#Ascension parish sheriff gonzales free#

ThereвЂ™s this YouTube platform called We the People University operated by a former police officer and former deputy sheriff named Abiyah Israel, who sends crews out across the country to show how law enforcement officers routinely violate citizensвЂ™ rights by enforcing non-existent laws.

#Ascension parish sheriff gonzales free#

(The only places where cameras are not allowed are the courtrooms themselves and the clerk of courtвЂ™s office вЂ“ clerks of court got themselves exempted a few years back from the public records law which allows the free copying of public records because they like to hit you for a dollar a page.)Д«ut back to our story about the sheriffвЂ™s office.

Never mind that the sheriffвЂ™s office, the accompanying grounds and sidewalks and the Ascension Parish Courthouse are all public property. Sheriff Wiley attended a training in Israel with JINSA as a delegate of the LEEP program in November 2005.Apparently, the Ascension Parish SheriffвЂ™s Office in Gonzales is a restricted area.Д®specially if youвЂ™re an unknown who happens to be carrying a camera. Jeff Wiley has served as Sheriff of Ascension Parish since 1996, a position he currently remains in today. The SheriffвЂ™s Office of Ascension Parish, Louisiana, is among the departments that have sent delegates to Israel. Over 11,000 additional American law enforcement officials have attended LEEP conferences nationwide, which bring in Israeli security officials as experts. JINSA launched its Law Enforcement Exchange Program (LEEP) shortly after 9/11, and since 2002 has run annual trips to Israel for US federal, state, and local law enforcement. JINSA is a think tank that advocates for US-Israeli security cooperation, increased domestic military spending, and military aid to Israel, and has board members with close ties to US defense contractors. One of the organizations that organize and sponsor these trainings is the Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA). Rather than promoting security for all, these programs facilitate an exchange of methods of state violence and control, including mass surveillance, racial profiling, and suppression of protest and dissent. While framed as an opportunity for US law enforcement to learn policing strategies from a closely aligned democracy with counter-terror experience, in fact these are trainings with an occupying force that rules a population deprived of human and civil rights. American facilitators and participants of these programs similarly argue that the United States and Israel are allied democracies whose law enforcement agencies play a crucial role in preserving national security. The American and Israeli governments justify these exchanges on the grounds that the United States and Israel share the mission of the War on Terror.

In 2002, just months after 9/11, American police officers held their first official training expedition to Israel to learn about вЂњcounter-terrorism.вЂќ Since then, hundreds of law enforcement officials and government agents from across the country have been sent to Israel to meet with military and police forces, and thousands more have participated in conferences, trainings, and workshops with Israeli officials in the United States.