Here we go again ...........

Seriously, what IS law enforcement (those not-so-charming first responders) DOING with the billions of dollars appropriated to them by by the Dept. of Homeland Control?? All this 'reemergence of regionalism' ... otherwise known as CONTROL is the responsibility of the local sheriff (back to those high walls they're building again) --- here in Tampa it's pretty rolled out in most respects. (thanks pam)They repeatedly claim they are using it for communication purposes. Hmmmmmm. Check out SAFECOM's goals. (page 5 is good but you should read all of it) It's not about talking to US for your safety and mine, but to EACH OTHER. In the event that they need to communicate to each other about US.

I have news for you -- they stalk me just fine through numerous counties and other states (these charming first responders --- so much that when I first started dating my boyfriend he said, 'are you RICH???' He thought they were my protection. (and in the worst sense of the word they are.... eek)

Nope, I am the quintessential 'poor little rich girl' with the gazillion dollar gambling property. --
SO ....

a. they didn't need any more money to do so.
b. that's not what they're using it for
c. cigars -- wine, women and song.
d. I renew my call for the Hillsborough County female employees to insist on a better deal for themselves. They're doing the dirty work TOO. And calling themselves women while they step on OTHER women. hmmmmmmmm

What I read is that they are using it to communicate with EACH OTHER. Now, how about those citizens that they are hired to serve and protect? The lack of communication with US keeps resulting in DEATH (for us, of course). The Sheriffs and other emergency personnel are busy with other things. Not saving lives, of course. It has NEVER been a worst time to live in Tampa or in Florida and it's getting harder and harder to stay that way if you have an emergency.

I hope that we can find billions more for them to squander on talking to each other and patdowns that keep us safe.



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I wonder if Hernando county's po-leese will list this as a homicide or an accident or as natural causes or what???

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UPDATEAt least they took responsibility

Dispatch at fault for man's death
By JOHN FRANK
Published April 19, 2007


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SPRING HILL - With his 75-year-old stepfather growing seriously ill Tuesday afternoon, a distressed Spring Hill man dials 911.

"My dad. He's been ... he's been sick. Really bad," the 35-year-old son tells Hernando County Sheriff's Office dispatcher John Ellis.

Ellis logs the emergency and calls for an ambulance. But this quick action leads to a mixup.

No ambulance is ever sent to the Wellington Road home. After waiting 13 minutes, the son tried to drive his stepfather to get help. He makes it to a walk-in clinic 5 miles away where his stepfather collapses.

Minutes later, the elderly man is pronounced dead at Spring Hill Regional Hospital.

The incident is raising questions about the dispatch protocols just 17 days after the county changed the emergency response system. Before April 2, Spring Hill Fire Rescue handled all medical emergency calls. Now, county calls are taken separately.

Hernando County Sheriff's Office and fire officials met with the son Wednesday morning to apologize. Sheriff Richard Nugent said the incident is under investigation. Nugent would not identify the man who died or the members of the man's family.

"We want to assume responsibility for this," said Hernando County Fire Chief Mike Nickerson.

Bill Kicklighter, the Sheriff's Office director who oversees the dispatchers, blamed the incident on "human error."

He explained how it happened:

Ellis failed to see a message on the dispatch screen telling him to forward the 911 call to the Spring Hill Fire Rescue office. Instead, he sent the call at 3:09 p.m. to Paul George, a dispatcher for the Hernando County Fire Rescue.

George recognized that the call had been sent to the wrong place. He yelled to Ellis to transfer the call to Spring Hill Fire Rescue. Ellis, who was still on the phone with the caller, never heard George. George didn't wait to get the required acknowledgement and he canceled the call for a Hernando County ambulance.

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The boyfriend says they will use these repeated incidents to attempt to push for privatization. That way they can be MORE unaccountable than EVER. Wow, nice to think of them following me around and doing nothing about driving to a guy's house.

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by tanya 04/19/07 07:40 AM
the dispather are getting very careless with people lives.

Public Access Needs Your Help or they will be GONE by July

Senate Bill 998 is in the Community Affairs Committee of the Florida Senate right now.

The bill would allow the telecom companies to unfairly take copyrighted content -- your (independently produced public access) shows -- for their use -- without paying the copyright holder for the content.

The bill would move all PEG channels from the lowest tier. This means, we could be on channel 327 or some high numbers. It also means that people would need to pay higher costs to view the PEG channels.
The bill would create high transmission costs for PEG channels because of its requirements.

Last but totally the worst case scenario -- If this bill passes, ALL access channels -- public, education and government -- will be eliminated on July 1, 2007. This is because there is a requirement for an access channel to air 8 hours of local original content per day not counting replays. ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, TNT, HBO and other commercial networks do not air 8 hours of local original content per day because that it unaffordable. How could we?


Florida Senate
Community Affairs Committee

Mandy Dawson
Steven Geller Mike Haridopolos Gary Siplin
Ronda Storms
Alex Villalobos
Victor Crist Stephen Wise
Rudy Garcia
Anthony Hill

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Ask them to vote against making changes in the PEG channels *public access
*education *government
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I don't remember when I've seen a more concerted attack on peoples' freedom to communicate with each other. In later posts today or this week I will explain what I mean if you don't already know it. An attack on Internet Radio and the FCC meeting. Please ... like the FCC doesn't know that we don't wish the media to be monopolized. hmmmm
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Please email the Senators and be sure they know not to take public access away from the people. It's an all-important outlet.

We COULD have had a REAL mayor ............

In recognition of Bush’s visit to the Utah capital, Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson gave a speech to a crowd of thousands calling Bush a “dishonest, war-mongering, human-rights-violating president” whose time in office would “rank as the worst presidency our nation has ever had to endure.” Thank you, Salt Lake City! Watch it here. Full transcript here (pdf).






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ONE THING IS CERTAIN: ROCKY ANDERSON IS NOT A FREEMASON!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Oh, and Pam Iorio who does have the typical ties expected with the FreeMasons and etc ... well, she DID make sure that Marion Serious Lewis lost his job when he chose to campaign against her.
Let's see, he had been a cop for TWENTY SIX YEARS. And she had (by the farthest stretch of the imagination) been his boss for less than FOUR of those years. Even though the Florida Department of State said he had every right to run against her.

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About his case and RIGHT to run against Pam Iorio:

I think this is uncharted water we're going through," he says.

And go through it they will, with the matter now in Hillsborough circuit court. The ultimate question for the judge: Who, really, is the boss?

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Comments on this article 01/29/07 03:48 PM
This whole thing follows the spirit of Tampa. Harass, intimidate, kotow to those who believe they have the power. Management by fear and intimidation. That's sad

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You have to SUE Tampa to FORCE them to do what's right ..... you HAVE to. They and their henchies. You really have no choice because they make utter asses of themselves.
Anyone who desires to add to some comments on the subject of the admin of this city may do so : HERE


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Zimbio: The People's Guide to the Web

Somehow or another --- I managed to stumble in to Zimbio. What a COOL user-friendly place !! Promote your blog, create portals, add your important articles, write an article or ping your blogs.
It's so quick and easy to use for a person like me who is always in a blazing hurry on the web. By the way, this is COMPLETELY UNSOLICITED. I just liked the place a grest deal. In about fifteen minutes I became a member, submitted and promoted my blog, added articles to a page pertaining to Pam Iorio ... one of the staff looked over my blog and submitted some of my Leahy stuff to the Leahy page. This is pretty attentive.

Oh, and the co-owner, Danny came by and gave me kudos. Pretty darn nice welcome if you ask me.

I think if you give this service a quick look it will turn into a lingering look and you'll see services there that I have not even found yet. You'll stick around. I've already gone back a few times and started portals. Oh, and you get a private portal, as well. Just go check it out. I swear it's very cool.

Probably, before I said a few kind words I should have asked someone there to describe their services and see what they'd like said.
But, this is purely from ME --- Zimbio is cool. Check it out.

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Anyone from Zimbio feel free to ADD anything you like or anything you'd rather have said. And, thanks for the cool place !!!

Oh, and they won Business Week's BEST OF THE WEB COLLABORATION 2006


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