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Mark Karlin Scoops the Domestic Assassination by Drone Story

Feb 21

Posted by Michael Collins in Criminal Justice, Extremists, Intelligence, Violence | Comments off

I’ve known  Mark Karlin (online) for a while.  As editor of BuzzFlash, he was generous enough to run my voting rights and other  articles on more than a few occasions.  He’s an excellent analyst in addition to his editorial skills and a solid progressive Democrat from Chicago.  All the more reason to take  his article below is a fair warning about the potential abuse of power.     Michael Collins

By Mark Karlin, Editor
BuzzFlash and Truthout

These are the powers of a modern day Nero, not the leader of a nation based on the foundation of a Constitution guaranteeing specific rights and legal recourse.

Sometimes, it even takes BuzzFlash at Truthout a little time to write commentaries about killer issues, in this case literally.

According to the Wall Street Journal (in a February 15 article), Obama’s nominee to head the CIA, John Brennan, ambiguously left open the possibility that US citizens could be targeted for assassination in the United States: Read the rest of this entry »

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Totalitarianism in the US: An Accident Waiting to Happen

Sep 1

Posted by Michael Collins in Big Money, Censorship, Constitution, Corruption, Criminal Justice, Election 2012, Election Fraud, Financial Crisis, Romney, Wall St | Comments off

By Numerian
First appeared in The Agonist

Listening to Paul Ryan’s speech at the Republican National Convention, I couldn’t place where I had come across something quite like this before. Then it struck me – Pravda! I used to subscribe to Pravda in high school and college, first to learn Russian, and second, to pursue a college program in Soviet studies. Pravda was a newspaper that specialized in the Big Lie – the Five Year Plan was always ahead of schedule, Soviet industrial capabilities exceeded that of any other country, people were starving on streets all across America. The newspaper was a non-stop stream of lies, just as Paul Ryan’s speech was studded with Big Lies – lies that were easily disprovable, such as Barack Obama did nothing about the Simpson-Bowles recommendations to reduce the budget deficit (Paul Ryan didn’t mention he voted against these recommendations when the House killed any chance of enacting them); or that Obama made it easier for people to live off welfare (the President altered the enrollment rules of welfare at the request of Republican governors); or the Romney favorite – Obama cut over $700 billion of Medicare benefits for individuals (the cuts were imposed on hospitals and insurance companies, not beneficiaries, and Romney has the same cuts in his economic plan).  (Image:  Wikipedia) Read the rest of this entry »

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Polite Fascism Contracts The Right To Vote – The turning point for VoterID legislation

Aug 29

Posted by Michael Collins in Big Money, Constitution, Corruption, Criminal Justice, Election 2012, Election Fraud | Comments off

Introduction: The article below was written right after the Supreme Court’s 2008 decision upholding Indiana’s Voter ID law.  By upholding that law, the court allowed subsequent laws restricting the right to vote throughout the country. 

Voter ID laws require that citizens present a photo identification before they cast their ballot.   This requirement solves a fictional problem, “voter fraud,” individuals voting illegally.  I review the court’s decision based on totally inadequate evidence and provide background on the little-discussed origin of laws like this.   As Civil War Reconstruction ended, the KKK and other white supremacist groups in the Old South sought to stop black Americans from voting.  The laws did just that for decades until the Voting Rights Act helped correct the problem.

There is no more reason for Voter ID laws now than there was in 2008, unless the goal is to suppress voting by the poor, the young, and minorities.  These groups are far more likely to be without an acceptable photographic identification than the rest of the population.

Michael Collins, August 30, 2012

(Links to core documents and scholarship on this subject are provided at the end of the document.)

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Polite Fascism Contracts The Right To Vote

Scoop Independent News (First Published)
Tuesday, 13 May 2008, 8:45 pm
Column: Michael Collins

Another Supreme Outrage


Justices Stevens, Kennedy, and Roberts combined with Scalia, Alito, and
Thomas to take voting rights back to1898. Image (left), Image (right)

Polite Fascism Contracts The Right To Vote

William Crawford, et al, Petitioners 07-21 v.
Marion County Elections Board et al.

Indiana Democratic Party, et al., Petitioners 07-25 v. Todd Rokita,
Indiana Secretary of State, et al.
U. S. ____ (2008) Opinion of STEVENS, J.

By Michael Collins

They wear their robes but leave the hoods off, the polite justices of the Supreme Court. They write decisions then issue them in a formal setting, behind the columns of a capitol monument, with a history that confers a dignity not deserved. The Court embodies the dilemma of our modern culture. The most awful acts are committed with bland justification by polite people who hide behind institutional trappings; for the sake of the few, at the expense of the many. Read the rest of this entry »

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From Steve Hynd at The Agonist – ‘on his way to the Big House instead of the White House’

Aug 17

Posted by Michael Collins in Big Money, Criminal Justice, Romney | Comments off


Serious Romney Ethics Violation Exposed: Conflict Of Interest In State Contract To Bain-Backed Firm
Steve Hynd August 17, 2012 – 5:07pm
By now you’ve all heard that Mitt Romney has rejected the Obama campaign’s formal invitation to share the last five years tax returns with voters. The UK’s Daily Telegraph has today published an investigation showing one possible reason Romney is so adamant about not divulging, even when it’s hurting him so much: he might leave himself open to a jail term.

The Republican presidential candidate appears to have profited from a marketing company that was contracted by the state of Massachusetts after receiving $5 million (£3.2 million) in financial backing from Bain Capital, Mr Romney’s investment firm.

One of his vice-presidential candidate’s brothers, who is a former Bain consultant, was at the time of the investment a senior executive at the marketing company, Imagitas, which was co-founded by another former Bain executive.

Both Mr Romney and Tobin Ryan, who omits his work at Imagitas from his corporate biography, also apparently stood to benefit from the $230 million (£146 million) sale of the company in 2005, while Mr Romney remained in office.

Massachusetts law requires that all state employees divest themselves of financial interests in private sector contracts with state agencies. At the time, failure to do so could have resulted in a $2,000 (£1,273) fine or a 2.5-year prison sentence. The potential punishments are now stronger.

Asked repeatedly by The Daily Telegraph throughout this week whether Mr Romney had indeed profited from the company, had been aware of the potential conflict of interest, or had taken any action to avoid one, his campaign and Bain Capital declined to comment.

First lesson for The Great Mittsby: don’t stand on the PM’s doorstep and rubbish the London Olympics if you don’t want the Brit conservative press muckrackers up to this kind of thing.  More at The Agonist   Read the rest of this entry »

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1998 So Close to an End for Sandusky – Who Interfered and Why?

Jul 19

Posted by Michael Collins in Corruption, Criminal Justice, Sandusky | Comments off

From THE SECOND MILE SANDUSKY SEX SCANDAL  website,  July 18 – some serious analysis

A SMOKING GUN IN THE FREEH REPORT that focuses on the real reason Sandusky was not discovered in 1998?. This information comes directly from the Freeh Report and a little research. Freeh’s investigators got some good information – but did they fail to connect the dots and follow the trail? This is what I discovered – you will have to determine it’s value and impact. I hope it is not divisive since it has little to do with the actions or inaction of Joe, Tim or Gary in 2001 and only involves what could have been known in 1998 but slipped away due to a colossal mistake or a hidden hand.
Brief Summary: In 1998 CYS is replaced by DPW in the Victim 6 investigation and in the process A.Chambers damning psychological evaluation is hidden from DPW investigator Lauro. Instead a CYS counselor who worked with The Second Mile gives a “pedophile free” evaluation over the objection of DA Arnold to Lauro who advises Gricar to close the case. Sandusky goes undiscovered. Sounds downright Machiavellian but the Freeh Report reveals that’s what happened. Ironic isn’t it? Freeh could have actually cleared Joe and PSU and discovered the real reason that Sandusky was not found out in 1998?

The Second Mile may be up to their necks in this but we will likely never know what they knew. The organizations assets and likely all their files and computers have been taken by Arrow Ministries of Houston headed by a Republican who hails from central Pennsylvania and is close personally with the Governor and other prominent PA Republicans. Arrow Foundation Ministry  and  Arrow to take over Second Mile  see second item down the list.

FULL ARTICLE

Also see this outstanding analysis on endemic corruption in Pennsylvania politics and how it harms children are risk by Dr. Charles E. Hill.
The Lamb and the Wolves

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Unanswered Question Remains about Sandusky Case

Jun 25

Posted by Michael Collins in Corruption, Criminal Justice, Sandusky | 2 Comments

Michael Collins

Jerry Sandusky has molested his last troubled boy. He is going to jail for life. But a larger question remains after Sandusky’s conviction. (Image: marsme1551)

How did Jerry Sandusky get away with his conspicuous deviant behavior all of these years when so many people in authority knew about it?

A Pennsylvania jury found the former high-profile assistant football coach at Pennsylvania State University (PSU) guilty of forty-five charges of sexual abuse on June 20, 2012. The jury deliberated only twenty hours to reach the verdict. This answered the most fundamental question about Sandusky’s behavior: Was he a child molester? Yes, beyond a reasonable doubt responded the jurors with their guilty verdict.

What did they know and when did they know it? Read the rest of this entry »

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Mitt Romney, State Trooper

Jun 8

Posted by Michael Collins in Big Money, Criminal Justice | Comments off

By Michael Collins

Mitt Romney is adding some spice to an otherwise dull presidential campaign. In May, fellow students at Romney’s exclusive Michigan prep school told the Washington Post about Romney’s obsession with a gay studentl. After days of rumination, Romney and some friends chased the student down and sat on him while he cut off big chunks of the student’s blond hair. (Image)

Now, from a fellow student during Mitt’s time at Stanford, we discover that Mitt used to dress up as a state trooper for fun and make traffic stops.

There is little doubt that Romney with a Republican Congress would be a nightmare on social issues. Nevertheless, Romney and Obama are not that far apart on high level issues (welfare for the rich, endless war). On those vital issues for our future, the only interesting thing about the campaign is biographical.

This one is a whopper. Have you ever known anyone who liked to dress like a state trooper and chase down citizens just for fun?

The campaign is between a guy who bullied gay students in prep school and adults in college while dressed as a trooper versus the reigning champion, President Barack Obama, who is spending a good deal of time targeting specific individuals for death via United States drones over Pakistan, etc.

Normal has never looked so good.

END

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