The State of Justice in America

Well, here we go again.  It’s another grand jury indictment and Al Sharpton is saying the same things.  The new protests are starting and this time it’s that guy who suffered from a cop’s choke hold on Staten Island. Eric Gardner said “I can’t breathe” ten times before he died.  This choke hold is a clear violation of police procedure and for this reason alone, if for no other, the police officer Daniel Panteleo (?) should have been indicted.  They had a whole array of charges they could have lodge, but Pentelo was cleared of everything, and this is the worse part of the outrage.  So far they say “There is anger over this- but no violence - - yet”.   I suspect this will change.   NY Mayor De Blasio states that the Federal Justice Dept will now investigate the case.   I hope the AG doesn’t drop the ball.   But another disturbing similarity, and Hal Sparks pointed this out, it’s another Grand Jury acquittal with corrupt procedure, in that it is the head of the grand jury acting like defense council.  Hal Sparks says that no police officer would volunteer to testify before any grand jury “If the outcome weren’t pre determined”.  That makes sense when you think about.  But these days not only do these grand juries put the victim of the crime on trial - - that happened with Trayvon Martin - - but now they put the witnesses on trial.  And get this: Hal Sparks said “But they won’t allow mitigating factors against these accused witnesses.  In other words-  despite what they would so proudly claim-  there has BEEN no trial because there is not free and open questioning by all the interested parties.  Apparently there is an old southern cop trick where a white cop puts his gun in someone’s face and says “You spit on my gun – wipe it off” and the minute, of course, the suspect touches the gun, he gets shot.  In short the state of justice in America these days is pretty sick, and who can tell what the state of things will be a year or two from now.  We’ve come a long way from July of just 2012 when the Aurora shootings took place in Colorado.  It’s been one unending chain of violence and corruption of the legal system- - punishing the innocent- - and letting the guilty go Scott free.  If you want to quote scripture it says in one of the OT prophets that “Do do the will of the Lord is to do justice and to love mercy”.  We are a hell of a long way from that state of affairs.  I said months and months ago that “The rapture of the faithful has to come soon because this country can’t TAKE two more years of the sort of mass corruption we’ve been seeing at all levels of government.   What used to be shocking headlines are now common place to the extent that pretty soon such news will come to be ignored altogether- - at least that which can’t be politicized by the Hannity right wing.

Gloria Alred had a press conference late in getting started that Bill Carol carried on his show, reluctantly it seems- since Bill Carol hinted is little ways he regards the whole sex scandal thing with Bill Cosby as some kind of joke and that Gloria is not to be taken too seriously.  I would have carried the entire press conference myself and also the statements of the three victims she said she’d have, as well as any questions that Alred would field from the audience.  She wants bill to waive the right to claim the statute of limitation on his crimes.  Cosby has the power to do that.  If Cosby had nothing to hide, that’s just what he’d do.  He’d let the women sue him and fall flat on their face, if indeed he really believes they would.  Does Bill Cosby really want to be remembered as this one time star who turned bitter and circled the wagons at the end of his carrier under a giant cloud?   You may answer “Yes, if the alternative is worse than that”.   The second thing Cosby could do is put a “hundred million” in a pot, and then hold a mock trial with retired judges almost like a game show- - and the winners get some of that money.  That’s a sporting way to go and still remain clear of overt criminal charges. 

• Apparently Bobby Keys -famous saxophone player, died recently.  If so I haven't heard any confirmation at all from the "other side".   But here is a listing of all the other groups Bobby Keys has performed with, and apparently he and Jagger and Richards have gotten closer since the eighties after a period of slight estrangement starting in the mid seventies.  I was told a long time ago that Bobby Keys was Federation - - probably "Yellow Planet" federation, and not Dardanian, though.  The dots are for free, and if I should start a new paragraph it would produce a dot.
• The Rolling Stones: Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers, Exile on Main St., Goats Head Soup, Emotional Rescue, Stripped,Shine a Light Live Licks, Sweet Summer Sun
• Joe Cocker: Mad Dogs & Englishmen
• George Harrison: All Things Must Pass
• John Lennon: Some Time in New York City, Walls and Bridges, Rock 'n' Roll
• Keith Richards: Talk Is Cheap, Live at the Hollywood Palladium
• Ringo Starr: Ringo, Goodnight Vienna
• Ronnie Wood: 1234, Gimme Some Neck, Mahoney's Last Stand

An earlier entry:  There was a decision not to indict that guy who died from allegedly a choke hold by New York cops.  They claim that shooting rates for suspects by cops is 21 times higher for Black subjects than whites.  This seems odd because there are eight times as many white people as Blacks.  Eric Holder is still investigating Ferguson, which is a surprise to me because I’d previously heard that the Justice Dept endorsed the jury’s finding.  Now we have President Obama’s remarks on that subject of the Staten Island choking case where that guy died – not from a choke hold but a head-lock according to Sean Hannity.  Everybody knows the difference, but nobody has made it clear which it was.  At any rate the President has not been served well by his other remarks on police issues, and perhaps he should just step aside on this one.