Reasons

There are reasons the Connecticut State Police should not receive accreditation and be violated on probation and disbanded [click here]. The Connecticut State Police misconduct keeps reaching higher levels and new lows in how disgusting. It is way too prevalent and the Connecticut State Police need to be abolished.

The Connecticut Judicial Branch Vast Conspiracy

(This video is a little over 3 min)

Can CT Judges Commit Felonies without Fear?

(This video runs less than a minute) Christopher Kennedy asks the Connecticut Judicial Branch Public Service and Trust Commission about felonies allegedly committed within the Judicial Branch. Will the allegations be investigated or covered up?

The meeting took place at the Rocky Hill Marriot, 12-11-2007.

Court System / Courthouse Survey

Please be advised that you are only allowed one survey per computer.

1) The Connecticut Court system is delivering justice in a fair manner. Strongly Disagree Disagree Neither agree/disagree Agree Strongly Agree Don't know/not applicable

2) The Connecticut Judicial Branch effectively communicates to Connecticut residents about court function. Strongly Disagree Disagree Neither agree/disagree Agree Strongly Agree Don't know/not applicable

3) The Connecticut Judicial Branch effectively communicates to Connecticut residents about court process. Strongly Disagree Disagree Neither agree/disagree Agree Strongly Agree Don't know/not applicable

4) Residents have equal access to justice in Connecticut. Strongly Disagree Disagree Neither agree/disagree Agree Strongly Agree Don't know/not applicable

5) I was able to find the information I was looking for on the Judicial Branch’s website. Strongly Disagree Disagree Neither agree/disagree Agree Strongly Agree Don't know/not applicable

6) The Judicial Branch’s website is easy to navigate. Strongly Disagree Disagree Neither agree/disagree Agree Strongly Agree Don't know/not applicable

7) The Judicial Branch’s website is aesthetically pleasing. Strongly Disagree Disagree Neither agree/disagree Agree Strongly Agree Don't know/not applicable

If you recently went to a courthouse, please answer the questions below: 8) Did you feel safe in the courthouse? Strongly Disagree Disagree Neither agree/disagree Agree Strongly Agree Don't know/not applicable

9) The court makes reasonable efforts to remove physical barriers. Strongly Disagree Disagree Neither agree/disagree Agree Strongly Agree Don't know/not applicable

10) The court makes reasonable efforts to remove language barriers. Strongly Disagree Disagree Neither agree/disagree Agree Strongly Agree Don't know/not applicable

11) I was treated with courtesy and respect. Strongly Disagree Disagree Neither agree/disagree Agree Strongly Agree Don't know/not applicable

12) I was able to complete my court business in a reasonable amount of time. Strongly Disagree Disagree Neither agree/disagree Agree Strongly Agree Don't know/not applicable

13) My overall experience at the courthouse today was satisfactory. Strongly Disagree Disagree Neither agree/disagree Agree Strongly Agree Don't know/not applicable

14) My case was handled fairly. Strongly Disagree Disagree Neither agree/disagree Agree Strongly Agree Don't know/not applicable

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Judicial Propaganda meeting Held 12-11-07 at the Rocky Hill Connecticut Marriot

(This video runs 78 min) The Judicial Branch examined themselves and gave themselves good marks. What would happen if there was an outside, unbiased survey done of the Connecticut Courts?

The Connecticut Judicial Branch [website], a hostile work environment where officials committing felonies and defrauding taxpayers are protected by their own "Omerta"

(This video runs about 16 min) 12-6-2007, Judicial Branch employee Andrea Wilson and another Judicial Branch Employee expose the Judicial Branch for what it really is. The video was shot at the Bridgeport Superior Court by Steven G. Erickson. The 12-11-07 meeting of the Judicial Branch Public Service and Trust Commission didn't seem to come up when the Judicial Branch was cheer leading for itself 12-11-07 without the public being able to comment.

The 2nd responder at the public hearing 12-6-07 seems to suggest that juries are tampered with by judges.

Should judges be able to hire friends at high pay where they don't even have to show up to get paid? Isn't that defrauding taxpayers, a federal crime, a felony? Are judicial branch hard drives being erased and added to cover up official crimes and preserve outside control which corrupts "The Branch"?

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Steven G. Erickson on Connecticut Court Ethics

(Video runs under 6 min) I testified at the Public Service and Trust Commission meeting Dec. 3, 2007, at the Connecticut Supreme Court in Hartford.

I supplied this text to the committee at the time I testified. It took me about 5 minutes to type up in the Supreme Court Library in Hartford:

To Whom It May Concern: December 3, 2007

I and those like me that own rental properties, a small business, are a divorced father, or lodge complaints against a judge, prosecutor, or police officer know that the courts are not fair and do not run according to rules, the US Constitution, and there is no consistency of sentencing and treatment of citizens.

I proposed legislation to elected officials in my former town of Stafford
Springs, Connecticut, regarding making the courts more accessible and small business friendly. I proposed Civilian Oversight of Police.

I had tried to have Judge Jonathan Kaplan and Prosecutor Keith Courier removed for bias against landlords and the self-employed. I had a tenant move in without my permission. Prostitute Lana Thompson then went to see Courier in a very revealing dress as I couldn’t get police or the prosecutor to arrest or prosecute Thompson for squatting and damaging my property. Courier told me that I would be arrested and he would prosecute me if I brought any actions against Thompson. I did, I evicted her. I tried to have Kaplan removed over a civil case involving insurance fraud where upon I reported the fraud to Judge Kaplan, Haas vs. Erickson. I wrote Kaplan a very critical letter of his performance with the docket # on it.

I had Kaplan for more small claims cases and he would give me dirty looks as I believe he knew I was active in trying to have him removed. I was told by police, local and state, that I was kicked out of Connecticut for what I wrote in newspapers and for laws that I proposed to elected officials. I refused to leave and sell my home. I later attacked on my property by Brian Caldwell at night. He told me he would kill me if I did not turn over my wallet after beating me. I pepper sprayed him.

I was then arrested, and my assailant was not. Trooper Amaral and Langlois refused to take my complaint against my assailant and refused to get statements from witnesses, my tenants at the scene and then committed perjury at me trial, presided by Judge Jonathan Kaplan. Prosecutor Keith Courier refused to give me AR and told me to plead guilty and I would be sentenced to a year and half in prison with no previous record.

Kaplan told me that I was guilty and going to jail before my trial. I was sentenced to a year in prison, the highest fines, and strictest conditions, and 3 years probation for “overreacting” to being mugged. Kaplan, the police, and the prosecutor were aware that my life had been threatened while my assailant demanded money, and that he had not been arrested and had been given immunity to prosecute me.

This is blanket retaliation. How is anyone to have faith in the system if retaliation scenarios such as mine are allowed to go unpunished? I lost my credit, business, home, dog, and my family has disowned me all due to Kaplan’s misdeeds. Should a judge avoid prosecution and arrest for such evil deeds? I think the Judiciary should remedy my case.

Thank you,

Steven G. Erickson

Private attorney general

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A private attorney general is a private party in the United States who brings a lawsuit that is considered to be in the public interest, i.e. benefiting the general public and not just the plaintiff. The private attorney general is entitled to recover attorney's fees if he or she prevails. The purpose of this principle is to provide extra incentive to private citizens to pursue suits that may be of benefit to society at large. Examples of application Most civil rights statutes rely on private attorneys general for their enforcement. In Newman v. Piggie Park Enterprises, 390 U.S. 400 (1968) - one of the earliest cases construing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the United States Supreme Court ruled that "A public accommodations suit is thus private in form only. When a plaintiff brings an action . . . he cannot recover damages. If he obtains an injunction, he does so not for himself alone but also as a 'private attorney general,' vindicating a policy that Congress considered of the highest priority." The United States Congress has also passed laws with "private attorney general" provisions that provide for the enforcement of laws prohibiting employment discrimination, police brutality, and water pollution. Under the Clean Water Act, for example, "any citizen" may bring suit against an individual or a company that is a source of water pollution. Civil Rights Attorney's Fees Award Act The U.S. Congress codified the private attorney general principle into law with the enactment of Civil Rights Attorney's Fees Award Act of 1976, 42 U.S.C. § 1988. The Senate Report on this statute stated that The Senate Committee on the Judiciary wanted to level the playing field so that private citizens, who might have little or no money, could still serve as "private attorneys general" and afford to bring actions, even against state or local bodies, to enforce the civil rights laws. The Committee acknowledged that, "[i]f private citizens are to be able to assert their civil rights, and if those who violate the Nation's fundamental laws are not to proceed with impunity, then citizens must have the opportunity to recover what it costs them to vindicate these rights in court." Where a plaintiff wins his or her lawsuit and is considered the "prevailing party," § 1988 acts to shift fees, including expert witness fees [at least in certain types of civil rights actions, under the Civil Rights Act of 1991, even if not in § 1983 actions], and to make those who acted as private attorneys general whole again, thus encouraging the enforcement of the civil rights laws. The Senate reported that it intended fee awards to be "adequate to attract competent counsel" to represent client with civil rights grievances. S. Rep. No. 94-1011, p. 6 (1976). The U.S. Supreme Court has interpreted the act to provide for the payment of a "reasonable attorney's fee" based on the fair market value of the legal services.

Federal Justices incriminate themselves in a video that was not supposed to be leaked to the public. In this video, the "judges" refer to sovereigns who try to express their proper rights as terrorists liken unto racist white supremacist. Take note of their claims, for that is what they will say of you. Be advised!

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[check out this website]

An example of what is on it:

December Filings for Congress
These are the documents Eddie wants you to see, as of today, Nov 28, and have ready for filing by Dec 10:

1. Cover (Nov-Dec. Filling)
HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE
2138 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, DC 20515

a. in MicroSoft Word (COVER-Template.doc) (instruction example is below)

2. Affidavit (Nov-Dec. Filling)
CITIZEN’S AFFIDAVIT IN SUPPORT OF
PETITION FOR JUDICIAL REFORM
a. in MicroSoft Word (AFFIDAVIT-Template.doc) (instruction example is below)

"The Diaper Gang"

"The Diaper Gang", was the name given to youths terrorizing, robbing, and beating citizens in the Stafford Springs area of Connecticut. The gang got their name because of their young ages.

Connecticut State Police, Troop C, were the main investigators of this "gang".

I knew the names of some of the individuals involved with the muggings and other crimes. I passed the names on to the Connecticut State Police, especially using their tips line. I reported Stanley Sibonis, Stephen Carver, and others.

Nothing happened, there were no actions by police and citizens continued to be beaten, robbed, and some, nearly beaten to death with baseball bats.

Should a police force be allowed to be this useless in protecting and serving citizens?

Should police be just about, "Protecting the Integrity of the System" and revenue collecting, not about serving those that pay police, the taxpayers?

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They break laws, their answer is to take away your rights

What isn't illegal about our current US Government?



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Lock up as many Americans as Possible

This video paints a true picture of America as it "lies" today:

emailed to governor.rell@ po.state.ct.us

To: Connecticut Governor Rell and to whom it may concern

I refused to continue dating Barbara Sattal, Connecticut State Police operative. She told me that she could either have the Connecticut State Police help me with my rental properties with the protection and service I needed to survive, or if I didn't continue dating her that the police would enforce a "no dating" policy, I would lose my property, and would really suffer at the hands of the Connecticut State Police.

I did, two officers committed perjury to get me railroaded to prison. Connecticut State Police Officers were following me around, threatening me, and encouraging citizens to break the law to terrorize me out of my home and out of Connecticut.

I have lost contact with my daughter with whom I was always close to. It has been 5 years that I have had trouble getting any kind of decent employment, have been homeless, and have been suffering and been estranged from my family ever since.

I wish to work as a first responder in California for the victims of the fires. I can't with a bogus criminal record. The police in Connecticut don't right wrongs for citizens, if a citizen has complained about police or judges in Connecticut. The Judiciary in Connecticut is fixed to prevent citizens from getting justice when police, the courts and the State of Connecticut could be liable to pay civil damages.

I don't think I should be serving a life sentence for rejecting a police operative romantically. I would have $500,000 in Connecticut real estate, my home, small business, retirement, credit, good relations with my family, a decent vehicle, health insurance, a family, and would not worry about freezing to death out exposed in the cold, had I continued to date Barbara Sattal or gave her incentives to break up with me.

I don't want to get falsely arrested again or suffer more retaliation just trying to get justice which isn't possible in Connecticut courts. Police in Connecticut have gotten no jail time or been arrested when they pay informants to kill or beat up citizens that have made police misconduct complaints in Connecticut. I fear further retaliation. Please help me expunge my bogus criminal record so I can leave the area and go on with my life, while also helping victims of natural disasters.

Thank you,

Steven G. Erickson
972 Putney Rd #156
Brattleboro, VT 05301

http://thegetjusticecoalition.blogspot.com/

17 y/o Ian Murzin choked to death by CT State Trooper, revived, and never the same

Ian Murzin at 17 back in 1994



17 y/o Ian Murzin was allegedly choked to death by Connecticut while in Connecticut State Police, arrested in retaliation for his brother Stephen Murzin for having made a police misconduct complaint.

Stephen Murzin talks about the incident back in 1994, where I, Steven G. Erickson, interview Stephen Murzin about the incident, Oct. 10, 2007.

[click here] for Stephen Murzin's more complete recall of the incidents of where he and his brother were beaten by Colchester Connecticut Police Officers and by Connecticut State Police.

[click here] for a list of all my YouTube.com videos.

[click here] for evidence that a felon on probation, David J. Taylor, got away with stabbing Stephen Murzin 13 times, and stabbing 2 others, and wasn't even violated on probation. Stephen Murzin was arrested in the hospital by police when he woke up from having been stabbed 13 times!

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[click here] for my letter to the Washington, D.C., FBI

Should Judges ignore illegal behavior of other judges?

Open Letter to Chief Justice William J. Sullivan of Connecticut

[click here] for more
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Are judges guilty of felonies if they obstruct justice and don't turn in information in on other judges that have committed crimes?

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[click here] for my yet unanswered letter to Attorney General Richard Blumenthal

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[click here] for my 9-15-01 letter to President George W. Bush

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[click here] for a list of all my youtube.com videos

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State Police Begin New Internal Probe

By TRACY GORDON FOX | Courant Staff Writer
July 18, 2007

State police have begun an internal affairs investigation into a racially offensive video and still photograph that were e-mailed several months ago among troopers assigned to the state police forensic laboratory, including to its commander.

One e-mail shows a still photograph of a black man lying on the street surrounded by watermelon rinds and chicken bones. The headline on the e-mail read "fatal overdose?" Another e-mail had a video attachment of a tow-headed white girl with a lisp, who sat at her kitchen table in a yellow shirt and spewed hateful racial slurs with the encouragement of two adults. The subject line simply says: "Little girl with a speech problem." [more]

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[click here] for my open letter to Connecticut State Police Commissioner John A. Danaher III



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My email: stevengerickson@yahoo.com

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"In the Interest of Justice", The Documentary Series

Francis C.P. Knize is a renowned documentary producer. I am the co-producer and cameraman #2. We plan on exposing injustice in the court system nationally and to see that legislation is passed for judicial accountability. As it is now judges aren't following rules and decide cases as they please. This undermines all that our forefathers intended. By clicking the button below, you would be donating $5. Please donate $5, and we'll continue doing what we are doing, exposing injustice, but in a professionally edited and crafted documentary. The $5 donation will go into Francis C.P. Knize's account for our documentary. We have been in contact with Court TV and other networks. It is up to you to help us get something into production. We are creating real changes in real time, please donate by clicking on button below.

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Here is some of our raw footage [click here] that we filmed in the last 2 weeks in Brooklyn, New York, at a national hearing debating whether judges should be judging judges.

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Connecticut Secret Police Surveillance

[click here] for my pictures and stories of Connecticut State Police Misconduct

[click here] Is there an eminent US Economic Depression?

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Big Brother Comes to Stamford, Connecticut


Seven years after passing one of the most pro-privacy ordinances in the USA, the Public Safety and Health Committee spearheaded by Chair ... all » Richard Lyons, wants to overturn the hard fought protection by locating secret police surveillance cameras near schools, housing authorities and in minority neighborhoods. December 19, 2006, Public Safety and Health Committee public hearing, Stamford, CT Board of Representatives (aka City Council). 1. PS27.012 PROPOSED ORDINANCE; for public hearing & final adoption; amending Chapter 7 (CCTV Cameras) of the Code of Ordinances to authorize expanded use of CCTV Cameras. Full text found at http://www.boardofreps.org/Committees/publicsafety/2006/items/ps27012.doc Members of Public Safety & Health Committee (11 members)

Richard Lyons II, Chair Terry Adams Maria Aposporos Philip Berns Joseph Coppola, Jr. Gloria G. DePina Mark Larobina Cynthia Martin Scott Mirkin Jerry Pia John R. Zelinsky, Jr

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Police trolling blogs to put citizens on their "Secret Enemies List" for false arrest, so they may be held in Connecticut jails as political prisoners.

The lies from the police regarding Ken Krayeske arrest





Here's video footage of Commissioner of the Departmkent of Public Safety, Leonard Boyle, and Hartford Police Chief Daryl Roberts lying about the events surrounding the arrest of freelance journalist/blogger Ken Krayeske

[click here] for more pictures and information on Kenneth Krayeske

Ken Krayeske rally news coverage

Alex Jones 7-30-07 1of13

Alex welcomes to the program plainfield connecticut Tax Protestor Elaine Brown, wife of Ed Brown, to discuss the current situation in plainfield and to comment on recent attempts by government Agents to provoke the browns.

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Alex also welcomes friend of the Browns and resident of the Brown's Plainfield home, Danny Riley, to discuss his previous encounters with government agents and the sinister behavior which he has witnessed from the police who are surrounding and monitoring the Brown's home.

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Connecticut's Organized Crime and Racism History

One of the original enforcers of Connecticut's "Whites Only" unofficial policies:

Mr. Clean's Swan Song

An Isolated Incident? HELL NO !!!

After decades in public life, former top Connecticut cop Bernie Sullivan thought he was slipping out of the spotlight by taking a private job--with the Tomassos.

Then came Rowland-gate.
by Paul Bass - January 15, 2004

Connecticut knew Bernie Sullivan as Mr. Clean--the man brought in to lead state police in the wake of a spying scandal in 1989.

He lived in the spotlight. He ran Hartford's police force, then the state's police force--and, later on, the Speaker's office at the state House of Representatives.

Now, three years after he thought he'd slipped away from the spotlight into private life, Sullivan has returned to the public eye--at the center of Connecticut's current corruption scandals.
He's the public face of the Tomasso family's construction empire, the focus of a federal investigation into state government bribery and bid-rigging. It has been Sullivan's job to swing back at critics, answer some allegations, not answer others. He's also running two of Tomasso's companies and wrestling with the state over questionable government payments.

And he's been dragged into the state treasurer's bribery scandal because of his previous job, running then-state House Speaker Tom Ritter's office.

Sullivan wrote that he was "get[ting] out of the fish bowl of public life" three years ago when he left government for the Tomasso job.

"God made me bite my tongue on that one," he said in a conversation last week.

His journey from lawman to Democratic chief of staff to point man for a company intimately connected to a Republican governor illustrates the power structure at the root of Rowland/Silvester-gate.

It's not about Republicans versus Democrats.

It's not about business versus government.

It's about one insider team. With one concern above all: Who gets paid.

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[click here] for Faces from a Police State, Connecticut. Police Misconduct is a Connecticut art form.

[click here] Is there still "Gay Bashing" going on in the ranks of the Connecticut State Police?

[click here] for my May 22, 2006, interview of Stephen Murzin. Click on link and open or save in Windows Media Player to list to it. Audio brings up the police using teens, called, "informants" to become recruits for "cop gangs". These street gangs do the cops dirty work and end up in prisons when police no longer have use for them. Can you say, "Obstruction of Justice, contributing to the delinquency of minors, Connecticut police misconduct, racketeering, and corruption of the courts"?

Should kids be encouraged by police to kill others with shotguns and beat up others?

Should a felon on probation, an alleged police informant, get no prison time for stabbing and almost killing 3 people because he was acting under police orders? [click for more]

Former Connecticut Governor John G. Rowland, the infamous Mustang, and ripping off America's Homeland Security Fund [more]

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Racist Connecticut State Police?

Racist E-mail At CT State Police

Posted by Mark Davis on Jul 19th, 2007 at 10:36:43 pm

By now you have heard about the racist images apparently sent around to and by some members of the Connecticut State Police. The Public Safety Commissioner has ordered an Internal Affairs investigation. That division recently had to be completely revamped because of a scandal revealed in a report prepared by the New York State Police.

The e-mails surfaced this week and seemed to re-inforce the allegations of racism by Connecticut State Police Sgt. Andrew Crumbie of West Hartford. Crumbie says he doesn't believe all those on the e-mail list of this stuff is a racist...but that it shows the casual attitude about this type of crude, insensitive behavior.

The Connecticut Confrence of Chapters of N.A.A.C.P. now have called for a U. S. Justice Department investigation into allegations of racism in the State Police. Crumbie is just one of about six African-American members of the department who have made some sort of complaint about racism.

At the State Police Trooper graduation ceremony at the University of Connecticut today, it was hard not to notice that of the 60 new troopers..just one appeared to be a person of color...a couple were Hispanic and a couple were Asian.

The official spokesman for the Connecticut State Police continues to stress that the controversial e-mails were posted from personal computers and not on state time. An attorney for the the N.A.A.C.P. says there is reason to believe that is not the case and has asked for records of all e-mails of all State Police personel involved.

Does it really matter? Or do you believe that personal e-mail should be off limits....even if it is hateful, hurtful, and may show a bias to a segement of the population?

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The Organized Crime Scam of the Courts?

Dr. Shirley Moore (CA): Court Corruption, Part 1


Dr. Moore, American Family Rights Association(AFRA), at Lincoln Memorial for Family Preservation Rally 2007, 8/18/07

Are judges and others profiting from filing as many parents and children through programs? Are there illegal profits in abusing you and your family?

Pulled Over, Profiled by Police

Connecticut, A Police State

I was recently driving one morning in a state other than Connecticut, mid morning, on a sunny day. Just going to work, or look at work, can be a life altering experience if you aren’t White and/or driving the latest high end vehicle.

My vehicle is legal, registered, insured, and in proper working order. It is just a little raggy and worn.

My car broke down so I am using my van that I had as a landlord. The rebuilt engine and transmission have about 8000 miles on them, and most of the van has been replaced except the shell, frame, and interior.

A State Trooper passed by me going the other direction, and without using his lights, wheeled around and drove at a high rate of speed, ignoring speed limits as I was obeying them. From seeing him look at me, I knew he had little to do, and wanted to make quota by doing anything he could to me. I could have been anyone, he was just looking to target anyone not rich enough to be in that area for fines and possible arrest.

The officer pulled me over and initially refused to tell me what I was being pulled over for, he wanted to search my vehicle and person for weapons, asked me if the contents of my vehicle were my own, and gave me a laundry list of what I could be charged with and fined for. I found it strange and abusive that I would be asked if the contents of my vehicle was my own and if I had weapons in the vehicle, out of the blue.

If I was driving a newer vehicle and didn’t appear to be blue collar, dressed in painter’s whites, I would not have been pulled over. Maybe if I was a minority driving any kind of vehicle, I would have been pulled over in that area.

I can see how someone barely making ends meet could be taken off the road for being unable to pay fines, losing their driver’s license, and possibly being jailed over absolute BS.

I was being profiled. I was alone in almost zero traffic out in a rural and well to do area, driving a vehicle well to do residents would not be driving in that area.

There was no reason to pull me over than my economic status didn’t appear to match the area I was driving.

I had a folding tool used for cutting plastic for painting and for cutting vinyl siding on my belt. It holds standard triangle type blades that go in utility knives. I was told that was a weapon in my vehicle.

I feared being arrested and again having my whole life turned upside down over police BS.

The officer asked me every detail of where I had been the last month, when I was last pulled over, asked to see receipts and proof, I had them and showed the officer my mail, receipts, etc.

I’m White, what if I was driving an old vehicle, and was a minority in an almost exclusively White and well to do area?

The officer told me I was doing 47 in a 30. Crap! I may have been doing 47 in the 45 zone immediately slowing to 30 knowing the State Trooper was behind me looking for any excuse or lack thereof to pull me over.

The Trooper let me off with a written warning, after telling me I could have faced hundreds of dollars in fines, eluding that I could have been arrested and my vehicle towed.

If you aren’t rich, you can be just a thread away from losing your right to drive, your vehicle, your home, your family over bullshit in a police state.

I fear if I had been pulled over in Connecticut, life as I now know it, would again be permanently devastated.

I was late to my appointment and it caused problems for me.

-Steven G. Erickson

http://thesrv.blogspot.com/

http://starkravingviking.blogspot.com/

http://judicialmisconduct.blogspot.com/

[click here] this is how police and the courts really work.

A Connecticut Judge gave a felon on probation no violation of probation for stabbing 3 people, almost killing them, because one, a US Marine had made a police misconduct complaint against a Connecticut officer. The US Marine was arrested in the hospital when he woke up alive with 13 stab wounds for creating a disturbance having been stabbed. [click here for proof and video]

I didn't want heroin and crack cocaine being sold off and near my rental properties. Stafford Connecticut Police and Troop C, Connecticut State Police told me I didn't get police protection and service because I was a landlord and was stupid for buying and fixing up property in a crime area. I went to legislators and mouthed off in newspapers to try and get police to protect and serve as advertised. Police then targeted me to make me lose these properties [video]

This is how police really operate and go after those on their secret police "Enemies List" [click here]

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Do you want to score illegal drugs?

Should Connecticut cops be the drug dealers? [more]


Connecticut Governor M. Jodi Rell shaking hands with Steven G. Erickson [post] 12:15 PM EST July 1, 2005

The crux to my angst [click here]

Did Connecticut State Police Colonel Thomas Davoren offer a woman $10,000 to set me up for Troopers to beat me up and then falsely arrest me? [click here for more]

Did Police pay a police informant $10,000 cash to kill another citizen that lodged a police misconduct complaint? [more]

My YouTube.com video list [click here]

[click here] for Connecticut's BJ and Drunk Driving Memorial Bridge story

[click here] for my letter to Connecticut State Police Commissioner John A. Danaher III about Connecticut State Police Trooper perjury and Connecticut State Police misconduct. Will he cover it up and retaliate against complainers like all the rest? Are there still a Connecticut State Police dragnet for those on their secret "Enemies List"? [more]

I tell former Governor John G. Rowland to go F himself in a letter meant to arrive first on his bunk at Federal Prison. [more]. My letter to Bush [more]

I ask former Connecticut State Police Commissioner Arthur L. Spada if he ran a whorehouse or was a customer at one [click here]

Click Here for my open letter to Connecticut Governor M. Jodi Rell

Click Here for the text of my letter to the Washington DC FBI

Click Here for "Too FN Lazy to protect and serve"
post includes a YouTube video of me, Steven G. Erickson, testifying in front of the Judicial Reform Committee

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The American Follies

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POLITICS (Connecticut)

Key Committee To Hold Hearing

Testimony About Conduct Of State Police Will Be Heard By State Lawmakers

January 13, 2007

By CHRISTOPHER KEATING, Hartford Courant, Capitol Bureau Chief, The Hartford Courant

A key legislative committee will hold a hearing on two of the most embarrassing issues facing the state police: a scathing internal affairs report on trooper misconduct and the controversial arrest of a political activist during the governor's inaugural parade.

State Police Commissioner Leonard Boyle will testify on both issues Jan. 23 before the General Assembly's Public Safety Committee. The hearing is open to the public, but testimony will be limited to those asked to appear.

Attorney General Richard Blumenthal will discuss a 207-page report his office co-authored on the internal affairs unit, which detailed allegations of trooper drug use, sexual abuse, excessive force, family violence and association with prostitutes.

Four law-enforcement officials will talk about the arrest of Kenneth Krayeske, a political activist who was handcuffed during the Jan. 3 inaugural parade and charged with breach of peace and interfering with police.

Before the parade, Krayeske had been identified by state police as a possible threat to Gov. M. Jodi Rell. He had confronted her during last fall's election campaign at a Glastonbury parade and written critically about her recently on his website.

But Krayeske's supporters say he was simply taking photographs of Rell during the Hartford parade and did nothing that could be deemed a threat. His attorney, Norman Pattis, said Krayeske took at least 50 photographs during the public parade, including 16 of Rell as she walked along the route near Bushnell Park.

Pattis said he hoped to attend the hearing - which he described as a "show trial" - but is scheduled to be in court that day on another matter. A veteran trial attorney who is known as one of the state's best defense attorneys, Pattis remained confident about Krayeske's prospects.

"If this case goes to trial and I lose it, I will shave my head on the steps of the state Supreme Court," said Pattis, who for years has worn a long ponytail.

Krayeske has limited his comments on the advice of his attorney, and Pattis said that Krayeske "will not speak anywhere until he speaks to a jury."

One police official described the Krayeske arrest as "a train wreck."

As lawmakers have publicly criticized the arrest, some lawmakers have been jockeying behind the scenes over which committee would hold hearings.

Some pushed for the judiciary or the government administration and elections committee to conduct the inquiry because they are deemed among the most aggressive in the legislature. The public safety committee finally was chosen because it retains jurisdiction over law-enforcement issues.

The hearing will be conducted by state Sen. Andrea Stillman, D-Waterford, and state Rep. Stephen Dargan, D-West Haven, the committee's co-chairs.

"If something happened to the governor, there would have been criticism that law enforcement didn't do enough to protect the governor," Dargan said Friday night. "It's like a Monday morning quarterback. We want to make sure that law enforcement is not handcuffed in the job they're supposed to do."

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COMMENTARY
The Long Arm Of The List

Targeting People Who May Be Politically Disruptive Strikes At Heart Of Political Freedom

January 14, 2007
By NORMAN A. PATTIS

"License and registration, please?" The officer stands beside your car. Behind you, his cruiser lights are flashing. Other motorists slow down to gawk. Your heart pounds.

"What have I done?" you ask. The officer explains that you ran a stop sign several blocks back. You never saw the sign, but no matter. It will be a small fine and off you will go. Everyone makes simple mistakes from time to time.

The officer takes your license and registration to his car. He enters your name into a database linked to his car by computer. A message flashes across his screen:

WARNING - APPROACH WITH CAUTION

THIS INDIVIDUAL IS ASSOCIATED WITH TERRORISM ...

USE CAUTION AND IMMEDIATELY CONTACT THE TERRORIST SCREENING CENTER AT (866) 872-9001 FOR ADDITIONAL DIRECTION.

Your plans for the evening have changed. You are now on a federal radar, listed and tagged as a potential threat. Your name is part of the FBI's Violent Gang and Terrorist Organization File (VGTOF). Will you go home, or to a jail cell?

How did your name get on the list? You don't know. You may never know. Perhaps you were seen at an antiwar rally. Or perhaps you contributed money to a candidate or cause that some anonymous soul views as suspect. Like it or not, however, every law enforcement officer in the country now need only log onto his computer to learn that you are a suspect.

We saw how innocent acts become crimes at the inaugural parade for Gov. M. Jodi Rell this month. Ken Krayeske, a free-lance journalist, law student and former campaign director for Green Party gubernatorial candidate Cliff Thornton, was arrested there and charged with breach of peace and interfering with a police officer. Why? He was taking pictures of the parade.

Of course, that is no crime. But before the parade began, Hartford police officers were told by the Connecticut Intelligence Center and the Connecticut State Police Central Intelligence Unit that a number of political activists posed a threat to the governor.

These intelligence groups are part of the new state-federal security network that is sharing information about all manner of things that can go bump in the night. The state police had photographs of the activists listed as threats. Krayeske's picture was among them.

Ken Krayeske was not arrested for taking pictures. He was arrested because he was on a list of potential threats. His innocent conduct took on a sinister cast when viewed through the secret lens of suspicion.

The state police deny maintaining any such lists. I suspect the denials are a mere linguistic trick. The state may not maintain a list. The lists of who is naughty and who is nice are most likely in federal hands. State lawmakers can hold all the hearings they want in Hartford to find out about these lists and they will learn almost nothing. State law enforcement officials are merely participating in federally managed and funded programs designed, we are told, to protect the security of this, our blessed homeland.

When state lawmakers try to subpoena federal officials, those subpoenas will be quashed in the name of national security or some other legal devicethat makes the federal government a distant, and sacrosanct, overlord.

VGTOF, for example, was created in 1995 in response to the Oklahoma City bombing. It is managed by the FBI. The list initially was focused on individuals believed to be members of groups posing a threat to the United States. But in recent years, the list has expanded. Not long ago, mere protesters against the war in Iraq were placed on the list. A federal audit of VGTOF in 2005 found an error rate of 40 percent based on a small sample of records. Are you on the VGTOF list?

These lists are dangerous and easily misused. Was Ken Krayeske arrested because he had threatened to attend the gubernatorial ball and protest? Or because he once questioned why Gov. Rell refused to demand that gubernatorial debates be open to all candidates?

I did not pledge allegiance to a national-security state. We proclaim in the federal Constitution's preamble that "we the people" created government for limited ends, to assure our life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

"Live free or die," read license plates in New Hampshire. These are words to live by. When did we yield the freedom to be let alone to bureaucrats who decide without meaningful review who is and is not a threat? More important, who regulates the men and women sitting up nights deciding who among us to include on lists that can transform innocent conduct into crimes?

Norman A. Pattis is a criminal defense and civil rights lawyer in Bethany. He represents Ken Krayeske in criminal charges arising from the arrest at the inaugural parade.

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