Sunday, January 27, 2013
Be Ready, Be Warned: Gun Registration Is Coming
WND – by Patrice Lewis
“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.” – Unknown
In the spirit of never letting a crisis go to waste, President Obama recently issued 23 new executive orders on the subject of gun control in the wake of the Sandy Hook shootings. “Liberals have an uncanny knack for designing solutions that do not address the problem at hand,” noted David Limbaugh. And as William S. Burrough famously said, “After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.”
Controlling firearms, you see, is deemed necessary by progressives to achieve some sort of nebulous theoretical bucolic pacifistic utopia that has literally never occurred on the face of the earth. Their actions prove they’re attempting to take the closest approximation of that utopia that has ever existed (America) and replacing it with their simplistic notions of what Americashould be (by violating every principle in the Bill of Rights, which they’ve never like anyway).
Obama’s executive orders lay the groundwork for the next inevitable step toward that mythical utopian fantasy: a national registry system for all firearms (H.R. 34, H.R. 117). Gun registration, they argue, is necessary because we have to know what kind of unstable people might possess firearms and thus become the next Adam Lanza.
So let’s engage in a mental exercise and pretend the government has already passed an edict requiring all guns to be registered, no exceptions. Naturally this is done in the name of public safety – “for the children,” if you will.
OK, so now all guns are registered. Now what? What has that achieved? How would registration change anything? How would it make gun-free zones like schools any safer?
Answer: It won’t. Think about it. Gun registration contributes nothing toward a safer society. Nothing. There is no value in registration unless you intend to do something with it.
In his sobering 2003 essay, Robert A. Waters briefly relates the history of gun control in England and concludes with these eerie words: “When the Dunblane Inquiry ended [in 1997], citizens who owned handguns were given three months to turn them over to local authorities. Being good British subjects, most people obeyed the law. The few who didn’t were visited by police and threatened with ten-year prison sentences if they didn’t comply. Police later bragged that they’d taken nearly 200,000 handguns from private citizens. How did the authorities know who had handguns? The guns had been registered and licensed. Kinda like cars.” [Emphasis added.]
This, folks, is the inevitable path gun confiscation follows. Register guns, and confiscation is the logical next step. Ah – but confiscation will only happen among the law-abiding, because criminals will never register their firearms in the first place. So where does that leave moms trying to protect their children from intruders? Dead. Because make no mistake: home invasions and other violent crimes invariably skyrocket when firearms are removed from the hands of citizens.
Our federal government is setting up the framework for our total disarmament. Oh not right away, of course. There’s still too much opposition by people who know their history and their rights. But over the next 10 or 20 years, federally funded public schools will continue to brainwash children about the evils of gun ownership. These children will grow up ignorant of their heritage and will be taught to despise their parents and grandparents, who know precisely why the Second Amendment is so important. Within a generation or two, our nation will be as emasculated as England is now – a place where violent crime has gone through the roof, people are locked away for defending themselves from thugs and where even knives are being banned.
And then the door will be opened for the rest of our rights to be dismantled. It’s well-known and well-documented that gun control doesn’t control crime. Why, then, is the government eager to control guns if it knows crime will escalate as a result? Easy. The government doesn’t give a rip for crime control. It wants citizen control. Remember, once we lose the Second Amendment, the rest of the Bill of Rights is meaningless. We the People will have no means to protect it.
When the progressives cheer additional gun-control measures, such as limiting magazine size, they argue that no one needs magazines holding more than 10 rounds for home defense or for hunting. But that argument (right or wrong) totally and entirely misses the point of the Second Amendment. Do you honestly think deer hunting or home invasions were on the minds of the Founding Fathers when they composed the Second Amendment? Or perhaps – just perhaps – fresh from the hideous tyranny of George III, they wanted to make sure their infant nation would never face a similarly abusive government? These men knew that the people of America had a natural right to arm themselves with whatever powerful firearms were necessary to ensure a home-grown tyrant never arose on our soil.
Believe me, when the Department of Homeland Security buys up 1.5 billion rounds of hollow-point ammunition, citizens need something a little better than a steak knife for defense. If our government ever decides to move en masse against innocent citizens, it must know there will be a rifle behind every blade of grass.
Did you know that worldwide, the leading cause of unnatural human death is government? Democide is defined as “the murder of any person or people by a government, including genocide, politicide and mass murder. Democide is not necessarily the elimination of entire cultural groups but rather groups within the country that the government feels need to be eradicated for political reasons and due to claimed future threats” (emphasis added).
The only purpose of gun registration is to let the government know who has guns – so they can be taken away. Remember that. Gun confiscation is historically followed by democide against the disarmed; this is an undeniable historical fact.
I applaud the recent massive attendance of every gun show in the nation, which is putting millions of firearms into the hands of decent law-abiding people. It demonstrates that American citizens are intelligent enough to know that the government is taking advantage of a crisis to increase its tyrannical and unconstitutional powers.
Gun registration: It’s coming. Be warned. Be ready.
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Be Ready, Be Warned: Gun Registration Is Coming
Dianne Feinstein Involved in Conspiracy of Illegal Government Contracts, Israel Propaganda Tool, Poor Representation of California Citizens
IndyBay California – by Forest Glen Durland, Peter Byrne And Others, published Dec 2nd, 2011
Time for the 79 year old insider trader, China connected traitor, hawkish Dianne Feinstein who funneled over 1 billion in military contracts illegally to her husband Richard Blum to resign. She and her husband with Barbara Boxer’s help sold San Diego ports to Cosco. Her husband was part of the pressure network which caused police to bust up Occupy in Oakland and San Francisco.
Many of the older links in this article were compiled by Forest Glen Durland.
The record of insider trader war profiteer and hawkish traitor Dianne Feinstein.
1. Dianne Feinstein has funneled over 1 billion in contracts to her husband Richard Blum’s URS … just one of his companies to which she has funneled money stolen from the people of America. She has also with our money helped him profiteer from bankster foreclosures. http://www.metroactive.com/feinstein/
She was forced to resign from the military construction appropriations subcommittee because of her criminal acts but is still head of the intelligence committee! though she deliberately falsified intelligence and voted, unlike most Democrats, to give the unelected Bush authority to rain fire and death on Iraq. http://news.aol.com/elections-blog/2007/03/30/senator-feinstein-resigns-from-committee/
2. She was a tool of the Israeli government in claiming falsely in 2002 that Saddam Hussein had nuclear weapons. http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/5764
3. She opposes assault weapons in the US while voting for 30 billion dollars a year for assault weapons, fighter jets, and other armsmongering for the fraudulently installed Netanyahu government. Her husband Richard Blum was involved in Cosco’s gun running in San Diego. Her husband’s investment in Chinese shipping is one of many factors in the failure of the US government to inspect more than 5% of incoming crates. WalMart is the US’ biggest importer of uninspected Chinese goods.
4. As chair of Senate intelligence committee while Carl Levin is the chair of the Senate armed services committee how can she objectively monitor the Mossad infiltrated CIA?
5. She lost 2 mayoral elections and only the murder of Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone by the troubled (or mind controlled) Dan White (who had frequent contact with the SF police department) and her appointment to office started her career. http://www.mindcontrolforums.com/hambone/mcveigh.html
6. Her husband’s role as past chairman and present member of the Univ of Calif. Board of Overseers has helped make that state the most aggressive denier of the 1st amendment for peaceful protesters against UC vivisection. Blum was active in lobbying for AETA and pressuring for its unconstitutional enforcement.
7. Feinstein has many times violated the sovereign will of the people of California, ignoring their overwhelming support for immediate withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan.
8. Several times California fires have burned out of control while the state guard’s firefighters have been requisitioned for Iraq and Afghanistan where they help to cause fires.
9. California bridges are in terrible shape while money to repair them has instead been spent to bomb bridges in Baghdad and Afghanistan.
10. California animals are worse off. After 6000 Chino cows suffocated in mud, film of their torture was captured as they were poked with poles in udders, face, stomach, kicked, beaten, downer cows forklifted into fences. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTZTCNnrUNY
11. Her husband Blum has an antilabor record. He raided the pension fund of S. Calif. carpenters’ union.. of 90 million dollars, 7.8 million in 1997 alone… for ‘investment consultant’ fees. Newt Gingrich rivals him in fleecing others. http://members.tripod.com/unionplainfacts/documents/news/8-1-01/tutor.htmUnion
12. [b]Members Lost 90 Million as Richard Blum Managed Pension Fund [/b]
http://members.tripod.com/unionplainfacts/documents/archivespage/blumsues.htm
13. The government’s investigations of the Feinstein/Blum corrupt connections to Chinese
money have only partially been investigated.
http://members.tripod.com/unionplainfacts/documents/archivespage/china.htm
Like those of Mitt Romney, Henry Kissinger, Henry Paulson, Warren Buffett and Rupert Murdoch, Feinstein’s Chinese money connections are in conflict with the interests of the people of the US and in conflict with the role of an intelligence chairman. http://members.tripod.com/unionplainfacts/documents/archivespage/china.htm
14. In 1994, Feinstein ignored human rights issues in China and led the effort to renew most-favored-nation trade status for China at a time when her husband was preparing to invest $150 million of his clients’ money, along with $2 million to $3 million of his own, in China.
15. Feinstein has been silent about the 911 Israeli govt’s role in the WTC plot.
16. Feinstein pushed for the leasing of a S California naval base to a Chinese company Cosco with which her husband has financial ties. http://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/13/us/senators-ask-for-inquiry-on-leasing-of-california-base-to-chinese.html
Read more at Indybay.org
Dianne Feinstein Involved in Conspiracy of Illegal Government Contracts, Israel Propaganda Tool, Poor Representation of California Citizens
Man Writes 4th Amendment on Chest and Illegally Detained
A Virginia man who wrote an abbreviated version of the Fourth Amendment on his body and stripped to his shorts at an airport security screening area won a trial Friday in his lawsuit seeking $250,000 in damages for being detained on a disorderly conduct charge.
Here, Mr. Tobey engaged in a silent, peaceful protest using the text of our Constitution—he was well within the ambit of First Amendment protections. And while it is tempting to hold that First Amendment rights should acquiesce to national security in this instance, our Forefather Benjamin Franklin warned against such a temptation by opining that those ‘who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.’ We take heed of his warning and are therefore unwilling to relinquish our First Amendment protections—even in an airport.
Had this protest been launched somewhere other than in the security-screening area, we would have a much different case. But Tobey’s antics diverted defendants from their passenger-screening duties for a period, a diversion that nefarious actors could have exploited to dangerous effect. Defendants responded as any passenger would hope they would, summoning local law enforcement to remove Tobey—and the distraction he was creating — from the scene.
Man Writes 4th Amendment on Chest and Illegally Detained
Department of Defense is Monitoring "Sandy Hook Shooting" Bloggers
Each of us knows that various governments have spared little expense in recent years doing their best to monitor the activities of social media and the ever expanding sphere of personal blogging.
It would appear that we, here at Insane Media, have had our first taste of this monitoring in our short life.
I was doing my regular weblog checks, when I stumbled across a very interesting ISP, we had a visit from an IP that belongs to the DoD Network Information Center. They visited our Sandy Hook Dawn Hochsprung Cache Evidence article.
IP address
11.83.3.1
Organization for management
DoD Intel Information Systems
Updated date
1993-5
Status
LEGACY
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NetRange: 11.0.0.0 – 11.255.255.255
CIDR: 11.0.0.0 / 8
OriginAS:
NetName: DODIIS
NetHandle: NET-11-0-0-0-1
Parent:
NetType: Direct Allocation
RegDate:1984-01-19
Updated:2007-08-22
Ref: http://whois.arin.net/rest/net/NET-11-0-0-0-1
OrgName: DoD Network Information Center
OrgId: DNIC
Address: 3990 E. Broad Street
City: Columbus
StateProv: OH
PostalCode: 43218
Country: US
RegDate:
Updated: 2011-08-17
Ref: http://whois.arin.net/rest/org/DNIC
OrgTechHandle: REGIS10-ARIN
OrgTechName: Registration
OrgTechPhone: +1-800-365-3642
OrgTechEmail: registra@nic.mil
OrgTechRef: http://whois.arin.net/rest/poc/REGIS10-ARIN
OrgTechHandle: MIL-HSTMST-ARIN
OrgTechName: Network DoD
OrgTechPhone: +1-800-365-3642
OrgTechEmail: HOSTMASTER@nic.mil
OrgTechRef: http://whois.arin.net/rest/poc/MIL-HSTMST-ARIN
OrgAbuseHandle: REGIS10-ARIN
OrgAbuseName: Registration
OrgAbusePhone: +1-800-365-3642
OrgAbuseEmail: registra@nic.mil
OrgAbuseRef: http://whois.arin.net/rest/poc/REGIS10-ARIN
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# ARIN WHOIS data and services are subject to the Terms of Use
# Available at: https://www.arin.net/whois_tou.html
A rather basic internet search turned up the following organizations all sharing the same address:
3990 E BROAD ST, BLDG 21
COLUMBUS, OH 43213-1152
(800) 756-4571
www.defense.gov
DEFENSE FINANCE & ACCOUNTING SERVICE
Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS) take pride in serving the men and women who defend America. We take our contribution to national defense seriously.
Also at this address…
Missile Defense Agency
We are looking for both technical and administrative men and women to help develop the most advanced defensive arsenal in history. We have a full range of jobs for everyone from experienced career professionals and recent college graduates to student interns.
And also at this address…
Defense Supply Center Columbus
Our Mission
To provide best value logistics and contract
management support to America’s Armed
Forces, in peace and war… around the clock,
around the world.
Our Vision
Right Item, Right Time, Right Place,
Right Price.
Every Time … Best Value Solutions for
America’s Warfighters.
Also..
Defense Information Systems Agency
DISA is a Combat Support Agency comprised of 16,000 people – military, federal civilian, and our contractor partners. We connect the enterprise – the forces, users, and partners globally, from user to user – where information is produced and consumed at speeds and in quantities never before imagined. Together with our partners, we provide the network, computing infrastructure, and enterprise services to support information sharing and decision making no matter where the information is located or sourced. We facilitate use of real time intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance information to enable information exchange between the producer and the shooter.
The Network Name is DODIIS – Department of Defense, Intelligence Information System:
The Department of Defense (DOD) Intelligence Information System (DODIIS) defines the standards for intelligence systems and applications interoperability. The DODIIS provides, within limits, an integrated strategic to tactical user environment for performing identical intelligence functions on compatible systems. This DIA managed program incorporates the DISN secure networks under a single architecture. The system’s primary components include the SECRET Internet Protocol Router Network (SIPRNET), the JWICS, and the JDISS.
In addition, the information system will support “views” into a global data model. Analysts (and applications) will be able to specify relevant subsets of the total data available. Imagery analysts could, for example, use a predefined “Imagery Data” view. The analyst could also specify data categories for a tailored view composed of a combination of imagery, relevant free-text messages, broadcast television news reports, and maps.
And…
US Army Recruiting Battalion Headquarters Columbus
The Columbus Recruiting Battalion headquarters is located in Columbus, Ohio in the heart of the central Ohio. Recruiting companies are situated in Ohio, West Virginia, and northern Kentucky. Headquarters is bordered by Lake Erie to the north, Indiana to the west, Pennsylvania to the east and Kentucky/West Virginia to the south.
Now that we have firmly determined the residents of the address associated with the IP address that visited our site, now might be a good time to ask, what part(s) of the site did they visit, and why?
Their visit focused on the contents of our investigation into the curious statement to press by the late Dawn Lafferty Hochsprung the principal ofSandy Hook Elementary School on the day of the tragic events in Newtown.
Details of that story may be found here.
What was it about this particular story that caught the attention of the DoD?
I checked my Peer Block firewall and once I went to the DoD website, there was quite some activity, packet after packet:
From other blogs I collected the following information:
..it is pretty disturbing to think the Department of Defense would feel empowered to spy on Americans in this way, as this scheme can’t help but do. Doing a little Googling on this particular institution returns a few more disturbing stories. This same center is apparently guilty of hacking into Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook account, according to the Christian Science Monitor.
The Obama Hustle: Big Brother Obama Is Spying on Bloggers
Government wants ISP’s to Spy on you
The Department of Justice, voted in committee to advance regulations requiring Internet service providers to retain your account information. This information preserved would include not just your IP address, but customers’ names, addresses, phone numbers, credit card numbers and bank account numbers as well.
While we are deeply flattered to be receiving attention from such noteworthy orgs at such an early stage of our development we did think it best to share this information.
The Dawn Hochsprung article was my first attempt at writing for Insane Media. I was hopeful it would be seen to contain well researched and thought provoking information. Well, I guess, if It’s good enough for the Department of Defense that’s good enough for me.
-swansong-
Kennedy Ray
About the Author
-swansong- Is just a guy…sick of the lies. A guy who is sick of the constant manipulating, spinning, massaging, altering, sensationalizing and outright bastardizing of the news. There’s a reason they’re called the “public” airwaves. They belong to us…and it’s time we took them back.
http://www.insanemedia.net/sandy-hook-shooting-dod-department-of-defense-monitors-bloggers/979
Department of Defense is Monitoring "Sandy Hook Shooting" Bloggers
Communist Party Protests At Mall For Removal of 2nd Amendment and Gun Control
The communists began their new campaign for gun confiscation yesterday, assembling at the Washington Mall for a silent march down Constitution Avenue. How ironic. Of course this so called protest was sanctioned by the soviet insurgent government. No billy clubs and tear gas for these traitors and only positive coverage in the mainstream propaganda machine.
Imagine a march centered on a desire to diminish our 2nd Amendment. The United States is a Republic and our people’s Bill of Rights absolutely cannot be altered by anyone within any of the three branches of government, as our Bill of Rights represents our power as individuals. Our rights are inalienable and hence the power they represent is absolute without exception or infringement.
The communists who showed up at the Washington Mall detest our form of government as it forbids our individual power being compounded through collectivism, as in my right, his right, her right outweighs your right twice over. Not one, not two, not a thousand, or a million can remove the right of the individual through a majority consent. In short, the one has absolute equal right to the all within our law.
The only way a right guaranteed under our Bill of Rights can be diminished in any way is through diminished exercise thereof by the individual. Any American national is absolutely free not to exercise a right but they can in no way dictate that another individual do the same, not as one or as a million.
Our rights are our individual possession and no others. They cannot be amended through legislation or executive order, as no branch of government can even approach such assertion without causing an infringement, which is absolutely forbidden by our Bill of Rights itself, within its embodiment, within the individual as a self governing entity.
The communists who came out to march at the Washington Mall yesterday are guilty of attempting to incite insurrection and constructive treason against our Republic by definition of our law. Every one of them should be charged, convicted, made to serve hard time, and then deported.
Our founding fathers and I do not mean the aristocrats but rather those who fought and died to establish our country, have commanded us, through our Bill of Rights and the established fact that our rights are inalienable, to defy this soviet socialist insurgency through the assertion of our rights for the removing of all infringements.
We as individuals must institute total resistance to tyranny until our enemy is vanquished.
God bless the Republic, death to the international corporate mafia, we shall prevail.
- From The Trenches World Report
Communist Party Protests At Mall For Removal of 2nd Amendment and Gun Control
Criminals Everywhere Are Linking Up at Police Stations To Register Guns!
Across the United States, in cities like Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Washington D.C., gang members, career criminals, and assorted punks are heading to their local police departments to register their guns. Citing recent pleas from US government officials and politicians, and the awareness of the recent shooting in Newtown, CT, scores of tatted men and women are filling out registration forms to do their part in the movement for better gun control.
Long lines have been forming resulting in a backlog of data entry in a number of precincts around the country. Sgt. Fred Cocozza remarked, “I had no idea what to expect when I saw the line of people in front of the station. At first I thought there had been a round up from a recent sting operation, until I noticed they were all still holding their guns.” Various departments are excited after spending hundreds of dollars on recent buy back programs. ”This is going to save our department a lot of money that would have been paid to gun owners turning in their guns.” Sgt. Cocozza continued, “This will allow us to spend the funds elsewhere and triple our taser supply.”
“It’s the right thing to do, bro.” said Wonder Dog, a member of Reck It Nation. ”We be all about dat Feinstein bitch ‘n what she be layin’ down. Check it out, da bangers need to answer up, so when dey bust a cap wid their burners da man’ll knowd we ain’t really no opposites. When we be strapped wid our Trey 8′s we be knowin’ dat da road dogs gotta put it in check. Word.”
Mrs. Edith Morgenstern in Chicago stated, “I came down to snitch on my neighbor, and saw the line of people. I was pretty nervous at first, but then I realized that I had no need to worry. This was helping America be safer.”
Mr. Herbert Handslip said, “I am so relieved. After the recent burglary at my house which resulted in my wife being shot and put in a coma, I was upset. I now know that if it happens again, at least the perp’s gun will be legally registered. If my wife ever wakes up, I’ll tell her. I know she will be happy, too.”
The media reports that their efforts to promote better gun control have made a difference. A New York reporter stated, “It is very gratifying to know that good journalism results in a better educated populous and can change people’s lives, even save them.”
No word has been reported yet from President Obama, or Anderson Cooper on the rush of criminals and gang members to register their firearms that has been seen across the nation. CNN commentator, Piers Morgan however was rumored to say, “Blimey, I think I’ll stay in this wonderful country after all. God bless America!” An email was received from an anonymous source purporting that “alternative news” mouthpiece, Alex Jones, choked on his bullhorn.
The most heart rendering comment was overheard when Los Angeles gang member El Rey Mierda said, “Sometimes, we just gotta flip. Now, when we G-down for da game, ‘n jump out to holding down ‘n start a mission, or get some hard candy, we won’t need to bring in da enforcer to git da homies ‘n put ‘em in check. I knowd dis will hep da Pee Wees git waz up. Now, I gotta go git me a toss up. Everything is everything. Peace out.”
Criminals Everywhere Are Linking Up at Police Stations To Register Guns!
Court Rules The Police Didn"t Have to Protect Someone Who Was Doing Their Job
The NY Post reported on an interesting story.
A man that had gotten involved in the defense of innocent lives and subduing a madman that had a knife, didn’t need police protection, so the court ruled.
They want to take away our guns and now the police don’t have to protect us? Figured this would be next…
Here is the story…
He says he put his life on the line to stop a killer — and claims cops sat back and watched.
But city lawyers are arguing that the police had no legal duty to protect Joseph Lozito, the Long Island dad stabbed seven times trying to subdue madman Maksim Gelman — a courtroom maneuver the subway hero calls “disgraceful.”
A judge is currently deciding whether Lozito, who sued the city last year for failing to prevent the attack, will get his day in court.
The drug-fueled Gelman had fatally stabbed four people in Brooklyn during a 28-hour rampage when he entered an uptown No. 3 train on Feb. 12, 2011.
GOT HIM! Officer Terrance Howell escorts murder-spree maniac Maksim Gelman from Brooklyn’s 61st Precinct.Police officers Terrance Howell and Tamara Taylor were part of a massive NYPD manhunt. They were in the operator’s cab, watching the tracks between Penn Station and 42nd Street for any sign of the fugitive. Lozito was seated next to the cab.
In the official NYPD account and Howell’s own affidavit, Howell heroically tackled and subdued the killer. But Lozito tells a different story.
The 42-year-old mixed-martial-arts fan says he watched Gelman approach the cab window, barking: “Let me in!” Gelman even claimed to be a cop, but a dismissive Howell turned away, he says.
Gelman walked off. A straphanger recognizing Gelman tried to alert the cops, but was also rebuffed. A minute later, Gelman returned and set his sights on the 6-foot-2, 270-pound Lozito.
“You’re going to die,” Gelman announced — then stabbed him in the face.
Lozito leapt from his seat and lunged at the 23-year-old Gelman as the psycho sliced at him.
“Most of my wounds are in the back of my head,” Lozito said. “He got to the back of my head because my left shoulder [was] in his waist.”
In his account, Lozito pinned Gelman to the floor, disarming him. Howell then emerged from the booth, tapping Lozito’s shoulder: “You can get up now,” he said.
“By the time he got there, the dirty work was already done,” Lozito said.
Gelman was convicted in the spree — which left his girlfriend, her mother, his stepfather and a pedestrian dead, and five others injured.
Lozito says a grand-jury member later told him Howell admitted on the stand that he hid during the attack because he thought Gelman had a gun.
An angry Lozito decided to sue the city for negligence, arguing the cops should have recognized Gelman and prevented, or reacted more quickly to, the assault.
The city routinely settles such litigation but is playing hardball with Lozito, insisting his demand for unspecified money damages be tossed because the police had no “special duty” to protect him or any individual on the train that day.
Experts say it’s a long-standing legal precedent requiring police to put the public safety of all ahead of any one individual’s rights.
Lozito says his case is different.
“If the cop is on the train, and I get robbed by a stranger, of course, the cop can’t be clairvoyant,” Lozito told The Post. “But when they’re looking for Maksim Gelman, and Maksim Gelman bangs on the door and says, ‘Let me in, I’m a cop’ and all you say is: ‘No, you’re not?’ ”
1. Joseph Lozito enters the uptown No. 3 train, sitting behind the train operator. Officers Terrance Howell and Tamara Taylor enter the operator’s booth; a few minutes later, the train slowly pulls out of Penn Station.
2. Maksim Gelman walks up to the booth and says: “Let me in!” Howell allegedly dismisses him and Gelman walks away.
3. Minutes later, Gelman walks back up to the booth, looks at Lozito, says “You’re going to die,” and stabs him.
4. Lozito fights back, getting seven stab wounds during the 60-second struggle with Gelman, eventually pinning him and knocking the knife away.
5. Howell allegedly emerges from the booth, taps Lozito on the shoulder and says: “You can get up now.”
Court Rules The Police Didn"t Have to Protect Someone Who Was Doing Their Job
Saturday, January 26, 2013
Femen Protests The World Economic Forum
DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — Three women angry over sexism and male domination of the world economy ripped off their shirts and tried to force their way into a gathering of corporate elites in a Swiss resort.
Predictably, they failed. The ubiquitous and huge security force policing the World Economic Forum in Davos carried the women away, kicking and screaming.
The women, from Ukrainian feminist activist group Femen, scaled a fence and set off pink flares in the protest Saturday. Their chests were painted with “SOS Davos,” as they sought to call attention to poverty of women around the world.
Critics of the Davos forum say the business and political leaders at the gathering spend too little time doing concrete things to solve the world’s problems and help the needy.
Femen Protests The World Economic Forum
Why We Need to Stop The Development of The "Smart Gun"
Sometimes it feels like I’m talking to a brick wall – last week, I raised the alarm on the growth of the smart gun movement , and how they would lead to microchip implants.