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West York officer facing new charges

Suspended West York officer facing new charge in Lancaster County

Suspended West York officer facing new charge in Lancaster County

By TED CZECH
Daily Record/Sunday News

Bridgette Wilson (Submitted)
York, PA -
A West York Borough Police officer on unpaid suspension for allegedly making an illegal recording now faces a charge of receiving stolen property in Lancaster County, according to Manor Township Police Department.

Manor Township Police seized a walkie-talkie and "other police related items" belonging to the Susquehanna Township Police Department inside the home of Bridgette Wilson, 40, of Mountville, according to a news release the department issued Sunday.

Wilson worked as an officer for Susquehanna Township Police but left the department in December 2007, according to the news release.

Manor Township Police Sgt. James Alexander said Sunday he found out about the items on March 4 when West York Police executed a search warrant at Wilson's home. West York Police were looking for a recording Wilson had illegally made of a conversation she had with her domestic partner, according to charging documents.

When West York police searched Wilson's home, they did not find the recording, but they did see the walkie-talkie and the other items, Alexander said. Because they were not items for which West York police were looking, they called Manor Township Police.

Alexander called Susquehanna Township Police and was told "that Wilson was not to be in possession of this property," according to the news release.

Alexander obtained his own search warrant so he could seize the items, he said.

In York County, Wilson has been charged

with interception, disclosure or use of wire, electronic or oral communication. According to charging documents, Wilson met Jan. 5 with West York Acting Chief Justin Seibel and played an audio recording of a conversation she had with her domestic partner in December.

After he heard the taped conversation, Seibel asked Wilson to put the recording in "a safe place," court documents state. He then called Wilson's partner, who said she did not know about the recording or authorize Wilson to record the conversation.

Seibel described the conversation as something that occurred off-duty but said Wilson played the recording for him in department headquarters after having just finished her shift, Seibel said.

Wilson filed a grievance over her suspension without pay to the West York Borough Council, who voted unanimously to uphold the decision.

Wilson has a preliminary hearing on the York County charge scheduled for April 25 before District Judge Walter R. Groom.
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Teacher suspected of fatally beating boy

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Teacher suspected of fatally beating boy

Malaysian police say they are investigating an Islamic school teacher on suspicion of beating to death a seven-year-old student accused of stealing seven ringgit ($2.20).

A police chief in northern Perlis state said Saiful Syazani Saiful Sopfidee died in hospital on Sunday of injuries sustained during Thursday's beating at the private school.

The student was allegedly tied to a window, beaten and strangled.

Mohamad Nadzri Hussain said the student's 26-year-old teacher was being investigated over the death.

Mohamad Nadzri said today that the teacher had repeatedly accused the student of stealing.

AP
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Lindsey Graham Killing First Amendment

Lindsey Graham Advocates Killing the First Amendment

In response to the idiotic and pointless burning of the Koran by a Florida pastor and the deadly riots that followed in Afghanistan, Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina has proposed limiting the First Amendment.

“I wish we could find a way to hold people accountable. Free speech is a great idea, but we’re in a war,” Graham told CBS’ Bob Schieffer on Sunday.

Graham mentioned government censorship of the First Amendment during the Second World War. FDR signed Executive Order 8985 in December of 1941 and established the Office of Censorship. The order gave a legion of bureaucrats “absolute discretion” over the exercise of the First Amendment and the free speech of all Americans.

In the years following FDR’s decree, the government attempted to squelch free speech a number of times for political reasons, most notably in regard to the Pentagon Papers. During Bush Senior’s invasion of Iraq in 1991, the Pentagon revisited wartime censorship and prevented journalists from independently reporting the news. Bush and Reagan tightly controlled the flow of information during the invasions of Panama and Grenada.

In 2004, then vice president Dick Cheney outlined what Americans should expect henceforth – a war against shadowy enemies that will last generations.

President Bush went so far as to tell NBC’s Matt Lauer it was possible the war could never be won, while Democrat John Kerry said terror would probably never be done away with, but that it might be reduced to a “nuisance.”

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Former CIA: blows lid off Libya fraud

Former CIA officer blows lid off Libya fraud live

Every once in a while, establishment control of the mainstream media cracks for a moment. In an effort to achieve higher ratings, mainstream news programs will invite guests on that promise to be “interesting”, but then they will say something that is not part of the script and the entire system will go into a state of chaos for a moment. One example of this happened recently when two CNN “infobabes” interviewed former CIA officer Michael Scheuer about the situation on the ground in Libya. They asked Scheuer some questions regarding the role of the CIA in Libya, but the interview rapidly moved in some directions that the “infobabes” were not anticipating. Instead of sticking to the “Republican” or the “Democrat” script, Scheuer ripped both parties and he detailed many of the reasons why we should have never gone into Libya at all.

The “infobabes” grew increasingly uncomfortable as Scheuer described how large numbers of the resistance fighters in Libya have fought against U.S. troops in the Balkans, in Afghanistan and in Iraq. They did not seem pleased at all when Scheuer declared that the civil war in Libya is “none of our business” and that to the rest of the world this conflict looks like “Americans killing Muslims for oil” all over again.

The funniest part of the interview was when Scheuer accused one of the “infobabes” of “carrying the water for Mr. Obama”. After that statement, the female anchor that Scheuer was addressing was visibly flustered and quickly went to a commercial.

Video of this CNN interview with Michael Scheuer is posted below. This is a video that should be shared with everyone you know….

When a big time establishment news network such as CNN goes “off script” it can be a beautiful thing to watch.

Of course Scheuer was exactly right. We never should have gotten involved in the civil war in Libya. It was none of our business. When the rebels picked up arms and started shooting at government forces, they should not have been surprised when Gadhafi’s forces started shooting back.

Over the past few decades, there have been some very real genocides happening all over Africa, but the U.S. never seemed to care about any of those.

But now the mainstream media has been trying really hard to spin the civil war in Libya into a “great humanitarian crisis”.

Well, that might fool some of the American people, but as Scheuer aptly pointed out, the rest of the world sees this as just another U.S. war in the Middle East for oil (and banking).

But instead of getting a balanced view of the war in Libya, most of the time the corporate media has focused on an endless parade of establishment Republicans and establishment Democrats that fully endorse the war. Of course the Republicans all try to score some political points by questioning how Obama is going about doing things, but in the end most Republicans and most Democrats are fully on board with what is going on in Libya.

Nearly everyone in the mainstream media seems to be fully on board with this war as well.

Why?

Well, because virtually all of the major media outlets are owned by the establishment, and the establishment wants this war.

Have you ever noticed that the news seems to have the same “flavor” no matter what channel you turn to?

There is a very good reason for that.

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House Republicans: Privatize Medicare

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House Republicans’ Official Proposal: Privatize Medicare

TPM

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If anything will make it easier for House conservatives to back off on shutting down the government this week, it's the prospect of a different, and much larger fight over the federally funded social safety net. House Republicans are preparing to introduce a 10-year budget Tuesday that will eliminate Medicare and replace it with a private insurance system that closely resembles the new health care law, and end Medicaid as an entitlement program all together.

This plan, which also will include major restructuring of the tax code and cap discretionary spending, will reduce the deficit by over $4 trillion in 10 years, according to House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan.

Here's what this means if you're elderly, disabled, or poor.

Low-income Medicaid beneficiaries will lose their guaranteed benefits altogether. Currently, Medicaid is jointly financed by the federal government and states, which are required to provide comprehensive health care benefits to people in poverty. Ryan's plan turns the program into block grants for the states — states get a bunch of cash from the feds and have to make the best of it. For many states, that will mean severe benefit rollbacks.

Seniors, and others on Medicare, would be in a slightly different predicament. Currently seniors 65 and over are guaranteed a defined benefit program: taxpayers finance the system, and the government agrees to pay for seniors' health care services (though seniors have to pitch in too). Ryan's plan would leave that system intact for anybody currently on Medicare, or expecting to be on Medicare within 10 years. For everyone else the program would be radically overhauled. Future beneficiaries would no longer have a single payer system to rely on. Rather, they'd be given a menu of private insurance plans to pick from, and subsidies to help pay their premiums. If those premiums skyrocket, that's on them. If the insurers themselves aren't required to pay for whatever the doctor orders, then the guaranteed benefits will erode.

Recently Princeton economist Uwe Reinhardt — a respected health care expert — described the plan this way: "Under the defined contribution approach envisaged by the Rivlin-Ryan plan, most of the risk of future health-care cost increases would be shifted onto the shoulders of Medicare beneficiaries. This feature makes the proposal radical."

But it's structured an awful lot like the new health care law, which means the GOP's position on health care is about to become Obamacare for seniors, but not for anybody else.

That's where the fight over this budget, and indeed the 2012 elections will be fought. Ryan's plan will also propose tax reforms that lower corporate and upper-income tax rates, while eliminating certain loopholes. The details of that part of his plan are unclear, but if they adhere to his Roadmap for America's Future, the GOP budget will propose to overhaul the tax code in a way that reduces the burden on the wealthy and increases it on the poor and middle classes.
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