To Serve and Protect or Occupy and Repress?

Our government appears to have allowed pension funds to have been gambled away in a known corrupt securities scheme. We’d all like to think it was stupidity that created the major losses, costing the American taxpayers TRILLION$ to bailout the thieves on their titanic adventure. But facts are piling up that appear to make it apparent that stupidity is a delusional term of art for something more sinister.

Rick Cooley's avatarRcooley123's Blog

Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, there has been a steady militarization of police forces in many of America’s cities. This has become increasingly obvious when the subject of dealing with public protests has arisen. Whether in dealings with Occupy protesters a few years ago, or with the unrest caused recently by the killing of Michael Brown (an unarmed teenager) by police in Ferguson, Missouri, many question the use of some of the brutal tactics and military style weapons used by police across the nation. There often seems to be a difference in opinion between police and protesters (particularly when they are dealing with mainly unarmed, peaceful demonstrators who feel they are simply exercising their civil rights to peaceably assemble and speak their minds freely as is written in the Constitution and Bill of Rights), as to what is the appropriate way in which each should act.

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Judge Clears Way For Settlement In BofA, US Bank RMBS Suit

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Case Information

Case Title

Policemen’s Annuity and Benefit Fund Of The City Of Chicago v. Bank of America, NA et al

 

Case Number

1:12-cv-02865

Court

New York Southern

Nature of Suit

Other Statutory Actions

Judge

Katherine B. Forrest

Law360, New York (August 19, 2014, 11:36 AM ET) — A New York federal judge on Monday made way for a settlement by Bank of America NA and U.S. Bank NA of an investor suit over residential mortgage-backed securities, finding the pending deal makes moot a bid to certify a class of investors who alleged the banks failed in their role as the trustees of pools of the securities.

U.S. District Judge Katherine B. Forrest cited the potential settlement, first disclosed to the court in a June 5 letter, in an order terminating a pending motion…

 
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