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NY officer acquitted for body slam that broke woman’s jaw

Look at the video.  There was no call for this amount of force that I can fathom.

Is this a valid law enforcement maneuver?    To my untrained eye it looks a lot like a pissed off man taking his anger

 out on a woman.

From RAWSTORY.com

Another day, another [what would appear to the naked eye as vicious and brutal] videotaped police [overre-] action condoned or excused.

“A New York policeman who was caught on video apparently body slamming a woman to a tile floor has been acquitted of civil rights violations,” the Associated Press reports. “Jurors in federal court in White Plains found 39-year-old Yonkers Police Officer Wayne Simoes (SIM’-oze) not guilty Wednesday afternoon.”

The AP adds, “The video, from a restaurant surveillance camera, seemed to show the officer lifting 44-year-old Irma Marquez by her waist and throwing her face-first to the floor. She was knocked unconscious and her jaw was broken.”

The forewoman of the jury, Jhonna Van Dunk, told an upstate New York newspaper, “We watched the video and we watched the frame-by-frame and we could not determine that he intended to hurt her.”

In June of 2008, Simoes’ lawyer told the press that the video doesn’t tell the full story.

“What the video doesn’t show is the operation of Wayne Simoes’ mind at the time of the incident,” Andrew Quinn said. “That’s what’s going to be a critical issue in this case is whether or not his intent when he was subduing Ms. Marquez was to violate her Constitutional rights or cause any type of injury.”

LoHud.com reported last week,

A Yonkers police officer said yesterday that his colleague Wayne Simoes used excessive force when he threw Irma Marquez to the floor of La Fonda Restaurant on March 3, 2007, breaking her jaw and bruising her face.

Officer John Liberatore was the first witness called to the stand yesterday as Simoes’ federal criminal trial began in U.S. District Court in White Plains.

Liberatore said he saw Simoes grab Marquez around the waist, lift her into the air and throw her to the ground. Afterward, Liberatore said he went to his partner Officer Todd Mendelson and asked him, “What the … just happened?”

Since, as LoHud.com reported, “the jury of eight men and four women deliberated for a little more than five hours yesterday in U.S. District Court in White Plains,” it’s assumed that Ms. Van Dunk and her fellow jurors were able to beat the rush hour traffic home Wednesday night.

 

Video available at Raw Story;

http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/05/ny-officer-acquitted-after-body-slam-which-broke-womans-jaw/

Oklahoma Highway Patrol Engage Paramedics

Dave Statter STATter911 Reporting (click for more)

May 29, 2009

On Sunday, Diana Walkup and Peggy Skaggs were returning from the Paden Cemetery when they witnessed the confrontation between Oklahoma Highway Patrol’s Daniel Martin and the Creek Nation ambulance crew of Maurice White Jr. and Paul Franks. In a written statement, the women indicate they were horrified by the patrolman’s behavior.

On Thursday, Walkup talked by phone with KOKI-TV’s Abbie Alford, telling the reporter, “He came running around the back of the ambulance, ‘I am going to arrest you for obstruction of justice.’ We thought ‘good Lord what’s happened?’”

Here are excerpts from Alford’s report:

When paramedic Maurice White got out of the ambulance to tell the trooper they had a patient en route to the hospital, Walkup says what happened next is appalling.

“Then he [White] put his hands up as if, I don’t know I can’t say what he was thinking but he was afraid he was going to get hit,” says Walkup.

“I saw what I saw and I was just, like I said horrified at the treatment of the family,” says Walkup.

Alford confirmed with Creek Nation officials that at the time of the traffic stop the ambulance lights and siren were not on.

A statement from patient Stella Jordan is also now available. Critical Care Paramedic Maurice White Jr., who has been involved in EMS for more than 30-years, was treating Ms. Jordan:

Read more;

http://www.wusa9.com/news/columnist/blogs/2009/05/new-information-on-confrontation.html

Is Government Planning to Force You to Live in the City?

By Bob Livingston • May 13th, 2009

Was President Barack Obama beginning efforts to engage in social engineering when he formed a partnership between the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)?

That’s a question posed in a report compiled by Ronald D. Utt, Ph.D., of The Heritage Foundation after he received a press release from the two government agencies announcing the formation of their pact.

According to the release, the partnership was formed to create “affordable, sustainable communities.” Included among its many goals are projects to:

Develop a new cost index that combines housing and transportation costs into a single measure to better illuminate the true costs by “redefining affordability and making it transparent.”

Encourage transportation choice.

Require even more planning by the many federally funded regional planning entities that are already attempting to guide Americans toward a supposedly better life.

According to Utt, liberals have long—it began in the 1950s—held a bias against suburbanites and urban sprawl. They believe people should live in municipalities with strict zoning laws, impact fees and regulations to ensure something called smart growth while making greater use of public transportation and forgoing automobiles.

Data show that many Americans rejected that idea, preferring instead to move away from the city center where they found more affordable housing, better public services and education systems. What they sacrificed with longer commutes, they benefited from the savings in housing and what they believed was a more comfortable lifestyle.

Now advocates of the smart growth movement are taking a different tack, and they have enlisted the Federal Government in their efforts. Although reams of data exist showing that the cost of suburban living is comparable to—if not less than—living in a municipality, smart growth advocates contend the data overlook many hidden costs of suburban lifestyles. These asserted costs, according to Utt, rely on unsubstantiated allegations of greater infrastructure costs, environmental degradation and the high cost of automobile operation.

http://www.personalliberty.com/bob-livingston/is-government-planning-to-force-you-to-live-in-the-city/

Freedom Movement Meets at Jeckyll Island

New: Freedom Movement Coalition

On May 21st and May 22nd, an unprecedented gathering of the nation’s Freedom
Movement leaders was held in Georgia at the Jekyll Island Club Hotel. The
planning meetings, coined the “Jekyll Island Project,” were hosted by We The
People Foundation for Constitutional Education, Inc., chaired by Bob Schulz.

A highlight of the gathering was a special ceremony held in the Federal Reserve
Room at the Club, specifically to establish a “righteous record” to supplant the
secretive deliberations which occurred in that same location in 1910 to conceive
the (unconstitutional) Federal Reserve Act of 1913.

Beloved Freedom leader G. Edward Griffin, author of The Creature at Jekyll
Island, spoke about the 1910 gathering and the importance of the current leader
meeting in the location, at this particular time.  Bob Schulz followed with a
talk entitled “A New Record for America.”

http://wethepeoplefoundation.org/UPDATE/Update2009-05-25.htm

To receive updates as this coalition organizes the Continental Congress 2009 go
to www.wethepeoplecongress.org
–
Yours in freedom and liberty, in spirit and in truth,

Rebecca…. WTP Congress State Coordinator of Oklahoma
405-473-1546
declare1776@cox.net

Bulletproof vest saves Cleveland County deputy trainee

Bulletproof vest saves Cleveland County deputy trainee

 
By Associated Press
Published: 5/28/2009  10:10 AM
Last Modified: 5/28/2009  10:10 AM

NORMAN — Cleveland County Sheriff’s Department officials say a trainee was saved from serious injury when a bulletproof vest stopped a bullet.

Undersheriff Rhett Burnett says trainees and deputies were taking part in a training exercise Saturday in Slaughterville when a deputy’s gun accidentally went off. The bullet hit a trainee’s vest and was stopped.

The trainee was treated and released at Norman Regional Hospital. No names have been released.

Burnett says investigators are looking into the incident but says it doesn’t

appear any department policies were violated

http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=298&articleid=20090528_298_0_NORMAN451391&rss_lnk=1

What’s The Big Deal About Biometrics?

 

See also; RFID

http://axiomamuse.wordpress.com/2009/05/27/how-rfid-tags-spy/

Tenth Amendment Resolution Oklahoma Rep. Charles Key on Huckabee

RFID Tags-How They Work and How They Spy

 WHAT Did I Miss?

 

I am not a technician, which is why I always check

 (and re-check) my sources.

I re-checked again and other than oversimplifying

on the RFID structure,  I don’t see any mistakes.  Since you

are an expert, why don’t you explain it?  I care about accuracy

above all. 

 

So quit being a smarty pants and enlighten me, please.

AxXiom

 

 George Luker Dorval, Quebec, Canada Syscan-ID manufactures RFID readers for the Agriculture industry for Animal Identification. www.syscan.com

says;

You might want to educate yourself on RFID before making comments.  Just a thought…

 

 More sources;

 

First EPC/RFID Test Centre in Africa established in Tshwane

http://www.theinnovationhub.com/newsbits/vol6no8/news03.cfm

Hub resident, Techsolutions (Pty) Ltd, participated in the opening of the first African Test Centre for RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technology on 28 June 2007 at an event hosted by the Tshwane University of Technology. The opening was conducted by Mr André Hattingh, Deputy Director of F’SATIE (French South African Technical Institute in Electronics).

 “At the opening, a number of RFID solutions were demonstrated for tracking pallets and other returnable transport items, tracking assets such as notebook computers and tracking people. “

 

EPC RFID Tags in Security Applications: Passport Cards, Enhanced Drivers Licenses, and Beyond

From RSA;

RSA, The Security Division of EMC, is the premier provider of security solutions for business acceleration.

As the chosen security partner of more than 90% of the Fortune 500, we help the world’s leading organizations succeed by solving their most complex and sensitive security challenges.

 

“As with any RFID device, there is also the risk of clandestine tracking.”

 The RFID tags in these documents emit unique serial numbers. While these numbers are not personally identifying in and of themselves, they are a “license plate” of sorts.

“For example, law enforcement officials could, in principle, scan the tags of participants in a political rally and store the associated identifiers in a database for later identification of individuals”

Q: Did you inform DHS and Washington State of your findings?
A: We informed both DHS and Washington State officials of our findings in advance of their public release. We wished to offer them a timely opportunity to evaluate our research results and consider steps for strengthening the border-crossing system.

In our productive discussions with these organizations, they have indicated an ongoing effort to improve the security of the identity documents treated in our work.

Q: Why are you publishing these vulnerabilities? Will your paper have a negative impact on national security?
A: As experts in data security have believed for many years, public scrutiny makes systems stronger, not weaker. (In cryptography, this idea finds expression in a classical idea known as Kerckhoff’s Principle.) The lessons and accountability brought by communal discussion are hard to obtain through restricted, closed-door assessments. Indeed, the Department of State solicited public comments on the Passport Card prior to its release, and many contributors—including four Members of Congress—expressed concerns about its security.

RFID CUSP (RFID ConsortiUm on Security and Privacy) is an organization devoted to academic research on RFID security and privacy. Its members include Johns Hopkins University, the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and RSA Labs. A number of its published papers on RFID security, including some on previous security flaws discovered in RFID devices, are available at www.rfid-cusp.org. RSA Labs has published some basic primer materials, accessible at www.rfid-security.com.

Dan Bailey
Senior Research Scientist

Kevin Bowers
Research Scientist

John Brainard
Principal Research Engineer

Dr. Ari Juels
Chief Scientist

Dr. Burton S. Kaliski Jr.
Founding Scientist, RSA Laboratories
Director, EMC Innovation Network

Dr. Alina Oprea
Research Scientist

Distinguished Associate

Prof. Ronald L. Rivest

http://www.rsa.com/rsalabs/node.asp?id=3557

QUOTE:

“[After bar codes] [t]he next ‘big thing’ [was] [f]requent shopper cards. While these did a better job of linking consumers and their purchases, loyalty cards were severely limited…consider the usage, consumer demographic, psychographic and economic blind spots of tracking data…. [S]omething more integrated and holistic was needed to provide a ubiquitous understanding of on- and off-line consumer purchase behavior, attitudes and product usage. The answer: RFID (radio frequency identification) technology…. In an industry first, RFID enables the linking of all this product information with a specific consumer identified by key demographic and psychographic markers….Where once we collected purchase information, now we can correlate multiple points of consumer product purchase with consumption specifics such as the how, when and who of product use.” 

—John Stermer,

 Senior Vice President of eBusiness Market Development at ACNielsen

RFID is an identification technology that remotely stores and retrieves data using RFID tags or transponders. RFID tags use integrated circuits and antennas to track items from a distance. The integrated circuit has a unique id for each item for the purpose of identification through radio waves.

The chip helps not only in storing and processing information, but also in modulating and demodulating RF signals. The antenna helps in receiving and transmitting signals. An RF reader sends out an RF signal, and any tags within its range will respond

 

 

The Chip-less RFID tags are also available at lower cost than the integrated circuit based tags. Traditional RFID tags are available in three varieties: Passive, Active, and Semi Passive.
Based on their features, these tags are used in specific tracking purposes

 

 

 

An RFID tag is represented through an EPC (Electronic Product Code) that is currently managed by EPCglobal. It is either a 64-bit or 96-bit identifier and its namespace is segmented into four hierarchically encapsulated partitions.

		Header: Identifies the EPC version number and allows for different lengths or types of EPC such as Type I, Type II, Type III, and Type IV.
		EPC Manager: Identifies the manufacturer of the product the EPC is attached to.
		Object Class: Identifies the exact type of product, generally, the SKU (Stock Keeping Unit)
		Serial Number: Identifies the unique id of the item.

 

RFID Tracking Model

 

 

 

 

 

Humans and items are tagged.
		Tags are read by the Reader.
		Data is filtered (Middleware).
		EPCIS (EPC Information Service) facilitates access to serialized product information.
		ONS (Object Naming Service), similar to DNS (Domain Name Server) routes requests for    information about a particular EPC.
		EPC Discovery Service has authoritative registry for every EPCIS.

 

 

 

 

1) RFID TagsRFID tags are affixed to assets. Each has a unique numerical identifier so differentiation is possible. For supply chain operations, it is common for the tag identifier to contain the Serialized Global Trading Identification Number (SGTIN) of the item to which it is affixed. This allows differentiation of identical items.
	2) Interrogators (or readers)An interrogator, or more often called a reader, is a radio frequency transmitting and receiving device used to communicate with an RFID tag. The device was named an interrogator because it interrogates the tags. The term “reader” is a more colloquial term, but is sometimes misleading in that many of these devices also have the ability to encode, or write information to an RFID tag.A reader basically acts as a sensor because it senses what tags are within its range.Readers are designed to interface with an information process system, which we’ll explain more about below.
	3) AntennasOne or more antennas are connected to the reader and are required for the radio frequency communications between the tag and the reader. Antennas come in a variety of size and shapes and have a significant impact on read range and performance.
	4) RFID Information Processing SystemsIn order to obtain any tangible benefit from RFID technology, the readers must be connected to an information processing system. The information processing system provides instructions to the readers, coordinates their operation, collects output data, and most importantly, makes decisions based on business rules about the data it receives. These computer programs are sometimes called “middle-ware” or “edge-ware.” We prefer to call them “Intelligent Sensor Network Platforms” because RFID readers typically need to be coordinated with other industrial devices, such as: industrial sensors: photo-eyes, motion detectors, environmental monitors, etc. feedback devices: light-stacks, displays, etc. automation control systems: triggers, servos, motors, robotics, etc.

 

http://www.ipv6.com/articles/applications/Using-RFID-and-IPv6.htm

ere is some Real Quick Insight into the little buggers. 

We have to KNOW IT and  NAME IT  if we hope to TAME IT.

RFID Tech + Biometrics + Database Linking= Modern Panopticon

People Under Glass are Pets!

AxXiom

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

Identification and Tracking of Individuals and Social Networks using the Electronic Product Code on RFID Tags

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

This paper describes how to use EPCs on RFID transponders to identify individuals and track their consumer habits and locations. In addition, it is shown how these mechanisms can be used to identify social networks.2007explanationsecurityinvasionrfid

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

  

 

Fox on the Tenth

Tenth Amendment Movement Aims to Give Power Back to the States

Fed up with Washington’s involvement in everything from land use to gun control to education spending, states across the country are fighting back against what they say is the federal government’s growing intrusion on their rights.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/05/26/tenth-amendment-movement-aims-power-states/

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
– U.S. Constitution, Tenth Amendment

Fed up with Washington’s involvement in everything from land use to gun control to education spending, states across the country are fighting back against what they say is the federal government’s growing intrusion on their rights.

At least 35 states have introduced legislation this year asserting their power under the Tenth Amendment to regulate all matters not specifically delegated to the federal government by the Constitution.

“This has been boiling for years, and it’s finally come to a head,” said Utah State Rep. Carl Wimmer. “With TARP and No Child Left Behind, these things that continue to give the federal government more authority, our rights as states and individuals are being turned on their head.”

The power struggle between the states and Washington has cropped up periodically ever since the country was founded. But now some states are sending a simple, forceful message:

The government has gone too far. Enough is enough.

Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer recently signed into law a bill authorizing the state’s gun manufacturers to produce “Made in Montana” firearms, without seeking licensing from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Similar laws are being considered in Utah, Alaska, Texas and Tennessee.

The Montana law is expected to end up in the courts, where states’ rights activists hope judges will uphold their constitutional right to regulate firearms.

That would reverse a longstanding trend, said Martin Flaherty, a professor of constitutional law at Fordham Law School.

“From 1937 to 1995 there is not one instance of the Supreme Court knocking back Congress,” he said. “In the Constitution the interstate commerce clause gives Congress the right to regulate commerce between the states. That gives them a lot of power. There were questions of how far they can reach, but then comes the New Deal, and Roosevelt gets all these picks on the [Supreme] Court, and they come upon a theory whereupon congressional power is almost infinite.”

That 1930s understanding of the Constitution is now the norm, with advocates for the federal government arguing that issues of a certain size and scope can be addressed only by an institution with the resources of the federal government.

As an example, federal authority is necessary in the economic crisis, said U.S. Rep. Dan Boren, whose home state of Oklahoma recently passed a sovereignty resolution.

“The economic situation in our nation over the past year has not been contained in any one community or state. The industries and institutions affected by the recent economic crisis touch multiple layers of our economy and are not confined to any one state or region,” he said in a statement. “I feel there was Constitutional justification for Congress’s recent efforts to stabilize our economy.”

But for many state leaders, the degree to which Congress regulates issues within their boundaries, using the interstate commerce clause to regulate just about everything and anything, has become untenable.

Texas Gov. Rick Perry made headlines recently when he made a passing reference to the possibility of the Lone Star State seceding from the U.S., saying, “if Washington continues to thumb their nose at the American people, you know, who knows what might come out of that?”

States rights advocates offer countless examples of what they believe is Washington’s overreach.

In Utah, 67 percent of the state’s land is controlled by the federal government through wilderness preserves, limiting state leaders in their bid to fill government coffers through oil and natural gas drilling after Interior Secretary Ken Salazar cancelled 103,000 acres of leases this year.

In Idaho, ranchers are furious that federal endangered species law prevents them from shooting the wolves that prey on their cattle.

“The balance of power between the states and the federal government is way out of whack,” said Georgia state Senator Chip Pearson.” The effect here is incalculable. Everything you do from the moment you wake up until you get to bed, there is some federal law or restriction.”

Up until recently, the state sovereignty movement has remained almost entirely Republican, drawing supporters from the ranks that voted against President Obama and attended tea parties last month to protest federal tax hikes.

But the movement’s rank and file are just as likely now to criticize Obama’s predecessor, George W. Bush, as they are the new president, pointing to what they believe were Bush’s overreaching policies on education and homeland security.

Many are becoming frequent visitors to a Web site, TenthAmendmentCenter.com, which was founded in early 2007 and has become a community bulletin board for states rights activists and politicians. Up to 20,000 viewers log on to the site every day.

The site’s founder, Michael Boldin, a 36-year-old Web marketer in Los Angeles who says he has no political affiliation, says he decided to launch the site after watching the Maine State Legislature fight the Department of Homeland Security on the Real ID act, a controversial Bush-era law that will require states to issue federally regulated identification cards, complete with biometric data and stringent address checks.

“Maine resisted, and the government backed off, and soon all these other states were doing the same thing,” Boldin said. “The bottom line is, if there’s widespread support, people can resist the federal government at the state level.”

The deadline for states to comply with Real ID has now been pushed back until 2011.

The Tenth Amendment movement is not without controversy. In Georgia, a columnist for The Atlanta Journal Constitution called a sovereignty resolution in the state Senate a threat “to secede from and even disband the United States.”

The resolution, which was passed as part of a group of bills that were banded together, affirmed the state’s powers under the Tenth Amendment, taking its inspiration and language from Thomas Jefferson’s 1798 resolution opposing the Alien and Sedition Acts — laws enacted by the federal government during wartime to quiet protest against the government.

The resolution asserts that any instance of the federal government taking action beyond its enumerated powers “shall constitute a nullification of the Constitution for the United States of America by the government of the United States of America.”

“It’s been taken out of context by some editors,” said Pearson, who sponsored the bill. “It certainly never meant secession. The intent was to communicate that the actions of the federal government are an infringement on states’ rights.”

Robert Natelson, a law professor at the University of Montana who was involved in drawing up that state’s sovereignty resolution over a decade ago, argues that states up until now have been unwilling to take action of any real consequence in checking federal power.

“Back then they passed the resolution, but they didn’t turn down any federal dollars,” he said.

“If the states are serious about returning the federal government to its historical origins, they’re going to have to do more than pass resolutions. They’re going to have to turn down money and litigate.