Was I Wrong About the Denver Police Department?
In 1998 I was semi-involved in something really unsettling, and I’m now wondering if I just badly misinterpreted what happened.
The story begins in graf 4. Here’s where it gets interesting: Read more
Category Archives: Crime/Corruption
Do Billionaires Get a Bad Rap?
A famous man once said “it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”
I thought about this as I was talking with my friend Bryan yesterday. The subject was NBA and MLB players striking in protest against the attempted murder of Jacob Blake by the Kenosha PD, and Bryan was saying that it can’t always just be the players. The owners need to stand up, too.
He’s right, but I have very little faith in owners. Read more
Defund the Police? Good Cops, Bad Cops…
The individual tells you nothing about the system. The system tells you nothing about the individual.
The issue isn’t whether you respect Black Lives Matter. It isn’t whether you respect the Police. It’s whether the Police believe all are equal under the law. Recent weeks and months (and years) have set before our eyes a wealth of evidence answering that question. Read more
PG&E Guilty, CEO Receives Death Penalty
I’ll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one. – Robert Reich
HAH! No, just kidding.
Bill Johnson, CEO of PG&E
To summarize: Read more
To Protect & Serve…
Who Are The “Protesters” in Black?
Watch this video now.
Whoever these people are, they are not protesters.
The optics are bad shooting up peaceful gatherings so it’s important for authority to establish at least the illusion of justification. By whatever means necessary. So if the protesters won’t loot and burn, then maybe somebody masquerading as a protester has to do it.
The real protesters confronting the guy bashing in windows at the AutoZone suspect he’s a cop. That’s my first guess, too. Hopefully proof of his identity will emerge. If it’s not a cop it’s an unusually well-dressed white supremacist militia yahoo.
In any case, somebody is looking for an excuse to start shooting. Any excuse.
Heads up out there.
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Michael Avenatti: Hi-ho, hi-ho, it’s off to jail he goes!
Three quick thoughts on celebrity lawyer’s verdict… Read more
Protect and serve: American law enforcement’s greatest failure
A shoot-first state is a police state. America must do better. Read more
The devil you know: the problem with #deleteFacebook
Deleting Facebook is a great idea in theory, but there are practical problems to be considered. Read more
Pedophilia and our sexualized media: is naïveté a good thing or a bad thing?
The Mr. C case has me wondering if widespread familiarity with sexual themes and content makes today’s youth more or less susceptible to pedophiles. Read more
My mentor, the pedophile [UPDATED]
Uber “Greyball” scandal: it’s time to consider the death penalty for corporations
Uber says they’ll stop using Greyball. But this is only the latest outrage from America’s most incorrigibly corrupt business. Time to#DeleteUBER. As in, delete the company. Permanently.
You may say I’m a dreamer / But I’m not the only one
The American corporation exists for one purpose: to “maximize shareholder value.” Thanks to a variety of factors, including a Supreme Court decision that codified this particularly sociopathic view, employees don’t matter, communities don’t matter, the environment doesn’t matter, and really the only commandment when it comes to bending the rules is “thou shalt not get caught.” Read more
Everything you need to know about the Sessions controversy in a few short paragraphs
The Attorney General should resign – whether he’s guilty or not. Here’s why.
By now you have probably read a good bit about Attorney General Jeff Sessions and whether or not he unlawfully met with the Russian ambassador to discuss the 2016 Presidential election. There is a great deal of lawyering on the horizon, but for the moment here’s what we need to understand.
In his confirmation hearing Sessions was asked directly about contact with the Russians by himself or the Trump campaign. At that moment, there were a couple of ways to answer.
If his goal were transparency, he’d answer something like this: Read more
WTF is the NC GOP up to with the attempted “Bathroom Bill” repeal?
The people who passed HB2 now want to unpass it because they hate teh queers, love the money and fear the people.
[Note: Please forgive the snark in this post. I’m in one of those moods, but despite the tone this is a wholly factual analysis.]
The yahoos who run my native state of North Carolina have been a marvel to watch in recent months. Their latest act was to convene another of their dread “special sessions” for the purpose of repealing the state’s infamously discriminatory HB2 – the “bathroom law.”
Of course, things fell apart. If you’d like a self-serving blow-by-blow from one of the perps, I highly recommend the narrative from NC District 41 (that’s Lincolnton, I believe) Senator Jeff Tarte. If you can’t stomach that, here’s the Reader’s Digest version:
- Charlotte passes ordinance to outlaw discrimination against LGBT citizens
- Republican lawmakers pass HB2, which makes it illegal to interfere with civil rights violations against gays, lesbians and transgender citizens
- The world shuns NC, costing it untold millions of dollars
- Now, on the way out the door, Gov. “One-Term” Pat McCrory decides to repeal the law
- However, the repeal fails because apparently it was predicated on Charlotte repealing the ordinance that started the legislative ball rolling in the first place
So, what’s the GOP’s motivation here? Read more
Boulder, Colorado Bureau of Investigation planning new DNA analysis in JonBenet Ramsey case
Can new procedures tell us who killed the child pageant queen? Were there multiple murderers?
JonBenet Ramsey
According to NBC News, “new DNA testing is planned in the unsolved murder of 6-year-old JonBenet Ramsey.”
The news was first reported by NBC affiliate KUSA in Denver, Colorado, and by the Boulder Daily Camera. The two news outlets did a joint investigation in October which pointed to a variety of potential flaws in the interpretation of the DNA evidence in the case.
Boulder District Attorney Stan Garnett confirmed in a statement to NBC News Wednesday that his office had met with the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, which he said will be conducting “some further testing of the DNA evidence in the Ramsey case, as well as other cold case homicides and pending investigations,” in a new lab with new testing procedures.
There is now doubt as to the conclusions reached by former Boulder District Attorney Mary Lacy in her 2008 letter clearing the family. Specifically: Read more
