"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

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

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.

McFall, on trial for federal corruption charges, answered Hanly's questions by saying he had a quirky sense of humor that people didn't always get, and that others who felt threatened by him were mistaken in their perception.

"Is all this part of your quirky humor?" Hanly asked, after describing an internal report from the sheriff's office in 1975 that described then-deputy McFall as gun happy, a threat to others and eager to someday kill someone justifiably.
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 http://www.lodinews.com/articles/2005/02/26/news/04_mcfall_050226.txt

26 02 05 23:42

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/

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