The above is photo of weapon similiar to the weapon held against my head between my eyes while they were beating me


De'jvue 1995 ATF Los Angeles raids Mercy Crusade. Big mouthed press whore Madeline Berstein spreads her legs to get attention to get donations for her $200,000 a year salary stating that NO 501(c)3 should have weapons to save animals

By: A VICTIM of the SPCA LOS ANGELES

In their own words

January 10, 2007 began as a typical sunny, tranquil, normal Wednesday. I got up early as always, and worked at my computer. Having done my early morning chores, cleaning up after my dogs, and cleaning and refilling all their water buckets, and I sat back down at my computer, and continued putting together and sending pleas for dogs facing death at the LA city pounds. Suddenly at around 10:30 am the silence was shattered by an unearthly loud banging at my front door and a very loud menacing voice yelling something which I could not make out. I froze in terror before I walked in the direction of the front door, wondering what this horror was, and fearing for the safety of my beloved rescued dogs. Within a few seconds before reaching the door, I heard the sound of my door being smashed in.


It was so unreal. All I could think of was trying to figure out what I could do to try to protect my precious dogs from whatever menace was invading my house and trying to hurt me and my poor dogs. Two of my dogs were in the entry room, they were just pups around 10 months old, and I was the most worried about them, since they would be the first to fall victim to the invaders.


I had to see who was breaking in, try to negotiate with them, plead with them, to not harm my poor dogs. So I ran outside to my yard, where I stood inside my fence, next to my locked gate, where I could see the area that leads up to the front door of my house. I saw a line of 15-20 people, all with uniforms labeled "humane officers", lined up in front of my door walking into my house. My house is the third house from the street, on a "flag lot", and a communal access road leads to my house. No one from the street can even see my house, let alone what these thugs were doing to me and to my house and to my poor dogs.


The 300 or so yard access road from the street to my house was filled with a row of nothing but vehicles- cars and trucks-which bore the SPCA-LA logo, and the street was also filled for at least 200 yards with SPCA vehicles. There were no police, no sheriff, no one else was there, only SPCA personnel, and their co-conspirators from far away dog pounds which have no right to do animal control in L.A. city.


I stood at the gate to my chain link fence and called out to the thugs, "Do you have a warrant?" No one bothered to show me a warrant or in any other manner respond to my question. Instead, an armed thug, whose name I later learned was Steven Pacheco of SPCA-LA, immediately pointed a 9 mm handgun at my forehead. He was barely 1-2 feet from me, with his gun pointed in my face. It was so surreal, so terrifying beyond imagining. I have never in my life been near any weapons, let alone had a gun pointed at me, and suddenly thugs were invading my house, stealing my precious dogs, and threatening my life. As I faced this gun being pointed at my forehead, all I could say was, "Oh my God, are you going to shoot me?" Can you imagine 15-20 armed, sadistic vigilantes against one poor, peaceful, unarmed woman who did nothing but save lives of animals? Just imagine how terrified you would be!


Pacheco ordered me to put my hands up. But I instead ran back toward my back door. I could not simply stand there with Pacheco pointing the gun in my face and wait to be murdered. I have always been able to think on my feet during emergencies, and I reasoned that if I ran, I'd be a moving target, and so I'd be harder for Pacheco to shoot. I also knew that I had to hurry back into my house since my precious dogs were in there at the mercy of the invaders who have no mercy-I'd known from experience that SPCALA is a major killer of animals, I'd been in the alleyway behind SPCALA many times and had seen the barrels full of animals murdered by SPCALA being carted out to the truck which takes them to the rendering plant. I realized that SPCALA was after my dogs, and I was terrified for their lives. I knew that if the SPCALA got hold of them, they would slaughter my poor animals that I had rescued, as they do to all the other animals they steal from rescuers.


I hoped to be able to try to reason with at least some of the thugs to not steal and murder my poor dogs. I ran to the entry room, but by then the SPCA people had broken in my door and already my two poor pups that had been in the entry room were gone, and the front door to my house was wide open. As I had run to the entry room from the back door, I believe I saw some of the thugs in some of the rooms in my house, but my main concern was the entry room, where my poor pups had been.

As soon as I got to the entry room, I stopped and saw that there were two big thugs in there. One of them, who I later learned was Derek Hensel, stood just inside my front door, and pointed directly at my face a huge high-powered military-style automatic assault rifle such as I'd never before seen, that resembled something out of Star Wars. This was a weapon that I can only imagine would be used in mortal combat in times of war. I was utterly terrified and I couldn't believe what was happening, that a peaceful, law abiding woman living alone and taking care of her rescued animals was being threatened with more and more lethal weapons in her own home, and there were no police or any other peace officers there, who claim to protect and to serve, and who should have been protecting me against the SPCALA vigilantes.

I trembled as Hensel stood about three feet from me, pointing the huge, lethal assault weapon in my face, but I simply stood in the entry room, and again asked to see a warrant. The other thug in the entry room, who I later learned was Tony Manzanares, said, "You'll see one later." Manzanares then threatened to taser me, which further terrified me. Tasers are lethal weapons, and with Hensel pointing the assault weapon in my face and Manzanares threatening to taser me, it was TERRORISM at its most hideous. It's unbelievable that this kind of SADISM and TERRORISM is allowed to be perpetrated on innocent unarmed citizens in the United States of America! SPCALA and the rest of their co-conspirators, the SPCA's and the "Humane Societies" band together and convince naïve legislators and the gullible public that they are providing some kind of service, and so permissive laws are passed that corrupt city attorneys Don Cocek and Bob Ferber are able to use, with the blessing of some very corrupt judges such as Patricia Schnegg. The SPCA's and the "Humane Societies" lie to the legislators and the public as well as the courts, that they need the weapons in order to protect themselves from armed drug lords when the vigilantes raid cockfighting and dog fighting rings, as well as those who perpetrate abuse on animals, but the truth is, of course, that the SPCA's and the "Humane Societies" NEVER go after actual animal abusers, but only innocent rescuers who never would and never could fight back in any way-the VIGILANTES are TERRORISTS of the worst kind, preying upon the most peaceful and compassionate members of society, in order for the vigilantes to be able to indulge their violent and sadistic tendencies, and to extort money from their victims.


But it doesn't stop there, the level of corruption in the courts, the legislature, the LAPD, and the L.A. City Attorney's office is such that the SPCALA thugs are aided and abetted in their brazen perpetration of assault and battery, as well as sexual assault, upon innocent animal rescuers. Hensel and Manzanares are such sadists that they had to make sure that they made me feel utterly humiliated, injured, powerless, because that is how the illegal private army called SPCALA neutralizes anyone questioning their purported authority. In fact, many of the SPCA personnel were huge in stature-and they were well equipped physically in every way to do the maximum amount of damage and harm to me, a single, 5'6" woman weighing 110 lbs. They were all wearing SPCA uniforms, most of which were imprinted with the words "humane officer". How ironic that these thugs label themselves as "humane", when everything they do to animals and to humans is simply calculated to do the most harm, and nothing that SPCALA does is in the least bit humane, but instead it is all grossly inhumane.

Manzanares then knocked me down, threw me down on the floor, making me sink helplessly to my knees on the floor in the entry room of my house, so that my side was next to and up against a thick bookcase in that room. While I was on my knees, Manzanares repeatedly bashed my head and arms and ribs and hips-the entire left side of my body-into the bookcase, smashing my head, and the entire left side of my body, continually against the hard wooden bookcase. Hensel also joined in the abuse against me by Manzanares, bashing my head and body continuously against the bookcase. I felt utterly powerless against their humiliation and physical abuse of me, which was what they wanted. Tears streamed down my face from the pain and the humiliation, and I cried out to them, "you are really hurting me!" I begged them to stop, but they paid no attention as if they did not hear me. But Manzanares and Hensel did not stop there. After several minutes of the gross physical abuse, Manzanares and Hensel grabbed my underarms and breasts, sexually assaulting me, and forcibly dragged me down the stairs, and out of my house. I simply went limp, as is the custom of peaceful non- resistance when confronted by violence and weapons. Clearly the reason that the vigilantes kidnapped me from my house was to prevent me from being there while they did what they pleased, preventing me from even witnessing what they were doing to my animals, my house, my possessions.

Manzanares and Hensel then shoved me up against the retaining wall of my next door neighbor, and a man whom I later found out was David Havard, who is second in command of SPCALA, entrapped me with his hand on my breasts against my neighbor's retaining wall. This is again sexual assault as well as kidnapping. Havard refused to let me leave, he threatened me with arrest if I moved from the spot. I had no intention of leaving anyway, I wanted to be there to witness what they were doing to my house and my dogs.


I then discovered that one of my two pups that the SPCA had taken from my entry room was loose. She came to me, and I attempted to shoo her away, hoping she would run away in order to steer clear of the thugs, and then come back later, but the poor pup wanted to protect me, so she just kept coming to me. I kept trying to get her to run away while two of the SPCA vigilantes came at my pup from both sides with brutal pole snares and captured her while I was helpless to do anything. I simply stood there and tried to get my pup to run away. I certainly never touched anyone, but City Attorney Cocek, who is prosecuting this case (Cocek is and has long been a volunteer for SPCA and was on their board of directors in the past) has falsely charged me with two counts of battery, based upon the perjured allegations of Havard and Denise Jakcsy, one of the people with the poles.



The perjuries by Havard and Jakcsy are so blatantly ridiculous, claiming that I kicked each of them repeatedly. Of course, the vigilantes never consider how illogical their perjuries are, because they know they can get away with their false police reports, aided and abetted by LAPD, and by the corrupt legal system in L.A. But of course, the truth is that the rescuers whom SPCALA victimizes are nothing like what they are portrayed as by the vigilantes. Most rescuers are survivors, and are tactful and know how to deal with people. Consider for a moment the ludicrousness of the charge that I kicked the two SPCALA thugs. First of all, for what purpose would I ever have kicked them, what would anyone gain by kicking the thugs? Nothing, of course. Apparently the thugs want you to believe that innocent, compassionate rescuers go around kicking people for no reason-in fact, the only ones who perpetrate violence for no reason other than to indulge their insanity and sadism are the SPCALA thugs! And one can see that, in fact, the thugs accusing rescuers of violence is simply a manifestation of what is called projection, in psychology-that is, a perpetrator of an act turns around and accuses the victim of being the perpetrator of the act, in order that the actual perpetrator can avoid taking responsibility for their own actions, and can blame someone else.


Aside from the fact that it would have been utterly purposeless for me to have kicked anyone, consider that I was at home, and I was barefoot. I may have had time to slip on a pair of plastic thong slippers next to my desk before SPCALA broke into my house, or I may have been barefoot the whole time, but either way, it would have been beyond absurd for me to try to kick anyone-I would only have hurt my own feet. And in fact, to drive home the absolute absurdity of the thugs accusing me of kicking them, consider that I was alone, unarmed, and completely powerless against a band of 15-20 armed and dangerous thugs who were out to do as much damage as possible to me, to my house, and to my animals, as they had already amply demonstrated, perpetrating horrendous acts while I offered no resistance. It would in fact have been suicidal for me if I'd tried to kick any of the thugs, as it would have simply incited more violence from them. I was already terrified of them, and I, in fact, made very sure that I never even accidentally touched or went near any of them, despite their continually assaulting and battering me, as well as threatening me verbally and with lethal weapons repeatedly. I was terrified for my life and the lives of my dogs at the hands of these violent, armed to the teeth, vigilantes.


The SPCALA thugs bring these perjuries for the purpose of adding to the false charges brought by Cocek in the racketeering scheme and conspiracy by Cocek and SPCALA, in order to further harm the rescuer. Another reason that the thugs make up perjured allegations is to be able to continually foist upon the public, and the courts and juries, the fiction that the rescuer is mentally unstable and just plain crazy. SPCALA, as well as all the other SPCA's and "Humane Societies", have spun their deceit for so many years, falsely promoting themselves as legitimate organizations with authority, and as caring about animals when in fact SPCALA does nothing more than kill animals and falsify reports, while they portray innocent, compassionate rescuers as insane and unbalanced. In fact, SPCALA President Madeline Bernstein even has the press totally sewn up; as I found out, and as undoubtedly any other rescuer terrorized by SPCALA has found out, the press refuses to even talk with the victimized rescuers.


It is so unbelievable that these vigilantes get away with telling so many lies, on top of the SPCALA thugs' violence upon animals and the rescuers. The lies by Madeline Bernstein to the press about me were outrageous. And there were countless other perjuries by SPCALA thugs. Pacheco lied on the witness stand, alleging that I cursed at him for several minutes as he held me at gunpoint, when of course I never cursed at him at all, and that I flailed my arms in a threatening manner. I, of course, never did any of that, I was simply terrified for my life and the lives of my dogs. All that I did was to ask them for a warrant, and their response was to point guns in my face and threaten to kill me, and to assault and batter me and kidnap me out of my house.


The SPCA person who was the leader of the invasion, Pacheco
, came out of my house a few minutes later while I was still pinned against the fence with Havard's hand on my breasts and claimed to be reading me my rights-Mirandizing me-upon which I asked him if he was arresting me. He answered in the affirmative, and then he handcuffed me with my hands behind my back. He dragged me about halfway down the communal access road to one of their cars in the long row of cars filling the road which is the only street access to any of the 5 houses and 2 apartments in the flag lot. My neighbor who owns the house in front of me was outside and could see what was happening at that point. I called out to him to tell him that I was being arrested and I asked him to call someone, but I couldn't think fast of who he should call. I then simply called out to him to call a lawyer. Then I was shoved into the back seat of an SPCA car, and a copy of the purported warrant was thrown on the seat next to me, upside down and folded, so I could not read it.
I was trapped in the car for 2-3 hours, handcuffed the entire time, and the handcuffs were extremely painful. I noticed that among the SPCA people were two women, also in the SPCA uniforms. But it was not the women who had assaulted me or shoved me around or touched me at all-the women never came near me, all the assaulting of me was done by men, and especially by the biggest thugs. At one point I realized that the woman directing the whole thing was Madeline Bernstein! I recognized her, and I even asked one of the SPCA people if that was Bernstein and the person confirmed that it was. I saw that at least one, but probably more, of the SPCA people had cameras, and it appeared that at least one had a video camera, and they took the cameras into my house.


While I sat helplessly entrapped in the car, the SPCA people dragged out my poor dogs and took them out presumably to their trucks, I could not see exactly where they took them. As I watched in despair, some of my poor dogs were dragged by the brutal pole, dragged on their backs, cruelly strangled and choked as they tried to resist being stolen from their home.

Every one of my dogs is a rescue from the pound, I rescued them moments before they were to be killed. I am the only one who has kept these poor dogs from being killed. The SPCA is a high kill pound and they have always brutally killed all of the animals they have seized (illegally) from rescuers, and I have been terrified that they will kill my poor dogs as soon as their case is over, as they will have no further use for my poor babies. Many, many animalswhich have been seized by the SPCALA from rescuers over the years, have been killed immediately, the same day they were seized with SPCALA not even waiting until a case was brought let alone concluded. SPCALA apparently claims that my dogs are still alive, and I can only hope that that is true. I know that SPCALA has killed at least two of my dogs, and has falsified vet reports while SPCALA deprived my dogs of food and water.


I then saw the SPCA people bringing out my computer and putting it into the trunk of the car they had me in. They then brought out a large brown paper bag, super market size, and they continued to bring out bag after bag from my home, probably at least 10 to 20 bags in all, filled with my possessions, and I was not even able to see what they had taken. I discovered later that they had taken my digital camera
, and many documents, including all my tax returns for the past 10 years, and personal items from my home, including family photographs, as well as my passport, my citizenship paper, my birth certificate, and my life savings, my 37 Krugerrand gold coins(Value $37,000). It's impossible for me to even know or catalog all the items the SPCA stole from me that day. I was able to get the attention of a couple of the SPCA people and while still entrapped in the car, I asked them where they were taking my dogs and they refused to tell me, though I heard them talking and figured out which facility they were taking my dogs to.



The SPCA people took me out of the car when they were ready to leave. They did not arrest me as they had said, they had lied to me saying they were arresting me, which constitutes false arrest. By that time the trucks containing my dogs and many of the paper bags were already gone, and Madeline Bernstein seemed to have left as well. None of the SPCA people were willing to speak with me about anything, and they refused to answer questions or give information.


Pacheco gave me a carbon copy of the two "inventory sheets" he had made out-one which contained a list of the dogs they took, and one which contained a very generalized and incomplete list of the items they took from my house. The sheet listing the dogs contained only 14 dogs, yet I had 17 dogs, and the ones they left off the list were my 3 Pit Bulls, the only dogs I had that were Pit Bulls; it seemed to me they had purposely left off the 3 Pit Bulls, and I was very worried especially that therefore they would kill those dogs. The list they gave me of the personal items they took is vague and lists only generalities like "papers". The SPCALA thugs had simply looted my house, helping themselves to anything they felt like taking.


When the SPCA left, I spoke with my neighbor who lives in the house in front of me, and he told me that the SPCA had been nosing around the neighborhood a few days prior, asking the neighbors for information about me.


Notably, the SPCA never spoke to me nor did they ever come to my house nor telephone me nor send me anything, nor in any way contact me or give me any warning that they were planning to invade me. I was never given any notice to comply or any kind of notice that anything I was doing was in any way objectionable to SPCALA, nor was I ever given any chance to correct anything, nor any chance to dialogue or speak to anyone at the SPCA. This was a complete shock to me; clearly the intent of the SPCA was to invade me without any warning. They simply wanted to take me completely by surprise, so that they could maximally harm me and take my animals and possessions.


I walked back to my house and I saw that my car had been totally ransacked. The car doors were wide open and the items in my car were all over the ground outside. A lot of items were taken from my car.


I walked back into my house and saw that not only had the front door lock been broken-and the wooden strips holding the door were in pieces--but the long vertical door frame strip that made the door able to be shut, was broken off, so there was no way to even close the door let alone lock it. Then I saw that several other door handles and locks in the house had been broken, door jambs had been smashed out and the doors destroyed.


The house was totally ransacked, all my drawers, including all my clothing and underwear drawers, were open and clothing was everywhere. All the clothing in my closets was thrown on the floor. My old photos were ransacked-photos of me, photos of my deceased parents, photos from my wedding, all were taken out of drawers and lying all over the place, many of them stolen.


I have since discovered many other items missing, including tax receipts, other forms necessary for doing my taxes, as well as bills, and they took vet receipts and animal records so that I am not able to substantiate some of my records and expenses and receipts.

IMPERSONATION OF A PEACE OFFICER IS A A STATE PENAL CODE VIOLATION




The SPCA employees/volunteers had broken my basement lock, and additionally they had cut a large rectangular piece out of the side of my house leaving a gaping big hole there Subsequent to the invasion of me by SPCALA, I delivered and/or sent numerous letters of complaint to Chief Bratton's office regarding the conduct of LAPD Northeast Division officers' refusal to take a police report from me, and asking Bratton's office to compel LAPD to take a police report, without any response. However, later in 2007, an LAPD Internal Affairs investigation was begun. It was totally inadequate from the onset. The paper which stated the basis for the investigation contained one brief inaccurate sentence as the basis of the investigation. I was contacted by a detective from LAPD Northeast Division, and he asked me a few questions, to which I responded, and I asked him to contact my attorney for answers to the rest of the detective's questions. My attorney was never contacted by the detective. Shortly thereafter, I am informed, the investigation was "closed", claiming that nothing improper was done by LAPD in refusing to take a police report from me.


This is unacceptable. A police report needs to be taken from me by LAPD, it is my right to make a police report regarding the crimes committed against me by the private corporation SPCALA.


I believe the invasion of me, and the brutal violence against me and theft of my property, by SPCALA, was motivated in large part as revenge against me by SPCALA for my exercising my First Amendment right to free speech. I spoke out against Madeline Bernstein twice at Los Angeles City Council meetings. And I spoke out repeatedly against Los Angeles Animal Services, before the Los Angeles City Council and various other public agencies. Madeline Bernstein and Los Angeles Animal Services are also linked, there is racketeering between them. In fact, Madeline Bernstein was head of the committee that chose the previous General Manager of Los Angeles Animal Services. I am informed by an investigator that SPCALA has an unauthorized photo of me, blown up to a large size, posted at the SPCALA headquarters, for the purpose of targeting me, and SPCALA claims that I am "dangerous". Of course, I am only "dangerous" to those who brutalize innocent rescuers and their animals, by virtue of the fact that I speak out against the atrocities by SPCALA and Los Angeles Animal Services; I am considered "dangerous" only because I am a whistle blower, and therefore SPCALA and Los Angeles Animal Services are in "danger" of being exposed for the criminals that they are, to U.S. federal agencies and to the press, and to society in general. I continue to fear for my life and property at the hands of the vigilante private army called SPCALA, which obtains illegal warrants, carries and points high powered assault weapons on unarmed rescuers, assaults and batters unarmed rescuers, steals and destroys property, kills innocent owned animals, and racketeers with corrupt Los Angeles county Judge Patricia Schnegg to obtain illegal search warrants, and racketeers with corrupt Los Angeles City Attorney Don Cocek, as well as other corrupt Los Angeles county judges who are under the thumb of Judge Patricia Schnegg, to bring phony charges against innocent animal rescuers, in order to further brutalize them, kill their animals, and extort hundreds of thousands, and even millions, of dollars in order to enrich Madeline Bernstein, Don Cocek, Judge Patricia Schnegg, and others. We live in the United States of America, a country in which private, mercenary, vigilante armies of thugs such as SPCALA cannot legally do law enforcement. The horrors perpetrated by SPCALA and those who illegally racketeer with it for their enrichment need to be investigated and stripped of the purported powers illegally granted to them by corrupt courts and prosecutors, as well as by LAPD, and there needs to be an end to SPCALA and the Nazi atrocities it perpetrates.


Of course I have been terribly worried about my poor dogs ever since the invasion. I attempted to get information on them and a corrected "inventory" sheet. I began phoning the SPCA but they refused to give me any information. Several other persons concerned about my animals also called the SPCA and they were also given no information, including an attorney who called them on my behalf and the SPCA refused to give them any information as well. It was the typical action of the SPCA, Pacheco had given me his card but of course he never answers the phone and never calls back anyone, never called me back despite my leaving several messages for him. The SPCA personnel who did answer the phone were also not helpful and were rude and lied, just like their management. There were many different versions of how many dogs they had of mine, so I was very concerned that they were killing some or all of my dogs. I did manage to speak with David Havard a couple of days later, and I asked him how many dogs of mine they had, and he couldn't tell me. I then asked him if all my 17 dogs were alive, and he answered in the affirmative, but it was just yes-ing me as I asked questions. I again asked for and demanded a corrected inventory of dogs and Havard gave me no commitment, as expected, and I was never able to reach him again, nor did I ever receive any corrected inventory sheets, nor any further communication from SPCALA or any of their personnel.


All TV stations in the city had on Madeline Bernstein talking about the raid, as well as many radio stations, on the evening of January 10, 2007. The next day, I phoned every TV station and informed them that they had broadcast untruths and told them I wanted to present my side, but they said they were not interested. I did manage to find out that the press releases sent out by the SPCA went out at approximately 1:00 pm to the TV stations on January 10, 2007, they lost no time in getting it on TV; presumably they had the press releases ready long ahead of time before they invaded me.


I began having intense chest pains the day after the invasion. The pains kept increasing in intensity until it hurt so much that I was nearly passing out each time I breathed. Two days following the invasion, on January 12, 2007, I went to the emergency room of the county general hospital. After 5 hours of examinations, the diagnosis was muscular injury to my chest, and of course stress from the trauma. The full medical records are more complete. Shortly after the invasion, I began to develop neuropathy, i.e., nerve damage, due to the stress and trauma of what the SPCA did to me, my animals, my home, and fears of what else they may do, and especially after Cocek and Ferber brought their false charges against me in order to harm me by extortion and by killing my dogs. As a result, I am disabled; I had been very healthy and strong prior to the SPCALA's invasion.


The day of the raid, and the next day, I went 3 times to the Northeast Division of the LAPD to try to file a police report on the invasion, but I was refused each time, including by Sgt. Solis, , LAPD, the watch commander. I had first spoken to her by phone, and she said she would take a police report, but when I arrived at the station, she claimed that the SPCA had a right to do whatever they did because they had a warrant, and whatever they did to me was fine with the LAPD. They didn't care about the physical abuse by the SPCA or civil rights violations. Sgt. Solis , LAPD, claimed the SPCA was authorized to do whatever they wanted to do by the Corporations Code, and she gave me a copy of the supposedly relevant sections. She further stated that the SPCA was justified in doing whatever they wanted to do to me because the SPCA alleged to her that I "charged at" the SPCA, which of course is a total lie, I have never touched anyone. I told that to Solis, but it made no difference to her.


A few weeks or perhaps a month later, I was at South LA pound, and a kennel employee pointed out to me a paper that was posted outside the kennel supervisor's office. It was dated January 10, 2007. I took photos of the paper and I was able to put it into my computer and get a hard copy of my photo of the paper. The paper was from Pacheco of the SPCA, and it had a list of the pounds to which it was sent; it instructed everyone receiving it to circulate it and post it everywhere. The paper stated that I am to be considered "extremely dangerous" and that if I show up at the SPCA asking about my dogs, I am to not be admitted, and that the employees are to call "the authorities". There was also posted a photocopy of a photo of me, which I also photographed for my records. The very next time I was at the South LA pound, I noticed that those papers were gone from the spot where I had seen them, no doubt because I had photographed them. I did not see them posted subsequently.









A few months later, shortly before my arraignment, at around 10:00 am on a weekday, there was a knock at my door, and a persistent voice repeatedly calling out my last name, interspersed with the voice calling out my first name. Despite my having several "no trespassing" signs on my property, the person was clearly walking all over my property, calling out my name over and over for probably at least 15 minutes. I found out that it was "the blond newscaster" (a male) from Channel 2, accompanied by a cameraman. They had apparently been visiting my neighbors before they got to my house to get info on me. I called Channel 2 as did a friend, and we got 2 different supervisors/editors on the line, both of whom confirmed that no one from Channel 2 was scheduled to come to my house. I believe this was a trap, that SPCA had set it up and that they were trying to barge into my house to try to get info to harm me.


The next day, Channel 9 and then Channel 2 (which are the same company), began to repeatedly air a "news" segment in which the "host" condemns me, featuring, of course, Madeline Bernstein, saying that all but one of my dogs "have survived", which means they have probably killed one of them. The piece falsely claimed that the SPCA has an injunction against me to keep me away from my dogs forever, and they showed a copy of the purported injunction; I know of no such injunction ever having been granted or filed. The newscaster continually said that she can't believe that I am actually asking for my dogs back. The SPCA is a high kill pound, they impound animals, including by theft, and then kill them. I have been extremely worried that that is what they will do to my dogs. I rescued them once from nearly being killed, now the SPCA wants to finish them off. Bernstein says on there that I face 19 years in prison and $400,000 in fines if convicted, although the corrupt court is trying to force me to pay an ADDITIONAL $500,000 or more in "restitution" to the vigilantes-imagine, the corrupt courts and criminal L.A. Deputy City Attorney Cocek trying to extort on behalf of his co-conspirators $1 million from a poor rescuer who has no money, and did nothing wrong, and then on top of it murdering the poor rescuer's dogs, and then Cocek and the corrupt court trying to induce me to relinquish my dogs, misrepresenting that SPCALA wants to adopt them, when in fact SPCALA only intends to kill them all. That is the way SPCALA, Cocek, and the corrupt courts work, trying to trick rescuers into relinquishing their animals so that the vigilantes can kill them, intimidating the poor rescuers, and trying to falsely convict them: that is the racket that SPCALA, Cocek, and the corrupt courts perpetrate. It's high time to put an end to this TERRORISM by sadistic vigilantes.


The bogus search warrant issued by corrupt Judge Patricia Schnegg, who breaks laws in order to protect and defend and give unlawful privileges to SPCALA, had no name printed on it of any judge, just a signature of someone, and the search warrant listed not items but only categories of just about anything that could be in a house, which SPCALA used in order to steal anything they wanted from my home, and from my car.


SPCALA also slandered me all over the "news" media, on at least two separate occasions.SPCALA and its agents and employees cut a hole in the side of my house, ransacked my car and threw out all its contents all over the driveway. They broke several doors and locks. They emptied out all six full buckets of water that I had for my dogs, so that they could photograph empty buckets, in order to falsely accuse me of not giving my dogs water. They purposely ignored all the 17+ buckets full of dog food which I kept filled at all times for my dogs, as well as the full bags of dog food which constituted my abundant supply at all times of the highest quality premium dog food, so that the thugs could claim I was starving my dogs. My civil and constitutional rights were egregiously violated, including First Amendment, Fourth Amendment, Fifth Amendment, and Fourteenth Amendment. Additionally, I was the victim of several crimes at the hands of SPCALA and its agents and employees.


On the day of the incident, I went with a friend to LAPD Northeast Division, at around 10:00-11:00 p.m. in order to file a police report. The two policemen at the desk refused to take a police report, claiming that no matter what atrocities had been done to me, I could not file a police report because the invaders had a warrant. I went back the next day to LAPD Northeast Division, and the policeman at the desk refused to take a police report. In the ensuing few days, I contacted the watch commander at LAPD Northeast Division, Sgt. Solis, by telephone. She indicated that she would take a police report from me. But when I went into the LAPD Northeast Division for the third time, the following day to meet with Sgt. Solis, I was informed she was "in a meeting". I waited until she was ready to meet with me. Sgt. Solis then told me that she was not going to take a police report after all. She said that she didn't care about the physical abuse or civil rights violations perpetrated on me by SPCALA. Sgt. Solis claimed SPCALA was authorized to do whatever they wanted to do to me and my home and any of my property by the Corporations Code, and she gave me a copy of the supposedly relevant sections. She further stated that SPCALA was justified in doing whatever they wanted to do to me because SPCALA alleged to her that I "charged at them", which of course is a total lie, I never touched anyone nor even resisted. I told that to Solis, but it made no difference to her, she adamantly continued to refuse to take a police report from me. Yet LAPD Northeast Division took a FALSE police report from SPCALA, full of nothing but lies, and that is a violation of Penal Code section 148.5, subsections (a), (b), and (c), by both SPCALA and its employee Steven Pacheco. Further, it is also conspiracy by LAPD Northeast Division and Sgt. Solis, with SPCALA, to take a false police report from SPCALA and its employee Steven Pacheco, and to prevent me from filing a true and accurate police report of the crimes committed against me by SPCALA and its agents.


All TV stations in the city had on Madeline Bernstein giving nothing but false and slanderous statements about the raid, as did many radio stations, on the evening of January 10, 2007, the most egregious being on Channel 2, with Stacey Butler, with whom Bernstein seems to have a cozy relationship. Butler and Bernstein claimed that the DA would be filing felony charges against me, but of course the DA never prosecutes on behalf of SPCALA, the only person who does is Don Cocek of the L.A. city attorney office, who has been on SPCALA's board of directors, and is currently and has been an SPCALA volunteer and has received SPCALA's "volunteer of the year" award, and works on behalf of SPCALA to extort money from rescuers, instead of working on behalf of the city of L.A. as he is supposed to. The next day, I phoned every TV station and informed them that they had broadcast untruths and asked to present my side, but they all refused to even interview me. I did manage to find out that the press releases sent out by the SPCA went out at approximately 1:00 pm to the TV stations on January 10, 2007, they lost no time in getting it on TV; presumably they had the press releases ready long ahead of time before they invaded me.


A few weeks or perhaps a month later, I was at South LA pound, and a kennel employee pointed out to me a paper that was posted outside the kennel supervisor's office. It was dated January 10, 2007. I took photos of the paper, which stated it was written by Pacheco, and it had a list of the pounds to which it was sent; it instructed everyone receiving it to circulate it and post it everywhere. The paper stated that I am to be considered "extremely dangerous" and that if I show up at SPCALA asking about my dogs, I am to not be admitted, and that the employees are to call "the authorities". There was also posted a photocopy of a photo of me, which I also photographed for my records. The very next time I was at the South LA pound, I noticed that those papers were gone from the spot where I had seen them, and I did not see them posted subsequently.

The next day, Channel 9 and then Channel 2 (which are the same company), began to repeatedly air a "news" segment in which the Stacey Butler condemns me, featuring of course Bernstein. In this piece, Bernstein again slanders me and falsely claims that SPCALA has an injunction against me to keep me away from my dogs forever, and they showed a copy of the purported injunction, yet no such injunction has ever been granted or even filed, according to L.A. County Superior Court records.

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