Bad news for Pulaski County Jail

Word is that Faulkner County will no longer accept offenders from Little Rock under 21 years of age. Well, they might as well have shut the doors completely since the largest share of dangerous bad guys is under 21. The jail is jammed with state inmates waiting to find a home and this only intensifies a bad capacity issue.

Filed under: Arkansas, Crime, Pulaski County

KARK Wednesday Wake Up (Bill Vickery lives in another world)

UPDATE: Here is a link to the video of today’s Wednesday Wake-Up Call.

If Vickery works from the assumption that the best defense is a good offense, I agree entirely that it was probably a good idea to start off by making the sometimes violent right-wing soreheads who disrupt public discussions of essential national business the “winner”s. Yes, free speech is a fundamental human right and what the videos from many of these ugly confrontations show is anything but free speech. It is raw physical intimidation.

You may know that I am now a student of theology. This conversation has made me wonder if, from the biblical evangelical position which I occupy, free speech is a God-given right. Any takers on that one? The “Comment” button is at the upper right.

I am proud to say that my first  e-mails in reaction to this morning’s appearance. Let us review. A viewer in Hope, Arkansas sent this at 6:59, within five minutes of the broadcast.

I was absolutely disgusted by your appearance on KARK Ch. 4 on Wednesday, 8/12/09 with your statements regarding Americans at the town hall meetings as “un-Americans”.  As an American, it is my God given right, not to mention my Constitutional right, to criticize the President and the government.  These town hall meetings provide Americans their right to voice their opinions.  I find it very ironic how a so-called community organizer is now trying to stop communities from organizing because they are voicing their opinions.

To which I responded as follows.

The videos (readily available across the internet) show a pattern of violence and intimidation. This is very far from a constitutional God-given right to self-expression. In fact, those who attended expressly refused to listen to the answers to the questions they demanded.

Those who seek to subvert fundamental human rights are un-American.

Thank you for watching,

Pretty reasonable, huh? Pat the Peacemaker! But did that kindly and restrained response satisfy my antagonistic corespondent?

The inability to voice our opinion and not question decision have only one place, in a socialistic society, which is NOT what this nation was founded on or based on. Our govt is a govt of the people, by the people, and for the people. Any move to take that away, which is what this administration is doing, is actually the the un-American activities. I’m sure obama and his socialistic followers are disappointed that the American people are following along like the good little sheep he’d hoped we’d be, but this is America and until they take away our rights we question, demand answers, and fight those who dare to turn the nation into something that our founders fought against!

GOD bless America
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Well, sir, it would seem to me that you guys have had a full helping of free speech, right down to taking away the free speech rights of others and the right and necessity of open discussion of important public policy decisions. I don’t know much about socialism, but the tactics employed by those who have so vehemently expressed themselves is quite reminiscent of some totalitarian states. That is a trend to be avoided and hardly in keeping with American traditions.

Understand, George Washington was burned in effigy and political opposition and vigorous free speech is part of the American character. An orchestrated scheme to shut down discussion by means of intimidation and physical force is akin to the Know-Nothings of the 1800s. Their riots are a blemish on our national story.

Such protests as we have seen are unnecessary. Congress is elected by the people and every member of the House is up for election next year. People can be heard without shutting others up. That’s the line that has been crossed here, in my opinion.

My winner was Todd Turner and the Arkansas group that opposed the Payday Lenders. Total victory has been achieved as the last one of these cockroaches left the state yesterday.

My loser is the Pulaski County Comptroller, Mike Hutchens. He is the master of diversion by blustering about the polygraph tests being administered to his employees. That does not explain the missing $20,000, or is it $15,000? Oh, they don’t know how much cash was in the office!

As to the office “policy” to which Hutchens refers in various news reports. How is an unwritten policy enforceable? How is an employee supposed to know such a policy? Can you say C-Y-A? (I thought you could.)

What the devil does the Comptroller do anyway? This is a substantial sum of money. The exact amount missing is unknown. That in itself is grounds for immediate dismissal of the responsible person, Hutchens. I am bewildered. County government is showing its ineptness by the timidity in approaching this incredible incompetence.

Aside from the obvious criminal implications, this is a case of mismanagement. The solution seems fairly straightforward.

Filed under: Arkansas, Commentary, Health Insurance Reform, National politics, Obama, Pulaski County

Sherwood Voice: Sherwood female detectives file sexual discrimination complaints against city

While some may think this is a “slow” news day, the worldwide network of snoops, snitches, and busybodies who keep my insatiable need for fresh news under control have come through again. Hats off to Stephens Media Group and the Sherwood Voice.

Veteran Sherwood police detective Beverly Hughes filed a sexual discrimination suit against the Sherwood Police Department last week after she said she was fired for reporting an incident of sexual harassment.

The sergeant who told Hughes and other Sherwood officers about his sexual dream involving her in lurid details received a seven-day suspension for his actions,  according to Sherwood police Chief Kevlin Nicholson, who said Hughes was fired for insubordination.

Six other female officers have been fired under his five-year tenure and another forced to resign while the same number of men were fired and forced to resign, Nicholson said.

Hughes, who began her law enforcement career as a police officer in 1995, filed a sexual discrimination lawsuit with the U. S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on July 29.
Pam Hopkins, the officer who was forced to resign, also filed a complaint with the EEOC, according to Robert Newcomb of Little Rock, the attorney re presenting her and Hughes. The other women who were fired included Heather Knesley, Lisa Owens, Sheila Jarrett, Ann Robinson, Sandra Dreh and Mary Henker, Nicholson said.

The story will be online Friday here.

Filed under: Arkansas, Pulaski County

They’re raising our property taxes! The sky is falling! Wasted money on jails, schools, libraries and OTHER DANGEROUS SOCIALIST PROGRAMS! I’m MAD AS HELL!

Well it came in the mail today. It showed up on a Saturday, which proves the maliscious intent of Pulaski County Assessor Janet Ward, who is obviously trying to sneak it in on a “slow” news day.

Nice try, sweetie, but I’m just too smart for you. And don’t try any of that baby talk about how you have to follow “rules.” Hell, how stupid do you think we are anyway? I bet if Tommy Robinson were County Assessor, he would have NEVER sent out a tax increase.

Let the prisoners go to work, and let the school kids get jobs if education is so important. And what good are libraries anyway/ They’re just full of books and those things are just full of ideas that don’t lead to trouble like Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton. Socialized jails! Socialized schools! Socialized pointed headed intellectuals that use LIBRARIES. Have you ever heard of anything so ridiculous!

Anyway, my UNFAIR AND UNNECESSARY tax increase comes to $49.28. I guess Obama won’t be happy till he’s taxed all the decent people out of our houses.

That UNFAIR TAX (and ALL taxes are unfair!)) will cost just me and Marie $4.11 a month! That’s 94 cents a week because JANET WARD REFUSES TO STAND UP TO THE SOCIALISTS THAT ARE DESTROYING OUR CHRISTIAN HERITAGE AND TRUE AMERICAN CULTURE (you know what I mean, right?)!

Well, Janet baby, no amount of soft soaping is gonna’ get you off the hook with me. You CLAIM to be BOUND by certain “rules and regulations.” Where did those come from? WAS IT THE UNITED NATIONS? I guess we know you’re more loyal to OBAMA and his one-world socialist buddies than the decent working people of Pulaski County.

We’re gonna’ start a tea party and spend HOWEVER MUCH IT TAKES to fight this ILLEGAL EXACTION of $49.28 per year. No matter the personal expense WE WILL FIGHT TO THE BITTER END for our Christian heritage and true American culture and the DOMESTIC ENEMIES that have this country in a DEATH GRIP.

Out.

Filed under: Arkansas, Commentary, Pulaski County