Thanks!

It took 13 years of prohibition, to find out it was never going to work. They didn’t repeal prohibition because booze was determined to now be healthy for people. They repealed it to get rid of all the crime & corruption associated with it.

And all the cost in policing, prosecuting, and imprisoning people.

(BTW people that point out how drugs destroy lives, but so does years in jail at taxpayer expense!)

And so alcohol is again legal.

See? The morality of the situation NEVER changed, ONLY THE LAWS!

The “War on Drugs” has been going on for decades. We need to legalize them all again and REGULATE them!
We need to get the freaks off the worst of them, so they aren’t out killing innocent people.
And stop states from going broke trying to jail them all.

And of course stop the abuses, no knock warrants with people getting killed…like they say pot won’t kill you, but the DEA might!

Outrageous, and STILL the court said that the police should be trusted!

And lately it seems to be even worse, with people getting stripped in public for a traffic stop!

Anyway Steffey not only won her lawsuit, but she should have won her first trial, and if the jury would have heard all the evidence, she probably would have.
And she wasn’t the only one to win a lawsuit for abuses in Stark County, a home schooling Mother who was held for three days naked, except for a paper covering also won, along with 3 teenage girls who were forced into a strip search on a “tour”.

Stark county just got a new sheriff, hopefully these abuses will be stopped.

For at least the last hundred years (probably longer), US citizens have complained about mistreatment by police. The fact that such mistreatment continues means our laws and perhaps our Bill of Rights are inadequate. Too often, we hear that personnel who perform these heinous acts are slapped on the wrist and then continue in their position as “peace officers.” We as citizens need to demand a federal law that calls for videotaping of all police activity both on a scene and in the jail. We need a law that ensures corrections personnel who are involved in such incidents are removed from duty. We need a law that immediately dismisses any fellow corrections officer if it’s discovered that they lied or withheld evidence concerning the behavior of another officer. We need to demand that corrections personnel who are relieved of duty are further banned from public service – either paid or as volunteers.

When I have a draft of the petition, I’ll place it here for feedback.

>Lies of Stark County<

Sheriff maintains that Steffey is drunk.

But witnesses say she is not that drunk & the BCI investigation finds that the NEXT SHIFT at the jail also says that they can detect NO effects or even SMELL of alcohol. (This is 1 1/2 hr after they assault her)
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y39/Zemo999/TZorgerTestimony.jpg

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Sheriff & deputies maintain that Steffey was abusive.

But jailhouse video (all on YouTube) shows Steffey always in cuffs with at least two people, and never shows her even react to the police unless they are attacking her.
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Arresting Officer Richard T. Gurlea Jr testifies under oath that investigation was never finished. (So no case where victim is unconscious or killed is ever solved?)

Incident report proves that his claim that it was never finished is a lie. Crime VICTIM is framed for the assault she reported
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y39/Zemo999/IncidentReportHiLighted.jpg

In Red you will see they also arrested Steffey for the assault.

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Sheriff Swanson was reported to have said Steffey refused to remove her clothes.

The State investigation report by the BCI clearly shows this to be a lie. (As did the video)
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y39/Zemo999/Hope-5_zps06034cb5.jpg

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Also maintains that she was told that her clothes were to be removed.

But BCI report can find no one that said that, and as apparent by the strip video, this also is a lie.
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Sheriff Swanson says there were not enough women there.

Video CLEARLY shows that this is a lie.
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Swanson claims that jail psychologist Thomas Anuszkiewicz put Steffey on suicide watch.

But no evidence backs up this claim, and the evidence that is there shows ONLY Caren Lennon put Steffey on suicide watch. So we have Swanson caught in another lie.
(UPDATE contacted Sheriff’s dept, they have NO evidence a doc ordered this)
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y39/Zemo999/Incident-Report.jpg

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Agent Christy S. Palmer states in her report QUOTE “Again, as recorded by jail video and/or audio, the jail staff instead chose to bring the prisoner in a slow, controlled decent to the floor.”

Paul Scarsella of Special Prosecutions Ohio Attorney General now says this video dosen’t exist, even though I was also told by the sheriff’s dept that this video would be released.
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States that Steffey is TOO suicidal for a suit DESIGNED for the purpose or even a paper covering.

NO ONE has been able to answer HOW that is possible. Looks like yet MORE lies.
Especially since the investigation found that Steffey DENIED being suicidal THREE TIMES!

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County Prosecutor’s Office claims that they asked the state for this investigation, but never received ANY report about it, after I asked for a copy. They said I would have to contact the state for info.

I informed them that I had already contacted the state, and had already gotten a copy of the report that the state sent them, with them listed as a carbon copy. (Caught in yet another lie.)

BTW The BCI report also reports that the sheriff ENCOURAGES his men to view these tapes for "training".
I called and asked if Steffey's video had been used, they stated the didn't know, but when I asked for a copy of the signout sheet they refused to send a copy, THEN they said they didn't have one. AGAIN "missing" evidence!

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y39/Zemo999/Tapes.jpg

This porno ring is the only reason I can think of why so MANY people covered this up, I can only assume there's a lot of people that get these "training tapes"!!!

So what would you do to “fix” this? During my time looking into this I contacted MANY people involved with this, most of them lied, including newspapers that printed stuff that they KNEW to be lies.
I left my name & number many times for Swanson, but never had him call back on this story. I called the investigators from the state Paul Scarsella, Section Chief, Agent Christy S. Palmer, & Bridget Carty, Paul Keptler & John Dysart of the FBI, the head jailer Mike McDonald, who has now died from cancer. I contacted the Ohio state Atty’s office Marc Dann, the inspector general’s office, Jim Gravelle the Ohio Press Secretary, Stark County Prosecutor John D. Ferrero, Jonathan Stump of the Correctional Healthcare Group, and Vivianne Whalen Duffrin Director of Human Resources at the sheriff’s dept.

And a few others, and I couldn’t get ANYTHING done! Believe me I tried!!

There’s just TOO many conflicting versions, TOO much evidence “missing”, a MONTHS long “investigation” that leaves too many questions, and too many illogical explanations for everything that was done.

Even after you confront them with the lies it does no good.
I called John D. Ferrero, Prosecuting Attorney For Stark County. I asked for a copy of the state report from the BCI that had investigated the Hope Steffey case.
They said I would have to get a hold of the state, that they NEVER received any report.
I said “YOU ask for an “investigation” from the state, but they never sent you anything??”
They replied “That’s right, you would need to get a hold of them to get it.”
I said “I already have a copy of the report THEY SENT YOU, and you are in it listed as receiving a CC copy!”
Gezz caught them in ANOTHER LIE! (Fishing was good that day) LoL

You can catch them in lies day after day…but no one in power will do anything about it. So what do you suggest?

It seems the raison d’être of religion in general is to take nature out of nature, especially out of our sexual nature.

P.S.: Nice to see your blog up and running again, Mattt.

By the way… I’ve been to Kitigan Zibi. It’s the place where William Commanda had his home. Lovely spot.

Patrick should be ashamed to sully the name of Kitigan Zibi.