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Spencer’s Mountain – DivX Version (Normal Quality), iPod/iPhone Version

November 16, 2009

Spencer’s Mountain (1963) IMDB rating: 6.50 Plot: Clay Spencer is a hard-working man who loves his wife and large family. He is respected by his neighbors and always ready to give them a helping hand. Although not a churchgoer, he even helps a newly arrived local minister regain his flock after he and Clay get into a bit of trouble. If he has one dream in life it’s to build his wife Olivia a beautiful house on a piece of land he inherited on Spender’s mountain. When his eldest son, Clayboy, graduates at the top of his high school class and has the opportunity to go to college, Clay has only one option left to him.

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Actors: Fonda Henry,MacArthur James,Crisp Donald,Cox Wally,Bissell Whit,Rorke Hayden,Taylor Dub,Mayer Ken,Comedy,Drama,

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Has the Police State reduced its attacks on innocent civilians since the 1990's?
On the morning of October 2, 1992, Donald Scott, a 61-year-old retired millionaire, and his wife, Frances, were asleep in their house at Trail’s End Ranch in the Santa Monica Mountains near Malibu, California. At about 8:30 A.M., the Scotts were jolted awake by the sound of a 27-man police task force smashing through the front door of their home. Frances Scott, racing downstairs, was confronted by a group of men with guns drawn. She screamed in panic: "Don’t shoot me! Don’t kill me!" In response, her husband rushed to the top of the stairs, holding a handgun above his head. He was ordered to lower the gun. As he obeyed, he was shot to death by Gary Spencer, the Los Angeles County deputy sheriff who led the raid
Bradbury also concluded that the raid was in part an attempted land grab. The police hoped to seize the ranch as property that had been used to facilitate a drug crime. There is evidence suggesting that they intended to sell the land to the National Park Service, which had repeatedly tried to buy the property and add it to the adjacent Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area. With no legal authority to do so, four Park Service agents took part in the raid in which Donald Scott was killed. Bradbury discovered that at the pre-raid briefing federal agents discussed government seizure of the Scotts’ ranch in detail, reviewing a property appraisal and a parcel map showing the value of recent land sales in the area. Bradbury’s report stated: "It is the District Attorney’s opinion that the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department was motivated, at least in part, by a desire to seize and forfeit the ranch for the government."
Annual forfeitures today amount to over 5 billion dollars and hundreds of cases at trial have shown police corruption in the efforts to acquire the lands by planting evidence .

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Great question. I can only say "And the beat goes on."

lavengro60 | Sep 25, 2007

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yes i agree that forfeiture stuff bothers me and I believe opens the door to corruption
fdj1 | Sep 25, 2007

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