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Hartford, Connecticut, lawyer, grandfather, Air Force veteran. Author/publisher, Current Invective www.currentinvective.com

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(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, April 29, 2018
Douma Blackout What your embedded mass media don't want you to know about the latest "chemical attack" in Syria.
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, May 1, 2008
Capital Murder in Texas Is Bush subject to the death penalty under the laws of Texas?
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, March 14, 2019
Down to Earth Multiple reports by airline pilots of design defects in new, improved Boeing 737 were suppressed by government and media, resulting in scores of deaths of unwitting travelers.
(12 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Fort Hood Mystery How did one guy manage to shoot 43 people in a roomful of soldiers who have been carefully trained to bear any risk to protect each other from harm?
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Censored: Media Consolidation Debate Major broadcasters have turned their backs on the debate over media consolidation, as has the ink-on-paper press, and no wonder: their branch of the entertainment industry is the sole beneficiary of the FCC's unpopular deregulation move, and they'll be forever beholden to the reluctant regulators if any part of it gets through.
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, November 30, 2007
Rules of Engagement: Cowardice Codified The bravest soldier becomes a coward when he follows an order to shoot unarmed people. The slaughter reported in this week's news of people on a Baghdad bus that didn't stop for soldiers at a roadblock is a case in point.
(14 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, April 11, 2008
Yoo Disbarment Sought The National Lawyers' Guild has called for the disbarment of John Yoo, the former Justice Department attorney who authored the notorious "torture memorandum," used to justify the illegal imprisonment and maltreatment of prisoners held by American military authorities as "unlawful combatants."
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, March 7, 2019
Metamorphosis How accusations of prejudice can elicit prejudice.
SHARE More Sharing        Friday, January 4, 2008
Connecticut Congressman Dodges Impeachment Questions Congressman John Larson responded in writing to the 12 questions posed by Greater Hartford Impeach several weeks ago, but he supplied answers to none of them.
(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, September 20, 2008
All In for Rotten AIG The proposed "bailout," is actually a vast transfer of wealth from the have-nots to the haves. Ask your congressman who's pocketing all this money (somebody is), and you'll discover it's people with too much money--including no small number of Arabs, Asians and Europeans--who risked some of it to make more. They suffered a modest loss, and they're turning it into a panic so they can loot our treasury.
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, February 21, 2008
Bill of Rights Toilet Paper in Army Lawyers' Latrine? It's very likely that some federal judges will have occasion to review the Sixth Amendment rights of criminal defendants when the cases now pending before the so-called military commissions at Guantanamo prison reach them. The accused--six Arabs said to have been involved in the events of September 11, 2001--have been denied each and every right enumerated by the Sixth, and they're on trial for their lives.
SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, August 14, 2007
Why Our Failing Infrastructure Isn't News When the ceiling of a mine or a bridge over the Mississippi or a Brooklyn steam pipe or a New Orleans dike fails catstrophically, that's news. But when information comes to light warning of such a failure before it happens, that's not only not news, it's fodder for the censors.
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, March 17, 2012
T&A Club I'm thinking of starting a torture and assassination (T&A) discussion group. Along with the central issue--the propriety or impropriety of T&A--we'll talk about the tactics themselves: the purposes, processes and proper application of torture and assassination.
(5 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, August 8, 2007
Oh, Bomb 'Em, Obama President Barak Obama, in possession of "actionable intelligence," would order our armed forces to drop bombs on Pakistan. His recommendation betrays him as a would-be dictator.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, September 16, 2007
Tyrants' Prosecution in Focus By taking impeachment "off the table," the Speaker of the House of Representatives seems to believe that she's sparing the nation a gross-out of monumental proportions, and she may be right. Daunted by the prospect of extended hearings, the Speaker might be disposed to put impeachment back on the table if she considered what prosecutors do in cases involving multiple offenses.
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, July 19, 2007
Scared Silly in the Homeland Looks like Director Chertoff's gut feeling has spread throughout the commercial media. NPR, ABC, CNN, and the others can't seem to talk about anything but the threat of terrorism. It's a wave of hype that's transparent in its purpose: to scare the hapless people of the homeland silly.
SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, December 16, 2007
Accountability Initiative Moves Forward: Impeachment is in Reach The movement to hold the executive accountable for high crimes is moving forward on all fronts, including Connecticut's first congressional district.
SHARE More Sharing        Monday, December 17, 2007
Endtimes for Half-Measures: Radical Policy for the Near Term It's possible, maybe even likely that we will see a radical shift in public opinion and political activity over the next few years. Our youth and their kids, who will fall victim to a catastrophe of our making if we don't act, take precedence over all else. Damn the consequences of revolution if it improves their chances!
(8 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, November 9, 2007
Neocrats OK Fascist AG Senate Democrats Charles Schumer, Diane Feinstein, and four others teamed up with the entire Republican caucus to subvert the rule of law yesterday by appointing an openly fascist lawyer to serve as attorney general.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, October 19, 2007
Imperial Courts Safe with Mukasey We waited all day for this question: "Judge Mukasey, there's every reason to believe the last attorney general and the president have violated federal laws, precipitating a crisis of confidence in the Constitution of the United States and the rule of law itself. What are you going to do about that?"
(3 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, September 21, 2007
Lynch Mobs Still Control Cracker Justice The man who prosecuted three white college athletes on charges that they raped a black stripper was disbarred for prosecutorial misconduct, unlike the man who is prosecuting six black high school students for attempted murder over a schoolyard brawl.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, July 15, 2007
Admiration Society Meets Idol in Journalistic Simulation The reporters joked with him. They laughed at his wisecracks. He evaded their questions, instead bloviating endlessly to cut down on the number of questions they could ask. He mocked them. Press conference? It was an insult to responsible Americans.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, April 17, 2008
The George and Charlie Show Between Charles Gibson and George Stephanopoulos, the designated inquisitors, not a single intelligent question was put to either candidate during ABC News' so-called "debate" in Pennsylvania last night.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, July 12, 2007
Don't Regulate. Confiscate. The Supreme Court says that the Constitution forbids us from legislating a limit on the amount of money people can spend to manipulate public opinion. Fortunately, it doesn't limit our authority to tax wealth, even when our purpose is to limit the political power of those with too much of it.
SHARE More Sharing        Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Adjoining Plots Suppose that the president of the United States received intelligence that a very dangerous man was hiding in a house in a foreign country. Would it be OK for the president to get in touch with the authorities in that country and ask them to drop a bomb on that house?
SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, December 6, 2007
Alarms Censored, Polluters Sanctioned, Ignorance Recompensed The prospect of catastrophic climate change wasn't news to informed citizens, who have been following the story for the better part of 25 years, but it seems to have come as a shock to the embedded mass media. Now, the bill comes due for a generation of journalistic malpractice.
SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, July 17, 2007
Newark Ploy Will Backfire on Federal Prosecutor The U.S. Attorney for New Jersey gives the public every reason to believe that he is manipulating the prosecution of former Newark mayor Sharpe James for political advantage, and the defendant's lawyers are likely to remind him of that regularly while the case is pending. The federal prosecution of this popular African-American politician could be a case study in the destruction of the federal prosecutorial function.
SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, July 26, 2007
A Summer Spoiled The real reason Pelosi, Conyers, and the others don't have impeachment on the table is that it would spoil their summer. We've stopped counting dead and maimed GI's, but you can be sure that many thousand summers will be spoiled because of the war our thuggish leaders wage as a political diversion. Find a way to spoil your Congressman's summer.
(4 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Wright Wronged. Wrong Righted? Jeremiah Wright is the hapless victim of neobigots, paid promoters of a popular racism that proceeds not from the presumed superiority of the white race but from its presumed inferiority.
SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, July 5, 2007
The Ballad of Valerie Plame An account of the yellowcake scandal. In verse.
SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, December 13, 2007
What Else is on Those Tapes? Obstruction of justice may well have been an important motive for those who erased the videotaped interrogations (and torture) of two arab prisoners, but that doesn't rule out other motives. Why is there no discussion of the possibility that the tapes were destroyed to suppress the contents of the interviews, to keep the public from knowing what the prisoners actually said?
SHARE More Sharing        Monday, October 1, 2007
Majority Rule Scatters Dems The good news is that the Democratic party won a majority in the last congressional election. That's also the bad news. If upper-case Democrats ever acted in concert, things might change, and we can't have that. And so Dems are split on every important issue, and lower-case democrats are beginning to ask what the hell is going on.
SHARE More Sharing        Sunday, September 30, 2007
Malfeasance Digest We seem to be witnessing the formation of the formation of a coalition in Congress made up of Republicans and just enough Democrats to ensure that the will of the people can't be done.
SHARE More Sharing        Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Ringer Departs U.S. Attorney's Office Rachel Paulose, a beneficiary of the political pogrom that cost the last attorney general his job, will be relieved of her duties as U.S. attorney for Minnesota amid charges of mismanagement and misconduct lodged by her subordinates.
SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, August 2, 2007
Impeachment Surges in Northeast Impeachment advocates from various parts of the Northeast converged on Worcester yesterday to devise strategies and tactics for the summer and beyond. Billed as a summit conference, the event was a morale-builder for leaders of a movement most mainstream observers consider futile.
(1 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Thursday, August 30, 2007
Blowing in the 911 Wind A country is attacked within its own borders, and its leaders pay no price, but are instead given additional powers? In all his travels, Lemuel Gulliver never saw such utter foolishness.
SHARE More Sharing        Monday, July 9, 2007
Summer Fun for True Patriots It will be a long, hot summer for the thugs who run our country, and a time of vindication and satisfaction for lovers of peace and justice.
(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, September 28, 2007
Presidential Idolatry at C-SPAN Let's acknowledge that most of our presidents have been narcissistic autocrats whose leadership injured the country.

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