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BTK used the power of Government to get his Jollies
"Serial killers do, on a small scale, what governments do on a large
one. They are products of our times and these are bloodthirsty times."
Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez 1985 What better place to channel a serial killer's energy, but to give him a job as a Code Enforcement Officer. With the arrest of the BTK case's Dennis Rader, a code enforcement officer for Park City Kansas certain facts have come to light. Rader channeled much of his aggressiveness into his job. Instead of Binding, torturing and killing his later victims he used the power of government itself to grind his victims into the dirt. Makes a person wonder what we have down at our city hall. 28 02 05 16:39 So Many Towns, So Many Temptations
FREEHOLD, N.J., Feb. 24 - Three years ago, State Senator Ellen Karcher
got a rare, inside glimpse of the kind of hardball political corruption
that investigators have said plagues Monmouth County. As a young
Marlboro Township council member, she ran up against a local contractor
who, she said, threatened her and attempted to bribe her because of her
persistent public questioning of his and others' plans to redevelop a
62-acre airport there.
First she got a letter from one of the principals in the redevelopment
consortium, offering her and her husband plots at a cemetery he owned,
she said. Then someone vandalized a fish pond in her backyard that she
had built as a memorial to her late father, Alan Karcher, a former
speaker of the State Assembly. Finally, in a meeting at a restaurant
with one of the contractors, she was offered $150,000, "to further her
political career" if she would re-evaluate her stand on the
redevelopment plan. More...
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/27/nyregion/27monmouth.html?oref=login 27 02 05 00:07 Federal prosecutors grill McFall in cross-examination
SACRAMENTO -- Going back all the way to Monte McFall's time as a San
Joaquin County Sheriff's deputy, Assistant U.S. Attorney Pat Hanly
grilled him under cross-examination Friday, trying to show that
McFall's actions showed a long history of threatening behavior. More http://www.lodinews.com/articles/2005/02/26/news/04_mcfall_050226.txt 26 02 05 23:42 Corruption probes taint LA mayor's re-election bid
LOS ANGELES - In a city more accustomed to scandals in Hollywood than City Hall, claims of public corruption and fraud are dogging the re-election campaign of decidedly low-profile Mayor James Hahn. County prosecutors have been probing allegations that Hahn supporters shook down firms which wanted to do business with the city by tying public contracts to political contributions. Federal prosecutors have opened their own inquiry. http://www.mercurynews.com/ 23:29
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