by StarmanSkye » Sat Aug 19, 2006 1:30 pm
Well-said 911 Witness. Like DBD, my take is that police abuse, harrassment, and physical violence is endemic in many urban centers, difficult if not impossible to conclusively 'prove' via Police reports. I concur with your take on the apparant rush-to-judgement and 'official confirmation' bias evident in some (not infrequent) RI posts -- As DBD sed, 'Who you gonna believe -- the perps or the victim?'<br><br>Bollyn's story is being reported by Nimmo in his Another Day in the Empire (and elsewhere, like Uruknet), Prison-Planet, Rense, After Downing Street, What Really Happened, GLP, Truthtellers, Let's Roll 911, Stormfront (!!!), as well as Bollyn's routine venues: Republic Broadcast Network and AFP -- AND even confirmed by the local smalltown rag, the Cook County Daily Herald:<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.dailyherald.com/news/cookstory.asp?id=217516&cc=c&tc=&t=">www.dailyherald.com/news/...c=c&tc=&t=</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br>--quote--<br>Police arrest former mayoral candidate <br>By Ed Fanselow<br>Daily Herald Staff Writer<br>Posted Thursday, August 17, 2006 <br><br>A former candidate for mayor in Hoffman Estates was arrested outside his home Tuesday after an altercation with police that ended when officers used a taser gun to subdue him.<br><br>Christopher Lee Bollyn — who won roughly 325 votes in the village’s 2000 mayoral primary — was charged with resisting arrest and aggravated assault following the incident, which began outside his home at 220 Kingman Lane.<br><br>Police say they responded to the home shortly before 8 p.m. after Bollyn called 911 to report a suspicious vehicle cruising his block.<br><br>When officers arrived to inform him that the car was in fact an undercover police vehicle, the 49-year-old Bollyn allegedly became “irate and belligerent” and made statements that led the officers to believe he might try to retrieve a weapon from his home, police reported.<br><br>After a prolonged struggle on the front lawn, officers were able to subdue Bollyn with a taser gun, police said.<br><br>He was released from custody a short time later after posting $100 bail.<br><br>In an e-mail sent to reporters Wednesday, Bollyn claimed the incident was retaliation for his theories that the Sept. 11 attacks were a U.S. government-led conspiracy.<br><br>“I have never been treated so brutally in my life,” he said, adding that he plans to seek asylum in Norway or Switzerland. “I do not feel safe in the United States.”<br><br>Bollyn is expected to appear in court on Sept. 13.<br>--unquote--<br><br>*****<br>Certainly, it's evident Bollyn WAS arrested and roughed-up following his report of a 'suspicious' car he correctly identified as undercover, and whose inhabitants were (in Bollyn's words) dressed in Body armour -- VERY untypical for the quiet working-class residential neighborhood Bollyn lived in, on a dead-end low-traffic street. IMO, Bollyn was uncool in calling-out to the car's undercover cops AND in reporting a suspicious vehicle -- but that's a far cry from warranting the kind of heavy-handed abuse he (allegedly) recieved and his arrest. <br><br>As part of an escalating pattern of an emboldened Us vs. Them Police State mentality (aggravated by the dynamics of drugcrime, gangs and inner-city violence victimizing the public and creating a security-state dependency) I tend to believe the gist of Bollyn's claim. Scores of Journalists, researchers, writers and whistleblowers have increasingly been targetted for retribution, blackballing, career death, harrassment, threats, intimidation, and worse -- dissapearances, 'suicides' and 'accidents'.<br><br>From Rick Siegal's site:<br>Leading Journalists Expose Major Cover-ups in Media *PIC* <br>Posted by: Sara on on Monday, July 24, 2006 - 11:23 PM <br>Topic 911 Truth <br> "<!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.bringemon.org/">www.bringemon.org/</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>Posted By: pinkcomputercat<br>Date: Saturday, 15 July 2006, 8:03 p.m. <br><br>The riveting excerpts below are from the revealing accounts of 20 award-winning journalists in the highly acclaimed book Into the Buzzsaw. These courageous writers were prevented by corporate media ownership from reporting major news stories. Some were even fired or laid off. They have won numerous awards, including several Emmys and a Pulitzer. Join in building a better world by helping to spread this news across the land. <br>--unquote--<br> <br><br>Kurt Nimmo commenting on the fascist trend of the corporate-oligarchy attacking truthsayers and whistleblowers, reigying Bollyn's 'see the writing on the wall':<br><br>--quote--<br>"It is a short step from accusations of treason and appeasement of terrorists, who work for the government—or are simply retarded patsies set-up to take a fall—and the sort of violence practiced by the Nazis and their goons after Hitler pulled off his Gesetz zur Behebung der Not von Volk und Reich, or the Law to Remedy the Distress of the People and the Reich. Bush has come a long way in realizing his Ermächtigungsgesetz, or Enabling Act, and it won’t be long now before minor complaints are dealt with in severe fashion, as they always are under fascist dictatorships.<br><br>"And the administration has not only the right, but the duty, in my opinion, to pursue fifth column movements," Senator Lindsey Graham told AG Gonzales earlier this year. "And let me tell folks who are watching what a fifth column movement is. It is a movement known to every war where American citizens will sympathize with the enemy and collaborate with the enemy. And it’s happened in every war…. and I don’t think you need a warrant to do that." <br><br>According to the Manichean dictum of the neocons—you’re with us in the forever war against the Muslims, or you’re with the terrorists—revealing certain facts, as Bollyn has done over the years, may result in, for now, arrest and abuse. However, next month or next year, certainly after the next staged terror attack, it will result in far harsher, even fatal retaliation, as it invariably does in fascist countries."<br>--<!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=25819&s2=17">www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=25819&s2=17</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>--unquote--<br><br>***<br>Starman<br> <br> <p></p><i></i>