Atlanta Anonymous Arrests Only Tip Of Embarrassing Iceberg In Dekalb County, Begins With Police Chief Bolton
Chief Terrell Bolton, the man in charge of the officers/swat brigade at the Atlanta Anonymous protests on Saturday has a habit of shady behavior. Not only were the officers at yesterday’s protest made to crack down on those peacefully protesting – but they also asked to use an excessive amount of force in harassing motorists driving by the protest who honked their horn.
When compared with some of the other things Chief Bolton’s done, these seems very minor, but certainly in accordance with how the Church of Scientology execs run things: heavy paranoia, intimidation and excessive use of authority. Please see videos below which illustrate some of the shenanigans going on in Dekalb.
Also, just to set the record straight, the arrests in Atlanta yesterday at the Anonymous protests outside of the local org are said to be because of noise ordinances due to a couple of protesters using bullhorns. While this is an unfortunate incident and in reality what I still consider an excessive use of force, it is essential that all citizens respect the law and abide by requests from law enforcement authorities. In the top video you can see the police are trying to appear cooperative – please try to reciprocate.
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Chief Bolton, what are your crimes?
Comment by marcab — March 17, 2008 @ 8:43 am
Thanks for posting this, there needs to be an investigation into the whole department. Compare them to the other police departments around the world in how they responded to the protests and you realize something is clearly wrong here. Apparently there is a shortage of police officers and they’re forcing them to work overtime in Dekalb, yet they send the whole squad to stand out for hours in what was obviously a peaceful protest?
And why is the officer in that video seem so confused and need to talk to a leader? They basically had the same exact protest last month, nothing new here. Funny to think that the police went to the trouble to get all lined up and stand there for a few hours, then all of the sudden say “Wait a minute, what are we doing here, do you guys have a permit?”
Comment by Chris — March 17, 2008 @ 8:45 am
I saw a rather entertaining news report where Chief Bolton lives in a VAN DOWN BY THE RIVER…err sorry, in an RV sitting in a park that doesn’t have Georgia Tags, hastn’t paid Georgia taxes, etc.
Oh well, have a look for yourself:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr0WeintXwQ
Comment by Anon1376 — March 17, 2008 @ 8:54 am
good example of how $cientology seeks to infiltrate governments and institutions, stomp out dissent and free speech, and install fascism.
and all the while $cientologists will be yammering about human rights. meanwhile they’re abusing people.
Comment by Ben — March 17, 2008 @ 10:31 am
It is unfortunate about the arrests in Atlanta. I wondered, since they only arrested the ones speaking on the bullhorn, whether or not it had anything to do with a sound permit. I know in NYC they were over in a flash to be sure we had a sound permit once the Megaphone came out, and seemed almost disappointed to find that we did, in fact, have one.
Great job on keeping up the full coverage.
^_^
Comment by kuronymous — March 17, 2008 @ 10:49 am
$cientology has been desperate for these arrests. I’m just waiting for the news reports portraying those poor sods as terrorists. Wouldn’t surprise me at all that Co$ passed on the info to the police there that a couple of arrests would make some wealthy people very pleased with them.
Some Dekalb officers also seem to have an anonymous (lol) blog denouncing their chief’s general failure at life (not the one that happened at the protest).
dekalbofficersspeak.blogspot.com
These seem to be some very unhappy officers. Not a climate for professional interaction with peaceful protesters.
Comment by anonandon — March 17, 2008 @ 11:07 am
I saw something a couple of weeks ago on Enturbulation.org about Atlanta’s Mayor having unusually close relations with Atlanta’s top Scientology person.
Comment by Rao — March 17, 2008 @ 11:38 am
In the process of having a protest of peace in Atlanta/DeKalb, anonymous has also uncovered that the chief of police is a serious criminal himself and easily bribed. Also, there are officers under him that don’t want to work with him and they’re posting about it online. Then there’s the RV without GA plates thing and not paying state taxes. All this from the police chief of DeKalb??? If the citizens of this area knew about this they would raise hell and get him off the force and fast!. If we could get the news to run a story on him or contact writers from all the newspapers out here , I think we could get him fired. Then, no cops in Sci Tie’s pocket equals peaceful protests for Anonymous! This could be such a big win and we could get back to business! Then who would the Sci Ties have to do their dirty work? (At least for a while) Does anyone know how we could do this? Operation fire douche…..LoL!
Comment by 1.1 on the tone scale — March 17, 2008 @ 1:24 pm
OK. This is just for a laugh,
http://youtube.com/watch?v=IXVopC5__lc&feature=related
Hope I did that right. Anyway great follow up as always Dawn. Given this info this department may have bigger fish to fry than these protest. With a understaffed force it’s ludicrous to think they would waste so much resources here. I’d be also curious to find out why the 2 anons arrested were taken to the Co$ facility. Hope we have some good lawyers in anon.
Comment by Mitsu Too — March 17, 2008 @ 2:35 pm
These folks just don’t know they’re being used by the $cienos. Check out this tidbit
http://allmestup.blogspot.com/2008/03/in-their-own-scripture.html
from the recently leaked OSA documents.
Folks, this organization is scary dangerous.
Comment by Artoo45 — March 17, 2008 @ 3:46 pm
Correct me if i am wrong, but the “no masks” stuff is the anti ku klux klan legacy law…
Comment by scientology, soon i come — March 17, 2008 @ 4:48 pm
I’m curious to know what was discussed with the “elected leader” of this protest.
Comment by liz — March 17, 2008 @ 5:09 pm
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I don’t understand… why do they need more officers, if they can put up for rent so many officers to the CoS? I think this might be a job that the police officers themselves don’t want to take.
I still believe an investigation should be performed on the subject of the legality of their actions that day, however (the arrest of the two anons, and the ticketing).
Comment by Anoynymause — March 18, 2008 @ 9:26 pm