My turn...

For those of you who are not aware, There is a Military Training Facility being planned for NE Marion County Just North of Ft. McCoy School.

They are leasing the property (2,568 acres) from Ocala Lumber Company, G&M Cattle Company & MAM Properties Investments, LLC to develop:

*Air Strip

*Race Track

*Rifle Range

*Dormitories

*Hangars

*10-ton vehicle infrastructures

*Explosives bunker

Location is South of 199th Street Rd between Hwys 315 & 318 North of Ft. McCoy School.

Imagine constant NOISE POLLUTION from helicopters & aircraft over your property, SAFETY ISSUES regarding student pilot errors, AIR POLLUTION from exhaust & emissions, EXPLOSIVES stored on-site, DEGRADATION of the ENVIRONMENT, DEMAND for WATER, ROAD WEAR by supply trucks and personnel.

PRESERVE your privacy, safety, health, serenity, & rural way of life.

PROTECT your property value & the environment.

EMPOWER your American Rights to voice your view & make a difference.

PROTEST the Zoning variance to our agricultural area.

WRITE a simple letter of Objection, IN YOUR OWN WORDS to:

          Zoning Board of Marion County

            Director Michael E. May

            2710 E. Silver Springs BLVD.

            Ocala, FL  34470

             352-438-2675

             Zoning ID# 080707 SU

AND:

Show up and voice your objections.  

           Zone County Meeting 

             Monday, June 30, 2008 @ 5:30PM

             601 NE 25th Avenue

             Ocala, FL  34470

             352-438-2675

       County Commission Board Meeting

              Tuesday, July 15, 2008 @ 2:00PM

          601 SE 25th Avenue

               Ocala, FL  34470

                352-438-2675

TIME IS CRITICAL, PLEASE WRITE THE LETTER AND MAIL NOW!!

Stay Tuned to Riley34470's Blog for updates and news!  ~RiLeY~

             

 

             Zoning ID# 080707 SU

 

         

Tradegdy, Speed and Age do not mix well.

 

Riley34470 Blogger was there.  I saw MyfoxOrlando, but they obviously didn't recognize me and snubbed me!  anyways here is my footage!!!

I'm just kidding MyFoxOrlando!!   I still love ya!

 

 In 2004, Lafave was also charged in Marion County with two counts of lewd and lascivious battery and one count of lewd and lascivious exhibition. Authorities accused her of having sex with the same boy as another teenage boy drove them around  Marion County in a sport utility vehicle.

Those charges were dropped in March 2006.

The same charges that Debra Lafave is on Probation for were dropped against her in 2006 in The Marion County Judicial System.   They  refused to prosecute because they didn't want to cause the the minor boy who "did it" with her to go through anymore "emotional trauma"  than he already has by "doing it" with a hot female teacher. 

Therefore, if she had only committed the initial crime  in this county only, rather than in addition to the county that prosecuted her, she would have already been free to roam again in search of young boys/girls.

Probation for child molestation.  Why that's just a piece of paper.

I wonder how many people will be surprised that she violated her probation, by ignoring the terms that she was "lucky"  to get in the first place.

Deputy is fired over firearm incident Sheriff's Office says man pointed gun at co-worker.
BY AUSTIN L. MILLER
STAR-BANNER
OCALA - A Marion County sheriff's deputy who admitted pointing his service weapon in the direction of other officers was terminated Tuesday, according to the Sheriff's Office.

The deputy's action reportedly was in response to what was perceived as an inappropriate remark by another deputy.

Gregory Pickering, 29, a four-year deputy with the Sheriff's Office was accused of violations related to firearm safety and the departmental operational directives and code of conduct.

"As an agency, we determined that his action was unacceptable for the Marion County Sheriff's Office. The State Attorney's Office will determine if it rises to a level of criminal violation," said Maj. David Sperring, who is in charge of the Community Policing Bureau.

Pickering said in an interview with the Star-Banner that "due to the perception of the incident, I can understand the disciplinary action. But, in light of what truly occurred, it was a misunderstanding." He added it was a misunderstanding "in the sense that [deputies] didn't see me clearing the weapon. All they saw was a weapon pointed at them. They didn't know my intentions. They thought I intended to point the weapon at them, but I did not."

Pickering said even though he has not made a final decision, he will likely appeal his dismissal.

From an Internal Affairs report prepared by Sgt. Scott Patch, Deputy Walter Ray stated on Oct. 13 around 6:48 a.m., that he and other deputies were sitting in separate patrol vehicles at the intersection of Northwest 60th Avenue and County Road 318, when Pickering arrived.

The deputies were there to investigate a robbery at the Kangaroo convenience store located at 17980 N. U.S. 441.

Ray reportedly addressed Pickering by his wife's maiden name. (Pickering had recently married a co-worker.) Pickering, the report noted, uttered an obscenity, drew his .45-caliber Sig Sauer pistol and pointed it out the driver's side window.

Ray said he wasn't fearful about Pickering's actions, "but rather became angry over the incident," according to the report. Ray said Pickering then holstered his weapon and left the scene. In the report, Ray said he "did not believe that Deputy Pickering's pistol was pointed directly at any of the deputies and was only in the general direction of the passenger compartments."

Several deputies, who were at the scene, confirmed Ray's statement. One deputy, Heather Lay, however, said she didn't hear or see Pickering display his firearm.

On Nov. 13, Pickering was told about the inquiry and two days later, Patch interviewed him. Pickering told Patch that once he heard about the robbery report, he left his home and hadn't had a chance to inspect his weapon.

The incident didn't come to light until Nov. 13 when Patch contacted Capt. David Pistarelli. At that time, Pistarelli told Patch on Nov. 6, he was told about an incident involving two deputies where one pointed a firearm at the other. Then, on Nov. 11, Sgt. Scott Byrd told Pistarelli that Ray was overheard talking about the incident. Then Pistarelli and Byrd contacted Ray, who told them about the incident.

At the scene, Pickering said he removed the magazine, along with a bullet from the chamber, and inspected his firearm. He did say he pointed his weapon "into the passenger compartments of Deputies Michael Dodd and Ray's patrol vehicles," and that he thought that Dodd was the one who had made the reference to him by his wife's former name. In the interview with the Star-Banner, Pickering said the weapon was empty.

In the report, Pickering said drawing his weapon was "a stupid thing to do." He explained that the weapon was displayed because it was already in his hands "when the comment was made and he [Pickering] talks with his hands."

The report stated in its conclusion that "Deputy Pickering's statement that the firearm was unloaded is irrelevant." It continued by saying "the perception of the deputies that witnessed the incident was that the weapon was a loaded duty firearm."

Pickering said the reference to his wife's name was "not a big deal and it doesn't offend me." He said that's "how we joke with each other."

Pickering's personnel file showed that he had been written up in the past for other incidents, including not following through on an investigation, but nothing involving anything as serious as a weapons violation. He also has been recognized for outstanding work, including several times for being the top producer of the month for having the most arrests, traffic stops, and citizen contacts.

8:05 a.m.: Justices uphold welfare home searches Associated Press Article Launched: 11/26/2007 08:03:31 AM PST
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court rejected a challenge today to San Diego County's practice of routinely searching welfare applicants' homes without warrants and ruling out assistance for those who refuse to let them in.

The justices refused, without comment, to intervene in the case from San Diego County, where investigators from the District Attorney's Office show up unannounced at applicants' homes and conduct searches that include peeking into closets and cabinets. The visits do not require any suspicion of fraud and are intended to confirm that people are eligible for government aid.

Failure to submit to the searches, which can last an hour, disqualifies applicants from assistance.

The 10-year-old program was challenged by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of six single parents who were seeking assistance. The welfare applicants argued that the Fourth Amendment, which prohibits unreasonable searches, protects them from the home visits.

"When the investigator conducts the home inspection, no part of the home is off-limits," they said.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, upholding the program, said the Supreme Court in 1971 allowed social workers to visit homes in New York to determine eligibility. The appeals court, in a 2-1 decision, said the visits do not even constitute a search under the Fourth Amendment in part because people are free to turn away the investigators.

In dissent, however, Judge Raymond Fisher said it was unlawful for an investigator from the district attorney's office to go "walking through the applicant's home in search of physical evidence of ineligibility that could lead to criminal prosecution either for welfare fraud or other crimes unrelated to the welfare application."

First Americans All from Siberia, Study Confirms

By Dave Mosher, LiveScience Staff Writer

posted: 27 November 2007 12:05 pm ET

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Humans somehow made their way into the Americas from distant lands, but knowing precisely when and from where they made the journey are matters of heated scientific debate.

New genetic evidence, however, backs up a chilly northwestern arrival to North America from Siberia about 12,000 years ago, via a temporary land bridge spanning the Bering Strait. The findings further challenge an alternative idea that humans sprinkled in to both North and South America on open sea voyages 30,000 years in the past.

"We have reasonably clear genetic evidence that the most likely candidate for the source of Native American populations is somewhere in east Asia," said Noah Rosenberg, a genetic researcher at the University of Michigan Medical School.

Rosenberg explained that the evidence stems from two genetic trends between Siberian and Native American people: One, that genetic similarity between the peoples thins out the further south a native is sampled, and two, that a unique genetic mutation can be found only in Native American and Siberian ancestors.

"If there were a large number of migrations, and most of the source groups didn’t have the variant, then we would not see the widespread presence of the mutation in the Americas," he said.

Because the harmless genetic fluke is reliably found in the two populations, Rosenberg added that the first humans of the New World likely made a single migration—not in several waves as some alternative theories posit.

Rosenberg and his team sampled DNA from 50 populations from around the world and looked specifically at 678 unique genetic markers to investigate human arrival to North America. The technique allows them to glean information about long-dead ancestors of those tested.

The scientists said genetic oddities in those genes are very fresh, which they take as a strong sign that humans migrated in a recent and single wave instead of arriving in several waves all across North and South America.

How they ventured south once traversing an icy northwestern passage, however, is another question. In Rosenberg and his colleagues' study, detailed in a recent edition of the journal PLoS Genetics, the scientists support the idea that humans migrated south along the coasts by boat rather than toughing it out on land.

"A migration route along the coast provides a slightly better fit with the pattern we see in genetic diversity," Rosenberg said.

2 all the ppl out there that are trying to do an "organized blog" kinda thing.   I want you 2 know that I'm not here to do that.  I am not new to blogging and I understand the concept of it.  It's a mass of information that is being constantly released from certain sources IE(me) (you).  Me being an "individual" have different views and different directions that I want to Start and see what happens so that I can make a determination, again "individually" using the information that I have chosen to use as my source.  This may be someone that blogs alot that I always agree with when he/she puts out a blog.  Maybe I'm interested in seeing someones elses point from "Their Blog".    I'm subscribed to certain people's blogs who i like to "listen" to.  

Sometimes I don't want everyones "point of view" in my face.  

Anyways, that's about it, just letting you know that I will blog where and as much or as little as I want.  Please respect that.  Noone is under any obligation to come to my blog, yet there are people that do.

This is freedom of speech and everyone should be able to put the information from other's blogs together and form their own "organization"  This is not a government.  And Frankly I don't want it to be.  I won't be a part of it.

Thanx for the concern, but I don't need anyone to organize it for me and I choose not to participate.

God Bless the USA

 

 

Please know fellow bloggers, that I DO NOT AGREE with this guy.   I think he's nut or it's an act for subcribers on youtube

 

I'm Just curious and I'm not sorry  for the sucker, but do you think that OJ Simpson will get off the hook this time?   I worry that since he only wanted his stuff that he may get off.  Does anyone really believe a crime was committed?  Like I said, I am not for him and I think he belongs in Jail for the murders he committed, but he got off the first time.    Can he pull it off again?

Do police abuse their power?

Sept. 5, 2007

For immediate release:

Contact:
George Crossley
member, Orlando CopWatch
407.619.1520
gcrossley@orlandodirectaction.us

National Latino Officers Association
nloaus.org
Anthony Miranda, Executive Chairman
866.579.5809

Orlando CopWatch and the Florida chapter of the National Latino Officers Association (NLOA) will hold a press conference on Thursday, Sept. 6, noon, in the Albertson Room, third floor of the downtown public library, 101 E. Central Blvd., Orlando.

CopWatch member Joshua Leclair, 29, will detail an incident that occurred around 1 a.m.,Sun., Sept. 2, in which an Orlando police officer ordered him to be handcuffed and detained while he was attempting to observing a traffic stop in the Vimi neighborhood. Leclair was standing at least 30 feet away on a public street videotaping while the police apprehended and arrested the driver and passenger of a pick-up truck. He was not in any way interfering with the police investigation.

However, the officer in charge at the time ordered Leclair to leave and when Leclair politely but firmly asserted his constitutional right to observe and videotape police on a public street, the officer ordered another officer to handcuff and detain Leclair. The second officer tackled Leclair, forcing him to the ground, prior to handcuffing him. As a result of the second officer's action, Leclair sustained abrasions and contusions. An Orlando police captain who subsequently arrived on scene ordered Leclair released after viewing video which corroborated Leclair's account of the incident. Despite the rough treatment he received from police, Leclair still willingly aided them in their investigation, signing an affidavit stating that the driver of the pick-up truck had behaved belligerently and had threatened police.

On Thursday morning, prior to the press conference, Leclair will formally request that the Orlando Police Department's Internal Affairs Section conduct an investigation of the incident to determine if any department policies or state laws were violated. Leclair also may pursue other civil and legal means of redress for an incident that he feels violated his constitutional rights including his right to non-obtrusively observe law enforcement officers as they carry out their duties.

Copies of video from Saturday night's incident will be available on DVD for members of the media, along with copies of other information including witness statements. Leclair and other members of Orlando CopWatch along with members of the NLOA will be available to answer questions.

Orlando CopWatch is an all-volunteer organization dedicated to monitoring and videotaping the activities of local law enforcement–the Orlando Police Department, the Orange County Sheriff's Office and other agencies–and non-violently asserting the right of citizens to do so. Orlando CopWatch recognizes that police have an unpleasant and dangerous job to do. However, Orlando CopWatch believes that direct citizen oversight of law enforcement is necessary to ensure that citizens are protected without having their constitutional rights violated or being subjected to harassment, racial profiling or excessive force. Community activists founded Orlando CopWatch in April of 2007. Orlando CopWatch believes that watching the police is a crucial first step in the process of organizing the community to demand changes in how police act. Orlando CopWatch does not attempt to interfere in police activity or to resist police misconduct physically.

The mission of the NLOA is to promote tolerance toward and understanding of the Latino culture in all public and private agencies, especially in law enforcement communities. The mission of the individual chapters is to create strong bonds between the Latino community and other law enforcement agencies, and to ensure equal representation in hiring and promotional practices. The NLOA also strives to ensure that its members work in an environment that is in compliance with all equal employment opportunity rules and regulations; an environment free of discrimination, hostility, retaliation, and sexual harassment.

Courtesy of CopWatch website.