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During Governor Rell's recent inaugural parade, Ken Krayeske, a Green Party Activist, was apparently arrested and detained for 13 hours because he was determined to be a threat to Jodi Rell.
Supposedly, he was arrested and detained because of his political activity. And now the blogosphere is abuzz with word of the state police's "threat list." (Courant, by Mark Pazniokas). The blogosphere story appears to significantly differ from the official CSP version. Ghengis Conn over at CT Local Politics is doing some very interesting reporting on this whole event.
Public Safety Commissioner Leonard Boyle claims no such list exists. But when you read all of the accounts, including calls from Gov Rell and State Rep Chris Caruso (Gov't Affairs, Chair) for investigations, it certainly seems that there's something going very wrong inside the state police.
Bottom line to me on this one... whether or not anything comes of this particular investigation... following the December report in which the state police were slammed, I'd suggest replacing the top brass at the CSP immediately. On the heels of that report, why would anyone have confidence in them?
Tim White
Town Council, 4th District
I've updated this post a bit.
11 comments:
Tim, you are providing evidence of why the Republican-Amercan failed to endorse you thereby making sure you lost Prospect badly.
Enough of the touchly-feely stuff.
Even Stan Simpson of the Courant ain;t buying it
After John Hinckley and Mark Chapman don;t expect the police to take folks with a record of disruptive behavior lightly.
Civilization requires civility. Not guerrilla theatre. And could we return to the respect for law enforcement we had in the 1980's. PLEASE.
I agree on the civility.
but how would you define "disruptive?"
stan simpson's column -
"No, Krayeske should not have been arrested, and yes, the charges should be dropped."
http://www.courant.com/news/local/columnists/hc-ctstan0110.artjan10,0,5928393.column?coll=hc-utility-home
multiple prior arrests protesting events, Tim
Sorry, if police bashing is now in vogue count me out
"police bashing is now in vogue"
please define "police bashing."
If your talking about my general concern with the CT State Police... go ask the NY State Police what they think of the CSP. It was the NYSP who investigated the CSP because there was no confidence in the CSP policing itself. So if I'm police bashing, then even police are police bashing.
Tim, with all due respect, you are not the NYSP.
Poltical grandstanding should not be confused with professional investigations.
By buying the "police State" hype you are morphing into one of those large mammals who are an endangered species....the RINO
I can let the Dems win if I want cop bashers in office
the "police state" comment was a little over the top but Tim is right on about everything else.
1:47... thank you... and about the "police state" thing... that was intended to be a play on words... state police / police state... guess i didn't really think that thru... oh well.
7:07... i feel you are being "disruptive" to this blog. Please report to the police and remain detained for the next 13 hours.
Seriously though, I am curious about the RINO thing... hypothetically... if a Republican Congressman voted against "authorizing the use of force in Iraq" and had continued to oppose the war since 2003, would he be a RINO?
if he opposed law enforcement and favored liberal pork barrel....
conservative pork barrel would be OK though!!!!
1:47... took the liberty to change the title. You're right. It was over the top. All I can say is that I do this for fun and, going forward, I'll try to pay a bit more attention to what I write.
Thanks for pointing that out.
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