Post by iris89 on Aug 8, 2008 14:10:35 GMT -5
Critical Times For Human Rights In Civilized Countries:
INTRODUCTION:
Now is a critical time for human rights in civilized countries; to wit, some police authorities are seriously violating human rights. But first, let’s look at the legal aspects first so all can understand.
(1) In the United States of America if someone sends you a package you did NOT order, you bear NO responsibility for it. This has been checked out with the USPS and UPS.
(2) You must have a “no knock” special warrant to enter a home which supposedly can only be issued on probable cause. With regard to a regular warrant, it is supposed to be served by knocking on the door and advising the occupant of its existence.
(3) A search warrant is NOT supposed to be a murder warrant for the murder of a person’s pets.
So much for what is supposed to be under the law and common civility, but let’s get to reality.
REALITY CHECK BY AN ACTUAL CASE:
Here is an example of the service of a regular warrant as if it were a special “no knock” warrant with respect to an un-ordered package for which clearly the home owner bore no responsibility towards, and the willful murder of the home owners two pets:
By BRETT ZONGKER, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 6 minutes ago [source - news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080807/ap_on_re_us/marijuana_packages ]
BERWYN HEIGHTS, Md. - Mayor Cheye Calvo got home from work, saw a package addressed to his wife on the front porch and brought it inside, putting it on a table. Suddenly, police with guns drawn kicked in the door and stormed in, shooting to death the couple's two dogs and seizing the unopened package.
In it were 32 pounds of marijuana. But the drugs evidently didn't belong to the couple.
Police say the couple appeared to be innocent victims of a scheme by two men to smuggle millions of dollars worth of marijuana by having it delivered to about a half-dozen unsuspecting recipients.
The two men under arrest include a FedEx deliveryman [[FedEx complicity? Negligent hiring by them.]]; investigators said the deliveryman would drop off a package outside a home, and the other man would come by a short time later and pick it up.
A furious Calvo said Thursday that he and his wife, Trinity Tomsic, are asking the U.S. Justice Department to investigate the July 29 raid. "Trinity was an innocent victim and random victim," Calvo said outside his two-story, red-brick house in this middle-class Washington suburb of about 3,000 people. "We were harmed by the very people who took an oath to protect us." Calvo insisted the couple's two black Labradors were gentle creatures and said police apparently killed them "for sport," gunning down one of them as it was running away.
"Our dogs were our children," said the 37-year-old Calvo. "They were the reason we bought this house because it had a big yard for them to run in."
The mayor, who was changing his clothes when police burst in, also complained that he was handcuffed in his boxer shorts for about two hours along with his mother-in-law [[Wrongful imprisonment over a package that the mayor bore no responsibility towards.]], and said the officers didn't believe him when he told them he was the mayor. No charges were brought against Calvo or his wife, who came home in the middle of the raid.
Prince George's County Police Chief Melvin High said Wednesday that Calvo and his family were "most likely ... innocent victims," but he would not rule out their involvement [Involvement? The police delivered a package that he had not ordered, and hence bore NO legal responsibility for.]], and he defended the way the raid was conducted. He and other officials did not apologize for killing [[Murder of a person’s pets is okay according to Prince George’s County Police Chief.]] the dogs, saying the officers felt threatened [[First, the police were in the dog’s home without the proper warrant, and Second, there is no evidence showing they threatened the police who were wrongfully there]].
Police announced Wednesday they had arrested two men suspected in a plot to smuggle 417 pounds of marijuana, and seized a total of $3.6 million in pot. Investigators said the package that arrived on Calvo's porch had been sent from Los Angeles via FedEx, and they had been tracking it ever since it drew the attention of a drug-sniffing dog in Arizona.
Police intercepted it in Maryland, and an undercover detective posing as a deliveryman took it to the Calvo home [[Police entrapment of the innocent, prima facia]].
Calvo's defenders - including the Berwyn Heights police chief, who said his department should have been alerted ahead of time - said police had no right to enter the home without knocking [[Town police acknowledge that county police had no right to enter the home without knocking.]].
But officials insisted they acted within the law, saying the operation was compromised when Calvo's mother-in-law saw officers approaching the house and screamed. That could have given someone time to grab a gun or destroy evidence, authorities said [[Who would not scream under the circumstances]].
Neighbors in Berwyn Heights, which Calvo described as "Mayberry inside the Capital Beltway," have rallied around the couple. On Sunday night, supporters gathered on a ballfield to pay tribute to the family and the dogs. A banner on the wooden fence around Calvo's yard read, "Cheye and Trinity, We support you, Friends and Citizens of Berwyn Heights." Around it were dozens of handwritten messages from supporters.
In addition to being the part-time mayor, Calvo works at a nonprofit foundation that runs boarding schools. His wife is a state finance officer []. "When all of this happened I was flabbergasted," said next-door neighbor Edward Alexander. "I was completely stunned because those dogs didn't hurt anybody. They barely bark."
The case is the latest embarrassment for Prince George's County officials [[They already had a bad reputation due to their high handed and wrong actions.]]. A former police officer was sentenced in May to 45 years in prison for shooting two furniture deliverymen at his home last year, one of them fatally. He claimed that they attacked him [[Like the officers who falsely claimed they were threatened by the dogs, in the dog’s own home, which in reality in my opinion is just outright murder of the dogs.]]. In June, a suspect jailed in the death of a police officer was found strangled [[Now who do you think might have strangled him?]]in his cell.
Calvo said he was astonished that police have not only failed to apologize, but declined to clear the couple's names.
His wife spoke through tears as she described an encounter with a girl who used to see the couple walking their dogs. "She gave me a big hug and she said, `If the police shot your dogs dead and did this to you, how can I trust them?'" Tomsic said. "I don't want people to feel like that. I just want them to be proud of our police and proud to live in Prince George's County."
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Associated Press writers Sarah Karush and Nafeesa Syeed in Washington contributed to this story.
CONCLUSION:
This case clearly shows that now is a critical time for human rights in civilized countries; to wit, some police authorities are seriously violating human rights. But first, let’s look at the legal aspects first so all can understand. This is definitely NOT showing love to one’s neighbor. It behooves all genuine (true) followers of Jesus (Yeshua) to show neighbor love and warn their neighbors of the need to seek genuine salvation and to get OUT OF EVIL FALSE RELIGION regardless of what it is called or how long their families and friends have been members of it. This would be required by what Jesus (Yeshua) said at Matthew 22:37-40, "And he said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 38 This is the great and first commandment. 39 And a second like unto it is this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. 40 On these two commandments the whole law hangeth, and the prophets." (American Standard Version: ASV).
To learn more, check out the following:
[1] religioustruths.proboards59.com/ An Educational Referral Forum
[2] www.network54.com/Forum/403209 A Forum Devoted to Exposing The False Religion of Islam
[3] jude3.proboards92.com/ A Free-Speech Forum For All
[4] www.freewebs.com/iris_the_preacher My web site.
Your Friend in Christ Iris89
INTRODUCTION:
Now is a critical time for human rights in civilized countries; to wit, some police authorities are seriously violating human rights. But first, let’s look at the legal aspects first so all can understand.
(1) In the United States of America if someone sends you a package you did NOT order, you bear NO responsibility for it. This has been checked out with the USPS and UPS.
(2) You must have a “no knock” special warrant to enter a home which supposedly can only be issued on probable cause. With regard to a regular warrant, it is supposed to be served by knocking on the door and advising the occupant of its existence.
(3) A search warrant is NOT supposed to be a murder warrant for the murder of a person’s pets.
So much for what is supposed to be under the law and common civility, but let’s get to reality.
REALITY CHECK BY AN ACTUAL CASE:
Here is an example of the service of a regular warrant as if it were a special “no knock” warrant with respect to an un-ordered package for which clearly the home owner bore no responsibility towards, and the willful murder of the home owners two pets:
By BRETT ZONGKER, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 6 minutes ago [source - news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080807/ap_on_re_us/marijuana_packages ]
BERWYN HEIGHTS, Md. - Mayor Cheye Calvo got home from work, saw a package addressed to his wife on the front porch and brought it inside, putting it on a table. Suddenly, police with guns drawn kicked in the door and stormed in, shooting to death the couple's two dogs and seizing the unopened package.
In it were 32 pounds of marijuana. But the drugs evidently didn't belong to the couple.
Police say the couple appeared to be innocent victims of a scheme by two men to smuggle millions of dollars worth of marijuana by having it delivered to about a half-dozen unsuspecting recipients.
The two men under arrest include a FedEx deliveryman [[FedEx complicity? Negligent hiring by them.]]; investigators said the deliveryman would drop off a package outside a home, and the other man would come by a short time later and pick it up.
A furious Calvo said Thursday that he and his wife, Trinity Tomsic, are asking the U.S. Justice Department to investigate the July 29 raid. "Trinity was an innocent victim and random victim," Calvo said outside his two-story, red-brick house in this middle-class Washington suburb of about 3,000 people. "We were harmed by the very people who took an oath to protect us." Calvo insisted the couple's two black Labradors were gentle creatures and said police apparently killed them "for sport," gunning down one of them as it was running away.
"Our dogs were our children," said the 37-year-old Calvo. "They were the reason we bought this house because it had a big yard for them to run in."
The mayor, who was changing his clothes when police burst in, also complained that he was handcuffed in his boxer shorts for about two hours along with his mother-in-law [[Wrongful imprisonment over a package that the mayor bore no responsibility towards.]], and said the officers didn't believe him when he told them he was the mayor. No charges were brought against Calvo or his wife, who came home in the middle of the raid.
Prince George's County Police Chief Melvin High said Wednesday that Calvo and his family were "most likely ... innocent victims," but he would not rule out their involvement [Involvement? The police delivered a package that he had not ordered, and hence bore NO legal responsibility for.]], and he defended the way the raid was conducted. He and other officials did not apologize for killing [[Murder of a person’s pets is okay according to Prince George’s County Police Chief.]] the dogs, saying the officers felt threatened [[First, the police were in the dog’s home without the proper warrant, and Second, there is no evidence showing they threatened the police who were wrongfully there]].
Police announced Wednesday they had arrested two men suspected in a plot to smuggle 417 pounds of marijuana, and seized a total of $3.6 million in pot. Investigators said the package that arrived on Calvo's porch had been sent from Los Angeles via FedEx, and they had been tracking it ever since it drew the attention of a drug-sniffing dog in Arizona.
Police intercepted it in Maryland, and an undercover detective posing as a deliveryman took it to the Calvo home [[Police entrapment of the innocent, prima facia]].
Calvo's defenders - including the Berwyn Heights police chief, who said his department should have been alerted ahead of time - said police had no right to enter the home without knocking [[Town police acknowledge that county police had no right to enter the home without knocking.]].
But officials insisted they acted within the law, saying the operation was compromised when Calvo's mother-in-law saw officers approaching the house and screamed. That could have given someone time to grab a gun or destroy evidence, authorities said [[Who would not scream under the circumstances]].
Neighbors in Berwyn Heights, which Calvo described as "Mayberry inside the Capital Beltway," have rallied around the couple. On Sunday night, supporters gathered on a ballfield to pay tribute to the family and the dogs. A banner on the wooden fence around Calvo's yard read, "Cheye and Trinity, We support you, Friends and Citizens of Berwyn Heights." Around it were dozens of handwritten messages from supporters.
In addition to being the part-time mayor, Calvo works at a nonprofit foundation that runs boarding schools. His wife is a state finance officer []. "When all of this happened I was flabbergasted," said next-door neighbor Edward Alexander. "I was completely stunned because those dogs didn't hurt anybody. They barely bark."
The case is the latest embarrassment for Prince George's County officials [[They already had a bad reputation due to their high handed and wrong actions.]]. A former police officer was sentenced in May to 45 years in prison for shooting two furniture deliverymen at his home last year, one of them fatally. He claimed that they attacked him [[Like the officers who falsely claimed they were threatened by the dogs, in the dog’s own home, which in reality in my opinion is just outright murder of the dogs.]]. In June, a suspect jailed in the death of a police officer was found strangled [[Now who do you think might have strangled him?]]in his cell.
Calvo said he was astonished that police have not only failed to apologize, but declined to clear the couple's names.
His wife spoke through tears as she described an encounter with a girl who used to see the couple walking their dogs. "She gave me a big hug and she said, `If the police shot your dogs dead and did this to you, how can I trust them?'" Tomsic said. "I don't want people to feel like that. I just want them to be proud of our police and proud to live in Prince George's County."
___
Associated Press writers Sarah Karush and Nafeesa Syeed in Washington contributed to this story.
CONCLUSION:
This case clearly shows that now is a critical time for human rights in civilized countries; to wit, some police authorities are seriously violating human rights. But first, let’s look at the legal aspects first so all can understand. This is definitely NOT showing love to one’s neighbor. It behooves all genuine (true) followers of Jesus (Yeshua) to show neighbor love and warn their neighbors of the need to seek genuine salvation and to get OUT OF EVIL FALSE RELIGION regardless of what it is called or how long their families and friends have been members of it. This would be required by what Jesus (Yeshua) said at Matthew 22:37-40, "And he said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 38 This is the great and first commandment. 39 And a second like unto it is this, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. 40 On these two commandments the whole law hangeth, and the prophets." (American Standard Version: ASV).
To learn more, check out the following:
[1] religioustruths.proboards59.com/ An Educational Referral Forum
[2] www.network54.com/Forum/403209 A Forum Devoted to Exposing The False Religion of Islam
[3] jude3.proboards92.com/ A Free-Speech Forum For All
[4] www.freewebs.com/iris_the_preacher My web site.
Your Friend in Christ Iris89