Mayor Claims Quartzsite, Arizona Under Martial Law After State Of Emergency Declared During Secret Meeting
July 11, 2011
Quartzsite, Arizona, the town now infamous for arresting a citizen for speaking during a public city council meeting, has apparently declared martial law.
This, according to Quartzsite Mayor Ed Foster, happened after a secret meeting was held during which the city council voted in favor of declaring a state of emergency.
Jennifer Jones, the woman who has gone on a full scale crusade against corruption in the small town of 3,600, posted an urgent update on here blog The Desert Freedom Press.
“At about noon today, the town council, at the request of the police chief, declared an official state of emergency. Sgt Xavier Frausto was dressed in tactical gear when he and the police chief demanded the mayor get in their car,” wrote Jones.
That’s right, according to this report, police in tactical gear ordered a sitting mayor to a potentially illegal secret meeting.
The Mayor instead drove himself to the meeting which he himself later called illegal.
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I am sure you are right Byron. If it did not someone would have stepped in by now to back this Mayor up and put the Police Chief and these Administrators in their place. The fact that they are sitting back and waiting for pending investigation tells the simple truth that no one wants to go in there and upset the applecart for fear of stepping on toes. Toes mind you that probably have information on all involved.
If no one tries to hold them accountable this will be swept under the carpet. A sad microcosm of the pervasive fungus that has invaded governmental bodies throughout the world it seems. It will eat away at everything until there is nothing left except for those who have strategically been placed in positions of power.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG3etYPcgXkYahoo News video from local TV Station news report
http://news.yahoo.com/video/phoenixktvk3tv-15751070/state-of-emerge...'Emergency' declared in AZ town over allegations
By AMANDA LEE MYERS - Associated Press | AP – Mon, Jul 11, 2011
Full article can be read on the following link:
http://news.yahoo.com/emergency-declared-az-town-over-allegations-2...
..............................................Foster said the council declared the emergency because they claim they've received threats from members of the public who saw a video posted on YouTube.
The video shows a woman identified as Jennifer Jones being arrested and hauled away from a council meeting after she said the council was violating open-meetings laws. Jones was speaking during a public comment period, and Foster is heard on the video telling other council members who ordered her removed that "the lady has the floor."
"She's exercising her First Amendment rights," Foster says in the video before telling officers: "You are in violation of my rules of order."
The officers remove her, anyway, and in the process injure her elbow, which is now in a sling, Foster said.
The video has gotten nearly 30,000 views and has people from across the U.S. and world sending messages of support to Foster and messages of outrage to the council. Foster has a Facebook page of supporters and on it, people have posted messages that include, "Kudos from Mississippi. Keep the rats scurrying" and "You have Colorado's support!"
Foster said a woman from England sent him a note with just one line: "How could America be considered a beacon of democracy in the world when freedom of speech does not exist in Quartzsite, Ariz.?"
Foster was elected in May 2010 on a campaign promise to investigate corruption allegations in the town.
He said since being in office, he has discovered that every pay period, eight to 10 paychecks go to unnamed people and that he has been denied access to financial records to find out where the money goes at every turn.
He said that's been happening since 1991 and amounts to $250,000 every year. "That's literally millions of dollars," he said...................................
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