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"The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind." - H. L. Mencken. "One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them." - Thomas Sowell. - Join search for truth learn to recognize it when you encounter it. See also enoughroom.blogspot.com youtube.com/user/roybercaw [Editor: Roy Bercaw]

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US Federal Debt July 2, 2016 $19,385,011,022,974.42. The estimated population of the United States is 323,268,727 so each citizen's share of this debt is $59,965.62. The National Debt has continued to increase an average of $2.42 billion per day since September 30, 2012!

"Sarchasm: the gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the recipient who doesn't get it. (Tom Witte, Gaithersburg)" Washington Post August 2, 1998, Style.

George Washington (1732-1799) "Government is not reason; it is not eloquent -- it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."

Albert Einstein (1879-1955) "The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it." "If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor." "Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."

John Adams (1735-1826) Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

Thomas Sowell (1930 -) "One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them."

Noam Chomsky (1928 -) “If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all” Guardian (UK), Nov. 23, 1992)

Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) "Chance favors the prepared mind."

Winston Churchill (1874-1965) "If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival. There may even be a worse case: you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves." - "The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." "The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries." "Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy."

E. E. Cummings (1894-1962) "To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight. Never stop fighting."

Jodie Foster (1962 - ) "Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from."

Bertrand Russell(1872-1970 ) "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." "The fundamental cause of trouble in the world is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt."

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) "Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies."

Frank Leahy (1907-1973) "Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity."

Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) "A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road."

James Michael Curley (1874-1958) “Never complain, never explain.”

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939 ) "The reason for so much bad science is not that talent is rare, not at all; what is rare is character."

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) “I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.” "When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."

Andre Gide: (1869-1951) "Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again." "Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it."

Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) "And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt."

A woman responding to a threat from Cuban-backed terrorists in El Salvador, 1982 “You can kill me, you can kill my family, kill my neighbors, but you can’t kill us all.”

Aung San Suu Kyi (1945- ) "The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear."

Dorothy Thompson (1894-1961) "Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live."

Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) "Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable."

Lady Marguerite Gardiner (1789-1849) "There are no persons capable of stooping so low as those who desire to rise in the world."

Louis D. Brandeis (1856-1941)"Those who won our independence believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty." "Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.”

Will Rogers: (1879-1938) "When people start taking the comedian seriously and the politician as a joke, everything changes." "This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer."

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900-1965) "My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular." [Under this definition, Cambridge Massacchusetts, and the state of Massachusetts are not free societies. ed.]

Edward R. Murrow (1908-1965) "We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home."

Maria Bartiromo (1967 - ) "My [commencement 2011] speech at St. John's [University, New York] three themes: work hard, no shortcuts, love what you do, and always do the right thing."

Ayn Rand (1905-1982) "Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swaps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists ... it is real ... it is possible ... it's yours."

Dwight Eisenhower (1890-1969) "Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well."

Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) "The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone."

Dr. Seuss (1904-1991 Theodor Seuss Geisel) "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."

Joseph Goebbels (1897-1945, Hitler's Minister of Propaganda) "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State."

Howie Carr (1952 - Boston Herald Columnist, WRKO Radio Talk Show Host) "The [MA] courts are more corrupt than the legislature." (November 18, 2010, 6:15 PM on his radio show.)

Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) "In a time of drastic change, it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists."

William F. Buckley, Jr. (1925-2008) "I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.

Voltaire (François Marie Arouet, 1694-1778) "Common sense is not so common." Doubt is not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous one." "Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world."

Martha Coakley (1953 - Democrat, MA Attorney General, 2010) "In Massachusetts, technically, it is not illegal to be illegal."

Deval Patrick (1956 - Democrat, MA Governor, 2010) "I am not a politician."

Michael Bloomberg (1942 - Democrat, Republican, Independent 3-Term Mayor of New York City and Billionaire) "Last time I checked, the pharmaceutical industry doesn't make a lot of money."

George W. Bush (1946 - ) "Intentions get overwhelmed by perceptions."

John Tudor "Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology."

Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) "The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."

Robert Heinlein (1907-1988) "There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him."

H.L. Mencken (1880-1956) "There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character." "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and hence clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." "No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes she were not." "For every complex problem, there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." "It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull." "Democracy is the theory that people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard." "Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage."

Michel de Montaigne: (1533-1592) "The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness."

Aldous Huxley: (1894-1963) "I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself."

T. S. Eliot: (1888-1965) "Half the harm that is done in this world Is due to people who want to feel important They don’t mean to do harm But the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it Because they are absorbed in the endless struggle To think well of themselves."

Burt Prelutsky (1940- Columnist) "Surely something must be terribly wrong with a man who seems to be far more concerned with a Jew building a house in Israel than with a Muslim building a nuclear bomb in Iran."

Nicholas Murray Butler (1862-1947, President Columbia University) "An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less."

Henry Kissinger: (1923 - ) "In this world it is often dangerous to be an enemy of the United States, but to be a friend is fatal."

Socrates: (469 BC-399BC) "He is richest who is content with the least."

Leo Tolstoy: (1828-1910) "Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." "Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly." "Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself." "Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold."

P.J. O'Rourke (A Parliament of Whores) "Imagine if all of life were determined by majority rule. Every meal would be a pizza. Every pair of pants, even those in a Brooks Brothers suit, would be stone-washed denim. Celebrity diet and exercise books would be the only thing on the shelves at the library. And - since women are a majority of the population- we'd all be married to Mel Gibson."

Marcel Proust (1871-1922) "Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom."

Orson Welles (as Harry Lime in The Third Man, 1949) "In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had 500 years of democracy and peace -- and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."

Tacitus: (c. 56 AD-c. 117) "The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates."

Ralph Waldo Emerson: (1803-1882) "Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing."

Doug Hoffman: (2009 Conservative Party Candidate for US Rep. NY 23rd District) "Congress fiddles while our economy burns. They lack common sense."

Rich Lowry: (On ObamaCare) "A shimmering mirage of wishful thinking and willful dishonesty."

President Obama (as he loses public support.) "We cannot wait any longer [. . .] There comes a time to remember the fierce urgency of right now."

Rush Limbaugh: (On first hour of his show broadcast October 23, 2009) Obama "is delusional." He's "seriously dangerous." He's "insane." Reacting to Obama's comments that the US Constitution is an obstacle to "redistribution of wealth." Obama also referred to "the so called founders."

Marek Edelman, (1919?-2009 leader of Warsaw Ghetto uprising.) "Man is evil, by nature man is a beast. People have to be educated from childhood, from kindergarten, that there should be no hatred."

Adis Medunjanin (24, in January 2010, Queens, NY man accused of training with al Qaeda): "We love death more than you love life."

Edward Moore Kennedy (1932-2009): "Do we operate under a system of equal justice or one for the average citizen and one for the high and mighty?"

Robert Novak: (1931-2009) “Always love your country — but never trust your government!

Calvin Coolidge: (1872-1933) “Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.”

Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) in Dead Pool: "Opinions are like a**holes. Everybody's got one."

Lyndon Johnson: (1908-1973) “The difference between liberals and cannibals is that cannibals don’t eat their friends and family members.”

Margaret Thatcher: (1925 -) "The problem with socialism is that eventually, you run out of others people's money."

John Adams: (1735-1826) "Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide."

Abraham Lincoln: (1809-1865) "America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."

Thomas Jefferson: (1743-1826) "Merchants have no country." “In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.”

James Madison: (1751-1836) “I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents.”

Mark Twain: (1835-1910) "Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing often and for the same reason." "It's not what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you think you know for sure that just ain't so." "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." "Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."

Maggie Gallagher: (1960-) "Politicians can pass a bill saying a chicken is a duck and that doesn't make it true. Truth matters."

Humpty Dumpty (In Alice in Wonderland) "When I use a word, it means exactly what I want it to. No more no less."

Groucho Marx: (Julius Henry, 1890-1977) "Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read."

United States Constitution http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.overview.html FACTS ARE STUBBORN:

John Adams: Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

Aldous Huxley: Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Thomas Fuller: Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong.

Obama Lost the Debate on Health Care: Unable to counter widespread concerns of citizens about his health care plans, Obama supporters conduct intense vitriolic attacks on critics. Obama has no rational arguments, and hopes to discredit his critics by character assassination. They are not just racists now they are greedy racists and hate mongers. Maybe that will work. Ya think? Obama-Biden: Stupid is as stupid does. Biden: "We misread how bad the economy was." Obama: [Correcting Biden]"We had incomplete information." So the US Congress voted for and the President signed a $787 billion stimulus bill without having read it, and with incomplete information? And they say others are stupid? Hello? Then Congress voted for a 1,000+ page "cap and trade" bill that none of them read. Bloomberg: Daschle says, "Health care reform will not be pain free. Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them," while former Colorado Governor Dick Lamm says seniors have "a duty to die." If this does not sufficiently raise your ire, just remember that the President, Senators and Congressmen have their own special gold plated health care plan which is guaranteed the remainder of their lives and they are not subject to this new law if they pass it. Reverse the dangerous direction of the Obama administration and its allies. Obama, The Un-Truman: David McCullough, in his biography of Harry Truman, "Truman" says on page 217, "Harry cared little more for other [than Huey Long] celebrated 'speechifiers' in the Senate. Admittedly fearful of making a speech himself, he seemed to resent particularly those who could and who made their reputations that way. They were the 'egotistical boys' whose specialty was talk." Obama admitted that he can make a speech but that he was incapable of doing anything in the Senate. Where did he gets his special powers during the campaign? Obama's Mantra: He keeps repeating, "I won the election." He expects all Americans to support what HE wants. "I won," is how Obama implements the post-partisan unification of America. What a guy! See also Rich Lowry's "Sorry, O: 'I won' Won't Cover this," New York Post, February 6, 2009, page 27. http://www.nypost.com/seven/02062009/postopinion/opedcolumnists sorry__o__i_won_wont_cover_this_153839.htm MIDDLESEX DA: We're too busy to address crimes less than murder. On Thursday June 25, 2009 Marian Ryan, who works for the Middlesex District Attorney in MA, returned my call from the previous day. She heads the unit for abuse of elders and abuse of persons with disabilities. She told me, "We've had four murders this month." That was to explain why she was unable to address 35 years of police abuses of a citizen with a disability now an elder. She said that a police officer making a threat did not rise to the level of a crime. She did not have time or resources to address abuses by the City Manager and the Police Commissioner of Cambridge, and the Harvard University campus police. It was no concern that using police to harass a person with a disability may be the reason for the four murders. MA Civil Rights statute and possession of illegal firearms are felonies, but not murder. Misallocation of resources is easily apparent. If the police focused on criminals instead of harassing elders with disabilities there might be less violent crime. But who was I to argue. Cambridge Censorship: In October 2009 City Council Candidate Kathy Podgers complained to Attorney Bill August, long term president of the Cambridgeport Neighborhood Association, that her posts to the neighborhood discussion lists were not appearing. Then Bob LaTremouille added his similar complaints. When I chimed in that my posts did n0t appear for many months Bill August accused me of libel. I said he ignored my complaints about censorship. For a lawyer he does not read very well. On one occasion in 2007 I sent a letter via Fedex from one part of Cambridge to another. I used Fedex because of frequent tampering with my mail by USPS employees. Mail was withheld by USPS employees, and some mail was intercepted and never got to where I sent it. The letter sent by Fedex never arrived either. Their tracking system ended before it was delivered. I wrote to the President of Fedex. He sent me a check for $25 to compensate me. What good is money if you can't send a letter from one part of a city to another? In June 2009 I sent a letter to a US Government agency complaining about a mobbed up police officer who was protecting criminals who harass me each day. Two days after I sent the letter the police detective appeared at a market as I shopped. He used a young woman as bait to try to have me arrested. In June 2009 someone opened a YouTube account solely to publish a comment attacking me personally. This is a frequent experience of an ongoing character assassination campaign by criminals and their police associates. A Harvard University attorney told me not to make complaints to their real estate offices but to the office of the General Counsel. The lawyer assigned was trying to deceive me. On June 6, 2009 I noticed a threat from a police officer as a comment under one of my videos posted on YouTube July 7, 2008. The video shows a Cambridge police patrol car parked in a bus stop. The officer was having dinner nearby not on an emergency call. Every day since I complained to the Attorney General about the threat Cambridge police or Harvard campus police follow me and try to provoke me. The Attorney General is married to a supervising Cambridge police officer. I learned on June 15, 2009 that the FBI was investigating me again. In May 2009, my comments on the Boston Herald web pages (a public accommodation) were removed allegedly due to violations of guidelines. When I complained one was restored. Interns referred me to a staff writer when three of my comments about the shooting death at a Harvard dorm were removed. Someone unknown to me posted a picture of a man from the city in my YouTube profile. That means that someone is tampering with my YouTube account. That is a felony under US law. On or about December 12, 2008 my name was removed from two neighborhood discussion lists--Riverside and Cambridgeport. My attempts to be put back on were ignored by the former President of the Riverside neighborhood, Larry Adkins. Cambridgeport moderators opened my new access in February 2009. In May 2009 I received messages from the list but was unable to post messages. Last year I was unable to receive or post messages to the Porter Square neighborhood discussion list. No notice there either. They began a new list this year and I now get messages. But I was the target of personal attacks on the Porter Square list, the Cambridgeport discussions and on the Cambridge Chronicle web pages. An FBI informant who maintains a web site about the City of Cambridge ridicules me and others who he believes have disabilities. My account with YouTube (more than 250 videos posted) was shut in August 2008 and my appeals of Fair Use Doctrine were ignored. On April 15, 2009 my YouTube account was re-opened. Emily Rooney, host of the PBS news show, Greater Boston threatened to have me banned from Boston. Cambridge City Councilor and Harvard lawyer, Brian Murphy, who resigned in February 2009 to take a six-figure job with the state used council rules to silence my expression. These are rules that the Council created but ignore at every meeting. An email account I used specially for discussion lists was shut down with no notice and no reason or warning given. My several emails inquiring why have been ignored. That account was re-opened on February 10, 2009. Google Video flagged and blocked four uploaded episodes of a cable access TV show I produced and hosted on CCTV. When I appealed their decision, they agreed to put it back up. But as of this date one remains blocked. In February 2009 a long term producer of documentaries at CCTV told me "There is no such thing as Free Speech." That was the second time someone in Cambridge said that to me.

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Wednesday, September 10, 2014

CA Attorney and Wife Charged With Planting Drugs on PTA Volunteer

This woman and the husband of the couple who admitted planting the drugs appeared on a television court show. She was awarded $7,500 for her embarrassment and defamation. I am surprised she settled for that small amount. The couple was found guilty in a criminal court.

[From article]
Prosecutors say that Easter made a 911 call in February 2011 claiming that Kelli Peters, a PTA volunteer at his son's school, appeared to be under the influence of drugs and that he saw her hide the drugs in her car.
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Easter, of Irvine, planted prescription painkillers, marijuana and a marijuana pipe in Peters' car according to the district attorney's office. Easter was in constant contact with his wife, Jill Easter, by cellphone and text message as he did so, prosecutors said.
Police responded to the call, and found the drugs in Peters' car. She was interviewed for two hours but officers turned their attention to the Easters when they realized that the school volunteer was in class at the time Kent Easter accused her of hiding drugs in her car, authorities said.
Peters also vigorously denied knowledge of the drugs and a subsequent search of her home turned up no evidence of any other drug use.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2737781/Attorney-accused-planting-drugs-PTA-volunteer-treatment-son-school-faces-retrial.html

Mother breaks down in tears on the stand as she tells court how rival parents 'planted DRUGS in her car' in bitter PTA feud
Kent Easter, 40, is being retried on charges of false imprisonment by fraud or deceit
He is accused of planting drugs in PTA volunteer Kelli Peter's car
His wife, Jill Easter, pleaded guilty to the same crime and was sentenced to 120 days prison and community service
The couple took a dislike to Peters over an incident at their son's school
Prosecutors say Easter planted the drugs and called 911 in revenge
The couple had previously unsuccessfully sued Peters and tried to take out a restraining order against her
A previous trial for Easter resulted in a deadlocked jury, 11 to one in favor of conviction
By ALEX GREG FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 10:24 EST, 29 August 2014 | UPDATED: 18:00 EST, 29 August 2014

Thursday, August 7, 2014

Updated: Boston DPW Employee Busted For Selling Drugs On Duty; CORI Restrictions Blamed

Posted August 5, 2014 9:10 PM ET; Last updated August 7, 2014 4:21 PM ET

CORI (Criminal Offender Record Information) files are maintained by the state of Massachusetts. Under current laws when a person applies for a job employers may not inquire of any record on CORI files. That is the explanation given by Boston city officials why a DPW employee with a lengthy arrest and conviction record was hired. He was arrested in August 2014 for selling illegal drugs while working at his city job. Compare how Mr. Boston DPW was treated, with the arrest of a Cambridge civilian after he filed written complaints to chiefs of police in Cambridge and Somerville in 1990 for police harassment. Cambridge police arrested him and had him held for 78 days contrary to law for a competency evaluation. He fired seven lawyers who were paid to NOT put on a defense to the arrest complaint. After one year that transaction was supposed to be erased from the CORI files. But in 2014, 24 years later it remains and indicates that there are two outstanding charges for the same complaint. It shows how arbitrary state and local government is. That is not to suggest that the White House acts any differently. Ignoring laws and the constitution is a way of life in the United States these days. One policeman in New Jersey actually referred to Obama's lawlessness to justify ignoring his duties.

http://www.infowars.com/cop-if-obama-doesnt-follow-the-constitution-we-dont-have-to/

[From article]
Suspended DPW worker Kenneth Clark, who pleaded not guilty yesterday to dealing heroin out of his work truck, has a rap sheet with some 100 charges that include convictions for armed assault and drug dealing near a school — all of which the city had no clue about when hiring him due to a relaxing of criminal background checks under the Menino administration.
Clark’s public works supervisors never sought a Criminal Offender Record Information report when screening him in 2011 because his job picking up dead animals and sweeping streets was not among the 145 positions — including dog catchers and grave diggers — the city felt required criminal background checks under a stripped-down CORI system adopted by the City Council in 2005.
[. . .]
“Mr. Clark has been indicted five times, five sentences served. He has been arraigned on approximately 42 cases, totaling approximately 100 charges,” prosecutor Michael Callahan told a judge of the Dorchester man’s lengthy record.
According to court records, he was sentenced in 1993 to five to 10 years for assault with a knife, assault with intent to murder and cocaine distribution, as well as a combined 71⁄2 years in 2002 for multiple counts of dealing heroin, including in a school zone. He has also been convicted of assaulting a police officer and unarmed robbery.

http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/2014/08/cori_reforms_kept_suspected_drug_dealing_dpw_worker_s_rap_sheet

CORI reforms kept suspected drug-dealing DPW worker’s rap sheet under wraps
Tuesday, August 5, 2014
By: Richard Weir, prisca Pointdujour
Boston Herald

Published on Aug 4, 2014
A Boston Public Works employee is being held on $15,000 bond. Police say they caught him selling heroin out of a city truck.

Monday, July 21, 2014

Jet Blue Pilot Busted In Boston

[From article]
A JetBlue pilot was one of six people arrested by Boston Police in a drug deal near Boston Common over the weekend, investigators said Monday.
Police told WBZ-TV John Manwaring, 42, of Maitland, Florida, was arrested Sunday evening on a charge of possession of alleged heroin.
Officers said he was one of several people involved in drug transactions in an alley near 75 Boylston Street, near the Green Line MBTA stop.

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2014/07/21/boston-police-jetblue-pilot-arrested-in-boylston-street-heroin-bust/

JetBlue Pilot Arrested In Boston Heroin Bust
CBS News Boston MA
July 21, 2014 2:30 PM

Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Bill O'Reilly Talks About Race

O'Reilly on America's Race Problem
July 23, 2013 - 9:26 AM
http://www.cnsnews.com/video/national/oreilly-americas-race-problem

O'Reilly's Talking Points on the Race Problem

Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Pittsburgh Police in Major Drug Bust

http://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2014/06/09/police-arrest-2-seize-1500-heroin-bricks-100k-in-mt-washington-bust/

Police Arrest 2, Seize 1,500 Heroin Bricks, $100K In Mt. Washington Bust
June 9, 2014 11:51 AM

CBS News Pittsburgh

Thursday, April 10, 2014

Sharpton Again Exposed As FBI Informant

[From article]
The failed government cash grab came three years after Sharpton became a paid FBI snitch, allegedly to avoid arrest on cocaine charges. He was caught on video discussing a major coke deal — and showed up for a Manhattan meeting with a man he thought was a South American drug lord.
[. . .]
Sharpton and Curington’s ventures included trying to help Joe Robinson of the Sugar Hill Records label cut a $6.5 million deal with MCA during the late 1980s.
The agreement fell through, but Sharpton and Curington still expected a “hefty, six-figure fee” from Robinson, who called the cops when two mob goons showed up at Robinson’s studio to demand payment, The Smoking Gun reported.
After that call, Sharpton sent a letter to an Englewood, NJ, detective vowing protests if he and Curington weren’t paid. Sharpton now says he doesn’t remember writing it

http://nypost.com/2014/04/11/sharpton-nearly-got-funds-in-80s-for-program-to-be-run-with-drug-felon/

Sharpton nearly got funds in ’80s for program ‘to be run wi th drug felon’
By Georgett Roberts, Carl Campanile and Bruce Golding
April 11, 2014 | 3:32am
New York Post

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http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/investigation/al-sharpton-764312

Al Sharpton's Secret Work As FBI Informant
Untold story of how activist once aided probes of NYC wiseguys
April 7, 2014

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http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/04/08/rev-al-sharpton-responds-to-smoking-gun-report-calling-him-fbi-informant/

Rev. Sharpton On Report Calling Him FBI Informant: ‘I Was Not And Am Not A Rat’
Takes Issue With 'Smoking Gun' Website: 'They’re Just Trying To Get Some Attention'
April 8, 2014 5:09 PM

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[From article]
In a desperate effort to explain away his work as a paid government informant, the Rev. Al Sharpton yesterday claimed that he first ran into the FBI’s arms after his life was threatened by gangsters, an incident that prompted him to then record 10 face-to-face encounters with one of those dangerous hoodlums.
That story is a lie.
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The money he was paid by his FBI handler? Well, that was just reimbursements for carfare, Sharpton claims. As he explained to MSNBC viewers, Sharpton was just a victim looking for Uncle Sam’s protection and intervention.
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Here is what actually happened:
Sharpton began cooperating with the FBI in mid-1983.
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The reverend was “flipped” by FBI agents three months after he was filmed in March 1983 (during a bureau sting) talking cocaine with an undercover agent. On a Thursday afternoon in June 1983, Sharpton showed up at a Manhattan apartment expecting to meet again with the undercover agent, who was posing as a former South American druglord seeking to launder money through boxing promotions.
Instead, Sharpton was confronted by FBI agents who showed him the “cocaine” videotape. The panicked reverend agreed--on the spot--to cooperate with federal agents, according to sources familiar with the contents of Sharpton’s FBI informant file.
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At the direction of his FBI handlers, Sharpton initially recorded conversations with boxing promoter Don King,

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/Al-Sharpton-918273

Facts Derail Lying Sharpton's Informant Tale
Former FBI Mafia snitch spins fabricated story of "CI-7" work
By William Bastone, Andrew Goldberg, Joseph Jesselli

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[From article]
No matter how much he insists that he was just one fat cat keeping tabs on all the rats around him, truth is Mr. Sharpton was a low-down, double-crossing lying snitch from the start.
In a truly epic report released this week by TheSmokingGun.com, the great pompadoured race pimp, elocutionist and shake-down artist was exposed as a paid FBI informer going back decades. Based upon federal affidavits, transcripts and other documents, TSG outlined Mr. Sharpton’s extensive career as a stool pigeon turning evidence on some of the most notorious mobsters operating in New York at the time.
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Even as Mr. Sharpton was publicly railing against authorities and helping Tawana Brawley build her rape hoax lie that would destroy the reputations and lives of several cops, Mr. Sharpton was serving as a snitch.
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And the answer is that you are the one who chose to devote your life to vilifying the government, police and authority in general as a bunch of hateful, white rapists out to destroy blacks and the poor.
Now we come to find out you were in cahoots with whitey all along. So, no longer are you just a low-down, two-bit huckster. You are a lying, cheating, double-crossing low-down, two-bit huckster.
And like the great American entrepreneur we now know you are, Mr. Sharpton, you were shaking them down on both sides of the street every step of the way.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/apr/8/hurt-once-just-a-race-hustler-now-a-snitching-race/?page=all

HURT: Once just a race hustler, now a snitching race hustler
Charles Hurt
April 8, 2014
charleshurt (at) live.com

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http://www.jewishpost.com/archives/news/massacre-at-freddys-in-harlem-fire-fueled-by-anti-semitism-kills-8.html

MASSACRE AT FREDDY'S IN HARLEM: FIRE FUELED BY ANTI-SEMITISM KILLS 8
"Burn the Jew Store Down"
By Hy Drusin

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http://www.nytimes.com/1995/12/13/nyregion/death-on-125th-street-the-protests-blaze-inquiry-is-focusing-on-protests.html

DEATH ON 125TH STREET: THE PROTESTS;Blaze Inquiry Is Focusing On Protests
By DON VAN NATTA Jr.
Published: December 13, 1995

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Large Drug Deal Busted, NY-Italy-South America

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[From article]
The clans of the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta, a version of the Sicilian Mafia on the southern mainland, and members of the Gambino Mafia family in New York, were in the advanced stages of plans to smuggle some 500 kg (1,000 pounds) of pure cocaine from Guyana in South America to the port of Gioia Tauro in Calabria.
Italian investigators estimated the street value of the cocaine after cutting at about $1 billion.
The drugs, supplied by Latin American drug cartels, were to have been sent to Italy hidden in shipments of canned fruit. Some of it would then have been smuggled to the United States.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2556914/Notorious-Gambino-crime-family-linked-international-drug-trafficking-ring-authorities-bust-gangsters-advanced-stages-BILLION-dollar-cocaine-deal-Italian-mobsters.html

Gambino crime family linked to international drug-trafficking ring after authorities bust 'gangsters' in the 'advanced stages' of BILLION dollar cocaine deal with Italian mobsters
Authorities arrested 24 alleged mobsters in both Italy and New York
Officials say the gangsters were planning to move 1,000 pounds of cocaine from South America to Italy
After cutting, authorities estimate the cocaine was worth about $1 billion
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER and REUTERS
PUBLISHED: 11:51 EST, 11 February 2014 | UPDATED: 18:19 EST, 11 February 2014

Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Ten Tons Of Marijuana Seized In Arizona

http://www.azfamily.com/news/10-tons-of-marijuana-seized-at-Arizona-border-232522521.html

10 tons of marijuana seized at Arizona border
by The Associated Press
Video report by Steve Bodinet
Posted on November 19, 2013 at 10:45 AM
Updated yesterday at 6:50 PM

Friday, November 8, 2013

Matthew Shepard Media History Wrong, Book Reveals Propaganda

http://www.americanthinker.com/2013/10/how_matthew_shepard_prefigured_trayvon_martin.html

October 8, 2013
How Matthew Shepard Prefigured Trayvon Martin
By Jack Cashill

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[From article]
The 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard is considered one of the nation's most notorious hate crimes.
Yet when a new book comes out by a gay author contending that Shepard was not killed because of his sexual orientation, America's media appear disinterested in reporting the new revelations.
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2013/09/24/media-almost-totally-ignore-book-claiming-matthew-shepard-murder-wasn
Media Almost Totally Ignore Book Claiming Matthew Shepard Murder Wasn't a Hate Crime
By Noel Sheppard | September 24, 2013 | 11:26

Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Flesh-eating Dangerous Drug Spreads

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-204_162-57608079/krokodil-use-reportedly-spreading-what-makes-dangerous-drug-so-addictive/

By MICHELLE CASTILLO
CBS NEWS
October 22, 2013, 2:19 PM
Krokodil use reportedly spreading: What makes dangerous drug so addictive?

Saturday, September 7, 2013

Police Bust Drug Fueled Sex Party At Masonic Lodge in Battle Creek MI

Shocking: Police sources told WWMT-TV that officers found two people having sex and naked women dancing on stage at the Masonic Lodge

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2408655/Police-break-drug-fueled-orgy-Masonic-Lodge-finding-women-dancing-naked-stage-men-filming-sex-acts.html

Police break up 'drug-fueled orgy' at Masonic Lodge after finding women dancing naked on stage and men filming sex acts
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 21:47 EST, 1 September 2013 | UPDATED: 12:14 EST, 2 September 2013

Thursday, September 5, 2013

Test For Date Rape Drugs in Cups, Straws and Stirrers

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2410928/Boston-entrepreneur-invents-drug-testing-stirrers-cups-detect-date-rape-substances-drinks.html

Boston entrepreneur invents drug testing stirrers and cups to detect date rape drugs in drinks
DrinkSavvy, Inc developing items which changes colour if it detects drugs
Sensor strips change colour to alert the drinker that something is wrong
They are expected to hit the market by next year after trial this Autumn
By AMANDA WILLIAMS
PUBLISHED: 02:02 EST, 4 September 2013 | UPDATED: 06:59 EST, 4 September 2013

Saturday, July 7, 2012

Former AZ Teacher Runs Wild Naked in Streets

Scene: A photo of Brigham shows him standing naked, except for a pair of white socks, on top of a crashed vehicle in Scottsdale, Arizona last week.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2170124/The-sad-fall-Arizonas-naked-carjacker-John-Brigham-remembered-brilliant-English-high-school-teacher.html

Arizona's naked carjacker remembered as beloved former-English teacher before his naked rampage brought town to standstill
By NINA GOLGOWSKI
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 09:25 EST, 7 July 2012 | UPDATED: 16:42 EST, 7 July 2012

CBS 5 - KPHO

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Murder Inmate Posts Shocking Facebook Pics

Convicted murderer, Justin Walker shows himself smoking what appears to be a homemade bong inside his cell at the Granite Reformatory, a medium security facility in southwest Oklahoma. Walker posted more photos from his bunk apparently smoking a joint, holding a bottle of booze and a bag of weed with another man.

Saturday, November 27, 2010

Willie Nelson, 77, Arrested for Pot Possession

http://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/Music/2010/11/26/Willie-Nelson-arrested-for-pot-possession/UPI-74731290821827/

Willie Nelson arrested for pot possession

Published: Nov. 26, 2010 at 8:37 PM

Bill Cosby awarded the 2009 Mark Twain Prize

Willie Nelson, 77

Saturday, August 21, 2010

Colombian Drug Kingpin Arrested

Venezuelan businessman Walid Makled, labeled by the U.S. government as one of the world’s top three drug kingpins, was arrested in northeastern Colombia.

Friday, June 19, 2009

7 Mayors Plus Local Police Arrested in Mexico

Seven Mayors Arrested in Mexico

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31439524/ns/world_news-americas/

or

http://tinyurl.com/ntkb7g

7 mayors charged in Mexico drug cartel probe
Ex-state attorney general, other officials also accused of aiding traffickers
msnbc.com
updated 6:32 a.m. ET, Fri., June 19, 2009

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy

Friday, May 22, 2009

Drug Shootout at Harvard Dorm

Drug Shootout at Harvard Dorm
Drug Shootout at Harvard Dorm

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/05/23/police_say_harvard_killing_was_drug_rip/?page=1

or

http://tinyurl.com/pqy4tf

Police say Harvard killing was 'drug rip'
Student tied to suspect barred from graduating
By John R. Ellement and Eric Moskowitz
Boston Globe Staff
May 23, 2009

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http://www.wickedlocal.com/cambridge/news/x702305268/New-York-man-charged-with-killing-of-Cambridge-man-at-Harvard-dorm

or

http://tinyurl.com/pqzx6d

DA: New Edition songwriter killed Cambridge man at Harvard over drugs
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By David L. Harris and Jillian Fennimore
GateHouse News Service
Posted May 22, 2009 @ 12:00 PM
Last update May 22, 2009 @ 01:47 PM

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http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/2009_05_22_Suspect_in_Harvard_slay_turns_self_in/srvc=home&position=0

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http://tinyurl.com/of9ygn

DA: Harvard murder drug related
By O’Ryan Johnson and Jessica Fargen
Boston Herald
Friday, May 22, 2009 - Updated 1m ago

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http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=528263

[Includes a picture which includes the City Manager at the DA's Press Conference.]
New York Man Arrested for Murder at Harvard
Jabrai J. Copney, 20, pleads not guilty, will be held without bail until July 15 trial
By HARVARD CRIMSON NEWS STAFF
Harvard Crimson Staff Writer
May 22, 2009

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http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2009/05/da_drugs_common.html

or

http://tinyurl.com/o8nxu3

[Includes video of DA Press Conference.]
DA: Drugs 'common denominator' in Harvard slaying
By John R. Ellement and Andrew Ryan
Boston Globe Staff
May 22, 2009 12:52 PM

Friday, March 6, 2009

Cambridge Police Drug Bust March 5, 2009

Cambridge, MA police make a drug bust on Prescott Street near Broadway on March 5, 2009 at about 4:30 PM. One of the officers told me that it was a sensitive investigation and asked me to turn off the camera. He said he was concerned about the safety of undercover police. I edited out the faces of officers who were not in uniform so as not to jeopardize their safety. When another officer wanted me to stop taping I said it was a constitutional right. He said to me, "You are making a disturbance." I left the area.

Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Removing Ice and Snow from Cambridge MA Sidewalks

February 11, 2008, City Council meeting. Megan Brook states the problem of ice and snow on sidewalks. Her solution is increasing fines. Speaking as the Vice President for Government and Public Affairs for the Mid Cambridge Emergency Committee to stop wasting "the greatest source of untapped energy since scientists split the atom," -- the hot wind energy given off without fail each week by Cambridge politicians -- and to use it to clear the sidewalks of snow and ice (THE SOLUTION), Roy Bercaw suggests using some of the appropriations for alcohol abuse prevention to teach people how to drive when drunk. This is a public service announcement of DDAM, Drunk Drivers Against Mothers. Bercaw says that prisoners should be trained in alternative dispute mediation services. He notes that the Neighborhood Crime Task Force of 50 members did not have any persons with disabilities. The Task Force determined that drugs is a major cause of crime, but did not discuss drugs. Order 5 violates Mass General Laws Chap. 43 Sec. 107 regarding Plan E form of Government. It carries severe penalties, prison, fines removal from office and being barred for life from holding elected office. Bercaw answers how to prevent city employees from engaging in illegal activities. He began thanking the Council for amending the Human Rights Commission ordinances omitting persons with non physical disabilities from protections. He notes that they are not whole people, only half people.