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August 27, 2008 at 11:51:24

Equal Protection Under the Law?

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http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-plot27-2008aug27,0,1630334.story

DENVER -- "Federal authorities Tuesday downplayed what they said were threats made by a pair of [white] men arrested here over the weekend possessing rifles, sniper scopes and an alleged desire to kill Barack Obama."

These authorities claimed that "...the pair's rants while on a methamphetamine binge do not meet the legal standard for filing charges, despite their possession of rifles and sniper scopes." "[Notwithstanding that] ...many questions had not been answered, including why the men had high-powered weapons, body armor, two-way radios, wigs and camouflage gear. It was also unclear why they decided to base themselves in a suburban Hyatt hotel where they believed -- erroneously -- Obama was staying."

http://www.the-record.org/versiclearchives.html

"Rev. Edward Pinkney, a Missionary Baptist assistant pastor in Benton Harbor [MI], was sentenced June 26 [2008] in a Berrien County court to 3-10 years on a probation violation for quoting, in King James, several curses from the Book of Deuteronomy in an opinion piece for The People's Tribune. Judge Dennis Wiley ruled that it was a "true threat."

Here was Rev. Pinkney's "true threat," verbatim: "Judge Butzbaugh, it shall come to pass; if thou continue not to hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God to observe to do all that is right; which I command thee this day, that all these Curses shall come upon you and your family, curses shalt be in the City of St. Joseph and Cursed shalt thou be in the field, cursed shall come upon you and your family and over take thee; cursed shall be the fruit of thy body. The Lord shall smite thee with consumption and with a fever and with an inflammation and with extreme burning. They the demons shall Pursue thee until thou persist."

(The text in question was edited and adapted from the King James Version of Deuteronomy 28:15-22.)

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David L. Griscom, a Fellow of the American Physical Society, retired in 2001 from the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC, where he had been a research physicist for 33 years. He has subsequently held visiting professorships of research at the Universities of Paris, Lyon, and Saint-Etienne, France, and Tokyo Institute of Technology; he was also Adjunct Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at The University of Arizona in Tucson. By virtue of his collaboration with John Brakey in an investigation of poll-worker fraud in Tucson, Griscom was an invited presenter at both the National Election Reform Conference (Nashville, April 2005) and the Election Assessment Hearing (Houston, June 2005), as well as the 2007 Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (San Francisco, February 2007). He is a Coordinator of the Election Defense Alliance.

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JC Garrett is a freelance writer and Constitutional scholar from the piney-woods of East Texas. He apologizes to the entire world that the great Lone Star State could have produced the neo-Neanderthal currently occupying the Oval Office.

"I'm not ashamed to be an American. I'm ashamed George W. Bush is an American."

Mr. Garrett owns and operates an independent recording studio, plays several instruments, writes, sings, and produces music.

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JC GarrettJC Garrett is a freelance writer and Constitutional scholar from the piney-woods of East Texas. He apologizes to the entire world that the great Lone Star State could have produced the neo-Neanderthal currently occupying the Oval Office.

"I'm not ashamed to be an American. I'm ashamed George W. Bush is an American."

Mr. Garrett owns and operates an independent recording studio, plays several instruments, writes, sings, and produces music.

His stories have ...

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The answer is...

Rev. Pinkey should have hired a lawyer who was not totally incompetent.

If he was convicted for that, his appeal will go very smoothly, and it is likely that the opinion issued by the appellate court will not be kind to the judge.

Obama needs to put his own men on this investigation to ensure his safety. The Bush Justice Dept. is worthless, and Bush is worried about what Obama will find in the closets when he moves into the White House. It wouldn't surprise me a bit if Bush authorized a hit personally. President McCain would keep him out of prison with a full pardon.

by JC Garrett (40 articles, 65 quicklinks, 7 diaries, 604 comments) on Wednesday, August 27, 2008 at 12:15:48 PM

David L. Griscom, a Fellow of the American Physical Society, retired in 2001 from the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC, where he had been a research physicist for 33 years. He has subsequently held visiting professorships of research at the Universities of Paris, Lyon, and Saint-Etienne, France, and Tokyo Institute of Technology; he was also Adjunct Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at The University of Arizona in Tucson. By virtue of his collaboration with John Brakey ...

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David GriscomDavid L. Griscom, a Fellow of the American Physical Society, retired in 2001 from the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC, where he had been a research physicist for 33 years. He has subsequently held visiting professorships of research at the Universities of Paris, Lyon, and Saint-Etienne, France, and Tokyo Institute of Technology; he was also Adjunct Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at The University of Arizona in Tucson. By virtue of his collaboration with John Brakey ...

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Actually Rev. Pinkney seems to have a very good defense team

Most of them are volunteers. The problem seems to be that Berrien County, MI, is in effect ruled by Whirlpool Corp and Rev. Pinkney has been standing up for the rights of blacks in 94%-black-70%-unemployed Benton Harbor across the river from corporate headquarters.

Don't fail to read the article I linked to, and do consider signing the petition at the bottom.

by David Griscom (4 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 30 comments) on Wednesday, August 27, 2008 at 12:56:13 PM

Tried

But it won't let me read the article. No link from the page to the actual article.

by JC Garrett (40 articles, 65 quicklinks, 7 diaries, 604 comments) on Wednesday, August 27, 2008 at 1:53:53 PM

Disappeared since this morning...

Try here:

click here

by David Griscom (4 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 30 comments) on Wednesday, August 27, 2008 at 3:43:57 PM

I read it.

This is truly an outrage. This is something Congressmen and Senators need to be in on.

This judge needs to go, and the prosecutor's office investigated. This is not something you bring charges on.

It's a total joke. It would be funny if a man weren't being subjected to injustice.

by JC Garrett (40 articles, 65 quicklinks, 7 diaries, 604 comments) on Wednesday, August 27, 2008 at 5:46:50 PM

I'm an anti-civilizationist and election boycott advocate in San Diego. For reasons not to vote in faith-based elections with secret vote counts for candidates you cannot hold accountable if they fail to represent you, check out the discussions, articles, and videos on my website http://noinnovember.ning.com
Mark E. SmithI'm an anti-civilizationist and election boycott advocate in San Diego. For reasons not to vote in faith-based elections with secret vote counts for candidates you cannot hold accountable if they fail to represent you, check out the discussions, articles, and videos on my website http://noinnovember.ning.com

Pardon?

JC Garrett wrote:

It wouldn't surprise me a bit if Bush authorized a hit personally. President McCain would keep him out of prison with a full pardon.

So will President Obama. When President Clinton pardoned the remaining Iran-Contra felons (guilty of lying to Congress, importing cocaine to the U.S., funding an illegal war, and selling arms to terrorists, among other things), he explained that he needed to "uphold the precedent."

The precedent is for incoming presidents of both parties to pardon everyone who needs pardoning in their predecessor's administration. The reason for this is that they will be carrying on the same agenda, will be guilty of the same crimes, and will need pardoning themselves when their term is up.

The continuing illegal invasions (wars of aggression are crimes against humanity) and occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan have been funded until 2010, so no matter who becomes president, they will be presiding over the war crimes to which both candidates are committed anyway. Therefore they will need to pardon the war criminals from the Bush administration in order to uphold the precedent and ensure that they will be pardoned when their terms of office are up.

President Obama is committed to maintaining a permanent U.S. presence in Iraq, using the Bush/Cheney plan of fewer U.S. military troops and more private mercenaries to accomplish this, and to expanding the U.S. military presence in Afghanistan. Therefore he will need to be pardoned for war crimes when his term of office is up, and he has to uphold the precedent by issuing full pardons to the Bush administration in order to ensure that his successor will issue a full pardon to him.

Even though the Democrats and Republicans in Congress voted for the Military Commissions Act, which exempts them and the Bush administration from prosecution for war crimes, and even if Bush issues full pardons to himself and his administration before leaving office, there will still be a need for Obama to issue full pardons to the Bush administration, even if they are duplicate, superfluous, and unnecessary pardons, simply to show that he is willing to uphold the precedent that will ensure that he will be entitled to a full pardon in his turn.

Were Obama not committed to issuing full pardons to the Bush administration, the Democratic Party leadership, which is still protecting Bush from impeachment and ensuring that he gets everything he wants as his term in office winds down, would never have allowed Obama to be their nominee.

Both President Obama or President McCain will uphold the precedents set by the Republican and Democratic presidents before them, and will continue the crimes against humanity for which they will need pardoning themselves.

by Mark E. Smith (21 articles, 30 quicklinks, 100 diaries, 1325 comments) on Wednesday, August 27, 2008 at 2:29:50 PM

As usual, Mark Smith hits the nail on the head

...I'm sorry to say.

by David Griscom (4 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 30 comments) on Wednesday, August 27, 2008 at 7:17:35 PM

SW Texas ultra-liberal
john riggsSW Texas ultra-liberal

Why didnt the court

indict God himself as a "co-conspirator". Thats one subphoena that would be tough to deliver. And to make the arrest would be a feat of "biblical" proportions.

by john riggs (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 440 comments) on Wednesday, August 27, 2008 at 6:09:33 PM