DIFFERENTIAL REPORTING

Recently in the Tulsa World newspaper, (circa 5-31-06), there was a short article titled, "Charges Dropped Against Former Trooper". Essentially it told a very garbled and misleading story about an armed, Oklahoma boat-cop who somehow got caught. drunk driving around lake Fort Gibson while on duty three years ago. The main facts were missing. When non-cop criminals are caught, newspaper "journalists" supply a brief history of their crimes and situations at each of the many stages of the conviction process. The entire cop/media/prosecutor system springs into action to keep the public (read "juror pool'') minutely informed (read "conviction prepped") of all the person's crimes that they are aware of. This process includes the media acting as cops and prosecutors by publicizing "anonymous police sources" to insert unofficial, sometimes unlawful, propaganda into the public mind that is of such unreliability and scurrilousness that not even lawyers (or cops) wish to be associated with it. The media also acts as cops through their many daily broadcasts of pleas for citizens to act as unpaid informants for the cops.

In the cases of elite criminals, however; such as cops, judges, prosecutors, lawyers, govcrats, politicians, soldiers, etc:, this system acts in reverse. Instead of quoting witnesses who are "absolutely positive" that they saw the armed trooper drunk driving around while on duty, the news-artist makes no mention of who caught him and notes that two anonymous witnesses who never testified claimed that he didn't appear drunk (no quote, just the sentence). He also cleverly conceals the fact that "former" trooper Dennis (middle name excluded) Dancer was on duty by saying instead that he was merely "operating" a copboat . (Cops often boast of always being ''on duty 24/7" as an excuse to always carry their weapons and to force their ways into other peoples' lives at whim at any time, anywhere.) Also not mentioned is Dancer's present occupation as a cop for a near-by municipality.          The    cop/media/prosecutor media system snaps into action to accomplish several goals that are deemed to benefit the illusion of honest, fair govt. Criminals within govt first benefit from a usually secret (and mostly bogus) "selfpolicing" operation in which their crimes are kept "in house" and out of common knowledge for as long as possible. Govcrooks are given every opportunity to secretly atone for their crimes in ways that do not include sanctions that non-govt criminals suffer, such as fines, jail and prison.   The fact that govcrooks get to secretly pay restitution, enjoy lengthy probation periods or leave with their pensions for "personal reasons" to commit similar govcrimes within other political districts tends to encourage further govcriminal activity.

 When the the serial crimes of govcriminals become so heinous they can no longer be "self-policed" or otherwise kept concealed from the public or tolerated by their peers, the cop/media/prosecutor machine's goal is to minimize every aspect of their crimes. They do this by publishing and broadcasting very little an their crimes; only a short few paragraphs buried deeply within the paper or a terse sentence quickly sandwiched in between nonsense when the fewest people are watching or listening. They use clever semantic devices to minimize the severity of the crimes and to shift blame to others. E.g. when a fleet of copcars is sent to chase down a joyriding teenager, the news-artists invariably avoid the word "chase" as it has to do with the actions of the police. instead, they always use the phrase, "Suspect led police on a high speed chase". This is to shift blame to the one spooked by the cops, and away from the caps causing the high-speed chase. Also, the ensuing carnage is blamed an the teenager despite the fact that it is the police who cause him to crash and that it was the fleet of police cars slamming and crashing into homes, vehicles and pedestrians that cost the most damage, deaths and injuries as they rabidly pursue a mere property crime.

In the case of Dancer, the techniques used were the most common ones. Delay after delay of legal proceedings is the most common lawyers' system trick. To protect Dancer, they took a simple case of felony drunk driving while armed and stretched it into a three year long marathon of intermittent lawyer-quibbling spaced out between months of doing nothing to advance the cause of justice. Dancer paid the lawyer community thousands of dollars for their monthly minutes of legal mumbling.     His thousands bought him more than just years of no action an his crimes. They bought him a slow trickle of ''lost" evidence that coincided with his large payments to lawyers.

The first thing that the lawyers "lost" for Dancer was the witness(es) to his crimes. Since no citizen can arrest a cop, we have to presume that some other cop or cops caught Dancer at the end of his shift, stumbling around the cop’s boat dock, probably a supervosor or the next shift cops. The news artist who was assigned to the Dancer story, rhett.morgan@tulsaworld.com, chose not to supply any of this important information. Instead, he merely mentions a piece of paper. All we know is that the complaining witness is “affidavit” and that “Dancer had a strong odor of alcohol on his breath, red, bloodshot eyes and a ruddy; flushed complexion". This is standard copspeak used thousands, if not millions of times per day to nail drunks and drunk drivers nationwide. It is every bit the standard formula as this more widely known famous “You have the right to remain silent...”

After ditching the witness (es) for Dancer and substituting a piece of paper, the lawyers feasting off this case took money to lose the next bit of evidence. Somehow, some anonymous, yet powerful person forced Dancer to submit to some undisclosed type of alcohol testing equipment. Assuming that cops are even more savvy at duping the law than non- law-connected persons, we logically conclude that even a very intoxicated Dancer would remember to waste the maximum amount of time between gettinq caught and being tested, so as to give his liver the most time to destroy, or at least lessen, the evidence against him.

Cops get special treatment when caught in criminal acts. They even get secret, in-house drunk-testinq of an 'unspecified nature’ that is "internal" and "different than ones set up (for non-cop criminals)", says Dancer's lawyer. The journalist goes on to mention that the test found Dancer's blood-alcohol content to be .14. This is 40% higher than the leqal limit of . 1 that the lawyers have set for driving a boat. And it is 140% over the limit for an armed cap on duty and in charge of other peoples' safety. Then the reporter quotes from Dancer's lawyer again, who claims that the special tests (plural, for inexplicable reasons) given to Dancer (and by implication, all the tests that these cops give to each other) are "tainted and not reliable or valid". No reason or excuse is vended to substantiate this claim. We are simply supposed to believe it. To help bolster the idea that the cops can't figure out how to take cops to the hospital, have a nurse take their blood and hand it to the hematologist, the reporter summons the cop's lawyer yet again. The lawyer claims to have two anonymous witnesses who will say that Dancer didn't appear drunk (again, no quotes).

Though these claims of police incompetence in obtaining reliable alcohol tests on their own people are not enough far me to believe them, a cooperative, anonymous judge did use these claims as his excuse for refusing to let the blood evidence be used aqainst the cop. The judge's ditching of the blood evidence and the disappearance of thecop or cops who caught the armed, drunken Dancer stumbling out of his copboat after the end of his patrol shift leaves only the affidavit as the sole evidence against Dancer. He relied upon the other half of his "adversarial" team to do this; his District Attorney, Donny Bobbs. Customarily the judge and prosecutor work together toward the same goal, but. in n this instance Dobbs usurps the judge's purview and not only dismisses his own case against Dancer, but also dismisses it "with prejudice". This queer term is lawyerspeak meant to confound citizens and means that the judge who specifies this will not allow his prosecutor to refile these accusations even after substantial legal shenanigans are performed. Letting a prosecutor use this term to tie his own hands constitutes a radical new shift in legal snookery.

In order to further justify this strange ruling by the prosecutor, the news-artist poiints out that the cop was fired. Also, the cops' illegal union, called the Fraternal Order Of Police ( FOP) in order to trick people into thinking it is not a union, was (so far) unable to convince the "Merit Protection Commission" bureaucracy to reinstate Dancer with full back pay and promotions, as usually happens for temporarily fired cops. (These extra layers of cop and state bureaucrat protections are to at least recover their pensions for them before they slink off to return to being cops and bureaucrats in some other, usually adjacent, political district.) It is also mentioned that the first judge of five different judicial layers of court protections have likewise refused to re-install Dancer in his former job with back pay and automatic raises and promotions. These temporary setbacks are supposed to convince us that Dancer has been suitably punished already anyway and that it is just plain bad luck that for three years the lawyers accomplished nothing more than a slow whittling away of any possibility of Dancer getting convicted of even a misdemeanor (which, theoretically, would prevent him from ever becoming an armed cop again).

Alcoholism is the absolute worst addiction except for tobacco. In 1986 alcohol alone was responsible for over 200,000 deaths. For comparison, in 1985 tobacco killed 320,000 and all ellegal drugs killed only 3,562 people. It is a probable certainly that in Dancer's fifteen years as a cop he has been drunk on duty many times. If we could see his secret police department record and coax out some honest answers from his cronies, friends and family, we would undoubtedly find that he has been caught drunk on duty at least once before. All the protections from outside scrutiny and quality control that cops enjoy virtually guarantees that their problems will get worse and worse before exploding into someone else's face. This lack of real quality control encourages worse behavior.           The primary reason that govt goes to such extreme lengths to conceal and minimize the numerous s instances of corrupt and addictive behavior in its own employees is to maintain the illusion of honesty, competence and infallibility that is essential to its continued access to excessive power over its taxherds. Govt power manages to accomplish this by keeping the electorate ignorant with bad schools and malinformed by its incestuous relationship with the media who gladly provide the necessary propaganda. The fix for this deplorable situation is obvious: we citizens must get organized and educated, quickly. The tools far this are use of the net for communication and electronic voting.          (see: Electronic Voting: the Ferrari of Citizen Empowerment) The means for exacting quality control and excellence in our govt is at our hands and we should use it to get what we pay for, not the lawyer-ocracy that we have.