But it's o.k. for the cops to come into your bedroom to look for drugs!
Also see:
Invasion of the Police State
Police to Unconstitutionally Disarm Boston Residents
Gun Grab in Boston
Perverted Police
"Veteran state trooper indicted; He pleads not guilty to distributing cocaine" by John R. Ellement and Shelley Murphy/Boston Globe December 1, 2007
A veteran Massachusetts state trooper last night pleaded not guilty to federal charges that he sold cocaine out of his Saugus home, an allegation the State Police commander called "disheartening."
The authorities are always the WORST OFFENDERS!
From a position of impunity (if the government so arbitrarily chooses)!!!!
Just "disheartening," though!
Cops aren't scum like the rest of us, right, coppers?
State Police Superintendent Colonel Mark F. Delaney, said in the statement, that he was dismayed by the arrest of Trooper John T. Foley, who was taken into custody by State Police and federal law enforcement at 3:30 p.m. when he reported to work at the barracks in Revere.
Col. Delaney: "It is always disheartening when a law enforcement officer betrays his solemn oath of office by committing a criminal act. Not only has he dishonored himself, but he has wantonly betrayed troopers who risk their lives every day, enforcing the very laws he so willfully violated."
Actually, yeah, he did give his workmates a bad name, although their rep has been fading for some time!
That's what happens when "to protect and serve" police turn into instruments of state fascism!
No details of Foley's alleged drug dealing were released in court last night, but sources familiar with the investigation said the single count is based on the alleged sale of 3 grams of cocaine.
The arrest grew out of a joint investigation by the federal Drug Enforcement Administration and the FBI, officials said.
US Attorney Michael J. Sullivan, in a statement:
"[Foley's alleged actions] are an affront to every decent, honest member of the Massachusetts State Police, who serve the public's interest and do their jobs with dedication and integrity . . . All of us in law enforcement are committed to investigating and expending the resources necessary to prosecuting corruption wherever we find it."
Hard for me to square with the fact that the CIA is the country's largest drug-runner, but we'll let that slide!
June W. Stansbury, special agent in charge of the New England Drug Enforcement Administration office, said in the release that the police officers who commit crimes undermine public confidence in every member of law enforcement:
"We will always investigate with fervor a sworn officer who has compromised honor by trafficking in drugs."
Unless he's working for you, right, officer?
Even if you are in law-enforcement, that is no longer a guarantee:
"Jail officers pay final tribute to colleague; He waved pellet gun, was shot by police" by David Abel/Boston Globe December 1, 2007
They wore black bands over their badges, more than a hundred stone-faced sheriff's deputies in their powder-blue shirts and white gloves.
They stopped traffic in Roxbury yesterday as fellow jail officers carried the body of Marquis J. Barker into St. John Missionary Baptist Church and saluted him with an honor guard, bagpipes, and all the tributes for a man who had spent 17 years keeping prisoners in line at the Nashua Street Jail.
Take a look at the casket, readers!
Kim Sanders Barker told the family, friends, and colleagues who came to mourn her husband:
"What happened was so out of character of him, it feels like a dream. Never in a million years did I think I would be here, never did I imagine this . . .. What did I miss? I don't know."
Last week, Marquis Barker, the soft-spoken jail officer for the Suffolk Sheriff's Department, snapped and his wife called 911. When police arrived at their home in Dorchester, Marquis Barker allegedly waved a pellet gun that resembled a semiautomatic handgun. He yelled, "Shoot me! Kill me!" and then allegedly stole a police cruiser that had been left running by one of the officers, leading police on a chase through Dorchester and Mattapan.
It ended a half-mile away when Marquis Barker crashed into a metal fence at a Walgreens and was surrounded by police, who ordered him to drop the gun. When he did not, police said, the officers opened fire, fatally wounding him.
They couldn't subdue him any other way? Bullet in the leg?
They just OPENED FIRE and BLEW HIM AWAY, huh?
A SECURITY GUARD at a JAIL?
NONE of US are SAFE, readers!!
And it is NOT TERRORISTS, but OUR OWN "PROTECTORS" who are the THREAT!!!!!!!!
At Barker's funeral yesterday, colleagues described him as brave, funny, always there for others.
When Derren Brown, who worked beside Barker for 17 years, walked to the microphone to speak, several colleagues stood beside him, holding the burly officer, handing him tissues, patting his back.
Brown, before breaking into tears:
"I failed him . . . I missed my brother's call. I missed the opportunity . . .. We were always true soldiers. Now I'm like a piece of steel, bent all over the place."
Sigh! Sob!
The Boston Police Department did not send a representative to the funeral.
They DISSED HIM! MURDERED HIM, then DIDN'T PAY THEIR RESPECTS!!!!!
Police spokeswoman Elaine Driscoll said the department extends its sympathies to the Barker family:
"Naturally, the family is grieving and there was some concern that our presence could have been upsetting for them."
Not to mention how horrible you fascists look!
Couldn't send a plainclothes to observe?
Barker was born in Boston, the youngest of five children. He graduated from South High School in Worcester in 1987 and later studied law enforcement at Bunker Hill Community College. He and his wife had five children.
Great, five kids no longer have a father! Just great!
He spent a lot of time with his family, loved watching sports and talking about sports with colleagues, and coached the Dorchester Eagles Pop Warner football team, friends said.
One colleague told those gathered:
"[Barker was] a gentle man in a sometimes harsh job. He brought peace to many of us when turbulent times were brought upon us. He was a complete human being . . . He was an immense reservoir of compassion and embodied the spirit of goodness."
They left a Red Sox cap in his coffin. When the pallbearers carried his body out of the church, they draped it in an American flag.
Did you see the photograph, reader?
Suffolk Sheriff Andrea J. Cabral said after the service:
"It's such an incredible tragedy. It's just very said."
Yeah, and IT DIDN'T HAVE TO BE THAT WAY!
Also see:
Boston's Blow-Away Cops
Police State Comes To Dorchester
