St Louis County pros­e­cu­tor Robert McCulloch pulled off one of the biggest three-card*monty on the Justice sys­tem in America in mod­ern history.
McCulloch was able to defy com­mu­ni­ty calls to step aside in the Michael Brown mur­der out­rage stay on and sub­vert the course of justice.
Robert McCulloch used and abused the pros­e­cu­to­r­i­al pow­ers vest­ed in him turn­ing those pow­ers on the very peo­ple who empow­ered him. The cha­rade of a Grand-jury inves­ti­ga­tions staged my McCulloch fooled only those who want­ed to be fooled. The Prosecutor’s office was coun­sel for Darren Wilson.
His actions were so egre­gious it was shame­ful that in a coun­try which claim to have the best jus­tice sys­tem, this kind of banana-repub­lic the­atrics could be per­pet­u­at­ed, in a homi­cide case no less.

Case in point .
McCulloch’s pros­e­cu­tors Kathi Alizadeh and Sheila Whirley made no bones about being defense attor­neys for Darren Wilson.
The entire Transcript of the pro­ceed­ings are so dis­gust­ing it is beyond me that this could pass with­out McCulloch and the two lack­eys not pros­e­cut­ed for per­pet­u­at­ing fraud.
One does not need to be a lawyer to come to terms with the enor­mi­ty and the mag­ni­tude of the fraud they pulled off on the fam­i­ly of Michael Brown, Brown’s mem­o­ry, and on the crim­i­nal jus­tice system.

Michael Brown was on tri­al. There was no attempt to indict Darren Wilson.

Here is how Lisa Bloom saw it.

A cur­so­ry read of the ques­tions posed to Dorian Johnson by Whirley the Prosecutor , reveals Whirley the wolf in sheep cloth­ing act­ing on Darren Wilson’s behalf.
The Transcript made me sick to my stomach.
As a for­mer police offi­cer who spent untold hours in court­rooms lis­ten­ing to evi­dence and giv­ing evi­dence, I was stunned that this kind of thing could happen.
It made me angry.
It made me sad for humanity.
It filled me with rage that any person.
Any system.
Anyone with a shred of decen­cy , a shred of human­i­ty ‚could be that hate­ful of it’s own cit­i­zens that it would go to such lengths to cov­er for their murderers.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/11/25/us/evidence-released-in-michael-brown-case.html?module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3Ar

A National out­cry erupt­ed in the black com­mu­ni­ty after Darren Wilson fired 12 shots at 18 year-old Michael Brown killing him on the spot in Ferguson Missouri. A Federal inquiry was com­menced, par­al­lel local inves­ti­ga­tions were sup­pos­ed­ly underway.
Now I am not a Lawyer,so I defer to the legal lumi­nar­ies on this, but I do believe local and fed­er­al author­i­ties do share what infor­ma­tion they gather.

I also believe that both fed­er­al and local should be after the same thing, justice.
You see I ask these ques­tions because at the off­set one of the Ferguson com­mu­ni­ty’s com­plaint was that they want­ed St Louis County Prosecutor Bob McCulloch off the case. Several elect­ed rep­re­sen­ta­tives and reg­u­lar res­i­dents of the com­mu­ni­ty argued that McCulloch had a record of par­tial­i­ty toward the police.

In fact they argued that he was over­ly chum­my and def­er­en­tial to law enforce­ment. They point­ed to the fact that.
(1 Robert McCulloch’s father was a police Officer.
(2 That his father was killed, alleged­ly by a black assailant.
(3 That there are sev­er­al oth­er glar­ing instances where Police have killed or oth­er­wise abused mem­bers of the black com­mu­ni­ty and McCulloch has been neg­li­gent in pros­e­cut­ing any officer.

As a result of the fore­gone they stat­ed he could not be trust­ed to be fair, impar­tial or dili­gent in bring­ing jus­tice to this case, in which they thought clear­ly, a crim­i­nal act was com­mit­ted by the cop.
Bob McCulloch refused to recuse him­self from the process, a move which would have paved the way for an inde­pen­dent pros­e­cu­tor to col­lect, Marshall and present the evi­dence to an impar­tial grand jury, so that jus­tice would be served.

Such a move would have tak­en from the com­mu­ni­ty any poten­tial alle­ga­tions of impro­pri­ety, neg­li­gence or lack of due dili­gence it would lev­el at pros­e­cu­tors pur­su­ing the Investigations.
Residents demand­ed that Governor , Jay Nixon step in and remove McCulloch in order that there may be trans­paren­cy and more impor­tant­ly con­fi­dence in the process.
Jay Nixon cow­ard­ly or duplic­i­tous refused to remove McCulloch.

Bob McCulloch open­ly crit­i­cized Jay Nixon the Governor for bring­ing in a State Police Captain to take over secu­ri­ty after vio­lence erupt­ed over the shoot­ing. He open­ly chal­lenged the Governor to remove him and replace him with a spe­cial prosecutor.
McCulloch must have known that the Governor did not have the balls to do whats right. He must have cal­cu­lat­ed that Nixon’s cow­ardice would grant him cov­er to do what he wanted.
McCulloch com­menced the process, then dumped all of the crap he col­lect­ed at the feet of the 12 per­son grand-jury.

It should be not­ed that it required 9 mem­bers of the 12 per­son jury to indict.
Quite by coin­ci­dence McCulloch’s grand-jury just hap­pened to have had a veto-proof 9 whites and 3 token blacks [sic].
McCulloch has always main­tained that he was impar­tial, that he would col­lect the evi­dence and present it all to a grand jury so the jury could make a deci­sion which would absolve him of any wrongdoing.
The only prob­lem with McCulloch’s asser­tions is, that is not what is required of a com­pe­tent pros­e­cu­tor who wants an indictment.

Grand jury pro­ceed­ings are much more relaxed than nor­mal court room pro­ceed­ings. There is no judge present and fre­quent­ly there are no lawyers except for the pros­e­cu­tor. The pros­e­cu­tor will explain the law to the jury and work with them to gath­er evi­dence and hear tes­ti­mo­ny. Under nor­mal court­room rules of evi­dence, exhibits and oth­er tes­ti­mo­ny must adhere to strict rules before admis­sion. However, a grand jury has broad pow­er to see and hear almost any­thing they would like. 

It should also be not­ed, that it is pure­ly up to the pros­e­cu­tor what he/​she presents to the grand-jury. Grand jury pro­ceed­ings are kept in strict confidence. 
(1 It encour­ages wit­ness­es to speak freely and with­out fear of retaliation.
(2 It pro­tects the poten­tial defen­dan­t’s rep­u­ta­tion in case the jury does not decide to indict.
So we are good right? 
A Prosecutor who wants a poten­tial killer brought to jus­tice is going to active­ly pur­sue a path with the grad-jury that will give him/​her the best chance at an indict­ment right?
But what if the Prosecutor real­ly only want the appear­ance that he/​she is doing his/​her job?
What is the for­mat, how is evi­dence , argu­ments , tes­ti­monies pre­sent­ed? Is it done in a way that makes it impos­si­ble for the grand ‑jury to indict?
Remember that the grand ‑jury process is sup­posed to be secret for the rea­sons laid out above. So what made Bob McCulloch decide to do a doc­u­ment dump on the pub­lic by releas­ing all of the tes­ti­monies to the public?
In fact with a Federal inves­ti­ga­tions ongo­ing why would the pros­e­cu­tor come out and berate the very wit­ness­es who he as the pros­e­cut­ing Attorney depend­ed on to gain an indictment?
To gain a Federal Indictment the stan­dard is even high­er than that which a local grand-jury need­ed to indict. 
So why did Bob McCulloch come out lam­poon­ing the very wit­ness­es both his office and the Feds need­ed for a poten­tial prosecution.
Well let me allow you to lis­ten to Bob McCulloch in per­son then we continue.

You see there are times when peo­ple do things and they pre­tend that all is above board. 
It’s not too dif­fi­cult to miss things if you aren’t pay­ing attention.
Here’s the truth, these peo­ple have zero respect for the black community.
They con­trol pow­er, this is insti­tu­tion­al­ized racist pow­er which allows them to game the sys­tem while mak­ing it seem to an unsus­pect­ing sec­tion of the pop­u­la­tion that they are doing all they can to deliv­er jus­tice when they are actu­al­ly doing the exact opposite.

The Prosecutor in the case has a duty to present the evi­dence which will lead the grand ‑jury to the result he/​she wants. 
If how­ev­er the Prosecutor does not real­ly want an offend­er indict­ed the pros­e­cu­tor can present the evi­dence in a way that cast doubt on the wit­ness­es and even present an inor­di­nate amount of what appears to be excul­pa­to­ry evidence.
Let me pause here because the legal hawks are going to jump in and remind me that it is only fair that excul­pa­to­ry evi­dence is presented.
I agree , in the inter­est of jus­tice it should be presented.
However the duty of the grand-jury is not to decide inno­cence or guilt, it is mere­ly to decide that a defen­dant has a case to answer.

When asked whether there was any­thing he could have done dif­fer­ent­ly that would have pre­vent­ed that killing from hap­pen­ing? Darren Wilson repeat­ed­ly said .
No.
I did my job!
No emo­tions, no remorse,no sor­row, cold dispatch.
Yet revealing.
This is the way they are trained nowa­days it appears, weapon or not , lethal force is justified.

Justice can­not be one-sided, or lopsided.
It can­not be what you say it is , it must be what all peo­ple say it is.
It can­not be that a white man pre-med­i­tat­ed­ly ambush cops, killing one and injur­ing anoth­er, at a Barrack in Pennsylvanian and is arrest­ed with­out being shot or oth­er­wise harmed 6 weeks lat­er. While Christopher Dorner,ex mil­i­tary, ex-cop who did basi­cal­ly the same thing was burned to a cin­der in the California mountains.

There are just too many instances of this for peo­ple of sound mind to turn away any longer.
As my nephew a young police offi­cer said recently.
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Not all cops are bad.
Not all whites are racist.
Not all black peo­ple are criminals.
There are some peo­ple who speak about these issues with­out the ben­e­fit of know­ing what it feels like to be black in America.
This is not a prob­lem cre­at­ed by black people.
It is a prob­lem cre­at­ed and per­pet­u­at­ed by wicked and igno­rant peo­ple for over four hun­dred years.
The end of that era of un-earned priv­i­lege and oppres­sion is com­ing to an end.
Before you speak on these issues walk awhile in a black man’s shoes.

Bob McCulloch the Prosecutor who refused to recuse him­self from the process which would hear the evi­dence in the Micheal Brown case announced what most black peo­ple already knew.

That Darren Wilson the Ferguson Cop who fired 12 bul­lets at the unarmed Michael Brown will not have to answer in a State court why he used lethal force to kill an unarmed 18 year old youth.

The hopes of the Ferguson com­mu­ni­ty is now pinned to the Federal Investigations which is still on-going. This is not new , in fact it is par­tic­u­lar­ly dif­fi­cult for black fam­i­lies to receive jus­tice in state courts when police are the aggressors.

This brings into seri­ous ques­tion the grand jury process, when cops are involved. For some rea­son grand

juries are reluc­tant to indict cops even when there seem to be an abun­dance of evi­dence point­ing to the offi­cer’s guilt.

It is a process which fer­til­izes itself .Cops com­mit crimes they are sent on leave with full pay , a sham inves­ti­ga­tion is done after which there is an announce­ment that the cop act­ed appro­pri­ate­ly, Cops go out and com­mit more atroc­i­ties. It feeds on the acqui­es­cence of the grand jurors.

Something will have to give, police kill black and brown peo­ple almost with wan­ton dis­re­gard .It appears some­times cops are total­ly uncon­cerned that they poten­tial­ly may be asked to account for their actions.

We learned that Darren Wilson got mar­ried last month, we also learned he was shop­ping for a net­work tele­vi­sion inter­view to his liking. 

Doesn’t seem like a man who was par­tic­u­lar­ly wor­ried about being indict­ed. In the end the St. Louis County Prosecutor Robert McCulloch rigged the sys­tem to get the result he wanted .

A non-Indictment for Darren Wilson. Bob McCulloch was a Defense Attorney for Darren Wilson, not a Prosecuting Attorney.

Where this will end I do not pre­tend to have the answer.

Main stream Media are report­ing that the Jury con­sid­er­ing the Michael Brown case in Missouri have reached a deci­sion. It is report­ed that the Grand jury will announce it’s deci­sion at 9:pm tonight. In the mean­time Authorities are brag­ging they will be pre­pared to deal with what­ev­er emanates from the deci­sion. They tell News Organizations they have over a thou­sand police in place to quell unrest and if that is not enough the state’s Democratic Governor Jay Nixon have already acti­vat­ed the state’s nation­al guard.

Protesters are lin­ing up for the ver­dict all across the coun­try, whether Officer Darren Wilson is guilty or not we don’t know, how­ev­er Wilson does not seem too wor­ried about the out­come of the case we learned Wilson recent­ly mar­ried. According to a report from the New York Times’ Julie Bosman and Campbell Robertson, Wilson man­aged to get mar­ried in October to a fel­low offi­cer in the Ferguson Police Department, Officer Barbara Spradling, 37, with­out any­one find­ing out.

We don’t want to pre­judge what is going on in the mind of Darren Wilson, how­ev­er it seem he is not par­tic­u­lar­ly wor­ried one way or the oth­er about the out­come of this case.

Conventional wis­dom dic­tates that he would have stayed low and away from the lime-light. Salon​.com reports.

The cou­ple obtained their mar­riage license in Clayton, Mo., out­side St. Louis, in the recorder of deeds office on the fourth floor of the Lawrence K. Roos admin­is­tra­tive build­ing, steps away from the cour­t­house where the grand jury has been meeting.

While secu­ri­ty guards ques­tion peo­ple going in and out of the build­ing, the deeds office itself is a bland­ly bureau­crat­ic place where clerks sit in open cubi­cles. A clerk at the mar­riage license desk said on Monday that she was sur­prised that Officer Wilson went there, as opposed to anoth­er coun­ty or state — pos­si­bly Las Vegas, she said — where he could have filled out paper­work with a greater guar­an­tee of privacy.

Authorities seem tone deaf to what cit­i­zens in Ferguson are say­ing, some peo­ple are hap­py to tell the President he is not a King. The same peo­ple are woe­ful­ly inca­pable of under­stand­ing that black peo­ple are Americans. They are going nowhere. The soon­er they lose the sense of sole own­er­ship the bet­ter every­one will be.

There will need to be a lot more of the hand hold­ing than the guns and mil­i­ta­riza­tion . The soon­er they real­ize that the better.

Recently I wrote that Elections to fill the seat made vacant by the pass­ing of Roger Clarke in cen­tral Westmoreland would be a lit­mus test on whether Jamaicans are turn­ing around from entrenched alle­giances to the PNP and are final­ly ready to embrace new ideas even if they are com­ing from the oth­er par­ty, or even a new party.

Many peo­ple dis­agreed with me argu­ing that if the JLP los­es the seat in the com­ing by-elec­tions it was not a good indi­ca­tor of whether the JLP has the winds to it’s back. 

The cen­tral Westmoreland seat has been under the con­trol of the PNP for almost 55 years . The seat switched hands in 1980 under the tidal-wave which swept the PNP from office.

I under­stand that irre­spec­tive of what the JLP does in the cen­tral Westmoreland con­stituen­cy they may still have an up-hill task because of what could be a mea­sure of sym­pa­thy for Roger Clarke who was a well liked Politician.

Notwithstanding we have seen the Jamaican elec­torate swing mas­sive­ly in one direc­tion or the oth­er when they ful­ly feel their inter­est are not being met. It may be ill-advised to assume they are beyond mov­ing from trib­al politics. 

During the elec­tion cycle of 1980 hun­dreds of Jamaicans were killed in what was almost a civ­il war. Over the last cou­ple of elec­tion cycles Jamaicans of both both polit­i­cal par­ties have adopt­ed an almost car­ni­val like atmos­phere to the process, an almost one hun­dred and eighty degree turn from what obtained before.

Roger Clarke was pop­u­lar we agree, how­ev­er mis­ter Clarke is no longer with us, vot­ers in Central Westmoreland must decide whether they allow nos­tal­gia and sym­pa­thy of the past, to neg­a­tive­ly impact how they pre­pare for the future.

I believe how they respond will tell the Labor Party whether vot­ers , at least these vot­ers, are feel­ing enough of a pinch , or whether they are pre­pared to con­tin­ue in their mis­ery and with the evil they know.

That is the test,only time will tell.

AS JAMAICA con­tin­ues to make prepa­ra­tions and put struc­tures in place to deal with the dead­ly Ebola if it lands on local soil, one gen­er­al prac­ti­tion­er who is also a prac­ti­tion­er in alter­na­tive and com­ple­men­tary med­i­cine, is urg­ing health offi­cials to incor­po­rate indige­nous tra­di­tion­al heal­ers, com­mon­ly called obeah man/​woman, into their Ebola sen­si­ti­sa­tion exercise.

Dr Sonia Davidson has argued that, with no con­ven­tion­al med­ical cure for Ebola, it is not improb­a­ble that some­one affect­ed with the dis­ease could seek help from indige­nous tra­di­tion­al healers.

“I do think that, as part of the Ebola momen­tum, we should make it our busi­ness to find out every tra­di­tion­al heal­er any­where … . Find out who they are; have dis­cus­sions with them, because peo­ple can slip into the coun­try and go down to Clarendon, St Ann, St Thomas or Portland to see their obeah man and, don’t think is just poor peo­ple who do that, you know,” Davidson reasoned.

“This is the oppor­tu­ni­ty to do what the World Health Organization has been telling us to do all along, find out where your indige­nous tra­di­tion­al heal­ers are, doc­u­ment them, relate to them and upgrade their prac­tices. Examine the con­di­tion in which they work and have them reg­is­tered,” she outlined.

Educate About Symptoms

According to Dr Davidson, it is crit­i­cal that these tra­di­tion­al heal­ers know about the symp­toms of Ebola because “by the time every­body goes down there and touch up and vom­it, him must know that there is a thing called Ebola and is not dup­py, and how Ebola is transmitted.”

She said a lot of health pro­fes­sion­als have told her that the first place an Ebola vic­tim would go after arriv­ing into the island would be the obeah man.

“If that is the case, how are you hav­ing all these meet­ings and train­ing and you don’t include the tra­di­tion­al heal­ers? We have to get off this elit­ist men­tal­i­ty,” the senior med­ical prac­ti­tion­er said.

Commenting on indige­nous tra­di­tion­al prac­tices in the con­text of alter­na­tive or com­ple­men­tary med­i­cine, Dr Davidson said the for­mer is a sub­group of the lat­ter. “It is a part of the cul­ture; you can’t dig it out — a part of the cul­ture where peo­ple go to obeah man.”

Discussing the deep-root­ed con­nec­tion between this indige­nous cul­ture and espe­cial­ly rur­al com­mu­ni­ties, Davidson stressed that the peo­ple are like­ly to con­sult these “heal­ers” first.

She said about 70 per cent of the world’s pop­u­la­tion look to the tra­di­tion­al groups for their care, but the per­cent­age of Jamaicans who vis­it these per­sons is not con­sid­ered to be very high in Jamaica.  http://​jamaica​-glean​er​.com/​g​l​e​a​n​e​r​/​2​0​1​4​1​1​2​4​/​l​e​a​d​/​l​e​a​d​1​.​h​tml

PUBLISHER’S NOTE

Note to Dr, Davidson , I do not think that was what the World Health Organization had in mind when it said quote.

“find out where your indige­nous tra­di­tion­al heal­ers are, doc­u­ment them, relate to them and upgrade their prac­tices. Examine the con­di­tion in which they work and have them registered,”.

Just say­ing !!

Maybe the good­ly Dr, have been inhal­ing too much of that tra­di­tion­al chron­ic , no words.

Giuliani: Black vio­lence is rea­son for white cops in Ferguson.

Just when you thought this Racist Napoleonic turd was final­ly under a rock where he belongs , he opens his mouth sticks his foot in it and proves just how much of a jack-ass he still is.

After 8 years as Mayor of New York City, in which this creep pig­gy-backed on Dave Dinkins’ safe City, safe streets pro­gram. Eight years in which he placed the City’s com­mand cen­ter in the twin tow­ers, result­ing in the loss of thou­sands of lives . This ego-mani­a­cal mon­grel has the nerve to open his food-trap about race?

This is the guy who presided over per­haps the worst peri­od of Police/​citizen rela­tions in New York city’s history!This was a peri­od which saw him using the Police Department as his pri­vate Army as he fan­ta­sized and oper­at­ed as a mod­ern day El Deuce. Pitting one sec­tor of the city’s mul­ti-eth­nic pop­u­la­tion against each oth­er for polit­i­cal mileage.

In a con­ver­sa­tion Sunday on “Meet the Press” with oth­er guest, George Town Professor Dr Michael Eric Dyson the dimwit Giuliani stat­ed quote ” I find it very dis­ap­point­ing that you’re not dis­cussing the fact that 93% of blacks in America are killed by oth­er blacks. We’re talk­ing about the excep­tion here.” There is not much to say about this jack-ass, beyond that he did his time and dam­age in new New York city. During which time many peo­ple have been killed , maimed and oth­er­wise assault­ed by the NYPD.

Most well think­ing peo­ple are glad that this piece of garbage will not have any pow­er to do any more dam­age polit­i­cal­ly. We would hope he would sim­ply crawl under a rock and nev­er be heard from again.

What a freak of nature and an absolute dis­grace to the human race.

It’s been months since Ferguson erupt­ed in violence.

Chaos and vio­lence erupt­ed because, as it has on so many pre­vi­ous occa­sions a black man was gunned down by the very peo­ple paid to pro­tect and serve them.

The prob­lem for black res­i­dents of Ferguson and all across America is that many cops do not see their roles as pro­tec­tors, but rather see them­selves as con­querors. Their own com­ments are a damn­ing indict­ment on how they view the peo­ple they are paid to pro­tect. This cre­ates a ten­sion filled rela­tion­ship between minor­i­ty com­mu­ni­ties and the police which the com­mu­ni­ty pays to pro­tect them

In far too many instances the police and their white sup­port­ers act as though the police is there to keep the black com­mu­ni­ty in check against their prop­er­ty, their coun­try. This sense of own­er­ship on the part of some can be traced to the dis­re­spect some cops express and show to the black community.

It requires tremen­dous effort for black Americans to see the val­ue of police to their com­mu­ni­ties. They can­not relate to the deep ded­i­ca­tion and good­ness of some offi­cers, because of the actions of some cops. This places the lives of good offi­cers at risk, it erodes trust and defeats the pur­pose of laws in a demo­c­ra­t­ic free society.

As long as one sec­tor of soci­ety sees itself enti­tled to a dif­fer­ent set of rules, which caus­es it to embrace police crim­i­nal­i­ty the streets are going to be unsafe for all. Criminal cops should have no safe haven in any eth­nic group. Neither black nor white. Even as I write this, a young man was gunned down in New York City by police offi­cers who are unable to point to any wrong-doing by the vic­tim. The young man just hap­pened to be walk­ing down the stair­well as cops walked up. One cop report­ed­ly lost his nerve and fired killing the young man.

Michael brown was slain by Ferguson cop Darren Wilson, the streets of the small sub­ur­ban town erupt­ed in what many say was the straw which broke the prover­bial camel’s back.

Report after report bears out cit­i­zens com­plaint which point­ed to the inap­pro­pri­ate behav­ior of police, and dis­grace­ful racist jus­tice sys­tem which is sup­posed to work for the pro­tec­tion of all citizens.

Damning evi­dence sur­faced of tick­et­ing blitz on black cit­i­zens by white cops for the most minor traf­fic infrac­tions. Fines and court costs exact a ter­ri­ble finan­cial bur­den on the strug­gling people,who were already find­ing it dif­fi­cult to make ends meet. http://​www​.democ​ra​cynow​.org/​2​0​1​4​/​8​/​2​7​/​i​s​_​f​e​r​g​u​s​o​n​_​f​e​e​d​i​n​g​_​o​n​_​t​h​e​_​p​oor

The sys­tem is rigged to favor dirty cops. No one under­stands the need to give our law enforce­ment offi­cers the ben­e­fit of the doubt more than I do, nev­er­the­less the ben­e­fit of the doubt can­not be blan­ket refusal to indict and con­vict cops who bla­tant­ly and wan­ton­ly abuse their authority.

As the Grand jury pre­tend to con­tem­plate the evi­dence in the case against Darren Wilson , cer­tain ques­tions begs answers.

(1 What is the Grand Jury wait­ing on to announce it’s decision?

(2 How will the jury arrive at a deci­sion as it telegraphed it would with­ing days, if it could not arrive at the same deci­sion months ago ?

(3 Why is there a process to allow Darren Wilson the oppor­tu­ni­ty to resign on his terms, if he is in jeop­ardy of being indict­ed, or is he?

( 4 Why did Prosecutor McCulloch not recuse himself?

(5 Why did Governor Jay Nixon not remove McCulloch when it became clear that McCulloch would not recuse himsel? 

It would have been the cor­rect thing to do in the inter­est of jus­tice, which would leave those who want­ed him out with no one to blame, in the event of a non-indictment !

Many observers black and white insist offi­cer Wilson will not be indict­ed. Whether or not he is indict­ed is prob­a­bly not as impor­tant as the dis­par­i­ty which exist in this coun­try which will even­tu­al­ly cul­mi­nate into some­thing rather ugly if it is not cor­rect­ed soon.

There can­not con­tin­ue to be two set of rules in a coun­try which takes it onto itself to lec­ture oth­ers about civ­il and human rights when it’s own house is in dire need of cleansing.

White acqui­es­cence is the fuel which fires police mis­treat­ment of non-white cit­i­zens. There are close to forty mil­lion black peo­ple liv­ing in America. By every mea­sure that is a huge Country with­in a coun­try. Sooner or lat­er peo­ple will come to their sens­es, that day is fast approach­ing and it will not be pret­ty. The police can­not kill forty mil­lion people.

This injus­tice must stop , it will only stop when the peo­ple make it stop. I make no judge­ment on the guilt or inno­cence of Darren Wilson. We also know that Michael Brown was not total­ly above reproach.

Notwithstanding, the 18 year old Brown did not deserve to die. We know offi­cer Wilson was not privy to any­thing Brown may have done pri­or to their encounter. This makes it dou­bly dif­fi­cult to jus­ti­fy killing some­one who had no weapon.

Police offi­cers are grant­ed wide pow­ers, includ­ing the lat­i­tude to kill in fur­ther­ance of the law. The tak­ing of a life is a seri­ous deci­sion to take. Officers should not take a life sim­ply because they are vest­ed with the pow­ers to do so, or because they can.

One of the pri­ma­ry func­tion of a police offi­cer is to save lives, not to end life. Too many cops seem unable to grasp that concept.

In all of this there is a mes­sage, no one is sug­gest­ing that blacks change to be accept­ed. No one is sug­gest­ing that blacks adjust to the ways that white America wants them to. What I sug­gest is that Blacks change to fit into right America.

With the pos­si­bil­i­ty of fur­ther clash­es in Ferguson hing­ing on the immi­nent deci­sion from a grand jury, Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon issued a stern warn­ing Tuesday after­noon: If the police are unable to con­trol protests in the St. Louis area, then the National Guard will.

Nixon and St. Louis law enforce­ment are prepar­ing for a grand jury deci­sion that could reignite smol­der­ing unrest in Ferguson, on the out­skirts of St. Louis. Later this month a St. Louis County grand jury is expect­ed to rule on whether police offi­cer Darren Wilson should be pros­e­cut­ed for the Aug. 9 shoot­ing death of Michael Brown, an unarmed African-American 18-year-old. If Wilson is not pros­e­cut­ed for the shoot­ing, which ignit­ed some­times vio­lent protests, many see fur­ther demon­stra­tions as all but inevitable.

“The National Guard has been and will con­tin­ue to be part of our con­tin­gency plan­ning,” Nixon said Tuesday at a news con­fer­ence. “The guard will be avail­able when we deter­mine it is nec­es­sary to sup­port local law enforce­ment.”http://​amer​i​ca​.aljazeera​.com/​a​r​t​i​c​l​e​s​/​2​0​1​4​/​1​1​/​1​1​/​n​a​t​i​o​n​a​l​-​g​u​a​r​d​-​o​n​c​a​l​l​i​n​f​e​r​g​u​s​o​n​.​h​tml

In addi­tion to mar­shal­ing the National Guard and enlist­ing the assis­tance of com­mu­ni­ty mem­bers, state and local offi­cials have pro­vid­ed more than 1,000 law enforce­ment offi­cers with thou­sands of hours in train­ing, accord­ing to the governor’s office. Fire and emer­gency med­ical ser­vices will also be at the ready in the event of new unrest.

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From the looks of this it appears Missouri Governor Jay Nixon already knows what the out­come of the Grand Jury’s deci­sion will be. Nixon had the author­i­ty to remove Prosecutor Robert McCulloch when cit­i­zens demand­ed that he remove him. Nixon cir­cum­vent­ed the will of the peo­ple and now he is pre­pared to use all nec­es­sary force to crush the peo­ple if they dare protest against what they see as an injus­tice if Darren Wilson is not indict­ed. It is sur­pris­ing that the peo­ple could be demand­ing just an indict­ment any­way they demand­ed an indict­ment in the Trayvon Martin case , what did that get the Martin fam­i­ly? George Zimmerman is a free man doing what he does ‚what­ev­er that is.

Had Jay Nixon acqui­esced to the demands of the cit­i­zens of his state by remov­ing McCulloch ‚Black res­i­dents of Ferguson would have no choice but to live with the deci­sion of the Grand Jury, what­ev­er that deci­sion end up being. Governor Nixon in stub­born obsti­na­cy, not want­i­ng to capit­u­late to the blacks, either did not think through his deci­sion , or he is not very smart.

There are a lot of eyes on Ferguson as the storm clouds gath­er. Whether or not there will be an avalanche of fury if the res­i­dents do not get the results they desire is yet to be seen. One thing is cer­tain this Country is not much dif­fer­ent than it was in 1962 , or 1942 for that matter.

White Americans are loathe to sup­port black caus­es , sub­se­quent­ly Racism per­sists. It is rather dif­fi­cult to expect the descen­dants of the peo­ple who enslaved you, raped you, beat and muti­late you , imprison and kill you , to turn around and sup­port your right to be treat­ed fair­ly by the peo­ple who ensure their privilege.

That is why Grand juries do not con­vict cops who kill black peo­ple. That is why there are two sep­a­rate ways in which laws are applied to whites and blacks. That is why police shoot with­out wor­ry­ing about the con­se­quence when a black per­son is at the busi­ness end of their weapon.

Those who think racism is a thing of the past because they have a cou­ple of white friends need to have their heads exam­ined. They can­not even bring them­selves to respect their own darn President, even when he is on for­eign soil. They would rather sup­port a sworn ene­my of the United States than stand for their own President and coun­try-men , sim­ply because they are black.

That kind of ran­cid igno­rance have per­me­at­ed their brain and occu­pied the very innards of their bio­log­i­cal make­up for gen­er­a­tions. I believe it is now genet­ic , the hate they have for blacks in this the land of the free , home of the brave.

This is what is play­ing out in Ferguson Missouri. Rather than fix the atti­tude of the Police by putting strict pro­tec­tions in place for the cit­i­zens , they give the police more guns to abuse and kill the very peo­ple who pay their salaries.

The sharks are cir­cling, there is blood in the water, this is huge. An American Icon is about to fall. 

Bill Cosby was America’s dad. Largely because of the NBC 1980’s hit, the Cosby show.

Reports are that mul­ti­ple women have come for­ward claim­ing that Cosby now 77, have drugged and had inap­pro­pri­ate sex­u­al con­tact with them. Thus far Bill Cosby have refused to com­ment on the allegations. 

These alle­ga­tions have dogged Cosby for years. In 1977 Cosby con­fessed to an extra-mar­tial affair with a woman named Shawn Upshaw . Upshaw claimed that her daugh­ter Autum Jackson was Cosby’s child. Paternity of Jackson was nev­er proven. Upshaw lat­er spent two years in Prison for try­ing to extort mon­ey from the Comedian.

Andrea Constand, the for­mer direc­tor of oper­a­tions of Temple University’s women’s bas­ket­ball pro­gram, sued the come­di­an, claim­ing he slipped her “herbal med­ica­tion” for stress when she vis­it­ed his Philadelphia man­sion in 2004. 

After tak­ing the “med­ica­tion,” she said Cosby touched her breasts and gen­i­tals and sex­u­al­ly assault­ed her. Constand had met Cosby sev­er­al years ear­li­er and con­sid­ered him a men­tor but when she con­tact­ed offi­cials, the dis­trict attor­ney declined to press charges. At the time, Cosby’s lawyer calls the accu­sa­tion “utter­ly preposterous.”

In 2006 Constand and 13 oth­er women filed a law suit against the Cos, the suit was set­tled out of court for an undis­closed sum of money.Unfortunately for Cosby the alle­ga­tions seem to be inten­si­fy­ing, not going away. Now there is a grow­ing list of women who claim that they too were drugged and assault­ed by Cosby.

♦California lawyer Tamara Green, who had appeared on the “Today Show” in 2005 alleg­ing that Cosby drugged and sex­u­al­ly assault­ed her in the 1970s in a fash­ion sim­i­lar to the one Constand alleges.

♦In 2005, Beth Ferrier claims she had a sex­u­al rela­tion­ship with Cosby — who has been mar­ried for 50 years to wife Camille — which she said end­ed after he alleged­ly drugged and groped her.

♦Barbara Bowman, tells Philadelphia mag­a­zine that Cosby threw her on a bed and attempt­ed to force­ful­ly dis­robe her as she yelled and begged him to stop.

♦Another accuser, Joan Tarshis, comes for­ward on November 16, claim­ing Cosby drugged and assault­ed her twice in 1969. Two days lat­er, for­mer super­mod­el Janice Dickinson says Cosby drugged and raped her in 1982.

Women seem to be com­ing out of the wood­work, all claim­ing that Cosby drugged and sex­u­al­ly assault­ed them. Tv Networks have begun to take notice, shows are being can­celled and all because Black Comedian Hannibal Burris said this in his rou­tine in October.

“It’s even worse because Bill Cosby has the f – king smuggest old black man pub­lic per­sona that I hate,” Burress, who is also black, tells a crowd. “‘ Pull your pants up, black peo­ple. I was on TV in the ’80s. I can talk down to you because I had a suc­cess­ful sit­com.’ Yeah, but you raped women, Bill Cosby. So, brings you down a cou­ple notch­es. ‘I don’t curse on stage.’ Well, yeah, you’re a rapist, so, I’ll take you sayin’ lots of moth­erf — ers on Bill Cosby: Himself if you weren’t a rapist.”

The feed­ing fren­zy has begun, many in the media and around social media are sali­vat­ing about this mas­sive take-down , after all it’s the American way right? Build them up ‚then take them down?

We make no judge­ment call, we just have one observation.

Since Mister Cosby has­n’t yet been con­vict­ed of any­thing. Could you please stop with the use of the old hag­gard-look­ing, beard­ed, con­vict-resem­bling por­trait ? We do get the sub­lim­i­nal mes­sage you are sending.

Oh, one more thing, those of you American blacks who despise Bill Cosby, you don’t hate him because you know that he is guilty of any crime. You hate him because he tells you about your­selves and you resent that. Some of you would rather sit and make excus­es rather than get up and make a way for you and your families.

Whether Bill Cosby is guilty or not, does not ren­der his crit­i­cisms any less true. We will with­hold judge­ment on Bill Cosby until the facts are prop­er­ly aired in a court of law, if at all.

The Nassau Guardian report­ed that Rev. Myles Munroe, pres­i­dent of Bahamas Faith Ministries International, and his wife, Ruth Munroe, were among the pas­sen­gers on a pri­vate jet that crashed into a crane at a ship­yard as it approached Grand Bahama International Airport in Freeport. The news­pa­per said two oth­er pas­tors with Munroe’s orga­ni­za­tion were also on the flight. The Nassau Guardian report­ed that Munroe, his wife and the oth­er pas­sen­gers were trav­el­ing from Lynden Pindling International Airport in Nassau, the Bahamian cap­i­tal, to Grand Bahama for a lead­er­ship forum that opened on Monday.

Immediately after the crash and before Doctor Monroe’s rel­a­tives can grieve his loss one homo­sex­u­al sup­port­ing web­site had this to say.

While some media out­lets are describ­ing the death of “Dr” Myles Munroe, and his wife Ruth Munroe, in a plane crash this week­end as the loss of a promi­nent faith leader, the ugly real­i­ty is that Munroe and his Bahamas Faith Ministries were major forces sup­port­ing homo­pho­bia and vio­lence against Gays in the Bahamas, a nation I’ve vis­it­ed a num­ber of times and which deserves far bet­ter than the igno­rance and big­otry which are the stock in trade of the “god­ly folk” like Munroe. I don’t mean to speak ill of the dead, but in report­ing on Munroe’s “min­istry,” lets at least be hon­est about what the man was real­ly all about. The Washington Blade has details on the death of these homo­phobes (Note the pan­der­ing — dare we call it self-pros­ti­tu­tion — of gov­ern­ment offi­cials to this mer­chant of bigotry):

It is clear that those who engage in homo­sex­u­al prac­tices and their sup­port­ers will not be sat­is­fied until every per­son who dis­agrees with their nasty per­vert­ed lifestyle is dead. I mean who is beyond crit­i­cism? Why are Gays so afraid of crit­i­cism? Is it that they know in their hearts that les­bian­ism and Homosexuality is a degen­er­ate unholy, unright­eous lifestyle that is counter to the laws of nature and the laws of God?

Daring to dis­agree with them brings a fierce and sav­age back­lash designed to destroy. Heterosexual dis­senters are labeled Homophobic and hate­ful. The vit­ri­ol which spews from Homosexuals far out­weigh any­thing Heterosexuals say in dis­sent. The Monroes and their friends bod­ies weren’t even cold when the sav­age attacks started.

Doctor Monroe has spo­ken out against Homosexuality, par­tic­u­lar­ly in his native Bahamas. In fact a Gay Pride event sched­uled for last week­end was scrapped because Dr Monroe slammed the pride event and the LGBT move­ment say­ing the LGBT move­ment has “hijacked” and “raped” the civ­il rights movement.

As head of Bahamas Faith Ministries International. Dr Myles Monroe spoke out against sin. He spoke elo­quent­ly on the need for the Church to preach an unvar­nished Gospel, not one that will please, but a Gospel which will con­vict sin­ners , bring­ing them to repentance.

Homosexuals believe that the love of God will cov­er them even as they con­tin­ue to wal­low in the filth of homo­sex­u­al devian­cy. They are woe­ful­ly wrong. God does love the sin­ner but he hates sin. As I have said in these blogs, we can­not sim­ply claim Grace even as we con­tin­ue in sin presumptuously .

The prob­lem is that Homosexuals do not want to accept that Homosexuality is abnor­mal and sin­ful. The Homosexual com­mu­ni­ty is wag­ing psy­cho­log­i­cal war­fare on the rest of the world. They do not want to hear that Homosexuality is abnor­mal, so they demo­nize any­one who dare dis­agree with them.

It is becom­ing rather dan­ger­ous, sui­ci­dal even ‚to speak out against them. Economic sabotage,blacklisting, and even more seri­ous weapons are in their Arsenal.

Make no mis­take they have pow­er­ful friends in high places . From Obama and Biden in the White house to Francis in the Vatican. Powerful peo­ple line up ready to wage war in their defense.

Pope Benedict crit­i­cized Homosexuality and soon after announced his retire­ment. Obama was quick to vis­it the Homosexual sup­port­ing Pope Francis.

Just recent­ly American Cardinal Raymond Burke was tak­en off the church’s high­est court to become the chap­lain of the Knights of Malta, a Vatican char­i­ty group. Demoted for speak­ing out against Francis’ lib­er­al­ism with the Gospel of God and Homosexuals.

The high­ly placed Political and Religious sup­port Gays receive pales in com­par­i­son to the amount of peo­ple with mon­ey who are will­ing to use eco­nom­ic sab­o­tage as a blud­geon­ing tool to cow their opponents .

Countries which stand on their prin­ci­ples of not accept­ing Homosexuality as a way of life are threat­ened with Economic sab­o­tage for their stance. So we ask, “Is it coin­ci­dence that Doctor Monroe who spoke out against Homosexuality just recent­ly, his wife and friends are all dead?

Was this an accident?

Was this just an unfor­tu­nate plane crash ‚or was this some­thing much ugli­er. Was Myles and Ruth Monroe silenced for dar­ing to speak out against the bur­geon­ing can­cer of Homosexuality as Cardinal Raymond Burke was demot­ed for dar­ing to stand on prin­ci­ple chal­leng­ing Pope Francis for try­ing to change Gods word to accom­mo­date homosexuals?

We may nev­er know the truth, or the truth may come to light some­how. It is obvi­ous how­ev­er, that speak­ing out in defense of one’s prin­ci­ples may mean seri­ous loss of rights or worse.

Already some Christian denom­i­na­tions are afraid to preach God’s word out of fear they may lose tax exemp­tion if they speak the truth about homosexuality.

It is not uncom­mon to see Homosexuals as part of the cler­gy as a result.

Here in America States like South Carolina are fight­ing a los­ing bat­tle against a ris­ing crescen­do of gay sup­port as it fights to pro­tect the sanc­ti­ty of mar­riage between man and woman.

There is some­thing sin­is­ter in these deaths. Maybe I’m para­noid, maybe I’m right. What is clear is that we are fast approach­ing a time when crit­i­cism of Homosexuality will land one in prison.

As Myles Monroe argued, Homosexuality has hijacked and raped the Civil Rights Struggle” . Speaking out against some­thing God’s word labels an Abomination is not abus­ing any­one’s Civil Rights.

It is the cor­rect thing to do, regard­less of what President or Pontiff say otherwise.

By ‑Elections to be held for the seat occu­pied by the late Roger Clarke in Central Westmoreland will be a sig­nif­i­cant indi­ca­tor in Jamaica Politics. The out­come of those elec­tions will deter­mine once and for all whether Jamaicans as a peo­ple can turn the cor­ner from blind polit­i­cal alle­giance and embrace a future of hope. Or whether they will con­tin­ue in the squalid gut­ter of polit­i­cal patri­o­tism , hun­gry and with­out a future.

The seat has been occu­pied by the People’s National Party for 25 years. Conditions in the Constituency leaves much to be desired though the People’s National Party have been in office for all except 4 years of that time.
The Elections will be a three-way affair this time between Financial con­sul­tant Faye Reid- Jacobs of the Opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP). Businessman Dwayne Vaz, for the

PNP and Independent can­di­date Ras Astor Black of the Jamaica Alliance Movement.

Candidates of both major Political Parties were sup­port­ed at the nom­i­na­tion process by their respec­tive par­ty lead­ers . Jamaica Labor Party Leader Andrew Holness said quote, I sense a wind of change and the Jamaica Labour Party has put up its sails. We are mov­ing in Central Westmoreland,”.

Word of advice to Holness, noth­ing good hap­pens unless one lay the foun­da­tion and work like Hell to make a dream become real­i­ty. Bad things hap­pen all by them­selves. If they are going to win that Central Westmoreland, seat the JLP will have to get up of it’s col­lec­tive behind, go out and con­vince peo­ple why they need to embrace change.

Not to be out­done the Leader of the People’s National Party, and Prime Minister , Portia Simpson Miller said quote. 

“It will come back. This is PNP ter­ri­to­ry,” In ref­er­ence to the Constituency. Typical Simpson Miller under­stand­ing of politics.Gang-land, Garrison, enti­tle­ment. It’s ours, as if the peo­ple have no say in who their elect­ed Representatives are.

Miller went on to say,“The real­i­ty is that President Obama became a black pres­i­dent of the US and it was not expect­ed that a black man would have become pres­i­dent in the US,”.

That was vin­tage Portia, mak­ing a weak attempt at being the vic­tim, play­ing up the gen­der card. Someone in the gath­er­ing of PNP big­wigs should have had the good sense to nudge their Leader and remind her she is the Prime Minister. At some point Portia must come to the real­iza­tion that she is the leader of the coun­try. She can­not be allowed to play gen­der and class games in order to retain power. 

She has the pow­er, the peo­ple must demand she use it in their inter­est or step aside. This will be the best indi­ca­tor of whether the peo­ple are turn­ing the cor­ner, whether the winds of change are blow­ing the oth­er way, as Holness seem to believe. 

It was not the JLP tak­ing the Cassia Park Seat in the Local Government Elections as some Laborites seem to believe. Central Westomreland will indi­cate to the JLP and Jamaicans in the dias­po­ra whether the Country will con­tin­ue on the down­ward slide to becom­ing a failed state mired in pover­ty and crime.

There are times when I sim­ply just throw up my hands in exas­per­a­tion at the total incom­pe­tence and cor­rup­tion of Jamaican Officials. The JamaicaGleaner​.com reports that the Country is run­ning out of space to bury the dead​.In a report dat­ed Nov.11. 2014 the Paper reports that in 2013 ‚15,427 deaths were record­ed. Those num­bers are shock­ing all to them­selves when con­sid­ered in the con­text of the Country’s under 3 mil­lion population.

The report went on to state quote. The National Environment and Planning Agency (NEPA) is con­cerned that Jamaica is run­ning out of pub­lic space to bury persons.

I am going to take a leap and assume the Report is refer­ring to dead peo­ple. Anyway , even as the report high­lights the loom­ing prob­lem with so many deaths and such small land space peo­ple con­tin­ue to erect mam­moth edi­fices in Public Cemetery to hon­or their dead. The report cor­rect­ly spoke to the prac­tice of bury­ing dead in places which threat­en drink­ing water, as well as in places which neg­a­tive­ly impacts the val­ue of the prop­er­ty of oth­ers. In all of this one has to ask , “why is it so dif­fi­cult for the lazy ego-mani­a­cal thieves who run the Country to draft Legislation to fix this sim­ple prob­lem? How dif­fi­cult is it to have man­age­ment in place that does it’s damn job? Whether the UDC or the KSAC, irre­spec­tive of who is in charge, why can’t they get up off their sor­ry ass­es and actu­al­ly do some­thing? How incom­pe­tent can these nin­com­poops real­ly be ?

The appeal hear­ing for Ray Rice con­clud­ed Thursday in New York after two days of tes­ti­mo­ny, NFL Media’s Judy Battista report­ed. Rice left the hear­ing after just less than six hours of tes­ti­mo­ny on Thursday (his wife Janay depart­ed before, per Battista). There were just under ten hours of tes­ti­mo­ny on Wednesday. The for­mer Ravensrun­ning back seeks to over­turn the indef­i­nite sus­pen­sion hand­ed down by the NFL at the begin­ning of the sea­son after video footage sur­faced of him punch­ing his then-fiancée in Atlantic City. According to Battista, Ravens gen­er­al man­ag­er Ozzie Newsome and team pres­i­dent Dick Cass were also present dur­ing Thursday’s hear­ings. Newsome spent a lit­tle under two hours giv­ing tes­ti­mo­ny, pre­sum­ably con­cern­ing “what he heard Ray Rice say in that June dis­ci­pli­nary meet­ing and what he inter­pret­ed it to mean,” per Battista. Rice and his wife also had the chance to tell their ver­sion of events.Meanwhile, Commissioner Roger Goodell was not present Thursday. The Commissioner gave tes­ti­mo­ny for approx­i­mate­ly two and a half hours Wednesday, NFL Media Insider Ian Rapoport report­ed. The basis of Rice’s argu­ment, per Battista, is that he was sub­ject­ed to dou­ble jeop­ardy when the league indef­i­nite­ly sus­pend­ed him (after orig­i­nal­ly ban­ning him for two games). Rice believes that the NFL received no new infor­ma­tion when the video became pub­lic — and that Goodell knew what happened.

“(Rice’s legal team is) say­ing Ray Rice was can­did in what he told the Commissioner when he met with him dur­ing the off­sea­son,” Battista told NFL Network. “Of course, the Commissioner has said that Ray Rice’s ver­sion of events then was ambigu­ous. “So the crux of this appeal is, what did the Commissioner know? What did he under­stand Ray Rice was say­ing to him? And was it unfair for the league to go back and sus­pend Ray Rice a sec­ond time indef­i­nite­ly?” Former U.S. District Judge Barbara S. Jones will hear and decide the appeal. In October, Jones ordered Goodell to tes­ti­fy in the hear­ing. Goodell was expect­ed to take ques­tions from Ginsberg, and from NFL Players Association out­side coun­sel Jeffrey Kessler, who will lead the ques­tion­ing. Rice also has filed a griev­ance against the Ravens for wrong­ful ter­mi­na­tion of his con­tract. nfl​.com

Whether you like Ray Rice or not is not the issue here.

Look the guy is a bad rep­re­sen­ta­tion of a man peri­od. But lets look at what occurred.

Rice beat the crap out of his then Fiancé Janay , then dragged her out of the ele­va­tor as if she did­n’t even mat­ter. To me that is wor­thy of Prison time. But wait . Rice said he told Roger Goodell what he did. Goodell gave Rice a two game sus­pen­sion . On the Criminal end of it, On March 27, 2014, a grand jury indict­ed Rice on third-degree aggra­vat­ed assault, with a pos­si­ble jail sen­tence of three to five years and a fine of up to $15,000.^[23] Rice mar­ried Palmer on March 28, 2014.^[24] For the inci­dent, Rice was sus­pend­ed for the first two games of the 2014 NFL sea­son on July 25, 2014.^[25] The crim­i­nal charges were lat­er dropped after Rice agreed to under­go court-super­vised coun­sel­ing.^[26] In a news con­fer­ence announc­ing longer sus­pen­sion lengths for future domes­tic vio­lence inci­dents, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said that he “did­n’t get it right” in decid­ing Rice’s pun­ish­ment.^[27].

But wait, lat­er the video of the inci­dent found it’s way into the pub­lic domain, after the web­site TMZ​.COM released addi­tion­al footage of the inci­dent. The Baltimore Ravens ter­mi­nat­ed Rice’s con­tract as a result. Shortly after­ward, Goodell announced that Rice had been sus­pend­ed from the NFL indefinitely.

Rice con­tends that Goodell was told the entire­ty of what had occurred before the Commissioner met­ed out the ini­tial sus­pen­sion. Ravens General Manager Ozzie Newsome said Ray Rice did not lie to him. In an inter­view with the Baltimore Sun, Ravens gen­er­al man­ag­er Ozzie Newsome was asked if Rice described what hap­pened accu­rate­ly. In the video released by TMZ ear­li­er this week, Rice is seen knock­ing out his then-fiancée with one punch.

“You know. Ray had giv­en a sto­ry to John [Harbaugh] and I. And what we saw on the video was what Ray said. Ray did­n’t lie to me,” Newsome said. “He did­n’t lie to me.” Conversely NFL Commis­sion­er Roger Goodell main­tains that he was not ful­ly aware of the extent of the assault when he decid­ed on Rice’s punishment.

Why would Rice tell Newsome the truth then lie to Goodell? law enforce­ment offi­cial says he sent a video of Ray Rice punch­ing his then-fiancée to an NFL exec­u­tive three months ago, while league offi­cers have insist­ed they didn’t see the vio­lent images until later.

Why would League offi­cials not look at the Video involv­ing such an explo­sive case which was still being dis­cussed in the pub­lic sphere? Rice who has since apol­o­gized to his fiancé and mar­ried her believes he was pun­ished twice for the same offence.

Everyone is on the band­wag­on includ­ing New Yorks Junior Senator Kirsten Gilibrand who threat­ens if the NFL does not pun­ish domes­tic abuse offend­ers the Congress would be forced to inter­vene. It seem that all Gillibrand is in office to do is to look about wom­en’s affairs. Obviously she was elect­ed to be a New York Senator for wom­en’s issues. Ray and Janae Rice are con­tend­ing dou­ble jeop­ardy . It is now up to Barbara Jones, who served as a U.S. dis­trict judge in the Southern District of New York from 1996 to 2013, to hear the appeal.

I believe Ray Rice was sub­ject­ed to dou­ble jeop­ardy. Who knows what Barbara Jones’ agen­da is ?

I haven’t heard New York Junior Senator mak­ing state­ments regard­ing Hope Solo female Soccer star, charged with assault yet still play­ing Soccer for the US. We will await her response on that .

If Jenae Rice can for­give her hus­band who the hell are oth­ers to decide they should not move on with their lives? Too many Political and spe­cial inter­est are at play in this case. I agree what Rice did was egre­gious , but he is human . If he told Roger Goodell what he did , Roger Goodell needs to go and Ray Rice needs to be back in uniform.

Democrats were repu­di­at­ed at the polls in mid-term elec­tions held yes­ter­day Nov 4^th. Republicans added to their tal­ly in the House and retook the Senate.

The Democrats lost rough­ly 12 addi­tion­al seats in the house, lost Governorship’s they were sup­posed to hold, includ­ing in the President’s home state of Illinois, where the Incumbent Governor Pat Quinn went down in defeat. I do not pro­pose to under­stand what caused this President to pre­side over two mid term Electoral defeats after bring­ing the Economy back from the brink, cre­at­ing mil­lions of jobs in the process.

I can­not explain as some pun­dits may be able to, how this President’s Party could be repu­di­at­ed after end­ing two wars , one, cer­tain­ly an ille­gal for­ay into a Sovereign Nation on lying pre­texts. It is also above my pay grade to explain how this President could be unpop­u­lar after he was elect­ed twice to turn the coun­try around from the débâ­cle which was the George W Bush pres­i­den­cy, and did exact­ly that.

I am unable explain how the Democratic Party could lose again after the actions of the Republican Party over the last 6 years .What I can tell you is that in Politics bad behav­ior is def­i­nite­ly reward­ed. The Republican Party of yester-year was trans­formed into an even more ugly thug­gish, Xenophobic, Fascist, Party. Worse than that which exist­ed under Gingrich, Delay and others.

It is not uncom­mon for a Presidents Party to lose the House and Senate in the final two years of their Presidency. In fact Republican dar­ling Ronald Reagan did exact­ly that. Over the ensu­ing weeks and months Right wing Political pathol­o­gist will per­form Autopsy after Autopsy in an effort to gloat over the rea­son their par­ty took over the Senate and increased their tal­ly in the House.

The fact is vot­ers chose the Party which had balls. They always do, they did two years after Obama was elect­ed they did so again last night.

Democrats were nev­er ever true believ­ers. The Democratic Party has always been a patch-work quilt made up of a litany of loose spe­cial inter­est groups , each with their own agen­da. Democrats do not have an ide­ol­o­gy , in fact were Republicans less hate­ful of Minorities the Democratic Party would have already been extinct. I mean what exact­ly is the Democratic Philosophy ? They have none.

Democrats ran away from the President who got many of them elect­ed. Even at his worse, as one of America’s worse President, Bush was nev­er shunned or dis­re­spect­ed by any mem­ber of his par­ty. It is incon­ceiv­able that a can­di­date could be run­ning on the Democratic tick­et and is unable to say whether she vot­ed for the leader of the par­ty. That speaks vol­umes, it goes to the heart of a Party which is basi­cal­ly a souls-less throw togeth­er of indi­vid­ual opportunists.

Voters do not like lite. They did not want Republican-lite, they chose the Republicans. This prob­lem of the Democratic Party is not new and once again it proves to be their Achilles heel.

NFL star Adrian Peterson plead­ed no con­test Tuesday in a Texas court to one count of mis­de­meanor reck­less assault, avoid­ing jail time for whip­ping one of his chil­dren. Peterson appeared in a Montgomery County court in Conroe after pros­e­cu­tors and his attor­neys reached a plea deal. Judge Kelly Case agreed to the terms of the deal, in which Peterson plead­ed to a less­er charge. The Minnesota Vikings star was sen­tenced to two years of pro­ba­tion, a $4,000 fine and 80 hours of com­mu­ni­ty ser­vice, half of which will be tak­en care of by a pub­lic ser­vice announcement.He also will take par­ent­ing class­es. http://​www​.cnn​.com/​2​0​1​4​/​1​1​/​0​4​/​j​u​s​t​i​c​e​/​a​d​r​i​a​n​-​p​e​t​e​r​s​o​n​-​p​l​e​a​/​i​n​d​e​x​.​h​tml  .

Adrian Peterson was sus­pend­ed from his job as a mem­ber of the Minnesota Vikings Football Team.

Double standard allows soccer star Hope Solo to stay in the game

It’s the crown­ing dis­grace of the sports world. Yet anoth­er renowned ath­lete has been hit with charges of domes­tic vio­lence — alleged­ly pum­mel­ing two rel­a­tives, leav­ing a 17-year-old boy bleed­ing from a cut on his ear and a woman’s cheek­bone swollen and pur­ple. But while belea­guered offi­cials of the NFL have made belat­ed attempts to stop the vio­lence — exil­ing play­ers accused or con­vict­ed of using their hands for rea­sons unre­lat­ed to a play­ing field — this sports fig­ure con­tin­ues to smack a ball around. Charged in Washington state with two counts of mis­de­meanor fourth-degree domes­tic-vio­lence assault is Hope Solo, super­star goal­keep­er for the US women’s nation­al soc­cer team and for the pro­fes­sion­al National Women’s Soccer League club the Seattle Reign. She’s accused of pick­ing a vicious fight dur­ing a fam­i­ly par­ty at her half-sister’s house in June.

So why is Solo, a two-time Olympic gold medal­ist, still allowed to play ball? Simple. She’s a woman. The dou­ble stan­dard is alive and well. The US Soccer Federation should bench Solo. Now! The goalie, 33, who appeared to be intox­i­cat­ed, was arrest­ed after she alleged­ly punched her 17-year-old nephew in the face repeat­ed­ly and called him “too fat and crazy’’ to be a pro ath­lete, accord­ing to a police report. Solo’s half-sis­ter tried to break up the fight, but Solo punched the woman in the face, the report said. Her nephew broke a wood­en broom han­dle over her head and point­ed a non-work­ing BB gun at her, accord­ing to cops. She plead­ed not guilty to the charges against her and faces up to six months in jail if con­vict­ed at a tri­al sched­uled for next month. It has­n’t slowed down her career. http://​nypost​.com/​2​0​1​4​/​1​0​/​0​6​/​d​o​u​b​l​e​-​s​t​a​n​d​a​r​d​-​a​l​l​o​w​s​-​s​o​c​c​e​r​-​s​t​a​r​-​h​o​p​e​-​s​o​l​o​-​t​o​-​s​t​a​y​-​i​n​-​t​h​e​-​g​a​me/

We just con­clud­ed a flur­ry of activ­i­ties all geared at stamp­ing out domes­tic vio­lence. All across the Country peo­ple fall over them selves to stand on the side of women who are vic­tims of Domestic Violence. I sat through the ser­mon of a woman, a pub­lished Author who claimed she was abused for years by her Pastor husband. 

After the ser­mon I felt like an abused Parishioner. Unfortunately there is no recourse for me because of my gender.

Some Black men have vol­un­teered their char­ac­ters and careers as a rogues gallery for Domestic Violence. 

Baltimore Ravens run­ning back Ray Rice. Minnesota Vikings Running back Adrian Peterson. Carolina Panthers Greg Hardy. Arizona Cardinals Running back Johnathan Dwyer. The list is not con­fined to black men but for one rea­son or anoth­er they are the ones who find them­selves on the wrong end of the crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tem. The men men­tioned above are being pun­ished by the NFL and the Court sys­tem. Hope Solo ? Naaaah , She is a Woman who just hap­pen to be white.

There is your Domestic abuse prob­lem. Only men should be held account­able, just as only women are vic­tims of abuse.(sic.

Off Year Elections are due In the United States in just a mat­ter of hours. All across the Country vot­ers will be going out to elect Governors, Senators. Congressional Representatives and every­thing all the way down to Dog-catch­er. Okay maybe not dog-catch­er, but some of the Candidates run­ning are not fit to be Dog catch­ers really.

It is the habit of Politicians to can­vass for votes wher­ev­er they can find them.

Democrats are real­ly tame when it comes to the ground game of Republicans.

Frankly the fact that there is a com­pet­i­tive Republican Party is tes­ta­ment to the Racist , Xenophobia of Americans.

The Republican Party has lit­er­al­ly blocked progress over the last 6 years sole­ly on the basis that they do not want President Barack Obama to have any achieve­ment to his credit.

For those of you who say, “who me I’m not racist I have a black friend” , that is called Racism. Putting hatred and Party over Country bor­ders on trea­son. Yet the entire Republican Party signed on to sab­o­tage Obama’s Presidency. From all indi­ca­tions they will be reward­ed with more seats in the House of Representatives and some believe even tak­ing con­trol of the United States Senate.

I was always a lit­tle mys­ti­fied at the con­cept of a President of One Party the Senate of that Party and the House from the oth­er par­ty. Why vote for a President if he is not allowed to enact his agen­da? Oh well it’s the con­cept of Divided Government, I get it.…not really !!!

Nan Hayworth, the Republican seek­ing to unseat Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney a Gay Democrat in New York’s 18^th Congressional District launched an Ad fea­tur­ing her son who claims to be Gay . Hayworth’s son tells poten­tial vot­ers in the Ad his Mom Nan is no extrem­ist. Never mind that Maloney is run­ning Ads with Hayworth claim­ing in her own words that she a is proud Radical.

Issues aside, being Gay is the cool thing to be these days it seem. People are falling over them­selves to let every­one know they are Homosexuals. I won­dered to myself whether this cam­paign was about who could be the more deviant.

Sunday Morning November 2^nd Nan Hayworth turned up at the large­ly Black Beulah Baptist Church to beg for votes. As is cus­tom­ary our Pastor in his gen­er­ous Wisdom, gives those run­ning for office the oppor­tu­ni­ty to tell vot­ers what they are for, irre­spec­tive of Party.

Hayworth addressed the Congregation for just over sev­en min­utes, not once dur­ing the address did she men­tion the word Republican. Not once did she men­tion that she is a Radical Tea Party Republican who fought the Obama Agenda tooth and nail. Hayworth men­tioned Obama once and it was mere­ly as a pass­ing ref­er­ence. The thing which real­ly both­ered me about Hayworth though was that she thought it was per­fect­ly okay to show up on a Sunday Morning to a black Church and talk about Food-stamps and Medicaid.

Obviously to Nan, black peo­ple are only con­cerned about receiv­ing food-stamp ben­e­fits and oth­er good­ies from Government. But of course you may lis­ten to her 7 min­utes address and judge for your­self. At the end of her address Congregants gave Tea par­ty dar­ling Nan a cour­te­ous round of applause. I am a lit­tle uncer­tain whether they felt dis­re­spect­ed that she would see fit to address them on Food-stamps and oth­er Government benefits.

Hayworth nev­er both­ered to men­tion that while in Congress she vot­ed to..

(1 Repeal Obama-Care report­ing require­ments for small busi­ness. (Jan 2011)

(2 Voted YES on ter­mi­nat­ing the Home Affordable mort­gage Program. (Mar 2011)

(3 No EPA reg­u­la­tion of green­house gas­es. (Jan 2011)

(4 Voted YES on bar­ring EPA from reg­u­lat­ing green­house gas­es. (Apr 2011)

After the address I mut­tered to my son that Hayworth was very slick in not men­tion­ing that she was a mem­ber of the Republican Party and a Tea Party member.

One lady asked me what was Tea Party

All across America Politicians will be get­ting elect­ed on lies dis­tor­tions and guile, sim­ply because too many of us refuse to apprise our­selves of the issues.

A Jamaican Court award­ed $12.5 mil­lion to Patterson against Cliff Hughes with inter­est which is expect­ed to sub­stan­tial­ly increase the amount Hughes will have to pay out. The court made the rul­ing and has award­ed inter­est, which could take the fig­ure to $20 million.

Patterson a for­mer Jamaican Prime Minister was award­ed the Judgement against Journalist Cliff Hughes head of Nation Wide News(NWN. Patterson alleged defama­tion aris­ing out of an inci­dent relat­ed to a news item aired by the sta­tion in 2009, ‎con­cern­ing an inci­dent at the Norman Manley International Airport involv­ing a Digicel char­ter flight which arrived from Cuba with Patterson. The news report alleged that Patterson and oth­ers were removed from the flight at the Norman Manley International Airport and searched. Patterson sought a whop­ping $180 mil­lion dol­lar judge­ment against Hughes and NWN.

Here is my prob­lem with this deci­sion by the Court.

Percival James Patterson is the longest serv­ing Prime Minister in Jamaica’s his­to­ry. He is also a lawyer by trade. Arguably Patterson has been a dis­as­ter as a Prime Minister . His pro­tegé Portia Simpson Miller may sur­pass him in her abil­i­ty to do harm to the Caribbean Nation of 2.7 million.

The deci­sion of the Court to make this award over such a friv­o­lous mis­take as the one alleged­ly com­mit­ted by NWN sends a chill­ing mes­sage to the Media in this Caribbean Nation that some peo­ple are not to be messed with.

Jamaica has always been a Country where some who hold mon­e­tary and polit­i­cal pow­er were beyond reproach .

Patterson as a Lawyer , Politician and Elder states­man of the Left-wing Neanderthal pro­gres­sive move­ment in the Caribbean, sure­ly has tremen­dous sway and influ­ence over the Courts. Some Court watch­ers com­plain that Patterson snick­ered and gig­gled through­out Hughes tes­ti­mo­ny. Could Patterson have know what the out­come of the tri­al would be before evi­dence was even heard?

Already some Media Houses are scram­bling out of fear behind the scenes. Some web­sites like the Jamaicaobsrver​.com are scrub­bing their DISQUS archives of any com­ment that could even vague­ly be con­strued to be a chal­lenge to the integri­ty of Jamaica’s Criminal Political Administration.

I believe in the rule of law, I also believe that Journalists should at least get their facts straight before they go to the pub­lic with Information. However it can­not be that Media Houses are cowed into silence by a Court System so over­ly pro­tec­tive of the polit­i­cal Oligarchy that it makes huge mon­e­tary awards for the slight­est infraction.

How was Patterson harmed , where is the injury ?

In a Nation where it is next to impos­si­ble to gain a con­vic­tion against heinous murderers,it is incon­ceiv­able that the same sys­tem could make a huge mon­e­tary award with inter­est against a media house which reports the news. It is a chill­ing tes­ta­ment against the direc­tion Jamaica is head­ing. It also speaks loud­ly to the cor­ro­sive insid­i­ous dam­age done to the Country by years of extend­ed PNP rule.

Previously it was believed that the Courts were above the fray. It is clear­er by the day that the Courts are no longer insu­lat­ed from the dev­as­tat­ing effects of the extreme­ly cor­rupt People’s National Party/​Administration.