Traffic tickets by camera legally unenforceable; toss them
A Knoxville TV station confirms Rep. Andy Holt’s argument that camera-based traffic enforcement is legally unenforceable. “Do you really have to pay those red light camera tickets? Well, the answer we found was, NO!” — Amanda Hara, WVLT Knoxville By Rep. Andy Holt Folks, the truth about these societal leeches is slipping out, thanks to WVLT in […]
Blacks in Chattanooga oppressed 10x
Hanson Melvin waits in the Hamilton County criminal court clerk’s office for a copy of his indictment. He had been kidnapped by a Chattanooga police officer, lied about and harassed by a gang of police officers after he’d made bail in May 2016. (Photo David Tulis) Tweet Pin It
Whaddaya mean certified? Danger of trusting experts
Confident of his assumptions, Irving Fisher in 1929 predicted smooth sailing and a “permanently high plateau” prior to the market meltdown. (Photo Wikipedia) In the summer of 1968 and again in summer 1969 I worked as an inhalation therapist at Ochsner Foundation Hospital in New Orleans. What, you may ask, did I know about inhalation […]
Engineer says Gaddy house ‘100% structurally sound’
An engineer’s inspection of the disputed Thomas and Carol Gaddy house in Dunlap, Tenn., says it is structurally sound — and thus not a threat to public safety, as alleged by town mayor Dwain Land, who demands their permission to inspect the house. The finding could lead to a break in the civil case in […]
Anthony exposes how HUD uses cash to seize control in localities
John Anthony of Ooltewah, Tenn., runs Sustainable Freedom Lab to defend property rights against invasive species. (Photo YouTube) WASHINGTON, D.C. (Aug. 7, 2017) Today I will present a series of lectures at the 2017 Washington DC “American Dream Conference” giving you a rare peek inside the world of HUD, one of our nation’s most controversial bureaucracies. We […]
Berke cites life-saving de-escalation as police ideal in naming Roddy
David Roddy is tapped as the chief of the Chattanooga police department. Mayor Berke is at left, and city council member Darrin Ledford is at right. (Photo WDEF.com) Mayor Andy Berke, heeding growing public interest in reform, tells of an encounter between a drunken husband and an officer that in times past might have ended […]
Clean-water boosters urge legislators to turn off fluoride
Top photo, staffers at Hixson Utility District raise a flag prior to a December 2016 board meeting at which utility overseers declared support for use of fluoride, a government-approved industrial waste additive in otherwise potable drinking water. (Photo David Tulis) Boosters of clean water in Tennessee are citing the work of a courageous board in […]
McMinn criminal court judge seals Fitzpatrick’s public ‘grand jury’ report
By Sharon Rondeau / The Post & Email (Jul. 29, 2017) — On Saturday, Walter Francis Fitzpatrick, III received in the mail an order from McMinn County, Tenn., Criminal Court Judge Sandra Donaghy indicating that an alleged report produced by a three-person panel of the county grand jury was filed “under seal” so as to […]
TVA cops use TN statute to harass Highway 153, other travelers
TVA claims law enforcement jurisdiction as against the people in seven states, the authority to chase people down in traffic stops under the Tennessee code annotated even though expired or mismatched car tags do not endanger the public safety nor the operation of coal-fired electricity plants. (Photo Wikipedia) Tennessee law appears to allow for TVA […]
TVA arrests family in traffic stop as agency claims total TN jurisdiction
TVA officer Scott E. Stone gestures to an eyewitness at a “traffic stop” of a family sedan in Hixson on Saturday. (Photo David Tulis) Members of a family are let go after a “traffic stop” by a TVA cop near Chickamauga Dam on July 22. (Photo David Tulis) In this unmarked cruiser, TVA police officer […]