Power, Corruption & Politics


Have the government's actuaries calculated the cost of suicide,
depression, slums, hopelessness, helplessness, joblessness, crime,etc
when 22 million people lose their homes because of bank criminal
behavior? The government has to keep bailing them out despite
assurances that they will correct criminal behavior. They won't
correct anything. They know they are too big to jail. Too big to fail.
The government has no choice but to give them more money when they
continue their criminal behavior as they will do. Sooner or later and
I am betting on sooner, the house of cards will fall and there will be
no more America.

2/11/13: Newsday:. I had great quotes about the politics of Suffolk
County being fixed and corrupt and this is all I get? I never liked
Newsday

Suffolk Republicans say they will endorse Democratic District Attorney
Thomas Spota for a second time along with Republican Treasurer Angie
Carpenter and Conservative Sheriff Vincent DeMarco, leaving all of
them to run unopposed.

The party leaders' decision comes after Spota, DeMarco and GOP County
Clerk Judith Pascale in September won a court decision throwing out
part of Suffolk's term limit law, which bars county elected officials
from serving more than 12 years. State Supreme Court Justice Ralph
Gazzillo said county lawmakers did not have the authority to impose
term limits on offices created in the state constitution.

"He's [Spota's] done a good job and we don't see why we should change
course," said John Jay LaValle, Suffolk GOP chairman. "But should term
limits be upheld, we are very confident we have some extremely
well-qualified candidates to succeed Tom Spota."

Richard Schaffer, Suffolk Democratic chairman, could not be reached
Tuesday but earlier said his party will back all three officials.

Edward Walsh, Suffolk Conservative leader, said the party will meet
soon to authorize Spota and Carpenter to run on their party's ballot
line and to renominate DeMarco.

Frank MacKay, state and Suffolk Independence Party chairman, said his
party backed all three candidates in December.

Spota, 71, who has yet to publicly announce for re-election, declined
to comment.

The fate of an appeal is uncertain because Gazzillo also rejected an
attempt by Peter Nichols of Huntington to intervene in the case.

His attorney Bruce Plesser of Gulfport, Fla., filed appeal papers. He
said the Appellate Division initially rejected the petition without
prejudice because the Suffolk County Legislature had not decided
whether to appeal. The legislature last week rejected a motion to
appeal Gazzillo's ruling, and Plesser said he will refile court
papers.
Attribution: Newsday

1. Here is the paradigm for public education in most of America.  Cut funding, cut teacher salaries, break the unions, teach to state tests, eliminate critical thinking, and make sure the schools are liked war zones with cops everywhere. Make sure you call the police "resource officers" and what you get are scared scarred stupid kids. Sounds like a plan to me!

2. I was a prosecutor for years many years ago. far from a cop hater. For the most part, they are OK at best in most jurisdictions and great in others. I have noticed that in Florida in my observation of police work, they couldn't find Pontious Pilate to question after the execution of Jesus.

3. The Florida Everglades is one of the most environmentally delicate areas in the United States. Apparently, there are boa constrictors there that are not indigenous to to the Everglades. The Florida DEC thinks it is a good idea for any Yahoo with $25.00 to hunt these animals. they expect upwards of 800 hunters to trample through the Everglades shooting at snakes and probably anything else that moves like deer, alligators or other wild life. Who in power thinks of this?

4. There is a case in Suffolk County, Long Island that I am presently involved in. The Sheriff, Clerk, and district Attorney went to a Suffolk County judge and asked that the term limit law that has been in existence since 1993 be ruled unconstitutional, despite several Court of Appeals cases that put their legal argument
ridiculous. All the plaintiffs are from different parties. All the plaintiffs are cross endorsed as is the judge. Wanna guess what the ruling was? The judge ruled in favor of the plaintiffs and the County Attorney refused to appeal the decision, as did the county legislature. It is the biggest political fix in the history of that
county on Long Island. Multiply that one case by a factor of a million and you get the picture that we have no democracy in this country, just the appearance of it. Root for the politician of your choice but since the beginning of civilization it has all been about the power against the powerless or put another way the owners against the owned. Where do you fall in those categories?

5. Love this story out of Florida. Seems there was a high profile
case in the Tampa Bay area involving as many as five lawyers on each
side. The plaintiffs won the case or a significant part of it. The
defense lawyers followed the plaintiff lawyers and saw they went to a
bar. The defense lawyers sent their paralegal in there to make sure
she flirted and got the liquor flowing. When the plaintiff lawyers
left the bar and got in their cars, the cops were there to arrest
them for DUI, thanks to the plaintiff lawyers' calling the police. The
paralegal also stole the file from the drunk lawyers. Florida is a
cesspool. I have known a lot of lawyers, some of whom were
despicable. This story tops them all. Florida is a cesspool.



6. Those opposed to gun control use the same arguments. Two of them
center around guns don't kill people, people kill people, or spoons
don't cause fat people, people cause fat people. Another great
argument is blaming  spears in Roman times and not the Romans who used
them. It is all the same crap. My favorite argument is the freedom
issue. To take our guns is to take our liberty and freedom. Are they
fucking kidding me? that genie has been out of the bottle for years.
We have no privacy and we have no liberty. We have as much liberty as
the government says we have. How much freedom and liberty did the
loyal Japanese Americans have in the 1940's when they were sent to our
version of concentration camps. The argument  is a joke.

7. The second amendment was drafted at a time when there were no state
militias, no national army to speak of, and we just broke away from
the tyranny of England. Guns were needed to defend yourself then. Now
we have cops and armies. Times change. people don't. They are as dumb
and bigoted as ever. The corollary unspoken reason for guns is to
defend ourselves against blacks, Hispanics, and anyone different from
us.


8. I have asked this question many times to  many of my middle class
friends or acquiescence. "How many of you or people close to you have
been the victims of rape, murder, gun assault or any violent crime?"
The answer is always the same. Few , if any know of anyone who has
been murdered or violently raped and yet we live in gated communities
designed to protect us. The media feeds this fear with a
disproportionate number of stories involving violence. It is all a
fiction.

9 "Society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it
takes him. The highest  duty of the writer, the composer, the artist,
is to remain true to himself." John F. Kennedy

10. What liberals don't seem to get is that it is not the messenger who is
their problem. It is the followers of that message. Get rid of Rush or
Fox News and you still have their audience. The country is polarized
by hate and fear as it has been since the beginning. How do you change
the minds of people? It is not by cutting off the head of their
spokespeople. If anything, the spokespeople are usually so ridiculous,
it is better to just let them talk with the hope that their audience
will see that their interests are not being served by hate and fear.
Hate and fear cultivated by the government, media, and religion. There
is little "united" in the United States.

11. Polk County, Florida cops were disciplined or fired for sexting. It is
on the news at least every thirty minutes. Is this really new?. Are
you shitting m?. With all the awful law enforcement and  corruption,
this is the NEWS? We are so stupid. They feed us these stories to
cover up their real ineptitude. This is done on purpose.

12.I never understood why elitism is pejorative. I want my leaders to be elite, better than I am. Elite people are to be admired and models to aspire to be like but simple minds are, well, simple.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/opinion/sunday/dowd-pompom-girl-for-feminism.html?ref=opinion

13. Banks are not your friends. There are no "friendly banks". Their job is to make money at your expense and they will find any way to get around any regulation designed to help their customers who they treat with disdain.

Major Banks Aid in Payday Loans Banned by States
www.nytimes.com
Major banks have become behind-the-scenes allies of Internet-based payday lenders that offer loans with interest rates that can exceed 500 percent.

14. My Suffolk County, New York big political case that is in the Appellate Division Second Department now.  Here is a letter to the editor from my client in Newsday February 28, 2013. I'm the media hound. I told him to write it. I love this case. I'm on the right side of political corruption. I'm losing so far but the case is in a neutral forum now.

"So, after a couple of years of collecting a government paycheck, the Suffolk County district attorney, sheriff and county clerk decide that the people they serve no longer have the right to restrict them to three terms in office ["Unlike Nassau, voters get no choice in Suffolk," News Column, Feb. 17].

They claim that they are actually state officials, in that their offices were created in the state constitution, and a state judge agreed. (added) The fact that they serve a county function, receive county salaries and are elected by county residents is just a coincidence.

And the Suffolk legislature mysteriously refuses to appeal the judge's decision that overturned a 1993 referendum, laughably citing budget constraints.

During all this, Albany and the Cuomo administration are nowhere to be found. The U.S. Justice Department refuses to intervene.

Then, on cue, both major parties cross-endorse the Gang of Three -- Democratic District Attorney Thomas Spota, Republican Treasurer Angie Carpenter and Conservative Sheriff Vincent DeMarco -- thereby making the election process a farce.

It seems we are no longer being governed; we are being ruled.

And Suffolk County has become the banana republic we have always shrived to be. (left out)



Peter Nichols, Melville

Editor's note: The writer attempted, unsuccessfully, to intervene in the lawsuit and is forcing an appeal."
15.  I consider myself a progressive but cynical guy. I watch documentaries and see that the racism, sexism,  homophobia, anti antisemitism, and small minds that existed in the past still exist. There is nothing that society can do to change the hearts and minds of people. I guess that makes me a liberal in the eyes of most people. One of my pet peeves is liberals failure to take on an issue with some integrity rather than avoid the other side's arguments and. Liberals failure to be intellectually  lack of honesty is troublesome. An example of this is the liberals' response to Republicans' opposition to health care reform. What is their main point of Republicans. It is that under Obama care, medical dcisons are being made by people  who are not the patients' doctors and that under Obama care, decisions will be made that will cause the death of by bureaucrats who are dooming granny to death. Democrats are being called granny killers. The truth is that argument has merit. We live in a society with limited resources. Decisions have to be made based upon that. The liberals failure to acknowledge that fact and give a counter argument is troubling. Here is the issue. We spend enormous sums of money on the last six months of an old person's life. That person will die soon., whether insurance companies spend millions of dollars per old person to keep him/her alive. Granny will die if money is not spent to prolong that person's life. Why are we not told that and why are we not told that the millions of dollars spent on the last months of an old person's life can be used for a child with leukemia? Other countries make those choices and their citizens can make a choice based on those facts. Our liberals have no balls.
16. I will give you the facts. You make the decision on whether the system is corrupt or not.
The sheriff, district attorney, and clerk asked a Suffolk County, LI judge to declare that term limits were unconstitutional as applied to the. The County Attorney was the purported defendant. I represented an intervenor, who favored the term limit law passed twenty years overwhelmngly. The county, knowing there was a conflict hired outside counsel who parroted my position, the position of the voters and my client. The judge is a member of the same cross endorsed political system and voted for the plaintiffs, all from different political parties.
The county refused to appeal, citing budgetary restraints. I offered to to handle their appeal pro bono. The county decided not to appeal. There are letters attached to my Order to Show Cause by the County Executive and the legislature ordering their lawyer not to appeal.
In the mean time, there is a scheduled vote to repeal the term limit law as it applies to anyone by the legislature.
The Case is Spota v Suffolk County. While Thais litigation was pending, Spota, a Republican turned Democrat was cross endorsed by the Democrats. In essence there is no election in November and there will be no elections for anyone ever because of the cross endorsements and legislative action to over turn their law of twenty years ago.
I asked the Appellate division Second Department to proceed which I cannot do if the county does not withdraw their appeal. They will not. the Appeals Court denies my motion, ostensibly and even though of the aforementioned letters to my motion because th County still has time to change their mind. Fixed or not fixed? Suffolk County is run by bosses. How many others across this great country are run the same way? What do you think?
17. Lawyer presses term limits case in Suffolk
Monday March 25, 2013 6:59 PM By Rick Brand
While the state Appellate Division has ruled against him twice, attorney Bruce Plesser has not given up on getting client Peter Nichols a chance to appeal a State Supreme Court decision that threw out term limits for Suffolk District Attorney Thomas Spota and two other countywide officials.
Plesser has sent a letter to the Suffolk County attorney’s office asking that the county as a “matter of professional courtesy” drop its notice of appeal, which does not expire until early May. Plesser said the appellate division has denied his bid to expedite while the county notice is pending. Both the county Legislature and County Executive Steve Bellone have come out against appealing the case.
“Everyone should have an opportunity to be heard,” Plesser said in his letter, warning that a delay has the “possibility of throwing everything in the electoral process into chaos."

18. Help me with this. Many of you know my political leanings and willingness to criticize that which I want to criticize. The Republicans are against death squads who will kill granny. The liberals make obtuse arguments that, even if sensible, make no connection to anyone. How about the truth!

There are limited resources in health insurance money as there is for anything. Choices have to be made. In the health insurance field, millions and millions of dollars can be spent on the last months or even years of granny's life or that money can be used for children. We can't have it both ways. Why can't the Democrats tell us the truth. Other countries have made the choice. What are the Democrats afraid of, except losing some votes to people who are predisposed to the republican rhetoric anyway?






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Gulfport Police
By: Bruceplesser

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I read the Gabber often and peruse the police blotter sometimes. Does the Gulfport Police Department have a white collar crime section? If so, are there trained detectives in it? All I see on the crime blotter are dui arrests, minor disturbances, and minor offenses. There are con men everywhere. It would be criminal if the Gulfport Police Department did not have the tools to investigate crimes of fraud or other white collar crimes against us, especially the elderly, the most targeted victims.

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By: RobFowler on 3/30/13
I chuckled when I first read this. Not because it was funny, because it is definately not funny, but because it poked fun at my reality. Like most Gulfportians, we think about the poor on poor crime which is most obvious, and common. Yet crimes against the elderly are also not umcommon in the weekly crime reports. Still, "White Collar" crime had not been on the forefront of my mind. I think of the Pasadena Yacht Club at the thought of White Collar crime. And they probably would not bother calling the Gulfport PD when they get ripped off. They will call their connections and friends in power, I'd believe.

But after a moment, I thought about an 80 something year old client I have in Gulfport who was straight ripped off for $1,500.00 last year by an internet email scam. I helped dig up and report some very powerful evidence and we first went to the Gulfport PD who ended up suggesting we go to the next level. So we did, the District Attoney's Office who suggested we go to the State level. So we did. The suggestion from the Govenor's Office in Tallahassee was to go to the State Attorney in Nebraska. We did that. Eventually we had the attention of the Governor's Office in Nebraska who told us to go to the Gulfport PD.

We learned that a meager $1,500.00 ripoff case to an elderly small town man by a multi-million dollar company from a major city in another state is of no interest to anybody in the justice system, regardless of the evidence.

Somehow though, an attorney in Washington State caught wind of our evidence and was chomping at the bits to take the case on (seeing a class-action suit for a huge amount). But as hard as he tried to enlist a Florida Attorney, nobody took an interest.

So yes, perhaps if Gulfport had a "White Collar" crime unit, this nice old Gulfport resident may have recovered some or all of his money. I'm sure this happens more than we know and 15 hundred bucks is not important to anybody but the elderly and those of us who think it is a lot of money.

I'll touch base with you privately as I know an Attorney in Washington that might want to talk with you...


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