Travesty of Justice- charges against haste in Ramarley Graham’s murder charges dismissed

I’m smoldering. I started off in disbelief, as the judge foreshadowed his decision perfectly well; and commented when he said he wasn’t taking sides “You dismissed the charges.” As time passed, I talked to people about how bad the whole thing seemed procedureally, and listened to people break it down in different ways. and it really hit me on the train. JUst a wave of disgust, and nausea. An officer, of the LAW, of the PEACE, breaks down a door and kills an 18 year old kid, and finds a bag of marijuana, and goes free. No winners or losers the defense attorney says, a police officer has to live with that… but that dude gets to live, and go back to his job after breaking an entering and shooting someone in there house for a misdemeanor. What really set me off, was when I realized how dominant of a pattern this was.

That morning, I entered the courtroom, and sat in the press/attorney section, – while the Bronx courthouse was beautiful, shiny and new, this courtroom was ridiculously small 60 or so max capacity for a well publicized case.  They later moved the press into the grand jury box; it was explained to me later that cops never get a jury- too likely that people won’t like them. The Judge started of describing what had happened and the role of the grand jury, so as to frame the written opinions by the lawyers on both sides. 

The role of the Grand Jury in New York is to determine if there is enough evidence to go to trial. There was a motion to dismiss, based upon the judge’s finding that the instructions to the grand jury were incorrect; after 15 minutes of back and forth between the judge and the aDA on the precise legal procedure, we learned the assistant DA told the grand Jury to disregard whether or not another officer not on the scene had told Officer Haste about a gun,  which was apparently the incorrect procedure, because the grand jury needs to understand the officers mindset in making a decision to proceed.

Frankly, this is all bullshit to me. 

1. Dead kid, no gun= enough evidence to move through grand jury, in fact skip it all together

2. Breaking and entering. Police officers require a warrant to enter a premises. I don’t know of the

 http://www.nbcnewyork.com/video/#!/on-air/as-seen-on/Video-Shows-Teen-Just-Before-Police-Shooting/138727019

Where is the justification trial? Shouldn’t police have to explain their killings of citizens? Are they assumed justified?

Police, killing citizens, is assumed justified, unless you can prove otherwise, is my take way from this.

I spoke with Chuck Berkeley, retired detective, narcotics unit. He said, “We need the special prosecutor, expecting lawyers, judges and police, who work together on so many cases to go after one another is ridiculous” I would go a step further, and say that it should be federal oversight, with rotating local regulators on police cases, from other states, and the same for the Feds. Self policing doesn’t work- calling it corruption is failing to understand. People you know, you take care of, and generally treat less harshly. That’s how people work.

Frankly, with stop and frisk being clear violations of the constitution, 4th and 14th amendments, exceeding any and all established legal boundaries by far, it is a clear matter for investigation by Department of Justice.

Other than the really weird cannibal cop thing, all of the egregious, clear cut cases of police murdering people, shooting dozens of bullets into unarmed people, have produce no evidence of wrong doing

I don’t hate cops, or their role in society, but I have been beaten by them, while standing with my hands in the air. They cannot be exempt from punishment. That never ends well in anything.

Further, the same issues happen over and over again, in cities all throughout the United States. Our officers must be trained in the Constitution  (how can you enforce the law if you don’t know the law?)

It’s past time for federal investigation

 

National program for energy conservation, conversion, and Jobs

 I have a bold vision, and a proposal for financing the new energy revolution, that will require some lobbying, but delivers the jobs, and is revenue positive to the federal budget in year 1 It’s most of the economy in year 2. 

It’s a win win win for financiers manufacturers and politicians.

 

The program I wish to lobby the federal government for is 100 Billion in bond insurance- federally backed C+C bonds. Conservation and conversion. The bonds have a yield around 3- 4%, and are applicable for 2nd mortgages at a maximum of 6%, to retrofit buildings ahead of a planned national green building code implementation phase in starting in 2016. The geographic allocation of funds is proportional to population. There’s sales on bonds to be made, and the 2nd mortgages- I would think those percentage points would be attractive to hedge funds and commercial banks alike. 

For the feds it creates jobs 400,000+, and is revenue positive to the federal budget. 20 billion positive.

Buy-in, or options on filling the bond insurance bonds and selling the C+C mortgages is $100 million (proportional to the bonds), held in escrow, until the program comes through, at which point the $100 million becomes a product development fund and national marketing company for the next generation efficiency and generation products.

The key on the consumer side is getting that price point to near their current energy expenditures, and letting them upgrade appearance at the same time. 

All of this is a massive pilot program; the real ramp up, to the full national conversion would happen in year 2, and probably only fully in swing in year 3. 

The numbers on that are massive, in the trillions, but have a net pay off when the US stops paying $500 billion a year for foreign oil.. on an 8 year payback, that’s justifiably a 4 trillion dollar budget.

Boston Bomber Chase

http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/19/us/boston-area-violence/index.html

 the police better make sure the next one comes in alive. There needs to be a trial, we need to know why these things seem to keep happening. This guy had some things going on,and for the most part, for people to snap there is something wrong. Police have a responsibility to bring people in alive, they are not there to pass capital judgement. I understand the city lock down but not sure I like it. That’s a bad effect.

How they built the last Scientific Revolution

 

Let me know if you tryin to help build the newest one.

My political awakening

10 yeasrs ago, I became political, for the first time. 911 had seemed crazy to me, not a lot about it made sense, but wasn’t really in a questioning mind set, but probably set the stage for awareness in the run up to the Iraq War. – that was a complete loss of innocence, a loss of belief in our system or that our “leaders” were working for us. I was working at Merck then, as a business analyst developing their laboratory information management system.

I watched, day in and day out, as CNN and major network news brought on analysts to talk about the possibility of war, with virtually no dissenting opinions presented, and all of the tickers started off with “White House says”.  I watched as other wise intelligent people began to nod their heads, and rationalize the need to go to war, with little actual reason. After all, there had been no threats from Saddam, no possibilities of attack, and if you understand geography, you know that Iraq had no capability to  attack the US.

I felt the lies of Cheney and Bush(Clinton spread the same nonsensical “party line”) (I am also particularly wary of the concept of lying, and from leaders, never, especially of this magnitude) were particularly baldfaced, and easy to detect to any who paused to give a single critical thought to them.

1. WMD- the term itself- I thought it obvious, is a crafted lie, meant to conflate in people’s minds nuclear and chemical weapons. Nuclear weapons being extremely powerful, easy to control, expensive as hell and crazy hard to make. Chemical weapons are relatively easy to make hard to control, and only effective sometimes, if you have no assets in the area, and it is windy but not too windy. That’s why they were only ever really used by the great powers in World War I and eventually abandoned. 

This is why the possibility of Saddam having nukes was so ridiculous- a nuclear program is easy to detect crazy expensive and really hard, you have to centrifuge metal- uranuium meaning you have to spin metal so fast that the 1% of it that is 2% heavier than the rest separtees. Then you have to find a way to shoot a subatomic particle at a rate that it hits other subatomic particles enough to keep hitting one another. I don’t know  if that sounds easy to you, but it’s pretty hard. 

Then, Iraq was under sanctions at the time. From a country rich in oil, to being undersanctions, and unable to produce enough food, that’s like going from being a Wall Street banker to not even having food stamps; did they really think he developed nukes during that time? Cheney said Iraq could deliver nukes within 15 minutes. Our American minutemen, the best missile delivery system on the planet, cannot even reach Iraq. To nuke Iraq we would have to fire from a submarine. Somehow without testing rockets they could suddenly deliver a precise strike on the other side of the earth?

No. It was pure bullshit. Repeated ad infinitum. I hate people talking at me like I am stupid. hate it.

All of this, and not a “news” channel questioned these claims. Iraq, Saddam had never threatened never fired a shot, and we were going to invade. Hundreds of thousands were going to die. Millions of families were going to lose loved ones, parents sons, husbands, fathers.

All for these lies. For these greedy bastards who wanted a still useful but growing obsolete energy source, so they could make more money as a super rich elite, when they already had plenty. 

And no one cared. No one questioned, a lot of my faith in people was diminished. I was working with a lot of scientists, people who say they are analytical, who have advanced degrees, and they fail to look at anything other than their profession with a critical eye, to spend real effort or energy thinking about it. Way worse than Sandy hook.. in Iraq, but no one cared… they are brown foreigners or they are terrorists or something.  Without asking any questions. To me, to go to other countries to kill people requires real, real, clear reasons. And the gall of these people who call themselves CHristians, who supported a war with no reason. These people who call themselves Christians who lie, and want to go to war without provocation are a disgrace. Real Christians should cull scum from their numbers.

To rational thinkers and leaders; people sit in jail for jumping turnstiles, for selling weed in states where it is now legal. While our last three presidents have smoked it, but turned in no dealers. Yet people who lied us into a war for profits from oil and guns, walk free. This is a travesty

Huey says a prayer

Huey, from the Boondocks, says a prayer.(GW Bush is president and its 11/11/01)

“In this time  of war against Osama Bin Laden and the oppressive Taliban regime. We are thankful that OUR leader isn’t the spoiled son of a powerful politician from a wealthy oil family who is supported by religious fundamentalists, operates through clandestine organizations, has no respect for the democratic electoral process, bombs innocents and uses war to deny people their civil liberties.”

 

Ray Kelly/black violence/stop and frisks inherent unconstituionality

http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/2012/07/ray-kelly-where-are-stop-and-frisk-critics-on-violence-in-their-districts-pols

I find myself in agreement with Al Sharpton… the essence of what Kelly said is not completely untrue; there is too much violence in the black communities, and the focus of communities while, correctly noting the despicable and racist treatment of blacks and latinos by the police, spend relatively little time on addressing the internal violence. Yes, it is fueled in part by stranglling big brother bully of the police state, but the lack of internal organizing principle, the fueling of black economy, and entreprenuer ship which could launch real black power that would be reflected in the monetary system, and provide tasks for idle hands and heads which prove to be the devils playthings.

None of this excuses stop and frisk, which to me is a clear and obvious policy or defacto law practice by the representatives of the state initiating unwarranted, unreasonable stops and searches, (4th amendment violations)and the the racial disparity in the stops is to me, a clear violation of the equal protection under the law in the 14th. That equal protection under the law means equal protection from the law seems painfully obvious to me.