Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Ryanindaswamp / Man In Da Street

The Deep Deep Darkness Of The Expansive Ever Widening Void



I can see it now.

Readers dropping outta Da Swamp faster than Water Rats bailing from a sinking garbage skow.

Who Da Hell Iz Ya All?????????

Seemingly this blog is that forbidden candy your Momz told Ya All to stay away from. 
Just Do Not Fuckin Touch. 

But Oh The Fuck No.

Ya All eye ballin this site of Da chart.
Readers in 23 countries.
A number of these countries I haven't even heard of. 
Longitude.
Latitude.
As yet uncalibrated. 
But there Ya All are. 
Reading away.

Comments comin into Da Swamp at record numbers.
Exactly 2 up to this time on Blogger.
For real.
Ya All Holograms?

I will state that over at WordPress Dot Com I received a lot of comments. 
Daily.
So, Swamp resolve is starting today what ever is posted on this site, Blogger, will also be posted on WordPress.

All that said.

Good morning Mr. President.
How iz your Presidential Self this morning Sir?
Got your 8Ball secured for the next 24?
Good. Good.
As well, heard Ya picked up one of those new Triple Pyrex Glass Pipes.
Thank God for Reggie Love. 
I know he got Ya Sir.
Don't wanna see that pallet of Bic Lighters go to waist Sir.

We'll talk later Sir.
You know the time.
16:20.
Later Mr. President.
God Bless You Sir. LOL

The V.A.
Just fuckin shoot us.
Because what Ya All put us through, a round in the back of the head is much much more humane.
I lost count of all of my Brothers Ya All killed.
Thanx V.A.

44%.
That is the number of Americans that believe 'Prez' is doing a good job.

An important segment of America that has been severely dropped on their heads.
From very high altitudes. 
To keep America safe these Idiots have had their voters rights revoked.

Regarding voter rights.
Yesterday on my walk home I encountered two very nice young men hawking some kind of Voter Ballet signing based on a few wanna be candidates.

Because the young men were very nice, as well, cool, I opted in.
I signed away.
Erroneous name. 
Erroneous address.
Then out came the official, United States of America Voter Information forms.
I signed.
Same erroneous name and address.

The bottom line.
Some where here in the desert, in a short minute, the people at this address will be receiving their new voter I.D. card.
Yeah.
Nothing wrong here with voter registration America.

For real.
Ya All shittin me.

If all that was not enough.
Minister Peter Pop It Off''s mailings have reached an all time high.
Deluge is a cyclopean understatement.

If all that wasn't bad enough.
I'm going straight to hell.
No passing go. 
No 200 bucks. 
No spin again. 
Just off da ledge. 
Through the da window. 
Out da tube. 
Gone Sally Gone.

Not to fear.
For only a scant $22.79. 
I am free from Satan.

The flip side to this Ministerial cluster fuck. 
If I do not comply. 
No $22.79 for you Mr. Minister Peter Pop It Off. 
Satan will be firmly, deeply, entrenched up my rectal cavity.

In simple Swamp terminology.
I am Truly Fucked.  
Ouchhh. 
Damn Satan. 
Can Ya trim down on those horns. 
Wowaa.

Someone.
Anyone.
Pleeeezeee.
Tell me how in Da Fuck did I get on Peter Pop It Offs Mailing list?
Cause I'm just about urinating on myself.
Yo.
Depends. 
Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sgt. Kyle J. White.
God Bless You Young Man.
No Questions Asked.
Doing What You Do.
God Bless You Sargent.

America. 
Make no mistake about it.
Sargent' are by far the Baddest Dawgs in the U.S. Military.
Nothing happens without Sarge.
God Bless You Son. Thank You. So Very, Very Much.

Honestly Mr. President.
Knowing how you feel regarding the United States of America Military.
Were you at least one bit moved by this Sargent' Bravery?
Because Sir. 
I was in tears.

See Secretary of State John Kerry.
This is what The United States of America' Military is all about.

Not the actions of a Traitorous, Treasonous Bitch as yourself.

The Bitch that put myself and my Military Brothers serving in South East Asia, in Harms Way To The Maximum Level.

Kerry, You Treasonous, Commie Dick Suckin Bitch.
Fuck You.
Fuck Your Hoe Mamma.
Fuck Your Hoe Mammas Mamma.
And Every Fuckin Hoe Mamma In Your Entire Family That Lead Up To Your Commie, Punk Ass, Bitch Birth.
Oh Yeah.
Me and My Niggas Fucked Your Wife.
Cock Sucker.

America.

Kerry Da Bitch was awarded a Medal of Honor of Sorts.
The Communist North Vietnamese Medal of Honor.

Kerry, The Dick Suckin Bitch, was credited by The Communist North Vietnamese Prime Minister as a hero who won the war for Communist North Vietnam.

In Fact This Dickless Bitch Has An Entire Wall In The North Vietnamese War Memorial Dedicated To His Bitch Ass Self.


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Just Representing  
Proudly 
Damn Proudly


Back To Kerry Da Bitch

Good Job Ass Hole.
Fuck You Kerry. 
Punk Ass Commie Faggot Bitch.

Oh. 
All That's Bad. 
I can't say it.
Fuck You Too.

While I'm Rollin Dis Ripp

Harry Reid.
You Lying, Punk Ass, Pip Squeak Faggot.
I Fucked Your Wife.

Oh Yeah.
Just Gotta Be.
Flyin Low Tuezday.

If all that wasn't enough.

Whiskey in America is going dry.
Lucky Fuckin Me.
Everyone I know drinks Vodka.
I drink Whiskey.
For Real.
Dis White Boy Nigga Can't Catch A Fuckin Break.

Not to worry America.
I'm gonna dig up my Great, Great, Uncle Sean.
He was a Major Irish Gangster Back In Da Day.
A Whiskey Runner As It Were.
I just to hell hope that he was buried with his whiskey recipe.
My Popz told me best Hooch around at the time.
Mission Forward.

Ryan. Out.





I found the following article interesting.
Hope Ya All Do As Well.






How Obama Is Accelerating America's Decline

By Dominique Moisi
This op-ed first appeared in Les Echos
Before the end of 2014, China will have become the world's largest economy. For the first time since 1872 - when America overtook Britain - the United States will not top the list. This news amid data published last week by the International Comparison Program, a respected institution hosted by the World Bank, came as a surprise. The hierarchical shift of the world's most powerful economies wasn't expected to happen until 2019.
But this goes beyond just the field of economics. America's domination faces more challenges ahead. Though the United States does not yet have a rival when it comes to foreign policy, Washington's voice is not as strong as it had been for over 70 years.
Secretary of State John Kerry's humiliating failure in negotiations between Israel and Palestine is only the most recent example of this relative decline. Has the world's biggest military and diplomatic force lost its power to convince and constrain its allies as well as its adversaries?
President Barack Obama is not the unique cause of this loss of prestige and influence, but he is indisputably part of the problem. The agreement reached with Russia in September 2013 on the Syrian crisis can be seen in hindsight as a decisive turning point. By relegitimizing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime, Obama reinforced the belief in what was then no more than a shadow of a doubt: The United States is hesitant and retreating. All you need to do is speak louder than them.
Since then, this doubt has encouraged Russian President Vladimir Putin in his imperial plans for Ukraine. And it is this same doubt that Obama tried to clear up during his recent Asian tour. In Japan as well as in South Korea, Malaysia or the Philippines, the U.S. president was always faced with more or less veiled fear, despite the fundamental differences between these four countries.
In the face of China's increasingly visible ambitions, is it still possible to trust the U.S. to counterbalance the People's Republic? Why would Washington show more firmness towards Beijing tomorrow than it did towards Damascus or Moscow yesterday and today, not to mention Jerusalem, which has mastered the art of using the U.S. Congress against the presidential administration?
Sensing weakness
There is a vicious circle at work. The less credible the U.S., the more its opponents and reluctant allies feel a sense of entitlement.
Is there not a deep incompatibility between Barack Obama's personality and the transition period between two worlds that we are experiencing? The illusions born at the end of the Cold War about the so-called "end of history" are crumbling, and the world is witnessing the triumphal comeback of geopolitics in its most classic sense. Meanwhile, the United States is led by a president who, while certainly clever and charismatic, seems more able to handle continuity than to impose radical change, at least on the international stage.
And Obama failed miserably in his choice of advisors. His team desperately lacks a visionary strategist like George F. Kennan, the father of "containment," or Henry Kissinger, who as a nostalgic of Otto von Bismark's balance of power diplomacy understood perfectly well the rules of realpolitik.
The cards the U.S. is holding are objectively far better than what Washington's three main rivals have - Russia, Iran and China. But even bad cards can be well used. Putin is demonstrating that in Ukraine.
Beyond the personality of its president, the reality is that the United States is faced with a double dilemma. Just when the U.S. would like to focus on domestic issues and significantly reduce the defense budget, a return of geopolitics shakes the founding principles of the country's political reasoning. Contrary to Richard Hass's recently published book Foreign Policy Begins at Home, that idea is simply no longer true. Instead, exterior challenges multiply and intensify, and they are interdependent.
Washington is well aware that Moscow intends to talk the United States out of reacting in Ukraine by suggesting that it could otherwise revise its strategy in the Middle East, with regards to Syria and Iran, for example. Leading your opponent to believe that the last thing you want is an escalation is never a good move.
To understand how the world works today, we must steer clear of tempting but misleading analogies. This is not a new Cold War, and not just because Russia is not the USSR. It's also because the United States is not what it once was.
At the end of the Cold War, many analysts who were critical of the behavior on both sides spoke of a "competitive decadence" between the two superpowers. This has never been more true, but Russia's weaknesses are still of a different nature and scale than those of the United States.
Reprinted with permission from Worldcrunch.


I See It Now.

Readers Droppin Outta Da Swamp By Da Sky Load.
Oh Well.
Drop On. 

Some Of My Favorite Music

For Sure One Of My Favorite Songs. 
Just Hit It.
Live and Die In L.A.
My Home Town Anthem.
Crenshaw. 
Representin. 
In Da House.





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Yo.

Obama Hackin Gay White Boyz.
Fuck You And All Your Stank Ass Hoe Mammas
Faggots
How Much You Faggots Costin Me In Tax Dollars
Me And My Niggas Fucked All Your Hoe Ass Wives.
Bitch.
Oh Yeah. 


 




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Monday, May 12, 2014

Ryanindaswamp / Man In Da Street


Side Tracked Monday   /   How Real Is Real?



There are those that walk this earth crooked in their criminal step.
Slant Face Lies dripping from their Stretched Botox Facial Epidermis.
Paid for from their criminally gotten stacks($) sucked out of their constituents wallets.

Following a newz story this past Friday featuring none other than Americas Number One Lying Hoe.
Nancy 'Botox Face' Pelosi.

Watching her Twitch, Stut Stutter, Blink Eyed, Lying Self.
I was reminded of the company book keeper that got her tits caught in the company safe after embezzling Bustillions in Stacks($) and other Criminal, Nefarious Acts.

On and on.

Fast Ball Babble, Babble, Spit, Spit, Shuffle, Shuffle, Blink, Blink, Blink, Twitch, Twitch.

Make Up and Botox coming together in a Drip, Drip, Dripping Onslaught of Rouge, Eye Liner, and Lipstick creating a Surrealistic Canvas that would make Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech envious.
Talk about a Train Wreck With Tits.

Dancing away to the music of 'The Slant Face Sally 2 Step'.

More Treasonous Left Field Slander of The Loosing Left.
Deception.
Deverson.

Yo.
Nancy Patricia D'Alesandro Pelosi.

House Minority Leader. 
As a Representative of The American People IT IS YOUR JOB TO GET DOWN TO THE BOTTOM OF THE DEATH OF FOUR AMERICAN' Serving Their Country in hostile environment.
That is what the fuck we pay you to do. Your Damn Job.

The only Political Ploy here is your Mafia Style COMPLETE DERELICTION OF DUTY regarding your job.
Scarey Bitch.

But hey, Lying, Old, Wrinkled Face Hoe.
This is not your first time to the Criminal Corruption Rodeo.
Following are just a few more of your Treasonous Acts perpetrated against the American People.


 Public Corruption Watch: Pelosi at the Presidio
www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2312296/posts

 Nancy Pelosi, Down and Dirty | RealClearPolitics
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Watch Nancy Pelosi (If You Can Stomach It): "When People ...
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Proof Nancy Pelosi Is A Communist - Trevor Loudon's New ...
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 Socialists, Communists, Progressives in Government ...
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3%.
This the the percentage of people who actually backed and or participated in The American Revolutionary War.

I believe today in America that 3 percent is not too far off from the populace amount of The American People who actually care about the gross misdirection that this country is screaming forwards towards.
Communism.
Criminal Corruption Never Before Seen.
Lying Communist Politicians Blatantly exposing their mendacious ways. No regard what so ever to hide their felonious face'.

And who better than to lead this pack of Rabid Wolves. 
Non other than Americas Murdering, Thieving, Lying Clintons.
The Swine Elite.
Bill
and
Hill.

It actually sickens me on a cancerous level to even write about these pig's.
In The Read It and Weep File Draw Of The Most Nauseating, here are just a few of the many links that tell the story.

Yet, America. 
You sad sack Idiots.
These are the opprobrium scum bags Ya All want to elect into office.

As myself and my military brothers, entrails rotting quicker than a code red Mursa Epidemic stand by and watch our work, fighting to death, if necessary, no questions asked while the Idiots we protect grow fatter by the second as they cast a blind eye and a numb heart to the absolute destruction of America as they fart, stink and stench. Fat Grills glued to their financed 73 inch flat screens.
Trust me.
I'm being real kind.

The Clinton Body Count - Urban Legends

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List of Clinton Scandals - Uhuh opening Title Page

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List of Clinton Scandals - Uhuh opening Title Page
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BILL CLINTON'S CRIMINAL BACKGROUND

www.theforbiddenknowledge.com/.../billclintonscriminalbackground.ht



 Saving The Best For The Last

 

Arkancide

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Hillary. You Put An STD Ravaged Boise Hooker To Shame. 
Sorry STD Ravaged Boise Hooker.

If all that was not enough.

Down under. 
Oscar Pistorius claims that he is besieged with anxiety over the murder death of his girl Reeva Steenkamp.
Makes total sense.

Yo.
Oscar.
You Lying, Legless, Murdering Bitch. 

Anxiety is the emotional derailment one experiences in the after math of  'Smokin' another human being in Cold Blood.
Especially if 'The Smoked' is your Beautiful Girl Friend that you so ever loved, so very fuckin  much.

Unless of course you are a complete Sociopath.
Hmmm.
Quite possibly another way to go you heartless ass hole.

The V.A.
A place I Stay Far The Fuck Away From.
At All Costs.

These are JUST THREE stories of my Fallen Brothers at the hands of the V.A.

I am sure that if a choice was optional my three dead Military Brothers would have chosen that path.

First Dead Brother.
Navy Seal LT.
My neighbor back in Naples, Florida.
Bern.
My age.
Tall, skinny, German heritage.

Bern was diagnosed with the absolute largest kidney stone the V.A. had ever seen.
This was their verbatim  statement to my Seal Brother.

Every morning Bern would rise 2/12 hours early to ice down his side.
He would then mount his ten speed bike and ride 3 miles to work.
Ride home, slam down a pint of whiskey, plus the medication for pain.
Pass Out.

This was Bern' modus operendi for over two years until the V.A. finally removed the kidney stone.

I received a call last summer from another former Naples neighbor of mine informing me that Bern walked outside his crib.
Fell Over.
Dead.
As a result from complications caused from his removed kidney stone.

My second dead Brother.
Marine Gunnery Sargent Tom.
My age. We served together as well for many years.
Big Italian Boy.

On mission.
Gunny caught a direct hit from a German Su-152 Explosive Device/Bouncing Betty
Literally tore out his guts.
It was a real mess.

A mess that required Gunny to live for close to 40 years with a fiber glass plate where our entire belly covering is situated on our bodies.
12 fiber glass plates over the ensuing 40 years.

On a seemingly long waiting list for almost two years to replace the 12th gut plate with number 13. 
Unbeknownst to Gunny, his organs were infecting at an alarming rate. 
To say the least.

If all that wasn't not enough.
Gunny was my reason for relocation out west here to Tucson.
By the time I arrived at Gunny' home he had already been transferred up to the Phoenix V.A.
Where he died from infection' to ALL his vital organs leaving behind a beautiful young wife and two year old son.

My Third Brother.
A Marine.
1ST Force Recon. 
In fact we shared M.O.S.

Matt was 32 years old.

A Marine since the age of 19.
After six Middle East Deployments. 
Very Specialized.
Matt returned home here to Tucson.
Lips completely stretched over his head to toes.

When Matt separated from The Corps, 6"4'. 195 lbs.
The V.A. medicated Marine to the point of Matt putting on over 150 lbs.
Just  psychologically, medicated and zoned out.
A once proud Warrior reduced to mush.

Being a Recon Marine to the bone, Matt would not except his fate.
Two summers ago, never giving in to the heat.
Recon Marine Walking tall and proud, due to his weight increase and mushed out senses Matt literally dropped down, collapsed on the hot fuckin tarmac.
And Died.

Thanx V.A.

Damn Fuckin Right Tears On The Fuckin Key Board.

That's all today.

Ryan. Out.


I found the following article interesting.
Not at all surprising.
Thank You As Always
Realclearworld.com



Behind the Boko Haram Headlines, Slavery in Africa Is the Real Crisis

By Emma Christopher
The mass kidnapping of schoolgirls by terrorist group Boko Haram in Nigeria is neither a new nor rare occurrence, though this does not make it any less shocking. Boko Haram has been active in Nigeria for five years and is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Africa’s slavery crisis.
In Nigeria, there are “tens of thousands of people bought and sold every year”, according to Africa expert Benjamin Lawrance. The majority are children: in 2003, the International Labour Organisation estimated that as many as six million Nigerian children had been trafficked at some time in their lives.
In Africa as a whole, the scale of the problem is vast and far beyond the resources currently allocated to fight it, let alone sufficient to help victims. Lobby group and NGO Free the Slaves estimates that US$1.6 billion profit (an amount larger than the GDP of eight African countries last year) derives from African and Middle Eastern slavery annually.
A look at some of the countries involved gives more of an idea of the scope of the issue and how its evil tentacles reach Australian consumer goods. Around 40% of the world’s chocolate comes from cocoa produced in the Ivory Coast. Children from across West Africa are trafficked to work there: there is no guarantee that those children have not grown the chocolate you enjoy.
In the Eastern Congo, seven types of slavery are prevalent. Men and boys are enslaved in the mines of the region, whose products we all have in our mobile phones and other electronics. A covert investigation in 2013 by Free the Slaves found that more than 90% of mineworkers were enslaved, the majority through debt bondage or having been kidnapped by armed groups.
Nearby, they found women and girls who had been trafficked to work as prostitutes to serve the miners.
In Ghana, people are enslaved in the gold mining and fishing industries, with children being particularly prized by the latter. Seven hundred have been rescued in the last decade from just one fishing location.
In 2008, the Sudanese parliament announced that at least 35,000 people – down from the 200,000 once held – remained enslaved there, principally Christians from the South held by Islamic families in the North. Unfortunately, as South Sudan disintegrates into violence, there are reports of both sides kidnapping children for use as soldiers. This practice has become endemic across the continent each time conflict ensues.
The tragic truth is that children are part of warlords' armoury today because they are cheap to feed, easy to kidnap and often fearless. In my own work, I have asked Sierra Leoneans about their community’s oral histories about 19th-century slavery, only instead to hear an outpouring of harrowing detail about their own enslavement in the 1990s civil war.
Yet even this is only a part of the problem of enslaved Africans today, since most are trafficked abroad to places where they fetch far higher prices. African domestic workers, often children, can be found across the Middle East, Europe and the US. There is a “Nigerian” lane in Amsterdam’s red light district. African prostitutes can be found across Europe and Asia where they are sold as niche items.
Herein lies a large part of the problem with western strategies for dealing with this issue. Trafficking is by its nature a grey area; a vast, unknown percentage of those trafficked into the western world did so not after kidnap but having been tricked. In their utter desperation – many are from refugee camps, today’s favourite place for slave hunters – they fell for traffickers’ lies.
So it is that the western world sees trafficking in Africa in terms of something to be halted to slow the inflow of immigrants, not to help prevent potential victims per se. The demand to protect our borders, not the centuries of slave trading, is the context for anti-trafficking policies.
Tragically, it often seems that Africans are as regularly portrayed today as “other” – perhaps deemed worthy of our pity but rarely our solidarity – as they did at the height of the transatlantic slave trade.
Until we change that, and focus less on political expediency and more on the suffering and courage of girls like Deborah Sanya who escaped Boko Haram and told her story, justice for the millions who are still bought and sold seems a remote hope.
The ConversationThis article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article.
Emma Christopher is Senior Research Fellow in History at University of Sydney. She receives funding from the ARC. She is affiliated with a number of anti-slavery groups, including Free the Slaves.
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Saturday, May 10, 2014

Ryanindaswamp / Man In DA Street

Government Corruption, Drama, Lies And A Tiny Bit Of Sin 





You seeing what you are seeing World.

Lie after lie.
Government slaughter of the innocent.

Bustillioneir' agendas coming to fruition from the money they pay to the Corrupt.

War after war after war.
Fought by the poor for the wealthy.
Deployment, upon deployment, upon deployment.

The Used, Abused, Burned and Turned Warriors now have to fight for their above and beyond earned benefits while Grease Butt Monkey Politicians receive pay increase after pay increase after pay increase to keep Their Greased Butt Monkey selves in the money.

On and on and on.

While The Bought and Sold Media' Drip Lip Bitches pelt you with Bought and Sold Lies.
Their own make up does not even come close to cover their lying grills.

Government Lie.
Obesity Is A Decease.
Big Fat Lie.
This Lie Enables 'Pharma' to Pile Stacks($) To All Time Records.

Doctors So Very Used To Lying For Kick Backs Can Not Wait To Get Their Greedy Hands On The Unsuspecting.

Government Lie.

The Plane. The Plane.

Big Fat Government Cover Up.

How Fuckin Convenient. The Bottom of 'The Vast' Indian Ocean. 

Transponders Do Not Shut Down.
Loose Contact With Every Thing.
While Said Aircraft Remains Airborne For Another Four Hours.
Just Does Not Happen.

The Aircraft Is Without A Doubt.
Sitting On Tarmac In Very Hostile.
Passengers On Board.

Only The Great God Almighty can help this treacherous situation.

Just As I Stated In A Blog Several Dayz Into This Situation.

Yeah.
That's exactly what I am saying.

Another Fabricated Lie.
Courtesy Of  The World Government.

Imagine this World.

Personal Transportation that not only gets you there in style but runs on the absolute most renewable energy source just about known to man.

Grows as a weed. 
Non Stop.
Zero Pollutants.

OMG Ryan. 
What is this incredible machine and never ending renewable energy source that would have propelled it?

Well Sparky this machine, powered by the well, over abundant, renewable energy source was presented to The United States Of America Government in 1934.

The result and outcome was the Marriage of  Big Business and The United States of America' Government, stamping in granite a union steeped in Corruption, Lies, and Money.

American Government not at all having a problem with casting Pollution, Death, and as a Result from said Pollution and Death, a whole lot of Shame perpetrated by the very people that 'We The People' elect to make sure that this shit does not happen.

The U.S. Government knew without a doubt that what they were allowing to happen, actually backing, caused the Citizens of this country great harm, regarding pollutants produced by a much, much less environmentally friendly automobile.  

The entire process was corrupt on every level.
Forever bonding Big Business and The American Government In Paid Off Corruption From Corporations to Individuals.

The United States Government absolutely knew, without a doubt of the very serious pollution dangers of the gasoline engine.
Both in the direct emissions and the harvest of oil, along with upsetting the environment to the point of destruction.

No. 
I am Not An Environmentalist.

Actually two men were at the forefront of this technology.
Two Inventors that changed personal transportation on this planet for ever.

Who, as well, gave without a doubt the most reliable and just about zero polluting alternative to the gasoline engine.
Powered by an uncontrollable weed growth. 
A power supply that not only would never end, but costing a nano of a fraction to harvest. 
Without any environmental damage what so ever.

Stay Tuned.

I'm pretty sure Ya All will find this story amazing.

Ryan. Out.










Thursday, May 8, 2014

Ryan In Da Swamp / Man In Da Street

Public Service Thursday

Due To Serious Time Constraints Today I Am Fulfilling My Civic Duty.
I Sincerely Hope That Ya All Get Something Out Of Todayz Blog.

To Add.
Up Until This Day I Have Been A Monthly Supporter Of Wounded Warriors.
Due To Such A High Rate Of Mail From These Folks I Decided To Back Ground.

I Can Safely Say I No Longer Support This Organization.

Decide For Your Self.


Ryan. Out.


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Wounded Warriors Project A Legal Scam

download13by Alex Graham


As we are coming to find out, wounded Vets are big money. Considering I’m 146% disabled, I’m trying to figure out how to tap into this. The only thing I can see is to start my own 501(c)(3) and start cooking the books with a big $300 K a year salary for my work. Member and eagled-eyed scrutinizer Bruce spotted this heartbreaking article. Just when we thought it was safe to come out of the woods after the last news of the Big Six VSOs padding their bank accounts on the backs of all our disabled, along comes this article and investigation revealing nothing is sacred among thieves.
If you were thinking about donating to the Wounded Warrior Project, think twice. It would behoove you to get in your car and drive cross-country to deliver the funds to the charity you hope to help. More money would end up in their hands than entrusting it to the WWP for disbursement. The Beatles song Tax Man comes to mind- Here’s one for you, nineteen for me. Here’s what I received. It’s ugly.
I’m really sad to read this about the Wounded Warrior Project. I have definitely been a supporter up to now. The attached 2011 990 tax return is a real eye opener! For one, that’s a lot of BIG salaries they are paying at the first and apparently the second (outsourced) level for executive compensation! Obviously it’s not only corporations that can get greedy.
>Sad to say, the Wounded Warrior Project is bled dry by a top heavy, greedy executive structure and the remaining funds are disbursed to multi-tier distribution organizations with similar management structures. By the time the money actually goes to direct benefits for veterans, there is probably less than 10% that reaches them. Below are results of an investigation by a retired USMC Colonel.
At a recent meeting of a veterans association with which I am involved, a suggestion was made that we contribute to “The Wounded Warriors Project” (WWP). As an officer of the association, I was asked to do some research and make a recommendation regarding contributing to WWP. As one who fervently believes that our wounded warriors and their care-giving families deserve our unqualified support, I also believe that the public should be informed of the appropriateness and effectiveness of charitable organizations that support veterans.
The results of my research are disappointing, to say the least. To summarize, the WWP collects a fee in the form of generous compensation paid to WWP executives who outsource fund raising, collection and distribution of funds to other 501.c.3 organizations which provide services that directly benefit veterans. The WWP would make Bernie Madoff proud!
My actual report follows for your information.
Sent: Friday, May 24, 2013 8:01 PM
Subject: Wounded Warrior Project
Pursuant to your request, I have reviewed the Wounded Warrior Project (WWP) FY 2011 Form 990 (copy attached). In addition, I have surveyed other available information pertaining to WWP.
I did note the pie chart percentages which you mention (Administrative Expense: 4.4%, Fundraising Exp.: 12.8%). Based on the WWP Form 990, these figures are misleading. Total 2011 revenues were $154.9 MM with total fundraising expenses of $20.5MM and total administrative expenses, including outsourced services, of $95.5MM. Note that the total administrative expense includes fund raising. Therefore, as a percentage of total revenue, administrative expenses amount to 61.63%, including fundraising expenses of 13.2%. This equates to 38.36% of revenues available to benefit wounded warriors.
As far as I can determine, WWP outsources all major functions, including fundraising, legal, donation processing, donation distribution, etc.
Compensation for the top ten WWP employees runs from $150K to $333K per officer annually.
wwpAs far as I can determine, WWP does little, if any, direct support of wounded warriors and wounded warrior programs. Rather, WWP makes grants and contributions to other 501.c.3 organizations which operate wounded warrior programs and/or serve veterans directly. Examples of 501.c.3 organizations receiving WWP funds include Fisher House, The American Red Cross, The VFW, Easter Seals, and numerous little known and unheard of local and national organizations. While many of these organizations provide valuable services to wounded warriors, many more are suspect. As an example, I question an expenditure of $300K for a parade. Some organizations are known to be inefficient and not the favorite of veterans (e.g. The American Red Cross). I also question the use of funds for lobbying activities. It would appear that HMM-265 Veterans Association would be eligible to receive WWP funds.
It is true that WWP was the center of controversy involving their anti-Second Amendment position, as mentioned during our general meeting.
There is no question that WWP does contribute substantial funds for the benefit of wounded warriors. Notwithstanding, it appears that a more effective use of Association funds would be to contribute directly to The Fisher House, Navy-Marine Corps Relief, The Salvation Army, and others.
Attached below is IRS Form 990 revealing the perfidy of their spending (or lack thereof). Please, sir. May I have another parade?  wwp-900-fy-2012
P.S. There seems to be a little misunderstanding about how I can be 146% disabled.  If I round it up, it is actually 150% but I have claims pending which will add to it and hopefully pay me for being housebound until I reach room temperature. If any of you are familiar with Chapter 38, Code of Federal Regulations (38CFR) , please turn to Part 3, §  3.350. Or, in the alternative, look at 38 United States Code,  § 1114. There you will find a wealth of information on how you, too, can exceed what you perceive, or have been told, is  the ceiling (100%  rating). The Statute and the regulation both deal with what is known as Special Monthly Compensation (SMC). This is in addition to your normal ratings. For example, if you have a foot or hand blown off, you get SMC “K” for about $100 more in addition to any rating(s) you have. If both your buttocks are shot off, you get one “K” for that as well. You can have up to a maximum of three “K”s simultaneously. If you have separate, ratable disabilities above and beyond 100% (or TDIU), that add up to 60% or more using 38 CFR § 4.25 tables, you get SMC “S” or housebound. If you have two (2) 100% ratings and become severely ill, losing the use of both your legs or both your arms, you are entitled to the next higher rating above SMC “L” which is “M”. This 100% “bump” continues right on up to SMC “N”. If you simply cannot conceive of being more than 100% disabled or vehemently deny its possibility, then I suggest you look in the mirror. VA has been doing it since WWII. They do not advertise this (obviously) as a number of you have never heard of it. This has absolutely nothing to do with this post but somehow has suddenly become a stumbling block for those who seek to find anything to destroy the thrust and import of the post. If you still do not believe me, I suggest you consult the  Court of Veterans Appeals (CAVC)decision of Buie v. Shinseki http://asknod.wordpress.com/2011/09/27/cavc-buie-5-v-shinseki-0-2011/. It explains the concept very clearly if you are even remotely versed in the English language.  If you are illiterate, then no one can help you absorb this concept. Quite simply, thinking the ratings table ends abruptly at 100% is like insisting the earth is flat. A Marine I helped who ate more Agent Orange and Blue than me now has  a 280% rating. He would prefer to have his Chiropractic practice back just as I would prefer to still be building houses. It’s far more financially rewarding, both mentally and physically, to work than to live on a VA compensation check and be viewed as a goldbrick.
And lastly, I take no pleasure in bearing these bad tidings. Dean Graham, no relation to me, of Help Indiana Vets was the progenitor. He and his organization are now being sued for revealing that the WWP Emperor is naked. I suppose they may try to sue me as well. Good Luck. I’ll be dead long before they get an assigned docket date. I’m Stage 4 as of June 2012 and the Bingo light is flashing red. I received the WWP info from Bruce McCartney (Tip of the Spear) in Georgia who many may remember from In The Shadow Of The Blade video of the immortal Huey UH-1 chopper video.  He did four tours back to back in-country as a combat medic in a dustoff. I think he speaks for all Veterans of the Vietnam Boundary Dispute. All Veterans help sites aspire to one thing-unity and helping Veterans of all generations. WWP was the first to advocate segregating us by which period we served. They are also the first to take umbrage with the U.S. Constitution (2nd Amendment) and organized religious entities helping Veterans under the auspices of WWP. Always remember, they alone spearheaded the passage of the VA Caregiver Act, making it a benefit only to  those who served after 9/11. Pray tell, how is a Vet gutted and left helpless and severely disabled for life by a Bouncing Betty in 1968 no less deserving of a full-time caregiver than a Vet horribly disabled by an IED in 2008? This dichotomy is the hallmark of the WWP and no other Veterans organization. Try to understand that before hurling your epithets at us. Believe me, none of us seek Andy Warhol, fifteen minute fame for a cheap shot at WWP. In the immortal words of John Rambo “They drew first blood, sir”.
I add a PP.S. to this. WWP has been using fake wounded warriors at their sponsored events as well. This came to light very recently
http://asknod.wordpress.com/2014/02/16/wwp-saving-sargent-ryan-webster/
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  1. Well, I did some research and uncovered an interesting find, I highly value the brilliance of the individuals who speak at TED conferences, as Dan Pallotta provides, “The way we think about charity is dead wrong”
    Activist and fundraiser Dan Pallotta calls out the double standard that drives our broken relationship to charities. Too many nonprofits, he says, are rewarded for how little they spend — not for what they get done. Instead of equating frugality with morality, he asks us to start rewarding charities for their big goals and big accomplishments (even if that comes with big expenses). In this bold talk, he says: Let’s change the way we think about changing the world.
    See the video here:
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  2. Unfortunately there is seemingly No End to the number of various critters
    You can ‘rescue’ ‘adopt’ ‘save’ (or otherwise alter the life of).
    All for 19.95 (per month)
    There are Real People Really Hurting. (also other critters)
    I end up yelling at the TV several times a day (not fit for family radio)
    Even as people hurt, a passel of rent seeking creep frauds are marching across my TV.
    If you want to get money to those in need, try the Salvation Army.
    I am very fond of them (though I am not religious)
    I am certain there are others who do not spend it all on themselves (and on marketing).
    John

    • Full Disclosure:
      I think the Salvation Army is on the up and up,
      and any stats I heard on them are good
      (they use the money as intended and overhead is minimal.
      I spent my Christmas in SHU one year..
      They brought us cookies (chocolate chip, homemade)
      and a Plastic Mug and a small Pocket Bible.
      I ate the cookies (one morsel at a time, made em last)
      I kept the Mug and the little Bible, I cherish them to this day
      (and I know just where they are!
      Funny how the Little Things Endear (and Endure)
      or in other cases abrade (think weather ‘cuts’..
      John

  3. Preston James, Ph.D
    Great article exposing another top charity that is a complete scam. Main purpose is to provide fat salary and benefits to those who own it and run it, just like so many others, the rest is superficial and needed to keep the funds flowing in.
    Yes, the missing Haiti donations (millions missing and went to a few top politicians) is another example of an age old scam. Thanks for exposing these users and cons. The veneer of these cons to the public is thin and when asked for facts about where every dime goes they cringe or attack. Why because they do not care about anyone but themselves (it’s called selfishness). America is filled with good, caring charitable folks who are unfortunately easily scammed by groups such as this. Yes, Madoff would be proud of ‘em. Thanks for exposing this scam which takes advantage
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  4. Recently while I was on recruiting I contacted WWIabout volunteering since aa large VA hospital was in the area. Since I’m a combat vet with I wanted to help my brothers and sisters. I was told that it was best to show my support by purchasing the Care back packs. Before that there was a big cycling event in Nashville. There was a cost to ride which in was OK with. They had a lunch with the wounded soldiers. It was gonna cost extra $125 just to eat with my brothers and sisters. Tell me this is not right, if you think this an acceptable way to help those in need. Look other places.

  5. Here’s an interesting development. We know that many in the hierarchy of WWP arrived from VA middle management. No coincidence there. What they brought with them was many of the selfsame VA programs (19 at last count) that WWP uses to engage wounded warriors. Retreats, job fairs, etc. are the pablum handed out in lieu of meaningful assistance. WWP seeks sponsorship (and hence cost) to put these on and merely hangs the WWP banner on the stage. The two Marine mothers who have taken the time to comment here have discovered this. How many more are there? Several of you have commented via Facebook or other social plugins on the pros and cons of NFP corporations having a top-heavy management with ungodly extravagant wages. Some have even equated it with being the only way to attract experienced volunteers. Since when did
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    • I took some time to read through your articles, and some of your asknod stuff. I do get it, you literally despise VSO’s, likely because of your own claim and having to go to the Court on your own. You seem a lot like Mr. Strickland and other’s I’ve read about who lambaste, demonize, and take any and all opportunities to denigrate and pot-shot Veterans Organizations. Those same organizations that have helped millions of veterans like us (whether we know it or not), who have spent innumerable hours in different areas helping and making a difference.
      When I came home I had no community, many of these VSO’s and their chapters, posts, and other programs helped me reconnect and obtain VA Benefits. I understand you try to help others too with your blogs, etc. and kudos for your willingness there but I’m not sure that
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      • Mr. Rakkasan,
        I am not paid to write here on VT. Unlike some,I consider it a privilege to help Veterans free of charge. I have studied VA law for 5 years and one thing is certain. Having a VSO represent you is akin to no representation at all. Read my book. I have gone through the experience three times beginning in 1989. DAV, AmVets and the MOPH all had a golden opportunity to help me (and others) and couldn’t be bothered once they obtained my Power of Attorney. None of them, nor any others I have encountered, have legal training to do more than fill out the claims forms. No one ever told me or the thousands I’ve worked with that they needed a nexus letter to win. The Court of Veterans Appeals has now taken judicial notice of this shortcoming and equates representation by a Veterans Service Organization to that of
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        • I am first and foremost a Rakkasan, former U.S. Army Infantry, and no one’s shill (that word is definitely not in my lexicon). I will disregard the comment about Band of Brothers, as well as making the assumption that I do not respect and admire all generations of veterans. I think I advised you of such earlier, as well as my respect for your Service, and to what you do for other veterans in your own time.
          Here’s where we disagree, and you have now exposed yourself to being blatantly biased. I am quite a bit selfless and thrive on being amongst and helping in whatever small capacity, my veteran brothers and sisters. I think we all do this as individuals, or at least I hope we would. Having a sense of community, and knowing that we can depend on each other to the death is the fabric from which all honorable souls
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          • An excellent idea, Mr. Rakkasan. Just remember the enlightened WWP that you are so enamoured of was the author and main driving force behind the caregiver codicil recently enacted ONLY for post 9/11 Vets. I have no problem with that as I am blessed and not financially in jeopardy. Many of my fellow Band of Brothers from Vietnam, however, consider it to be blatantly arbitrary and disenfranchising a whole class of warriors simply by the date they served. Do tell us, is PTSD or a TBI injury from 2008 more deserving of a VA-paid caregiver than PTSD or stepping on a Bouncing Betty in 1968? I had more respect for you before your argument segued into our having a “disagreement”. It would be more seemly if you would stand up for your beliefs (and WWF’s) were they admirable. Instead, you digress and drag the MOAA in. This is, and
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  6. My son Jay is a grad of Walter Reeds Nursing program in 2007.I had a bad experience with Wounded Warrior Project over three years ago when I wanted to have a Reunion of Wounded Warriors in Lake Tahoe for some fun skiing and snowmobiling ect. I even developed a website that I was going to use for the event!! I could not get them to OK the event unless I was able to guaranteed $40000 in donations for the event .They ignored me until the last minute when I told them I was going live with the website. I received an email from one of the lawyers threatening me with a law suit if I used the name Wounded Warrior Project. They fired me for helping them?? I made a connection the next day with Operation Rebound and switched over to them as a fundraiser and advocate. I have vetted Operation Rebound (OR)myself by participating
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  7. I am the mother of a WW Marine and this article is very upsetting to me on many levels. As I had to leave my life as I knew it and live at Walter Reed for about 4 months I needed all the help I could get. I am a single mom of 3 sons and after my son was critically wounded with internal injuries and the loss of his right leg I had to stop working and leave 2 children at home to ensure my wounded son had my help and support to recover. I could barely keep up on my rent and utilities and the WWP administrators are bringing home $100,000.00+ a year????? If it wasn’t for the Semper Fi Fund helping me to keep my bills paid I would have lost everything. I do have to say that the Marine Corp staff at Walter Reed were VERY supportive but I have supported WWP and convinced many family members and friends to support them as well. When my
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    • I am afraid Marine mom (from a fellow Marine mom!) that I am going to disappoint you further. Tough Mudder is another scam. my Marine son has participated in several, with me contributing to and attending one of them. After watching the dollars that are poured into that event from many military, parents, friends and supporters, I emailed Tough Mudder. I asked how much money actually went to WWP from their event. I received a generic not-really-an-answer back. So I then replied with very specific questions. I was appalled at the answer. The ONLY monies that went to WWP were those that were pledged by the participant through friends and family. NONE, and I mean Zero of the participants fees, spectator fees, parking fees, food and beverage, etc etc etc…. go to WWP. The sad part, is I don’t really believe in the WWP either.
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  8. I wondered how long it would take before WWP trotted out the PR flack for rebuttal. We focused NOT on what good WWP does, which is debatable, but on hierarchy and their extravagant salaries. Some insist it takes big money to attract (and hold) competent CEOs. Do tell how that applies if you start your own NFP? Conflating volume of donated funds to wage equity is a fool’s argument unless or until altruism is dead. Having talked with over twenty severely disabled Vets during the last week, I discover that few have benefited. Pre 9/11 Vets were shown the door with the “we don’t serve your kind here”.WWP would have us look not at their disgusting greed but at “retreats”, coupons and tickets which, incidentally, are, for the most part, donated by others. WWP simply jumps up on center stage and hogs the microphone. They do not “provide”
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    • Alex, all I see in your hate filled rhetoric is someone who obviously puts more value and emphasis on the dollars raised by WWP than the actual good this organization produces. Do you think Mr. Nardizzi just tripped over a couple of million dollars to start WWP and build the program from handing out backpacks and care packages to designing with his team 19 programs? I’d invite the readers to take a look at the WWP’s Board of Directors and Executive Staff for their caliber, and then assess the impact these programs have on our severely wounded. These programs aren’t free, and at no cost to the organization, and they are not just “fluff” meant to inflate the importance of these programs. Sir, I think your views are not only short sighted, but debasing and patently based upon misinformation and lies. I belong to several VSO’s and many
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      • Dear Mr. Rakkasan187,
        Thank you for your comments. I, too, have had the pleasure of a one year vacation at a VAMC to glue my body back together 4 times so I think I can say I am well-acquainted with the concept of down range. 40 years ago I developed a virus from a contaminated transfusion following a GSW. Unfortunately WWP does not offer the services of which you speak to Vietnam Veterans,I have no complaints with that facet of their shortcomings.Divide and conquer seems to be their strong suit. I experienced much the same when I came home in 72. One of your enlightened VSOs, the VFW, would have nothing to do with Vietnam Vets
        Mr. Nardizzi and his former VA cohorts may have an excellent track record delivering t-shirts and backpacks. Again, I commend them. They along with your esteemed VSOs you seem enthralled with are mountebanks,
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        • Thank You for Your Service and I too believe the Vietnam Vets were poorly treated when they came home, and carry a lot of pain as a result of that.
          However, I think I better your point, and where this is coming from. It seems based on your statements, you had negative personal experiences when returning home, and being poorly received by other Veterans Organizations, you came to dislike or distrust many or all of them.You mentioned two others in the same post.
          So I think this is personal for you that WWP has a specific mission statement and focus, and you are not a part of that generation.
          I think I understand now, this isn’t merely because of a flawed 990 form, or slinging mud because people work for a living and get paid to do a job, this is because you believe WWP honors and empowers one generation over another, and
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          • Dear Mr. Rakkasan 187,
            It’unfortunate your psychic and psychiatric skills are so limited. This has nothing to do with me. I simply published a report by a fellow Veterans organization that wished to tell a story. It is not about me or VT. It does, however, have everything to do with the new breed of “help” for Veterans. It seems clear that WWP wants to limit their clientele (and their charitable good deeds) to post 911 Veterans. I do not fault them for it. I similarly do not fault them for their anti-Second Amendment stance nor their perceived shunning of religious organizations who wish to help Veterans. I merely disagree with the idea of raking off grossly excessive amounts of money for salaries as the Big Six VSOs are now doing as well. No one can dispute the WWP’s salary figures, yet many attempt to divert the conversation away from it.
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  9. Wounded Warrior Project
    One would expect that if someone wants their information to be considered legitimate, it should be fact-checked and accurate. Nothing could be further from the truth with this article. The claim that WWP does little, if any, direct support of Wounded Warriors and Wounded Warrior programs is false. WWP has 19 direct programs and services such as Family Support Programs, Combat Stress Recovery Program, and Transition Training Academy that veterans and their families participate in every day. The article also makes claims that based on our 2011 990, we spent $95 million on administrative and fundraising costs and less than 10% of donations actually reached wounded warriors. That is absolutely incorrect. If you actually read our 990 here read more ...
  10. Being a standup guy, I asked my son to take a purely objective look at it from the aspect of law and as a CPA. He graduates in two weeks from Gonzaga with his Juris Doctorate. He also has a Masters in CPA. In truth he’s lazy. He wanted the top dollar job with the least work to earn it. It happens that’s in the new Bernie Madoff field of “Where’s the money?” His assessment? Perfectly legal. Perfectly, nauseatingly, nonaltruistically lucrative and legal as can be. Which comports with my assessment. I certainly do not fault Mr. Nardizzi and his former VA cohorts if they wish to live like Remora on a shark’s face, feeding off what comes to them with no effort. It’s just that I could not sleep at night with the sure knowledge that some part of my extravagant pay and that of my cohorts could better even one homeless Vet’s life. I survive on a VA 100% disability and a small SSD pension and still donate to Fisher House. I would give them more if I still
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    • Alex: I am as old fashioned as you. When I get bitter about the wage structures I remember all the boys and young men I saw dying or already dead. We cannot think with the mind of our older age-I am mid 60s. We have to remember how we thought way back when. Maybe we were naive but probably we were more realistic than they are now.

  11. long ago they’ve made it “legal” for anything “charity” to spend 90% for administration and distribution.
    when Haiti got slammed they raked billions, the Haitian people got military occupation, concentration camps, kidnapping paedophiles and more, all in the name of “charitable help”?!! its how they operate.
    UNicef, Save the Children, and countless others, are all the same because its “legal”.

    • When they call us on the phone, I tell them to send me their written reports on their organization. This often angers many of them.
      In northern NY I used to get calls from a man with a Bronx, NY accent who said he was collecting for the annual NY sheriffs canine association/police dogs etc–was the funniest scammer ever but he always got real nasty when I told him over and over to send the info, and I also told him he was a crook.

      • sounds like the “officer down” charity when those guys really ought to have insurance anyway.
        the media always cries about a downed officer but never says what kinda SOB mightta deserved it.
        theres a recent infowars article about a santa rosa cop who shot a young teen carrying an airsoft gun seven times, who is right back on the job about 6 weeks later.
        police dogs: defending yourself from an animal trained to rip you to shreds is regarded as assaulting (or killing) an officer, and we are supposed to respect an organization that regards us as being less than and less important than their trained attack beasts? HAH! they invade homes all the time killing family pets for daring to bark and THEY are never charged with murder, but they’ll sure charge YOU!

        • Not going to argue with you but I will share this with you. OBVIOUSLY you have never been a cop! I am a former Deputy Sheriff and until you take the oath of a police officer, put on your bullet resistant vest and your other 15 to 20 pounds of gear, including a weapon and walk in our/their shoes, DON’T BE SO QUICK TO JUDGE. Most officers carry death and dismemberment and life insurance polices at their own expense in addition to the pittance given by the Department hoping never to need them. EVERY OFFICER hopes (s)he never has to pull their weapon out of the holster and shoot another human being. The scariest moment in my 14 years was when I drew and pointed my weapon at two individuals in an unsecured and unlit gymnasium during a high school football game carrying rifles. When my partner got the lights on and I saw 2 ROTC cadets through my sights I began to shake violently. Had either of them moved in the dark, there is no doubt I would have
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          • no attack on you personally and there ARE some very good guys out there too..
            but a “compliance tool” like a tazer, which has killed well over 500 people nowadays, isnt ever going to be considered an officer being assaulted. hell no I’ve never been a cop, but it is also my belief it is the duty of the office of a Sherriff to protect the people, more often this is failed when FEDS operating outside their jurisdiction decide to attack-raid someplace.
            yeah I can relate, finding kids with rifles or what looked like rifles on a campus would be a very scary situation, if they were criminals, just saying “BOO” couldda got you shot at!
            (glad it was your scariest moment and that you excercized good judgement and restraint)
            training has also changed, it used to be about shooting to disable-subdue someone, not unloading a full clip to guarantee eliminating a threat, permanently! somewhat understandable with consideration given to crazy youngins
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          • Santa Rosa HAS become a little gangland, decades ago. I’m not really being so quick to judge but unloading a full clip like that, sounds pretty outrageous to me, even not being there. the failure to comply to an officers orders has been used, overused, and abused. “orders” and “instructions” sure seem to be interchangeable at whim? “THEIR self defense not yours” is also very possibly defining of an us vs them mindset programming, that I do feel is correct to question. things DO happen, like yelling at someone “stop resisting” when they’ve just been tazered and dont have any control over their own muscles, gets tazed again?! wow. “compliance tool”, “pain compliance”, are we talking about torture and abuse yet?
            I’m sure we both get it debates like this could go on for a long time, and to me it isnt really argument, accusations, or “case making”, just real world thoughts, considerations, a bit of somewhat intellectual thought provoking discussion that
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  12. I appreciate this column. I acted on my instincts and never donated to WWP even though I get lots of requests from them wherein some of the letters have purple heart stamps in them. Having worked with thousands of soldiers (Army “wounded warriors”, I did not want any money to go to those soldiers who have been scamming the government in order to get retirement benefits and further VA money for disability. A very large percentage of WW were pushed through basic training and then the next stop where they learned MOS skills. When it was time to deploy or just plain work, they said they couldn’t do it. I also saw many Guard and Reserve soldiers who did not deploy and many more who did deploy but then complained of a dozen or so bogus disorders due to military service.
    If one does investigations on thousands of soldiers, it is easy to see who are the honorable, honest people as opposed to all the scammers.
    If you work for the government you will lose
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  13. How much money is given to Americans who don’t join the army because they don’t want to terrorize or kill brown people in the Middle East on behalf of Israel?

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