Yes it's true. I failed to properly do my job in the last issue of GFN. Let's hope this one goes a bit smoother (sometimes it's not as easy as it looks steering this ship).

The problem created by me, Fred Crane (editor), basically had to do with not publishing the "final draft" of one of our reporters. My bad.

In this issue of GFN you'll find the revised edition, with more info. Refer to articles #2 & #3 below for the "revised edition".

Onward,

Fred Crane

Editor, GFN

KERN COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE AND KERN COUNTY ANIMAL CONTROL WASTE TAXPAYER DOLLARS

TO HARASS AND TERRORIZE DISABLED SENIOR CITIZENS BY DOING ILLEGAL SEARCH OF THEIR BEDROOMS

GFN has a hard time believing that a JUDGE would order Kern County Animal Control to search bedrooms. What are they looking for K Y Jelly and Viagra?

ACO Julie Dunlap Suggs aka the Slug, ACO Steve Erlich and Deputy Bowman arrived at the taser victims home and spent 10 minutes doing a "walk through" inspection of the house, bedrooms, property and left. Only ONE Sheriff's car arrived along with the A/C vehicles. What a waste of taxpayer's gas money and salaries. Surely Kern Counties dollars could be better spent solving Murder, Rape, Child Abuse, and Burglary cases. Is A/C trying to impress all the non profits that were behind the lawsuit against Kern by trying to "drum this non profit out of business" so that they can have a larger donation base? Perhaps they are trying to impress the Animal Enterprise Terrorists that they are really a good A/C after losing the lawsuit to them a couple years ago. Perhaps this is part of the payoff to keep them quiet and not filing another case against Kern County and A/C? Will we ever know? GFN is digging and as you all know when GFN digs in, heads WILL roll.

Even Felons that have committed murder and are on Parole have more Constitutional Rights than the Senior Citizen Taser Victim that has NOT BEEN CONVICTED OF ANYTHING YET. There is case law that these illegal searches CANNOT happen. But of course we're talking about good ole' boy JUDGE IN THE POCKET Kern County here. They are not part of our country evidently and can make up their own laws and constitution.

The practice of illegally searching persons that have not been convicted of any crime has become common place in California, especially in Los Angeles and Kern County. If you have not been proven guilty, doesn't our constitution state that you are to be treated as if you are not guilty until the final verdict? Maybe I was dreaming that. This is Judicial along with Prosecutorial Misconduct.

Prosecutorial Misconduct runs rampant in Kern County, and while we're mentioning the DA and Assistant DA's. Where else in our United States would they still have a job after being arrested on October 20, 2007 for 6 counts of BATTERY and 1 count each of PUBLIC DRUNKENESS. Kohler's husband is a private attorney? http://santabarbarasheriffblog.blogspot.com/2 007/11/surprising-article-on-kern-co-da- arrest.html

Andrea Kohler, a prosecutor for the Kern County DA's Office, committed one Count of BATTERY on a Deputy Sheriff. She was also charged with one count of battery for biting a Casino Security Guard. Kohler battered four other security guards at the Chumash Casino. Thats a total of six counts of battery and one count of public drunkeness. GFN is anxious to see if ADA Kohler, who has been assigned to prosecute the taser victim, gets the same punishment as the senior citizen that was tasered then FALSELY CHARGED WITH ATTACKING A COP. ANDREA ATTACKED A COP and tried to KICK out the back window of the squad car also. Isn't that destruction of Public Property? The January 23, 2008 court date was of course "POSTPONED" so that we can forget about it. GFN has the memory of an elephant. We'll Be Watching You Santa Barbara.

Along with a guilty conviction for Andrea and her husband comes a 10 year mandatory ban on owning or possessing ANY FIREARM OR BOW AND ARROW. They also cannot be in the home where they live. GFN will be watching this very closely.

Please check out the very interesting links below which outlines the ADA's case with official documents.

The only case that comes to mind that is equal to Andrea's is the case of Los Angeles. County Judge Lawrence Joseph Mira "Judge to the Stars" in Malibu. He's a known alcoholic. He rolled his vehicle in the Malibu tunnel. He was arrested and charged with Drunk Driving and having One Drug in his blood stream. His case was hidden in the Beverly Hills Court files, but after 12 weeks of persistent demands Beverly Hills court clerk produced copies of the documents. He plead out and was put on 3 years probation. He didn't miss a beat off the bench. The problem was he wasn't a judge. He did not sign an Oath of Office. The other problem was that he was sitting on cases of Drunk Driving and Drug Abusers. Now I'd like to know how a drugged out drunk can be impartial. He also sat on a Juvenile murder case which included 4 other juveniles and marijuana. He failed to disclose that the murder victim was the son of a friend/neighbor and a cop. The judge's daughter babysat the victim also when he was baby. The judge found all of these boys guilty with Special Circumstances. Special Circumstances could not be used against juveniles at that time, which means life in prison without the option of ever being paroled. These four children from age 15 have been imprisoned for the last 12 years.

It was the cop's son that died that was in possession of the marijuana and was supposedly selling it to the other four boys. A push fight ensued and the youngest boy was attacked by the cop's son. The boys older brother told him to stop, pulled out a pocket knife and someone pushed the cop's son forward onto the knife. It went into his heart. What an unfortunate accident and loss of the life of a child, but also four other children have lost their lives too in an unfair trial overseen by a drunken drugged out judge who has been seen running around the grocery store in Malibu in his pajamas drunk and/or drugged. The market always calls the Sheriff's Office to chauffeur him home. Must be nice to be a judge and have PERKS like that. Seems that he should be prosecuted for something right? Damn sure anyone else would be.

According to one of the parents at the end of the trial when the verdict came in the defense attorneys objected to the jury instructions regarding the Special Circumstances and the juveniles. The judged stated Oh Well it's already done.

GFN will be following Andrea's case closely because we all know cases like this are swept under the rug. There is no justice for private citizens with the financial incentives that are paid to cities and counties by the State of California Mandate Fund. The more criminals that are convicted the more federal money will be paid back to that under financed, indebted county. Hello Santa Barbara, never fear GameFowlNews is here!

By Jim Beers

Distinguishing hidden agendas from unintended consequences is often a matter of opinion that merely reflects what the observer wants to believe. Examining the steady loss of freedoms in our great nation often reveals motives and players we had not formerly considered. I leave it to you to consider the following account of the evolution of Law Enforcement in the United States over the past century. Keep it in the context of other changes during this period: changing the election of US Senators from State defenders to national special-interest defenders; authorizing the federal government to lay unlimited incomer taxes; and the emergence of environmental/animal rights/socialist interest groups exerting national political control. Whether a diabolical hidden agenda or simply an unintended consequence, the evolution of Law Enforcement in the US is an element in this scenario to be concerned about.

During the Middle Ages in England and in Colonial America, sheriffs were the primary enforcers of THE LAW. Robin Hood's nemesis and the usurper King's enforcer was the Sheriff of Nottingham. Colonial Sheriffs in the American Colonies of Britain were appointed by the Governor of the Colony and did his (i.e. the Governor's) bidding on behalf of the King and Parliament. One does not have to be a graduate of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Academy to comprehend that a Colonial Sheriff was someone to be feared and a guy whose pay and career opportunities depended not on pleasing the community but rather on pleasing the Governor and the King. Needless to say that when we established this nation, the need for a sheriff seemed self-evident but who they would answer to, was open to question.

Even before the Constitution was ratified, States (the former 13 colonies) had elected Governors and other officials including Sheriffs. Sheriffs tended to be elected under the conditions set forth in each State's Constitution. As Counties were established and urban areas were organized politically, the election of THEIR OWN Sheriff, was considered just one of the many grand advancements of this new Republic. Think of it: a Sheriff elected BY OUR COMMUNITY to keep US safe. During the first century of the nation, this concept of Local Communities like Counties electing or getting rid of their own Sheriff worked as well as any human endeavor can. While there were always scandals and corruption: Local accountability and oversight was always more direct, immediate and responsive than at the State Level and certainly far greater than at the central government or federal level.

As the country expanded, new Territories that would become states needed law enforcement and thus was born the role of US Marshals. They were legendary as "Peace Officers" under some of the most unruly periods in the nation's history. They were appointed by judges or federal politicians and operated with, not independent of, Sheriffs as they were elected. As each State came on line, Sheriffs shortly replaced US Marshals in law enforcement duties.

Cities were the first places to challenge the role of Sheriffs. Powerful, elected Sheriffs were seen as competitors by elected Mayors. Mayors often fought with Sheriffs over who was over who and who would do what. Thus was born the role of City Police Departments and the practice of Mayors APPOINTING The Police Chief. As this evolved and City Police Departments became more powerful, Sheriffs in those urban enclaves became less powerful. As the Mayors controlled the Police, such things as police oversight of corruption or cronyism became more and more rare. Sheriffs, while still elected, became jailers and officers of courts and prisoner transporters. Police Chiefs, while coveting the aura of independent and accountable Sheriffs became little more than appointees of Mayors or hacks. One need look no further today that the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) and their love affair with every gun control scheme to come down the pike. Like the Washington, DC Chief and her "please give us consent to search your home for guns" scheme, urban mayors have used guns as the scapegoat for crime and if any Police Chief diverges from that mantra, they are history. The urban Police Chiefs control the IACP, therefore the "experts", the successors to Sheriffs; support destroying the 2nd Amendment rights of all Americans.

Up until the "Roaring Twenties" and "Prohibition" Marshals were the federal enforcement officers for the very Constitutionally-limited federal body of laws. Migratory Bird authority at the end of WWI emerged and a bevy of Federal Game Wardens were employed in the USDA. The Internal Revenue Service grew with the growth of the Federal Income Tax and was responsible for getting Al Capone imprisoned for "tax evasion". J Edgar and his men chased down Dillinger and Baby-Face Floyd and all the other notorious robbers. The expansion of National Forests and National Wildlife Refuges and National Parks meant more and more rural land that DID NOT PAY LOCAL TAXES so the Sheriffs asked how they could do the same or more enforcement when Uncle Sam was lowering the tax base so dramatically. The federal government bureaucrats jumped with glee. Today, we have Secrets Service Agents and Secret Service Uniformed; FBI, IRS, FWS, NPS, USFS, BLM, USACoE, Customs, Homeland Security, INS, CIA, DOD, NMFS, etc., etc. agents and uniformed and part-time federal enforcement officers. They are usually under DIRECTORS and they encompass hundreds of thousands of employees and billions and billions of annual funding.

Funny thing: as the federal law enforcement force expanded (just like urban Police Departments) Marshals (like Sheriffs) became jailers and officers of court and prisoner transporters.

Federal enforcement agencies do just what every federal agency does. They generate reams of justification for MORE people and MORE money for MORE responsibilities. They argue for better pensions (higher percentages and lower years of service) and they "draft" ever more restrictive regulations to make their job easier regardless of their effect on the citizenry (this is because they are really unaccountable and they get away with things like seizing property for their own use and pushing gun control). An example of their unaccountability is the widespread Washington "secret" that billions of Homeland Security "contracts" go to and are controlled by retired Secret Service agents who in turn employ other retired Secret Service agents. I told this to someone the other day that asked me why "the government" lets this go on? Simple, I said, who is the government but federal employees approaching retirement and who do you think wants to get hired then? It is called "double-dipping" and Washington, DC is awash in it.

Remember all this when you wonder how could a law like the Endangered Species Act be passed? How can anyone charge you with a felony (prison, no-vote anymore, and no-gun anymore) for killing a wolf or grizzly making you fear for your life or the life of a loved one or your property? How can they make me give up use of my property without compensation?

Most Marshals have never known the role they played for the first century of the nation. More and more Sheriffs think of themselves and their Deputies and their role as less important than the Police and certainly insignificant when compared with FEDERAL OFFICERS. Police tend to treat Sheriffs and their Deputies as lesser officers. Federal officers from the tiniest National Park to the Secret Service Director think of Sheriffs and Marshals as little more than someone to send for coffee.

Finally, consider what has disappeared:

• Local election and accountability for the people that enforce our laws
• Local input into what will be legal and illegal IN OUR COMMUNITY.
• Familiarity with enforcers that live in your community.
• Durable, people and business-friendly communities under sensible laws.

Consider what has replaced it:

• Political control of Police Chiefs.
• Laws written and enforced by ever-more remote and unaccountable
• Laws that forbid guns and close public lands.
• Faceless enforcers that are trained to treat you not as a neighbor but as a target.
• Central government law enforcement just like medieval England and Colonial America.

Here we are, back where we started from over 200 years ago. Unintended consequence or hidden agenda? I leave that to you.

I for one suggest we trim back the pomposity and roles of Police Chiefs and federal Directors and rediscover elected Sheriffs for domestic law enforcement. Letting each County elect a Sheriff who is then THE HEAD LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER FOR THAT JURISDICTION is neither radical or difficult, just a well-proven development from the birth of our nation.

Placing all these federal resource agency law enforcers (NPS, USFS, FWS, BLM, NMFS, ETC.) in Interior, Commerce, and Agriculture under the US Marshals would be another move well worth considering. Changing these Police Chiefs and federal agency Directors from law enforcement dictators (the proper term) to law enforcement cooperators is in everyone's best interests (including the enforcers because they are citizens too.)

Ben Franklin must have had all this in mind when he observed that those who would trade freedoms for security deserve neither. We have done just that. Like The Founding Fathers we must break that pact and restore the freedoms we have traded away for a very thin gruel.

Jim Beers

Jim Beers is a retired US Fish & Wildlife Service Wildlife Biologist, Special Agent, Refuge Manager, Wetlands Biologist, and Congressional Fellow. He was stationed in North Dakota, Minnesota, Nebraska, New York City, and Washington DC. He also served as a US Navy Line Officer in the western Pacific and on Adak, Alaska in the Aleutian Islands. He has worked for the Utah Fish & Game, Minneapolis Police Department, and as a Security Supervisor in Washington, DC. He testified three times before Congress; twice regarding the theft by the US Fish & Wildlife Service of $45 to 60 Million from State fish and wildlife funds and once in opposition to expanding Federal Invasive Species authority. He resides in Centreville, Virginia with his wife of many decades.

For those of you who love smoked meat GFN highly recommends the Bradley Smoker website. Make sure you visit the "forums" to read some very good stories of all who enjoy the "Bradley Smokers". Just click on the banner above or goto this link http://www.bradleysmoker.com/main- page.asp

This site does not advocate or endorse any activities that are in violation of Federal, State, or Local laws.

In compliance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, GFN is distributed free, without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes.

All logos and trademarks in this site are property of their respective owner.

FAIR USE NOTICE: This site contains copyrighted material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic, democracy, scientific, and social justice issues, etc. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law.