Blade Reed was only 13, when his older brother led him to commit unthinkable crimes. Blade did not really fire the round that killed that old man, but the law fell the old fallacy of "guilt by association". The older boy, who was 16 with a extensive record of delinquency, was dealt with under the prescriptions of the law. However the other boy had the whole law library thrown at him, though at his age he was acting like an eight-year-old, five years below the average IQ of 100. In the color-blind system, it did not even matter. The family wanted this to happen to these children. To all of them, the kids were both beyond help.
With his mentality, it was all the better he was to locked up almost forever. Being mentally-challenged at 13 in an adult penal institution like the Wasbash Correctional Institute is much like putting a big target on yourself. You are still a little past puberty. For sex-starved inmates, the smooth skin of many juveniles and their naivety, not to mention their gullibility could be a lethal mix. Instant rape bait! This is why we should never ever put children of any age in this type of facility. Too many people with not a lot to lose would love to get their meat hooks on a boyish-looking prisoner. They are not going anywhere and neither are the potential victims. No wonder many young people in these prisons eventually go mad.
There was an old article of drawings in Mad Magazine called, "A Mad Look at Prisons" in old issue. My favorite drawings exemplify my plight of the term, "stir crazy". The crook is sitting in his cell next to his roommate, passionately thinking at the girl who loves him. As time goes by the vision get faded and slowly disappears. Then in its place the vision is replaced with a vision of the face of his roommate. Suddenly he realizes he is not that way. He is going insane in the last panel now. His cellmate is sitting there with what I think is a big smile on his face. The moral of the story if this is a big problem for adult prisoners with long jail time, then it has to be even harder for a kid like Blade Reed.
Over the course of his incarceration, he story has read like a Steven King tale rewritten by John Grisham. He has been raped, beaten, thrown into the hole (solitary confinement's prisoner slang) and had numerous human-rights violations made against him over the time in there since December 2009. That was when he was fourteen and the time was around Christmas Eve. Some present to be literally rape bait and a boxing dummy for a bunch of sex-depraved, nightstick-happy prisoners and guards.
http://justice4juveniles.com/index.php?topic=570.0
Just look at the entries in Dan "not the movie star" Dailey's Blog. They are not fairy tales. They sound to me like somebody's idea of fun and games on an innocent boy. No one has to be Blade. Envision it as your son or daughter. If we do not get this kid out of this house of horrors, Blade will share with the late Evel Knievel of having every bone in his body broken, though it will not be with a motorcycle and gravity. For Blade, it would be the ruthlessness of the population at that prison.
He is now sixteen years old. His mentality is still quite young eight to tens years old. His body may be that of a kid in his late teens, but his mentality is that of a child. We should not allow that to an eight to ten years old. So why should we allow that to a mentally-challenged kid of sixteen? You have to decide for yourself.
Sunday, February 26, 2012
Monday, February 20, 2012
None Dare Call It Conspiracy, But I Do
Say that I was a prosecutor and a cold-blooded murder occurred. Once I learn about it from this cop I know on the force that it was that young informant that did the crime, it should be open and shut. Problem is that certain cop learned of the crime from the informant himself. Now that is a major thing. But to arrest that man for that crime would mean worse things for me.
You see I was up for reelection that Spring and my opponent has accused me of illegally using my discretionary fund contrary to the law I had sworn to uphold and defend. This informant has received some secret payment to supply me and the law the names and evidence of people involved in narcotics and other drugs in exchange for immunity from the law as it pertains to him. Now that he has murdered someone, arresting him would expose my criminal dealings with this crook, who threatens to sing my sins out to the world. That would give me a pink slip and a trip to jail. It would ruin my career to the point of disbarrment.
What do I do? Frame an innocent person is the only way out of this debacle. I can get his handler to mislead the investigation. I would get her to bully witnesses that say that the innocent did the crime. Since it is her word agaist his, he would be arrested and I get away with conspiracy to commit murder. The press will warp the crime as yet another boy gone bad. I would prosecutor this kid using circumstantial evidence. He is sentenced to life without parole. I would be long gone when the truth comes out. Piece of cake anyone?
It would be so perfect to be a prosecutor to frame an innocent boy on two counts of capital murder as an adult. No worry someone would expose your creepy dealings with the person who really committed the crime. No worry the Attorney General would see through your charade built on a house of cards glued together with spackling and Elmer's glue.
For you see exposing the crime implicates him too, for he said it was alright to do everything to protect the asset, that is the informant, no matter what crimes he does while free. We want those prosecutions of all those scufflaws. It is all that we live for, not if the truth gets trampled on the way over where we want to be. No one dares call it a conspiracy. It is like your people are living a Land of Make-Believe, where what we say is done and what is gone gets snuffed out of that world we made.
But in the real world, when politicians arrange to accuse someone else of a crime to protect an informant who commits that same crime, it is called conspiracy. It is a felony. It carries the same sentence as the crime it covers up: usually life without parole or maybe the Death Penalty. Politicans are not above the law. They can confuse and violate the defendant's civil rights all they want, but it will not mean a hill of beans once the truth does come out. There is no statute of limitations for it much like murder. So this would haunt them forever.
Maybe it is good to confess your sins when confronted finally. The court may be merciful. Maybe they would spare your royal neck, but it will come a steep price. No longer would your family see you as Mr. Right. Your opponents would leap for joy, for they told the people so about you. Your friends would say you let them down. You are just another human being. You would be right there in the state prison with the people you previously put away. (They are just dying to see you suffer the same way you made them suffer.)
And they will all know it was a conspiracy.
You see I was up for reelection that Spring and my opponent has accused me of illegally using my discretionary fund contrary to the law I had sworn to uphold and defend. This informant has received some secret payment to supply me and the law the names and evidence of people involved in narcotics and other drugs in exchange for immunity from the law as it pertains to him. Now that he has murdered someone, arresting him would expose my criminal dealings with this crook, who threatens to sing my sins out to the world. That would give me a pink slip and a trip to jail. It would ruin my career to the point of disbarrment.
What do I do? Frame an innocent person is the only way out of this debacle. I can get his handler to mislead the investigation. I would get her to bully witnesses that say that the innocent did the crime. Since it is her word agaist his, he would be arrested and I get away with conspiracy to commit murder. The press will warp the crime as yet another boy gone bad. I would prosecutor this kid using circumstantial evidence. He is sentenced to life without parole. I would be long gone when the truth comes out. Piece of cake anyone?
It would be so perfect to be a prosecutor to frame an innocent boy on two counts of capital murder as an adult. No worry someone would expose your creepy dealings with the person who really committed the crime. No worry the Attorney General would see through your charade built on a house of cards glued together with spackling and Elmer's glue.
For you see exposing the crime implicates him too, for he said it was alright to do everything to protect the asset, that is the informant, no matter what crimes he does while free. We want those prosecutions of all those scufflaws. It is all that we live for, not if the truth gets trampled on the way over where we want to be. No one dares call it a conspiracy. It is like your people are living a Land of Make-Believe, where what we say is done and what is gone gets snuffed out of that world we made.
But in the real world, when politicians arrange to accuse someone else of a crime to protect an informant who commits that same crime, it is called conspiracy. It is a felony. It carries the same sentence as the crime it covers up: usually life without parole or maybe the Death Penalty. Politicans are not above the law. They can confuse and violate the defendant's civil rights all they want, but it will not mean a hill of beans once the truth does come out. There is no statute of limitations for it much like murder. So this would haunt them forever.
Maybe it is good to confess your sins when confronted finally. The court may be merciful. Maybe they would spare your royal neck, but it will come a steep price. No longer would your family see you as Mr. Right. Your opponents would leap for joy, for they told the people so about you. Your friends would say you let them down. You are just another human being. You would be right there in the state prison with the people you previously put away. (They are just dying to see you suffer the same way you made them suffer.)
And they will all know it was a conspiracy.
Pennsylvania: Even their State Capital was Built on Corruption
Today is the third annivesary of the death of Kenzie Houk and her unborn son. It is a case-study in corruption in a system that was supposed to arrest the person who actually did the crime. They did not even do that.
The original prosecutor in the case was fighting for re-election in 2009. He knew to arrest the right person would ruin his career. Johnny Bongiveno was using this killer to bust others like him, who was dealing narcotics to other people. How would he know? Maybe the doer's handler informed him this was exactly he was going to do that. So Johnny set in motion the lies, deceit, the long years in juvenile detention with no bail. Even Cameron Kocher had it this hard. (Though the person behind his unjust prosecution later got in trouble himself.)
Now the press wants full access to the closed juvenile case on the grounds of the years this festered in the adult system. Then they can justify their persecution of the boy all this time.
I am now in favor of only a partial victory. No should should not be allowed in the courtroom, but should get a summery of what went down and then the final opinion. They should be like a classroom seeing a guidence film back in the day. They would have no power to interfere in the case. They will however see the crusifixtion of their action heros without being able to stop it. They bought the boy's guilt, now they should see this boy found innocent and going free from his chains. Then their shame would be complete. That is what they get for not pursuing the politicians with fire and sword over their gross abuse of power.
Obstruction of Justice is a crime even prosecutors and governors face in these types of cases.
Scandal is the bedrock of this state.
Just look at their state capital building in Harrisburg. A devistating fire reduced the old building to a shell in 1897. A decade later in 1907, there was a huge rukus over its replacement. The cost overruns in tems of funishings and frills on the original estimate to replace the ediface, which was completed the previous year, brought with it people with sticky fingers. Edwin Sydney Stuart, the newly elected Govenor had to face the business end of this scandal, which resulted in six arrests: chief interior furnishing contractor John H. Sanderson, chief architect Joseph M. Huston, former State Treasurer William L. Mathues, Superintendent of Public Grounds and Buildings James Shumaker, Auditor General William P. Snyder, and Pennsylvania Construction Company official and ex-Congressman H. Burd Cassel. Fifty hearings, two hundred witnesses, four thousand pages of litigation and numerous court sessions later saw these six men convicted in the conspiracy. (Mathues died shortly before he was sentenced.)
Over the 105 years since that scandal things have not gotten better in Harrisburg.
The original prosecutor in the case was fighting for re-election in 2009. He knew to arrest the right person would ruin his career. Johnny Bongiveno was using this killer to bust others like him, who was dealing narcotics to other people. How would he know? Maybe the doer's handler informed him this was exactly he was going to do that. So Johnny set in motion the lies, deceit, the long years in juvenile detention with no bail. Even Cameron Kocher had it this hard. (Though the person behind his unjust prosecution later got in trouble himself.)
Now the press wants full access to the closed juvenile case on the grounds of the years this festered in the adult system. Then they can justify their persecution of the boy all this time.
I am now in favor of only a partial victory. No should should not be allowed in the courtroom, but should get a summery of what went down and then the final opinion. They should be like a classroom seeing a guidence film back in the day. They would have no power to interfere in the case. They will however see the crusifixtion of their action heros without being able to stop it. They bought the boy's guilt, now they should see this boy found innocent and going free from his chains. Then their shame would be complete. That is what they get for not pursuing the politicians with fire and sword over their gross abuse of power.
Obstruction of Justice is a crime even prosecutors and governors face in these types of cases.
Scandal is the bedrock of this state.
Just look at their state capital building in Harrisburg. A devistating fire reduced the old building to a shell in 1897. A decade later in 1907, there was a huge rukus over its replacement. The cost overruns in tems of funishings and frills on the original estimate to replace the ediface, which was completed the previous year, brought with it people with sticky fingers. Edwin Sydney Stuart, the newly elected Govenor had to face the business end of this scandal, which resulted in six arrests: chief interior furnishing contractor John H. Sanderson, chief architect Joseph M. Huston, former State Treasurer William L. Mathues, Superintendent of Public Grounds and Buildings James Shumaker, Auditor General William P. Snyder, and Pennsylvania Construction Company official and ex-Congressman H. Burd Cassel. Fifty hearings, two hundred witnesses, four thousand pages of litigation and numerous court sessions later saw these six men convicted in the conspiracy. (Mathues died shortly before he was sentenced.)
Over the 105 years since that scandal things have not gotten better in Harrisburg.
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Pennsylvania's Courts Acting Like Slugs
The date is set for March 28 for the media to get to bellyache why they need to attend the juvenile trial of Jordan Brown, falsely accused of killing his dad's girlfriend/fiance and their unborn son. The press never had an even keel from day one of this case on Feb. 20, 2009. In fact, I think they never even considered the other side of this case. The "reasonable doubt" that should be part of every court case flew out the door to the tune of Nancy Grace's theme song.
No case is Open and Shut as we think it is all the time. There is no such thing as serious scutiny of the prosecution alongside with the defense. Both have demons that need to be fairly concidered before passing judgement. Though the press seem uncomfortable to even listen to the other side. Better to delete the comment section than get screwed by their reader backlash.
The press indeed should had just left it alone. They should have pressed for just a notifiction after it is over of guilt or innocence, along with the complete opinion for them to scrutinize. They should made to wait, but a private trial and a public ruling would satify their and our curiosity.
Decicions though do not sell newspapers or make TV or radio or internet stories more interesting. They want drama that only observing this type of case would generate. Nothing else mattered until they got their way. Hense, this suit by three newspapers. When the date of March 28, 2012 comes, it would be a delay of over six months since the so-called case could have ended with the expected wailing of sorrow from the Houks as they observe this poor boy's persecution end with the complete dismissal of the charges, never to be refiled due to the many violations the State did to bring the case this far.
The Superior Court can indeed find for the papers. The trial should go public in order to expose the dark forces behind Brown's persecution and unfair imprisonment. I do not side with the juvenile's lawyers or the judge to close the case anymore to the public. The public should see this farce of a case as it is. They should all see Jordan found innocent. Only then will those nasty politicians who did this outrage to American Justice face a future where they will join Jerry Sandusky in prison.(I wonder if Tommy should beg not to paired up with Jerry.)
No case is Open and Shut as we think it is all the time. There is no such thing as serious scutiny of the prosecution alongside with the defense. Both have demons that need to be fairly concidered before passing judgement. Though the press seem uncomfortable to even listen to the other side. Better to delete the comment section than get screwed by their reader backlash.
The press indeed should had just left it alone. They should have pressed for just a notifiction after it is over of guilt or innocence, along with the complete opinion for them to scrutinize. They should made to wait, but a private trial and a public ruling would satify their and our curiosity.
Decicions though do not sell newspapers or make TV or radio or internet stories more interesting. They want drama that only observing this type of case would generate. Nothing else mattered until they got their way. Hense, this suit by three newspapers. When the date of March 28, 2012 comes, it would be a delay of over six months since the so-called case could have ended with the expected wailing of sorrow from the Houks as they observe this poor boy's persecution end with the complete dismissal of the charges, never to be refiled due to the many violations the State did to bring the case this far.
The Superior Court can indeed find for the papers. The trial should go public in order to expose the dark forces behind Brown's persecution and unfair imprisonment. I do not side with the juvenile's lawyers or the judge to close the case anymore to the public. The public should see this farce of a case as it is. They should all see Jordan found innocent. Only then will those nasty politicians who did this outrage to American Justice face a future where they will join Jerry Sandusky in prison.(I wonder if Tommy should beg not to paired up with Jerry.)
Off Night Tonight
Blasted TV busted tonight, but if you are reading this and you are a big fan of Survivor don't forget 8:00 p.m. eastern or pacific on CBS. This time, the island in the Samoas is the backdrop. But the contests begins with the guys vs. the gals. It really is the battle of the genders. Oh my! Check your local listings for alternate listings on other networks. Good night and good luck.
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Top 12 TV Tonight (2/14)
All Times Eastern
1. Glee [8:00 pm, Fox]: Sometimes I say Gleepers are thhe scum of the earth, becuase they are not real teenagers, just hairy men and women who obviously shave themselves down and act 15 years old. Tonight they ditched the Love and went to a show honoring Whitney Houston, how did they not change the descrpition on the on-screen guides? Or is it next week?
2. American Experience [9:00 pm, PBS]: Tupperware and why that food never rots normally.
3. The Biggest Loser [8:00 pm, NBC]: More weight and no love makes for a good evening.
4. Florida at Alabama [7:00 pm, ESPN]: College showdown down south.
5. Miami at Indiana [7:00 pm, NBATV, regional networks]: The NBA game tonight...
6. Zamora FC at Boca Juniors [7:00 pm, Fox Deportivo]: Copa in Spanish!
7. Valkyrie: The Plot to Kill Hitler [8:00 pm, MHC]: Somehow they came close to wacking Adolf, but best laid plans and paranoia make strange bedfellows.
8. Top Hat (1935) [8:00 pm, TCM]: Fred and Ginger!
9. Aliens Love Sigourney Weaver Night [8:00 pm, IFC]: The original movie that started it all, along with the second sequel that made us even more squemish.
10. Valentine Double Feature [7:00 pm, HBO]: At seven, Ginnifer Goodwin and Kate Hudson co-star in "Something Borrowed" (2011). At nine, HBO debuts the original documentry, "The Loving Story", about the infamous late 1960's case that legalized interratial marriage in the USA, Loving vs. Virginia. It was indeed a world without love.
11. The Birds (1963) [8:00 pm, Retro]: Please get these birds out of the schoolyard and off of Tippi Hedren. See kids what happens when you feed the pigeons in the park.
12. The Babe (1992) [7:00 pm Encore Family]: Everyone loves George Herman Ruth. I'd boo Roseanne Arnold too.
Honorable Mention: Reflections of Whitney [8:00 pm, TV1]
Late Night Roulette
ABC
Kevin Nealon is on "Jimmy Kimmel Live". Music: Robin Thicke
NBC
Leno: Tyler Perry and old lady Dorothy Custer with the music performed by The Cranberries.
Jimmy Fallon: Donald "The Donald" Trump and Idris Elba with music by Jake Owen.
Carson Daly: Michael Hastings, Leslye Headland and Bear Hands on the music.
CBS
Letterman: Viola Davis; music: Mark Ronson, Eryka Badu, the Dap Kings and Zigaboo Modeliste. Swimsuits are cool!
Craig Ferguson: Betty White; music: Joss Stone with Dave Stewart
PBS
Charlie Rose: ?
Other Late Shows
Conan Tonite [11:00 pm, TBS]:Reese Witherspoon, RZA and Intergalactic Nemesis
Wendy Williams [Midnight, BET]: Jerry O'Connell and Rebecca Romijn (glad to see Jerry has settled down).
Daily Show [11:00 pm, Comedy Central]: Ricky Gervais
The Colbert Report [11:30 pm, Comedy Central]: William J. Broad. Yoga?
Extra [Syndication]: Oh Whitney!
Access Hollywood [Syndication]: The First Lady Interview, Part Three and Valentine's Day in the Entertainment World. Also more Whitney Houston news.
Steve Wilkos [Syndication]: I caught you Cheating and more proof that love sometimes ends with blows.
Happy viewing tonight.
1. Glee [8:00 pm, Fox]: Sometimes I say Gleepers are thhe scum of the earth, becuase they are not real teenagers, just hairy men and women who obviously shave themselves down and act 15 years old. Tonight they ditched the Love and went to a show honoring Whitney Houston, how did they not change the descrpition on the on-screen guides? Or is it next week?
2. American Experience [9:00 pm, PBS]: Tupperware and why that food never rots normally.
3. The Biggest Loser [8:00 pm, NBC]: More weight and no love makes for a good evening.
4. Florida at Alabama [7:00 pm, ESPN]: College showdown down south.
5. Miami at Indiana [7:00 pm, NBATV, regional networks]: The NBA game tonight...
6. Zamora FC at Boca Juniors [7:00 pm, Fox Deportivo]: Copa in Spanish!
7. Valkyrie: The Plot to Kill Hitler [8:00 pm, MHC]: Somehow they came close to wacking Adolf, but best laid plans and paranoia make strange bedfellows.
8. Top Hat (1935) [8:00 pm, TCM]: Fred and Ginger!
9. Aliens Love Sigourney Weaver Night [8:00 pm, IFC]: The original movie that started it all, along with the second sequel that made us even more squemish.
10. Valentine Double Feature [7:00 pm, HBO]: At seven, Ginnifer Goodwin and Kate Hudson co-star in "Something Borrowed" (2011). At nine, HBO debuts the original documentry, "The Loving Story", about the infamous late 1960's case that legalized interratial marriage in the USA, Loving vs. Virginia. It was indeed a world without love.
11. The Birds (1963) [8:00 pm, Retro]: Please get these birds out of the schoolyard and off of Tippi Hedren. See kids what happens when you feed the pigeons in the park.
12. The Babe (1992) [7:00 pm Encore Family]: Everyone loves George Herman Ruth. I'd boo Roseanne Arnold too.
Honorable Mention: Reflections of Whitney [8:00 pm, TV1]
Late Night Roulette
ABC
Kevin Nealon is on "Jimmy Kimmel Live". Music: Robin Thicke
NBC
Leno: Tyler Perry and old lady Dorothy Custer with the music performed by The Cranberries.
Jimmy Fallon: Donald "The Donald" Trump and Idris Elba with music by Jake Owen.
Carson Daly: Michael Hastings, Leslye Headland and Bear Hands on the music.
CBS
Letterman: Viola Davis; music: Mark Ronson, Eryka Badu, the Dap Kings and Zigaboo Modeliste. Swimsuits are cool!
Craig Ferguson: Betty White; music: Joss Stone with Dave Stewart
PBS
Charlie Rose: ?
Other Late Shows
Conan Tonite [11:00 pm, TBS]:Reese Witherspoon, RZA and Intergalactic Nemesis
Wendy Williams [Midnight, BET]: Jerry O'Connell and Rebecca Romijn (glad to see Jerry has settled down).
Daily Show [11:00 pm, Comedy Central]: Ricky Gervais
The Colbert Report [11:30 pm, Comedy Central]: William J. Broad. Yoga?
Extra [Syndication]: Oh Whitney!
Access Hollywood [Syndication]: The First Lady Interview, Part Three and Valentine's Day in the Entertainment World. Also more Whitney Houston news.
Steve Wilkos [Syndication]: I caught you Cheating and more proof that love sometimes ends with blows.
Happy viewing tonight.
Monday, February 13, 2012
TV Tonight (2/13) (All times Eastern)
PBS (chack local listings)
8:00 p.m Antiques Roadshow: The appraisers are looking at collectables in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Included are letters from actor Monty Wolley and songwriter Cole Porter and a pretty bunch of other stuff people would otherwise discard as junk.
9:00 p,m. Himalaya with Michael Palin: The former Python alum meets the Bhutan Royal Family, who give them a sample of Butanese culture.
10:00 p.m. Slavery By another Name: You though the slaves were set free by Abe Lincoln in 1863 during the American Civil War. Guess again when one hears other tales of human entrapment of their neighbors with such things as sharcropping and chain gangs. Oh, what about slavery in other lands other than the USA? This documentry is narrated by actor Laurence Fishburne.
Midnight: Charlie Rose: A talk with NYC police commissioner Raymond Kelly is scheduled.
ABC
8:00 p.m. The Batchelor 16: Six ladies... only one goes to walk down the isle with Mr. Rich Dude, the others go home to watch the wedding and cry...
10:00 p.m. Castle: What is that body I see yonder?
12:02 a.m Jimmy Kimmel: David Alan Grier... music by Lana Del Rey
CBS
8:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m. Sitcoms
10:00 p,m. Hawaii Five-O: "When the Governor gets here, call me."
11:35 p.m. Letterman: Reese Witherspoon and the music guses is Kasabian
12:37 p.m. Craig Ferguson: Carol Burnett, who else?
NBC
8:00 pm. The Voice: Part Three of the Tryouts... who is that voice or name that contestant.
10:00 p.m. Smash: Smoosh says the Callback.
11:35 p.m. Jay Leno: J Lo aka Jennifer Lopez, Music act is The Civil Wars...
12:37 a.m. Jimmy Fallon: Nicolas Cage; Chef John Besh
1:36 a.m. Carson Daly: Christina Milian, K. Flay,,, Music by the Speakers...
Fox
8:00 p.m. House: Nun in the Hospital
9:00 p.m. Alcatraz: Landmines Get in the Way or was That Your Foot?
The Other Cable/Sat Highpoints
Iowa State at Baylor [7:00 pm, ESPNU]: Bears are coming off a loss to Kansas.
Kansas at Kansas State [9:00 pm, ESPN]: The battle of the state is up tonight in Manhattan, Ks.
San Jose at Washington [7:30 pm, NBC Sports]: The big game tonight in the NHL...
The 136th Westminster Dog Show [8:00 pm, USA]: Bow wow... Man's best friend...
WWE Monday Night Raw [9:00 pm, USA]: The soap opera, except with body slams and high drama.
Minnasota at Orlando [7:00 pm, NBA Network]: The big game tonight...
Conan Tonight [11:00 pm TBS]: Ice T and Coco; Adam Pally.... music: Wale and Miguel...
Daily Show and Colbert Report [11:00 pm Comedy Central]: Fawzia Koofi on with Jon Stewart... Bill McKibben in Colbert... cough...
BET Honors 2012 [9:00 pm, BET]: More Whitney Moments?
Wendy Williams [Midnight, BET]: Busy Phillips is the guest star.
Oprah's Next Chapter [10:00 pm, OWN]: O in Brooklyn!
Z (1969) [8:00 pm TCM]: Topical with all the rioting in Greece these days... Yves Montand and Irene Papas co-star in this political who-done-it.
Idiocracy (2006) [8:00 pm, IFC]: Luke Wilson and Dax Shepard get stupid.
Pulp Fiction (1994) [8:00 pm HBO Zone]: John Travolta and Uma Thurman do the tango.
The Green Mile (1999) [8:00 pm TMC]: Tom Hanks and more about that thing called innocence. Oh Yeah!
The Preacher's Wife (1996) [8:00 pm Flix]: The late Whitney Houston channels her mom, Cissy Houston for her role as a song belting wife of preacher Denzel Washington.
8:00 p.m Antiques Roadshow: The appraisers are looking at collectables in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Included are letters from actor Monty Wolley and songwriter Cole Porter and a pretty bunch of other stuff people would otherwise discard as junk.
9:00 p,m. Himalaya with Michael Palin: The former Python alum meets the Bhutan Royal Family, who give them a sample of Butanese culture.
10:00 p.m. Slavery By another Name: You though the slaves were set free by Abe Lincoln in 1863 during the American Civil War. Guess again when one hears other tales of human entrapment of their neighbors with such things as sharcropping and chain gangs. Oh, what about slavery in other lands other than the USA? This documentry is narrated by actor Laurence Fishburne.
Midnight: Charlie Rose: A talk with NYC police commissioner Raymond Kelly is scheduled.
ABC
8:00 p.m. The Batchelor 16: Six ladies... only one goes to walk down the isle with Mr. Rich Dude, the others go home to watch the wedding and cry...
10:00 p.m. Castle: What is that body I see yonder?
12:02 a.m Jimmy Kimmel: David Alan Grier... music by Lana Del Rey
CBS
8:00 p.m.-10:00 p.m. Sitcoms
10:00 p,m. Hawaii Five-O: "When the Governor gets here, call me."
11:35 p.m. Letterman: Reese Witherspoon and the music guses is Kasabian
12:37 p.m. Craig Ferguson: Carol Burnett, who else?
NBC
8:00 pm. The Voice: Part Three of the Tryouts... who is that voice or name that contestant.
10:00 p.m. Smash: Smoosh says the Callback.
11:35 p.m. Jay Leno: J Lo aka Jennifer Lopez, Music act is The Civil Wars...
12:37 a.m. Jimmy Fallon: Nicolas Cage; Chef John Besh
1:36 a.m. Carson Daly: Christina Milian, K. Flay,,, Music by the Speakers...
Fox
8:00 p.m. House: Nun in the Hospital
9:00 p.m. Alcatraz: Landmines Get in the Way or was That Your Foot?
The Other Cable/Sat Highpoints
Iowa State at Baylor [7:00 pm, ESPNU]: Bears are coming off a loss to Kansas.
Kansas at Kansas State [9:00 pm, ESPN]: The battle of the state is up tonight in Manhattan, Ks.
San Jose at Washington [7:30 pm, NBC Sports]: The big game tonight in the NHL...
The 136th Westminster Dog Show [8:00 pm, USA]: Bow wow... Man's best friend...
WWE Monday Night Raw [9:00 pm, USA]: The soap opera, except with body slams and high drama.
Minnasota at Orlando [7:00 pm, NBA Network]: The big game tonight...
Conan Tonight [11:00 pm TBS]: Ice T and Coco; Adam Pally.... music: Wale and Miguel...
Daily Show and Colbert Report [11:00 pm Comedy Central]: Fawzia Koofi on with Jon Stewart... Bill McKibben in Colbert... cough...
BET Honors 2012 [9:00 pm, BET]: More Whitney Moments?
Wendy Williams [Midnight, BET]: Busy Phillips is the guest star.
Oprah's Next Chapter [10:00 pm, OWN]: O in Brooklyn!
Z (1969) [8:00 pm TCM]: Topical with all the rioting in Greece these days... Yves Montand and Irene Papas co-star in this political who-done-it.
Idiocracy (2006) [8:00 pm, IFC]: Luke Wilson and Dax Shepard get stupid.
Pulp Fiction (1994) [8:00 pm HBO Zone]: John Travolta and Uma Thurman do the tango.
The Green Mile (1999) [8:00 pm TMC]: Tom Hanks and more about that thing called innocence. Oh Yeah!
The Preacher's Wife (1996) [8:00 pm Flix]: The late Whitney Houston channels her mom, Cissy Houston for her role as a song belting wife of preacher Denzel Washington.
People Are Sheep
People have a certain herd mentality that boggles the mind of any rational creature whose supposed they were not the ones being led astray by their emotions. The Politicians want us to all march to their drumbeat of morality. I ask: why their morality? Why cannot we march to our own morality when their morality is to do the the wrong thing.
We see in the way we treat our young this "do the wrong thing" happen over and over again.
There is a certain classist and racist mantra behind the "try all kids as adults" for certain crimes. The Politicians say that our Juvenile Courts cannot cope with a child who is accused of certain crimes that are deemed "capital". Why is this? I think it is the way the system of juvenile justice was never about punishment and more on reform. This has never been a winning proposition for anyone who lost their loved one to a kid. It is to them that they see this human getting another chance at life where their loved one is six feet underground or in a nice little urn.
Murder, rape, high treason, arson (though not a real capital crime) and assorted petty crimes make people turn "age blind" toward any suspect. They do not care since the crime has made them a nervous wreck. To then have a cop then tell you the culprit is not even old enough to drive or vote is not enough to change their shaken mind. Sometimes the hurt ones might carry a prior grudge against the culprit. I seen this in many of survivor or family member. Even if they have sympathy for the culprit it is a rare thing, for they might be alone in their circle of friends and relations.
In this Blog, I will follow the injustice meted out on our youngsters and even a few adults wronged over the course of this blog. I will go over the history of our justice system. I will show where we broke off into this adult tangent of late. Though we in many lands prosecuted children as adults since before the founding of this country. It was a modern invention to try any child or teen as an adult for "serious" crimes since the 1950's. But this was not an epidemic until the late 1970's when the five-year juvenile term given to fifteen-year-old Willie Bosket spurned a paranoid and borderline racist New York State Legislature to charge anyone 13 and up as an adult for serious crimes. (What were they thinking?)
I will follow three infamous cases on the blog. These three kids are either innocent or in the case of one overcharged due to the actions of a crazy woman who calls herself a prosecutor. The following are those lucky three who may never have the chance to meet but maybe in spirit.
1, Jordan Brown: This littlle package of misery was made this way when he was charged for the murder of Kenzie Houk and her unborn fetus within a day of the murder. The original prosecutor, John "Johnny" Bongivengo, used this boy to further his political career. It backfired big time against the guy who took his office, Josh Lamancusa, who beat him in the primary and went on to win the seat in the courthouse. Since Lamancusa talked with Jordan's dad (Kenzie's fiance) about defended his son (he declined), it left to the Attorney General, Tom Corbett, who continued this madness despite any evidence connecting Jordan to the crime. He went on to the Governor's chair and left this to his successor, Linda Kelly, who along with her lapdog Anthony Krasek, continue this madness almost three years since the murder. They do not seem to look into this boy's innocence. But why do they not look into Kenzie's ex-boyfriend, Adam Harvey? What about the abuse he gave Kenzie? What about the two restraining orders? What about the threats he made to Kenzie and her parents in 2008? What about the paternity case Adam lost to Kenzie two weeks before the murder? They will not look into it because they and Johnny were involved in drug busting in Lawrence County for many years. Before the murders, Johnny used under-the-table payments to an informant for names and info on a planned drug bust. Somehow, Adam found out about the informant being in bed with the county and thought this man can be talked into rubbing out his ex-girlfriend. He knew once news reached Johnny that his informant was behind a murder, Johnny would do anything to prevent this informant's arrest for murder. (It would expose his illegal payments to the informant.) This is where the informant's handler had a wild idea to frame Jordan Brown, for she was given a hard time by the boy when she "interrogated" him at the school around midday about a few hours after the killing. The State of Pennsylvania is committing what amounts of High Treason by holding this boy this long. They are just as bad as Johnny Bongivengo, for I guess they wanted to cover up the original crime (the under-the-table payments to the informant). The delays in this case are what believe an epiphany by the prosecution that they have a big chance of the boy being found innocent in juvenile court. This boy must be set free, and I know he will before this summer. (If not Tom Corbett and Linda Kelly are bigger crooks than Al Capone and Ma Baker.)
2. Christian Fernandez: Jacksonville, nestled in a land of fruits and swamps, has a bad track record with juveniles, just like the rest of the State. One day in April while looking after his little brother, David, twelve-year-old Christian was becoming angry with his mischievous three-year-old brother. This was to the point of knocking him into some furniture (details are conflicting). David was seriously hurt. Like a good boy, Chris got in touch of his mom, but unlike other moms, this one delayed taking the kid to the ER for three house. She searched the web, did everything to delay the treatment of her sick child. By the time David was brought to the ER that evening, it was much too late. Then the justice system failed the family again. The two were arrested by the cops. For some unknown reason Christian was charged as an adult for first-degree murder, but his mother was given lesser charges. The mother was only a kid of 12 when she had the eldest boy. Three kids later and 24, the mother was in and out of her kids' life. Christian was shunted from foster homes and homes of relations. The first real chance to be a family ended with this senseless tragedy. The fruitcake of a Prosecutor, Angela "Angle" Corey is the fifty-something nitwit who behind the overcharging. She said she never intended to overcharge the boy, but never once offered to reduce the charges, she only piled on a sex charge on the boy when the people who have the boy's five-year-old half-brother jumped on the persecution gravy train. This is a city without pity outside the Latino community, who know an abuse when they see it. Why is it over 15,000 people on a petition think Angela Corey is wrong about the kid? Why is it the sex charges ever came up? (It is fakery and Corey's insurance policy if she ever lost her bid to life without parole so the boy as a man will have to live out his days as a sex offender.) Let's hope some new lawyers can fix this damage when this case gets a jury to show the this boy is overcharged and needs a juvenile court not an adult court.
3. Josh Young: Finally from Mohammad Ali's hometown is another case of a poor white boy framed by his old man. Josh Gouker has spun a tale to police and Jefferson County prosecutors, who were stumped about a case in May, when a bunch of kids came across a dead body behind Liberty High School in a wooded area. The naked body was identified as Trey Zwicker, a thirteen-year-old kid. Authorities were stumped so much that they confused the site as the crime scene when the obvious was more likely a dump site. Why would a kid with the fatal injuries naked in the middle of a wooded area? Somehow, Trey was murdered somewhere else and dumped there after the killer took some time to strip the body. That would mean the primary crime scene was somewhere else. It would mean the killer needed a vehicle to transport the body. The secondary would be devoid of evidence of a smuggler, a possible murder weapon and blood and maybe evidence someone took the body and just dumped it there (which would be evidence by maybe one set of footprints). Josh was obvious set up by his old man, who kidnapped his son a couple of weeks later. An Amber Alert was issued on the kid, Josh Young. The man and another woman kidnapped a woman in their crime spree, which was stopped in Alabama. The cops even arrested the boy, oblivious of his missing status. Once they realized this, they dropped the charges and sent him home to Kentucky. However, Josh Gouker had other plans. As Alabama authorities were interrogating Gouker, he spun a tale that somehow got back to the stumped investigators. Gouker said he said his son killed Trey in cold blood and he kidnapped him because he was "afraid of losing him too". In late June, Louisville cops charged the boy of fifteen with capital murder as an adult. Josh in his interrogation, emphatically denied he was the person who killed his step-brother. However he was charged and held on $10,000 bail, but it took until for a Grand Jury to formally charge him. This was because the Kentucky cops could not get their meat hooks on Gouker until October. Now the kid is facing charges for something he did not do. But why did Gouker blame his son? My guess is he such a creep that he thinks the cops and prosecutors are so stupid. I suspect he only gained custody of his son the same way he murdered Josh's biological mother and made it look like a suicide! I think he staged the body much the same way to make someone else get charged. He had the boy for two months before he killed Trey Zwicker. Now Gouker is using his people to bully his own family to make them think Josh Young is the one who killed Trey Zwicker. Why in God's name are you making it more difficult for yourself, Gouker. One day they will find your son innocent of all charges. Then they are going to come after you. I will not rest until your fat behind and bald head is in Frankfort, waiting your turn in the Chair. No father bears false witness against their son and gets away with it.
So in this long post you have my prime choice innocents, who I will fight to the end by all legal means to free or maybe (in Christian's case) reduce the charges so these three souls will not be ruined for life by the crook system of our country, who make the poor and the Non-white citizens into fodder for their prisons. God willing, these three people will be forever used to show the system needs fixing. Racism and Classism is alive and well in 2012 and these cases are three proofs that it exists.
We see in the way we treat our young this "do the wrong thing" happen over and over again.
There is a certain classist and racist mantra behind the "try all kids as adults" for certain crimes. The Politicians say that our Juvenile Courts cannot cope with a child who is accused of certain crimes that are deemed "capital". Why is this? I think it is the way the system of juvenile justice was never about punishment and more on reform. This has never been a winning proposition for anyone who lost their loved one to a kid. It is to them that they see this human getting another chance at life where their loved one is six feet underground or in a nice little urn.
Murder, rape, high treason, arson (though not a real capital crime) and assorted petty crimes make people turn "age blind" toward any suspect. They do not care since the crime has made them a nervous wreck. To then have a cop then tell you the culprit is not even old enough to drive or vote is not enough to change their shaken mind. Sometimes the hurt ones might carry a prior grudge against the culprit. I seen this in many of survivor or family member. Even if they have sympathy for the culprit it is a rare thing, for they might be alone in their circle of friends and relations.
In this Blog, I will follow the injustice meted out on our youngsters and even a few adults wronged over the course of this blog. I will go over the history of our justice system. I will show where we broke off into this adult tangent of late. Though we in many lands prosecuted children as adults since before the founding of this country. It was a modern invention to try any child or teen as an adult for "serious" crimes since the 1950's. But this was not an epidemic until the late 1970's when the five-year juvenile term given to fifteen-year-old Willie Bosket spurned a paranoid and borderline racist New York State Legislature to charge anyone 13 and up as an adult for serious crimes. (What were they thinking?)
I will follow three infamous cases on the blog. These three kids are either innocent or in the case of one overcharged due to the actions of a crazy woman who calls herself a prosecutor. The following are those lucky three who may never have the chance to meet but maybe in spirit.
1, Jordan Brown: This littlle package of misery was made this way when he was charged for the murder of Kenzie Houk and her unborn fetus within a day of the murder. The original prosecutor, John "Johnny" Bongivengo, used this boy to further his political career. It backfired big time against the guy who took his office, Josh Lamancusa, who beat him in the primary and went on to win the seat in the courthouse. Since Lamancusa talked with Jordan's dad (Kenzie's fiance) about defended his son (he declined), it left to the Attorney General, Tom Corbett, who continued this madness despite any evidence connecting Jordan to the crime. He went on to the Governor's chair and left this to his successor, Linda Kelly, who along with her lapdog Anthony Krasek, continue this madness almost three years since the murder. They do not seem to look into this boy's innocence. But why do they not look into Kenzie's ex-boyfriend, Adam Harvey? What about the abuse he gave Kenzie? What about the two restraining orders? What about the threats he made to Kenzie and her parents in 2008? What about the paternity case Adam lost to Kenzie two weeks before the murder? They will not look into it because they and Johnny were involved in drug busting in Lawrence County for many years. Before the murders, Johnny used under-the-table payments to an informant for names and info on a planned drug bust. Somehow, Adam found out about the informant being in bed with the county and thought this man can be talked into rubbing out his ex-girlfriend. He knew once news reached Johnny that his informant was behind a murder, Johnny would do anything to prevent this informant's arrest for murder. (It would expose his illegal payments to the informant.) This is where the informant's handler had a wild idea to frame Jordan Brown, for she was given a hard time by the boy when she "interrogated" him at the school around midday about a few hours after the killing. The State of Pennsylvania is committing what amounts of High Treason by holding this boy this long. They are just as bad as Johnny Bongivengo, for I guess they wanted to cover up the original crime (the under-the-table payments to the informant). The delays in this case are what believe an epiphany by the prosecution that they have a big chance of the boy being found innocent in juvenile court. This boy must be set free, and I know he will before this summer. (If not Tom Corbett and Linda Kelly are bigger crooks than Al Capone and Ma Baker.)
2. Christian Fernandez: Jacksonville, nestled in a land of fruits and swamps, has a bad track record with juveniles, just like the rest of the State. One day in April while looking after his little brother, David, twelve-year-old Christian was becoming angry with his mischievous three-year-old brother. This was to the point of knocking him into some furniture (details are conflicting). David was seriously hurt. Like a good boy, Chris got in touch of his mom, but unlike other moms, this one delayed taking the kid to the ER for three house. She searched the web, did everything to delay the treatment of her sick child. By the time David was brought to the ER that evening, it was much too late. Then the justice system failed the family again. The two were arrested by the cops. For some unknown reason Christian was charged as an adult for first-degree murder, but his mother was given lesser charges. The mother was only a kid of 12 when she had the eldest boy. Three kids later and 24, the mother was in and out of her kids' life. Christian was shunted from foster homes and homes of relations. The first real chance to be a family ended with this senseless tragedy. The fruitcake of a Prosecutor, Angela "Angle" Corey is the fifty-something nitwit who behind the overcharging. She said she never intended to overcharge the boy, but never once offered to reduce the charges, she only piled on a sex charge on the boy when the people who have the boy's five-year-old half-brother jumped on the persecution gravy train. This is a city without pity outside the Latino community, who know an abuse when they see it. Why is it over 15,000 people on a petition think Angela Corey is wrong about the kid? Why is it the sex charges ever came up? (It is fakery and Corey's insurance policy if she ever lost her bid to life without parole so the boy as a man will have to live out his days as a sex offender.) Let's hope some new lawyers can fix this damage when this case gets a jury to show the this boy is overcharged and needs a juvenile court not an adult court.
3. Josh Young: Finally from Mohammad Ali's hometown is another case of a poor white boy framed by his old man. Josh Gouker has spun a tale to police and Jefferson County prosecutors, who were stumped about a case in May, when a bunch of kids came across a dead body behind Liberty High School in a wooded area. The naked body was identified as Trey Zwicker, a thirteen-year-old kid. Authorities were stumped so much that they confused the site as the crime scene when the obvious was more likely a dump site. Why would a kid with the fatal injuries naked in the middle of a wooded area? Somehow, Trey was murdered somewhere else and dumped there after the killer took some time to strip the body. That would mean the primary crime scene was somewhere else. It would mean the killer needed a vehicle to transport the body. The secondary would be devoid of evidence of a smuggler, a possible murder weapon and blood and maybe evidence someone took the body and just dumped it there (which would be evidence by maybe one set of footprints). Josh was obvious set up by his old man, who kidnapped his son a couple of weeks later. An Amber Alert was issued on the kid, Josh Young. The man and another woman kidnapped a woman in their crime spree, which was stopped in Alabama. The cops even arrested the boy, oblivious of his missing status. Once they realized this, they dropped the charges and sent him home to Kentucky. However, Josh Gouker had other plans. As Alabama authorities were interrogating Gouker, he spun a tale that somehow got back to the stumped investigators. Gouker said he said his son killed Trey in cold blood and he kidnapped him because he was "afraid of losing him too". In late June, Louisville cops charged the boy of fifteen with capital murder as an adult. Josh in his interrogation, emphatically denied he was the person who killed his step-brother. However he was charged and held on $10,000 bail, but it took until for a Grand Jury to formally charge him. This was because the Kentucky cops could not get their meat hooks on Gouker until October. Now the kid is facing charges for something he did not do. But why did Gouker blame his son? My guess is he such a creep that he thinks the cops and prosecutors are so stupid. I suspect he only gained custody of his son the same way he murdered Josh's biological mother and made it look like a suicide! I think he staged the body much the same way to make someone else get charged. He had the boy for two months before he killed Trey Zwicker. Now Gouker is using his people to bully his own family to make them think Josh Young is the one who killed Trey Zwicker. Why in God's name are you making it more difficult for yourself, Gouker. One day they will find your son innocent of all charges. Then they are going to come after you. I will not rest until your fat behind and bald head is in Frankfort, waiting your turn in the Chair. No father bears false witness against their son and gets away with it.
So in this long post you have my prime choice innocents, who I will fight to the end by all legal means to free or maybe (in Christian's case) reduce the charges so these three souls will not be ruined for life by the crook system of our country, who make the poor and the Non-white citizens into fodder for their prisons. God willing, these three people will be forever used to show the system needs fixing. Racism and Classism is alive and well in 2012 and these cases are three proofs that it exists.
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