Hixson Utility District admits putting fertilizer, aluminum factory ‘discharge’ into tap
In this graphic, Hixson Utility District makes a worrisome admission about an intentional contaminant it puts into drinking water — one it is being asked to remove. Fluoride is approved by the federal government. (Images Hixsonutility.com) Hixson Utility District faces renewed questions about its use of a contaminant, hydrofluorosilicic acid, which it puts deliberately as […]
Police reform’s hidden goad: Chattanooga v. Davis case
State DAs such as Neal Pinkston have accepted continued violation of the state legal system, a violation that involves the overlooking of cities’ enforcement of state law. It’s been going on 16 years, despite a powerful high court ruling inviting DAs to act and overturn the city police concept. With police, city corporations overturn state […]
Jail officers torture teenager in restraint chair with prolonged Taser bursts
This video is not for queasy people, but shows the extent to which officials will go to represent state authority on a personal level to one held in its control. (80 seconds, Video YouTube) Deputies tortured a prisoner in Cheatham County on Nov. 5, 2016, using stun guns at point-blank range and holding the trigger […]
Coal utility seizes Chattanoogans in ‘traffic stops’
A TVA spokesman says there is no limit on federal jurisdiction by agency cops, who are now performing traffic enforcement stops in police cars disguised as private vehicles. (Courtesy Noogaradio.com) TVA roadside traffic stops, arrests ‘provide value’ for people Gun-toting free traveler argues biggest TN liberty case in 80 years TVA arrests family in traffic […]
Gladden, Coonrod traffic stop typifies commercial enforcement
Anthony Gladden speaks to an officer from behind the wheel of a car. (Photo Times Free Press / Chattanooga police department) A traffic stop June 24 involving a car owned by city councilwoman Demetrus Coonrod is a picture of commercial government and its enforcement by police. The encounter on M.L. King Boulevard that night, city […]
Judges hear claim that TN’s racist anti-gun law unenforceably vague
Appeals court judges in the supreme court building, center right, in Nashville will hear arguments from a commoner about the state’s long abuse of constitutional liberties. (Photo Google Earth) A Christian man with a ministry to shut-ins and jail inmates is challenging as unconstitutional Tennessee’s racist ban on weapons ownership. Arthur J. Hirsch, known as […]
Gun-toting free traveler argues biggest TN liberty case in 80 years
Arthur J. Hirsch may be the first appellant in 80 years to correctly understand the lawlessness of commercial government. (Photo David Tulis) A Republican governor and his attorneys have marshaled technical arguments against an appeal by a defendant whom a jury criminally convicted for exercising his “God-given, constitutionally guaranteed rights” to travel by car and […]
Tear gas, guns, riot squads: The police state’s answer to free speech is brute force
Three men are finalists to be police chief in Chattanooga. The last military encapsulation of a protest in Chattanooga was the April 2014 national socialist protest downtown. No injuries were reported. None of the three candidates are reputed to have police reform leanings. “Since when have we Americans been expected to bow submissively to authority […]
Search panelist Ramsey neutral on life-saving police reform
Techtown CEO Chris Ramsey and staffer Gwyneth Wilson greet parents at the end of a computer summer camp at the nonprofit group’s classrooms downtown. Mr. Ramsey is on a committee of five advising Mayor Andy Berke on selecting a police chief. (Photo David Tulis) With the application window closed now, 49 people have applied for […]
City searches for police chief; local economy v. official violence
The deadline passes for applications among those who want to be considered by Mayor Andy Berke and city council for chief of police. The official culture of violence in policing, however, begs for review by concerned citizens and a clamor for a reform-minded top officer. (Courtesy Noogaradio) Tweet Pin It