Military Resistance 9I17: Breaking News

8/4/2019 Military Resistance 9I17: Breaking News

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Insane U.S. Military Leaders FoundIn Afghanistan:

Commanders Expect The TalibanInsurgency To Decline[Further Comment Unnecessary]

Sep 26, 2011 AFP

The US military hopes to slash the cost of training Afghan forces over the next severalyears, partly because commanders expect the Taliban insurgency to decline, a top USgeneral said Monday.

The United States has forecast that the annual price tag of training and equippingAfghan security forces in coming years would drop to about $6 billion but the officeroverseeing the effort, Lieutenant General William Caldwell, said the cost likely will bemuch less.

AFGHANISTAN WAR REPORTS

California Sgt. Killed In Wardak

U.S. Army Sgt. Tyler N. Holtz, 22, of Dana Point, Calif., Sept. 24, 2011 died in Wardakprovince, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/U.S. Army)...


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Sep 26, 2011 Army Times

A Washington-based soldier was killed over the weekend in Afghanistan, the DefenseDepartment said in a release Monday.

Sgt. Tyler N. Holtz, 22, of Dana Point, Calif., died Saturday in Wardak province ofwounds suffered when insurgents attacked his unit using small arms fire.

He was assigned to 2nd Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment, at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash.

Holtz joined the Army in October 2007 after graduating from Mater Dei High School inSanta Ana, Calif., and was on his fourth deployment to Afghanistan, according to TheNews Tribune of Tacoma, Wash.

He is survived by his father, Andrew Holtz, of Capistrano Beach, Calif., and his mother,Karen Holtz, of Dana Point, Calif.; and three brothers, all of Dana Point.

Marine Killed In Afghanistan HadDreamed Of Long Motorcycle Ride

September 19, 2011 Los Angeles Times

Marine Cpl. Michael Dutcher was dreaming of a cross-country motorcycle ride fromCamp Pendleton to his hometown of Asheville, N.C., once his battalion returned fromAfghanistan.

Dutcher wanted to see some of the country he had spent the last four years fighting for,the Asheville Citizen-Times wrote after interviewing his family.

There were other plans too. He was engaged to be married. He was planning to gocollege and maybe become a history teacher.

None of those plans will come true.

Dutcher, 22, was killed Thursday during a foot patrol in Helmand province, Afghanistan.His flag-draped casket arrived at Dover Air Force Base on Saturday.

He graduated from high school in June 2007 and immediately shipped out to Marineboot camp. He was on his second deployment to Afghanistan and had received threeBronze Stars.

He was loving and caring, Dutcher's mother, Teresa, told the Asheville paper. He wasan awesome dude.

Dutcher's funeral is set for Friday in Asheville.


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He was the 10th Marine from the Camp Pendleton-based 1st Battalion, 5th Regimentkilled in Afghanistan, according to the independent website www.icasualties.org. Thebattalion is assigned to the Sangin district, long a Taliban stronghold.

Kiwi Soldier Killed In Afghanistan, PMConfirms

28/09/2011 DANYA LEVY, ANDREA VANCE AND TRACY WATKINS, Fairfax NewZealand Limited

A second New Zealand SAS soldier has been killed in Afghanistan, Prime Minister JohnKey has confirmed.

In a press conference at Parliament featuring Key, Defence Minister Wayne Mapp andDefence Force Lieutenant General Rhys Jones, Key said the soldier was shot during an

operation in Wardak province, near Kabul, this morning (NZ time).

Jones said the operation was still ongoing and the name of the soldier would not bereleased for 24 hours.

The soldier had received a head wound and had been evacuated by helicopter, but diedwhile being operated on.

Jones said the Special Air Service (SAS) were reacting to information about a teampreparing to launch an attack on Kabul. The operation began at 9am (NZ time) and onechild and a ''fighting-aged'' male were also injured.

It had involved 15 SAS and 50 Afghan soldiers from the crisis response unit, which theSAS mentor and advise.

As the cordon was being put in place to isolate that area so that the arrest and searchcould be conducted, it was detected and the people in that compound opened fire withrifle fire and there were also some explosions. The exact origin has not been confirmedyet.

Our soldier was killed in that exchange of rifle fire in the early part of the contact.

POLITICIANS CANT BE COUNTED ON TO HALTTHE BLOODSHED

THE TROOPS HAVE THE POWER TO STOP THEWARS


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Resistance Action

A police vehicle destroyed in Lashkar Gah, Helmand province, Afghanistan, Sept. 27,2011. (AP Photo/Abdul Khaleq)

Sept 12 (Reuters) & Sep. 25, 2011 The Associated Press & Sep. 27, 2011 TheAssociated Press

A bomber rammed a car packed with explosives into a police truck outside abakery in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday. The attacker apparently was waiting

in the car at the gates of the police headquarters just outside a bakery whereofficers regularly buy bread in the morning in Lashkar Gah, the main city inHelmand province. Ten police officers were wounded.

HERAT - Insurgents killed three policemen in Gulran district of eastern Herat provinceon Sunday, Nor Khan Nikzad a spokesman for Herat police chief, said.

An attack in Paktika province occurred at the entrance to a local police headquartersbuilding in Yahya Khel district. Two policemen died in the attack. After the attack,gunmen fired bullets at the police headquarters from two or three directions, but thegunfire ended after 10 or 15 minutes and no other casualties were reported.

Four NATO Tankers For Foreign TroopsIn Afghanistan Destroyed In Sindh,

Pakistan 26 Sep 2011


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[Thanks to Sandy Kelson, Veteran & Military Resistance Organization, who sent this in.]

September 26, 2011 by Legitgov

Militants have destroyed four NATO tankers in Pakistan's southern province of Sindhtransporting fuel for US-led forces in neighboring Afghanistan, Press TV reports.

Pakistani officials said militants opened fire at a convoy of NATO oil tankers in Shikarpurtown in Sindh Province on Monday. The tankers were set ablaze in the assault but nocasualties were reported.

Four More Fuel Supply Trucks ForForeign Troops In Afghanistan Attacked

And Burned In Mastung, Pakistan 27September 2011

A fireball rising from oil tankers which were set ablaze in Mastung in Pakistan'ssouthwest, on the outskirts of Quetta September 27, 2011. Four men on motorcycles

fired and set ablaze four trucks carrying oil and other supplies for foreign troops inAfghanistan. One of the drivers was wounded in Mastung district of southwesternBaluchistan province. REUTERS/Naseer Ahmed


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The Great Afghan CollaboratorArmy Training Fiasco Rolls On:

Moeenuddin Said He And HisMen Could Go It Alone On OneCondition, Repeated By Several

Afghan SoldiersWe Are The Army: We Should Have

Jets, Helicopters And HeavyWeaponsAnother Afghan Officer, First LieutenantNisar Ahmad, Even Threatened To Defect

To The Taliban In Future Unless MoreEquipment Was Forthcoming

Sep 26, 2011 By Rachel O'Brien, AFP [Excerpts]

The call from the Afghan army captain came in around midnight -- he wanted Americanback-up at a police checkpoint under insurgent attack. But US troops refused.

Tell him to kill some bad guys for me! yelled Captain Michael Kolton, in charge at USCombat Outpost Monti in rural northeastern Afghanistan, to the interpreter on the phoneto the Afghan captain.

Or, as he put it more bluntly to another Afghan officer, Major Moeenuddin, in COPMonti's tactical operations centre: You don't need me to go down there like your mom.I'm not your mom!

After 10 years of us being here, they have grown too dependent on us to where theydon't want to do the job themselves, said First Lieutenant Tyler Bell. Everything theyhave done has been us pushing them to do it.

Afghan forces have also faced recurring questions over issues such as cronyism,attrition rates and chronic illiteracy.


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Moeenuddin said he and his men could go it alone on one condition, repeated byseveral Afghan soldiers who spoke to AFP: Only if the coalition forces give usbetter weapons, technology and all the stuff we need, like they have now.

It's not enough right now. We are the army: we should have jets, helicopters andheavy weapons.

Another Afghan officer, First Lieutenant Nisar Ahmad, even threatened to defectto the Taliban in future unless more equipment was forthcoming.

How can I protect myself when the bad guys are shooting at us? he said.

Troops Invited:Comments, arguments, articles, and letters from service menand women, and veterans, are especially welcome. Write to Box126, 2576 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10025-5657 or [email protected]: Name, I.D., withheld unless yourequest publication. Same address to unsubscribe.

NEW GENERAL ORDER NO. 1:PACK UPGO HOME

THIS IS NOT A PRODUCTIVE USE OF TIME

A U.S. soldier from Charlie Company 2nd battalion 35th infantry regiment, Task ForceBronco during a foot patrol in eastern Afghanistan Chaw Kay district in Kunar provinceAugust 18, 2011. REUTERS/Nikola Solic
mailto:[email protected]:[email protected]


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U.S. Marines move to waiting armored vehicles at a base in Helmand province, southernAfghanistan, Aug. 28, 2011. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)...

MILITARY NEWS

HOW MANY MORE FOR OBAMAS WARS?

The remains of Army Sgt. Mycal L. Prince of Minco, Okla., Dover Air Force Base, Del. onSept. 16, 2011. Prince was killed when his unit was attacked by insurgents with smallarms and rocket-propelled grenades in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)


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Three Lifelong Friends, Who

Will Soon Deploy ToAfghanistan

Once They Sign That Dotted Line,Its A Hard Thing As A Mother To

Realize They No Longer Belong To

YouThey Belong To The U.S.

GovernmentWere Not Going To Say Goodbye,

Anymore, Were Going To Say, Ill SeeYou Soon

From left, Larry Hinds, Cory Pritchett and James Honea sit together in Illiopolis, Ill., onSept. 15. The three are with the Illinois National Guard's 661st Engineer Company andwill soon deploy together to Afghanistan. Photo: Lisa Morrison / Herald & Review via AP


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Sep 27, 2011 By Anne Getsinger - (Decatur) Herald & Review via AP

ILLIOPOLIS, Ill. Larry Hinds, Cory Pritchett and James Honea are not brothers byblood, but the three young men are forever bonded by friendship and service to theircountry.

A new adventure is beginning for the three lifelong friends, who will soon deploy toAfghanistan with the Illinois Army National Guard.

The three young men are with the Sparta-based 661st Engineer Company, a heavyequipment operating unit that will build and manage roads.

The soldiers story together started in childhood. The inseparable friends would playspotlight tag, toilet paper houses and hang out at the communitys video store drinkingSlush Puppies.

Even then, the boys played Army men together, once toying with the option of digging a

trench in Hinds yard.

We would go on missions and think that we were saving Illiopolis, said Hinds, 24. Andthe whole time we were just losing minutes before we had to go home and eat dinner.

They remained close friends through high school and beyond. Hinds and Pritchett, 23,felt the call of military service, joining the National Guard in late 2008.

In a twist of fate, the two spent every stage of their training and military schoolingtogether. They have spent the time since together, too, working out of Camp Lincoln inSpringfield to assist with recruiting efforts.

In 2009, Honea made his commitment to the military, later joining his friends at work.

I had seen what the military had done for both of them, said Honea, 22, adding that hehas found a new sense of structure in the military.

With the news of his position after training came the announcement that the men wouldbe deploying to Afghanistan.

The three have never traveled out of the country, and the deployment didnt seem real atfirst, Hinds said. As it has gotten closer, fear, excitement and a complex mixture ofemotions have set in.

When I first caught word of it, I was really scared. I didnt really know, Honea said. Iwas angry at first. I just didnt think this was really going to happen.

Theres a lot of emotions that you have, Pritchett said. Its hard to really explain whatgoes through your head. Right now, what I feel, Im just ready to get over there. Im tiredof anticipating it.

Honea said extensive training and bonding within their unit have put his mind at ease.


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Being deployed together is like taking a piece of home with them, the men said. Theyllknow personally what each has had to leave behind.

Its a touch of home, Honea said. Theres a sense of comfort with these two.

The mens families and community also have been an important source of support they

said.

All three had their own going-away parties, and Hinds and Pritchett recently got engagedto their girlfriends. The soldiers also were honored at a recent church service andreceived special St. Michael medals that had been blessed by each church in town.

The community; its amazing how they have pulled together for these three boys, saidHoneas mom, Tina Honea, holding back tears.

She said shes proud to know her son and his two friends will care for each other, buther heart aches even more to know that three people she loves are going off to serve.

Instead of sending one son, its like sending three off to do this, she said.

This community is awesome, awesome, awesome, said Hinds mom, Patty Hinds.People always talk about winning the lottery. My little slice of heaven is right here inIlliopolis.

Hinds was in the military herself. She served in intelligence from 1979 to 1982.

There is no greater feeling than being a veteran, she said.

At first, Pritchetts mom, Paula Pritchett, said she had mixed emotions about her sonsdecision to join the military.

Once they sign that dotted line, its a hard thing as a mother to realize they no longerbelong to you, she said. They belong to the U.S. government.

Pritchett said she never wanted her son to have to go to war, but she is proud of hisservice and the ways he has grown and changed since.

Hes matured a lot, she said. Cory has always been very, very sensible.

Pritchett said she will feel a piece of herself missing an empty space for the quiet boywith the tender heart until the friends come home.

Were not going to say goodbye, anymore, she said. Were going to say, Ill see yousoon.

ANNIVERSARIES


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September 28, 1917:IWW Members Indicted For Doing The

Right Thing:Trying To Cause Insubordination,Disloyalty, And Refusal Of Duty In The

Military And Naval Forces

Carl Bunin Peace History Sept 27 - Oct 3

166 people who were (or had been) active in the I.W.W. (Industrial Workers of theWorld, whose members were also known as Wobblies) were indicted for protestingWorld War I.

They were accused of trying to cause insubordination, disloyalty, and refusal of duty inthe military and naval forces in violation of the Espionage Act. One hundred and onedefendants were found guilty, and received prison sentences ranging from days totwenty years, with accompanying fines of $10,000-$20,000.

This was part of a successful U.S. government campaign to cripple the radical unionmovement. [Successful, that is, until the revolutionary Russian working class tookpower a month later, in October 1917, got their soldiers out of Imperial World WarI, and lit a fire that spread over the world, including here in the USA. T]

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DANGER: POLITICIANS AT WORK

Get The Message?

Pakistanis burn an effigy of U.S. President Obama during a rally in Hyderabad, Pakistan,against the U.S. military attacks on militants inside Pakistan. Sept 27, 2011. (APPhoto/Pervez Masih)


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A Twisted Justice-Hating Freak

Ignores Video Evidence CopsFaked Charges Against New

Orleans Parade Marcher:Judge Robin Pittman Engaged In

Jaw-Dropping Displays Of

Viciousness, Paranoia AndImmaturity, Talking On Her CellPhone And Reading Her Bible

During Trials; Ugly, UnprovokedAnd Unprofessional Insults

Towards The DefenseAs Shown In The Video, He DidNothing Worse Than Turn And FaceOne Of The Police Officers Attacking

The CrowdFor That, He Was Tackled, Stomped,

Tazed, And Falsely ChargedYes, he was foolish to turn and look at the police when the fleeing crowd had beencommanded to face the other direction (I don't wanna see no faces, I wanna seebacks!) but it was only ignorance; he didn't know how our NOPD is.


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[This report refers to Willy, someone arrested in New Orleans March 08, 2011 at theKrewe of Eris, an unpermitted second-line parade that has marched in the FrenchQuarter and Faubourg Marigny for the past six years. T]

Sep 27, 2011 via Mike Howell, NOLA_C3_Discussion.

He writes:

Judge Pittman sounds like the female version of the infamous Mad Max who used hisposition as a Municipal Court judge to inflict suffering and humiliation on all who had themisfortune of appearing before him.

It goes without saying that a protest is in order to let the city's ruling thugs know thatpeople are willing to speak out against the political railroading of Willy.

We also need to remember a low key response to Willy's kangaroo trial will onlyembolden authorities to resort to this sort of repression more frequently.

At this point, silence regarding Willy's plight hurts all of us, including, of course,Willy.

Mike Howells.

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From: [email protected]: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 21:14:52 -0500Subject: LET'S SUPPORT WILLY, JAILED ERIS PARADER

[Excerpts]

Only a few of us heard, mostly by chance and at the last moment, that one of the 12 Erisarrestees had his trial last Friday.

We showed up and watched his lawyer try the case in fine style.

The charges against Willy were ludicrous, and fortunately there was clear videoevidence showing Willy's arrest-- showing that at no time was he anywhere nearthe officer whom he's alleged to have shoved, which single fabricated shovingoriginated all 3 of his charges.

So the lawyer presented the case well, and then NOPD took the stand and

contradicted themselves and each other and their own written reports, and thevideo showed it all unambiguously, and the lawyers summed everything up intheir closing arguments.

But none of it mattered, because Willy got a really bad judge.

The judge rolled her eyes and looked away in boredom-- closed her eyes, even,during the presentation of evidence.


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She sneered at Willy, berated his lawyers, and huffed in impatient adolescentexasperation at each motion or objection from the defense.

As soon as protocol permitted, she declared Willy summarily guilty on all threecounts.

The lawyers pleaded for clemency in sentencing, citing Willy's clean record, and sheshouted at them some more and bared her teeth like a cornered possum and gave Willy45 days in the House of Detention for his three bullshit misdemeanors.

He was cuffed right where he sat, his lawyer was given the chance to take off Willy'sbowtie and empty Willy's pockets, and then we were all kicked out the courtroom, justbecause, and Willy went in shackles down the back stairway to the prison bus with allthe other poor orange-jumpsuited bastards who had the misfortune to be in Judge RobinPittman's courtroom that day.

I know we all know the system is fucked, it's unfair, etc., but I really do need to speciallymention that Robin Pittman is vile and literally, medically, provably insane.

She is not just a mean judge, she is a mean judge who is off her rocker.

Her jaw-dropping displays of viciousness, paranoia and immaturity, her talking onher cell phone and reading her bible during trials, her ugly, unprovoked andunprofessional insults towards the defense (not just Willy's, everyone's) andabove all her histrionic savagery towards the human wreckage dragged before herin chains daily make Pittman not merely a bad judge, but a sad, bad, mad judge,the most pathetic and repugnant specimen among the whole twistedpantheon...the unhinged and monstrous Queen of Hearts holding forth in herbizarre, Kafka-like crawlspace courtroom, a blind and aimless Fury ruling therafters of our criminal courthouse's nightmarish Wonderland.

So that's Pittman, and that's why Willy is in prison right now.

She is not the smug patrician haughtily handing out hell, she is the deranged sufferer,the clawing ravening sufferer who is frenziedly punishing the rest of the world with everydrop of power she's permitted.

I don't believe in karma, but I do believe we have the means to make ourselvesmiserable, and Pittman is a horrifying living example of that-- raving and grimacing,shrieking and glowering, embarrassing and delegitimizing not only herself but anysystem that would make her its representative.

There is a great deal to be said about this whole Eris debacle, and how it's been handled(or not handled). I personally feel there is enormous and genuine goodwill towards thearrestees from the community at large, goodwill that has gone frustratingly untapped.

There have been so many missed opportunities, to get help, to tell the paraders' side ofthings, to form alliances with the street musicians and Mardi Gras Indians and otherswho've been fighting this same battle for far longer.

Let's help Willy.


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This sweet young man, a homeowner from Missouri who visited us for Carnival,who dressed as Peter Pan for Eris and doesn't have a mean bone in his body, hasbeen absolutely screwed over by our system.

He's certainly a lesser victim compared to the lives our justice system grinds up and

throws away daily, but he's still a victim, and he's one I've gotten know and like.

He wasn't one of the bad elements using soap to draw penises on cars; he wasjust in the wrong place in the wrong time, and, as shown in the video, did nothingworse than turn and face one of the police officers attacking the crowd.

For that, he was tackled, stomped, tazed, and falsely charged.

Yes, he was foolish to turn and look at the police when the fleeing crowd had beencommanded to face the other direction (I don't wanna see no faces, I wanna seebacks!) but it was only ignorance; he didn't know how our NOPD is.

Anyone who witnessed the quiet dignity, earnest goodwill and courage with which Willyconducted himself in the face of Judge Pittman's violent imprecations and bullying wouldbe moved.

Now Willy's in prison, and will be for some weeks. As a visitor, he doesn't have a lot ofclose friends here.

The House of Detention can be a scary place, and everything scary is worse when youare, or feel, alone.

If you could write him a letter, donate money towards his fines, and/or put somecash in his commissary so he can have an occasional magazine to read or a meal

that isn't baloney sandwiches, you would be doing something worthwhile for aguy who needs it.

45 days isn't a long sentence until you're the one serving it, in the round-the-clockdeafening, round-the-clock floodlit uniformly hard-surfaced moldering medieval cages ofour parish prison, in windowless fluorescent-flickering metal crates where time and thecycles of day or night lose meaning, where there is only one harsh, cacophonouslyechoing endless eternal now, a blur of unhappy angry people in an untenable andinhuman situation.

Boredom, discomfort, hunger, thirst, heat, cold, fear, uncertainty, exhaustion, andnothing ahead but more of the same. What if they DON'T let you out when they're

supposed to?

What if someone attacks you, and you defend yourself, and you get hit with additionaltime? What if you get sick? What if one of the times you get stored down in the peeling-paint transitional cells in the basements where no-one can hear you, they forget aboutyou?

The house of detention is no vacation, least of all for someone who lacks localconnections and support networks. Willy needs our support.


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WRITING TO WILLY

This would be lovely. Wouldn't you want a letter from the outside world, some personalnote to let you know you're not as isolated as you feel? Something inane and friendly,

cheerful and encouraging, something from a friend or from a stranger taking the time tolet you know that you're missed and valued... think what that would mean to you.You may send Willy mail at this address:

William R WatkinFolder 23037713000 Perdido Street,New Orleans, Louisiana, 70119

There is a big list of what you CANNOT send Willy here:http://www.opcso.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=58&Itemid=182

Basically, nothing but letters, money orders, and photographs(!) . No books, magazines,or 'zines, no toiletries, food, or tobacco, no clothing, no envelopes, no stationary, stampsor writing utensils... any of those things Willy wants, he must purchase, if he can, atexorbitant profiteering prices from the prison Commissary.

PUTTING MONEY IN WILLY'S COMMISSARY

Willy, an avid and ambitious leisure reader, can't be sent reading material besidespersonal letters. He will not have the means to write letters to his loving sweetheartback in Missouri or his frantically worrying parents, nor will he have access to remotely

wholesome or even pleasurable, good-tasting food, unless money is put in hiscommissary account.

You can put money in his commissary by mailing Willy a signed money order with hisname (William Watkins) and his folder number (2303771) on it, or more easily by visitingthe Sherriff's office (that same temporary trailer behind the jail where you go to bailpeople out) and using one of their anti-ATM devices there on-site, or most easily of all byvisiting http://www.tigerdeposits.com/ and following the fairly straight-forward steps.Watkins, William R. is of course in Louisiana >> Orleans Parish >> Orleans ParishPrison.

Note that in accordance with the standard predatory capitalism of our privatized prison

system, the helpful folks at Tiger Correctional Services will charge you a 7.0 percentfee.

If your experience with Tiger Correctional Services really turns you on, you'll no doubt begratified upon the conclusion of your transaction at the opportunity to follow them ontwitter or like them on facebook. They just posted a picture album of their staffenjoying fresh-caught trout at a fishing tournament. I bet that trout was delicious!Delicious, and yet not half as delicious as the roaring blackout nihilism viewing the photogallery engenders.


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DONATING MONEY TOWARDS WILLY'S FINES.

Judge Pittman assigned Willy a grand or so in fines and fees, but additionally, atthe request of NOPD, she has sentenced him to pay reparations.

Apparently Willy shoving the officer didn't merely send the officer to the hospitaland require the officer to take several days off, but the same single shovedestroyed the officer's new and (apparently very expensive!) eyeglasses andpolice radio.

So, Willy has to pay for replacements, which are hundreds of dollars. Willy ain't got thatkind of cash.

Please make a donation via paypal or credit card at http://eris12.org, or if that linkdoesn't work for whatever reason, or you don't want to use plastic or paypal, e-mail meand we'll figure it out. In the blessed but unlikely event that the amount thusly donated

exceeds Willy's fines, it will be applied to the thousands of dollars of lawyer fees theother equally nice Eris arrestees have paid & still owe.

VISITING WILLY

After fruitless hours on the phone and web, I have been unable to nail down exactly howto visit Willy, because he's not in the state system yet the way he needs to be for me toget the ball rolling on visitations. Rest assured, I will figure this fucking shit out (or thelawyers will, and will let me know). In the meantime, if you'd like to visit Willy, drop me ane-mail and I'll keep you in the loop on that.

One proactive step you could take is writing to Willy and giving him your full name sothat he knows to put you on his visitor's list. Willy gets along with just about everyone,so don't be shy! I am sure he would love to see you, whoever you are, just for thechance at being reassured in person that people here in New Orleans know and careabout his situation.

That concludes this very long e-mail. Thanks for your time, and perhaps your money.Willy may be a stranger to most of us, but he is the first of the arrestees to get actualprison time. I hope he is the last.

I hope the whole rotten prison cracks open like an egg, RIGHT NOW, and that allthe unjustly imprisoned human beings inside can return to their families and

loved ones.

Willy doesn't deserve to be in there.

Rock-solid solidarity,Damien


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Meet NYPD Deputy InspectorAnthony Bologna:

A Twisted Psychopathic FreakWho Gets Off On Torturing

Women:Everyone Stares In Shock AndHorror At The Two Girls On The

Ground And Two More Doubled OverScreaming As Their Eyes OozeOne Of The Blue-Shirts, Tall And Bald,

Stares In Disbelief And Says, I CantBelieve He Just Fuckin Maced Her

Some of the women pepper sprayed by twisted psychopathic freak Bologna.


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The twisted freak Bologna, white shirt, in choke hold position, having selected anotheryoung woman to attack. Note facial expression indicating psychopathic fusion of rageand lust, with associated homicidal ideation. Compare this with the professionalexpressions on the faces of the other two officers. Note also his sun glasses andcompare with everyone else in the photo; none are wearing sun glasses. Sexualpsychopaths often wear sun glasses inappropriately, in association with a fantasy thattheir intended victims can read their violent impulses in their eyes before they attack.[Photo: Reconstitution.us/rcnew/?p=10944]

A white-shirt, now known to be NYPD Deputy Inspector Anthony Bologna, comesfrom the left, walks straight up to the three young girls at the front of the crowd,

and pepper-sprays them in the face for a few seconds, continuing as they screamNo! Why are you doing that?!

September 26, 2011 By Jeanne Mansfield, Boston Review

My boyfriend Frank and I are heading toward Liberty Square to check out whats goingon at the Occupy Wall Street protest, when we stumble upon the afternoon marchtoward Union Square.

So we join up and walk along behind. The crowd looks like maybe 300 people, mostlypunk-styled kids and folks carrying their computers (for live streaming, we found outlater) and some aging-hippie types.

People are beating drums, blowing whistles, carrying signs, and chanting: Banks gotbailed out, you got sold out! and We are the 99 percent! and All day, all week, occupyWall Street! and of course the classic This is what democracy looks like!

All in all, it starts out as a pretty good time. There are police, but for the most part theyare walking behind the group casually, just beat cops bantering and laughing, keepingan eye on things. There are around 30 of them. We reach Union Square, circle it acouple times, and join the human microphone.


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The human microphone consists of one person speaking or shouting, and then everyonewithin earshot repeating, thus, a human amplifier, albeit with some delay. After aboutfifteen minutes, we are on the move again, the crowd spurred toward the United Nationsby the messages transmitted from the human microphone.

As we circle Union Square, about twenty NYPD officers haul out orange plastic nets (thekind used to fence off construction sites) and close off the road, diverting the crowd. Butthe detour, too, is closed, leaving us only one option: straight down Broadway.

The lighthearted carnival air begins to get very heavy as it becomes clear that we arebeing corralled.

The main group, about 150 protesters, keeps on down the street, but the police arerunning behind with the orange nets, siphoning off groups of fifteen to twenty people at atime, classic crowd control.

A new group of police officers arrives in white shirts, as opposed to dark blue.

These guys are completely undiscerning in their aggression.

If someone gets in their way, they shove them headfirst into the nearest parkedcar, at which point the officers are immediately surrounded by camera phones andshouts of Shame! Shame!

Up until this point, Frank and I have managed to stay ahead of the nets, but as we hitwhat I think is 12th Street, theyve caught up. The blue-shirts arent being too forceful, sowe manage to run free, but stay behind to see what happens.

Then things go nuts.

The white-shirted cops are shouting at us to get off the street as they corral us onto thesidewalk.

One African American man gets on the curb but refuses to be pushed up against thewall of the building; they throw him into the street, and five cops tackle him.

As hes being cuffed, a white kid with a video camera asks him Whats your name?!Whats your name?!

One of the blue-shirted cops thinks hes too close and gives him a little shove.

A white-shirt sees this, grabs the kid and without hesitation billy-clubs him in thestomach.

At this point, the crowd of twenty or so caught in the orange fence is shouting Shame!Shame! Who are you protecting?! YOU are the 99 percent! Youre fighting your ownpeople!

A white-shirt, now known to be NYPD Deputy Inspector Anthony Bologna, comesfrom the left, walks straight up to the three young girls at the front of the crowd,


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and pepper-sprays them in the face for a few seconds, continuing as they screamNo! Why are you doing that?!

The rest of us in the crowd turn away from the spray, but its unavoidable.

My left eye burns and goes blind and tears start streaming down my face.

Frank grabs my arm and shoves us through the small gap between the orange fenceand the brick wall while everyone stares in shock and horror at the two girls on theground and two more doubled over screaming as their eyes ooze.

In the street I shout for water to rinse my eyes or give to the girls on the ground, but noone responds.

One of the blue-shirts, tall and bald, stares in disbelief and says, I cant believe he justfuckin maced her.

And it becomes clear that the white-shirts are a different species. We need to get out of

there.

The other end of the street is also closed off, and we are trapped on this one block alongwith about twenty frustrated pedestrians.

My eye is killing me and Im crying, partially from the pain and partially from the shock ofthe violence displayed by these police.

A shirtless young medic with ripped cargo shorts, matted brown hair, and two plasticbottles slung around his neck runs up to me and says, Did you get pepper sprayed?Okay here, tilt your head to the side, this isnt going to feel great, at which point hesquirts one of the plastic bottles of white liquid into my left eye, then tilts my head the

other way and does the other eye, then repeats with water.

Then he unties the white bandanna from his wrist and wipes my eyes with it saying,Youll be okay, this is my grandfathers bandanna, he got through Korea with it, and ifhe got through that, then youre going to get through this. Just keep blinking.

Thanks to the treatmentliquid antacid, pepper-spray antidotethe burning behind myeyes subsides.

A woman with two little girls in tow walks up to a cop at the end of the block and explainsthat they just need to get to ballet, but he wont let them through.

The woman seems to accept this, turns to the girls, thinks for a second, then marchesstraight to the edge of the fence at the corner of the building. A different officer seesthem coming and, understanding their situation, lets them through. So Frank and I boltfor the same opening and escape.

The farther away we get, the more normal everyone starts to look. People have no clueabout whats happening just five or six blocks down. Frank and I say maybe two wordsto each other the whole five-hour bus ride home.


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Just for the record, I love cops. I do, my mother worked in the justice system for 30years, and Ive known a lot of really good cops, really good honorable people just doingtheir jobs. Ive never agreed with the sentiment, Fuck the Po-lice, and I still dont.

But these guys are fucked up.

There was an anger in those white-shirts eyes that said, You dont matter. Andwhether they were just scared or irrational or looking for a target for their rage, there wasno excuse for their abuse of authority.

I had always thought that people who complained about police brutality must havedone something to provoke it, that surely cops wouldnt hurt people without areally good reason.

But they do.

We were on the curb, we were contained, we were unarmed.

Pepper spray hurts like hell, and the experience only makes me wish Id donesomething more to deserve it.

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