I would suggest editing the title of this posting to change the word “earning” to . . . something else. Federal tax vampires don’t actually earn the proceeds of the legalized theft that funds their income, even if they do have to put in some face time at an office somewhere.
American “hero” Teddy Roosevelt set the stage for Pearl Harbor by encouraging Japanese interventions in Manchuria and egging them on to the Russo-Japanese War
I went to a seminar that Morlen and Co. held at CNM’s Smith Brasher Hall in October, 2009. Mostly they complianed about the “burdensome” nature of ObamaCare, how the new rules being pushed would increase the paperwork load on doctors’ offices, and how that would drive costs (and thus end-user prices) up and up and up, but they never questioned whether or not ObamaCare was Constitutional in the first place.
Jim, you were a lawyer, once, if I recall correctly, prosecuting organized-crime figures in my hometown of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Exactly which clause of Art.I Sec.8 of the U.S. Constitution allows the Congress to get involved in the issue of medical-care at all?
Or am I asking the wrong question here, in that our “representatives” couldn’t care in the slightest about sticking to the Constitution? That’s the impression I get from Heinrich et al.
Thomas Jefferson told us this (“Our Own Government Has Become Our Enemy”) back in 1776 with the Declaration of Independence. Yet Americans still hand over political power to state-droids like Babeu the Bozo, Rudy-Poo Guiliani, John McCain, and Joe Arpaio. But don’t forget to blame Mexicans and Muslims for the nation’s problems, right?
The Hard Rock Casino is theoretically in Bernalillo County, as the county line kind of splits the Isleta Reservation in half, east-to-west. But as the Casino is on the reservation side of the line, it’s not subject to County rules, regulations and such. The Casino is about 3500 feet south of the northern border of the reservation.
“And the Hard Rock etc. is a private company,”
Is it, really?
I asked one of my supervisors there if the Casino was a private or public entity. His response? “We can play it either way.”
The Casino itself might have some of the trappings of a private company, but it’s owned and operated by the tribal government —
The general manager and top management are hired and fired by the Tribal Council, which is elected in public elections held on the reservation.
All of the vehicles owned by the Casino have G-number state government plates — the same kind that you see on APD, BCSO, NMSP cruisers.
If the event had been located at the Hard Rock Casino, most likely BCSO would not have been there in force like that — it would have been Casino Security and Isleta PD — been there, done that. Back in 2002, there was a two-day car show that took up most of the front parking lots, and there weren’t many, if any, BCSO deputies there at all.
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Deputy Goff doesn’t exactly look like a young guy to me — see youtube.com/watch?v=6lVn3S_i9us — Deputy Goff is the one with the shiny-bald head and the white moustache, probably in his early forties.
Deputy Goff further exacerbated the situation when he asked the crowd if they wanted the protestors to leave or stay — if he wasn’t a law-enforcement officer, he probably would have been arrested for “creating a public disturbance,” that sort of thing.
The cops are saying that no one is allowed to make a video recording of them talking to the protestors. I’d like to see the Chapter and Section of the New Mexico Statutes Annotated that explicitly allows cops to give people orders to this effect. There are way too many cases of cops going after anyone recording them to NOT insist on this sort of documentation.
The incident in question took place at the Journal Pavilion, not the Hard Rock Casino. The Pavilion is a few miles north of the Hard Rock Casino (formerly the Isleta Casino and Resort). I worked at the Casino for 4 years and 8 months, and have been to three Ozzfests at the Pavilion. Maybe the concert was sponsored partially or wholly by the Casino — I dunno, but the facility isn’t actually owned by the Casino. At any rate, the Casino has been holding concerts, boxing matches, etc., in its bingo hall since it opened in March, 2001 (when I started there).
The fact that Sheriff’s Deputies were there in force (as they were at the Ozzfests I’ve attended) leads me to believe that their running security for the Journal Pavilion is an official function of the BCSO. You don’t see that often with events held on property that’s entirely privately-owned, as “chief’s overtime” comes out to something like 30-40 FRN per hour, per officer. It’s WAY cheaper to hire a private outfit for the task, and there are plenty of those in town.
The facility is apparently on State trust land, leased to Bernalillo County, then sub-leased to Live Nation, the outfit that runs the Journal Pavilion. I’m guessing that as such, Live Nation can play it either way, like the Hard Rock Casino does — it can be public property when they want it so (immunity from certain types of liability?), or private property when they want (discretion to kick people out at the drop of a hat, like this case).
But your main point — when nobody’s right, everyone involved loses — spot on! I’m not defending either side in this: Deputy Goff was out of line, as were the protestors. If I had been there, I probably would have personally sided against the protestors, as I’m a fan of that type of music. Still, I’m not certain that I would have called the Deputies to complain about them unless I had been personally attacked on a physical basis. I don’t need BCSO to fight my ideological battles for me, despite Deputy Goff’s enthusiasm for doing so.
Isn’t it lovely the sort of messes that these “public-private partnerships” create?
Has the milk involved been pasteurized and homogenized? Has all of the systems and hardware involved been inspected by the requisite state and federal health and food safety agencies, and certified as “safe” ?