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Dead Constitution See other Dead Constitution Articles Title: Book Report: L.A. Secret Police - Inside the LAPD Elite Spy Network Outstanding book. Really brings out that the police brutality of today is really nothing new. It is an institutional mind-set that has been given freer rein because of the increased demand from the 'government' that more control be exercised. Inside the front cover of the book; * LAPD cops frequently played maliciou pranks in minority neighorhoods, swooping down city blocks in faux assalult modes, simply to enjoy the chaos of scattering residents. Other games included patrol cars boxing in and toying with baffled minority drivers. * Reporters critical of the LAPD were targeted, put under surveillance, and harassed. * False arrests were routine. A child-care counselor was falsely arrested for an alleged sex crime on the total whim of a vice cop. The couselor's career ended. The vice cop had no remorse. And there is much more to this book. The ultimate lesson is of a police force that is/was totally out of control; the record indicates that nothing has changed since this book was written. If anything, it is worse. And, if you understand how gangs come into being, then you well understand, after reading this book, why nearly every gang which has originated within the United States, started in Los Angelas. What else did I learn from this book? Well, to begin with, I now understand more what Blacks mean when they speak of police brutality. One example is how the LA cops carried pins (needles) hidden in their uniforms, and, after stopping someone (always a minority) for any, or more likely, no reason, while frisking the (usually) man, the cop would jab the man with the pin, and, when the man would jerk away, react and swipe at the injury, the cop, AND HIS FRIENDS, would then use that as an excuse (resisting arrest) to whale on the man with their batons. Of course, this also justified the stop, and, led to an arrest and another conviction. The main part of the book is an explanation of how this so-called elite police unit within the LAPD did no actual police work; it was all about spying on EVERYONE who was anyone in Los Angelas, and southern California. Not spying on crooks; on EVERYONE. In fact, the standing orders of this unit was; make no arrests, just file intelligence reports. The upshot? Tens of thousands of files secreted away covering more items of non-sense than can be believed, but, all available to those in charge of the police of LA to be used to protect 'their' turf. There were also some interesting details contained in those files; Page 106; Rothmiller read the detailed file on Bobby Kennedy. Investigators accounted for ten spent .22-caliber slugs in the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel where RFK was shot dead. Sirhan Sirhan's revolver held eight bullets. Nowhere did the file draw any conclusions about the discrepancy. (Of course, nothing was ever done with the information either.) Page 197; The Tucson businessman used to run guns for the CIA in Africa, and he was not easily shocked by the follies of mankind. But he didn't like this burgeoning drug trade. Down here along the border, he saw more and more legitimate and semilegitimate people going for the big narcotics score. And he said he wanted to help put a damper on it. As he ran down the details for them, he pointed to a hanger complex about 500 yeards across the tarmac. "See those guys over there?" he said. "That's a CIA operation. They're running all sorts of stuff into Central America through here." As he further penetrated the smuggling racket, Rothmiller would pick up more and more references to arms shipments, the CIA, and Central America. He made references to all in his intelligence reports. (But that is as far as it ever went within the LAPD.) The above certainly ties in well with information that has been posted on 4um about the CIA and drugs into the inner city of Los Angeles, and elsewhere. The Internet site, cop verus CIA (copvcia.com) came out about ten years after this book, and detailed much more about how the drug and gun trade into central Los Angeles and Orange County were protected by the District Attorney's office and the higher-ups in the LAPD. All of the protection, of course, being done because they were using the drugs and guns to gain info from inside the gangs being supplied. And the primary lesson I learned from the book? We, we Americans, are deserving of what is happening to us. We have permitted this to continue, and to continually get worse, by going along to get along. By rationalizing that it ain't happening to us, and besides, 'they' (the victims of the police brutality) must be guilty of something, or the police would not be doing what they do! By making the choices permitted us of choosing the lesser of two evils, everytime we voted. By, in our own lives, making bad choices with credit, with the TV, and with what we have permitted to be done to our children. And, most of all, by turning our backs on the Natural Law of God, where it is detailed what will happen to us if we fail to observe His Law. After all, what is happening today is well covered in the Bible, and the info was written two thousand years ago.
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* False arrests were routine. A child-care counselor was falsely arrested for an alleged sex crime on the total whim of a vice cop. The couselor's career ended. The vice cop had no remorse.
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