Holocaust Officers Shaken by Comrade's Murder

I can feel for both of these officers as I have lost partners in these types of incidents. But there is a more immediate issue they need to deal with. And with a lot of caution.

Your agency is going to want you to go get some type of PTSD 'counseling'. They might 'suggest it' or actually send you to see some one. Either way, know this right up front. The person you are being sent to see is going to violate your doctor/patient confidentiality inside of 24 hours of you leaving their office. You are being sent to see this person not for PTSD Assistance but for a psychological suitability for duty exam !!! That means that the doctor you are going to see is actually working for your employer, not you !!! You have absolutely NO EXPECTATION OF PRIVACY UNDER THE DOCTOR/PATIENT PRIVILEDGE exception. And you can bet that given the attitudes of Federal Supervisors and Managers right now, they will use any means at their disposal to fire someone for 'job stress that creates an unsafe working environment for the public'. In short, they want to fire anyone that might be an embarrassment to their agency if their testimony or statement to a Grand Jury contradicts the Agency's Press Release.

Courtesy of 9-11 and the castration of the Civil Service Commission (now OPM) most, if not all, Federal employees are subject to any number of 'examinations' at the direction of their supervisor or manager, that can be used or the results manipulated to dis-credit the employee and used as a pre-text for termination. And you can bet that the 1st employees to be sent for 'PTSD Assistance' will be ones who have been critical of their agencies policies and practices.

In short, 'counseling' is being used as retaliation threat or tool to muzzle employees from reporting corruption in their own agencies. DOD is famous for this, especially given the NSPS System now in use.

If you are directed to seek PTSD assistance, by all means do so. Just make sure that the sessions remain between you and your doctor. If your Agency threatens you with ANY TYPE OF ADVERSE ACTION BECAUSE YOU WON'T RELEASE THE RECORD OF SESSIONS, SEEK AN ATTORNEY IMMEDIATELY. Your civil rights are being threatened. And any Federal Supervisor or Manager who so threatens you is now subject to a CRIMINAL CHARGE OF ABUSE OF AUTHORITY UNDER COLOR OF LAW. That's 15 to 25 in Atlanta or McNeil or Marion and an added $25k fine, all for being so stupid as to 'toe the party line' when they should have, and most know. better.

I prayer for the family, friends and co-workers of Officer Johns during this very diificult and sad time. Sadly what Von Brunn believed in, his extremist views, seem to be on the rise.

Wow "Mike in Maine" stress much?


You, my friend, are a tool. First off all of your incessant ranting has absolutely nothing to do with these officers... they are CONTRACTED not Federal Employees. They work for a private security company. So go back to your basement and think up your next great conspiracy theory.

Officer Weeks, Officer McCuiston, God speed and know that your actions saved the lives of countless innocent people.

Concur with my fellow DC LEO. Mike, maybe you've had a bad experience with counseling, but it has it place and can be an effective tool for the employee without any underhanded employee motivations.

No my friends, I've seen the actual results of 'counseling'. And contracted for or otherwise, you can bet the farm that the Agency has it's own image and liability as their 1st orders of business. If something comes up that happens to put the Contracting Agency's image at risk you can be sure that the other officers will be fed to the sharks in order for the Agency to protect itself and it's image. In DC it's 'Agency 1st' as anyone who has been there more than 90 days and seen agency politics used as a subjective pre-text to justify adverse action as oppossed to actual objective cause for action under a penalty guide.

Do we all remember the Teresa Chambers case ? It took over 5 years to finally bring to light the fact that Chambers was fired because she answered a question honestly and truthfully and got hung out to dry for being honest. And in case anyone has forgotten, Bush has made it a FIRING OFFENSE TO LIE IN THE PERFORMANCE OF THEIR DUTY. And since then how many Chief's has USPP had ? How many people got fired, or suddenly found it very opportunistic to leave DC just as their part in the Chambers lynching was about to get exposed ?

Stress, no. But disgust at seeing how the profession has turned into a bunch of hot-dog's who only care about there image or next promotion as oppossed to actually doing their job and not worrying about how they appear to some promotion board or drinking buddies. Some of you need to go down to the Memorial and give a long thought as to why you even came into the profession in the 1st place.

I used to work with Mike when I was in DC. I saw what he went thru. He walks the walk and talks the talk.

My prayers go out to Officer Johns family. Heaven has a nother good officer to patrol the streets.