By Anony Mity, Lexington KY

A 2011 Kentucky law that required police officers to issue citations for many misdemeanors -- including possession of marijuana -- instead of making arrests would be scrapped under a proposed bill.

Pay Attention People!!! You were warned about this bill passing years ago and then watched many citizens became victims complain because criminals were not arrested. We are talking about people who are breaking the law NOT law abiding citizens. BACKWARDS! DO NOT GO BACKWARDS​

The law currently says police "shall" issue a citation instead of making an arrest for dozens of misdemeanors, as long as officers believe the suspect is not a danger to himself or others and will appear in court to answer the charge. House Bill 250 would change the language to "may" issue a citation.

​Citing and not arresting was mostly aimed at curbing policing for profit. 2011 was the back end of the recession. For arresting big time but attitudes will change again if the money isn't there and the whole overcrowded jails and people dying in the intake / holding cells thing ( Fayette ) come into play too

The state is going completely ass-backwards. "At least in part because of the 2011 law, Metro Corrections saw a sharp drop in bookings for misdemeanor drug arrests -- from more than 3,100 in the 2009-2010 fiscal year to less than 2,000 in the 2012-2013 fiscal year, a 38 percent decrease, according to jail records.

The number of jail bookings in 2010 was 45,161 and the average daily population of the jail was 1,930 inmates, 137 over capacity, Bolton said.
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"By contrast, we began to see a steady reduction over the next four years, and by 2014, there were 36,740 bookings with an average daily population of 1,851 (only 58 over capacity)," Bolton wrote

Louisville Metro Police arrested 15,818 people on misdemeanor charges in 2011. That number fell to 13,192 by the end of 2013, a nearly 17 percent decrease, according to data from LMPD. “

Ruth Ann Palumbo (Is she living within her district now?)  filed a bill in the House Jan. 14 that would give police officers the discretion to arrest people who are charged with misdemeanors.

Here's just one of the 20 billion reasons not to trust any government entity.:
evil puppet #1 - "Our state is going broke sir"
evil puppet #2 - "Arrest more people."

That's right we can't have enough people in prison. We need to set new records for locking citizens up. who knows? we already lock up more of our population than any other country on earth but we can do better; those J-walkers, litterers, and shoplifters need to be taught a lesson they will remember. Hey, you never know, let's start cutting of appendages and bring back public flogging. That ought to teach those criminals a lesson!

By: Anony Mity

I've been reading and hearing this for a while now, i had to research into it some more. MLK was a great man and James Earl Ray may have been a criminal but never was a killer. If MLK's own family can believe the supposed killer of their own to be innocent, who are we not to reconsider the truth? Stay informed my friends.

Today is the 45 year anniversary MLK being assassinated and I still don't understand why people don't know the in court the US GOVT was found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder of Dr King. James Ray was just the fall guy and never went to trail over the case. He was a simpleton and his govt appointed lawyer told him if he didn't sign a confession they would put him to death right away.. It's kind of interesting that the King family tried to have Ray set free from jail years later. What's even crazier is that almost no one knows this

A trial that I never knew happened until recently, not covered by your national news station. On a day honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, a man full of integrity and enlightened thinking I feel compelled to look at this situation for what it really is. A holiday that was made by our government to give tribute to this man, the same government that conspired to have this man killed and silenced before he made to big of a change distrupting their system of greed, power, and control. How long shall they kill our prophets? There needs to be a massive change to our government and whole system if we want to evolve into our most powerful visions of ourselves. Or we can continue living lives molded by the system, being slaves to a piece of paper with imaginary value, constantly being watched, with poisons in our food and air, fluoride in our water, held in our place by the power of "The Man"

He was killed by a sniper, and I feel the sniper was a coward for shooting him from such a distance. Dr King was a threat to the segregated government at the time. The government killed him, the trial was in 1999 and we didn't here anything about it. They all are cowards as far as I can see.

Sometimes it's better to not question the system, that's exactly what they want us to think it was also the same for JFK anytime you try to change the mindset of a people you have to know you may lose your life in the process. We wonder why their is a true fear of the Establishment why they can kill us and get away with it, why they pass laws quietly that keep us bound financially and socially,I'm truly surprised that they haven't stopped outlets like Facebook or the Internet entirely, I guess because the percentage of people speaking out is so low.

How a government give you a memorial day when they killed you I'm at a loss of words, and if they are willing to do that then how far are they going to go to keep their agenda intact, ignored by the media and historians for 14 years. to deny this great man the justice and some kind of acknowledgement of guilt or remorse by his assassins...it's heartbreaking. timing is everything and today is the perfect day to open some minds that may happen to view this post.

FACT: MLK's family won a civil lawsuit versus the US government and other federal agencies that admitted MLK was assassinated by our government. read the transcripts yourself. previously, mentioning this info would label you as a conspiracy theorist and as a result, a holocaust denier or worse

Dr. Martin Luther King’s family and personal friend/attorney, William F. Pepper, won a civil trial that found US government agencies guilty of assassination/wrongful death. The 1999 trial, King Family versus Jowers and Other Unknown Co-Conspirators, is the only trial ever conducted on the assassination of Dr. King. The King Center fully documents the case, with full trial transcript.
The overwhelming evidence of US government complicity found valid by the jury includes:

• US 111th Military Intelligence Group were at Dr. King’s location during the assassination.
• 20th Special Forces Group had an 8-man sniper team at the assassination location on that day.
• Usual Memphis Police special body guards were advised they “weren’t needed” on the day of the assassination.
• Regular and constant police protection for Dr. King was removed from protecting Dr. King an hour before the assassination.
• Military Intelligence set-up photographers on the roof of a fire station with clear view to Dr. King’s balcony.
• Dr. King’s room was changed from a secure 1st-floor room to an exposed balcony room.
• Memphis police ordered the scene where multiple witnesses reported as the source of shooting cut down of their bushes that would have hid a sniper.
• Along with sanitizing a crime scene, police abandoned investigative procedure to interview witnesses who lived by the scene of the shooting.
• The rifle Mr. Ray delivered was not matched to the bullet that killed Dr. King, and was not sighted to accurately shoot.

Also, the FBI acted to cause Dr. King’s death by suicide. The FBI illegally spied on Dr. King, used data in attempt to split leadership, and sent Dr. King a letter promising to expose alleged sexual misconduct. This was part of the FBI’s illegal COINTELPRO program.
Please read the above evidence twice to be clear on its overwhelming power.
The King family’s attempts for a criminal trial were always denied by state and federal government. Claimed suspect, James Ray, said that his government-appointed attorney told him to sign a guilty plea to prevent the death penalty and threatened arrests of his father and brother as co-conspirators for his only part in the assassination plot: delivering a rifle. Mr. Ray produced a letter from his attorney stating the promise that Mr. Ray would receive a trial. When Mr. Ray discovered that he was solely blamed for Dr. King’s assassination and would never receive a trial, Mr. Ray’s subsequent recants of his guilty plea and requests for trial were denied.
The US government also denied the King family’s requests for independent investigation of the assassination, despite the overwhelming evidence produced at the 1999 civil trial. Dr. King’s wife, Coretta, spent more than twice the number of years she was married to Martin working to get a criminal trial for her husband’s assassination.
Importantly, the US government has never presented any evidence subject to challenge that substantiates their claim that Mr. Ray assassinated Dr. King.
The King family believes the government’s motivation to murder Dr. King was to prevent his imminent camp-in/Occupy at Washington, D.C. until the Vietnam War was ended and those resources directed to end poverty and invest in US hard and soft infrastructure. 
US corporate media did not cover the civil trial, interview the King family, and textbooks omit this information. This is crucial evidence of a controlled corporate media rejecting coverage of a game-changing story. Journalist and author, James Douglass:
“I can hardly believe the fact that, apart from the courtroom participants, only Memphis TV reporter Wendell Stacy and I attended from beginning to end this historic three-and-one-half week trial. Because of journalistic neglect scarcely anyone else in this land of ours even knows what went on in it. After critical testimony was given in the trial’s second week before an almost empty gallery, Barbara Reis, U.S. correspondent for the Lisbon daily Publico who was there several days, turned to me and said, ‘Everything in the U.S. is the trial of the century. O.J. Simpson’s trial was the trial of the century. Clinton’s trial was the trial of the century. But this is the trial of the century, and who’s here?’ ”
For comparison, please consider the media coverage of O.J. Simpson’s trials:
“Media coverage of the Simpson trial, which began in January 1995, was unlike any other. Over two thousand reporters covered the trial, and 80 miles of cable was required to allow nineteen television stations to cover the trial live to 91 percent of the American viewing audience. When the verdict was finally read on October 3, 1995, some 142 million people listened or watched. It seemed the nation stood still, divided along racial lines as to the defendant’s guilt or innocence. During and after the trial, over eighty books were published about the event by most everyone involved in the Simpson case.”
Coretta Scott King was certain of the evidence after 30 years of consideration from the 1968 assassination to the 1999 trial:
“For a quarter of a century, Bill Pepper conducted an independent investigation of the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. He opened his files to our family, encouraged us to speak with the witnesses, and represented our family in the civil trial against the conspirators. The jury affirmed his findings, providing our family with a long-sought sense of closure and peace, which had been denied by official disinformation and cover-ups. Now the findings of his exhaustive investigation and additional revelations from the trial are presented in the pages of this important book. We recommend it highly to everyone who seeks the truth about Dr. King’s assassination.” — Coretta Scott King.
The US Department of Justice issued a report in 2000 that explained their claimed investigation into their own possible guilt in the assassination. They concluded that they found no evidence to warrant further investigation. Dr. King’s son issued the following statement rebuking the “self-study” rather than independent investigation:
“We learned only hours before the Justice Department press conference that they were releasing the report of their results of their ‘limited investigation,’ which covered only two areas of new evidence concerning the assassination of Dr. King. We had requested that we be given a copy of the report a few days in advance so that we might have had the opportunity to review it in detail. Since that courtesy was not extended to us, we are only able at this time to state the following:
1. We initially requested that a comprehensive investigation be conducted by a Truth and Reconciliation Commission, independent of the government, because we do not believe that, in such a politically-sensitive matter, the government is capable of investigating itself.
2. The type of independent investigation we sought was denied by the federal government. But in our view, it was carried out, in a Memphis courtroom, during a month-long trial by a jury of 12 American citizens who had no interest other than ascertaining the truth. (Kings v. Jowers)
3. After hearing and reviewing the extensive testimony and evidence, which had never before been tested under oath in a court of law, it took the Memphis jury only one (1) hour to find that a conspiracy to kill Dr. King did exist. Most significantly, this conspiracy involved agents of the governments of the City of Memphis, the state of Tennessee and the United States of America. The overwhelming weight of the evidence also indicated that James Earl Ray was not the triggerman and, in fact, was an unknowing patsy.
4. We stand by that verdict and have no doubt that the truth about this terrible event has finally been revealed.
5. We urge all interested Americans to read the transcript of the trial on the King Center website and consider the evidence, so they can form their own unbiased conclusions.
Although we cooperated fully with this limited investigation, we never really expected that the government report would be any more objective than that which has resulted from any previous official investigation.”
Let’s summarize: Under US Civil Law, covert US government agencies were found guilty of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King. Dr. King was the leading figure of the Civil Rights Movement, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, and widely recognized as one of the world’s greatest speakers for what it means to be human. The family’s conclusion as to motive was to prevent Dr. King from ending the Vietnam War because the government wanted to continue its ongoing illegal covert and overt military operations to control foreign governments and their resources.
It is therefore a factual statement that under US Civil Law, the US government assassinated Dr. King.
People of sufficient intellectual integrity and moral courage to apply critical thinking skills will embrace the trial evidence and testimony, jury conclusion, and King family analysis as appropriate and helpful information in seeking the facts.
People who at least temporarily reject challenging information out of fear might say something like, “The government killed Dr. King? That’s a crazy conspiracy theory!”
Let’s consider that statement.
When someone says that a body of evidence is “crazy,” or a “conspiracy theory” (meaning an irrational claim easily refuted by the evidence) that’s a claim. With a claim comes a burden of proof. In this case, the person would have to demonstrate command of the facts to explain and prove why the evidence from the civil trial is somehow “crazy” and refute the evidence.
If the person can do this, it would be tremendously helpful in understanding the facts. However, we know from our experience that such statements almost always have zero factual support, and that the person making such a claim literally doesn’t know what they’re talking about.
We also know from our experience, a person making such a statement is really voicing an emotional reaction something closer to, “The government killed Dr. King? Ok, I read and understood the paragraphs about the trial and evidence. I read Mrs. King’s and her son’s statement. I haven’t invested the time to verify how valid that information is. I’m not stupid, but because the implications of what that means is so disturbing, I’m going to deny anything about it could possibly be true as my first response. If I’m going to continue being in denial and refuse to discuss the evidence, I’ll attack the messenger.”
We also need to consider the lack of coverage by US corporate media of this compelling evidence, trial verdict, and King family testimony from over 30 years’ analysis of the facts. Recall the evidence of US corporate media reporting being infiltrated by CIA agents to propagandize Americans’ access to information. This included the Director of the CIA’s admission to Congress that they have over 400 agents working in corporate media to make the US public believe what the CIA wants them to believe.
In 2006, George Washington University used a Freedom of Information Act request to obtain the US military’s “Information Operations Roadmap.” This formerly secret and approved document details present US government strategies to generate propaganda, and then attack Internet alternative media that provides dangerous facts and discussion. The military promoted the term, “Fight the net.”
Although I won’t enter the burden of proof here, you may know that there are similar and related bodies of evidence that the US government assassinated other American leaders. The 1975 Senate Church Committee disclosed that the US government initiated and helped assassination attempts on multiple foreign heads of state.
If we were discussing how the population of some other nation could employ critical thinking skills to understand current events from anytime in history, we would certainly understand the importance to anticipate disinformation from government, danger of controlled media, and assassination as a political weapon.
Failure to do so would appropriately elicit the label attributed to the first dictator of the Soviet Union, Vladimir Lenin. Such people who believe what their government tells them when the history and present have overwhelming objective evidence to explain, document, and prove that the government is typical of so many other historical self-serving oligarchies are:
“Useful idiots.”
To the extent the United States today is any different from all other nations and all other times is up to your exercise of critical thinking skills.
And that said, objective, measurable, and independently verifiable facts easily explain, document, and prove US history of:

• Unlawful Wars of Aggression based on easily-provable lies (here, here, here, here),
• Bankster-looting economics (here, here, here, here, here),
• Lying sacks of spin corporate media that “cover” the crimes.

An obvious question: What does the 99.99% of humanity do to end these viciously psychopathic assassinations of our best people, end lie-started Wars of Aggression, end bankster looting, and genuinely have opportunity to create a bright future for all Earth’s inhabitants?
An obvious answer: We tell the truth/facts, arrest obvious criminals, and have media broadcast our true condition so we may begin. I explain here:
2015 Winning Time: 3 phases to 99.99%’s victory over .01% criminal psychopaths
Bill Pepper, King family friend and attorney, explaining the assassination (start at 7:35 to avoid a glitch; 100 minutes):

By Editor, Live Free Kentucky

What happened to the peaceful rally? Are these terrorists or just good ol' boys? There is no way this was spontaneous. This was planned all along, truth in the whispers we heard but wanted to ignore. Good people were not only fleeced financially, but used mercilessly for publicity, just like they used the Hammonds.

Every good thing they accomplished, setting up the Committee of Safety, bringing awareness to the Hammonds and the horrible injustices they suffered, the plight of the people of Harney County is destroyed.

This could get very ugly. They are setting themselves up to be Waco-ed, to force an armed confrontation.

These guys have taken over a federal government building and are calling for "patriots" to come help them forcibly push the government out of the area ... and no cops ... no nothing ... I cant believe that this is being largely ignored ... They're going to get themselves killed by the feds. Remember Ruby Ridge?

Unlike Bundy Ranch it appears they've gone looking for this conflict and are baiting the situation as if somehow if the Feds shoot first it justifies armed insurrection like a modern day Lexington-Concord, that's not civil disobedience or protest, it's posturing for political gain by inciting fear of the federal government which many would say fits the definition of terrorism, worse their posturing seems a logical fallacy which many equate to people saying death by cop suicides are police executions, of course the cop shoots when provoked with a deadly weapon and in this situation the Feds will be the ones justified when they respond because armed provocation warrants response of force. This will end up like Ruby Ridge & Waco if not diffused

Libertarians sometimes speak about the erosion of property rights in America which usually leads to discussion about 'the tragedy of the commons' or ad valorem taxation but this is armed occupation of federal land is not the way to make a point about it and it's absolutely ridiculous.

Right or wrong, if they kill one of these guys, the whole thing is gonna explode... If feds slaughter patriot occupiers in Oregon, it will unleash an armed revolution across America... Civil War may be near

Reports that federal officials are headed to Oregon to try to "resolve" the situation where armed citizens now occupy a federal wildlife refuge building should raise warning flags for everyone. If the arrogant, tone deaf federal government attempts an aggressive assault on the compound that results in bloodshed, it might very easily spark a nationwide armed revolt against government tyranny in response.

Tensions are running high across the board. More people than ever are now at the end of their ropes on issues like personal bankruptcy, loss of health care coverage under the Obamacare scam, loss of wages due to job cuts and the fear that comes from living with ISIS terrorists already inside U.S. borders thanks to an incompetent, race-baiting president who apparently seeks the deliberate destruction of America!

The entire premise for the attack on ranchers out West by the BLM is to obtain their land as part of Agenda 21. Without the men of the Hammond family around, how will the ranch survive? It won’t, unless others help. And if that doesn’t happen, the BLM is first in line to obtain the land. Convenient, isn’t it?

Bigger than the Hammond Ranch....

The Federal Government is working hard at a land grab of not only the Hammond's property but the property of nearly 300 farmers and ranchers in an adjacent county as they will once again create a national monument much like the Escalante in Utah! This is about precious natural resources the government wishes to control!

The land grab of the Escalante in Utah happened under Clinton Administration in order to control Clean Coal and in Oregon there have been massive deposits of natural gas, uranium, Mercury and arsenic discovered. Check out the U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 1740-B for confirmation of these findings

Libertarian Party of Kentucky Vice-Char Bryan Short will beta test 'livestream' tonight at 8pm EST to answer questions about LPKY Membership & Kentucky for Our America Initiative projects. 

"I intend this broadcast and next weeks 'Google Hangout On Air' to be member driven, I haven't and won't set an official agenda, no rules of order or anything like that" Short Continued "it's important we utilize all tools available to us, especially new ones like Livestream.  [Tonights] going to be open forum and I will respond to any pertinent questions"

via CNS News

​American taxpayers will once again be liable for more than one-fifth of the United Nations’ regular budget next year, as well as more than one-quarter of the much-larger peacekeeping budget – a total of approximately $2,957,000,000.
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The U.N. General Assembly just before Christmas approved a regular operating budget of $5.4 billion for the 2016-17 period. (That budget is calculated biannually.) Of the $2.7 billion earmarked for 2016, the U.S. will account for 22 percent, or $594 million.

Of the separate peacekeeping budget – $8.27 billion for the year ending June 30 – the U.S. is liable for 28.5783 percent, or $2.363 billion. Combined, the two U.S. contributions amount to just under $3 billion.
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In actual fact the full extent of U.S. funding for the U.N. system will be considerably more than that: The $2.957 billion figure comprises the U.S. “assessed contributions” to the two main budgets, but the U.S. in addition provides much more in “voluntary contributions” to a range of U.N. agencies.

(The last time the administration was obliged by law to provide Congress with a full breakdown, the total for fiscal year 2010 was $7.69 billion. The reporting requirement fell away in 2011.)

U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Samantha Power tweeted her congratulations to the U.S. team involved in committee haggling over the budget – or what she described as “tough negotiations to secure more fair UN budget to slow growing costs & take steps to streamline UN ops.”

While the U.S. rate of 22 percent remains unchanged in the latest approved “scale of assessments” – the formula determining how much each member-state pays – one major shift this year affects China, which will now be liable for a substantially bigger proportion of the total budget, although still far behind that of the U.S.

China’s assessment for the regular budget has jumped from 5.148 percent to 7.921 percent, meaning China will now be the third biggest contributor to that budget ($213 million for next year) – after the U.S. at 22 percent ($594 million) and Japan at 9.68 percent ($261 million).

China was previously in sixth place, behind the U.S., Japan, Germany, France and Britain.

Of the peacekeeping budget, China will move to the second highest assessment – 10.28 percent – behind only the U.S. at the significantly higher 28.5783 percent. Japan drops from second to third place.

Japan is the biggest beneficiary of the increased obligation for China. Tokyo’s 9.68 percent of the regular budget is the first time its contribution has fallen below 10 percent since the 1980s.

Unlike China, Japan is not a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council and has long resented paying much more for the U.N.’s upkeep than China and Russia, despite the fact China and Russia enjoy far more sway as a result of their permanent member status and accompanying veto power. (Adding to the sting for Japan is the fact that Beijing has been the single biggest opponent of a permanent Security Council seat for its regional rival.)

Chinese officials hailed the shift as a reflection of their country’s rising global role. Deputy ambassador to the U.N. Wang Min called it “an important sign that its international influence has increased greatly.”
In Beijing, foreign ministry spokesperson Lu Kang called the move “natural, as China becomes world’s second-largest economy.”

“As a responsible major country and a permanent member of the U.N. Security Council, China will contribute in full and on time what it is obligated to financially, shoulder its special responsibility as a permanent member of the Security Council in sharing the peacekeeping cost, and support the U.N. in playing a bigger role in safeguarding world peace and promoting common development,” he said.

As reported previously, according to data compiled by the conservative Heritage Foundation, American taxpayers’ share of the U.N. regular budget exceeds that paid by their counterparts in 176 other U.N. member-states, combined; while the U.S. proportion of the peacekeeping budget is bigger than that contributed by 185 other countries, combined.

There are 193 U.N. member-states. When decisions are made on the U.N. budget, the U.S. has the same (one) vote as does every other member, despite the size of its contribution. America’s 22 percent contribution comes with no more weight in the budget process than the 0.001 percent paid by the lowest-assessed nations.

The U.N. General Assembly’s various budgetary decisions passed last week without a hitch – and mostly without recorded votes – although a measure relating to the controversial doctrine known as “responsibility to protect” (R2P) was contentious.

(Endorsed by U.N. member-states in 2005, the “R2P” concept says that that governments must protect their people from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity.

Where a government fails to do so, the international community can take steps including the dispatch of a U.N. envoy, the imposition of Security Council sanctions and the threat of International Criminal Court prosecution. If those measures fail, the Security Council may approve military action, as a last resort.)
Cuba’s delegate objected to a budgetary item relating to a U.N. Special Advisor on the RTP, saying the matter should be set aside until governments are in agreement over the concept – which the Castro regime wants to include an explicit recognition of sovereignty, territorial integrity and non-interference in countries’ internal affairs.

Amendments proposed by Cuba were supported by Iran, Syria and Nicaragua, but opposed by the European Union, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
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When the matter was put to a recorded vote, Cuba’s amendments were rejected by 74 votes to 12, with 58 abstentions.