FL-"Serve and Collect" - Welcome to the most corrupt town in Florida.

[Anti Federalist]

Until AmeriKa becomes Hampton...


This might be the most corrupt town in Florida

http://dailycaller.com/2014/03/10/this-might-be-the-most-corrupt-town-in-florida/#!

A town of only 500 may be wiped off the map due to its rampant corruption. The town of Hampton, Fl is considered to be so corrupt that the state of Florida wants to eradicate it all together.

The mayor, who is currently incarcerated for selling Oxycontin, even admits that the town council members are crooks. The state audited the town and found around $132,000 of taxpayer money was spent at a nearby convenience store, reports the Washington Times.

Former Hampton mayor Jim Mitzel, hypothesized that the money was spent on “a lot of cigarettes and beer and what-have-you.”

The town’s police cars weren’t even insured.

With one cop for every 25 residents, (Jesus Christ...death by tick - AF) the police force mainly wrote traffic tickets.

One local sheriff said, “It became ‘serve and collect’ instead of ’serve and protect. Do y’all remember the old ‘Dukes of Hazzard’? Boss Hogg? They make Boss Hogg look like a Sunday school teacher.”

[phill4paul]

Until AmeriKa becomes Hampton...


This might be the most corrupt town in Florida

http://dailycaller.com/2014/03/10/this-might-be-the-most-corrupt-town-in-florida/#!

A town of only 500 may be wiped off the map due to its rampant corruption. The town of Hampton, Fl is considered to be so corrupt that the state of Florida wants to eradicate it all together.

The mayor, who is currently incarcerated for selling Oxycontin, even admits that the town council members are crooks. The state audited the town and found around $132,000 of taxpayer money was spent at a nearby convenience store, reports the Washington Times.

Former Hampton mayor Jim Mitzel, hypothesized that the money was spent on “a lot of cigarettes and beer and what-have-you.”

The town’s police cars weren’t even insured.

With one cop for every 25 residents, (Jesus Christ...death by tick - AF) the police force mainly wrote traffic tickets.

One local sheriff said, “It became ‘serve and collect’ instead of ’serve and protect. Do y’all remember the old ‘Dukes of Hazzard’? Boss Hogg? They make Boss Hogg look like a Sunday school teacher.”

One cop per 25 residents? :eek: On the plus side that is an easy way to arm 1/25th of the populace.

[tod evans]

APC's, full auto MP-5's, millions in federal "subsidies"....

Maybe they're onto something...;)

[aGameOfThrones]

No cops equals anarchy... http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ls9o9pWVV41r0ojhto1_500.gif

[tod evans]

No cops equals anarchy...

You've got the wrong approach there.......Make everyone a cop......Problems solved.

[aGameOfThrones]

You've got the wrong approach there.......Make everyone a cop......Problems solved.

But who would they serve and protect?

[tod evans]

But who would they serve and protect?

They would be we..............And we'd serve and protect the shit out of eachother..

[phill4paul]

They would be we..............And we'd serve and protect the shit out of eachother..

I certainly wouldn't harass or intimidate or require genuflection at will.

[tod evans]

I certainly wouldn't harass or intimidate or require genuflection at will.

Nor would I, but think of the perks....

Federal grants for "training" and weaponry, new cars and spiffy little uniforms.....

[DamianTV]

Dont forget that the Army of Ticketgivers interacts with people that just pass thru their quaint little town as well.

Another Corrupt Example: Weed, California. Yeah, thats real too.

[phill4paul]

Nor would I, but think of the perks....

Federal grants for "training" and weaponry, new cars and spiffy little uniforms.....

I've already had it. I've already got it. The one I own is enough for me. I've already had one and don't care for another. Seems there would be some savings in this program. :p

[angelatc]

The state of Ohio did that to a little town that was known for this crap when I was in high school.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Rome,_Ohio


New Rome achieved infamy due to its traffic and speed trap (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_trap), which received national media attention, and the internal corruption of its local government. In 2004, the village was ordered legally dissolved by a Franklin County Court of Common Pleas (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_Courts_of_Common_Pleas) judge, and its residents, land and assets were made part of Prairie Township.

[aGameOfThrones]

Battle of Athens? But without the failure.

[kcchiefs6465]

The state of Ohio did that to a little town that was known for this crap when I was in high school.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Rome,_Ohio
Many towns operate the same way, to this day.

[GunnyFreedom]

death by tick

http://img2u.info/img/gbe441236.jpg

[MRK]

yup... I'm definitely in the wrong business

[MRK]

The 60-resident village had as many as 14 policemen (all part-time), with the Village Council wanting more.[3]

Rofl... the Village Council needed to put more of its friends/family on the force in return for favors. 20 hours a week, not a bad gig.

Refer again to my above post.

[jtap]

I saw the article here: http://news.yahoo.com/hampton-florida-s-days-on-the-map-could-be-numbered-140202180.html


Hampton cops were a fixture out on U.S. 301. They sat on lawn chairs, pointing radar guns at unsuspecting motorists. They hid behind recycling bins. As more and more money came in, they idled in slick SUVs, trolled the median strips in riot gear and toted state-of-the-art firepower. Locals gave one the nickname "Rambo" because he slung an AR-15 rifle across his chest.

They went from wannabe cops to "modern cops" once they got their racket going.

[Anti Federalist]

Hampton, Florida: The Criminal Syndicate called the “State” in Microcosm

William Norman Grigg

http://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/hampton-florida-the-criminal-syndicate-called-the-state-in-microcosm/

All governments, as St. Augustine observed, begin as criminal bands that achieve dominance over a territory. Even after such syndicates claim the title of “government,” their behavior remains indistinguishable from that of common thieves; the gangs that call themselves “governments,” Augustine emphasized, distinguish themselves from ordinary robbers “not by the renouncing of aggression but by the attainment of impunity.”

Elaborating on that true principle, Albert Jay Nock pointed out that government police agencies do not fight crime; instead, they seek to enforce a monopoly on crime:

“Everyone knows that the State claims and exercises [a] monopoly of crime … and that it makes this monopoly as strict as it can. It forbids private murder, but itself organizes murder on a colossal scale. It punishes private theft, but itself lays unscrupulous hands on anything it wants, whether the property of citizen or alien.”

The insights of Nock and Augustine are fully vindicated wherever we find a small-down speed trap, and the tiny village of Hampton, Florida might be the definitive case.

The criminal clique in charge of Hampton converted a 1,260-foot stretch of a busy interstate into one of the country’s most lucrative speed traps. With the revenue it acquired, the municipal government built a police force of nearly 100 officers to patrol a population of about 480 people. The cops were deployed on lawn chairs at roadside, using radar guns to harvest revenue from motorists, thereby dispensing entirely with the pretense that they were at all interested in protecting persons and property.

Since everything the state has is stolen, every political government is a kleptocracy, and Hampton was one of uncommon purity. A recent municipal audit discovered that as much as $1 million in city revenue had simply disappeared. Abuse of official credit cards and cell phones was rampant. City officials were appointed on the basis of nepotism and wildly overpaid. The last mayor, Barry Lynne Moore, exploited the criminal enterprise called drug prohibition by operating a narcotics ring with the connivance of city police until he was arrested by sheriff’s deputies (who acted as representatives of a more powerful criminal organization).

The Florida state legislature seeks to dissolve the municipality, offering it as a scapegoat on the altar of civic piety.