K-9 helps run down wanted gang member; parolee nabbed after Redding chase

NOTE: THIS ARTICLE IS BEING REPRESENTED AS PART OF MY PORTFOLIO AS I TOOK THE ONLY PHOTO OF THE INCIDENT AND AM ACCOMPANYING MY PHOTO WITH THE ARTICLE FOR CONTEXT. ALL OTHER RIGHTS RESERVED TO THE AUTHOR OF THE ARTICLE RYAN SABALOW.

• By Ryan Sabalow
• Posted August 27, 2011 at 12:07 a.m.

Paillon is a documented gang member out of Orland.

Redding police officers arrest Brandon Scott Paillon, 24, of Redding, who allegedly ran from them Friday afternoon. Paillon was reportedly a wanted parolee. Photo by Clayton Campbell

A police dog named Tarro helped Redding police and California Highway Patrol officers catch a wanted gang member Friday afternoon after he ran from them along Interstate 5, leading to the temporary lockdown of three schools.
Investigator Will Williams said officers were called to an apartment on the 3600 block of Churn Creek Road to investigate a report of a family with small children living without electricity.
When officers arrived, parolee Brandon Scott Paillon, 24, of Redding, ran out the back of the apartment with a 16-year-old girl, who Williams said had earlier run away from home. Paillon is a documented gang member out of Orland, Williams said.
Paillon ran from Churn Creek Road to I-5. At about 11:30 a.m., he was spotted running northbound near Cypress Avenue.
"Enterprise High School, Parsons Middle School, and Rother Elementary were placed into a lockdown status by school resource officers within minutes," Williams said.
A CHP helicopter hovered overhead looking for the suspect.
Around noon, Clayton Campbell snapped a photo of Paillon being arrested near Subarama on Hilltop Drive, after the parolee was bitten and nabbed by the dog that chased him into some bushes.
Campbell described the scene as "quite an event."
"He was bloodied and a mess," Campbell, 28, said. "I saw four other officers exiting the brush behind the chain-link fence off I-5. They hurried him to the squad car."
Paillon was treated at a hospital and booked into the Shasta County jail.

http://www.redding.com/news/2011/aug/27/k-9-helps-run-down-wanted-gang-member/

Debt Crisis: The True Patriot's Solution!

"The Constitution of most of our states (and of the United States) assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed and that they are entitled to freedom of person, freedom of religion, freedom of property, and freedom of press" 
--Thomas Jefferson

The wealthy are not the problem! Politicians are the problem. Wouldn't it be great to vote yourself a raise, bonus, benefits like special healthcare, retirement, etc that politicians get to and all at the expense of someone else like tax payers? 


A politician worth voting for would propose most, if not all, of the following:

1. Revert the "temporary" Federal Income Tax back to pre-WWII rates...0%. NO FEDERAL INCOME TAX! This will dissolve all current tax law such as exemptions, incentives, etc. Keep the promise of a "temporary" tax.

2. Institute a 10% Federal Sales Tax. This is easy to calculate, equal, fair and proportional for every member of each class: poor, middle and wealthy. The wealthy tend to spend more so they inevitably will pay "more" because they spend more. The poor tend to spend less so they will inevitably pay "less" because the spend less. The middle class tends to spend moderately and will inevitably pay "moderately" because they spend moderately.

3. Put all politicians on a sliding pay scale with a wage equivalent to the average middle class income. This will encourage all politicians to appeal to the poor, middle class and wealthy. Politicians would need to appeal to the poor to pull them to the middle class. They would need to appeal to the middle class to encourage them to the upper middle class and wealthy, and they would need to encourage the wealthy to become wealthier. This encourages job and economic growth. This would be essential to increase their average income base.the end result is a growing middle and upper class with a shrinking lower class by encouraging, endorsing and campaigning for states to develop programs for the lower and middle classes to strive to achieve the American Dream.

4. Cap individual campaign spending/total contributions to $5 million, none of which can come from public funds, associations, companies or any place where fees, taxes, etc are collected from the general populace by the local, state or federal governments. This will ensure that all candidates that are qualified to run for office will run and not just those with that have money and influence. Also, no contributions from foreign nations/supporters. It is a US election, not a UN election. "I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it." --Thomas Jefferson


5. Dissolve special interest groups and ban lobbyists at the federal level. This alone will save billions annually. Lobbyists and special interest groups should be at the state and local levels, not Federal. Programs such as Planned Parenthood should be state-run, not federally-run.

6. Let the states govern themselves as originally intended by the Framers of the Constitution. Limited Federal influence/regulation. Also calls for the dissolution of the Federal Reserve Bank as stated by Thomas Jefferson, "Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies."

7. Dissolve unions in the public sector and replace them with a federally/state regulated pay scale similar to how military pay is determined. There is no reason public jobs' pay should be negotiated; they should be automatically set.


In 2010, approximately $4 billion was spent on midterm elections alone. In 2008, it was at $1.7 billion. This money is first, ill-spent, second comes from everywhere imaginable, including foreign nations/supporters, and third demonstrates this nation's lack of restraint. No nation would take us seriously spending/accumulating debt the way we do while claiming to be a wealthy nation.

We as a nation and as human beings try to thwart corruption and greed. The problem is that those negative aspects of society are always present and are as old as time. What we can do is limit their influence and impact. To do so we need to exploit these negatives with a solid checks and balance system as has been outlined here, primarily with the politician floating pay scale and special interest groups/lobbyist dissolution.

"The central bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the Principles and form of our Constitution. I am an Enemy to all banks discounting bills or notes for anything but Coin. If the American People allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the People of all their Property until their Children will wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered."
--Thomas Jefferson

FBI Goes Too Far!

As of June 13, 2011, the FBI has rewritten its own rulebook, granting itself higher powers for investigative and intelligence gathering purposes. Many privacy activists insist the agency has gone way too far in its quest to deter and/or catch terrorists and criminals.

Some of the new guidelines include:

Undocumented database searches – Agents no longer need to officially open “assessment inquiries.” They can just search any and all databases and collect personal information without discretion. Issues with this include using this information for personal use as well as misconstruing the data collected to fit a criminal profile.

Lie-detector tests – no longer just used on suspects under an open "preliminary investigation assessment" for those suspected of wrongdoing. It is now open to potential FBI informants in an investigation that is considered an assessment, regardless of suspected wrongdoing.

Trash searches – Agents are now authorized, like police officers, to search trash cans in front of a suspect’s (or anyone’s) residence provided it is on public property for assessment and because agents want the ability to use the information collected to put pressure on the person to assist the government in the investigation of others. An issue with this is collecting information from one neighbor to spy on another neighbor.

Surveillance squads – Agents are now authorized to use multiple squads in an assessment of a suspect, but places limits on time on physical surveillance.

"Undisclosed participation" in organizations – Special rules governing agents' and informants' attendance of meetings and secret involvement in organizations in which they are collecting information haven't been made public as of yet, though the new rules do state that agents or informants can unreservedly attend five meetings of an organization in question before the undisclosed rules apply. Meaning, the new person you see at church could be an FBI agent.

Authorizing informants at religious ceremonies – "Currently, a special agent in charge of a field office can delegate the authority to approve sending an informant to a religious service. The new manual will require such officials to handle those decisions personally." This, to many, is an infringement on the separation of church and state and a violation of the Establishment clause of the First Amendment.

Investigating public officials – Now, agents can perform investigations into public officials, if the official in question is a victim or a witness as opposed to a target of an investigation, the additional oversight won't be called for. "Also excluded from extra supervision will be investigations of low- and midlevel officials for activities unrelated to their position — like drug cases as opposed to corruption, for example."

Investigating scholars and members of the news media – Agents are now authorized to make a distinction between bloggers as members of the press: "Prominent bloggers would count, but not people who have low-profile blogs," but the details of the distinctions are unknown. Also a newly-allowed guideline is to "limit academic protections only to scholars who work for institutions based in the United States." The issue here is that those American institutions out of the U.S. are without this limitation and are subject to federal investigation. This monitoring of the media can also be construed as an infringement on the First Amendment’s freedom of press.

            The government is becoming too big. We are too secure for our own good. The power needs to be given back to individual states. One agency, like the FBI, should not have omnipotent power to do whatever IT deems necessary to put an end to anything. Those persons and institutions that disregard the Constitution and the rights and protections it instills and shields should be removed from government function!