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"In Paranoia We Trust" -- Dr. They
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P-M-S P-M-S
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P-M-S P-M-S
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P-M-S P-M-S
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P-M-S Paranoid Media Scrutinization P-M-S
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P-M-S P-M-S
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Paranoia Media Scrutinization Volume 1, Number 1 March 1992
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Various tutorials claim to offer diverse methods of insight
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into the mundane media we all encounter throughout our daily
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lives. Charles Olson's classic "The ABCs of Reading" instructs
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readers on skills of perception that can be used to get more out
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of reading. Dorfman & Mattelart's classic "How To Read Donald
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Duck" offers readers an insane method of stripping away the
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colonialist propagandizing mask covering all of Donald Duck
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comix.
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Paranoid Media Scrutinization (P-M-S) fills a large gap
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among these tutorials and offers helpful hints to you (dear
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reader) on how you might learn to become more paranoid in your
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reading, viewing and listening habits. Our method is actually
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very simple can be learned by anyone in the safety of their own
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home. No drug therapies are required, and no mail order devices
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are needed. If you are discrete, no salesman will call.
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As eyes are the window to the soul, the media is a window to
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the rectum of any culture's status quo. This oft quoted truism
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holds for any society, whether it has a state owned press, or
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thousands of privately owned newspapers and broadcast stations,
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like our own country does. Take American newspapers for example
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(PLEASE!). They are privately owned, and free to print whatever
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they wish as long as it is neither slanderous or libelous. True
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enough, as long as you add the pragmatic qualifier that any paper
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that bites the advertising hand that feeds it had better have a
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stack of Chapter 11 Bankruptcy papers close at hand. Newspapers
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(as well as radio, TV) are business first, and news organizations
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second. Any "news" that interferes with business will always
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take a back seat to news that constipates the interests of the
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status quo.
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Unlike other world religions, P-M-S has only one guiding
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principle. It was put forth by a long ago forgotten prophet:
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"Newspapers are full of nothing but news and advertising. News
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is something that someone wants to suppress, everything else is
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advertising".
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Do you doubt the wisdom of these words? If you do, good.
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Skepticism is the first step towards divine paranoia. Just pick
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up the nearest newspaper and look at which stories were deemed
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important enough to make the front page, and which got 1 1/2
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inches on page 16. This first issues of P-M-S takes most of its
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examples from the small, local paper The Olympian because it is
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readily available to most of our readers, and because Dr. They
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wants to demonstrate that you don't need to own the New York
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Times to sit in the fantastic throne of Mindcontrol (in fact, the
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devices of Mind-Opinion-Control work all the more efficiently if
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they appear to only be the localized bumblings of known
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incompetents, rather than a larger, mysterious confederacy of
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dunces). You can expect future issues of P-M-S to focus more on
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National (rather than local) mind control issues.
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I've got today's (2-19-92) local rag, The Olympian sitting
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here in front of me: the front page has a two inch banner across
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the top that says "OSCAR NOMINEES", there are front page stories
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about a "good samaritan", New Hampshire primary results, state
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budget battles, and a canned feature about "water". Inside on
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page A3 there is a one inch story about 5,000 Algerians that were
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arrested by their repressive government (that the U.S. Department
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of State backs), a small article skirting the point that there
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may not really be a "peace dividend" after all (A7), on the
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editorial page is a letter presenting the readers with more
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information about our local Mayor's continual lies, and his
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current ploy of filing for bankruptcy (more on this coverup
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below), on page C1 there is a short story (reproduced and
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discussed below) about the trial looking into the fatal beating
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of a local taxpayer (who was evading a traffic ticket!) by the
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Olympia Police.
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To begin, please read the following sample article from
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(again) The Olympian newspaper:
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TINY ANTENNAS HELP SCIENTISTS THINK SMALL
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(AP) Washington-- Antennas the size of a grain of
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sand have been produced by researchers at the National
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Institute of Standards and Technology. According to
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scientists, the antennas can effectively capture the
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extremely short wave-lengths of infrared radiation,
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measuring from 3 to 30 micrometers. This could lead to
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novel devices that "see" images of heat radiating from
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all warm objects such as people, animals and buildings.
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Such detectors could be used in astronomy, medicine and
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national defense, researchers note. (2/17/92 pgD2)
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This is a small article (little more than a grain of sand in
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the scope of things...), that almost no one would normally bother
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to read, it is less than two inches in length and acts as a
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buffer on the page between the TV schedule, movie ads, and Dear
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'ol Abby. What could possibly be in such a simple "fluff" story
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to stir up the embers of a reader's paranoia? Those of you who
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took our paranoia placement test via modem already know that the
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words "national defense" are a dead giveaway don't you?
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Lets try another simple example that we all have read (and
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thought nothing) about. This one comes from the congressional
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confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice Clarence "Uncle"
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Thomas. Much was made about Justice Thomas and Annita Hill's
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telephone records. At one point Thomas produced his own personal
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phone log which indicated when and where Ms. Hill had spoken to
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him on the phone after she left his employ. All of this was
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clear enough, and has no real controversy. The other angle on
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all this hoopla was mentioned in the national press, but no one
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really bothered to look at the larger implications of it. This
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concerns the information that the FBI had produced telephone
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company records of telephone calls made between Hill and Thomas
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after she had quit working under Judge Thomas.
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Simple enough? No? Hmmmmm, just what does this reference
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to the FBI producing telephone records from over a decade ago
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mean? It means that the telephone company, the National Security
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Agency, or SOMEONE saves the Electronic Swithcing System (ESS)
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records for at least a decade for no particular reason, just on
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the hunch that these records might become useful to someone,
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somewhere, sometime! Again, the importance of this to us is that
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it points out another instance of the media being asleep at the
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wheel while large issues slip right by us in the mad pursuit of a
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single unrealted case. God forbid that there be any discussion
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about how ESS records can not legally be kept in European
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countries because of the abuses the Nazi's made of these records
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during the Hitler administration...
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* * *
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Lets take a look at the coverage of easy-to-understand local
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politics and see how a typical small town newspaper deals with
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the day to day issues of small town life. You know, things like
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everyday police brutality and political corruption... Least
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anyone think that the problems faced (or is hit in the face?) by
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Rodney King are limited to L. A. or other urban regions read the
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below few stories from recent issues of the Olympian:
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EX-CANDIDATE FOR SHERIFF ARRESTED
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By Filiz Satir, The Olympian 2/10/92 Pg. C1
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A former Thurston County sheriff's candidate, Anne
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Warner Sunrise, was arrested early Sunday, following a
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chase that ended with a sheriff's deputy smashing the
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driver's window of Sunrise's car in order to remove her
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from the vehicle.
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Sunrise, 47, was stopped by three patrol cars, and
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cuffed in the parking lot of Capital Mall. While being
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transported to the Thurston County Jail, she chewed a
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large hole in the vinyl of the patrol car's back seat,
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a sheriff's report said Sunrise was booked for
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investigation of felony eluding and malicious mischief.
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Prior to the chase, a sheriff's deputy responded to an
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alarm at the Village Mart 3210 Cooper Point Road N.W.
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While the deputy waited outside the store for a back-up
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patrol car, he noticed a woman walking to a car parked
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in the lot. She disregarded the deputy who signaled to
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her, and drove off, the report said.
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The woman eventually made her way to Capital Mall
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where three patrol cars boxed in her car.
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A deputy drew a firearm and told the woman to get out
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of her car. She refused. The deputy then took a night
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stick and smashed the driver's window in order to reach
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inside and unlock the car door. Sunrise was removed
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from the car, cuffed and placed face down inside the
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patrol car. She remained in jail Sunday on $3,000
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bond.
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Think that one was a fluke? Try these next few on for size......
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SPENCER TRIAL GETS UNDER WAY
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Brad Shannon, The Olympian (2-19-92 C1)
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Tacoma-- Jurors in the Danny R. Spencer wrongful death
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suit heard tow sharply divergent stories Tuesday of how
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Spencer was beaten and subdued by Olympia police three
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years ago on the city's east side.
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Dan Huannula, hire by Spencer's family to seek
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financial and punitive damages against the city in U.S.
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District Court, painted the picture of callous
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officers. He said they not only beat the fleeing
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Spencer 15-20 times with batons, but ignored Spencer's
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medical needs as he bled and later choke on vomit in
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the back of a patrol car.
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He contended evidence would show that police use of
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deadly force--in hitting Spencer once in the head with
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a baton--was unreasonable.
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Spencer was being arrested for failing to pay a
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traffic ticket when he fled, precipitating the physical
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fight at East Ninth Avenue and Fir Street the evening
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of June 17, 1989. The Spencer family's lawsuit
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followed a 1989 inquest that cleared police of criminal
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wrongdoing.
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The city's lawyer, Don Law, countered Hannula's
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version by painting Spencer, then 28 [then 28 is now 30
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years old in Heaven?], as an angry 220-pounder who
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escalated a minor incident into a pitched battle with
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police. He said it eventually required eight men to
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subdue Spencer, including a neighbor who rushed to the
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scene in his bathrobe.
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Law said Spencer was intoxicated--with a blood-
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alcohol level of 0.12 percent. Spencer also had smoked
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four to six marijuana cigarettes and ingested the
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hallucinogen LSD earlier in the day, Law contended.
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Law maintained the baton blows generally were
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consistent with the need to control an escalating
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situation. He said the one blow that hit Spencer's
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head was accidental
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Although Hannula decline to say how much general
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damages and punitive damages he will seek in the case,
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the family previously filed a 5$ million claim with the
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city.
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It sure is reassuring that the Olympia City Attorney is
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named LAW (is his business partner named Order?). There are lots
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of problems with the police/city/Olympian's version of events.
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There is no mention of the reports from bystanders who said the
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police were out-of-control, and swearing at Spencer as he was
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dragged from the phone booth and beaten to death. There is no
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mention that the versions of events by all the cops at the scene
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of the beating did not match up until a few weeks after the
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incident. LSD is not a drug that is easily tested for. I defy
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anyone to come up with a test proving an individual ingested LSD
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within a few hours of the test.
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Do you think that cops brutally clubbing people is rare in
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Olympia? Think again! The next day's Olympian (2-20-92 pg. C-1)
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carries a story about one Clemit R. Deskins suing the Oly P.D.
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for alleged brutality over an incident where Olympia's finest
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delivered "a head wound from a nightstick blow and Ted Deskins
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received several leg bruises from the nightstick". The current
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article is (of course) not about police brutality, but is only
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concerned with the charges pressed against Mr. Deskin for
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striking an officer of the law (as the officers smashed him with
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their clubs). A sidebar accompanying the article reports that:
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"More than half of the dozen law-enforcement officers
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who attended Wednesday's sentence hearing had had
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assaultive encounters with Clemit Deskins in the past,
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according to Assistant Olympia City Prosecutor Reiko
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Cushman.
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However, defense attorney Saxon Rogers asked
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rhetorically how that could be since Deskins had never
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been convicted of felony assault of a law-enforcement
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officer."
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If this is the sort of news that makes it into the paper
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despite its attempts to exert information and thought control,
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one is left to wonder about all the instances of police brutality
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that occur and are never reported on. The tone of the writing in
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the newspaper makes it clear that these stories are only deemed
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newsworthy because actual lawsuits have been filed against the
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local boys-in-blue.
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Let us consider one final instance of the local newspaper in
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question (The Olympian) and its over-UP-age of the scandal
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concerning Mayor David Skramstad's filing for chapter 7
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bankruptcy two days after taking office, and three months after
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running up over $20,000 on credit cards (during the time-frame of
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his campaign for Mayor). What? You never even read about this
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in the paper? Relax, you are not alone..... But what do you
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expect from a newspaper that backed Mayor Skramstad as a
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candidate? The only way that anyone has been able learn anything
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about what happened has been to read the few letters to the
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editor that The Olympian has bothered to print (including those
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from the Pro-Developer community who see nothing wrong with
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Skramstad's actions). Which raises the question asked by (letter
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writer) Laura Seurynck (2-19-92):
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"Should we trust a person who is economically strapped
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and suspected of being deceitful to be able to carry-
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out the duties of the mayors office without being
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swayed by special interests within our community?"
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Hmmmmmm, good question!
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A letter (by Steve Zodrow) printed a few days earlier (2-15-
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92) questions why the only article mentioning that a legal
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complaint has been filed against mayor reads more like a want ad
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than a news story:
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"Why was [this] article headlined "Finding Job bears on
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bankruptcy" instead of "Concerned citizen files
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complaint with PDC?" Why is the article devoted to
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explaining Dave's hardships while the real issue is his
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integrity? Why when I read this article do I feel like
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The Olympian wants me to have empathy, support and
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forgivness for this person before I know all of the
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facts? Perhaps this is a carry-over of the support for
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The Olympian's mayoral candidate from the recent
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election? This type of control by the media sickens
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me.
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Gosh those are harsh words Steve! (He had better be
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careful...P-M-S has learned that the first $500 donated to Mayor
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Skramstad's campaign came from the Olympia Police Guild, not to
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mention the fact that Mayor Skramstad's campaign manager was
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Sheriff Gary Edwards...) We sure hope Mr. Zodrow has good
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medical coverage (or a cam-corder), or that our country installs
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a nationalized health system in the next few weeks, he may need
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it he gets stopped for a bad tail light here in Olympia!
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That ends our first issue. Again, we apologize for spending
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too much time on stupid local politics, expect more paranoia on
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issues of national import in out next issue. Best wishes from
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Dr. They and P-M-S, and remember: They are not necessarily out to
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get you...they may be after someone else, but that's no excuse to
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just sit back and watch it happen, you may be next!
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Do you have a favorite news item that you would like to see
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covered in future P-M-S issues? You can reach Dr. They at the
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Acid Bath BBS (206) 456-2725, where the allwise Sysop Techno Punk
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lets us rest our name. We (that is, THEY) appreciate any re-
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typed or scanned news story complete with a citation telling
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where the story is from. If you are too lazy to do that, then
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send us the reference and our research staff will hunt it down.
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If you send a news contribution and want a copy of the issue it
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appears in, then include you name/nym and a BBS where we can
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leave you a copy. If we pissed you off then call and flame us.
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-------Dr. They
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