If I could ever find the time, this is something that I'd love to do locally. The Crash Space is a hackerspace in Los Angeles, and is part of the growing global hackerspace movement. - Link
Monday, September 26, 2011
Crash Space Lock Picking Class
If I could ever find the time, this is something that I'd love to do locally. The Crash Space is a hackerspace in Los Angeles, and is part of the growing global hackerspace movement. - Link
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Murder. Manslaughter. Excessive Force.
Officer Manuel Ramos will be charged with second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter. Cpl. Jay Cicinelli will be charged with involuntary manslaughter and use of excessive force. - Link (Friends For Fullerton's Future)
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Some Tubes
Monday, August 8, 2011
Police Beat Homeless Fullerton Man Kelly Thomas To Death
"A video has surfaced that documents Fullerton police beating a homeless man near the Fullerton Bus Depot in early July, reports Gawker. The video above does not show much of the fight, but you can hear a man's screams and people talking about a Taser. The man being beaten also cries out for his father.
On July 5, Fullerton police received reports of someone breaking into cars in the area around the bus depot, according to the LA Times. Police subsequently tried to arrest 37-year-old transient Kelly Thomas on suspicion of possessing the stolen items.
When Thomas resisted, it took several minutes for him to be subdued. Sgt. Andrew Goodrich told the OC Register that it took "an upwards of five, maybe six officers to subdue him."
ABC says that Thomas was unarmed during the incident. Thomas sustained severe injuries to the head and neck... He was hospitalized at UCI Medical Center, when he fell into a coma and died less than a week later." (Huffington Post)
Fullerton Police Altercation Death Protested by Hundreds
"Several hundred protesters descended on the Fullerton Police Department on Saturday morning, the latest in a series of public expressions of outrage over the death of a homeless man after an altercation with six police officers.
The death of Kelly Thomas, 37, has led two City Council members to call for the resignation of Police Chief Michael Sellers and a group of residents led by blogger Tony Bushala to launch a recall campaign against the other three council members." (LA Times)
I've never done anything like this before, but I felt that I had to attended the protest. Even the worst case of resisting arrest should never be fatal.
Monday, May 2, 2011
Good Riddance
It sure took long enough. I've heard conspiracy theories that our intelligence community knew exactly where he was for quite a while and was using him to covertly gather information about Al Qaeda.Now that he's gone, we are in no way more safe than before. He was merely a high-profile figurehead, besides being a deranged, megaloma-hole.
Bin Laden founded the group, but the nature of the beast is such that we have always needed to change global attitudes about the US and the west in order to win, not just kill terrorist "leaders."
In sum, I think Mark Twain said it best - "I’ve never wished a man dead. But, I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.”
On To Number 2 Most Wanted
"Bert, whose notorious and well-documented roles in international terror, drug-dealing, and political repression have made him into one of the most-courted advisers by dictators, mafiosi, contract killers, and terrorists throughout the globe, has forged a hellish alliance with Osama bin Ladin to unleash their twisted evil brand of apocalyptic terror throughout the globe!" - WeeklyUniverse.com
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Homeowner "Foreclosed" On Wells Fargo
"To get the levy, he presented the court clerk with his default judgment and got the Writ of Execution and the Instructions for Levy which he delivered to the sheriff's office. He paid them a $50 deposit to cover their administrative costs. A local sheriff then went into the Wells Fargo branch office and took an inventory and posted notice that nothing could be removed. The court also gave him several posters which he was expected to xerox and post around town." - Link (consumerist.com)
Frank W. Buckles
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