Floridians are encouraged to call the police and report neighbors who make hateful comments about the government.

Florida - A new $1 million dollar program led by Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw aimed at “violence prevention” is encouraging Floridians to report their neighbors for making hateful comments about the government, a chilling reminder of how dissent is being characterized as an extremist threat.

“Bradshaw plans to use the extra $1 million to launch “prevention intervention” units featuring specially trained deputies, mental health professionals and caseworkers. The teams will respond to citizen phone calls to a 24-hour hotline with a knock on the door and a referral to services, if needed,”


Bradshaw makes it clear that the kind of behavior which could prompt a visit from the authorities includes anti-government political statements that may be deemed a prelude to violent action.
“We want people to call us if the guy down the street says he hates the government, hates the mayor and he’s gonna shoot him,” Bradshaw said. “What does it hurt to have somebody knock on a door and ask, ‘Hey, is everything OK?’”
The program will also include “public service announcements to encourage local citizens to report their neighbors,” reports the newspaper.
The program has sparked concerns that the hotline could violate civil liberties or even be exploited to pursue personal vendettas, with Bradshaw acknowledging that, “anyone in a messy divorce or in a dispute with a neighbor could abuse the hotline,” and that it will prompt “frivolous complaints.”
“How are they possibly going to watch everybody who makes a comment like that? It’s subjective,” said Liz Downey, executive director of the Palm Beach County branch of the National Alliance on Mental Illness. “We don’t want to take away people’s civil liberties just because people aren’t behaving the way we think they should be.”
The program is set to go ahead unless it is vetoed by Governor Rick Scott.
As Thomas DiLorenzo points out, the program is also a disturbing throwback to how political dissidents were imprisoned in Soviet mental hospitals, where criticism of the state was deemed “philosophical intoxication.”
The fact that authorities in the U.S. are now pursuing similar programs to those used to marginalize political dissidents in historical dictatorships, albeit on a smaller scale, in response to recent incidents of terrorism and mass shootings – which statistically represent a minute threat to the lives of Americans – serves as a warning of how the state is increasingly citing mental health concerns as a means of eroding fundamental constitutional freedoms.  http://www.mypalmbeachpost.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/bradshaw-gets-1-million-for-violence-prevention-un/nXbs4/http://www.infowars.com/floridians-encouraged-to-report-neighbors-who-hate-government/ 

A Stasi for Palm Beach:

In the bad old days when Germany was riven in two parts, Germans in the East lived in terror of the state security ministry known as the Stasi, which enlisted neighbors and colleagues as secret informants. Stasi created a spirit of distrust to be exploited by the party.

Anyone who wants to watch such things in action can book a trip to Palm Beach County, Fla., to see what paranoia looks like. The Department of Homeland Security last year pumped nearly half-a-billion dollars into “urban area security” grants, and the sheriff in Palm Beach, Ric Bradshaw, doesn’t want to let his share of such loot go to waste. He has set up a gossip ministry of his own called the Community Partners Against Terrorism.

He envisions radio and television “public service announcements” urging Floridians to “drop a dime” on that creepy guy down the block who mutters about “the system,” flies one of those “Don’t Tread on Me” flags, and never cleans up after his dog.

“We want people to call us if the guy down the street says he hates the government, hates the mayor, and he’s gonna shoot him,” Sheriff Bradshaw, not exactly a fearless clone of Wyatt Earp, tells the Palm Beach Post. “What does it hurt to have somebody knock on a door and ask, ‘Hey, is everything OK?’”

Apart from the absurdity of it all, it could hurt a lot. Police resources will be diverted to paying visits to malcontents who describe the bad things they would like to see happen to local politicians or even the local sheriff. It’s merely ordinary in a free society. Such comments may be in bad taste and offend decorum, but they’re not crimes, and they don’t warrant a visit from the constabulary.

A video on the sheriff’s website encourages townspeople to turn in anyone they see photographing a bridge or carting a large drum marked “hazardous material” out of his home, but even green terrorists rarely label their weapons of mass destruction, even if they recycle. Sheriff Bradshaw insists he would only go after the bad guys on his watch. “We know how to sift through frivolous complaints,” he assured the Post.

The Department of Homeland Security is using these local grants to do what the department itself is prohibited from doing. Shortly after 9/11, George W. Bush prepared to create a federal Big Brother hotline called “Operation Tips” that sought to enlist citizens to turn in neighbors for “suspicious” activity. House Republicans added a provision to the law ensuring that the agency could never do it.

It was a dumb idea at the federal level, and it’s a dumb idea in Palm Beach County. Trained police professionals are paid to observe people, notice things, investigate and take matters to the district attorney at the appropriate point, and make sure civil liberties are protected. It’s not a perfect system, but it’s far better than fundamentally transforming the country in the image of the Eastern Bloc.

Sheriff Bradshaw has applied for a $1 million grant from the state to expand a tattletale scheme. Rick Scott, Florida’s clear-eyed governor, has a line-item veto that he can use to eliminate nonsense like this, and we hope he does.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/may/3/a-stasi-for-palm-beach/ 

For more information check out the two links below:

Protecting your community from terrorism: Strategies for local law enforcement
http://www.cops.usdoj.gov/Publications/protecting_vol_5_rev.pdf

Nationwide SAR initiative communities against terrorism: http://nsi.ncirc.gov/resources.aspx

Sheriff Bradshaw caught committing fraud yet again:

Article first appeared in Sheriff Bradshaw's Culture of Corruption website:

Katie Legrone from WPTV News 5 in Palm Beach County, did an amazing investigative story about how the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office, under the leadership of Ric Bradshaw, was caught by the astute Honorable Lucy Brown, “fraud upon the courts” by hiding public records.

LeGrone interviewed Sheriff Bradshaw, who claimed the “documents fell through the cracks” and that the characterization by Judge Brown were “unfortunate words on the part of the judge.”
I believe what Sheriff Bradshaw meant is that it was unfortunate his administration was caught hiding these documents. In fact, the records that seem to fall through the cracks are the ones that accurately paint Sheriff Bradshaw and his entire corrupt, criminal administration as what they truly are. Frauds, thieves and liars.

To illustrate my point, a few years ago, I requested records on Sheriff Bradshaw’s purchasing card records. A few weeks prior, I requested the purchasing records on another high-ranking officer, alerting Bradshaw my request was probably going to be made for his records, too. He was worried we would expose the theft he had been committing with his purchasing card, so he went and falsified official documents to obtain a new purchasing card account by claiming a fraud had occurred. I received an anonymous tip regarding this fraud (CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE ORIGINAL TIP).

Sure enough, the tipster was completely accurate in the Sheriff’s willing commission of this crime.
This was an astounding revelation because the Sheriff HIMSELF engaged in this FELONY to hide public documents, ones that were showing that he was using his county credit card to take friends to expensive restaurants and bars on the taxpayer dime. These friends even included people with ties to the Colombo Crime Family (for full details, please CLICK HERE).

The office continually misled the plaintiff and the court to where the judge said this is nothing short of fraud on the court.

This was only the beginning. Later, we found out the Sheriff was using tax payer money and buying guns as gifts (recreations of the Wyatt Earp revolvers) for the other elected Sheriffs in the State of Florida. I made many records requests for the documentation of these guns and the thousands of dollars they cost, but each and every request was denied by the Bradshaw administration, stating there were no such records.

Instead, the confirmation of these guns were given by Sheriff  Crowder, the elected Sheriff of Martin County. Sheriff Crowder was kind enough to send me several photos of his pistol. I was able to determine the manufacturer and I obtained a copy of the receipt from them instead (for a complete timeline of records requests, PBSO denials, correspondence from Sheriff Crowder’s Office and the receipt for the purchase, CLICK HERE).

Sheriff Bradshaw and his administration are nothing more than an organized crime family, tarnishing the badges of the good men and women of PBSO. He has a long history of theft while operating as a high-ranking law enforcement officer, such as his gun thefts where he was caught at the West Palm Beach Police Department. He has personally engaged in felonious activities as the Elected Sheriff and feels it is nothing to engage in more criminal activity by falsifying official records and willfully violating the public records laws, as long as it helps him sweep the activities of his criminal enterprise under the rug.
http://www.sheriffbradshaw.com/2013/03/sheriff-bradshaw-caught-committing-fraud-yet-again/