Sunday, January 29, 2023

The City of Dr.King's Last Stand (the Culture)

The Police Culture

Neither of those five brothers, realize the depth of their devastating travesty of tragedy, which is the evolution of the self-destructive malaise pervading Black culture and life, especially so of late vis-a-vis the rapper and the basketball player. 
The late Malcolm Shabazz, the grandson of Malcolm X, had it correct: first the character assassination, then the physical assassination. Prominent Blacks, some star-studded, "felt so-free that they could join in maligning another brother, for the plantation's masters". 
It is no surprise, with all the black-on-black death, that five fully indoctrinated Black police Men would beat another Black Man to death "under-the-color-of-law". 
Who do you think had the whip in hand for massa, on the plantation. Or, who tossed the dead black bodies in the ocean, in the transatlantic voyage, or who helped trap the Africans on the Continent? We are doing the biddings of those whose indoctrination is in our bloodline. Fully assimilated.

Of All Places Memphis. Why Memphis? The last place the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 'stood his ground', which actually was Our ground. There, for the garbage workers, the poor, 'the po', the pawns, the Negroes then; of which Mrs. Coretta Scott King four days after Dr. King's assassination, led a March in the very Memphis.
The problem is we have lost our way in a society, whose design is self-effacing, implosive and all consuming. Conversation has already begun on a 'George Floyd Act' type congressional legislation. A pipe dream, with current legislative hierachy. 
Consider the situation in Louisiana, where white Louisiana troopers, similarly beat a black man to death in 2019. 
Troopers have only recently been indicted on man-slaughter charges and obstruction.  
In another incident a now former municipal police officer was convicted after video footage showed him kicking a suspect in the head. It is policing culture that is the problem.


@Japapathway

Monday, July 4, 2022

SCOTUS on a ROLL: Rights being Pulled en masseIndians, Blacks, Mexicans

The Big One is Louisiana Ardoin v. Robinson



The United States Supreme Court, 'the ultra-neo conservative cabal'; is operating as a conduit to foment societal upheaval at the behest of a RICO violating former president. SCOTUS just quietly slashed your Sixth Amendment rights .  

The Supreme Court quietly issued a 6-3 ruling recently on Shinn v. Martinez Ramirez, siding against two Arizonans on death row who sought to challenge their convictions in federal court after receiving shoddy legal support. The majority’s rationale, which was based on a 1996 federal law, was that state sovereignty and legal expediency must be protected at all costs.

Unfortunately, those costs are clear. The Court’s ruling slashed Americans’ constitutional right to effective counsel by eviscerating the life-saving accountability mechanism that allows people to appeal unjust rulings. The Hill  

Justice Clarence Thomas’s 6-3 majority opinion in Shinn v. Martinez Ramirez cuts the procedural-default exception off at its knees. Now, there will be no remedy for those whose post-conviction attorney failed to raise a valid, available claim. The majority opinion begins by paying lip service to stare decisis, as the court affirms that the principle of “cause and prejudice” as a method to overcome procedural default remains the law of the land. However, it then held that because the failure to develop the facts underlying the procedurally defaulted claim (e.g., ineffective assistance of trial counsel) in state court is considered the fault of the defendant; there is no right to have an evidentiary hearing in federal court to develop the underlying facts supporting the defaulted claim. Jurist

@Japapathway

Not only that, Oklahoma Indians , are under the 'states-rights' Civil War era move.

The case stems from the Supreme Court’s 2020 decision McGirt v. Oklahoma, which held that a large part of eastern central Oklahoma is an American Indian reservation. The McGirt case has been extended by courts to cover at least four other tribal nations.

The McGirt decision meant that tribal members who committed crimes on the Muscogee (Creek) Nation land couldn’t be prosecuted by the state of Oklahoma.

Major crimes could be prosecuted by the federal government, however, under the Major Crimes Act. And the federal government could prosecute the type of crimes that apply to federal enclaves when committed by and against non-Indians under the General Crimes Act. Tribal justice systems would have to prosecute other crimes. 

The Supreme Court said Oklahoma’s jurisdiction to prosecute was not preempted by federal law or principles of tribal self-government.

“To be clear,” Kavanaugh wrote, “the court today holds that Indian country within a state’s territory is part of a state, not separate from a state. Therefore, a state has jurisdiction to prosecute crimes committed in Indian country unless state jurisdiction is preempted.” ABA Journal

In this case, there is no preemption, Kavanaugh said.

But in voting's congressional redistricting in of all places, Louisiana, the axe fell exceeding heavy. 

In Ardoin vs. Robinson, the GOP lead Louisiana Legislature conspired against the rights of Black people, to subvert equal representation and in effect equal justice under the law. The state Senate Governmental Affairs Committee chaired by Senator Sharon Hewitt, along with the Senate President and the House Speaker boondoggled legislative process into skullduggery. In the video, you hear the groundwork for the eventual SCOTUS opinion. 

This redistricting battle, now under an Alito court order is of greater import than Roe v. Wade, which is blinding the minds of the citizenry. If the citizens right to vote is abridged by GOP trickery, which is what the current 'abeyance' order does, securing the same 5th Congressional District Representation, in 2022's Louisiana election.  In the meanwhile, state Senate Governmental Affairs, headed by Senator Sharon Hewitt, is seeking to change voting machines in order that tabulations can be tracked by paper, a purely Trumpian-era 2020 vote recount tactical maneuver to challenge a presidential election. 
It would be best You Leaders get busy & protect Ida,Fannie&Coretta's,and Malcolm,Martin&Medgar's Work!  (70's Rules - "Fight-for-Us" like Bennie Thompson)
Lamyville Reign


Tuesday, March 3, 2020

Defuncting Rural Public Schools- "System Wide" purposely

@Japapathway The Louisiana Legislature's House Education Committee's  HR228 requested the Louisiana Department of Education the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education "to study
challenges faced by rural school systems impacted by economic downturn resulting
in decreased revenues and declining student populations and to submit a written
report of its findings and recommendations to the House Committee on Education
no later than January 31, 2020." 

This Should Not Be Occurring, unless it is the result of  a purposeful demise of rural,  impoverished school systems.  

The public-at-large must assert itself into the conversation concerning these matters with all deliberate speed, as the Louisiana Legislature will convene March 9, 2020 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana in the State Capitol. 

Hearings are necessary in the Committee that will consider these matters, with the public's response to the impact on the communities affected. There is much to be considered in a conservative leaning time such as this.


(from News reports)
"Six NELA school districts could be coming under one umbrella. Those are Morehouse, Madison, Union, Catahoula, East Carroll and Tensas Parishes. 
The possibility of the merger has left Morehouse Parish Superintendent David Gray asking one question.
“What does this mean for the people that work in the school districts every single day?”
Gray said he first heard the news last week at the Louisiana School Board Association conference.
During the regular legislative session last year, the House Committees on Education requested the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education study the challenges facing rural school systems. This was filed under House Resolution 228.
Some of those challenges included shrinking school populations, high transportation costs and minimal opportunities for increasing local tax revenues.
The Louisiana Department of Education responded to HR 228 with its own findings and possible solutions.
The LDOE reports that the six NELA school districts are facing financial challenges including “loss of local tax revenues due to the loss of local business.” In addition, they report a decline in student populations and state MFP funds. Ultimately, the report said the schools are at risk of a financial crisis.
The report includes possible solutions including a shared services structure and establishing a support center for the districts. Additionally, the districts would have to create a board to hire an executive director, business manager and procurement professional. Those individuals would then be responsible for overseeing expenses.
Gray said right now it’s a fear of the unknown, but he’s hoping he can gather suggestions for the good of the school system.
“[We] certainly believe that local autonomy is best and we’re going to bring the community with us and get them the answers that they absolutely need,” he said.
Gray also said that this wouldn’t be an overnight decision, in fact, the details, planning and final decision would have to be discussed during this year’s legislative session in Baton Rouge.


MOREHOUSE PARISH, La. (KNOE)"


All members of the House Education Committee  
and their contact information can be accessed here.

 Louisiana House Representatives
The Legislators for the Parishes that maybe affected can be accessed on the Legislature's website. 

Union Parish - Christopher Turner 

Tensas Parish - Neil Riser  & C. Travis Johnson

Madison Parish-C. Travis Johnson  & Francis C. Thompson

Morehouse- Francis C. ThompsonFrederick Douglas Jones &  Michael Charles Echols

East Carroll -  C. Travis JohnsonFrancis C. Thompson

Catahoula - C. Travis Johnson & Neil Riser 
Contact the above Representatives to voice your opinion on this ongoing matter.



 Every contact made carries clout and impact on this problem.
State Senators information & contact may be accessed here. 
State Senator

Union Parish
 Stewart Cathey, Jr. 
also a portion of Morehouse

Catahoula
Glen Womack 

Morehouse
Katrina JacksonStewart Cathy, Jr.

East Carroll
Katrina Jackson  

Tensas Parish
Katrina Jackson 

Madison
Katrina Jackson

 

 

Thursday, January 25, 2018

It Should Be Evident :: INEQUALITIES DEFICIENCY Established

@Japapathway

The evident established inequalities of a deficient system of government is consistent in the seeming manifest destiny of the downtroddened.  

Will efficacy, rule the day.

Should anyone think, the current City School Board leadership is going to look out for the well being of people, whom they-(the Neville Group) were attempting to pull away from with a Charter School, is in an altered state of reality.

The Louisiana Western District Court is in the midst of a Unitary Status declaration of a fifty plus years desegregation Lawsuit in Northeast Louisiana's hub city. Imagine that, 50-plus years.  

All the while, the local media is concerned about other irreconcilable differing opinions. 

The pending declartion is evidence of the racial divide in the town of 50,000 more or less; depending on which agency the numbers come from.  

Now, that the new City School Board President has been voted on and selected, with the voting down racial lines, in the top two offices; it should be evident to all concerns the status of this southern town's divisions. 

Not very long ago, the Neville Group was seeking a Charter for the High School of the same name, at which time the now Superintendent was the Principal. 

The newly-elected 2018 President was instrumental in the dismantling of prior Board leadership; to the point of the then Vice-President resigning.  And now, the outgoing President has decided not to run for boardmember in his district, after four terms.

Accepting the current status-quo. These prevailing winds of conservative republicanism is evidenced in local actions as well, caused by the Trump Administration's racial & social animus against anything not emanating from the Caucausus Mountain Region.

LDF. Defend. Educate. Empower.
LDF files lawsuit alleging discrimination against Haitian immigrants
Dear Unfound, 

Yesterday, we challenged discrimination against immigrants of color.

LDF just filed a lawsuit on behalf of the NAACP and its Haitian members in response to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) decision to rescind the Temporary Protective Status (TPS) designation for Haitian immigrants.

Our lawsuit claims that the DHS, former Acting DHS Secretary Elaine C. Duke, and current DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen took irrational and discriminatory government action, denying Haitian immigrants their right to due process and equal protection under the Fifth Amendment.
LDF believes the decision to rescind Haitian immigrants' protective status is discriminatory – so we're fighting back. 
As evidence of the intent to discriminate, the lawsuit cites public reporting that DHS sought crime data on Haitians with TPS, as well as information on how many Haitian nationals were receiving public benefits. The complaint further alleges that President Trump's public hostility toward immigrants of color was a contributing factor in the decision to rescind Haitian TPS.

Haitian immigrants first received Temporary Protective Status in 2010 as part of the Department of Homeland Security's efforts to assist the country after it was struck by a 7.0-magnitude earthquake. Haiti's TPS designations have been extended multiple times due to many factors, including multiple hurricanes and a cholera outbreak. 

This is a simple case. Our democracy rests on the bedrock principle that every person is equal before the law. Governmental decisions that target people based on racial discrimination violate our Constitution. 

But we're still preparing for a battle ahead. Read our press release to learn more. I look forward to keeping you updated as this case develops. 
With you in struggle,
Sherrilyn A. Ifill 
President and Director-Counsel
LDF. Defend. Educate. Empower.
NAACP Legal Defense 
and Educational Fund, Inc. 40 Rector Street, 5th floor 
  •  New York, NY 10006
LDF is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that relies on individual contributions to continue its civil rights work.

Tuesday, October 17, 2017

The Government Is A R E G I M E:Subterfuge

The President of the United States of America is the Chief Executive in charge of governing the American Democratic Republic. Some have used the term Oligarch in reference to "America's", Head of State.   

However, it should be noted, the President is practicing subterfuge.
Running the Country like a madman would. Keeping things in disarray and off-balance at all times. Meeting with Mitch McConnell, and redirecting the Press, who were assembled in the White House Press Room, at the last minute. 

All is well, in the optional dysfunction of current affairs as orchestrated by the forty-fifth president of the country!  As all of this is going on, another instance is playing out in the Courts.

And of all courts, in the Eastern District of Virginia, where the U.S. Attorney is Dana Boente.

Former Congressman William Jefferson's "attorneys argued that these were not "official acts" of a congressman. And after the Supreme Court, in a case involving former Virginia Gov. Robert McDonnell, cast doubt on official corruption cases in 2016, Jefferson's attorneys pressed that argument again, winning over Ellis."

On today, Judge T. S. Ellis, III approved the extension of time for the Government to decide if it want to retry Former Congressman William J. Jefferson, on considerably fewer charges, perhaps for which; the time already incarcerated will suffice for "felony crimes he was tried on and convicted of."

William J. Jefferson, the former New Orleans Congressman  was freed from the Oakdale, Louisiana Federal Prison Camp October 5th 2017, all the while the government was in its now usual death spiraling morass.

The thing was so profound, that documents Ex-New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin filed  "has asked a federal judge to throw out his corruption conviction, citing a recent Supreme Court decision making it more difficult to convict public officials of bribery.

Nagin, 60, argues that his case is identical to corruption cases recently overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court concerning former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell and by a federal appeals court concerning former New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.
The Supreme Court ruling spurred the immediate release of former Louisiana Congressman William Jefferson, who had been serving a 13-year sentence since 2012.
He faces a new sentencing hearing on Dec. 1 on three of the seven counts remaining against him. Before then, though, the government must decide by Monday (Oct. 16) if it wants to retry Jefferson on the seven counts that were tossed out. " 
[As of today October 16, 2017 the Court has given the government until December 4th to decide, if it will retry Jefferson]
"He was tried on 16 counts of corruption in 2009 and convicted of 11, but Ellis, whom President Ronald Reagan appointed to the court, overturned one of them earlier."
Ronald Reagan.
America is at war with herself, again. And we are losing miserably.  No one wins.

A new date for the government to decide if it will retry the former congressman has caused for thought on whether a retrial on the remaining counts is even feasible.
However, this changes and further defines the "Honest Services" charge applied to government officials. 
The President's Executive Office, at the least has and still is "functioning as a 'criminal enterprise'; with close family as aides, advisors and other prestigious positions in the White House.
Merely, with the Trump D.C. Hotel, the former Washington Post Office; profiting as he is the sitting President, with foreign government officials even residing there, when in the Capitol for presidential related business; is the definition of the Law, because of personal financial benefit  to the elected president. 
The receiving of financial gain, from a transaction as a result of the "political office" held by the beneficiary is the bottom line.  It has already been proven, that Jared Kushner's Sister, was in the Orient, setting the table to make money off of the presidential connections.

Tuesday, August 8, 2017

Putting Black Folk and Black Progress in Check


I have consistently followed the steady, drip of the process to disenfranchise Black Folk in 2017 Society. The latest debacle concerns Excellence Academy.  

As I passed down Forsythe Avenue yesterday. The marquee read about the Neville Alumni and Friends Association of which the School Board Superintendent is an adherent of. 

The bottom line goal of the "Northside Neville-ites" is to seize control of the present and return it to the "days of yore"!  There is the golf course, the seasoned community of generations taught the same ideals and the indoctrination of those coming from the outer limits of the area. 

In the effort to "back-down" and further demoralize the black community, the underbelly of the real Monroe is re-emerging. From local media, highlighting deathification in the community, but failing to recognize the effects of  "media-masturbation" on any subject in the negative of black-folks concerns. 

Under any circumstance, Excellence Academy was a "beacon of hope" for the black community. For whatever reasons, Brent Vidrine, the School Board and its unwillingness to fight for the continuance of a "positive venue" in the "Greater-Monroe, West Monroe, Ouachita tradition" has back tracked to lesser gods. 

This is a horrid defeat in the ears of A. G. Facen, P. Rayfield Brown, Morris Henry Carroll, Alex Burns, H. H. George, Jimmy Andrews, George Muse Jr., and John I. Reddix. 

And, so Negro Citizens of Ouachita Parish have been challenged in their desire for self-determination.  It is akin to the abridgements of the fifties.  A government jurisdiction, called the Monroe City School Board, led by a former principal of Neville High School; which in the recent past, 2013-14; sought charter school status and was denied, has in the midst of a federal desegregation court moderation; denied funding and did not do all the diligence to bring the Excellence Academy into "school system policy compliances", monetarily. Economicly?

A school, that the Governor recognized in a recent (2017) visit at the Mt. Zion Community Center in the heart of Monroe.  
The underbelly, the evilness of 1965 desegregation in Ouachita Parish. 

The all of it, is absolute, in the present necessitated appeal process headed to the 2nd Circuit of Louisiana.

*This Story Will be Updated

Thursday, December 22, 2016

Nuisance Abatement Code Chapter-24 Article-1 Section24.5-28



This ordinance, allows for the "government" to enter owned property and owner/occupant may be forced into court for not allowing an officer of code enforcement to enter his/her property. 

After notice has been given, "Any inspection conducted pursuant to an order permitting right of entry"; is done still in violation of a person's right to privacy, and unreasonable searches.  

The fee schedule passed at Tuesday's city council meeting specifies the fines for high grass and weeds, inoperable vehicles, littering and derelict/unsecure structures. Each fine class was reduced by $50 before final passage. All fines not specified in the fee schedule will be set at $50 for a first violation, $200 for a second and $450 for subsequent violations.  News Star Article  

It is not, for certain if there is any fees reduction, for seniors; and certainly nothing is in place for the disabled, veterans or otherwise. 

Injunctive relief is necessary for further review.  

At the least an elected official, should request an Attorney General's Opinion on the validity of this ordinance.  However, it would appear, that every political office holder is in lock step, with this egregious attack against basic civil liberties of a specific group in this society. 

The Poor.

Wednesday, August 10, 2016

The Intersection of Consequence and Mishap:"Til Hell Freeze Over"

Just recently, a mishap led to dire consequences. 

Over Fifty (50) years of endeavor, nearly lost, affecting thousands.

I can only imagine, the depths of the agonizing disbelief of the efforts ancestors of our deliverance from captivity in Ouachita Parish, West Monroe, Louisiana and the twin city Monroe, must be reeling from in their resting places. 

 Things really began to melt, with the debacling circumstances of the South Monroe economic development apparatus devolving in to chaos; at the same time a Bail-bonding business was the scene of a double murder.

How, could it thusly be so rude of an awakening to the public, under the gaze of  "hard-fought desegregation" memorial pillar of the Wildcats Stadium. 

Economic Development, Murder and School Desegregation.
 The most recently debacle of the Ouachita Multipurpose Community Action Program and the thread like hanging on of its continuing through September 30th, of a hallmark "head start" program. 2016 is an unforgettable year. 

  OMCAP Head Start program to end 
A watershed, Landmark program.  Coupled with the recent up-stir at the Monroe City School Board; this latest incident should be proof, that we need to fight for "hard-fought" gains.  When, School Board Officer Brenda Shelling, stood & disrupted the Board meeting, calling a white-male board member out, as an instigator, subjugater and "inside facilitator" for the destruction of the predominantly black, City School System.

The good doing white-folks' negroes, said Shelling needed to stop being a disrupter.  From OMCAPS Head Start, to Neville High School's repair, the bastion for the "white seperatist, under the guise of  desiring to participate in the federal court's mandates the white board members thoroughly disguised themselves, as seekers of justice.  

And the gullible, "can we all just get along crowd"  crowed in this garden of  gethsemane, against the Truth. OMCAP's demise is the proof. 
I would imagine the members of the court-ordered bi-racial committee of the early 70's, by federal injunction; are saying, "i'll fight you till hell freeze over" as A.G. Facen said, back then.  But, this tired generational residue from back then, don't believe in " agitate, agitate"  no more. 
I can remember, my father's comments about the Rev. P. Rayfield Brown and the constant efforts in the formation of the "CAP" program. It dealt with Poverty and the affects of it; in education, health and housing. Folks had issues.  Integration and desegregation were the watch words. Everyone in position were required to maintain the cause in their position(s).

In a lot of ways the ball has been dropped.  And, when someone grabs the ball; those in position now, act like they don't know what is going on. 

The Federal Courts in 2016 still dealing with desegregation?

I recall not to many months ago, the superintendent, pushing "the Neville pull-out plan with BESE.
  But, we want to act as if we are not aware, that the same folk are trying to desolve the Monroe City School System.

 Shelling turned and shouted at board member Bill Willson, saying he was smirking.
"That's what you've done, you racist pig," she yelled at him, pointing to emphasize her words. 

 In a June 2015, "extemporaneous" ; community meeting concerning Neville High School repairs, "Board member Bill Wilson asked the crowd if they would like to see Neville become a charter school and no one raised their hand. When asked if they believe Neville should stay with the School Board, almost every person in the crowd raised their hands". North Monroe Skullduggery !! 

"When we are trying to recruit a company, or recruit people to the community what they will do is look at the surrounding cities and villages and go there. This is really detrimental to our ability to recruit people", President & CEO Monroe Chamber of Commerce Sue Nicholson said.
Board member Jennifer Hanline said after the meeting; that it isn't a time to pick sides and board members should want to see the community get better.

She thinks Shelling's actions were unacceptable and that sort of behavior gets in the way of progress especially with a board working to help the school system.
"I want to say I'm so sorry we are suppose to represent our community and we're suppose to represent the people who elected us, and the children that are coming to our school", Board Member Jennifer Haneline said.  Community-Members--Leaders-react-to-the-Monroe-City-School-Board-Meeting ..

What we need to understand is the suit, Jimmie Andrews et al was filed by black folk disenfranchised by segregation.  And so, in the midst of a federal hearing of the status of Monroe City School Systems, everyone goes off their rockers, like they don't know;  that the white-folks crying foul, cause they ain't invited "to the D.C. federal DoJ meeting".. . 

In the memorandum, Willson, Dayton and Haneline attest that board President Rodney McFarland and Vice President Brenda Shelling have frustrated their efforts to participate in implementing the consent decree by:
According to the memorandum, these statements "establish nonfeasance and bad faith on the part of the MCSB and, potentially, collusion between certain MCSB members and the United States with respect to the appointment of a court monitor. ...
"The United States was either complicit in the actions of the MSCB or, through nonfeasance of duty, ignorant of MSCB’s backroom tactics to select EPG as the Independent Court Monitor."
Discouraging them from attending a September hearing on consideration of unitary status. Failing in to adequately inform all board members of the ruling on unitary status.
Refusing to include all board members in the negotiation process for the consent decree adopted in December.
Refusing to include all board members in the process to select the independent court monitor required by the consent decree.
Soliciting the votes of board members Daryll Berry and Brandon Johnson to adopt the Educational Planning Group without prior discussion of the group with all members.  Monroe City Schools 

The illusion, that the very same set of folks who are the descendants of those, who perpetrated separate but equal; should be involved in conversations with DOJ is the epitome of white privilege. 

Neville Group sought to intervene. To none effect. It is noted here because, folks is forgetting the doggone avarice amongst these illegitimate usurpers. 

 At a midday school board meeting Wednesday, Doug Lawrence, the board's attorney, said that five
communications from the court had moved within the past 24 hours. Those were:


The Tuesday order by Hayes that permitted NAFA, Jones and Hanks to intervene;
an order from Hayes vacating that order filed Wednesday;
notification that Hayes will no longer be involved in the case and setting all motions before James;
a notice referring the motion for permission to intervene before James that was filed Wednesday;
and a corrected caption on the notice filed the same day.


"Judge James personally is taking over the entire case, which is inclusive of the petition to intervene in the lawsuit filed by an outside group, so the prior judge that issued the prior ruling is no longer involved in the case," Lawrence said.
 

Court documents state anyone who opposes the request of NAFA and the two parents to intervene should file a memorandum in opposition within 21 days. After that, they "may file a reply within 14 days after the memorandum in opposition is filed."
 

Additionally, court documents indicate James does not plan to set a hearing date on the matter.
One Judge Overseeing entire Case. 

Finally, the outcome of South Monroe Economic Development, is critical to Black advancement in Northeast Louisiana as a whole.

We do not have the leisure or the time, to linger and prolong "the real elephant that is in the room. 

We got to meet ourselves, and come to a conclusive outcome on the infighting amongst US. Whether it is on the streets or in the Council Chambers, Board Room, News Media or whatever. 

We need to meet, "by the River at midnight" if need be, for Us to discuss Us!!  

When the white-folks plot against black-advancement, where do they meet? Bayou DeSiard Country Club?

I Ain't Done Yet; but I got to go!!

Tuesday, January 5, 2016

A Retaliative Reactionary Society WORLDWIDE



President Barack Hussein Obama is being blamed for the execution of a Shia Cleric in Saudi Arabia, amid the insanity of a presidential campaign in which a megalomaniac is inciting global implosion on an altar of "pseudo-religious sacrifice" of "jihad john's" Islamic Faith.

America's fascination with a "megalomaniac" who doesn't really give a damn, about Islam; but does give a damn that Barack Hussein Obama was famously accused by the same Megalo, of being "unamerican or nonamerican" and himself [POTUS] a Muslim.

This is the same President, who was famously derided in his christian-belief under the tutelage of the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, and the Reverend's Liberation Theology. Which theology is a basic staple of "the true black church"! In affect, american "robbed the african president of america" of his religion.  

Historically, a twice done "damnable heresy" ! His african-father would have been born a Muslim, converted from christianity. This constant slight of his opponents with the Islamic adherence issue; is a "colonial-masters" racist attack, returned to the vestiges of the american slave market!  

A note of interest, United States of America, and its causcasian demigoguery: Black America will not forget, how your voices harangued incidiously against your own President.  And how your tea party, GOP, NeoCon republican movement has gotten us all the way to Oregon.  There is no turning around, now. Hell and chaos is on the american horizon. 

If Mr. Obama had  more-aggressively attempted to save the Iranian Cleric, the republicans would all has further said, the prexy was a true "muslim-lover". No different than the ostracisation of caucasians who were "termed" nigger-lovers. 

Finally, the "gun control" executive action is a necessity. 

However, it is my hope, that clear-focus, would be taken to In-Custody-Deaths. It is our position, that this is a human rights issue. The killing of Americans, in "incarceration-centers" or in-police-custody; is a violation of human decency.  

In Morehouse Parish Louisiana at the court-house, was the scene of a tragically killed inmate, while being transferred by a Fourth JDC, courthouse official police, the man committed suicide by-cop.

Inmate dies in Morehouse courthouse shooting  

A
Following a shooting at the Morehouse Parish Courthouse, one inmate is dead with no other injuries reported.
According to Sheriff Mike Tubbs, the MPSO responded to a shots fired call at the courthouse at approximately 2 p.m. on Tuesday. An inmate in the courthouse, whose name has been released as Keith Atkins, age 43, was confirmed dead via suicide following a scuffle outside of the courtroom. According to Tubbs, no personnel or civilians were injured when the incident occurred because of the location.
On February 16, 2015 Atkins was involved in a hostage situation involving his estranged wife. After Atkins was taken into custody — the hostage was freed after Atkins came in contact with the MPSO — he was booked on charges of second degree kidnapping (domestic violence), aggravated assault on a police officer, possession of schedule II (meth) and possession of a firearm while in control of a controlled dangerous substance.
According to Tubbs, as MPSO personnel was involved in the incident, the LSP was called into investigate. Tubbs said LSP detectives were at the courthouse Tuesday afternoon and will be releasing additional information as it becomes available.
The courthouse was closed for the remainder of Tuesday but is expected to reopen Wednesday morning.

Tuesday, January 27, 2015

Ruling Could Bolster Lawsuits Against Police

Justices revived excessive-force case against a cop.
, The National Law Journal

A little-noticed U.S. Supreme Court ruling from May could give an unexpected boost to alleged victims of excessive force by police in their efforts to hold law enforcement officers accountable.
In the aftermath of recent police shootings, including the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., lawyers have generally viewed high court precedents as obstacles that only benefit police.
But Tolan v. Cotton, a brief unsigned opinion issued on May 5, could point the other way, making it easier for alleged victims to fend off summary dismissal of their civil rights lawsuits against police.
Tolan admonished lower court judges that when police in such cases seek to dismiss lawsuits against them, disputed facts and inferences must be viewed in a light most favorable to the citizen making the claim.
"Courts may not resolve genuine disputes of fact in favor of the party seeking summary judgment," the high court ruled, adding that "a judge's function at summary judgment is not to weigh the evidence and determine the truth of the matter, but to determine whether there is a genuine issue for trial."
Since the facts of episodes like those involving Brown and Eric Garner are often in dispute — even when there is video evidence — the Tolan decision could give individuals claiming civil rights violations (under 42 U.S.C. 1983) a better chance of getting past summary dismissal motions. Tolan has already been invoked in more than 500 federal cases since May.
Two weeks after Tolan was issued, the Supreme Court itself cited the ruling in remanding Thomas v. Nugent, a suit brought by the family of a Louisiana man who died after a police officer repeatedly used a Taser on him.

Two weeks after Tolan was issued, the Supreme Court itself cited the ruling in remanding Thomas v. Nugent, a suit brought by the family of a Louisiana man who died after a police officer repeatedly used a Taser on him.
"Tolan resonates today in many ways. We were thrilled when the court ruled as it did," said Christina Swarns (left), litigation director of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, which filed a brief in the case. "It was a reminder to courts that they can't supplant the role of the jury, and they can't put a thumb on the scale in favor of the state."
The decision stemmed from a ­widely publicized suit brought by Robbie Tolan (left), the son of Major League Baseball ­player Bobby Tolan. On New Year's Eve in 2008, Bellaire, Texas, police officer Jeffrey Cotton shot the younger Tolan in his parents' driveway. Police were responding to a mistaken report of a stolen car. After Cotton pushed Tolan's mother up against the garage door, Robbie Tolan told him to leave his mother alone. Apparently without warning, Cotton shot Tolan three times, leaving him alive but with permanent injuries.
Lower courts dismissed Tolan's Section 1983 suit, with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruling that Cotton deserved "qualified immunity" because his actions did not violate a "clearly established right."
But the Supreme Court said that in ruling that way, the Fifth Circuit improperly viewed the facts as favoring Cotton, the officer. "The court should have acknowledged and credited Tolan's evidence," the high court said, even though it recognized that "the witnesses on both sides come to this case with their own perceptions, recollections, and even potential biases."
Because of the Supreme Court's decision, a new trial in Tolan's case has been set for September. Florida civil rights lawyer Benjamin Crump asked the trial court in Houston in September to be recognized as Tolan's new lawyer. Crump also represents Michael Brown's family in Missouri, as well as the family of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old by shot and killed by a Cleveland police officer last month.
Cotton's lawyers opposed Crump's motion, claiming he would ignore agreements made during prior proceedings in the case. The trial court accepted Crump's representation. Crump did not respond to a request for comment.
Police who are accused of civil rights violations almost always seek summary dismissal of the claim, said Martin Siegel of the Law Offices of Martin J. Siegel in Houston, who brought the Tolan case to the Supreme Court. "But Tolanreminds lower courts that the summary-judgment rules don't change just because a citizen sues an officer for excessive force."
The 11-page decision marked the first time in 10 years the court had ruled against police claiming qualified immunity from suit in a Section 1983 case.
Justice Samuel Alito Jr., joined by Justice Antonin Scalia, wrote a concurrence criticizing the court for engaging in mere "error correction." But Alito said, "I agree that there are genuine issues of material fact and that this is a case in which summary judgment should not have been granted."
"The decision surprised us," said Eric Del Pozo, a lawyer at Jenner & Block who worked on the Legal Defense Fund's brief. "The court has protected the free speech and religious rights of corporations and requires a warrant before police can scan the call log of an arrestee's cellphone or attach a GPS device to someone's car," Del Pozo said. "Yet, for whatever reason, the court has been less solicitous of claims to civil rights infractions in money damages suits. InTolan, at least, the pendulum swung back a bit in the opposite ­direction."