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Date: November 27th 2007

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Contents:
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1. Michael L. Hays June 17, 1955 to November 14, 2007
2. SC Freedom Fighter down
3. Australian state outlaws motorcycle gangs
4. Helmet Law Recommendation Unlikely From Task Force
5. Britney Spears hits paparazzi member on motorcycle... no charges
6. Biker Civics 101, by Splatt
7. Congressional Constitutional Contempt
8. ID Cards for Residents Pass a Vote in California
9. NFL Names Used to Steal Local Motorcycles
10. Man backs up truck into officer's motorcycle
11. HERO AND DORK of the week
12. Show your support for the fight.
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1. Michael L. Hays June 17, 1955 to November 14, 2007
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Michael L. Hays

On Wednesday, November 14,one of Tennessee’s most respected Freedom Fighters, Michael L. Hays (Twanger), died at his home in Nolensville of a heart attack. Mike was born in Pulaski, TN on June 17, 1955 to Harold Dean Hughes and Doris Ellen Baker Hughes Hays, who have both preceded him in death, as well as his respected stepfather, Freeman C. Hays, M.D.
An avid motorcyclist, he was the State Legislative Corporate Director for CMT/ABATE, the statewide motorcyclists rights organization, as well as that organization’s lobbyist. He was also a member of the Motorcycle Riders Foundation in Washington, DC, and recently lobbied on their behalf in the US Congress. Mr. Hays was also the sole proprietor his agency, Midsouth Talent & Booking. Prior to living in Nashville, Mike had been a radio announcer in Orange, VA, toured with his band, Mike Hays and the Haybailers, and prior to that had spent many years selling specialty audio equipment. Michael entered the US Navy in 1974, served honorably, and at the time of his discharge 1978 was a member of the Admiral’s band as singer and saxophonist.
Mike is survived by his immediate family: one brother; Paul M Hays (Cindy), Washington, DC and three sisters; Barbara Thomas (Cam), Underwood, WA, Pamela Johnson (Shannon), Elizabethton, TN, and Patricia Ruth Emory (Jimmy), Richmond, VA. Also surviving are his daughter, Michelle Diana Williams (Indianapolis, IN), two granddaughters Savannah & Taylor, and grandson Bishop. Mike will also be deeply missed by his life partner, Carol Simpson of Nolensville, her three children and six grandchildren, and additionally, by a true army of Brother & Sister Freedom Fighters and many of his friends in the music industry.
Visitation will be Monday, Nov 19,from 3pm to 5:45pm at Woodbine Hickory Chapel, 5852 Nolensville Road. The funeral service will be held at the same location beginning at 6pm. A buffet remembrance reception, hosted by brother Paul will be held at Mike and Carol’s home immediately following the service.
On Tuesday, Nov 20 a procession led by the Patriot Guard will take Mike’s remains from Hickory Chapel at 9:00 a.m. to Maplewood Cemetery in Pulaski where he will be laid to rest at 11 a.m. near to his father, Mr. Hughes, and his paternal grandparents.
Mike Hays was a man of faith, and had been close to the Methodist Church throughout his lifetime.
Special memorials may be made to CMT/ABATE, Mike Hays Freedom Fighter Fund, and P.O. BOX 160223, NASHVILLE, TN 37216-0223


Michael L (Twanger) Hays
June 17, 1955 -November 14, 2007
Nolensville, TN

Mike died from arteriosclerosis, enlarged heart, heart attack.
Draft copy of Obituary will follow before midnight tonight.
Monday November 19, 2007. Visitation at Woodbine Hickory Chapel 5852
Nolensville Road, Nashville, TN (just south of Bell Road) 3:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Funeral service 6:00 p.m. at same location. Service will include comments by
friends and family. Immediately following service will be buffet &
beverage celebratory reception for all at Carol and Mike’s home, graciously provided
by Mike’s brother, Paul Hays.

At 9:00 a.m. Tuesday, November 20, family and friends will gather at
Woodbine Hickory Chapel to escort Mike to Maplewood Cemetery in Pulaski, TN, where
he will be laid to rest next to his father, Harold Hughes at approximately
11:00a.m.


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2. SC Freedom Fighter down
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Tuesday, November 20, 2007 12:35 PM

Fred Uibel better known as FU was involved in a serious motorcycle accident last night. His odds of surviving this ordeal do not look very good at the moment the doctors are placing it between 10 and 20 percent. Please keep FU and his large family in your thoughts and prayers.

In addition to being retired USN FU is the current ABATE of SC Charleston County Chapter Coordinator and active participant in the WNC lidless rides.

FF

Fred "FU" Uibel did not recover from injuries sustained early
Tuesday morning in a tragic single vehicle motorcycle accident.

Fred died at approximately 10AM Wednesday, November 21, 2007.


Your thoughts and prayers are appreciated.


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3. Australian state outlaws motorcycle gangs
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Australian state outlaws motorcycle gangs
Globe and Mail, Canada - CANBERRA — An Australian state said on Tuesday it would ban motorcycle gangs such as the Hells Angels and the Bandidos in what the government said would be the world's toughest crackdown on “terrorists within our community.”
South Australian Premier Mike Rann named eight biker gangs he said were involved in murder, drug trafficking, prostitution, extortion and weapons smuggling.
“This is an evil within our nation and we in South Australia intend to lead Australia in the fight against biker gangs,” Mr. Rann told reporters.
Gangs targeted by the ban would include the Finks, the Rebels, the Gypsy Jokers, the Descendants, the Red Devils and the Mob Shitters.
“Someone's got to take the risk,” state Attorney-General Michael Atkinson said, dismissing fears that the ban would spark a violent war between police and outlaw gang members.
“All of us, from the premier down, the police and the director of public prosecutions have to put ourselves on the line in this struggle,” he said.
Motorcycle gangs have clashed with police in several Australian states. In May, authorities in New South Wales, including Sydney, began a crackdown on members said to be behind fire bombings, drug supply, money laundering and bribery.
The Australian Crime Commission's 2006 report found there were 35 outlaw motorcycle gangs in Australia, with 3,500 members. It said 10 gangs had opened 26 new chapters in all six states last year.
Police have blamed club defections for escalating violence including drive-by shootings at Sydney nightclubs, the firebombing of a Bandidos chapter, and shots fired into the tattoo shop of the Nomads national president.
In June, a Hells Angels member shot dead a man in central Melbourne and earlier this month police were called to the Perth compound of the Coffin Cheaters after two explosions and a subsequent fire caused extensive damage.
Mr. Rann said the ban would involve around 200 gang members, as well as associates. Outlawed gang members would be prohibited from meeting or communicating, or risk five-year jail terms.
“These people are terrorists within our community. We cannot find anywhere in the world where this level of response to biker gangs has been taken,” he said.
Police would also be empowered to dismantle gang headquarters and force members to account for any unexplained wealth or income.
“We are coming after them and we will hit them where it hurts by taking away their ill-gotten gains, their Harley-Davidsons and their liberty,” Mr. Atkinson said.


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4. Helmet Law Recommendation Unlikely From Task Force
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SOUTH CAROLINA:
http://www.wjbf.com/midatlantic/jbf/news_index.apx.-content-articles-JBF-2007-11-15-0011.html
Helmet Law Recommendation Unlikely From Task Force Motorcycle Safety Task Force members can't reach consensus to ask legislature to change law
Thursday, Nov 15, 2007 - 01:18 PM PhotoVideo In South Carolina, a motorcycle safety task force is looking for ways to cut down on the number of motorcycle deaths on the road. So far, 109 motorcyclists have already died this year...106 people died, altogether, last year. Some members of the task force have recommended a mandatory helmet law to bring these numbers down. But, the task force, as a whole, hasn't come to an agreement on whether there should be a universal law. Our Capitol reporter, Robert Kittle, has more...
Article Tools Email a Friend Reader Reaction RSS digg it Printer Friendly Sphere IT Save This Page By Robert Kittle Columbia, SC -- After months of talking about South Carolina's rising motorcycle fatality rate and what to do about it, the state's Motorcycle Safety Task Force is not likely to recommend that state lawmakers pass a mandatory helmet law.
"I think that the task force certainly supports the use of protective equipment, including the use of helmets," said Ed Harmon, who's been acting chairman of the task force. "But as far as supporting a universal helmet law here in the state of South Carolina, I really don't think that the task force will be able to come up with a consensus to recommend that."
He says even if the group did make that recommendation, he doesn't think the legislature would pass a mandatory helmet law.
The number of motorcyclists killed on South Carolina roads is 109 so far this year, already past the 106 who died in all of 2006. Of that 106, 73 were not wearing a helmet.
But members of the task force who are against a mandatory helmet law, motorcycle riders themselves, say we don't know how many of those 73 would have died regardless of whether they had on a helmet.
Those task force members, who are also members of ABATE, which stands for A Brotherhood Against Totalitarian Enactments, say they're not against helmets; they're against a law requiring them.
"We get bogged down into the statistics about it when it's really a freedom of choice," says Ralph Bell, a member of the task force and ABATE. "And if we can promote the use of it more and more throughout the news and different motorcycle groups, then we'll accomplish the same goal and we'll still keep our freedom of choice."
He wears a helmet sometimes when he rides, depending on traffic and weather conditions, how far he's riding and how he feels.
ABATE members want more motorcycle rider training, as well as a new motorcycle awareness program for car and truck drivers.
That might have helped motorcycle rider Bob Archer. Back in January, a car driver pulled out right in front of him, leaving him nowhere to go but into the side of the car. He severely injured his shoulder, broke his right arm and right leg in multiple places and almost lost his right foot. He's only recently started walking with a cane and his arm is still in a cast.
"I was not wearing a helmet, and I don't think a helmet would have helped my injuries at all. I didn't hit my head," he says. He wants to see more education for drivers so they'll do a better job of looking out for motorcycles. ABATE also wants tougher penalties for drivers who fail to yield the right-of-way to motorcyclists.
The opponents and supporters of a mandatory helmet law are approaching the issue of reducing fatalities from different angles. The riders are focusing on preventing accidents and say helmets won't affect that.
But supporters, like Harmon, say it's impossible to prevent every accident and helmets can help save lives when they do occur.
He says helmet usage is very much like seat belt usage in cars. "If we get to 100 percent seat belt usage here in South Carolina, which would be ideal, what that means is everyone who dies in an automobile crash will be buckled up. But statistics tell us that the numbers of people who die in traffic crashes would significantly be decreased."
The task force does agree that the state's motorcycle licensing process needs to be changed to close a loophole that allows someone to get a beginner's permit and renew it indefinitely, without ever passing a skills test.


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5. Britney Spears hits paparazzi member on motorcycle... no charges
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The "HAVES" have the capability to have stuff like this bounce off them, and not be charged.. the rest of us, who'd most likely be considered the "HAVE NOTS" would probably have been cited, and made to appear in court~!

Just an observation from the third pew from the end of the gallery!

Gypsy


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http://www.ecanadanow.com/news/entertainment/britney-spears-hits-photographer-on-motorcycle-20071114.html
Posted on: 14-11-2007 in Entertainment Hollywood (eCanadaNow) -
On Tuesday night Britney Spears apparently hit a member of the paparazzi. The man was driving a motorcycle and was hit by Britney Spears as she was trying to evade photographers at a Beverly Hills Hotel.
This comes as Spears is already facing hit-and-run charges as well as claims that she ran a red light last Friday with her kids in the car while on a cell phone.
The driver of the motorcycle was taken to the Ceder-Sinai Medical Center and had apparently very serious injuries.
This is not good as Britney Spears is set to head into an emergency custody hearing on Wednesday with Kevin Federline. Federline wants to ban Britney from driving with their kids. A video should be in the court's hand which will show Spears running the red light while on a cell phone last Friday in Los Angeles.
Spears will not face any charges for running the red light as police stated they can't go off of the video tape of someone.
With this news though that Spears has hit and hospitalized another member of the paparazzi, she may not have a good day in court.

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6. Biker Civics 101, by Splatt
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The un-censored - "pottymouth" version of this article is available from splatt's Biker Civics 101 archive at http://www.bikernation.net/bikercivics.htm

Biker Civics 101, by splatt

Alphabet Soup for Stealing Your Soul

"Alphabet soups" are what we call the faceless organizations that hide behind an acronym, a series of initials, hell-bent on making busy-work for themselves, to make it look like they're doing something meaningful to save humanity. I call it job security for useless people with little or no real-world skills. A whole batch of GovernMental™ and insurance-industry-sponsored alphabet soup organizations have set out to kill motorcycling and steal away your soul in 2007. Essentially, they'd like to remove motorcycles from the roadways, period. But like all faceless entities, they won't just come out and say that. Instead, they slink around in the shadows and play upon public fears and misconceptions to perpetuate their nonsense through today's modern media, which is rancid with "journalists" that scoop their content directly from a press release. The real problem is, alphabet soups and the journalists who serve them, rarely talk with anyone who actually RIDES a motorcycle.

One of my all time favorite alphabet soups is the U.N. (United Nations), a gaggle of mindless third world bureaucrats with bad accents that have never had a real job in all their lives, telling the rest of us how to live our lives by their utopian standards. What to eat, what God to worship (A Mother Nature based deity called "Gaia"), and even touting an international dress code for motorcyclists by using a bunch of Manson-stare-youth in the first United Nations World Youth Assembly on Road Safety. In April of 2007, the UN received assistance from the MIC (Motorcycle Industry Council) and the M$F (Motorcycle $afety Foundation) as they presented the UN with a completely moronic video titled, "Helmets: Get your head into it." VIEW IT at YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHmRebeHvFo. Sheeesh, why they gotta make it so easy for us to get a good laugh?

On 9/11/07, the NTSB (National Transportation Safety Board) issued recommendations that states should require all motorcyclists and their passengers to wear Department of Transportation Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) 218-compliant helmets. The NTSB is an agency that usually concerns itself with airplane and bus crashes. Dunno why they suddenly feel compelled to jump on the motorcycle bandwagon - their mission statement does not contain the word "motorcycle" and they were excommunicated from the DOT (Department of Transportation) in 1975. Their recent conclusions about motorcycle safety have a tell-tell-fishy-smell about 'em, and I strongly suspect they've come on board because they haven't yet been banned from lobbying states to pass lid laws, like the chief source for ALL fishy smelling data, the NHTSA. (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) The NTSB press release was full of trite, "The facts are very clear- head injuries are a leading cause of deat
hs in motorcycle crashes," said NTSB Chairman Mark V. Rosenker. "The most important step riders can take in terms of protecting themselves and staying alive is to wear a DOT- compliant helmet every time they ride." Technically speaking, if I were to take Chairman Rosenker's quote at face value, an objective scientific experiment would stick a monkey in a magic helmet and sit him on a bike and press the start button. Riding just got that much easier! Sorry, Mr. Rosenker, skills and training save lives, a helmet only makes for a safer crash. My fool notion is to avoid the crash to begin with; I'm not too hip on the helmet's ability to save me from an SUV driving soccer mom crushing my thoracic. But thanks, anyway.

The FHWA (Federal Highway Administration) held a three-day Motorcycle Travel Symposium in October of 2007 with the purpose of improving the data used to calculate motorcycle VMT. (Vehicle Miles Traveled). VMT is utilized by the NHTSA, DOT and the NTSB via FARS (Fatality Analysis Reporting System) to figure out how many motorcycle riders die per mile traveled. They calculate deaths by the number of miles traveled, which is an amazing feat when you consider that South Dakota (and MANY other states) submitted ZERO miles traveled for many YEARS. I've done at least 6000 miles in SD in my lifetime, and nobody ever checked my odometer at the border. Maybe some geek in a white lab coat scribbled down my odometer reading while the bike was sitting on Main Street in Sturgis? He musta added a few extra zeroes when he got flashed by Silicone Sue!

NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) has been our nemesis for years, and is STILL recommending that all states pass mandatory helmet laws. Blah, blah, blah. I'll never understand why people, who don't trust our government, completely swallow any gibberish spewed from a government agency. There. That was easy. Suggested reading would be their new and improved "DOT compliant" terminology utilized in DOT HS 810 840, "Motorcycle Helmet Use in 2007 – Overall Results" available at http://www.nhtsa.gov/nhtsa/announce/810_840.pdf. I couldn't find the name, "Goebbels" in the document, but I know the Nazi propaganda minister has got to be behind the scenes, somehow, collecting a six figure salary at NHTSA.

The AHAS (Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety) makes its money by serving as a modern day Mata Hari for the insurance industry. AHAS spit up "15 Laws" they want states to enact to reduce the number of deaths on the nation's roads, and Law #2 asks states to adopt an "All rider motorcycle helmet law." An article featuring the AHAS power-grab appeared in the Fall 2007 magazine sent to all Geico (Government Employees Insurance Company) insurance customers. In 2007, AHAS also released a memo entitled, "Top Reasons Why Every State Should Pass an All-Rider Motorcycle Helmet Law" in which item #6 decries, "There is no scientific evidence that motorcycle rider training reduces crash risk and is an adequate substitute for an all-rider helmet law." Oddly, the AHAS website promotes the TOP TEN reasons to pass a dress code, but click on the link and you'll only see 7 reasons. I'm sure AHAS probably uses cheap overseas labor for their website data entry. And we're supposed to trust t
heir statistics?

IIHS (Insurance Institute for Highway Safety) is another batch of senseless do-gooders funded by the insurance industry. On 9/11/07 (is there a theme here?) IIHS released a slam against sport-bike riders; " Supersports have the highest death rates and worst overall insurance losses among all types of motorcycles, new analyses by the Institute and Highway Loss Data Institute (HLDI) reveal. Motorcyclists who ride supersports have driver death rates per 10,000 registered motorcycles nearly 4 times higher than rates for motorcyclists who ride all other types of bikes." Gee, kids, France is now limiting motorcycles to less than 100 horsepower, ya don't think IIHS will try to bring that to America? Darn tootin'. Maybe it's time to join ABATE. (American Brotherhood Aimed Towards Education)

The alphabet soups hope to remove ALL risk from life by making FUN into a nasty three letter word. They tout flawed studies and nonsensical surveys, but not once have they ever asked ME, what is right for ME. I guess I'm not responsible enough to decide things for myself. Well, I don't need any alphabet soup tryin' to save me from myself, I already have a mother. Just because they got fancy acronyms on their letterhead and they get paid to mimic the human sphincter muscle, doesn't make 'em any better at being mothers. But they're real "mothers", alright....they certainly got that part right.


Splatt serves as Assistant State Director for ABATE of California . A Voting Member of ABATEPAC, he also sits on the ABATE of California Board of Directors. He rides 20,000 miles a year on the "Fisher-Price Deathmobile™" and devotes much of his free time to fighting for your right to ride by stirring up strife through his hokey little website at www.bikernation.net.


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7. Congressional Constitutional Contempt
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http://www.gmu.edu/departments/economics/wew/articles/07/congressionalconstitutionalcontempt.htm

A MINORITY VIEW
BY WALTER E. WILLIAMS
RELEASE: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2007, AND THEREAFTER

Congressional Constitutional Contempt

Here's the oath of office administered to members of the House and Senate: "I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the
United States against all enemies, foreign or domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God." A similar oath is sworn to by the president and federal judges.

In each new Congress since 1995, Rep. John Shadegg, R-Ariz., has introduced the Enumerated Powers Act (HR 1359). The Act, which has yet to be enacted into law,
reads: "Each Act of Congress shall contain a concise and definite statement of the constitutional authority relied upon for the enactment of each portion of that
Act. The failure to comply with this section shall give rise to a point of order in either House of Congress. The availability of this point of order does not affect any other available relief."

Simply put, if enacted, the Enumerated Powers Act would require Congress to specify the basis of authority in the U.S. Constitution for the enactment of laws and other congressional actions. HR 1359 has 28 co-sponsors in the House of Representatives.

When Shadegg introduced the Enumerated Powers Act, he explained that the Constitution gives the federal government great, but limited, powers. Its framers
granted Congress, as the central mechanism for protecting liberty, specific rather than general powers. The Constitution gives Congress 18 specific enumerated powers, spelled out mostly in Article 1, Section 8. The framers reinforced that enumeration be
the 10th Amendment, which reads: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved for the States respectively, or to the people."

Just a few of the numerous statements by our founders demonstrate that their vision and the vision of Shadegg's Enumerated Powers Act are one and the same. James Madison, in explaining the Constitution in Federalist Paper No. 45, said, "The powers delegated
by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce."

Regarding the "general welfare" clause so often used as a justification for bigger government, Thomas Jefferson said, "Congress has not unlimited powers to
provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated." James Madison said, "If Congress can do whatever in their discretion can be done by money, and will promote the general welfare, the government is no longer a limited one possessing
enumerated powers, but an indefinite one subject to particular exceptions."

Congressmen, openly refusing to live up to their oath of office, exhibit their deep contempt for our Constitution. The question I've not been able to answer satisfactorily is whether that contempt simply mirrors a similar contempt held by most of the
American people. I'm sure that if founders such as James Madison, John Adams or Thomas Jefferson were campaigning for the 2008 presidential elections,
expressing their vision of the federal government's role, today's Americans would run them out of town on a rail. Does that hostility reflect constitutional ignorance whereby the average American thinks the Constitution authorizes Congress to do anything upon
which they can get a majority vote or anything that's a good idea? Or, are Americans contemptuous of the constitutional limitations placed on the federal government?

I salute the bravery of Rep. Shadegg and the 28 co-sponsors of the Enumerated Powers Act. They have a monumental struggle. Congress is not alone in its
constitutional contempt, but is joined by the White House and particularly the constitutionally derelict U.S. Supreme Court.

Walter E. Williams is a professor of economics at George Mason University. To find out more about Walter E. Williams and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit the Creators Syndicate Web page at www.creators.com

Penny Adams
Virginia Freedom Riders - Legislative Officer
Member - Biker Republic
misspenny@vfr-race.com
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8. ID Cards for Residents Pass a Vote in California
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www.nytimes.com/2007/11/15/us/15frisco.html?_r=1&ref=us&oref=slogin

November 15, 2007
ID Cards for Residents Pass a Vote in California
By JESSE McKINLEY

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 14 - The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has
given preliminary approval to an ordinance allowing municipal
identification cards to be issued to anyone living in the city,
regardless of their legal status.

The proposal passed the first of two required votes on Tuesday night,
putting San Francisco, with a population of 725,000, on track to become
the largest city in the nation to issue identification cards to anyone
who requests one and proves residence.

In June, New Haven, Conn., passed a similar measure, believed to be the
first in the nation. Since then, several other cities, including New
York, have floated the idea.

In San Francisco, supporters said that the ordinance was intended to
make life easier for the large number of illegal immigrants working in
the city, many of whom cannot get access to services because they have
no formal identification. The city already has a "sanctuary" policy
forbidding local law enforcement or other officials to assist with
immigration enforcement.

"I think it's admitting the reality of the situation that we depend on,
our tourist and hotel industry depends on, a labor force that's supplied
by, for lack of a better term, undocumented residents," said Tom
Ammiano, the supervisor who sponsored the bill. Mr. Ammiano described
the measure as "a passport of sorts," to "take the kid to the library or
open a bank account, or report a crime without being deported."

Supporters and opponents of such measures said states and cities were
more likely to take up issues like this one since Congress rejected a
comprehensive immigration bill this year.

"The brass ring collapsed in Congress, so the people on the ground are
still trying to think of things that are going to help this issue down
the road," said Steven A. Camarota, director of research for the Center
for Immigration Studies in Washington, which advocates stronger
enforcement of current laws.

And while Mr. Camarota said the card's uses would be largely symbolic,
he said passage of the ordinance might force Democratic presidential
candidates to talk more about immigration, an issue that public opinion
polls show is of concern to many voters and has already been part of the
Republican campaign.

"It keeps the issue on the front burner," he said.

Supporters of the ordinance say it has more practical effects, including
crime prevention. John Trasviña, the president and general counsel of
the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund in Los Angeles,
said he had recently received several reports of so-called SOM, or Sock
on Mexican, attacks in the Los Angeles area, crimes he hoped might be
reduced if victims came forward.

"The victims are living in a cash economy, and they are reluctant to go
to the police," Mr. Trasviña said. "Having an ID card addresses both of
those issues: it reduces the reliance on cash, because it opens up the
opportunities for banking, and it takes away a barrier between community
and police."

Mr. Ammiano said the card would also be useful to other groups without
government-issued identification, including the elderly, students and
transgendered people, who have long found a sympathetic home here.

The bill, which passed the first vote by 10 to 1, will be taken up by
the board again before going to Mayor Gavin Newsom, who has indicated
his general support.

If the experience in New Haven is any indication, the demand for the
card here could be strong. More than 4,800 cards have been handed out
since late July, said Kica Matos, the New Haven community services
administrator, with a "significant number" going to illegal immigrants.

"The second day there was a line halfway down the block, and by the
third it was all the way down," Ms. Matos said.




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9. NFL Names Used to Steal Local Motorcycles
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http://www.kake.com/news/headlines/11600641.html
NFL Names Used to Steal Local Motorcycles
Posted: 1:29 PM Nov 19, 2007 Last Updated: 8:04 PM Nov 19, 2007 Email Address: chris.frank@kake.com
Area police are looking for two men who used stolen identities connected to the NFL to buy high-dollar motorcycles.
The motorcycles were purchased on Nov 13 and Nov 15 at Alef's Harley Davidson and Big Dog motorcycles, respectively.
The first case happened at Alef's in Park City when a man used the stolen identity of Gary Sayre, a former draft pick of the Washington Redskins. The man was allowed to leave with a Harley Davidson V-Rod - Night Rod, mostly black and chrome, with the vehicle identification number ending 8614. The suspect in this case is a White Male 40's 5'5" tall, 180 pounds, blonde, with a goatee, and a rose tattoo on his left hand. His photo is shown below.
The 2nd case happened last Thursday at Big Dog, when a man claiming to be Dexter Coakley purchased a 2008 Big Dog motorcycle, valued at $35,000.
The "K-9" model chopper is silver in color with light blue skulls painted on it, and darker silver flames. It has a vehicle identification number ending with 0088, and had a thirty day KS tag number 017530. An image of that suspect on a security camera is shown below.
Coakley is a former Dallas Cowboy who most recently played with the St Louis Rams.
If anyone has information on this case, please contact the Auto Theft section of the Wichita Police Department at 316.268.4336, the Park City Police Department at 316.744.2011, or Crimestoppers at 316.267.2111.

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10. Man backs up truck into officer's motorcycle
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http://www.azcentral.com/community/gilbert/articles/1113gr-motorofficer1113-ON.html
Man backs up truck into officer's motorcycle
Lars Jacoby
The Arizona Republic
Nov. 13, 2007 10:38 AM
A Gilbert Police officer was not seriously injured after a suspected drunken driver backed his truck into the officer's motorcycle during a traffic stop.

Officer Robert DeMichiel had pulled over Bryon Roseboom, 25, for expired license plates Thursdaynear the intersection of Higley and Guadalupe roads. Police say DeMichiel was still on the motorcycle when Roseboom put his 2001 GMC pickup into reverse and accelerated into the bike.

DeMichiel was thrown forward into the windshield of the motorcycle, but was able to remain on his feet despite the bike being turned over to the ground, according to police.

Roseboom attempted to flee the scene as DeMichiel was ordering him to stop.

Police said DeMichiel was able to remove Roseboom from the driver's seat of the truck and place him under arrest. He was booked on charges of aggravated assault on an officer, aggravated DUI, driving with a suspended license and for an outstanding arrest warrant.


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11. HERO AND DORK of the week
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HERO: Physicians at the University of Mississippi Medical Center
Decapitated Man Regains Full Neurological Function
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/438791/decapitated_man_regains_full_neurological.html

Physicians at the University of Mississippi Medical Center have performed a surgical procedure that has restored just about full function to a patient who was virtually decapitated.

Mark Barnett, 24, was an avid biker and on biking home from work, where he had just received a promotion and was in line for another one on September 6th. With just 3 miles to go, he was struck be a car, went through the car's windshield and by the time he came to rest on the side of the road, he was so badly beaten that many people thought he was a deer who had been run over.

The only thing he remembers is waking up in the hospital and being unable to move his right arm and both of his legs and just barley being able to move his left arm.

The impact from the accident was so severe that it dislocated the joint between his skull and cervical spine. In most cases like this, the patient does not live long enough to even make it to the hospital.

In this injury the connection is also broken between the brain and the spinal cord. In this case, the injury was hard enough to cause the injury, but not hard enough for a complete spinal cord injury. But statistically, he was decapitated.

When he first arrived in the emergency room, his neck was immobilized in a collar and he was intubated. They then took X-rays which showed the dislocation. They chose to do a bony fusion, known a as a arthrodesis. In this type of procedure, a Y shaped plate is anchored to a keel of bone located at the back of the skull, then it is screwed into the spine. Most of the time, the skull is connected lower down on the spine because it is an easier procedure. And the place where it should be connected, the first cervical vertebra is usually unsuitable because of its involvement in the accident.

But in this case, the dislocated joint was not damaged, so it could be used and they used a special plate to connect to the first cervical vertebra If it had not been, he would have lost much of his range of motion in his neck.

When the surgery is successful, the bone structure completely recovers. But that does not mean that the neurological function will return.
He began a very rigorous regimen of daily physical therapy and as he began to regain function on his upper extremities he made up a list of what he wanted to accomplish.

His determination paid off and after a few months there was only one more thing to accomplish and that was to regain normal vision. His vision returned very slowly, from being about to see clearly for just 6 inches to waking up one morning months later and being able to see across the street.

It is less than a year after the accident and there are very few signs of what he has gone through. Aside frm having a raspy viced because the intubation paralyzed a vocal cord, he does not have full range of motion in his neck, and his right arm is not back up to full strength, but he is working full time, exercising and hunting, and studying for his CPA exam.

And as soon as he gets the go ahead from the doctors, he will be back on the bicycle.

The physician who performed the surgery is Dr. H. Louis Harkey, professor of neurosurgery at UMC and the person who holds the patten on the surgical plate.

Sopurce: University of Mississippi Medical Center http://newswise.com



DORK: Matthew Allan, 21
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Man arrested after ramming motorcycle officer
By Robert Salonga
STAFF WRITER
Article Launched: 11/13/2007 07:30:01 AM PST


SAN RAMON -- A Pleasanton man arrested Monday night after ramming his car into a motorcycle officer is also suspected of two separate hit-and-run incidents that evening, police said.
Matthew Allan, 21, was arrested and booked into County Jail on suspicion of hit-and-run, assault with a deadly weapon on a peace officer and driving under the influence. He is being held on $250,000 bail.
Police said an officer saw Allan driving recklessly on Crow Canyon Road at Camino Ramon around 6:20 p.m., and that his 2003 Dodge Stratus was leaking vehicle fluid on the road.
When Allan parked his car in the parking lot of a nearby Carl's Jr. restaurant, the officer approached the vehicle. Police said Allan then backed up the car, hitting the officer and his motorcycle before fleeing the scene.
The incident sparked a multi-agency search involving police from San Ramon and Danville as well as the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office. By this time, authorities had received multiple calls about hit-and-run accidents on northbound Interstate 680 in the area describing Allan's car, which was soon found abandoned near the Stone Valley Road offramp.
Allan was found nearby and arrested, police said.
Further investigation connected Allan to a hit-and-run accident with two other vehicles on Interstate 680 minutes before to the officer-related incident, after which witnesses said he exited to Crow Canyon Road. Then, after striking the officer, Allan was suspected to have been involved in a second hit-and-run north of Greenbrook Drive in Danville.
The officer struck by Allan's car was treated at a local hospital and released. No one else was injured in the series of incidents.
Reach Robert Salonga at 925-943-8013 or rsalonga@bayareanewsgroup.com.




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