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• Illinois law makes it illegal to video tape the police. I suspect the Phoenix law G-1403 which requires a permit to shoot video in Phoenix Parks is also unconstitutional just like the Illinois law in this article.
• Glendale requires permit to take photos in Glendale’s Sahuaro Ranch Park
• 175 people convicted of imagainary crimes have been sent to Federal prison according to this article
• In this article government tyrants at the U.S. BATF or U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives seems to be making up imaginary laws and selectively enforcing these imaginary laws against gun dealers in California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas.

Phoenix government is corrupt???

• Phoenix City Councilman Sal DiCiccio likes to paint himself as a conservative freedom fighter who is on the side of the people fighting for their freedom against big government.

  But that is a bunch of rubbish. Sal DiCiccio isn't any more of a conservative freedom fighter then Hitler was.

  And for that matter up to this point in time (Saturday, December 22, 2012) Phoenix City Councilman Sal DiCiccio has not respond to any of my emails or requests for public records about this incident.

• Here are some articles about the 33 percent raise of $78,000 that the Phoenix City Council members voted to give Phoenix City Manager David Cavazos bumping his salary from $237,000 to $315,000 a year.
• In these articles it sure sounds like the members of the Phoenix City Council are using these so called "discretionarys funds" to rip off the taxpayers, and using tax dollars to help them get reelected.

  Phoenix Vice Mayor Michael Johnson who is a former Phoenix Police Officer used more than $20,000 to attend conferences.

  Phoenix City Councilwoman Thelda Williams spent almost $3,000 at Turf Paradise for a dance and dinner

  From the articles it sounds like the Phoenix City Council members are saying that since Phoenix annually spends $3.5 billion it's no big deal if the members of the Phoenix city council rip off the taxpayers for $80,000 annually.

  Those are my words. In the articles they justified the theft with much more politically correct words.

• Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton will say anything to get elected??? From this article it sounds like Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton will tell you anything and everything he thinks you want to hear in and attempt to get you to vote for him.

  In the article Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton promised to repeal a 2 percent sales tax on food in April of 2013 if he was elected Mayor of Phoenix.

  Now it looks like that was a big lie he just said to get elected.

• Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton is a gun grabber who wants to flush your Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms down the toilet???

  From this article it sure seems like Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton is a gun grabber.

  Since the incident happened at Papago Park Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton has behaved like a government tyrant and refused to respond to my requests for public records or even answer my emails.

  Do you really think a government tyrant like that would give the serfs he rules over the right to have guns?

• Another article which seems to say that Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton will say anything to get elected.

  The article says Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton promised to repeal the Phoenix food tax but that seems to be a lie and he isn't going to do it.

  Of course that is probably because Greg Stanton supports the police state and knows he will get the vote of the 3,000 Phoenix Police Officers who will get paid with the money the food tax bring in.

• Here is another article which seems to say that Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton is a gun grabber who wants to flush your Second Amendment right to own a gun down the toilet.

  According to this article Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton is a member of the organization "Mayors Against Illegal Guns".

• In this article we find out the Phoenix Police are encrypting their radio transmissions making them secret to prevent public from hearing them.

  When ever I take the Fifth Amendment and refuse to answer police questions the cops always tell me I must be a criminal with something to hide if I exercise my constitutional right to refuse to answer police questions.

  I am sure the same thing is true here and the police would like to keep their dirty criminal secrets from becoming public.

• According to this article the city of Phoenix is subsidizing the wealthy mans sport of golf.

  Years ago the city of Phoenix voted to stop subsidizing the wealthy mans sport of golf and said all the Phoenix government golf courses had to charge fees high enough to recoup their operating expenses.

  Of course that never happened and for years the Phoenix government golf courses illegally lost millions of dollars.

  Of course the obvious solution is for the city of Phoenix to get out of the golf business, but that ain't going to happen.

  And of course with the city of Phoenix golf course offering golfing at dirt cheep subsidized prices there is never going to be an incentive for private golf course to open and provide the same services at market prices.

• In this article Phoenix Mayor Stanton is all for cutting the other guys Federal pork, but Phoenix Mayor Stanton wants to keep HIS Federal pork.

  And of course that is why the system is so f*cked up. everybody wants their Federal pork and expects somebody else to pay for it.

• In this article it sure sounds like Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton is a liar who will say anything to get elected??? Before the election Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton promised to cut the food tax, which is mostly used to give cops or Phoenix police officers raises. But after the election Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton seems to want to let the cops keep the pork and refuses to cut the tax he promised to cut before the election.

  Let's face it, government isn't about the will of the people, it's about giving government pork to the folks who helped you get elected, and in this case it's about keeping the sales tax on food so the cops can keep their higher pay.

• According to this article there are no ethics rules for Phoenix City Council members which require them to obey the same ethics as normal city of Phoenix employees???

  On the other hand even when there are iron clad rules on the ethics and criminal behavior of government employees they are usually toothless rules that are not enforced, because the same employees who are supposed to obey the rules are charged with enforcing the rules.

  And when the fox is given the job of preventing the fox from raiding the chicken house you really can't expect the fox to prevent himself from raiding the chicken house and blaming the raid on other unknown people.

• The more you read about Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton the more he sounds like a gun grabber who wants to flush the Second Amendment down the toilet.

  In this article Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton wants to hold gun buybacks and melt the guns down. Something that is probably illegal and unconstitutional under Arizona law.

  Mr Greg Stanton I have news for you. I am sure you consider yourself a royal government ruler who is above the law and can do any thing you want because you are mayor.

  Well criminals on the street are pretty much like you elected criminals in the government and they also consider themselves above the law. And of course some criminals who knows it is wrong to rob Circle Ks is certainly not going to obey some silly law you pass making it illegal for him to have a gun in the city of Phoenix.

  The only people that will obey your silly gun control laws are honest law abiding people who shouldn't be prevented from owning guns.

• According to this article Phoenix Police Detective Saldate gets confessions from unconscious people on hospital gurneys. Well according to the article that is only when he isn't busy lying to grand juries to get his man.

  The royal rules on the Phoenix City Council usually blindly back the cops that work for them without even asking for a shred of evidence to verify what they are saying.

  I wonder if the current members of the Phoenix City Council think that Phoenix Police Detective Saldate is a hero for getting his confession from Milke???

• According to this article it looks like Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton reneged on promise to repeal a 2 percent sale tax on food which mostly goes to the Phoenix Police.

  Of course that is a polite way of saying it.

  I suspect that Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton will say ANYTHING to get elected.

• And here is another article about how Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton lied and said he would repeal a 2 percent sales tax on food.
• And here is another article about how Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton lied and said he would repeal a 2 percent sales tax on food.

  This article is titled Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton pulls a fast one on voters

  I suspect Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton is selling out to the the 3,000 or so members of the Phoenix Police who get get most of the cash the 2 percent sales tax brings in.

  In most city elections less then 5 percent of the registered voters actually vote. And in that case the 3,000 or so registered voters who are also Phoenix police officers can certainly swing an election.

  Sadly when so few people vote, it is easy for special interest groups, like the Phoenix Police to swing an election to the candidate that gives them the most government pork.

• According to this article the $1.58 billion Sky Train pork project will be opening on April 8, 2013.
• Por este articulo la 8 de abril será inaugurado al público el PHX Sky Train que conectará la Terminal 4 con el estacionamiento este del Aeropuerto Sky Harbor de Phoenix y con la estación del tren ligero, ubicada en la Calle 44 y Washington.
• The royal rulers of Phoenix love to tell us that no taxes were used to build the $1.58 billion Sky Train pork project.

  But that is an outright lie.

  Every person that flies out of Sky Harbor Airport, to Sky Harbor Airport, or even is on a flight that passes thru Sky Harbor Airport is shaken down by the city of Phoenix for a $4.50 tax on their plane ticket.

  Read more about the $1.58 billion Phoenix Sky Train pork project here article.

• In this article it sure sounds like Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton is a gun grabber who wants to flush your Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms down the toilet.

  The article is about several gun buybacks which the city of Phoenix is having in May. Time after time gun buybacks have been proven worthless in preventing crime and in fact some cops in the article say gun buybacks don't prevent time.

• Phoenix’s mayor has shed his scruples in record time??? In this Letter to the Editor that's what Dale Douglas of Phoenix says about Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton.

  Does Dale Douglas thinks Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton is a jerk??? Probably, and if he does I certainly agree with him.

  I feel the same way about former Phoenix Mayor Terry Goddard.

  When I was a young and naive socialist and didn't know that government was just a legalized form of the Mafia, Phoenix Mayor Terry Goddard was my hero.

  But I witnessed Phoenix Mayor Terry Goddard pretty much break every campaign promise he made. So thanks to Phoenix Mayor Terry Goddard I pretty much realized that almost all of our government rulers are pretty much crooks and liars who will say anything to get elected.

  So I currently think Terry Goddard is a criminal who belongs in prison, not a public servant in office pretending to work for me.

  I don't think Terry Goddard is currently an elected official, but I think his last elected office was as Arizona's Attorney General. Yea, the last thing in the world we need is a crook in the Attorney Generals office.

• In this editorial Robert Robb seems to be saying that Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton is a lying hypocrite?????

  Of course Robert Robb didn't use those exact words, but if Robert Robb is calling Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton a lying hypocrite who will say anything to get elected I suspect he is right.

  Of course Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton isn't the only politician that will lie and say anything to get elected. Sadly most of them are liars who will say anything to get elected.

  The only politicians who will tell you the truth, even when they know you will disagree with them are Ron Paul and of course Barry Goldwater, who died a while back.

• En este articulo el alcalde de Phoenix, Greg Stanton es "gun grabber". Yes in article it sure sound like Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton is a gun grabber.
• In this article Phoenix Parks and Recreation employee Arthur Rey Juarez seems to get his jollies by having sex with little children!!!!
• In this article Republican Bob Thorpe said he wanted to provide Democratic and Republican members safety options, i.e. bulletproof vests.

  Hmmm, I wonder, do the crooks at the Arizona Legislature think us serfs are tired of them robbing us blind and micromanaging our lives. Like their attempts to flush Prop 203 down the toilet? Maybe that's why

• In this article Bulletproof vests for elected officials?
• In this article the gun grabbers on the Phoenix City Council banned gun ads at bus stops, and both the Goldwater Institute and the American Civil Rights Union (ACLU) are going to sue them???
• In this article a judge says that Phoenix officers must do union work off the clock.

  Remember cops and police unions are a special special interest group that trades their votes for government pork.

  And of course in this case the Phoenix City Council has been bribed by the Phoenix Police has has been giving them millions of dollars in government pork in exchange for their votes.

  Mayor Greg Stanton you should be ashamed of your behavior!!!!

  Of course I bet you will be ashamed all the way to the bank.

• In this article the city of Phoenix seems to be wasting our tax dollars cracking down on people who commit the victimless crime of having a messy yard. I suspect the proposed fees in the article are as unconstitutional as the messy yard laws.
• In this article we are asked Will Mayor Stanton do double flip on Phoenix food tax?

  When Mayor Stanton was running to be elected mayor he promised to cut the sales tax.

  It sounds like Mayor Stanton lied about that and is refusing to cut the sale tax, because the special interest group that helped him get into power wants to keep the sales tax because it is their bread and butter.

  Of course that special interest group is the Phoenix Police who get their high salaries from the sales tax.

• In this article Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton and the other Phoenix City Council members sure sound like they are gun grabbers. Those Phoenix City Councilmen and councilwomen that sound like gun grabbers are: Thelda Williams, Daniel Valenzuela, Jim Waring, Sal DiCiccio, Bill Gates, Tom Simplot and Michael Johnson.
• In this article it sure sounds like Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton has sold out to the special interest groups in the Phoenix police and fire departments.

  The article is titled "Legality of boosting Phoenix police pensions in question" and from this article it sounds like the Phoenix City Council has sold out to the special interest groups in the Phoenix police and fire departments. They are giving them boatloads of money that are illegal under Arizona law.

  In return for all this cash the members of the Phoenix city council get the votes of the 3,000 Phoenix police officers and 1,600 Phoenix firemen. the cops get a boat load of cash, and the taxpayers get screwed.

  Those 4,600 votes may not sounds like much, but in a typical city elections where a measly 5 percent of the registered voters show up and vote, those 4,600 police votes can easily throw the election.

• Here is another article about Phoenix Mayor Greg Stantons big lie to end the 2 percent Phoenix sales tax on food. This article is titled "Phoenix to phase out food tax....maybe".
• Here is another article which seems to say that Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton is a gun grabber. From this article it sure sounds like Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton is a gun grabber and wants to flush our Second Amendment rights down the toilet.
• In this article Phoenix Councilman Tom Simplot wants to create a government welfare program to give low cost housing to rich yuppies in the downtown Phoenix area.

  Sadly Phoenix Councilman Tom Simplot may have come up with this government welfare program for rich yuppies to line his pockets with government cash. The article points out that "Simplot, [is] president of the Arizona Multi-housing Association, a trade organization for apartment communities"

• In this article Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton shovels pork to the Phoenix police and firemen??? For that matter the article say that Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton is breaking the law by giving all this free pork to the Phoenix police and firemen.

  If you ask me it sounds like he is buying votes from the 3,000 cops and 1,500 firemen that work for the city of Phoenix.

  Those 4,500 votes may not sound like a lot, but when you have elections where only 5 percent of the registered voters actually show up and vote, 4,500 votes can swing an election.

• In this article it sure sounds like the dates of elections in Phoenix are rigged to be held on dates which will help the special interests win the elections.

  Those special interest groups tend to be the police and fire department unions.

• In this editorial which was written by Mesa City Councilman Scott Sommers it sure sounds like politicians like Scott Sommers and Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton are addicted to Federal pork and constantly using it to turn America into a bigger police state.

  As H. L. Mencken said:

  "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."

• In this article the city of Phoenix tries to screw victims of light rail construction???

  Our royal government rulers love to tell us that they are "public servants" but in reality they are just "public crooks" who rob us blind and give the stolen loot to themselves and the special interest groups that helped them get into power.

• In this article it says there are about 2,400 retired Phoenix cops and firefighters who are paid about $59,341 a year by the taxpayers of Phoenix.

  From this article it sure sounds like Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton is a liar who will say anything to get elected.

  Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton Stanton lied to the public when he had campaigned and said he would end this practice in this article.

  Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton also lied to the public when he campaigned and said he would end the temporary Phoenix sales tax, which mostly goes to the Phoenix police and fire departments.

  It sure looks like Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton doesn't support the people that elected him, but rather is owned by the special interest groups in the Phoenix Police and Phoenix Fire Department unions.

  I suspect those 2,400 retired Phoenix cops and firefighters vote for Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton because he supports their government pork.

• Here is another article about the illegal police practice of padding pensions which Mayor Greg Stanton and the rest of the Phoenix City Council members seem to support.

  Don't expect Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton to stop this illegal practice by the Phoenix Police. Mayor Greg Stanton seems to be owned by the police unions. And no those are not bribes. The correct word is campaign contributions.

  Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton also lied to us when he ran for election saying he would repeal the Phoenix sales tax, which mostly goes to the police.

• Go to jail for feeding Fido hamburger instead of steak???? According to this article if you feed Fido hamburger meat instead of steak that could be animal cruelty according to this silly Phoenix law???

  Do you have to let them drink Perrier water instead of the yucky tasting Phoenix water to avoid being popped by the Phoenix PD for animal cruelty???

  I suspect this law will be selectively enforced like most city laws are, and only people that the police or royal rulers of Phoenix dislike will be arrested for feeding Fido low quality food.

• From these signs posted at Papago Park it seems like the city of Phoenix, Arizona has two different laws, one set of laws for Mexicans and another set of laws for Whites.

  Well no, make that one set of laws for Spanish speaking people and another let of laws for English speaking people.

• From this article it sure sounds like Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton loves bribes gifts. I'm sorry did I say bribes??? I ment to say gifts. On the other hand for us serfs Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton rules over there isn't much difference in our minds between a bribe, campaign contribution and gift.

  So Mayor Greg Stanton why don't you pass a law making it illegal for any member of the Phoenix City Council to accept gifts??? Probably because gifts are a great way to make a bribe seem legal??

  Well Mayor it's your choice. You can continue to look like a crook and accept gifts that often looks like bribes. Or you can pass a law making it illegal for you to accept any gifts.

  I am sure you won't do the right thing. After all you need the money, oops I mean the gifts.

• In this editoral Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton shoves the BS on open government and government accountability.

  Yea, that's the same Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton who lied to us and said he would repeal the 2 percent Phoenix sales tax when in ran for office in 2011.

  Of course I am sure if you ask Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton about it he will claim he is not lying THIS time.

  I bet he will also say he wasn't lying about repealing that 2 percent sales tax and come up with some cockamamie excuse on why it wasn't a lie when he said he would repeal the sales tax.

• In this letter to the editor Jim Rogers of Phoenix thinks that Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton editorial piece was a bunch of hot air and BS.

  Looks like I am not the only one that thought Mayor Greg Stanton's "letter to the editor" or "My Turn" column was a bunch of BS.

  Mayor Greg Stanton is the guy who lied to us and said if he was elected Mayor of Phoenix he would repeal the 2 percent sales tax that goes mostly to the police.

  He didn't and a number of us think it is because Mayor Greg Stanton is owned lock, stock and barrel by the police and fire department unions.

• In this article Kyrsten Sinema seems to be shoveling the BS and saying anything it will take to get her relected as a US Congresswoman or US Congressman.

  Kyrsten Sinema is the Arizona politician that tried to slap a 300 percent tax on medical marijuana.

• In this article Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton appears to be shoveling the BS???

  Most politicians are liars and hypocrites who will say anything to get re-elected. In this article I suspect Mayor Greg Stanton is doing that.

• In this article the Phoenix Convention Center continue to lose money like a drunken sailor and the royals rulers on the Phoenix City Councile want the State of Arizona to bail them out for their mistakes.
• In this article we find out that the Sky Train at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport is a big time ripoff. Each ride costs $22.

  This editorial that seems to praise the billion dollar Sky Train pork project at Sky Harbor International Airport at least admits that the cost of a ride on the Sky Train is outrageously expensive.

  The article says each one way ride on Sky Train costs $22 for the lousy half mile ride from Terminal 4, thru a parking garage and then to the light rail station on Washington & 44th Street.

• In this article Phoenix Police Union and the Phoenix Firemen Unions want to boot Sal DiCiccio out of office because he doesn't believe in giving boatloads of government pork to cops and firemen.

  When cops and firemen talk about "good government" it doesn't mean good government as most of us think.

  To cops and firemen "good government" means shoveling pork along with super high pay raises to cops in firemen giving them high paying do nothing jobs.

• In this article it sounds like the Phoenix Police and the Phoenix Firemen have violated campaign-finance laws in their effort to boot Sal DiCiccio off of the Phoenix City Council.

  The Phoenix Police Union and the Phoenix Firemen's Union both want to boot Sal DiCiccio out of office because he is against big time government pork for cops and firemen.

• In this article our Phoenix rulers said if we approved a bond to expand the convention center, private investors would build a new downtown hotel to support it.

  That was a lie. Our Phoenix rulers ended up using our tax dollars to build a new downtown hotel.

  Next our Phoenix rulers conned legislators into picking up half the cost of the expansion, they promised that it wouldn’t actually cost the state anything.

  Again that was a lie. Now our Phoenix rulers want to renege or renegotiate.

• Is Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton lying again about his support for pork for the Phoenix Police and Phoenix Police unions???

  According to this article Phoenix Mayour Greg Stanton claims he wants to to end pension ‘spiking’ which is almost certainly illegal.

  I suspect that Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton is just shoveling the BS in this article to get votes.

  Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton seems to be owned by the police and fire department unions.

  When Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton was running for Mayor he promised to end a sales tax which goes mostly for public safety, or the police. That promise was a LIE.

  I suspect that Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton claim that he wants to end spiking is just another lie designed to help him get reelected.

• In this article it sounds like these Blockwatch grants or Blockwatch programs are a big huge waste of money that do almost nothing to stop crime, like they are supposed to do.

  On the other hand the Blockwatch grants or Blockwatch programs in this article sound like a government welfare program for cops which pays police officers up to $60 and hour for cushy do nothing jobs that are basically brainwashing the children to believe that cops are wonderful people.

  And of course last but not least the Blockwatch grants or Blockwatch programs in this article seem to be a government program to brainwash the children into thinking that the police are wonderful. Didn't Hitler and Stalin have these programs in their countries to brainwash the kiddies into loving government thugs???

• In this article the Goldwater Institute files a lawsuit to stop the city of Phoenix practice of allowing cops to illegally spike their pensions.
• In this article The Arizona Republic thinks that Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton should start obeying the law and stop allowing Phoenix Police officers to illegally spike their pensions.
• In this article Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton isn't the only government bureaucrat that makes up imaginary laws and enforces them on us at gun point.

  In this article Arizona DHS Director Will Humble makes up some imaginary laws laws about medical marijuana.

• In this editorial Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton and the other members of the Phoenix City Council are accused of helping Phoenix City Manager David Cavazos take the Phoenix taxpayers to the cleaners.
• In this article we find out that the secret spy folks at the NSA and their British counterpart, the Government Communications Headquarters or GCHQ can read your emails and other web or internet communications even when they are encrypted.

  The article is titled "Files show NSA cracks, weakens Internet encryption"

• According to this article Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton has been allowing the city of Phoenix to violate the Arizona Constitution and spend $75,000 a year on a church or chapel at Sky Harbor Airport.
• In this article Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton seems to be helping Phoenix City Manager Cavazos spike his pension pay.

  Let's face it Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton doesn't work for the taxpayers, he works for the government bureaucrats in the city of Phoenix.

• When it comes to making up imaginary laws the government tyrants at the City of Phoenix aren't the only ones who can do it.

  Will Humble who is the Director of the Arizona Department of Health Services seems to have come up with a whole bunch of imaginary definitions of what medical marijuana is.

  Of course these imaginary definitions of medical marijuana exist only in the mind of Will Humble and in the minds of police officers who are angry that Arizona's Medical Marijuana Act have cut into their full employment jobs program which is also called the war on drugs.

  OK, here are the imaginary laws about medical marijuana that Will Humble wants us to believe!!!!!