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 Andrea Eichhorn, 36, was fired Dec. 4 from the Casselberry police dept. by Police Chief John Pavlis. She appealed that decision, and today Casselberry City Manager Barbara Lipscomb denied the appeal.  Eichhorn went to the home of one-year-old Joey Cosmillo Jan. 9, 2007.  The boy had fallen into the backyard pool, and his mother dragged him out and called 911.

While watching rescuers work Eichhorn slipped in a puddle caused by his rescue, fell and broke a kneecap.  The city or its insurer paid all her medical bills and she did not lose a single day of pay, she sued the child's grandparents, who own the home where the accident happened, accusing them of being negligent.  The child was moved into a group home for the profoundly disabled.  He suffered severe brain damage that day.

News of that suit prompted hundreds of people from across the country to voice their outrage.  Casselberry's City Hall and police department were inundated with complaints.

I for one hope she NEVER gets a job on any police force again.  She seem to be no better than a gold digger that marries for money, only to have it back fire on her.  It is officers like her that give all police a black eye and help foster the mis-trust of the public. 

 An off-duty Miami-Dade Police Officer, Jeffrey Janish, was in police uniform and driving his police cruiser when he was pulled over and arrested Monday, Dec. 17, for driving under the influence.  He was speeding and swerving from lane to lane on the Florida Turnpike.  According to the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office booking center, Janish's blood alcohol level was about three times the legal limit.  A Miami-Dade police spokesman said Janish has been relieved of duty with pay pending the investigation.

  I can not read these reports of officers like this without wondering what possessed  him  to  get into this  circumstance.  It only takes one officer to screw up to make his or her entire unit look bad in the eyes of the people he has sworn to " Protect and Serve."

Congressional Quarterly TODAY – APPROPRIATIONS: TRANSPORTATION-HUD
Sept. 10, 2007 – 4:34 p.m.

http://public.cq.com/docs/cqt/news110-000002581201.html


Senate Amendment Would Bar Funds for Mexican Truck Pilot Program

The Senate is expected to vote Tuesday on whether to prohibit long-haul Mexican trucks from crossing into the United States, as part of the debate on a fiscal 2008 spending bill.

The amendment to the $104.6 billion Transportation-HUD measure (HR 3074) would bar funds from being used for a controversial Transportation Department pilot program allowing up to 100 Mexican trucking companies to operate in the United States beyond a 25-mile radius of the border.

The administration ordered the pilot program early this year, but Congress blocked it with a rider on the fiscal 2007 Iraq War supplemental bill (PL 110-28), pending a report by the Department of Transportation’s inspector general and a department response to that report.

The department issued that report Sept. 6 and triggered the program one hour later, said Sen. Byron L. Dorgan, D-N.D., who offered the amendment.

Dorgan said the department’s move ignored the inspector general’s finding that Mexican databases were insufficient to provide information about vehicle inspections, accident reports and driver records — “the entire guts of what you need to know if you’re going to ensure the safety of the American public,” Dorgan said.

The House adopted a similar amendment to its version of the Transportation-HUD measure before passing it July 24.

Republicans objected to a vote Monday on the Dorgan amendment, and it was not clear whether they would also seek to block action Tuesday.

14 REASONS TO DEPORT - or at least change what we're doing now!!!

I hope these 14 reasons are posted over and over again until they are read by the majority of Americans. Then they will have something to yell at their U.S. Congress members.

     
    1. $11 Billion to $22 billion is spent on welfare to illegal aliens each year.
     http://tinyurl.com/zob77
    
    2. $2.2 Billion dollars a year is spent on food assistance programs such as food stamps, WIC, and free school lunches for illegal aliens.
     http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html
    
    3. $2.5 Billion dollars a year is spent on Medicaid for illegal aliens.
     http://www.cis.org/articles/2004/fiscalexec.html
    
    4. $12 Billion dollars a year is spent on primary and secondary school education for children here illegally and they cannot speak a word of English!  http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.0.ht
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    5. $17 Billion dollars a year is spent for education for the American-born children of illegal aliens, known as anchor babies.
     http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.h
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  6. $3 Million Dollars a DAY is spent to incarcerate illegal aliens.
 http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.
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    7. 30% percent of all Federal Prison inmates are illegal aliens.
     http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.h
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    8. $90 Billion Dollars a year is spent on illegal aliens for Welfare & social services by the American taxpayers.
      http://premium.cnn.com/TRANSCIPTS/0610/29/ldt.01.html
    
    9. $200 Billion Dollars a year in suppressed American wages are
    caused by the illegal aliens.
     http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0604/01/ldt.01.h
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    10. The illegal aliens in the United States have a crime rate that's two and a half times that of non-illegal aliens. In particular, their children, are going to make a huge additional crime problem in the US
     http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/12/ldt.01.h
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    11. During the year of 2005 there were 4 to 10 MILLION illegal aliens
    that crossed our Southern Border also, as many as 19,500 illegal aliens from Terrorist Countries. Millions of pounds of drugs, cocaine, meth, heroine and marijuana, crossed into the U. S from the Southern border.
    Homeland Security Report:  http://tinyurl.com/t9sht
    
    12. The National Policy Institute, "estimated that the total cost of mass
    deportation would be between $206 and $230 billion or an average cost
    of between $41 and $46 billion annually over a five year period."
     http://www.nationalpolicyinstitute.org/pdf/deportation.
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    13. In 2006 illegal aliens sent home $45 BILLION in remittances back to
    their countries of origin. <http://www.rense.com/general75/niht.htm
    
    14. "The Dark Side of Illegal Immigration: Nearly One Million Sex Crimes
    Committed by Illegal Immigrants In The United States ".
     http://www.drdsk.com/articleshtml
    
    So using the LOWEST estimates, the annual cost OF ILLEGAL
    ALIENS is $338.3 BILLION DOLLARS A YEAR! So if deporting
    them costs between $206 and $230 BILLION DOLLARS, Hey
    get rid of em', We'll be ahead after the 1st year!!!
     Please pass this on . Americans need to wake up !
     When it comes time to vote remember which politicians support the illegal aliens , keep them out of office. . . . 

What ever happened to responsible reporting ? This area of the news has greatly changed over the years. Not many years ago reporters  informed the public of crimes and ways to avoid becoming a victim, now these people take it one step further by explaining and often times showing how the crime is committed.
Television, Radio, Newspapers and often Judges are too eager to blame video games and ineffective parenting as the cause of increased youth violence and crimes against the general public. Many days watching the news on television there are segments that show and explain how some criminals perpetrate and often get away with their trade.