Farron Barksdale

Darren Goforth dTIRRd By Miles & Miles & Miles | Pigs Don’t Learn

• September 1, 2015

In the months since Ferguson, we have seen countless police shoot and kill unarmed (black) men, and virtually the entire country has stated that the consistent excessive use of force is not ok. And yet, the response from law enforcement has been the same old excuses. Oh sure, under enormous public pressure, they did some restructuring in Ferguson. But everywhere else from New York, to Cleveland, and even Huntsville, the law enforcement response has been totally wrong, and totally lacking in contrition.

Benito Albarran: Shades of Farron Barksdale And Systemic Penal Corruption

By Jim Casey

• May 5, 2015

Editorials • Gestapo • Huntsville • Snapshots

Isn’t killing a police officer serious? Of course it is, and I’m not making excuses for Albarran. But, the very fact that we have a civilized system that includes an organized method of determining the disposition of crime, and that that system includes police officers who go about doing their job – hopefully in a civilized manner – is the same system that by definition says that even convicts are not to be killed, or allowed to commit suicide, while in prison.

Rascally Oakwood College Students Have Protest History Other Than Ferguson

By Jim Casey

• December 7, 2014

Editorials

As mentioned in this column title, Oakwood College students have a history of protest and kudos to them for responsible public action. They protested last week during rush hour traffic and pulled it off without violence or even an arrest, and still managed to shut down traffic on University Drive for several minutes.

Tutwiler Prison: Plantation A Or Plantation B?

By Jim Casey

• April 18, 2014

Editorials • Gestapo • Huntsville

At face value, the entire situation is absolutely ridiculous and completely inexcusable. The facility isn’t really all that large. Recent numbers indicate that Tutwiler is currently housing less than 1000 inmates, and has a staff of about 100. That’s smaller than most of the hundreds of high schools in Alabama.

Never Stop And Frisk A Ferral Cat

By Jim Casey

• November 25, 2013

Editorials • Gestapo

Oriana Ferral did something wrong, even still, she is not incarnate evil waging war on New Mexico. Her kids certainly are not.

Obama Smoked One Joint Too Many

By Jim Casey

• January 16, 2013

Editorials

The rhetoric is false, deceptive, and dangerous. For Obama and the gun control nuts, this is still the United States of America, and there is still a constitutional process involved in changing policy and laws. The 2nd amendment doesn’t guarantee your right to own a shotgun for hunting, it does recognize your unalienable right to […]

Filling In The Blanks

By Jim Casey

• August 31, 2012

Editorials • Gestapo

Tinkering with my WordPress client a little at a time I realized that some folks subscribing to my HOT Uploads news feed might have missed some relevant content on the main site – www.tocc.tv. (More on this a little later.) So I’ve made a list of links here to headlines there that you might want […]

The Gestapo’s Convenient Cover

By Jim Casey

• August 13, 2012

Editorials • Gestapo

Will Culver, also black and a former police officer, has decried the behaviour of both officers and voted against their reinstatement, while noting that the council had little choice in Brett Russell’s case because of the precedent set just a week ago in the PJ Lee case.

Gangland Execution Of Farron Barksdale?

By Jim Casey

• August 22, 2007

Editorials • Life • Obituary

After pleading guilty to killing two Athens, Alabama police officers in 1994, Farron Barksdale was sentenced to life in prison and subsequently transferred about two weeks ago to Kilby State Correctional Facility in South Alabama. Three days later he was found unconscious in his prison cell and declared to be suffering from a “heat” related […]

Mental Health System Corruption

By Jim Casey

• May 23, 2007

Editorials

Can there be any doubt that Ken Kesey’s classic account “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” is not an unlikely scenario in today’s rampantly corrupt medical community? The corruption in the medical community overall ought to be obvious when one considers the odious reality that very nearly half of all American’s are on some kind […]

One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest?

By Jim Casey

• January 28, 2004

Editorials • Huntsville

Two nights ago on Monday evening, I attended and spoke at a public forum held by North Alabama State lawmakers. The forum was broadcast by a local cable carrier, and for those viewers no additional explanation of my remarks will be needed. However, although the Huntsville Times actually did a better job of placing my […]

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