The County Government of Nitwits (Lawrence County Government A True Skidmark on the Underpants of Society)

Yes, I did say that Lawrence County, Indiana government officials many of which are total nitwits end up comprising a county government that is full of nitwits from the top to the bottom. Why do I say such mean, nasty and hurtful things to the damaged psyche of our public officials and many in the community at large? Would it be out of meanness and spitefulness? Nope. Would be because I've got a personal vendetta against one or more persons in Lawrence County government because of some minor issue? Nope not that either. Then why?

The problem is staring most thinking and reasonable people in the face that actually will have ears to hear and eyes to see and actually pay attention to the rot that exists in much of South Central Indiana. Including surrounding counties that have such crooked government bodies full of morally debased cadavers that they could qualify as being mortuaries just with people sitting up right in their chairs at government meetings or in their day to day affairs running a government that is largely incompetent and often worse in that its also chock full of people doing the wrong things under US Code of Federal Regulations as well as the Indiana Code and various other local laws.

It's kind of like the recent cyber hacking issue that came up with Lawrence County government computers and systems being hacked by some unknown as of yet intruder that was able to not only access all kinds of government records for Lawrence County, Indiana but also personal information of various people who either have had legal issues, court records, personal records that shouldn't be able to be hacked by just any computer hacker sitting anywhere. So much for local Indiana governments such as Lawrence County having data security and security over the personal information of their taxpayers as well as all citizens. That goes for everyone being violated because LAWRENCE COUNTY officials have their heads planted firmly up their asses to the point that they could barely run a county government or any other local body of government.

One has to wonder how such snafus and incompetence can go unanswered for years and years in a county government without someone at the state level in Indiana conducting investigations into local governments. Is it because at the state level the State Of Indiana doesn't really give a hoot and a shit about local issues and local governments as long as the State Department of Revenue keeps getting their loot from Indiana businesses and taxpayers.

Lawrence County has long been a hotbed of political corruption from having past sheriffs involved in criminal activity and sent to jail for such to having employees of the police departments in Lawrence County in Bedford and Mitchell being sent packing or worse to jail for criminal violations of the law. That's just the ones that you hear about that someone wishes to make a stink about regarding crooked government including criminal police agencies.

Seems that the Seymour Police Department and City of Seymour was just involved in a police scandal where the former retired police chief was taking ghost employment among other things and another officer is doing more corrupt things as well. Too bad that the Indiana State Police in Versailles is out of the jurisdictional area of Lawrence County since their region of purview involves as far west as Jackson County. Then again, seeing as they are state police maybe they need to start an investigation and start looking at Lawrence County along with various other entities in Southern Indiana including Paoli and Orange County as well as Salem in Washington County and a few other police departments and local sheriffs departments that have more than a few skeletons in their own closets.

You've got a county government in Lawrence County that can't even secure the data of its stakeholders, residents, taxpayers and overall citizens when they can't even secure their own computer network much less keep the phone lines in working order as they were knocked out in the latest hacking attempt. I would venture to guess based on professional expertise that this wasn't the first time that they've actually be hacked but the first time that it was so severe that they couldn't sweep it under the rug and keep it out of the public view. One has to wonder the type of information security protocols and data security that these local yokels actually practice to keep unauthorized people out of authorized areas including not giving them the ability to access critical data not only for the county but also those in the court systems having cases along with personal data that they don't want spread all over the world for anyone to see.

It wouldn't be that hard for a hacker to obtain personal data of someone in the court systems or child protective services and other governmental issues to have their information spread far and wide for things that shouldn't be public knowledge because a bunch of nitwits and buffoons run the local police departments, county government and various offices in that county government. I wonder who is going to be held responsible for such lack of common sense and ability to control data. Of course as usual they'll brush it off on someone else and no one will ever take accountability nor anyone being held accountable because in Lawrence County that is what they do.

It's their modus operandi that government incompetence as well as government corruption will not be investigated or investigated so badly that it renders the crooks and criminals the ability to basically govern themselves and cover up their own criminal intent. That's the modus operandi of Lawrence County Government as well as the cities of Bedford and Mitchell which cover up all kinds of crooked backroom political deals and then say that they don't do anything against the rules or the laws of Indiana. How laughable that no one is there to police government officials in Lawrence County and much other counties in South Central Indiana.

Outside of a few Bedford residents that call out the political and government corruption like Samuel Shaw there isn't enough investigations of the Lawrence County syndicate as one of the locals would call Bedford, Indiana government and local officials. Even more laughable is letting these local yokels actually investigate themselves which is tantamount to letting a fox guard a chicken house.

But that is what you get when you have a county government and political apparatus in Lawrence County and Bedford (Methford) Indiana largely comprised of mentally challenged supposedly adult aged nitwits, incompetents and nincompoops.

The Billy Bob Public Officials of Bedford (Methford) and Lawrence County

With all of the natural resources, plentiful water, relatively clean air and quality land one would think that Lawrence County the cities such as Mitchell and Bedford would be prime locations to open new businesses and attract growing industries especially considering that within about 20-25 miles you have an instant connection to the outside world including the rest of Indiana and the United States.

One has to question what kind of leaders exist in Bedford and Lawrence County that can't even run a lemonade stand when you could give them plentiful water, a pitcher, stirrer,  lemons, sugar, cups and a cash box and they still end up failing.

Not only has Bedford and Lawrence County stagnated over the past several decades but in fact it has been going into reverse in a major way even since the late 1990s early 2000s. Even worse is that longtime employers have left Bedford and Mitchell to be replaced by low wage retail outfits, junk shops and virtually nothing else of real value to the community. Gone are places like Carpenter, Visteon and now Manchester Tank will be leaving. You would think that these people running Radius, Indiana and the rest of the so called economic development gurus would be working hard to bring in new businesses. Instead, the only thing being brought into Bedford is more and more in the way of illegal drugs and other narcotics that are destroying the community and turning it into a laughingstock.

Instead of focusing on serious economic development efforts and re-developing areas that have turned into industrial brownfields due to companies moving out of the area or outright closing the powers that be in county and city governments in Lawrence County along with the so called Radius people haven't really did much of anything for 20 years. At one time, Bedford was a pretty growing and better quality community instead of the drug infested and alcohol abusing place that it is nowadays and no one seems intent on stopping it. Even though law enforcement through the county sheriff and the various local yokels of Lawrence county go on drug busts and enforcement activities against street level dopeheads and users nothing ever really gets cleaned up.

Then again could it be that they don't really want to solve the drug and alcohol addiction problems in Bedford, Mitchell and the rest of Lawrence County because its extra revenue for the local authorities to make excuses and get their pockets padded at the same time while having more and more drug busts and court actions which will line the pockets of the legal community as well as the various police officials and officers and employees of the court system along with the judges and so called community protectors.

Could it be that they've decided that they don't really want to fix the horrendous drug problem in Lawrence County and would rather play pat a cake with their friends telling them what a great job they are doing while all kind of drugs turn Lawrence County into a land of walking zombies and unemployed addicts incapable of holding jobs and therefore end up having to commit crimes to survive or pay for their drug habit. Could it be that the LOCAL LEGAL EAGLES in the SO CALLED JUSTICE profession don't want that drug abuse problem to end because that would put an end to their ill gotten gains through first bringing in the dope while also going after the low level users and street dealers while keep their own hands clean by selling the dope to the locals after which they prosecute and detain these people and pay their own salaries through the public taxpayers bailing them out.

All the while Lawrence County officials and various mayors and public officials of the small cities of Lawrence County including Bedford have done virtually nothing to attract new businesses and bring in new industries to employ the local workforce outside of a little bit of a pickup at NSWC Crane and a couple of other businesses. Maybe that is the goal to turn Bedford into a little retirement community of nothing to really offer except a retirement angle which creates really nothing but a parasitic economy that produces nothing and creates nothing of value. Of course, unless you're one of the drug pushers in Lawrence County or one of the surrounding Indiana counties like Orange, Washington, etc that also are involved in drug offenses and bringing in drugs to pollute the youth of the community who are increasingly becoming middle age drug abusers.

That's in a nutshell the type of community that Bedford, Mitchell and Lawrence County in general has become over the years. Uneducated, lazy, drug abusers with other substance abuse problems who commit crimes against their fellow community members while the rest of the community ends up paying for their incarceration and court costs including the local yokels of the Bedford Police and Lawrence County Sheriff getting their nice government sponsored paychecks while totally ignoring the people at the top of the drug supply chain bringing in the garbage.

Of course, the Billy Bob mentality that many exhibit in Lawrence County wouldn't ever allow them to realize that their country cousins would be so vapid and ignorant to turn their community into a cesspit of drugs and lowlifes. I mean, after all Cousin Cletus wouldn't do that and he's not crooked even though the facts are that these same people constantly turn their heads to protect people who are criminals themselves.

Maybe that's why Bedford needs to change signs at the city limits and call it Methford or maybe Mitchell could be Methford and Bedford could be Bedrock because Stone Age thinking is quite popular in Lawrence County.

Uh oh, Mayor Big Smile Won't Like This

Sound familiar to the people of Bedford, Indiana and Lawrence County. Not to mention other towns and cities such as Mitchell, Paoli, Shoals, Salem, Bloomington, Seymour. As it has been said "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely"

Sounds like some of the good old boy system of Bedford, Indiana and Lawrence County. Throw in the good old boy system of Orange County, Washington County and other local counties where they make their own laws and violate the Indiana Code, applicable federal laws, and even their local laws that they don't even hold themselves accountable. Add the Indiana Open Records act being continually violated.


http://www.therepublic.com/2017/03/31/indiana_mayors_have_excessive_powers/

Guide on Battling Judicial and Government Corruption

This nice piece tells about one man's fight with judicial corruption and government corruption. Take this advice only at the advice of your lawyer and I am not a lawyer.

However, this piece gives practical and intelligent ways to fight the corruption in the system. 

http://www.lawlessamerica.com/


http://www.lawlessamerica.com/battling-corruption/104-initiatives/740-how-to-fight-judicial-corruption-and-government-corruption-part-1-go-in-with-your-eyes-open

http://www.lawlessamerica.com/news/battling-corruption/104-initiatives/813-how-to-fight-judicial-corruption-and-government-corruption-part-14-put-your-proof-on-a-website-

This one happens more than you know with judges and court officials lying on the bench and ignoring laws and oaths. Add in the family ties, nepotism, and good old boy style corruption. 
 
http://www.lawlessamerica.com/news/battling-corruption/104-initiatives/753-how-to-fight-judicial-corruption-and-government-corruption-part-4-know-how-judges-commit-crimes

http://www.lawlessamerica.com/news/battling-corruption/104-initiatives/754-how-to-fight-judicial-corruption-and-government-corruption-part-5-document-everything-take-notes-put-it-in-writing

Crooked Lawyers?

With some very unscruplous lawyers operating in Southern Indiana and covering their tracks while being less than honest here is a way to start contacting the State of Indiana regarding their corrupt business and legal practices.

http://www.in.gov/judiciary/discipline/

About the Indiana Supreme Court Disciplinary Commission

About The Commission

Complaints About A Lawyer

The Disciplinary Process

Judicial Misconduct

Grievance Brochure From The Evansville Bar



 Indiana Supreme Court
Disciplinary Commission
30 S. Meridian St., Suite 850
Indianapolis, IN 46204
Executive Secretary
G. Michael Witte

Deputy Executive Secretary
Charles M. Kidd

Pho: 317.232.1807
Fax: 317.233.0261

 

Corrupt Public Officials.......this is one place you need to report to regarding government local corruption

Since we all know that Bedford has a serious public corruption problem as does Lawrence County and other areas of Indiana nearby such as Orange County, Martin County, and Washington County people need to step up.

If you know of government corruption in the Southern District of Indiana you should highly consider making your information known to the Prosecuting Attorney for the Southern District of Indiana for the United States Department of Justice. Since 2014, there has been an increased emphasis on governmental and public corruption in Southern Indiana and its time for the general public to step up and point out those involved in wrongdoing. I'm sure that the local good old boys and right to know media won't be providing this information for the citizens of Lawrence County to call corrupt local officials to account.

Contact information is as follows:

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdin/contact-us

U.S. Attorneys » Southern District of Indiana

Contact Us

Email
usains.webmaster@usdoj.gov(link sends e-mail)

Main Office
United States Attorney's Office
10 W Market St, Suite 2100
Indianapolis, IN 46204

Voice: (317) 226-6333
Toll-Free: (888) 368-5067
TTY: (317) 226-5438
Fax: (317) 226-6125

Branch Office
United States Attorney's Office
101 NW MLK Blvd, Suite 250
Evansville, IN 47708

Voice: (812) 465-6475
TTY: (812) 465-6441
Fax: (812) 465-6444

Radius Indiana and Taxpayer Funds

It might be noted that I've been quite critical of public boards which receive taxpayer dollars for economic development. Especially when they have received taxpayer dollars for economic development that essentially comes to naught. The only thing that many of these local small town boards in places like Bedford, Salem, Paoli, Shoals and the like is giving out good well paying jobs for their employees of said organization. Which the taxpayers end up subsidizing or better yet in many cases pay the entire footing of the bill.

Yet, despite all of this money that is handed out freely by the state of Indiana and the local governments nothing of substance ever comes to fruition toward creating hundreds of good paying jobs in every community if not the thousands that are needed in places around the state of Indiana. Just another government transfer the wealth scheme is what this public private partnerships are when they receive government funding from the taxpayers and that money goes into the hands of a few well placed invididuals with the proper community connections if you get my point.

It interesting to note that our regional economic development boards and agencies have spent years and years worth of money they get from the state of Indiana yet have nothing of substance to show for their efforts other than a few dozen low wage retail and service industry jobs in most towns. No real plant expansions, no real development except for the occasional small businesses that are able to make it go in the real world.

All while these county boards and county economic growth boards only exist on paper and paying the salaries of wages of people that polish their nails on the job, read the newspaper, and do essentially nothing of real value that would make their counties and cities a marketable commodity that people and businesses would be interested in this here talks about one of our local Southern Indiana Not For Profit government assisted agencies. None other than Bedford based Radius.

https://www.citizenaudit.org/organization/264446362/radius-indiana-inc/

Quite an interesting read and wonder how many employees are getting some big bucks for doing nothing. All at taxpayer expense as well.

An Illustration of Economic Development Misuses right here in Indiana

This story I am linking to should explain a great deal about what kind of money that the State of Indiana provides all of these economic development agencies and how much of our tax money is being flushed down the rathole. This is just what people were caught doing much less all of those agencies that money is misappropriated and wasted on frivolity. This article is a bit dated in 2014 but I think it shows the kind of corruption that happens when large sums of money are put into the hands of people with little or no accountability to the taxpayers. As in your local economic development boards and outfits that get their funding from the government bureaucracy.

https://duboiscountyherald.com/b/us-to-recoup-500000-from-indiana-after-audit

Stellar Community? Bedford? REALLY?

After who knows truly how much money is spent and wasted away by the local government at a time when people aren't getting pay raises and increases in their social security benefits, jobs, business employment etc, the fine public servants of Lawrence County and Bedford are making sure that the taxpayer needs are being met.

All the while needing more money for public services such as police protection, jail expenses, new projects. Yet the community and the productive economy is largely stagnant at best as evidenced by the fact that Bedford has continually declined in population over the past few decades and very few new businesses and establishments have located in Bedford. Add in the fact that former employers like Visteon have picked up and moved out of town and plenty of other industrial and manfacturing employers have declined as well.

Yet Bedford, at a time when they are jacking up water and sewerage rates, has the money to spend on frivolous projects such as bike trails, walking trails and a old railroad depot which cost 2.7 million dollars. Which is 2.7 million dollars that could have been better spent on fixing the Bedford drug problem and other criminal issues. Or better yet for actual economic development purposes of getting and retaining high paying jobs for the local community.

Instead, the Bedford good old girls and boys club and their partners with Lawrence County and its lack of economic development leadership despite a outfit called Radius Indiana, decided to piss away more money on something that wasn't needed. Instead promoting the stupid idea of more bike paths and walking paths and little rinky dink ideas. When at a time such as this, with all of the idleness and drug issues in Lawrence County, Bedford instead needed jobs and good paying jobs at that and things that would sustain the community for generations. Not some 1899 Depot that no one gave a crap about before the last few years.

Add in the fact, that Bedford, like its Northern neighbor Bloomington is rapidly becoming a poverty stricken community with a high percentage of impoverished residents making minimum wages in service industry and poverty level jobs. Like Bloomington, Bedford leaders have eschewed manufacturing jobs and wealth creating industries instead bringing in a few jobs here and there with more retail jobs and restaurant/service jobs. Instead of building a sustainable economic backbone, they are building a town on a house of cards that will eventually collapse or continue the downward spiral of Lawrence County and Bedford.

Meanwhile, the luminaries including Mayor Shawna Girgis promote crap like the following piece of do nothing travel where the taxpayers of Bedford end up paying for her nice trip to China.

http://americachinasociety.org/news/may-12-bedford-mayor-leads-delegation-to-china/

18 months since the trip and still there is no plans in the works for any businesses to go to Bedford or Mitchell for new startups. Hmmm. wonder what the hell she is doing over in China with taxpayer dollars paying for her trip and whatever entourage she took along. Meanwhile, still no announcements and no jobs being created. All the while, she should have been doing her job here and discussed real jobs being created here in the United States in Bedford, Indiana rather than flying to China so everyone can pay for her publicly funded trips.

To listen to ALL of these economic development officials, one would think there are puppies and rainbows around every corner and that Southern Indiana as well as Bedford and other surrounding counties are on the upswing. Despite the facts that are that increasingly we are losing ground in the economic empowerment of tens of thousands of our local citizens not only in Lawrence County but Orange, Martin, Washington, etc. Despite all of the glowing reports from the government funded Radius clique the truth is that our local economies are being turned into low wage serfdom and poverty stricken areas instead of economically empowering people. Which is partially the reason why drugs have taken hold of so many rural areas.

Despite all of the talk Bedford like many rural communities in Indiana could hardly be described as a Stellar Community no matter what kind of bullcrap the state government of Indiana and the local yokels want to tell all of us. Instead, they want to continue to gloss over their failures to create a high quality, high wage work environment and business incubation where good jobs grow and local people have a future. Not a community of crappy schools, jails, and drug usage through the nose. That's their idea of a stellar community because it keeps the muckety mucks at the top in control over the rest of the population and makes sure to keep their asses polishing leather chairs in their offices and private spaces. All the while they spend countless days regarding their good fortunes and making sure to talk about economic development all the while delivering nothing. Its time for We The People to start seeing through the charade and the glossy bullshit they are feeding us.

Mayor Smiley Girgis and The Cabal

It's interesting to note that a mayor who ran as an independent ends up being tied in with the local political cabal in Bedford, Indiana. But maybe not so surprisingly with all considering Lawrence County and Bedford politics over the years. Especially in a county where a sheriff went to the slammer for felonies of various sorts. These are the people that get into office across the nation because the citizens are not holding their elected representatives responsible.

Mayor Smiley Girgis comes along with her blonde hair and million dollar smile and makes sure that everyone sees her smiling at everyone. The question is that though "What has she done in the past decade that actually improved Bedford since 2008?"

While the first few years of her term was during an economic recession and perhaps even a mild depression, there should be no excuse for the lack of performance in attracting businesses, new manufacturing, job creation and other businesses that would want to expand to the Stone City. Meanwhile, if it wasn't for one or two facilities in the manufacturing realm, Bedford would be hurting even more as if it's not hurting in these days because of the loss of Visteon, GM restructuring, and the loss of other smaller businesses over the years.

Instead Bedford is trying to be like Bloomington, another Southern Indiana city, where manufacturing has been in decline for the past couple of decades if not longer while more factories from that city close up. All because the local government/political establishment wants to turn it into a town of college students/retirement communities along with the usual low paying and low education level service jobs that benefit at most the companies while the residents continue to sink into poverty.

Bloomington even with its college aged population many of whom do not have full time paying employment but instead work part time hours at these service jobs has the highest poverty rate in Indiana with maybe the exception of Gary, Indiana and inner city areas of Indianapolis. Imagine, a place where the local government discourages manufacturing and other industry from coming into their town because it clashes with the ultra liberal mindset of the local political hacks and their power brokers that control the local economy.

Bedford is steaming down that same path while eschewing manufacturing and other skilled positions. All to become another low wage community with a service based economy of a bunch of people working at restaurants/retail while manufacturing jobs and productive skilled jobs are not being created and kept in the community. Therefore, comes the drug and criminal problems that are wracking Lawrence County and much of rural Indiana. All because local government don't want skilled working people in jobs that would pay them much better wages and opportunities than the plethora of low wage service jobs.

Bedford under mayor Shawna Girgis is well on the path of making everyone equally poor in a socialistic way because of the poverty level that occurs in Bedford which is now beginning to resemble Bloomington South just in Lawrence County. Add in the fact, that things are even worse in Mitchell and points south and pretty soon we'll all be a society of equally impoverished peons and derelicts.

All the while local clowns that run the Radius Indiana organization talk about how they are bringing jobs and industry to Southwest Indiana and counties such as Lawrence, Greene, Daviess, Martin, Dubois, Orange, Crawford, Washington. Any real evidence of that with the exception of maybe NWSC Crane being a huge federal base?

It certainly isn't the case in Bedford or Mitchell despite the fact that the local Radius Indiana group that relies on donations and executive directors getting their pay, does virtually nothing as do most of the local business chambers in South Central Indiana.

The same laughable results are often bragged about with increasing pride out of these nincompoops in surround communities when they get a new big box store or some other occcasional company providing minimum wage jobs comes into the community. All the while jobs in manufacturing, automotive, electrical, electronic, and many other well paying industries won't even bother looking at Southern Indiana. While the local economic development boards and handout queens get their grants from the state and other organizations. Doing absolutely nothing to improve the community.

Add in local government corruption, water services and sewer services jacking up everyone's bills as well as local Bedford state senators having an unholy alliance with the Duke Energy monopoly of which everyone that I know has seen electrical bill increases substantially over the last 10 plus years including just the last couple of years. Just another case of a State Senator hiding behind the power company lobby to make sure they get taken care of.

That's the Lawrence County way. 

The Corrupt Good Old Boy Network of Lawrence County, Indiana and Bedford

Small towns have certain quality of life advantages over many metropolitan and larger areas and there's nothing wrong with small town life when its properly adjusted to the realities that we all face as citizens. Having lived in both a much larger city and small towns before, I've had the opportunity to live in both small towns and small cities and then of course a couple of major metro areas.

That being said, the good old boy culture in many small towns is a big problem and in places like Bedford, Indiana and Lawrence County, Indiana it crosses the line when it involves public corruption but done behind the scenes by a group of people that are often working in concert with each other to extend their favors, nepotism, and downright ripping off the public.

Lawrence County has a long history of corrupt public officials being able to get away with their public corruption and only in a fraction of cases has anyone ever been prosecuted and sent away to the slammer. From corrupt sheriffs to corrupt state government officials and even corrupt Indiana respresentatives, Lawrence County has had them all over the past few decades.

What might not be known by the mass of contituents is the blatant violations of the law and Indiana Open Door records laws where the people are kept blind to what is going on behind the scenes. Add in the known drug problems that wrack our communities in South Central Indiana and how a local group of syndicate legal eagles are involved in such activities but the truth is always kept under cover. Just as long as they can continue to receive their ill gotten gains while flooding our towns such as Bedford, Mitchell, Paoli, Salem and many others with their drugs that the criminal cabal can continue its activities.

One might say that those are damning statements being made about some of our so called community luminaries and so called leaders who we should all be looking up to. Well, the goal of this site is to make people question the police, question the judges, and question what the hell is going on in your community. These drugs didn't end up in Bedford, Mitchell, Paoli, Salem and other towns in this area because a bunch of people just decided to deal drugs in the community among the smaller time criminal class. These drugs were undoubtedly brought in and imported by the people in the know and with aims of enriching themselves while the user ends up destroying their lives and the life of their families and friends.

Wonder why all these drugs hit the United States of America in waves and how something like methamphetamines or heroin hits the streets in your local small town without nary a peep of who is importing such drugs. This isn't some small time dealer bringing in the garbage from Mexico, Burma, Afghanistan, Colombia or one of the other drug spots in the world where heroin, meth, cocaine and other drugs are readily produced.

Opium has been around as long as poppy fields have been cultivated around the world even in China, SE Asia, Afghanistan, etc. However, only in the last 40 to 50 years has it ever shown up in the United States and it was imported in back in the 60s and 70s by crooked government agents, Air America, and other underhanded and crooked outfits.

The same goes for Meth though it has much in the way of domestically produced trash that people are involved in and get hooked on. The good old boy politicians talk about getting rid of the drug problem but the truth is that they profit from the system of drug distribution, the prison industrial complex, and hiring excessive numbers of police officers, sheriffs deputies, jailers, administration, judges, and the like. It keeps people employed by the system and justifies having a huge tax base to fund their jails and new projects which helps the local sheriff and police chief shine their office chair with their overinflated ego and equally large rear end.

Its been well known that the local drug syndicate has been located in towns such as Bedford etc over the past several decades at least back to the eighties and nineties. Despite millions to tens of milliions of dollars of busts, hundreds of convictions, jail time, drug intervention programs, it continues to be a huge problem. Not just because people decide to abuse drugs but because for the pushers and those turning their heads its a lucrative and enterprise where the good old boys can make extra money.

Add in their dependence on state and government grants reaching into the tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands a year, they wouldn't want all of that money to just go away. Otherwise, the system would be even more strapped where the law enforcement could actually about prosecuting real crimes such as domestic violence, theft, burglary, murders. Even to the point they might actually get serious about busting known politicians and legal eagles in the system.

After all, how many times has a past sheriff in Lawrence County ended up having to leave office in disgrace because of criminal activity under his watch. Much less people ending up behind bars for their criminal behavior. Its time to start policing the police and policing the system including all of the crooked fake Christian small town good old boys.

More of the Corporate Screwing of America with Governmental Help

When one works at a dangerous and often risky job to put food on the table, one has to sometimes endure conditions that would cause them injury to be potentially hurt on the job. While the company reaps profits for the work from the laborer doing the physical and often damaging work, the employee will end up on workers compensation. This nice piece tells how Indiana being in the race to the bottom and how they are working to screw the people that are doing the grunt work in society that the well polished professional butt kissers refuse to do. All the while trying to cut away and chip away at the benefits and Workman's Compensation for people that actually work for a living so big business and government can be in an unholy alliance of fascism and government sponsored corruption. Think your local officials and state government crooks have your best interests in mind? Think again.

http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/19206/the_war_on_workers_comp

Submit it To Wish 8 TV Indianapolis

This is a link to WISH 8 TV Indianapolis regarding news stories that you could post about Lawrence County, Indiana and Bedford, Indiana regarding corrupt practices in local government. Included is WISH TV along with other Indianapolis TV Stations because local events need to be exposed and the local media and local right to know media isn't doing its job as usual.

http://wishtv.com/report-it/submit/

fox59news@fox59.com

https://www.wthr.com/station/contact-wthr

http://www.theindychannel.com/about-us/contact-us

Indiana Government Budget Corruption

Interesting how Indiana talks about being financially transparent with the rainy day fund. Yet localities in Indiana are lacking money to fix locally taxed property and fix their local county projects such as local roads and bridges. Lawrence County is no exception to this with one commissioner stating that the county had no money for snow removal in a previous winter. Not to mention the county didn't have the funding nor the money to fix area county and local roads. Which is a prime function of government. Although they did have the money to provide more officers and more money for the local police department and sheriff department.

Always seems that they have money to help out the people who are protecting their asses from ever being brought to jail and prosecuted for their crimes against the citizenry. Not to mention all of the drugs and heroin/meth that is regularly being found in Lawrence County that was more than likely known about for years and brought into Lawrence County with the assistance of some highly placed prominent people in the community.

Wonder why Lawrence County is overrun by meth and heroin? Because the powers that be wish it that way because its more money for the law enforcement community, bigger jails for the inmates in charge to run while they run roughshod over the local community. These officials are not public servants in the slightest but are nothing more than vampires feasting off the blood of the taxpayers and the public which pays their salaries, court costs, and other government funded shakedowns of the taxpayers.

WISH 8 has a nice article here for some of the counties of Central Indiana. I am sure they would like information about Bedford, Indiana and Lawrence County sent to their news department. I think it would make a great story to start cracking down on public corruption in Lawrence County but also other neighboring counties such as Orange, Martin, Washington, Greene, etc.

http://wishtv.com/2015/02/26/corruption-continues-as-government-budgets-go-unchecked/

Police Corruption Lake County

Wonder when they'll start turning their eyes to the public corruption happening in counties in Southern Indiana and not only Bedford and Lawrence County but also Orange and Washington counties where corrupt law enforcement officials and corrupt judges hold sway. Its time to start cleaning the chicken coop out. 

http://www.thedailysheeple.com/corrupt-indiana-sheriffs-office-raided-by-fbi-and-state-police_112016

State Senator Eric Koch

This nice article from the Chicago Tribune talks about the attempt by Indiana State Representatives to cover their public dealings by preventing the public from knowing about their public business and their attempts at hiding behind the law to in order to violate the Indiana Public Records law which requires government officials to freely respond to requests for said public records. State Senator from Bedford, Indiana one Eric Koch sponsored a bill to help out his oil and gas buddies and of course his corporate masters. Instead of doing right by the taxpayers and ratepayers for Duke Energy, he's tied in with them and in their back pocket. Imagine another bought and paid for public servant?

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-indiana-lawmakers-records-secrecy-20160519-story.html

The Screwing of the Elderly, Middle Class and the Poor

What the powers that be in Congress and the Presidency continue to tell us is that job creators need more tax breaks for their businesses to survive and thrive. All the while real wages have declined for the past 20 years for most Americans and there more poverty, less stability, worse jobs, and more financial hardship for most American than there has been for decades back to the times of the Great Depression. To argue otherwise is foolish because when one sees the economic morass and mess left behind from years of the corporatization of America one should see the damage that was done by vast enterprises of business moving their operations to foreign shores not because of taxes. Yet they moved businesses such as Visteon, Whirpool, Rexnord, Carrier out of the state of Indiana not because of taxes. But because they needed cheap labor and paying someone 20 to 25 dollars an hour is way too much for their corporate masters when they can pay a Mexican wage slave 2 or 3 dollars an hour. That's the real story they aren't bothering to tell you and nor do your government officials have the balls and human decency to actually say anything about it. Other than false promises by Donald Trump that he was going to make America great once again. All for the economic race to the bottom supported by the Republican Party and those in corporate America that want to capitalize on low wage labor.

http://www.muncievoice.com/20579/budget-cuts-tax-plan-reverse-robin-hood/

Corporate/Governmental Censorship and Despotism

Great piece about how government and their corporate masters wish to control all of us via the control of information. No different than regimes in Russia, China, North Korea, Vietnam, and other model communist states. They may have embraced certain aspects of state capitalism but down deep they are monopolists and no different than a corporation ran as a monopoly ie. water companies, power companies, etc. 

http://www.muncievoice.com/20490/social-media-undergoing-transformation/

The Buying and Selling of the Indiana State Senate and House Representatives

Do you ever wonder why Indiana regularly ends up being one of the worst polluting states with some of the worst environmental rankings as a state even though its only a state of 6.5 million people? Here's some nice background information regarding the corrupt dealings of the State Legislature and Indiana State Government including our wonderful Christian ex-Governor Mike Pence and now of course after palms were greased and corrupt practices ended up being the United States Vice President. Kudos for the Muncie Voice for pointing out this corruption of the Indiana government and resulting issues that affect all of us whether you vote Democrat, Republican, Libertarian or none of the above. More proof that Indiana is a bought and paid for state government.

http://www.muncievoice.com/18960/rankings-show-indiana-corrupt/

Corporate Corruption

Wonder how much corporate corruption has been allowed by government officials in Bedford, Indiana with regard to industrial pollution and other negative aspects of manufacturing? Wonder why cancer rates are higher in Bloomington and Bedford than many places in Indiana?

https://www.publicintegrity.org/2016/02/08/19223/meet-rented-white-coats-who-defend-toxic-chemicals