Due process

The Atlanta police officer (Rolfe) involved in the shooting there was fired without being investigated or suspended pending investigation.

One of my college degrees was in Public Safety Administration. To get this degree, I had to take classes on Administrative Law. One of the topics covered was employment law. Under the Constitution of the United States, the government cannot take any of a person’s property without first allowing due process. There is a Supreme Court case that specifically addresses this situation. We were forced to write a research paper on the case. I am still in a recovery mode from our ransomware attack, so I cannot retrieve the file. The gist of it goes like this:

An employee of the government still has constitutional rights. If your employer (the government) wishes to deprive you of your employment, due process is required. This means that before the employee can be suspended without pay or terminated, there must be an investigation, and the employee is entitled to a hearing in front of the administrative authority (or his appointed representative) where that employee can bring representation, call witnesses, etc..

While the investigation is taking place and before the hearing, many employers do not want the disgraced employee out there in the public, so the employee is usually either assigned some sort of desk duty, or is suspended with pay, pending the outcome of the investigation and hearing.

That did not happen in this case. At the very least, Officer Rolfe has grounds for suing the department for damages, and perhaps will be given his job back, with back pay.

COVID update

Here is the latest data for new COVID infections and deaths from the last 30 days.

Note that as the number of infections is rising, the number of deaths is falling. Of course, that isn’t the case. The reason for the negative correlation is garbage data. That is, in the beginning, we were only testing people who were deathly ill, then it was only people who were symptomatic, and now we have moved on to testing people who are asymptomatic.

All this chart proves is that the people with less severe symptoms, and those without symptoms are more likely to survive.

The press is making a big deal out of the fact that the NUMBER of confirmed infections is climbing while ignoring the fact that the CFR is falling.

It appears that we were all (including medical personnel) bamboozled into thinking this illness was more serious than it was. I will admit it. I was fooled. My apologies to anyone that I wronged in my ignorance.

Chaz leaders arming the occupiers

This video shows how the leaders of CHAZ CHOP whatever are arming the occupiers of that area with various weapons. The people receiving them are obviously unfamiliar with firearms. I doubt that they can accurately put lead on target. Your preparations should be accelerated. Open warfare may begin at any time, with little to no warning.

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In the background of the video, I saw at least three spots with good elevation and about a 250 yard straight shot down the street. I am willing to bet that none of the people in this video could reliably get return fire on target from 200 yards.