Since their have been rulers, there has been, "The List. The list is a compilation of enemies, either written, or committed to memory. The list is of people who could interrupt power or just be in the way. These people are dealt with in order of importance down the list. Knowing about the lists and undoing the harm that is being done with use of these lists, will foster faith in government, and bring back a sense of fairness to our justice system.
Ken Krayeske was the campaign manager
for a Green Party candidate for governor. Because he disagreed
publicly with the current governor's policies, he was placed on the a
state police secret enemies list and arrested on sight by police
after having his name, photos, vehicle description, known addresses
he frequented, along with who he hung out with distributed widely to
various police departments. Krayeske was arrested on sight by police
facing years in prison, arrested on bogus charges. That story is
found here.
If a person makes a judicial, attorney, official, or police misconduct complaint, the complaint can mysteriously end up in a court folder when the complainer is in court for small claims, a divorce, or any criminal proceeding and is usually taken out before final filing. A newspaper letter to the editor or blog post hard copy critical of police or the judiciary can also end up in court folders and/or passed around at police role calls. Propose laws to oversee police or the judiciary, move yourself to the top of the enemies list. The worst abuse happens in sealed cases, or cases involving children where retaliation is even harder to prove. The extra papers in the court folder is a plain and simple message, "Help retaliate against this person.
Newspaper editors, television news owners, a State Supreme Court Justice, judicial managers, a state's police brass, and legislators can all meet socially, formally and informally. There are unions that can compile lists of inside, and outside, individuals who pose a risk to the integrity of the system. The brass in the police and judicial workers' unions pass the lists of names to be considered targets. Insiders are fired and are scared into silence using many methods. Those who are also on the police enemies list are arrested on trumped up charges or are a target of opportunity to do the most damage to their lives, families, ability to own a home, and even to have a job. The process has been honed to an art form.
CSI, Crime Scene Investigation, has
union members. These investigators can lose, alter, and manufacture
evidence to suit their union brass whims. It was reported that Connecticut CSI employees were sending racist jokes to each other in emails and even dropped a bunch of chick bones and place watermelon pieces near a minority corpse with a racist caption under it to share as a joke.
Private investigators are often licensed by police and their records are open to police for up to 6 years in some states. Police informants can be paid tax dollars to commit crimes for police, to make false statements, and to set up, terrorize, assault, and even kill targets. So, what you have is the makings of an organized crime operation, not a justice and law enforcement system.
Government workers unions should only have to do with rights of workers, not be the spiderweb of corrupt power. Compiling of enemies lists by police departments, judicial branches, elected officials, law enforcement, and attorney organizations to protect members from lawsuits, prosecution, being embarrassed by scandals, and having independent individuals investigating and exposing misconduct and the breaking of laws, should be a felony.
Judges, police officers, officials, and even lawyers have a varying degree of immunity from criminal prosecution and civil liability. If misuse of enemies lists is not pushed as a crime, the across the board abuse of citizens and the retaliation against internal whistle blowers will only continue. Please contact your elected officials to end the abuse of government workers unions acting as organized crime families and ending the compiling of enemies list for political and obstruction of justice.
The shenanigans of AFSCME International, a government workers' union, should be looked into.
The Connecticut State Police were on probation, their continued gross misconduct and inability to do internal investigations into police misconduct complaints should be looked into.
If a state's attorney general, Richard Blumethal, can allegedly award former law partners millions of dollars in no-bid contracts and allegedly gets funding and/or other favors from AFSCME, would he be complicit in the obstruction of justice and retaliation machine? Would the State's Attorney also be complicit in the cover ups, retaliation, and obstruction of justice? Well maybe all departments and branches of Connecticut should be checked out to show the rest of the nation what is most wrong with the country and what needs to be done to fix the system.
