The Empire’s Storm Troopers strike back. We need to cover this story and get it out on the air nationwide. My sense is that the mayor, council and the chief of police are all in cahoots. If one goes down, they all go down, that is why they are striking back and hard. The objective is to dissuade people from following through on any effort to either remove the mayor, the prosecutor or the chief of police.
It is up to the people to deal with this issue, and they can if they assemble power and pressure at the grass roots level and stay the course. They must be willing to risk arrest and possible assault to clean up the APD and mayor’s office. Don’t expect to rely on the feds. All they do is issue bullshit statements, which anyone with a brain knows is just plain bullshit. All the dirty cops in the APD could have been arrested years ago for federal civil rights violations if the DOJ had been doing its job.
This does present opportunity for libertarian parties to run suitable candidates during a recall and organize for new elections. First step, is to recall the mayor, next is to elect a suitable mayor followed by firing the police chief, and cleaning up the APD from top to bottom, and then the prosecutor’s office. And then follow on with clearing out the city council. This is far more effective than simply venting displeasure in the form of demonstrations or protests, which will most likely just get you arrested and taken out of the picture.
I know this can be done. We did it back in the 1990s, all across WA state. The goddamn crooks in government didn’t know what hit them.
Police in New Mexico arrested more than a dozen protesters, including a University of New Mexico professor, who stormed and briefly occupied the Albuquerque mayor’s office on Monday in a demonstration against what they called police brutality.
Holding a ribbon of yellow police tape and placards including “APD is guilty” — referring to the Albuquerque Police Department — the demonstrators chanted slogans in Mayor Richard Berry’s office suite until officers arrived.
A police statement said David Correia, an assistant professor in the department of American Studies at the University of New Mexico, was “the apparent leader of the group.”
He was arrested and charged with felony battery on a police officer “because he pushed a member of the mayor’s security detail during the incident,” the statement said.
The statement said that “more than a dozen” people were arrested, and 13 were charged with criminal trespass, unlawful assembly and interfering with a public official or staff.
In a list of demands circulated on social media, the protesters called for the removal of police chief Gorden Eden and others, and said that under Berry’s administration New Mexico’s largest city had become a “national disgrace.”
In April, the U.S. Justice Department cited the Albuquerque Police Department for engaging in what federal civil rights investigators said was a pattern of excessive force, some of it deadly, in violation of the U.S. Constitution.
That 18-month inquiry by the Justice Department followed public complaints over a string of police-involved shootings in recent years, many fatal, and what critics have called heavy-handed use of stun guns by Albuquerque officers.
“This does present opportunity for libertarian parties to run suitable candidates during a recall and organize for new elections. First step, is to recall the mayor, next is to elect a suitable mayor followed by firing the police chief, and cleaning up the APD from top to bottom, and then the prosecutor’s office…….I know this can be done. We did it back in the 1990s, all across WA state. The goddamn crooks in government didn’t know what hit them.”
Quintus Dias, if you think another party will make a difference, you are being naive. All political parties are corrupt. The only change is by the barrel of a gun. Period!
agreed NC. and way past due from what i can see.
NC,unfortunately you are probably right,that said,even then the replacements may be bad.The country as a whole needs to try though every peaceful form of change,civil war/revolution what have you may be inevitable but all peaceful means need to be tried.
James 45, peaceful means have went out the door a loooong time ago. You can’t expect our government to follow the law when there is NO LAW. Meaning we have no government, no political parties and no one to represent us. The only way we can take our country back is by force! Then we can get rid of these treasonous bastards and restore our Constitution and our country.
agreed NC. Nothing less will do.
I was going to say what NC said (above)
They’re going to have to be taken out with the rest of the trash because it’s endless. It’s like attacking a swarm of locusts with a fly-swatter.
I don’t think Quintus is naive, far from it. What he says is that throwing the bums out is better than the way of the gun-for now. Sure, we can have a civil war, but understand this, the American civil war was horrific in the amount of blood spilled and damage done to the country…it bankrupted America.
The problem remains with us. We are human beings and prone to error, greed, and laziness. We Americans, on average, are much better than most on prosecuting corruption and getting rid of corrupt politicians. They keep coming back, because we fall asleep and let them come back. We can have a civil war, destroy millions and the country. But what makes you think that the same problem won’t come back, if we, like customary go back to sleep? The problem is that people are perverse and despite knowing the answer to the problem just drift away thinking Joe or Bob will take care of the problem or that that they can hire Congressman Schmitzlap to do the job for us, while we go back to guzzling beer at a Yankee’s game.
St. Augustine had an excellent appreciation of this problem and wrote about it in the City of Man and City of God…expounding on the dual nature of man. Justice is love serving God and ruling well all else. Thus, there is a commonwealth or an ideal state based on goodness. Remove justice and cities and empires become only gangs of criminals serving themselves. In this context, the king and the pirate share the same domain for they are bad men and evil predominates.
If you choose to live well and good, then you will face a LIFELONG onerous commitment to combat evil and must be always ready to step up to the challenge. You can never fall asleep, turn away, or hire somebody to do your job. Hirelings tend to become mercenaries and then turn to preying on you. Right Harry? That is Dirty Harry Reid, the satrap from Nevada.
Meanwhile, “si vis pacem para bellum”…Marcus Flavius
I’ll tell you what, Quintas Wales, (we already have a Josey Wales on the site), nobody wants a war but if you think we are just going to throw the communists (the bums) out without one, you better check your history. There will be a war, in fact there already is one, and many are going to die. And after it’s all been taken back, people will get lazy again. That’s just the way it is, has been, and will always be. The best we can do is to make sure we slaughter the enemy to maximum extent of our ability and teach our children well. Then maybe, next time around, we can have 350 years before another generation has to be slaughtered because free men would rather die than be slaves. And communists will forever be parasites. That sir, is the dual nature of man.
I think public beheadings would set a good example. Yep, that’s the ticket. “Let’s see what we got on TV tonight to numb our minds Honey. Oh, there’s reruns of “Who’s the Boss” or there’s beheadings of corrupt politicians, bankers, and Cops and it’s on Pay-Per-View. Honey, where’s the remote and the credit card!” Just think how much people would pay to watch this, it would finance the revolution. Sick but true.
Hey I’d pay to watch that.
Get the popcorn Paul! 🙂
hate popcorn. Gets under my dentures. Now a pound of peanut butter fudge will do just fine though. 🙂
I agree Henry: I’m glad you caught that…
“The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die.” — George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.
“In a list of demands circulated on social media, the protesters called for the removal of police chief Gorden Eden and others,…
So… they had a list of demands, did they?
Did they have guns?
are you kidding? Only sovereign nationals have guns.