts in 1925 to pass the German National Gun Registration Act, then helped to pass the National Security Act of 1929. The 1929 Act required all Germans, and especially Jews, to turn in all guns or rifles they owned to the authorities. Through their efforts in the Weimar Assembly, these men helped remove all guns owned by German citizens and Jews, thereby helping us make a more secure Germany, a more peaceful Germany. That made it easy for German police and security forces to enforce the dictatorship of the nation without resistance by groups who opposed Hitler’s laws.
This is of course why Charlon Heston made the famous statement; “From my cold dead hands.” He also predicted new gun laws wouldn’t solve crime in 1989. He was of course right in retrospect.
Watch his prophetic words in the following video:
From my cold dead hands too..
Important Disclaimer: By agreeing with Charlton Heston on his famous “From my cold dead hands” statement, I’m not advocating that you should necessarily engage in a firefight with Police who want to take your weapon(s) away. The only thing that would ever justify that circumstance, would be if the US Government went completely bonkers, & decided that they were going to take “EVERYONE’S” guns away.
It is suicidal & immoral to have a shootout with Police over the possession or confiscation of a few personal firearms, when one knows they have access to a fair court hearing. Don’t do it!
The majority of policemen in this country still believe in the second amendment, & the right of citizens to responsibly carry a firearm!Don’t make them the enemy unnecessarily, because as of this time in our country, they simply are not. If a Police officer asks you to surrender your firearm over a misunderstanding, or for the protection of everyone involved, follow his/her instructions, & contact an attorney without answering any questions, other than providing proof that you have the right to own the weapons (licenses ect.) Don’t be stupid, & live to fight another day. We’re not living under tyranny (yet). ~ Dan Lee
Alexander Kohanowich, the son of a Russian immigrant, has held up patriotic signs at busy intersections and events across town for the past five years to show his support for American troops overseas.
In a news release Thursday, police said they decided to review the arrest after receiving numerous inquiries about the circumstances.
Yes, good idea! & I promise they’ll keep getting “numerous inquiries” until the obviously bogus charges are dropped. I expect they will drop these charges, & the “investigation” language is PR speak to save face. Whatever, as long as they drop the ridiculous unfair assault charge, I’ll be satisfied, but they owe the man a public apology as well.
Officer Lester Prescod approached the grandfather to ask him to leave.
“As I turned — and, as I always do — I put my left hand out on the officer’s right shoulder,” Kohanowich recalled, who said he’s hard of hearing and wanted to get closer to the officer.
“This is what I intended to say: ‘Excuse me, sir, but I have permission from an officer to stand here.’ I didn’t get that far,” he said. “The next thing, I was laying face down with my arms behind my back.”
Putting your hand on someone’s shoulder isn’t “assault”. My message to Officer Lester Prescod is this:
Check out the 9th commandment in the Holy Bible Lester, it’s interesting.
Exodus 20:16 “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.”
You Sir owe Mr. Kohanowich an apology, & as we’ve said before, drop the bogus charges!
Earlier today I told you about the story of Alexander “Pop” Kohanowich.. Since we haven’t gotten immediate results, even after having this go national on Michelle Malkin’s site, I’d like to suggest that Greensboro residents buy any Greensboro police officer a can of soda “Pop” every time you see one, & thank them for taking that rabid old Tasmanian Devil of a American flag wearing, troop supporting madman off the street, before he put his hand on anyone else’s shoulder. Tell them “this Pop is for you, since you didn’t like the other Pop..”
Some suggestions for what you could hand them would be, a can of any of the following:
“Mug” (Root Beer) Will help keep their strength up next time they need to take a wild old cop mugging man down.
“Moxie” (because it took so much courage to bust that crazy old madman)
“Crush” (because that burly brave officer sure did crush that wily old man.)
“Barq’s Root Beer” (Cops like this are good at “barking” commands at people like they’re some kind of Gods. Perhaps this will help them.)
“Royal Crown Cola” (Cuz hey, if you’re gonna start enforcing for an Oligarchy, you might as well drink a soft drink that sends the right message right?)
& Finally, you could buy them a “Cherry Coke” Pop. I’m just assuming the officer who took down “Kohanowhich the terrible” was probably a rookie, & they deserve a pat on the back too..OOPS! Oh I mean, a salute sir.. Please don’t arrest me..
It’s sad that we have to shame them into dropping the bogus charge isn’t it?
Now, Pop has been branded a criminal because as he often does when he’s trying to hear someone better, he leaned into a Greensboro Police officer & put his hand on their shoulder to both acknowledge them, & hear them better since he’s hard of hearing these days.
Here’s what I think. This was idiotic, & an abuse of power.
I have sent a letter to the department, asking them to drop the charges.
If they do not, I will of course proceed to find out what motivated this poor judgment.
I am generally a Police advocate, but there’s nothing I hate more than a Robocop who beats up on people just because he can.
Some good questions that will be explored by this journalist if these charges aren’t dropped, & since it was a completely irrational reaction to have to a 78 year old man with no violent past, would be;
Since this was an Barack Hussein Obama rally, what is the Political affiliation of the officer(s) involved, & are the pro Iraq War, or against?
I mean the Police like to do investigations, & so do we journalists, so lets really dig into this.
Was it Racially Motivated? I’m not sure what race the officers involved are, so we’d have to look into that.
Do you wonder why I’m saying all this? Well it’s because an irrational reaction by Greensboro Police leaves a lot of questions unanswered. I want them answered, because if we allow this to happen, we will become immune to it eventually, & we’ll be living under Oligarchy for sure. In the country I grew up in, Police don’t normally wrestle down 78 year old men armed with only a few home made paper signs, & an American Flag T-Shirt, & bend his arms behind his back. I have personally never been arrested in my life. (Maybe that will change if I where an American Flag shirt & support the troops in the streets?) If this happened to me, I’d certainly be going to court against the officer involved.
If they do the right thing, which would be to drop the charges & apologize for over-reacting, I will update this post appropriately, & with that response, as well as thank them for doing the right thing.
But for now I say: Deplorable… Absolutely deplorable..
More here Oh & here.
Then there’s this little discrepancy.
There’s more, but I need space for other stories. The point is, this department didn’t need another scandal, but now they have one because of their actions against this peacful old man. They clearly can’t be trusted to Police themselves.
I’m sure Doug Henderson will be glad to hear from you (sarcasm) as I would hope that the Attorney General is quite tired of dealing with these jokers by now..
I’d also like to note that I’m sure there are many good Greensboro NC police officers. My message to them? Don’t cover for thugs in your department, they’ll only bring YOU a bad name.
