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Brother dearest. ... Been awhile, hasn't it, Bro? A little antsy? Wondering when the next shoe is about to fall, that is, when you'll be fully exposed for the thieving son of a bitch you truly are? Patience. All in good time, good buddy. When I'm damned good and ready. Timing just right. After all, a son of a bitch who's stolen his father's estate needs to be fully exposed publicly for whom and what he is, don't you think? Indeed, a public service for your neighbors, professional associates, family, and friends, etc..

Conveniently, forget? Others need to protect themselves against a fraud who masquerades as both a teacher and a counselor, no? -- How the hell did you ever pass an MMPI some forty years ago to get hired? You're not stable. Have not been. ... Must have really been pissed off at the old man to rip off an estate, no? How much did you steal while he was alive and supposedly under your care?

How much did you bribe law enforcement to ignore a complaint I filed with them years before the old man died? How much did you bribe the prosecutor to ignore a complaint filed with her several years ago? How much? Use the old man's money to bribe the bitch? Her cohorts? Your law enforcement shysters? While there may indeed be no justice from a corrupt system, fortunately, I do have a way to publicly expose you for the goddamned thieving son of a bitch you truly are.

... Unlike our grandmother who scrubbed floors on her hands and knees during the Depression for peanuts, only to have what little she had stolen by her son, our uncle, another goddamned thieving son of a bitch just like you. Remember how, surprise, surprise, there was no life insurance when our grandfather died? Despite the fact our grandmother gave her thieving bastard son premium money year after goddamned year? Only, as the thieving son of a bitch he truly was, to have pocketed it. Again, just like you.

Remember when he booted her out of the house she had bought him when he had had enough of her? -- Despite the fact he had lied and promised she could stay the rest of her life? She had to climb two flights of stairs on an ulcerated leg to get to a bathroom he had never built for her at ground level as falsely promised. Nothing ever happened to the thieving son of a bitch as far as justice was concerned. Worse, he was never exposed publicly for the thieving son of a bitch he truly was.

Will be different for you, Bro. While you've bought off authorities, you will be publicly exposed. In great detail. In good time. When I'm damned good and ready. When exposure will do the maximum figurative damage to your goddamned sordid reputation. -- Just the truth, brother dearest, however. Just the truth.

Irony of ironies? When the thieving son of a bitch died, and our mother was finally informed he had passed, she cried for her brother, -- the bastard thief who stole from her mother. Sad, isn't it? Too bad she's not still alive to see you publicly exposed for the goddamned thieving son of a bitch you,yourself, truly are. As was he. Not in a court of law you've bought off, however. Right here.

In good time. Again, when I'm damned good and ready. Employing the very same tactics used against Amanda Wright of Wells Fargo. -- On steroids, however, since all dirty family laundry will be aired. All of it. No threat. A promise. Emails sent to your neighbors, friends, professional associates, businesses you deal with. Although an enormous amount of work, all doable courtesy of the Internet. Despite being some 1,800 miles away. -- Small world, isn't it, Bro? Enjoy the stolen loot, you son of a bitch. Forget? It's all you have.

Brother dearest. Save all the check stubs from the old man's accounts? Fraudulently sign any of them yourself? Think this material couldn't be obtained from the banks either through discovery or a criminal investigation? Still own the house on Condict Rd.? Any other properties besides this one and the old man's you stole with the help of your shyster bastard? Be interesting to see how far your assets extend and where. Think all that information isn't accessible? That I won't determinedly obtain it?

That not only an extensive Internet search will be conducted that will likely take months to complete? But an extensive background check as well? Think the Catholic high school you attended shouldn't be informed of the thievery of one of its graduates? Think the clerics there would be appalled at their failure to teach you right from wrong? How about both universities? Think neighbors in the old man's neighborhood won't be informed of your deception? Think they don't have a right to know?

Ever follow the advice of Dr. Bert Wiser, psychological statistics professor at MSU? That is, get treatment for your achingly debilitating instability? Is that why you wound up looting the old man? Or, is it simply a convenient excuse you'll use to defend the indefensible? Think this will end any time soon? That is, public exposure of you as a thieving son of a bitch? We're just getting started, Bro. Just getting started.

Don't like it? Tough shit. Sue me you thieving son of a bitch. Would use discovery to learn and post on this website all there is to know about you, your activities, predilections, business 'deals,' as well as all your financial transactions, etc.. All of it. Would certainly avoid the expense of an extensive background check on you, thieving brother dearest.

Even if you were successful in court, there is nothing for you to take, this remains, as well, a homesteading state where minimal assets are protected anyway. This site is hosted in an overseas country that doesn't particularly like government intrusion, remains not prone to cooperate. Besides, can always upload to another webhost in still yet another country. The possibilities are endless, Bro. Just takes willingness, effort, unshakable determination.

Even if I lost it all would be more than worth it to expose you for the goddamned thieving son of a bitch you truly are. Even if you bribed a goddamned nazi 'judge' to remove posted material, would not cooperate and be more than willing to rot in jail. Would certainly keep reposting it all no matter the cost and/or personal consequences every time it was taken down. Forget, you thieving son of a bitch? I never ever give up.

Since all I seek is your exposure for the thief you truly are, would all be worth it. For the sake of principle. All the work, financial cost, as well as the time I am about to dedicate to this effort, you deceptive, unstable, sick, thieving son of a bitch. Unlike you, I live on principle and have absolutely nothing to lose. You do. Will certainly take great pleasure and satisfaction in doing all I can to publicly expose you for whom and what you are.

To say nothing of placing enormous pressure on prosecutors you and your equally corrupt shyster son of a bitch apparently bribed. Don't like it? Again, tough shit. Chew harder. The public needs to know to protect itself. From you and your shyster bastard. People who live and travel in your circles as well. Including his. As a thief, you and he can't be trusted by anyone. You'll determinedly f--k them.

More than willing to provide this truly public service. People certainly need to know whom and what you are. What you have sadly become. You certainly weren't brought up to be a thieving son of a bitch. What happened? Where did you lose yourself, Bro? -- Never mind. ... Truly doesn't matter. Only your exposure.

Hey, Bro? Remember me? How soon they conveniently forget. ... Half asleep? -- Out to lunch? ... In your own perverse little world? That of a criminal? Wake up. Conveniently, gutlessly forget? Insanely believe you're someway, somehow off the hook? Think again. We're not done. You remain a thief who will be exposed for whom and what your are. What you certainly have become. No question about that. Patience, you thieving son of a bitch. Exposure is coming. Promise.

Think I don't have time? Truly believe the ongoing Presidential fiasco ends no matter who wins? The murderous decay in law enforcement gets resolved any time soon? Criminal Wells Fargo employees from local Kingsland bank manager Amanda S. Wright right up to and including CEO John Stumpf get prosecuted in the near future despite egregious criminal activity? Wouldn't hold my breath, would you?

Think I don't have time to handle all this and your public exposure for the estate-stealing criminal son of a bitch you've truly become? How could you steal from the old bastard, you incredibly sad sack of shit? Certainly weren't brought up to be a thief. What happened to you? Where'd you lose yourself?

No question, 2017 will be a most remarkable, defining year for you, Bro. Public exposure for the thieving piece of shit you've sadly become. It's on the way. Promise. Hope you sue. Nothing for you to take. Tough, isn't it? Certainly, makes me judgment proof. Will certainly, as well, take advantage of discovery. Publish every detail I can get my hands on. No matter the consequences. Only consideration? Prime directive? Your exposure for whom and what you are.

Readers? This not-so-brotherly piece of shit stole from our father. Manipulated the old man to line his pockets. Just like our uncle on my mother's side of the family did to my grandmother. Runs in the family. Our family. ... Right, Bro? This game now gets played my way, -- not yours, you son of a bitch. That is, no more U.S. Mail tag.

Anything sent by mail will be refused, returned unopened. Want contact? Email. libertyinperil@riseup.net. Quick. Easy. Better yet? A digital record. Permanent. Easily accessible. Easily uploaded to this site when and if it becomes necessary. The shyster bastard you hired to steal the estate shouldn't expect escape, either, from public exposure as the thieving piece of shit he, like you, truly both are. Unscrupulous thieves.

Sincerely hope that piece of crap sues as well. Nothing to take. Discovery again would be published no matter the personal cost. Nothing quite like public exposure, is there? Especially, when it is nothing but the truth and there is absolutely nothing to lose exposing two pieces of criminal shit for whom and what they are. Two pieces of gutless human excrement who looted an old man. ... Right, Bro?

There is no better disinfectant than sunlight, readers. Glaring sunlight. Dazzling brilliance. Amazing how the roaches run for cover. Equally pointedly, how vermin on two legs manage to so easily prey on the elderly courtesy of the out of control fascist police-state we now live in. While there'll never be any justice vis a vis this theft, there will be exposure to the brilliant light of day for both criminal perpetrators. Count on it, you not-so-brotherly criminal son of a bitch.

Hey, Bro? Hear of Old Sturbridge Village? Haven't? ... Not lying, are you, you thieving son of a bitch? You and your long-term companion EC conspire, bequeath some of the old man's loot to this museum? An achingly stingy gift of $250-$499, -- considering the size of the estate? The CEO and Board have any idea you stole it? Think they'd care? -- Just getting started, dearest, dearest Bro. ... Delusionally believe I haven't more than enough time, resources, determination to expose you for the thieving piece of crap you truly are? ... Under $500 back in 2013? Remarkably parsimonious with stolen money aren't you? What does it feel like to have gutlessly ripped off an incompetent old man? -- Dear old Dad. Certainly, look forward to digging much deeper into how you and your shyster lawyer managed to bamboozle and loot the old bastard. Back in the day, certainly wouldn't have fallen for your bullshit. Would have kicked your worthless, thieving ass out the door. Intend to expose it to the light of day. Indeed, a public service. Seatbelts on, you thieving son of a bitch. Tally ho!

... Brief aside, dear readers, for a most exceptional reason. -- Although infrequent, pressing ongoing personal business must come first on rare occasion. Hope you agree, moreover, find it entertaining, -- as this writer did crafting what follows. Principle trumps all. Remains prime mover, prime directive no matter what.

This pressing issue involves a family thief. A heartless predator preying on the elderly who must be held accountable, exposed to the light of day. Especially, since authorities failed to do their job. The following is part of that continuing effort to expose this piece of shit for whom and what he is:

Hey, Bro? Guess what? Me, again. Most determined pain in the ass. Miss me? An inconvenient, nagging hemorrhoid that simply won't go away no matter what. -- A pile with a smile that takes a lickin' and keeps on tickin'.

... Delusionally think this most persistent nemesis of yours conveniently disappeared to parts unknown, vanished in thin air? To give a turd a break? Wake up. Not a chance, you thieving son of a bitch. ... When you insanely believe this writer's gone and you're finally in the clear, guess what, here I am, right in your face.

Despite what's going on across our formerly great country, always have more than enough time for personal business. That is, exposing you, Bro, to the glaring light of day. A pathetically greedy predator. Your target, who else, the elderly. Most defenseless, vulnerable, an easy fleece. -- Thought you'd steal from the surly old curmudgeon with impunity, no consequences?

Successfully escape accountability? Avoid detection, all responsibility? Blatant theft of an old man's estate? A little help from a bought and paid for hopelessly greedy unprincipled shyster? Supposed cake walk due to 1800 miles separation? No one to hold you accountable? Your feet to the fire? What could you possibly been thinking?

You've read this publication before. Know precisely who and what I am, what I do. Never give up. Never say die. Ignore all obstacles. Know full well Liberty In Peril modus operandi remains as relentlessly ferocious, blindingly intense as ever.

No punches pulled. No slack. No personal consideration. Certainly, not for a gutless son of a bitch, no more than a thieving predator. Looted target, guess who, dear old dad. Pitiful. Delusionally believe you had the booty coming? An entitlement? For having had to put up with his shit all those years? Wake up.

Hear of Historic Deerfield? Of course, you have, you lying son of a bitch. Forget? You're one of their not-so-generous 'benefactors.' ... With all the money stolen from our father's estate, only bequeath them a piss poor $40 bucks?

Unbelievable. An achingly tight, cheap, thieving, worthless piece of duplicitous crap. ... Write-off? Negligible. ... Feather in the cap? How? Delusionally believe your treachery would never see the light of day? What planet do you live on?

Board of Trustees Chair Anne K. Groves know full well you looted the estate? How about President Philip Zea? Think both don't have a right to know? How about Anne Lanning, Vice President For Museum Affairs? To say nothing of Susan Martinelli, Vice President For Business Affairs?

These officials are entitled to know precisely whom they're doing business with. A thief. Gutless phony. Blow-hard fraud. Hoity-toity dandy. Worse? An unprincipled thief who stole from his father. ... Glaring light of day sucks, doesn't it, Bro? No escaping the unvarnished truth, this most bitter reality. Not a chance.

Saddest of all? Back in the day, Hell would have frozen over before anyone would have have been able to rip off the craggy old bastard. Remember quite well how intent, determined he was not to be fleeced late in life by a sick son of a bitch like you.

A leech. Ironic, isn't it? Gutless rip off of an old man who couldn't adequately handle his affairs any longer. How do you sleep nights?

Fraud runs in the family, clearly. History repeating itself. Right in the footsteps of our grandmother's son, who callously ripped off his mother decades ago. Again, another achingly pathetic piece of human excrement. Just like you. Intend to lay it bare. Methodically. Painstakingly. In great detail. Living, breathing color.

For all to see. A public service. Exposure of the criminal piece of human excrement you truly are. For sustained public review. A goddamned thief. Pissed? Chagrined? Nonplused? Tough shit. Sue. Would certainly immediately post all discovery no matter the consequences.

All snail mail will be returned unopened. No phone tag. Got something to say? Email. Say it right here. On this website. In public. For the world to see. Will be posted in its entirety. No editing. Unlike you, this writer doesn't lie, cheat, steal. Honors his word. Intend to expose you precisely for whom and what you are.

Duplicitous predator who preyed on his own father. Blinding exposure to benefit the community. Have nothing to lose providing this public service, but you do. No better disinfectant than sunshine.

.. Think the old bastard not spinning in his grave? -- Old lady not doing the same? One thing for certain. Neither brought you up to be a goddamned thief. Yet, here we are. ... Until next time, Tally Ho!

... Hey, Sheriff? Is it true Llano County Attorney Becky Lange has advised you to stay out of the "Berardi Property Rights Denial-Damage To Pace Arrow-Deputy Leroy Rodriguez, Badge #764" fiasco? That right, Bill? Isn't that obstruction of justice? Also true your deputies have advised the Bolens to accept the status quo and not force the no-trespassing issue with Greene? If so, isn't that also obstruction and official oppression? When will you do your job, Bill? As an elected official, you answer to the public, forget? -- No honor? ... No honor at all? If the foregoing allegations are indeed true, didn't you swear an oath to uphold the law and Constitution? Why aren't you doing so? No guts?

Your deputy has been accused of abusing authority. What action have you taken other than ignore the complaint? Why aren't both Rodriguez and the County Attorney under criminal investigation? The County Attorney appears to be obstructing justice, accepting the word of Greene in lieu of two surveyor companies who strongly assert otherwise. Both the County Attorney and District Attorney have ignored complaints. Par for the course in Llano County, isn't it? Failed to do their jobs. No surprise there, right, Bill? Both receiving 'special consideration' up to and/or including a bribe from Greene? Regardless, clearly, no justice in Nazi Llano County. Bottom line? Desperate need for an outside criminal investigation. Conveniently, forget? This County is ruled by men, certainly not rule of law and the United States Constitution.

Precisely, why there is desperate need for a new federal agency whose sole function would be to investigate, arrest, charge, and prosecute criminal law enforcement, prosecutors, and judges in a special court whose only mandate would be to adjudicate such cases. Total independence. Until that happens, the criminal bastards who falsely believe they run and own this hell hole County will continue to do as they please.

Some salient quotes occurring later on in this edition vis a vis unfinished business County officials continue to ignore:

... "No justice. Precisely, why there is desperate need for a new federal agency whose sole function would be to investigate, arrest, charge, and prosecute corrupt, abusive, criminal officers, prosecutors, and judges in a special court that would adjudicate only these cases. Total independence. The only way to rein in these criminals, particularly the murderers in blue.

Sadly, the achingly clueless bastards in law enforcement don't need a legitimate reason to kill. Enjoy carte blanche to murder on the job. Nearly always, with impunity. ... Right, Sheriff? Sue the living shit out of the jackbooted motherf--kers, the department, and the city. Any officer engaged in, or threatening this kind of unnecessary violence needs to be criminally prosecuted. Not protected and coddled. Not put on paid leave, -- no more than a paid vacation. Not sent home without pay to catch up on his beauty sleep.

Firing is egregiously insufficient. How can the law enforcement community be trusted? No foreign power, no terrorist organization, not even the criminal element presents a greater threat to life, liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties than the criminal jackbooted bastards in law enforcement. ... Right, Sheriff? Madam County Attorney? "Sonny Boy?"

These are extremely dangerous times for our formerly great country. ... Hear the rumble? An unwanted dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looming. -- As our legislators and other government officials figuratively 'fiddle while Rome burns.'

Not good enough. Nowhere near. Short of an unwanted dreaded second American revolution, only one way for these atrocities to end. Again, time for a new federal agency whose sole function would be to investigate, arrest, charge, prosecute corrupt, abusive, criminal officers, prosecutors, and judges in a special court whose sole function would be to adjudicate such cases. Total independence.

Local and state authorities are egregiously incapable of handling these cases. Tend to protect their own. ... Right, Sheriff? Goes with the territory, doesn't it, Bill? Precisely, why there is no faith or trust in your criminal jackbooted bastards. Local authorities here in Nazi Llano County have their heads figuratively, securely lodged so far up their clueless ass their eyeballs are turning inside out. Protect and coddle your clueless, out of control officers. Imagine that.

Unadulterated, blatant ongoing horse shit. ... Right, Bill? F--k these jackbooted bastards. Aren't worth a crap. Continually abrogate their oaths of office to protect and defend the United States Constitution. ... Right, Sheriff? Includes not only deputies, but the brass as well. No principles. No honor. Lying, conniving, abusive, murderous jackbooted thieving thugs. The American Civil Liberties Union needs to step up and represent the victims of abusive law enforcement.

To say nothing of innocent civilians all across our formerly great country who are victimized by abusive police. Need far better representation than a public defender. Forget? It's how the bastards in government line government coffers. All too often, looting the innocent. Those on the bottom of the food chain. ... Right, Sheriff?

No justice. The American Way. Nazi America. When is this shit finally going to end? All of it. Wake up, Sheriff. Again, where is dashcam video of the killing of Jeffrey Gray Wise, 52, of Austin by DPS and the Llano County Sheriff's Office? Two hundred seventy five weeks, now. A goddamned disgrace.

Why are you still sitting on this information? What are you hiding, Sheriff? What is the identity of the officers who killed Wise? Too gutless to release this information to the public that pays your salary and that of your goons? Reportedly, there were three officers involved in the shooting. Who the hell are they?

When will the goddamned 'law' 'enforcement' community finally stop making excuses for engaging in outrageous criminal activity including blatant murder, violent assault, sexual assault, theft, drug trafficking, etc.? List can go on and on. Protecting its own no matter what it does or doesn't do? Convenient, isn't it, Sheriff? Again, no foreign power, no terrorist organization, not even the criminal element presents a greater threat to life, liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties than all branches and levels of government, -- including law enforcement.

Corruption within law enforcement remains an existential threat to life, liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties. So what else is new? ... Right, Bill? Same old duplicitous, aggressively stupid shit occurs right here in Nazi Llano County. ... Doesn't it, Sheriff?

Think it'll change any time soon? Don't hold your breath, readers. Not how things work in Nazi America, right, Sheriff? Highly reminiscent of how your goons operate though, isn't it, Bill? Forget? 'Stupid is as stupid does.' F--ked up is f--ked up no matter where, no matter how. Problem throughout all law enforcement.

Including right here in Nazi Llano County, right, Sheriff? Too many officers clearly have their heads securely lodged where the sun seldom shines. Egregious insanity continues to be perpetrated by the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue. Ongoing issue. All over our formerly great country.

Not just in Dallas as in the Guyger case, but all over the nation. No end to it. Surprised? Why? In today's increasingly national socialist climate anything goes, right, Bill? Live in a de facto fascist police-state, quickly transitioning to the Trump nazi's Fourth Reich. Certainly, a problem here in Nazi Llano County, isn't it, Sheriff? Your goons, however, aren't held accountable when they egregiously f--k up. Ever.

Precisely why you refuse to release information on your deputies to the long-suffering public? That is, employment history, criminal background, results of drug testing, etc.. ... Got to protect your criminal jackbooted thugs preying on the citizenry with virtual impunity, right, sir?

Equally pointedly, why hasn't Llano County Deputy Leroy Rodriguez, Badge #764 been held criminally accountable for egregious abuse of power involving denial of property rights to a Kingsland property owner? To say nothing of consequent resultant physical damage done to a motor home on that property. Why are you protecting this clueless son of a bitch, Sheriff?

Why hasn't he been prosecuted for official oppression? Where is financial compensation for the damage this jackbooted piece of human excrement is responsible for? Ferociously pointedly, why are the District Attorney and the County Attorney continuing to protect this jackbooted piece of shit? He and others like him present an exigent threat to life, liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties.

Equally to the point, why are your jackbooted pieces of human excrement refusing to enforce Berardi's property rights? Your goons have failed to take action against Theresa Ahrens when she tore down a no trespassing sign and barrier on Berardi's property. Have you, your goons, and/or Madam County Attorney been bribed by Johnny Greene?

Ahrens frequently drives all the way through Berardi's property. Coup de grace? When Berardi complained to Llano County Deputy Idle about the trespassing, the officer's response was insane. Said the Sheriff told him to tell Berardi since Ahrens believes she owns his property she can't be charged with trespassing. Perfect Catch-22, right, Sheriff? You're not fit for office, Bill. Bribed by Johnny Greene?

Why is Theresa Ahrens allowed by your goons to dictate what vehicles can and cannot be parked on Berardi's property? Ahrens claims she has proof the property belongs to her where the vehicle was parked. Has failed to produce it. Surveyors say otherwise. Back up Berardi. Yet, your jackbooted bastards refuse to enforce Berardi's property rights. Why? Somebody lining somebody's pockets, Sheriff?

Ms. Ahrens micro-mini portable 'house' is parked on an unused unmarked Llano County road. Imagine that. Madam County Attorney well-aware. Has done nothing. Shit squat. Egregiously ignored her oath of office. Someone bribing you, Becky? Lining your pockets, Counselor? Paying you not to sell the unused unmarked County road to Berardi? Doesn't the County want and need the sale money, to say nothing of the resultant tax income?

No question, County and State agencies remain determinedly, concertedly, achingly incapable of criminal investigation of their own. Precisely, why a new federal agency desperately needs to be created whose sole function would be to investigate, arrest, charge, prosecute corrupt, abusive, criminal officers, prosecutors, and judges in a special court whose sole function would be to adjudicate only such cases. Total independence. Certainly, go a long, long way to cleaning up this cess pool County. Rein in the outrageously corrupt, abusive, achingly inept, self-serving assholes who run and own this hell hole.

Sheriff, you falsely claim the Kingsland County Commissioner has the authority to resolve this ongoing property rights issue. Clearly, doesn't. You, Madam County Attorney, and "Sonny Boy" are certainly an egregious impediment, continue to determinedly stonewall. Someone's pockets are being lined. Again, where's financial compensation for the damage Llano County Deputy Leroy Rodriguez, Badge #764 is directly responsible for to the Pace Arrow? Why hasn't he been prosecuted for this damage, to say nothing of infringement of Berardi's property rights? -- Just getting started, Sheriff. Far more to come.

-- You're not doing your jobs, Sheriff. You've got a loose vicious dog problem in Kingsland, Bill. When will you and the troops finally do something about this ongoing issue? Certainly, a recurring problem on Skyline, particularly on occasion at the intersection of Odessa. Pedestrians, runners, and cyclists are at risk. Too busy lining County coffers with bogus tickets?"

Wiley B. "Sonny" McAfee
District Attorney
33rd and 424th Judicial Districts
Llano, TX 78643

Re: Berardi Property Rights Denial-Damage To Pace Arrow-Deputy Leroy Rodriguez, Badge #764

The enclosed emails were sent to the Llano County Attorney and Sheriff, respectively, vis a vis the above matter. Remain unanswered. The County Attorney appears to be protecting and defending the deputy at behest of Kingsland property owner Johnny Greene. May have received some consideration from Greene up to and including a bribe. Are the County Attorney, Greene, and the Deputy under criminal investigation? If not, why not?

Tim Chorney, Publisher
Liberty In Peril
Formerly,
The Llano Ledger
www.libertyinperil.com
P.O. Box 151
Buchanan Dam, Texas 78609

Rebecca Lange, Llano County Attorney
Llano County Attorney's Office
Llano, Texas 78643

Re: Berardi Property Rights Denial-Damage To Pace Arrow-Deputy Leroy Rodriguez, Badge #764

As you're well aware, we have an outrageously corrupt, abusive, achingly inept Llano County Sheriff's Office here in Nazi Llano County. Worse, you and your office aid and abet these SS jackbooted bastards in black. The issue at the moment is the same it's been the last six months.

How is it two surveyor companies, the Appraisal District, the Tax Office, the Precinct 3 Commissioner, even the goddamned Sheriff himself now states Kingsland resident James Berardi owns the lots in contention all these months?

Yet, you ludicrously assert that's not the County's legal position. It's not? Why not? You claim you're not a real estate expert. Rather than accept the advice of two surveyor companies, the Precinct 3 Commissioner, the Appraisal District, the Tax Office, and even the Sheriff himself, you've inexplicably chosen to follow the advice of property owner Johnny Greene, -- who conveniently happens to be reportedly in the oil industry.

Question to be asked. Could you have received any 'consideration' in return, -- up to and including a bribe? Only way to know for sure is for the District Attorney to conduct a criminal investigation. Apparently, there has been none. If not, why not?

Equally pointedly, why hasn't Llano County Deputy Leroy Rodriguez, Badge #764 been held criminally accountable for egregious abuse of power involving denial of property rights to this Kingsland property owner? To say nothing of consequent resultant physical damage done to a motor home on that property.

Our achingly useless, worthless, gutless Sheriff has ignored an email vis a vis the damage this jackbooted thug is responsible for. Interestingly, his fellow officers believe him to be an idiot. Yet, the Sheriff continued to defend this piece of human excrement until he realized this entire fiasco would not be swept under the carpet.

Rodriguez is indeed an idiot. Would you believe this piece of crap ordered the motor home to be moved on to an unmarked unused Llano County road? That motor home has indeed been moved back to where it was parked before Rodriguez forced it to be moved. Why hasn't the County paid for the cost of moving it back? To say nothing of the damage.

Equally pointedly, why is it the County has allowed Theresa Ahrens to park and live in her tiny cottage on that very same road? Why hasn't she been evicted by the County? Why was she assessed taxes on an adjacent improvement she doesn't own?

Why is it, Counselor, Johnny Greene is paying for the attorney retained by Ms. Ahrens? Is Greene attempting to make this all go away by bribery? Greene has also informed Berardi he is going to sue. For what? Has Greene lost his mind?

What about Wells who installed a $4500 septic system on a lot turns out he does not own as a result of Greene, an outrageously inept County, to say nothing of the Llano County Attorney who remains equally determinedly clueless?

How about Bolen who hasn't a pot to piss in, but was nonetheless f--ked over by Greene to say nothing of an egregiously inept County, to say nothing of you and your goddamned equally incompetent office?

None of this is going away, Counselor, -- any time soon. Will not be swept under the carpet as all the other crap going on in this hell hole County. Not a chance. Expect a full expose in this publication whether or not this outrageous fiasco finally gets resolved. Including full public exposure of both the Sheriff and his jackbooted thug.

Tim Chorney, Publisher
Liberty In Peril
Formerly,
The Llano Ledger
www.libertyinperil.com
P.O. Box 151
Buchanan Dam, Texas 78609

Bill Blackburn, Sheriff
Llano County Sheriff's Office
2001 N. State Hwy. 16 Suite A
Llano, Texas 78643

Archive and retain all reports vis a vis damage to the Pace Arrow resulting from egregious abuse of authority perpetrated by Deputy Leroy Rodriguez, Badge #764, on the Berardi property in Kingsland on 8-16-17.

Tim Chorney, Publisher
Liberty In Peril
Formerly,
The Llano Ledger
www.libertyinperil.com
P.O. Box 151
Buchanan Dam, Texas 78609

Wake up, Sheriff. Again, where is dashcam video of the killing of Jeffrey Gray Wise, 52, of Austin by DPS and the Llano County Sheriff's Office? Two hundred seventy five weeks, now. A goddamned disgrace. Why are you still sitting on this information? What are you hiding, Sheriff? What is the identity of the officers who killed Wise? Too gutless to release this information to the public that pays your salary and that of your goons? Reportedly, there were three officers involved in the shooting.

Who are they, Sheriff? Their past history? An ongoing investigation remains a lame bullshit excuse. How can you and your goons be trusted when you refuse to disclose information? Two hundred seventy five weeks. Especially, your egregious failure to disclose the identity of the officers who pulled the trigger. To cover your sorry ass, Sheriff? Those of your thugs? The people have a right to know what happened, how it went down. You don't understand that, Sheriff? Sadly, clearly, you answer to no one. Including taxpayers. Especially, taxpayers.

Until you and your goons come clean, doubt will remain this was indeed a good shoot. The longer you drag your feet, the greater the doubt. Think not? Wake up. Your credibility has tanked. Isn't getting any better as this bullshit continues unabated. Two hundred seventy five weeks. Still no identification of the officers involved ... Can't get your stories straight? In line? Discrepancy between LCSO and DPS? Wake up, Sheriff. The public no longer buys the bullshit. No longer trusts you. On this and many, many other issues. You have no credibility. Absolutely, none.

Readers, this is but one of about four other highly questionable killings by law enforcement in Llano County in the last decade or so. There was one within the City of Llano, another in a field near Fuzzy's Corner, Buchanan Dam, yet another in Point Tella, Buchanan Dam, still another in Tow. If there are any others I may have neglected to mention, kindly email.

It's time the public be fully informed. -- Know what we're dealing with here and how 'law' 'enforcement' operates in this hell hole County. If these jackbooted bastards are not reined in, the life lost could be many others courtesy of a law enforcement system that is no longer accountable to anyone. ... Right, Sheriff? TL? "Sonny Boy?" Madam County Attorney?

The Sheriff seems to have no clue the people who pay him and his goons are entitled to know whom is killing whom and why. This shit always seems to be swept under the carpet. Ignored. The attitude of these jackbooted sons of bitches is trust us. They can't be. They've lied too many times. Refuse to be accountable to anyone. We live in a goddamned fascist police-state where law enforcement does as it pleases. Usually, with impunity. This has to change.

The Texas Rangers have become rubber stamp to atrocities committed by law enforcement. This also has to change. No one is holding law enforcement accountable any longer. No one. No one in state or federal government. This is precisely why Ferguson triggered such an uproar. There was no justice there. None here. None anywhere. Officers are abusive, corrupt, inept.

Falsely ticket and arrest the innocent to line County coffers. Court fees charged continue to be horrendous. -- Aren't taxpayers already looted to pay these costs? Aren't you not only double f--king those falsely accused, but taxpayers also hellaciously looted to pay the very same costs? Yet, the criminal bastards in power in Llano continue to pile on the fees. This is nothing more than goddamned bullshit. This money finds its way into the pockets of the corrupt, abusive bastards who falsely believe they run and own this hell hole.

Would you believe the last time the Sheriff's Office happened to be 'audited' during the Garrett regime, reportedly, auditors couldn't figure out what went where and why? Yet, surprise, surprise. Nothing was done. There has to be transparency. There is none. Why would these thieving bastards want any? ... Right, Sheriff? TL? How else could they so easily steal and loot with virtual impunity? Worse, this reinforces jackbooted power in this goddamned, godforsaken hell hole County.

The public has a right to know the histories of the Sheriff's goons. Clearly, the Sheriff doesn't think so. That is, where they came from. Why they left where they were. What is happening here is the Sheriff is using 'personnel matters' as a convenient excuse to deny the public access to the history of outrageously corrupt, abusive, inept officers who are no more than criminals themselves.

He's protecting his outrageously corrupt, abusive, inept jackbooted bastards. Worse, the standards imposed by sheriff's offices statewide with the exception of metropolitan counties are well below those of DPS and city police departments. Why? So the corruption, abuse, ineptness, and outright stealing can continue unabated? This has to change. ... Can't have that, can we? Sheriff? TL?

The public should understand Llano County authorities have it all sewn up. Did you know the Texas Attorney General does not have the authority to investigate and prosecute County authorities on his own? The District Attorney has to call for an investigation by the Texas Rangers. Then, the State can prosecute if it so chooses.

Consequently? Guess what? Nothing will happen. Nothing ever does. The goddamned corruption continues unabated until you, the public, pressure authorities. Precisely, why we all enjoy the 'best' government money can buy. Literally. Without question, the corrupt, abusive, inept sons of bitches are all bought and paid for. Firmly clamped to the taxpayer tit. Dependent on money looted from innocent citizens caught in their web. Phony fines and court costs cleverly designed to f--k the innocent and enrich the pieces of shit who falsely believe they run and own Llano County. Right, Sheriff? TL? "Sonny Boy?" Madam County Attorney?

Interestingly, the former Sheriff and District Attorney were reportedly forced to retire after an outrageous scandal involving a drunk driving police officer from out of town. Including special treatment of the drunken son of a bitch that no other citizen caught doing the same would have been afforded. An honest, honorable Llano County Deputy suffered the consequences. Forget? Great officers do not last in this hell hole County. ... Right, Sheriff? TL? "Sonny Boy?" Madam County Attorney?

With all ongoing abuse in this goddamned County, one thing remains for damned sure. We're just getting started, Sheriff. You will continue to be exposed for whom and what you and your corrupt, abusive, inept jackbooted bastards have become, truly are, not what you phonies purport to be, that is, how you continue to f--k over a public you've falsely sworn to protect and defend. -- Exposure, the only way short of an unwanted dreaded revolution to force desperately needed change in a goddamned fascist police-state. The Fourth Reich.

Have your jackbooted thugs been tested for steroids, Sheriff? If you've nothing to hide, Bill, release the results of all drug testing. 'Personnel matters?' Bullshit. Looted taxpayers have the right to know. They're footing the bill for all this goddamned corruption, abuse, ineptness. When will you and the boys end the shakedowns? Looting of the innocent to line County coffers? No honor at all?

Where are your swastika armbands, you fascist son of a bitch? You and your thugs remain out of uniform. Once again, Sheriff, and ad nauseum, did you and/or your goons pressure Schilling to exit the race? Did you steal the election? If so, an aggressively stupid, achingly gutless public gets what it truly deserves. One of the most corrupt, abusive, inept 'law' 'enforcement' agencies in our formerly great country.

While the business and church communities stood tall during the recent Kingsland flood catastrophe, there was one glaring exception. On 10-17-18, the Antlers Coffee Shop closed due to storm-related failure of the Kingsland water system. Patrons, however, are routinely allowed to get online outside even when the shop is closed.

A long-term coffee shop customer entered the hotel lobby to ask the desk clerk whether wifi was still up and running after the catastrophe. She said it was and told the patron he could get online inside the closed shop. She then asked him to have another regular customer who had just arrived outside to come in and get out of the cold as well.

Antlers co-proprietor Rick apparently quickly got wind of both customers, made quite a jackass of himself emulating the petulant narcissist currently occupying the Oval Office. Aggressive stupidity at a time the Kingsland business community is indeed suffering, can least afford it. Further proof positive of the old adage 'can fix ignorant, can't fix stupid.'

Why would, why should both customers put up with this? Think this hasn't happened to others?

Highly reminiscent of our outrageously bought and paid for judiciary, Llano County prosecutors, Sheriff Bill Blackburn and his criminal SS jackbooted bastards in black who continue to egregiously disgrace themselves and the badge, do as they please regardless of the law and Constitution, carefully consider the following. It's appalling. Runs against the grain of everything our formerly great country once stood for. No longer.

Llano County DA "Sonny Boy" is in the news. Received an award. The DailyTrib reports:

"The Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission recognized District Attorney Wiley “Sonny” McAfee on August 22 for his efforts in prosecuting natural and cultural resource violations as well as environmental crimes. The commission named the 33rd and 424th district attorney the 2019 Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Prosecutor of the Year. McAfee serves Burnet, Llano, Blanco, and San Saba counties. Elected in November 2012 and taking office on January 1, 2013, he has been instrumental in a number of high-profile cases involving Texas game wardens and Texas State Park police officers."

The District Attorney has ignored a complaint filed earlier by this publication regarding special treatment accorded Texas oil man Johnny Greene by the Llano County Attorney and Sheriff vis a vis a property dispute involving a local banker, three other local property owners with homes encroaching on land they don't own, one of which is on an unused Llano County road. To say nothing of damage to a Pace Arrow motorhome on that property. All a result of egregious abuse of authority by Llano County Deputy Leroy Rodriguez, Badge #764. The circumstances of this fiasco can be found above in each and every edition of this publication since this happened two and a half years ago. The Sheriff, the County Attorney, and the District Attorney have all determinedly, concertedly ignored this ongoing, unresolved fiasco raising one ferociously pointed question. How much were they bribed?

Cowardly fail to financially and/or materially support those fighting for all civil and constitutional rights and liberties at great personal cost and risk? Get what you truly deserve.

Last three months been getting online at the Kingsland HEB. Met quite a few readers at the picnic table. -- People I didn't personally know, but who came up and introduced themselves. Certainly, grateful for your concern, caring, and moral support. One of the Front End managers, Kevin, had granted permission to plug in and access HEB Customer wifi at the picnic table some three months ago. Someone in County government must have subsequently complained. Three months after the fact. LOL. Finally got the boot 6-27-20 from the achingly gutless Store Manager who couldn't, or wouldn't stand up to pressure from this asshole.

Pathetic, isn't it? LOL. Certainly, knew it was coming. Hard to believe it took three months. LOL. Apparently, the gutless Store Manager, Monty, sent out the second in command, Dan, to deliver the happy news. Spoke to him awhile, but sadly as expected, he had nothing substantive to say. Other than, "leave." LOL. Advised him to send out the clearly reluctant Store Manager who apparently wanted to avoid the encounter. Finally, came out. Imagine that.

Asked the Store Manager, Monty Young, for a business card. Remarkably, he had none. Couldn't be, could it? LOL. An HEB Store Manager with no business card? How is that possible? Unlimited corporate greed? Aryan arrogance of a privately-owned corporation? Or, was he simply lying? Informed him he'd indeed be front and center in this next edition.

Before getting into specific detail vis a vis my conversation with the Store Manager, it must be stated staff at the Kingsland HEB is second to none. Have known many of them for years. Work extremely well together as a team. Certainly, exceptionally customer-friendly. The problem with this store is not staff. Not even the Store Manager and Assistant Manager per se, -- who apparently, despite their denials, had been pressured by someone. It's the HEB corporate management suite at the root of most of the problems at this store.

The following salient issues were discussed with the Store Manager before I left. -- Interestingly, none of which he denied. LOL. Readers, have you noticed cheaper generic products are either continually out of stock or discontinued? Especially, after the store changed its product line weeks before the pandemic. Apparently, in an effort to emulate the Marble Falls store that caters to the Horseshoe Bay elite.

New larger shopping carts were brought in to the Kingsland store so shoppers would supposedly buy more product, increase store sales. Shelves are restocked 24 hrs. Staff was unhappy because aisles are too narrow for the larger carts. Makes it harder to stock shelves when the store is open. Not only that, makes it much more difficult for shoppers to navigate the narrow aisles.

Product pricing has steeply increased. They accomplish this both by directly raising prices, as well as in engaging in deception, that is, downsizing product. One recent glaring example is their generic bleach. For awhile, it was unavailable, out of stock. Then, it was downsized from three quarts to two. Price remained at $1. A 33% increase. Done deceptively. At a time when inflation is supposedly non-existent. What ever happened to the HCF quart and a half ice cream that sold for $1.99? Long since gone. Both aforementioned products had already been downsized once before. LOL. List can go on and on. Unbridled corporate greed.

As I reminded the Store Manager, Kingsland residents, for the most part, are poor, young, elderly, and/or disabled, etc. This store now caters to the rich who live on the lake and Sunrise Beach. Not sustainable. ... Especially, if the shit finally hits the fan vis a vis the Trump nazi, and/or a second shutdown occurs courtesy of the raging, poorly-handled, achingly mismanaged pandemic.

To store employees, all of whom I admire, consider personal friends, courageously provide your ongoing grievances to this publication. I will publish them while protecting your identity. If you won't stand up, nothing changes.

As I informed the Store Manager, the problem in Kingsland is the fact HEB has no substantive competition. What is desperately needed is a Walmart or other major corporation to rattle the cage of local HEB management as well as the corporate management suite. Until that occurs, nothing changes, shit happens. ... Right, Monty? Dan?

In the last two and a half weeks or so, three middle-aged women tripped and fell on the curb by the picnic table. Third time, 6-26-20. Took the Store Manager and Assistant Manager quite some time to exit the store and arrive with ice to quell the swelling of the woman who had fallen hard on her face. I subsequently asked Monty to consider painting the curb iridescent red or orange to avoid injury and a future lawsuit.

Responded couldn't be painted red since it wasn't a fire zone. Could certainly be painted orange or some other bright color. If management doesn't care about a lawsuit, where is its concern for the pain and suffering if a customer trips, falls, and suffers serious injury? ... Couldn't care less, Monty? -- Or, is it, shortsightedly, insurance will indeed take care of it? Wake up. Just a matter of time before someone gets seriously injured and sues the living shit out of HEB. Even if HEB prevails in court, it loses. Consider the cost of bad publicity.

To the credit of management, both the Store Manager and Assistant Manager return carts to the front of the store, sanitize them, and pick up trash. Recently, associates informed me the Store Manager wasn't happy about the performance of the Assistant Store Manager. LOL. Apparently, ole' Dan got too good at hiding in the store, shirking cart and other duties, etc. LOL. That's apparently changed. ... Trouble in paradise, boys? LOL. Itching to retire, Dan? LOL. Give me a break. Never a dull moment, -- at customer and staff expense.

Finally, to the motherf--ker in County government who likely complained, don't flatter yourself. Three months? What took so long you gutless piece of shit? LOL. No matter what, Liberty In Peril will remain up and running. Despite the fact it's been more than 21 years, just the very beginning. Far more to come. Far more County corruption, malfeasance, criminal activity to be followed up, and/or exposed. LOL. ... Bribed by Johnny Greene, Madam County Attorney?

Tim Chorney, Publisher
Liberty In Peril
Formerly,
The Llano Ledger

Before getting on with the usual fare, readers may wish to take time to read the following email exchange between Discount Electronics and this writer regarding its highly questionable business practices regarding refurbished lap tops:

Subject:    Re: Re: Your Discount Electronics Order Confirmation (#81644)
From:    libertyinperil@riseup.net
Date:    Wed, August 19, 2020 11:47 am
To:    "DiscountElectronics.com Customer Service" <internet@discountelectronics.com>
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'How long is this machine under warranty? Received the error message yesterday while booting up: "Alert! The AC Power Adapter wattage and type cannot be determined. The battery may not charge. The system will adjust the performance to match the power available."

'Talked to a local tech who told me I needed the original power supply that came with the Dell lap top, not a cheap foreign replacement. Can you provide any help with this? Since both batteries can't be recharged, I can't use this machine off the grid.'

'On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 1:14 PM <libertyinperil@riseup.net> wrote: Thanks for the quick reply. For your information, this machine has been a piece of crap. Not worth the money spent. Intend to fully inform my readership.'

'Tim Chorney, Publisher
Liberty In Peril
formerly,
The Llano Ledger
libertyinperil.com'

'This is the first we've heard from you about any issues. You were welcome to contact us during the warranty period.'

'On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 1:34 PM <libertyinperil@riseup.net> wrote: That's bullshit. You replaced the battery forget? Usually, I don't piss and moan. Too busy fighting for your lost civil and constitutional rights and liberties. Been problems with the operating system I dealt personally with. Didn't complain. Dealt with a key that came off the keyboard. Another key that wasn't always making proper contact. The plastic finish on the surface of the lap top has grown sticky, apparently deteriorating. The problem that irritated me the most and is unacceptable is the latest issue with the goddamned power supply. The tech I spoke with told me this is a problem he encounters all the time with cheap Chinese knockoffs of the original. This machine was not cheap. You certainly could have afforded to do far better. Will see what my readers think, -- They're as tired of getting ripped off as I am. Business community lining its pockets by selling shit products. Nazi America. Bottomless greed.

'Beside the point. Discount Electronics knowingly sold a defective product. Knew that it was only a matter of time the power supply would fail. There's a principle involved here. One that I intend to make abundantly clear to my readers. While you can't seem to understand this, they will. Thanks for the additional fodder.'

Readers are advised there is a sticker on the back of the power supply stating: "Please remove this sticker." It cannot be easily removed. Will not peel off. Have hesitated to scrape it off since doing so might obliterate anything underneath it, -- if anything. It is not covering a vent and there is no technical reason that it be removed. Certainly, did not affect operation of the supply for the last year and four months I've had the machine.

"U.S. Air Force Maj. Grant Thompson thanked a British photographer the best way he knew how - by ripping the flight patch from his shoulder and handing it to the man whose quick action last week ensured he landed safely after an engine in his F-15E Strike Eagle malfunctioned. Ian Simpson was standing outside the fence of a Royal Air Force base in eastern England and snapping pictures of fighter aircraft taking off when he spotted a shower of sparks flying from the back of a plane. He and a group of aviation enthusiasts listening to flight control traffic realized the pilot didn’t appear to know there was a problem with the aircraft. So Simpson, who used to work in the aviation industry, Googled RAF Lakenheath’s phone number and persuaded a switchboard operator to put him through to flight operations at the base, home to the U.S. Air Force’s 48th Fighter Wing. “I said, ‘Look, something is wrong with the plane, definitely. We’ve got lots of photographs of sparks coming out the back,”’ Simpson, 56, told The Associated Press. Word was relayed to the pilot. Asked to take a look, his wingman confirmed damage to one of the engines, the base said. The pilot returned to base, “just to be safe.” “For most of us here, this was a very rare occurrence that we have not personally witnessed,” the air base said in a statement. “It’s wonderful to know that the Liberty Wing has such a great partnership with the local community – and the courage that Ian displayed was next to none.”

"Simpson said he was motivated by the death of another young American pilot whose plane crashed into the North Sea on June 15, 2020. “I thought someone should call,” he said. “I didn’t want anything like that to happen to another family.” On Wednesday, Thompson said thank you by giving Simpson a cap and insignia, and then throwing in the shoulder patch for good measure. “That was a nice touch,” Simpson said. The base noted Simpson’s actions in a Facebook post that won widespread attention, particularly from Americans grateful for his assistance. “For me, the most humbling thing has been the families of servicemen who thanked me for doing what I did,” he said. “I wasn’t expecting to get so much thanks.’’

Think a Yorkie isn't one hell of a tough dog? Won't rise to the occasion to protect its owner? Seatbelts on. United Press International reports:

"A Toronto family's tiny Yorkshire terrier is being hailed as a hero after rescuing her 10-year-old owner from an attacking coyote. Lily Kwan, 10, said she was walking Macy, her family's 6-year-old Yorkie, in the Scarborough neighborhood when a coyote started to chase them. Lily said she started to run away and had to drop the 10-pound dog's leash because Macy refused to follow."

"A neighbor's home security camera recorded video as Macy turned to confront the coyote. "She's a super brave dog, I love her so much and I just though[t] this tiny dog could protect this huge human being, trying to fight off this huge coyote," Lily told CTV News. Macy survived the confrontation and is being treated by a veterinarian for multiple puncture wounds from the coyote's teeth. Lily's family said Macy was transferred to intensive care when one of the wounds became infected and she developed a fever, but she is expected to make a full recovery. The Kwan family is crowdfunding to pay for Macy's veterinary care."

The criminal jackbooted bastards in blue remain egregiously out of control. Continue to present an exigent threat to life, liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties. The Washington Post reports:

"When police knocked on Michael Clark’s door in Idaho Springs, Colo., in May, he emerged in his underwear, holding a swordlike weapon. Police ordered him to drop it, and the 75-year-old complied, placing it on a shelf several feet behind him. “Get on the ground!” a female officer screamed, her weapon pointed at Clark. “No,” Clark said, trying to explain the dispute he was having with his neighbors. Without warning, a male officer raised his Taser, pointed it at Clark’s torso and fired. Clark fell backward into his apartment and went unconscious. The police then dragged Clark’s body out of the apartment. As the two officers tried to handcuff the unresponsive Clark, the male officer placed his knee on Clark’s neck."

"Following the incident, Clark suffered a stroke and a burst appendix, the Associated Press reported. He was hospitalized for weeks after the incident, according to the Denver Post, and was later admitted to a nursing facility. Sarah Schielke, Clark’s lawyer, said in a Thursday statement that her client’s health was “declining.”

"Clark has not been charged with a crime, according to the Denver Post. By contrast, the male officer, Nicholas Hanning, was charged earlier this month with third-degree assault against an at-risk person. Hanning, a three-year member of the force, was fired on July 15. Idaho Springs Police Chief Nathan Buseck said Hanning’s actions were “not reflective of the culture of our organization.”

Most politely put, Chief. Best you can do, sir? A knee on the neck of his victim is attempted murder, isn't it, Chief?

"Body-camera footage of the May 30 incident was released on Thursday and distributed by Clark’s lawyer. Schielke told The Washington Post that Clark plans to file a lawsuit “very soon.” “There is this toxic culture of never expecting to be held accountable in police forces,” she told The Post. “What’s happening is we’re putting cameras on them, and they’re not changing their behavior or attitude.”

That's right. Nothing has changed. Same old murderous behavior. Out of control. Clearly, how the bastards get their cookies off abusing authority.

"Hanning’s lawyer did not respond to a request for comment late Thursday."

... Extremely difficult even for an exceptionally gifted, creative shyster to effectively defend the indefensible, isn't it, Sheriff? Right, Bill? Even here in Nazi Llano County.

"The incident is the latest flash point in how police use Tasers, particularly against the elderly. In March, police rushed a 67-year-old man to the hospital after using a Taser on him in Port Allen, La. The man was handcuffed at the time. In August 2018, police shocked an 87-year-old in Chatsworth, Ga., as the woman foraged for dandelions. And in October 2017, police in Kingstree, S.C., hit 86-year-old Albert Chatfield with a Taser, sending him to intensive care. Clark’s case also follows that of Karen Garner, a 73-year-old with dementia whom police in Loveland, Colo., tackled and arrested in June 2020 after she walked out of a Walmart without paying for items worth $13. Schielke is also representing Garner’s family in a lawsuit."

Sue the living shit out of the bastards. Make it as costly as possible for all involved.

"The May 30 incident that ended in Clark getting Tasered began when his two next-door neighbors called 911 at about 10:40 p.m., according to the arrest warrant for Hanning, the police officer. One of Clark’s neighbors claimed that Clark banged on the wall and told her to be quiet. She said she was sleeping, and she knocked on Clark’s door. She claimed Clark then punched her. The body-camera footage released Thursday shows Hanning and his partner, Officer Ellie Summers, speaking with the neighbors. The woman, who had been drinking, according to her roommate, cried as she told the officers that Clark had punched her. Hanning and Summers then knocked on Clark’s door but did not identify themselves as police, according to the body-camera footage. Clark opened the door and asked: “What do you want?” Hanning swore at Clark before moving into the apartment toward the man, telling him to put down the sword he was holding. Clark walked to a shelf and placed it on top, then faced the police officers with his hands at his sides. Hanning ordered Clark to come out to the hall, while Summers ordered him to get on the ground. Clark refused. “They hit that wall so hard, I thought they were going to come through the wall,” Clark said, appearing to speak about his neighbors. Within seconds, Hanning raised the Taser and fired it at Clark. He moaned and fell backward into his apartment, appearing to hit his head on a dining room chair. The officers rushed into the apartment, and when Hanning grabbed Clark’s arm and pulled his body up, the man’s head bumped into a bookshelf. Hanning then dragged Clark out of the apartment by his feet, and the two officers handcuffed him."

Jackbooted motherf--kers in blue getting their cookies off, egregiously abusing power. Could have killed him.

"Clark eventually regained consciousness and again tried to tell the officers his side of the story. He appeared confused about why he was Tasered and handcuffed. After paramedics arrived several minutes later, Clark asked Hanning: “What did I do?” “You punched that girl,” Hanning told him. “You punched that girl and then answered the door with a fricking machete, man.” “No, that is absolutely false,” Clark said. “I didn’t come after nobody. I was just in bed.”

Cowardly fail to financially and/or materially support those fighting for all civil and constitutional rights and liberties at great personal cost and risk? Get what you truly deserve. Forfeiture of liberty. At the hands of outrageously corrupt and abusive government.

"A New York City pilot program that dispatches mental health specialists and paramedics instead of police for certain nonviolent emergency calls has resulted in more people accepting assistance and fewer people sent to the hospital, early data shows."

"It's one of a number of programs underway around the country trying to address police violence and systemic racism following George Floyd's murder by providing alternatives to sending law enforcement to respond to emergency calls involving issues such as mental health or drug and alcohol crises. In June, New York City started its Behavioral Health Emergency Assistance Response Division, or B-HEARD, to provide more targeted care for those struggling with mental health issues and emergencies such as suicide attempts, substance misuse and serious mental illness. During the first month of the pilot program, B-HEARD teams — consisting of fire department paramedics and social workers — responded to calls in northern Manhattan, which includes parts of Harlem and receives the city's highest number of mental health emergency calls. From June 6 to July 7, B-HEARD received roughly 16 mental health calls each day in this zone. In 95% of cases, people accepted care from the B-HEARD team, data from the city shows. That's compared with 82% for traditional 911 response teams, which include police."

"Additionally, 50% of people treated by B-HEARD were transported to the hospital for more care, a far lower number than the 82% who are transported to the hospital with traditional 911 response. The city said that 911 operators routed 138 mental health emergency calls — 25% of the number of calls during the pilot period — to B-HEARD and expect that number to grow to 50% in the coming months. "This is great news. A smarter approach to public health and public safety. A smarter use of resources. And the evidence — from Denver to New York — shows that responding with care works," U.S. Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., tweeted. New York's program is modeled after a successful, decades-old program in Eugene, Ore., known as Crisis Assistance Helping Out On The Streets, or CAHOOTS. Other similar programs have launched in California, Colorado, Georgia and Montana. In Minneapolis, where police killed Floyd last summer, the city will start sending out civil crisis response teams instead of police to certain mental health calls next month."

"Mental health-related calls accounted for 22% of cases in which on-duty police used lethal force and killed someone, according to data from 2009 to 2012 from 17 states where data was available."

"A veteran New York City police sergeant was criminally charged Thursday, accused of roughing up two suspects in custody, including one who allegedly hurled racial slurs at the officer, prosecutors said. Sgt. Phillip Wong, 37, "grossly violated his training — and the law — during the arrests of these two individuals, whose conduct did not justify these violent responses," Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance said in a statement. The handcuffed Wong was marched into a courtroom on Thursday, where he pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor assault in the third degree and misdemeanor attempted assault in the third degree. Wong is accused of punching a 48-year-old man in a Harlem holding cell in October 2019 and kneeling on a 35-year-old man in police custody at an Upper West Side subway station in April 2020."

Why did it take well over a year to arrest this officer? Why no equal treatment?

"In the 2020 incident, Wong allegedly was observing the arrest of the man who had punched another passenger on the subway. As two subordinate officers were taking him out of the 96th Street Station, the man yelled anti-Asian slurs at Wong and kicked him in the leg, prosecutors said. That's when Wong allegedly brought the man to the ground with another officer and the sergeant knelt on the man’s back, authorities said. As “the man continued to taunt Wong, and then shouted, 'I can’t breathe,' Wong responded, 'I don’t give a f--- if you can breathe or not,' and punched the man in the side of the face," according to Vance."

If the jackbooted bastard in blue is incapable of controlling himself, has no business in law enforcement. Not qualified to be a cop. Lacks the temperament.

"The man was taken to the hospital and, according to the DA, medical staff determined he did not sustain any medical injuries. In the first incident from October 2019, Wong and several other officers were in the process of escorting a person to a holding cell when the man allegedly kicked a cell door and began spitting at the officers. Wong allegedly responded by punching the prisoner in the face. He was taken to the hospital and treated for a laceration above his eye and required stitches, prosecutors said."

"Outside of court on Thursday, defense lawyer Andrew Quinn said any wrongdoing by Wong didn't rise to the level of criminal charges. "When they see the video (of the incidents), they'll be as surprised as we are that this case went to criminal court," Quinn said, "I thought that this case should have been handled administratively within the NYPD."

Give me a f--king break. The out of control jackbooted bastards in blue are murdering innocent unarmed civilians all across our formerly great country with near impunity. ... Hear the rumble? An unwanted, dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looms. Too deaf to hear? Or, too aggressively stupid and out to lunch.

"The defense lawyer claimed officers are facing particularly difficult conditions on the job right now."

"This is much more indicative of ... the lack of respect for police officers citywide," Quinn said."

"People say vile terrible things to police officers all the time and this is on a daily basis. I mean a cop can't step out of a car anymore in this city without somebody shouting either an ethnic or racial slur ... at the officer."

Again, due to their needlessly violent and murderous behavior. While there is no excuse for any ethnic or racial slur, if a cop does not have the temperament to handle this, he or she has no business in law enforcement.

Why? This out of control jackbooted bastard in blue presents an exigent threat to life, liberty, all civil and constitutional rights and liberties.

Woman kicked in the head by a criminal jackbooted bastard in blue. The Washington Post reports:

"A woman is face down on the ground, her hands handcuffed behind her back, when the seven-second clip begins. A sergeant and officer with the Atlanta Police Department stand over her. Everything is calm. Then, the woman lifts her head and appears to spit at the sergeant’s lower legs and feet. The reaction is swift: He kicks her in the head. Watching from a few feet away, the officer appears to do nothing."

Gutless piece of shit. Not fit to be in uniform. Witnesses a superior committing a crime. Does nothing.

"That might have been the end of it, except someone was recording. Within a few hours, the video was broadcast on Atlanta Uncensored’s Twitter and Instagram accounts, which have a combined following of nearly 184,000. “Do you think excessive force was used in this situation?” the caption asks. It’s not immediately clear who recorded the incident, which took place Monday afternoon. The person managing the social media accounts told The Washington Post that the person who recorded the video wishes to remain private. The video was viewed tens of thousands of times on Monday and eventually came to the attention of the top Atlanta Police Department brass, including Chief Rodney Bryant. By Monday evening, the department released a statement calling the actions of the sergeant and officer “unacceptable” and saying both had been relieved of duty. The sergeant was suspended without pay, and the officer was assigned to desk duty. The internal affairs unit has opened an investigation, with orders to quickly report its findings."

"Monday’s incident is the latest in which police officers have been caught on camera doing things that have led to lawsuits and their suspension or termination. In 2018, someone caught Miami police officer Mario Figueroa taking a running kick at a suspect’s head while the man was lying face down and another officer was handcuffing his hands behind his back. The video went viral and Figueroa — whose lawyer called the incident “a Facebook misdemeanor” — was charged with assault. A judge later acquitted him."

"In Colorado, the April release of police body-cam footage led authorities to investigate and charge two Loveland police officers over a violent June 2020 arrest that left a 73-year-old woman with a broken arm and dislocated shoulder. The family of the woman, who has dementia, has filed a lawsuit against the city."

Readers will recall the above was covered in this publication and elsewhere. Particularly, egregious.

"Colorado officers violently arrested woman, 73, with dementia, and then mocked her. Now they face charges. That was followed by a May incident in Idaho Springs, Colo., in which police used a Taser on Michael Clark, a 75-year-old man, without warning as he stood in his apartment. Clark suffered health problems, including a stroke and a burst appendix, and this week filed a lawsuit against the officer. The officer who used the Taser on Clark, Nicholas Hanning, has been fired and charged with assault."

Latter case was also covered here at the time, above a follow-up to the case.

"In the recent case in Georgia, the Atlanta Police Department said Bryant will monitor the investigators’ progress, review their findings once they finish and then “determine the proper course of action.”

"What was caught on video started as a call to police for help, the department said in its statement. At about 12:30 p.m., a caller told dispatchers a woman was walking around and had pointed a gun at several people in a residential neighborhood south of downtown Atlanta. When officers arrived, they found and detained the woman. They then grew worried about her mental health and asked paramedics to take her to the hospital for evaluation, according to a police summary of the original call. It isn’t immediately clear if the woman was treated for injuries after she was kicked. The department did not release any more information about her condition. Police did not charge the woman with a crime. The vice president of the NAACP’s Atlanta chapter, Gerald Griggs, told Fox 5 he was “shocked and angered” by the video. “We’ve been talking about community-police relations for a long time in Atlanta, and to see something like that — a handcuffed individual kicked in the face — nothing justifies that. “At no point should a citizen of Atlanta be kicked in the face while they’re handcuffed.”

You think? A nazi jackbooted stormtrooper. Unfit to wear the uniform. Piece of human excrement. So is his partner who stood by and did nothing.

No justice. Precisely, why there is desperate need for a new federal agency whose sole function would be to investigate, arrest, charge, and prosecute corrupt, abusive, criminal officers, prosecutors, and judges in a special court that would adjudicate only these cases. Total independence. The only way to rein in these criminals, particularly the murderers in blue.

"The chief of police in Aurora, Colorado, is apologizing after video of a brutal arrest captured on the body cameras of two officers was released Tuesday. The body cam videos showed officers attempting to arrest three men with outstanding felony warrants last Friday. When two fled the scene, Kyle Vinson was left sitting alone. Within minutes, he would be left beaten and bloodied -- saying he was fighting for his life. In the videos, Officer John Haubert could be seen pointing his gun at Vinson, ordering him to lie face down and show his hands, which he did. The officer then hit Vinson with his pistol at least seven times. One cut on Vinson's head required six stitches. He later held him by the neck for almost 40 seconds. "I can't even breathe," Vinson could be heard crying. Vinson's father, Maurice, said he was shocked by what he saw. "I thought he was gonna die," Maurice Vinson said. "Because he said, 'you're killing me.'" Aurora Police Chief Vanessa Wilson called the arrest a "despicable act." "We're disgusted. We're angry. This is not police work," Wilson said. "This is not the Aurora Police Department. This was criminal."

Apparently, the Chief has been busy doing what she can to force desperately needed change. Get this:

"Since becoming chief in 2020, Wilson has worked to reform the Aurora Police Department, terminating 14 officers for misconduct. The year before she became chief, 23-year-old Elijah McClain died after Aurora police put him in a neck-hold and paramedics injected him with ketamine after he was stopped while walking home from a convenience store. Wilson said as soon as she saw this new video, she ordered an internal affairs investigation. Wilson said she supports the quick release of body cam videos, which is now required by Colorado law within 21 days in incidents where there are complaints. "And that's why I'm doing it here today," Wilson said. "Because you have a right to know what happened." Officer Haubert is facing multiple felony charges, including second-degree assault and attempted first-degree assault. Another officer on the scene, Francine Martinez, faces misdemeanor charges for failing to intervene or report the use of force. Authorities have yet to say whether Vinson will face charges for an outstanding warrant on a probation violation. "I didn't do anything, dude," Vinson said on the body camera footage, "I was just fighting for my life, man." Officer Haubert is on administrative leave without pay. His lawyer would not comment, but says he will "zealously" defend his client. Officer Martinez is on leave with pay, which is department policy when charged with a non-felony. CBS News is seeking comment from her or her representative, but has not yet been able to reach them."

"Four police officers testified about the physical and verbal assaults they faced responding to Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol on Tuesday in a highly emotional hearing. The four officers — Pfc. Harry Dunn and Sgt. Aquilino Gonell of the U.S. Capitol Police, and Michael Fanone and Daniel Hodges of the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department — each gave opening statements and answered questions from committee members. Gonell recounted the events of that day and the impact it has had on law enforcement officers: "For most people, Jan. 6 happened for a few hours," he said. "But for those of us who were in the thick of it, it has not ended." It was the first hearing held by the Democratic-led House select committee investigating the attack. Lawmakers on the panel lauded the officers' heroism and blasted colleagues who have denied the events of that day."

What was seen that day was history repeating itself, -- reincarnation of Adolf Hitler and his Third Reich. Hard to believe that was possible in the United States when hundreds of thousands of our best and brightest died fighting these bastards nearly eighty years ago.

"The Metropolitan Police's Fanone described his experience heading to the Capitol on Jan. 6 to assist the Capitol Police. He said the scene he found as he worked his way to the Capitol's West Front, where thousands of rioters were violently clashing with police, was "nothing short of brutal." Fanone decried those in Congress who are "downplaying or outright denying what happened" that day, saying, "I feel like I went to hell and back to protect them." "The indifference shown to my colleagues is disgraceful!" Fanone shouted as he pounded the witness table. "Nothing, truly nothing has prepared me to address those elected members of our government who continue to deny the events of that day. And in doing so betray their oath of office."

Exactly, what it is. Betrayal of oath of office. Not only to these officers, but the hundreds of thousands of American soldiers who died fighting these bastards during the Third Reich.

"Hodges repeatedly called the members of the mob attack on the Capitol "terrorists." He said that to his "perpetual confusion, I saw the 'thin blue line' flag, the symbol of support for law enforcement, more than once being carried by the terrorists as they ignored our commands and continued to assault us." Capitol Police officer Dunn said he was in the Speaker's lobby outside the House chamber when one of the insurrectionists said "Trump invited us here," and that Trump was still the president."

Trump and his sycophants are traitors. Supposedly, this is a democratic republic. Not a fascist police-state. Biden was elected president. There was no significant voter fraud. None that would have interfered with the outcome.

"Nobody voted for Joe Biden," Dunn said the man told him. Dunn said he responded that he had voted for Biden, asking "Does my vote not count?" He told the panel a woman in a pink MAGA shirt then yelled, "You hear that guys? This n***** voted for Joe Biden." Dunn said that the crowd of around 20 people joined in screaming "Boo, f****** n*****!" Dunn continued, "No one had ever, ever called me a n***** while wearing the uniform of a Capitol Police officer." Asked what he was fighting to protect on Jan. 6, Officer Hodges responded, "democracy." He added, "It was for democracy, it was for the men and women of the House and Senate, it was for each other, and it was for the future of the country." Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., told Hodges and the other officers that they were "heroes to all of America," adding, "Those who attacked you and beat you are fascist traitors to our country and will be remember[ed] forever as fascist traitors."

Re-read that last sentence. Hard to believe it could ever be uttered in a democratic republic that lost hundreds of thousands of troops fighting Nazi and Fascist bastards just like the January 6, 2021 insurrectionists, -- in Europe during the Second World War.

"Lawmakers asked the officers what they wanted the panel to investigate. Fanone cited the "Stop the Steal" rally headlined by then-President Donald Trump ahead of the insurrection. "The time, the place, circumstances of that rally, that rhetoric, and those events to me leads in the direction of our president," he said. Fanone said that he also hoped the committee would look in to whether there was collaboration between members of Congress, "their staff and these terrorists." Hodges added he hoped the committee would investigate "if any one in power had a role in this, if anyone in power coordinated, or aided and abetted, or tried to downplay, tried to prevent the investigation of this terrorist attack." Dunn said he uses the analogy of a mob hit to describe what he hopes for from the committee. "If a hit man is hired and he kills somebody, the hit man goes to jail. But not only does the hit man go to jail, but the person who hired him does," Dunn said, adding, "I want you to get to the bottom of that."

"Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., gave impassioned opening remarks, describing the threat to democracy and blasting those who have dismissed the magnitude of what happened on Jan. 6. "Some people are trying to deny what happened. To whitewash it. To turn the insurrectionists into martyrs," Thompson said. "But the whole world saw the reality of what happened on Jan. 6. The hangman's gallows sitting out there on our [National] Mall. The flag of that first failed and disgraced rebellion against our union, being paraded through the Capitol. The hatred. The bigotry. The violence." Saying the rioters were "propelled here by a lie" about a fraudulent election, Thompson added, "We need to understand how and why the 'big lie' festered. We need to know minute by minute how Jan. 6 unfolded. We need to understand how the rotten lie behind Jan. 6 has continued to spread and feed the forces that would undermine American democracy. And we need to figure out how to fix the damage."

Difficult to do. The country has been torn apart by the national socialist, fascist element.

"Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., one of two GOP House members named to the panel by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, also gave an opening statement, saying the panel must look into the actions of former President Donald Trump on that day. "We cannot leave the violence of Jan. 6 and its causes uninvestigated. We must know what happened here in the Capitol. We must also know what happened every minute of that day in the White House. Every phone call, every conversation, every meeting leading up to during and after the attack. "Honorable men and women have an obligation to step forward. "If those responsible are not held accountable, and if Congress does not act responsibly, this will remain a cancer on our constitutional republic."

"The second Republican member on the panel, Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, a member of the Air National Guard, said he was called to service during the unrest after the killing of George Floyd last summer, but said there was no comparison with what happened Jan. 6. "There is a difference between breaking the law and rejecting the rule of law," Kinzinger said. "Between a crime, even grave crimes, and a coup." His voice breaking, he told the panel of four officers, "You guys won, you guys held," he said. "Democracies are not defined by our bad days," Kinzinger said. "We're defined by how we come back from bad days." Kinzinger said that many in his party "have treated this as just another partisan fight. It's toxic and it's a disservice to the officers and their families, to the staff and the employees of the Capitol complex, to the American people who deserve the truth and to those generations before us who went to war to defend self-governance. Because self-governance is at stake."

"Kinzinger said that "it's time to stop the outrage, and the conspiracies that fuel the violence and division in this country. And most importantly we need to reject those that promote it."

"The select panel contains seven Democratic members and two Republicans appointed by Pelosi, Cheney and Kinzinger. Cheney and Kinzinger were among the 10 Republicans who voted to impeach Trump over inciting the mob that stormed the Capitol as lawmakers were meeting to certify the election of President Biden. Pelosi last week rejected two Republicans named by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., to serve on the panel, Reps. Jim Banks of Indiana and Jim Jordan of Ohio. Both Banks and Jordan are staunch backers of Trump and publicly expressed doubt about the motives of the panel. Their rejection by Pelosi prompted McCarthy to withdraw his other nominees to the select committee. McCarthy threatened Republicans would conduct their own investigation into the events of that day. The select committee is the latest attempt by Congress to look into the Jan. 6 insurrection and what led up to it. Trump was impeached over his involvement in the riot after days of public testimony. In addition, the Senate Rules and Homeland Security committees conducted their own set of hearings. So far, more than 550 people have been arrested in connection with the storming of the Capitol, and more than half a dozen have pleaded guilty."

"This is how I’m going to die, defending this entrance.” Capitol Police Officer Aquilino Gonell told House investigators Tuesday he could feel himself losing oxygen as he was crushed by rioters – supporters of then-President Donald Trump – as he was defending the Capitol during the Jan. 6 insurrection. Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone, who rushed to the scene, told the new House committee investigating the attack that he was “grabbed, beaten, tased, all while being called a traitor to my country.” Doctors later told him he’d had a heart attack. Daniel Hodges, also a D.C. police officer, said he remembers foaming at the mouth as rioters crushed him between two doors and bashed him in the head with his own weapon, injuring his skull. “I did the only thing I could do, scream for help,” Hodges said. Capitol Police Officer Harry Dunn said one group of rioters, perhaps 20 people, screamed the n-word at him as he was trying to keep them from breaching the House chamber. The four officers gave emotional, occasionally angry, accounts of the attack, in which they were beaten and verbally abused as the mob of Trump’ supporters overwhelmed them, broke through windows and doors and interrupted the certification of Democrat Joe Biden’s presidential win. The new committee is launching its probe with a focus on the law enforcement officers who protected them — an effort by the panel to put a human face on the violence of the day. Tensions on Capitol Hill have only worsened since the insurrection, with many Republicans playing down, or outright denying, the violence that occurred and denouncing the Democratic-led investigation as politically motivated. Democrats are hoping to win public support for the probe by reminding people how brutal it was, and how the law enforcement officers who were sworn to protect the Capitol suffered serious injuries at the hands of the rioters. The officers emotionally detailed the horror of their experiences, their injuries and the lasting trauma as they begged the lawmakers to investigate the attack. They wiped away tears and paused to compose themselves as they spoke. Rebuking Republican lawmakers who have resisted the hearings, Fanone said, “I feel like I went to hell and back to protect them and the people in this room.” Pounding his fist on the table in front of him, he said, “Too many are now telling me that hell doesn’t exist or that hell actually wasn’t that bad. The indifference shown to my colleagues is disgraceful.” The panel’s chairman, Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson played video of the attack and told the police officers: “History will remember your name.” He said the rioters “came ready for a fight, and they were close to succeeding.” Thompson added: “There’s no place for politics and partisanship in this investigation.” Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, one of two Republicans on the panel, gave opening remarks after Thompson — an effort by Democrats to appear as bipartisan as possible. She expressed “deep gratitude for what you did to save us” and said they would not be forgotten. “The question for every one of us who serves in Congress, for every elected official across this great nation, indeed, for every American is this: Will we adhere to the rule of law, respect the rulings of our courts, and preserve the peaceful transition of power?” Cheney asked. “Or will we be so blinded by partisanship that we throw away the miracle of America?” The House Republican leader, Kevin McCarthy, withdrew the participation of other Republicans last week after Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rejected two of them, saying their “antics” in support of Trump, and his lies that he won the election, weren’t appropriate for the serious investigation. Monday evening, the House voted against a resolution offered by the GOP leader to force his chosen members onto the panel. McCarthy has stayed close to Trump since the insurrection and has threatened to pull committee assignments from any Republican who participates on the Jan. 6 panel. He has called Cheney and Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger, who is also sitting on the committee, “Pelosi Republicans,” which Cheney has dismissed as “childish.” Ahead of the hearing on Tuesday, McCarthy again called the process a “sham” and said Pelosi only wants the questions asked “that she wants asked.” McCarthy told reporters that Pelosi should be investigated for her role in the security failures of the day but ignored questions about Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, who had identical authority over the Capitol Police and Capitol security officials."

"Thompson [s]aid the hearing will “set the tone” of the probe, which will examine not only Trump’s role in the insurrection but the groups involved in coordination before the attack, white supremacists among them. It will also look at the security failures that allowed hundreds of people to breach the Capitol and send lawmakers running for their lives. Some of those who broke in were calling for the deaths of Pelosi and then-Vice President Mike Pence, who was hiding just feet away from the mob. Outside of a committee preparation session for the hearing on Monday, Kinzinger told reporters that “for too long, we’ve been pretending that Jan. 6 didn’t happen.” He said he never expected to be in this position, “but when you have these conspiracies that continue to thrive, when you have lies and misinformation that continue to thrive, it’s essential for us as members of Congress to get to the answers.” Shortly after the insurrection, almost every Republican denounced the violent mob — and some criticized Trump himself, who told his supporters to “fight like hell” to overturn his defeat. But many have softened their tone in recent months and weeks. And some have gone further, with Georgia Rep. Andrew Clyde saying a video of the rioters looked like “a normal tourist visit” and Arizona Rep. Paul Gosar repeatedly saying that a woman who was shot and killed by police as she was trying to break into the House chamber was “executed.” Others have falsely claimed that Democrats or liberal groups were responsible for the attack. The officers testifying have become increasingly politically active in recent months, and went from office to office in May to lobby Senate Republicans to support an outside commission to investigate the insurrection. The Senate GOP ultimately rejected that effort, though that panel would have been evenly split between the parties."

"Highlighting some of the most egregious denials and defenses of the Jan. 6 riot, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) asked members of law enforcement during the hearing to respond to overt attempts by some to downplay the seriousness of that day. Running down the list of weapons used in the riot, including baseball bats, lead popes and Confederate battle flags, Raskin asked Fanone for his reaction to the claim that the mob was “unarmed.” Fanone said that the items Raskin described are weapons and that law enforcement had recovered firearms before Jan. 6, the day of the insurrection and in the days after from people in Washington suspected to have participated in the insurrection or planned to. “You know, downplaying the events of that day is also downplaying those officers’ response,” he added. “And like Sergeant Gonell said, [ …] part of the healing process from recovering from traumatic events of that day is having the nation accept the fact that day happened.”

The video is proof positive. Not only that, it was online, -- available at the time it was recorded.

"Raskin noted in turning to Hodges that the officer had used the word “terrorist” or “terrorism” 15 times in his written testimony and asked for his response to remarks by Rep. Andrew S. Clyde (R-Ga.), who in May compared the insurrectionists’ actions to a “normal tourist visit.” “Well, if that’s what American tourists are like, I can see why foreign countries don’t like American tourists,” Hodges deadpanned to chuckles from the gallery before reading the U.S. Code’s definition of domestic terrorism for the record. “How do you call an attack on a police officer a ‘tour’ when you see my bleeding hands, when you see all the officers getting concussions, getting maimed, getting fingers shattered, eyes gouged,” Gonell later added, when questioned by Raskin. He said some lawmakers’ indifference over the riot was “devastating” for the Capitol Police’s recruitment efforts. “Elected leaders downplaying this — why would I risk my life for them when they don’t even care?” The officers testifying to the panel urged members of Congress to explore the role Trump played in the events of Jan. 6, with Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn comparing him to someone who hired a “hit man” to carry out his crime. “I want you to get to the bottom of that,” Dunn told the committee. Dunn’s comments came in response to a question from Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss.), the panel’s chairman, who asked the officers what they would like to see the committee investigate. D.C. police officer Daniel Hodges offered a similar exhortation. “As patrol officers, we can only, you know, deal with the crimes that have happened on the streets, the misdemeanors and occasionally the violent felonies,” he said. “But you guys are the only ones we’ve got to deal with crimes that occur above us. I need you guys to address if anyone in power had a role in this, if anyone in power coordinated or aided and abetted or tried to downplay, tried to prevent the investigation of this terrorist attack because we can’t do it. We’re not allowed to. And I think a majority of Americans are really looking forward to that as well.” D.C. police officer Michael Fanone, meanwhile, urged the committee to look into “whether or not there was collaboration between those members [of Congress), their staff and these terrorists.”

Trump, ring leader of the sick sycophants and most congressional Republicans.

"Gonell told Rep. Elaine Luria (D-Va.) that it was “very disappointing” to find himself defending the Capitol from fellow Americans after having served in Iraq. “I saw many officers fighting for their lives against people, rioters, our own citizens turning against us, people who had the thin blue line on their chests,” Gonell said. “They were attacking us because we were defending the very institution that they are claiming that they are trying to save.” Luria then shared a video showing rioters attacking officers while yelling “Die traitors” and shouting expletives at “the blue.” She then asked Fanone how the images made him feel. “At no point that day did I ever think about the politics of that crowd,” he replied. “Even the things that were being said did not resonate in the midst of that chaos. But what did resonate was the fact that thousands of Americans were attacking police officers who were simply doing their job.” “In retrospect now, thinking about those events, the things that were said, it’s disgraceful that members of our government, I believe, were responsible for inciting that behavior and then continue to propagate those statements,” he added. “Those individuals are, you know, representative of the worst that America has to offer.” Before closing, Luria, the final questioner, said she does not want to look back on Jan. 6 in 20 years and say there were signs that “we ignored.” “I don’t want any of us to say that this happened gradually and then suddenly,” she said, “and that some were just too worried about winning the next election to do something about it or too cowardly to seek the truth. So that’s the task before this committee.” Luria added: “I’m sure that we’ll be attacked by cowards, by those in the arena, those only in the stands, and that we’ll be attacked by people who are more concerned about their own power than about the good of this country. But my oath, your oath, all of our oaths here today to protect and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic, will be our guiding light for this investigation.”

"New video footage captured by D.C. police officer Michael Fanone and other police officers’ body cameras showed the extent of the danger Fanone was in at the hand of insurrectionists as he pleaded for his life on Jan. 6. Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) introduced video that snipped together how Fanone entered the Capitol West Front tunnel in an effort to protect the Capitol before being dragged out and beaten by insurrectionists. Fanone recalled entering the crypt on the Capitol’s first floor with his partner, Jimmy Albright, and seeing throngs of police officers exhausted from defending the door leading to the building’s West Front balcony, where Joe Biden would be inaugurated as president weeks later. In an effort to relieve tired police, Fanone made his way to the front and is seen from another officer’s camera pushing all of his weight against the door frame to prevent insurrectionists from entering. He tried to plea with the protesters, telling them that the door needs to stay closed to protect injured officers, which he said “pissed them off.” “That’s when the surge that you watched in some of the video began and you had a large group at the mouth of that tunnel entrance trying to push their way through the officers who were trying to defend it,” Fanone said. “I believe had they done so or had they accomplished that, they would have trampled us to death. Most certainly you would have had police officers killed.” Shortly afterward, he was pulled off the line and dragged outside. Video taken as Fanone was lying on the ground showed several “terrorists,” as he called them, lunging at him. Fanone recalled that they were trying to get his gun and that he heard one man shout, “Kill him with his own gun!” The video then shows blurred movement as a man yells “I’ve got one,” referring to Fanone. It’s at that moment Fanone tries to appeal to the insurrectionists’ humanity by telling them simply, “I have kids.” Moments after, the video shows Fanone being carried inside by some insurrectionists who intervened before he was handed off to police at the front lines. “I need a medic! We need EMTs now!” an officer shouts. “Mike, stay in there buddy,” Albright says as he arrives to help his friend. Fanone testified that based on his body-camera footage it is believed he was unconscious for approximately four minutes. He suffered a minor heart attack and concussion from being beaten and hit with a stun gun by rioters. Rep. Stephanie Murphy (D-Fla.) recounted being holed up in the basement of the Capitol on Jan. 6 only 40 paces, she said, from where D.C. police officer Daniel Hodges was being pinned between the rioters and a door frame. “You know, I have two young children,” Murphy said to Hodges, one of the officers testifying. “I have a 10-year-old son and a 7-year-old daughter. They’re the light of my life. And the reason I was able to hug them again was because of the courage that you and your fellow officers showed that day. And so just a really heartfelt thank you.” Murphy said that she was able to hear the officers with Hodges trying to resist the breach of the Capitol by Trump supporters and was able to escape down a hallway because of their efforts. “ I think it’s important for everybody … to remember that the main reason rioters didn’t harm any members of Congress was because they didn’t encounter any members of Congress, and they didn’t encounter any members of Congress because law enforcement officers did your jobs that day and you did it well,” she said. “Well, I think without you, what would have been a terrible — and what was a terrible — and tragic day would have been even more terrible and more tragic.” In one of the more philosophical questions raised at Tuesday’s hearing, Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.) asked Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn about his experience as a Black officer who faced not only physical threats but also racist verbal abuse. “You asked a question I think that I’ve been haunted by ever since,” Schiff asked. “Is this America?”

“The fact that we had our race attacked and just because of the way we look, you know … To answer your question, frankly, I guess it is America,” Dunn said. “It shouldn’t be, but I guess that’s the way that things are.” Dunn described Jan. 6 as a “war,” with each of the officers fighting in different battles, and Black officers like him fighting racism on an additional front. “So I guess it sounds silly, but I guess it is American … but it’s not the … it’s not the side of America that I like. It’s not the side that any of us here represent,” Dunn said. “We represent the good side of America, the people who actually believe in decency.” In emotional remarks, Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) commended the four officers and defended his participation on the House select committee, saying he was there not “in spite of my membership in the Republican Party but because of it.” “You guys won. You guys held,” Kinzinger, on the verge of tears, told the officers. “Democracies are not defined by our bad days. We’re defined by how we come back from our bad days.” “Here’s what we know: Congress was not prepared on January 6th. We weren’t prepared because we never imagined that this could happen,” Kinzinger continued. “An attack by our own people, fostered and encouraged by those granted power through the very system they sought to overturn.”

"Kinzinger, a member of the National Guard who was called to serve during last summer’s protests, drew a contrast between the reaction to those demonstrations and the lack of preparation to the riot. “Some have concocted a counternarrative to discredit this process on the grounds that we didn’t launch a similar investigation into the urban riots and looting last summer,” Kinzinger said. “Mr. Chairman, I was called on to serve during the summer riots as an Air National Guardsman. I condemn those riots and the destruction of property that resulted. But not once did I ever feel that the future of self-governance was threatened like I did on January 6th.”

“There is a difference between breaking the law and rejecting the rule of law, between a crime, even grave crimes, and a coup,” he added."

"Kinzinger then began his questioning of the four officers by asking whether they thought it was “time to move on” from an investigation of the attack. “We hear out there it’s time to move on,” Kinzinger said. “Does this feel like old history and time to move on? You can just say yes or no.” All four officers said no. “There can be no moving on without accountability,” D.C. police officer Daniel Hodges replied."

“There’s been this idea that this was not an armed insurrection. As if somehow that is justification for what happened,” Kinzinger said, before asking the officers what their response is to claims that the rioters were not armed. “For those people who continue to downplay this violent attack on our democracy and officers, I suggest to them to look at the videos and the footage now, because common things were used as weapons, like a baseball bat, a hockey stick, a rebar, a flagpole, including the American flag, pepper spray, bear spray,” said Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell. “Those are weapons, no matter if it is a pen. The way they were using these items, it was.” “We thank you for holding the line,” Kinzinger said, holding back tears. Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell castigated former president Donald Trump for having characterized his supporters who convened in Washington on Jan. 6 as “a loving crowd.” Gonell was asked about Trump’s phrase by Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), one of the two Republicans on the committee. “To me, it’s insulting, just demoralizing because of everything that we did to prevent everyone in the Capitol from getting hurt,” Gonell said. “And what he was doing, instead of sending the military, instead of sending the support or telling his people, his supporters, to stop this nonsense, he begged them to continue fighting.”

“I’m still recovering from those hugs and kisses that day that he claimed,” Gonell added. He said that members of the mob on Jan. 6 repeatedly told him that “Trump sent us.” “It was not antifa. It was not Black Lives Matter. It was not the FBI. It was his supporters that he sent them over to the Capitol that day. And he could have done a lot of things,” Gonell said. “One of them was to tell them to stop.”

"His exchange came with Cheney came shortly after lawmakers started asking questions following opening statements from the officers. Ahead of Cheney’s questions, Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss.), the committee’s chairman, asked the officers to elaborate upon their experiences on Jan. 6. Harry Dunn, a Capitol Police officer, who had testified about being called racial slurs while on duty that day, said he didn’t “process it as a racial attack” at the time. “I was just trying to survive that day and get home,” he said. When he thought more about it later, Dunn said, he found it distressing that “people demonize you because of the color of your skin.” “When my blood is red, I’m an American citizen,” he said. “I’m not a police officer. I’m a peace officer. I’m here to defend this country, defend everybody in this building.”

"D.C. police officer Daniel Hodges recounted the harrowing experiences he faced while protecting the Capitol from insurrectionists, whom he repeatedly characterized as “terrorists” and “Donald Trump’s people” as he delivered his opening statement Tuesday. Hodges recalled watching the day quickly turn from a “peaceful assembly into terrorism” that ultimately left him brutally beaten and pinned between the rioters and a Capitol door frame, wondering whether he would die there or be dragged to the building’s West Front by taunting insurrections to be “lynched by the mob.” “I was effectively defenseless,” he said as he described standing between the metal door frame and his shield, which a protester took from him. Unable to move, he was beaten by several insurrectionists, first with his face mask and then with his baton, which left him with a bloodied lip and lacerations to his face. Although Hodges’s bloodied face became a powerful image of just how violent the pro-Trump mob became on Jan. 6, the officer said the attackers’ verbal aggression also showed their determination to overturn the election and harm anyone who came in their path. “A man sarcastically yelled, ‘Here come the boys in blue! So brave.’ Another called on us to ‘remember your oath.’ There was plenty of booing,” Hodges said as he recalled the taunts leveled at him and his colleagues as they repositioned from the National Mall to the Capitol’s West Front. “Another woman who was part of the mob of terrorists laying siege to the Capitol of the United States shouted, ‘Traitors.’ ” The police continued to march, undeterred by threats that the officers would “die on your knees” if they did not side with the insurrectionists. While defending the Capitol grounds, Hodges recalled seeing a sea of flags, some of which read: “Jesus is my savior. Trump is my president.” But what perplexed Hodges was seeing the blue line American flag meant to symbolize defending the police carried by the same people who had thrown him to the ground and beaten him relentlessly. Hodges said some insurrectionists tried to “convert” police to their side, while others yelled and foamed at the mouth as they beat him while he was pinned against the metal door frame. Surviving the attacks, but not without serious injuries and a concussion, Hodges recalled feeling thankful to see fellow members of his team in the Capitol Crypt that evening. “Despite our exhaustion, we would have run out into the fight again should the need have arisen,” he said."

"In emotional testimony that recounted the abuse he received while defending the Capitol on Jan. 6, D.C. police officer Daniel Hodges said he was struck by the flags carried by members of the mob, whom he characterized as “terrorists.” “To my perpetual confusion, I saw the thin blue line flag, a symbol of support for law enforcement more than once being carried by the terrorists as they ignored our commands and continued to assault us,” Hodges said. He nodded to the conflict between the beliefs represented by the flags, and the actions of those holding them. “It was clear the terrorists perceived themselves to be Christians. I saw the Christian flag directly to my front, another ‘Jesus is my savior.’ ‘Trump is my president.’ Another ‘Jesus is king,’ ” Hodges continued. Hodges detailed how insurrectionists beat him and tried to jab him with metal objects, while others attempted to remove his service firearm, rip off his gas mask and gouge his eyes. The mob alternately attacked him and tried to appear to be allied with him, he said. “Men alleging to be veterans told us how they had fought for this country and we’re fighting for it again. One man tried to start a chant of four more years,” Hodges said. “Another shouted, ‘do not attack us. We’re not Black Lives Matter,’ as if political affiliation is how we determine when to use force.” Hodges is among members of the Capitol Police and the D.C. police testifying in Tuesday’s inaugural hearing on the Jan 6. riot."

Must not be forgotten these officers were not jackbooted bastards in blue murdering innocent unarmed civilians. They were defending a democratic republic at great personal expense and injury. Stood tall. Uncommon Valor.

Think overt racism not a problem? No longer exists? Remains in the closet? Would be sadly mistaken. The following? Beyond appalling. CBS News reports:

"TARRANT, Ala. — A White city leader captured on video using a racial slur toward Black people during a council meeting said he won't apologize, and might run for mayor. Others are calling for his resignation. Tarrant City Council member Tommy Bryant told news outlets his use of the word Monday night reflected something the city's Black mayor, Wayman Newton, had said during an earlier private meeting. During a public session, Bryant used the slur to refer to a Black female council member, Veronica Freeman. Before the outburst, neighbors asked Bryant about controversial social media posts allegedly made by his wife about race, CBS affiliate WIAT-TV reports."

"After being questioned, Bryant stood up and can be heard saying: "The n-word. The n-word. Let's get to the n-word. Hey. Do we have a house n***** in here? Do we? Hey. Would she please stand up?" Bryant said. Some in the audience gasped at his use of the slur, which was broadcast on Facebook Live, and Freeman left crying, but Bryant was unapologetic."

Jesus Christ. What a piece of shit. Hard to believe it's 2021, -- not 1960. Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter.

"I did what needed to be done. It needed to be brought to light what kind of a person the mayor is," Bryant told WIAT-TV. The mayor said the video speaks for itself and, in an interview with al.com, denied using the same slur Bryant uttered during the meeting. Asked whether he is a racist, Bryant demurred. "It's according to what your definition of the word racist is. What a lot of the public's definition is, I might be a racist. But according to what the true definition of a racist is, absolutely not," he told WVTM."

"The Alabama NAACP called for Bryant's resignation, saying he had "disgraced himself and has stained the position he holds."

"We are asking Governor Ivey to do that immediately so that this will not become who Alabama is... The world is looking at what this racist has said, and right now this is the face of Alabama," said NAACP Alabama president Benard. Simelton.https://t.co/4zJHn5BTof
— CBS 42 (@CBS_42) July 21, 2021

"While city elections are nonpartisan in Alabama, the state Democratic Party issued a statement calling for Bryant's resignation, and the Alabama GOP noted that Mayor Newton is a Republican and said Bryant's remark was "completely unacceptable." WIAT-TV reached out to Newton, but he declined an interview and said the video of Monday's meeting "spoke for itself."

Sad, isn't it? Portend of far worse to come as our formerly great country continues to fall apart.

"Tarrant, which adjoins Birmingham, has a population of about 6,100 and is about 53% Black, Census statistics show. Waynette Bonham, who is Black and also identifies as a member of the LGBTQ+ community, told WIAT Bryant should resign. "I was like this was the person that is supposed to be serving our communities? Like, this is supposed to be our representation, he has his own district in Tarrant? No," said Bonham."

... Hear the rumble? An unwanted, dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looms as an increasing number of issues continue to tear this country apart. Time to wake up before too late. The clock is running out.

"Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand has been pushing for changes in how the military handles sexual assault and other serious crimes for years. Top commanders and fellow senators are now joining her efforts."

"The Senate Armed Services Committee approved a sweeping legislative package to reform the way the military prosecutes serious crimes, handing the lawmaker leading the years-long effort a major victory. Behind closed doors, the panel incorporated Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand's measure as part of the annual defense bill, also known as the National Defense Authorization Act or NDAA. For weeks this summer, Gillibrand, D-N.Y., openly sparred on the Senate floor with her Democratic colleague, Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Jack Reed of Rhode Island, to gain approval for her measure. By late Wednesday, the two had issued a joint statement hailing a new agreement. "We are proud to announce the committee has put forth a strong bill that makes historic changes to the military justice system and combats the scourge of military sexual assault," Gillibrand and Reed said Wednesday night after a daylong Armed Services Committee meeting. "We look forward to working together to bring this bill to the Senate floor and making the NDAA law."

"Previously, Reed objected to broader goals in Gillibrand's legislation to move all felony crimes — not just sexual assaults — from the chain of command and into the hands of trained military prosecutors. Now the defense measure approved by the committee includes Gillibrand's so-called Military Justice Improvement and Increasing Prevention Act, a Senate aide confirmed to NPR. The defense bill now heads to the Senate floor and faces a new round of hurdles in the House of Representatives, where some objections remain. Traditionally, the authorization bill draws wide bipartisan support, but the effort to revamp how the military handles felonies has met steadfast objections from Pentagon leaders and key congressional members since it was introduced eight years ago. For example, these concerns remained even as Gillibrand had drawn key Republican support in the Senate, including that of Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa, who has signed on as a co-sponsor since 2013. However, those dynamics shifted this year after Gillibrand joined forces with Republican Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa, a sexual assault survivor before she became a veteran combat company commander. Increasingly, Ernst and others pointed to the need for dramatic change as statistics showed sexual assault crimes rising in the ranks despite other legislative fixes. "We are bound and determined," Ernst told NPR in May."

"It marked a game changer as a new wave of former holdouts joined forces with the duo to become co-sponsors, giving the bill the 60 votes needed to gain passage on the Senate floor. The legislation would keep serious crimes under military oversight but allow such cases to be handled by criminal justice attorneys with relevant expertise rather than commanders who often lack legal training. Gillibrand and other supporters said the plan must go beyond sex-related crimes and include all major crimes, such as murder, manslaughter and child pornography. "These are hard cases, and these are cases that deserve a professional person reviewing it properly without bias," Gillibrand told NPR last month. Also in June, several key House members, including Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Democratic Rep. Jackie Speier of California, signed on to the Senate plan to overhaul the military's justice system, boosting the measure's chances further. For years, Speier has sponsored her own bill to move sex-related crimes away from military commanders. Now, a new group of bipartisan House members have coalesced around the broader plan. "We're here today for the service members who have spoken out or who have suffered in silence because the message and culture in the military has been clear: Shut up, suck it up and don't rock the boat," Speier told reporters last month."

"This, as President Biden and key military leaders have shared public support to pull at least serious sex-related crimes from commanders. However, they have stopped short of endorsing the legislation's broader goals to yank other felonies from the chain of command."

"This month, an independent review found that commanders are woefully ill-prepared at handling sex-related crimes and harassment. This report followed Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's new backing to amend the Uniform Code of Justice to move sex assault cases to independent military lawyers. Earlier in May, Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said he was dropping his opposition to the plan to pull sex-related assault cases from commanders. Reed has been of the same mind as Pentagon leaders. And his objections to the Gillibrand's broader efforts stalled movement on the issue in recent months. Gillibrand was persistent, taking to the floor at least 20 times since May to push for quick approval for her plan while arguing she and other co-sponsors had the votes. Gillibrand, who has served on the Armed Services Committee for the past decade, has said repeatedly she's determined to reach the finish line on her plan this year. "I asked for a vote in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020," Gillibrand said in Senate floor debate in May. "And I was denied every single time." But she and other supporters were met repeatedly with Reed's objections, who argued the bill should go through the regular order of the committee process. "I object," Reed said in a recent faceoff Monday. Other senators also joined in the series of debates. Other opponents of the reforms included Sens. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, the ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee, and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., a former military lawyer. "I respect Sen. Gillibrand a lot, and she is very passionate about this. All I can say is that passion and justice have to be measured, and we have to be making decisions based on facts, not just on an outcome that we would like," Graham said in a floor objection last month. "When we start talking about cases where somebody was acquitted and as if that was the wrong result, that scares the hell out of me."

Time to figuratively remove your head from your ass, Senator. Wake up. Status quo not sustainable. Too many criminals, predators in the military are getting away with their crimes due to obstinate commanders dealing with intractable problems they're not legally qualified to deal with.

"In the military, commanders who are not lawyers get to choose which serious criminal cases go to trial. Leaders who are pilots or infantry officers or hold other positions can be tasked with making weighty legal decisions with little to no experience. Supporters argue that the Gillibrand's legislation protects both victim and defendant rights alike. That includes, for example, service members facing serious crimes worried about their rights as defendants when they already have an acrimonious relationship with their current commander. "I began calling for a full floor vote since May 24. Since that time, an estimated 3,136 service members will have been raped or sexually assaulted, and more will have been victims of other serious crimes," Gillibrand said on the Senate floor on Monday. "While I am heartened to see, after many years of pushing for reform, the growing numbers of our colleagues, the Department of Defense and the president have acknowledged that we must move sexual assault and related crimes like domestic violence out of the chain of command," Gillibrand continued, "but it is simply not enough."

Desperately needed change. Amazing how much resistance there is from fascists equally desperate to maintain an unsustainable egregiously unjust status quo. A growing problem in the Republican Party that Democrats have miserably failed to effectively confront. Senator Graham's de facto embrace of national socialism, blatant fascism blinds him to egregious injustice both in the military and civilian systems of justice. Particularly, the murder of innocent, unarmed civilians by the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue. Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter.

Who the hell are Republican nazis to force their outrageously perverse ideological and religious views on the rest of us? Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter. NPR reports:

"The battle is now joined at the U.S. Supreme Court. This week the state of Mississippi formally asked the high court to reverse its landmark 1973 abortion decision, Roe v. Wade, prompting abortion rights defenders to say, in effect, "I told you so."

To the nazi element in Mississippi a raucous boot clicking, goose stepping, treasonous, treacherous, traitorous Seig Heil! Raw nazism.

"In May the justices agreed to consider whether state laws that ban pre-viability abortions are unconstitutional. The test case was brought by Mississippi, which has a state law banning abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy. Like laws in a dozen other states, this one was struck down by the lower courts because it conflicts with the Supreme Court's decision in Roe v. Wade and subsequent high court decisions over the years. Mississippi, in its original appeal to the Supreme Court last year, argued that its law complied with existing precedent and it said that the court should only overturn Roe if it concluded there was no other way to uphold the state law. But this week, the state reframed its argument, abandoning its earlier and narrower attack, to take direct aim at Roe and its holding that women have a constitutional right to terminate a pregnancy prior to the fetus being able to survive outside the womb. Roe and its subsequent decisions are "egregiously wrong," the state contended. "the conclusion that abortion is a constitutional right has no basis in text, structure, history or tradition."

Crock of shit by the nazi element who Aryan arrogantly believe they own your uterus, ladies. Do they? Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini certainly thought so. Abortion was indeed illegal in Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. Present day nazis in the Republican Party are doing all they can to eviscerate a democratic republic and replace it with an autocratic, national socialist, fascist police-state. To date, these traitors are succeeding.

"Abortion rights defenders promptly seized on the state's brief, noting that until now Mississippi had portrayed its appeal as far more limited. "Mississippi has said the quiet part out loud. The purpose of its blatantly unconstitutional abortion ban is to have the Supreme Court overrule 50 years of precedent and allow states to ban abortions," said Alexis McGill Johnson, president of the Planned Parenthood Action Fund. This is not what the American people — 80% of whom support safe, legal abortion — want, and it would deny essential health care primarily to people of color, LGBTQ+ people, and people with low incomes. Planned Parenthood will continue to do all we can to fight back and protect access to reproductive freedom for all."

... Hear the rumble? An unwanted, dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looms on this and an increasing number of other issues designed to abrogate all civil and constitutional rights and liberties. Too deaf to hear? Or, too aggressively stupid and out to lunch.

"For Anna Rupani, harassment comes with the job. As the co-executive director at Fund Texas Choice — a practical-support abortion fund in Texas that helps women travel to places, both in and out of the state, where they can receive abortion care — she’s been the target of protests, violent threats, online bullying and terrifying mail."

A victim of the Nazi Right in our formerly great country. Yet, a woman of great courage. Indeed, Uncommon Valor.

"But should a novel law in her state go into effect Sept. 1, those who oppose her work will be able to express themselves through the courts — with the likely practical effect of suing her fund and others like it into oblivion."

No question. An exigent threat to freedom, liberty, to the very lives of women as they once knew them, to all civil and constitutional rights and liberties. Courtesy of national socialists, fascists, nazis in the Republican Party determined to force their perverse ideological and religious views on all in direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, that is, freedom from religion.

"That law, known as S.B. 8, bans abortions in Texas as early as six weeks into pregnancy — before many women even know they are pregnant. But unlike every other anti-abortion law, Texas' unique ban will be enforced through private citizens' lawsuits, rather than through state government. It includes first-of-its-kind language that allows anyone, even someone outside Texas, to sue an abortion provider or anyone else who helped someone get an abortion after the six-week limit for at least $10,000 per defendant. "This is basically all to create a chilling effect. Even if these lawsuits are thrown out, organizations like ours will have to keep defending themselves in court every time," Rupani said. "It's all about putting us out of business."

Ultimately, it is about dictating to a woman what she can and cannot do with HER uterus. Ladies? The Nazi Right Aryan arrogantly, delusionally believes IT owns your uterus. Again, does it?

"Targets could include not only abortion funds and practical support organizations that provide women in need with money, transportation, lodging, recovery care and child care, but also doctors, nurses, domestic violence counselors and even friends, parents, spouses and clergy members who drive a woman to a clinic or even just provide counseling about whether to have the procedure. Abortion-rights groups have filed a suit in federal court seeking to block the law from going into effect. Abortion-rights advocates in Texas say the law will encourage their opponents to flood courts with lawsuits that will cripple their ability to operate — their limited time and resources spent on fighting suits instead of care and support. If that happens, women will be isolated from the little support available to them during these vulnerable moments. In interviews, they called the law “insidious,” “draconian,” “cruel” and “pernicious.”

What it is, and remains, is Right Wing Nazi. An exigent threat to liberty. Determined abrogation of a democratic republic to an autocratic fascist police-state. Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter. Abortion was indeed illegal in Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.

"Experts who study and track abortion access, however, said the law is actually the embodiment of a broader, more extreme and increasingly aggressive wave of vigilantism that, at least in the anti-abortion movement, began with protests and sporadic acts of violence. The threat then moved online, they said, and now, in Texas at least, it has moved to the courts, where abortion foes will be empowered to hunt for financial bounties by suing their opponents."

Raw nazism. Imposed by national socialists, fascists determined to force their perverse ideological and religious views on all in direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, that is, freedom from religion.

"Elizabeth Nash, a state policy analyst at the Guttmacher Institute, a research organization that studies reproductive health rights, said one of the law's most concerning pieces is that its enforcement was in the hands of individuals, not law enforcement, eager to shut down and harass abortion clinics and support providers. “It literally provides a financial incentive for the kind of harassment and vigilantism we’ve seen grow decade after decade,” she said. Legal experts said that if the law is upheld, anti-abortion activists will face an uphill battle proving in court that other people’s abortions are personally injurious to them, the typical hurdle for allowing this kind of a lawsuit to advance in court. Still, it will nevertheless bring mischief for abortion care advocates, legal experts said, by inviting frivolous lawsuits that abortion supporters will have to pay to defend against, even if they win every single one. “It’s the legalization of harassment without holding the government liable,” Rupani said."

Raw nazism. Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini would have been proud of these nazi bastards.

"Meanwhile, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, has lauded the bill as a measure that “ensures that the life of every unborn child who has a heartbeat will be saved from the ravages of abortion.”

Who the hell are you and your fellow nazis to impose your perverse ideological and religious views on the rest of us in direct violation of the First Amendment Establishment Clause, that is, freedom from religion? Wake up, Governor. Your head figuratively remains securely lodged up your nazi ass, sir. Your hypocrisy is stunning. Where is your concern for all those innocent unarmed civilians murdered by the criminal jackbooted bastards in blue both here in Texas and throughout our formerly great country? ... Hear the rumble? An unwanted, dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looms on this and many, many other issues. Too deaf too hear? Or, too aggressively stupid and out to lunch.

"Its author, Republican state Sen. Bryan Hughes, has frequently spoken of his belief that the bill will more effectively stand up to legal challenges than previous ones that relied on law enforcement, and at least one prominent anti-abortion group, Right to Life East Texas, has vowed to begin suing individuals under the law as soon as it goes into effect. S.B. 8 doesn't outright criminalize abortions after six weeks, but rather encourages civil lawsuits at the municipal, county and state level targeting the process by which a woman might seek abortion care."

"The law is also uniquely designed to disadvantage defendants, experts said. All damages would go right into the plaintiff’s pocket. If a defendant wins, they still must pay their own legal fees, but if a plaintiff bringing a suit wins, the defendant must pay both sides’ legal fees. Individuals who are thought to be helping a woman obtain abortion care can be sued multiple times by different people and parties. “It bakes in incentives and takes away disincentives for vigilante enforcement,” said Adriana Piñon, a senior staff attorney and policy counsel with the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas. “It’s bounty hunting,” added the Rev. Katherine Ragsdale, president of the National Abortion Federation. “Abusive spouses, disapproving parents, angry neighbors or people with no relation at all will all have a legal right to harass,” she said, before connecting it to a broader rise in extremism in recent years. “This kind incentivized vigilantism isn’t just about abortion issues. It’s private individuals patrolling the border with guns; it’s insurrectionists storming the U.S. Capitol. Now it’s the ability to sue about helping with or providing abortion care,” she said. “It’s part of a growing level and climate of vigilantism and violence that large chunks of the country feel is justified.”

No longer a democratic republic. No more than a de facto fascist police-state. Raw nazism. An autocracy.

"The use of aggressive tactics against abortion-rights groups is nothing new. But the prevalence and intensity of those tactics have grown in recent years. According to NAF’s latest violence and disruption report, acts of violence and disruption targeting abortion providers — including invasions, trespassing, assault and battery, death threats and threats of harm, hate mail, hate calls, hate emails and bomb threats — rose 22 percent to more than 153,000 incidents in 2019 (the most recent year NAF has assessed), an all-time high, the majority of which were incidents of picketing. Multiple officials at abortion funds and abortion clinics described a huge uptick in hacking and online bullying in recent years, too. That includes Amy Hagstrom Miller, CEO of Whole Woman’s Health, a network of abortion clinics across Texas, and a plaintiff in a federal lawsuit to block S.B. 8 from going into effect, who said her group has seen hundreds of attempts by hackers to take her group’s site down and access her group’s databases. But because of S.B. 8, she and numerous others said, the venue for that kind of intimidation would now be the U.S. court system. “It’s the unusual next venue for that kind of surveillance and harassment and intimidation that anti-abortion folks have engaged against clinics and patients for decades,” she said. “But it’s nonetheless yet another new and frightening chapter, because it’s formalized the ability for the anti-abortion movement to have a private cause of action against clinics and people helping others get to the clinic,” she added."

Sadly, as this continues, an unwanted, dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looms.

"Lawyers working on the suit to block the law from going into effect have expressed cautious optimism about their case, even though they are challenging a law that was cleverly designed with a new, untested enforcement mechanism in mind. “We don’t think Texas’ strategy is going to be successful because, even though private individuals are enabled to file suits, ultimately there are still government officials in charge of enforcement of the law. It’s just that these officials are in the court system, not law enforcement,” said Marc Hearron, who as senior counsel at the Center for Reproductive Rights is working on the suit. But abortion-rights advocates say that doesn't matter: If the law is upheld, the avalanche of lawsuits still means just about anyone who opposes abortion could use the court system to stop people like Zaena Zamora, who runs the Frontera Fund, which provides money for care and travel. As a result, Zamora could be sued by countless people for each woman she has helped receive abortion care. Last year, Zamora helped about 400 women who live in the southern-most tip of Texas, predominantly Hispanic and below the poverty line, travel within and outside of the state to receive care. That would amount to a minimum of $4 million in damages owed, plus legal fees for both sides in each suit. Zamora's yearly budget for practical support and abortion care funds is below $100,000. “It would bury us in litigation and bills that would undoubtedly stop us from doing the work we do,” Zamora said. “Imagine being able to pocket $10,000 for harassing a group like ours. The cruelty is the point.”

A de facto fascist police-state. ... Hear the rumble? An unwanted, dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looms on this and many, many other issues.

"The chair of former President Donald Trump’s inaugural committee was ordered freed Friday on $250 million bail to face charges he secretly worked as an agent for the the United Arab Emirates to influence Trump’s foreign policy. Tom Barrack, 74, will be subject to electronic monitoring and largely confined to his residence after he is arraigned Monday in a New York courtroom. He was arrested Tuesday in Los Angeles near his home. Barrack is expected to plead not guilty to conspiring to influence U.S. policy on the UAE’s behalf during Trump’s 2016 campaign and while Trump was president. Barrack, the founder of private equity firm Colony Capital, was among three men charged in the case. Prosecutors said Barrack used his long personal friendship with Trump to benefit the UAE without disclosing his ties to the U.S. government. U.S. Magistrate Judge Patricia Donahue in Los Angeles ordered strict conditions for Barrack’s release. He must surrender his passport, wear a GPS-monitor to track his whereabouts, limit travel between Southern California and New York City and obey a curfew."

"Barrack is charged with conspiracy, obstruction of justice and making multiple false statements during a June 2019 interview with federal agents. Matthew Grimes, 27, a former executive at Barrack’s company from Aspen, Colorado, and Rashid al Malik, 43, a businessman from the United Arab Emirates who prosecutors said acted as a conduit to that nation’s rulers, were also charged in the seven-count indictment. Grimes was ordered released on $5 million bail. Al Malik fled the U.S. three days after an April 2018 interview by law enforcement and remains at large, authorities said. He and is believed to be living somewhere in the Middle East. Barrack is one of several of the former president’s associates to face criminal charges, including his former campaign chair, his former deputy campaign chair, his former chief strategist, his former national security adviser, his former personal lawyer and his company’s longtime chief financial officer. Barrack was an informal adviser to Trump’s 2016 campaign before becoming the inaugural committee chair. He raised $107 million for the lavish celebration scrutinized both for its spending and for attracting numerous foreign officials and businesspeople looking to lobby the new administration. The inaugural committee was not implicated in the indictment. After Trump took office, Barrack informally advised senior U.S. government officials on Middle East foreign policy. He also sought appointment as special envoy to the Middle East or U.S. ambassador to the UAE, prosecutors said. He relayed sensitive information about developments within the Trump administration to UAE officials— including how senior U.S. officials felt about a yearslong boycott of Qatar conducted by the UAE and other Middle Eastern countries, prosecutors said. He told al Malik that landing an official position within the administration would enable him to advance UAE interests, prosecutors said. Such an appointment “would give ABU DHABI more power!” he wrote to al Malik, prosecutors said."

"Prosecutors originally sought to detain Barrack because they said he owned a private jet and was a flight risk. They also noted he has citizenship in Lebanon, a country with no extradition treaty with the U.S."

"A California judge on Friday set bail at $250 million for the billionaire investor and longtime friend of former president Donald Trump who was indicted on a charge of breaking foreign lobbying laws, ordering him to appear in federal court in New York next week. Thomas J. Barrack, 74, who waived his court appearance for discussion of the prearranged release agreement, was expected to be freed from a jail in Los Angeles later Friday. His ex-wife Rachelle and son Thomas Barrack III were suretors on the bond. Barrack’s co-defendant, Matthew Grimes, was set to be freed on a $5 million bond. Both men must wear GPS monitoring devices and were ordered to travel to New York for an afternoon proceeding on Monday in federal court in Brooklyn. They were indicted on charges related to failing to register as lobbyists for the United Arab Emirates, whose government they worked for over two years beginning when Trump campaigned for office in 2016. The pair allegedly sought to influence Trump’s campaign — and later his administration — to advance policies that were favorable to the wealthy Gulf state. Barrack, who served as chairman of Trump’s inaugural committee, is also charged with obstruction of justice and making false statements to FBI agents in 2019. Both men were arrested Tuesday."

Follow-up to the January 6, 2021 insurrection. In an interesting editorial at the NBC News website written by Kurt Bardella, advisor to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, he opines:

"On Monday, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., nominated Reps. Jim Jordan, Jim Banks, Rodney Davis, Kelly Armstrong and Troy Nehls to serve on the select committee to investigate the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. This is the same Jim Jordan — who, you might remember, served on the House select committee investigating Hillary Clinton, I mean Benghazi — who actually opposed the creation of Jan. 6 committee. This is the same Jim Jordan — who, you might remember, served on the House select committee investigating Hillary Clinton, I mean Benghazi — who actually opposed the creation of Jan. 6 committee, saying, “I know I’ve got real concerns … that this is all just political, and that this is impeachment three against President Trump.” It’s also the same Jim Jordan who returned to the House floor in the immediate aftermath of the insurrection and voted against the certification of the free and fair election of President Joe Biden. Of course, he was far from alone. 147 Republicans, including Banks and Nehls, voted to overturn America’s legitimate election, an overwhelming endorsement of the same big lie that fueled the attack hours earlier."

Raises once again the question why hasn't Trump been arrested, charged, and prosecuted for inciting violent insurrection? Why special treatment for the traitorous son of a bitch? Why?

"On Wednesday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., rejected McCarthy’s nominations of Jordan and Banks and released a pointed, definitive explanation: “With respect for the integrity of the investigation, with an insistence on the truth and with concern about statements made and actions taken by these Members, I must reject the recommendations of Representatives Banks and Jordan to the Select Committee. The unprecedented nature of January 6th demands this unprecedented decision.”

"McCarthy’s response amounted to taking his ball and leaving the playground, indicating that unless the speaker relented, he would not appoint any members to the committee. The Republican leader went as far as to say, “Pelosi has broken the institution.” Really, Kevin? When it comes to breaking the “institution” of Congress and democratic norms, Kevin McCarthy has been riding shotgun with former President Donald Trump for years. Where was the outrage when the former president took a wrecking ball to checks and balances? Where was the outrage when the GOP tried to commit a coup on the House floor? Where was the outrage when Republican colleagues framed an FBI-labeled domestic terrorist event as a “normal tourist visit?” Where was the outrage when Republicans tried to rebrand these terrorists as “patriots?”

The above is precisely the line of questioning reporters should have confronted MCCarthy with immediately. They didn't. Softball questioning remains a problem all across our formerly great country. What the hell are reporters so afraid of? The nazi element in the Republican Party owned by their fuhrer, the Trump nazi and his goose stepping sick sycophants?

"Outside of a very small handful of Republicans like Reps. Liz Cheney (who was appointed to the committee by the speaker) and Adam Kinzinger (who would be a great addition to the committee if McCarthy wants to forfeit his slots), the GOP has acted as democratic arsonists for a while now. What we saw on Jan. 6 was the culmination of years of the Republican Party’s embrace of extremism."

That's right. Raw nazism. Incarnation of Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini in the Trump nazi.

"Outside of a very small handful of Republicans like Rep. Liz Cheney, the GOP has acted as democratic arsonists for a while now."

No question. Egregious abrogation of their falsely sworn oaths of office to uphold the United States Constitution, rule of law.

"It’s important to remember Republicans had every opportunity to act as equal partners in a bipartisan investigation. But when presented with the opportunity to create a 9/11-style commission to examine the Capitol attack, they voted against it. The people who made this partisan were the Republicans."

"McCarthy, Jordan and Banks can complain all they want about being excluded from this investigation, but asking them to be a part of this committee would be like asking members of Al Qaeda to join the 9/11 commission. You don’t get to support (or commit) the crime and then expect to be part of the investigation."

"For years, Republicans have felt they could run roughshod over Democrats. There remains a widespread belief that Democrats simply don’t have the stomach for a fight that way. That sentiment has allowed the GOP to act like bullies in the school yard."

Democrats, including Biden, remain egregiously ineffective challenging the raw nazism of Republicans.

"Republicans will now label the select committee a “partisan witch hunt” and attack any of the findings or revelations it puts forward. Some pundits have posited that this is a political “gift” offered up by Pelosi."

It will certainly be one if Pelosi doesn't finally adopt a take-no-prisoners approach to raw nazism embraced by Trump and his sycophants.

"Spoiler alert: Republicans were going to do that anyway. Better to at least let the committee conduct its business and have hearings without Jordan and Banks interrupting the proceedings every five minutes with their angry, incomprehensible rantings."

While certainly true, it will take far, far more from Pelosi and her fellow Democrats to effectively challenge the raw nazism of the GOP.

"Meanwhile, the committee will begin its work Tuesday and has asked members of the U.S. Capitol Police and the Metropolitan Police Department who were on duty on Jan. 6 to testify. Dare these “law and order” Republicans to attack these heroes? If the GOP wants to side with domestic terrorists over our own people in uniform, let them. The men and women who protected and served lawmakers on a chaotic and deadly day are coming to Congress to talk about their experience. Let the record show Republicans were too cowardly to show up and listen."

Necessary but egregiously insufficient to solve the problem, effectively combat the nazism. Will take far, far more.

"Kurt Bardella is an advisor to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC). He is a former spokesperson and senior advisor for Republicans on the House Oversight Committee. You can follow him @KurtBardella."

"ONE WAY OR ANOTHER: A big investigative showdown is anticipated next week in Washington. And ex-president Donald Trump, for one of the first times since he was elected in 2016, won't be at the center of it. When House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) pulled all five of his designees from the Jan. 6 selection committee earlier this week, he also inadvertently sidelined his members from defending the former president and de facto leader of the Republican Party during a high profile investigation. According to a source inside his orbit, Twitterless Trump is likely to be angry if he watches the first hearing of the Jan. 6 committee, or sees wall-to-wall cable news coverage of the proceedings but does not see any Republicans coming to his defense (he continues to regularly spend time watching television every day). Deplatformed from the most prominent social media outlets, Trump will largely have to rely on email to defend his actions leading up to and on the day of the insurrection on the Capitol."

"When Nancy Pelosi raised a glass to Liz Cheney, it was the most unlikely of toasts."

No question. Quite remarkable. More than that? About time for some genuine partisanship between two major political parties vis a vis an out of control former president who traitorously incited violent insurrection.

"Democratic lawmakers and the Republican congresswoman were gathered in the House speaker’s office as the group prepared for the first session of the committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol. Pelosi spoke of the “solemn responsibility” before them and raised her water glass to Cheney, a daughter of the former vice president and the sole Republican in the room. “Let us salute Liz for her courage,” she said, according to a person familiar with the gathering who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the private meeting."

Indeed. Uncommon Valor. Displayed by Ms. Cheney, daughter of the former vice president.

"Politics often creates unlikely alliances, the odd-couple arrangements between would-be foes who drop their differences to engage on a common cause."

In a supposed democratic republic, principle always trumps partisanship. Country before party. As clearly indicated by the following:

"But the emerging partnership between Pelosi and Cheney is remarkable, if not astonishing, as the longtime political adversaries join forces to investigate what happened the day former President Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the Capitol. Rarely has there been a meeting of the minds like this — two of the strongest women on Capitol Hill, partisans at opposite ends of the political divide — bonding over a shared belief that the truth about the insurrection should come out and those responsible held accountable. They believe no less than the functioning of America’s democracy is on the line."

“Nothing draws politicians together like a shared enemy,” said John Pitney, a former Republican staffer and professor of politics at Claremont McKenna College. The committee will hold its first hearing next week, and the stakes of the Pelosi-Cheney alliance have never been higher. The panel will hear testimony from police officers who battled the Trump supporters that day at the Capitol. The officers have portrayed the hourslong siege as hardly a gathering of peaceful demonstrators, as some Republicans claim, but rather a violent mob trying to stop Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s election. As their new partnership unfolds, the risks and rewards have an uneven flow. Pelosi benefits more politically from drawing Cheney to her side, giving the committee’s investigation the big-name bipartisan stamp it needs to avoid being viewed as a strictly political exercise. For Cheney, who has already been booted from GOP leadership over her criticism of Trump, the political dangers are far greater. She was one of 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach Trump over the insurrection, and her willingness to speak out against his top ally, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, now leaves her isolated on Capitol Hill. She is facing blowback from the ranks and serious primary challenges for her reelection back home."

“I’m horrified,” said Sen. Cynthia Lummis, a fellow Wyoming Republican, about Cheney’s actions. Cheney, though, shows no signs of backing down on what she views as an existential fight not only for the party she and her family helped build, but also for the soul of the nation itself."

“The American people deserve to know what happened,” she said this week."

"Standing on the steps of the Capitol, Cheney lambasted the rhetoric coming from McCarthy as “disgraceful” and supported Pelosi’s decision to block two of his appointees to the panel because of their alliance with Trump. McCarthy has suggested Cheney might be closer now to Pelosi than her own party, and he withdrew all Republican participation in the committee."

Think Trump will remain a happy camper as he sees no Republicans defend him during the proceeding?

"Pelosi and Cheney are hardly fast friends. Despite their long resumes in American politics, they never really talked to each other before this moment."

Remarkable, isn't it? Not that these two women do no not have enormous ideological differences:

"Pelosi won her first term as speaker during the George W. Bush administration, largely attacking the White House over the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the hawkish defense posture of then-Vice President Dick Cheney. Liz Cheney took office in 2017 defending her father’s legacy, speaking boldly at one of her first news conferences in support of the enhanced interrogation technique of waterboarding that was decried as torture under his watch. During Trump’s first impeachment, she lacerated Pelosi’s intentions in speeches. While both are political royalty, Pelosi and Cheney have operated in parallel political universes for much of their careers. A generation apart, they bring different styles to the job — Pelosi, the San Francisco liberal, Cheney, the Wyoming conservative. About the only thing they have in common is that both are mothers of five. Yet when Pelosi called Cheney the morning after the vote to establish the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the Capitol, both seemed to instantly grasp the historical gravity of the moment. Pelosi thanked Cheney for her patriotism and invited her to join the panel — a stunning moment, the Democratic speaker appointing a Republican to a spot. Cheney quickly accepted, responding that she was honored to serve, according to another person familiar with the conversation who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the private talks. Behind closed doors, those involved in the committee’s work see in Cheney a serious and constructive member, hardly a Republican figurehead but a determined partner to what she has said must be a “sober” investigation. It was Cheney who elevated the idea of having former Republican Rep. Denver Riggleman of Virginia serve as an adviser to the committee, which is under consideration, one of the people said. Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., the chair of the Jan. 6 panel, said while he and others didn’t know Cheney well, he found her to be “just like every other member that I have a relationship with. And I think that’s good. I just wish we had more of that kind of relationship in this institution. We’d be better off.” For Cheney and Pelosi, the commission and its findings are likely to be defining aspects of their careers. Pelosi led the House to twice impeach Trump and is determined to hold him accountable for his actions on Jan. 6 as she wraps what could be her final years as speaker."

"Seven people died in the siege and its aftermath, including Trump supporter Ashli Babbitt, who was shot by police as she climbed through a broken window trying to access the House chamber. Three other Trump supporters in the mob died of natural causes. Police officer Brian Sicknick, who had battled the rioters, died the next day. Two other officers took their own lives. Cheney, who warned her party in an op-ed that “history is watching” in this moment, vows to seek a fourth term but has an uncertain political future. Pitney, the professor who worked for the elder Cheney decades ago in House leadership but left the Republican Party during the Trump era, said the Pelosi and Cheney bond will be one for history. “It’s like one of those 1950s science-fiction movies where everyone unites over the alien invader,” he said. Pelosi and Cheney have “a legitimate shared interest in getting to the bottom of the insurrection.”

"In May, Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., was stripped of her role as the third-ranking Republican in the House by fellow party members who said they had tired of her frequent and vocal opposition to former President Donald Trump’s false claims of massive election fraud, as well as her vote to impeach him for inciting the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Just two months later, Cheney’s stature is rising again, this time as the lone Republican on the House select committee charged with investigating that Jan. 6 attack. While her participation has triggered more attacks from Trump and others within her own party, she’s drawing strong reviews from Democrats who praise her work ethic and contributions to the committee thus far. After Cheney was appointed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to the committee, her role was always meant to send a message of bipartisanship. But when House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., pulled his own Republican appointees this week, Cheney’s role as the sole GOP member has only grown, Democratic aides and lawmakers told NBC News. She may not be alone for long — Pelosi said Sunday she will try to add another Trump critic, Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., to the panel in an effort to bulk up Republican participation — but her role will still be distinct."

“She will definitely have an elevated role and an amplified voice,” Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., a member of the select committee, said in an interview. He said Cheney speaks for millions of Americans, including Republicans, who are looking for answers to many lingering questions about Jan. 6. “She comes in with a lot of credibility and legitimacy,” he said. Cheney remains a steadfast opponent of House Democrats on most fronts as well as a vocal and frequent critic of President Joe Biden’s policy agenda, including major issues of taxes, immigration, abortion, national security and government spending. But she has joined the Democrats on the Jan. 6 committee seamlessly, those members say, gaining trust that is rarely found across the political aisle, especially after the attack on the Capitol. She attends Zoom and in-person preparation meetings and has displayed an impressive level of commitment, knowledge and a “ferocious” work ethic."

Precisely, how Republicans conducted themselves during the Watergate fiasco, resulting in the forced resignation of Richard Nixon. Courageously placed principle ahead of partisanship.

“If you close your eyes, in our meetings, our Zooms, you wouldn't be able to distinguish which voice she was,” committee member Rep. Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., said. “That's the truth. We're all talking about next steps and process and what we want to get out of this, and she's been a committed partner in that.” The members have also been in regular contact through a group text established by the panel’s chairman, Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss. One Democratic member called her “brilliant.” “In the meetings that we've had thus far, she is very determined to get to the truth, and operates in a very no-nonsense fashion,” Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., said of Cheney. She has joined the group for two meetings in Pelosi’s office and spoken with her on the phone at least once, when Pelosi offered her a position on the committee. Cheney accepted the position but told Pelosi she couldn’t go to the news conference announcing the picks because she had to take her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, to the doctor, a source familiar with the conversation said. Before Jan. 6, it would have been unimaginable to think that the most powerful Democrat in Congress, known for her political prowess and progressive résumé, would tap a deeply conservative, politically astute and Teflon-tough Republican politician who also happens to be the daughter of a vice president that Democrats bitterly battled for decades. But the interests of the two women have merged with their public insistence that vital questions about the attack on their place of work must still be answered."

"That connection was strengthened this week when Cheney came to Pelosi’s defense after the speaker refused to accept two of McCarthy’s committee selections — Reps. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, and Jim Banks, R-Ind. — with Cheney insisting the investigation “must go forward” and declaring she is “absolutely dedicated and committed to making sure that this investigation holds those accountable who did this and ensures that it never happens again.” “She resonated with Speaker Pelosi this week because both of them are, you know, women in a male-dominated profession who are not going to be pushed around,” Raskin said."

Certainly, makes this exceptionally interesting. Depending how this investigation turns out, could it be both women wind up forcing change in both major political parties? -- Been the good ole boy system way too long.

"Pelosi’s rejection of the two Republicans is what led to McCarthy pulling all of his appointees, forgoing GOP representation, except for Cheney."

McCarthy conducted himself like a child. Figuratively speaking, took all his marbles and went home. Pissed off. Tough, isn't it?

"Cheney has already put her stamp on the committee. She has requested that a Republican adviser be hired and has requested former Virginia Rep. Denver Riggleman, a source familiar with the committee’s discussions said. Riggleman was defeated in a primary during the 2020 election cycle and has since gathered extensive research on extremism. “I think she brings a very important perspective, and I think she brings a conservative stature and pedigree that will be valued,” Schiff said of Cheney. Because the committee is still in the beginning stages, its members have not yet divvied up roles or assignments. But members point to her background in national security as an asset in helping understand domestic terrorism and extremism. Unsurprisingly, Republican members have distanced themselves from her as an outlier in the GOP. “I think she’s put herself on a little bit of an island,” Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, said of Cheney. But living in House Republican exile seems to be her only punishment for the time being. McCarthy had earlier warned his members that anyone taking a select committee post from Pelosi could be putting their other committee assignments at risk. So far he has not acted on that threat."

The following is also highly indicative of McCarthy's determined aggressive stupidity:

"Asked how Republicans should interact with Cheney, McCarthy said, “The way we interact with any Democrat in the process.”

Wake up, sir. She is far more than just a Democrat. In fact, with the exception of the Trump nazi and his presidency, her ideology remains for the most part solidly Republican, that is, national socialist, right wing fascist. Think that will truly change as a result of the investigation? Highly unlikely.

Hopefully, the sane in the Republican Party will finally smarten up and realize precisely how much damage Trump has done to the Party. -- A Party that seems to have traded conservatism for national socialism, fascism. A democratic republic for a de facto fascist police-state. Fascism, nazism, national socialism defined as the pernicious blend of government, business, and religion. 'Justified' by perversion and bastardization of the latter.

Even if Cheney is not returned to office, she certainly has the distinction of having stood up to a nazi fuhrer, the Trump nazi:

"Cheney’s participation is unlikely to win her further support among Republican voters. Trump has made his desire to see her defeated in a GOP primary clear, and at least a half-dozen Republicans in Wyoming have stated their intention to run. But she’s raised more than $3 million for her re-election bid since Jan. 6 and members of the committee say she seems undeterred. “Liz Cheney feels the urgency of this task in her bones,” Raskin said. “She was there on Jan. 6, and she has not suppressed her memories of profound danger.”

"House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Sunday named a second Republican critic of Donald Trump, Rep. Adam Kinzinger, to a special committee investigating the Capitol riot and pledged that the Democratic-majority panel will “get to the truth.” Kinzinger said he “humbly accepted” the appointment even as his party’s leadership is boycotting the inquiry. With the committee set to hold its first meeting, hearing from police officers who battled the rioters, Pelosi said it was imperative to learn what happened on Jan. 6, when insurrectionists disrupted the congressional certification of Joe Biden’s presidential victory, and why the violent siege took place. That mission, she said, must be pursued in a bipartisan manner to ensure “such an attack can never happen again.” Kinzinger, an Illinois Republican, will bring “great patriotism to the committee’s mission: to find the facts and protect our Democracy,” she said in a statement. He joins Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, as the two committee’s Republicans, both selected by the leader of the opposition party. Kinzinger and Cheney were among the 10 House Republicans to vote for Trump’s second impeachment. They were the only two Republicans who voted last month to form the special committee. “For months, lies and conspiracy theories have been spread, threatening our self-governance,” Kinzinger said in a statement. “For months, I have said that the American people deserve transparency and truth on how and why thousands showed up to attack our democracy.” “I will work diligently to ensure we get to the truth and hold those responsible for the attack fully accountable,” he said."

When will the Justice Department indict and prosecute the Trump nazi for traitorously inciting insurrection that day?

"House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy has said the GOP will not participate after Pelosi, D-Calif., refused to accept two of the members he picked. McCarthy, R-Calif., has said the committee was a “sham process” and withdrew his five members when Pelosi rejected two of them, Reps. Jim Banks of Indiana and Jim Jordan of Ohio. Both voted on Jan. 6 against certifying Biden’s election victory over Trump and both are outspoken allies of the former president. In a statement Sunday, McCarthy said Pelosi’s decision to reject his picks and appoint members “who share her preconceived narrative will not yield a serious investigation” and is intended “to satisfy her political objectives.”

Crock of shit by a Republican nazi who has falsely sworn to uphold the United States Constitution and rule of law. The fascist son of a bitch is pointedly reminded sitting those two Republicans on the committee would have been akin to seating supporters of the terrorists responsible for the 9/11 attack on the committee investigating that very same attack. Sadly, McCarthy's head, figuratively, remains securely up his clueless ass.

"Kinzinger and Cheney have faulted Trump as a factor in spurring the insurrection with his persistently false claims that the 2020 election was “stolen” due to voting fraud."

Trump's incitement of the insurrection goes much, much further than that as detailed repeatedly in this publication and others all across this country. What is truly surprising is the son of a bitch has yet to be indicted and prosecuted. To date, received special treatment accorded the top of the food chain. Certainly, not the rest of us.

"In recent weeks, Kinzinger has suggested he would be open to serving on the committee, despite threats from McCarthy that Republicans who accept a spot could be stripped of their regular committee assignments as retaliation for participating. “It’s clear that Pelosi only wants members on this committee who will stick to her talking points and stick to her narrative. That’s why she’s picked the group that she’s already picked,” Banks said on “Fox News Sunday.” He said that “anyone that she asks to be on this committee, from this point moving forward, will be stuck to her -- her narrative, to her point of view. There won’t be another side.”

What a crock of shit. Simply, not true. Republican nazis appear to be running scared. Couldn't be, could it? If true, about time. If not? ... Hear the rumble? An unwanted, dreaded second American revolution catastrophically looms. Too deaf to hear? Or, too aggressively stupid and out to lunch.

"The House voted in May to create an independent investigation that would have been evenly split between the parties, but Senate Republicans blocked that approach. Pelosi said the new panel was being created only because a bipartisan commission was no longer an option."

"Currently Cheney sits on the committee along with seven Democrats — ensuring they have a quorum to proceed, whether other Republicans participate or not. Pelosi expressed confidence that the committee’s work will be seen as bipartisan and credible even with McCarthy’s effort to boycott the panel. “We have to, again, ignore the antics of those who do not want to find the truth,” she said. “We will find the truth. That truth will have the confidence of the American people because it will be done patriotically and not in a partisan way.”

"Seven people died during and after the rioting, including a woman who was shot by police as she tried to break into the House chamber and three other Trump supporters who suffered medical emergencies. Two police officers died by suicide in the days that followed, and a third officer, Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, collapsed and later died after engaging with the protesters. A medical examiner determined he died of natural causes."

"Democrats are seeking to elevate the role of Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) on the committee examining the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, scheduling her to deliver one of the two opening statements at the panel’s first public hearing Tuesday, according to two people familiar with the decision. The move is intended to present the committee as a bipartisan effort following Republican leadership’s decision not to participate in the panel after Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) last week rejected two of Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s picks for the panel. During a closed-door meeting last week, Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.) proposed to Pelosi and Cheney that having the Wyoming congresswoman speak after Chairman Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss.) would present a “strong visual” for the committee’s goals and intentions as it embarks on a months-long process to investigate the insurrection, according to a person familiar with the conversation, who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the private deliberations. “The vast majority of the Republicans, both in the House as well as across the country, recognize and understand that this was an assault on our democracy and assault on our Constitution, and that there must be a fact-based investigation so that this never happens again,” Cheney said last week. “And we cannot allow those voices who are attempting to prevent the American people from getting the truth to prevail, and we certainly will not.”

"McCarthy (R-Calif.) pulled all his five Republican picks from serving on the committee last week after Pelosi rejected Reps. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) and Jim Banks (R-Ind.) as too politically motivated to take the investigation seriously. Banks would have served as the panel’s ranking Republican had he been seated. After McCarthy decided not to have his members participate, Democrats had originally planned to have only Thompson deliver opening remarks in his capacity as chairman, until Schiff suggested Cheney also be allowed to speak. As the only committee on Capitol Hill tasked with solely investigating the security failures and political motivations that inspired a mob of President Donald Trump’s supporters to break into the Capitol, the seven Democrats and two Republicans are seeking to project an attitude of cooperation and bipartisanship amid Republican attacks on the panel as a partisan effort to score political points. Tuesday’s hearing will feature four police officers — two from the Capitol’s protection squad and two from D.C. police — who are expected to testify about their experiences of both physical and verbal abuse on Jan. 6, as they tried to protect the Capitol from a swelling horde of demonstrators determined to stop Congress’s efforts to certify the 2020 electoral college results and declare Joe Biden the next president. Cheney is no longer the sole Republican representative on the panel after Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) accepted Pelosi’s offer to serve on the committee over the weekend. “I’m a Republican dedicated to conservative values, but I swore an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution — and while this is not the position I expected to be in or sought out, when duty calls, I will always answer,” he said in a statement released Sunday."

"McCarthy has evaded questions about whether he will strip Cheney and Kinzinger of their other committee assignments, a threat he initially made to all Republicans considering accepting an offer from Pelosi last month to join the Jan. 6 committee. But he is facing increasing pressure from rank-and-file members to take action. “We’ll see,” McCarthy said at the White House Monday before characterizing Cheney and Kinzinger as “Pelosi Republicans.”

"More than six months after Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell battled the mob that stormed the Capitol, he remains hobbled, a hand scarred, a shoulder aching, recovering from surgery to an injured foot that swelled so large it no longer fit his shoe. The 42-year-old Capitol Police officer and Army reservist is also seeing a therapist to help with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), first diagnosed after he served in the war in Iraq. He said bouts of anxiety returned after his battle on American soil in the Jan. 6 riot. “I can be fine now and see or hear something and next thing I get tears and get emotional,” said Gonell, who was hurt when rioters tried to yank away his ballistic shield, threw a speaker at him, struck him in the face with a pole and sprayed him with chemical irritants. “I tried to be strong,” he said of the months following the riot. “I tried not to show my emotion.” But once, he said, he retreated to a quiet space at his home in Virginia, away from his wife and 9-year-old son: “I completely broke down.”

"In the aftermath of the riot, authorities said about 140 Capitol and D.C. police officers were hurt when supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the Capitol in a failed effort to overturn Joe Biden’s election victory. Police were bludgeoned with poles and bats, pushed and trampled, and sprayed with chemical irritants. A Capitol officer, Brian D. Sicknick, collapsed after confronting rioters and died a day later of a stroke. Two other officers in the riot, one Capitol, one D.C., later died by suicide. One Capitol officer surrendered her weapon, fearing she might use it on herself, Rep. David N. Cicilline (D-R.I.) said. But the full toll on police is still coming into view as officers continue to grapple with the impact of hours of hand-to-hand fighting. They have emerged with a complex jumble of physical and emotional trauma that has made diagnoses and treatment challenging, a problem some officers said is made more difficult by efforts of Republican lawmakers to downplay the riot. Some officers who were assaulted Jan. 6 experienced different or worsening symptoms in the weeks and months that followed, indicating they may have suffered injuries more severe than had initially been believed, in particular undiagnosed head trauma, according to a therapist who has seen hundreds of D.C. officers. She thinks others who emerged exhausted and sore may not have reported injuries, or even recognized they needed medical care."

The Washington Post interviewed six D.C. or Capitol police officers who suffered physical injuries or emotional problems, and in some cases both. Three who agreed to be named — Gonell, Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn and D.C. officer Michael Fanone — have already shared public accounts and are among those set to testify Tuesday before a congressional committee studying the riot. They have pushed for public accountability and openly criticized Republicans who blocked forming an independent commission in May. In interviews with The Post, the officers said they were speaking on their own behalf, not representing their agencies. Three others asked to remain anonymous, saying they did not have permission from their departments or were concerned about jeopardizing criminal cases of accused rioters. One Capitol officer who was knocked unconscious and could “barely walk, barely talk” said she was initially told she would be out of work for a week. She was later diagnosed with a concussion and has not yet returned to the job. A D.C. officer who was hit on the back of the head with a pole and had his head wrenched back when rioters tried to tear off his helmet also has been out with a concussion, and sees a neurologist and two therapists. He said his mind shifts between “anger, confusion, despair,” and between wanting to return to the job and wanting to quit."

D.C. police said six officers who responded to the Capitol were still on leave as of mid-July. Capitol Police declined to provide a number, though the labor union said some “were hurt so badly they may never return to duty.” Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn, who is Black, wasn’t physically hurt by the mob, but he was scarred by racist invectives hurled at him as he defended the building where he has worked for 13 years. “I was directly called the n-word,” said Dunn. “At the time, my mind didn’t process it, that I was being attacked because of my race.” Speaking out against the mob has made him a continued target for some, including Fox host Tucker Carlson, who recently called Dunn an “angry left-wing political activist.” Dunn’s lawyer fought back on Twitter, saying Dunn would give his life to protect lawmakers of either party."

Interesting take on the Justice Department and U.S. Attorney General. In a masterfully written editorial in The Washington Post, David Montgomery opines:

"Merrick Garland, now more than four months into the job of attorney general, is on a quest to slay a monster — a monster that he won’t name and he pretends doesn’t exist. On March 11, his first day, he stood in the Great Hall of Justice Department headquarters and addressed the agency’s 115,000 employees, most watching virtually. It was a homecoming of sorts for Garland, 68, who started at the department as a 26-year-old lawyer in 1979, rising to lead major investigations including the Unabomber case and the Oklahoma City bombing prosecution in the 1990s before spending the past two decades-plus as an esteemed federal judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. “The only way we can succeed and retain the trust of the American people is to adhere to the norms that have become part of the DNA of every Justice Department employee,” he said in his first speech as attorney general. “Those norms require that like cases be treated alike. That there not be one rule for Democrats and another for Republicans, one rule for friends and another for foes, one rule for the powerful and another for the powerless.”

Certainly, the way it is supposed to be in a democratic republic. Problem is we haven't lived in one for decades. At least, not since 1974 when Richard Nixon was forced to resign the presidency. Had no choice other than be impeached in the House, convicted in the Senate. At a time, Republicans indeed stood on principle, not just partisanship.

"What he didn’t say — what he never says publicly — is that there are good reasons the department might have lost the trust of the American people in the past four years. During President Donald Trump’s administration, there wasn’t always one rule of law for all, as when presidential friends Roger Stone and Michael Flynn had their prosecutions massaged and softened; or when former attorney general Bill Barr launched an outside investigation of the investigators to see if Trump was unfairly targeted in the Russia probe; or when Barr spun findings by the special counsel and the inspector general in ways most advantageous to Trump; or when Barr changed procedures so U.S. attorneys could dive into Trump’s false claims about election results before the vote tallies were certified."

No question. Unvarnished truth that Republicans gutlessly, but most conveniently ignore.

"But when Garland is asked about questionable actions that took place at the Justice Department during the previous administration, he offers a version of a response that he gave during a Q&A session with reporters in June: “I am not going to look backward.” This is deeply unsatisfying to Democrats, government watchdogs and anyone who wants catharsis after four years of Trump’s insistence on his “absolute right to do what I want to do with the Justice Department,” as he put it to the New York Times in 2017. Those voices are calling for investigations of the politicization of the department under Trump, a public reckoning of the damage done, the spectacle of heads rolling. They speak of “truth commissions” and “de-Trumpification.” That is how you restore confidence in the institution, they say."

That is the thinking, currently, but the following is a most interesting take with far more than an element of truth to it:

"Garland has a different theory of the case, according to those who know him inside and outside the department. If you go directly at the monster — that is, Trump’s legacy at Justice — you only extend the legacy and give the monster life. You look like a partisan warrior with a different color uniform. Garland alluded to this way of thinking when he was asked during the media Q&A whether he would heed calls to investigate politicization: “I don’t want the department’s career people to think that a new group comes in and immediately applies a political lens,” he said. What you do instead is firmly, methodically and undramatically return to the old, good way of doing things, and the ship will right itself. That is Garland’s faith. He stands as a kind of radical institutionalist, a stickler for regular order, a true believer in the norms and processes put in place after Watergate that weathered nearly every storm until Trump. “I would like … to turn down the volume on the way in which people view the department,” he said at his confirmation hearing in February."

The question to be asked here, however, is it indeed too late? Have things deteriorated so badly there is no going back, worse, no way back? Are both major political parties too far gone, too insane, too entrenched in their ideology to embrace change?

"To that end, rather than instigate a sweeping de-Trumpifying review of where things went off the rails, he is leaving it to existing departmental structures — mainly the inspector general’s office — to address problems on a case-by-case basis. This is how Garland the institutionalist quietly grapples with the disgrace of the past. “What some people dismiss as ‘institutionalism’ is really a commitment to the bedrock this institution is built on, the rule of law,” a senior Justice official told me. “The only way you’re going to restore confidence in the rule of law is by doing the right thing over and over and over again.”

"Garland has been less accessible to the media than many of his predecessors, taking reporters’ questions just a handful of times in four months; indeed, his public reticence borders on mysterious. (He declined to be interviewed for this story.) To understand how he is navigating his predicament, I recently spoke with two dozen lawyers, judges, former colleagues and critics. The choices he faces are emblematic of post-Trump America. Trump’s abnormal presidency triggered temptations to unleash equal and opposite anti-Trump reactions in fields as widespread as intelligence, entertainment, sports, journalism, religion and business. At Justice, Garland is running a demonstration project on not overreacting. Is simply reasserting norms an adequate corrective to abnormal times? Garland may not give Democrats catharsis, but he might strike a blow for normality. Would that, in the end, be the greater victory?"

The effort to expose Wells Fargo egregious deceptive trade practices continues. Several years ago to determinedly apply renewed pressure on our truly worthless, egregiously self-serving Texas Attorney General, now Governor, an excoriating email was sent to the bastard. Copies of which were also passed on to both offending Wells Fargo officers. A copy was also sent to the Davis campaign and others at the time.

Voters did have a right to know as Attorney General, the GOP candidate for Governor apparently selectively investigated, or not, bona fide complaints filed by citizens against banks too big to fail. Possibly, Wells Fargo could have lined his pockets in some fashion. That has yet to be determined.

The bastard and his office, no matter what, failed to respond to the complaint originally snail mailed several years ago. This material, figuratively targeting Wells Fargo and the governor 'wannabe' now Governor, had been posted and can be found by scrolling all the way down and clicking on the links well below. ... Governor? Wells Fargo bribe you to look the other way?

Will continue to do all I can to publicly expose this to all, both in this publication and elsewhere. Have done precisely that with the following email sent to Matt Turner, Matt Turner Video Services, Marble Falls, TX. A copy of it was also sent to Wells Fargo officer Amanda Wright. She has, indeed, been promoted branch manager. Reverse Darwinism. Survival of the unfittest.

This young woman has indeed been rewarded by the Wells Fargo corporate management suite for engaging in criminal deceptive trade practices and her undying loyalty to her corporate masters. The process to update those already informed of this fiasco has finally been completed. This latest material can be found by clicking onWells Fargo Deceptive Trade Practices Salvo 240, 2-8-19 .

-- Despite the fact these businesses were, and are, being egregiously f--ked by these very same bastards. Tough, isn't it? Impossible to entertain any sympathy for cowardice, however. Especially in view of the fact this writer has placed himself in great jeopardy taking on these corrupt, abusive, inept criminal bastards. Alone.

Exactly, why you see no investigative material highly critical of these sons of bitches in other local rags. Sadly, cowardly, all advertising income immediately dries up. Consequently, the bastards continue their criminal chicanery with impunity. On a rampage. Thus, you get what you truly deserve. Always. Precisely, why this earlier name change to Liberty In Peril remains appropriate. -- Despite the fact this writer has not yet left the area. Ten years after originally intending to do so. Thirty years in this goddamned godforsaken hellhole.

This writer, then and now, remains primarily interested in state, federal, and international issues. Another reason for this publication name change. Despite the fact I stupidly cluelessly remain here, local issues must be addressed. Can't be ignored. That's where you come in dear readers. Have the courage to inform this writer of local abuse, corruption, ineptness you are aware of, have personally experienced.

... Information these criminal bastards do all they can to conceal, cover up. Otherwise, how can they effectively sustain the charade and intended result? Loot confiscation through a boot heel on the throat of the citizenry.

The only way, short of an unwanted dreaded second American revolution, to force badly-needed change is to expose all this to the light of day. These bastards are beginning to understand they have a problem. No question, the growing rage of those they've abused, looted, egregiously f--ked. It's time to stand up. Expose this corruption to glaring sunlight. Otherwise, as fools, cowards, you will remain under their thumb. From the loftiest business owner to those on the bottom of the food chain. Wake up. Grow a pair.

Still don't think that likely to happen. After all, you're bought and paid for. Owned. Not only by your government masters, but their masters. The corporate management suite. Your employers. Think not? Wake up. You're human chattel. Corporate-owned, bought and paid for. Precisely, why you cowardly, compliantly, literally bare your asses for corporate inspection by the company doctor. Willingly, compliantly, cowardly piss in a cup under employer supervision. To sit in front of a keyboard or stock shelves all day. You have no control of your lives. You're owned. Forget? For a measly salary, no job security, reduced to no benefits. At a time of record corporate profits and cash reserves.

Then, you gallingly complain about the oppression as you tolerate egregious theft of your labor. Not only by your corporate masters, but their bought and paid for government lackeys. Too cowardly to stand up, allow disclosure of your identity when you rightfully complain to this publication of being mercilessly f--ked. Some of you falsely arrested, criminally assaulted, bogusly fined for 'offenses' you did not commit. To line County coffers. Keep the peasants in line and under control. A fascist police-state. Nazi America.

Again, yet another reason why this publication is called Liberty In Peril. Most galling? Nothing changes if you fail to step up and challenge corrupt, abusive, inept authority. Too afraid, cowardly compliant to let the bastards know who you are. Did it ever occur to the cowards out there if the identity of the accuser is kept under wraps the bastards will falsely claim it's all made up by this publication? Thus, conveniently killing all credibility. Wake up.

Cowardice is unbecoming, unworthy of our formerly great country. Insult to injury? There are the hopelessly deranged who believe the chicanery reported here to be manufactured anyway. No matter the effort. No matter the research. No matter the proof. Wake up. This writer cannot do it alone. Snowball's chance in hell. Then again, cowardice, delusion is always amply, justly rewarded. Always. You continue to 'enjoy' the very best government money can buy. Literally.

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