KABUL: Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani and Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Saturday renewed commitment to continue their joint strategy against terrorism and take their cooperation in the economic sector to a higher level.
Addressing a press conference after holding bilateral talks at the Arg Palace, the two leaders opined that there was an increasing realisation that their dream of shared prosperity could only be achieved through sustained joint efforts.
Gilani said, "Now there is an equal realisation that both the countries are equally suffering because of terrorism and there should be no blame game."
Gilani and Karzai first met separately followed by delegation-level talks and held in-depth discussions aimed at enhancing cooperation in the war against terrorism and extremism, and promoting collaboration on economy, trade and investment, building of energy corridors and improving road and rail links.
Commerce Minister Amin Faheem, Railways Minister Ghulam Ahmed Bilour and Interior Minister Rehman Malik assisted the prime minister during the talks.
Gilani assured Karzai that Pakistan fully supported the reconciliation process with opposition groups to bring them into political mainstream. He said, "Pakistan and Afghanistan realise that instability in one country is not in the benefit of the other and their mutual interest is in pursuing a new path leaving behind the past."
The PM said Pakistan's role was vital for achieving peace and stability in Afghanistan and for winning the war against terrorism, for which his country had suffered immensely and thousands of its soldiers had been killed and injured.
"The investment climate suffered and there is a flight of capital due to terrorism," he added.
Addressing a luncheon at the Presidential Palace, Gilani said Pakistan and Afghanistan should believe in each other and not trust what WikiLeaks was saying. He assured of his government's help for the implementation of the Afghan transit trade agreement that had been approved by the cabinet.
Trust deficit: Karzai categorically stated that there was no trust deficit between Pakistan and Afghanistan. "Afghanistan sees Pakistan as a friend and an anchor of stability," he said, acknowledging the sacrifices rendered by Pakistan's security forces and citizens in the war against terrorism.
[Al Jazeera] US diplomats were concerned about the competence of Hamid Maybe I'll join the Taliban Karzai, the Afghan president, and widespread corruption within his government, according to cables released by WikiLeaks.
Karzai's character as well as ability are questioned in US embassy memos obtained by the whistleblower website and published by the Guardian, a UK newspaper, late on Thursday.
Karl Eikenberry, the current US ambassador to Afghanistan, in a 2009 cable describes Karzai as "insecure" and a "paranoid and weak individual".
"Indeed his inability to grasp the most rudimentary principles of state-building and his deep seated insecurity as a leader combine to make any admission of fault unlikely, in turn confounding our best efforts to find in Karzai a responsible partner," Eikenberry said.
Eikenberry added that Karzai continually blames the US and its allies for Afghanistan's problems rather than looking at the problems of his leadership, and that his attitude was unlikely to change.
'Semi-modern aristocracy'
The cables state that Karzai's own ministers accused him of going along with criminal activity. One case cites Karzai's ordering of the physical intimidation of the official heading a team negotiating with the Taliban.
US officials in the memos view Ahmed Wali Karzai, the half-brother of the president and bigwig in Kandahar, as corrupt and call the Karzai family a "semi-modern aristocracy".
"As the kingpin of Kandahar, Ahmed Wali Karzai (AWK) dominates access to economic resources, patronage, and protection.
"Much of the real business of running Kandahar takes place out of public sight, where AWK operates, parallel to formal government structures, through a network of political clans that use state institutions to protect and enable licit and illicit enterprises."
Al Jizz's James Bays, in Kabul, said that the documents showed a declining confidence in Karzai's presidency.
"Certainly there is criticism of some of the things he has done, like releasing some prisoners from jail ... said to be for tribal, political reasons.
"The cables show a progression of when Karzai has been in power - from total confidence in him to now when they are deeply concerned."
The leaked cables reveal mounting US worries over corruption in Afghanistan and the flight of "vast amounts" of money from the country.
One memo from October 2009 stated that Ahmed Zia Massoud, the then vice-president, had been found with $52m in a suitcase when stopped at Dubai airport.
Massoud has denied the claim.
UK criticism
US diplomats also criticised the role of UK troops in Afghanistan, saying their effort was "not up to standard" in southern Helmand province, a stronghold of the Taliban.
"We and Karzai agree the British are not up to the task of securing Helmand," US diplomats from the Kabul embassy said in a 2008 cable.
In a separate cable sent in February 2009, Karzai complains that UK forces had allowed law and order to breakdown in Helmand.
"When I first returned to Afghanistan, I had only 14 American soldiers with me," the cable quoted Karzai as having said.
"Helmand was safe for girls to go to school. Now ... British soldiers are in Helmand, and the people are not safe.
"We must stand on a higher moral platform than the bad guys."
General Dan McNeill, the commander of Nato forces in Afghanistan from 2007-2008, was reported to have said to a US drug-control officer in April 2007 that the British "had made a mess of things in Helmand, their tactics were wrong".
Gulab Mangal, Helmand's governor, was also quoted in a cable sent from the US embassy in Kabul as telling a US team led by Joe Foreign Policy Whiz Kid Biden ... an example of the kind of top-notch Washington intellect to be found in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body ... , the vice-president, that US forces were needed urgently due to British security in the town of Sangin failing to extend even to the main bazaar.
'Increasing security'
"I do not have anything against them [the British] but they must leave their bases and engage with the people," Mangal said.
"Stop calling it the Sangin district and start calling it the Sangin base - all you have done here is build a military camp next to the city."
The UK has reacted to the leaked memos, stating that their troops had performed well and that safety in Sangin - which the US now maintains responsibility for - was improved by their presence.
"British forces did an excellent job in Sangin, delivering progress by increasing security and taking the fight to the insurgency," the UK's ministry of defence said in a statement.
"Both Afghan leaders, including the governor of Sangin and the US Marines, have publicly recognised and paid tribute to the sacrifice and achievements of British forces in that area," a front man added.
Nato forces have been in Afghanistan since 2001, following a US invasion of the country to remove the Taliban, whom they accused of harbouring al-Qaeda operatives connected to the September 11 attacks, from power.
This year has been the most violent since the campaign began.
The UK has 10,000 troops in the country, now costing more than £5bn ($7.7bn) a year, of about 150,000 foreign troops in Afghanistan.
The WikiLeaks website began releasing a trove of classified US diplomatic cables on Sunday, infuriating Washington, which called the leak an "attack on the international community".
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[Maghrebia] Most of Algeria's Communal Guards will be integrated into the army, Interior Minister Daho Ould Kablia said Thursday (December 2nd) in Algiers. "The Department of National Defence has decided to keep about two-third of the municipal guard. Those who have more ability to continue serving in the Army will be selected," Ould Kablia said during a graduation ceremony for nearly 500 female officers at the Ain Benian Police Academy. He hailed the contribution of the civilian paramilitary guards, adding that the ANP had used their services "in all security operations it had conducted throughout the country".
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[Chosun Ilbo] South Korea gave North Korea an astronomical US$2.98 billion during the Kim Dae-jung and Roh Moo-hyun administrations from 1998-2008, according to a government tally announced Thursday. That is 1.5 times more than the amount of aid China gave to North Korea over the same period, which totaled $1.9 billion.
The government and private businesses gave North Korea $1.84 billion through commercial trade, $544.23 million for package tours to the Mt. Kumgang resort, $450 million for an inter-Korean summit, $41.31 million in land use fees and wages for North Korean workers at the Kaesong Industrial Complex and $30.03 million as part of various social and cultural exchanges, according to internal documents of the Unification Ministry and other government agencies.
◆ Funds to Develop Nuclear Weapons
"North Korea is believed to have spent $500-600 million to develop long-range missiles and $800-900 million to develop nuclear weapons," a South Korean government source said. "And the cash provided by South Korea could have been used to develop them."
Former government officials during the previous administrations deny this. Lee Jae-joung, a former unification minister, said in a lecture in July last year, "It's frustrating to hear claims that North Korea conducted nuclear tests using money that the Kim Dae-jung and Roh Moo-hyun administrations gave. So far the government offered cash to North Korea only once."
He claims that the government was not responsible for paying North Korea $450 million for the first inter-Korean summit in 2000 as that was provided by private businesses together with the cash for the Mt. Kumgang package tours and the Kaesong Industrial Complex.
However, The infamous However... the whereabouts of the cash payment of $400,000 Lee admits to is also uncertain. That was the money North Korea demanded in April 2007 to build a video-link center for the reunions of families separated by the Korean War. North Korea has yet to start construction. "I think they just extorted the money," a South Korean government official said.
◆ Hungry for Cash
"North Korea demanded money for every event," said one Unification Ministry official who was in charge of humanitarian cooperation projects during the Roh administration. "We got the feeling that North Korea was trying to use the reunions of families separated by the Korean War as a means to make money." The North even demanded that South Korea pay $1,000 for each video clip exchanged by families in addition to all of the filming and editing equipment as part of a project back in 2007 that would allow some separated families to stay in touch via video messages, the official said.
A National Assembly audit in 2006 revealed how North Korea made money off South Korean broadcasters. A key example is the W1 billion (US$1=W1,149) that state-run South Korean broadcaster KBS gave North Korea in 2003 to record a TV show about a singing contest in Pyongyang to mark Liberation Day.
In 2005, SBS gave W700 million in cash and W200 million worth of paint and other goods to North Korea for a concert in the North Korean capital by South Korean singer Cho Yong-pil, while in 2002, MBC paid the North W320 million in cash and provided 5,000 TV sets (worth W734 million) for two concerts in Pyongyang by South Korean singers Lee Mi-ja and Yoon Do-hyun.
North Korea also received sizable amounts from South Korean businesses and civic groups through unofficial channels or backroom deals. "Many business owners in the South had problems managing their companies because North Korea habitually made excessive demands for money," said Cho Bong-hyun, a researcher at the Industrial Bank of Korea's economic research center
This suggests that a considerable amount of bribes were paid. One South Korean owner of a garment company that was based in Pyongyang said, "Bribes South Korean businesses paid in the early stages to prevent any problems later became customary. After North Korean officials got a taste of the money, they ended up asking for bribes first."
A Unification Ministry official said, "It's impossible to estimate how much money was given to North Korea through unofficial channels. We can't even trace the use of official government money given to North Korea, such as the $400,000 for building a video-link center for the family reunions, so there is no way of telling what happened to money handed over under the table."
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North Korea demanded money for every event
Humm.... maybe I franchise Sea of Fire Bridal Service
[Arab News] South Korea's next defense chief threatened Friday that jets would bomb the North if it stages another attack like last week's deadly shelling as he outlined a tough new military policy toward the rival neighbor.
President Lee Myung-bak's government is suffering intense criticism that its response to North Korea's Nov. 23 barrage on a South Korean island was weak, and over the stunning revelation that the South's spy chief dismissed information in August indicating the North might attack the front-line island of Yeonpyeong.
Lee's nominee, Kim Kwan-jin, told a parliamentary confirmation hearing that further North Korean aggression will result in Arclight airstrikes. He said South Korea will use all its combat capabilities to retaliate.
"In case the enemy attacks our territory and people again, we will thoroughly retaliate to ensure that the enemy cannot provoke again," Kim said. The hearing is a formality as South Korea's National Assembly does not have the power to reject Lee's appointment.
Kim said it will be difficult for North Korea to conduct a full-scale war because of its weak economy and concerns over a plan to transfer power from ailing leader Kim Jong Il to his young, untested son, Kim Jong Un.
Despite the bold declarations, questions have been raised about Lee's readiness -- and even willingness -- to stand up to the North. The president has been criticized for leading a military whose response to the attack was seen as too slow and too weak. The North fired 170 rounds, compared with 80 returned by South Korea.
Satellite photos showed only about 10 South Korean rounds landed near North Korea's army barracks along the west coast, according to the office of politician Kwon Young-se, who said he saw the images provided Thursday by the National Intelligence Service.
Despite the pressure, Lee must balance calls for a harsh response with the knowledge that Seoul -- a city of more than 10 million people and the economic heart of the country -- lies only 50 km from the Koreas' heavily militarized border and within easy range of North Korean artillery.
South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported Friday that North Korea has recently improved its ability to hit the capital: North Korea now has 5,200 rockets, about 100 more than it used to, the agency said, citing an unidentified South Korean military source. The South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff said it could not confirm the report because it involves military intelligence.
Kim and other senior South Korean officials have warned the North will likely strike again. Kim said Friday that North Korea's leadership and military are South Korea's "main enemy." China, which is North Korea's only major ally, has pressed for an emergency meeting of the six nations that previously negotiated over the North's nuclear program: the two Koreas, China, Russia, Japan and the United States.
North Korea walked away from those disarmament-for-aid talks in April 2009 but has said it now wants to restart them. Washington, Tokyo and Seoul are wary of talking with the North, and their top diplomats planned to meet in Washington on Monday to plot a strategy on dealing with the country.
Although it won't be part of that meeting, China said Thursday it would keep a "close watch" on the talks and sounded upbeat about what they could achieve.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said in a statement that she also hoped the three countries would consider China's proposal for the emergency consultations. Earlier Thursday, Jiang said that Russia had expressed interest. South Korea, Japan and the US have reacted coolly to the suggestion.
Meanwhile, ...back at the ranch... President Lee said he believes there are signs of change in North Korea, citing the presence of private markets and a growing number of defections to South Korea.
"What should be noted is the change of the North Korean people rather than the change of its leaders," Lee said in comments on the presidential website.
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Real easy way to fix the Norks artillery: tac nukes.
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See also TOPIX > SOUTH KOREA REPEATS THREAT TO [militarily] RETALIATE IFF ATTACKED AGAIN. Will bomb Pyongyang via Air Strikes, Other.
* ION SAME > {Former USFK Chief] SOUTH URGED TO HIT BACK HARD AT NORTH IFF ATTACKED AGAIN.
* PEOPLES DAILY FORUM.CN > RUSSIA NAVAL CHIEF: MORE CARRIERS [ + Other NavWarShips] TO BE BUILT [2012-after]. WILL RUSSIA'S NAVAL DREAM COME TRUE?
ARTIC = The RUSSNAV = RUSSIA wants 5-6 CV Groups for its NORTHERN + PACIFIC FLEETS, wid CV's prolly based or centered on FNS "MISTRAL" RUSS-IMPROVED DESIGNS???
Do we even have those anymore? Thought they needed tritium, which only came from the now-closed Savannah River plant and has a short half-life? At least that's what I understood was a threat to certain logging tools future availability.
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FOX NEWS AM + CNN > NORTH KOREA is repor CONDEMNING post-YEONGPYEONG talks between the US-ROK-JAPAN allegedly establishing trilateral military alliance. THE DPRK WARNS THAT SAID TALKS PROVES CONSPIRACY FOR WAR + WILL ONLY RAISE TENSIONS = LIKELIHOOD FOR SAME???
The police in Rotterdam have arrested a man on a charge of having threatened the daughter of leftwing Green (GroenLinks) party leader Femke Halsema.
The 35 year old man, as has now been made known, was arrested on Tuesday. He threatened Halsema in September via twitter.com, under the name of allah-u-akbar. He also threatened Labour (PvdA) leader Job Cohen and centre-left D66 leader Alexander Pechtold, the police said Friday.
The suspect appeared on Friday before the investigating judge, who decided to remand him in pre-trial custody for 14 days. A further investigation will be carried out into the suspect. When this is completed, the Public Prosecutor's Office will decide how the case will be concluded.
Last month, it was made known that Halsema took her children away from the 'black school' in Amsterdam which they had been attending. It is not clear whether that decision was related to the threats.
Halsema sent her twins to a school with mostly black and Islamic children in Amsterdam-Oost for idealistic reasons. "They have now gone to another school. That is better for their welfare. Children are not a social experiment. For these reasons, I do not want to say anything, it is a matter of the privacy of my children," said Halsema last month in De Telegraaf newspaper.
"I learned this by using my children as a social experiment, until all our lives were threatened by fanatics. And my ass being on the line made me see things a little differently."
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If the definition of a neoconservative is, "a liberal who's been mugged" what's the word for the definition, "a progressive who's own children have been threatened by Islamicists"?
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what's the word for the definition, "a progressive who's own children have been threatened by Islamicists"?
Realist?
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"Femke Halsema (Haarlem, April 25, 1966) is a politician in the Netherlands. She has been in parliament since 1998 for the left-wing ecologist party GroenLinks, Green Left. In November 2002 she unexpectedly became party leader, replacing Paul Rosenmöller.
During the first government of Jan Peter Balkenende she strongly criticized the new and very restrictive immigration laws.
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Further, she stressed cultural and religious tolerance as core values."
Reality hits like a brick apparently.
http://www.spiritus-temporis.com/femke-halsema/
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Hey, this would be like that shudenfreed stuff, right?
A coach-class rebellion against the Transportation Security Administration is brewing as state and local lawmakers challenge the agency's right to implement its invasive airport-safety protocols.
"I'd like to send Washington a clear signal that these aggressive pat-downs and body scanners may have crossed the line," said Sean Paige, a member of the Colorado Springs City Council. "We want to maintain airport security, but need to speak up for the passengers who come through our city." I don't know if the TSA or the public is considering this or not, but those who flew on Thanksgiving were basically trapped into flying on the busiest flying period of the year because they had already purchased their non-refundible tickets. Maybe the ignorant will belive that this suggests that most people are happy with this and that they should get into line like the rest of the sheeple, but I don't.
Former president Pervez Perv Musharraf ... former dictator of Pakistain, who was less dictatorial and corrupt than any Pak civilian government to date ... has vowed never to visit India again after being denied a visa by the Indian government, a report said Friday. "I have no words to explain my disappointment," Musharraf was quoted as telling The Indian Express newspaper. "Your government has dashed my hopes. I think it shows a lack of confidence on the part of India to face me," he said, according to the paper's website. "I don't plan to come to India ever again," Musharraf said, citing the visa refusal as an affront to his "honour and dignity".
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Dagan was widely seen as responsible for a wave of covert actions including the sabotage of Iranian nuclear projects and assassination of Palestinian and Lebanese guerrillas, but some Israeli officials criticized his long tenure.
This reached a peak when Dubai accused the Mossad of killing Hamas commander Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh at a hotel in the emirate in late January.
"Embattled"? Sounds like he was doing a pretty good job. But, then again, this Rooters via Arab News...
[Ma'an] The Islamist movement Hizb Ut-Tahrir on Thursday slammed Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,, saying the party was giving up its principals.
Hizb Ut-Tahrir (Liberation Party) issued a statement following a rare news conference held by Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh in Gazoo on Wednesday.
The party said Hamas was heading toward the same track as Fatah and the Paleostinian Authority, turning from armed struggle to negotiations with Israel, and ceding most of Paleostine.
Haniyeh said Wednesday that Hamas would accept the creation of a Paleostinian state in the West Bank and Gazoo.
"We don't have a problem with establishing a viable Paleostinian state with illusory sovereignty on the land that was occupied in 1967, with a just solution for the refugees, including the release of all Paleostinian prisoners in Israeli jails, and with elections as the only way to transfer authority from one party to another."
The Gazoo Prime Minister said his government would respect the results of a referendum on any peace deal agreed in negotiations with Israel, in line with the 2007 Mecca agreement that established the Hamas-Fatah unity government.
"These respective documents granted President Abbas and the PLO full control over the negotiations, allowing them to come back with the results if there are any, to call for a referendum, to call on the Paleostinian people if they agree with what has been achieved in the negotiations and the establishment of a state."
Hizb Ut-Tahrir said Haniyeh's statements confirmed information revealed in a US diplomatic cable released by the whistleblowing group WikiLeaks.
In a document originating from the US embassy in Doha, Qatar's Foreign Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim Al Thani is reported to have said Hamas leaders were ready to recognize Israel.
According to the cable, Al-Thani said Hamas leaders realized they would have to time the announcement carefully, as their supporters were not ready for the change.
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[Arab News] [Arab News] Brazil says it has recognized the state of Paleostine based on borders at the time of Israel's 1967 conquest of the West Bank.
The Foreign Ministry says the recognition is in response to a request made by Paleostinian President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas last month to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
Silva sent a letter to Abbas on Dec. 1, saying Brazil recognizes Paleostine and hopes that the recognition will help lead to states of Israel and Paleostine "that will coexist peacefully and in security."
The Foreign Ministry says that the recognition is "in line with Brazil's historic willingness to contribute to peace between Israel and Paleostine."
The announcement was posted Friday on the Foreign Ministry's website.
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the state of Paleostine based on borders at the time of Israel's 1967 conquest of the West Bank.
Indonesian terror suspect, Fadli Sadama, arrived at the Soekarno-Hatta Airport, Tangerang, under strict guard from Detachment 88, Indonesia's National Police anti-terror squad, around 5 p.m on Saturday, a police spokesman said.
Sr. Comr. Boy Rafli Amar said National Police chief Gen.Timur Pradopo would issue a statement about the return of the terror suspect later at the airport's international terminal.
A joint team of Detachment 88 and Malaysian National Police officers captured Fadli, on Oct. 13 while traveling on a bus to the state of Johor with two revolvers in his possession.
Fadli allegedly plotted the heist of the Medan-branch of CIMB Bank, which took place in August, with fellow prisoner, Toni Togar during their imprisonment in Medan.
Fadli was charged for his role in a series of bank robberies and for financing the 2003 JW Marriot Hotel bomb attacks carried out by Noordin M. Top and Dr.Azhari.
IRAN will never use force against its Muslim neighbours, the country's foreign minister told a conference on Middle East security today, following US said Arab states voicing concernss over Tehran's suspected attempts to acquire nuclear weapons.
And in a keynote address to the conference, Jordan's King Abdullah II said Israeli-Palestinian peace talks must be rescued from collapse to ensure regional and world stability.
"We have never used our force against our neighbours and never will because our neighbors are Muslims," Iran's Manouchehr Mottaki said.
"Your power in the region is our power, and our power is your power."
US secretary of state Hillary Clinton said Friday that US concerns over Tehran's suspected atomic weapons program were shared by Iran's neighbours.
But Mottaki cautioned against submitting to "pressure by outsiders to divide us and create instability," saying that "the presence of foreign powers will not help establish security in the region" and urging cooperation among Gulf countries.
He said it was vital for Iran to "have stability and security, because we [Iran and its neighboring Gulf states] provide the world with most of its energy."
"Iran is determined to guarantee international security in the field of energy," he added.
Yesterday, Mrs Clinton said that "there is no debate in the international community, and perhaps the Iranians will engage seriously ... on what is a concern shared by nations on every continent but most particularly right here in the region," referring to talks due to start Monday between major powers and Iran over Tehran's nuclear program.
Seems to be AP source. Ryan Newell who lost both legs in A'stan (I think) is being held on $500,000 bond. Arrested with guns and ammo in vehicle while following Westboro cultists.
One of the commenters to the article is even sicker than Phelpsians:
"Think about it for am second.
Who's fault is it that his legs got blown off?
His, he enlisted and knew the dangers and he wanted to be a big bad tough guy soldier hero.
He had it made, he had a new house that I assume he got free but not sure.
He has wife or girlfriend or whatever and now she is screwed.
And why did this all happen? Because the military is producing MERCENARIES.
This has NOTHING to do with the Phelps."
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You stop and search MY car You're going to find "Guns and Ammo" as well as a permit and a CITIZEN who won't put up with harassment.
There's got to be more to the story.
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RNJim, the gun laws in Kansas that were in effect at that time are way screwed up when it comes to what they call a felony "illegal carrying of a firearm". Basically, if you had a gun under the seat of your truck, you are illegally carrying a concealed firearm and guilty of a felony. I'm not sure if the new gun law that went into effect changes this, I just know as a permit holder in another state, I was warned about Kansas. Someone please correct me if you know better.
In addition to the gun charges and the stalking, he's accused of falsely representing himself as a police officer. You can argue the gun charges, and 'stalking' may be harsh, but impersonating a police officer is serious ju-ju.
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We've probably all committed felonies that we are completely unaware of. IIRC, a doctor mistakenly writing "right index finger" on an ER note when he really meant "left index finger" has committed felony fraud (his intention does not matter) if the patient is covered under Medicare.
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Doc Steve, that's the one that has me puzzled. I do wonder how he represented himself as a police officer. That's the one that will stick, no matter who the judge is.
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a police officer w/no legs? He thought they'd buy that?
Affirmative action? Desk sergeant? Computer specialist? Captain? What if he'd lost his legs in the line of duty -- as actually he did, although not police duty... As long as one isn't at risk of wrestling with bad guys, surely the police can put one's skills and experience to use if they're valuable enough.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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