This is what is occurring in Edinburgh, Scotland.

People wait (click here) to enter St. Giles' Cathedral to pay their respect to Queen Elizabeth II on Monday, September 12. 

The people absolutely adored and loved Queen Elizabeth II. When the people turned out during the Queen's jubilee, it was a complete contradiction of the often negative media.

 

Ukraine

Soldiers of the Ukraine military have reached the border between Ukraine and Russia at Kharkiv. 

I am very happy for the freedom and peace loving people in that region. Evidently, the people, while speaking Russian, did not want the governance of communists. Unfortunately, a Putin missile destroyed the power plant and the people now have danger in their lives due to the lack of electricity. This danger includes the health care facilities.

The people of the Kharkiv area are good people. They are the same flesh and blood that existed there under communist oppression. All of a sudden they deserve cruelty in their lives because they are now free. Those Ukrainians hold no desire to invade Russia, yet, they are considered to be irreverent children to Mother Russia and need to be punished.

That mind set with the Russian military leadership must stop. Those are political opinions sending those missiles. Those politics belonging to Russia must stop and allow people of Ukraine peace.

In the UK…

 …there is a peaceful transfer of power after a reigning monarch passed away at the age of 96 with a broken heart missing her dearly beloved husband.

The topic of the royals are chronically in the news and if media is not gawking at the latest frock of Kate Middleton there are complaints about the monarchy and it’s persistent place in society and government. The complaining is nonsense and the UK has a talented as well as beautiful member of the royal family in Kate Middleton.

I am witnessing through people I know and people they know absolute grief for the Late Queen Elizabeth II. Chronically puffy eyes from being assaulted by reality, advise to get back in touch with the here and now through nature walks and reports of young people and young children crying themselves to sleep. I am certain the Princes William and Harry are feeling the brevity of the loss of their mother at this difficult time.

The propaganda regarding the royal family of the United Kingdom is nothing less than flamboyant attempts at making money. The people, the citizens of the United Kingdom love the royal family because they are as much family to them as those that are immediate relatives.

I wish all the citizens of the United Kingdom and The Commonwealth sincerest sympathy for a difficult time for their countries and nations of people. I believe King Charles III and the Queen Consort Camilla are traveling to Edinburg, Scotland for official duties but also to honor the Late Queen Elizabeth II as she begins her final journey as she is laid to rest.

I wish the entire family of the United Kingdom and Commonwealth peace.

21 years ago…

 …there were deadly strikes against the people of the USA. Those strikes were intended to destroy the USA in a way that would instill fear of living their own lives.

The attacks were at a financial center of the USA in Lower Manhattan of New York City in the great State of New York. The attacks targeted the military base within our national capital, the Pentagon. Then a third attack was thwarted by great Americans as a commercial jet was in route to the Capital building to destroy it and any lives inside. Those Americans died for their country. I think the story of the crash into a Pennsylvania field is an astounding portrait of the love Americans have for their country and humanity.

In the remembrance of September 11, 2001 the real story is the USA is resilient in every aspect of the life Americans live. 

I am sorry so many families suffered after the terrorists strike that day. Most are living independent lives with a return of peace and happiness. Americans are resilient and if ever there was a reason to fall apart in every way those heinous acts were a reason for the families and the country.

Today and after two very long generational wars that were questionably fought we are all okay. We are not only okay, but, known now to our enemies as among the greatest people that ever lived within a democracy. 

Today, Americans can pause and realize exactly who we are on this Earth.

Peace and prosperity to every American.

Good night.

President Biden…

…needs to write an Executive Order prohibiting the further judicial review of highly classified national security documents. There are at least 100 documents that the DOJ will not submit and he needs to back them up.

The judiciary wants to release them publicly. Their out of their damn minds.

The prosecution of Donald John Trump needs to go forward now.

The Arizona US Senate Election

There is no contest here. US Senator Mark Kelley is a national hero. His love of the USA cannot be challenged.

Blake Masters is owned by Peter Thiel. Peter Thiel is a German Immigrant who is a successful financial wizard. Peter Thiel wants to own a piece of the USA Senate and his former employee, Blake Masters is just the ticket. I would not doubt Peter Thiel will dump a billion into the race convinced his money will win him power.

The last thing the USA Senate needs is a Wall Street billionaire.

September 8, 2022
By Sara Sidner and Meridith Edwards

Jackson, Mississippi, and Flint, Michigan (CNN)Six-year-old Charles Wilson V (click here) is scared to drink out of the water fountain at his school.

"I will die," he says matter-of-factly when asked the reason why.

It's a fear his father agrees with. At home in Jackson, Mississippi, Charles Wilson III -- who lost his first namesake son when he was just a baby -- gets bottled water for his family to drink, and he boils water for everything else.

The water is back on in Jackson after historic flooding took out the water treatment plant where pumps were already failing, but the Wilson family has lost faith....

Those are personal information and pictures. They were presented in a legal case to allow the jury to witness the issues of the children. There is no place for this in a defendant's possession.

Anyone can get transcripts from any trial. There is no reason for this request.

September 8, 2022
By Ron Fonger

Flint - A civil bellwether trial (click here) tied to the Flint water crisis ended in a mistrial last month, but attorneys for an engineering consultant that was sued is remaining active in U.S. District Court.

Attorneys for Veolia North America, one of two consultants sued by four Flint children for professional negligence in the case, has asked Judge Judith E. Levy to require the children’s attorneys to turn over a copy of the PowerPoint slide presentation they showed during their closing argument.

After final arguments from the children, Veolia and a second consultant -- Lockwood, Andrews & Newnam, the eight-member jury deadlocked after six days of deliberation before a mistrial was declared. Jurors reported in a note that they had become deadlocked and that continuing the trial would affect their “physical and emotional health.”

The new motion by Veolia says it wants the slide show, which included pictures of the four children and clips of videotaped testimony, in order to supplement the trial record in the case....

April 13, 2022

By Ron Fonger

...Attorneys for the children told Levy (click here) on Wednesday that they’ve already been forced to rearrange witnesses as they make their case against Veolia and LAN and suggested that the 5th Amendment appeals are harming their ability to present a coherent case to the jury.

Levy said attorneys may have to play videotaped depositions from witnesses and reserve in-person questions -- if allowed by the Appeals Court -- at a later time....

September 6, 2022
By Ron Fonger

Flint - The Michigan Supreme Court (click here) won’t alter a requirement that Flint water prosecutors use a taint team in their prosection of government officials, including former Gov. Rick Snyder, a decision that could delay the criminal cases for years.

In a two-paragraph order on Tuesday, Sept. 6, the Supreme Court said justices were “not persuaded that the question presented should be reviewed by this Court.”...

"The Daily Show" and Jeffery Toobin on "Taint Team."

It is about physical health of people. Climate Crisis temperatures are very dangerous.

August 13, 2022
By Rachel Ramirez

People cool off at a fountain in Piazza del Popolo in Rome in early August.

It is important to keep the head cool. He is doing the absolutely best thing by cooling his head. Think of neck veins and the blood flowing through them. Personal cooling appliances around the neck work, right? There is a reason for that. Cooler neck veins, cool the blood and that blood goes up to the circle of Willis and down to the heart to distribute it around the body. So cooling the head is also cooling the body.

Extreme heat is on the rise around the world, (click here) and a new study shows it is taking a significant toll not just on our physical health but also our sense of well-being.

A new analysis by Gallup in collaboration with Citi, shared first with CNN, found that people who experienced extreme heat -- days that were significantly hotter than normal -- also reported a decrease in their sense of well-being around the same time. On average, the global population experienced three times as many extreme heat days in 2020 than it did in 2008, Gallup reported, and well-being decreased globally by 6.5% in that time as well.

Researchers also found that because the climate crisis is pushing temperatures even hotter, global well-being could decrease by another 17% by the end of this decade....

The climate crisis is very hard on Americans. Very hard.

January 5, 2022

By Sarah Kaplan

 and 

Andrew Ba Tran

Alzile Marie Hand, 66, right, is comforted by her son Thomas James Hand, 19, outside their damaged house after Hurricane Ida passed through in Houma, La., on Aug. 30. 

2021 ended as it began: (click here) with disaster. Twelve months after an atmospheric river deluged California, triggering mudslides in burned landscapes and leaving a half-million people without power, a late-season wildfire destroyed hundreds of homes in the suburbs of Denver. In between, Americans suffered blistering heat waves, merciless droughts and monstrous hurricanes. People collapsed in farm fields and drowned in basement apartments; entire communities were obliterated by surging seas and encroaching flames.

More than 4 in 10 Americans live in a county that was struck by climate-related extreme weather last year, according to a new Washington Post analysis of federal disaster declarations, and more than 80 percent experienced a heat wave. In the country that has generated more greenhouse gases than any other nation in history, global warming is expanding its reach and exacting an escalating toll....

This is not the way Americans treat elections. It is however the way Russia does it.

September 8, 2022
By Bob Ortega, Audrey Ash, Yahya Abou-Ghazala and Drew Griffin

The evening before Michigan's state primary, (click here) Wayne County GOP leaders held a Zoom training session for poll workers and partisan observers -- warning them about "bad stuff happening" during the election and encouraging them to ignore local election rules barring cell phones and pens from polling places and vote-counting centers.

"None of the constraints that they're putting on this are legal," former state senator Patrick Colbeck told trainees on the August 1 call.

As far as cell phones, "I would say maybe just hide it or something, and maybe hide a small pad and a small pen or something like that because you need to take accurate notes," Cheryl Costantino, the GOP county chairwoman and host of the call, told participants.

Some participants raised concerns about being tossed out if they broke the rules. "That's why you got to do it secretly," Costantino replied....

Wayne County, Michigan Republican Officials need a perp walk. Voters should know who they are dealing with.

Wayne County, Michigan Elected Officials (click here)

Wanted for law violation and election fixing:

Chairman, Doug Deeken

Deputy Chairman, Charlie Hardman

Secretary, Christine Kobak

Treasurer, Dave Tschanz

Shame on you all!

His Majesty, if following in his father and mother's steps, should be a generous and concerned sovereign.

September 9, 2022
By Alex Barker

At the moment of the Queen’s passing (click here) on Thursday, her eldest son acceded to the throne as King Charles III, head of state of the UK and 14 other Commonwealth countries.

The King, aged 73, is the oldest monarch to take the crown, as well as the longest-serving heir apparent in British history. Unlike his late mother, who became queen at just 25, King Charles’s life has been one of extended preparation for this moment.

The historic transition from one royal generation to another will be marked by a period of national mourning and what is expected to be a relatively low-key coronation, which will set the tone for King Charles’s reign.

Alongside the ceremonial formalities of succession, the moment of the King’s elevation will also be one of personal loss and grief; he has been beside the deathbed of both his parents in the past 18 months.

“The death of my beloved Mother, Her Majesty The Queen, is a moment of the greatest sadness for me and all members of my family,” he said in a statement on Thursday evening. “We mourn profoundly the passing of a cherished sovereign and a much-loved mother.”...

I wish he and the people of the UK the very best through a time of transition and reflection.

Allies

Trump has exposed the military defense of our allies. He has compromised the national security of the USA. It is time for the USA to empower our allies, with the exception of the likes of Orban, to overcome the knowledge our enemies have. It is the best we can do now.

Trump should be arrested and jailed until his trial.

Farewell, Queen Elizabeth II

 https://youtu.be/WoWlWb6vbzA

They are great portraits. President Obama opted for an all white background. Interesting.

September 7, 2022

Former President (click here) Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama unveil their official White House portraits during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House, Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2022, in Washington. 

Washington - It’s been more than a decade (click here) since President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, welcomed back George W. Bush and his wife, Laura, for the unveiling of their White House portraits, part of a beloved Washington tradition that for decades managed to transcend partisan politics.

President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill, are set to revive that ritual — after an awkward and anomalous gap in the Trump years — as they host the Obamas today for the big reveal of their portraits in front of scores of friends, family and staff.

The Obama paintings will not look like any in the White House portrait collection to which they will be added. They were America’s first Black president and first lady.

The ceremony will also mark Michelle Obama’s first visit to the White House since Obama’s presidency ended in January 2017, and only the second visit for Barack Obama. He was at the White House in April to mark the 12th anniversary of the health care law he signed in 2010....

The United Nations should set a policy for this extremist actions by any military engaged in war.

The only people that should be permitted in the plant are those qualified to be there and run it to maintain safety. It is wiser to shut the power producing capacity of the plant down to only maintain safety. Allowing power generation of the plant will invite attacks by Russia. That potential has to be minimized and the only way forward is to stop electrical generation at all. 

All troops, except for a UN peacekeeping force, should be removed from the power station. There needs to be neutral oversight and the UN IAEA can decide who best would be able to protect the plant while Ukraine and Russia work out their differences. The war of shelling and bombing is a wayward plan, but, until both parties end the conflict the nuclear power plant will have to be considered neutral territory void of soldiers.

The propaganda has to stop as well. Russia cannot be calling attention to the IAEA and increasing any danger to them. The area is to be neutral and handled by neutral peacekeepers. No propaganda can be leveled to ensure the well being of outside agencies to protect from a nuclear disaster. This is a human rights issue and cannot be ignored by Russia any longer.

Europe needs to move away from Russian energy anyway. The G-7 (click here) came up with a reasonable solution to this dilemma, but, Russia will be difficult regardless. Scotland for one will never have much of a problem since it went into 100 percent wind power. As for the rest of Europe each country has it's own agenda for independence from Russia natural gas. But, the USA has been attempting to build LNG facilities to send gas to Europe. Here again for as important a gesture this is, the vulnerabilities of this form of energy over the distance of the Atlantic with three hurricanes in the middle of the ocean spinning up, the practicality is lacking. Europe must build as much alternative energy as it can including Long Lines from the geothermal giant, Iceland.

September 6, 2022
By Hanna Arhirova

Kyiv, Ukraine - The U.N. atomic watchdog agency (click here) urged Russia and Ukraine on Tuesday to establish a “nuclear safety and security protection zone” around the Zaporizhzhia power plant amid mounting fears the fighting could trigger a catastrophe in a country still haunted by the Chernobyl disaster.

In a report following a visit by an inspection team last week, the International Atomic Energy Agency said “shelling on site and in its vicinity should be stopped immediately to avoid any further damages to the plant and associated facilities, for the safety of the operating staff and to maintain the physical integrity to support safe and secure operation.”

“This requires agreement by all relevant parties to the establishment of a nuclear safety and security protection zone” around the plant, it said.

IAEA Director-General Rafael Grossi, who led the inspection visit, was due to brief the U.N. Security Council later Tuesday on his findings.

Shelling continued around Europe’s largest nuclear plant on Tuesday, a day after it was again knocked off Ukraine’s electrical grid and put in the precarious position of relying on its own power to run its safety systems....

I think the man is confused.

...Although newspaper and periodical ownership (click here) cannot be the monopoly of any one ownership, Axel Springer Verlag AG controls a significant share of the market. Other major newspaper publishers, some of which also publish magazines and other periodicals, include Gruner+Jahr AG (a Bertelsmann company), Süddeutscher Verlag, Bauer Media Group, and Hubert Burda Media....

“We want (click here) to be the leading digital publisher in democracies around the world,” says Mathias Döpfner, shown here on the rooftop of Axel Springer's headquarters in Berlin.

His media interests will not do well. He is another Murdoch wannabee. You can't be looking at the remnants of the Berlin Wall and pray for Trump to win a presidency. It makes no sense.

Praying for Trump to win is not a non-partisan act. I never thought of Politico as non-partisan. 

While every country (click here) has the responsibility to fight antisemitism within its borders, only one country has the responsibility to lead this battle on a global scale, and that is Israel.

Anti-semitism is a problem in the USA. There has been killings in synagogues by right wing White Supremacists. That is why I can't see that Mr. Dopfner has his understanding of Trump correct. I don't know what he has been feed by partisans at Politico, but, Trump is a danger to democracy. He openly rebuffed Palestine and increased tensions rather than brought about peace. Trump had no intentions of entertaining the idea of a Palestinian homeland. He fully condoned a war by Israel of the Palestinian people. He believes in expansionism in the Middle East no different than Russia. 

I think the Rupert Wannabee needs to come to terms with the reality of Trump's hatred and set his media services on a real non-partisan track. Trump is not the answer, he is the problem.

August 19, 2021
By James Kirchik

...Döpfner took a different tack. (click here) “I think, and I’m being very frank with you,” he said on a companywide conference call, “a person who has an issue with an Israeli flag being raised for one week here, after antisemitic demonstrations, should look for a new job.” And with that, the minor uprising at Axel Springer was kaput.

For American observers, this exchange was notable not so much for what it said about media bias, Germany’s ongoing attempt to reckon with its past, or the impact of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in other countries. What made it significant was something more basic and universal concerning the integrity of elite institutions. Put aside your beliefs, for a moment, about the propriety of an independent media outlet appearing to take sides in a war halfway around the world. By flying the Israeli flag while the Jewish state was under attack, and while European Jews were threatened close to home, Axel Springer was adhering to one of its fundamental principles.

Since 1967, the Axel Springer media empire has officially committed itself to upholding a set of values devised by its eponymous founder, which he called the company’s “Essentials,” and which have been updated over time. They are as follows:

1. We stand up for freedom, the rule of law, democracy and a united Europe.

2. We support the Jewish people and the right of existence of the State of Israel.

3. We advocate the transatlantic alliance between the United States of America and Europe.

4. We uphold the principles of a free market economy and its social responsibility.

5. We reject political and religious extremism and all forms of racism and sexual discrimination.

Every Axel Springer journalist signs a contract agreeing to uphold the Essentials, which function less as rigid dogmas than as guiding professional precepts; wide latitude exists, for instance, within the scope of what constitutes “a united Europe,” “the transatlantic alliance,” and “the principles of a free market economy.”...

At least Dopfner has Putin right.

March 26, 2022

By Mathias Döpfner 

Mathias Döpfner speaks with Elon Musk at Tesla's factory in Fremont, CA.

...Mathias Döpfner: Before we talk about the future, (click here) let's look at the present. There is war in Europe. If you see the horrible images of Putin's troops invading Ukraine, killing people. What are your thoughts?

Elon Musk: It is surprising to see that in this day and age. I thought we had sort of moved beyond such things for the most part. It is concerning. If you can get away with it, then this will be a message to other countries that perhaps they could get away with it too....

I think he sounds interesting, but, praying for Trump to win an election to take on the Tech Giants is only reaffirming there is nothing non-partisan about his intentions in obtaining a media organization like Politico. Non-partisan has to be devoid of the self-interest of an owner within an influential media service. Wielding power to vanquish a competitor is highly unethical and ethics in any profession has to rule the outcomes of the principles of that profession. Media is no different and to state there is partisanship in major news outlets in the USA is completely uninformed.

The New York Times reports both sides and as a climate advocate I have often found NYT leaning against the best wind for this planet. There are many times I found right wing opinions insightful, but leaves the less fortunate in the breach, in the NYT.

The Washington Post is not left leaning. It has a clear understanding of decades of "inside Washington" and where politics has gone bad to the point of breaking the law. The Post has been one of the most decent newspapers in the history of the USA and considering it's neighborhood the paper has protected democracy when it was clear the path forward was adverse to it.

I admire the values Mathias Dopfner brings to his media services, but, he really needs to get to know the USA before he thinks he can dictate to it. If he tries to take on the Tech Giants alone, he may find himself very much ostracized from being legitimate.

Dopfner needs to extend himself beyond the usual comfort of Europe to realize he is in foreign territory and it can eat him alive. I hope he succeeds in creating a non-partisan media service in the USA, but, that is a hard climb considering the corruption that exists in the MAGA party at this point. I mean. MAGA is an insurgency. That is a fact. There is nothing beneficial about it.

Dopfner needs to interview Michael Cohen and he will then know what Trump is all about and it isn't about loyalty to others, so much as others need to be loyal to him. Trump destroys lives and will think nothing of destroying media services when they don't serve his interests.

Livermore Air Force Base hits 116 degrees F

There is a very dry troposphere with three hurricanes manifesting in the middle of the Atlantic. By this time in 2005 Hurricane Katrina had already decimated the Louisiana coastline. 

Trump declassified documents.

The classification process in the White House or any branch of government of anything or any document, electronic or otherwise is a process. Declassification is also a process. Trump had no right as president or former president to declassify any document he wanted.

Trump has clearly demonstrated why any aspect of national security has redundancy. 

Obama wrote an executive order about all of it. I do believe there was some legislation passed regarding it as well. I think the legislation was a Republican bill. It all started because of the political wrangling surrounding the Clinton server and emails.

No national security issue is decided unilaterally. Trump is lying and his base is just as deranged in their thinking about everything and everyone. Everything in the government before Trump was “up to something.” Trump is a nut case.

He plays to his estranged American audience.

So. There are rules regarding the stolen documents and we know what the rules are.

If there ever is any doubt Trump was leading an insurgency look to the Queen of England. Remember how Queen Elizabeth and Trump were reviewing the troops? Trump stepped out of line to walk ahead of the Queen. None of Trump’s behaviors made sense “in context,” but, put an audience of one in the circumstances and it all makes sense. Trump insulted Queen Elizabeth to impress Putin. Putin was Trump’s only audience, go ahead America drink bleach.

What are the definitions?

One thing the media is having trouble with are Trump’s claims. His claims are not defined in USA law and are a wish and not stated or case law. Trump is hoping the judge deciding any case presented on behalf of his “belief” system will be just corrupt enough to (1) decide in his favor and it sticks or (2) decide against him to move further up the ladder of appeals to find enough corruption to rule with his claims. 

Example: Trump is screaming executive privilege about the documents at Maralago. What does he mean by that?

Is Trump World executive privilege:

(1) resonating with Trump World member/citizens? Why? What understanding do they hold in the exclusive media they listen to? 

(2) resonating with established media like FOX News? What definitions (that is plural for a reason) do they adhere to to further their propaganda?

(3) resonating with Trump ONLY as he is a genius as no other? I believe when Trump screams executive privilege he is stating everything within his administration is so very unique that only he understands it therefore is protected from all other people and interpretations. That, of course, is nonsense, but, it is a definition that is not being applied while all others are using definitions based in law regardless it’s adjective. 

Question: What will give the legitimate media and not the politburo, at FOX and Trump World media, more authority to speak on these topics? Stating “…according to Trump World executive privilege means…blah, blah, blah…while the truthful definition of executive privilege states, “It is an act by the current President to protect information important to his duties and decisions that are reasonably protected by secrecy.” Therefore, this request to the court is most likely a nuisance rather than legitimate.

From my perspective if the national mainstream media is providing interpretation of illegitimate use of our laws and legal system and legal language, it gives greater authority to the national media as the purveyor of the truth with a complete understanding of all the pleadings. Legitimate interest in all the people is my thoughts about this as well.

What is occurring with Trump is an alienation into a universe manipulated by communists and dictators and/or his own scared self of the actual weight of USA law now upon him. Regardless, his rallies are to serve one purpose and that is incitement of anger, hate and violence. His authority within that paradigm is absolute as allies like Graham cower at his words.

Trump has one strategy with everything.

Time.

A message over time unanswered will carry brevity it shouldn’t. Trump is banking on time and fatigue of the political fight to win out. It works with Graham, why not everything else? Graham is sitting in the catbird seat. If he agrees with Trump and carries his message he wins if Trump wins. If Graham agrees with Trump and carries his message and Trump loses, Graham wins anyway.

This is a challenge to national media and it is a time for them to reclaim precious grounds that is legitimate to be theirs.

I really want to bring focus to the video because there is a lot to unwrap here.

So this is my only entry for tonight. Please watch this from beginning to end. Americans, especially African Americans need to be careful around police officers.

In this video there are two police, the driver and his partner. I do not know their names, but, I am confident there will be people that can identify them. They need to be arrested for falsification of records and attempted murder as well as harassment of a civilian including attempted entrapment.

In this video it is the police that are the criminals and by the tatoos on the driver's arm, they look to be White Supremacists.

There is no real reason for the stop. The officers literally saw the blue Ram pickup and ran the license plate FOR NO REASON, except the driver of the pick-up truck is a black man and the computer identified he is a concealed carry citizen. In other words, the chance there is a loaded pistol or more in the truck is high. Most people that conceal carry usually have a gun on them. It may not be on their person, but, in the glove compartment (locked or not) or somewhere in the vehicle in a lock box or not. This particular individual may not have had a gun with him as it is never obvious in the video that he does. 

I will continue my assessment of this video below. This is real life. It is not a production. The only cameras involved are dash cam videos. The film should be played for the Michigan State Police as what not to do to a black man, especially if you are a White Supremacist.

  

Continued from the above video of a stop of an African American who also has a concealed carry permit.

The first thing to notice is the posture of the officers and their readiness to use their guns. The partner actually draws his gun at one point when the driver was first stopped. There was no provocation to do so. This driver of the pick-up truck is a victim of a well rehearsed plan. I have to wonder how many times these two officers pulled this off successfully. How many were killed and/or charged with a crime they didn't commit only to pay fines and/or serve time behind bars. 

So the truck driver stops his vehicle and waits for the officers to approach and tell him why he was stopped. The driver of the police car, the one with the tattoos speaks to the truck driver and gives him no clear indication why he was stopped. He mentions the concealed carry permit and the asks for the truck registration. The truck driver attempts to retrieve the registration AS ASKED and the tattooed state police officer starts yelling "hands, hands." Immediately without provocation the incident becomes confrontational. There is a gun drawn and the truck driver is now in peril of his life. The confrontation becomes a matter of the truck driver submitting to search and seizure.

He does tell the officer driver he was going to meet his mother. That makes for a short conversation as the police continue to harass and endanger the well being of this truck driver. 

The truck diver exits his vehicle and is hand cuffed. It is better than being dead. I am sure long about the time the cuffs went on he figured he was going to keep breathing as he made up his mind there was nothing he could do with this circumstance that wouldn't cost him his life. So, he did what he was told to the letter. I have to wonder if the truck driver also noticed the tattos of the officer driver and that they were a Caucasian team.

At first the truck driver is frisked and has his pants pockets turned inside out, which means all his ID is now in the possession of the police. He has a modern day wallet that protects credit cards from identity theft. That will be apparent later. 

The truck driver is positioned on the hood of the patrol car so that the dashcam can't record the officers activity in and around the blue RAM truck. The police partner is the one that is primarily out of camera view. The driver has no control as to whether anything is planted in his vehicle and there would be no video to that effect. Neither of the officers are wearing bodicams. Everything we know about the scene is through the dashcam. 

As the driver is patiently waiting to be released after the officers find that he is lawful in his person and possessions there is at least one woman witness. She stops her car and wants to know what is going on. It is unclear that this might be his mother because at one point there is a phone ringing and of course the truck driver doesn't answer.

The woman carries on and actually is saying things like, "Would this be happening to a white man?" But, the really astounding part that should not be lost on the witnesses dedication to purpose, is that office partner literally tosses the truck driver's wallet on the hood of the car and then pulls his concealed carry permit out of his pocket. See, these officers had ever intention of arresting this man for carrying a loaded weapon without carrying his permit to do so. I am convinced officer partner was going to destroy the concealed carry permit before they were able to get to the station for the booking into the system. 

The woman witness is successful in ending the arrest. The handcuffs are removed and all during the time the officers are releasing this AMERICAN they are attempting to deprogram him as to what they were doing and how lawful it was. The truck driver is made to believe all that didn't happen and I have to believe he was so relieved to be returning to his blue RAM truck that any threat to his life, any abuse and embarrassment he sustained didn't matter because the officers convinced him it was a routine when finding an African American man that conceals carries. 

There are more and more African American men and women seeking to be on the right side of the law by not only owning a gun through proper channels, but, operating one with a lawful permit. The numbers are there that proves the new gun owners are a majority of minorities, more than 50 percent.

The State of Michigan has a separate concealed carry permit that looks exactly like the one in the upper left corner. The state does this because the permits are issued at the county level. The driver's license is issued at the state level. So, the counties use the picture already affiliated with the state driver's license and simply issues a permit that looks very much like a driver's license.

In this video it is unclear at the onset of the circumstances if the truck driver tells the officers he has a gun in the vehicle and has a concealed carry permit. That information now is mandatory in the State of Michigan when a person conceal carries. If approached by an officer the citizen has to tell the officer I conceal carry and there is a gun in the vehicle. Most gun organizations (of course, they facilitated this phenomena) will WARN their members that it is best to keep hands at 10 o'clock and 2 o'clock on the steering wheel when approached by an officer and as soon as a conversation engages to state the weapon is in the car as she/he has a concealed carry permit. That is mandatory now. A citizen has to openly state their personal information about a weapon in their possession or they have broken the law. It is unclear at the point of telling a police officer about the gun whether that can lead to a search and proof of what the driver stated.

There are so many violations of civil and personal rights in this video it made me think it was staged by a gun club somewhere. But, all information states this is real and this truck driver's life was in danger in the hands of two White Supremacists State Police officers. 

I find the entire encounter disgusting and very threatening for any race of American.

I don't believe in free flowing weapons in the USA. I sincerely don't. I don't have a problem with New York requiring concealed carry permits for those that demonstrate they are qualified and/or trained to use a gun. The question among gun activists is that "qualifying' can be a reason to examine the race of a person. Perhaps black men in NYC aren't allowed to have a gun, but, Bernie Goetz (click here) can protect himself from young black men.

This video is really disturbing. I would like to believe it is produced for reasons of propaganda and that "I really don't trust the government" feeling. But, to me, it is more reason to remove guns and the threat at any level they cause.

Good night.