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GORDON DUFF: THE FASCIST REPUBLIC OF KERN COUNTY, CALIFORNIA
MINI “RUBY RIDGE” A POSSIBILITY WHEN SHERIFFS USING GESTAPO TACTICS TERRORIZE WOMAN
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACCUSED OF “REIGN OF TERROR”
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
Central California has always been a conservative area, one with thousands of veterans and a very active militia movement. Individual rights are valued there, rights to privacy, rights to feel safe in your home, safe from illegal search and safe from a police department shown to be, without a doubt, one of the worst in the nation. We are talking about Kern County, California. When I received the video today I would never have imagined police would be so absolutely stupid as to have not simply killed the woman filming them. At least they could have stolen her video camera and smashed it. Street punks who keep videos of rapes and beatings, later to be played for juries, are of the same ilk.
Note: Local residents are reporting in that the situation in the video is very much the norm with a political machine running the District Attorney’s office and local District Attorney. Residents are asking for a federal investigation of corruption in the county. Reports are that police maintain a climate of tyranny and fear in Kern County. The wantonly corrupt behavior evidenced on the video should be more than enough to spark some curiosity from federal authorities. Comments as follows:
“read Pulitzer Prize winner Ed Humes book about Kern County its just the tip of the iceberg…….the local District Attorney has created an evil Empire and yes they commit the crimes on innocent people and than turn around and charge the innocent person-and send them away(no cameras in the cop cars-no cameras in court room-cameras in PRISONS only where they need them many areas where they do the beating and killing away from any video..yet they would brag about all their state of the ART CRIME LAB(run by the DA’s Office)the county is even in charge of the Ambulance Co(that’s so they can cover up the Beatings)”
Citizens groups in California are tracking the situation but have warned us that the Sheriff’s Department investigation is not expected to be anything more than a white wash. With a video like this, many more groups will keep pressure on Kern until something substantive is done.
For some reason, police in Kern County are absolutely certain they are above the law, any law, the Constitution in particular. It is certain that they don’t answer to any power, not a county sheriff, no judges, no citizens groups and certainly no a conscience or sense of honor or decency. The video made me think I was watching something out of The Diary of Anne Frank.
The issue is a simple one, police barge into a woman’s home looking for a “suspect” believed to have committed “battery” on a police officer. From what the video shows, there don’t seem to be any real police officers in the area, simply uniformed and armed thugs pretending to be police. When you see utter disregard for law by police, when police ignore some laws, they usually ignore all laws. With so many police putting their lives on the line every day, so many that deal with endless stress with courtesy and decency, seeing people like this makes me sick.
THE ROBERTS COURT AND THE END OF AMERICAN FREEDOMS
You might ask why police believe they don’t need warrants to search homes or simply break in where they wish? The answer is simple. We have 5 Supreme Court justices who will vote to back up any power of a police state over the rights of an individual. This is the Roberts Court. It has translated its “conservative” ethic and “strict constructionism” into allowing car searches, wire-tapping, torture and now has totally eliminated the rights of any American to feel safe and secure in their homes.
WHO CAN DEFEND AMERICA AGAINST LOCAL DICTATORS AND CRIMINAL SYNDICATES USING POLICE POWERS?
Low and behold, get ready for this. The ACLU, yes, the American Civil Liberties Union is the only group that cares enough to protect Americans from having their doors knocked down or their guns seized. As with Ollie North and Rush Limbaugh, when government takes on an individual and the Constitution is being trampled on, even when those individuals make a living hating the ACLU, it is all that stands between us and a police state. I wonder if any of those folks in California who love rabble rousing about the ACLU defending “queers” and “perverts” are going to be in front of this womans home to fend off the police?
Another point, of course, is why are groups that talk so much about “conservative values” and “individual rights” willing to sit by and do nothing when our Constitution is trampled on and individual rights are violated, even when the victim is “white folks?”
SOMETHING WE CAN’T SIT BY AND IGNORE
Police officers in Kern County now have a “viral video” that puts them under a spotlight. The failure to immediately suspend the officers involved and arrest the “bail enforcement officer” involved in this crime is already an issue. We have yet to hear from a local prosecutor and, certainly no other group, especially no citizens group, veterans, militia or anyone else sworn to defend Constitutional rights has spoken up. I expect the local police will deal with their own, in their own way. We have been warned of a cover up but with the national attention this travesty is getting no officer serving in this department will ever be able to live above suspicion or be considered for any other department.
They are going to have to clean their own house. If handled with honor, our offending officers will have to park their cars a mile away from the station and keep nothing they value in a locker. Police have always had a way of dealing with misfits and “dirty cops,” in good departments anyway. It is my hope that this is a good department and that the officers there have already isolated the offenders who should now be guarding the county dump on 3rd shift with Wednesday and Thursday off and an end to any overtime. I know the drill. From the local press:
Sheriff’s department launches internal investigation after deputies enter woman’s home
17 News discovered a youtube video of Kern County Sheriff’s Deputies and a bail bonds enforcement officer entering a local woman’s home after she told them they couldn’t come in without a warrant and her consent. With the evidence she caught on tape, the law seems to be on her side.
“I don’t need a warrant,” the bondsman said as he appeared to enter on his own into the home from a back door on the youtube video.
There were also sheriff’s deputies at the front door. Deputies and bail bond enforcement officials have different laws but a local bail bondsman not affiliate with this case said what happened in this case was against the law.
“If you see the person go in, you can go in,” Glenn Pierce, the owner of Gotta Go Bail Bonds said. “But you just can’t go in randomly.”
The woman who lived at the home told 17 News her name is Star. She said she is in hiding because threats were made against her. She also said deputies and the bail bondsman violated her rights by forcing entry into her home after she stated she was the only one there.
Attorney H.A. Sala says based on the video evidence, the Sheriff’s Department could have a lawsuit on its hands because of the way they forced into the home without any knowledge of the wanted person being in the home. “They have to knock, state a purpose, say they have a warrant and give time for the person to surrender,” Sala said.
Authorities were looking for Joseph Baker who was arrested for battery on a peace officer in September. They were also looking for a man named Alan Gjurovich because he co-signed on Baker’s bail bond which Baker forfeited by not showing up in court. Gjurovich is in hiding but spoke to 17 News by phone. He said the sheriff’s department is trying to stop him from filing a lawsuit against the county that could damage county judge and clerks’ credibility.
“They’re trying to scare us out of town and out of the county,” Gjurovich said. “The message I was getting, they were giving us a 48 hour ultimatum–give them what they want on Joe Baker or they will personally come down and arrest me.”
Sheriff Donny Youngblood confirmed the deputies in the video are from the Kern County Sheriff’s Department, but he said he can’t comment because an internal affairs investigation is being launched.
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Thank God I don’t live in the US. What a hell hole of a place. You live in fear of each other. No wonder the whole world feels sorry for you.
George! Just had a long conversation with a friend in the states telling me it wasn’t all bad. When I was in the states an elderly couple ranted with anger in their eyes telling me Obama was a communist. In fact I thought the old guy would have a heart attack.
I live abroad. I see my country clearer not being there. I do not like what I see.
There must be some higher authority that they will have to answer too. This just isn’t right at all.
When the GOVERNMENT fears the people, there is FREEDOM. When the PEOPLE FEAR THE GOVERNMENT there is TYRANNY. Thomas Jefferson…my question to you…HOW do you get the government to fear you? You “men” that live in that county know what you need to do so DO IT. JESUS isn’t going to do it for you. GOD isn’t going to do it for you.
NO ONE BUT YOU ARE GOING TO DO IT SO GROW SOME GONADS AND DO WHAT NEEDS TO BE DONE.
Mark, expose them for the cowards they are, that’s how you get government to fear you. It works on the media and sayanim too!
A very troubling video. T.
Tom
I believe this video is typical..and the ones we see are staged.
g
Like I said, I was accused and convicted of something I never, ever did in the Country of Texas. It…is a Whole ‘nuther’ Country. This Kern County California thing? You ain’t said S__t!
Our soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq have been housebreaking innocent families homes since Bush anti terrorist proclamations days. How to win friends and influence people. God no wonder we will never accomplish crap in the mid east.
I felt very sorry for the woman. She was alone and she had courage in the face of all those in her home who had guns.
Is this the future of our entire government?
Matt, not if I can help it!
WTF? You call for the arrest of the bondsman and the SUSPENSION of the deputies???
Every felon who invaded that woman’s home belongs in jail, period.
This is no different than what the police and National Guard did in the wake of
Katrina. Go on YouTube and look up the Gun Confiscation video of a woman in her
70s being tackled by “brave” officers because she had the audacity to keep a
revolver for protection. if that doesn’t make you angry it should. In many
cases the police have become the “occupying army” that our Founders fought
against. Time to remind them who they work for.
Wes, they are the “occupying army”. And, yes, it is time to remind them who they work for.
Law enforcement officers have too much power and as Mr. Duff’s article makes clear our judiciary is backing-up crooked cops, shielding them from accountability and allowing them to lie with impunity.
When the “conservatives” on the US Supreme Court decided to allow cops to obtain warrants on the basis of anonymous tips they sanctioned the already onerous practice of lying to get warrants.
Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood recently had this to say:
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/03/31/joey-porter-incident-could-have-gotten-a-lot-uglier/
See, the so-called conservatives on the court (fascists like Alito, Scalia, Thomas) already have eviscerated the 4th and 5th Amendment protections…why not end the 2nd Amendment protection altogether?
In California it’s long been known that the surest way to obtain a concealed weapons permit is to contribute to the local Sheriff’s campaign. That’s what comes of allowing an elected official or bureaucrat to determine who may exercise their rights and who may not exercise their rights.
Fortunately, people like Star, the lady in the video, insist on the rights they hold by being human.
Cops, crooked and otherwise, need to be reminded that they work for us, and we will not take orders from them.
hi there i’m sara palin ! now thats what i’m takin’aboot freedom everybody,freedom for the local police to break in to your home! freedom to kick your sorry middle class ass for any damn reason they want! freedom to put you behind bars on false charges or frame you like they did in pottawattamie county and then have obama and the doj back up the county by saying you have no protection under the constitution from being framed for a crime! now thats what i’m talkin’aboot freedom now send me money you freakin’ mormons i mean morons if you like freedom! god bless ! yes where the fuck are all those tea bagging republicon stooges that are concerned for the constitution ? thanks Duffy for the gold coins
MRG
If I get another email from Kern County……this place has really got to be something.
g
g, looking like a bunch of counties in Cali have some “splaining” to do.
Gordon, my life resemble’s Kern County! So many “demons” running around, had to find out why. Having worked in Bakersfield about 20 years ago, I’m familiar with the “wild-side” of the County. Working on locating someone who could, perhaps, help with the situation…seems he and all his buddies had a son for me to meet!!! Anyway, googled Kern County Wikipedia, click on #9 under footnotes at the end…Truth in Justice. http://truthinjustice.org/ed-jagels.htm Check out Rolling Stone, “Mean Justice’s Dirty Secrets” by Kimberley Sevcik Now go to Kern County’s website and see who the District Attorney is…I FELT RIGHT AT HOME!!! By the way, there is a Kern Veterans Registry there. I wonder if they’re doing anything on May 07, 2010. The Sheriff’s Activities League is hosting its 6th Annual Golf Tournament. Cheers!!!
Red, check out this website http://kidjacked.com/up/2010/04/washington-rally.asp Is the D.A. acquainted with this group?
Also see by googling, Janelle Burrill fraud, a similar m.o.
“Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.” quote by Dorothy Sayers
g, On August 08, 2008 I googled The State Bar of California, located attorney Robert Ross Powell #159747; status: active. Mr. Powell fielded calls for a possible class action law suit against a county allegedly “terrorizing” children into “snitching” on their parents. These allegations involved the sheriffs department and child welfare. I spoke with Mr. Powell’s office on two occasions. His phone number is: 408)553-0200, fax: 408)553-0203, email: rpowell@rrpassociates.com (an older email? rrplaw@sbcglobal.net Mr. Powell’s address is Law Office of Robert R. Powell; 925 West Hedding Street; San Jose, California 95126 From where I’m sitting, a multi-jurisdictional lawsuit would do the State of California a world of good.
I live in Kern County, I am a hard working honest, patriotic person that loves what our founding fathers like Jefferson put in motion. But the police violate peoples rights everyday here. I was searched and afterwords, 320.00 was missing from my wallet. If you have a complaint against law enforcement, where do you go? Law enforcement. I did complain and during the eight months of investigation my car was impounded 4 times. I was followed and I was scared. Ive never made anymore complaints and wish there was a police watch organization or ACLU, the closest is in Fresno. We need cameras! Police wont have any of it! I didnt get my money back, the officer was shot by a resident here and killed. He had been harrassing the mans son over son. The Police that should do something dont, the rest are bullies and they allow an us against them mentality. They even have their own private bar and I wonder how it gets stocked? No one ever gets a DUI after leaving that club! I hide from police and keep to myself, that lady was brave and sort of careless considering where we live and who runs this town. STAR! I salute you and pray for your life and freedom.