Doublespeak (article)
Doublespeak is language deliberately constructed to disguise its actual meaning, usually coined by governmental, military, or corporate institutions. George Orwell referred to Newspeak, Oldspeak and doublethink in his seminal novel “1984” (that book is a warning). His novel made fashionable composite nouns with speak as the second element, previously unknown in English. It was therefore just a matter of time before someone came up with doublespeak, the B vocabulary of Newspeak, words “deliberately constructed for political purposes. Doublespeak is consciously engineered to deceive. Biden admin doublespeak – your handy guide to White House euphemisms (article) David Marcus;
US police strategy for killing Black people during traffic stops
Hegelian dialectic (article) A method of historical & philosophical development
Hegelian dialectic (noun). an interpretive method in which the contradiction between a proposition (thesis) and its antithesis is resolved at a higher level of truth (synthesis). Hegelism postulates (1) a thesis (beginning proposition), (2) the antithesis (a negation of that thesis) and (3) a synthesis (two conflicting objects are then reconciled in a way that transfers power/privilege from one class to another to form a new normal).
Example: thesis, antithesis, synthesis
- thesis: ‘today’s hero is yesterday’s tyrant‘
- antithesis: ‘today’s tyrant is yesterday’s hero‘
- synthesis: We Don’t Need Another Hero
The US gov’t is playing the political game of Hegelism of thesis, antithesis; but behind the scenes they belong to the same club.
The Legacy of MK Ultra (CIA Mind Control Program)
related video: Mind Control: Soft, Hard, Trauma-based | Studies in Propaganda
MK Ultra (video clip) is the overall research programme involving many leading psychologists, psychiatrists & social scientists. ‘MK’ are initials for the German word for mind control & ‘Ultra’ is the codename.
Sydney White (Investigative Journalist, Studies in Propaganda, FREE University of Toronto) talks about the history of mind control in general and the MK Ultra program specifically. She outlines how mind control still influences culture and society today.
MK Ultra went underground in 1973. Current methods; Fear factor with patsies and torture, psych drugs and school shootings, drugging the kids before critical thought (under 6), soft, hard & trauma-based. Children are at risk from Big Banks, Big Bible & Big Pharma.
The Task-Force Ploy
: Dr. Dylan Rodriguez, professor of media culture at the University of California at Riverside, gives his account of his experience at UC Riverside with what we call the ‘task-force ploy’ that is currently being employed in states like Delaware and Wisconsin.
LOS ANGELES (3 MAY 2021) Read the full article University of California Pushes to Militarize and Expand Its Police Force
President Janet Napolitano created a series of task-forces after the Nov 18, 2011 UC Davis pepper-spray incident (birthed the Occupy movement) to investigative UC campus police use of excessive force. The pretense of the task-force model is laid bare; years later the problem has gotten nothing but worse (Defund or reform UC campus police? Sharp disagreement surfaces).
A series of proposed revisions to the systemwide UC police policy will expand the capacity for statewide police militarization (via “Systemwide Response Teams”), enhance UC Police Department (UCPD) surveillance technologies (by distributing body-worn cameras), and further weaponize the UCPD’s “Use of Force” policies.
The implications of this administrative proposal are deeply concerning, not only because UC is among the largest public university systems in the world, but also because it has historically served as an experimental ground for the development of modern police technologies and protocols.
Violations of 4th Amendment rights
Black people & minorities are being denied their right to be secure in their persons, houses and effects from unreasonable searches and seizures; pre-text stops, excessive force, police brutality, use of lethal force & militarization of police.
DC Police
Archie Elliott III
PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY MD ( 10 JUNE 2021) Read the full article Community Group Demands Police Accountability in 1993 Killing of Archie Elliott III
Bijan Ghaisar
Update: WASHINGTON DC (19 MAY 2022) Read the full article Civil rights groups join calls for DOJ to revisit Ghaisar case, citing new evidence
Update: WASHINGTON DC (4 APR 2022) Read the full article Family speaks out after Virginia AG ends prosecution of officers in Bijan Ghaisar killing
Update: WASHINGTON DC (10 OCT 2021) Read the full article Federal U.S. District Judge Claude Hilton tosses out all criminal charges against the two Park Police officers who killed Bijan Ghaisar
WASHINGTON DC (24 MAR 2021) Read the full article Judge Sets Hearing for Park Police Shooting of McLean Resident Bijan Ghaisar U.S. District Court Judge Claude M. Hilton has scheduled a status hearing for April 23 to determine whether the two Park Police officers charged in the 2017 fatal shooting of Bijan Ghaisar “can be criminally prosecuted by the state of Virginia…or whether they fall under amnesty for federal officers from state criminal laws.”
An’Twan Gilmore
WASHINGTON DC (19 OCT 2021) Read the full press release: DC MPD officers kill An’Twan Gilmore, 27 while he slept in his own car. Black Lives Matter DC demands justice. Early on the morning of August 25, 2021, the DC Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) executed 27- year old An’Twan Gilmore, a Black man, as he slept in his car.
Peyton Ham
Update: WASHINGTON DC (20 OCT 2021) Read the full article No charges for State trooper Joseph Azzari who shot & killed Peyton Ham, says Ham wanted to die so he killed him.
WASHINGTON DC (14 APRIL 2021) Read the full article State trooper shot and killed a 16-year-old armed with a knife and airsoft gun, Maryland authorities say
Karon Hylton-Brown
Update: Washington DC (24 SEP 2021) Read the full article DC Officers Indicted in Karon Hylton-Brown’s Death
WASHINGTON DC (2 NOV 2020) Read the full article Karon Hylton-Brown’s Loved Ones Remember His Exuberant Spirit And Dreams For Fatherhood
DeAndre Johnson
WASHINGTON DC (19 OCT 2021) Read the full article DC police chief says man was killed during struggle with officer DeAndre Johnson was killed by DC police officers who were serving a temporary protection order. Johnson was shot twice in the back.
Deon Kay
WASHINGTON DC (25 May 2021) Read the full Black Lives Matter DC press release; DC Police Admit Killing of 18-year-old Deon Kay was Unjustified but ‘Justify’ it Anyway
Ryan LeRoux
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, MD (19 JULY 2021) Read the full article Family Questions Montgomery Police for Fatally Shooting 21-Year-old at McDonald’s Ryan Leroux was shot 24 TIMES. He did nothing wrong. He lifted his hand up and the police murdered him in cold blood.
Ernestine Little Family
WASHINGTON DC (29 JAN 2021) Read the full article DC Family Wants Answers After Prince George’s Police Storm Their Home
James Lionel Johnson & Dominique Williams
WASHINGTON DC (9 APR 2021) Read the article Off-duty Pentagon police officer charged with murder for allegedly killing 2 David Hall Dixon, a Pentagon Force Protection Agency police officer who was off duty at the time of a fatal shooting in Maryland, has been charged with second-degree murder for allegedly killing two people, Takoma Park police said. The victims were identified by the Takoma Park police as Dominique Williams, 32, and James Lionel Johnson, 38. According to police, they were shot from behind and had wounds in their rear upper torsos.
At a press conference Friday afternoon, Takoma Park Chief of Police Antonio DeVaul said Dixon’s description of what happened didn’t stack up.
US Police
Johnny Bolton
SMYRNA, GEORGIA (25 MAY 2021) Read the full article ‘We want answers’ | Family of man killed in Cobb County no-knock warrant speaks out for first time The family of Johnny Bolton still does not have any information about the raid or who fired the shots that killed him.
La’Mello Parker
BILOXI, MISSISSIPPI (10 MAY 2021) Read the full article Activists demand answers after Black baby killed in shootout
Black Lives Matter Mississippi are calling for the release of police body camera footage of what happened in a May 3rd killing of 3-month-old infant La’Mello Parker near Biloxi, Mississippi. “We want to have a coherent, truthful conversation about what happened and how this could have been avoided. Period,” Anastassia Doctor, a Black Lives Matter Mississippi board member and Army veteran, told The Associated Press Monday. “If this was a white man with a white child, would they have done the same thing?”
Tamar Rice
CLEVELAND, OHIO (16 APRIL 2021) Read the full article Attorneys for Tamir Rice’s family ask the Justice Department to re-open investigation into boy’s death Police killed Tamir Rice in 2014. Officers responded to a report of someone pointing a gun at people outside the recreation center. The caller told a 911 dispatcher that the gun looked fake, but that information was never relayed to the officers. Then-officer Timothy Loehmann shot Tamir at Cudell Recreation Center on Nov. 22, 2014, while the boy was playing was an airsoft pellet gun.
Adam Toledo
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS (16 APRIL 2021) Read the full article Adam Toledo shooting: Protests call for justice after release of video showing teen killed by Chicago police After demanding to see the video for weeks, residents openly sobbed on the street. Some said they couldn’t bring themselves to watch.
Israeli Military Forces
According to this reporting, a patchwork of providers – including for-profit, strange fire companies– are training our police.
There’s little guidance or oversight as to who can lead these and what officers should be taught. The programs can be – and sometimes are – run by former officers with a deplorable track record who were recently let go for using excessive force.
I’m sure we can all agree that’s NOT who should be training our nation’s law enforcement. Many of the teachings revolve around fostering a violent attitude towards the civilians who they are supposed to protect – what one trainer dubbed a “warrior mentality”.
Many paint this excessive use of force as the only way an officer can effectively do their jobs, with one person even saying: “Be the calmest person in the room, but have a plan to kill everyone.”
A police officer’s job is to protect our society … NOT be the judge, jury, and executioner. These trainings are completely unacceptable and are the reason why the ‘shoot now, think later’ mentality persists in the system of policing.
This reliance on excessive force causes more civilian casualties than it prevents, as demonstrated in the heartbreaking death of 14-year-old Valentina Orellana Peralta, who lost her young life while Christmas shopping.
Police training should focus on de-escalation and preservation of life. Police should be conditioned to use the least lethal force necessary. But unfortunately, many trainings DON’T teach this.
I encourage you to join the fight to change community policing in America. Please, sign this petition in Valentina’s honor to calling for police reform from the IACP and the FOP!
We need a police force that is not overly militarized and aggressive. We need to foster a culture of compassion that aims to preserve life. We need meaningful police reform … and that includes reforming how officers are trained.
DEMAND REFORM
Thank you in advance for your support!
Respectfully,
Benjamin L. Crump, Esq.
ST. PAUL, MINN (JUNE 3 2020) Read the full article Israeli forces trained cops in ‘restraint techniques’ at Minneapolis conference
Officers from the U.S. police force responsible for the killing of George Floyd received training in restraint techniques and anti-terror tactics from Israeli law enforcement officers. Floyd’s death in custody on Memorial Day, the latest in a succession of police killings of African Americans, has sparked continuing protests in U.S. cities. Neta Golan, co-founder of International Solidarity Movement (ISM), said: “When I saw the picture of killer cop Derek Chauvin murdering George Floyd by leaning in on his neck with his knee as he cried for help and other cops watched, I remembered noticing when many Israeli soldiers began using this technique of leaning in on our chest and necks when we were protesting in the West Bank sometime in 2006.
At least 100 Minnesota police officers attended a 2012 conference hosted by Israel’s Chicago consulate, the second time such an event had been held. There, they learned the violent techniques used by Israeli forces as they terrorize the occupied Palestinian territories under the guise of security operations. The so-called counterterrorism training conference in Minneapolis was jointly hosted by the FBI.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA (OCTOBER 7 2019) Read the full article U.S. Police are Being Trained by Israel—And Communities of Color Are Paying the Price
In recent years, Georgia has experienced troubling trends in fatal police shootings. As this has unfolded, the state continues to pursue a “police exchange” program with the state of Israel. These incidents nearly doubled in the state, up 77 percent between 2017 to 2018. By May 2018, Georgia was already reportedly experiencing a more rapid rise in officer-involved shootings than the rest of the country. According to an investigation of deadly police shootings in Georgia, in the six years after 2010, 184 people were shot and killed by police; almost half of them unarmed or shot in the back.
Law enforcement from other U.S. states have participated in the program, including those from Tennessee, Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, North Carolina, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Nevada, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Washington, D.C., and West Virginia.
Open records requests have forced program leaders to reveal some of its content topics, including border policing, community policing, and urban policing.
