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People who suffer from impostor syndrome have all the external hallmarks of success—good grades, promotions, positive feedback from their peers. Yet deep down they feel inadequate, as if they are not really up to the job. It's no surprise that impostor syndrome can make us feel stressed and miserable. What's more surprising is that accepting a diagnosis of impostor syndrome may make matters even worse.
Impostor syndrome hovers uncertainly between psychiatry, psychology, and popular culture. It is absent from the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM), yet there are plenty of research studies exploring the prevalence of impostor syndrome in different groups of people (psychologists talk of "Impostor Phenomenon," not "Impostor Syndrome"). In its turn, this scientific literature is overshadowed by endless websites, self-help books, coaching guides—and blog posts like this one!—about impostor syndrome. Their usual aim is to help sufferers by informing them that their self-doubts fit a pattern, and are shared by many others, including celebrities, artists, and sporting stars.
Is this information genuinely helpful? One trouble with the "impostor" label is that an impostor is not merely inadequate. An impostor is also a cheat, a fraud, someone who intentionally deceives other people. The personal shame associated with perceived inadequacy now has an overlay of moral guilt: I am wronging others by deliberately covering up my shortcomings. Well-meaning suggestions like "fake it until you make it" reinforce this idea that we have to lie if we don't think we're good enough. Many of us can't get comfortable with lying, and nor should we.
So encouraging people to think of their self-doubts as "impostor syndrome" may increase their distress, by adding the guilt of deception to the shame of inadequacy. But what if someone already thinks of herself as a fraud? Won't it be helpful for her to discover that this is a "syndrome" that also afflicts other people?
Not always. One first response to learning about impostor syndrome is to think, "How interesting! So many talented people who mistakenly believe they are impostors! And then there's me, a genuine impostor." Someone with engrained self-doubts will not easily recognise those doubts as misplaced, even once she can spot impostor syndrome in other people. Self-diagnosis requires us to somehow believe that we are inadequate and at the same time reject that belief as mistaken; to think of ourselves as fraudulent, and yet recognise that truly we are not.
Another paradox arises because impostor syndrome often involves a deep fear of being "unmasked." Outspokenly owning one's impostor syndrome risks drawing attention to the very inadequacies we are supposedly trying to conceal, and highlighting our history of supposed deception. Shame and guilt conspire to make this a huge challenge: ironically, the worse one's impostor syndrome is, the harder it will be to accept it in public. Meanwhile, once we are surrounded by other people discussing their impostor syndrome, it can seem boastful to say that we are free of the condition: the ethics of modesty encourages us to join the crowd of self-diagnosed impostors.
But if we can manage it, there can be something rather appealing about categorising our angsts, quirks, and difficulties as a "syndrome." The pseudo-medical language can make it easier to distance ourselves from troubling thoughts—"that's just my impostor syndrome talking"—and to find solidarity with others who feel the same way. Framing our low confidence and inability to "feel the fear and do it anyway" as symptoms of a disorder may alleviate the guilt of seeing them as character flaws for which we are morally responsible.
There is no straightforward tally of the pros and cons of our culture of impostor syndrome, encouraging people to consider self-diagnosis or prompting them to discuss this with friends, students, or co-workers. But recognising the moral dimensions of impostor syndrome, and how it is shot through with opportunities for guilt and shame, is crucial for deepening our understanding of this intriguing yet stress-inducing condition.
Katherine Hawley, Ph.D., is a professor of philosophy at the University of St Andrews, in beautiful Fife, Scotland. Her latest book is Trust: A Very Short Introduction, published by Oxford University Press in 2012.
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Life rings finally up on Kenosha's north pier 6 years after Lake Mills' mom lost her son
Nearly six years after her son jumped off the pier and drowned, a mother finally got her wish of life rings placed on the north pier.
By: Rebecca Klopf
Posted at 9:49 PM, Jun 03, 2019
KENOSHA, Wis. — KENOSHA -- New life rings are finally in place on Kenosha's north pier.
It has been the mission of a Lake Mills mom since her son's death nearly six ago in Lake Michigan.
New life ring up on Kenosha's north pier
"I think about him every single day," said Susan Foster about her son. "On June 17, it will be six years since he drown."
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Her son Ben McCarter, 31, jumped off the pier in Kenosha, planning to swim back to the beach. He never made it.
Kenosha's north pier, Foster said no swimming signs were put up after her son's death
"When he jumped off there was a current. It immediately pulled him under," said Foster.
His friends on the pier could do nothing to help. The same thing happened last year to Donovan Anderson, 17. The teen drown in front of people with no available life preservers.
"If there would have been that several people lives would have been saved including my son's. But there was nothing to throw to him," said Foster.
She came out to Kenosha last year as they searched for Anderson's body to push again for life rings.
"People don't realize how dangerous those waters are," said Foster.
Last year, TODAY'S TMJ4 spoke to the mayor's office, they originally said they could not do it because they would liable if the rings were stolen or vandalized.
The Army Corp of Engineers, who own the pier, said they would not put up the ring without a 2 million dollar insurance policy. However, the city finally passed a measure to allow the rings to be installed with federal government approval. That happened this year.
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Even though Foster is happy the rings are finally up. She thinks of all the people who were lost in the lost in the six years she waited.
"It is awful. You just don't want to lose your child that way," said Foster.
Foster is also reminding people the is a simple drowning survival strategy that can save your life called flip, float and follow. That means flip on your back, float along the current and follow the safest path out of the water.
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Debenhams chief executive Rob Templeman and deputy chief executive Michael Sharp talk consumer confidence, promotional activity and currency issues.
Your Christmas sales performance was better than expected, presumably it was boosted by a lot of discounting in the run to Christmas?
Rob Templeman: Not really. If you count up how much time we spend on Sale before Christmas our promotional activity was not a lot greater than last year. We did extend one of our promotions but we've been controlling our costs tightly and our gross margin is flat.
What has helped you keep sales levels up?
Rob Templeman: It's about having the right product. Our Designers at Debenhams ranges have been up double digits, and market share is up across all categories. I thought we'd lose market share in October because we didn't have as high stock levels. But in December menswear and womenswear market share was up.
How will you drive business once the Sales are over?
Rob Templeman: The January Sales have been strong across the high street, with footfall up, and there's some suggestion that the customer may have an easier time, with lower interest rates. But the big concern is unemployment. But we will be one of the first retailers on the high street out of Sale.
Michael Sharp: Once the Sale finishes the mindset of the shopper will change and they will be looking for newness. We will focus on making sure that there is fresh product in store. We will put new spring stock in by the middle of this week, which is about a week earlier than last year. We will also focus on value for money.
What trends are you backing for spring?
Michael Sharp: Some of the trends are the Libertine look with things like paper bag waists and tailoring. There will also be a Glamour trend, which will feature things like baggy pants tapered at the ankle. There will be prints, kaftans and dresses.
How will the weak sterling affect Debenhams?
Rob Templeman: We generally hedge much further forward than a lot of high street retailers, typically 18 months ahead - the average is around six months. We've taken a more prudent view because we want to have the certainty. So we're hedged from a year and half from last September, the start of our fiscal year. I think this gives us some competitive advantage.
There's been a lot of noise about currency but it's not just about that - commodity prices are down significantly and container costs are down about 30%, so you have to look at it all together.
Is the growing demand from retailers to pay rents on a monthly basis something that Debenhams is also pushing?
Rob Templeman: We are a member of the British Retail Consortium and we support Sir Philip Green's [Arcadia owner] to push for better deals from landlords. Of course we'd all like to pay monthly and we do on some of our new stores, but it's not something that we're talking about for all of our shops.
How will Debenhams drive sales in 2009?
Rob Templeman: It's going to be a very challenging year and what we have to do is get the product right, which we have been doing for the last nine or 10 months. We have to give great value for money and be consistent. Part of the premium market is trading down and some people are trading up from lower priced product to designer brands that offer great value and we will benefit from that.
How much promotional activity will there be at Debenhams this year?
Rob Templeman: We have our plan but we don't want any panic measures. Debenhams has always been a promotional business and it always will be. The customers like it, it brings market share gains and the fact is that the margin is still flat.
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Video Review: How we got here
January 12, 2018 April 9, 2018 Chris Rivett Howard Webb, VAR, Video Review
What was first trialed in a United Soccer League (USL) game in August 2016, was not only used a year later for the first time in Major League Soccer, but also has been utilized in tournaments including the Confederations Cup and the FIFA U-20 World Cup. As a new component to the game, Video Review could play a much more prominent role in soccer around the world in 2018.
Seventeen months after The International Football Association Board (The IFAB) first approved sanctioned trials at their Annual General Meeting (AGM) in March 2016, Video Review became a regular feature in North America, beginning August 5, during the second half of the MLS season.
At that point, six countries expressed an interest to participate in the experiments and, since then, PRO and MLS have been at the forefront of Video Review, working closely with The IFAB. Video Assistant Referees (VARs) were first assigned in Week 22 last year, but not before a lengthy training program was developed and implemented.
"By the time I arrived on March 1, a lot of the groundwork had been done, and done well," explained PRO Manager of VAR Operations Howard Webb. "A lot of the due diligence had been undertaken, and even dating back to 2014, MLS had been thoroughly exploring and evaluating the possibility of using video replays to assist the officials here.
"I had also been doing some evaluation work with Professional Game Match Officials in England and had been over to Amsterdam to look at the system they were trialing there. I had a good knowledge and understanding of this new technology, but not to the level of the detail they had here.
"My first task was to learn every single detail about the initiative. I wanted to understand what The IFAB had achieved so far and what PRO and MLS had done. I spoke to a lot of people around the world, and it increased my knowledge of this project to better equip me to make a positive impact on what was going to happen here."
Video Review in MLS timeline
March 2016: IFAB approve trials of Video Review at their AGM
July 2016: IFAB workshop held in New York, attended by representatives of 20 countries, and first "live" tests conducted by PRO officials
August 2016: PRO officials oversee first competitive game using Video Review when New York Red Bulls II host Orlando City B
August 2017: Video Review rolled out in MLS from Week 22
December 2017: Used in MLS Cup for the first time – the biggest domestic club match it has been implemented in so far
After months of finely tuned preparations, including intensive referee training camps and educational sessions that covered more than 100 combined offline and in-game tests, the new fifth member of the officiating crew was called into action 79 minutes into the match between Philadelphia Union and FC Dallas. The whole process from incident to decision – between center referee Ricardo Salazar and VAR Hilario Grajeda – took 46 seconds. Video Review had arrived.
"Sport is very subjective, so it was very important to expose our officials to as much discussion, debate and exercises as possible in order to maintain consistency across our big group," said Webb.
"Apart from one or two exceptions, this was completely new. Mark Geiger had been exposed to this with FIFA, and before I arrived, the first ever use of video referees happened at Red Bull Arena with Ismail Elfath and Allen Chapman. It was good that we had some practical experience to build on, but in general, the other officials on our training programme had no experience at all, apart from one or two training sessions and pre-season games.
"A basic skeleton of a programme had been put into place for training which I looked at and then worked out how we were going to practically implement it. We had a few months before we were going to go live in August, and it was apparent that we needed to do two things: we needed to expose our people to as much experience as possible, either hands-on with the system or doing some classroom-based exercises using the system.
"The other thing we needed to do was getting people talking about what Video Review is for and why it exists – it's to deal with clear and obvious errors; it's not to change the way the game is played. To be effective with that, to have this maximum impact with minimum interference, we needed to get consistency with recognizing a clear error.
"We've been to all the clubs, the players, the coaches, and the executives. We've been to see the media that broadcast the matches, and the fan groups. We've worked really hard to make sure people understand; there is an educational piece to continue, and we'll keep doing it."
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Q: Adding values using dplyr I have a data frame with the following values
street  date    counts
A   2011-01-07  4
B   2011-01-07  2
A   2011-01-08  2
B   2011-01-08  6

I want the previous counts by date to be added with the new counts this is the output that I require how could I achieve this in R using dplyr or other libraries.
street  date    counts
A   2011-01-07  4
B   2011-01-07  2
A   2011-01-08  6
B   2011-01-08  8

A: You could try
library(dplyr)

df %>% group_by(street) %>% mutate(counts = cumsum(counts))

#> # A tibble: 4 x 3
#> # Groups:   street [2]
#>   street date       counts
#>   <fct>  <fct>       <int>
#> 1 A      2011-01-07      4
#> 2 B      2011-01-07      2
#> 3 A      2011-01-08      6
#> 4 B      2011-01-08      8

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Q: Notepad++ - Find list of acronyms in text file I want to make list of acronyms in a text file.
I tried some regex to find the list of words with all capital letters.
Ex. [A-Z]+
This did not work.
I also have another problem. Some acronyms do not have all capital letters.
I have two questions:

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*Is there a regex to find words with more than one capital letter?

*Is there a way to return all the words enclosed in brackets ?

Example:

Just an example (one) script (two)

Expected output:

one two

A: A regular expression to find a word with more than one capital letter:
\b\w*[A-Z]\w*[A-Z]\w*\b

Demo
Regex101 is pretty good in explaining what each part of the regex does, but let me know if something is unclear.
When using case-sensitive regexes like this, be sure to enable the 'Match case' option:

A regular expression to find a word enclosed in brackets:
\(\w+\)

Demo
Note that since ( and ) are special characters in regex, they need to be escaped.


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"We are thrilled to have Dr. Thomas join us as our new provost and to lead our excellent academic programs," said Roloff. "St. Kate's has long been respected for our academic excellence, commitment to social justice, and creating a learning environment in which women thrive. Dr. Thomas' experience, expertise and passions directly support these values, and we are excited for her leadership in advancing these priorities for the University."
Thomas brings more than 20 years of experience in academia both as faculty and an administrator. Her professional experience paired with her passion and commitment to the importance and value of education make her an ideal fit with St. Kate's. Her belief that education is both a process and outcome, with the goal being a holistic, well-rounded, contributing member of society, directly aligns with the mission and social justice pedagogy of St. Kate's.
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September 21, 2022 — MTU was the first major industrial company in Germany to decide in favor of a Linux cluster when building up additional computing capacity. "The adoption of Linux and other Open Source projects in high-performance environments continues unabated. Key transportation and logistics platforms leverage open source software for its reliability, innovation and high ROI," says Keith Bergelt, OIN's CEO."As Germany's largest airplane engine manufacturer, we are pleased that MTU Aero Engines is committed to patent non-aggression in core Linux and adjacent Open Source technologies." The Patent Lawyer covers the story.
As a global solutions provider that grows with customers and society through the highest level of trust, SMFG is committed to creating businesses that transcend the boundaries of finance and resolving issues. In order to further promote this effort and quickly deliver high added-value services to our customers and society, SMFG believes that the utilization of open source software will be essential. Also, in promoting OSS utilization, SMFG believes that measures to protect intellectual property rights are important. Through joining the OIN, SMFG hopes to deepen our understanding of the OSS community and contribute to the development of OSS.
Open source technology enables new levels of innovation and helps to underpin our ongoing growth, as we fuse physical and digital technologies in cyber-physical systems. By joining OIN, we are demonstrating our commitment to contribute to open source technology and supporting it with patent non-aggression in Linux.
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Media Suppression the Allott Way
Tim Hicks June 16, 2021 North Yorkshire Police, North Yorkshire Police & Crime Commissioner
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by TIM HICKS
The approach of Sussex Police to allegations of breaches of the Coronavirus regulations by police officers
On the 15th of May 2021, Officers of Sussex Police attended reports of a party and found that several of their colleagues were attending. A breach of the Covid regulations.
All the Officers are under investigation for misconduct, the investigation having been initiated by Sussex Police. Local media article from "The Argus" here.
A quick email to Sussex Police media unit was responded to promptly and courteously with this unequivocal statement:
"Police officers were called to an address in Hove, following reports of a gathering inside on Saturday 15 May at 8.46pm. They entered and found a number of off duty officers present.
This incident, in breach of current lockdown restrictions, is being investigated by the force's Professional Standards Department. Chief Superintendent Nick May said:
"We take Covid-related breaches very seriously and we are actively investigating this matter. The officers involved have not been suspended while the investigation continues."
So in summary, Police Officers are alleged to have breached the Coronavirus regulations and Sussex Police have responded to this openly and properly, by launching an investigation into these allegations of misconduct – thereby demonstrating that the police are not above the law and maintaining public confidence in the police service.
So what is the NYP response to similar allegations of breaches of the Coronavirus regulations by Police Officers?
The approach of NYP to allegations of breaches of the Coronavirus regulations by Police Officers
Regular readers will be aware that a series of witness accounts and photographs of Police Officers apparently breaching the Coronavirus Lockdown Regulations have been provided to the NYE.
In summary, over thirtyPolice Officers and members of Police staff have been identified by the NYE and its correspondents as potentially/apparently breaching the lockdown regulations at multiple locations across North Yorkshire, including Force Headquarters, Scarborough, Filey, Skipton, Whitby and Fulford Road Police Stations, Scalby Mills and Clifton Moor Shopping Centre.
These Officers include Chief Constable Winward, Deputy Chief Constable Cain, five Inspectors, two Sergeants, three motorcycle Policemen from Cleveland Police, two officers sleeping at night in a layby unmasked (the 'Sleeping Beauties') and the two Clifton Moor policemen. The 'Sleeping Beauties' are additionally accused of neglect of duty for being asleep and ignoring calls, when they should have been awake and alert.
All of these Police Officers were reported to Chief Constable Winward by me along with supporting evidence; I also made a complaint, and asked for a media statement. I additionally asked that Chief Constable Winward, Deputy Chief Constable Cain and the Inspector commanding Scarborough Police Station each receive a £10,000 fine for organising a large gathering inside Scarborough Police Station, namely a presentation to Ms Win Almond for completing fifty years' service.
I received a response from both Chief Constable Winward and then-PFCC Mulligan in two almost identical letters dated the 3rd of March 2021. As you can see, their joint position was very different to the courteous and professional response I received from Sussex Police:
"The complaints regime was recently overhauled by the Policing and Crime Act 2017, which introduced substantial changes to what could constitute a complaint and the breadth of issues that an individual could raise through the complaints process.
The complaints system is intended to ensure that those individuals who are eligible complainants can access a system that ensures that matters are dealt with at the most appropriate level and supports the efficiency and fairness of the system generally. This system ensures that matters of the utmost gravity are investigated, independently, but that a wider range of complaints and correspondence is most appropriately dealt with by the police or complaints teams themselves.
North Yorkshire Police have to ensure that they are fair and that they balance competing needs and make sure that their resources are used proportionally and appropriately. A very small number of people can take up a disproportionate amount of time, public money and resources. North Yorkshire Police want to make sure that they are aware of all legitimate complaints or correspondence and that they have the right information to respond promptly, effectively and efficiently. North Yorkshire Police will always aim to work to put things right for those people who correspond with them or make a genuine complaint.
In accordance with the IOPC's policy on unreasonable and unacceptable complainants and the IOPC statutory guidance on handling complaints, we are writing to advise you that the volume of your correspondence is excessive, unreasonably persistent and that (whilst some correspondence is appropriately raised with the force or the complaints team) the nature of your correspondence is often unreasonable, derogatory containing unsubstantiated allegations/assertions, or constitutes ineligible, purported complaints. Your behaviour in corresponding in this manner is unacceptable due to the substantial impact that responding to you alone has on public resources.
We are therefore putting you on notice that North Yorkshire Police is putting in place a customer contact arrangement with you. The contact arrangements will not prevent you from accessing the complaints system or seeking information by other lawful means, such as FOI requests, but it sets out the basis on which the force will, or will not, respond to your correspondence or requests.
Your correspondence will not be acknowledged as a matter of routine but will be logged and retained.
Your correspondence will be reviewed and will only be dealt with where it is:- a. an eligible complaint under the complaints system or PRA 2002 and where it is raised by you specifically, on your own behalf, in respect of matters directly affecting you; or b. makes a lawful request under a statutory transparency or disclosure regime. The force will abide by the relevant legal regime and practitioner guidance issued to public bodies by the Information Commissioner, in determining if, and how, to respond to such requests by you.
[Extract]
The above response was written by a solicitor – Ms Xanthe Tait – and, in a nutshell, ignores the public interest requirement of ensuring the Police are accountable. Instead, Ms Tait used a procedural pretext to criticise me, thereby justifying Chief Constable Winward's refusal to investigate my allegations of breaches of the Coronavirus regulations by herself and her officers.
It should be said that there could be an innocent explanation for the matters complained of and if so, without a misconduct investigation, it will never be aired – which in my view is unfair on the officers concerned.
In response, I would quote Lord Harwich (Derbyshire County Council -v- Times Newspapers Ltd and Others [1993]):
"In a free democratic society it is almost too obvious to need stating that those who hold office in government and who are responsible for public administration must always be open to criticism. Any attempt to stifle or fetter such criticism amounts to political censorship of the most insidious and objectionable kind."
Rejecting my criticism did not of course prevent the Chief Constable form pursuing the complaint herself, without recourse to a complaint from a member of the public, as Chief Constable Shiner did. But Chief Constable Winward did not do that either. She has simply covered up the complaint, protected her officers, put them above the law and most alarming of all, has not had to justify her decision to anyone. Put simply, she is not under control.
Clearly, the Policing and Crime Act 2017, the IOPC's policy on unreasonable and unacceptable complainants and the IOPC statutory guidance on handling complaints were never intended to be used to suppress legitimate criticism of the police by the media. Nor were they intended to allow Police officers to evade any consequences for blatantly committing serious acts of misconduct.
Nevertheless, Chief Constable Winward has succeeded with the help of a very smart lawyer in preventing any police officer from her force being held accountable for serious acts of misconduct. While at the same time criticising the media for criticising her force, while her officers aggressively prosecutes members of the public for the same transgressions that they themselves have committed with impunity.
In every other occasion in the UK that I am aware of, when police officers have been accused of contravening the regulations, the force concerned – not just Sussex – has responded openly, impartially and professionally.
So why is NYP so different? Why can it not maintain the same standards of discipline and accountability that Sussex Police and every other force in the UK maintains?
There are in my view three reasons for this.
1). A Tale of Two Chief Constables
All uniformed disciplined organisations take their lead from the top. So the first reason lies with the personality and experience of the Chief Constable.
Sussex Police is led by Chief Constable Jo Shiner, who started her career in Norfolk Police, transferring to Kent Police upon promotion to Chief Officer rank and then to Sussex Police as Deputy Chief Constable. She has experience in a wide range of roles in CID and Uniform Branch, including Adult and Child Protection, Firearms, Public Order and Critical Incident Commander roles. Her force biography can be read here.
Chief Constable Jo Shiner of Sussex Police
An officer of integrity with wide ranging experience in different forces, who puts serving the public and maintaining high standards, above the public image of her force.
She has not hesitated to maintain public confidence by addressing allegations of misconduct by police offficers alleged to have breached the coronavirus regulations.
Chief Constable Winward, in contrast, started her police career in NYP in 1993 as a Special Constable in York. She joined Humberside Police as a Regular Constable in 1994 because there were no full time vacancies in NYP. She transferred back to North Yorkshire Police in 2008 as a Chief Inspector. Her force biography can be read here.
Unfortunately, Chief Constable Winward's career has not been as broad as Chief Constable Shiner's. It has been more parochial, being predominantly in Uniform Branch mainly with NYP. Consequently, I believe she has a heightened sense of pride in NYP and loyalty to her brother Officers and the reputation of her Force.
In most circumstances, these qualities are assets and highly commendable. That is until someone lets the side down in a way which could result in public criticism of NYP. When this happens, the public interest requires that any incident of Police misconduct is investigated rigorously and openly, so the police are seen to be accountable. Even if this results in embarrassment for the force and/or damage to its reputation.
However, it appears to me that Chief Constable Winward either does not understand this concept, or, alternatively, is determined to protect the reputation of her Force and her Officers at all costs – hence the decision to take no action against her colleagues, or offer any explanation for her decision or their actions, and to focus her response on criticising the journalist that raised the issue.
This is a wider issue than breaches of the Coronavirus regulations.
We are all equal under the law. The Police must act impartially without fear or favour and cannot be above the law. It was violation of this principle that led to the dismissal of Chief Constable Stanley Parr CBE QPM of Lancashire in 1977. He was the first Chief Constable to be dismissed the service because he was found guilty of 26 charges including interfering in criminal cases involving his cronies. Lancashire Telegraph report here. Obituary of Barry Askew the journalist that broke the story which effectively lead to Parr's removal here.
2) A Tale of Two Police,Fire & Crime Commissioners
The second reason is failure of oversight by the official responsible for oversight of the Police – the PFCC for North Yorkshire.
The above extract from PFCC Mulligan's letter represents the policy of the former PFCC Mrs Julia Mulligan and shows she was perfectly aligned with Chief Constable Winward in preventing the investigation of breaches of the Coronavirus Regulations by NYP Officers. In my view this demonstrates that she had failed in her duty to hold North Yorkshire Police to account.
The position taken by PFCC Mulligan meant that Chief Constable Winward knew she could ignore complaints and misconduct by her officers with impunity, which in the event is exactly what she did.
The letter of 3rd March 2021 has never been rescinded and appears to be the policy of the new PFCC, Mr Philip Allott.
Clearly, this is unacceptable and contrary to the PFCC's oversight duties as specified on the OPFCC website.
3) The role of the media in a democracy
Chief Constables have enormous discretionary powers and it is essential that they are subjected to oversight by elected politicians, in this case the PFCC.
If there is a total breakdown of police accountability and oversight, or abuse of police powers by a Chief Constable the role of the media is to highlight this to the public. As Barry Askew did with Chief Constable Parr.
There has also been a failure of media oversight over NYP; only the NYE holds it to account. Hence perhaps the reason that the NYE has been singled out for media suppression, using techniques of Information Warfare by NYP, PFCC Mulligan and PFCC Allott.
To quote Alison Hume, the Labour candidate to be PFCC:
"I am completely supportive of citizen and community journalism and believe the public should be allowed to know what is going on. I am aware of the NYE's work and would congratulate you on your campaigning style of journalism. You are turning over stones that other people want to be left untouched, which is healthy for the community. The police should have nothing to hide and I don't understand why they don't want to engage."
PFCC Allott – Master practitioner of media manipulation.
With the election of a new PFCC, I had hoped for a change in approach, so I asked all the candidates for PFCC what their policy would be on three specific issues when I interviewed them during the election campaign:
The refusal of North Yorkshire Police to investigate the murder of a woman in 1979 thought to be from Scarborough. http://nyenquirer.uk/toms-matter-1/.
The Chief Constable's policy of not prosecuting police officers for breaches of the Coronavirus Lockdown Regulations and being asleep on duty. http://nyenquirer.uk/sleeping-beauties/
The Chief Constable and PFCC Mulligan's joint policy of not engaging with the NYE. NYE coverage here.
PFCC Allott responded very reasonably during the interview by stating that he would not comment until after the election, once he had discussed these matters with Chief Constable Winward:
"With reference to the items you have highlighted, whilst I am concerned, it is not something I am prepared to make a public statement about until I am acquainted with further information from North Yorkshire Police and that will be post-election if I am elected.
However, that said you should find me far more media friendly."
When Philip Allott was elected, the NYE tried to reset the relationship between the media and the OPFCC, which, (as recorded in this article NYP Media Operations) has been universally poor with many media outlets, not just the NYE. Initially the response of PFCC Allott was cordial.
I followed up with PFCC Allott and asked him for a comprehensive response on the above three issues and his media policy, in accordance with his assurances during the election campaign. This was obviously going to be PFCC Allott's first big test. Namely, would he face up to the formidable Chief Constable Winward and hold her to account over these matters.
His response was not to comment and to reaffirm PFCC Mulligan's policy of non-engagement with the NYE through his Chief Executive Mr Simon Dennis, who also asked me not to contact the PFCC.
In summary, PFCC Allott used disinformation and media manipulation to obtain favourable election coverage. Once elected, he reverted to PFCC Mulligan's policy of media suppression having achieved his initial strategic objective. A classic case of a very skilful information warfare operation of media manipulation followed by media suppression.
What happened to an open and accountable Police Service?
The situation is summed up satirically below.
CHIEF CONSTABLE'S FORCE WIDE MESSAGE WELCOMING PHILI ALLOTT AS THE NEW POLICE, FIRE & CRIME COMMISSIONER FOR NORTH YORKSHIRE
Chief Constable Winward, Superintendent Mike Walker, Gold Commander for the NYP response to the coronavirus pandemic and Deputy Chief Constable Phil Cain. All are the subject of complaints for breaching the coronavirus regulations that have been supressed by Chief Constable Winward.
MANY OF YOU WILL BE AWARE THAT PHILIP ALLOTT HAS BEEN ELECTED AS THE NEW CONSERVATIVE POLICE FIRE AND CRIME COMMISSIONER FOR NORTH YORKSHIRE. MY SENIOR COMMAND TEAM AND I ALL OFFER OUR CONGRATULATIONS AND A WARM WELCOME TO PHILIP.
THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT HE IS ON SIDE, HAS NO INTEREST IN MAKING THE POLICE ACCOUNTABLE AND WILL NOT CONFRONT POLICE MISCONDUCT GENERALLY, OR ME IN PARTICULAR. SO NO PROBLEMS THERE AT THE MOMENT. BUT DON'T WORRY,WE WILL MONITOR THIS TO ENSURE HE REMAINS COMPLIANT.
I AM THEREFORE LOOKING FORWARD TO WORKING WITH PHILIP TO MAKE NORTH YORKSHIRE AN EVEN SAFER PLACE FOR POLICE OFFICERS TO BREACH THE CORONAVIRUS REGULATIONS, COVER UP INCOMPETENT INVESTIGATIONS, IGNORE WITNESSES IN MURDER INVESTIGATIONS, MISUSE POLICE FUNDS, SLEEP ON DUTY, HARASS COMMUNITY JOURNALISTS AND BE AS SCRUFFY AS THEY LIKE.
NYE JOURNALISTS AND THEIR READERS HAVE BEEN EXPOSING BREACHES OF THE CORONAVIRUS LOCKDOWN REGULATIONS AND OTHER EXAMPLES OF LOW PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS BY NYP. THEY ALSO EXPOSED THE JIMMY SAVILE AND PETER JACONELLI SCANDAL, CAUSING EMBARRASSMENT TO NORTH YORKSHIRE POLICE AND THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY.
THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE. I CANNOT HAVE A SITUATION WHERE THE EXISTANCE OF FREE SPEECH AND A FREE PRESS RESULTS IN POLICE MISCONDUCT BEING EXPOSED TO THE PUBLIC THEREBY HUMILIATING THE FORCE AND THE PFCC'S PARTY. THIS COULD RESULT IN ALL OF US BEING HELD TO ACCOUNT, LEADING TO MORE OPEN POLICING IN NORTH YORKSHIRE, AN IMPROVEMENT IN PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS OF POLICING AND BETTER VALUE FOR MONEY FOR THE TAXPAYER.
SO TO COMBAT THIS, PHILIP HAS ADOPTED MY POLICY ON MEDIA SUPRESSION OF THE NYE AND HAS VERY HELPFULLY ABANDONED THE COMMITMENTS HE MADE IN THE NYE TO HIS ELECTORATE.
I AM GRATEFUL TO PHILIP FOR HIS LOYALTY TO THE FORCE AND OUR BEST INTERESTS. ALSO FOR ABANDONING ANY PRETENCE OF HOLDING US (ME) TO ACCOUNT.
CONSEQUENTLY NO MATTER HOW IRRESPONSIBLE OR UNACCEPTABLE THEIR BEHAVIOUR, OR HOW STRONG THE EVIDENCE OF MISCONDUCT, NO POLICE OFFICER WILL BE HELD TO ACCOUNT FOR BREACHING THE LOCKDOWN REGULATIONS, OR FINED FOR DOING THE SAME THINGS WE FINE THE PUBLIC FOR.
BEST OF ALL, I CAN CARRY ON GOING TO BANQUETS, SHOPPING AND SIGHTSEEING EXOTIC EUROPEAN CITIES ON FATUOUS FBI ALUMNI TRAINING CONFERENCES AND CHIEF OFFICERS CAN CARRY ON CHARGING THE COSTS OF THEIR HOBBIES TO EXPENSES, WHILE YOU BEAR THE BRUNT OF THE CUTS, TAKE ALL THE RISKS AND AND DO ALL THE POLICING.
NO OTHER FORCE IN THE UK WOULD ALLOW THIS, WHICH IS WHY I LIKE WORKING FOR NYP.
OBVIOUSLY THIS IS ALL CONTRARY TO THE COLLEGE OF POLICING REQUIREMENTS FOR HONESTY AND INTEGRITY, CHALLENGING AND REPORTING IMPROPER CONDUCT, AND CONDUCT GENERALLY. BUT DON'T WORRY ABOUT THAT. IT IS ONLY POLICE PR WHICH WE SHOULD NOT TAKE SERIOUSLY AND IGNORE WHEN IT SUITS US.
GOING FORWARD, I WANT YOU ALL TO KNOW HOW PROUD I AM OF YOU. CARRY ON SNOOZING IN LAY-BYS WHENEVER YOU LIKE.
LISA WINWARD
CHIEF CONSTABLE
"COMMITTED TO THE CODE OF ETHICS"
(UNLESS IT IS INCONVENIENT, OR RESULTS IN POLICE OFFICERS BEING CHARGED WITH MISCONDUCT)
PFCC Philip Allott, Mr Simon Dennis, Ms Xanthe Trait and Chief Constable Winward were provided with an earlier draft of this article but declined to comment.
This has very serious implications for freedom of speech and holding the police to account, which I will cover more fully in my article IW7 Police Media Suppression the NYP prototype
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31 states submit petitions to secede from Union, TN and TX lead way
In Uncategorized on November 13, 2012 at 9:36 AM
Please take the time to join in a peaceful revolution to assist many Americans wishing to exercise their constitutional rights to once again secede from the Union!
Log on to the White House site below, find your state, fill out a quick questionnaire and help us get the needed signatures to evoke a response from the Socialist in Chief.
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petitions
No longer can we just stand back and watch as our elected leaders turn a deaf ear to the citizens of this country and continue to do as they wish regardless of the will of the people. No longer can we stand and watch as the constitution is being shredded by a disrespectful, fake president.
We are in a very pivotal time in the life of our country. Just as TN and other states seceded from the Union in 1861 soon after President Lincoln was elected President, so be it and very fitting that once again we must resort to seceding from the union shortly after the re-election of the fake president and Socialist Marxist Barrack Hussein Obama.
At the time of the writing of this blog, Tennessee has 17,427 secessionist that have signed the petition. Yesterday, we were at around 2,000. Today, we are almost at our goal of 25,000 signatures. Please sign this petition as we need to invoke a Presidential response and send a very strong message that you can't continue to stomp on the citizens of the United States of America and ignore their constitutional, God given inalienable rights.
As the founding fathers of the United States of America made clear in the Declaration of Independence in 1776:
"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation."
"…Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it, and institute new Government…"
States where residents have filed secession petitions include: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Jersey, New York, Nevada, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Wyoming.
The petitions have been submitted through the White House's "We the People" website, which aims to give "all Americans a way to engage their government on the issues that matter to them." The White House promises that "If a petition meets the signature threshold, it will be reviewed by the Administration and we will issue a response." The threshold is 25,000 signatures in 30 days and, the Texas petition has received enough signatures to meet the threshold of 25,000 and Tennessee and Louisiana are close behind in meeting their threshold. The end date for signatures to be collected is December 9th. Keep passing it around. Let's not stop at 25,000!
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Unfit to Rule, an old document must be revisited
Nearly 250 years ago our founding fathers stood against a tyrannical oppressive government in the form of King George and suffered greatly at the hands of a King that cared not where his swift hand landed.
Today, again, repeatedly we find ourselves at a point in history where we find it necessary to make a stand against the same type of government that our original 13 colonies and it's leaders faced. They saw fit to rise up and replace a form of government that was no longer representative of the people.
King George, as any elected or appointed ruler must be dissolved when that person is no longer a representative of the people.
Commissioners, Councilmen, Mayors, NGOs, State Representatives, State and US Senators, Governors and Presidents must be replaced at the ballot box when they become complacent and no longer representative of the people.
We as a country, a community stand at a crossroads where if we do not act the country we have will be no longer. Out free nation is standing at a crossroads. We have a fake president who is unfit to lead. We have many federal, state and local representatives of our country that are no longer in elected positions to uphold the constitution and assure the sovereignty of its people remain. Just as our forefathers saw the need to restrain and replace a King, we now must take the same steps and replace a King and his oppressive government once again.
This upcoming election and the ones soon thereafter will be the most important decisions we as a country will make in nearly 250 years. The conclusion is our current form of government is not a true representation of the people.
The document that separated the powers and saved this country is once again being called upon to provide guidance as we "overthrow" another tyrannical government. The pertinent and relevance to what our forefathers suffered and our current situation is uncanny.
Just as those that led before us, we as a people, and electing body must stand for what is right in our country and decide what we must do. Shall we see our country slide into the abyss or make a much needed stand against a government that has grown way out of control. Patriotism and loyalty to our country are the only thing that will stand between freedom and tyranny. We must decide and soon what will happen to our country and our community. We must act now!
When you ponder what to do at the ballot box carry with you the same resolve that our forefathers carried. Realize the power you have and the decision making power you have. Because of them, you have the ability to restore our form of government and you can change our country drastically and emphatically with a pull of a lever.
Please don't stop reading here! Please take a few minutes and read the document below and compare the events of 250 years ago and see the relevance to the situation we are facing today.
If our country can't be changed by a vote, will another revolution be the answer? I don't have that answer but the question is important.
While reading below, place your self in their situation and ask your self have we once again repeated history and allowed a King or Kings to be the ruling party in our country? The comparison of what they faced and our current situation is eerily close.
You have the opportunity to decide if your leaders are unfit to lead. You have that power, now exercise that power!!!
The Declaration of Independence in Congress
When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.
He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.
He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.
He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.
He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.
He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.
— John Hancock
New Hampshire: Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton
Massachusetts: John Hancock, Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry
Rhode Island: Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery
Connecticut: Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William Williams, Oliver Wolcott
New York: William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris
New Jersey: Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark
Pennsylvania: Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross
Delaware: Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas McKean
Maryland: Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton
Virginia: George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton
North Carolina: William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn
South Carolina: Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur Middleton
Georgia: Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton
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DNC will certify Obama/Sotero because 9th circuit Judges remain steadfast in sending out notices, ignoring Constitution
In Uncategorized on September 7, 2012 at 12:01 AM
9th Circuit Refuses to Prohibit DNC from Sending Fraudulent Notices
The DNC will more than likely send out a fraudulent notice tomorrow that they accept Barrack Hussein Barry Soetero Obamas nomination as the next President of the United States. Trouble is they don't have a way or have they been able to constitutionally certify this fake president. He was not born to American parents, he does not have a legitimate birth certificate or social security number nor can we look at his college records because they cover up all he is trying to say is true. This president being certified by the DNC is a total fabrication and should never be done! He is constitutionally not our president nor will he ever be. He is a fraud, a fake and Van Irion explains why!
Tonight Obama will be accepting the Democratic Party's nomination. Tonight or tomorrow the DNC will be sending notifications that they certify Obama as their candidate to the Secretaries of State for all 50 states. These notifications will either explicitly state that Obama is constitutionally eligible to serve as president, or they will imply it. Either way, the certifications will be fraudulent.
Earlier this week, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals denied Liberty Legal Foundation's emergency motion to prohibit the DNC from sending those fraudulent notifications. The 9th Circuit's order denying our motion was one sentence. It essentially said, we're denying your motion because we can. You can see the order on our website.
The 9th Circuit's one-sentence denial of our motion is, in my mind, the definitive proof that America's judicial system has completely failed. For a year Liberty Legal Foundation has been presenting courts with an opportunity to explain why Supreme Court precedent should be ignored. Rather than answer that question, the courts have avoided the question. The 9th Circuit's denial cites a single case. That case stands for the principle that the 9th Circuit doesn't have to grant our motion unless it wants to do so. Oh, it has the authority, but it isn't required to grant our motion.
Understand what I just said. The 9th Circuit didn't explain WHY it chose to deny our motion. It didn't even offer an excuse. The Court didn't say that the DNC's notifications wouldn't be fraudulent. It simply said, we don't have to grant your motion, because we don't have to.
That puts things into perspective doesn't it? We're asking high ranking government officials within the federal government's judicial branch to answer a basic question about the Constitution. That question is simple, but is also a critically important Constitutional question. The answer would have determined whether Obama is eligible to serve another term as President. But the 9th Circuit determined that this question isn't important enough for it to consider. It isn't required to answer this question right now, so it will simply look the other way and act as if the issue doesn't exist. By the time it is required to answer the question, the issue will be moot because the election will be over.
Our federal courts are now publicly stating that they have no desire to enforce the Constitution. They delay, they make excuses, and then when enough time has passed they simply say we don't have to answer you right now, come back after it no longer matters. Then we will have another excuse: the issue will be moot.
LLF will not let this issue simply fade away. We are considering filing new lawsuits after the DNC sends its fraudulent notifications. After the notifications are sent the legal issues will be even simpler than they have been up to this point. We will either find a judge that is willing to follow the law, or we will further demonstrate the corruption of our judicial branch.
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Obama and J.P. Ludwig, both share same SS Number!
In Government on May 28, 2012 at 12:10 PM
An intensive investigation has revealed the identity of the man whose Social Security Number (SSN) is being used by President Obama. Was Jean Paul Ludwig, who was born in France in 1890, immigrated to the United States in 1924, and was assigned SSN 042-68-4425 (Obama current SSN) received on or about March 1977.
Mr. Ludwig lived most of his adult life in Connecticut. Because of that, his SSN begins with the digits 042, which are among only a select few reserved for Connecticut residents.
Now comes the best part!
J.P. Ludwig spent the final months of his life in Hawaii, where he died. Conveniently, Obama's grandmother, Madelyn Payne Dunham, worked part-time in the Probate Office in the Honolulu Hawaii Courthouse, and therefore had access to the SSNs of deceased individuals.
The Social Security Administration was never informed of Ludwig's death, and because he never received Social Security benefits there were no benefits to stop and therefore, no questions were ever raised.
The suspicion, of course, is that Dunham, knowing her grandson was not a U.S. Citizen, either because he was born in Kenya or because he became a citizen of Indonesia upon his adoption by Lolo Soetoro. She then simply scoured the probate records until she found someone who died who was not receiving Social Security benefits, and selected Mr. Ludwig's Connecticut SSN for Obama.
I never imagined that we would allow a total stranger, a man with no identity, no way to know who he is or where he came from to simply waltz into the most powerful position in the world! To allow him full reign to blast us with his socialist ways, display Marxist tendencies and now as we face another election where he is positioning himself for another 4 years and is surmounting hundreds of millions into his war chest.
This Memorial Day, as we reflect on our nations fallen soldiers, we "bow" to a man we know little about or even what his name is, let alone his social security number. God bless us if this is the standard we have now adopted!
What has happened to America? Where is the influx of Patriots that are supposed to be protecting our country from enemies both foreign and domestic? We have perhaps softened to the point we are mushy and spineless, the perfect combination for our transformation to a socialist/communist country. Political correctness has won out!
God bless everyone, for those who served, those who gave all, their survivors, widows, children and etc! We are on the brink and our country needs you to look at the man we call President and what that means to you and ask your self, can we survive another 4 years of this regime with it's unknown leader!
If his social security number isn't his that should be enough to impeach him. For him to not know his own birthdate or name or which one he needs to tell the public he represents that should be enough to ask him to step down from misleading the greatest nation in the world.
Mr Obama, Soetero or whatever your real name is, step aside, it's time to bring our country back to greatness and step aside and let Americans deal with American stuff!
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Judge whacks Obama over eligibility: The POTUS goes down to Georgia
In Government on January 22, 2012 at 9:15 AM
Obama went down to Georgia and he was in bind and way behind looking for an election to steal! He came upon Van Irion sitting on a stump, he said boy let me tell you what! I'm the best election stealer in the world! I bet you this election box made of gold, Im the best there ever was!!! Round the mountain run boy run, devils in the white house with the election won! Your busy in the briar patch handing out dough…..I'll bet you once you son of a buck, your butt will be in Georgia showing your true identity! Ok, that was a poor attempt at a Charlie Daniel classic! But, the POTUS OBAMA WILL BE MAKING HIS WAY TO GEORGIA THIS WEEK TO FACE OFF WITH VAN IRION! This is going to be fun!
WORLD NET DAILY REPORTS:
A Georgia judge has refused a demand from Barack Obama to quash a subpoena to appear at a series of administration hearings Jan. 26 at which residents of the state are challenging, as allowed under a state law, his name on the 2012 presidential ballot.
WND reported this week when Obama outlined a defense strategy for a number of state-level challenges to his candidacy in 2012 which argue that states have nothing to do with the eligibility of presidential candidates.
"Presidential electors and Congress, not the state of Georgia, hold the constitutional responsibility for determining the qualifications of presidential candidates," Obama's lawyer argued in a motion to quash a subpoena for him to appear at the hearings in Atlanta Jan. 26.
"The election of President Obama by the presidential electors, confirmed by Congress, makes the documents and testimony sought by plaintiff irrelevant," the lawyer said.
Judge Michael M. Malihi, however, took a different view.
"Defendant argues that 'if enforced, [the subpoena] requires him to interrupt duties as president of the United States' to attend a hearing in Atlanta, Georgia. However, defendant fails to provide any legal authority to support his motion to quash the subpoena to attend," he wrote in his order, released today.
"Defendant's motion suggests that no president should be compelled to attend a court hearing. This may be correct. But defendant has failed to enlighten the court with any legal authority," the judge continued.
"Specifically, defendant has failed to cite to any legal authority evidencing why his attendance is 'unreasonable or oppressive, or that the testimony … [is] irrelevant, immaterial, or cumulative and unnecessary to a party's preparation or presentation at the hearing, or that basic fairness dictates that the subpoena should not be enforced.'"
Hearings have been scheduled for three separate complaints raised against Obama's candidacy. They all are raised by Georgia residents who are challenging Obama's name on the 2012 ballot for various reasons, which they are allowed to do under state law.
It is states, usually through the office of secretary of state, that run elections, not the federal government. The national election is simply a compilation of the results of the individual elections within states.
The schedule for the hearings was set by Malihi of the Georgia state Office of State Administrative Hearings. In Georgia, a state law requires "every candidate for federal" office who is certified by the state executive committees of a political party or who files a notice of candidacy "shall meet the constitutional and statutory qualifications for holding the office being sought."
State law also grants the secretary of state and any "elector who is eligible to vote for a candidate" in the state the authority to raise a challenge to a candidate's qualifications, the judge determined.
Three different plaintiffs' groups are lined up for separate hearings, including one represented by California attorney Orly Taitz. She had the judge sign a subpoena for Obama's testimony, and Michael Jablonski, Obama's attorney for the cases, argued that he should be exempted.
"Make no mistake about it. This is the beginning of Watergate Two or ObamaForgeryGate. I believe this is the second time in the U.S. history a sitting president is ordered to comply with a subpoena, and produce documents, which might eventually bring criminal charges to the president and a number of high-ranking individuals," Taitz said.
She told WND that it's been 40 years since any court issued such a ruling concerning a president.
Separately, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Arizona told WND he also had gotten a subpoena to be at the hearings in Georgia. He said the goal apparently is to ask him about his Cold Case Posse investigation of Obama's eligiblity, but he said since the investigation remains open, he wouldn't be able to say much about it.
Citizens bringing the complaints include David Farrar, Leah Lax, Cody Judy, Thomas Malaren and Laurie Roth, represented by Taitz; David Weldon represented by attorney Van R. Irion of Liberty Legal Foundation; and Carl Swensson and Kevin Richard Powell, represented by J. Mark Hatfield.
Hatfield also had filed with the court a "Notice to Produce" asking for Obama's documents and records.
He wants one of the two original certified copies of Obama's long-form birth certificate.
Also, required are medical, religious administrative and other records about Obama's birth; passports, applications and related records; college and university applications; bar association applications and materials; details on the citizenship of Obama's father and other documents.
Taitz had filed an opposition to the motion to quash, taking Obama directly to task over what many consider an important constitutional question – the eligibility of a presidential candidate.
"It is noteworthy, that [the quash request] comes on the heels of his extended 17 day Hawaiian vacation, which cost U.S. taxpayers 4 million dollars. Mr. Obama has earned a dubious distinction as a Vacationer in Chief, Tourist in Chief, Partier in Chief and a Golfer in Chief due to his endless vacations, parties and rounds of golf. Considering … it is not too much to ask for Mr. Obama to show up once at a hearing and present his original identification records, which were not seen by anyone in the country yet," she argued.
Obama's attorney, Jablonski, also had argued that the state should mind its own business.
"The sovereignty of the state of Georgia does not extend beyond the limits of the State. … Since the sovereignty of the state does not extend beyond its territorial limits, an administrative subpoena has no effect," the filing argues.
Taitz's supporters joined a discussion on her website, where she also solicits support for the expenses of the battles she's confronting, judging that Obama is on the defensive.
"What a joke. He claims to be too busy performing the duties of the president of the United States. How many days of vacation has he taken? How many rounds of golf? If he is too busy to provide the documents that provide the basis for meeting the requirements of the office, then perhaps he better sit out the next four years," said one.
Wrote another, "The election of President Obama by the presidential electors, confirmed by Congress, makes the documents and testimony sought by plaintiff irrelevant. … This is complete utter nonsense!"
In fact, a presidential elector in California brought a lawsuit challenging Obama's eligibility at the time of the 2008 election and was told the dispute was not yet ripe because the inauguration hadn't taken place. The courts later ruled that the elector lost his "standing" to bring the lawsuit after the inauguration.
Irion said his argument is that the Founders clearly considered a "natural born citizen," as the Constitution requires of a president and no one else, to be the offspring of two citizen parents. Since Obama himself has written in his books that his father, Barack Obama Sr. was a Kenyan, and thus subject to the jurisdiction of the United Kingdom, Irion argues that Obama is disqualified under any circumstances based on his own testimony.
Those who argue against his birth in the United States note that numerous experts have given testimony and sworn statements that they believe Obama's Hawaiian birth documentation to be fraudulent.
It is that concern that also has prompted Arpaio to turn over an investigation of that issue to his Cold Case Posse. Its investigative report is expected to be released in the next few weeks.
The Georgia hearing apparently will be the first time among dozens of so-far unsuccessful lawsuits brought over Obama's eligibility issue that evidence will be heard in a court. Other cases all have been dismissed over issues such as standing, without a presentation of the evidence.
There are similar challenges to Obama's 2012 candidacy being raised before state election or other commissions in Tennessee, Arizona, Illinois, New Hampshire and other states.
The image released by the White House in April:
Obama long-form birth certificate released April 27 by the White House
Top constitutional expert Herb Titus contends that a "natural born citizen" is born of parents who are citizens. That argument also is supported by a 19th-century U.S. Supreme Court decision, Minor v. Happersett in 1875. The case includes one of very few references in the nation's archives that addresses the definition of "natural-born citizen."
That case states:
The Constitution does not in words say who shall be natural-born citizens. Resort must be had elsewhere to ascertain that. At common law, with the nomenclature of which the framers of the Constitution were familiar, it was never doubted that all children born in a country of parents who were its citizens became themselves, upon their birth, citizens also. These were natives or natural-born citizens, as distinguished from aliens or foreigners.
An extensive analysis of the issue was conducted by Titus, who has taught constitutional law, common law and other subjects for 30 years at five different American Bar Association-approved law schools. He also was the founding dean of the College of Law at Regent University, a trial attorney and special assistant U.S. attorney in the Department of Justice.
"'Natural born citizen' in relation to the office of president, and whether someone is eligible, was in the Constitution from the very beginning," he said. "Another way of putting it; there is a law of the nature of citizenship. If you are a natural born citizen, you are a citizen according to the law of nature, not according to any positive statement in a Constitution or in a statute, but because of the very nature of your birth and the very nature of nations."
If you "go back and look at what the law of nature would be or would require … that's precisely what a natural born citizen is …. is one who is born to a father and mother each of whom is a citizen of the U.S. or whatever other country," he said.
"Now what we've learned from the Hawaii birth certificate is that Mr. Obama's father was not a citizen of the United States. His mother was, but he doesn't qualify as a natural born citizen for the office of president."


Just wondering if non-photo landscape related posts can be posted here? Seeing as I just kind of did that :shock: , I don't want to open a discussion post if it belongs somewhere else.
This would be an appropriate place to discuss landscape photos, with or without a photo to go along.
With a bit of wandering, you'll find such posts in the various divisions. I, myself, just posted a link to an article on photographing cats in the "Stupid Pet Tricks" forum. Doing it this way makes it more likely that the people interested in the subject won't miss either the information or a question.


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Harris/Castro: Progressive 2020 Fantasy League, Part I
They have executive, prosecutorial, legislative and Cabinet experience. But can they win?
Tom Berger
Is this the progressive dream team?
While we all gape aghast at the so-called dumpster fire that our republic has become, many progressives are closing their eyes and wishing with all their might for the arrival of the 2020 election. There are now at least 24 declared candidates for the Democratic nomination. Judging by the rate at which these declarations have been coming, we can expect half of Congress, an overripe banana and a Catskills meth-head to join the race as well. It's a dizzying field rife with familiar names (Biden, Sanders, Booker, Warren), plus upstarts (O'Rourke, Buttigieg), plus comparative strangers (Steve Bullock? Also, why is the creator of A Chorus Line running?).
While all candidates have their pros and cons, many are running for a kind of second place: future Vice-President, future Cabinet Secretary. For this reason, it's a worthwhile exercise to explore potential combinations of likely top-ticket contenders with those perhaps more suited to balancing a ticket. My personal favorite: Sen. Kamala Harris for President and former HUD Secretary Julian Castro as her running mate.
Harris and Castro have compelling personal stories. Harris, a career prosecutor with a keen and dangerously sharp interrogation style, is a California native of Jamaican and Tamil Indian descent. The daughter of a breast cancer scientist and Stanford economics professor, she experienced both a Baptist and Hindi upbringing while growing up primarily in Canada. A member of the California bar for almost 30 years, she quickly rose through the prosecutorial ranks, first becoming the district attorney of San Francisco, then Attorney General of California, then the Senate. She's married with two adult stepchildren.
Julián Castro, a native of San Antonio, Texas, is the son of political activists and twin of Rep. Joaquin Castro, who is heading up his brother's campaign. Active in both sports and academics, he graduated high school early and both Castro brothers headed to Stanford, where they tied for the most votes for seats in the student senate. The brothers then both headed to Harvard Law. Julián Castro then went on to become mayor of San Antonio; he received 82.9% of the vote in his first reelection campaign. In 2012, he became the first person of Latin descent to deliver a keynote to the Democratic National Convention. Fun fact: Castro initially turned down becoming Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President Obama as he was eyeing a run for Texas governor; when he reconsidered, he became the youngest member of Obama's Cabinet. Like Harris, he's also married with two young children.
Beyond their interesting profiles, the more important question is how these two line up on the issues that matter to most Democrats. Both are in lockstep on equality, LGBTQ issues, a woman's right to choose, education, gun control — really, all the Democratic hot-ticket items. I recommend that you visit their websites (hers and his) for more because this column is about what many say matters most of all: electability.
Any analysis of electability must contain a discussion of candidates' inherent advantages and disadvantages. Harris' prosecutorial record, for example, is strong in terms of volume of convictions and plea-bargain rates, and that concerns some progressives. Indeed, some progressives sensitive to optics may not love the image of a woman of color putting so many men of color in prison. I would argue, however, that her record against oil companies and white-collar crime balances this to some extent and, let's be frank, it will win her a lot of support from moderates (if there are any left by 2020). Though she was initially a bit awkward in public interviews, Harris has definitely settled into her campaign persona and comes across as real, warm, likable and tough. Her cross-interrogations of members of the Trump administration and frat-boy-turned-Justice Kavanaugh have significantly boosted her street cred: she's unafraid to tell powerful old white men a bit about themselves.
Castro, on the other hand, faces the challenge of overcoming a public persona that can come off as naïve and idealist. Yet, to his benefit, perhaps we could all do with a little optimism these days. His record as mayor and HUD Secretary is excellent (I suspect he would not mistake an REO for a cookie), and his modest demeanor is balanced by some of his more strident views on the left (universal basic income, universal pre-K and health care). If he's also comfortably in line with most of the party's platform, he could still be a little stronger on environmental concerns and gun control.
So, there is much to like about both candidates and the concerns of extremely liberal progressives are, I would proffer, reasonably modest. This then translates into enormous potential in terms of voter turnout and electoral math. California is solid blue, a progressive island-nation unto itself and its native daughter can count on its 55 electoral votes. Though I don't know if the devil himself could turn Texas blue, the popularity of the Castro brothers could put a significant down payment on earning Texas' 38 electoral votes. In an ode to her dual heritage, maybe Harris could energize both Indian and African Americans to make, as Obama did, unusually strong showings at the polls. As for Castro, if a popular and qualified Latino is on the ticket, then with the new felon voting laws taking effect, Florida could — could — be back squarely in play.
If we're lucky, we could have a scenario in which the interest of three of the bases of the Democratic Party — women, African Americans and Latinos — start soaring. Picture it: Florida, California and maybe even Texas leaning blue. That, my friends, would be the election. And we have multiple scenarios: Pennsylvania is currently none too happy with the President. Ohio may be lost for good and Illinois will come down blue, but the effects of trade war with China might demolish any of the lingering Republican support in Michigan and Wisconsin (believe me about the latter — I live there).
Harris and Castro bring executive, prosecutorial, legislative and Cabinet experience. They are young, articulate, smart, handsome and sincere, and offer a gorgeous combination of backgrounds and experience.
Next time, join me for Warren-Buttigieg. (Anyone want to start a fantasy league?)
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Local Judges Consider Vaccination Mandates In Probation Decisions
From rural Georgia to cities in Ohio, judges are offering reductions, changes in probation terms and other incentives in exchange for vaccinations.
John Minchillo / AP
Article by Jamal Andress
From rural Georgia to the cities of Ohio, judges are offering reductions, changes in probation terms and other incentives in exchange for vaccinations.
"Because I won't take a shot they can send me to jail," Brandon Rutherford said. "I don't agree with it."
Rutherford was told by Cincinnati Judge Christopher Wagner that he had 60 days to get vaccinated or risk being sent to prison.
"I'm just a judge, not a doctor," he said in court. "But I think the vaccine's a lot safer than fentanyl, which is what you had in your pocket."
And Wagner isn't the only one. Columbus, Ohio Judge Richard Frye issued vaccination requirements to three defendants back in June.
In a statement to Newsy, Judge Frye echoed a similar sentiment, saying, "Based upon all the publicly available medical evidence, vaccination would keep them safer."
Judges in other states have made similar offers. And while there hasn't been any formal legal challenges to these orders, legal experts caution if they continue, there could be.
"It's true that judges have a great deal of leeway in deciding conditions for probation, said David Carey, the legal director for the ACLU in Ohio. "At the same time … There is nothing that is more carefully protected in our system of constitutional law, than a person's right to control their own body."
Two weeks ago, Ohio experienced its biggest one-day jump in COVID cases since February and less than 50% of the population is fully vaccinated.
Nationwide, more than 90% of U.S. counties have substantial or high levels of COVID-19 transmission.
And since the pandemic began, America's incarcerated population are among the hardest hit. According to the Marshall Project, 1 in 5 US prisoners has tested positive for COVID-19.
"While I personally may believe that it's a good idea for people to get vaccinated, it's a much greater step to then have a court order with the power of incarceration that someone get vaccinated," said Carey.
Sharona Hoffman, the co-Director of the Case Western Reserve University Law-Medicine Center, says bringing mandates to criminal justice system is very different from mandating vaccines at your place of business.
"If your employer asks you to get a vaccine, you can always quit your job and go find other employment or decide to take a break," she said. "In the criminal justice system, it's different."
Judge Frye in Columbus, Ohio also told Newsy while most of the defendants he's seen still say they remain unvaccinated, he "has not formally ordered vaccinations beyond the three in June."
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